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Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jan/Feb 1965/66

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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.
                            JANUARY & FEBRUARY
                                1665-1666



January 1st (New-Yeare's Day).  Called up by five o'clock, by my order,
by Mr. Tooker, who wrote, while I dictated to him, my business of the
Pursers; and so, without eating or drinking, till three in the afternoon,
and then, to my great content, finished it.  So to dinner, Gibson and he
and I, and then to copying it over, Mr. Gibson reading and I writing, and
went a good way in it till interrupted by Sir W. Warren's coming, of whom
I always learne something or other, his discourse being very good and his
brains also.  He being gone we to our business again, and wrote more of
it fair, and then late to bed.

     [This document is in the British Museum (Harleian MS. 6287), and is
     entitled, "A Letter from Mr. Pepys, dated at Greenwich, 1 Jan.
     1665-6, which he calls his New Year's Gift to his hon. friend, Sir
     Wm. Coventry, wherein he lays down a method for securing his Majesty
     in husbandly execution of the Victualling Part of the Naval
     Expence."  It consists of nineteen closely written folio pages, and
     is a remarkable specimen of Pepys's business habits.--B. There are
     copies of several letters on the victualling of the navy, written by
     Pepys in 1666, among the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian.]



2nd.  Up by candlelight again, and wrote the greatest part of my business
fair, and then to the office, and so home to dinner, and after dinner up
and made an end of my fair writing it, and that being done, set two
entering while to my Lord Bruncker's, and there find Sir J. Minnes and
all his company, and Mr. Boreman and Mrs. Turner, but, above all, my dear
Mrs. Knipp, with whom I sang, and in perfect pleasure I was to hear her
sing, and especially her little Scotch song of "Barbary Allen;"

     [The Scottish ballad is entitled, "Sir John Grehme and Barbara
     Allan," and the English version, "Barbara Allen's Cruelty."  Both
     are printed in Percy's "Reliques," Series III.]

and to make our mirthe the completer, Sir J. Minnes was in the highest
pitch of mirthe, and his mimicall tricks, that ever I saw, and most
excellent pleasant company he is, and the best mimique that ever I saw,
and certainly would have made an excellent actor, and now would be an
excellent teacher of actors.  Thence, it being post night, against my
will took leave, but before I come to my office, longing for more of her
company, I returned and met them coming home in coaches, so I got into
the coach where Mrs. Knipp was and got her upon my knee (the coach being
full) and played with her breasts and sung, and at last set her at her
house and so good night.  So home to my lodgings and there endeavoured to
have finished the examining my papers of Pursers' business to have sent
away to-night, but I was so sleepy with my late early risings and late
goings to bed that I could not do it, but was forced to go to bed and
leave it to send away to-morrow by an Expresse.



3rd.  Up, and all the morning till three in the afternoon examining and
fitting up my Pursers' paper and sent it away by an Expresse.  Then comes
my wife, and I set her to get supper ready against I go to the Duke of
Albemarle and back again; and at the Duke's with great joy I received the
good news of the decrease of the plague this week to 70, and but 253 in
all; which is the least Bill hath been known these twenty years in the
City.  Through the want of people in London is it, that must make it so
low below the ordinary number for Bills.  So home, and find all my good
company I had bespoke, as Coleman and his wife, and Laneare, Knipp and
her surly husband; and good musique we had, and, among other things, Mrs.
Coleman sang my words I set of "Beauty retire," and I think it is a good
song, and they praise it mightily.  Then to dancing and supper, and
mighty merry till Mr. Rolt come in, whose pain of the tooth-ake made him
no company, and spoilt ours; so he away, and then my wife's teeth fell of
akeing, and she to bed.  So forced to break up all with a good song, and
so to bed.



4th.  Up, and to the office, where my Lord Bruncker and I, against Sir W.
Batten and Sir J. Minnes and the whole table, for Sir W. Warren in the
business of his mast contract, and overcome them and got them to do what
I had a mind to, for indeed my Lord being unconcerned in what I aimed at.
So home to dinner, where Mr. Sheldon come by invitation from Woolwich,
and as merry as I could be with all my thoughts about me and my wife
still in pain of her tooth.  He anon took leave and took Mrs. Barbary his
niece home with him, and seems very thankful to me for the L10 I did give
him for my wife's rent of his house, and I am sure I am beholding to him,
for it was a great convenience to me, and then my wife home to London by
water and I to the office till 8 at night, and so to my Lord Bruncker's,
thinking to have been merry, having appointed a meeting for Sir J. Minnes
and his company and Mrs. Knipp again, but whatever hindered I know not,
but no company come, which vexed me because it disappointed me of the
glut of mirthe I hoped for.  However, good discourse with my Lord and
merry, with Mrs. Williams's descants upon Sir J. Minnes's and Mrs.
Turner's not coming.  So home and to bed.



5th.  I with my Lord Bruncker and Mrs. Williams by coach with four horses
to London, to my Lord's house in Covent-Guarden.  But, Lord! what staring
to see a nobleman's coach come to town.  And porters every where bow to
us; and such begging of beggars!  And a delightfull thing it is to see
the towne full of people again as now it is; and shops begin to open,
though in many places seven or eight together, and more, all shut; but
yet the towne is full, compared with what it used to be.  I mean the City
end; for Covent-Guarden and Westminster are yet very empty of people, no
Court nor gentry being there.  Set Mrs. Williams down at my Lord's house
and he and I to Sir G. Carteret, at his chamber at White Hall, he being
come to town last night to stay one day.  So my Lord and he and I much
talke about the Act, what credit we find upon it, but no private talke
between him and I.  So I to the 'Change, and there met Mr. Povy, newly
come to town, and he and I to Sir George Smith's and there dined nobly.
He tells me how my Lord Bellases complains for want of money and of him
and me therein, but I value it not, for I know I do all that can be done.
We had no time to talk of particulars, but leave it to another day, and I
away to Cornhill to expect my Lord Bruncker's coming back again, and I
staid at my stationer's house, and by and by comes my Lord, and did take
me up and so to Greenwich, and after sitting with them a while at their
house, home, thinking to get Mrs. Knipp, but could not, she being busy
with company, but sent me a pleasant letter, writing herself "Barbary
Allen."  I went therefore to Mr. Boreman's for pastime, and there staid
an houre or two talking with him, and reading a discourse about the River
of Thames, the reason of its being choked up in several places with
shelfes; which is plain is, by the encroachments made upon the River, and
running out of causeways into the River at every wood-wharfe; which was
not heretofore when Westminster Hall and White Hall were built, and
Redriffe Church, which now are sometimes overflown with water.  I had
great satisfaction herein.  So home and to my papers for lacke of
company, but by and by comes little Mrs. Tooker and sat and supped with
me, and I kept her very late talking and making her comb my head, and did
what I will with her.  So late to bed.



6th.  Up betimes and by water to the Cockepitt, there met Sir G. Carteret
and, after discourse with the Duke, all together, and there saw a letter
wherein Sir W. Coventry did take notice to the Duke with a commendation
of my paper about Pursers, I to walke in the Parke with the Vice-
Chamberlain, and received his advice about my deportment about the
advancing the credit of the Act; giving me caution to see that we do not
misguide the King by making them believe greater matters from it than
will be found.  But I see that this arises from his great trouble to see
the Act succeede, and to hear my name so much used and my letters shown
at Court about goods served us in upon the credit of it.  But I do make
him believe that I do it with all respect to him and on his behalfe too,
as indeed I do, as well as my owne, that it may not be said that he or I
do not assist therein.  He tells me that my Lord Sandwich do proceed on
his journey with the greatest kindnesse that can be imagined from the
King and Chancellor, which was joyfull newes to me.  Thence with Lord
Bruncker to Greenwich by water to a great dinner and much company; Mr.
Cottle and his lady and others and I went, hoping to get Mrs. Knipp to
us, having wrote a letter to her in the morning, calling myself "Dapper
Dicky," in answer to hers of "Barbary Allen," but could not, and am told
by the boy that carried my letter, that he found her crying; but I fear
she lives a sad life with that ill-natured fellow her husband: so we had
a great, but I a melancholy dinner, having not her there, as I hoped.
After dinner to cards, and then comes notice that my wife is come
unexpectedly to me to towne.  So I to her.  It is only to see what I do,
and why I come not home; and she is in the right that I would have a
little more of Mrs. Knipp's company before I go away.  My wife to fetch
away my things from Woolwich, and I back to cards and after cards to
choose King and Queene, and a good cake there was, but no marks found;
but I privately found the clove, the mark of the knave, and privately put
it into Captain Cocke's piece, which made some mirthe, because of his
lately being knowne by his buying of clove and mace of the East India
prizes.  At night home to my lodging, where I find my wife returned with
my things, and there also Captain Ferrers is come upon business of my
Lord's to this town about getting some goods of his put on board in order
to his going to Spain, and Ferrers presumes upon my finding a bed for
him, which I did not like to have done without my invitation because I
had done [it] several times before, during the plague, that he could not
provide himself safely elsewhere.  But it being Twelfth Night, they had
got the fiddler and mighty merry they were; and I above come not to them,
but when I had done my business among my papers went to bed, leaving them
dancing, and choosing King and Queene.



7th (Lord's day).  Up, and being trimmed I was invited by Captain Cocke,
so I left my wife, having a mind to some discourse with him, and dined
with him.  He tells me of new difficulties about his goods which troubles
me and I fear they will be great.  He tells me too what I hear everywhere
how the towne talks of my Lord Craven being to come into Sir G.
Carteret's place; but sure it cannot be true.  But I do fear those two
families, his and my Lord Sandwich's, are quite broken.  And I must now
stand upon my own legs.  Thence to my lodging, and considering how I am
hindered by company there to do any thing among my papers, I did resolve
to go away to-day rather than stay to no purpose till to-morrow and so
got all my things packed up and spent half an hour with W. Howe about his
papers of accounts for contingencies and my Lord's accounts, so took
leave of my landlady and daughters, having paid dear for what time I have
spent there, but yet having been quiett and my health, I am very well
contented therewith.  So with my wife and Mercer took boat and away home;
but in the evening, before I went, comes Mrs. Knipp, just to speake with
me privately, to excuse her not coming to me yesterday, complaining how
like a devil her husband treats her, but will be with us in towne a weeke
hence, and so I kissed her and parted.  Being come home, my wife and I to
look over our house and consider of laying out a little money to hang our
bedchamber better than it is, and so resolved to go and buy something
to-morrow, and so after supper, with great joy in my heart for my coming
once again hither, to bed.



8th.  Up, and my wife and I by coach to Bennett's, in Paternoster Row,
few shops there being yet open, and there bought velvett for a coate, and
camelott for a cloake for myself; and thence to a place to look over some
fine counterfeit damasks to hang my wife's closett, and pitched upon one,
and so by coach home again, I calling at the 'Change, and so home to
dinner and all the afternoon look after my papers at home and my office
against to-morrow, and so after supper and considering the uselessness of
laying out so much money upon my wife's closett, but only the chamber, to
bed.



9th.  Up, and then to the office, where we met first since the plague,
which God preserve us in!  At noon home to dinner, where uncle Thomas
with me, and in comes Pierce lately come from Oxford, and Ferrers.  After
dinner Pierce and I up to my chamber, where he tells me how a great
difference hath been between the Duke and Duchesse, he suspecting her to
be naught with Mr. Sidney.

     ["This Duchess was Chancellor Hyde's daughter, and she was a very
     handsome woman, and had a great deal of wit; therefore it was not
     without reason that Mr. Sydney, the handsomest youth of his time, of
     the Duke's bedchamber, was so much in love with her, as appeared to
     us all, and the Duchess not unkind to him, but very innocently.  He
     was afterwards banished the Court for another reason, as was
     reported" (Sir John Reresby's "Memoirs," August 5th, 1664, ed.
     Cartwright, pp. 64,65). "'How could the Duke of York make my mother
     a Papist?' said the Princess Mary to Dr. Bumet.  'The Duke caught a
     man in bed with her,' said the Doctor, 'and then had power to make
     her do anything.'  The Prince, who sat by the fire, said, 'Pray,
     madam, ask the Doctor a few more questions'" (Spence's "Anecdotes,"
     ed.  Singer, 329).]

But some way or other the matter is made up; but he was banished the
Court, and the Duke for many days did not speak to the Duchesse at all.
He tells me that my Lord Sandwich is lost there at Court, though the King
is particularly his friend.  But people do speak every where slightly of
him; which is a sad story to me, but I hope it may be better again.  And
that Sir G. Carteret is neglected, and hath great enemies at work against
him.  That matters must needs go bad, while all the town, and every boy
in the streete, openly cries, "The King cannot go away till my Lady
Castlemaine be ready to come along with him;" she being lately put to bed
And that he visits her and Mrs. Stewart every morning before he eats his
breakfast.  All this put together makes me very sad, but yet I hope I
shall do pretty well among them for all this, by my not meddling with
either of their matters.  He and Ferrers gone I paid uncle Thomas his
last quarter's money, and then comes Mr. Gawden and he and I talked above
stairs together a good while about his business, and to my great joy got
him to declare that of the L500 he did give me the other day, none of it
was for my Treasurershipp for Tangier (I first telling him how matters
stand between Povy and I, that he was to have half of whatever was coming
to me by that office), and that he will gratify me at 2 per cent. for
that when he next receives any money.  So there is L80 due to me more
than I thought of.  He gone I with a glad heart to the office to write,
my letters and so home to supper and bed, my wife mighty full of her
worke she hath to do in furnishing her bedchamber.



10th.  Up, and by coach to Sir G. Downing, where Mr. Gawden met me by
agreement to talke upon the Act.  I do find Sir G. Downing to be a mighty
talker, more than is true, which I now know to be so, and suspected it
before, but for all that I have good grounds to think it will succeed for
goods and in time for money too, but not presently.  Having done with
him, I to my Lord Bruncker's house in Covent-Garden, and, among other
things, it was to acquaint him with my paper of Pursers, and read it to
him, and had his good liking of it.  Shewed him Mr. Coventry's sense of
it, which he sent me last post much to my satisfaction.  Thence to the
'Change, and there hear to our grief how the plague is encreased this
week from seventy to eighty-nine.  We have also great fear of our
Hambrough fleete, of their meeting the Dutch; as also have certain newes,
that by storms Sir Jer. Smith's fleet is scattered, and three of them
come without masts back to Plymouth, which is another very exceeding
great disappointment, and if the victualling ships are miscarried will
tend to the losse of the garrison of Tangier.  Thence home, in my way had
the opportunity I longed for, of seeing and saluting Mrs. Stokes, my
little goldsmith's wife in Paternoster Row, and there bespoke some thing,
a silver chafing-dish for warming plates, and so home to dinner, found my
wife busy about making her hangings for her chamber with the upholster.
So I to the office and anon to the Duke of Albemarle, by coach at night,
taking, for saving time, Sir W. Warren with me, talking of our businesses
all the way going and coming, and there got his reference of my pursers'
paper to the Board to consider of it before he reads it, for he will
never understand it I am sure.  Here I saw Sir W. Coventry's kind letter
to him concerning my paper, and among others of his letters, which I saw
all, and that is a strange thing, that whatever is writ to this Duke of
Albemarle, all the world may see; for this very night he did give me Mr.
Coventry's letter to read, soon as it come to his hand, before he had
read it himself, and bid me take out of it what concerned the Navy, and
many things there was in it, which I should not have thought fit for him
to have let any body so suddenly see; but, among other things, find him
profess himself to the Duke a friend into the inquiring further into the
business of Prizes, and advises that it may be publique, for the righting
the King, and satisfying the people and getting the blame to be rightly
laid where it should be, which strikes very hard upon my Lord Sandwich,
and troubles me to read it.  Besides, which vexes me more, I heard the
damned Duchesse again say to twenty gentlemen publiquely in the room,
that she would have Montagu sent once more to sea, before he goes his
Embassy, that we may see whether he will make amends for his cowardice,
and repeated the answer she did give the other day in my hearing to Sir
G. Downing, wishing her Lord had been a coward, for then perhaps he might
have been made an Embassador, and not been sent now to sea.  But one good
thing she said, she cried mightily out against the having of gentlemen
Captains with feathers and ribbands, and wished the King would send her
husband to sea with the old plain sea Captains, that he served with
formerly, that would make their ships swim with blood, though they could
not make legs

     [Make bows, play the courtier.  The reading, "make leagues,"
     appeared in former editions till Mr. Mynors Bright corrected it.]

as Captains nowadays can.  It grieved me to see how slightly the Duke do
every thing in the world, and how the King and every body suffers
whatever he will to be done in the Navy, though never so much against
reason, as in the business of recalling tickets, which will be done
notwithstanding all the arguments against it.  So back again to my
office, and there to business and so to bed.



11th.  Up and to the office.  By and by to the Custome House to the
Farmers, there with a letter of Sir G. Carteret's for L3000, which they
ordered to be paid me.  So away back again to the office, and at noon to
dinner all of us by invitation to Sir W. Pen's, and much other company.
Among others, Lieutenant of the Tower, and Broome, his poet, and Dr.
Whistler, and his (Sir W. Pen's) son-in-law Lowder, servant--[lover]--
to Mrs. Margaret Pen, and Sir Edward Spragg, a merry man, that sang a
pleasant song pleasantly.  Rose from table before half dined, and with
Mr. Mountney of the Custome House to the East India House, and there
delivered to him tallys for L3000 and received a note for the money on
Sir R. Viner.  So ended the matter, and back to my company, where staid a
little, and thence away with my Lord Bruncker for discourse sake, and he
and I to Gresham College to have seen Mr. Hooke and a new invented
chariott of Dr. Wilkins, but met with nobody at home!  So to Dr.
Wilkins's, where I never was before, and very kindly received and met
with Dr. Merritt, and fine discourse among them to my great joy, so sober
and so ingenious.  He is now upon finishing his discourse of a universal
character.  So away and I home to my office about my letters, and so home
to supper and to bed.



12th.  By coach to the Duke of Albemarle, where Sir W. Batten and I only
met.  Troubled at my heart to see how things are ordered there without
consideration or understanding.  Thence back by coach and called at
Wotton's, my shoemaker, lately come to towne, and bespoke shoes, as also
got him to find me a taylor to make me some clothes, my owne being not
yet in towne, nor Pym, my Lord Sandwich's taylor.  So he helped me to a
pretty man, one Mr. Penny, against St. Dunstan's Church.  Thence to the
'Change and there met Mr. Moore, newly come to towne, and took him home
to dinner with me and after dinner to talke, and he and I do conclude my
Lord's case to be very bad and may be worse, if he do not get a pardon
for his doings about the prizes and his business at Bergen, and other
things done by him at sea, before he goes for Spayne.  I do use all the
art I can to get him to get my Lord to pay my cozen Pepys, for it is a
great burden to my mind my being bound for my Lord in L1000 to him.
Having done discourse with him and directed him to go with my advice to
my Lord expresse to-morrow to get his pardon perfected before his going,
because of what I read the other night in Sir W. Coventry's letter, I to
the office, and there had an extraordinary meeting of Sir J. Minnes, Sir
W. Batten, and Sir W. Pen, and my Lord Bruncker and I to hear my paper
read about pursers, which they did all of them with great good will and
great approbation of my method and pains in all, only Sir W. Pen, who
must except against every thing and remedy nothing, did except against my
proposal for some reasons, which I could not understand, I confess, nor
my Lord Bruncker neither, but he did detect indeed a failure or two of
mine in my report about the ill condition of the present pursers, which I
did magnify in one or two little things, to which, I think, he did with
reason except, but at last with all respect did declare the best thing he
ever heard of this kind, but when Sir W. Batten did say, "Let us that do
know the practical part of the Victualling meet Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Pen
and I and see what we can do to mend all," he was so far from offering or
furthering it, that he declined it and said, he must be out of towne.  So
as I ever knew him never did in his life ever attempt to mend any thing,
but suffer all things to go on in the way they are, though never so bad,
rather than improve his experience to the King's advantage.  So we broke
up, however, they promising to meet to offer some thing in it of their
opinions, and so we rose, and I and my Lord Bruncker by coach a little
way for discourse sake, till our coach broke, and tumbled me over him
quite down the side of the coach, falling on the ground about the
Stockes,  but up again, and thinking it fit to have for my honour some
thing reported in writing to the Duke in favour of my pains in this, lest
it should be thought to be rejected as frivolous, I did move it to my
Lord, and he will see it done to-morrow.  So we parted, and I to the
office and thence home to my poor wife, who works all day at home like a
horse, at the making of her hangings for our chamber and the bed.  So to
supper and to bed.



13th.  At the office all the morning, where my Lord Bruncker moved to
have something wrote in my matter as I desired him last night, and it was
ordered and will be done next sitting.  Home with his Lordship to Mrs.
Williams's, in Covent-Garden, to dinner (the first time I ever was
there), and there met Captain Cocke; and pretty merry, though not
perfectly so, because of the fear that there is of a great encrease again
of the plague this week.  And again my Lord Bruncker do tell us, that he
hath it from Sir John Baber; who is related to my Lord Craven, that my
Lord Craven do look after Sir G. Carteret's place, and do reckon himself
sure of it.  After dinner Cocke and I together by coach to the Exchange,
in our way talking of our matters, and do conclude that every thing must
breake in pieces, while no better counsels govern matters than there seem
to do, and that it will become him and I and all men to get their
reckonings even, as soon as they can, and expect all to breake.  Besides,
if the plague continues among us another yeare, the Lord knows what will
become of us.  I set him down at the 'Change, and I home to my office,
where late writing letters and doing business, and thence home to supper
and to bed.  My head full of cares, but pleased with my wife's minding
her worke so well, and busying herself about her house, and I trust in
God if I can but clear myself of my Lord Sandwich's bond, wherein I am
bound with him for L1000 to T. Pepys, I shall do pretty well, come what
will come.



14th (Lord's day).  Long in bed, till raised by my new taylor, Mr. Penny,
[who comes and brings me my new velvet coat, very handsome, but plain,
and a day hence will bring me my camelott cloak.]  He gone I close to my
papers and to set all in order and to perform my vow to finish my
journall and other things before I kiss any woman more or drink any wine,
which I must be forced to do to-morrow if I go to Greenwich as I am
invited by Mr. Boreman to hear Mrs. Knipp sing, and I would be glad to
go, so as we may be merry.  At noon eat the second of the two cygnets Mr.
Shepley sent us for a new-year's gift, and presently to my chamber again
and so to work hard all day about my Tangier accounts, which I am going
again to make up, as also upon writing a letter to my father about Pall,
whom it is time now I find to think of disposing of while God Almighty
hath given me something to give with her, and in my letter to my father I
do offer to give her L450 to make her own L50 given her by my uncle up
L500.  I do also therein propose Mr. Harman the upholster for a husband
for her, to whom I have a great love and did heretofore love his former
wife, and a civil man he is and careful in his way, beside, I like his
trade and place he lives in, being Cornhill.  Thus late at work, and so
to supper and to bed.  This afternoon, after sermon, comes my dear fair
beauty of the Exchange, Mrs. Batelier, brought by her sister, an
acquaintance of Mercer's, to see my wife.  I saluted her with as much
pleasure as I had done any a great while.  We sat and talked together an
houre, with infinite pleasure to me, and so the fair creature went away,
and proves one of the modestest women, and pretty, that ever I saw in my
life, and my [wife] judges her so too.



15th.  Busy all the morning in my chamber in my old cloth suit, while my
usuall one is to my taylor's to mend, which I had at noon again, and an
answer to a letter I had sent this morning to Mrs. Pierce to go along
with my wife and I down to Greenwich to-night upon an invitation to Mr.
Boreman's to be merry to dance and sing with Mrs. Knipp.  Being dressed,
and having dined, I took coach and to Mrs. Pierce, to her new house in
Covent-Garden, a very fine place and fine house.  Took her thence home to
my house, and so by water to Boreman's by night, where the greatest
disappointment that ever I saw in my life, much company, a good supper
provided, and all come with expectation of excesse of mirthe, but all
blank through the waywardnesse of Mrs. Knipp, who, though she had
appointed the night, could not be got to come.  Not so much as her
husband could get her to come; but, which was a pleasant thing in all my
anger, I asking him, while we were in expectation what answer one of our
many messengers would bring, what he thought, whether she would come or
no, he answered that, for his part, he could not so much as thinke.  By
and by we all to supper, which the silly master of the feast commended,
but, what with my being out of humour, and the badnesse of the meate
dressed, I did never eat a worse supper in my life.  At last, very late,
and supper done, she came undressed, but it brought me no mirthe at all;
only, after all being done, without singing, or very little, and no
dancing, Pierce and I to bed together, and he and I very merry to find
how little and thin clothes they give us to cover us, so that we were
fain to lie in our stockings and drawers, and lay all our coates and
clothes upon the bed.  So to sleep.



16th.  Up, and leaving the women in bed together (a pretty black and
white) I to London to the office, and there forgot, through business, to
bespeake any dinner for my wife and Mrs. Pierce.  However, by noon they
come, and a dinner we had, and Kate Joyce comes to see us, with whom very
merry.  After dinner she and I up to my chamber, who told me her business
was chiefly for my advice about her husband's leaving off his trade,
which though I wish enough, yet I did advise against, for he is a man
will not know how to live idle, and employment he is fit for none.
Thence anon carried her and Mrs. Pierce home, and so to the Duke of
Albemarle, and mighty kind he to me still.  So home late at my letters,
and so to bed, being mightily troubled at the newes of the plague's being
encreased, and was much the saddest news that the plague hath brought me
from the beginning of it; because of the lateness of the year, and the
fear, we may with reason have, of its continuing with us the next summer.
The total being now 375, and the plague 158.



17th.  Busy all the morning, settling things against my going out of
towne this night.  After dinner, late took horse, having sent for
Lashmore to go with me, and so he and I rode to Dagenhams in the dark.
There find the whole family well.  It was my Lord Crew's desire that I
should come, and chiefly to discourse with me of Lord Sandwich's matters;
and therein to persuade, what I had done already, that my Lord should sue
out a pardon for his business of the prizes, as also for Bergen, and all
he hath done this year past, before he begins his Embassy to Spayne.  For
it is to be feared that the Parliament will fly out against him and
particular men, the next Session.  He is glad also that my Lord is clear
of his sea-imployment, though sorry as I am, only in the manner of its
bringing about.  By and by to supper, my Lady Wright very kind.  After
supper up to wait on my Lady Crew, who is the same weake silly lady as
ever, asking such saintly questions.  Down to my Lord again and sat
talking an houre or two, and anon to prayers the whole family, and then
all to bed, I handsomely used, lying in the chamber Mr. Carteret formerly
did, but sat up an houre talking sillily with Mr. Carteret and Mr. Marre,
and so to bed.



18th.  Up before day and thence rode to London before office time, where
I met a note at the doore to invite me to supper to Mrs. Pierces because
of Mrs. Knipp, who is in towne and at her house: To the office, where,
among other things, vexed with Major Norwood's coming, who takes it ill
my not paying a bill of Exchange of his, but I have good reason for it,
and so the less troubled, but yet troubled, so as at noon being carried
by my Lord Bruncker to Captain Cocke's to dinner, where Mrs. Williams
was, and Mrs. Knipp, I was not heartily merry, though a glasse of wine
did a little cheer me.  After dinner to the office.  Anon comes to me
thither my Lord Bruncker, Mrs. Williams, and Knipp.  I brought down my
wife in her night-gowne, she not being indeed very well, to the office to
them and there by and by they parted all and my wife and I anon and
Mercer, by coach, to Pierces; where mighty merry, and sing and dance with
great pleasure; and I danced, who never did in company in my life, and
Captain Cocke come for a little while and danced, but went away, but we
staid and had a pretty supper, and spent till two in the morning, but got
home well by coach, though as dark as pitch, and so to bed.



19th.  Up and ready, called on by Mr. Moone, my Lord Bellases' secretary,
who and I good friends though I have failed him in some payments.  Thence
with Sir J. Minnes to the Duke of Albemarle's, and carried all well, and
met Norwood but prevented him in desiring a meeting of the Commissioners
for Tangier.  Thence to look for Sir H. [Cholmly], but he not within, he
coming to town last night.  It is a remarkable thing how infinitely naked
all that end of the towne, Covent-Garden, is at this day of people; while
the City is almost as full again of people as ever it was.  To the
'Change and so home to dinner and the office, whither anon comes Sir H.
Cholmley to me, and he and I to my house, there to settle his accounts
with me, and so with great pleasure we agreed and great friends become,
I think, and he presented me upon the foot of our accounts for this
year's service for him L100, whereof Povy must have half.  Thence to the
office and wrote a letter to Norwood to satisfy him about my nonpayment
of his bill, for that do still stick in my mind.  So at night home to
supper and to bed.



20th.  To the office, where upon Mr. Kinaston's coming to me about some
business of Colonell Norwood's, I sent my boy home for some papers,
where, he staying longer than I would have him, and being vexed at the
business and to be kept from my fellows in the office longer than was
fit, I become angry, and boxed my boy when he came, that I do hurt my
thumb so much, that I was not able to stir all the day after, and in
great pain.  At noon to dinner, and then to the office again, late, and
so to supper and to bed.



21st (Lord's day).  Lay almost till noon merrily and with pleasure
talking with my wife in bed.  Then up looking about my house, and the
roome which my wife is dressing up, having new hung our bedchamber with
blue, very handsome.  After dinner to my Tangier accounts and there
stated them against to-morrow very distinctly for the Lords to see who
meet tomorrow, and so to supper and to bed.



22nd.  Up, and set my people to work in copying Tangier accounts, and I
down the river to Greenwich to the office to fetch away some papers and
thence to Deptford, where by agreement my Lord Bruncker was to come, but
staid almost till noon, after I had spent an houre with W. Howe talking
of my Lord Sandwich's matters and his folly in minding his pleasures too
much now-a-days, and permitting himself to be governed by Cuttance to the
displeasing of all the Commanders almost of the fleete, and thence we may
conceive indeed the rise of all my Lord's misfortunes of late.  At noon
my Lord Bruncker did come, but left the keys of the chests we should
open, at Sir G. Carteret's lodgings, of my Lord Sandwich's, wherein
Howe's supposed jewells are; so we could not, according to my Lord
Arlington's order, see them today; but we parted, resolving to meet here
at night: my Lord Bruncker being going with Dr. Wilkins, Mr. Hooke, and
others, to Colonell Blunts, to consider again of the business of
charriots, and to try their new invention.  Which I saw here my Lord
Bruncker ride in; where the coachman sits astride upon a pole over the
horse, but do not touch the horse, which is a pretty odde thing; but it
seems it is most easy for the horse, and, as they say, for the man also.
Thence I with speede by water home and eat a bit, and took my accounts
and to the Duke of Albemarle, where for all I feared of Norwood he was
very civill, and Sir Thomas Ingram beyond expectation, I giving them all
content and I thereby settled mightily in my mind, for I was weary of the
employment, and had had thoughts of giving it over.  I did also give a
good step in a business of Mr. Hubland's, about getting a ship of his to
go to Tangier, which during this strict embargo is a great matter, and I
shall have a good reward for it, I hope.  Thence by water in the darke
down to Deptford, and there find my Lord Bruncker come and gone, having
staid long for me.  I back presently to the Crowne taverne behind the
Exchange by appointment, and there met the first meeting of Gresham
College since the plague.  Dr. Goddard did fill us with talke, in defence
of his and his fellow physicians going out of towne in the plague-time;
saying that their particular patients were most gone out of towne, and
they left at liberty; and a great deal more, &c.  But what, among other
fine discourse pleased me most, was Sir G. Ent about Respiration; that it
is not to this day known, or concluded on among physicians, nor to be
done either, how the action is managed by nature, or for what use it is.
Here late till poor Dr. Merriot was drunk, and so all home, and I to bed.



23rd.  Up and to the office and then to dinner.  After dinner to the
office again all the afternoon, and much business with me.  Good newes
beyond all expectation of the decrease of the plague, being now but 79,
and the whole but 272.  So home with comfort to bed.  A most furious
storme all night and morning.



24th.  By agreement my Lord Bruncker called me up, and though it was a
very foule, windy, and rainy morning, yet down to the waterside we went,
but no boat could go, the storme continued so.  So my Lord to stay till
fairer weather carried me into the Tower to Mr. Hore's and there we staid
talking an houre, but at last we found no boats yet could go, so we to
the office, where we met upon an occasion extraordinary of examining
abuses of our clerkes in taking money for examining of tickets, but
nothing done in it.  Thence my Lord and I, the weather being a little
fairer, by water to Deptford to Sir G. Carteret's house, where W. Howe
met us, and there we opened the chests, and saw the poor sorry rubys
which have caused all this ado to the undoing of W. Howe; though I am not
much sorry for it, because of his pride and ill nature.  About 200 of
these very small stones, and a cod of muske (which it is strange I was
not able to smell) is all we could find; so locked them up again, and my
Lord and I, the wind being again very furious, so as we durst not go by
water, walked to London quite round the bridge, no boat being able to
stirre; and, Lord! what a dirty walk we had, and so strong the wind, that
in the fields we many times could not carry our bodies against it, but
were driven backwards.  We went through Horsydowne, where I never was
since a little boy, that I went to enquire after my father, whom we did
give over for lost coming from Holland.  It was dangerous to walk the
streets, the bricks and tiles falling from the houses that the whole
streets were covered with them; and whole chimneys, nay, whole houses in
two or three places, blowed down.  But, above all, the pales on London-
bridge on both sides were blown away, so that we were fain to stoop very
low for fear of blowing off of the bridge.  We could see no boats in the
Thames afloat, but what were broke loose, and carried through the bridge,
it being ebbing water.  And the greatest sight of all was, among other
parcels of ships driven here and there in clusters together, one was
quite overset and lay with her masts all along in the water, and keel
above water.  So walked home, my Lord away to his house and I to dinner,
Mr. Creed being come to towne and to dine with me, though now it was
three o'clock.  After dinner he and I to our accounts and very
troublesome he is and with tricks which I found plainly and was vexed at;
while we were together comes Sir G. Downing with Colonell Norwood,
Rumball, and Warrupp to visit me.  I made them drink good wine and
discoursed above alone a good while with Sir G. Downing, who is very
troublesome, and then with Colonell Norwood, who hath a great mind to
have me concerned with him in everything; which I like, but am shy of
adventuring too much, but will thinke of it.  They gone, Creed and I to
finish the settling his accounts.  Thence to the office, where the
Houblans and we discoursed upon a rubb which we have for one of the ships
I hoped to have got to go out to Tangier for them.  They being gone, I to
my office-business late, and then home to supper and even sacke for lacke
of a little wine, which I was forced to drink against my oathe, but
without pleasure.



25th.  Up and to the office, at noon home to dinner.  So abroad to the
Duke of Albemarle and Kate Joyce's and her husband, with whom I talked a
great deale about Pall's business, and told them what portion I would
give her, and they do mightily like of it and will proceed further in
speaking with Harman, who hath already been spoke to about it, as from
them only, and he is mighty glad of it, but doubts it may be an offence
to me, if I should know of it, so thinks that it do come only from Joyce,
which I like the better.  So I do believe the business will go on, and I
desire it were over.  I to the office then, where I did much business,
and set my people to work against furnishing me to go to Hampton Court,
where the King and Duke will be on Sunday next.  It is now certain
that the King of France hath publickly declared war against us, and God
knows how little fit we are for it.  At night comes Sir W. Warren, and he
and I into the garden, and talked over all our businesses.  He gives me
good advice not to embarke into trade (as I have had it in my thoughts
about Colonell Norwood) so as to be seen to mind it, for it will do me
hurte, and draw my mind off from my business and embroile my estate too
soon.  So to the office business, and I find him as cunning a man in all
points as ever I met with in my life and mighty merry we were in the
discourse of our owne trickes.  So about to o'clock at night I home and
staid with him there settling my Tangier-Boates business and talking and
laughing at the folly of some of our neighbours of this office till two
in the morning and so to bed.



26th.  Up, and pleased mightily with what my poor wife hath been doing
these eight or ten days with her owne hands, like a drudge in fitting the
new hangings of our bed-chamber of blue, and putting the old red ones
into my dressing-room, and so by coach to White Hall, where I had just
now notice that Sir G. Carteret is come to towne.  He seems pleased, but
I perceive he is heartily troubled at this Act, and the report of his
losing his place, and more at my not writing to him to the prejudice of
the Act.  But I carry all fair to him and he to me.  He bemoans the
Kingdom as in a sad state, and with too much reason I doubt, having so
many enemys about us and no friends abroad, nor money nor love at home.
Thence to the Duke of Albemarle, and there a meeting with all the
officers of the Navy, where, Lord!  to see how the Duke of Albemarle
flatters himself with false hopes of money and victuals and all without
reason.  Then comes the Committee of Tangier to sit, and I there carry
all before me very well.  Thence with Sir J. Bankes and Mr. Gawden to the
'Change, they both very wise men.  After 'Change and agreeing with
Houblon about our ships, D. Gawden and I to the Pope's Head and there
dined and little Chaplin (who a rich man grown).  He gone after dinner,
D. Gawden and I to talke of the Victualling business of the Navy in what
posture it is, which is very sad also for want of money.  Thence home to
my chamber by oathe to finish my Journall.  Here W. Hewer came to me with
L320 from Sir W. Warren, whereof L220 is got clearly by a late business
of insurance of the Gottenburg ships, and the other L100 which was due
and he had promised me before to give me to my very extraordinary joy,
for which I ought and do bless God and so to my office, where late
providing a letter to send to Mr. Gawden in a manner we concluded on to-
day, and so to bed.



27th.  Up very betimes to finish my letter and writ it fair to Mr.
Gawden, it being to demand several arrears in the present state of the
victualling, partly to the King's and partly to give him occasion to say
something relating to the want of money on his own behalf.  This done I
to the office, where all the morning.  At noon after a bit of dinner back
to the office and there fitting myself in all points to give an account
to the Duke and Mr. Coventry in all things, and in my Tangier business,
till three o'clock in the morning, and so to bed,



28th.  And up again about six (Lord's day), and being dressed in my
velvett coate and plain cravatte took a hackney coach provided ready for
me by eight o'clock, and so to my Lord Bruncker's with all my papers, and
there took his coach with four horses and away toward Hampton Court,
having a great deale of good discourse with him, particularly about his
coming to lie at the office, when I went further in inviting him to than
I intended, having not yet considered whether it will be convenient for
me or no to have him here so near us, and then of getting Mr. Evelyn or
Sir Robert Murray into the Navy in the room of Sir Thomas Harvey.  At
Brainford I 'light, having need to shit, and went into an Inne doore that
stood open, found the house of office and used it, but saw no people,
only after I was in the house, heard a great dogg barke, and so was
afeard how I should get safe back again, and therefore drew my sword and
scabbard out of my belt to have ready in my hand, but did not need to use
it, but got safe into the coach again, but lost my belt by the shift,
not missing it till I come to Hampton Court.  At the Wicke found Sir J.
Minnes and Sir W. Batten at a lodging provided for us by our messenger,
and there a good dinner ready.  After dinner took coach and to Court,
where we find the King, and Duke, and Lords, all in council; so we walked
up and down: there being none of the ladies come, and so much the more
business I hope will be done.  The Council being up, out comes the King,
and I kissed his hand, and he grasped me very kindly by the hand.  The
Duke also, I kissed his, and he mighty kind, and Sir W. Coventry.  I
found my Lord Sandwich there, poor man!  I see with a melancholy face,
and suffers his beard to grow on his upper lip more than usual.  I took
him a little aside to know when I should wait on him, and where: he told
me, and that it would be best to meet at his lodgings, without being seen
to walk together.  Which I liked very well; and, Lord! to see in what
difficulty I stand, that I dare not walk with Sir W. Coventry, for fear
my Lord or Sir G. Carteret should see me; nor with either of them, for
fear Sir W. Coventry should.  After changing a few words with Sir W.
Coventry, who assures me of his respect and love to me, and his
concernment for my health in all this sickness, I went down into one of
the Courts, and there met the King and Duke; and the Duke called me to
him.  And the King come to me of himself, and told me, "Mr. Pepys," says
he, "I do give you thanks for your good service all this year, and I
assure you I am very sensible of it."  And the Duke of Yorke did tell me
with pleasure, that he had read over my discourse about pursers, and
would have it ordered in my way, and so fell from one discourse to
another.  I walked with them quite out of the Court into the fields,
and then back to my Lord Sandwich's chamber, where I find him very.
melancholy and not well satisfied, I perceive, with my carriage to Sir G.
Carteret, but I did satisfy him and made him confess to me, that I have a
very hard game to play; and told me he was sorry to see it, and the
inconveniences which likely may fall upon me with him; but, for all that,
I am not much afeard, if I can but keepe out of harm's way in not being
found too much concerned in my Lord's or Sir G. Carteret's matters, and
that I will not be if I can helpe it.  He hath got over his business of
the prizes, so far as to have a privy seale passed for all that was in
his distribution to the officers, which I am heartily glad of; and, for
the rest, he must be answerable for what he is proved to have.  But for
his pardon for anything else, he thinks it not seasonable to aske it, and
not usefull to him; because that will not stop a Parliament's mouth, and
for the King, he is sure enough of him.  I did aske him whether he was
sure of the interest and friendship of any great Ministers of State and
he told me, yes.  As we were going further, in comes my Lord Mandeville,
so we were forced to breake off and I away, and to Sir W. Coventry's
chamber, where he not come in but I find Sir W. Pen, and he and I to
discourse.  I find him very much out of humour, so that I do not think
matters go very well with him, and I am glad of it.  He and I staying
till late, and Sir W. Coventry not coming in (being shut up close all the
afternoon with the Duke of Albemarle), we took boat, and by water to
Kingston, and so to our lodgings, where a good supper and merry, only I
sleepy, and therefore after supper I slunk away from the rest to bed, and
lay very well and slept soundly, my mind being in a great delirium
between joy for what the King and Duke have said to me and Sir W.
Coventry, and trouble for my Lord Sandwich's concernments, and how hard
it will be for me to preserve myself from feeling thereof.



29th.  Up, and to Court by coach, where to Council before the Duke of
Yorke, the Duke of Albemarle with us, and after Sir W. Coventry had gone
over his notes that he had provided with the Duke of Albemarle, I went
over all mine with good successe, only I fear I did once offend the Duke
of Albemarle, but I was much joyed to find the Duke of Yorke so much
contending for my discourse about the pursers against Sir W. Pen, who
opposes it like a foole; my Lord Sandwich come in in the middle of the
business, and, poor man, very melancholy, methought, and said little at
all, or to the business, and sat at the lower end, just as he come, no
roome being made for him, only I did give him my stoole, and another was
reached me.  After council done, I walked to and again up and down the
house, discoursing with this and that man.  Among others tooke occasion
to thanke the Duke of Yorke for his good opinion in general of my
service, and particularly his favour in conferring on me the Victualling
business.  He told me that he knew nobody so fit as I for it, and next,
he was very glad to find that to give me for my encouragement, speaking
very kindly of me.  So to Sir W. Coventry's to dinner with him, whom I
took occasion to thanke for his favour and good thoughts of what little
service I did, desiring he would do the last act of friendship in telling
me of my faults also.  He told me he would be sure he would do that also,
if there were any occasion for it.  So that as much as it is possible
under so great a fall of my Lord Sandwich's, and difference between them,
I may conclude that I am thoroughly right with Sir W. Coventry.  I dined
with him with a great deale of company, and much merry discourse.  I was
called away before dinner ended to go to my company who dined at our
lodgings.  Thither I went with Mr. Evelyn (whom I met) in his coach going
that way, but finding my company gone, but my Lord Bruncker left his
coach for me; so Mr. Evelyn and I into my Lord's coach, and rode together
with excellent discourse till we come to Clapham, talking of the vanity
and vices of the Court, which makes it a most contemptible thing; and
indeed in all his discourse I find him a most worthy person.
Particularly he entertained me with discourse of an Infirmary, which he
hath projected for the sick and wounded seamen against the next year,
which I mightily approve of; and will endeavour to promote it, being a
worthy thing, and of use, and will save money.  He set me down at Mr.
Gawden's, where nobody yet come home, I having left him and his sons and
Creed at Court, so I took a book and into the gardens, and there walked
and read till darke with great pleasure, and then in and in comes
Osborne, and he and I to talk of Mr. Jaggard, who comes from London, and
great hopes there is of a decrease this week also of the plague.  Anon
comes in Creed, and after that Mr. Gawden and his sons, and then they
bringing in three ladies, who were in the house, but I do not know them,
his daughter and two nieces, daughters of Dr. Whistler's, with whom and
Creed mighty sport at supper, the ladies very pretty and mirthfull.  I
perceive they know Creed's gut and stomach as well as I, and made as much
mirthe as I with it at supper.  After supper I made the ladies sing, and
they have been taught, but, Lord! though I was forced to commend them,
yet it was the saddest stuff I ever heard.  However, we sat up late, and
then I, in the best chamber like a prince, to bed, and Creed with me, and
being sleepy talked but little.



30th.  Lay long till Mr. Gawden was gone out being to take a little
journey.  Up, and Creed and I some good discourse, but with some trouble
for the state of my Lord's matters.  After walking a turne or two in the
garden, and bid good morrow to Mr. Gawden's sons, and sent my service to
the ladies, I took coach after Mr. Gawden's, and home, finding the towne
keeping the day solemnly, it being the day of the King's murther, and
they being at church, I presently into the church, thinking to see Mrs.
Lethulier or Batelier, but did not, and a dull sermon of our young
Lecturer, too bad.  This is the first time I have been in this church
since I left London for the plague, and it frighted me indeed to go
through the church more than I thought it could have done, to see so
[many] graves lie so high upon the churchyards where people have been
buried of the plague.  I was much troubled at it, and do not think to go
through it again a good while.  So home to my wife, whom I find not well,
in bed, and it seems hath not been well these two days.  She rose and we
to dinner, after dinner up to my chamber, where she entertained me with
what she hath lately bought of clothes for herself, and Damask linnen,
and other things for the house.  I did give her a serious account how
matters stand with me, of favour with the King and Duke, and of danger in
reference to my Lord's and Sir G. Carteret's falls, and the
dissatisfaction I have heard the Duke of Albemarle hath acknowledged to
somebody, among other things, against my Lord Sandwich, that he did bring
me into the Navy against his desire and endeavour for another, which was
our doting foole Turner.  Thence from one discourse to another, and
looking over my house, and other things I spent the day at home, and at
night betimes to bed.  After dinner this day I went down by water to
Deptford, and fetched up what money there was of W. Howe's contingencies
in the chest there, being L5I6 13s. 3d. and brought it home to dispose
of.



31st.  Lay pretty long in bed, and then up and to the office, where we
met on extraordinary occasion about the business of tickets.  By and by
to the 'Change, and there did several businesses, among others brought
home my cozen Pepys, whom I appointed to be here to-day, and Mr. Moore
met us upon the business of my Lord's bond.  Seeing my neighbour Mr.
Knightly walk alone from the 'Change, his family being not yet come to
town, I did invite him home with me, and he dined with me, a very sober,
pretty man he is.  He is mighty solicitous, as I find many about the City
that live near the churchyards, to have the churchyards covered with
lime, and I think it is needfull, and ours I hope will be done.  Good
pleasant discourse at dinner of the practices of merchants to cheate the
"Customers," occasioned by Mr. Moore's being with much trouble freed of
his prize goods, which he bought, which fell into the Customers' hands,
and with much ado hath cleared them.  Mr. Knightly being gone, my cozen
Pepys and Moore and I to our business, being the clearing of my Lord
Sandwich's bond wherein I am bound with him to my cozen for L1000 I have
at last by my dexterity got my Lord's consent to have it paid out of the
money raised by his prizes.  So the bond is cancelled, and he paid by
having a note upon Sir Robert Viner, in whose hands I had lodged my
Lord's money, by which I am to my extraordinary comfort eased of a
liablenesse to pay the sum in case of my Lord's death, or troubles in
estate, or my Lord's greater fall, which God defend!  Having settled this
matter at Sir R. Viner's, I took up Mr. Moore (my cozen going home) and
to my Lord Chancellor's new house which he is building, only to view it,
hearing so much from Mr. Evelyn of it; and, indeed, it is the finest pile
I ever did see in my life, and will be a glorious house.  Thence to the
Duke of Albemarle, who tells me Mr. Coventry is come to town and directs
me to go to him about some business in hand, whether out of displeasure
or desire of ease I know not; but I asked him not the reason of it but
went to White Hall, but could not find him there, though to my great joy
people begin to bustle up and down there, the King holding his resolution
to be in towne to-morrow, and hath good encouragement, blessed be God!
to do so, the plague being decreased this week to 56, and the total to
227.  So after going to the Swan in the Palace, and sent for Spicer to
discourse about my last Tangier tallys that have some of the words washed
out with the rain, to have them new writ, I home, and there did some
business and at the office, and so home to supper, and to bed.






                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                                FEBRUARY
                                1665-1666


February 1st.  Up and to the office, where all the morning till late, and
Mr. Coventry with us, the first time since before the plague, then
hearing my wife was gone abroad to buy things and see her mother and
father, whom she hath not seen since before the plague, and no dinner
provided for me ready, I walked to Captain Cocke's, knowing my Lord
Bruncker dined there, and there very merry, and a good dinner.  Thence my
Lord and his mistresse, Madam Williams, set me down at the Exchange, and
I to Alderman Backewell's to set all my reckonings straight there, which
I did, and took up all my notes.  So evened to this day, and thence to
Sir Robert Viner's, where I did the like, leaving clear in his hands just
L2000 of my owne money, to be called for when I pleased.  Having done all
this I home, and there to the office, did my business there by the post
and so home, and spent till one in the morning in my chamber to set right
all my money matters, and so to bed.



2nd.  Up betimes, and knowing that my Lord Sandwich is come to towne with
the King and Duke, I to wait upon him, which I did, and find him in very
good humour, which I am glad to see with all my heart.  Having received
his commands, and discoursed with some of his people about my Lord's
going, and with Sir Roger Cuttance, who was there, and finds himself
slighted by Sir W. Coventry, I advised him however to look after
employment lest it should be said that my Lord's friends do forsake the
service after he hath made them rich with the prizes.  I to London, and
there among other things did look over some pictures at Cade's for my
house, and did carry home a silver drudger

     [The dredger was probably the drageoir of France; in low Latin,
     dragerium, or drageria, in which comfits (dragdes) were kept.
     Roquefort says, "The ladies wore a little spice-box, in shape like a
     watch, to carry dragles, and it was called a drageoir."  The custom
     continued certainly till the middle of the last century.  Old
     Palsgrave, in his "Eclaircissement de la Langue Francaise," gives
     "dradge" as spice, rendering it by the French word dragde.  Chaucer
     says, of his Doctor of Physic, "Full ready hadde he his Apothecaries
     To send him dragges, and his lattuaries."  The word sometimes may
     have signified the pounded condiments in which our forefathers
     delighted.  It is worth notice, that "dragge" was applied to a grain
     in the eastern counties, though not exclusively there, appearing to
     denote mixed grain.  Bishop Kennett tells us that "dredge mault is
     mault made up of oats, mixed with barley, of which they make an
     excellent, freshe, quiete sort of drinke, in Staffordshire."  The
     dredger is still commonly used in our kitchen.--B.]

for my cupboard of plate, and did call for my silver chafing dishes, but
they are sent home, and the man would not be paid for them, saying that
he was paid for them already, and with much ado got him to tell me by Mr.
Wayth, but I would not accept of that, but will send him his money, not
knowing any courtesy I have yet done him to deserve it.  So home, and
with my wife looked over our plate, and picked out L40 worth, I believe,
to change for more usefull plate, to our great content, and then we shall
have a very handsome cupboard of plate.  So to dinner, and then to the
office, where we had a meeting extraordinary, about stating to the Duke
the present debts of the Navy, for which ready money must be had, and
that being done, I to my business, where late, and then home to supper,
and to bed.



3rd.  Up, and to the office very busy till 3 o'clock, and then home, all
of us, for half an hour to dinner, and to it again till eight at night,
stating our wants of money for the Duke, but could not finish it.  So
broke up, and I to my office, then about letters and other businesses
very late, and so home to supper, weary with business, and to bed.



4th.  Lord's day; and my wife and I the first time together at church
since the plague, and now only because of Mr. Mills his coming home to
preach his first sermon; expecting a great excuse for his leaving the
parish before any body went, and now staying till all are come home; but
he made but a very poor and short excuse, and a bad sermon.  It was a
frost, and had snowed last night, which covered the graves in the
churchyard, so as I was the less afeard for going through.  Here I had
the content to see my noble Mrs. Lethulier, and so home to dinner, and
all the afternoon at my Journall till supper, it being a long while
behindhand.  At supper my wife tells me that W. Joyce has been with her
this evening, the first time since the plague, and tells her my aunt
James is lately dead of the stone, and what she had hath given to his and
his brother's wife and my cozen Sarah.  So after supper to work again,
and late to bed.



5th.  Up, and with Sir W. Batten (at whose lodgings calling for him, I
saw his Lady the first time since her coming to towne since the plague,
having absented myself designedly to shew some discontent, and that I am
not at all the more suppliant because of my Lord Sandwich's fall), to my
Lord Bruncker's, to see whether he goes to the Duke's this morning or no.
But it is put off, and so we parted.  My Lord invited me to dinner to-day
to dine with Sir W. Batten and his Lady there, who were invited before,
but lest he should thinke so little an invitation would serve my turne I
refused and parted, and to Westminster about business, and so back to the
'Change, and there met Mr. Hill, newly come to town, and with him the
Houblands, preparing for their ship's and his going to Tangier, and
agreed that I must sup with them to-night.  So home and eat a bit, and
then to White Hall to a Committee for Tangier, but it did not meet but
was put off to to-morrow, so I did some little business and visited my
Lord Sandwich, and so, it raining, went directly to the Sun, behind the
Exchange, about seven o'clock, where I find all the five brothers
Houblons, and mighty fine gentlemen they are all, and used me mighty
respectfully.  We were mighty civilly merry, and their discourses, having
been all abroad, very fine.  Here late and at last accompanied home with
Mr. J. Houblon and Hill, whom I invited to sup with me on Friday, and so
parted and I home to bed.



6th.  Up, and to the office, where very busy all the morning.  We met
upon a report to the Duke of Yorke of the debts of the Navy, which we
finished by three o'clock, and having eat one little bit of meate, I by
water before the rest to White Hall (and they to come after me) because
of a Committee for Tangier, where I did my business of stating my
accounts perfectly well, and to good liking, and do not discern, but the
Duke of Albemarle is my friend in his intentions notwithstanding my
general fears.  After that to our Navy business, where my fellow officers
were called in, and did that also very well, and then broke up, and I
home by coach, Tooker with me, and staid in Lumbard Streete at Viner's,
and sent home for the plate which my wife and I had a mind to change, and
there changed it, about L50 worth, into things more usefull, whereby we
shall now have a very handsome cupboard of plate.  So home to the office,
wrote my letters by the post, and to bed.



7th.  It being fast day I staid at home all day long to set things to
rights in my chamber by taking out all my books, and putting my chamber
in the same condition it was before the plague.  But in the morning doing
of it, and knocking up a nail I did bruise my left thumb so as broke a
great deal of my flesh off, that it hung by a little.  It was a sight
frighted my wife, but I put some balsam of Mrs. Turner's to it, and
though in great pain, yet went on with my business, and did it to my full
content, setting every thing in order, in hopes now that the worst of our
fears are over as to the plague for the next year.  Interrupted I was by
two or three occasions this day to my great vexation, having this the
only day I have been able to set apart for this work since my coming to
town.  At night to supper, weary, and to bed, having had the plasterers
and joiners also to do some jobbs.



8th.  Up, and all the morning at the office.  At noon to the 'Change,
expecting to have received from Mr. Houbland, as he promised me, an
assignment upon Viner, for my reward for my getting them the going of
their two ships to Tangier, but I find myself much disappointed therein,
for I spoke with him and he said nothing of it, but looked coldly,
through some disturbance he meets with in our business through Colonell
Norwood's pressing them to carry more goods than will leave room for some
of their own.  But I shall ease them.  Thence to Captain Cocke's, where
Mr. Williamson, Wren, Boldell and Madam Williams, and by and by Lord
Bruncker, he having been with the King and Duke upon the water to-day,
to see Greenwich house, and the yacht Castle is building of, and much
good discourse.  So to White Hall to see my Lord Sandwich, and then home
to my business till night, and then to bed.



9th.  Up, and betimes to Sir Philip Warwicke, who was glad to see me, and
very kind.  Thence to Colonell Norwood's lodgings, and there set about
Houblons' business about their ships.  Thence to Westminster, to the
Exchequer, about my Tangier business to get orders for tallys, and so to
the Hall, where the first day of the Terme, and the Hall very full of
people, and much more than was expected, considering the plague that hath
been.  Thence to the 'Change, and to the Sun behind it to dinner with the
Lieutenant of the Tower, Colonell Norwood and others, where strange
pleasure they seem to take in their wine and meate, and discourse of it
with the curiosity and joy that methinks was below men of worthe.  Thence
home, and there very much angry with my people till I had put all things
in good forwardnesse about my supper for the Houblons, but that being
done I was in good humour again, and all things in good order.  Anon the
five brothers Houblons come and Mr. Hill, and a very good supper we had,
and good company and discourse, with great pleasure.  My new plate sets
off my cupboard very nobly.  Here they were till about eleven at night
with great pleasure, and a fine sight it is to see these five brothers
thus loving one to another, and all industrious merchants.  Our subject
was principally Mr. Hill's going for them to Portugall, which was the
occasion of this entertainment.  They gone, we to bed.



10th.  Up, and to the office.  At noon, full of business, to dinner.
This day comes first Sir Thomas Harvy after the plague, having been out
of towne all this while.  He was coldly received by us, and he went away
before we rose also, to make himself appear yet a man less necessary.
After dinner, being full of care and multitude of business, I took coach
and my wife with me.  I set her down at her mother's (having first called
at my Lord Treasurer's and there spoke with Sir Ph. Warwicke), and I to
the Exchequer about Tangier orders, and so to the Swan and there staid a
little, and so by coach took up my wife, and at the old Exchange bought a
muffe, and so home and late at my letters, and so to supper and to bed,
being now-a-days, for these four or five months, mightily troubled with
my snoring in my sleep, and know not how to remedy it.



11th (Lord's day).  Up, and put on a new black cloth suit to an old coate
that I make to be in mourning at Court, where they are all, for the King
of Spayne.--[Philip IV., who died September 17th, 1665.]-- To church I,
and at noon dined well, and then by water to White Hall, carrying a
captain of the Tower (who desired his freight thither); there I to the
Parke, and walked two or three turns of the Pell Mell with the company
about the King and Duke; the Duke speaking to me a good deal.  There met
Lord Bruncker and Mr. Coventry, and discoursed about the Navy business;
and all of us much at a loss that we yet can hear nothing of Sir Jeremy
Smith's fleete, that went away to the Streights the middle of December,
through all the storms that we have had since, that have driven back
three or four of them with their masts by the board.  Yesterday come out
the King's Declaration of War against the French, but with such mild
invitations of both them and the Dutch to come over hither with promise
of their protection, that every body wonders at it.  Thence home with my
Lord Bruncker for discourse sake, and thence by hackney coach home, and
so my wife and I mighty pleasant discourse, supped and to bed.  The great
wound I had Wednesday last in my thumb having with once dressing by Mrs.
Turner's balsam been perfectly cured, whereas I did not hope to save my
nail, whatever else ill it did give me.  My wife and I are much
thoughtfull now-a-days about Pall's coming up in order to a husband.



12th.  Up, and very busy to perform an oathe in finishing my Journall
this morning for 7 or 8 days past.  Then to several people attending upon
business, among others Mr. Grant and the executors of Barlow for the L25
due for the quarter before he died, which I scrupled to pay, being
obliged but to pay every half year.  Then comes Mr. Caesar, my boy's
lute-master, whom I have not seen since the plague before, but he hath
been in Westminster all this while very well; and tells me in the height
of it, how bold people there were, to go in sport to one another's
burials; and in spite too, ill people would breathe in the faces (out of
their windows) of well people going by.  Then to dinner before the
'Change, and so to the 'Change, and then to the taverne to talk with Sir
William Warren, and so by coach to several places, among others to my
Lord Treasurer's, there to meet my Lord Sandwich, but missed, and met him
at [my] Lord Chancellor's, and there talked with him about his accounts,
and then about Sir G. Carteret, and I find by him that Sir G. Carteret
has a worse game to play than my Lord Sandwich, for people are jeering at
him, and he cries out of the business of Sir W. Coventry, who strikes at
all and do all.  Then to my bookseller's, and then received some books I
have new bought, and here late choosing some more to new bind, having
resolved to give myself L10 in books, and so home to the office and then
home to supper, where Mr. Hill was and supped with us, and good
discourse; an excellent person he still appears to me.  After supper, and
he gone, we to bed.



13th.  Up, and all the morning at the office.  At noon to the 'Change,
and thence after business dined at the Sheriffe's [Hooker], being carried
by Mr. Lethulier, where to my heart's content I met with his wife, a most
beautifull fat woman.  But all the house melancholy upon the sickness of
a daughter of the house in childbed, Mr. Vaughan's lady.  So all of them
undressed, but however this lady a very fine woman.  I had a salute of
her, and after dinner some discourse the Sheriffe and I about a parcel of
tallow I am buying for the office of him.  I away home, and there at the
office all the afternoon till late at night, and then away home to supper
and to bed.  Ill newes this night that the plague is encreased this week,
and in many places else about the towne, and at Chatham and elsewhere.
This day my wife wanting a chambermaid with much ado got our old little
Jane to be found out, who come to see her and hath lived all this while
in one place, but is so well that we will not desire her removal, but are
mighty glad to see the poor wench, who is very well and do well.



14th (St. Valentine's day).  This morning called up by Mr. Hill, who, my
wife thought, had been come to be her Valentine; she, it seems, having
drawne him last night, but it proved not.  However, calling him up to our
bed-side, my wife challenged him.  I up, and made myself ready, and so
with him by coach to my Lord Sandwich's by appointment to deliver Mr.
Howe's accounts to my Lord.  Which done, my Lord did give me hearty and
large studied thanks for all my kindnesse to him and care of him and his
business.  I after profession of all duty to his Lordship took occasion
to bemoane myself that I should fall into such a difficulty about Sir G.
Carteret, as not to be for him, but I must be against Sir W. Coventry,
and therefore desired to be neutrall, which my Lord approved and
confessed reasonable, but desired me to befriend him privately.  Having
done in private with my Lord I brought Mr. Hill to kisse his hands, to
whom my Lord professed great respect upon my score.  My Lord being gone,
I took Mr. Hill to my Lord Chancellor's new house that is building, and
went with trouble up to the top of it, and there is there the noblest
prospect that ever I saw in my life, Greenwich being nothing to it; and
in every thing is a beautiful house, and most strongly built in every
respect; and as if, as it hath, it had the Chancellor for its master.
Thence with him to his paynter, Mr. Hales, who is drawing his picture,
which will be mighty like him, and pleased me so, that I am resolved
presently to have my wife's and mine done by him, he having a very
masterly hand.  So with mighty satisfaction to the 'Change and thence
home, and after dinner abroad, taking Mrs. Mary Batelier with us, who was
just come to see my wife, and they set me down at my Lord Treasurer's,
and themselves went with the coach into the fields to take the ayre.  I
staid a meeting of the Duke of Yorke's, and the officers of the Navy and
Ordnance.  My Lord Treasurer lying in bed of the gowte.  Our business was
discourse of the straits of the Navy for want of money, but after long
discourse as much out of order as ordinary people's, we come to no issue,
nor any money promised, or like to be had, and yet the worke must be
done.  Here I perceive Sir G. Carteret had prepared himself to answer a
choque of Sir W. Coventry, by offering of himself to shew all he had
paid, and what is unpaid, and what moneys and assignments he hath in his
hands, which, if he makes good, was the best thing he ever did say in his
life, and the best timed, for else it must have fallen very foule on him.
The meeting done I away, my wife and they being come back and staying for
me at the gate.  But, Lord!  to see how afeard I was that Sir W. Coventry
should have spyed me once whispering with Sir G. Carteret, though not
intended by me, but only Sir G. Carteret come to me and I could not
avoyde it.  So home, they set me down at the 'Change, and I to the
Crowne, where my Lord Bruncker was come and several of the Virtuosi, and
after a small supper and but little good discourse I with Sir W. Batten
(who was brought thither with my Lord Bruncker) home, where I find my
wife gone to Mrs. Mercer's to be merry, but presently come in with Mrs.
Knipp, who, it seems, is in towne, and was gone thither with my wife and
Mercer to dance, and after eating a little supper went thither again to
spend the whole night there, being W. Howe there, at whose chamber they
are, and Lawd Crisp by chance.  I to bed.



15th.  Up, and my wife not come home all night.  To the office, where sat
all the morning.  At noon to Starky's, a great cooke in Austin Friars,
invited by Colonell Atkins, and a good dinner for Colonell Norwood and
his friends, among others Sir Edward Spragg and others, but ill
attendance.  Before dined, called on by my wife in a coach, and so I took
leave, and then with her and Knipp and Mercer (Mr. Hunt newly come out of
the country being there also come to see us) to Mr. Hales, the paynter's,
having set down Mr. Hunt by the way.  Here Mr. Hales' begun my wife in
the posture we saw one of my Lady Peters, like a St. Katharine.

     [It was the fashion at this time to be painted as St. Catherine, in
     compliment to the queen.]

While he painted, Knipp, and Mercer, and I, sang; and by and by comes
Mrs. Pierce, with my name in her bosom for her Valentine, which will cost
me money.  But strange how like his very first dead colouring is, that it
did me good to see it, and pleases me mightily, and I believe will be a
noble picture.  Thence with them all as far as Fleete Streete, and there
set Mercer and Knipp down, and we home.  I to the office, whither the
Houblons come telling me of a little new trouble from Norwood about their
ship, which troubles me, though without reason.  So late home to supper
and to bed.  We hear this night of Sir Jeremy Smith, that he and his
fleete have been seen at Malaga; which is good newes.



16th.  Up betimes, and by appointment to the Exchange, where I met
Messrs.  Houblons, and took them up in my coach and carried them to
Charing Crosse, where they to Colonell Norwood to see how they can settle
matters with him, I having informed them by the way with advice to be
easy with him, for he may hereafter do us service, and they and I are
like to understand one another to very good purpose.  I to my Lord
Sandwich, and there alone with him to talke of his affairs, and
particularly of his prize goods, wherein I find he is wearied with being
troubled, and gives over the care of it to let it come to what it will,
having the King's release for the dividend made, and for the rest he
thinks himself safe from being proved to have anything more.  Thence to
the Exchequer, and so by coach to the 'Change, Mr. Moore with me, who
tells me very odde passages of the indiscretion of my Lord in the
management of his family, of his carelessnesse, &c., which troubles me,
but makes me rejoice with all my heart of my being rid of the bond of
L1000, for that would have been a cruel blow to me.  With Moore to the
Coffee-House, the first time I have been there, where very full, and
company it seems hath been there all the plague time.  So to the 'Change,
and then home to dinner, and after dinner to settle accounts with him for
my Lord, and so evened with him to this day.  Then to the office, and out
with Sir W. Warren for discourse by coach to White Hall, thinking to have
spoke with Sir W. Coventry, but did not, and to see the Queene, but she
comes but to Hampton Court to-night.  Back to my office and there late,
and so home to supper and bed.  I walked a good while to-night with Mr.
Hater in the garden, talking about a husband for my sister, and reckoning
up all our clerks about us, none of which he thinks fit for her and her
portion.  At last I thought of young Gawden, and will thinke of it again.



17th.  Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning.  Late to
dinner, and then to the office again, and there busy till past twelve at
night, and so home to supper and to bed.  We have newes of Sir Jeremy
Smith's being very well with his fleete at Cales.--[Cadiz]



18th (Lord's day).  Lay long in bed discoursing with pleasure with my
wife, among other things about Pall's coming up, for she must be here a
little to be fashioned, and my wife hath a mind to go down for her, which
I am not much against, and so I rose and to my chamber to settle several
things.  At noon comes my uncle Wight to dinner, and brings with him Mrs.
Wight, sad company to me, nor was I much pleased with it, only I must
shew respect to my uncle.  After dinner they gone, and it being a brave
day, I walked to White Hall, where the Queene and ladies are all come: I
saw some few of them, but not the Queene, nor any of the great beauties.
I endeavoured to have seen my Lord Hinchingbrooke, who come to town
yesterday, but I could not.  Met with Creed and walked with him a turne
or two in the Parke, but without much content, having now designs of
getting money in my head, which allow me not the leisure I used to have
with him, besides an odde story lately told of him for a great truth, of
his endeavouring to lie with a woman at Oxford, and her crying out saved
her; and this being publickly known, do a little make me hate him.
Thence took coach, and calling by the way at my bookseller's for a booke
I writ about twenty years ago in prophecy of this year coming on, 1666,
explaining it to be the marke of the beast, I home, and there fell to
reading, and then to supper, and to bed.



19th.  Up, and by coach to my Lord Sandwich's, but he was gone out.  So I
to White Hall, and there waited on the Duke of Yorke with some of the
rest of our brethren, and thence back again to my Lord's, to see my Lord
Hinchingbroke, which I did, and I am mightily out of countenance in my
great expectation of him by others' report, though he is indeed a pretty
gentleman, yet nothing what I took him for, methinks, either as to person
or discourse discovered to me, but I must try him more before I go too
far in censuring.  Hence to the Exchequer from office to office, to set
my business of my tallys in doing, and there all the morning.  So at noon
by coach to St. Paul's Church-yarde to my Bookseller's, and there bespoke
a few more books to bring all I have lately bought to L10.  Here I am
told for certain, what I have heard once or twice already, of a Jew in
town, that in the name of the rest do offer to give any man L10 to be
paid L100, if a certain person now at Smyrna be within these two years
owned by all the Princes of the East, and particularly the grand Signor
as the King of the world, in the same manner we do the King of England
here, and that this man is the true Messiah.  One named a friend of his
that had received ten pieces in gold upon this score, and says that the
Jew hath disposed of L1100 in this manner, which is very strange; and
certainly this year of 1666 will be a year of great action; but what the
consequences of it will be, God knows!  Thence to the 'Change, and from
my stationer's thereabouts carried home by coach two books of Ogilby's,
his AEsop and Coronation, which fell to my lot at his lottery.  Cost me
L4 besides the binding.  So home.  I find my wife gone out to Hales, her
paynter's, and I after a little dinner do follow her, and there do find
him at worke, and with great content I do see it will be a very brave
picture.  Left her there, and I to my Lord Treasurer's, where Sir G.
Carteret and Sir J. Minnes met me, and before my Lord Treasurer and Duke
of Albemarle the state of our Navy debts were laid open, being very
great, and their want of money to answer them openly professed, there
being but L1,500,000 to answer a certaine expense and debt of L2,300,000.
Thence walked with Fenn down to White Hall, and there saw the Queene at
cards with many ladies, but none of our beauties were there.  But glad I
was to see the Queene so well, who looks prettily; and methinks hath more
life than before, since it is confessed of all that she miscarryed
lately; Dr. Clerke telling me yesterday at White Hall that he had the
membranes and other vessels in his hands which she voided, and were
perfect as ever woman's was that bore a child.  Thence hoping to find my
Lord Sandwich, away by coach to my Lord Chancellor's, but missed him, and
so home and to office, and then to supper and my Journall, and to bed.



20th.  Up, and to the office; where, among other businesses, Mr. Evelyn's
proposition about publique Infirmarys was read and agreed on, he being
there: and at noon I took him home to dinner, being desirous of keeping
my acquaintance with him; and a most excellent humoured man I still find
him, and mighty knowing.  After dinner I took him by coach to White Hall,
and there he and I parted, and I to my Lord Sandwich's, where coming and
bolting into the dining-room, I there found Captain Ferrers going to
christen a child of his born yesterday, and I come just pat to be a
godfather, along with my Lord Hinchingbrooke, and Madam Pierce, my
Valentine, which for that reason I was pretty well contented with, though
a little vexed to see myself so beset with people to spend me money, as
she of a Valentine and little Mrs. Tooker, who is come to my house this
day from Greenwich, and will cost me 20s., my wife going out with her
this afternoon, and now this christening.  Well, by and by the child is
brought and christened Katharine, and I this day on this occasion drank
a glasse of wine, which I have not professedly done these two years, I
think, but a little in the time of the sicknesse.  After that done, and
gone and kissed the mother in bed, I away to Westminster Hall, and there
hear that Mrs. Lane is come to town.  So I staid loitering up and down
till anon she comes and agreed to meet at Swayn's, and there I went anon,
and she come, but staid but little, the place not being private.  I have
not seen her since before the plague.  So thence parted and 'rencontrais
a' her last 'logis', and in the place did what I 'tenais a mind pour
ferais con her'.  At last she desired to borrow money of me, L5, and
would pawn gold with me for it, which I accepted and promised in a day or
two to supply her.  So away home to the office, and thence home, where
little Mrs. Tooker staid all night with us, and a pretty child she is,
and happens to be niece to my beauty that is dead, that lived at the
Jackanapes, in Cheapside.  So to bed, a little troubled that I have been
at two houses this afternoon with Mrs. Lane that were formerly shut up of
the plague.



21st.  Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to White Hall by his coach, by the way
talking of my brother John to get a spiritual promotion for him, which I
am now to looke after, for as much as he is shortly to be Master in Arts,
and writes me this weeke a Latin letter that he is to go into orders this
Lent.  There to the Duke's chamber, and find our fellows discoursing
there on our business, so I was sorry to come late, but no hurte was done
thereby.  Here the Duke, among other things, did bring out a book of
great antiquity of some of the customs of the Navy, about 100 years
since, which he did lend us to read and deliver him back again.  Thence I
to the Exchequer, and there did strike my tallys for a quarter for
Tangier and carried them home with me, and thence to Trinity-house, being
invited to an Elder Brother's feast; and there met and sat by Mr. Prin,
and had good discourse about the privileges of Parliament, which, he
says, are few to the Commons' House, and those not examinable by them,
but only by the House of Lords.  Thence with my Lord Bruncker to Gresham
College, the first time after the sicknesse that I was there, and the
second time any met.  And here a good lecture of Mr. Hooke's about the
trade of felt-making, very pretty.  And anon alone with me about the art
of drawing pictures by Prince Rupert's rule and machine, and another of
Dr. Wren's;

     [Afterwards the famous Sir Christopher Wren.  He was one of the
     mainstays of the Royal Society.]

but he says nothing do like squares, or, which is the best in the world,
like a darke roome,--[The camera obscura.]-- which pleased me mightily.
Thence with Povy home to my house, and there late settling accounts with
him, which was very troublesome to me, and he gone, found Mr. Hill below,
who sat with me till late talking, and so away, and we to bed.



22nd.  Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning.  At noon home to
dinner and thence by coach with my wife for ayre principally for her.
I alone stopped at Hales's and there mightily am pleased with my wife's
picture that is begun there, and with Mr. Hill's, though I must [owne] I
am not more pleased with it now the face is finished than I was when I
saw it the second time of sitting.  Thence to my Lord Sandwich's, but he
not within, but goes to-morrow.  My wife to Mrs. Hunt's, who is lately
come to towne and grown mighty fat.  I called her there, and so home and
late at the office, and so home to supper and to bed.  We are much
troubled that the sicknesse in general (the town being so full of people)
should be but three, and yet of the particular disease of the plague
there should be ten encrease.



23rd.  Up betimes, and out of doors by 6 of the clock, and walked (W.
Howe with me) to my Lord Sandwich's, who did lie the last night at his
house in Lincoln's Inne Fields.  It being fine walking in the morning,
and the streets full of people again.  There I staid, and the house full
of people come to take leave of my Lord, who this day goes out of towne
upon his embassy towards Spayne.  And I was glad to find Sir W. Coventry
to come, though I know it is only a piece of courtshipp.  I had much
discourse with my Lord, he telling me how fully he leaves the King his
friend and the large discourse he had with him the other day, and how he
desired to have the business of the prizes examined before he went, and
that he yielded to it, and it is done as far as it concerns himself to
the full, and the Lords Commissioners for prizes did reprehend all the
informers in what related to his Lordship, which I am glad of in many
respects.  But we could not make an end of discourse, so I promised to
waite upon [him] on Sunday at Cranborne, and took leave and away hence to
Mr. Hales's with Mr. Hill and two of the Houblons, who come thither to
speak with me, and saw my wife's picture, which pleases me well, but Mr.
Hill's picture never a whit so well as it did before it was finished,
which troubled me, and I begin to doubt the picture of my Lady Peters my
wife takes her posture from, and which is an excellent picture, is not of
his making, it is so master-like.  I set them down at the 'Change and I
home to the office, and at noon dined at home and to the office again.
Anon comes Mrs. Knipp to see my wife, who is gone out, so I fain to
entertain her, and took her out by coach to look my wife at Mrs. Pierce's
and Unthanke's, but find her not.  So back again, and then my wife comes
home, having been buying of things, and at home I spent all the night
talking with this baggage, and teaching her my song of "Beauty retire,"
which she sings and makes go most rarely, and a very fine song it seems
to be.  She also entertained me with repeating many of her own and
others' parts of the play-house, which she do most excellently; and tells
me the whole practices of the play-house and players, and is in every
respect most excellent company.  So I supped, and was merry at home all
the evening, and the rather it being my birthday, 33 years, for which God
be praised that I am in so good a condition of healthe and estate, and
every thing else as I am, beyond expectation, in all.  So she to Mrs.
Turner's to lie, and we to bed.  Mightily pleased to find myself in
condition to have these people come about me and to be able to entertain
them, and have the pleasure of their qualities, than which no man can
have more in the world.



24th.  All the morning at the office till past three o'clock.  At that
houre home and eat a bit alone, my wife being gone out.  So abroad by
coach with Mr. Hill, who staid for me to speake about business, and he
and I to Hales's, where I find my wife and her woman, and Pierce and
Knipp, and there sung and was mighty merry, and I joyed myself in it; but
vexed at first to find my wife's picture not so like as I expected; but
it was only his having finished one part, and not another, of the face;
but, before I went, I was satisfied it will be an excellent picture.
Here we had ale and cakes and mighty merry, and sung my song, which she
[Knipp] now sings bravely, and makes me proud of myself.  Thence left my
wife to go home with Mrs. Pierce, while I home to the office, and there
pretty late, and to bed, after fitting myself for
to-morrow's journey.



25th (Lord's day).  My wife up between three and four of the clock in the
morning to dress herself, and I about five, and were all ready to take
coach, she and I and Mercer, a little.  past five, but, to our trouble,
the coach did not come till six.  Then with our coach of four horses I
hire on purpose, and Leshmore to ride by, we through the City to Branford
and so to Windsor, Captain Ferrers overtaking us at Kensington, being to
go with us, and here drank, and so through, making no stay, to Cranborne,
about eleven o'clock, and found my Lord and the ladies at a sermon in the
house; which being ended we to them, and all the company glad to see us,
and mighty merry to dinner.  Here was my Lord, and Lord Hinchingbroke,
and Mr. Sidney, Sir Charles Herbert, and Mr. Carteret, my Lady Carteret,
my Lady Jemimah, and Lady Slaning.  After dinner to talk to and again,
and then to walke in the Parke, my Lord and I alone, talking upon these
heads; first, he has left his business of the prizes as well as is
possible for him, having cleared himself before the Commissioners by the
King's commands, so that nothing or little is to be feared from that
point, he goes fully assured, he tells me, of the King's favour.  That
upon occasion I may know, I desired to know, his friends I may trust to,
he tells me, but that he is not yet in England, but continues this summer
in Ireland, my Lord Orrery is his father almost in affection.  He tells
me my Lord of Suffolke, Lord Arlington, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord
Treasurer, Mr. Atturny Montagu, Sir Thomas Clifford in the House of
Commons, Sir G. Carteret, and some others I cannot presently remember,
are friends that I may rely on for him.  He tells me my Lord Chancellor
seems his very good friend, but doubts that he may not think him so much
a servant of the Duke of Yorke's as he would have him, and indeed my Lord
tells me he hath lately made it his business to be seen studious of the
King's favour, and not of the Duke's, and by the King will stand or fall,
for factions there are, as he tells me, and God knows how high they may
come.  The Duke of Albemarle's post is so great, having had the name of
bringing in the King, that he is like to stand, or, if it were not for
him, God knows in what troubles we might be from some private faction,
if an army could be got into another hand, which God forbid!  It is
believed that though Mr. Coventry be in appearance so great against the
Chancellor, yet that there is a good understanding between the Duke and
him.  He dreads the issue of this year, and fears there will be some very
great revolutions before his coming back again.  He doubts it is needful
for him to have a pardon for his last year's actions, all which he did
without commission, and at most but the King's private single word for
that of Bergen; but he dares not ask it at this time, lest it should make
them think that there is something more in it than yet they know; and if
it should be denied, it would be of very ill consequence.  He says also,
if it should in Parliament be enquired into the selling of Dunkirke
(though the Chancellor was the man that would have it sold to France,
saying the King of Spayne had no money to give for it); yet he will be
found to have been the greatest adviser of it; which he is a little
apprehensive may be called upon this Parliament.  He told me it would not
be necessary for him to tell me his debts, because he thinks I know them
so well.  He tells me, that for the match propounded of Mrs. Mallett for
my Lord Hinchingbroke, it hath been lately off, and now her friends bring
it on again, and an overture hath been made to him by a servant of hers,
to compass the thing without consent of friends, she herself having a
respect to my Lord's family, but my Lord will not listen to it but in a
way of honour.  The Duke hath for this weeke or two been very kind to
him, more than lately; and so others, which he thinks is a good sign of
faire weather again.  He says the Archbishopp of Canterbury hath been
very kind to him, and hath plainly said to him that he and all the world
knows the difference between his judgment and brains and the Duke of
Albemarle's, and then calls my Lady Duchesse the veryest slut and drudge
and the foulest worde that can be spoke of a woman almost.  My Lord
having walked an houre with me talking thus and going in, and my Lady
Carteret not suffering me to go back again to-night, my Lord to walke
again with me about some of this and other discourse, and then in a-doors
and to talke with all and with my Lady Carteret, and I with the young
ladies and gentle men, who played on the guittar, and mighty merry, and
anon to supper, and then my Lord going away to write, the young gentlemen
to flinging of cushions, and other mad sports; at this late till towards
twelve at night, and then being sleepy, I and my wife in a passage-room
to bed, and slept not very well because of noise.



26th.  Called up about five in the morning, and my Lord up, and took
leave, a little after six, very kindly of me and the whole company.  Then
I in, and my wife up and to visit my Lady Slaving in her bed, and there
sat three hours, with Lady Jemimah with us, talking and laughing, and by
and by my Lady Carteret comes, and she and I to talke, I glad to please
her in discourse of Sir G. Carteret, that all will do well with him, and
she is much pleased, he having had great annoyance and fears about his
well doing, and I fear hath doubted that I have not been a friend to him,
but cries out against my Lady Castlemaine, that makes the King neglect
his business and seems much to fear that all will go to wracke, and I
fear with great reason; exclaims against the Duke of Albemarle, and more
the Duchesse for a filthy woman, as indeed she is.  Here staid till 9
o'clock almost, and then took coach with so much love and kindnesse from
my Lady Carteret, Lady Jemimah, and Lady Slaving, that it joys my heart,
and when I consider the manner of my going hither, with a coach and four
horses and servants and a woman with us, and coming hither being so much
made of, and used with that state, and then going to Windsor and being
shewn all that we were there, and had wherewith to give every body
something for their pains, and then going home, and all in fine weather
and no fears nor cares upon me, I do thinke myself obliged to thinke
myself happy, and do look upon myself at this time in the happiest
occasion a man can be, and whereas we take pains in expectation of future
comfort and ease, I have taught myself to reflect upon myself at present
as happy, and enjoy myself in that consideration, and not only please
myself with thoughts of future wealth and forget the pleasure we at
present enjoy.  So took coach and to Windsor, to the Garter, and thither
sent for Dr. Childe;  who come to us, and carried us to St. George's
Chappell; and there placed us among the Knights' stalls (and pretty the
observation, that no man, but a woman may sit in a Knight's place, where
any brass-plates are set); and hither come cushions to us, and a young
singing-boy to bring us a copy of the anthem to be sung.  And here, for
our sakes, had this anthem and the great service sung extraordinary, only
to entertain us.  It is a noble place indeed, and a good Quire of voices.
Great bowing by all the people, the poor Knights particularly, to the
Alter.  After prayers, we to see the plate of the chappell, and the robes
of Knights, and a man to shew us the banners of the several Knights in
being, which hang up over the stalls.  And so to other discourse very
pretty, about the Order.  Was shewn where the late [King] is buried, and
King Henry the Eighth, and my Lady [Jane] Seymour.  This being done, to
the King's house, and to observe the neatness and contrivance of the
house and gates: it is the most romantique castle that is in the world.
But, Lord!  the prospect that is in the balcone in the Queene's lodgings,
and the terrace and walk, are strange things to consider, being the best
in the world, sure.  Infinitely satisfied I and my wife with all this,
she being in all points mightily pleased too, which added to my pleasure;
and so giving a great deal of money to this and that man and woman, we to
our taverne, and there dined, the Doctor with us; and so took coach and
away to Eton, the Doctor with me.  Before we went to Chappell this
morning, Kate Joyce, in a stage-coach going toward London, called to me.
I went to her and saluted her, but could not get her to stay with us,
having company.  At Eton I left my wife in the coach, and he and I to the
College, and there find all mighty fine.  The school good, and the custom
pretty of boys cutting their names in the struts of the window when they
go to Cambridge, by which many a one hath lived to see himself Provost
and Fellow, that had his name in the window standing.  To the Hall, and
there find the boys' verses, "De Peste;" it being their custom to make
verses at Shrove-tide.  I read several, and very good ones they were, and
better, I think, than ever I made when I was a boy, and in rolls as long
and longer than the whole Hall, by much.  Here is a picture of Venice
hung up given, and a monument made of Sir H. Wotton's giving it to the
College.  Thence to the porter's, in the absence of the butler, and did
drink of the College beer, which is very good; and went into the back
fields to see the scholars play.  And so to the chappell, and there saw,
among other things, Sir H. Wotton's stone with this Epitaph

          Hic facet primus hujus sententiae Author:--
          Disputandi pruritus fit ecclesiae scabies.

But unfortunately the word "Author" was wrong writ, and now so basely
altered that it disgraces the stone.  Thence took leave of the Doctor,
and so took coach, and finely, but sleepy, away home, and got thither
about eight at night, and after a little at my office, I to bed; and an
houre after, was waked with my wife's quarrelling with Mercer, at which I
was angry, and my wife and I fell out.  But with much ado to sleep again,
I beginning to practise more temper, and to give her her way.



27th.  Up, and after a harsh word or two my wife and I good friends, and
so up and to the office, where all the morning.  At noon late to dinner,
my wife gone out to Hales's about her picture, and, after dinner, I after
her, and do mightily like her picture, and think it will be as good as my
Lady Peters's.  So home mightily pleased, and there late at business and
set down my three last days' journalls, and so to bed, overjoyed to
thinke of the pleasure of the last Sunday and yesterday, and my ability
to bear the charge of these pleasures, and with profit too, by obliging
my Lord, and reconciling Sir George Carteret's family.



28th (Ash Wednesday).  Up, and after doing a little business at my office
I walked, it being a most curious dry and cold morning, to White Hall,
and there I went into the Parke, and meeting Sir Ph. Warwicke took a
turne with him in the Pell Mall, talking of the melancholy posture of
affairs, where every body is snarling one at another, and all things put
together looke ominously.  This new Act too putting us out of a power of
raising money.  So that he fears as I do, but is fearfull of enlarging in
that discourse of an ill condition in every thing, and the State and all.
We appointed another time to meet to talke of the business of the Navy
alone seriously, and so parted, and I to White Hall, and there we did our
business with the Duke of Yorke, and so parted, and walked to Westminster
Hall, where I staid talking with Mrs. Michell and Howlett long and her
daughter, which is become a mighty pretty woman, and thence going out of
the Hall was called to by Mrs. Martin, so I went to her and bought two
bands, and so parted, and by and by met at her chamber, and there did
what I would, and so away home and there find Mrs. Knipp, and we dined
together, she the pleasantest company in the world.  After dinner I did
give my wife money to lay out on Knipp, 20s., and I abroad to White Hall
to visit Colonell Norwood, and then Sir G. Carteret, with whom I have
brought myself right again, and he very open to me; is very melancholy,
and matters, I fear, go down with him, but he seems most afeard of a
general catastrophe to the whole kingdom, and thinks, as I fear, that all
things will come to nothing.  Thence to the Palace Yard, to the Swan, and
there staid till it was dark, and then to Mrs. Lane's, and there lent her
L5 upon L4 01s. in gold.  And then did what I would with her, and I
perceive she is come to be very bad, and offers any thing, that it is
dangerous to have to do with her, nor will I see [her] any more a good
while.  Thence by coach home and to the office, where a while, and then
betimes to bed by ten o'clock, sooner than I have done many a day.  And
thus ends this month, with my mind full of resolution to apply myself
better from this time forward to my business than I have done these six
or eight days, visibly to my prejudice both in quiett of mind and setting
backward of my business, that I cannot give a good account of it as I
ought to do.




ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:

After a harsh word or two my wife and I good friends
By and by met at her chamber, and there did what I would
Did drink of the College beer, which is very good
Got her upon my knee (the coach being full) and played with her
Lady Duchesse the veryest slut and drudge
Last act of friendship in telling me of my faults also
Scotch song of "Barbary Allen"
Tooth-ake made him no company, and spoilt ours
Wherewith to give every body something for their pains
Who must except against every thing and remedy nothing




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by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley

