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Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sep/Oct 1662

Author: Samuel Pepys, Translator: Mynors Bright, Editor: Wheatley

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                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A.  F.R.S.

            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY

   TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE

                              (Unabridged)

                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES

                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY

                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.



                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                           SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER
                                  1662


September 1st.  Up betimes at my lodging and to my office and among my
workmen, and then with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen by coach to St.
James's, this being the first day of our meeting there by the Duke's
order; but when we come, we found him going out by coach with his
Duchess, and he told us he was to go abroad with the Queen to-day (to
Durdans, it seems, to dine with my Lord Barkeley, where I have been very
merry when I was a little boy); so we went and staid a little at Mr.
Coventry's chamber, and I to my Lord Sandwich's, who is gone to wait upon
the King and Queen today.  And so Mr. Paget being there, Will Howe and I
and he played over some things of Locke's that we used to play at sea,
that pleased us three well, it being the first music I have heard a great
while, so much has my business of late taken me off from all my former
delights.  By and by by water home, and there dined alone, and after
dinner with my brother Tom's two men I removed all my goods out of Sir W.
Pen's house into one room that I have with much ado got ready at my
house, and so I am to be quit of any further obligation to him.  So to my
office, but missing my key, which I had in my hand just now, makes me
very angry and out of order, it being a thing that I hate in others, and
more in myself, to be careless of keys, I thinking another not fit to be
trusted that leaves a key behind their hole.  One thing more vexes me: my
wife writes me from the country that her boy plays the rogue there, and
she is weary of him, and complains also of her maid Sarah, of which I am
also very sorry.  Being thus out of temper, I could do little at my
office, but went home and eat a bit, and so to my lodging to bed.



2nd.  Up betimes and got myself ready alone, and so to my office, my mind
much troubled for my key that I lost yesterday, and so to my workmen and
put them in order, and so to my office, and we met all the morning, and
then dined at Sir W. Batten's with Sir W. Pen, and so to my office again
all the afternoon, and in the evening wrote a letter to Mr. Cooke, in the
country, in behalf of my brother Tom, to his mistress, it being the first
of my appearing in it, and if she be as Tom sets her out, it may be very
well for him.  So home and eat a bit, and so to my lodging to bed.



3rd.  Up betimes, but now the days begin to shorten, and so whereas I
used to rise by four o'clock, it is not broad daylight now till after
five o'clock, so that it is after five before I do rise.  To my office,
and about 8 o'clock I went over to Redriffe, and walked to Deptford,
where I found Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Pen beginning the pay, it being my
desire to be there to-day because it is the first pay that Mr. Coventry
has been at, and I would be thought to be as much with Mr. Coventry as I
can.  Here we staid till noon, and by that time paid off the Breda, and
then to dinner at the tavern, where I have obtained that our commons is
not so large as they used to be, which I am glad to see.  After dinner by
water to the office, and there we met and sold the Weymouth, Successe,
and Fellowship hulkes, where pleasant to see how backward men are at
first to bid; and yet when the candle is going out, how they bawl and
dispute afterwards who bid the most first.  And here I observed one man
cunninger than the rest that was sure to bid the last man, and to carry
it; and inquiring the reason, he told me that just as the flame goes out
the smoke descends, which is a thing I never observed before, and by that
he do know the instant when to bid last, which is very pretty.  In our
discourse in the boat Mr. Coventry told us how the Fanatiques and the
Presbyters, that did intend to rise about this time, did choose this day
as the most auspicious to them in their endeavours against monarchy: it
being fatal twice to the King, and the day of Oliver's death.

     [Cromwell had considered the 3rd of September as the most fortunate
     day of his life, on account of his victories at Dunbar and
     Worcester.  It was also remarkable for the great storm that occurred
     at the time of his death; and as being the day on which the Fire of
     London, in 1666, burnt with the greatest fury.--B.]

But, blessed be God! all is likely to be quiet, I hope.  After the sale I
walked to my brother's, in my way meeting with Dr. Fairbrother, of whom
I enquired what news in Church matters.  He tells me, what I heard
confirmed since, that it was fully resolved by the King's new Council
that an indulgence should be granted the Presbyters; but upon the Bishop
of London's speech

     [Gilbert Sheldon, born July 19th, 1598; Fellow of All Souls, Oxford,
     1622; Warden, 1635; Bishop of London, 1660-63; Archbishop of
     Canterbury, 1663.  Died November 9th, 1677.]

(who is now one of the most powerful men in England with the King), their
minds were wholly turned.  And it is said that my Lord Albemarle did
oppose him most; but that I do believe is only in appearance.  He told me
also that most of the Presbyters now begin to wish they had complied, now
they see that no Indulgence will be granted them, which they hoped for;
and that the Bishop of London hath taken good care that places are
supplied with very good and able men, which is the only thing that will
keep all quiet.  I took him in the tavern at Puddle dock, but neither he
nor I drank any of the wine we called for, but left it, and so after
discourse parted, and Mr. Townsend not being at home I went to my
brother's, and there heard how his love matter proceeded, which do not
displease me, and so by water to White Hall to my Lord's lodgings, where
he being to go to Hinchingbroke to-morrow morning, I staid and fiddled
with Will.  Howe some new tunes very pleasant, and then my Lord came in
and had much kind talk with him, and then to bed with Mr. Moore there
alone.  So having taken my leave of my Lord before I went to bed, I
resolved to rise early and be gone without more speaking to him--



4th.  Which I did, and by water betimes to the Tower and so home, where I
shifted myself, being to dine abroad, and so being also trimmed, which is
a thing I have very seldom done of late, I gat to my office and then met
and sit all the morning, and at noon we all to the Trinity House, where
we treated, very dearly, I believe, the officers of the Ordnance; where
was Sir W. Compton and the rest and the Lieutenant of the Tower.  We had
much and good music, which was my best entertainment.  Sir Wm. Compton I
heard talk with great pleasure of the difference between the fleet now
and in Queen Elisabeth's days; where, in 88, she had but 36 sail great
and small, in the world; and ten rounds of powder was their allowance at
that time against the Spaniard.  After Sir W. Compton and Mr. Coventry,
and some of the best of the rest were gone, I grew weary of staying with
Sir Williams both, and the more for that my Lady Batten and her crew, at
least half a score, come into the room, and I believe we shall pay size
for it; but 'tis very pleasant to see her in her hair under her hood, and
how by little and little she would fain be a gallant; but, Lord! the
company she keeps about her are like herself, that she may be known by
them what she is.  Being quite weary I stole from them and to my office,
where I did business till 9 at night, and so to my lodgings to bed.



5th.  Up by break of day at 5 o'clock, and down by water to Woolwich: in
my way saw the yacht lately built by our virtuosoes (my Lord Brunkard and
others, with the help of Commissioner Pett also) set out from Greenwich
with the little Dutch bezan, to try for mastery; and before they got to
Woolwich the Dutch beat them half-a-mile (and I hear this afternoon,
that, in coming home, it got above three miles); which all our people are
glad of.  Here I staid and mustered the yard and looked into the
storehouses; and so walked all alone to Greenwich, and thence by water to
Deptford, and there examined some stores, and did some of my own business
in hastening my work there, and so walked to Redriffe, being by this time
pretty weary and all in a sweat; took boat there for the Tower, which
made me a little fearful, it being a cold, windy morning.  So to my
lodgings and there rubbed myself clean, and so to Mr. Bland's, the
merchant, by invitation, I alone of all our company of this office; where
I found all the officers of the Customs, very grave fine gentlemen, and I
am very glad to know them; viz.--Sir Job Harvy, Sir John Wolstenholme,
Sir John Jacob, Sir Nicholas Crisp, Sir John Harrison, and Sir John Shaw:
very good company.  And among other pretty discourse, some was of Sir
Jerom Bowes, Embassador from Queene Elizabeth to the Emperor of Russia;

     [In 1583; the object of his mission being to persuade the Muscovite
     (Ivan IV. the Terrible) to a peace with John, King of Sweden.  He
     was also employed to confirm the trade of the English with Russia,
     and having incurred some personal danger, was received with favour
     on his return by the Queen.  He died in 1616.]

who, because some of the noblemen there would go up the stairs to the
Emperor before him, he would not go up till the Emperor had ordered those
two men to be dragged down stairs, with their heads knocking upon every
stair till they were killed.  And when he was come up, they demanded his
sword of him before he entered the room.  He told them, if they would
have his sword, they should have his boots too.  And so caused his boots
to be pulled off, and his night-gown and night-cap and slippers to be
sent for; and made the Emperor stay till he could go in his night-dress,
since he might not go as a soldier.  And lastly, when the Emperor in
contempt, to show his command of his subjects, did command one to leap
from the window down and broke his neck in the sight of our Embassador,
he replied that his mistress did set more by, and did make better use of
the necks of her subjects but said that, to show what her subjects would
do for her, he would, and did, fling down his gantlett before the
Emperor; and challenged all the nobility there to take it up, in defence
of the Emperor against his Queen: for which, at this very day, the name
of Sir Jerom Bowes is famous and honoured there.  After dinner I came
home and found Sir John Minnes come this day, and I went to him to Sir W.
Batten's, where it pleased me to see how jealous Sir Williams both are of
my going down to Woolwich, &c., and doing my duty as I nowadays do,
and of my dining with the Commission of the Customs.  So to my office,
and there till 9 at night, and so to my lodgings to bed.  I this day
heard that Mr. Martin Noell is knighted by the King, which I much wonder
at; but yet he is certainly a very useful man.



6th.  Lay long, that is, till 6 and past before I rose, in order to sweat
a little away the cold which I was afraid I might have got yesterday, but
I bless God I am well.  So up and to my office, and then we met and sat
till noon, very full of business.  Then Sir John Minnes, both Sir
Williams and I to the Trinity House, where we had at dinner a couple of
venison pasties, of which I eat but little, being almost cloyed, having
been at five pasties in three days, namely, two at our own feast, and one
yesterday, and two to-day.  So home and at the office all the afternoon,
busy till nine at night, and so to my lodging and to bed.  This afternoon
I had my new key and the lock of my office door altered, having lost my
key the other day, which vexed me.



7th (Lord's day).  Up betimes and round about by the streets to my
office, and walked in the garden and in my office till my man Will rose,
and then sent to tell Sir J. Minnes that I would go with him to
Whitehall, which anon we did, in his coach, and to the Chapell, where I
heard a good sermon of the Dean of Ely's, upon returning to the old ways,
and a most excellent anthem, with symphonys between, sung by Captain
Cooke.  Then home with Mr. Fox and his lady; and there dined with them,
where much company come to them.  Most of our discourse was what
ministers are flung out that will not conform: and the care of the Bishop
of London that we are here supplied with very good men.  Thence to my
Lord's, where nobody at home but a woman that let me in, and Sarah above,
whither I went up to her and played and talked with her .  .  .  .[Pepys
is again up to something disapproved by Wheatley.  D.W.]--After I had
talked an hour or two with her I went and gave Mr. Hunt a short visit, he
being at home alone, and thence walked homewards, and meeting Mr. Pierce,
the chyrurgeon, he took me into Somersett House; and there carried me
into the Queen-Mother's presence-chamber, where she was with our own
Queen sitting on her left hand (whom I did never see before); and though
she be not very charming, yet she hath a good, modest, and innocent look,
which is pleasing.  Here I also saw Madam Castlemaine, and, which pleased
me most, Mr. Crofts, the King's bastard, a most pretty spark of about 15
years old, who, I perceive, do hang much upon my Lady Castlemaine, and is
always with her; and, I hear, the Queens both of them are mighty kind to
him.

     [James, the son of Charles II. by Lucy Walter, daughter of William
     Walter, of Roch Castle, co.  Pembroke.  He was born April 9th, 1649,
     and landed in England with the Queen-Mother, July 28th, 1662, when
     he bore the name of Crofts, after Lord Crofts, his governor.  He was
     created Duke of Monmouth, February 14th, 1663, and married Lady Anne
     Scott, daughter and heiress of Francis, second Earl of Buccleuch, on
     April 20th following.  In 1673 he took the name of Scott, and was
     created Duke of Buccleuch.]

By and by in comes the King, and anon the Duke and his Duchess; so that,
they being all together, was such a sight as I never could almost have
happened to see with so much ease and leisure.  They staid till it was
dark, and then went away; the King and his Queen, and my Lady Castlemaine
and young Crofts, in one coach and the rest in other, coaches.  Here were
great store of great ladies, but very few handsome.  The King and Queen
were very merry; and he would have made the Queen-Mother believe that his
Queen was with child, and said that she said so.  And the young Queen
answered, "You lye;" which was the first English word that I ever heard
her say which made the King good sport; and he would have taught her to
say in English, "Confess and be hanged."  The company being gone I walked
home with great content as I can be in for seeing the greatest rarity,
and yet a little troubled that I should see them before my wife's coming
home, I having made a promise that I would not, nor did I do it
industriously and by design, but by chance only.  To my office, to fit
myself for waiting on the Duke to-morrow morning with the rest of our
company, and so to my lodgings and to bed.



8th.  Up betimes and to my office preparing an account to give the Duke
this morning of what we have of late done at the office.  About 7 o'clock
I went forth thinking to go along with Sir John Minnes and the rest, and
I found them gone, which did vex me, so I went directly to the old Swan
and took boat before them to Sir G. Carteret's lodgings at Whitehall, and
there staying till he was dressed talking with him, he and I to St.
James's, where Sir Williams both and Sir John were come, and so up with
Mr. Coventry to the Duke; who, after he was out of his bed, did send for
us in; and, when he was quite ready, took us into his closet, and there
told us that he do intend to renew the old custom for the Admirals to
have their principal officers to meet them once a-week, to give them an
account what they have done that week; which I am glad of: and so the
rest did tell his Royal Highness that I could do it best for the time
past.  And so I produced my short notes, and did give him an account of
all that we have of late done; and proposed to him several things for his
commands, which he did give us, and so dismissed us.  The rest to
Deptford, I to the Exchequer to meet Mr. Townsend, where I hear he is
gone to the Sun tavern, and there found him with some friends at
breakfast, which I eat with him, and so we crossed the water together,
and in walking I told him my brother Tom's intentions for a wife, which
he would do me all favour in to Mr. Young, whose kinswoman he do look
after.  We took boat again at the Falcon, and there parted, and I to the
old Swan, and so to the Change, and there meeting Sir W. Warren did step
to a tavern, and there sat and talked about price of masts and other
things, and so broke up and to my office to see what business, and so we
took water again, and at the Tower I over to Redriffe, and there left him
in the boat and walked to Deptford, and there up and down the yard
speaking with people, and so Sir W. Pen coming out of the payhouse did
single me out to tell me Sir J. Minnes' dislike of my blinding his lights
over his stairs (which indeed is very bad) and blocking up the house of
office on the leads.  Which did trouble me.  So I went into the payhouse
and took an occasion of speaking with him alone, and did give him good
satisfaction therein, so as that I am well pleased and do hope now to
have my closet on the leads without any more trouble, for he do not
object against my having a door upon the leads, but that all my family
should not make it a thoroughfare, which I am contented with.  So to the
pay, and in the evening home in the barge, and so to my office, and after
doing some business there to my lodgings, and so to bed.



9th.  At my office betimes, and by and by we sat, and at noon Mr.
Coventry, Sir J. Minnes, Mr. Pett, and myself by water to Deptford, where
we met Sir G. C., Sir W. B., and Sir W. P. At the pay of a ship, and we
dined together on a haunch of good venison boiled, and after dinner
returned again to the office, and there met several tradesmen by our
appointment to know of them their lowest rates that they will take for
their several provisions that they sell to us, for I do resolve to know
that, and to buy no dearer, that so when we know the lowest rate, it
shall be the Treasurer's fault, and not ours, that we pay dearer.  This
afternoon Sir John Minnes, Mr. Coventry, and I went into Sir John's
lodgings, where he showed us how I have blinded all his lights, and
stopped up his garden door, and other things he takes notice of that he
resolves to abridge me of, which do vex me so much that for all this
evening and all night in my bed, so great a fool I am, and little master
of my passion, that I could not sleep for the thoughts of my losing the
privilege of the leads, and other things which in themselves are small
and not worth half the trouble.  The more fool am I, and must labour
against it for shame, especially I that used to preach up Epictetus's
rule:

     ["Some things are in our power, others are not" Pepys means,
     "I ought not to vex myself about what I cannot control."]

Late at my office, troubled in mind, and then to bed, but could hardly
sleep at night.

10th.  Up and to my house, and there contrived a way how Sir John Minnes
shall come into the leads, and yet I save part of the closet I hoped for,
which, if it will not please him, I am a madman to be troubled at it.
To my office, and then at my house among my lazy workmen all day.  In the
afternoon to the Wardrobe to speak with Mr. Townsend, who tells me that
he has spoke with Mr. Young about my brother Tom's business, and finds
that he has made enquiry of him, and do hear him so well spoken of that
he doubts not that the business will take with ordinary endeavours.  So
to my brother's, and there finding both door and hatch open, I went in
and knocked 3 or 4 times, and nobody came to me, which troubled me
mightily; at last came Margaret, who complained of Peter, who by and by
came in, and I did rattle him soundly for it.  I did afterwards take
occasion to talk seriously alone with Margaret, who I find a very
discreet, good woman, and tells me, upon my demand, that her master is a
very good husband, and minds his business well, but his fault is that he
has not command over his two men, but they do what they list, and care
not for his commands, and especially on Sundays they go whither they
please, and not to church, which vexes me mightily, and I am resolved to
school [him] soundly for it, it being so much unlike my father, that I
cannot endure it in myself or him.  So walked home and in my way at the
Exchange found my uncle Wight, and he and I to an alehouse to drink a cup
of beer, and so away, and I home and at the office till 9 o'clock and
past, and so to my lodgings.  I forgot that last night Mr. Cooke came to
me to make his peace for inviting my brother lately out of town without
my leave, but he do give me such a character of the lady that he has
found out for him that I do much rejoice at, and did this night write a
letter to her, which he enclosed in one of his, and by the report that I
hear of her I confess I am much pleased with the match.



11th.  Up, but not so soon as I have of late practised, my little trouble
of mind and the shortness of the days making me to lie a little longer
than I used to do, but I must make it up by sitting up longer of nights.
To my office, whither my brother Tom, whom I chide sufficiently for
yesterday's work.  So we sat at the office all the morning, some of us at
Deptford paying the ordinary there; at noon Sir W. Pen took me to his
lodgings to dinner, and after dinner I to my office again, and now and
then to see how my work goes on, and so to my office late, and so to my
lodgings, and after staying up till past 12 at night, at my musique upon
my lute, to bed.  This night Tom came to show me a civil letter sent him
from his mistress.  I am pleased well enough with the business.



12th.  Up betimes and to my office, and up to my workmen, which goes on
slowly and troubles me much.  Besides, my mind is troubled till I see how
Sir John Minnes will carry himself to me about my lodgings, for all my
fear is that he will get my best chamber from me, for as for the leads I
care not a farthing for them.  At my office all the morning, Mr. Lewes
teaching me to understand the method of making up Purser's accounts,
which is very needful for me and very hard.  Dined at home all in dirt,
and my mind weary of being thus out of order, but I hope in God it will
away, but for the present I am very melancholy, as I have been a great
while.  All the afternoon till 9 at night at my office, and then home and
eat an egg or two, and so to my lodgings and to bed.  This day, by
letters from my father, I hear that Captain Ferrers, who is with my Lord
in the country, was at Brampton (with Mr. Creed) to see him; and that a
day or two ago, being provoked to strike one of my Lord's footmen, the
footman drew his sword, and hath almost cut the fingers of one of his
hands off; which I am sorry for: but this is the vanity of being apt to
command and strike.



13th.  Up betimes and to my office, and we sat all the morning, and then
at noon dined alone at home, and so among my work folks studying how to
get my way sure to me to go upon the leads, which I fear at last I must
be contented to go without, but, however, my mind is troubled still about
it.  We met again in the afternoon to set accounts even between the King
and the masters of ships hired to carry provisions to Lisbon, and in the
evening Mr. Moore came to me and did lie with me at my lodgings.  It is
great pleasure to me his company and discourse, and did talk also about
my law business, which I must now fall upon minding again, the term
coming on apace.  So to bed.



14th (Lord's day).  Up very early, and Mr. Moore taking leave of me the
barber came and trimmed me (I having him now to come to me again after I
have used a pumice-stone a good while, not but what I like this where I
cannot conveniently have a barber, but here I cannot keep my hair dry
without one), and so by water to White Hall, by the way hearing that the
Bishop of London had given a very strict order against boats going on
Sundays, and as I come back again, we were examined by the masters of the
company in another boat; but I told them who I was.  But the door not
being open to Westminster stairs there, called in at the Legg and drank a
cup of ale and a toast, which I have not done many a month before, but it
served me for my two glasses of wine to-day.  Thence to St. James's to
Mr. Coventry, and there staid talking privately with him an hour in his
chamber of the business of our office, and found him to admiration good
and industrious, and I think my most true friend in all things that are
fair.  He tells me freely his mind of every man and in every thing.
Thence to White Hall chapel, where sermon almost done, and I heard
Captain Cooke's new musique.  This the first day of having vialls and
other instruments to play a symphony between every verse of the anthem;
but the musique more full than it was the last Sunday, and very fine it
is.

     [Charles II. determined to form his own chapel on the model of that
     at Versailles.  Twenty-four instrumentalists were engaged, and this
     was the first day upon which they were brought into requisition.
     Evelyn alludes to the change in his Diary, but he puts the date down
     as the 21st instead of the 14th.  "Instead of the antient, grave and
     solemn wind musiq accompanying the organ, was introduc'd a concert
     of 24 violins between every pause after the French fantastical light
     way, better suiting a tavern or playhouse than a church.  This was
     the first time of change, and now we no more heard the cornet which
     gave life to the organ, that instrument quite left off in which the
     English were so skilful."  A list of the twenty-four fiddlers in
     1674, taken from an Exchequer document, "The names of the Gents of
     his Majesties Private Musick paid out of the Exchequer," is printed
     in North's "Memoires of Musick," ed.  Rimbault, 1846, p. 98 (note).]

But yet I could discern Captain Cooke to overdo his part at singing,
which I never did before.  Thence up into the Queen's presence, and there
saw the Queen again as I did last Sunday, and some fine ladies with her;
but, my troth, not many.  Thence to Sir G. Carteret's, and find him to
have sprained his foot and is lame, but yet hath been at chappell, and my
Lady much troubled for one of her daughters that is sick.  I dined with
them, and a very pretty lady, their kinswoman, with them.  My joy is,
that I do think I have good hold on Sir George and Mr. Coventry.  Sir
George told me of a chest of drawers that were given Sir W. B. by Hughes
the rope-maker, whom he has since put out of his employment, and now the
fellow do cry out upon Sir W. for his cabinet.  So home again by water
and to church, and from church Sir Williams both and Sir John Minnes into
the garden, and anon Sir W. Pen and I did discourse about my lodgings and
Sir J. Minnes, and I did open all my mind to him, and he told me what he
had heard, and I do see that I shall hardly keep my best lodging chamber,
which troubles me, but I did send for Goodenough the plasterer, who tells
me that it did ever belong to my lodgings, but lent by Mr. Payles to Mr.
Smith, and so I will strive hard for it before I lose it.  So to supper
with them at Sir W. Batten's, and do counterfeit myself well pleased, but
my heart is troubled and offended at the whole company.  So to my office
to prepare notes to read to the Duke to-morrow morning, and so to my
lodgings and to bed, my mind a little eased because I am resolved to know
the worst concerning my lodgings tomorrow.  Among other things Sir W. Pen
did tell me of one of my servants looking into Sir J. Minnes' window when
my Lady Batten lay there, which do much trouble them, and me also, and I
fear will wholly occasion my loosing the leads.  One thing more he told
me of my Jane's cutting off a carpenter's long mustacho, and how the
fellow cried, and his wife would not come near him a great while,
believing that he had been among some of his wenches.  At which I was
merry, though I perceive they discourse of it as a crime of hers, which I
understand not.



15th.  Up betimes to meet with the plasterer and bricklayer that did
first divide our lodgings, and they do both tell me that my chamber now
in dispute did ever belong to my lodgings, which do put me into good
quiet of mind.  So by water with Sir Wm. Pen to White Hall; and, with
much ado, was fain to walk over the piles through the bridge, while Sir
W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes were aground against the bridge, and could
not in a great while get through.  At White Hall we hear that the Duke of
York is gone a-hunting to-day; and so we returned: they going to the Duke
of Albemarle's, where I left them (after I had observed a very good
picture or two there), and so home, and there did resolve to give up my
endeavours for access to the leads, and to shut up my doors lest the
being open might give them occasion of longing for my chamber, which I am
in most fear about.  So to Deptford, and took my Lady Batten and her
daughter and Mrs. Turner along with me, they being going through the
garden thither, they to Mr. Unthwayte's and I to the Pay, and then about
3 o'clock went to dinner (Sir W. Pen and I), and after dinner to the Pay
again, and at night by barge home all together, and so to my lodgings and
to bed, my mind full of trouble about my house.



16th.  Up and to my workmen, and then to the office, and there we sat
till noon; then to the Exchange, and in my way met with the housekeeper
of this office, and he did give me so good an account of my chamber in my
house about which I am so much troubled that I am well at ease in my
mind.  At my office all the afternoon alone.  In the evening Sir J. M.
and I walked together a good while in the garden, very pleasant, and
takes no notice that he do design any further trouble to me about my
house.  At night eat a bit of bread and cheese, and so to my lodgings and
to bed, my mind ill at ease for these particulars: my house in dirt, and
like to lose my best chamber.  My wife writes me from the country that
she is not pleased there with my father nor mother, nor any of her
servants, and that my boy is turned a very rogue.  I have L30 to pay to
the cavaliers: then a doubt about my being forced to leave all my
business here, when I am called to the court at Brampton; and lastly, my
law businesses, which vex me to my heart what I shall be able to do next
term, which is near at hand.



17th.  At my office all the morning, and at noon to the Exchange, where
meeting Mr. Moore and Mr. Stucky, of the Wardrobe, we to an ordinary to
dinner, and after dinner Mr. Moore and I about 3 o'clock to Paul's
school, to wait upon Mr. Crumlum (Mr. Moore having a hopeful lad, a
kinsman of his, there at school), who we take very luckily, and went up
to his chamber with him, where there was also an old fellow student of
Mr. Crumlum's, one Mr. Newell, come to see him, of whom he made so much,
and of me, that the truth is he with kindness did drink more than I
believe he used to do, and did begin to be a little impertinent, the more
when after all he would in the evening go forth with us and give us a
bottle of wine abroad, and at the tavern met with an acquaintance of his
that did occasion impertinent discourse, that though I honour the man,
and he do declare abundance of learning and worth, yet I confess my
opinion is much lessened of him, and therefore let it be a caution to
myself not to love drink, since it has such an effect upon others of
greater worth in my own esteem.  I could not avoid drinking of 5 glasses
this afternoon with him, and after I had parted with him Mr. Moore and I
to my house, and after we had eaten something to my lodgings, where the
master of the house, a very ordinary fellow, was ready to entertain me
and took me into his dining-room where his wife was, a pretty and notable
lady, too fine surely for him, and too much wit too.  Here I was forced
to stay with them a good while and did drink again, there being friends
of theirs with them.  At last being weary of his idle company, I bid
good-night and so to my chamber and Mr. [Moore] and I to bed, neither of
us well pleased with our afternoon's work, merely from our being
witnesses of Mr. Crumlum's weakness.  This day my boy is come from
Brampton, and my wife I think the next week.



18th.  At the office all the morning, and at noon Sir G. Carteret, Mr.
Coventry, and I by invitation to dinner to Sheriff Maynell's, the great
money-man; he, Alderman Backwell, and much noble and brave company, with
the privilege of their rare discourse, which is great content to me above
all other things in the world.  And after a great dinner and much
discourse, we arose and took leave, and home to the business of my
office, where I thank God I take delight, and in the evening to my
lodging and to bed.  Among other discourse, speaking concerning the great
charity used in Catholic countrys, Mr. Ashburnham did tell us, that this
last year, there being great want of corn in Paris, and so a collection
made for the poor, there was two pearls brought in, nobody knew from whom
(till the Queen, seeing them, knew whose they were, but did not discover
it), which were sold for 200,000 crownes.



19th.  Up betimes and to my office, and at 9 o'clock, none of the rest
going, I went alone to Deptford, and there went on where they left last
night to pay Woolwich yard, and so at noon dined well, being chief at the
table, and do not see but every body begins to give me as much respect
and honour as any of the rest.  After dinner to Pay again, and so till 9
at night, my great trouble being that I was forced to begin an ill
practice of bringing down the wages of servants, for which people did
curse me, which I do not love.  At night, after I had eaten a cold
pullet, I walked by brave moonshine, with three or four armed men to
guard me, to Redriffe, it being a joy to my heart to think of the
condition that I am now in, that people should of themselves provide this
for me, unspoke to.  I hear this walk is dangerous to walk alone by
night, and much robbery committed here.  So from thence by water home,
and so to my lodgings to bed.



20th.  Up betimes and to my office, where I found my brother Tom, who
tells me that his mistress's mother has wrote a letter to Mr. Lull of her
full satisfaction about Tom, of which I was glad, and do think the
business will take.  All this morning we sat at the office, Sir J. Minnes
and I.  And so dined at home, and among my workmen all the afternoon, and
in the evening Tom brought Mr. Lull to me, a friend of his mistress, a
serious man, with whom I spoke, and he gives me a good account of her and
of their satisfaction in Tom, all which pleases me well.  We walked a
good while in the garden together, and did give him a glass of wine at my
office, and so parted.  So to write letters by the post and news of this
to my father concerning Tom, and so home to supper and to my lodgings and
to bed.  To-night my barber sent me his man to trim me, who did live in
King Street in Westminster lately, and tells me that three or four that I
knew in that street, tradesmen, are lately fallen mad, and some of them
dead, and the others continue mad.  They live all within a door or two
one of another.



21st (Lord's day).  Got up betimes and walked to St. James's, and there
to Mr. Coventry, and sat an hour with him, talking of business of the
office with great pleasure, and I do perceive he do speak his whole mind
to me.  Thence to the Park, where by appointment I met my brother Tom and
Mr. Cooke, and there spoke about Tom's business, and to good
satisfaction.  The Queen coming by in her coach, going to her chappell at
St. James's' (the first time it hath been ready for her), I crowded after
her, and I got up to the room where her closet is; and there stood and
saw the fine altar, ornaments, and the fryers in their habits, and the
priests come in with their fine copes and many other very fine things.
I heard their musique too; which may be good, but it did not appear so to
me, neither as to their manner of singing, nor was it good concord to my
ears, whatever the matter was.  The Queene very devout: but what pleased
me best was to see my dear Lady Castlemaine, who, tho' a Protestant, did
wait upon the Queen to chappell.  By and by, after mass was done, a fryer
with his cowl did rise up and preach a sermon in Portuguese; which I not
understanding, did go away, and to the King's chappell, but that was
done; and so up to the Queen's presence-chamber, where she and the King
was expected to dine: but she staying at St. James's, they were forced to
remove the things to the King's presence [chamber]; and there he dined
alone, and I with Mr. Fox very finely; but I see I must not make too much
of that liberty for my honour sake only, not but that I am very well
received.  After dinner to Tom's, and so home, and after walking a good
while in the garden I went to my uncle Wight's, where I found my aunt in
mourning and making sad stories for the loss of her dear sister Nicholls,
of which I should have been very weary but that pretty Mrs. Margaret
Wight came in and I was much pleased with her company, and so all supper
did vex my aunt talking in commendation of the mass which I had been at
to-day, but excused it afterwards that it was only to make mirth.  And so
after supper broke up and home, and after putting my notes in order
against to-morrow I went to bed.



22nd.  Up betimes among my workmen, hastening to get things ready against
my wife's coming, and so with Sir J. M., Sir W. B., and Sir W. P., by
coach to St. James's, and there with the Duke.  I did give him an account
of all things past of late; but I stood in great pain, having a great fit
of the colic, having catched cold yesterday by putting off my stockings
to wipe my toes, but at last it lessened, and then I was pretty well
again, but in pain all day more or less.  Thence I parted from them and
walked to Greatorex's, and there with him did overlook many pretty
things, new inventions, and have bespoke a weather glass of him.  Thence
to my Lord Crew's, and dined with the servants, he having dined; and so,
after dinner, up to him, and sat an hour talking with him of publique,
and my Lord's private businesses, with much content.  So to my brother
Tom's, where Mr. Cooke expected me, and did go with me to see Mr. Young
and Mr. Lull in Blackfryers, kindred of Tom's mistress, where I was very
well used, and do find things to go in the business to my good content.
Thence to Mr. Townsend, and did there talk with Mr. Young himself also,
and then home and to my study, and so to my lodgings and to bed.



23rd.  Up betimes and with my workmen, taking some pleasure to see my
work come towards an end, though I am vexed every day enough with their
delay.  We met and sat all the morning, dined at home alone, and with my
workmen all the afternoon, and in the evening by water and land to
Deptford to give order for things about my house, and came back again by
coach with Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Batten (who has been at a Pay to-
day), and to my office and did some business, and so to supper and to my
lodgings, and so to bed.  In our coming home Sir G. Carteret told me how
in most cabaretts in France they have writ upon the walls in fair letters
to be read, "Dieu te regarde," as a good lesson to be in every man's
mind, and have also, as in Holland, their poor's box; in both which
places at the making all contracts and bargains they give so much, which
they call God's penny.



24th.  Up betimes and among my workmen, and among them all the morning
till noon, and then to my Lord Crew's, and there dined alone with him,
and among other things he do advise me by all means to keep my Lord
Sandwich from proceeding too far in the business of Tangier.  First, for
that he is confident the King will not be able to find money for the
building the Mole; and next, for that it is to be done as we propose it
by the reducing of the garrison; and then either my Lord must oppose the
Duke of York, who will have the Irish regiment under the command of
Fitzgerald continued, or else my Lord Peterborough, who is concerned to
have the English continued, and he, it seems, is gone back again merely
upon my Lord Sandwich's encouragement.  Thence to Mr. Wotton, the
shoemaker's, and there bought a pair of boots, cost me 30s., and he told
me how Bird hath lately broke his leg, while he was fencing in "Aglaura,"
upon the stage, and that the new theatre of all will be ready against
term.  So to my brother's, and there discoursed with him and Mr. Cooke
about their journey to Tom's mistress again, and I did speak with Mr.
Croxton about measuring of silk flags.  So by water home and to my
workmen, and so at night till late at my office, inditing a letter from
Tom to his mistress upon his sending her a watch for a token, and so home
and to supper, and to my lodgings and to bed.  It is my content that by
several hands to-day I hear that I have the name of good-natured man
among the poor people that come to the office.



25th.  Up betimes and to my workmen, and then to the office, where we sat
all the morning.  So home to dinner alone and then to my workmen till
night, and so to my office till bedtime, and so after supper to my
lodgings and to bed.  This evening I sat awhile at Sir W. Batten's with
Sir J. Minnes, &c., where he told us among many other things how in
Portugal they scorn to make a seat for a house of office, but they do .
.  . [Discussion of toilet facilities which are again too much for Mr.
Wheatley.  D.W.] all in pots and so empty them in the river.  I did also
hear how the woman, formerly nurse to Mrs. Lemon (Sir W. Batten's
daughter), her child was torn to pieces by two doggs at Walthamstow this
week, and is dead, which is very strange.



26th.  Up betimes and among my workmen.  By and by to Sir W. Batten, who
with Sir J. M. are going to Chatham this morning, and I was in great pain
till they were gone that I might see whether Sir John do speak any thing
of my chamber that I am afraid of losing or no.  But he did not, and so
my mind is a little at more ease.  So all day long till night among my
workmen, and in the afternoon did cause the partition between the entry
and the boy's room to be pulled down to lay it all into one, which I hope
will please me and make my coming in more pleasant.  Late at my office at
night writing a letter of excuse to Sir G. Carteret that I cannot wait
upon him to-morrow morning to Chatham as I promised, which I am loth to
do because of my workmen and my wife's coming to town to-morrow.  So to
my lodgings and to bed.



27th.  Up betimes and among my workmen, and with great pleasure see the
posts in the entry taken down beyond expectation, so that now the boy's
room being laid into the entry do make my coming in very handsome, which
was the only fault remaining almost in my house.  We sat all the morning,
and in the afternoon I got many jobbs done to my mind, and my wife's
chamber put into a good readiness against her coming, which she did at
night, for Will did, by my leave to go, meet her upon the road, and at
night did bring me word she was come to my brother's, by my order.  So I
made myself ready and put things at home in order, and so went thither to
her.  Being come, I found her and her maid and dogg very well, and
herself grown a little fatter than she was.  I was very well pleased to
see her, and after supper to bed, and had her company with great content
and much mutual love, only I do perceive that there has been falling out
between my mother and she, and a little between my father and she; but I
hope all is well again, and I perceive she likes Brampton House and seat
better than ever I did myself, and tells me how my Lord hath drawn a plot
of some alteracions to be made there, and hath brought it up, which I saw
and like well.  I perceive my Lord and Lady have been very kind to her,
and Captn. Ferrers so kind that I perceive I have some jealousy of him,
but I know what is the Captain's manner of carriage, and therefore it is
nothing to me.  She tells me of a Court like to be in a little time,
which troubles me, for I would not willingly go out of town.



28th (Lord's day).  Waked early, and fell talking one with another with
great pleasure of my house at Brampton and that here, and other matters.
She tells me what a rogue my boy is, and strange things he has been found
guilty of, not fit to name, which vexes [me], but most of all the
unquiett life that my mother makes my father and herself lead through her
want of reason.  At last I rose, and with Tom to the French Church at the
Savoy, where I never was before--a pretty place it is--and there they
have the Common Prayer Book read in French, and, which I never saw
before, the minister do preach with his hat off, I suppose in further
conformity with our Church.  So to Tom's to dinner with my wife, and
there came Mr. Cooke, and Joyce Norton do also dine there, and after
dinner Cooke and I did talk about his journey and Tom's within a day or
two about his mistress.  And I did tell him my mind and give him my
opinion in it.  So I walked home and found my house made a little clean,
and pleases me better and better, and so to church in the afternoon, and
after sermon to my study, and there did some things against to-morrow
that I go to the Duke's, and so walked to Tom's again, and there supped
and to bed with good content of mind.



29th (Michaelmas day).  This day my oaths for drinking of wine and going
to plays are out, and so I do resolve to take a liberty to-day, and then
to fall to them again.  Up and by coach to White Hall, in my way taking
up Mr. Moore, and walked with him, talking a good while about business,
in St. James's Park, and there left him, and to Mr. Coventry's, and so
with him and Sir W. Pen up to the Duke, where the King came also and
staid till the Duke was ready.  It being Collarday, we had no time to
talk with him about any business.  They went out together.  So we parted,
and in the park Mr. Cooke by appointment met me, to whom I did give my
thoughts concerning Tom's match and their journey tomorrow, and did carry
him by water to Tom's, and there taking up my wife, maid, dog, and him,
did carry them home, where my wife is much pleased with my house, and so
am I fully.  I sent for some dinner and there dined, Mrs. Margaret Pen
being by, to whom I had spoke to go along with us to a play this
afternoon, and then to the King's Theatre, where we saw "Midsummer's
Night's Dream," which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for
it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.  I
saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all
my pleasure.  Thence set my wife down at Madam Turner's, and so by coach
home, and having delivered Pegg Pen to her father safe, went home, where
I find Mr. Deane, of Woolwich, hath sent me the modell he had promised
me; but it so far exceeds my expectations, that I am sorry almost he
should make such a present to no greater a person; but I am exceeding
glad of it, and shall study to do him a courtesy for it.  So to my office
and wrote a letter to Tom's mistress's mother to send by Cooke to-morrow.
Then came Mr. Moore thinking to have looked over the business of my
Brampton papers against the Court, but my mind was so full of other
matters (as it is my nature when I have been a good while from a
business, that I have almost forgot it, I am loth to come to it again)
that I could not set upon it, and so he and I past the evening away in
discourse, and to my lodgings and to bed.



30th.  We rose, and he about his business, and I to my house to look over
my workmen; but good God! how I do find myself by yesterday's liberty
hard to be brought to follow business again, but however, I must do it,
considering the great sweet and pleasure and content of mind that I have
had since I did leave drink and plays, and other pleasures, and followed
my business.  So to my office, where we sat till noon, and then I to
dinner with Sir W. Pen, and while we were at it coming my wife to the
office, and so I sent for her up, and after dinner we took coach and to
the Duke's playhouse, where we saw "The Duchess of Malfy" well performed,
but Betterton and Ianthe to admiration.  That being done, home again, by
coach, and my wife's chamber got ready for her to lie in to-night, but my
business did call me to my office, so that staying late I did not lie
with her at home, but at my lodgings.  Strange to see how easily my mind
do revert to its former practice of loving plays and wine, having given
myself a liberty to them but these two days; but this night I have again
bound myself to Christmas next, in which I desire God to bless me and
preserve me, for under God I find it to be the best course that ever I
could take to bring myself to mind my business.  I have also made up this
evening my monthly ballance, and find that, notwithstanding the loss of
L30 to be paid to the loyall and necessitous cavaliers by act of
Parliament,

     [Two acts were passed in 1662 for this purpose, viz., 13 and 14 Car.
     II. cap. 8: "An act for distribution of threescore thousand pounds
     amongst the truly loyal and indigent commission officers, and for
     assessing of offices and distributing the monies thereby raised for
     their further supply;" and cap.  9, "An act for the relief of poor
     and maimed officers and soldiers who have faithfully served his
     Majesty and his royal father in the late wars."]

yet I am worth about L680, for which the Lord God be praised.  My
condition at present is this:--I have long been building, and my house
to my great content is now almost done.  But yet not so but that I shall
have dirt, which troubles me too, for my wife has been in the country at
Brampton these two months, and is now come home a week or two before the
house is ready for her.  My mind is somewhat troubled about my best
chamber, which I question whether I shall be able to keep or no.  I am
also troubled for the journey which I must needs take suddenly to the
Court at Brampton, but most of all for that I am not provided to
understand my business, having not minded it a great while, and at the
best shall be able but to make a bad matter of it, but God, I hope, will
guide all to the best, and I am resolved to-morrow to fall hard to it.  I
pray God help me therein, for my father and mother and all our well-
doings do depend upon my care therein.  My Lord Sandwich has lately been
in the country, and very civil to my wife, and hath himself spent some
pains in drawing a plot of some alterations in our house there, which I
shall follow as I get money.  As for the office, my late industry hath
been such, as I am become as high in reputation as any man there, and
good hold I have of Mr. Coventry and Sir G. Carteret, which I am
resolved, and it is necessary for me, to maintain by all fair means.
Things are all quiett, but the King poor, and no hopes almost of his
being otherwise, by which things will go to rack, especially in the Navy.
The late outing of the Presbyterian clergy by their not renouncing the
Covenant as the Act of Parliament commands, is the greatest piece of
state now in discourse.  But for ought I see they are gone out very
peaceably, and the people not so much concerned therein as was expected.
My brother Tom is gone out of town this day, to make a second journey to
his mistress at Banbury, of which I have good expectations, and pray God
to bless him therein.  My mind, I hope, is settled to follow my business
again, for I find that two days' neglect of business do give more
discontent in mind than ten times the pleasure thereof can repair again,
be it what it will.






                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                                 OCTOBER
                                   1662


October 1st.  Up with my mind pretty well at rest about my accounts and
other business, and so to my house and there put my work to business, and
then down to Deptford to do the same there, and so back and with my
workmen all the afternoon, and my wife putting a chamber in order for us
to lie in.  At night to look over some Brampton papers against the Court
which I expect every day to hear of, and that done home and with my wife
to bed, the first time I have lain there these two months and more, which
I am now glad to do again, and do so like the chamber as it is now
ordered that all my fear is my not keeping it.  But I hope the best, for
it would vex me to the heart to lose it.



2nd.  Up and to the office, where we sat till noon, and then to dinner,
and Mr. Moore came and dined with me, and after dinner to look over my
Brampton papers, which was a most necessary work, though it is not so
much to my content as I could wish.  I fear that it must be as it can,
and not as I would.  He being gone I to my workmen again, and at night by
coach towards Whitehall took up Mr. Moore and set him at my Lord's, and
myself, hearing that there was a play at the Cockpit (and my Lord
Sandwich, who came to town last night, at it), I do go thither, and by
very great fortune did follow four or five gentlemen who were carried to
a little private door in a wall, and so crept through a narrow place and
come into one of the boxes next the King's, but so as I could not see the
King or Queene, but many of the fine ladies, who yet are really not so
handsome generally as I used to take them to be, but that they are finely
dressed.  Here we saw "The Cardinall," a tragedy I had never seen before,
nor is there any great matter in it.  The company that came in with me
into the box, were all Frenchmen that could speak no English, but Lord!
what sport they made to ask a pretty lady that they got among them that
understood both French and English to make her tell them what the actors
said.  Thence to my Lord's, and saw him, and staid with him half an hour
in his chamber talking about some of mine and his own business, and so up
to bed with Mr. Moore in the chamber over my Lord's.



3rd.  Rose, and without taking leave or speaking to my Lord went out
early and walked home, calling at my brother's and Paul's Churchyard, but
bought nothing because of my oath, though I had a great mind to it.  At
my office, and with my workmen till noon, and then dined with my wife
upon herrings, the first I have eat this year, and so to my workmen
again.  By and by comes a gentleman to speak with my wife, and I found
him to be a gentleman that had used her very civilly in her coming up out
of the country, on which score I showed him great respect, and found him
a very ingenious gentleman, and sat and talked with him a great while.
He gone, to my workmen again, and in the evening comes Captain Ferrers,
and sat and talked a great while, and told me the story of his receiving
his cut in the hand by falling out with one of my Lord's footmen.  He
told me also of the impertinence and mischief that Ned Pickering has made
in the country between my Lord and all his servants almost by his finding
of faults, which I am vexed to hear, it being a great disgrace to my Lord
to have the fellow seen to be so great still with him.  He brought me a
letter from my father, that appoints the day for the Court at Brampton to
be the 13th of this month; but I perceive he has kept the letter in his
pocket these three days, so that if the day had been sooner, I might have
been spilt.  So that it is a great folly to send letters of business by
any friend that require haste.  He being gone I to my office all the
evening, doing business there till bedtime, it being now my manner since
my wife is come to spend too much of my daytime with her and the workmen
and do my office business at night, which must not be after the work of
the house is done.  This night late I had notice that Dekins, the
merchant, is dead this afternoon suddenly, for grief that his daughter,
my Morena, who has long been ill, is given over by the Doctors.  For both
which I am very sorry.  So home and to bed.



4th.  To my office all the morning, after I was up (my wife beginning to
make me lie long a mornings), where we sat till noon, and then dined at
home, and after a little with my workmen to my office till 9 at night,
among other things examining the particulars of the miscarriage of the
Satisfaction, sunk the other day on the Dutch coast through the
negligence of the pilott.



5th (Lord's day).  Lay long in bed talking with my wife, and among other
things fell out about my maid Sarah, whom my wife would fain put away,
when I think her as good a servant as ever came into a house, but it
seems my wife would have one that would dress a head well, but we were
friends at last.  I to church; and this day the parson has got one to
read with a surplice on.  I suppose himself will take it up hereafter,
for a cunning fellow he is as any of his coat.  Dined with my wife, and
then to talk again above, chiefly about her learning to dance against her
going next year into the country, which I am willing she shall do.  Then
to church to a tedious sermon, and thence walked to Tom's to see how
things are in his absence in the country, and so home and in my wife's
chamber till bedtime talking, and then to my office to put things in
order to wait on the Duke to-morrow morning, and so home and to bed.



6th.  Sir W. Pen and I early to St. James's by water, where Mr. Coventry,
finding the Duke in bed, and not very well, we did not stay to speak with
him, but to White Hall, and there took boat and down to Woolwich we went.
In our way Mr. Coventry telling us how of late upon enquiry into the
miscarriages of the Duke's family, Mr. Biggs, his steward, is found very
faulty, and is turned out of his employment.  Then we fell to reading of
a book which I saw the other day at my Lord Sandwich's, intended for the
late King, finely bound up, a treatise concerning the benefit the
Hollanders make of our fishing, but whereas I expected great matters from
it, I find it a very impertinent [book], and though some things good, yet
so full of tautologies, that we were weary of it.  At Woolwich we
mustered the yard, and then to the Hart to dinner, and then to the Rope-
yard, where I did vex Sir W. Pen I know to appear so well acquainted,
I thought better than he, in the business of hemp; thence to Deptford,
and there looked over several businesses, and wakened the officers there;
so walked to Redriffe, and thence, landing Sir W. Pen at the Tower, I to
White Hall with Mr. Coventry, and so to my Lord Sandwich's lodgings, but
my Lord was not within, being at a ball this night with the King at my
Lady Castlemaine's at next door.  But here to my trouble I hear that Mr.
Moore is gone very sick to the Wardrobe this afternoon, which troubles me
much both for his own sake and for mine, because of my law business that
he does for me and also for my Lord's matters.  So hence by water, late
as it was, to the Wardrobe, and there found him in a high fever, in bed,
and much cast down by his being ill.  So thought it not convenient to
stay, but left him and walked home, and there weary went to supper, and
then the barber came to me, and after he had done, to my office to set
down my journall of this day, and so home and to bed.



7th.  At the office all the morning, dined at home with my wife.  After
dinner with her by coach to see Mr. Moore, who continues ill.  I took his
books of accounts, and did discourse with him about my Lord's and my own
businesses, and there being Mr. Battersby by, did take notice of my
having paid him the L100 borrowed of him, which they both did confess and
promise to return me my bond.  Thence by water with Will.  Howe to
Westminster, and there staying a little while in the Hall (my wife's
father and mother being abroad, and so she returning presently) thence by
coach to my Lord's, and there I left money for Captain Ferrers to buy me
two bands.  So towards the New Exchange, and there while my wife was
buying things I walked up and down with Dr. Williams, talking about my
law businesses, and thence took him to my brother's, and there gave him a
glass of wine, and so parted, and then by coach with my wife home, and
Sir J. M. and Sir W. B. being come from Chatham Pay I did go see them for
complaisance, and so home and to bed.



8th.  Up and by water to my Lord Sandwich's, and was with him a good
while in his chamber, and among other things to my extraordinary joy, he
did tell me how much I was beholding to the Duke of York, who did
yesterday of his own accord tell him that he did thank him for one person
brought into the Navy, naming myself, and much more to my commendation,
which is the greatest comfort and encouragement that ever I had in my
life, and do owe it all to Mr. Coventry's goodness and ingenuity.  I was
glad above measure of this.  Thence to Mr. Moore, who, I hope, is better
than he was, and so home and dined at home, and all the afternoon busy at
my office, and at night by coach to my Lord's again, thinking to speak
with him, but he is at White Hall with the King, before whom the puppet
plays I saw this summer in Covent-garden are acted this night.  Hither
this night my scallop,

     [A lace band, the edges of which were indented with segments of
     circles, so as to resemble a scallop shell.  The word "scallop" was
     used till recently for a part of a lady's dress embroidered and cut
     to resemble a scallop shell.]

bought and got made by Captain Ferrers' lady, is sent, and I brought it
home, a very neat one.  It cost me about L3, and L3 more I have given him
to buy me another.  I do find myself much bound to go handsome, which I
shall do in linen, and so the other things may be all the plainer.  Here
I staid playing some new tunes to parts with Wm. Howe, and, my Lord not
coming home, I came home late on foot, my boy carrying a link, and so eat
a bit and to bed, my head full of ordering of businesses against my
journey to-morrow, that there may be nothing done to my wrong in my
absence.  This day Sir W. Pen did speak to me from Sir J. Minnes to
desire my best chamber of me, and my great joy is that I perceive he do
not stand upon his right, which I was much afraid of, and so I hope I
shall do well enough with him for it, for I will not part with it by fair
means, though I contrive to let him have another room for it.



9th.  Up early about my business to get me ready for my journey.  But
first to the office; where we sat all the morning till noon, and then
broke up; and I bid them adieu for a week, having the Duke's leave got me
by Mr. Coventry.  To whom I did give thanks for my newes yesterday of the
Duke's words to my Lord Sandwich concerning me, which he took well; and
do tell me so freely his love and value of me, that my mind is now in as
great a state of quiett as to my interest in the office, as I could ever
wish to be.  I should this day have dined at Sir W. Pen's at a venison
pasty with the rest of our fellows, but I could not get time, but sent
for a bit home, and so between one and two o'clock got on horseback at
our back gate, with my man Will with me, both well-mounted on two grey
horses.  We rode and got to Ware before night; and so resolved to ride on
to Puckeridge, which we did, though the way was bad, and the evening dark
before we got thither, by help of company riding before us; and among
others, a gentleman that took up at the same inn, the Falcon, with me,
his name Mr. Brian, with whom I supped, and was very good company, and a
scholar.  He tells me, that it is believed the Queen is with child, for
that the coaches are ordered to ride very easily through the streets.
After supper we paid the reckoning together, and so he to his chamber and
I to bed, very well, but my feet being much cramped by my new hard boots
that I bought the other day of Wotton were in much pain.  Will lay in
another bed in the chamber with me.



10th.  Up, and between eight and nine mounted again; but my feet so
swelled with yesterday's pain, that I could not get on my boots, which
vexed me to the blood, but was forced to pay 4s. for a pair of old shoes
of my landlord's, and so rid in shoes to Cambridge; but the way so good
that but for a little rain I had got very well thither, and set up at the
Beare: and there being spied in the street passing through the town my
cozen Angier came to me, and I must needs to his house, which I did; and
there found Dr. Fairbrother, with a good dinner, a barrel of good
oysters, a couple of lobsters, and wine.  But, above all, telling me that
this day there is a Congregation for the choice of some officers in the
University, he after dinner gets me a gown, cap, and hood, and carries me
to the Schooles, where Mr. Pepper, my brother's tutor, and this day
chosen Proctor, did appoint a M.A. to lead me into the Regent House,
where I sat with them, and did [vote] by subscribing papers thus: "Ego
Samuel Pepys eligo Magistrum Bernardum Skelton, (and which was more
strange, my old schoolfellow and acquaintance, and who afterwards did
take notice of me, and we spoke together), alterum e taxatoribus hujus
Academiae in annum sequentem."  The like I did for one Biggs, for the
other Taxor, and for other officers, as the Vice-Proctor (Mr. Covell),
for Mr. Pepper, and which was the gentleman that did carry me into the
Regent House.  This being done, and the Congregation dissolved by the
Vice-Chancellor, I did with much content return to my Cozen Angier's,
being much pleased of doing this jobb of work, which I had long wished
for and could never have had such a time as now to do it with so much
ease.  Thence to Trinity Hall, and there staid a good while with Dr. John
Pepys, who tells me that [his] brother Roger has gone out of town to keep
a Court; and so I was forced to go to Impington, to take such advice as
my old uncle and his son Claxton could give me.  Which I did, and there
supped and talked with them, but not of my business till by and by after
supper comes in, unlooked for, my cozen Roger, with whom by and by I
discoursed largely, and in short he gives me good counsel, but tells me
plainly that it is my best way to study a composition with my uncle
Thomas, for that law will not help us, and that it is but a folly to
flatter ourselves, with which, though much to my trouble, yet I was well
satisfied, because it told me what I am to trust to, and so to bed.



11th.  Up betimes, and after a little breakfast, and a very poor one,
like our supper, and such as I cannot feed on, because of my she-cozen
Claxton's gouty hands; and after Roger had carried me up and down his
house and orchards, to show me them, I mounted, and rode to Huntingdon,
and so to Brampton; where I found my father and two brothers, and Mr.
Cooke, my mother and sister.  So we are now all together, God knows when
we shall be so again.  I walked up and down the house and garden, and
find my father's alteracions very handsome.  But not so but that there
will be cause enough of doing more if ever I should come to live there,
but it is, however, very well for a country being as any little thing in
the country.  So to dinner, where there being nothing but a poor breast
of mutton, and that ill-dressed, I was much displeased, there being Mr.
Cooke there, who I invited to come over with my brother thither, and for
whom I was concerned to make much of.  I told my father and mother of it,
and so had it very well mended for the time after, as long as I staid,
though I am very glad to see them live so frugally.  But now to my
business.  I found my uncle Thomas come into the country, and do give out
great words, and forwarns all our people of paying us rent, and gives out
that he will invalidate the Will, it being but conditional, we paying
debts and legacies, which we have not done, but I hope we shall yet go
through well enough.  I settled to look over papers, and discourse of
business against the Court till the evening; and then rode to
Hinchingbroke (Will with me), and there to my Lady's chamber and saw her,
but, it being night, and my head full of business, staid not long, but
drank a cup of ale below, and so home again, and to supper, and to bed,
being not quiet in mind till I speak with Piggott, to see how his
business goes, whose land lies mortgaged to my late uncle, but never
taken up by him, and so I fear the heire at law will do it and that we
cannot, but my design is to supplant him by pretending bonds as well as a
mortgage for the same money, and so as executor have the benefit of the
bonds.



12th (Lord's day).  Made myself fine with Captain Ferrers's lace band,
being lothe to wear my own new scallop, it is so fine; and, after the
barber had done with us, to church, where I saw most of the gentry of the
parish; among others, Mrs. Hanbury, a proper lady, and Mr. Bernard and
his Lady, with her father, my late Lord St. John, who looks now like a
very plain grave man.  Mr. Wells preached a pretty good sermon, and they
say he is pretty well in his witts again.  So home to dinner, and so to
walk in the garden, and then to Church again, and so home, there coming
several people about business, and among others Mr. Piggott, who gives me
good assurance of his truth to me and our business, in which I am very
much pleased, and tells me what my uncle Thomas said to him and what he
designs, which (in fine) is to be admitted to the estate as well as we,
which I must endeavour to oppose as well as I can.  So to supper, but my
mind is so full of our business that I am no company at all, and then
their drink do not please me, till I did send to Goody Stanks for some of
her's which is very small and fresh, with a little taste of wormewood,
which ever after did please me very well.  So after supper to bed,
thinking of business, but every night getting my brother John to go up
with me for discourse sake, while I was making unready.

     [That is, "undressing."  So of the French lords leaping over the
     walls in their shirts

         "Alenc.  How now, my lords!  what all unready so?
          Bast.  Unready!  ay, and glad we 'scaped so well."
                         Henry VI., act ii., sc. i.--M. B.]



13th.  Up to Hinchingbroke, and there with Mr. Sheply did look all over
the house, and I do, I confess, like well of the alteracions, and do like
the staircase, but there being nothing to make the outside more regular
and modern, I am not satisfied with it, but do think it to be too much to
be laid out upon it.  Thence with Sheply to Huntingdon to the Crown, and
there did sit and talk, and eat a breakfast of cold roast beef, and so he
to St. Ives Market, and I to Sir Robert Bernard's for council, having a
letter from my Lord Sandwich to that end.  He do give it me with much
kindness in appearance, and upon my desire do promise to put off my
uncle's admittance, if he can fairly, and upon the whole do make my case
appear better to me than my cozen Roger did, but not so but that we are
liable to much trouble, and that it will be best to come to an agreement
if possible.  With my mind here also pretty well to see things proceed so
well I returned to Brampton, and spent the morning in looking over papers
and getting my copies ready against to-morrow.  So to dinner, and then to
walk with my father and other business, when by and by comes in my uncle
Thomas and his son Thomas to see us, and very calm they were and we to
them.  And after a short How do you, and drinking a cup of beer, they
went away again, and so by and by my father and I to Mr. Phillips, and
there discoursed with him in order to to-morrow's business of the Court
and getting several papers ready, when presently comes in my uncle Thomas
and his son thither also, but finding us there I believe they were
disappointed and so went forth again, and went to the house that Prior
has lately bought of us (which was Barton's) and there did make entry and
forbade paying rent to us, as now I hear they have done everywhere else,
and that that was their intent in coming to see us this day.  I perceive
most of the people that do deal with us begin to be afraid that their
title to what they buy will not be good.  Which troubled me also I
confess a little, but I endeavoured to remove all as well as I could.
Among other things they make me afraid that Barton was never admitted to
that that my uncle bought of him, but I hope the contrary.  Thence home,
and with my father took a melancholy walk to Portholme, seeing the
country-maids milking their cows there, they being there now at grass,
and to see with what mirth they come all home together in pomp with their
milk, and sometimes they have musique go before them.  So back home
again, and to supper, and in comes Piggott with a counterfeit bond which
by agreement between us (though it be very just in itself) he has made,
by which I shall lay claim to the interest of the mortgage money, and so
waiting with much impatience and doubt the issue of to-morrow's Court,
I to bed, but hardly slept half an hour the whole night, my mind did so
run with fears of to-morrow.



14th.  Up, and did digest into a method all I could say in our defence,
in case there should be occasion, for I hear he will have counsel to
plead for him in the Court, and so about nine o'clock to the court at the
Lordshipp where the jury was called; and there being vacancies, they
would have had my father, in respect to him, [to] have been one of the
Homage, but he thought fit to refuse it, he not knowing enough the
customs of the town.  They being sworn and the charge given them, they
fell to our business, finding the heir-at-law to be my uncle Thomas; but
Sir Robert [Bernard] did tell them that he had seen how the estate was
devised to my father by my uncle's will, according to the custom of the
manour, which they would have denied, first, that it was not according to
the custom of the manour, proposing some difficulty about the half-acre
of land which is given the heir-at-law according to custom, which did put
me into great fear lest it might not be in my uncle's possession at his
death, but mortgaged with other to T. Trice (who was there, and was with
my good will admitted to Taylor's house mortgaged to him if not being
worth the money for which it was mortgaged, which I perceive he now,
although he lately bragged the contrary, yet is now sensible of, and
would have us to redeem it with money, and he would now resurrender it to
us rather than the heir-at-law) or else that it was part of Goody Gorum's
in which she has a life, and so might not be capable of being according
to the custom given to the heir-at-law, but Will Stanks tells me we are
sure enough against all that.  Then they fell to talk of Piggott's land
mortgaged to my uncle, but he never admitted to it, which they now as
heir would have admitted to.  But the steward, as he promised me, did
find pretensions very kindly and readily to put off their admittance, by
which I find they are much defeated, and if ever, I hope, will now listen
to a treaty and agreement with us, at our meeting at London.  So they
took their leaves of the steward and Court, and went away, and by and by,
after other business many brought in, they broke up to dinner.  So my
father and I home with great content to dinner; my mind now as full
against the afternoon business, which we sat upon after dinner at the
Court, and did sue out a recovery, and cut off the intayle; and my
brothers there, to join therein.  And my father and I admitted to all the
lands; he for life, and I for myself and my heirs in reversion, and then
did surrender according to bargain to Prior, Greene, and Shepheard the
three cottages with their appurtenances that they have bought of us, and
that being done and taken leave of the steward, I did with most compleat
joy of mind go from the Court with my father home, and in a quarter of an
hour did get on horseback, with my brother Tom, Cooke, and Will, all
mounted, and without eating or drinking, take leave of father, mother,
Pall, to whom I did give 10s., but have shown no kindness since I come,
for I find her so very ill-natured that I cannot love her, and she so
cruel a hypocrite that she can cry when she pleases, and John and I away,
calling in at Hinchingbroke, and taking leave in three words of my Lady,
and the young ladies; and so by moonlight most bravely all the way to
Cambridge, with great pleasure, whither we come at about nine o'clock,
and took up at the Bear, but the house being full of guests we had very
ill lodging, which troubled me, but had a supper, and my mind at good
ease, and so to bed.  Will in another bed in my chamber.



15th.  My mind, though out of trouble, yet intent upon my journey home,
being desirous to know how all my matters go there, I could hardly sleep,
but waked very early; and, when it was time, did call up Will, and we
rose, and musique (with a bandore

     [A musical instrument with wire strings, and sounded with a
     plectrum; used as a bass to the cittern.  The banjo is a
     modification of the bandore, as the name is a negro corruption of
     that word.]

for the base) did give me a levett;

     [A blast of trumpets, intended as a 'reveillee', from French lever.

                   "First he that led the Cavalcade
                    Wore a Sow-gelder's Flagellet,
                    On which he blew as strong a Levet
                    As well-feed Lawyer on his breviate."

                                   Hudibras, II. ii. v. 609.]

and so we got ready; and while breakfast was providing, I went forth (by
the way finding Mr. George Mountagu and his Lady, whom I saluted, going
to take their coach thus early to proceed on their journey, they having
lodged in the chamber just under me all this night) and showed Mr. Cooke
King's College Chapel, Trinity College, and St. John's College Library;
and that being done, to our inn again: where I met Dr. Fairbrother
brought thither by my brother Tom, and he did breakfast with us, a very
good-natured man he is, and told us how the room we were in was the room
where Cromwell and his associated officers did begin to plot and act
their mischiefs in these counties.  Having eat well, only our oysters
proving bad, we mounted, having a pair of boots that I borrowed and
carried with me from Impington, my own to be sent from Cambridge to
London, and took leave of all, and begun our journey about nine o'clock.
After we had rode about 10 miles we got out of our way into Royston road,
which did vex me cruelly, and the worst for that my brother's horse,
which was lame yesterday, grows worse to-day, that he could not keep pace
with us.  At last with much ado we got into the road again, having
misguided also a gentleman's man who had lost his master and thought us
to be going the same way did follow us, but coming into the road again we
met with his master, by his coat a divine, but I perceiving Tom's horse
not able to keep with us, I desired Mr. Cooke and him to take their own
time, and Will and I we rode before them keeping a good pace, and came to
Ware about three o'clock in the afternoon, the ways being every where but
bad.  Here I fell into acquaintance and eat and drank with the divine,
but know not who he is, and after an hour's bait to myself and horses he,
though resolved to have lodged there, yet for company would out again,
and so we remounted at four o'clock, and he went with me as far almost as
Tibbald's and there parted with us, taking up there for all night, but
finding our horses in good case and the night being pretty light, though
by reason of clouds the moon did not shine out, we even made shift from
one place to another to reach London, though both of us very weary.  And
having left our horses at their masters, walked home, found all things
well, and with full joy, though very weary, came home and went to bed,
there happening nothing since our going to my discontent in the least
degree; which do so please me, that I cannot but bless God for my
journey, observing a whole course of success from the beginning to the
end of it, and I do find it to be the reward of my diligence, which all
along in this has been extraordinary, for I have not had the least kind
of divertisement imaginable since my going forth, but merely carrying on
my business which God has been pleased to bless.  So to bed very hot and
feverish by being weary, but early morning the fever was over.



16th.  And so I rose in good temper, finding a good chimneypiece made in
my upper dining-room chamber, and the diningroom wainscoat in a good
forwardness, at which I am glad, and then to the office, where by
T. Hater I found all things to my mind, and so we sat at the office till
noon, and then at home to dinner with my wife.  Then coming Mr. Creede in
order to some business with Sir J. Minnes about his accounts, this
afternoon I took him to the Treasury office, where Sir John and I did
stay late paying some money to the men that are saved out of the
Satisfaction that was lost the other day.  The King gives them half-pay,
which is more than is used in such cases, for they never used to have any
thing, and yet the men were most outrageously discontented, and did rail
and curse us till I was troubled to hear it, and wished myself
unconcerned therein.  Mr. Creede seeing us engaged took leave of us.
Here late, and so home, and at the office set down my journey-journall to
this hour, and so shut up my book, giving God thanks for my good success
therein, and so home, and to supper, and to bed.  I hear Mr. Moore is in
a way of recovery.  Sir H. Bennet made Secretary of State in Sir Edward
Nicholas's stead; not known whether by consent or not.  My brother Tom
and Cooke are come to town I hear this morning, and he sends me word that
his mistress's mother is also come to treat with us about her daughter's
portion and her jointure, which I am willing should be out of Sturtlow
lands.



17th.  This morning Tom comes to me, and I advise him how to deal with
his mistress's mother about his giving her a joynture, but I intend to
speak with her shortly, and tell her my mind.  Then to my Lord Sandwich
by water, and told him how well things do go in the country with me, of
which he was very glad, and seems to concern himself much for me.  Thence
with Mr. Creed to Westminster Hall, and by and by thither comes Captn.
Ferrers, upon my sending for him, and we three to Creed's chamber, and
there sat a good while and drank chocolate.  Here I am told how things go
at Court; that the young men get uppermost, and the old serious lords are
out of favour; that Sir H. Bennet, being brought into Sir Edward
Nicholas's place, Sir Charles Barkeley is made Privy Purse; a most
vicious person, and one whom Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, to-day (at which I
laugh to myself), did tell me that he offered his wife L300 per annum to
be his mistress.  He also told me that none in Court hath more the King's
ear now than Sir Charles Barkeley, and Sir H. Bennet, and my Lady
Castlemaine, whose interest is now as great as ever and that Mrs.
Haslerigge, the great beauty, is got with child, and now brought to bed,
and lays it to the King or the Duke of York.

     [The child was owned by neither of the royal brothers.--B.]

He tells me too that my Lord St. Albans' is like to be Lord Treasurer:
all which things do trouble me much.  Here I staid talking a good while,
and so by water to see Mr. Moore, who is out of bed and in a way to be
well, and thence home, and with Commr. Pett by water to view Wood's masts
that he proffers to sell, which we found bad, and so to Deptford to look
over some businesses, and so home and I to my office, all our talk being
upon Sir J. M. and Sir W. B.'s base carriage against him at their late
being at Chatham, which I am sorry to hear, but I doubt not but we shall
fling Sir W. B. upon his back ere long.  At my office, I hearing Sir W.
Pen was not well, I went to him to see, and sat with him, and so home and
to bed.



18th.  This morning, having resolved of my brother's entertaining his
mistress's mother to-morrow, I sent my wife thither to-day to lie there
to-night and to direct him in the business, and I all the morning at the
office, and the afternoon intent upon my workmen, especially my joyners,
who will make my dining room very pretty.  At night to my office to
dispatch business, and then to see Sir W. Pen, who continues in great
pain, and so home and alone to bed, but my head being full of my own and
my brother Tom's business I could hardly sleep, though not in much
trouble, but only multitude of thoughts.



19th (Lord's day).  Got me ready in the morning and put on my first new
laceband; and so neat it is, that I am resolved my great expense shall be
lacebands, and it will set off any thing else the more.  So walked to my
brother's, where I met Mr. Cooke, and discoursing with him do find that
he and Tom have promised a joynture of L50 to his mistress, and say that
I did give my consent that she should be joyntured in L30 per ann. for
Sturtlow, and the rest to be made up out of her portion.  At which I was
stark mad, and very angry the business should be carried with so much
folly and against my mind and all reason.  But I was willing to forbear
discovering of it, and did receive Mrs. Butler, her mother, Mr. Lull and
his wife, very civil people, very kindly, and without the least
discontent, and Tom had a good and neat dinner for us.  We had little
discourse of any business, but leave it to one Mr. Smith on her part and
myself on ours.  So we staid till sermon was done, and I took leave, and
to see Mr. Moore, who recovers well; and his doctor coming to him, one
Dr. Merrit, we had some of his very good discourse of anatomy, and other
things, very pleasant.  By and by, I with Mr. Townsend walked in the
garden, talking and advising with him about Tom's business, and he tells
me he will speak with Smith, and says I offer fair to give her L30
joynture and no more.  Thence Tom waiting for me homewards towards my
house, talking and scolding him for his folly, and telling him my mind
plainly what he has to trust to if he goes this way to work, for he shall
never have her upon the terms they demand of L50.  He left me, and I to
my uncle Wight, and there supped, and there was pretty Mistress Margt.
Wight, whom I esteem very pretty, and love dearly to look upon her.  We
were very pleasant, I droning with my aunt and them, but I am sorry to
hear that the news of the selling of Dunkirk

     [A treaty was signed on the 27th October by which Dunkirk was sold
     to France for five million livres, two of which were to be paid
     immediately, and the remaining three by eight bills at dates varying
     from three months to two years; during which time the King of
     England was to contribute the aid of a naval force, if necessary,
     for defence against Spain.  Subsequently the remaining three
     millions were reduced to 2,500,000 to be paid at Paris, and 254,000
     in London.  It is not known that Clarendon suggested the sale of
     Dunkirk, but it is certain that he adopted the measure with zeal.
     There is also no doubt that he got as much as France could be
     induced to give.--Lister's Life of Clarendon, ii. 173-4.]

is taken so generally ill, as I find it is among the merchants; and other
things, as removal of officers at Court, good for worse; and all things
else made much worse in their report among people than they are.  And
this night, I know not upon what ground, the gates of the City ordered to
be kept shut, and double guards every where.  So home, and after
preparing things against to-morrow for the Duke, to bed.  Indeed I do
find every body's spirit very full of trouble; and the things of the
Court and Council very ill taken; so as to be apt to appear in bad
colours, if there should ever be a beginning of trouble, which God
forbid!



20th.  Up and in Sir J. Minnes's coach with him and Sir W. Batten to
White Hall, where now the Duke is come again to lodge: and to
Mr. Coventry's little new chamber there.  And by and by up to the Duke,
who was making himself ready; and there among other discourse young
Killigrew did so commend "The Villaine," a new play made by Tom Porter;
and acted only on Saturday at the Duke's house, as if there never had
been any such play come upon the stage.  The same yesterday was told me
by Captain Ferrers; and this morning afterwards by Dr. Clerke, who saw
it.  Insomuch that after I had done with the Duke, and thence gone with
Commissioner Pett to Mr. Lilly's, the great painter, who came forth to
us; but believing that I come to bespeak a picture, he prevented us by
telling us, that he should not be at leisure these three weeks; which
methinks is a rare thing.  And then to see in what pomp his table was
laid for himself to go to dinner; and here, among other pictures, saw the
so much desired by me picture of my Lady Castlemaine, which is a most
blessed picture; and that that I must have a copy of.  And having thence
gone to my brother's, where my wife lodged last night, and eat something
there, I took her by coach to the Duke's house, and there was the house
full of company: but whether it was in over-expecting or what, I know
not, but I was never less pleased with a play in my life.  Though there
was good singing and dancing, yet no fancy in the play, but something
that made it less contenting was my conscience that I ought not to have
gone by my vow, and, besides, my business commanded me elsewhere.  But,
however, as soon as I came home I did pay my crown to the poor's box,
according to my vow, and so no harm as to that is done, but only business
lost and money lost, and my old habit of pleasure wakened, which I will
keep down the more hereafter, for I thank God these pleasures are not
sweet to me now in the very enjoying of them.  So by coach home, and
after a little business at my office, and seeing Sir W. Pen, who
continues ill, I went to bed.  Dunkirk, I am confirmed, is absolutely
sold; for which I am very sorry.



21st.  Up, and while I was dressing myself, my brother Tom being there I
did chide him for his folly in abusing himself about the match, for I
perceive he do endeavour all he can to get her, and she and her friends
to have more than her portion deserves, which now from 6 or L700 is come
to L450.  I did by several steps shew Tom how he would not be L100 the
better for her according to the ways he took to joynture her.  After
having done with him to the office, and there all the morning, and in the
middle of our sitting my workmen setting about the putting up of my rails
upon my leads, Sir J. Minnes did spy them and fell a-swearing, which I
took no notice of, but was vexed, and am still to the very heart for it,
for fear it should put him upon taking the closett and my chamber from
me, which I protest I am now afraid of.  But it is my very great folly to
be so much troubled at these trifles, more than at the loss of L100, or
things of greater concernment; but I forget the lesson I use to preach to
others.  After dinner to my office with my head and heart full of
troublesome business, and thence by water with Mr. Smith, to Mr.
Lechmore, the Counsellor at the Temple, about Field's business; and he
tells me plainly that, there being a verdict against me, there is no help
for it, but it must proceed to judgment.  It is L30 damage to me for my
joining with others in committing Field to prison, we being not justices
of the Peace in the City, though in Middlesex; this troubled me, but I
hope the King will make it good to us.  Thence to Mr. Smith, the
scrivener, upon Ludgate Hill, to whom Mrs. Butler do committ her business
concerning her daughter and my brother.  He tells me her daughter's
portion is but L400, at which I am more troubled than before; and they
find fault that his house is too little.  So after I had told him my full
mind, I went away to meet again to-morrow, but I believe the business
will be broke off, which for Tom's sake I am much grieved for, but it
cannot be helped without his ruin.  Thence to see Mr. Moore, who is
pretty well again, and we read over and discoursed about Mrs.
Goldsborough's business, and her son coming by my appointment thither,
I did tell him our resolution as to her having her estate reconveyed to
her.  Hither also came my brother, and before Mr. Moore I did advise and
counsel him about his match, and how we had all been abused by Mr.
Cooke's folly.  So home and to my office, and there settled many
businesses, and so home and to supper, and so to bed, Sir W. Pen being
still in great pain.



22nd.  Up, and carrying my wife and her brother to Covent Garden, near
their father's new lodging, by coach, I to my Lord Sandwich's, who
receives me now more and more kindly, now he sees that I am respected in
the world; and is my most noble patron.  Here I staid and talked about
many things, with my Lord and Mr. Povy, being there about Tangier
business, for which the Commission is a taking out.  Hence (after talking
with Mr. Cooke, whom I met here about Mrs. Butler's portion, he do
persist to say that it will be worth L600 certain, when he knows as well
as I do now that it is but L400, and so I told him, but he is a fool, and
has made fools of us).  So I by water to my brother's, and thence to Mr.
Smith's, where I was, last night, and there by appointment met Mrs.
Butler, with whom I plainly discoursed and she with me.  I find she will
give but L400, and no more, and is not willing to do that without a
joynture, which she expects and I will not grant for that portion, and
upon the whole I find that Cooke has made great brags on both sides, and
so has abused us both, but know not how to help it, for I perceive she
had much greater expectations of Tom's house and being than she finds.
But however we did break off the business wholly, but with great love and
kindness between her and me, and would have been glad we had known one
another's minds sooner, without being misguided by this fellow to both
our shames and trouble.  For I find her a very discreet, sober woman, and
her daughter, I understand and believe, is a good lady; and if portions
did agree, though she finds fault with Tom's house, and his bad
imperfection in his speech, I believe we should well agree in other
matters.  After taking a kind farewell, I to Tom's, and there did give
him a full account of this sad news, with which I find he is much
troubled, but do appear to me to be willing to be guided herein, and
apprehends that it is not for his good to do otherwise, and so I do
persuade [him] to follow his business again, and I hope he will, but for
Cooke's part and Dr. Pepys, I shall know them for two fools another time.
Hence, it raining hard, by coach home, being first trimmed here by
Benier, who being acquainted with all the players, do tell me that
Betterton is not married to Ianthe, as they say; but also that he is a
very sober, serious man, and studious and humble, following of his
studies, and is rich already with what he gets and saves, and then to my
office till late, doing great deal of business, and settling my mind in
pretty good order as to my business, though at present they are very
many.  So home and to bed.  This night was buried, as I hear by the bells
at Barking Church, my poor Morena,

     [The burial of Elizabeth, daughter of John Dekins or Dickens, is
     recorded in the parish register of All Hallows, Barking, as having
     taken place on October 22nd.  See ante, October 3rd]

whose sickness being desperate, did kill her poor father; and he being
dead for sorrow, she could not recover, nor desire to live, but from that
time do languish more and more, and so is now dead and buried.



23rd.  Up and among my workmen, and so to the office, and there sitting
all the morning we stept all out to visit Sir W. Batten, who it seems has
not been well all yesterday, but being let blood is now pretty well, and
Sir W. Pen after office I went to see, but he continues in great pain of
the gout and in bed, cannot stir hand nor foot but with great pain.  So
to my office all the evening putting things public and private in order,
and so at night home and to supper and to bed, finding great content
since I am come to follow my business again, which God preserve in me.



24th.  After with great pleasure lying a great while talking and sporting
in bed with my wife (for we have been for some years now, and at present
more and more, a very happy couple, blessed be God), I got up and to my
office, and having done there some business, I by water, and then walked
to Deptford to discourse with Mr. Lowly and Davis about my late
conceptions about keeping books of the distinct works done in the yards,
against which I find no objection but their ignorance and unwillingness
to do anything of pains and what is out of their ordinary dull road, but
I like it well, and will proceed in it.  So home and dined there with my
wife upon a most excellent dish of tripes of my own directing, covered
with, mustard, as I have heretofore seen them done at my Lord Crew's, of
which I made a very great meal, and sent for a glass of wine for myself,
and so to see Sir W. Pen, who continues bed-rid in great pain, and hence
to the Treasury to Sir J. Minnes paying off of tickets, and at night
home, and in my study (after seeing Sir W. Batten, who also continues
ill) I fell to draw out my conceptions about books for the clerk that
cheques in the yard to keep according to the distinct works there, which
pleases me very well, and I am confident it will be of great use.  At 9
at night home, and to supper, and to bed.  This noon came to see me and
sat with me a little after dinner Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, who tells
me how ill things go at Court: that the King do show no countenance to
any that belong to the Queen; nor, above all, to such English as she
brought over with her, or hath here since, for fear they should tell her
how he carries himself to Mrs. Palmer;--[Lady Castlemaine.]-- insomuch
that though he has a promise, and is sure of being made her chyrurgeon,
he is at a loss what to do in it, whether to take it or no, since the
King's mind is so altered in favour to all her dependants, whom she is
fain to let go back into Portugall (though she brought them from their
friends against their wills with promise of preferment), without doing
any thing for them.  But he tells me that her own physician did tell him
within these three days that the Queen do know how the King orders
things, and how he carries himself to my Lady Castlemaine and others, as
well as any body; but though she hath spirit enough, yet seeing that she
do no good by taking notice of it, for the present she forbears it in
policy; of which I am very glad.  But I pray God keep us in peace; for
this, with other things, do give great discontent to all people.



25th.  Up and to the office, and there with Mr. Coventry sat all the
morning, only we two, the rest being absent or sick.  Dined at home with
my wife upon a good dish of neats' feet and mustard, of which I made a
good meal.  All the afternoon alone at my office and among my workmen,
who (I mean the joyners) have even ended my dining room, and will be very
handsome and to my full content.  In the evening at my office about one
business or another, and so home and to bed, with my mind every day more
and more quiet since I come to follow my business, and shall be very
happy indeed when the trouble of my house is over.



26th (Lord's day).Up and put on my new Scallop, and is very fine.  To
church, and there saw the first time Mr. Mills in a surplice; but it
seemed absurd for him to pull it over his ears in the reading-pew, after
he had done, before all the church, to go up to the pulpitt, to preach
without it.  Home and dined, and Mr. Sympson, my joyner that do my
diningroom, and my brother Tom with me to a delicate fat pig.  Tom takes
his disappointment of his mistress to heart; but all will be well again
in a little time.  Then to church again, and heard a simple Scot preach
most tediously.  So home, and to see Sir W. Batten, who is pretty well
again, and then to my uncle Wight's to show my fine band and to see Mrs.
Margaret Wight, but she was not there.  All this day soldiers going up
and down the town, there being an alarm and many Quakers and others
clapped up; but I believe without any reason: only they say in
Dorsetshire there hath been some rising discovered.  So after supper
home, and then to my study, and making up my monthly account to myself.
I find myself, by my expense in bands and clothes this month, abated a
little of my last, and that I am worth L679 still; for which God be
praised.  So home and to bed with quiett mind, blessed be God, but afeard
of my candle's going out, which makes me write thus slubberingly.



27th.  Up, and after giving order to the plasterer now to set upon the
finishing of my house, then by water to wait upon the Duke, and walking
in the matted Gallery, by and by comes Mr. Coventry and Sir John Minnes,
and then to the Duke, and after he was ready, to his closet, where I did
give him my usual account of matters, and afterwards, upon Sir J. Minnes'
desire to have one to assist him in his employment, Sir W. Pen is
appointed to be his, and Mr. Pett to be the Surveyor's assistant.  Mr.
Coventry did desire to be excused, and so I hope (at least it is my
present opinion) to have none joined with me, but only Mr. Coventry do
desire that I would find work for one of his clerks, which I did not
deny, but however I will think of it, whether without prejudice to mine I
can do it.  Thence to my Lord Sandwich, who now-a-days calls me into his
chamber, and alone did discourse with me about the jealousy that the
Court have of people's rising; wherein he do much dislike my Lord Monk's
being so eager against a company of poor wretches, dragging them up and
down the street; but would have him rather to take some of the greatest
ringleaders of them, and punish them; whereas this do but tell the world
the King's fears and doubts.  For Dunkirk; he wonders any wise people
should be so troubled thereat, and scorns all their talk against it, for
that he says it was not Dunkirk, but the other places, that did and would
annoy us, though we had that, as much as if we had it not.  He also took
notice of the new Ministers of State, Sir H. Bennet and Sir Charles
Barkeley, their bringing in, and the high game that my Lady Castlemaine
plays at Court (which I took occasion to mention as that that the people
do take great notice of), all which he confessed.  Afterwards he told me
of poor Mr. Spong, that being with other people examined before the King
and Council (they being laid up as suspected persons; and it seems Spong
is so far thought guilty as that they intend to pitch upon him to put to
the wracke or some other torture), he do take knowledge of my Lord
Sandwich, and said that he was well known to Mr. Pepys.  But my Lord
knows, and I told him, that it was only in matter of musique and pipes,
but that I thought him to be a very innocent fellow; and indeed I am very
sorry for him.  After my Lord and I had done in private, we went out, and
with Captain Cuttance and Bunn did look over their draught of a bridge
for Tangier, which will be brought by my desire to our office by them
to-morrow.  Thence to Westminster Hall, and there walked long with Mr.
Creed, and then to the great half-a-crown ordinary, at the King's Head,
near Charing Cross, where we had a most excellent neat dinner and very
high company, and in a noble manner.  After dinner he and I into another
room over a pot of ale and talked.  He showed me our commission, wherein
the Duke of York, Prince Rupert, Duke of Albemarle, Lord Peterborough,
Lord Sandwich, Sir G. Carteret, Sir William Compton, Mr. Coventry, Sir R.
Ford, Sir William Rider, Mr. Cholmley, Mr. Povy, myself, and Captain
Cuttance, in this order are joyned for the carrying on the service of
Tangier, which I take for a great honour to me.  He told me what great
faction there is at Court; and above all, what is whispered, that young
Crofts is lawful son to the King, the King being married to his mother.

     [There has been much confusion as to the name and parentage of
     Charles's mistress.  Lucy Walter was the daughter of William Walter
     of Roch Castle, co. Pembroke, and Mr. S. Steinman, in his "Althorp
     Memoirs" (privately printed, 1869), sets out her pedigree, which is
     a good one.  Roch Castle was taken and burnt by the Parliamentary
     forces in 1644, and Lucy was in London in 1648, where she made the
     acquaintance of Colonel Algernon Sidney.  She then fell into the
     possession of his brother, Colonel Robert Sidney.  In September of
     this same year she was taken up by Charles, Prince of Wales.
     Charles terminated his connection with her on October 30th, 1651,
     and she died in 1658, as appears by a document (administration entry
     in the Register of the Prerogative Court) met with by the late
     Colonel Chester.  William Erskine, who had served Charles as
     cupbearer in his wanderings, and was appointed Master of the
     Charterhouse in December, 1677, had the care of Lucy Walter, and
     buried her in Paris.  He declared that the king never had any
     intention of marrying her, and she did not deserve it.  Thomas Ross,
     the tutor of her son, put the idea of this claim into his head, and
     asked Dr. Cosin to certify to a marriage.  In consequence of this he
     was removed from his office, and Lord Crofts took his place
     (Steinman's "Althorp Memoirs").  Lucy Walter took the name of Barlow
     during her wanderings.]

How true this is, God knows; but I believe the Duke of York will not be
fooled in this of three crowns.  Thence to White Hall, and walked long in
the galleries till (as they are commanded to all strange persons), one
come to tell us, we not being known, and being observed to walk there
four or five hours (which was not true,, unless they count my walking
there in the morning), he was commanded to ask who we were; which being
told, he excused his question, and was satisfied.  These things speak
great fear and jealousys.  Here we staid some time, thinking to stay out
the play before the King to-night, but it being "The Villaine," and my
wife not being there, I had no mind.  So walk to the Exchange, and there
took many turns with him; among other things, observing one very pretty
Exchange lass, with her face full of black patches, which was a strange
sight.  So bid him good-night and away by coach to Mr. Moore, with whom I
staid an hour, and found him pretty well and intends to go abroad
tomorrow, and so it raining hard by coach home, and having visited both
Sir Williams, who are both sick, but like to be well again, I to my
office, and there did some business, and so home and to bed.  At Sir W.
Batten's I met with Mr. Mills, who tells me that he could get nothing out
of the maid hard by (that did poyson herself) before she died, but that
she did it because she did not like herself, nor had not liked herself,
nor anything she did a great while.  It seems she was well-favoured
enough, but crooked, and this was all she could be got to say, which is
very strange.



28th.  At the office sitting all the morning, and then home to dinner
with my wife, and after dinner she and I passing an hour or two in
ridiculous talk, and then to my office, doing business there till 9 at
night, and so home and to supper and to bed.  My house is now in its last
dirt, I hope, the plasterer and painter now being upon winding up all my
trouble, which I expect will now in a fortnight's time, or a little more,
be quite over.



29th (Lord Mayor's day).  Intended to have made me fine, and by
invitation to have dined with the Lord Mayor to-day, but going to see Sir
W. Batten this morning, I found Sir G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes going
with Sir W. Batten and myself to examine Sir G. Carteret's accounts for
the last year, whereupon I settled to it with them all the day long, only
dinner time (which Sir G. Carteret gave us), and by night did as good as
finish them, and so parted, and thence to my office, and there set papers
in order and business against to-morrow.  I received a letter this day
from my father, speaking more trouble about my uncle Thomas his business,
and of proceeding to lay claim to Brampton and all my uncle left, because
it is given conditional that we should pay legacys, which to him we have
not yet done, but I hope that will do us no hurt; God help us if it
should, but it disquiets my mind.  I have also a letter from my Lord
Sandwich desiring me upon matters of concernment to be with him early
tomorrow morning, which I wonder what it should be.  So my mind full of
thoughts, and some trouble at night, home and to bed.  Sir G. Carteret,
who had been at the examining most of the late people that are clapped
up, do say that he do not think that there hath been any great plotting
among them, though they have a good will to it; but their condition is so
poor, and silly, and low, that they do not fear them at all.



30th.  Could sleep but little to-night for thoughts of my business.  So
up by candlelight and by water to Whitehall, and so to my Lord Sandwich,
who was up in his chamber and all alone, did acquaint me with his
business; which was, that our old acquaintance Mr. Wade (in Axe Yard)
hath discovered to him L7,000 hid in the Tower, of which he was to have
two for discovery; my Lord himself two, and the King the other three,
when it was found; and that the King's warrant runs for me on my Lord's
part, and one Mr. Lee for Sir Harry Bennet, to demand leave of the
Lieutenant of the Tower for to make search.  After he had told me the
whole business, I took leave and hastened to my office, expecting to be
called by a letter from my Lord to set upon the business, and so there I
sat with the officers all the morning.  At noon when we were up comes Mr.
Wade with my Lord's letter, and tells me the whole business.  So we
consulted for me to go first to Sir H. Bennet, who is now with many of
the Privy Counsellors at the Tower, examining of their late prisoners,
to advise with him when to begin.  So I went; and the guard at the Tower
Gate, making me leave my sword at the gate, I was forced to stay so long
in the ale-house hard by, till my boy run home for my cloak, that my Lord
Mayor that now is, Sir John Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower, with all
his company, was gone with their coaches to his house in Minchen Lane.
So my cloak being come, I walked thither; and there, by Sir G. Carteret's
means, did presently speak with Sir H. Bennet, who did show and give me
the King's warrant to me and Mr. Leigh, and another to himself, for the
paying of L2,000 to my Lord, and other two to the discoverers.  After a
little discourse, dinner come in; and I dined with them.  There was my
Lord Mayor, my Lord Lauderdale, Mr. Secretary Morris, to whom Sir H.
Bennet would give the upper hand; Sir Wm. Compton, Sir G. Carteret, and
myself, and some other company, and a brave dinner.  After dinner, Sir H.
Bennet did call aside the Lord Mayor and me, and did break the business
to him, who did not, nor durst appear the least averse to it, but did
promise all assistance forthwith to set upon it.  So Mr. Lee and I to our
office, and there walked till Mr. Wade and one Evett his guide did come,
and W. Griffin, and a porter with his picke-axes, &c.; and so they walked
along with us to the Tower, and Sir H. Bennet and my Lord Mayor did give
us full power to fall to work.  So our guide demands, a candle, and down
into the cellars he goes, inquiring whether they were the same that
Baxter

     [Intended for John Barkstead, Lieutenant of the Tower under
     Cromwell.  Committed to the Tower (see March 17th, 1661-62).]

always had.  We went into several little cellars, and then went out a-
doors to view, and to the Cole Harbour; but none did answer so well to
the marks which was given him to find it by, as one arched vault.  Where,
after a great deal of council whether to set upon it now, or delay for
better and more full advice, we set to it, to digging we went to almost
eight o'clock at night, but could find nothing.  But, however, our guides
did not at all seem discouraged; for that they being confident that the
money is there they look for, but having never been in the cellars, they
could not be positive to the place, and therefore will inform themselves
more fully now they have been there, of the party that do advise them.
So locking the door after us, we left work to-night, and up to the Deputy
Governor (my Lord Mayor, and Sir H. Bennet, with the rest of the company
being gone an hour before); and he do undertake to keep the key of the
cellars, that none shall go down without his privity.  But, Lord! to see
what a young simple fantastique coxcombe is made Deputy Governor, would
make one mad; and how he called out for his night-gown of silk, only to
make a show to us; and yet for half an hour I did not think he was the
Deputy Governor, and so spoke not to him about the business, but waited
for another man; at last I broke our business to him; and he promising
his care, we parted.  And Mr. Leigh and I by coach to White Hall, where
I did give my Lord Sandwich an account of our proceedings, and some
encouragement to hope for something hereafter, and so bade him good-
night, and so by coach home again, where to my trouble I found that the
painter had not been here to-day to do any thing, which vexes me
mightily.  So to my office to put down my journal, and so home and to
bed.  This morning, walking with Mr. Coventry in the garden, he did tell
me how Sir G. Carteret had carried the business of the Victuallers' money
to be paid by himself, contrary to old practice; at which he is angry I
perceive, but I believe means no hurt, but that things maybe done as they
ought.  He expects Sir George should not bespatter him privately, in
revenge, but openly.  Against which he prepares to bedaub him, and swears
he will do it from the beginning, from Jersey to this day.  And as to his
own taking of too large fees or rewards for places that he had sold, he
will prove that he was directed to it by Sir George himself among others.
And yet he did not deny Sir G. Carteret his due, in saying that he is a
man that do take the most pains, and gives himself the most to do
business of any man about the Court, without any desire of pleasure or
divertisements; which is very true.  But which pleased me mightily, he
said in these words, that he was resolved, whatever it cost him, to make
an experiment, and see whether it was possible for a man to keep himself
up in Court by dealing plainly and walking uprightly, with any private
game a playing: in the doing whereof, if his ground do slip from under
him, he will be contented; but he is resolved to try, and never to baulke
taking notice of any thing that is to the King's prejudice, let it fall
where it will; which is a most brave resolucion.  He was very free with
me; and by my troth, I do see more reall worth in him than in most men
that I do know.  I would not forget two passages of Sir J. Minnes's at
yesterday's dinner.  The one, that to the question how it comes to pass
that there are no boars seen in London, but many sows and pigs; it was
answered, that the constable gets them a-nights.  The other, Thos.
Killigrew's way of getting to see plays when he was a boy.  He would go
to the Red Bull, and when the man cried to the boys, "Who will go and be
a devil, and he shall see the play for nothing?" then would he go in, and
be a devil upon the stage, and so get to see plays.



31st.  Lay pretty long in bed, and then up and among my workmen, the
carpenters being this day laying of my floor of my dining room, with whom
I staid a good while, and so to my office, and did a little business, and
so home to dinner, and after dinner all the afternoon with my carpenters,
making them lay all my boards but one in my dining room this day, which I
am confident they would have made two good days work of if I had not been
there, and it will be very pleasant.  At night to my office, and there
late doing of my office business, and so home to supper and bed.  Thus
ends this month, I and my family in good health, but weary heartily of
dirt, but now in hopes within two or three weeks to be out of it.  My
head troubled with much business, but especially my fear of Sir J. Minnes
claiming my bed-chamber of me, but I hope now that it is almost over, for
I perceive he is fitting his house to go into it the next week.  Then my
law businesses for Brampton makes me mad almost, for that I want time to
follow them, but I must by no means neglect them.  I thank God I do save
money, though it be but a little, but I hope to find out some job or
other that I may get a sum by to set me up.  I am now also busy in a
discovery for my Lord Sandwich and Sir H. Bennett by Mr. Wade's means of
some of Baxter's [Barkstead] money hid in one of his cellars in the
Tower.  If we get it it may be I may be 10 or L20 the better for it.  I
thank God I have no crosses, but only much business to trouble my mind
with.  In all other things as happy a man as any in the world, for the
whole world seems to smile upon me, and if my house were done that I
could diligently follow my business, I would not doubt to do God, and the
King, and myself good service.  And all I do impute almost wholly to my
late temperance, since my making of my vowes against wine and plays,
which keeps me most happily and contentfully to my business; which God
continue!  Public matters are full of discontent, what with the sale of
Dunkirk, and my Lady Castlemaine, and her faction at Court; though I know
not what they would have more than to debauch the king, whom God preserve
from it!  And then great plots are talked to be discovered, and all the
prisons in town full of ordinary people, taken from their meeting-places
last Sunday.  But for certain some plots there hath been, though not
brought to a head.




ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:

All made much worse in their report among people than they are
Care not for his commands, and especially on Sundays
Catched cold yesterday by putting off my stockings
Hate in others, and more in myself, to be careless of keys
I fear that it must be as it can, and not as I would
Lying a great while talking and sporting in bed with my wife
My Jane's cutting off a carpenter's long mustacho
No good by taking notice of it, for the present she forbears
Parson is a cunning fellow he is as any of his coat
Pleasures are not sweet to me now in the very enjoying of them
She so cruel a hypocrite that she can cry when she pleases
Strange things he has been found guilty of, not fit to name
Then to church to a tedious sermon
When the candle is going out, how they bawl and dispute




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