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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
                               1667-1668


January 1st.  Up, and all the morning in my chamber making up some
accounts against this beginning of the new year, and so about noon abroad
with my wife, who was to dine with W. Hewer and Willet at Mrs. Pierces,
but I had no mind to be with them, for I do clearly find that my wife is
troubled at my friendship with her and Knepp, and so dined with my Lord
Crew, with whom was Mr. Browne, Clerk of the House of Lords, and Mr. John
Crew.  Here was mighty good discourse, as there is always: and among
other things my Lord Crew did turn to a place in the Life of Sir Philip
Sidney, wrote by Sir Fulke Greville, which do foretell the present
condition of this nation, in relation to the Dutch, to the very degree of
a prophecy; and is so remarkable that I am resolved to buy one of them,
it being, quite throughout, a good discourse.  Here they did talk much of
the present cheapness of corne, even to a miracle; so as their farmers
can pay no rent, but do fling up their lands; and would pay in corne:
but, which I did observe to my Lord, and he liked well of it, our gentry
are grown so ignorant in every thing of good husbandry, that they know
not how to bestow this corne: which, did they understand but a little
trade, they would be able to joyne together, and know what markets there
are abroad, and send it thither, and thereby ease their tenants and be
able to pay themselves.  They did talk much of the disgrace the
Archbishop is fallen under with the King, and the rest of the Bishops
also.  Thence I after dinner to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there
saw "Sir Martin Mar-all;" which I have seen so often, and yet am
mightily pleased with it, and think it mighty witty, and the fullest of
proper matter for mirth that ever was writ; and I do clearly see that
they do improve in their acting of it.  Here a mighty company of
citizens, 'prentices, and others; and it makes me observe, that when I
begun first to be able to bestow a play on myself, I do not remember that
I saw so many by half of the ordinary 'prentices and mean people in the
pit at 2s. 6d. a-piece as now; I going for several years no higher than
the 12d. and then the 18d. places, though, I strained hard to go in then
when I did: so much the vanity and prodigality of the age is to be
observed in this particular.  Thence I to White Hall, and there walked up
and down the house a while, and do hear nothing of anything done further
in this business of the change of Privy-counsellors: only I hear that Sir
G. Savile, one of the Parliament Committee of nine, for examining the
Accounts, is by the King made a Lord, the Lord Halifax; which, I believe,
will displease the Parliament.  By and by I met with Mr. Brisband; and
having it in my mind this Christmas to (do what I never can remember that
I did) go to see the manner of the gaming at the Groome-Porter's, I
having in my coming from the playhouse stepped into the two Temple-halls,
and there saw the dirty 'prentices and idle people playing; wherein I was
mistaken, in thinking to have seen gentlemen of quality playing there, as
I think it was when I was a little child, that one of my father's
servants, John Bassum, I think, carried me in his arms thither.  I did
tell Brisband of it, and he did lead me thither, where, after staying an
hour, they begun to play at about eight at night, where to see how
differently one man took his losing from another, one cursing and
swearing, and another only muttering and grumbling to himself, a third
without any apparent discontent at all: to see how the dice will run good
luck in one hand, for half an hour together, and another have no good
luck at all: to see how easily here, where they play nothing but guinnys,
a L100 is won or lost: to see two or three gentlemen come in there drunk,
and putting their stock of gold together, one 22 pieces, the second 4,
and the third 5 pieces; and these to play one with another, and forget
how much each of them brought, but he that brought the 22 thinks that he
brought no more than the rest: to see the different humours of gamesters
to change their luck, when it is bad, how ceremonious they are as to call
for new dice, to shift their places, to alter their manner of throwing,
arid that with great industry, as if there was anything in it: to see how
some old gamesters, that have no money now to spend as formerly, do come
and sit and look on, as among others, Sir Lewis Dives, who was here, and
hath been a great gamester in his time: to hear their cursing and damning
to no purpose, as one man being to throw a seven if he could, and,
failing to do it after a great many throws, cried he would be damned if
ever he flung seven more while he lived, his despair of throwing it being
so great, while others did it as their luck served almost every throw: to
see how persons of the best quality do here sit down, and play with
people of any, though meaner; and to see how people in ordinary clothes
shall come hither, and play away 100, or 2 or 300 guinnys, without any
kind of difficulty: and lastly, to see the formality of the groome-
porter, who is their judge of all disputes in play and all quarrels that
may arise therein, and how his under-officers are there to observe true
play at each table, and to give new dice, is a consideration I never
could have thought had been in the world, had I not now seen it.  And
mighty glad I am that I did see it, and it may be will find another
evening, before Christmas be over, to see it again, when I may stay
later, for their heat of play begins not till about eleven or twelve
o'clock; which did give me another pretty observation of a man, that did
win mighty fast when I was there.  I think he won L100 at single pieces
in a little time.  While all the rest envied him his good fortune, he
cursed it, saying, "A pox on it, that it should come so early upon me,
for this fortune two hours hence would be worth something to me, but
then, God damn me, I shall have no such luck."  This kind of prophane,
mad entertainment they give themselves.  And so I, having enough for
once, refusing to venture, though Brisband pressed me hard, and tempted
me with saying that no man was ever known to lose the first time, the
devil being too cunning to discourage a gamester; and he offered me also
to lend me ten pieces to venture; but I did refuse, and so went away, and
took coach and home about 9 or to at night, where not finding my wife
come home, I took the same coach again, and leaving my watch behind me
for fear of robbing, I did go back and to Mrs. Pierces, thinking they
might not have broken up yet, but there I find my wife newly gone, and
not going out of my coach spoke only to Mr. Pierce in his nightgown in
the street, and so away back again home, and there to supper with my wife
and to talk about their dancing and doings at Mrs. Pierces to-day, and so
to bed.



2nd.  Up, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach to White Hall, and there
attended the King and the Duke of York in the Duke of York's lodgings,
with the rest of the Officers and many of the Commanders of the fleete,
and some of our master shipwrights, to discourse the business of having
the topmasts of ships made to lower abaft of the mainmast; a business I
understand not, and so can give no good account; but I do see that by how
much greater the Council, and the number of Counsellors is, the more
confused the issue is of their councils; so that little was said to the
purpose regularly, and but little use was made of it, they coming to a
very broken conclusion upon it, to make trial in a ship or two.  From
this they fell to other talk about the fleete's fighting this late war,
and how the King's ships have been shattered; though the King said that
the world would not have it that about ten or twenty ships in any fight
did do any service, and that this hath been told so to him himself, by
ignorant people.  The Prince, who was there, was mightily surprised at
it, and seemed troubled: but the King told him that it was only discourse
of the world.  But Mr. Wren whispered me in the eare, and said that the
Duke of Albemarle had put it into his Narrative for the House, that not
above twenty-five ships fought in the engagement wherein he was, but that
he was advised to leave it out; but this he did write from sea, I am
sure, or words to that effect: and did displease many commanders, among
others, Captain Batts, who the Duke of York said was a very stout man,
all the world knew; and that another was brought into his ship that had
been turned out of his place when he was a boatswain, not long before,
for being a drunkard.  This the Prince took notice of, and would have
been angry, I think, but they let their discourse fall: but the Duke of
York was earnest in it.  And the Prince said to me, standing by me, "God
damn me, if they will turn out every man that will be drunk, they must
turn out all the commanders in the fleete.  What is the matter if he be
drunk, so when he comes to fight he do his work?  At least, let him be
punished for his drunkenness, and not put out of his command presently."
This he spoke, very much concerned for this idle fellow, one Greene.
After this the King began to tell stories of the cowardice of the
Spaniards in Flanders, when he was there, at the siege of Mardike and
Dunkirke; which was very pretty, though he tells them but meanly.  This
being done I to Westminster Hall, and there staid a little: and then
home, and by the way did find with difficulty the Life of Sir Philip
Sidney (the book I mentioned yesterday).  And the bookseller told me that
he had sold four, within this week or two, which is more than ever he
sold in all his life of them; and he could not imagine what should be the
reason of it: but I suppose it is from the same reason of people's
observing of this part therein, touching his prophesying our present
condition here in England in relation to the Dutch, which is very
remarkable.  So home to dinner, where Balty's wife is come to town; she
come last night and lay at my house, but being weary was gone to bed
before I come home, and so I saw her not before.  After dinner I took my
wife and her girl out to the New Exchange, and there my wife bought
herself a lace for a handkercher, which I do give her, of about L3, for a
new year's gift, and I did buy also a lace for a band for myself, and so
home, and there to the office busy late, and so home to my chamber, where
busy on some accounts, and then to supper and to bed.  This day my wife
shows me a locket of dyamonds worth about L40, which W. Hewer do press
her to accept, and hath done for a good while, out of his gratitude for
my kindness and hers to him.  But I do not like that she should receive
it, it not being honourable for me to do it; and so do desire her to
force him to take it back again, he leaving it against her will yesterday
with her.  And she did this evening force him to take it back, at which
she says he is troubled; but, however, it becomes me more to refuse it,
than to let her accept of it.  And so I am well pleased with her
returning it him.  It is generally believed that France is endeavouring a
firmer league with us than the former, in order to his going on with his
business against Spayne the next year; which I am, and so everybody else
is, I think, very glad of, for all our fear is, of his invading us.  This
day, at White Hall, I overheard Sir W. Coventry propose to the King his
ordering of some particular thing in the Wardrobe, which was of no great
value; but yet, as much as it was, it was of profit to the King and
saving to his purse.  The King answered to it with great indifferency,
as a thing that it was no great matter whether it was done or no.
Sir W. Coventry answered: "I see your Majesty do not remember the old
English proverb, 'He that will not stoop for a pin, will never be worth a
pound.'"  And so they parted, the King bidding him do as he would; which,
methought, was an answer not like a King that did intend ever to do well.



3rd.  At the office all the morning with Mr. Willson and my clerks,
consulting again about a new contract with the Victualler of the Navy,
and at noon home to dinner, and then to the office again, where busy all
the afternoon preparing something for the Council about Tangier this
evening.  So about five o'clock away with it to the Council, and there do
find that the Council hath altered its times of sitting to the mornings,
and so I lost my labour, and back again by coach presently round by the
city wall, it being dark, and so home, and there to the office, where
till midnight with Mr. Willson and my people to go through with the
Victualler's contract and the considerations about the new one, and so
home to supper and to bed, thinking my time very well spent.



4th.  Up, and there to the office, where we sat all the morning; at noon
home to dinner, where my clerks and Mr. Clerke the sollicitor with me,
and dinner being done I to the office again, where all the afternoon till
late busy, and then home with my mind pleased at the pleasure of
despatching my business, and so to supper and to bed, my thoughts full,
how to order our design of having some dancing at our house on Monday
next, being Twelfth-day.  It seems worth remembering that this day I did
hear my Lord Anglesey at the table, speaking touching this new Act for
Accounts, say that the House of Lords did pass it because it was a
senseless, impracticable, ineffectual, and foolish Act; and that my Lord
Ashly having shown this that it was so to the House of Lords, the Duke of
Buckingham did stand up and told the Lords that they were beholden to my
Lord Ashly, that having first commended them for a most grave and
honourable assembly, he thought it fit for the House to pass this Act for
Accounts because it was a foolish and simple Act: and it seems it was
passed with but a few in the House, when it was intended to have met in a
grand Committee upon it.  And it seems that in itself it is not to be
practiced till after this session of Parliament, by the very words of the
Act, which nobody regarded, and therefore cannot come in force yet,
unless the next meeting they do make a new Act for the bringing it into
force sooner; which is a strange omission.  But I perceive my Lord
Anglesey do make a mere laughing-stock of this Act, as a thing that can
do nothing considerable, for all its great noise.



5th (Lord's day).  Up, and being ready, and disappointed of a coach, it
breaking a wheel just as it was coming for me, I walked as far as the
Temple, it being dirty, and as I went out of my doors my cozen Anthony
Joyce met me, and so walked part of the way with me, and it was to see
what I would do upon what his wife a little while since did desire, which
was to supply him L350 to enable him to go to build his house again.  I
(who in my nature am mighty unready to answer no to anything, and thereby
wonder that I have suffered no more in my life by my easiness in that
kind than I have) answered him that I would do it, and so I will, he
offering me good security, and so it being left for me to consider the
manner of doing it we parted.  Taking coach as I said before at the
Temple, I to Charing Cross, and there went into Unthanke's to have my
shoes wiped, dirty with walking, and so to White Hall, where I visited
the Vice-Chamberlain, who tells me, and so I find by others, that the
business of putting out of some of the Privy-council is over, the King
being at last advised to forbear it; for whereas he did design it to make
room for some of the House of Commons that are against him, thereby to
gratify them, it is believed that it will but so much the more fret the
rest that are not provided for, and raise a new stock of enemies by them
that are displeased, and so all they think is over: and it goes for a
pretty saying of my Lord Anglesey's up and down the Court, that he should
lately say to one of them that are the great promoters of this putting
him and others out of the Council, "Well," says he, "and what are we to
look for when we are outed?  Will all things be set right in the nation?"
The other said that he did believe that many things would be mended:
"But," says my Lord, "will you and the rest of you be contented to be
hanged, if you do not redeem all our misfortunes and set all right, if
the power be put into your hands?"  The other answered, "No, I would not
undertake that:"--"Why, then," says my Lord, "I and the rest of us that
you are labouring to put out, will be contented to be hanged, if we do
not recover all that is past, if the King will put the power into our
hands, and adhere wholly to our advice;" which saying as it was severe,
so generally people have so little opinion of those that are likely to be
uppermost that they do mightily commend my Lord Anglesey for this saying.
From the Vice-Chamberlain up and down the house till Chapel done, and
then did speak with several that I had a mind to, and so intending to go
home, my Lady Carteret saw and called me out of her window, and so would
have me home with her to Lincoln's Inn Fields to dinner, and there we met
with my Lord Brereton, and several other strangers, to dine there; and I
find him a very sober and serious, able man, and was in discourse too
hard for the Bishop of Chester, who dined there; and who, above all books
lately wrote, commending the matter and style of a late book, called "The
Causes of the Decay of Piety," I do resolve at his great commendation to
buy it.  Here dined also Sir Philip Howard, a Barkeshire Howard, whom I
did once hear swear publickly and loud in the matted gallery that he had
not been at a wench in so long a time.  He did take occasion to tell me
at the table that I have got great ground in the Parliament, by my ready
answers to all that was asked me there about the business of Chatham, and
they would never let me be out of employment, of which I made little; but
was glad to hear him, as well as others, say it.  And he did say also,
relating to Commissioner Pett, that he did not think that he was guilty
of anything like a fault, that he was either able or concerned to amend,
but only the not carrying up of the ships higher, he meant; but he said,
three or four miles lower down, to Rochester Bridge, which is a strange
piece of ignorance in a Member of Parliament at such a time as this, and
after so many examinations in the house of this business; and did boldly
declare that he did think the fault to lie in my Lord Middleton, who had
the power of the place, to secure the boats that were made ready by Pett,
and to do anything that he thought fit, and was much, though not
altogether in the right, for Spragg, that commanded the river, ought
rather to be charged with the want of the boats and the placing of them.
After dinner, my Lord Brereton very gentilely went to the organ, and
played a verse very handsomely.  Thence after dinner away with Sir
G. Carteret to White Hall, setting down my Lord Brereton at my Lord
Brouncker's, and there up and down the house, and on the Queen's side,
to see the ladies, and there saw the Duchesse of York, whom few pay the
respect they used, I think, to her; but she bears all out, with a very
great deal of greatness; that is the truth of it.  And so, it growing
night, I away home by coach, and there set my wife to read, and then
comes Pelling, and he and I to sing a little, and then sup and so to bed.



6th.  Up, leaving my wife to get her ready, and the maids to get a supper
ready against night for our company; and I by coach to White Hall, and
there up and down the house, and among others met with Mr. Pierce, by
whom I find, as I was afeard from the folly of my wife, that he
understood that he and his wife was to dine at my house to-day, whereas
it was to sup; and therefore I, having done my business at court, did go
home to dinner, and there find Mr. Harris, by the like mistake, come to
dine with me.  However, we did get a pretty dinner ready for him; and
there he and I to discourse of many things, and I do find him a very
excellent person, such as in my whole [acquaintances] I do not know
another better qualified for converse, whether in things of his own
trade, or of other kinds, a man of great understanding and observation,
and very agreeable in the manner of his discourse, and civil as far as is
possible.  I was mightily pleased with his company; and after dinner did
take coach with him, and my wife and girl, to go to a play, and to carry
him thither to his own house.  But I 'light by the way to return home,
thinking to have spoke with Mrs. Bagwell, who I did see to-day in our
entry, come from Harwich, whom I have not seen these twelve months, I
think, and more, and voudrai avoir hazer alcun with her, sed she was
gone, and so I took coach and away to my wife at the Duke of York's
house, in the pit, and so left her; and to Mrs. Pierce, and took her and
her cozen Corbet, Knepp and little James, and brought them to the Duke's
house; and, the house being full, was forced to carry them to a box,
which did cost me 20s., besides oranges, which troubled me, though their
company did please me.  Thence, after the play, stayed till Harris was
undressed, there being acted "The Tempest," and so he withall, all by
coach, home, where we find my house with good fires and candles ready,
and our Office the like, and the two Mercers, and Betty Turner,
Pendleton, and W. Batelier.  And so with much pleasure we into the house,
and there fell to dancing, having extraordinary Musick, two viollins, and
a base viollin, and theorbo, four hands, the Duke of Buckingham's
musique, the best in towne, sent me by Greeting, and there we set in to
dancing.  By and by to my house, to a very good supper, and mighty merry,
and good musick playing; and after supper to dancing and singing till
about twelve at night; and then we had a good sack posset for them, and
an excellent cake, cost me near 20s., of our Jane's making, which was cut
into twenty pieces, there being by this time so many of our company, by
the coming in of young Goodyer and some others of our neighbours, young
men that could dance, hearing of our dancing; and anon comes in Mrs.
Turner, the mother, and brings with her Mrs. Hollworthy, which pleased me
mightily.  And so to dancing again, and singing, with extraordinary great
pleasure, till about two in the morning, and then broke up; and Mrs.
Pierce and her family, and Harris and Knepp by coach home, as late as it
was.  And they gone, I took Mrs. Turner and Hollworthy home to my house,
and there gave wine and sweetmeats; but I find Mrs. Hollworthy but a mean
woman, I think, for understanding, only a little conceited, and proud,
and talking, but nothing extraordinary in person, or discourse,
or understanding.  However, I was mightily pleased with her being there,
I having long longed for to know her, and they being gone, I paid the
fiddlers L3 among the four, and so away to bed, weary and mightily
pleased, and have the happiness to reflect upon it as I do sometimes on
other things, as going to a play or the like, to be the greatest real
comfort that I am to expect in the world, and that it is that that we do
really labour in the hopes of; and so I do really enjoy myself, and
understand that if I do not do it now I shall not hereafter, it may be,
be able to pay for it, or have health to take pleasure in it, and so fill
myself with vain expectation of pleasure and go without it.



7th.  Up, weary, about 9 o'clock, and then out by coach to White Hall to
attend the Lords of the Treasury about Tangier with Sir Stephen Fox, and
having done with them I away back again home by coach time enough to
dispatch some business, and after dinner with Sir W. Pen's coach (he
being gone before with Sir D. Gawden) to White Hall to wait on the Duke
of York, but I finding him not there, nor the Duke of York within, I away
by coach to the Nursery, where I never was yet, and there to meet my wife
and Mercer and Willet as they promised; but the house did not act to-day;
and so I was at a loss for them, and therefore to the other two
playhouses into the pit, to gaze up and down, to look for them, and there
did by this means, for nothing, see an act in "The Schoole of
Compliments" at the Duke of York's house, and "Henry the Fourth" at the
King's house; but, not finding them, nor liking either of the plays,
I took my coach again, and home, and there to my office to do business,
and by and by they come home, and had been at the King's House, and saw
me, but I could [not] see them, and there I walked with them in the
garden awhile, and to sing with Mercer there a little, and so home with
her, and taught her a little of my "It is decreed," which I have a mind
to have her learn to sing, and she will do it well, and so after supper
she went away, and we to bed, and there made amends by sleep for what I
wanted last night.



8th.  Up, and it being dirty, I by coach (which I was forced to go to
the charge for) to White Hall, and there did deliver the Duke of York a
memorial for the Council about the case of Tangiers want of money; and I
was called in there and my paper was read.  I did not think fit to say
much, but left them to make what use they pleased of my paper; and so
went out and waited without all the morning, and at noon hear that there
is something ordered towards our help, and so I away by coach home,
taking up Mr. Prin at the Court-gate, it raining, and setting him down
at the Temple: and by the way did ask him about the manner of holding of
Parliaments, and whether the number of Knights and Burgesses were always
the same?  And he says that the latter were not; but that, for aught he
can find, they were sent up at the discretion, at first, of the
Sheriffes, to whom the writs are sent, to send up generally the Burgesses
and citizens of their county: and he do find that heretofore the
Parliament-men being paid by the country, several burroughs have
complained of the Sheriffes putting them to the charge of sending up
Burgesses; which is a very extraordinary thing to me, that knew not this,
but thought that the number had been known, and always the same.  Thence
home to the office, and so with my Lord Brouncker and his mistress,
Williams, to Captain Cocke's to dinner, where was Temple and Mr. Porter,
and a very good dinner, and merry.  Thence with Lord Brouncker to White
Hall to the Commissioners of the Treasury at their sending for us to
discourse about the paying of tickets, and so away, and I by coach to the
'Change, and there took up my wife and Mercer and the girl by agreement,
and so home, and there with Mercer to teach her more of "It is decreed,"
and to sing other songs and talk all the evening, and so after supper I
to even my journall since Saturday last, and so to bed.  Yesterday Mr.
Gibson, upon his discovering by my discourse to him that I had a
willingness, or rather desire, to have him stay with me, than go, as he
designed, on Sir W. Warren's account, to sea, he resolved to let go the
design and wait his fortune with me, though I laboured hard to make him
understand the uncertainty of my condition or service, but however he
will hazard it, which I take mighty kindly of him, though troubled lest
he may come to be a loser by it, but it will not be for want of my
telling him what he was to think on and expect.  However, I am well
pleased with it, with regard to myself, who find him mighty understanding
and acquainted with all things in the Navy, that I should, if I continue
in the Navy, make great use of him.



9th.  Up, and to the office, having first been visited by my cozen
Anthony Joyce about the L350 which he desires me to lend him, and which I
have a mind enough to do, but would have it in my power to call it out
again in a little time, and so do take a little further time to consider
it.  So to the office, where all the morning busy, and so home at noon to
dinner with my people, where Mr. Hollier come and dined with me, and it
is still mighty pleasant to hear him talk of Rome and the Pope, with what
hearty zeal and hatred he talks against him.  After dinner to the office
again, where busy till night, very busy, and among other things wrote to
my father about lending Anthony Joyce the money he desires; and I declare
that I would do it as part of Pall's portion, and that Pall should have
the use of the money till she be married, but I do propose to him to
think of Mr. Cumberland rather than this Jackson that he is upon; and I
confess I have a mighty mind to have a relation so able a man, and
honest, and so old an acquaintance as Mr. Cumberland.  I shall hear his
answer by the next [post].  At night home and to cards with my wife and
girle, and to supper late, and so to bed.



10th.  Up, and with Sir Denis Gawden, who called me, to White Hall, and
there to wait on the Duke of York with the rest of my brethren, which we
did a little in the King's Greenroom, while the King was in Council: and
in this room we found my Lord Bristoll walking alone; which, wondering
at, while the Council was sitting, I was answered that, as being a
Catholique, he could not be of the Council, which I did not consider
before.  After broke up and walked a turn or two with Lord Brouncker
talking about the times, and he tells me that he thinks, and so do every
body else, that the great business of putting out some of the Council to
make room for some of the Parliament men to gratify and wheedle them is
over, thinking that it might do more hurt than good, and not obtain much
upon the Parliament either.  This morning there was a Persian in that
country dress, with a turban, waiting to kiss the King's hand in the
Vane-room, against he come out: it was a comely man as to features, and
his dress, methinks, very comely.  Thence in Sir W. Pen's coach alone (he
going with Sir D. Gawden) to my new bookseller's, Martin's; and there did
meet with Fournier,

     [George Fournier, a Jesuit, born at Caen in 1569, was the author of
     several nautical works.  His chief one, "L'Hydrographie," was
     published at Paris in folio in 1663.  A second edition appeared in
     1667.]

the Frenchman, that hath wrote of the Sea and Navigation, and I could not
but buy him, and also bespoke an excellent book, which I met with there,
of China.  The truth is, I have bought a great many books lately to a
great value; but I think to buy no more till Christmas next, and those
that I have will so fill my two presses that I must be forced to give
away some to make room for them, it being my design to have no more at
any time for my proper library than to fill them.  Thence home and to the
Exchange, there to do a little business, where I find everybody concerned
whether we shall have out a fleete this next year or no, they talking of
a peace concluded between France and Spayne, so that the King of France
will have nothing to do with his army unless he comes to us; but I do not
see in the world how we shall be able to set out a fleete for want of
money to buy stores and pay men, for neither of which we shall be any
more trusted.  So home to dinner, and then with my wife and Deb. to the
King's house, to see "Aglaura," which hath been always mightily cried up;
and so I went with mighty expectation, but do find nothing extraordinary
in it at all, and but hardly good in any degree.  So home, and thither
comes to us W. Batelier and sat with us all the evening, and to cards and
supper, passing the evening pretty pleasantly, and so late at night
parted, and so to bed.  I find him mightily troubled at the Lords
Commissioners of the Treasury opposing him in the business he hath a
patent for about the business of Impost on wine, but I do see that the
Lords have reason for it, it being a matter wherein money might be saved
to his Majesty, and I am satisfied that they do let nothing pass that may
save money, and so God bless them!  So he being gone we to bed.  This day
I received a letter from my father, and another from my cozen Roger
Pepys, who have had a view of Jackson's evidences of his estate, and do
mightily like of the man, and his condition and estate, and do advise me
to accept of the match for my sister, and to finish it as soon as I can;
and he do it so as, I confess, I am contented to have it done, and so
give her her portion; and so I shall be eased of one care how to provide
for her, and do in many respects think that it may be a match proper
enough to have her married there, and to one that may look after my
concernments if my father should die and I continue where I am, and
there[fore] I am well pleased with it, and so to bed.



11th.  Lay some time, talking with my wife in bed about Pall's business,
and she do conclude to have her married here, and to be merry at it;
and to have W. Hewer, and Batelier, and Mercer, and Willet bridemen and
bridemaids, and to be very merry; and so I am glad of it, and do resolve
to let it be done as soon as I can.  So up, and to the office, where all
the morning busy, and thence home to dinner, and from dinner with Mercer,
who dined with us, and wife and Deb. to the King's house, there to see
"The Wild-goose Chase," which I never saw, but have long longed to see
it, being a famous play, but as it was yesterday I do find that where I
expect most I find least satisfaction, for in this play I met with
nothing extraordinary at all, but very dull inventions and designs.
Knepp come and sat by us, and her talk pleased me a little, she telling
me how Mis Davis is for certain going away from the Duke's house, the
King being in love with her; and a house is taken for her, and
furnishing; and she hath a ring given her already worth L600: that the
King did send several times for Nelly, and she was with him, but what he
did she knows not; this was a good while ago, and she says that the King
first spoiled Mrs. Weaver, which is very mean, methinks, in a prince, and
I am sorry for it, and can hope for no good to the State from having a
Prince so devoted to his pleasure.  She told me also of a play shortly
coming upon the stage, of Sir Charles Sidly's, which, she thinks, will be
called "The Wandering Ladys," a comedy that, she thinks, will be most
pleasant; and also another play, called "The Duke of Lerma;" besides
"Catelin," which she thinks, for want of the clothes which the King
promised them, will not be acted for a good while.  Thence home, and
there to the office and did some business, and so with my wife for half
an hour walking in the moonlight, and it being cold, frosty weather,
walking in the garden, and then home to supper, and so by the fireside to
have my head combed, as I do now often do, by Deb., whom I love should be
fiddling about me, and so to bed.



12th (Lord's day).  Up, and to dress myself, and then called into my
wife's chamber, and there she without any occasion fell to discourse of
my father's coming to live with us when my sister marries.  This, she
being afeard of declaring an absolute hatred to him since his falling out
with her about Coleman's being with her, she declares against his coming
hither, which I not presently agreeing to, she declared, if he come, she
would not live with me, but would shame me all over the city and court,
which I made slight of, and so we fell very foul; and I do find she do
keep very bad remembrances of my former unkindness to her, and do
mightily complain of her want of money and liberty, which I will rather
hear and bear the complaint of than grant the contrary, and so we had
very hot work a great while: but at last I did declare as I intend, that
my father shall not come, and that he do not desire and intend it; and so
we parted with pretty good quiet, and so away, and being ready went to
church, where first I saw Alderman Backewell and his lady come to our
church, they living in Mark Lane; and I could find in my heart to invite
her to sit with us, she being a fine lady.  I come in while they were
singing the 19th Psalm, while the sexton was gathering to his box, to
which I did give 5s., and so after sermon home, my wife, Deb., and I all
alone and very kind, full of good discourses, and after dinner I to my
chamber, ordering my Tangier accounts to give to the Auditor in a day or
two, which should have been long ago with him.  At them to my great
content all the afternoon till supper, and after supper with my wife,
W. Hewer and Deb. pretty merry till 12 at night, and then to bed.



13th.  Up, and Mr. Gibbs comes to me, and I give him instructions about
the writing fair my Tangier accounts against to-morrow.  So I abroad with
Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there did with the rest attend the Duke of
York, where nothing extraordinary; only I perceive there is nothing yet
declared for the next, year, what fleete shall be abroad.  Thence
homeward by coach and stopped at Martin's, my bookseller, where I saw the
French book which I did think to have had for my wife to translate,
called "L'escholle des filles,"

     ["L'Escole des Filles," by Helot, was burnt at the foot of the
     gallows in 1672, and the author himself was burnt in effigy.]

but when I come to look in it, it is the most bawdy, lewd book that ever
I saw, rather worse than "Putana errante,"  so that I was ashamed of
reading in it, and so away home, and there to the 'Change to discourse
with Sir H. Cholmly, and so home to dinner, and in the evening, having
done some business, I with my wife and girl out, and left them at
Unthanke's, while I to White Hall to the Treasury Chamber for an order
for Tangier, and so back, took up my wife, and home, and there busy about
my Tangier accounts against tomorrow, which I do get ready in good
condition, and so with great content to bed.



14th.  At the office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, and
after dinner with Mr. Clerke and Gibson to the Temple (my wife and girle
going further by coach), and there at the Auditor's did begin the
examining my Tangier accounts, and did make a great entry into it and
with great satisfaction, and I am glad I am so far eased.  So appointing
another day for further part of my accounts, I with Gibson to my
bookseller, Martin, and there did receive my book I expected of China, a
most excellent book with rare cuts; and there fell into discourse with
him about the burning of Paul's when the City was burned; his house being
in the church-yard.  And he tells me that it took fire first upon the end
of a board that, among others, was laid upon the roof instead of lead,
the lead being broke off, and thence down lower and lower: but that the
burning of the goods under St. Fayth's arose from the goods taking fire
in the church-yard, and so got into St. Fayth's Church; and that they
first took fire from the Draper's side, by some timber of the houses that
were burned falling into the church.  He says that one warehouse of books
was saved under Paul's; and he says that there were several dogs found
burned among the goods in the church-yard, and but one man, which was an
old man, that said he would go and save a blanket which he had in the
church, and, being a weak old man, the fire overcome him, and was burned.
He says that most of the booksellers do design to fall a-building again
the next year; but he says that the Bishop of London do use them most
basely, worse than any other landlords, and says he will be paid to this
day the rent, or else he will not come to treat with them for the time to
come; and will not, on that condition either, promise them any thing how
he will use them; and, the Parliament sitting, he claims his privilege,
and will not be cited before the Lord Chief justice, as others are there,
to be forced to a fair dealing.  Thence by coach to Mrs. Pierce's, where
my wife and Deb. is; and there they fell to discourse of the last night's
work at Court, where the ladies and Duke of Monmouth and others acted
"The Indian Emperour;" wherein they told me these things most remark
able: that not any woman but the Duchesse of Monmouth and Mrs. Cornwallis
did any thing but like fools and stocks, but that these two did do most
extraordinary well: that not any man did any thing well but Captain
O'Bryan, who spoke and did well, but, above all things, did dance most
incomparably. That she did sit near the players of the Duke's house;
among the rest, Mis Davis, who is the most impertinent slut, she says, in
the world; and the more, now the King do show her countenance; and is
reckoned his mistress, even to the scorne of the whole world; the King
gazing on her, and my Lady Castlemayne being melancholy and out of
humour, all the play, not smiling once.  The King, it seems, hath given
her a ring of L700, which she shews to every body, and owns that the King
did give it her; and he hath furnished a house for her in Suffolke Street
most richly, which is a most infinite shame.  It seems she is a bastard
of Colonell Howard, my Lord Berkshire, and that he do pimp to her for the
King, and hath got her for him; but Pierce says that she is a most homely
jade as ever she saw, though she dances beyond any thing in the world.
She tells me that the Duchesse of Richmond do not yet come to the Court,
nor hath seen the King, nor will not, nor do he own his desire of seeing
her; but hath used means to get her to Court, but they do not take.
Thence home, and there I to my chamber, having a great many books brought
me home from my bookbinder's, and so I to the new setting of my books
against the next year, which costs me more trouble than I expected, and
at it till two o'clock in the morning, and then to bed, the business not
being yet done to my mind.  This evening come Mr. Mills and his wife to
see and sit and talk with us, which they did till 9 o'clock at night, and
then parted, and I to my books.



15th.  Up, and to the Office, where all the morning.  At noon home to
dinner, and then to the Office again, where we met about some business of
D. Gawden's till candle-light; and then, as late as it was, I down to
Redriffe, and so walked by moonlight to Deptford, where I have not been a
great while, and my business I did there was only to walk up and down
above la casa of Bagwell, but could not see her, it being my intent to
have spent a little time con her, she being newly come from her husband;
but I did lose my labour, and so walked back again, but with pleasure by
the walk, and I had the sport to see two boys swear, and stamp, and fret,
for not being able to get their horse over a stile and ditch, one of them
swearing and cursing most bitterly; and I would fain, in revenge, have
persuaded him to have drove his horse through the ditch, by which I
believe he would have stuck there.  But the horse would not be drove, and
so they were forced to go back again, and so I walked away homeward, and
there reading all the evening, and so to bed.  This afternoon my Lord
Anglesey tells us that it is voted in Council to have a fleete of 50
ships out; but it is only a disguise for the Parliament to get some money
by; but it will not take, I believe, and if it did, I do not think it
will be such as he will get any of, nor such as will enable us to set out
such a fleete.



16th.  Up, after talking with my wife with pleasure, about her learning
on the flageolet a month or two again this winter, and all the rest of
the year her painting, which I do love, and so to the office, where sat
all the morning, and here Lord Anglesey tells us again that a fleete is
to be set out; and that it is generally, he hears, said, that it is but a
Spanish rhodomontado; and that he saying so just now to the Duke of
Albemarle, who come to town last night, after the thing was ordered, he
told him a story of two seamen: one wished all the guns of the ship were
his, and that they were silver; and says the other, "You are a fool, for,
if you can have it for wishing, why do you not wish them gold?"--
"So," says he, "if a rhodomontado will do any good, why do you not say
100 ships?" And it is true; for the Dutch and French are said to make
such preparations as 50 sail will do no good.  At noon home to dinner
with my gang of clerks, in whose society I am mightily pleased, and
mightily with Mr. Gibson's talking;

     [Richard Gibson, so frequently noticed by Pepys, was a clerk in the
     Navy Office.  His collection of papers relating to the navy of
     England A.D. 1650-1702, compiled, as he states, from the Admiralty
     books in the Navy Office, are in the British Museum.--B.]

he telling me so many good stories relating to the warr and practices of
commanders, which I will find a time to recollect; and he will be an
admirable help to my writing a history of the Navy, if ever I do.  So to
the office, where busy all the afternoon and evening, and then home.  My
work this night with my clerks till midnight at the office was to examine
my list of ships I am making for myself and their dimensions, and to see
how it agrees or differs from other lists, and I do find so great a
difference between them all that I am at a loss which to take, and
therefore think mine to be as much depended upon as any I can make out of
them all.  So little care there has been to this day to know or keep any
history of the Navy.



17th.  Up, and by coach to White Hall to attend the Council there, and
here I met first by Mr. Castle the shipwright, whom I met there, and then
from the whole house the discourse of the duell yesterday between the
Duke of Buckingham, Holmes, and one Jenkins, on one side, and my Lord of
Shrewsbury, Sir John Talbot, and one Bernard Howard, on the other side:
and all about my Lady Shrewsbury,

     [Anna Maria, daughter of Robert Brudenel, second Earl of Cardigan.
     Walpole says she held the Duke of Buckingham's horse, in the habit
     of a page, while he was fighting the duel with her husband.  She
     married, secondly, George Rodney Bridges, son of Sir Thomas Bridges
     of Keynsham, Somerset, Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles IL, and
     died April 20th, 1702.  A portrait of the Countess of Shrewsbury, as
     Minerva, by Lely.]

who is a whore, and is at this time, and hath for a great while been, a
whore to the Duke of Buckingham.  And so her husband challenged him, and
they met yesterday in a close near Barne-Elmes, and there fought: and my
Lord Shrewsbury is run through the body, from the right breast through
the shoulder: and Sir John Talbot all along up one of his armes; and
Jenkins killed upon the place, and the rest all, in a little measure,
wounded.  This will make the world think that the King hath good
councillors about him, when the Duke of Buckingham, the greatest man
about him, is a fellow of no more sobriety than to fight about a whore.
And this may prove a very bad accident to the Duke of Buckingham, but
that my Lady Castlemayne do rule all at this time as much as ever she
did, and she will, it is believed, keep all matters well with the Duke of
Buckingham: though this is a time that the King will be very backward, I
suppose, to appear in such a business.  And it is pretty to hear how the
King had some notice of this challenge a week or two ago, and did give it
to my Lord Generall to confine the Duke, or take security that he should
not do any such thing as fight: and the Generall trusted to the King that
he, sending for him, would do it, and the King trusted to the Generall;
and so, between both, as everything else of the greatest moment do, do
fall between two stools.  The whole House full of nothing but the talk of
this business; and it is said that my Lord Shrewsbury's case is to be
feared, that he may die too; and that may make it much the worse for the
Duke of Buckingham: and I shall not be much sorry for it, that we may
have some sober man come in his room to assist in the Government.  Here I
waited till the Council rose, and talked the while, with Creed, who tells
me of Mr. Harry Howard's' giving the Royal Society a piece of ground next
to his house, to build a College on, which is a most generous act.  And
he tells me he is a very fine person, and understands and speaks well;
and no rigid Papist neither, but one that would not have a Protestant
servant leave his religion, which he was going to do, thinking to
recommend himself to his master by it; saying that he had rather have an
honest Protestant than a knavish Catholique.  I was not called into the
Council; and, therefore, home, first informing myself that my Lord
Hinchingbroke hath been married this week to my Lord Burlington's
daughter; so that that great business is over; and I mighty glad of it,
though I am not satisfied that I have not a Favour sent me, as I see
Attorney Montagu and the Vice-Chamberlain have.  But I am mighty glad
that the thing is done.  So home, and there alone with my wife and Deb.
to dinner, and after dinner comes Betty Turner, and I carried them to the
New Exchange, and thence I to White Hall and did a little business at the
Treasury, and so called them there, and so home and to cards and supper,
and her mother come and sat at cards with us till past 12 at night, and
then broke up and to bed, after entering my journall, which made it one
before I went to bed.



18th.  At the office all the morning busy sitting.  At noon home to
dinner, where Betty Turner dined with us, and after dinner carried my
wife, her and Deb.  to the 'Change, where they bought some things, while
I bought "The Mayden Queene," a play newly printed, which I like at the
King's house so well, of Mr. Dryden's, which he himself, in his preface,
seems to brag of, and indeed is a good play.  So home again, and I late
at the office and did much business, and then home to supper and to bed.



19th (Lord's day).  My wife the last night very ill of those, and waked
me early, and hereupon I up and to church, where a dull sermon by our
lecturer, and so home to dinner in my wife's chamber, which she is a
little better.  Then after dinner with Captain Perryman down to Redriffe,
and so walked to Deptford, where I sent for Mr. Shish out of the Church
to advise about my vessel, "The Maybolt," and I do resolve to sell,
presently, for any thing rather than keep her longer, having already lost
L100 in her value, which I was once offered and refused, and the ship
left without any body to look to her, which vexes me.  Thence Perryman
and I back again, talking of the great miscarriages in the Navy, and
among the principal that of having gentlemen commanders.  I shall
hereafter make use of his and others' help to reckon up and put down in
writing what is fit to be mended in the Navy after all our sad experience
therein.  So home, and there sat with my wife all the evening, and Mr.
Pelting awhile talking with us, who tells me that my Lord Shrewsbury is
likely to do well, after his great wound in the late dwell.  He gone,
comes W. Hewer and supped with me, and so to talk of things, and he tells
me that Mr. Jessop is made Secretary to the Commissions of Parliament for
Accounts, and I am glad, and it is pretty to see that all the Cavalier
party were not able to find the Parliament nine Commissioners, or one
Secretary, fit for the business.  So he gone, I to read a little in my
chamber, and so to bed.



20th.  Up, and all the morning at the office very busy, and at noon by
coach to Westminster, to the 'Chequer, about a warrant for Tangier money.
In my way both coming and going I did stop at Drumbleby's, the pipe-
maker, there to advise about the making of a flageolet to go low and
soft; and he do shew me a way which do do, and also a fashion of having
two pipes of the same note fastened together, so as I can play on one,
and then echo it upon the other, which is mighty pretty.  So to my Lord
Crew's to dinner, where we hear all the good news of our making a league
now with Holland against the French power coming over them, or us which
is the first good act that hath been done a great while, and done
secretly, and with great seeming wisdom; and is certainly good for us at
this time, while we are in no condition to resist the French, if they
should come over hither; and then a little time of peace will give us
time to lay up something, which these Commissioners of the Treasury are
doing; and the world do begin to see that they will do the King's work
for him, if he will let them.  Here dined Mr. Case, the minister, who,
Lord! do talk just as I remember he used to preach, and did tell a pretty
story of a religious lady, Queen of Navarre;

     [Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, sister of Francis I. of
     France.  The "pretty story" was doubtless from her "Heptameron," a
     work imitating in title and matter the "Decameron" of Boccaccio.
     She is said to be the heroine of some of the adventures.  It is fair
     to add that she wrote also the "Miroir dune Ame Pecheresse,"
     translated into English by Queen Elizabeth, the title of whose book
     was "A Godly Medytacyon of the Christian Soules," published by John
     Bale in 1548.--B.]

and my Lord also told a good story of Mr. Newman, the Minister in New
England, who wrote the Concordance, of his foretelling his death and
preaching a funeral sermon, and did at last bid the angels do their
office, and died.  It seems there is great presumption that there will be
a Toleration granted: so that the Presbyterians do hold up their heads;
but they will hardly trust the King or the Parliament what to yield them,
though most of the sober party be for some kind of allowance to be given
them.  Thence and home, and then to the 'Change in the evening, and there
Mr. Cade told me how my Lord Gerard is likely to meet with trouble, the
next sitting of Parliament, about [Carr] being set in the pillory; and I
am glad of it; and it is mighty acceptable to the world to hear, that,
among other reductions, the King do reduce his Guards, which do please
mightily.  So to my bookbinder's with my boy, and there did stay late to
see two or three things done that I had a mind to see done, and among
others my Tangier papers of accounts, and so home to supper and to bed.



21st.  Up, and while at the office comes news from Kate Joyce that if I
would see her husband alive, I must come presently.  So, after the office
was up, I to him, and W. Hewer with me, and find him in his sick bed (I
never was at their house, this Inne, before) very sensible in discourse
and thankful for my kindness to him, and his breath rattled in his
throate, and they did lay pigeons to his feet while I was in the house,
and all despair of him, and with good reason.  But the story is that it
seems on Thursday last he went sober and quiet out of doors in the
morning to Islington, and behind one of the inns, the White Lion, did
fling himself into a pond, was spied by a poor woman and got out by some
people binding up hay in a barn there, and set on his head and got to
life, and known by a woman coming that way; and so his wife and friends
sent for.  He confessed his doing the thing, being led by the Devil; and
do declare his reason to be, his trouble that he found in having forgot
to serve God as he ought, since he come to this new employment: and I
believe that, and the sense of his great loss by the fire, did bring him
to it, and so everybody concludes.  He stayed there all that night, and
come home by coach next morning, and there grew sick, and worse and worse
to this day.  I stayed awhile among the friends that were there, and they
being now in fear that the goods and estate would be seized on, though he
lived all this while, because of his endeavouring to drown himself, my
cozen did endeavour to remove what she could of plate out of the house,
and desired me to take my flagons; which I was glad of, and did take them
away with me in great fear all the way of being seized; though there was
no reason for it, he not being dead, but yet so fearful I was.  So home,
and there eat my dinner, and busy all the afternoon, and troubled at this
business.  In the evening with Sir D. Gawden, to Guild Hall, to advise
with the Towne-Clerke about the practice of the City and nation in this
case: and he thinks that it cannot be found self-murder; but if it be,
it will fall, all the estate, to the King.  So we parted, and I to my
cozens again; where I no sooner come but news was brought down from his
chamber that he was departed.  So, at their entreaty, I presently took
coach to White Hall, and there find Sir W. Coventry; and he carried me to
the King, the Duke of York being with him, and there told my story which
I had told him:

     [This was not the only time that Pepys took trouble to save the
     estate of a friend who had committed suicide.  In the "Caveat Book"
     in the Record Office, p. 42 of the volume for 1677, is the following
     entry: "That no grant pass of the Estate of Francis Gurney of Maldon
     in Essex, who drowned himself in his own well on Tuesday night ye
     12th of this instant August, at the desire of Samuel Pepys, Esquire,
     August 20, 1677."]

and the King, without more ado, granted that, if it was found, the estate
should be to the widow and children.  I presently to each Secretary's
office, and there left caveats, and so away back again to my cozens,
leaving a chimney on fire at White Hall, in the King's closet; but no
danger.  And so, when I come thither, I find her all in sorrow, but she
and the rest mightily pleased with my doing this for them; and, indeed,
it was a very great courtesy, for people are looking out for the estate,
and the coroner will be sent to, and a jury called to examine his death.
This being well done to my and their great joy, I home, and there to my
office, and so to supper and to bed.



22nd.  Up, mightily busy all the morning at the office.  At noon with
Lord Brouncker to Sir D. Gawden's, at the Victualling-Office, to dinner,
where I have not dined since he was Sheriff: He expected us; and a good
dinner, and much good company; and a fine house, and especially two
rooms, very fine, he hath built there.  His lady a good lady; but my Lord
led himself and me to a great absurdity in kissing all the ladies, but
the finest of all the company, leaving her out, I know not how; and I was
loath to do it, since he omitted it.  Here little Chaplin dined, who is
like to be Sheriff the next year; and a pretty humoured little man he is.
I met here with Mr. Talents, the younger, of Magdalene College, Chaplain
here to the Sheriff; which I was glad to see, though not much acquainted
with him.  This day come the first demand from the Commissioners of
Accounts to us, and it contains more than we shall ever be able to answer
while we live, and I do foresee we shall be put to much trouble and some
shame, at least some of us.  Thence stole away after dinner to my cozen
Kate's, and there find the Crowner's jury sitting, but they could not end
it, but put off the business to Shrove Tuesday next, and so do give way
to the burying of him, and that is all; but they all incline to find it a
natural death, though there are mighty busy people to have it go
otherwise, thinking to get his estate, but are mistaken.  Thence, after
sitting with her and company a while, comforting her: though I can find
she can, as all other women, cry, and yet talk of other things all in a
breath.  So home, and thereto cards with my wife, Deb., and Betty Turner,
and Batelier, and after supper late to sing.  But, Lord! how did I please
myself to make Betty Turner sing, to see what a beast she is as to
singing, not knowing how to sing one note in tune; but, only for the
experiment, I would not for 40s. hear her sing a tune: worse than my wife
a thousand times, so that it do a little reconcile me to her.  So late to
bed.



23rd.  At the Office all the morning; and at noon find the Bishop of
Lincolne come to dine with us; and after him comes Mr. Brisband; and
there mighty good company.  But the Bishop a very extraordinary good-
natured man, and one that is mightily pleased, as well as I am, that I
live so near Bugden, the seat of his bishopricke, where he is like to
reside: and, indeed, I am glad of it.  In discourse, we think ourselves
safe for this year, by this league with Holland, which pleases every
body, and, they say, vexes France; insomuch that D'Estrades; the French
Embassador in Holland, when he heard it, told the States that he would
have them not forget that his master is at the head of 100,000 men, and
is but 28 years old; which was a great speech.  The Bishop tells me he
thinks that the great business of Toleration will not, notwithstanding
this talk, be carried this Parliament; nor for the King's taking away the
Deans' and Chapters' lands to supply his wants, they signifying little to
him, if he had them, for his present service.  He gone, I mightily
pleased with his kindness, I to the office, where busy till night, and
then to Mrs. Turner's, where my wife, and Deb., and I, and Batelier spent
the night, and supped, and played at cards, and very merry, and so I home
to bed.  She is either a very prodigal woman, or richer than she would be
thought, by her buying of the best things, and laying out much money in
new-fashioned pewter; and, among other things, a new-fashioned case for a
pair of snuffers, which is very pretty; but I could never have guessed
what it was for, had I not seen the snuffers in it.



24th.  Up before day to my Tangier accounts, and then out and to a
Committee of Tangier, where little done but discourse about reduction of
the charge of the garrison, and thence to Westminster about orders at the
Exchequer, and at the Swan I drank, and there met with a pretty ingenious
young Doctor of physic, by chance, and talked with him, and so home to
dinner, and after dinner carried my wife to the Temple, and thence she to
a play, and I to St. Andrew's church, in Holburne, at the 'Quest House,
where the company meets to the burial of my cozen Joyce; and here I staid
with a very great rabble of four or five hundred people of mean
condition, and I staid in the room with the kindred till ready to go to
church, where there is to be a sermon of Dr. Stillingfleete, and thence
they carried him to St. Sepulchre's.  But it being late, and, indeed, not
having a black cloak to lead her [Kate Joyce] with, or follow the corps,
I away, and saw, indeed, a very great press of people follow the corps.
I to the King's playhouse, to fetch my wife, and there saw the best part
of "The Mayden Queene," which, the more I see, the more I love, and think
one of the best plays I ever saw, and is certainly the best acted of any
thing ever the House did, and particularly Becke Marshall, to admiration.
Found my wife and Deb., and saw many fine ladies, and sat by Colonell
Reames, who understands and loves a play as well as I, and I love him for
it.  And so thence home; and, after being at the Office, I home to
supper, and to bed, my eyes being very bad again with overworking with
them.



25th.  Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning, and then at
noon to the 'Change with Mr. Hater, and there he and I to a tavern to
meet Captain Minors, which we did, and dined; and there happened to be
Mr. Prichard, a ropemaker of his acquaintance, and whom I know also, and
did once mistake for a fiddler, which sung well, and I asked him for such
a song that I had heard him sing, and after dinner did fall to discourse
about the business of the old contract between the King and the East
India Company for the ships of the King that went thither, and about this
did beat my brains all the afternoon, and then home and made an end of
the accounts to my great content, and so late home tired and my eyes
sore, to supper and to bed.



26th (Lord's day).  Up, and with my wife to Church, and at noon home to
dinner.  No strangers there; and all the afternoon and evening very late
doing serious business of my Tangier accounts, and examining my East
India accounts, with Mr. Poynter, whom I employed all this day, to
transcribe it fair; and so to supper, W. Hewer with us, and so the girl
to comb my head till I slept, and then to bed.



27th.  It being weather like the beginning of a frost and the ground dry,
I walked as far as the Temple, and there took coach and to White Hall,
but the Committee not being met I to Westminster, and there I do hear of
the letter that is in the pamphlet this day of the King of France,
declaring his design to go on against Flanders, and the grounds of it,
which do set us mightily at rest.  So to White Hall, and there a
committee of Tangier, but little done there, only I did get two or three
little jobs done to the perfecting two or three papers about my Tangier
accounts.  Here Mr. Povy do tell me how he is like to lose his L400 a-
year pension of the Duke of York, which he took in consideration of his
place which was taken from him.  He tells me the Duchesse is a devil
against him, and do now come like Queen Elizabeth, and sits with the Duke
of York's Council, and sees what they do; and she crosses out this man's
wages and prices, as she sees fit, for saving money; but yet, he tells
me, she reserves L5000 a-year for her own spending; and my Lady
Peterborough, by and by, tells me that the Duchesse do lay up, mightily,
jewells.  Thence to my Lady Peterborough's, she desiring to speak with
me.  She loves to be taken dressing herself, as I always find her; and
there, after a little talk, to please her, about her husband's pension,
which I do not think he will ever get again, I away thence home, and all
the afternoon mighty busy at the office, and late, preparing a letter to
the Commissioners of Accounts, our first letter to them, and so home to
supper, where Betty Turner was (whose brother Frank did set out toward
the East Indies this day, his father and mother gone down with him to
Gravesend), and there was her little brother Moses, whom I examined, and
he is a pretty good scholar for a child, and so after supper to talk and
laugh, and to bed.



28th.  Up, and to the office, and there with W. Griffin talking about
getting the place to build a coach-house, or to hire one, which I now do
resolve to have, and do now declare it; for it is plainly for my benefit
for saving money.  By and by the office sat, and there we concluded on
our letter to the Commissioners of Accounts and to the several officers
of ours about the work they are to do to answer their late great demands.
At noon home to dinner, and after dinner set my wife and girl down at the
Exchange, and I to White Hall; and, by and by, the Duke of York comes,
and we had a little meeting, Anglesey, W. Pen, and I there, and none
else: and, among other things, did discourse of the want of discipline in
the fleete, which the Duke' of York confessed, and yet said that he,
while he was there, did keep it in a good measure, but that it was now
lost when he was absent; but he will endeavour to have it again.  That he
did tell the Prince and Duke of Albemarle they would lose all order by
making such and such men commanders, which they would, because they were
stout men: he told them that it was a reproach to the nation, as if there
were no sober men among us, that were stout, to be had.  That they did
put out some men for cowards that the Duke of York had put in, but little
before, for stout men; and would now, were he to go to sea again,
entertain them in his own division, to choose: and did put in an idle
fellow, Greene, who was hardly thought fit for a boatswain by him: they
did put him from being a lieutenant to a captain's place of a second-rate
ship; as idle a drunken fellow, he said, as any was in the fleete.  That
he will now desire the King to let him be what he is, that is, Admirall;
and he will put in none but those that he hath great reason to think well
of; and particularly says, that; though he likes Colonell Legg well, yet
his son that was, he knows not how, made a captain after he had been but
one voyage at sea, he should go to sea another apprenticeship, before
ever he gives him a command.  We did tell him of the many defects and
disorders among the captains, and I prayed we might do it in writing to
him, which he liked; and I am glad of an opportunity of doing it.  Thence
away, and took up wife and girl, and home, and to the office, busy late,
and so to supper and to bed.  My wife this day hears from her father and
mother: they are in France, at Paris; he, poor good man!  I think he is,
gives her good counsel still, which I always observed of him, and
thankful for my small charities to him.  I could be willing to do
something for them, were I sure not to bring them over again hither.
Coming home, my wife and I went and saw Kate Joyce, who is still in
mighty sorrow, and the more from something that Dr. Stillingfleete should
simply say in his sermon, of her husband's manner of dying, as killing
himself.



29th.  Up betimes, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry, whom I found in his
chamber, and there stayed an hour and talked with him about several
things of the Navy, and our want of money, which they indeed do supply us
with a little, but in no degree likely to enable us to go on with the
King's service.  He is at a stand where to have more, and is in mighty
pain for it, declaring that he believes there never was a kingdom so
governed as this was in the time of the late Chancellor and the
Treasurer, nobody minding or understanding any thing how things went or
what the King had in his Treasury, or was to have, nothing in the world
of it minded.  He tells me that there are still people desirous to
overthrow him; he resolving to stick at nothing nor no person that stands
in his way against bringing the King out of debt, be it to retrench any
man's place or profit, and that he cares not, for rather than be employed
under the King, and have the King continue in this condition of
indigence, he desires to be put out from among them, thinking it no
honour to be a minister in such a government.  He tells me he hath no
friends in the whole Court but my Lord Keeper and Sir John Duncomb.  He
tells me they have reduced the charges of Ireland above L70,000 a-year,
and thereby cut off good profits from my Lord Lieutenant; which will make
a new enemy, but he cares not. He tells me that Townsend, of the
Wardrobe, is the eeriest knave and bufflehead that ever he saw in his
life, and wonders how my Lord Sandwich come to trust such a fellow, and
that now Reames and -------- are put in to be overseers there, and do
great things, and have already saved a great deal of money in the King's
liverys, and buy linnen so cheap, that he will have them buy the next
cloth he hath, for shirts.  But then this is with ready money, which
answers all.  He do not approve of my letter I drew and the office signed
yesterday to the Commissioners of Accounts, saying that it is a little
too submissive, and grants a little too much and too soon our bad
managements, though we lay on want of money, yet that it will be time
enough to plead it when they object it.  Which was the opinion of my Lord
Anglesey also; so I was ready to alter it, and did so presently, going
from him home, and there transcribed it fresh as he would have it, and
got it signed, and to White Hall presently and shewed it him, and so
home, and there to dinner, and after dinner all the afternoon and till
12 o'clock at night with Mr. Gibson at home upon my Tangier accounts, and
did end them fit to be given the last of them to the Auditor to-morrow,
to my great content. This evening come Betty Turner and the two Mercers,
and W. Batelier, and they had fiddlers, and danced, and kept a quarter,
--[A term for making a noise or disturbance.]--which pleased me, though it
disturbed me; but I could not be with them at all.  Mr. Gibson lay at my
house all night, it was so late.



30th.  Up, it being fast day for the King's death, and so I and Mr.
Gibson by water to the Temple, and there all the morning with Auditor
Wood, and I did deliver in the whole of my accounts and run them over in
three hours with full satisfaction, and so with great content thence, he
and I, and our clerks, and Mr. Clerke, the solicitor, to a little
ordinary in Hercules-pillars Ally--the Crowne, a poor, sorry place, where
a fellow, in twelve years, hath gained an estate of, as he says, L600 a-
year, which is very strange, and there dined, and had a good dinner, and
very good discourse between them, old men belonging to the law, and here
I first heard that my cozen Pepys, of Salisbury Court, was Marshal to my
Lord Cooke when he was Lord Chief justice; which beginning of his I did
not know to be so low: but so it was, it seems.  After dinner I home,
calling at my bookbinder's, but he not within.  When come home, I find
Kate Joyce hath been there, with sad news that her house stands not in
the King's liberty, but the Dean of Paul's; and so, if her estate be
forfeited, it will not be in the King's power to do her any good.  So I
took coach and to her, and there found her in trouble, as I cannot blame
her.  But I do believe this arises from somebody that hath a mind to
fright her into a composition for her estate, which I advise her against;
and, indeed, I do desire heartily to be able to do her service, she
being, methinks, a piece of care I ought to take upon me, for our
fathers' and friends' sake, she being left alone, and no friend so near
as me, or so able to help her.  After having given her my advice, I home,
and there to my office and did business, and hear how the Committee for
Accounts are mighty active and likely to examine every thing, but let
them do their worst I am to be before them with our contract books
to-morrow.  So home from the office, to supper, and to bed.



31st.  Up; and by coach, with W. Griffin with me, and our Contract-books,
to Durham Yard, to the Commissioners for Accounts; the first time I ever
was there; and staid awhile before I was admitted to them.  I did observe
a great many people attending about complaints of seamen concerning
tickets, and, among others, Mr. Carcasse, and Mr. Martin, my purser.
And I observe a fellow, one Collins, is there, who is employed by these
Commissioners particularly to hold an office in Bishopsgate Street, or
somewhere thereabouts, to receive complaints of all people about tickets:
and I believe he will have work enough.  Presently I was called in, where
I found the whole number of Commissioners, and was there received with
great respect and kindness; and did give them great satisfaction, making
it my endeavour to inform them what it was they were to expect from me,
and what was the duty of other people; this being my only way to preserve
myself, after all my pains and trouble.  They did ask many questions, and
demanded other books of me, which I did give them very ready and
acceptable answers to; and, upon the whole, I observe they do go about
their business like men resolved to go through with it, and in a very
good method; like men of understanding.  They have Mr. Jessop, their
secretary: and it is pretty to see that they are fain to find out an old-
fashioned man of Cromwell's to do their business for them, as well as the
Parliament to pitch upon such, for the most part, in the list of people
that were brought into the House, for Commissioners.  I went away, with
giving and receiving great satisfaction; and so away to White Hall to the
Commissioners of the Treasury; where, waiting some time, I there met with
Colonel Birch; and he and I fell into discourse; and I did give him
thanks for his kindness to me in the Parliament-house, both before my
face and behind my back.  He told me that he knew me to be a man of the
old way for taking pains, and did always endeavour to do me right, and
prevent any thing that was moved that might tend to my injury; which I
was obliged to him for, and thanked him.  Thence to talk of other things,
and the want of money and he told me of the general want of money in the
country; that land sold for nothing, and the many pennyworths he knows of
lands and houses upon them, with good titles in his country, at 16 years'
purchase: "and," says he, "though I am in debt, yet I have a mind to one
thing, and that is a Bishop's lease;" but said, "I will yet choose such a
lease before any other, yes," says he, plainly, "because I know they
cannot stand, and then it will fall into the King's hands, and I in
possession shall have an advantage by it."  "And," says he, "I know they
must fall, and they are now near it, taking all the ways they can to undo
themselves, and showing us the way;" and thereupon told the a story of
the present quarrel between the Bishop and Deane of Coventry and
Lichfield; the former of which did excommunicate the latter, and caused
his excommunication to be read in the Church while he was there; and,
after it was read, the Deane made the service be gone through with,
though himself, an excommunicate, was present, which is contrary to the
Canon, and said he would justify the quire therein against the Bishop;
and so they are at law in the Arches about it; which is a very pretty
story.  He tells me that the King is for Toleration, though the Bishops
be against it: and that he do not doubt but it will be carried in
Parliament; but that he fears some will stand for the tolerating of
Papists with the rest; and that he knows not what to say, but rather
thinks that the sober party will be without it, rather than have it upon
those terms; and I do believe so.  Here we broke off, and I home to
dinner, and after dinner set down my wife and Deb. at the 'Change, and I
to make a visit to Mr. Godolphin

     [William Godolphin, descended from a younger branch of that family,
     which was afterwards ennobled in the person of Sidney, Earl
     Godolphin, Lord Treasurer.  William Godolphin was of Christ Church,
     Oxford, and graduated M.A., January 14th, 1660-61.  He was
     afterwards secretary to Sir H. Bennet (Lord Arlington), and M.P. for
     Camelford.  He was a great favourite at Court, and was knighted on
     August 28th, 1668.  In the spring of 1669 he returned to Spain as
     Envoy Extraordinary, and in 1671 he became Ambassador.  On July
     11th, 1696, he died at Madrid, having been for some years a Roman
     Catholic.]

at his lodgings, who is lately come from Spain from my Lord Sandwich, and
did, the other day, meeting me in White Hall, compliment me mightily, and
so I did offer him this visit, but missed him, and so back and took up my
wife and set her at Mrs. Turner's, and I to my bookbinder's, and there,
till late at night, binding up my second part of my Tangier accounts, and
I all the while observing his working, and his manner of gilding of books
with great pleasure, and so home, and there busy late, and then to bed.
This day Griffin did, in discourse in the coach, put me in the head of
the little house by our garden, where old goodman Taylor puts his brooms
and dirt, to make me a stable of, which I shall improve, so as, I think,
to be able to get me a stable without much charge, which do please me
mightily.  He did also in discourse tell me that it is observed, and is
true, in the late fire of London, that the fire burned just as many
Parish-Churches as there were hours from the beginning to the end of the
fire; and, next, that there were just as many Churches left standing as
there were taverns left standing in the rest of the City that was not
burned, being, I think he told me, thirteen in all of each: which is
pretty to observe.




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And they did lay pigeons to his feet
As all other women, cry, and yet talk of other things
Carry them to a box, which did cost me 20s., besides oranges
Declared, if he come, she would not live with me
Fear that the goods and estate would be seized (after suicide)
Fears some will stand for the tolerating of Papists
Greater number of Counsellors is, the more confused the issue
He that will not stoop for a pin, will never be worth a pound
In my nature am mighty unready to answer no to anything
It may be, be able to pay for it, or have health
Lady Castlemayne do rule all at this time as much as ever
No man was ever known to lose the first time
She loves to be taken dressing herself, as I always find her
The devil being too cunning to discourage a gamester
The manner of the gaming
This kind of prophane, mad entertainment they give themselves
Turn out every man that will be drunk, they must turn out all
Where I expect most I find least satisfaction




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