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Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1662/63

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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.
                              MARCH & APRIL
                                1662-1663


March 1st (Lord's day).  Up and walked to White Hall, to the Chappell,
where preached one Dr. Lewes, said heretofore to have been a great witt;
but he read his sermon every word, and that so brokenly and so low, that
nobody could hear at any distance, nor I anything worth hearing that sat
near.  But, which was strange, he forgot to make any prayer before
sermon, which all wonder at, but they impute it to his forgetfulness.
After sermon a very fine anthem; so I up into the house among the
courtiers, seeing the fine ladies, and, above all, my Lady Castlemaine,
who is above all, that only she I can observe for true beauty.  The King
and Queen being set to dinner I went to Mr. Fox's, and there dined with
him.  Much genteel company, and, among other things, I hear for certain
that peace is concluded between the King of France and the Pope; and also
I heard the reasons given by our Parliament yesterday to the King why
they dissent from him in matter of Indulgence, which are very good quite
through, and which I was glad to hear.  Thence to my Lord Sandwich, who
continues with a great cold, locked up; and, being alone, we fell into
discourse of my uncle the Captain's death and estate, and I took the
opportunity of telling my Lord how matters stand, and read his will, and
told him all, what a poor estate he hath left, at all which he wonders
strangely, which he may well do.  Thence after singing some new tunes
with W. Howe I walked home, whither came Will.  Joyce, whom I have not
seen here a great while, nor desire it a great while again, he is so
impertinent a coxcomb, and yet good natured, and mightily concerned for
my brother's late folly in his late wooing at the charge to no purpose,
nor could in any probability a it.  He gone, we all to bed, without
prayers, it being washing day to-morrow.



2nd.  Up early and by water with Commissioner Pett to Deptford, and there
took the Jemmy yacht (that the King and the Lords virtuosos built the
other day) down to Woolwich, where we discoursed of several matters both
there and at the Ropeyard, and so to the yacht again, and went down four
or five miles with extraordinary pleasure, it being a fine day, and a
brave gale of wind, and had some oysters brought us aboard newly taken,
which were excellent, and ate with great pleasure.  There also coming
into the river two Dutchmen, we sent a couple of men on board and bought
three Hollands cheeses, cost 4d. a piece, excellent cheeses, whereof I
had two and Commissioner Pett one.  So back again to Woolwich, and going
aboard the Hulke to see the manner of the iron bridles, which we are
making of for to save cordage to put to the chain, I did fall from the
shipside into the ship (Kent), and had like to have broke my left hand,
but I only sprained some of my fingers, which, when I came ashore I sent
to Mrs. Ackworth for some balsam, and put to my hand, and was pretty well
within a little while after.  We dined at the White Hart with several
officers with us, and after dinner went and saw the Royal James brought
down to the stern of the Docke (the main business we came for), and then
to the Ropeyard, and saw a trial between Riga hemp and a sort of Indian
grass, which is pretty strong, but no comparison between it and the other
for strength, and it is doubtful whether it will take tarre or no.  So to
the yacht again, and carried us almost to London, so by our oars home to
the office, and thence Mr. Pett and I to Mr. Grant's coffee-house,
whither he and Sir J. Cutler came to us and had much discourse, mixed
discourse, and so broke up, and so home where I found my poor wife all
alone at work, and the house foul, it being washing day, which troubled
me, because that tomorrow I must be forced to have friends at dinner.  So
to my office, and then home to supper and to bed.



3rd (Shrove Tuesday).  Up and walked to the Temple, and by promise
calling Commissioner Pett, he and I to White Hall to give Mr. Coventry an
account of what we did yesterday.  Thence I to the Privy Seal Office, and
there got a copy of Sir W. Pen's grant to be assistant to Sir J. Minnes,
Comptroller, which, though there be not much in it, yet I intend to stir
up Sir J. Minnes to oppose, only to vex Sir W. Pen.  Thence by water
home, and at noon, by promise, Mrs. Turner and her daughter, and Mrs.
Morrice, came along with Roger Pepys to dinner.  We were as merry as I
could be, having but a bad dinner for them; but so much the better,
because of the dinner which I must have at the end of this month.  And
here Mrs. The. shewed me my name upon her breast as her Valentine, which
will cost me 20s.  After dinner I took them down into the wine-cellar,
and broached my tierce of claret for them.  Towards the evening we
parted, and I to the office awhile, and then home to supper and to bed,
the sooner having taken some cold yesterday upon the water, which brings
me my usual pain.  This afternoon Roger Pepys tells me, that for certain
the King is for all this very highly incensed at the Parliament's late
opposing the Indulgence; which I am sorry for, and fear it will breed
great discontent.



4th.  Lay long talking with my wife about ordering things in our family,
and then rose and to my office, there collecting an alphabet for my Navy
Manuscript, which, after a short dinner, I returned to and by night
perfected to my great content.  So to other business till 9 at night, and
so home to supper and to bed.



5th.  Rose this morning early, only to try with intention to begin my
last summer's course in rising betimes.  So to my office a little, and
then to Westminster by coach with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, in our
way talking of Sir W. Pen's business of his patent, which I think I have
put a stop to wholly, for Sir J. Minnes swears he will never consent to
it.  Here to the Lobby, and spoke with my cozen Roger, who is going to
Cambridge to-morrow.  In the Hall I do hear that the Catholiques are in
great hopes for all this, and do set hard upon the King to get
Indulgence.  Matters, I hear, are all naught in Ireland, and that the
Parliament has voted, and the people, that is, the Papists, do cry out
against the Commissioners sent by the King; so that they say the English
interest will be lost there.  Thence I went to see my Lord Sandwich, who
I found very ill, and by his cold being several nights hindered from
sleep, he is hardly able to open his eyes, and is very weak and sad upon
it, which troubled me much.  So after talking with Mr. Cooke, whom I
found there, about his folly for looking and troubling me and other
friends in getting him a place (that is, storekeeper of the Navy at
Tangier) before there is any such thing, I returned to the Hall, and
thence back with the two knights home again by coach, where I found Mr.
Moore got abroad, and dined with me, which I was glad to see, he having
not been able to go abroad a great while.  Then came in Mr. Hawley and
dined with us, and after dinner I left them, and to the office, where we
sat late, and I do find that I shall meet with nothing to oppose my
growing great in the office but Sir W. Pen, who is now well again, and
comes into the office very brisk, and, I think, to get up his time that
he has been out of the way by being mighty diligent at the office, which,
I pray God, he may be, but I hope by mine to weary him out, for I am
resolved to fall to business as hard as I can drive, God giving me
health.  At my office late, and so home to supper and to bed.



6th.  Up betimes, and about eight o'clock by coach with four horses, with
Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, to Woolwich, a pleasant day.  There at
the yard we consulted and ordered several matters, and thence to the rope
yard and did the like, and so into Mr. Falconer's, where we had some
fish, which we brought with us, dressed; and there dined with us his new
wife, which had been his mayde, but seems to be a genteel woman, well
enough bred and discreet.  Thence after dinner back to Deptford, where we
did as before, and so home, good discourse in our way, Sir J. Minnes
being good company, though a simple man enough as to the business of his
office, but we did discourse at large again about Sir W. Pen's patent to
be his assistant, and I perceive he is resolved never to let it pass.
To my office, and thence to Sir W. Batten's, where Major Holmes was
lately come from the Streights, but do tell me strange stories of the
faults of Cooper his master, put in by me, which I do not believe, but am
sorry to hear and must take some course to have him removed, though I
believe that the Captain is proud, and the fellow is not supple enough to
him.  So to my office again to set down my Journall, and so home and to
bed.  This evening my boy Waynman's brother was with me, and I did tell
him again that I must part with the boy, for I will not keep him.  He
desires my keeping him a little longer till he can provide for him, which
I am willing for a while to do.  This day it seems the House of Commons
have been very high against the Papists, being incensed by the stir which
they make for their having an Indulgence; which, without doubt, is a
great folly in them to be so hot upon at this time, when they see how
averse already the House have showed themselves from it.  This evening
Mr. Povy was with me at my office, and tells me that my Lord Sandwich is
this day so ill that he is much afeard of him, which puts me to great
pain, not more for my own sake than for his poor family's.



7th.  Up betimes, and to the office, where some of us sat all the
morning.  At noon Sir W. Pen began to talk with me like a counterfeit
rogue very kindly about his house and getting bills signed for all our
works, but he is a cheating fellow, and so I let him talk and answered
nothing.  So we parted.  I to dinner, and there met The. Turner, who is
come on foot in a frolique to beg me to get a place at sea for John,
their man, which is a rogue; but, however, it may be, the sea may do him
good in reclaiming him, and therefore I will see what I can do.  She
dined with me; and after dinner I took coach, and carried her home; in
our way, in Cheapside, lighting and giving her a dozen pair of white
gloves as my Valentine.  Thence to my Lord Sandwich, who is gone to Sir
W. Wheeler's for his more quiet being, where he slept well last night,
and I took him very merry, playing at cards, and much company with him.
So I left him, and Creed and I to Westminster Hall, and there walked a
good while.  He told me how for some words of my Lady Gerard's

     [Jane, wife of Lord Gerard (see ante, January 1st, 1662-63).  The
     king had previously put a slight upon Lady Gerard, probably at the
     instigation of Lady Castlemaine, as the two ladies were not friends.
     On the 4th of January of this same year Lady Gerard had given a
     supper to the king and queen, when the king withdrew from the party
     and proceeded to the house of Lady Castlemaine, and remained there
     throughout the evening (see Steinman's "Memoir of Barbara, Duchess
     of Cleveland," 1871, p. 47).]

against my Lady Castlemaine to the Queen, the King did the other day
affront her in going out to dance with her at a ball, when she desired
it as the ladies do, and is since forbid attending the Queen by the King;
which is much talked of, my Lord her husband being a great favourite.
Thence by water home and to my office, wrote by the post and so home to
bed.



8th (Lord's day).  Being sent to by Sir J. Minnes to know whether I would
go with him to White Hall to-day, I rose but could not get ready before
he was gone, but however I walked thither and heard Dr. King, Bishop of
Chichester, make a good and eloquent sermon upon these words, "They that
sow in tears, shall reap in joy."  Thence (the chappell in Lent being
hung with black, and no anthem sung after sermon, as at other times), to
my Lord Sandwich at Sir W. Wheeler's.  I found him out of order, thinking
himself to be in a fit of an ague, but in the afternoon he was very
cheery.  I dined with Sir William, where a good but short dinner, not
better than one of mine commonly of a Sunday.  After dinner up to my
Lord, there being Mr. Kumball.  My Lord, among other discourse, did tell
us of his great difficultys passed in the business of the Sound, and of
his receiving letters from the King there, but his sending them by
Whetstone was a great folly; and the story how my Lord being at dinner
with Sydney, one of his fellow plenipotentiarys and his mortal enemy,
did see Whetstone, and put off his hat three times to him, but the fellow
would not be known, which my Lord imputed to his coxcombly humour
(of which he was full), and bid Sydney take notice of him too, when at
the very time he had letters in his pocket from the King, as it proved
afterwards.  And Sydney afterwards did find it out at Copenhagen, the
Dutch Commissioners telling him how my Lord Sandwich had hired one of
their ships to carry back Whetstone to Lubeck, he being come from
Flanders from the King.  But I cannot but remember my Lord's aequanimity
in all these affairs with admiration.  Thence walked home, in my way
meeting Mr. Moore, with whom I took a turn or two in the street among the
drapers in Paul's Churchyard, talking of business, and so home to bed.



9th.  Up betimes, to my office, where all the morning.  About noon Sir J.
Robinson, Lord Mayor, desiring way through the garden from the Tower,
called in at the office and there invited me (and Sir W. Pen, who
happened to be in the way) to dinner, which we did; and there had a great
Lent dinner of fish, little flesh.  And thence he and I in his coach,
against my will (for I am resolved to shun too great fellowship with him)
to White Hall, but came too late, the Duke having been with our fellow
officers before we came, for which I was sorry.  Thence he and I to walk
one turn in the Park, and so home by coach, and I to my office, where
late, and so home to supper and bed.  There dined with us to-day Mr.
Slingsby, of the Mint, who showed us all the new pieces both gold and
silver (examples of them all), that are made for the King, by Blondeau's'
way; and compared them with those made for Oliver.  The pictures of the
latter made by Symons, and of the King by one Rotyr, a German, I think,
that dined with us also.  He extolls those of Rotyr's above the others;
and, indeed, I think they are the better, because the sweeter of the two;
but, upon my word, those of the Protector are more like in my mind, than
the King's, but both very well worth seeing.  The crowns of Cromwell are
now sold, it seems, for 25s. and 30s. apiece.



10th.  Up and to my office all the morning, and great pleasure it is to
be doing my business betimes.  About noon Sir J. Minnes came to me and
staid half an hour with me in my office talking about his business with
Sir W. Pen, and (though with me an old doter) yet he told me freely how
sensible he is of Sir W. Pen's treachery in this business, and what poor
ways he has taken all along to ingratiate himself by making Mr. Turner
write out things for him and then he gives them to the Duke, and how he
directed him to give Mr. Coventry L100 for his place, but that Mr.
Coventry did give him L20 back again.  All this I am pleased to hear that
his knavery is found out.  Dined upon a poor Lenten dinner at home, my
wife being vexed at a fray this morning with my Lady Batten about my
boy's going thither to turn the watercock with their maydes' leave, but
my Lady was mighty high upon it and she would teach his mistress better
manners, which my wife answered aloud that she might hear, that she could
learn little manners of her.  After dinner to my office, and there we sat
all the afternoon till 8 at night, and so wrote my letters by the post
and so before 9 home, which is rare with me of late, I staying longer,
but with multitude of business my head akes, and so I can stay no longer,
but home to supper and to bed.



11th.  Up betimes, and to my office, walked a little in the garden with
Sir W. Batten, talking about the difference between his Lady and my wife
yesterday, and I doubt my wife is to blame.  About noon had news by Mr.
Wood that Butler, our chief witness against Field, was sent by him to New
England contrary to our desire, which made me mad almost; and so Sir J.
Minnes, Sir W. Pen, and I dined together at Trinity House, and thither
sent for him to us and told him our minds, which he seemed not to value
much, but went away.  I wrote and sent an express to Walthamstow to Sir
W. Pen, who is gone thither this morning, to tell him of it.  However, in
the afternoon Wood sends us word that he has appointed another to go, who
shall overtake the ship in the Downes.  So I was late at the office,
among other things writing to the Downes, to the Commander-in-Chief, and
putting things into the surest course I could to help the business.  So
home and to bed.



12th.  Up betimes and to my office all the morning with Captain Cocke
ending their account of their Riga contract for hemp.  So home to dinner,
my head full of business against the office.  After dinner comes my uncle
Thomas with a letter to my father, wherein, as we desire, he and his son
do order their tenants to pay their rents to us, which pleases me well.
In discourse he tells me my uncle Wight thinks much that I do never see
them, and they have reason, but I do apprehend that they have been too
far concerned with my uncle Thomas against us, so that I have had no mind
hitherto, but now I shall go see them.  He being gone, I to the office,
where at the choice of maisters and chyrurgeons for the fleet now going
out, I did my business as I could wish, both for the persons I had a mind
to serve, and in getting the warrants signed drawn by my clerks, which I
was afeard of.  Sat late, and having done I went home, where I found Mary
Ashwell come to live with us, of whom I hope well, and pray God she may
please us, which, though it cost me something, yet will give me much
content.  So to supper and to bed, and find by her discourse and carriage
to-night that she is not proud, but will do what she is bid, but for want
of being abroad knows not how to give the respect to her mistress, as she
will do when she is told it, she having been used only to little
children, and there was a kind of a mistress over them.  Troubled all
night with my cold, I being quite hoarse with it that I could not speak
to be heard at all almost.



13th.  Up pretty early and to my office all the morning busy.  At noon
home to dinner expecting Ashwell's father, who was here in the morning
and promised to come but he did not, but there came in Captain Grove, and
I found him to be a very stout man, at least in his discourse he would be
thought so, and I do think that he is, and one that bears me great
respect and deserves to be encouraged for his care in all business.
Abroad by water with my wife and Ashwell, and left them at Mr. Pierce's,
and I to Whitehall and St. James's Park (there being no Commission for
Tangier sitting to-day as I looked for) where I walked an hour or two
with great pleasure, it being a most pleasant day.  So to Mrs. Hunt's,
and there found my wife, and so took them up by coach, and carried them
to Hide Park, where store of coaches and good faces.  Here till night,
and so home and to my office to write by the post, and so to supper and
to bed.



14th.  Up betimes and to my office, where we sat all the morning, and a
great rant I did give to Mr. Davis, of Deptford, and others about their
usage of Michell, in his Bewpers,--[Bewpers is the old name for
bunting.]--which he serves in for flaggs, which did trouble me, but yet
it was in defence of what was truth.  So home to dinner, where Creed
dined with me, and walked a good while in the garden with me after
dinner, talking, among other things, of the poor service which Sir J.
Lawson did really do in the Streights, for which all this great fame and
honour done him is risen.  So to my office, where all the afternoon
giving maisters their warrants for this voyage, for which I hope
hereafter to get something at their coming home.  In the evening my wife
and I and Ashwell walked in the garden, and I find she is a pretty
ingenuous

     [For ingenious.  The distinction of the two words ingenious and
     ingenuous by which the former indicates mental, and the second moral
     qualities, was not made in Pepys's day.]

girl at all sorts of fine work, which pleases me very well, and I hope
will be very good entertainment for my wife without much cost.  So to
write by the post, and so home to supper and to bed.



15th (Lord's day).  Up and with my wife and her woman Ashwell the first
time to church, where our pew was so full with Sir J. Minnes's sister and
her daughter, that I perceive, when we come all together, some of us must
be shut out, but I suppose we shall come to some order what to do
therein.  Dined at home, and to church again in the afternoon, and so
home, and I to my office till the evening doing one thing or other and
reading my vows as I am bound every Lord's day, and so home to supper and
talk, and Ashwell is such good company that I think we shall be very
lucky in her.  So to prayers and to bed.  This day the weather, which of
late has been very hot and fair, turns very wet and cold, and all the
church time this afternoon it thundered mightily, which I have not heard
a great while.



16th.  Up very betimes and to my office, where, with several Masters of
the King's ships, Sir J. Minnes and I advising upon the business of
Slopps, wherein the seaman is so much abused by the Pursers, and that
being done, then I home to dinner, and so carried my wife to her
mother's, set her down and Ashwell to my Lord's lodging, there left her,
and I to the Duke, where we met of course, and talked of our Navy
matters.  Then to the Commission of Tangier, and there, among other
things, had my Lord Peterborough's Commission read over; and Mr.
Secretary Bennet did make his querys upon it, in order to the drawing one
for my Lord Rutherford more regularly, that being a very extravagant
thing.  Here long discoursing upon my Lord Rutherford's despatch, and so
broke up, and so going out of the Court I met with Mr. Coventry, and so
he and I walked half an hour in the long Stone Gallery, where we
discoursed of many things, among others how the Treasurer doth intend to
come to pay in course, which is the thing of the world that will do the
King the greatest service in the Navy, and which joys my heart to hear
of.  He tells me of the business of Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen, which I
knew before, but took no notice or little that I did know it.  But he
told me it was chiefly to make Mr. Pett's being joyned with Sir W. Batten
to go down the better, and do tell me how he well sees that neither one
nor the other can do their duties without help.  But however will let it
fall at present without doing more in it to see whether they will do
their duties themselves, which he will see, and saith they do not.  We
discoursed of many other things to my great content and so parted, and I
to my wife at my Lord's lodgings, where I heard Ashwell play first upon
the harpsicon, and I find she do play pretty well, which pleaseth me very
well.  Thence home by coach, buying at the Temple the printed virginal-
book for her, and so home and to my office a while, and so home and to
supper and to bed.



17th.  Up betimes and to my office a while, and then home and to Sir W.
Batten, with whom by coach to St. Margaret's Hill in Southwark, where the
judge of the Admiralty came, and the rest of the Doctors of the Civill
law, and some other Commissioners, whose Commission of Oyer and Terminer
was read, and then the charge, given by Dr. Exton, which methought was
somewhat dull, though he would seem to intend it to be very rhetoricall,
saying that justice had two wings, one of which spread itself over the
land, and the other over the water, which was this Admiralty Court.  That
being done, and the jury called, they broke up, and to dinner to a tavern
hard by, where a great dinner, and I with them; but I perceive that this
Court is yet but in its infancy (as to its rising again), and their
design and consultation was, I could overhear them, how to proceed with
the most solemnity, and spend time, there being only two businesses to
do, which of themselves could not spend much time.  In the afternoon to
the court again, where, first, Abraham, the boatswain of the King's
pleasure boat, was tried for drowning a man; and next, Turpin, accused by
our wicked rogue Field, for stealing the King's timber; but after full
examination, they were both acquitted, and as I was glad of the first,
for the saving the man's life, so I did take the other as a very good
fortune to us; for if Turpin had been found guilty, it would have sounded
very ill in the ears of all the world, in the business between Field and
us.  So home with my mind at very great ease, over the water to the
Tower, and thence, there being nobody at the office, we being absent,
and so no office could be kept.  Sir W. Batten and I to my Lord Mayor's,
where we found my Lord with Colonel Strangways and Sir Richard Floyd,
Parliament-men, in the cellar drinking, where we sat with them, and then
up; and by and by comes in Sir Richard Ford.  In our drinking, which was
always going, we had many discourses, but from all of them I do find Sir
R. Ford a very able man of his brains and tongue, and a scholler.  But my
Lord Mayor I find to be a talking, bragging Bufflehead, a fellow that
would be thought to have led all the City in the great business of
bringing in the King, and that nobody understood his plots, and the dark
lanthorn he walked by; but led them and plowed with them as oxen and
asses (his own words) to do what he had a mind when in every discourse
I observe him to be as very a coxcomb as I could have thought had been in
the City.  But he is resolved to do great matters in pulling down the
shops quite through the City, as he hath done in many places, and will
make a thorough passage quite through the City, through Canning-street,
which indeed will be very fine.  And then his precept, which he, in vain-
glory, said he had drawn up himself, and hath printed it, against
coachmen and carrmen affronting of the gentry in the street; it is drawn
so like a fool, and some faults were openly found in it, that I believe
he will have so much wit as not to proceed upon it though it be printed.
Here we staid talking till eleven at night, Sir R. Ford breaking to my
Lord our business of our patent to be justices of the Peace in the City,
which he stuck at mightily; but, however, Sir R. Ford knows him to be a
fool, and so in his discourse he made him appear, and cajoled him into a
consent to it: but so as I believe when he comes to his right mind
tomorrow he will be of another opinion; and though Sir R. Ford moved it
very weightily and neatly, yet I had rather it had been spared now.  But
to see how he do rant, and pretend to sway all the City in the Court of
Aldermen, and says plainly that they cannot do, nor will he suffer them
to do, any thing but what he pleases; nor is there any officer of the
City but of his putting in; nor any man that could have kept the City for
the King thus well and long but him.  And if the country can be
preserved, he will undertake that the City shall not dare to stir again.
When I am confident there is no man almost in the City cares a turd for
him, nor hath he brains to outwit any ordinary tradesman.  So home and
wrote a letter to Commissioner Pett to Chatham by all means to compose
the business between Major Holmes and Cooper his master, and so to bed.



18th.  Wake betimes and talk a while with my wife about a wench that she
has hired yesterday, which I would have enquired of before she comes, she
having lived in great families, and so up and to my office, where all the
morning, and at noon home to dinner.  After dinner by water to Redriffe,
my wife and Ashwell with me, and so walked and left them at Halfway
house; I to Deptford, where up and down the store-houses, and on board
two or three ships now getting ready to go to sea, and so back, and find
my wife walking in the way.  So home again, merry with our Ashwell, who
is a merry jade, and so awhile to my office, and then home to supper, and
to bed.  This day my tryangle, which was put in tune yesterday, did
please me very well, Ashwell playing upon it pretty well.



19th.  Up betimes and to Woolwich all alone by water, where took the
officers most abed.  I walked and enquired how all matters and businesses
go, and by and by to the Clerk of the Cheque's house, and there eat some
of his good Jamaica brawne, and so walked to Greenwich.  Part of the way
Deane walking with me; talking of the pride and corruption of most of his
fellow officers of the yard, and which I believe to be true.  So to
Deptford, where I did the same to great content, and see the people begin
to value me as they do the rest.  At noon Mr. Wayth took me to his house,
where I dined, and saw his wife, a pretty woman, and had a good fish
dinner, and after dinner he and I walked to Redriffe talking of several
errors in the Navy, by which I learned a great deal, and was glad of his
company.  So by water home, and by and by to the office, where we sat
till almost 9 at night.  So after doing my own business in my office,
writing letters, &c., home to supper, and to bed, being weary and vexed
that I do not find other people so willing to do business as myself, when
I have taken pains to find out what in the yards is wanting and fitting
to be done.



20th.  Up betimes and over the water, and walked to Deptford, where up
and down the yarde, and met the two clerks of the Cheques to conclude by
our method their callbooks, which we have done to great perfection, and
so walked home again, where I found my wife in great pain abed .  .  .  .
--[Nearly every month Pepy's documents his wife's menstrual cramps--and
every month Mr. Wheatly's delicately censors this out.  D.W.]--I staid and
dined by her, and after dinner walked forth, and by water to the Temple,
and in Fleet Street bought me a little sword, with gilt handle, cost
23s., and silk stockings to the colour of my riding cloth suit, cost I
5s., and bought me a belt there too, cost 15s., and so calling at my
brother's I find he has got a new maid, very likely girl, I wish he do
not play the fool with her.  Thence homewards, and meeting with Mr.
Kirton's kinsman in Paul's Church Yard, he and I to a coffee-house; where
I hear how there had like to have been a surprizall of Dublin by some
discontented protestants, and other things of like nature; and it seems
the Commissioners have carried themselves so high for the Papists that
the others will not endure it.  Hewlett and some others are taken and
clapped up; and they say the King hath sent over to dissolve the
Parliament there, who went very high against the Commissioners.  Pray God
send all well!  Hence home and in comes Captain Ferrers and by and by Mr.
Bland to see the and sat talking with me till 9 or to at night, and so
good night.  The Captain to bid my wife to his child's christening.  So
my wife being pretty well again and Ashwell there we spent the evening
pleasantly, and so to bed.



21st.  Up betimes and to my office, where busy all the morning, and at
noon, after a very little dinner, to it again, and by and by, by
appointment, our full board met, and Sir Philip Warwick and Sir Robert
Long came from my Lord Treasurer to speak with us about the state of the
debts of the Navy; and how to settle it, so as to begin upon the new
foundation of L200,000 per annum, which the King is now resolved not to
exceed.  This discourse done, and things put in a way of doing, they went
away, and Captain Holmes being called in he began his high complaint
against his Master Cooper, and would have him forthwith discharged.
Which I opposed, not in his defence but for the justice of proceeding not
to condemn a man unheard, upon [which] we fell from one word to another
that we came to very high terms, such as troubled me, though all and the
worst that I ever said was that that was insolently or ill mannerdly
spoken.  When he told me that it was well it was here that I said it.
But all the officers, Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and
Sir W. Pen cried shame of it.  At last he parted and we resolved to bring
the dispute between him and his Master to a trial next week, wherein I
shall not at all concern myself in defence of any thing that is
unhandsome on the Master's part nor willingly suffer him to have any
wrong.  So we rose and I to my office, troubled though sensible that all
the officers are of opinion that he has carried himself very much
unbecoming him.  So wrote letters by the post, and home to supper and to
bed.



22d (Lord's day).  Up betimes and in my office wrote out our bill for the
Parliament about our being made justices of Peace in the City.  So home
and to church, where a dull formall fellow that prayed for the Right Hon.
John Lord Barkeley, Lord President of Connaught, &c.  So home to dinner,
and after dinner my wife and I and her woman by coach to Westminster,
where being come too soon for the Christening we took up Mr. Creed and
went out to take some ayre, as far as Chelsey and further, I lighting
there and letting them go on with the coach while I went to the church
expecting to see the young ladies of the school, Ashwell desiring me, but
I could not get in far enough, and so came out and at the coach's coming
back went in again and so back to Westminster, and led my wife and her to
Captain Ferrers, and I to my Lord Sandwich, and with him talking a good
while; I find the Court would have this Indulgence go on, but the
Parliament are against it.  Matters in Ireland are full of discontent.
Thence with Mr. Creed to Captain Ferrers, where many fine ladies; the
house well and prettily furnished.  She [Mrs. Ferrers] lies in, in great
state, Mr. G. Montagu, Collonel Williams, Cromwell that was,

     [Colonel Williams--"Cromwell that was"--appears to have been Henry
     Cromwell, grandson of Sir Oliver Cromwell, and first cousin, once
     removed, to the Protector.  He was seated at Bodsey House, in the
     parish of Ramsey, which had been his father's residence, and held
     the commission of a colonel.  He served in several Parliaments for
     Huntingdonshire, voting, in 1660, for the restoration of the
     monarchy; and as he knew the name of Cromwell would not be grateful
     to the Court, he disused it, and assumed that of Williams, which had
     belonged to his ancestors; and he is so styled in a list of knights
     of the proposed Order of the Royal Oak.  He died at Huntingdon, 3rd
     August, 1673.  (Abridged from Noble's "Memoirs of the Cromwells,"
     vol. i., p. 70.)--B.]

and Mrs. Wright as proxy for my Lady Jemimah, were witnesses.  Very
pretty and plentiful entertainment, could not get away till nine at
night, and so home.  My coach cost me 7s.  So to prayers, and to bed.
This day though I was merry enough yet I could not get yesterday's
quarrel out of my mind, and a natural fear of being challenged by Holmes
for the words I did give him, though nothing but what did become me as a
principal officer.



23rd.  Up betimes and to my office, before noon my wife and I eat
something, thinking to have gone abroad together, but in comes Mr. Hunt,
who we were forced to stay to dinner, and so while that was got ready he
and I abroad about 2 or 3 small businesses of mine, and so back to
dinner, and after dinner he went away, and my wife and I and Ashwell by
coach, set my wife down at her mother's and Ashwell at my Lord's, she
going to see her father and mother, and I to Whitehall, being fearful
almost, so poor a spirit I have, of meeting Major Holmes.  By and by the
Duke comes, and we with him about our usual business, and then the
Committee for Tangier, where, after reading my Lord Rutherford's
commission and consented to, Sir R. Ford, Sir W. Rider, and I were chosen
to bring in some laws for the Civill government of it, which I am little
able to do, but am glad to be joyned with them, for I shall learn
something of them.  Thence to see my Lord Sandwich, and who should I meet
at the door but Major Holmes.  He would have gone away, but I told him I
would not spoil his visitt, and would have gone, but however we fell to
discourse and he did as good as desire excuse for the high words that did
pass in his heat the other day, which I was willing enough to close with,
and after telling him my mind we parted, and I left him to speak with my
Lord, and I by coach home, where I found Will. Howe come home to-day with
my wife, and staid with us all night, staying late up singing songs, and
then he and I to bed together in Ashwell's bed and she with my wife.
This the first time that I ever lay in the room.  This day Greatorex
brought me a very pretty weather-glass for heat and cold.

     [The thermometer was invented in the sixteenth century, but it is
     disputed who the inventor was.  The claims of Santorio are supported
     by Borelli and Malpighi, while the title of Cornelius Drebbel is
     considered undoubted by Boerhaave.  Galileo's air thermometer, made
     before 1597, was the foundation of accurate thermometry.  Galileo
     also invented the alcohol thermometer about 1611 or 1612.  Spirit
     thermometers were made for the Accademia del Cimento, and described
     in the Memoirs of that academy.  When the academy was dissolved by
     order of the Pope, some of these thermometers were packed away in a
     box, and were not discovered until early in the nineteenth century.
     Robert Hooke describes the manufacture and graduation of
     thermometers in his "Micrographia" (1665).]



24th.  Lay pretty long, that is, till past six o'clock, and them up and
W. Howe and I very merry together, till having eat our breakfast, he went
away, and I to my office.  By and by Sir J. Minnes and I to the
Victualling Office by appointment to meet several persons upon stating
the demands of some people of money from the King.  Here we went into
their Bakehouse, and saw all the ovens at work, and good bread too, as
ever I would desire to eat.  Thence Sir J. Minnes and I homewards calling
at Browne's, the mathematician in the Minnerys, with a design of buying
White's ruler to measure timber with, but could not agree on the price.
So home, and to dinner, and so to my office, where we sat anon, and among
other things had Cooper's business tried against Captain Holmes, but I
find Cooper a fuddling, troublesome fellow, though a good artist, and so
am contented to have him turned out of his place, nor did I see reason to
say one word against it, though I know what they did against him was with
great envy and pride.  So anon broke up, and after writing letters, &c.,
home to supper and to bed.



25th (Lady-day).  Up betimes and to my office, where all the morning, at
noon dined and to the Exchange, and thence to the Sun Tavern, to my Lord
Rutherford, and dined with him, and some others, his officers, and Scotch
gentlemen, of fine discourse and education.  My Lord used me with great
respect, and discoursed upon his business as with one that he did esteem
of, and indeed I do believe that this garrison is likely to come to
something under him.  By and by he went away, forgetting to take leave of
me, my back being turned, looking upon the aviary, which is there very
pretty, and the birds begin to sing well this spring.  Thence home and to
my office till night, reading over and consulting upon the book and Ruler
that I bought this morning of Browne concerning the lyne of numbers, in
which I find much pleasure.  This evening came Captain Grove about hiring
ships for Tangier.  I did hint to him my desire that I could make some
lawfull profit thereof, which he promises that he will tell me of all
that he gets and that I shall have a share, which I did not demand, but
did silently consent to it, and money I perceive something will be got
thereby.  At night Mr. Bland came and sat with me at my office till late,
and so I home and to bed.  This day being washing day and my maid Susan
ill, or would be thought so, put my house so out of order that we had no
pleasure almost in anything, my wife being troubled thereat for want of a
good cook-maid, and moreover I cannot have my dinner as I ought in memory
of my being cut for the stone, but I must have it a day or two hence.



26th.  Up betimes and to my office, leaving my wife in bed to take her
physique, myself also not being out of some pain to-day by some cold that
I have got by the sudden change of the weather from hot to cold.  This
day is five years since it pleased God to preserve me at my being cut of
the stone, of which I bless God I am in all respects well.  Only now and
then upon taking cold I have some pain, but otherwise in very good health
always.  But I could not get my feast to be kept to-day as it used to be,
because of my wife's being ill and other disorders by my servants being
out of order.  This morning came a new cook-maid at L4 per annum, the
first time I ever did give so much, but we hope it will be nothing lost
by keeping a good cook.  She did live last at my Lord Monk's house, and
indeed at dinner did get what there was very prettily ready and neat for
me, which did please me much.  This morning my uncle Thomas was with me
according to agreement, and I paid him the L50, which was against my
heart to part with, and yet I must be contented; I used him very kindly,
and I desire to continue so voyd of any discontent as to my estate, that
I may follow my business the better.  At the Change I met him again, with
intent to have met with my uncle Wight to have made peace with him, with
whom by my long absence I fear I shall have a difference, but he was not
there, so we missed.  All the afternoon sat at the office about business
till 9 or 10 at night, and so dispatch business and home to supper and to
bed.  My maid Susan went away to-day, I giving her something for her
lodging and diet somewhere else a while that I might have room for my new
maid.



27th.  Up betimes and at my office all the morning, at noon to the
Exchange, and there by appointment met my uncles Thomas and Wight, and
from thence with them to a tavern, and there paid my uncle Wight three
pieces of gold for himself, my aunt, and their son that is dead, left by
my uncle Robert, and read over our agreement with my uncle Thomas and the
state of our debts and legacies, and so good friendship I think is made
up between us all, only we have the worst of it in having so much money
to pay.  Thence I to the Exchequer again, and thence with Creed into
Fleet Street, and calling at several places about business; in passing,
at the Hercules pillars he and I dined though late, and thence with one
that we found there, a friend of Captain Ferrers I used to meet at the
playhouse, they would have gone to some gameing house, but I would not
but parted, and staying a little in Paul's Churchyard, at the foreign
Bookseller's looking over some Spanish books, and with much ado keeping
myself from laying out money there, as also with them, being willing
enough to have gone to some idle house with them, I got home, and after a
while at my office, to supper, and to bed.



28th.  Up betimes and to my office, where all the morning.  Dined at home
and Creed with me, and though a very cold day and high wind, yet I took
him by land to Deptford, my common walk, where I did some little
businesses, and so home again walking both forwards and backwards,
as much along the street as we could to save going by water.  So home,
and after being a little while hearing Ashwell play on the tryangle, to
my office, and there late, writing a chiding letter--to my poor father
about his being so unwilling to come to an account with me, which I
desire he might do, that I may know what he spends, and how to order the
estate so as to pay debts and legacys as far as may be.  So late home to
supper and to bed.



29th (Lord's day).  Waked as I used to do betimes, but being Sunday and
very cold I lay long, it raining and snowing very hard, which I did never
think it would have done any more this year.  Up and to church, home to
dinner.  After dinner in comes Mr. Moore, and sat and talked with us a
good while; among other things telling me, that [neither] my Lord nor he
are under apprehensions of the late discourse in the House of Commons,
concerning resumption of Crowne lands, which I am very glad of.  He being
gone, up to my chamber, where my wife and Ashwell and I all the afternoon
talking and laughing, and by and by I a while to my office, reading over
some papers which I found in my man William's chest of drawers, among
others some old precedents concerning the practice of this office
heretofore, which I am glad to find and shall make use of, among others
an oath, which the Principal Officers were bound to swear at their
entrance into their offices, which I would be glad were in use still.  So
home and fell hard to make up my monthly accounts, letting my family go
to bed after prayers.  I staid up long, and find myself, as I think,
fully worth L670.  So with good comfort to bed, finding that though it be
but little, yet I do get ground every month.  I pray God it may continue
so with me.



30th.  Up betimes and found my weather-glass sunk again just to the same
position which it was last night before I had any fire made in my
chamber, which had made it rise in two hours time above half a degree.
So to my office where all the morning and at the Glass-house, and after
dinner by coach with Sir W. Pen I carried my wife and her woman to
Westminster, they to visit Mrs. Ferrers and Clerke, we to the Duke, where
we did our usual business, and afterwards to the Tangier Committee, where
among other things we all of us sealed and signed the Contract for
building the Mole with my Lord Tiviott, Sir J. Lawson, and Mr. Cholmeley.
A thing I did with a very ill will, because a thing which I did not at
all understand, nor any or few of the whole board.  We did also read over
the propositions for the Civill government and Law Merchant of the town,
as they were agreed on this morning at the Glasshouse by Sir R. Ford and
Sir W. Rider, who drew them, Mr. Povy and myself as a Committee appointed
to prepare them, which were in substance but not in the manner of
executing them independent wholly upon the Governor consenting to.
Thence to see my Lord Sandwich, who I found very merry and every day
better and better.  So to my wife, who waited my coming at my Lord's
lodgings, and took her up and by coach home, where no sooner come but to
bed, finding myself just in the same condition I was lately by the
extreme cold weather, my pores stopt and so my body all inflamed and
itching.  So keeping myself warm and provoking myself to a moderate
sweat, and so somewhat better in the morning,



31st.  And to that purpose I lay long talking with my wife about my
father's coming, which I expect to-day, coming up with the horses brought
up for my Lord.  Up and to my office, where doing business all the
morning, and at Sir W. Batten's, whither Mr. Gauden and many others came
to us about business.  Then home to dinner, where W. Joyce came, and he
still a talking impertinent fellow.  So to the office again, and hearing
by and by that Madam Clerke, Pierce, and others were come to see my wife
I stepped in and staid a little with them, and so to the office again,
where late, and so home to supper and to bed.






                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                                  APRIL
                                  1663


April 1st.  Up betimes and abroad to my brother's, but he being gone out
I went to the Temple to my Cozen Roger Pepys, to see and talk with him a
little; who tells me that, with much ado, the Parliament do agree to
throw down Popery; but he says it is with so much spite and passion, and
an endeavour of bringing all Non-conformists into the same condition,
that he is afeard matters will not yet go so well as he could wish.
Thence back to my brother's, in my way meeting Mr. Moore and talking with
him about getting me some money, and calling at my brother's they tell me
that my brother is still abroad, and that my father is not yet up.  At
which I wondered, not thinking that he was come, though I expected him,
because I looked for him at my house.  So I up to his bedside and staid
an hour or two talking with him.  Among other things he tells me how
unquiett my mother is grown, that he is not able to live almost with her,
if it were not for Pall.  All other matters are as well as upon so hard
conditions with my uncle Thomas we can expect them.  I left him in bed,
being very weary, to come to my house to-night or tomorrow, when he
pleases, and so I home, calling on the virginall maker, buying a rest for
myself to tune my tryangle, and taking one of his people along with me to
put it in tune once more, by which I learned how to go about it myself
for the time to come.  So to dinner, my wife being lazily in bed all this
morning.  Ashwell and I dined below together, and a pretty girl she is,
and I hope will give my wife and myself good content, being very humble
and active, my cook maid do also dress my meat very well and neatly.  So
to my office all the afternoon till night, and then home, calling at Sir
W. Batten's, where was Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen, I telling them how
by my letter this day from Commissioner Pett I hear that his Stempeese

     [Stemples, cross pieces which are put into a frame of woodwork to
     cure and strengthen a shaft.]

he undertook for the new ship at Woolwich, which we have been so long, to
our shame, in looking for, do prove knotty and not fit for service.
Lord! how Sir J. Minnes, like a mad coxcomb, did swear and stamp,
swearing that Commissioner Pett hath still the old heart against the King
that ever he had, and that this was his envy against his brother that was
to build the ship, and all the damnable reproaches in the world, at which
I was ashamed, but said little; but, upon the whole, I find him still a
fool, led by the nose with stories told by Sir W. Batten, whether with or
without reason.  So, vexed in my mind to see things ordered so unlike
gentlemen, or men of reason, I went home and to bed.



2nd.  Up by very betimes and to my office, where all the morning till
towards noon, and then by coach to Westminster Hall with Sir W. Pen, and
while he went up to the House I walked in the Hall with Mr. Pierce, the
surgeon, that I met there, talking about my business the other day with
Holmes, whom I told my mind, and did freely tell how I do depend upon my
care and diligence in my employment to bear me out against the pride of
Holmes or any man else in things that are honest, and much to that
purpose which I know he will make good use of.  But he did advise me to
take as few occasions as I can of disobliging Commanders, though this is
one that every body is glad to hear that he do receive a check.  By and
by the House rises and I home again with Sir W. Pen, and all the way
talking of the same business, to whom I did on purpose tell him my mind
freely, and let him see that it must be a wiser man than Holmes (in these
very words) that shall do me any hurt while I do my duty.  I to remember
him of Holmes's words against Sir J. Minnes, that he was a knave, rogue,
coward, and that he will kick him and pull him by the ears, which he
remembered all of them and may have occasion to do it hereafter to his
owne shame to suffer them to be spoke in his presence without any reply
but what I did give him, which, has caused all this feud.  But I am glad
of it, for I would now and then take occasion to let the world know that
I will not be made a novice.  Sir W. Pen took occasion to speak about my
wife's strangeness to him and his daughter, and that believing at last
that it was from his taking of Sarah to be his maid, he hath now put her
away, at which I am glad.  He told me, that this day the King hath sent
to the House his concurrence wholly with them against the Popish priests,
Jesuits, &c., which gives great content, and I am glad of it.  So home,
whither my father comes and dines with us, and being willing to be merry
with him I made myself so as much as I could, and so to the office, where
we sat all the afternoon, and at night having done all my business I went
home to my wife and father, and supped, and so to bed, my father lying
with me in Ashwell's bed in the red chamber.



3rd.  Waked betimes and talked half an hour with my father, and so I rose
and to my office, and about 9 o'clock by water from the Old Swan to White
Hall and to chappell, which being most monstrous full, I could not go
into my pew, but sat among the quire.  Dr. Creeton, the Scotchman,
preached a most admirable, good, learned, honest and most severe sermon,
yet comicall, upon the words of the woman concerning the Virgin, "Blessed
is the womb that bare thee (meaning Christ) and the paps that gave thee
suck; and he answered, Nay; rather is he blessed that heareth the word of
God, and keepeth it."  He railed bitterly ever and anon against John
Calvin, and his brood, the Presbyterians, and against the present term,
now in use, of "tender consciences."  He ripped up Hugh Peters (calling
him the execrable skellum--[A villain or scoundrel; the cant term for a
thief.]--), his preaching and stirring up the maids of the city to bring
in their bodkins and thimbles.  Thence going out of White Hall, I met
Captain Grove, who did give me a letter directed to myself from himself.
I discerned money to be in it, and took it, knowing, as I found it to be,
the proceed of the place I have got him to be, the taking up of vessels
for Tangier.  But I did not open it till I came home to my office, and
there I broke it open, not looking into it till all the money was out,
that I might say I saw no money in the paper, if ever I should be
questioned about it.  There was a piece in gold and L4 in silver.  So
home to dinner with my father and wife, and after dinner up to my
tryangle, where I found that above my expectation Ashwell has very good
principles of musique and can take out a lesson herself with very little
pains, at which I am very glad.  Thence away back again by water to
Whitehall, and there to the Tangier Committee, where we find ourselves at
a great stand; the establishment being but L70,000 per annum, and the
forces to be kept in the town at the least estimate that my Lord
Rutherford can be got to bring it is L53,000.  The charge of this year's
work of the Mole will be L13,000; besides L1000 a-year to my Lord
Peterborough as a pension, and the fortifications and contingencys, which
puts us to a great stand, and so unsettled what to do therein we rose,
and I to see my Lord Sandwich, whom I found merry at cards, and so by
coach home, and after supper a little to my office and so home and to
bed.  I find at Court that there is some bad news from Ireland of an
insurrection of the Catholiques there, which puts them into an alarm.
I hear also in the City that for certain there is an embargo upon all our
ships in Spayne, upon this action of my Lord Windsor's at Cuba, which
signifies little or nothing, but only he hath a mind to say that he hath
done something before he comes back again.  Late tonight I sent to invite
my uncle Wight and aunt with Mrs. Turner to-morrow.



4th.  Up betimes and to my office.  By and by to Lombard street by
appointment to meet Mr. Moore, but the business not being ready I
returned to the office, where we sat a while, and, being sent for,
I returned to him and there signed to some papers in the conveying of
some lands mortgaged by Sir Rob. Parkhurst in my name to my Lord
Sandwich, which I having done I returned home to dinner, whither by and
by comes Roger Pepys, Mrs. Turner her daughter, Joyce Norton, and a young
lady, a daughter of Coll.  Cockes, my uncle Wight, his wife and Mrs. Anne
Wight.  This being my feast, in lieu of what I should have had a few days
ago for my cutting of the stone, for which the Lord make me truly
thankful.  Very merry at, before, and after dinner, and the more for that
my dinner was great, and most neatly dressed by our own only maid.  We
had a fricasee of rabbits and chickens, a leg of mutton boiled, three
carps in a dish, a great dish of a side of lamb, a dish of roasted
pigeons, a dish of four lobsters, three tarts, a lamprey pie (a most rare
pie), a dish of anchovies, good wine of several sorts, and all things
mighty noble and to my great content.  After dinner to Hide Park; my
aunt, Mrs. Wight and I in one coach, and all the rest of the women in
Mrs. Turner's; Roger being gone in haste to the Parliament about the
carrying this business of the Papists, in which it seems there is great
contest on both sides, and my uncle and father staying together behind.
At the Park was the King, and in another coach my Lady Castlemaine, they
greeting one another at every tour.

     [The company drove round and round the Ring in Hyde Park.  The
     following two extracts illustrate this, and the, second one shows
     how the circuit was called the Tour: "Here (1697) the people of
     fashion take the diversion of the Ring.  In a pretty high place,
     which lies very open, they have surrounded a circumference of two or
     three hundred paces diameter with a sorry kind of balustrade, or
     rather with postes placed upon stakes but three feet from the
     ground; and the coaches drive round this.  When they have turned for
     some time round one way they face about and turn t'other: so rowls
     the world!"--Wilson's Memoirs, 1719, p. 126.]

     ["It is in this Park where the Grand Tour or Ring is kept for the
     Ladies to take the air in their coaches, and in fine weather I have
     seen above three hundred at a time."--[Macky's] Journey through
     England, 1724, vol. i., p. 75.]

Here about an hour, and so leaving all by the way we home and found the
house as clean as if nothing had been done there to-day from top to
bottom, which made us give the cook 12d. a piece, each of us.  So to my
office about writing letters by the post, one to my brother John at
Brampton telling him (hoping to work a good effect by it upon my mother)
how melancholy my father is, and bidding him use all means to get my
mother to live peaceably and quietly, which I am sure she neither do nor
I fear can ever do, but frightening her with his coming down no more, and
the danger of her condition if he should die I trust may do good.  So
home and to bed.



5th (Lord's day).  Up and spent the morning, till the Barber came, in
reading in my chamber part of Osborne's Advice to his Son (which I shall
not never enough admire for sense and language), and being by and by
trimmed, to Church, myself, wife, Ashwell, &c.  Home to dinner, it
raining, while that was prepared to my office to read over my vows with
great affection and to very good purpose.  So to dinner, and very well
pleased with it.  Then to church again, where a simple bawling young Scot
preached.  So home to my office alone till dark, reading some papers of
my old navy precedents, and so home to supper, and, after some pleasant
talk, my wife, Ashwell, and I to bed.



6th.  Up very betimes and to my office, and there made an end of reading
my book that I have of Mr. Barlow's of the Journal of the Commissioners
of the Navy, who begun to act in the year 1628 and continued six years,
wherein is fine observations and precedents out of which I do purpose to
make a good collection.  By and by, much against my will, being twice
sent for, to Sir G. Carteret's to pass his accounts there, upon which Sir
J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, and myself all the morning, and
again after dinner to it, being vexed at my heart to see a thing of that
importance done so slightly and with that neglect for which God pardon
us, and I would I could mend it.  Thence leaving them I made an excuse
and away home, and took my wife by coach and left her at Madam Clerk's,
to make a visit there, and I to the Committee of Tangier, where I found,
to my great joy, my Lord Sandwich, the first time I have seen him abroad
these some months, and by and by he rose and took leave, being, it seems,
this night to go to Kensington or Chelsey, where he hath taken a lodging
for a while to take the ayre.  We staid, and after business done I got
Mr. Coventry into the Matted Gallery and told him my whole mind
concerning matters of our office, all my discontent to see things of so
great trust carried so neglectfully, and what pitiful service the
Controller and Surveyor make of their duties, and I disburdened my mind
wholly to him and he to me his own, many things, telling me that he is
much discouraged by seeing things not to grow better and better as he did
well hope they would have done.  Upon the whole, after a full hour's
private discourse, telling one another our minds, we with great content
parted, and with very great satisfaction for my [having] thus cleared my
conscience, went to Dr. Clerk's and thence fetched my wife, and by coach
home.  To my office a little to set things in order, and so home to
supper and to bed.



7th.  Up very betimes, and angry with Will that he made no more haste
to rise after I called him.  So to my office, and all the morning there.
At noon to the Exchange, and so home to dinner, where I found my wife had
been with Ashwell to La Roche's to have her tooth drawn, which it seems
aches much, but my wife could not get her to be contented to have it
drawn after the first twich, but would let it alone, and so they came
home with it undone, which made my wife and me good sport.  After dinner
to the office, where Sir J. Minnes did make a great complaint to me
alone, how my clerk Mr. Hater had entered in one of the Sea books a
ticket to have been signed by him before it had been examined, which
makes the old fool mad almost, though there was upon enquiry the greatest
reason in the world for it.  Which though it vexes me, yet it is most to
see from day to day what a coxcomb he is, and that so great a trust
should lie in the hands of such a fool.  We sat all the afternoon, and I
late at my office, it being post night, and so home to supper, my father
being come again to my house, and after supper to bed, and after some
talk to sleep.



8th.  Up betimes and to my office, and by and by, about 8 o'clock, to the
Temple to Commissioner Pett lately come to town and discoursed about the
affairs of our office, how ill they go through the corruption and folly
of Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes.  Thence by water to White Hall, to
chappell; where preached Dr. Pierce, the famous man that preached the
sermon so much cried up, before the King against the Papists.  His matter
was the Devil tempting our Saviour, being carried into the Wilderness by
the spirit.  And he hath as much of natural eloquence as most men that
ever I heard in my life, mixed with so much learning.  After sermon I
went up and saw the ceremony of the Bishop of Peterborough's paying
homage upon the knee to the King, while Sir H. Bennet, Secretary, read
the King's grant of the Bishopric of Lincoln, to which he is translated.
His name is Dr. Lany.  Here I also saw the Duke of Monmouth, with his
Order of the Garter, the first time I ever saw it.  I am told that the
University of Cambridge did treat him a little while since with all the
honour possible, with a comedy at Trinity College, and banquet; and made
him Master of Arts there.  All which, they say, the King took very well.
Dr. Raynbow,  Master of Magdalen, being now Vice-Chancellor.  Home by
water to dinner, and with my father, wife, and Ashwell, after dinner, by
water towards Woolwich, and in our way I bethought myself that we had
left our poor little dog that followed us out of doors at the waterside,
and God knows whether he be not lost, which did not only strike my wife
into a great passion but I must confess myself also; more than was
becoming me.  We immediately returned, I taking another boat and with my
father went to Woolwich, while they went back to find the dog.  I took my
father on board the King's pleasure boat and down to Woolwich, and walked
to Greenwich thence and turning into the park to show my father the steps
up the hill, we found my wife, her woman, and dog attending us, which
made us all merry again, and so took boats, they to Deptford and so by
land to Half-way house, I into the King's yard and overlook them there,
and eat and drank with them, and saw a company of seamen play drolly at
our pence, and so home by water.  I a little at the office, and so home
to supper and to bed, after having Ashwell play my father and me a lesson
upon her Tryangle.



9th.  Up betimes and to my office, and anon we met upon finishing the
Treasurer's accounts.  At noon dined at home and am vexed to hear my wife
tell me how our maid Mary do endeavour to corrupt our cook maid, which
did please me very well, but I am resolved to rid the house of her as
soon as I can.  To the office and sat all the afternoon till 9 at night,
and an hour after home to supper and bed.  My father lying at Tom's
to-night, he dining with my uncle Fenner and his sons and a great many
more of the gang at his own cost to-day.  To bed vexed also to think of
Sir J. Minnes finding fault with Mr. Hater for what he had done the other
day, though there be no hurt in the thing at all but only the old fool's
jealousy, made worse by Sir W. Batten.



10th.  Up very betimes and to my office, where most hard at business
alone all the morning.  At noon to the Exchange, where I hear that after
great expectation from Ireland, and long stop of letters, there is good
news come, that all is quiett after our great noise of troubles there,
though some stir hath been as was reported.  Off the Exchange with Sir
J. Cutler and Mr. Grant to the Royall Oak Tavern, in Lumbard Street,
where Alexander Broome the poet was, a merry and witty man, I believe,
if he be not a little conceited, and here drank a sort of French wine,
called Ho Bryan,

     [Haut Brion, a claret; one of the first growths of the red wines of
     Medoc.]

that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.  Home
to dinner, and then by water abroad to Whitehall, my wife to see Mrs.
Ferrers, I to Whitehall and the Park, doing no business.  Then to my
Lord's lodgings, met my wife, and walked to the New Exchange.  There laid
out 10s. upon pendents and painted leather gloves, very pretty and all
the mode.  So by coach home and to my office till late, and so to supper
and to bed.



11th.  Up betimes and to my office, where we sat also all the morning
till noon, and then home to dinner, my father being there but not very
well.  After dinner in comes Captain Lambert of the Norwich, this day
come from Tangier, whom I am glad to see.  There came also with him
Captain Wager, and afterwards in came Captain Allen to see me, of the
Resolution.  All staid a pretty while, and so away, and I a while to my
office, then abroad into the street with my father, and left him to go to
see my aunt Wight and uncle, intending to lie at Tom's to-night, or my
cozen Scott's, where it seems he has hitherto lain and is most kindly
used there.  So I home and to my office very late making up my Lord's
navy accounts, wherein I find him to stand debtor L1200.  So home to
supper and to bed.



12th (Lord's day).  Lay till 8 o'clock, which I have not done a great
while, then up and to church, where I found our pew altered by taking
some of the hind pew to make ours bigger, because of the number of women,
more by Sir J. Minnes company than we used to have.  Home to dinner, and
after dinner, intending to go to Chelsey to my Lord Sandwich, my wife
would needs go with me, though she walked on foot to Whitehall.  Which
she did and staid at my Lord's lodgings while Creed and I took a turn at
Whitehall, but no coach to be had, and so I returned to them and sat
talking till evening, and then got a coach and to Gray's Inn walks, where
some handsome faces, and so home and there to supper, and a little after
8 o'clock to bed, a thing I have not done God knows when.  Coming home
to-night, a drunken boy was carrying by our constable to our new pair of
stocks to handsel them, being a new pair and very handsome.



13th.  Up by five o'clock and to my office, where hard at work till
towards noon, and home and eat a bit, and so going out met with Mr. Mount
my old acquaintance, and took him in and drank a glass or two of wine to
him and so parted, having not time to talk together, and I with Sir W.
Batten to the Stillyard, and there eat a lobster together, and Wyse the
King's fishmonger coming in we were very merry half an hour, and so by
water to Whitehall, and by and by being all met we went in to the Duke
and there did our business and so away, and anon to the Tangier
Committee, where we had very fine discourse from Dr. Walker and Wiseman,
civilians, against our erecting a court-merchant at Tangier, and well
answered in many things by my Lord Sandwich (whose speaking I never till
now observed so much to be very good) and Sir R. Ford.  By and by the
discourse being ended, we fell to my Lord Rutherford's dispatch, which do
not please him, he being a Scott, and one resolved to scrape every penny
that he can get by any way, which the Committee will not agree to.
He took offence at something and rose away, without taking leave of the
board, which all took ill, though nothing said but only by the Duke of
Albemarle, who said that we ought to settle things as they ought to be,
and if he will not go upon these terms another man will, no doubt.
Here late, quite finishing things against his going, and so rose, and I
walked home, being accompanied by Creed to Temple Bar, talking of this
afternoon's passage, and so I called at the Wardrobe in my way home,
and there spoke at the Horn tavern with Mr. Moore a word or two, but my
business was with Mr. Townsend, who is gone this day to his country
house, about sparing Charles Pepys some money of his bills due to him
when he can, but missing him lost my labour.  So walked home, finding my
wife abroad, at my aunt, Wight's, who coming home by and by, I home to
supper and to bed.



14th.  Up betimes to my office, where busy till 8 o'clock that Sir W.
Batten, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Pen and I down by barge to Woolwich, to see
"The Royal James" launched, where she has been under repair a great
while.  We staid in the yard till almost noon, and then to Mr. Falconer's
to a dinner of fish of our own sending, and when it was just ready to
come upon the table, word is brought that the King and Duke are come, so
they all went away to shew themselves, while I staid and had a little
dish or two by myself, resolving to go home, and by the time I had dined
they came again, having gone to little purpose, the King, I believe,
taking little notice of them.  So they to dinner, and I staid a little
with them, and so good bye.  I walked to Greenwich, studying the slide
rule for measuring of timber, which is very fine.  Thence to Deptford by
water, and walked through the yard, and so walked to Redriffe, and so
home pretty weary, to my office, where anon they all came home, the ship
well launched, and so sat at the office till 9 at night, and I longer
doing business at my office, and so home to supper, my father being come,
and to bed.  Sir G. Carteret tells me to-night that he perceives the
Parliament is likely to make a great bustle before they will give the
King any money; will call all things into question; and, above all, the
expences of the Navy; and do enquire into the King's expences everywhere,
and into the truth of the report of people being forced to sell their
bills at 15 per cent. loss in the Navy; and, lastly, that they are in a
very angry pettish mood at present, and not likely to be better.



15th.  Up betimes, and after talking with my father awhile, I to my
office, and there hard at it till almost noon, and then went down the
river with Maynes, the purveyor, to show a ship's lading of Norway goods,
and called at Sir W. Warren's yard, and so home to dinner.  After dinner
up with my wife and Ashwell a little to the Tryangle, and so I down to
Deptford by land about looking out a couple of catches fitted to be
speedily set forth in answer to a letter of Mr. Coventry's to me.  Which
done, I walked back again, all the way reading of my book of Timber
measure, comparing it with my new Sliding Rule brought home this morning
with great pleasure.  Taking boat again I went to Shishe's yard, but he
being newly gone out towards Deptford I followed him thither again, and
there seeing him I went with him and pitched upon a couple, and so by
water home, it being late, past 8 at night, the wind cold, and I a little
weary.  So home to my office, then to supper and bed.



16th.  Up betimes and to my office, met to pass Mr. Pitt's (anon Sir J.
Lawson's Secretary and Deputy Treasurer) accounts for the voyage last to
the Streights, wherein the demands are strangely irregular, and I dare
not oppose it alone for making an enemy and do no good, but only bring a
review upon my Lord Sandwich, but God knows it troubles my heart to see
it, and to see the Comptroller, whose duty it is, to make no more matter
of it.  At noon home for an hour to dinner, and so to the office public
and private till late at night, so home to supper and bed with my father.



17th.  Up by five o'clock as I have long done and to my office all the
morning, at noon home to dinner with my father with us.  Our dinner, it
being Good Friday, was only sugarsopps and fish; the only time that we
have had a Lenten dinner all this Lent.  This morning Mr. Hunt, the
instrument maker, brought me home a Basse Viall to see whether I like it,
which I do not very well, besides I am under a doubt whether I had best
buy one yet or no, because of spoiling my present mind and love to
business.  After dinner my father and I walked into the city a little,
and parted and to Paul's Church Yard, to cause the title of my English
"Mare Clausum"

     [Selden's work was highly esteemed, and Charles I. made an order in
     council that a copy should be kept in the Council chest, another in
     the Court of Exchequer, and a third in the Court of Admiralty.  The
     book Pepys refers to is Nedham's translation, which was entitled,
     "Of the Dominion or Ownership of the Sea.  Two Books .  .  .  ,
     written at first in Latin and entituled Mare Clausum, by John
     Selden.  Translated into English by Marchamont Nedham.  London,
     1652."  This has the Commonwealth arms on the title-page and a
     dedication "To the Supreme Autoritie of the Nation-The Parliament of
     the Commonwealth of England."  The dedication to Charles I. in
     Selden's original work was left out.  Apparently a new title-page
     and dedication was prepared in 1663, but the copy in the British
     Museum, which formerly belonged to Charles Killigrew, does not
     contain these additions.]

to be changed, and the new title, dedicated to the King, to be put to it,
because I am ashamed to have the other seen dedicated to the
Commonwealth.  So home and to my office till night, and so home to talk
with my father, and supper and to bed, I have not had yet one quarter of
an hour's leisure to sit down and talk with him since he came to town,
nor do I know till the holidays when I shall.



18th.  Up betimes and to my office, where all the morning.  At noon to
dinner.  With us Mr. Creed, who has been deeply engaged at the office
this day about the ending of his accounts, wherein he is most unhappy to
have to do with a company of fools who after they have signed his
accounts and made bills upon them yet dare not boldly assert to the
Treasurer that they are satisfied with his accounts.  Hereupon all
dinner, and walking in the garden the afternoon, he and I talking of the
ill management of our office, which God knows is very ill for the King's
advantage.  I would I could make it better.  In the evening to my office,
and at night home to supper and bed.



19th (Easter day).  Up and this day put on my close-kneed coloured suit,
which, with new stockings of the colour, with belt, and new gilt-handled
sword, is very handsome.  To church alone, and so to dinner, where my
father and brother Tom dined with us, and after dinner to church again,
my father sitting below in the chancel.  After church done, where the
young Scotchman preaching I slept all the while, my father and I to see
my uncle and aunt Wight, and after a stay of an hour there my father to
my brother's and I home to supper, and after supper fell in discourse of
dancing, and I find that Ashwell hath a very fine carriage, which makes
my wife almost ashamed of herself to see herself so outdone, but
to-morrow she begins to learn to dance for a month or two.  So to prayers
and to bed.  Will being gone, with my leave, to his father's this day for
a day or two, to take physique these holydays.



20th.  Up betimes as I use to do, and in my chamber begun to look over my
father's accounts, which he brought out of the country with him by my
desire, whereby I may see what he has received and spent, and I find that
he is not anything extravagant, and yet it do so far outdo his estate
that he must either think of lessening his charge, or I must be forced to
spare money out of my purse to help him through, which I would willing do
as far as L20 goes.  So to my office the remaining part of the morning
till towards noon, and then to Mr. Grant's.  There saw his prints, which
he shewed me, and indeed are the best collection of any things almost
that ever I saw, there being the prints of most of the greatest houses,
churches, and antiquitys in Italy and France and brave cutts.  I had not
time to look them over as I ought, and which I will take time hereafter
to do, and therefore left them and home to dinner.  After dinner, it
raining very hard, by coach to Whitehall, where, after Sir G. Carteret,
Sir J. Minnes, Mr. Coventry and I had been with the Duke, we to the
Committee of Tangier and did matters there dispatching wholly my Lord
Teviott, and so broke up.  With Sir G. Carteret and Sir John Minnes by
coach to my Lord Treasurer's, thinking to have spoken about getting money
for paying the Yards; but we found him with some ladies at cards: and so,
it being a bad time to speak, we parted, and Sir J. Minnes and I home,
and after walking with my wife in the garden late, to supper and to bed,
being somewhat troubled at Ashwell's desiring and insisting over eagerly
upon her going to a ball to meet some of her old companions at a dancing
school here in town next Friday, but I am resolved she shall not go.  So
to bed.  This day the little Duke of Monmouth was marryed at White Hall,
in the King's chamber; and tonight is a great supper and dancing at his
lodgings, near Charing-Cross.  I observed his coat at the tail of his
coach he gives the arms of England, Scotland, and France, quartered upon
some other fields, but what it is that speaks his being a bastard I know
not.



21st.  Up betimes and to my office, where first I ruled with red ink my
English "Mare Clausum," which, with the new orthodox title, makes it now
very handsome.  So to business, and then home to dinner, and after dinner
to sit at the office in the afternoon, and thence to my study late, and
so home to supper to play a game at cards with my wife, and so to bed.
Ashwell plays well at cards, and will teach us to play; I wish it do not
lose too much of my time, and put my wife too much upon it.



22nd.  Up betimes and to my office very busy all the morning there,
entering things into my Book Manuscript, which pleases me very much.
So to the Change, and so to my uncle Wight's, by invitation, whither my
father, wife, and Ashwell came, where we had but a poor dinner, and not
well dressed; besides, the very sight of my aunt's hands and greasy
manner of carving, did almost turn my stomach.  After dinner by coach to
the King's Playhouse, where we saw but part of "Witt without mony," which
I do not like much, but coming late put me out of tune, and it costing me
four half-crowns for myself and company.  So, the play done, home, and I
to my office a while and so home, where my father (who is so very
melancholy) and we played at cards, and so to supper and to bed.



23rd.  St. George's day and Coronacion, the King and Court being at
Windsor, at the installing of the King of Denmark by proxy and the Duke
of Monmouth.  I up betimes, and with my father, having a fire made in my
wife's new closet above, it being a wet and cold day, we sat there all
the morning looking over his country accounts ever since his going into
the country.  I find his spending hitherto has been (without
extraordinary charges) at full L100 per annum, which troubles me, and I
did let him apprehend it, so as that the poor man wept, though he did
make it well appear to me that he could not have saved a farthing of it.
I did tell him how things stand with us, and did shew my distrust of
Pall, both for her good nature and housewifery, which he was sorry for,
telling me that indeed she carries herself very well and carefully, which
I am glad to hear, though I doubt it was but his doting and not being
able to find her miscarriages so well nowadays as he could heretofore
have done.  We resolve upon sending for Will Stankes up to town to give
us a right understanding in all that we have in Brampton, and before my
father goes to settle every thing so as to resolve how to find a living
for my father and to pay debts and legacies, and also to understand truly
how Tom's condition is in the world, that we may know what we are like to
expect of his doing ill or well.  So to dinner, and after dinner to the
office, where some of us met and did a little business, and so to Sir W.
Batten's to see a little picture drawing of his by a Dutchman which is
very well done.  So to my office and put a few things in order, and so
home to spend the evening with my father.  At cards till late, and being
at supper, my boy being sent for some mustard to a neat's tongue, the
rogue staid half an hour in the streets, it seems at a bonfire, at which
I was very angry, and resolve to beat him to-morrow.



24th.  Up betimes, and with my salt eel

     [A salt eel is a rope's end cut from the piece to be used on the
     back of a culprit.  "Yeow shall have salt eel for supper" is an
     emphatic threat.]

went down in the parler and there got my boy and did beat him till I was
fain to take breath two or three times, yet for all I am afeard it will
make the boy never the better, he is grown so hardened in his tricks,
which I am sorry for, he being capable of making a brave man, and is a
boy that I and my wife love very well.  So made me ready, and to my
office, where all the morning, and at noon home, whither came Captain
Holland, who is lately come home from sea, and has been much harassed in
law about the ship which he has bought, so that it seems in a despair he
endeavoured to cut his own throat, but is recovered it; and it seems
whether by that or any other persuasion (his wife's mother being a great
zealot) he is turned almost a Quaker, his discourse being nothing but
holy, and that impertinent, that I was weary of him.  At last pretending
to go to the Change we walked thither together, and there I left him and
home to dinner, sending my boy by the way to enquire after two dancing
masters at our end of the town for my wife to learn, of whose names the
boy brought word.  After dinner all the afternoon fiddling upon my
viallin (which I have not done many a day) while Ashwell danced above in
my upper best chamber, which is a rare room for musique, expecting this
afternoon my wife to bring my cozen Scott and Stradwick, but they came
not, and so in the evening we by ourselves to Half-way house to walk, but
did not go in there, but only a walk and so home again and to supper, my
father with us, and had a good lobster intended for part of our
entertainment to these people to-day, and so to cards, and then to bed,
being the first day that I have spent so much to my pleasure a great
while.



25th.  Up betimes and to my vyall and song book a pretty while, and so to
my office, and there we sat all the morning.  Among other things Sir W.
Batten had a mind to cause Butler (our chief witness in the business of
Field, whom we did force back from an employment going to sea to come
back to attend our law sute) to be borne as a mate on the Rainbow in the
Downes in compensation for his loss for our sakes.  This he orders an
order to be drawn by Mr. Turner for, and after Sir J. Minnes, Sir W.
Batten, and Sir W. Pen had signed it, it came to me and I was going to
put it up into my book, thinking to consider of it and give them my
opinion upon it before I parted with it, but Sir W. Pen told me I must
sign it or give it him again, for it should not go without my hand.
I told him what I meant to do, whereupon Sir W. Batten was very angry,
and in a great heat (which will bring out any thing which he has in his
mind, and I am glad of it, though it is base in him to have a thing so
long in his mind without speaking of it, though I am glad this is the
worst, for if he had worse it would out as well as this some time or
other) told me that I should not think as I have heretofore done, make
them sign orders and not sign them myself.  Which what ignorance or worse
it implies is easy to judge, when he shall sign to things (and the rest
of the board too as appears in this business) for company and not out of
their judgment for.  After some discourse I did convince them that it was
not fit to have it go, and Sir W. Batten first, and then the rest, did
willingly cancel all their hands and tear the order, for I told them,
Butler being such a rogue as I know him, and we have all signed him to be
to the Duke, it will be in his power to publish this to our great
reproach, that we should take such a course as this to serve ourselves in
wronging the King by putting him into a place he is no wise capable of,
and that in an Admiral ship.  At noon we rose, Sir W. Batten ashamed and
vexed, and so home to dinner, and after dinner walked to the old Exchange
and so all along to Westminster Hall, White Hall, my Lord Sandwich's
lodgings, and going by water back to the Temple did pay my debts in
several places in order to my examining my accounts tomorrow to my great
content.  So in the evening home, and after supper (my father at my
brother's) and merrily practising to dance, which my wife hath begun to
learn this day of Mr. Pembleton,

     [Pembleton, the dancing-master, made Pepys very jealous, and there
     are many allusions to him in the following pages.  His lessons
     ceased on May 27th.]

but I fear will hardly do any great good at it, because she is conceited
that she do well already, though I think no such thing.  So to bed.  At
Westminster Hall, this day, I buy a book lately printed and licensed by
Dr. Stradling, the Bishop of London's chaplin, being a book discovering
the practices and designs of the papists, and the fears of some of our
own fathers of the Protestant church heretofore of the return to Popery
as it were prefacing it.

The book is a very good book; but forasmuch as it touches one of the
Queenmother's fathers confessors, the Bishop, which troubles many good
men and members of Parliament, hath called it in, which I am sorry for.
Another book I bought, being a collection of many expressions of the
great Presbyterian Preachers upon publique occasions, in the late times,
against the King and his party, as some of Mr. Marshall, Case, Calamy,
Baxter, &c., which is good reading now, to see what they then did teach,
and the people believe, and what they would seem to believe now.  Lastly,
I did hear that the Queen is much grieved of late at the King's
neglecting her, he having not supped once with her this quarter of a
year, and almost every night with my Lady Castlemaine; who hath been with
him this St. George's feast at Windsor, and came home with him last
night; and, which is more, they say is removed as to her bed from her own
home to a chamber in White Hall, next to the King's own; which I am sorry
to hear, though I love her much.



26th (Lord's-day).  Lay pretty long in bed talking with my wife, and then
up and set to the making up of my monthly accounts, but Tom coming, with
whom I was angry for botching my camlott coat, to tell me that my father
and he would dine with me, and that my father was at our church, I got me
ready and had a very good sermon of a country minister upon "How blessed
a thing it is for brethren to live together in unity!"  So home and all
to dinner, and then would have gone by coach to have seen my Lord
Sandwich at Chelsey if the man would have taken us, but he denying it we
staid at home, and I all the afternoon upon my accounts, and find myself
worth full L700, for which I bless God, it being the most I was ever yet
worth in money.  In the evening (my father being gone to my brother's to
lie to-night) my wife, Ashwell, and the boy and I, and the dogg, over the
water and walked to Half-way house, and beyond into the fields, gathering
of cowslipps, and so to Half-way house, with some cold lamb we carried
with us, and there supped, and had a most pleasant walk back again,
Ashwell all along telling us some parts of their mask at Chelsey School,
which was very pretty, and I find she hath a most prodigious memory,
remembering so much of things acted six or seven years ago.  So home, and
after reading my vows, being sleepy, without prayers to bed, for which
God forgive me!



27th.  Up betimes and to my office, where doing business alone a good
while till people came about business to me.  Will Griffin tells me this
morning that Captain Browne, Sir W. Batten's brother-in-law, is dead of a
blow given him two days ago by a seaman, a servant of his, being drunk,
with a stone striking him on the forehead, for which I am sorry, he
having a good woman and several small children.  At the office all the
morning, at noon dined at home with my wife, merry, and after dinner by
water to White Hall; but found the Duke of York gone to St. James's for
this summer; and thence with Mr. Coventry, to whose chamber I went, and
Sir W. Pen up to the Duke's closett.  And a good while with him about our
Navy business; and so I to White Hall, and there alone a while with my
Lord Sandwich discoursing about his debt to the Navy, wherein he hath
given me some things to resolve him in.  Thence to my Lord's lodging,
and thither came Creed to me, and he and I walked a great while in the
garden, and thence to an alehouse in the market place to drink fine
Lambeth ale, and so to Westminster Hall, and after walking there a great
while, home by coach, where I found Mary gone from my wife, she being too
high for her, though a very good servant, and my boy too will be going in
a few days, for he is not for my family, he is grown so out of order and
not to be ruled, and do himself, against his brother's counsel, desire to
be gone, which I am sorry for, because I love the boy and would be glad
to bring him to good.  At home with my wife and Ashwell talking of her
going into the country this year, wherein we had like to have fallen out,
she thinking that I have a design to have her go, which I have not, and
to let her stay here I perceive will not be convenient, for she expects
more pleasure than I can give her here, and I fear I have done very ill
in letting her begin to learn to dance.  The Queen (which I did not know)
it seems was at Windsor, at the late St. George's feast there; and the
Duke of Monmouth dancing with her with his hat in his hand, the King came
in and kissed him, and made him put on his hat, which every body took
notice of.  After being a while at my office home to supper and to bed,
my Will being come home again after being at his father's all the last
week taking physique.



28th.  Up betimes and to my office, and there all the morning, only
stepped up to see my wife and her dancing master at it, and I think after
all she will do pretty well at it.  So to dinner, Mr. Hunt dining with
us, and so to the office, where we sat late, and then I to my office
casting up my Lord's sea accounts over again, and putting them in order
for payment, and so home to supper and to bed.



29th.  Up betimes, and after having at my office settled some accounts
for my Lord Sandwich, I went forth, and taking up my father at my
brother's, took coach and towards Chelsey, 'lighting at an alehouse near
the Gatehouse at Westminster to drink our morning draught, and so up
again and to Chelsey, where we found my Lord all alone at a little table
with one joynt of meat at dinner; we sat down and very merry talking, and
mightily extolling the manner of his retirement, and the goodness of his
diet, which indeed is so finely dressed: the mistress of the house, Mrs.
Becke, having been a woman of good condition heretofore, a merchant's
wife, and hath all things most excellently dressed; among others, her
cakes admirable, and so good that my Lord's words were, they were fit to
present to my Lady Castlemaine.  From ordinary discourse my Lord fell to
talk of other matters to me, of which chiefly the second part of the
fray, which he told me a little while since of, between Mr. Edward
Montagu and himself, which is that after that he had since been with him
three times and no notice taken at all of any difference between them,
and yet since that he hath forborn coming to him almost two months, and
do speak not only slightly of my Lord every where, but hath complained to
my Lord Chancellor of him, and arrogated all that ever my Lord hath done
to be only by his direction and persuasion.  Whether he hath done the
like to the King or no, my Lord knows not; but my Lord hath been with the
King since, and finds all things fair; and my Lord Chancellor hath told
him of it, but with so much contempt of Mr. Montagu, as my Lord knows
himself very secure against any thing the fool can do; and
notwithstanding all this, so noble is his nature, that he professes
himself ready to show kindness and pity to Mr. Montagu on any occasion.
My Lord told me of his presenting Sir H. Bennet with a gold cupp of L100,
which he refuses, with a compliment; but my Lord would have been glad he
had taken it, that he might have had some obligations upon him which he
thinks possible the other may refuse to prevent it; not that he hath any
reason to doubt his kindness.  But I perceive great differences there are
at Court; and Sir H. Bennet and my Lord Bristol, and their faction, are
likely to carry all things before them (which my Lord's judgment is, will
not be for the best), and particularly against the Chancellor, who, he
tells me, is irrecoverably lost: but, however, that he will not actually
joyne in anything against the Chancellor, whom he do own to be his most
sure friend, and to have been his greatest; and therefore will not openly
act in either, but passively carry himself even.  The Queen, my Lord
tells me, he thinks he hath incurred some displeasure with, for his
kindness to his neighbour, my Lady Castlemaine.  My Lord tells me he hath
no reason to fall for her sake, whose wit, management, nor interest, is
not likely to hold up any man, and therefore he thinks it not his
obligation to stand for her against his own interest.  The Duke and Mr.
Coventry my Lord says he is very well with, and fears not but they will
show themselves his very good friends, specially at this time, he being
able to serve them, and they needing him, which he did not tell me
wherein.  Talking of the business of Tangier, he tells me that my Lord
Tiviott is gone away without the least respect paid to him, nor indeed to
any man, but without his commission; and (if it be true what he says)
having laid out seven or eight thousand pounds in commodities for the
place; and besides having not only disobliged all the Commissioners for
Tangier, but also Sir Charles Barkeley the other day, who, speaking in
behalf of Colonel Fitz-Gerald, that having been deputy-governor there
already, he ought to have expected and had the governorship upon the
death or removal of the former governor.  And whereas it is said that he
and his men are Irish, which is indeed the main thing that hath moved the
King and Council to put in Tiviott to prevent the Irish having too great
and the whole command there under Fitz-Gerald; he further said that there
was never an Englishman fit to command Tangier; my Lord Tiviott answered
yes, that there were many more fit than himself or Fitz-Gerald either.
So that Fitz-Gerald being so great with the Duke of York, and being
already made deputy-governor, independent of my Lord Tiviott, and he
being also left here behind him for a while, my Lord Sandwich do think
that, putting all these things together, the few friends he hath left,
and the ill posture of his affairs, my Lord Tiviott is not a man of the
conduct and management that either people take him to be, or is fit for
the command of the place.  And here, speaking of the Duke of York and Sir
Charles Barkeley, my Lord tells me that he do very much admire the good
management, and discretion, and nobleness of the Duke, that whatever he
may be led by him or Mr. Coventry singly in private, yet he did not
observe that in publique matters, but he did give as ready hearing and as
good acceptance to any reasons offered by any other man against the
opinions of them, as he did to them, and would concur in the prosecution
of it.  Then we came to discourse upon his own sea accompts, and came to
a resolution what and how to proceed in them; wherein he resolved, though
I offered him a way of evading the greatest part of his debt honestly,
by making himself debtor to the Parliament, before the King's time, which
he might justly do, yet he resolved to go openly and nakedly in it, and
put himself to the kindness of the King and Duke, which humour, I must
confess, and so did tell him (with which he was not a little pleased) had
thriven very well with him, being known to be a man of candid and open
dealing, without any private tricks or hidden designs as other men
commonly have in what they do.  From that we had discourse of Sir G.
Carteret, who he finds kind to him, but it may be a little envious, and
most other men are, and of many others; and upon the whole do find that
it is a troublesome thing for a man of any condition at Court to carry
himself even, and without contracting enemys or envyers; and that much
discretion and dissimulation is necessary to do it.  My father staid a
good while at the window and then sat down by himself while my Lord and I
were thus an hour together or two after dinner discoursing, and by and by
he took his leave, and told me he would stay below for me.  Anon I took
leave, and coming down found my father unexpectedly in great pain and
desiring for God's sake to get him a bed to lie upon, which I did, and
W. Howe and I staid by him, in so great pain as I never saw, poor wretch,
and with that patience, crying only: Terrible, terrible pain, God help
me, God help me, with the mournful voice, that made my heart ake.  He
desired to rest a little alone to see whether it would abate, and W. Howe
and I went down and walked in the gardens, which are very fine, and a
pretty fountayne, with which I was finely wetted, and up to a banquetting
house, with a very fine prospect, and so back to my father, who I found
in such pain that I could not bear the sight of it without weeping, never
thinking that I should be able to get him from thence, but at last,
finding it like to continue, I got him to go to the coach, with great
pain, and driving hard, he all the while in a most unsufferable torment
(meeting in the way with Captain Ferrers going to my Lord, to tell him
that my Lady Jemimah is come to town, and that Will Stankes is come with
my father's horses), not staying the coach to speak with any body, but
once, in St. Paul's Churchyard, we were forced to stay, the jogging and
pain making my father vomit, which it never had done before.  At last we
got home, and all helping him we got him to bed presently, and after half
an hour's lying in his naked bed (it being a rupture [with] which he is
troubled, and has been this 20 years, but never in half the pain and with
so great swelling as now, and how this came but by drinking of cold small
beer and sitting long upon a low stool and then standing long after it he
cannot tell) .  .  .--[We are not going to be told the treatment. D.W.]--
After which he was at good ease, and so continued, and so fell to sleep,
and we went down whither W. Stankes was come with his horses.  But it is
very pleasant to hear how he rails at the rumbling and ado that is in
London over it is in the country, that he cannot endure it.  He supped
with us, and very merry, and then he to his lodgings at the Inne with the
horses, and so we to bed, I to my father who is very well again, and both
slept very well.



30th.  Up, and after drinking my morning draft with my father and W.
Stankes, I went forth to Sir W. Batten, who is going (to no purpose as he
uses to do) to Chatham upon a survey.  So to my office, where till
towards noon, and then to the Exchange, and back home to dinner, where
Mrs. Hunt, my father, and W. Stankes; but, Lord! what a stir Stankes
makes with his being crowded in the streets and wearied in walking in
London, and would not be wooed by my wife and Ashwell to go to a play,
nor to White Hall, or to see the lyons,

     [The Tower menagerie, with its famous lions, which was one of the
     chief sights of London, and gave rise to a new English word, was not
     abolished until the early part of the present century.]

though he was carried in a coach.  I never could have thought there had
been upon earth a man so little curious in the world as he is.  At the
office all the afternoon till 9 at night, so home to cards with my
father, wife, and Ashwell, and so to bed.




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After some pleasant talk, my wife, Ashwell, and I to bed
And so to bed, my father lying with me in Ashwell's bed
Dare not oppose it alone for making an enemy and do no good
Dinner was great, and most neatly dressed
Dog attending us, which made us all merry again
Galileo's air thermometer, made before 1597
I do not find other people so willing to do business as myself
I was very angry, and resolve to beat him to-morrow
Insurrection of the Catholiques there
Justice of proceeding not to condemn a man unheard
Matters in Ireland are full of discontent
My maid Susan ill, or would be thought so
Parliament do agree to throw down Popery
Railed bitterly ever and anon against John Calvin
She is conceited that she do well already
So home to supper and bed with my father
That he is not able to live almost with her
That I might say I saw no money in the paper
There is no man almost in the City cares a turd for him
Though it be but little, yet I do get ground every month




End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, v24
by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley

