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Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1663

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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.
                               MAY & JUNE
                                  1663


May 1st.  Up betimes and my father with me, and he and I all the morning
and Will Stankes private, in my wife's closet above, settling our matters
concerning our Brampton estate, &c., and I find that there will be, after
all debts paid within L100, L50 per annum clear coming towards my
father's maintenance, besides L25 per annum annuities to my Uncle Thomas
and Aunt Perkins.  Of which, though I was in my mind glad, yet thought it
not fit to let my father know it thoroughly, but after he had gone out to
visit my uncle Thomas and brought him to dinner with him, and after
dinner I got my father, brother Tom, and myself together, I did make the
business worse to them, and did promise L20 out of my own purse to make
it L50 a year to my father, propounding that Stortlow may be sold to pay
L200 for his satisfaction therein and the rest to go towards payment of
debts and legacies.  The truth is I am fearful lest my father should die
before debts are paid, and then the land goes to Tom and the burden of
paying all debts will fall upon the rest of the land.  Not that I would
do my brother any real hurt.  I advised my father to good husbandry and
to living within the compass of L50 a year, and all in such kind words,
as not only made, them but myself to weep, and I hope it will have a good
effect.  That being done, and all things agreed on, we went down, and
after a glass of wine we all took horse, and I, upon a horse hired of Mr.
Game, saw him out of London, at the end of Bishopsgate Street, and so I
turned and rode, with some trouble, through the fields, and then Holborn,
&c., towards Hide Park, whither all the world, I think, are going, and in
my going, almost thither, met W. Howe coming galloping upon a little crop
black nag; it seems one that was taken in some ground of my Lord's, by
some mischance being left by his master, a thief; this horse being found
with black cloth ears on, and a false mayne, having none of his own; and
I back again with him to the Chequer, at Charing Cross, and there put up
my own dull jade, and by his advice saddled a delicate stone-horse of
Captain Ferrers's, and with that rid in state to the Park, where none
better mounted than I almost, but being in a throng of horses, seeing the
King's riders showing tricks with their managed horses, which were very
strange, my stone-horse was very troublesome, and begun to, fight with
other horses, to the dangering him and myself, and with much ado I got
out, and kept myself out of harm's way..  Here I saw nothing good,
neither the King, nor my Lady Castlemaine, nor any great ladies or
beauties being there, there being more pleasure a great deal at an
ordinary day; or else those few good faces that there were choked up with
the many bad ones, there being people of all sorts in coaches there, to
some thousands, I think.  Going thither in the highway, just by the Park
gate, I met a boy in a sculler boat, carried by a dozen people at least,
rowing as hard as he could drive, it seems upon some wager.  By and by,
about seven or eight o'clock, homeward; and changing my horse again, I
rode home, coaches going in great crowds to the further end of the town
almost.  In my way, in Leadenhall Street, there was morris-dancing which
I have not seen a great while.  So set my horse up at Game's, paying 5s.
for him.  And so home to see Sir J. Minnes, who is well again, and after
staying talking with him awhile, I took leave and went to hear Mrs.
Turner's daughter, at whose house Sir J. Minnes lies, play on the
harpsicon; but, Lord! it was enough to make any man sick to hear her;
yet I was forced to commend her highly.  So home to supper and to bed,
Ashwell playing upon the tryangle very well before I went to bed.  This
day Captain Grove sent me a side of pork, which was the oddest present,
sure, that was ever made any man; and the next, I remember I told my
wife, I believe would be a pound of candles, or a shoulder of mutton; but
the fellow do it in kindness, and is one I am beholden to.  So to bed
very weary, and a little galled for lack of riding, praying to God for a
good journey to my father, of whom I am afeard, he being so lately ill of
his pain.



2nd.  Being weary last night, I slept till almost seven o'clock, a thing
I have not done many a day.  So up and to my office (being come to some
angry words with my wife about neglecting the keeping of the house clean,
I calling her beggar, and she me pricklouse, which vexed me) and there
all the morning.  So to the Exchange and then home to dinner, and very
merry and well pleased with my wife, and so to the office again, where we
met extraordinary upon drawing up the debts of the Navy to my Lord
Treasurer.  So rose and up to Sir W. Pen to drink a glass of bad syder in
his new far low dining room, which is very noble, and so home, where
Captain Ferrers and his lady are come to see my wife, he being to go the
beginning of next week to France to sea and I think to fetch over my
young Lord Hinchinbroke.  They being gone I to my office to write letters
by the post, and so home to supper and to bed.



3rd (Lord's day).  Up before 5 o'clock and alone at setting my Brampton
papers to rights according to my father's and my computation and
resolution the other day to my good content, I finding that there will be
clear saved to us L50 per annum, only a debt of it may be L100.  So made
myself ready and to church, where Sir W. Pen showed me the young lady
which young Dawes, that sits in the new corner-pew in the church, hath
stole away from Sir Andrew Rickard, her guardian, worth L1000 per annum
present, good land, and some money, and a very well-bred and handsome
lady: he, I doubt, but a simple fellow.  However, he got this good luck
to get her, which methinks I could envy him with all my heart.  Home to
dinner with my wife, who not being very well did not dress herself but
staid at home all day, and so I to church in the afternoon and so home
again, and up to teach Ashwell the grounds of time and other things on
the tryangle, and made her take out a Psalm very well, she having a good
ear and hand.  And so a while to my office, and then home to supper and
prayers, to bed, my wife and I having a little falling out because I
would not leave my discourse below with her and Ashwell to go up and talk
with her alone upon something she has to say.  She reproached me but I
had rather talk with any body than her, by which I find I think she is
jealous of my freedom with Ashwell, which I must avoid giving occasion
of.



4th.  Up betimes and to setting my Brampton papers in order and looking
over my wardrobe against summer, and laying things in order to send to my
brother to alter.  By and by took boat intending to have gone down to
Woolwich, but seeing I could not get back time enough to dinner, I
returned and home.  Whither by and by the dancing-master' came, whom
standing by, seeing him instructing my wife, when he had done with her,
he would needs have me try the steps of a coranto, and what with his
desire and my wife's importunity, I did begin, and then was obliged to
give him entry-money 10s., and am become his scholler.  The truth is, I
think it a thing very useful for a gentleman, and sometimes I may have
occasion of using it, and though it cost me what I am heartily sorry it
should, besides that I must by my oath give half as much more to the
poor, yet I am resolved to get it up some other way, and then it will not
be above a month or two in a year.  So though it be against my stomach
yet I will try it a little while; if I see it comes to any great
inconvenience or charge I will fling it off.  After I had begun with the
steps of half a coranto, which I think I shall learn well enough, he went
away, and we to dinner, and by and by out by coach, and set my wife down
at my Lord Crew's, going to see my Lady Jem. Montagu, who is lately come
to town, and I to St. James's; where Mr. Coventry, Sir W. Pen and I staid
a good while for the Duke's coming in, but not coming, we walked to White
Hall; and meeting the King, we followed him into the Park, where Mr.
Coventry and he talked of building a new yacht, which the King is
resolved to have built out of his privy purse, he having some contrivance
of his own.  The talk being done, we fell off to White Hall, leaving the
King in the Park, and going back, met the Duke going towards St. James's
to meet us.  So he turned back again, and to his closett at White Hall;
and there, my Lord Sandwich present, we did our weekly errand, and so
broke up; and I down into the garden with my Lord Sandwich (after we had
sat an hour at the Tangier Committee); and after talking largely of his
own businesses, we begun to talk how matters are at Court: and though he
did not flatly tell me any such thing, yet I do suspect that all is not
kind between the King and the Duke, and that the King's fondness to the
little Duke do occasion it; and it may be that there is some fear of his
being made heir to the Crown.  But this my Lord did not tell me, but is
my guess only; and that my Lord Chancellor is without doubt falling past
hopes.  He being gone to Chelsey by coach I to his lodgings, where my
wife staid for me, and she from thence to see Mrs. Pierce and called me
at Whitehall stairs (where I went before by land to know whether there
was any play at Court to-night) and there being none she and I to Mr.
Creed to the Exchange, where she bought something, and from thence by
water to White Fryars, and wife to see Mrs. Turner, and then came to me
at my brother's, where I did give him order about my summer clothes, and
so home by coach, and after supper to bed to my wife, with whom I have
not lain since I used to lie with my father till to-night.



5th.  Up betimes and to my office, and there busy all the morning, among
other things walked a good while up and down with Sir J. Minnes, he
telling many old stories of the Navy, and of the state of the Navy at the
beginning of the late troubles, and I am troubled at my heart to think,
and shall hereafter cease to wonder, at the bad success of the King's
cause, when such a knave as he (if it be true what he says) had the whole
management of the fleet, and the design of putting out of my Lord
Warwick, and carrying the fleet to the King, wherein he failed most
fatally to the King's ruin.  Dined at home, and after dinner up to try my
dance, and so to the office again, where we sat all the afternoon.  In
the evening Deane of Woolwich went home with me and showed me the use of
a little sliding ruler, less than that I bought the other day, which is
the same with that, but more portable; however I did not seem to
understand or even to have seen anything of it before, but I find him an
ingenious fellow, and a good servant in his place to the King.  Thence to
my office busy writing letters, and then came Sir W. Warren, staying for
a letter in his business by the post, and while that was writing he and I
talked about merchandise, trade, and getting of money.  I made it my
business to enquire what way there is for a man bred like me to come to
understand anything of trade.  He did most discretely answer me in all
things, shewing me the danger for me to meddle either in ships or
merchandise of any sort or common stocks, but what I have to keep at
interest, which is a good, quiett, and easy profit, and once in a little
while something offers that with ready money you may make use of money to
good profit.  Wherein I concur much with him, and parted late with great
pleasure and content in his discourse, and so home to supper and to bed.
It has been this afternoon very hot and this evening also, and about 11
at night going to bed it fell a-thundering and lightening, the greatest
flashes enlightening the whole body of the yard, that ever I saw in my
life.



6th.  Up betimes and to my office a good while at my new rulers, then to
business, and towards noon to the Exchange with Creed, where we met with
Sir J. Minnes coming in his coach from Westminster, who tells us, in
great heat, that, by God, the Parliament will make mad work; that they
will render all men incapable of any military or civil employment that
have borne arms in the late troubles against the King, excepting some
persons; which, if it be so, as I hope it is not, will give great cause
of discontent, and I doubt will have but bad effects.  I left them at the
Exchange and walked to Paul's Churchyard to look upon a book or two, and
so back, and thence to the Trinity House, and there dined, where, among
other discourse worth hearing among the old seamen, they tell us that
they have catched often in Greenland in fishing whales with the iron
grapnells that had formerly been struck into their bodies covered over
with fat; that they have had eleven hogsheads of oyle out of the tongue
of a whale.  Thence after dinner home to my office, and there busy till
the evening.  Then home and to supper, and while at supper comes Mr.
Pembleton, and after supper we up to our dancing room and there danced
three or four country dances, and after that a practice of my coranto I
began with him the other day, and I begin to think that I shall be able
to do something at it in time.  Late and merry at it, and so weary to
bed.



7th.  Up betimes and to my office awhile, and then by water with my wife,
leaving her at the new Exchange, and I to see Dr. Williams, and spoke
with him about my business with Tom Trice, and so to my brother's, who I
find very careful now-a-days, more than ordinary in his business and like
to do well.  From thence to Westminster, and there up and down from the
Hall to the Lobby, the Parliament sitting.  Sir Thomas Crew this day
tells me that the Queen, hearing that there was L40,000 per annum brought
into her account among the other expences of the Crown to the Committee
of Parliament, she took order to let them know that she hath yet for the
payment of her whole family received but L4,000, which is a notable act
of spirit, and I believe is true.  So by coach to my Lord Crew's, and
there dined with him.  He tells me of the order the House of Commons have
made for the drawing an Act for the rendering none capable of preferment
or employment in the State, but who have been loyall and constant to the
King and Church; which will be fatal to a great many, and makes me doubt
lest I myself, with all my innocence during the late times, should be
brought in, being employed in the Exchequer; but, I hope, God will
provide for me.  This day the new Theatre Royal begins to act with scenes
the Humourous Lieutenant, but I have not time to see it, nor could stay
to see my Lady Jemimah lately come to town, and who was here in the
house, but dined above with her grandmother.  But taking my wife at my
brother's home by coach, and the officers being at Deptford at a Pay we
had no office, but I took my wife by water and so spent the evening, and
so home with great pleasure to supper, and then to bed.



8th.  Up very early and to my office, there preparing letters to my
father of great import in the settling of our affairs, and putting him
upon a way [of] good husbandry, I promising to make out of my own purse
him up to L50 per annum, till either by my uncle Thomas's death or the
fall of the Wardrobe place he be otherwise provided.  That done I by
water to the Strand, and there viewed the Queen-Mother's works at
Somersett House, and thence to the new playhouse, but could not get in to
see it.  So to visit my Lady Jemimah, who is grown much since I saw her;
but lacks mightily to be brought into the fashion of the court to set her
off: Thence to the Temple, and there sat till one o'clock reading at
Playford's in Dr. Usher's 'Body of Divinity' his discourse of the
Scripture, which is as much, I believe, as is anywhere said by any man,
but yet there is room to cavill, if a man would use no faith to the
tradition of the Church in which he is born, which I think to be as good
an argument as most is brought for many things, and it may be for that
among others.  Thence to my brother's, and there took up my wife and
Ashwell to the Theatre Royall, being the second day of its being opened.
The house is made with extraordinary good contrivance, and yet hath some
faults, as the narrowness of the passages in and out of the Pitt, and the
distance from the stage to the boxes, which I am confident cannot hear;
but for all other things it is well, only, above all, the musique being
below, and most of it sounding under the very stage, there is no hearing
of the bases at all, nor very well of the trebles, which sure must be
mended.  The play was "The Humerous Lieutenant," a play that hath little
good in it, nor much in the very part which, by the King's command, Lacy
now acts instead of Clun.  In the dance, the tall devil's actions was
very pretty.  The play being done, we home by water, having been a little
shamed that my wife and woman were in such a pickle, all the ladies being
finer and better dressed in the pitt than they used, I think, to be.  To
my office to set down this day's passage, and, though my oath against
going to plays do not oblige me against this house, because it was not
then in being, yet believing that at the time my meaning was against all
publique houses, I am resolved to deny myself the liberty of two plays at
Court, which are in arreare to me for the months of March and April,
which will more than countervail this excess, so that this month of May
is the first that I must claim a liberty of going to a Court play
according to my oath.  So home to supper, and at supper comes Pembleton,
and afterwards we all up to dancing till late, and so broke up and to
bed, and they say that I am like to make a dancer.

9th.  Up betimes and to my office, whither sooner than ordinary comes Mr.
Hater desiring to speak a word to me alone, which I was from the disorder
of his countenance amused at, and so the poor man began telling me that
by Providence being the last Lord's day at a meeting of some Friends upon
doing of their duties, they were surprised, and he carried to the
Counter, but afterwards released; however, hearing that Sir W. Batten do
hear of [it,] he thought it good to give me an account of it, lest it
might tend to any prejudice to me.  I was extraordinary surprised with
it, and troubled for him, knowing that now it is out it is impossible for
me to conceal it, or keep him in employment under me without danger to
myself.  I cast about all I could, and did give him the best advice I
could, desiring to know if I should promise that he would not for the
time to come commit the same, he told me he desired that I would rather
forbear to promise that, for he durst not do it, whatever God in His
providence shall do with him, and that for my part he did bless God and
thank me for all the love and kindness I have shewed him hitherto.  I
could not without tears in my eyes discourse with him further, but at
last did pitch upon telling the truth of the whole to Mr. Coventry as
soon as I could, and to that end did use means to prevent Sir W. Batten
(who came to town last night) from going to that end to-day, lest he
might doe it to Sir G. Carteret or Mr. Coventry before me; which I did
prevail and kept him at the office all the morning.  At noon dined at
home with a heavy heart for the poor man, and after dinner went out to my
brother's, and thence to Westminster, where at Mr. Jervas's, my old
barber, I did try two or three borders and perriwiggs, meaning to wear
one; and yet I have no stomach [for it,] but that the pains of keeping my
hair clean is so great.  He trimmed me, and at last I parted, but my mind
was almost altered from my first purpose, from the trouble that I foresee
will be in wearing them also.  Thence by water home and to the office,
where busy late, and so home to supper and bed, with my mind much
troubled about T. Hater.



10th (Lord's day).  Up betimes, and put on a black cloth suit, with white
lynings under all, as the fashion is to wear, to appear under the
breeches.  So being ready walked to St. James's, where I sat talking with
Mr. Coventry, while he made himself ready, about several businesses of
the Navy, and afterwards, the Duke being gone out, he and I walked to
White Hall together over the Park, I telling him what had happened to Tom
Hater, at which he seems very sorry, but tells me that if it is not made
very publique, it will not be necessary to put him away at present, but
give him good caution for the time to come.  However, he will speak to
the Duke about it and know his pleasure.  Parted with him there, and I
walked back to St. James's, and was there at mass, and was forced in the
crowd to kneel down; and mass being done, to the King's Head ordinary,
whither I sent for Mr. Creed and there we dined, where many Parliament-
men; and most of their talk was about the news from Scotland, that the
Bishop of Galloway was besieged in his house by some woman, and had like
to have been outraged, but I know not how he was secured; which is bad
news, and looks just as it did in the beginning of the late troubles.
From thence they talked of rebellion; and I perceive they make it their
great maxime to be sure to master the City of London, whatever comes of
it or from it.  After that to some other discourse, and, among other
things, talking of the way of ordinaries, that it is very convenient,
because a man knows what he hath to pay: one did wish that, among many
bad, we could learn two good things of France, which were that we would
not think it below the gentleman, or person of honour at a tavern, to
bargain for his meat before he eats it; and next, to take no servant
without certificate from some friend or gentleman of his good behaviour
and abilities.  Hence with Creed into St. James's Park, and there walked
all the afternoon, and thence on foot home, and after a little while at
my office walked in the garden with my wife, and so home to supper, and
after prayers to bed.  My brother Tom supped with me, and should have
brought my aunt Ellen with him; she was not free to go abroad.



11th.  Up betimes, and by water to Woolwich on board the Royall James, to
see in what dispatch she is to be carried about to Chatham.  So to the
yard a little, and thence on foot to Greenwich, where going I was set
upon by a great dogg, who got hold of my garters, and might have done me
hurt; but, Lord, to see in what a maze I was, that, having a sword about
me, I never thought of it, or had the heart to make use of it, but might,
for want of that courage, have been worried.  Took water there and home,
and both coming and going did con my lesson on my Ruler to measure
timber, which I think I can well undertake now to do.  At home there
being Pembleton I danced, and I think shall come on to do something in a
little time, and after dinner by coach with Sir W. Pen (setting down his
daughter at Clerkenwell), to St. James's, where we attended the Duke of
York: and, among other things, Sir G. Carteret and I had a great dispute
about the different value of the pieces of eight rated by Mr. Creed at
4s. and 5d., and by Pitts at 4s. and 9d., which was the greatest husbandry
to the King?  he persisting that the greatest sum was; which is as
ridiculous a piece of ignorance as could be imagined.  However, it is to
be argued at the Board, and reported to the Duke next week; which I shall
do with advantage, I hope.  Thence to the Tangier Committee, where we
should have concluded in sending Captain Cuttance and the rest to Tangier
to deliberate upon the design of the Mole before they begin to work upon
it, but there being not a committee (my Lord intending to be there but
was taken up at my Lady Castlemayne's) I parted and went homeward, after
a little discourse with Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who tells me that my Lady
Castlemaine hath now got lodgings near the King's chamber at Court; and
that the other day Dr. Clerke and he did dissect two bodies, a man and a
woman; before the King, with which the King was highly pleased.  By water
and called upon Tom Trice by appointment with Dr. Williams, but the Dr.
did not come, it seems by T. Trice's desire, not thinking he should be at
leisure.  However, in general we talked of our business, and I do not
find that he will come to any lower terms than L150, which I think I
shall not give him but by law, and so we parted, and I called upon Mr.
Crumlum, and did give him the 10s. remaining, not laid out of the L5 I
promised him for the school, with which he will buy strings, and golden
letters upon the books I did give them.  I sat with him and his wife a
great while talking, and she is [a] pretty woman, never yet with child,
and methinks looks as if her mouth watered now and then upon some of her
boys.  Then upon Tom Pepys, the Turner, desiring his father and his
letter to Piggott signifying his consent to the selling of his land for
the paying of us his money, and so home, and finding Pembleton there we
did dance till it was late, and so to supper and to bed.



12th.  Up between four and five, and after dressing myself then to my
office to prepare business against the afternoon, where all the morning,
and dined at noon at home, where a little angry with my wife for minding
nothing now but the dancing-master, having him come twice a day, which is
a folly.  Again, to my office.  We sat till late, our chief business
being the reconciling the business of the pieces of eight mentioned
yesterday before the Duke of York, wherein I have got the day, and they
are all brought over to what I said, of which I am proud.  Late writing
letters, and so home to supper and to bed.  Here I found Creed staying
for me, and so after supper I staid him all night and lay with me, our
great discourse being the folly of our two doting knights, of which I am
ashamed.



13th.  Lay till 6 o'clock and then up, and after a little talk and mirth,
he went away, and I to my office, where busy all the morning, and at noon
home to dinner, and after dinner Pembleton came and I practised.  But,
Lord!  to see how my wife will not be thought to need telling by me or
Ashwell, and yet will plead that she has learnt but a month, which causes
many short fallings out between us.  So to my office, whither one-eyed
Cooper came to see me, and I made him to show me the use of platts, and
to understand the lines, and how to find how lands bear, &c., to my great
content.  Then came Mr. Barrow, storekeeper of Chatham, who tells me many
things, how basely Sir W. Batten has carried himself to him, and in all
things else like a passionate dotard, to the King's great wrong.  God
mend all, for I am sure we are but in an ill condition in the Navy,
however the King is served in other places.  Home to supper, to cards,
and to bed.



14th.  Up betimes and put up some things to send to Brampton.  Then
abroad to the Temple, and up and down about business, and met Mr. Moore;
and with him to an alehouse in Holborn; where in discourse he told me
that he fears the King will be tempted to endeavour the setting the Crown
upon the little Duke, which may cause troubles; which God forbid, unless
it be his due!  He told me my Lord do begin to settle to business again,
which I am glad of, for he must not sit out, now he has done his own
business by getting his estate settled, and that the King did send for
him the other day to my Lady Castlemaine's, to play at cards, where he
lost L50; for which I am sorry, though he says my Lord was pleased at it,
and said he would be glad at any time to lose L50 for the King to send
for him to play, which I do not so well like.  Thence home, and after
dinner to the office, where we sat till night, and then made up my papers
and letters by the post, and so home to dance with Pembleton.  This day
we received a baskett from my sister Pall, made by her of paper, which
hath a great deal of labour in it for country innocent work.  After
supper to bed, and going to bed received a letter from Mr. Coventry
desiring my coming to him to-morrow morning, which troubled me to think
what the business should be, fearing it must be some bad news in Tom
Hater's business.



15th.  Up betimes and walked to St. James's, where Mr. Coventry being in
bed I walked in the Park, discoursing with the keeper of the Pell Mell,
who was sweeping of it; who told me of what the earth is mixed that do
floor the Mall, and that over all there is cockle-shells powdered, and
spread to keep it fast; which, however, in dry weather, turns to dust and
deads the ball.  Thence to Mr. Coventry; and sitting by his bedside, he
did tell me that he sent for me to discourse upon my Lord Sandwich's
allowances for his several pays, and what his thoughts are concerning his
demands; which he could not take the freedom to do face to face, it being
not so proper as by me: and did give me a most friendly and ingenuous
account of all; telling me how unsafe, at this juncture, while every
man's, and his actions particularly, are descanted upon, it is either for
him to put the Duke upon doing, or my Lord himself to desire anything
extraordinary, 'specially the King having been so bountifull already;
which the world takes notice of even to some repinings.  All which he did
desire me to discourse with my Lord of; which I have undertook to do.
We talked also of our office in general, with which he told me that he
was now-a-days nothing so satisfied as he was wont to be.  I confess I
told him things are ordered in that way that we must of necessity break
in a little time a pieces.  After done with him about these things, he
told me that for Mr. Hater the Duke's word was in short that he found he
had a good servant, an Anabaptist, and unless he did carry himself more
to the scandal of the office, he would bear with his opinion till he
heard further, which do please me very much.  Thence walked to
Westminster, and there up and down in the Hall and the Parliament House
all the morning; at noon by coach to my Lord Crew's, hearing that Lord
Sandwich did dine there; where I told him what had passed between Mr.
Coventry and myself; with which he was contented, though I could perceive
not very well pleased.  And I do believe that my Lord do find some other
things go against his mind in the House; for in the motion made the other
day in the House by my Lord Bruce, that none be capable of employment but
such as have been loyal and constant to the King and Church, the General
[Monk] and my Lord were mentioned to be excepted; and my Lord Bruce did
come since to my Lord, to clear himself that he meant nothing to his
prejudice, nor could it have any such effect if he did mean it.  After
discourse with my Lord; to dinner with him; there dining there my Lord
Montagu of Boughton, Mr. William Montagu his brother, the Queen's
Sollicitor, &c., and a fine dinner.  Their talk about a ridiculous
falling-out two days ago at my Lord of Oxford's house, at an
entertainment of his, there being there my Lord of Albemarle, Lynsey,
two of the Porters,  my Lord Bellasses, and others, where there were high
words and some blows, and pulling off of perriwiggs; till my Lord Monk
took away some of their swords, and sent for some soldiers to guard the
house till the fray was ended.  To such a degree of madness the nobility
of this age is come!  After dinner I went up to Sir Thomas Crew, who lies
there not very well in his head, being troubled with vapours and fits of
dizziness: and there I sat talking with.  him all the afternoon from one
discourse to another, the most was upon the unhappy posture of things at
this time; that the King do mind nothing but pleasures, and hates the
very sight or thoughts of business; that my Lady Castlemaine rules him,
who, he says, hath all the tricks of Aretin

     [An allusion to Aretin's infamous letters and sonnets accompanying
     the as infamous "Postures" engraved by Marc Antonio from the designs
     of Julio Romano (Steinman's "Memoir of Barbara, Duchess of
     Cleveland," privately printed, 1871).]

that are to be practised to give pleasure.  In which he is too able .  .
.  , but what is the unhappiness in that, as the Italian proverb says,
"lazzo dritto non vuolt consiglio."  If any of the sober counsellors give
him good advice, and move him in anything that is to his good and honour,
the other part, which are his counsellers of pleasure, take him when he
is with my Lady Castlemaine, and in a humour of delight, and then
persuade him that he ought not to hear nor listen to the advice of those
old dotards or counsellors that were heretofore his enemies: when, God
knows!  it is they that now-a-days do most study his honour.  It seems
the present favourites now are my Lord Bristol, Duke of Buckingham, Sir
H. Bennet, my Lord Ashley, and Sir Charles Barkeley; who, among them,
have cast my Lord Chancellor upon his back, past ever getting up again;
there being now little for him to do, and he waits at Court attending to
speak to the King as others do: which I pray God may prove of good
effects, for it is feared it will be the same with my Lord Treasurer
shortly.  But strange to hear how my Lord Ashley, by my Lord Bristol's
means (he being brought over to the Catholique party against the
Bishopps, whom he hates to the death, and publicly rails against them;
not that he is become a Catholique, but merely opposes the Bishopps; and
yet, for aught I hear, the Bishopp of London keeps as great with the King
as ever) is got into favour, so much that, being a man of great business
and yet of pleasure, and drolling too, he, it is thought, will be made
Lord Treasurer upon the death or removal of the good old man.  My Lord
Albemarle, I hear, do bear through and bustle among them, and will not be
removed from the King's good opinion and favour, though none of the
Cabinett; but yet he is envied enough.  It is made very doubtful whether
the King do not intend the making of the Duke of Monmouth legitimate;

     [Thomas Ross, Monmouth's tutor, put the idea into his head that
     Charles II. had married his mother.  The report was sedulously
     spread abroad, and obtained some kind of credence, until, in June,
     1678, the king set the matter at rest by publishing a declaration,
     which was entered in the Council book and registered in Chancery.
     The words of the declaration are: "That to avoid any dispute which
     might happen in time to come concerning the succession of the Crown,
     he (Charles) did declare, in the presence of Almighty God, that he
     never gave, nor made any contract of marriage, nor was married to
     Mrs. Barlow, alias Waters, the Duke of Monmouth's mother, nor to any
     other woman whatsoever, but to his present wife, Queen Catherine,
     then living."]

but surely the Commons of England will never do it, nor the Duke of York
suffer it, whose lady, I am told, is very troublesome to him by her
jealousy.  But it is wonderful that Sir Charles Barkeley should be so
great still, not [only] with the King, but Duke also; who did so stiffly
swear that he had lain with her.

     [The conspiracy of Sir Charles Berkeley, Lord Arran, Jermyn, Talbot,
     and Killigrew to traduce Anne Hyde was peculiarly disgraceful, and
     the conduct of all the actors in the affair of the marriage, from
     Lord Clarendon downwards, was far from creditable (see Lister's
     "Life of Clarendon," ii. 68-79)]

And another one Armour that he rode before her on horseback in Holland I
think .  .  .  .  No care is observed to be taken of the main chance,
either for maintaining of trade or opposing of factions, which, God
knows, are ready to break out, if any of them (which God forbid!) should
dare to begin; the King and every man about him minding so much their
pleasures or profits.  My Lord Hinchingbroke, I am told, hath had a
mischance to kill his boy by his birding-piece going off as he was a-
fowling.  The gun was charged with small shot, and hit the boy in the
face and about the temples, and he lived four days.  In Scotland, it
seems, for all the newes-books tell us every week that they are all so
quiett, and everything in the Church settled, the old woman had like to
have killed, the other day, the Bishop of Galloway, and not half the
Churches of the whole kingdom conform.  Strange were the effects of the
late thunder and lightning about a week since at Northampton, coming with
great rain, which caused extraordinary floods in a few hours, bearing
away bridges, drowning horses, men, and cattle.  Two men passing over a
bridge on horseback, the arches before and behind them were borne away,
and that left which they were upon: but, however, one of the horses fell
over, and was drowned.  Stacks of faggots carried as high as a steeple,
and other dreadful things; which Sir Thomas Crew showed me letters to him
about from Mr. Freemantle and others, that it is very true.  The
Portugalls have choused--['cheated'  D.W.]--us,

     [The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language
     at the beginning of the seventeenth century.  In 1609, a Chiaus sent
     by Sir Robert Shirley, from Constantinople to London, had chiaused
     (or choused) the Turkish and Persian merchants out of L4,000, before
     the arrival of his employer, and had decamped.  The affair was quite
     recent in 1610, when Jonson's "Alchemist" appeared, in which it is
     alluded to .]

it seems, in the Island of Bombay, in the East Indys; for after a great
charge of our fleets being sent thither with full commission from the
King of Portugall to receive it, the Governour by some pretence or other
will not deliver it to Sir Abraham Shipman, sent from the King, nor to my
Lord of Marlborough; which the King takes highly ill, and I fear our
Queen will fare the worse for it.  The Dutch decay there exceedingly, it
being believed that their people will revolt from them there, and they
forced to give over their trade.  This is talked of among us, but how
true I understand not.  Sir Thomas showed me his picture and Sir Anthony
Vandike's, in crayon in little, done exceedingly well.  Having thus
freely talked with him, and of many more things, I took leave, and by
coach to St. James's, and there told Mr. Coventry what I had done with my
Lord with great satisfaction, and so well pleased home, where I found it
almost night, and my wife and the dancing-master alone above, not dancing
but talking.  Now so deadly full of jealousy I am that my heart and head
did so cast about and fret that I could not do any business possibly, but
went out to my office, and anon late home again and ready to chide at
every thing, and then suddenly to bed and could hardly sleep, yet durst
not say any thing, but was forced to say that I had bad news from the
Duke concerning Tom Hater as an excuse to my wife, who by my folly has
too much opportunity given her with the man, who is a pretty neat black
man,--[Brown or black hair, not skin.  D.W.]-- but married.  But it is a
deadly folly and plague that I bring upon myself to be so jealous and by
giving myself such an occasion more than my wife desired of giving her
another month's dancing.  Which however shall be ended as soon as I can
possibly.  But I am ashamed to think what a course I did take by lying to
see whether my wife did wear drawers to-day as she used to do,--[How
could Mr. Wheatley have missed censoring this?  D.W.]--and other things
to raise my suspicion of her, but I found no true cause of doing it.



16th.  Up with my mind disturbed and with my last night's doubts upon me,
for which I deserve to be beaten if not really served as I am fearful of
being, especially since God knows that I do not find honesty enough in my
own mind but that upon a small temptation I could be false to her, and
therefore ought not to expect more justice from her, but God pardon both
my sin and my folly herein.  To my office and there sitting all the
morning, and at noon dined at home.  After dinner comes Pembleton, and I
being out of humour would not see him, pretending business, but, Lord!
with what jealousy did I walk up and down my chamber listening to hear
whether they danced or no, which they did, notwithstanding I afterwards
knew and did then believe that Ashwell was with them.  So to my office
awhile, and, my jealousy still reigning, I went in and, not out of any
pleasure but from that only reason, did go up to them to practise, and
did make an end of "La Duchesse," which I think I should, with a little
pains, do very well.  So broke up and saw him gone.  Then Captain Cocke
coming to me to speak about my seeming discourtesy to him in the business
of his hemp, I went to the office with him, and there discoursed it
largely and I think to his satisfaction.  Then to my business, writing
letters and other things till late at night, and so home to supper and
bed.  My mind in some better ease resolving to prevent matters for the
time to come as much as I can, it being to no purpose to trouble myself
for what is past, being occasioned too by my own folly.



17th (Lord's day).  Up and in my chamber all the morning, preparing my
great letters to my father, stating to him the perfect condition of our
estate.  My wife and Ashwell to church, and after dinner they to church
again, and I all the afternoon making an end of my morning's work, which
I did about the evening, and then to talk with my wife till after supper,
and so to bed having another small falling out and myself vexed with my
old fit of jealousy about her dancing-master.  But I am a fool for doing
it.  So to bed by daylight, I having a very great cold, so as I doubt
whether I shall be able to speak to-morrow at our attending the Duke,
being now so hoarse.



18th.  Up and after taking leave of Sir W. Batten, who is gone this day
towards Portsmouth (to little purpose, God knows) upon his survey, I home
and spent the morning at dancing; at noon Creed dined with us and Mr.
Deane Woolwich, and so after dinner came Mr. Howe, who however had enough
for his dinner, and so, having done, by coach to Westminster, she to Mrs.
Clerke and I to St. James's, where the Duke being gone down by water
to-day with the King I went thence to my Lord Sandwich's lodgings, where
Mr. Howe and I walked a while, and going towards Whitehall through the
garden Dr. Clerk and Creed called me across the bowling green, and so I
went thither and after a stay went up to Mrs. Clerke who was dressing
herself to go abroad with my wife.  But, Lord!  in what a poor condition
her best chamber is, and things about her, for all the outside and show
that she makes, but I found her just such a one as Mrs. Pierce, contrary
to my expectation, so much that I am sick and sorry to see it.  Thence
for an hour Creed and I walked to White Hall, and into the Park, seeing
the Queen and Maids of Honour passing through the house going to the
Park.  But above all, Mrs. Stuart is a fine woman, and they say now a
common mistress to the King,

     [The king said to 'la belle' Stuart, who resisted all his
     importunities, that he hoped he should live to see her "ugly and
     willing" (Lord Dartmouth's note to Burnet's "Own Time," vol. i.,
     p. 436, ed.  1823).]

as my Lady Castlemaine is; which is a great pity.  Thence taking a coach
to Mrs. Clerke's, took her, and my wife, and Ashwell, and a Frenchman,
a kinsman of hers, to the Park, where we saw many fine faces, and one
exceeding handsome, in a white dress over her head, with many others very
beautiful.  Staying there till past eight at night, I carried Mrs. Clerke
and her Frenchman, who sings well, home, and thence home ourselves,
talking much of what we had observed to-day of the poor household stuff
of Mrs. Clerke and mere show and flutter that she makes in the world;
and pleasing myself in my own house and manner of living more than ever
I did by seeing how much better and more substantially I live than others
do.  So to supper and bed.



19th.  Up pretty betimes, but yet I observe how my dancing and lying a
morning or two longer than ordinary for my cold do make me hard to rise
as I used to do, or look after my business as I am wont.  To my chamber
to make an end of my papers to my father to be sent by the post to-night,
and taking copies of them, which was a great work, but I did it this
morning, and so to my office, and thence with Sir John Minnes to the
Tower; and by Mr. Slingsby, and Mr. Howard, Controller of the Mint, we
were shown the method of making this new money, from the beginning to the
end, which is so pretty that I did take a note of every part of it and
set them down by themselves for my remembrance hereafter.  That being
done it was dinner time, and so the Controller would have us dine with
him and his company, the King giving them a dinner every day.  And very
merry and good discourse about the business we have been upon, and after
dinner went to the Assay Office and there saw the manner of assaying of
gold and silver, and how silver melted down with gold do part, just being
put into aqua-fortis, the silver turning into water, and the gold lying
whole in the very form it was put in, mixed of gold and silver, which is
a miracle; and to see no silver at all but turned into water, which they
can bring again into itself out of the water.--[Not water--a solution of
Silver Oxide.  D.W.]--And here I was made thoroughly to understand the
business of the fineness and coarseness of metals, and have put down my
lessons with my other observations therein.  At table among other
discourse they told us of two cheats, the best I ever heard.  One, of a
labourer discovered to convey away the bits of silver cut out pence by
swallowing them down into his belly, and so they could not find him out,
though, of course, they searched all the labourers; but, having reason to
doubt him, they did, by threats and promises, get him to confess, and did
find L7 of it in his house at one time.  The other of one that got a way
of coyning money as good and passable and large as the true money is, and
yet saved fifty per cent. to himself, which was by getting moulds made to
stamp groats like old groats, which is done so well, and I did beg two of
them which I keep for rarities, that there is not better in the world,
and is as good, nay, better than those that commonly go, which was the
only thing that they could find out to doubt them by, besides the number
that the party do go to put off, and then coming to the Comptroller of
the Mint, he could not, I say, find out any other thing to raise any
doubt upon, but only their being so truly round or near it, though I
should never have doubted the thing neither.  He was neither hanged nor
burned,--[No! They probably copied his technique.  D.W.]-- the cheat was
thought so ingenious, and being the first time they could ever trap him
in it, and so little hurt to any man in it, the money being as good as
commonly goes.  Thence to the office till the evening, we sat, and then
by water (taking Pembleton with us), over the water to the Halfway House,
where we played at nine-pins, and there my damned jealousy took fire, he
and my wife being of a side and I seeing of him take her by the hand in
play, though I now believe he did [it] only in passing and sport.  Thence
home and being 10 o'clock was forced to land beyond the Custom House, and
so walked home and to my office, and having dispatched my great letters
by the post to my father, of which I keep copies to show by me and for my
future understanding, I went home to supper and bed, being late.  The
most observables in the making of money which I observed to-day, is the
steps of their doing it.

1. Before they do anything they assay the bullion, which is done, if it
be gold, by taking an equal weight of that and of silver, of each a small
weight, which they reckon to be six ounces or half a pound troy; this
they wrap up in within lead.  If it be silver, they put such a quantity
of that alone and wrap it up in lead, and then putting them into little
earthen cupps made of stuff like tobacco pipes, and put them into a
burning hot furnace, where, after a while, the whole body is melted, and
at last the lead in both is sunk into the body of the cupp, which carries
away all the copper or dross with it, and left the pure gold and silver
embodyed together, of that which hath both been put into the cupp
together, and the silver alone in these where it was put alone in the
leaden case.  And to part the silver and the gold in the first
experiment, they put the mixed body into a glass of aqua-fortis, which
separates them by spitting out the silver into such small parts that you
cannot tell what it becomes, but turns into the very water and leaves the
gold at the bottom clear of itself, with the silver wholly spit out, and
yet the gold in the form that it was doubled together in when it was a
mixed body of gold and silver, which is a great mystery; and after all
this is done to get the silver together out of the water is as strange.
But the nature of the assay is thus: the piece of gold that goes into the
furnace twelve ounces, if it comes out again eleven ounces, and the piece
of silver which goes in twelve and comes out again eleven and two
pennyweight, are just of the alloy of the standard of England.  If it
comes out, either of them, either the gold above eleven, as very fine
will sometimes within very little of what it went in, or the silver above
eleven and two pennyweight, as that also will sometimes come out eleven
and ten penny weight or more, they are so much above the goodness of the
standard, and so they know what proportion of worse gold and silver to
put to such a quantity of the bullion to bring it to the exact standard.
And on the contrary, [if] it comes out lighter, then such a weight is
beneath the standard, and so requires such a proportion of fine metal to
be put to the bullion to bring it to the standard, and this is the
difference of good and bad, better and worse than the standard, and also
the difference of standards, that of Seville being the best and that of
Mexico worst, and I think they said none but Seville is better than ours.

2.  They melt it into long plates, which, if the mould do take ayre, then
the plate is not of an equal heaviness in every part of it, as it often
falls out.

3.  They draw these plates between rollers to bring them to an even
thickness all along and every plate of the same thickness, and it is very
strange how the drawing it twice easily between the rollers will make it
as hot as fire, yet cannot touch it.--[Many principles of Physics had
not yet then been deliniated.  D.W.]

4.  They bring it to another pair of rollers, which they call adjusting
it, which bring it to a greater exactness in its thickness than the first
could be.

5.  They cut them into round pieces, which they do with the greatest
ease, speed, and exactness in the world.

6.  They weigh these, and where they find any to be too heavy they file
them, which they call sizeing them; or light, they lay them by, which is
very seldom, but they are of a most exact weight, but however, in the
melting, all parts by some accident not being close alike, now and then a
difference will be, and, this filing being done, there shall not be any
imaginable difference almost between the weight of forty of these against
another forty chosen by chance out of all their heaps.

7.  These round pieces having been cut out of the plates, which in
passing the rollers are bent, they are sometimes a little crooked or
swelling out or sinking in, and therefore they have a way of clapping 100
or 2 together into an engine, which with a screw presses them so hard
that they come out as flat as is possible.

8.  They blanch them.

9.  They mark the letters on the edges, which is kept as the great secret
by Blondeau, who was not in the way, and so I did not speak with him to-
day.

     [Professor W. C. Roberts-Austen, C.B., F.R.S., chemist to the Royal
     Mint, refers to Pepys's Diary and to Blondeau's machine in his
     Cantor Lectures on "Alloys used for Coinage," printed in the
     "journal of the Society of Arts" (vol. xxxii.).  He writes, "The
     hammer was still retained for coining in the Mint in the Tower of
     London, but the question of the adoption of the screw-press by the
     Moneyers appears to have been revived in 1649, when the Council of
     State had it represented to them that the coins of the Government
     might be more perfectly and beautifully done, and made equal to any
     coins in Europe.  It was proposed to send to France for Peter
     Blondeau, who had invented and improved a machine and method for
     making all coins 'with the most beautiful polish and equality on the
     edge, or with any proper inscription or graining.'  He came on the
     3rd of September, and although a Committee of the Mint reported in
     favour of his method of coining, the Company of Moneyers, who appear
     to have boasted of the success of their predecessors in opposing the
     introduction of the mill and screw-press in Queen Elizabeth's reign,
     prevented the introduction of the machinery, and consequently he did
     not produce pattern pieces until 1653 .  .  .  .  It is certain that
     Blondeau did not invent, but only improved the method of coining by
     the screw-press, and I believe his improvements related chiefly to a
     method for `rounding the pieces before they are sized, and in making
     the edges of the moneys with letters and graining,' which he
     undertook to reveal to the king.  Special stress is laid on the
     engines wherewith the rims were marked, `which might be kept secret
     among few men.'  I cannot find that there is any record in the Paris
     mint of Blondeau's employment there, and the only reference to his
     invention in the Mint records of this country refers to the
     'collars,' or perforated discs of metal surrounding the 'blank'
     while it was struck into a coin.  There is, however, in the British
     Museum a MS. believed to be in Blondeau's hand, in which he claims
     his process, 'as a new invention, to make a handsome coyne, than can
     be found in all the world besides, viz., that shall not only be
     stamped on both flat sides, but shall even be marked with letters on
     the thickness of the brim.'  The letters were raised.  The press
     Blondeau used was, I believe, the ordinary screw-press, and I
     suppose that the presses drawn in Akerman's well-known plate of the
     coining-room of the Mint in the Tower, published in 1803 ['Microcosm
     of London,' vol.  ii., p. 202], if not actually the same machines,
     were similar to those erected in 1661-62 by Sir William Parkhurst
     and Sir Anthony St. Leger, wardens of the Mint, at a cost of L1400,
     Professor Roberts-Austen shows that Benvenuto Cellini used a similar
     press to that attributed to Blondeau, and he gives an illustration
     of this in his lecture (p. 810).  In a letter to the editor the
     professor writes: "Pepys's account of the operations of coining, and
     especially of assaying gold and silver, is very interesting and
     singularly accurate considering that he could not have had technical
     knowledge of the subject."]

10.  They mill them, that is, put on the marks on both sides at once with
great exactness and speed, and then the money is perfect.  The mill is
after this manner: one of the dyes, which has one side of the piece cut,
is fastened to a thing fixed below, and the other dye (and they tell me a
payre of dyes will last the marking of L10,000 before it be worn out,
they and all other their tools being made of hardened steel, and the
Dutchman who makes them is an admirable artist, and has so much by the
pound for every pound that is coyned to find a constant supply of dyes)
to an engine above, which is moveable by a screw, which is pulled by men;
and then a piece being clapped by one sitting below between the two dyes,
when they meet the impression is set, and then the man with his finger
strikes off the piece and claps another in, and then the other men they
pull again and that is marked, and then another and another with great
speed.  They say that this way is more charge to the King than the old
way, but it is neater, freer from clipping or counterfeiting, the putting
of the words upon the edges being not to be done (though counterfeited)
without an engine of the charge and noise that no counterfeit will be at
or venture upon, and it employs as many men as the old and speedier.
They now coyne between L16 and L24,000 in a week.  At dinner they did
discourse very finely to us of the probability that there is a vast deal
of money hid in the land, from this:--that in King Charles's time there
was near ten millions of money coyned, besides what was then in being of
King James's and Queene Elizabeth's, of which there is a good deal at
this day in being.  Next, that there was but L750,000 coyned of the Harp
and Crosse money,

     [The Commonwealth coins (stamped with the cross and harp, and the
     inscription, "The Commonwealth of England") were called in by
     proclamation, September, 1660, and when brought to the Mint an equal
     amount of lawful money was allowed for them, weight for weight,
     deducting only for the coinage (Ruding's "Annals of the Coinage," 18
     19, vol. iii., p. 293).  The harp was taken out of the naval flags
     in May, 1660.]

and of this there was L500,000 brought in upon its being called in.  And
from very good arguments they find that there cannot be less of it in
Ireland and Scotland than L100,000; so that there is but L150,000
missing; and of that, suppose that there should be not above 650,000
still remaining, either melted down, hid, or lost, or hoarded up in
England, there will then be but L100,000 left to be thought to have been
transported.  Now, if L750,000 in twelve years' time lost but a L100,000
in danger of being transported, then within thirty-five years' time will
have lost but L3,888,880 and odd pounds; and as there is L650,000
remaining after twelve years' time in England, so after thirty-five
years' time, which was within this two years, there ought in proportion
to have been resting L6,111,120 or thereabouts, beside King James's and
Queen Elizabeth's money.  Now that most of this must be hid is evident,
as they reckon, because of the dearth of money immediately upon the
calling-in of the State's money, which was L500,000 that came in; and yet
there was not any money to be had in this City, which they say to their
own observation and knowledge was so.  And therefore, though I can say
nothing in it myself, I do not dispute it.



20th.  Up and to my office, and anon home and to see my wife dancing with
Pembleton about noon, and I to the Trinity House to dinner and after
dinner home, and there met Pembleton, who I perceive has dined with my
wife, which she takes no notice of, but whether that proceeds out of
design, or fear to displease me I know not, but it put me into a great
disorder again, that I could mind nothing but vexing, but however I
continued my resolution of going down by water to Woolwich, took my wife
and Ashwell; and going out met Mr. Howe come to see me, whose horse we
caused to be set up, and took him with us.  The tide against us, so I
went ashore at Greenwich before, and did my business at the yard about
putting things in order as to their proceeding to build the new yacht
ordered to be built by Christopher Pett,

     [In the minutes of the Royal Society is the following entry: "June
     11, 1662.  Dr. Pett's brother shewed a draught of the pleasure boat
     which he intended to make for the king" (Birch's "History of the
     Royal Society," vol. i., p. 85).  Peter Pett had already built a
     yacht for the king at Deptford.]

and so to Woolwich town, where at an alehouse I found them ready to
attend my coming, and so took boat again, it being cold, and I sweating,
with my walk, which was very pleasant along the green come and pease, and
most of the way sang, he and I, and eat some cold meat we had, and with
great pleasure home, and so he took horse again, and Pembleton coming, we
danced a country dance or two and so broke up and to bed, my mind
restless and like to be so while she learns to dance.  God forgive my
folly.



21st.  Up, but cannot get up so early as I was wont, nor my mind to
business as it should be and used to be before this dancing.  However, to
my office, where most of the morning talking of Captain Cox of Chatham
about his and the whole yard's difference against Mr. Barrow the
storekeeper, wherein I told him my mind clearly, that he would be upheld
against the design of any to ruin him, he being we all believed, but Sir
W. Batten his mortal enemy, as good a servant as any the King has in the
yard.  After much good advice and other talk I home and danced with
Pembleton, and then the barber trimmed me, and so to dinner, my wife and
I having high words about her dancing to that degree that I did enter and
make a vow to myself not to oppose her or say anything to dispraise or
correct her therein as long as her month lasts, in pain of 2s. 6d.  for
every time, which, if God pleases, I will observe, for this roguish
business has brought us more disquiett than anything [that] has happened
a great while.  After dinner to my office, where late, and then home; and
Pembleton being there again, we fell to dance a country dance or two, and
so to supper and bed.  But being at supper my wife did say something that
caused me to oppose her in, she used the word devil, which vexed me, and
among other things I said I would not have her to use that word, upon
which she took me up most scornfully, which, before Ashwell and the rest
of the world, I know not now-a-days how to check, as I would heretofore,
for less than that would have made me strike her.  So that I fear without
great discretion I shall go near to lose too my command over her, and
nothing do it more than giving her this occasion of dancing and other
pleasures, whereby her mind is taken up from her business and finds other
sweets besides pleasing of me, and so makes her that she begins not at
all to take pleasure in me or study to please me as heretofore.  But if
this month of her dancing were but out (as my first was this night, and I
paid off Pembleton for myself) I shall hope with a little pains to bring
her to her old wont.  This day Susan that lived with me lately being out
of service, and I doubt a simple wench, my wife do take her for a little
time to try her at least till she goes into the country, which I am yet
doubtful whether it will be best for me to send her or no, for fear of
her running off in her liberty before I have brought her to her right
temper again.



22nd.  Up pretty betimes, and shall, I hope, come to myself and business
again, after a small playing the truant, for I find that my interest and
profit do grow daily, for which God be praised and keep me to my duty.
To my office, and anon one tells me that Rundall, the house-carpenter of
Deptford, hath sent me a fine blackbird, which I went to see.  He tells
me he was offered 20s.  for him as he came along, he do so whistle.  So
to my office, and busy all the morning, among other things, learning to
understand the course of the tides, and I think I do now do it.  At noon
Mr. Creed comes to me, and he and I to the Exchange, where I had much
discourse with several merchants, and so home with him to dinner, and
then by water to Greenwich, and calling at the little alehouse at the end
of the town to wrap a rag about my little left toe, being new sore with
walking, we walked pleasantly to Woolwich, in our way hearing the
nightingales sing.  So to Woolwich yard, and after doing many things
there, among others preparing myself for a dispute against Sir W. Pen in
the business of Bowyer's, wherein he is guilty of some corruption to the
King's wrong, we walked back again without drinking, which I never do
because I would not make my coming troublesome to any, nor would become
obliged too much to any.  In our going back we were overtook by Mr.
Steventon, a purser, and uncle to my clerk Will, who told me how he was
abused in the passing of his accounts by Sir J. Minnes to the degree that
I am ashamed to hear it, and resolve to retrieve the matter if I can
though the poor man has given it over.  And however am pleased enough to
see that others do see his folly and dotage as well as myself, though I
believe in my mind the man in general means well.

Took boat at Greenwich and to Deptford, where I did the same thing, and
found Davis, the storekeeper, a knave, and shuffling in the business of
Bewpers, being of the party with Young and Whistler to abuse the King,
but I hope I shall be even with them.  So walked to Redriffe, drinking at
the Half-way house, and so walked and by water to White Hall, all our way
by water coming and going reading a little book said to be writ by a
person of Quality concerning English gentry to be preferred before
titular honours, but the most silly nonsense, no sense nor grammar, yet
in as good words that ever I saw in all my life, but from beginning to
end you met not with one entire and regular sentence.  At White Hall Sir
G. Carteret was out of the way, and so returned back presently, and home
by water and to bed.



23rd.  Waked this morning between four and five by my blackbird, which
whistles as well as ever I heard any; only it is the beginning of many
tunes very well, but there leaves them, and goes no further.  So up and
to my office, where we sat, and among other things I had a fray with Sir
J. Minnes in defence of my Will in a business where the old coxcomb would
have put a foot upon him, which was only in Jack Davis and in him a
downright piece of knavery in procuring a double ticket and getting the
wrong one paid as well as the second was to the true party.  But it
appeared clear enough to the board that Will was true in it.  Home to
dinner, and after dinner by water to the Temple, and there took my Lyra
Viall book bound up with blank paper for new lessons.  Thence to
Greatorex's, and there seeing Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen go by coach I
went in to them and to White Hall; where, in the Matted Gallery, Mr.
Coventry was, who told us how the Parliament have required of Sir G.
Carteret and him an account what money shall be necessary to be settled
upon the Navy for the ordinary charge, which they intend to report
L200,000 per annum.  And how to allott this we met this afternoon, and
took their papers for our perusal, and so we parted.  Only there was
walking in the gallery some of the Barbary company, and there we saw a
draught of the arms of the company, which the King is of, and so is
called the Royall Company, which is, in a field argent an elephant
proper, with a canton on which England and France is quartered, supported
by two Moors.  The crest an anchor winged, I think it is, and the motto
too tedious: "Regio floret, patrocinio commercium, commercioque Regnum."
Thence back by water to Greatorex's, and there he showed me his varnish
which he had invented, which appears every whit as good, upon a stick
which he hath done, as the Indian, though it did not do very well upon my
paper ruled with musique lines, for it sunk and did not shine.  Thence
home by water, and after a dance with Pembleton to my office and wrote by
the post to Sir W. Batten at Portsmouth to send for him up against next
Wednesday, being our triall day against Field at Guildhall, in which God
give us good end.  So home: to supper and to bed.



24th (Lord's day).  Having taken one of Mr. Holliard's pills last night
it brought a stool or two this morning, and so forebore going to church
this morning, but staid at home looking over my papers about Tom Trice's
business, and so at noon dined, and my wife telling me that there was a
pretty lady come to church with Peg Pen to-day, I against my intention
had a mind to go to church to see her, and did so, and she is pretty
handsome.  But over against our gallery I espied Pembleton, and saw him
leer upon my wife all the sermon, I taking no notice of him, and my wife
upon him, and I observed she made a curtsey to him at coming out without
taking notice to me at all of it, which with the consideration of her
being desirous these two last Lord's days to go to church both forenoon
and afternoon do really make me suspect something more than ordinary,
though I am loth to think the worst, but yet it put and do still keep me
at a great loss in my mind, and makes me curse the time that I consented
to her dancing, and more my continuing it a second month, which was more
than she desired, even after I had seen too much of her carriage with
him.  But I must have patience and get her into the country, or at least
to make an end of her learning to dance as soon as I can.  After sermon
to Sir W. Pen's, with Sir J. Minnes to do a little business to answer Mr.
Coventry to-night.  And so home and with my wife and Ashwell into the
garden walking a great while, discoursing what this pretty wench should
be by her garb and deportment; with respect to Mrs. Pen she may be her
woman, but only that she sat in the pew with her, which I believe he
would not let her do.  So home, and read to my wife a fable or two in
Ogleby's AEsop, and so to supper, and then to prayers and to bed.  My
wife this evening discoursing of making clothes for the country, which I
seem against, pleading lack of money, but I am glad of it in some
respects because of getting her out of the way from this fellow, and my
own liberty to look after my business more than of late I have done.  So
to prayers and to bed.  This morning it seems Susan, who I think is
distracted, or however is since she went from me taught to drink, and so
gets out of doors 2 or 3 times a day without leave to the alehouse, did
go before 5 o'clock to-day, making Griffin rise in his shirt to let her
out to the alehouse, she said to warm herself, but her mistress, falling
out with her about it, turned her out of doors this morning, and so she
is gone like an idle slut.  I took a pill also this night.



25th.  Up, and my pill working a little I staid within most of the
morning, and by and by the barber came and Sarah Kite my cozen, poor
woman, came to see me and borrow 40s. of me, telling me she will pay it
at Michaelmas again to me.  I was glad it was no more, being indifferent
whether she pays it me or no, but it will be a good excuse to lend her
nor give her any more.  So I did freely at first word do it, and give her
a crown more freely to buy her child something, she being a good-natured
and painful wretch, and one that I would do good for as far as I can that
I might not be burdened.  My wife was not ready, and she coming early did
not see her, and I was glad of it.  She gone, I up and then hear that my
wife and her maid Ashwell had between them spilled the pot .  .  .  .
upon the floor and stool and God knows what, and were mighty merry making
of it clean.  I took no great notice, but merrily.  Ashwell did by and by
come to me with an errand from her mistress to desire money to buy a
country suit for her against she goes as we talked last night, and so I
did give her L4, and believe it will cost me the best part of 4 more to
fit her out, but with peace and honour I am willing to spare anything so
as to be able to keep all ends together, and my power over her
undisturbed.  So to my office and by and by home, where my wife and her
master were dancing, and so I staid in my chamber till they had done, and
sat down myself to try a little upon the Lyra viall, my hand being almost
out, but easily brought to again.  So by and by to dinner, and then
carried my wife and Ashwell to St. James's, and there they sat in the
coach while I went in, and finding nobody there likely to meet with the
Duke, but only Sir J. Minnes with my Lord Barkely (who speaks very
kindly, and invites me with great compliments to come now and then and
eat with him, which I am glad to hear, though I value not the thing, but
it implies that my esteem do increase rather than fall), and so I staid
not, but into the coach again, and taking up my wife's taylor, it raining
hard, they set me down, and who should our coachman be but Carleton the
Vintner, that should have had Mrs. Sarah, at Westminster, my Lord
Chancellor's, and then to Paternoster Row.  I staid there to speak with
my Lord Sandwich, and in my staying, meeting Mr. Lewis Phillips of
Brampton, he and afterwards others tell me that news came last night to
Court, that the King of France is sick of the spotted fever, and that
they are struck in again; and this afternoon my Lord Mandeville is gone
from the King to make him a visit; which will be great news, and of great
import through Europe.  By and by, out comes my Lord Sandwich, and he and
I talked a great while about his business, of his accounts for his pay,
and among other things he told me that this day a vote hath passed that
the King's grants of land to my Lord Monk and him should be made good;
which pleases him very well.  He also tells me that things don't go right
in the House with Mr. Coventry; I suppose he means in the business of
selling of places; but I am sorry for it.  Thence by coach home, where I
found Pembleton, and so I up to dance with them till the evening, when
there came Mr. Alsopp, the King's brewer, and Lanyon of Plymouth to see
me.  Mr. Alsopp tells me of a horse of his that lately, after four days'
pain, voided at his fundament four stones, bigger than that I was cut of,
very heavy, and in the middle of each of them either a piece of iron or
wood.  The King has two of them in his closett, and a third the College
of Physicians to keep for rarity, and by the King's command he causes the
turd of the horse to be every day searched to find more.  At night to see
Sir W. Batten come home this day from Portsmouth.  I met with some that
say that the King of France is poisoned, but how true that is is not
known.  So home to supper and to bed pleasant.



26th.  Lay long in bed talking and pleasing myself with my wife.--[We
have had several examples such as this, in the past few days diary, of
Mr. Wheatley tiring of his self-imposed work of censorship.  D.W.]--So up
and to my office a while and then home, where I found Pembleton, and by
many circumstances I am led to conclude that there is something more than
ordinary between my wife and him, which do so trouble me that I know not
at this very minute that I now write this almost what either I write or
am doing, nor how to carry myself to my wife in it, being unwilling to
speak of it to her for making of any breach and other inconveniences, nor
let it pass for fear of her continuing to offend me and the matter grow
worse thereby.  So that I am grieved at the very heart, but I am very
unwise in being so.  There dined with me Mr. Creed and Captain Grove, and
before dinner I had much discourse in my chamber with Mr. Deane, the
builder of Woolwich, about building of ships.  But nothing could get the
business out of my head, I fearing that this afternoon by my wife's
sending every [one] abroad and knowing that I must be at the office she
has appointed him to come.  This is my devilish jealousy, which I pray
God may be false, but it makes a very hell in my mind, which the God of
heaven remove, or I shall be very unhappy.  So to the office, where we
sat awhile.  By and by my mind being in great trouble I went home to see
how things were, and there I found as I doubted Mr. Pembleton with my
wife, and nobody else in the house, which made me almost mad, and going
up to my chamber after a turn or two I went out again and called somebody
on pretence of business and left him in my little room at the door (it
was the Dutchman, commander of the King's pleasure boats, who having been
beat by one of his men sadly, was come to the office to-day to complain)
telling him I would come again to him to speak with him about his
business.  So in great trouble and doubt to the office, and Mr. Coventry
nor Sir G. Carteret being there I made a quick end of our business and
desired leave to be gone, pretending to go to the Temple, but it was
home, and so up to my chamber, and as I think if they had any intention
of hurt I did prevent doing anything at that time, but I continued in my
chamber vexed and angry till he went away, pretending aloud, that I might
hear, that he could not stay, and Mrs. Ashwell not being within they
could not dance.  And, Lord!  to see how my jealousy wrought so far that
I went softly up to see whether any of the beds were out of order or no,
which I found not, but that did not content me, but I staid all the
evening walking, and though anon my wife came up to me and would have
spoke of business to me, yet I construed it to be but impudence, and
though my heart full yet I did say nothing, being in a great doubt what
to do.  So at night, suffered them to go all to bed, and late put myself
to bed in great discontent, and so to sleep.



27th.  So I waked by 3 o'clock, my mind being troubled, and so took
occasion by making water to wake my wife, and after having lain till past
4 o'clock seemed going to rise, though I did it only to see what she
would do, and so going out of the bed she took hold of me and would know
what ailed me, and after many kind and some cross words I began to tax
her discretion in yesterday's business, but she quickly told me my own,
knowing well enough that it was my old disease of jealousy, which I
denied, but to no purpose.  After an hour's discourse, sometimes high and
sometimes kind, I found very good reason to think that her freedom with
him is very great and more than was convenient, but with no evil intent,
and so after awhile I caressed her and parted seeming friends, but she
crying in a great discontent.  So I up and by water to the Temple, and
thence with Commissioner Pett to St. James's, where an hour with Mr.
Coventry talking of Mr. Pett's proceedings lately in the forest of
Sherwood, and thence with Pett to my Lord Ashley, Chancellor of the
Exchequer; where we met the auditors about settling the business of the
accounts of persons to whom money is due before the King's time in the
Navy, and the clearing of their imprests for what little of their debts
they have received.  I find my Lord, as he is reported, a very ready,
quick, and diligent person.  Thence I to Westminster Hall, where Term and
Parliament make the Hall full of people; no further news yet of the King
of France, whether he be dead or not.  Here I met with my cozen Roger
Pepys, and walked a good while with him, and among other discourse as a
secret he hath committed to nobody but myself, and he tells me that his
sister Claxton now resolving to give over the keeping of his house at
Impington, he thinks it fit to marry again, and would have me, by the
help of my uncle Wight or others, to look him out a widow between thirty
and forty years old, without children, and with a fortune, which he will
answer in any degree with a joynture fit for her fortune.  A woman sober,
and no high-flyer, as he calls it.  I demanded his estate.  He tells me,
which he says also he hath not done to any, that his estate is not full
L800 per annum, but it is L780 per annum, of which L200 is by the death
of his last wife, which he will allot for a joynture for a wife, but the
rest, which lies in Cambridgeshire, he is resolved to leave entire for
his eldest son.  I undertook to do what I can in it, and so I shall.  He
tells me that the King hath sent to them to hasten to make an end by
midsummer, because of his going into the country; so they have set upon
four bills to dispatch: the first of which is, he says, too devilish a
severe act against conventicles; so beyond all moderation, that he is
afeard it will ruin all: telling me that it is matter of the greatest
grief to him in the world, that he should be put upon this trust of being
a Parliament-man, because he says nothing is done, that he can see, out
of any truth and sincerity, but mere envy and design.  Thence by water to
Chelsey, all the way reading a little book I bought of "Improvement of
Trade," a pretty book and many things useful in it.  So walked to Little
Chelsey, where I found my Lord Sandwich with Mr. Becke, the master of the
house, and Mr. Creed at dinner, and I sat down with them, and very merry.
After dinner (Mr. Gibbons being come in also before dinner done) to
musique, they played a good Fancy, to which my Lord is fallen again, and
says he cannot endure a merry tune, which is a strange turn of his
humour, after he has for two or three years flung off the practice of
Fancies and played only fidlers' tunes.  Then into the Great Garden up to
the Banqueting House; and there by his glass we drew in the species very
pretty.  Afterwards to ninepins, where I won a shilling, Creed and I
playing against my Lord and Cooke.  This day there was great thronging to
Banstead Downs, upon a great horse-race and foot-race.  I am sorry I
could not go thither.  So home back as I came, to London Bridge, and so
home, where I find my wife in a musty humour, and tells me before Ashwell
that Pembleton had been there, and she would not have him come in unless
I was there, which I was ashamed of; but however, I had rather it should
be so than the other way.  So to my office, to put things in order there,
and by and by comes Pembleton, and word is brought me from my wife
thereof that I might come home.  So I sent word that I would have her go
dance, and I would come presently.  So being at a great loss whether I
should appear to Pembleton or no, and what would most proclaim my
jealousy to him, I at last resolved to go home, and took Tom Hater with
me, and staid a good while in my chamber, and there took occasion to tell
him how I hear that Parliament is putting an act out against all sorts of
conventicles,

     [16 Car. II., cap. 4, "An Act to prevent and suppresse seditious
     Conventicles."  It was enacted that anyone of the age of sixteen or
     upwards present at an unlawful assembly or conventicle was to incur
     fine or imprisonment.  A conventicle was defined as an assembly of
     more than five persons besides the members of a family met together
     for holding worship not according to the rites of the Church of
     England.  The act was amended 22 Car. II., cap. i (1670), and
     practically repealed by the Toleration Act of 1689, but the act 22
     Car. II., cap. i, was specially repealed 52 Geo. III., cap. 155, s.
     1.]

and did give him good counsel, not only in his own behalf, but my own,
that if he did hear or know anything that could be said to my prejudice,
that he would tell me, for in this wicked age (specially Sir W. Batten
being so open to my reproaches, and Sir J. Minnes, for the neglect of
their duty, and so will think themselves obliged to scandalize me all
they can to right themselves if there shall be any inquiry into the
matters of the Navy, as I doubt there will) a man ought to be prepared to
answer for himself in all things that can be inquired concerning him.
After much discourse of this nature to him I sent him away, and then went
up, and there we danced country dances, and single, my wife and I; and my
wife paid him off for this month also, and so he is cleared.  After
dancing we took him down to supper, and were very merry, and I made
myself so, and kind to him as much as I could, to prevent his discourse,
though I perceive to my trouble that he knows all, and may do me the
disgrace to publish it as much as he can.  Which I take very ill, and if
too much provoked shall witness it to her.  After supper and he gone we
to bed.



28th.  Up this morning, and my wife, I know not for what cause, being
against going to Chelsey to-day, it being a holy day (Ascension Day) and
I at leisure, it being the first holy day almost that we have observed
ever since we came to the office, we did give Ashwell leave to go by
herself, and I out to several places about business.  Among others to Dr.
Williams, to reckon with him for physique that my wife has had for a year
or two, coming to almost L4.  Then to the Exchange, where I hear that the
King had letters yesterday from France that the King there is in a [way]
of living again, which I am glad to hear.  At the coffee-house in
Exchange Alley I bought a little book, "Counsell to Builders," by Sir
Balth. Gerbier.  It is dedicated almost to all the men of any great
condition in England, so that the Epistles are more than the book itself,
and both it and them not worth a turd, that I am ashamed that I bought
it.  Home and there found Creed, who dined with us, and after dinner by
water to the Royall Theatre; but that was so full they told us we could
have no room.  And so to the Duke's House; and there saw "Hamlett" done,
giving us fresh reason never to think enough of Betterton.  Who should we
see come upon the stage but Gosnell, my wife's maid? but neither spoke,
danced, nor sung; which I was sorry for.  But she becomes the stage very
well.  Thence by water home, after we had walked to and fro, backwards
and forwards, six or seven times in the Temple walks, disputing whether
to go by land or water.  By land home, and thence by water to Halfway
House, and there eat some supper we carried with us, and so walked home
again, it being late we were forced to land at the dock, my wife and
they, but I in a humour not willing to daub my shoes went round by the
Custom House.  So home, and by and by to bed, Creed lying with me in the
red chamber all night.



29th.  This day is kept strictly as a holy-day, being the King's
Coronation.  We lay long in bed, and it rained very hard, rain and hail,
almost all the morning.  By and by Creed and I abroad, and called at
several churches; and it is a wonder to see, and by that to guess the ill
temper of the City at this time, either to religion in general, or to the
King, that in some churches there was hardly ten people in the whole
church, and those poor people.  So to a coffee-house, and there in
discourse hear the King of France is likely to be well again.  So home to
dinner, and out by water to the Royall Theatre, but they not acting
to-day, then to the Duke's house, and there saw "The Slighted Mayde,"
wherein Gosnell acted Pyramena, a great part, and did it very well, and I
believe will do it better and better, and prove a good actor.  The play
is not very excellent, but is well acted, and in general the actors, in
all particulars, are better than at the other house.  Thence to the Cocke
alehouse, and there having drunk, sent them with Creed to see the German
Princess,

     [Mary Moders, alias Stedman, a notorious impostor, who pretended to
     be a German princess.  Her arrival as the German princess "at the
     Exchange Tavern, right against the Stocks betwixt the Poultry and
     Cornhill, at 5 in the morning .  .  .  ., with her marriage to
     Carleton the taverner's wife's brother," are incidents fully
     narrated in Francis Kirkman's "Counterfeit Lady Unveiled," 1673
     ("Boyne's Tokens," ed.  Williamson, vol. i., p. 703).  Her
     adventures formed the plot of a tragi-comedy by T. P., entitled "A
     Witty Combat, or the Female Victor," 1663, which was acted with
     great applause by persons of quality in Whitsun week.  Mary Carleton
     was tried at the Old Bailey for bigamy and acquitted, after which
     she appeared on the stage in her own character as the heroine of a
     play entitled "The German Princess."  Pepys went to the Duke's House
     to see her on April 15th, 1664.  The rest of her life was one
     continued course of robbery and fraud, and in 1678 she was executed
     at Tyburn for stealing a piece of plate in Chancery Lane.]

at the Gatehouse, at Westminster, and I to my brother's, and thence to my
uncle Fenner's to have seen my aunt James (who has been long in town and
goes away to-morrow and I not seen her), but did find none of them
within, which I was glad of, and so back to my brother's to speak with
him, and so home, and in my way did take two turns forwards and backwards
through the Fleete Ally to see a couple of pretty [strumpets] that stood
off the doors there, and God forgive me I could scarce stay myself from
going into their houses with them, so apt is my nature to evil after
once, as I have these two days, set upon pleasure again.  So home and to
my office to put down these two days' journalls, then home again and to
supper, and then Creed and I to bed with good discourse, only my mind
troubled about my spending my time so badly for these seven or eight
days; but I must impute it to the disquiet that my mind has been in of
late about my wife, and for my going these two days to plays, for which
I have paid the due forfeit by money and abating the times of going to
plays at Court, which I am now to remember that I have cleared all my
times that I am to go to Court plays to the end of this month, and so
June is the first time that I am to begin to reckon.



30th.  Up betimes, and Creed and I by water to Fleet Street, and my
brother not being ready, he and I walked to the New Exchange, and there
drank our morning draught of whay, the first I have done this year; but I
perceive the lawyers come all in as they go to the Hall, and I believe it
is very good.  So to my brother's, and there I found my aunt James, a
poor, religious, well-meaning, good soul, talking of nothing but God
Almighty, and that with so much innocence that mightily pleased me.
Here was a fellow that said grace so long like a prayer; I believe the
fellow is a cunning fellow, and yet I by my brother's desire did give him
a crown, he being in great want, and, it seems, a parson among the
fanatiques, and a cozen of my poor aunt's, whose prayers she told me did
do me good among the many good souls that did by my father's desires pray
for me when I was cut of the stone, and which God did hear, which I also
in complaisance did own; but, God forgive me, my mind was otherwise.
I had a couple of lobsters and some wine for her, and so, she going out
of town to-day, and being not willing to come home with me to dinner,
I parted and home, where we sat at the office all the morning, and after
dinner all the afternoon till night, there at my office getting up the
time that I have of late lost by not following my business, but I hope
now to settle my mind again very well to my business.  So home, and after
supper did wash my feet, and so to bed.



31st (Lord's day).  Lay long in bed talking with my wife, and do plainly
see that her distaste (which is beginning now in her again) against
Ashwell arises from her jealousy of me and her, and my neglect of
herself, which indeed is true, and I to blame; but for the time to come
I will take care to remedy all.  So up and to church, where I think I did
see Pembleton, whatever the reason is I did not perceive him to look up
towards my wife, nor she much towards him; however, I could hardly keep
myself from being troubled that he was there, which is a madness not to
be excused now that his coming to my house is past, and I hope all
likelyhood of her having occasion to converse with him again.  Home to
dinner, and after dinner up and read part of the new play of "The Five
Houres' Adventures," which though I have seen it twice; yet I never did
admire or understand it enough, it being a play of the greatest plot that
ever I expect to see, and of great vigour quite through the whole play,
from beginning to the end.  To church again after dinner (my wife finding
herself ill .  .  .  .  did not go), and there the Scot preaching I slept
most of the sermon.  This day Sir W. Batten's son's child is christened
in the country, whither Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W, Batten, and Sir W. Pen
are all gone.  I wonder, and take it highly ill that I am not invited by
the father, though I know his father and mother, with whom I am never
likely to have much kindness, but rather I study the contrary, are the
cause of it, and in that respect I am glad of it.  Being come from
church, I to make up my month's accounts, and find myself clear worth
L726, for which God be praised, but yet I might have been better by L20
almost had I forborne some layings out in dancing and other things upon
my wife, and going to plays and other things merely to ease my mind as to
the business of the dancing-master, which I bless God is now over and I
falling to my quiet of mind and business again, which I have for a
fortnight neglected too much.  This month the greatest news is, the
height and heat that the Parliament is in, in enquiring into the revenue,
which displeases the Court, and their backwardness to give the King any
money.  Their enquiring into the selling of places do trouble a great
many among the chief, my Lord Chancellor (against whom particularly it is
carried), and Mr. Coventry; for which I am sorry.  The King of France was
given out to be poisoned and dead; but it proves to be the measles: and
he is well, or likely to be soon well again.  I find myself growing in
the esteem and credit that I have in the office, and I hope falling to my
business again will confirm me in it, and the saving of money which God
grant!  So to supper, prayers, and bed.  My whole family lying longer
this morning than was fit, and besides Will having neglected to brush my
clothes, as he ought to do, till I was ready to go to church, and not
then till I bade him, I was very angry, and seeing him make little matter
of it, but seeming to make it a matter indifferent whether he did it or
no, I did give him a box on the ear, and had it been another day should
have done more.  This is the second time I ever struck him.






                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                                 JUNE
                                 1663


June 1st.  Begun again to rise betimes by 4 o'clock, and made an end of
"The Adventures of Five Houres," and it is a most excellent play.  So to
my office, where a while and then about several businesses, in my way to
my brother's, where I dined (being invited) with Mr. Peter and Dean
Honiwood,  where Tom did give us a very pretty dinner, and we very
pleasant, but not very merry, the Dean being but a weak man, though very
good.  I was forced to rise, being in haste to St. James's to attend the
Duke, and left them to end their dinner; but the Duke having been
a-hunting to-day, and so lately come home and gone to bed, we could not
see him, and Mr. Coventry being out of the house too, we walked away to
White Hall and there took coach, and I with Sir J. Minnes to the Strand
May-pole; and there 'light out of his coach, and walked to the New
Theatre, which, since the King's players are gone to the Royal one,
is this day begun to be employed by the fencers to play prizes at.
And here I came and saw the first prize I ever saw in my life: and it was
between one Mathews, who did beat at all weapons, and one Westwicke, who
was soundly cut several times both in the head and legs, that he was all
over blood: and other deadly blows they did give and take in very good
earnest, till Westwicke was in a most sad pickle.  They fought at eight
weapons, three bouts at each weapon.  It was very well worth seeing,
because I did till this day think that it has only been a cheat; but this
being upon a private quarrel, they did it in good earnest; and I felt one
of their swords, and found it to be very little, if at all blunter on the
edge, than the common swords are.  Strange to see what a deal of money is
flung to them both upon the stage between every bout.  But a woful rude
rabble there was, and such noises, made my head ake all this evening.
So, well pleased for once with this sight, I walked home, doing several
businesses by the way.  In my way calling to see Commissioner Pett, who
lies sick at his daughter, a pretty woman, in Gracious Street, but is
likely to be abroad again in a day or two.  At home I found my wife in
bed all this day .  .  .  .  I went to see Sir Wm. Pen, who has a little
pain of his gout again, but will do well.  So home to supper and to bed.
This day I hear at Court of the great plot which was lately discovered in
Ireland, made among the Presbyters and others, designing to cry up the
Covenant, and to secure Dublin Castle and other places; and they have
debauched a good part of the army there, promising them ready money.

     [This  was known as "Blood's Plot," and was named after Colonel
     Thomas Blood, afterwards notorious for his desperate attack upon the
     Duke of Ormond in St. James's Street (1670) and for his robbery of
     the crown jewels in the Tower (1671).  He died August 24th, 1680.]

Some of the Parliament there, they say, are guilty, and some withdrawn
upon it; several persons taken, and among others a son of Scott's, that
was executed here for the King's murder.  What reason the King hath, I
know not; but it seems he is doubtfull of Scotland: and this afternoon,
when I was there, the Council was called extraordinary; and they were
opening the letters this last post's coming and going between Scotland
and us and other places.  Blessed be God, my head and hands are clear,
and therefore my sleep safe.  The King of France is well again.



2d.  Up and by water to White Hall and so to St. James's, to Mr.
Coventry; where I had an hour's private talk with him.  Most of it was
discourse concerning his own condition, at present being under the
censure of the House, being concerned with others in the Bill for selling
of offices.  He tells me, that though he thinks himself to suffer much in
his fame hereby, yet he values nothing more of evil to hang over him for
that it is against no statute, as is pretended, nor more than what his
predecessors time out of mind have taken;

     [This reminds one of the prosecution of Sir. Francis Bacon of an
     earlier century.  Queen Elizabeth established then, for the first
     time, salaries for government officers, that they need not provide a
     living for themselves by selling offices and services.  D.W.]

and that so soon as he found himself to be in an errour, he did desire to
have his fees set, which was done; and since that he hath not taken a
token more.  He undertakes to prove, that he did never take a token of
any captain to get him employed in his life beforehand, or demanded any
thing: and for the other accusation, that the Cavaliers are not employed,
he looked over the list of them now in the service, and of the twenty-
seven that are employed, thirteen have been heretofore always under the
King; two neutralls, and the other twelve men of great courage, and such
as had either the King's particular commands, or great recommendation to
put them in, and none by himself.  Besides that, he says it is not the
King's nor Duke's opinion that the whole party of the late officers
should be rendered desperate.  And lastly, he confesses that the more of
the Cavaliers are put in, the less of discipline hath followed in the
fleet; and that, whenever there comes occasion, it must be the old ones
that must do any good, there being only, he says, but Captain Allen good
for anything of them all.  He tells me, that he cannot guess whom all
this should come from; but he suspects Sir G. Carteret, as I also do, at
least that he is pleased with it.  But he tells me that he will bring Sir
G. Carteret to be the first adviser and instructor of him what to make
his place of benefit to him; telling him that Smith did make his place
worth L5000 and he believed L7000 to him the first year; besides
something else greater than all this, which he forbore to tell me.  It
seems one Sir Thomas Tomkins of the House, that makes many mad motions,
did bring it into the House, saying that a letter was left at his
lodgings, subscribed by one Benson (which is a feigned name, for there is
no such man in the Navy), telling him how many places in the Navy have
been sold.  And by another letter, left in the same manner since, nobody
appearing, he writes him that there is one Hughes and another Butler
(both rogues, that have for their roguery been turned out of their
places), that will swear that Mr. Coventry did sell their places and
other things.  I offered him my service, and will with all my heart serve
him; but he tells me he do not think it convenient to meddle, or to any
purpose, but is sensible of my love therein.  So I bade him good morrow,
he being out of order to speak anything of our office business, and so
away to Westminster Hall, where I hear more of the plot from Ireland;
which it seems hath been hatching, and known to the Lord Lieutenant a
great while, and kept close till within three days that it should have
taken effect.  The term ended yesterday, and it seems the Courts rose
sooner, for want of causes, than it is remembered to have done in the
memory of man.  Thence up and down about business in several places, as
to speak with Mr. Phillips, but missed him, and so to Mr. Beacham, the
goldsmith, he being one of the jury to-morrow in Sir W. Batten's case
against Field.  I have been telling him our case, and I believe he will
do us good service there.  So home, and seeing my wife had dined I went,
being invited, and dined with Sir W. Batten, Sir J. Minnes, and others,
at Sir W. Batten's, Captain Allen giving them a Foy' dinner, he being to
go down to lie Admiral in the Downs this summer.  I cannot but think it a
little strange that having been so civil to him as I have been he should
not invite me to dinner, but I believe it was but a sudden motion, and so
I heard not of it.  After dinner to the office, where all the afternoon
till late, and so to see Sir W. Pen, and so home to supper and to bed.
To-night I took occasion with the vintner's man, who came by my direction
to taste again my tierce of claret, to go down to the cellar with him to
consult about the drawing of it; and there, to my great vexation, I find
that the cellar door hath long been kept unlocked, and above half the
wine drunk.  I was deadly mad at it, and examined my people round, but
nobody would confess it; but I did examine the boy, and afterwards Will,
and told him of his sitting up after we were in bed with the maids, but
as to that business he denies it, which I can [not] remedy, but I shall
endeavour to know how it went.  My wife did also this evening tell me a
story of Ashwell stealing some new ribbon from her, a yard or two, which
I am sorry to hear, and I fear my wife do take a displeasure against her,
that they will hardly stay together, which I should be sorry for, because
I know not where to pick such another out anywhere.



3rd.  Up betimes, and studying of my double horizontal diall against Dean
Honiwood comes to me, who dotes mightily upon it, and I think I must give
it him.  So after talking with Sir W. Batten, who is this morning gone to
Guildhall to his trial with Field, I to my office, and there read all the
morning in my statute-book, consulting among others the statute against
selling of offices, wherein Mr. Coventry is so much concerned; and though
he tells me that the statute do not reach him, yet I much fear that it
will.  At noon, hearing that the trial is done, and Sir W. Batten come to
the Sun behind the Exchange I went thither, where he tells me that he had
much ado to carry it on his side, but that at last he did, but the jury,
by the judge's favour, did give us but; L10 damages and the charges of
the suit, which troubles me; but it is well it went not against us, which
would have been much worse.  So to the Exchange, and thence home to
dinner, taking Deane of Woolwich along with me, and he dined alone with
my wife being undressed, and he and I spent all the afternoon finely,
learning of him the method of drawing the lines of a ship, to my great
satisfaction, and which is well worth my spending some time in, as I
shall do when my wife is gone into the country.  In the evening to the
office and did some business, then home, and, God forgive me, did from my
wife's unwillingness to tell me whither she had sent the boy, presently
suspect that he was gone to Pembleton's, and from that occasion grew so
discontented that I could hardly speak or sleep all night.



4th.  Up betimes, and my wife and Ashwell and I whiled away the morning
up and down while they got themselves ready, and I did so watch to see my
wife put on drawers, which poor soul she did, and yet I could not get off
my suspicions, she having a mind to go into Fenchurch Street before she
went out for good and all with me, which I must needs construe to be to
meet Pembleton, when she afterwards told me it was to buy a fan that she
had not a mind that I should know of, and I believe it is so.  Specially
I did by a wile get out of my boy that he did not yesterday go to
Pembleton's or thereabouts, but only was sent all that time for some
starch, and I did see him bringing home some, and yet all this cannot
make my mind quiet.  At last by coach I carried her to Westminster Hall,
and they two to Mrs. Bowyer to go from thence to my wife's father's and
Ashwell to hers, and by and by seeing my wife's father in the Hall, and
being loth that my wife should put me to another trouble and charge by
missing him to-day, I did employ a porter to go from a person unknown to
tell him his daughter was come to his lodgings, and I at a distance did
observe him, but, Lord! what a company of questions he did ask him, what
kind of man I was, and God knows what.  So he went home, and after I had
staid in the Hall a good while, where I heard that this day the
Archbishop of Canterbury, Juxon, a man well spoken of by all for a good
man, is dead; and the Bishop of London is to have his seat.  Home by
water, where by and by comes Dean Honiwood, and I showed him my double
horizontal diall, and promise to give him one, and that shall be it.  So,
without eating or drinking, he went away to Mr. Turner's, where Sir J.
Minnes do treat my Lord Chancellor and a great deal of guests to-day with
a great dinner, which I thank God I do not pay for; and besides, I doubt
it is too late for any man to expect any great service from my Lord
Chancellor, for which I am sorry, and pray God a worse do not come in his
room.  So I to dinner alone, and so to my chamber, and then to the office
alone, my head aching and my mind in trouble for my wife, being jealous
of her spending the day, though God knows I have no great reason.  Yet my
mind is troubled.  By and by comes Will Howe to see us, and walked with
me an hour in the garden, talking of my Lord's falling to business again,
which I am glad of, and his coming to lie at his lodgings at White Hall
again.  The match between Sir J. Cutts and my Lady Jemimah, he says, is
likely to go on; for which I am glad.  In the Hall to-day Dr. Pierce
tells me that the Queen begins to be brisk, and play like other ladies,
and is quite another woman from what she was, of which I am glad.  It may
be, it may make the King like her the better, and forsake his two
mistresses, my Lady Castlemaine and Stewart.  He gone we sat at the
office till night, and then home, where my wife is come, and has been
with her father all the afternoon, and so home, and she and I to walk in
the garden, giving ear to her discourse of her father's affairs, and I
found all well, so after putting things in order at my office, home to
supper and to bed.



5th.  Up and to read a little, and by and by the carver coming, I
directed him how to make me a neat head for my viall that is making.
About 10 o'clock my wife and I, not without some discontent, abroad by
coach, and I set her at her father's; but their condition is such that
she will not let me see where they live, but goes by herself when I am
out of sight.  Thence to my brother's, taking care for a passage for my
wife the next week in a coach to my father's, and thence to Paul's
Churchyard, where I found several books ready bound for me; among others,
the new Concordance of the Bible, which pleases me much, and is a book I
hope to make good use of.  Thence, taking the little History of England
with me, I went by water to Deptford, where Sir J. Minnes and Sir W.
Batten attending the Pay; I dined with them, and there Dr. Britton,
parson of the town, a fine man and good company, dined with us, and good
discourse.  After dinner I left them and walked to Redriffe, and thence
to White Hall, and at my Lord's lodgings found my wife, and thence
carried her to see my Lady Jemimah, but she was not within.  So to Mr.
Turner's, and there saw Mr. Edward Pepys's lady, who my wife concurs with
me to be very pretty, as most women we ever saw.  So home, and after a
walk in the garden a little troubled to see my wife take no more pleasure
with Ashwell, but neglect her and leave her at home.  Home to supper and
to bed.



6th.  Lay in bed till 7 o'clock, yet rose with an opinion that it was not
5, and so continued though I heard the clock strike, till noon, and would
not believe that it was so late as it truly was.  I was hardly ever so
mistaken in my life before.  Up and to Sir G. Carteret at his house, and
spoke to him about business, but he being in a bad humour I had no mind
to stay with him, but walked, drinking my morning draft of whay, by the
way, to York House, where the Russia Embassador do lie; and there I saw
his people go up and down louseing themselves: they are all in a great
hurry, being to be gone the beginning of next week.  But that that
pleased me best, was the remains of the noble soul of the late Duke of
Buckingham appearing in his house, in every place, in the doorcases and
the windows.  By and by comes Sir John Hebden, the Russia Resident, to
me, and he and I in his coach to White Hall, to Secretary Morrice's, to
see the orders about the Russia hemp that is to be fetched from Archangel
for our King, and that being done, to coach again, and he brought me into
the City and so I home; and after dinner abroad by water, and met by
appointment Mr. Deane in the Temple Church, and he and I over to Mr.
Blackbury's yard, and thence to other places, and after that to a
drinking house, in all which places I did so practise and improve my
measuring of timber, that I can now do it with great ease and perfection,
which do please me mightily.  This fellow Deane is a conceited fellow,
and one that means the King a great deal of service, more of disservice
to other people that go away with the profits which he cannot make; but,
however, I learn much of him, and he is, I perceive, of great use to the
King in his place, and so I shall give him all the encouragement I can.
Home by water, and having wrote a letter for my wife to my Lady Sandwich
to copy out to send this night's post, I to the office, and wrote there
myself several things, and so home to supper and bed.  My mind being
troubled to think into what a temper of neglect I have myself flung my
wife into by my letting her learn to dance, that it will require time to
cure her of, and I fear her going into the country will but make her
worse; but only I do hope in the meantime to spend my time well in my
office, with more leisure than while she is here.  Hebden, to-day in the
coach, did tell me how he is vexed to see things at Court ordered as they
are by nobody that attends to business, but every man himself or his
pleasures.  He cries up my Lord Ashley to be almost the only man that he
sees to look after business; and with that ease and mastery, that he
wonders at him.  He cries out against the King's dealing so much with
goldsmiths, and suffering himself to have his purse kept and commanded by
them.  He tells me also with what exact care and order the States of
Holland's stores are kept in their Yards, and every thing managed there
by their builders with such husbandry as is not imaginable; which I will
endeavour to understand further, if I can by any means learn.



7th (Lord's day).  Whit Sunday.  Lay long talking with my wife, sometimes
angry and ended pleased and hope to bring our matters to a better posture
in a little time, which God send.  So up and to church, where Mr. Mills
preached, but, I know not how, I slept most of the sermon.  Thence home,
and dined with my wife and Ashwell and after dinner discoursed very
pleasantly, and so I to church again in the afternoon, and, the Scot
preaching, again slept all the afternoon, and so home, and by and by to
Sir W. Batten's, to talk about business, where my Lady Batten inveighed
mightily against the German Princess, and I as high in the defence of her
wit and spirit, and glad that she is cleared at the sessions.  Thence to
Sir W. Pen, who I found ill again of the gout, he tells me that now Mr.
Castle and Mrs. Martha Batten do own themselves to be married, and have
been this fortnight.  Much good may it do him, for I do not envy him his
wife.  So home, and there my wife and I had an angry word or two upon
discourse of our boy, compared with Sir W. Pen's boy that he has now,
whom I say is much prettier than ours and she the contrary.  It troubles
me to see that every small thing is enough now-a-days to bring a
difference between us.  So to my office and there did a little business,
and then home to supper and to bed.  Mrs. Turner, who is often at Court,
do tell me to-day that for certain the Queen hath much changed her
humour, and is become very pleasant and sociable as any; and they say is
with child, or believed to be so.



8th.  Up and to my office a while, and thence by coach with Sir J. Minnes
to St. James's to the Duke, where Mr. Coventry and us two did discourse
with the Duke a little about our office business, which saved our coming
in the afternoon, and so to rights home again and to dinner.  After
dinner my wife and I had a little jangling, in which she did give me the
lie, which vexed me, so that finding my talking did but make her worse,
and that her spirit is lately come to be other than it used to be, and
now depends upon her having Ashwell by her, before whom she thinks I
shall not say nor do anything of force to her, which vexes me and makes
me wish that I had better considered all that I have of late done
concerning my bringing my wife to this condition of heat, I went up vexed
to my chamber and there fell examining my new concordance, that I have
bought, with Newman's, the best that ever was out before, and I find mine
altogether as copious as that and something larger, though the order in
some respects not so good, that a man may think a place is missing, when
it is only put in another place.  Up by and by my wife comes and good
friends again, and to walk in the garden and so anon to supper and to
bed.  My cozen John Angier the son, of Cambridge coming to me late to see
me, and I find his business is that he would be sent to sea, but I
dissuaded him from it, for I will not have to do with it without his
friends' consent.



9th.  Up and after ordering some things towards my wife's going into the
country, to the office, where I spent the morning upon my measuring rules
very pleasantly till noon, and then comes Creed and he and I talked about
mathematiques, and he tells me of a way found out by Mr. Jonas Moore
which he calls duodecimal arithmetique, which is properly applied to
measuring, where all is ordered by inches, which are 12 in a foot, which
I have a mind to learn.  So he with me home to dinner and after dinner
walk in the garden, and then we met at the office, where Coventry, Sir J.
Minnes, and I, and so in the evening, business done, I went home and
spent my time till night with my wife.  Presently after my coming home
comes Pembleton, whether by appointment or no I know not, or whether by a
former promise that he would come once before my wife's going into the
country, but I took no notice of, let them go up and Ashwell with them to
dance, which they did, and I staid below in my chamber, but, Lord! how I
listened and laid my ear to the door, and how I was troubled when I heard
them stand still and not dance.  Anon they made an end and had done, and
so I suffered him to go away, and spoke not to him, though troubled in my
mind, but showed no discontent to my wife, believing that this is the
last time I shall be troubled with him.  So my wife and I to walk in the
garden, home and to supper and to bed.



10th.  Up and all the morning helping my wife to put up her things
towards her going into the country and drawing the wine out of my vessel
to send.  This morning came my cozen Thomas Pepys to desire me to furnish
him with some money, which I could not do till his father has wrote to
Piggott his consent to the sale of his lands, so by and by we parted and
I to the Exchange a while and so home and to dinner, and thence to the
Royal Theatre by water, and landing, met with Captain Ferrers his friend,
the little man that used to be with him, and he with us, and sat by us
while we saw "Love in a Maze."  The play is pretty good, but the life of
the play is Lacy's part, the clown, which is most admirable; but for the
rest, which are counted such old and excellent actors, in my life I never
heard both men and women so ill pronounce their parts, even to my making
myself sick therewith.  Thence, Creed happening to be with us, we four to
the Half-Moon Tavern, I buying some sugar and carrying it with me, which
we drank with wine and thence to the whay-house, and drank a great deal
of whay, and so by water home, and thence to see Sir W. Pen, who is not
in much pain, but his legs swell and so immoveable that he cannot stir
them, but as they are lifted by other people and I doubt will have
another fit of his late pain.  Played a little at cards with him and his
daughter, who is grown every day a finer and finer lady, and so home to
supper and to bed.  When my wife and I came first home we took Ashwell
and all the rest below in the cellar with the vintner drawing out my
wine, which I blamed Ashwell much for and told her my mind that I would
not endure it, nor was it fit for her to make herself equal with the
ordinary servants of the house.



11th.  Up and spent most of the morning upon my measuring Ruler and with
great pleasure I have found out some things myself of great dispatch,
more than my book teaches me, which pleases me mightily.  Sent my wife's
things and the wine to-day by the carrier to my father's, but staid my
boy from a letter of my father's, wherein he desires that he may not come
to trouble his family as he did the last year.  Dined at home and then to
the office, where we sat all the afternoon, and at night home and spent
the evening with my wife, and she and I did jangle mightily about her
cushions that she wrought with worsteds the last year, which are too
little for any use, but were good friends by and by again.  But one thing
I must confess I do observe, which I did not before, which is, that I
cannot blame my wife to be now in a worse humour than she used to be, for
I am taken up in my talk with Ashwell, who is a very witty girl, that I
am not so fond of her as I used and ought to be, which now I do perceive
I will remedy, but I would to the Lord I had never taken any, though I
cannot have a better than her.  To supper and to bed.  The consideration
that this is the longest day in the year is very unpleasant to me.--[It
is necessary to note that this was according to the old style.]--This
afternoon my wife had a visit from my Lady Jeminah and Mr. Ferrers.



12th.  Up and my office, there conning my measuring Ruler, which I shall
grow a master of in a very little time.  At noon to the Exchange and so
home to dinner, and abroad with my wife by water to the Royall Theatre;
and there saw "The Committee," a merry but indifferent play, only Lacey's
part, an Irish footman, is beyond imagination.  Here I saw my Lord
Falconbridge, and his Lady, my Lady Mary Cromwell, who looks as well as I
have known her, and well clad; but when the House began to fill she put
on her vizard,

     [Masks were commonly used by ladies in the reign of Elizabeth, and
     when their use was revived at the Restoration for respectable women
     attending the theatre, they became general.  They soon, however,
     became the mark of loose women, and their use was discontinued by
     women of repute.  On June 1st, 1704, a song was sung at the theatre
     in Lincoln's Inn Fields called "The Misses' Lamentation for want of
     their Vizard Masques at the Theatre."  Mr. R. W. Lowe gives several
     references to the use of vizard masks at the theatre in his
     interesting biography, "Thomas Betterton."]

and so kept it on all the play; which of late is become a great fashion
among the ladies, which hides their whole face.  So to the Exchange, to
buy things with my wife; among others, a vizard for herself.  And so by
water home and to my office to do a little business, and so to see Sir W.
Pen, but being going to bed and not well I could not see him.  So home
and to supper and bed, being mightily troubled all night and next morning
with the palate of my mouth being down from some cold I took to-day
sitting sweating in the playhouse, and the wind blowing through the
windows upon my head.



13th.  Up and betimes to Thames Street among the tarr men, to look the
price of tarr and so by water to Whitehall thinking to speak with Sir G.
Carteret, but he lying in the city all night, and meeting with Mr. Cutler
the merchant, I with him in his coach into the city to Sir G. Carteret,
but missing him there, he and I walked to find him at Sir Tho. Allen's in
Bread Street, where not finding him he and I walked towards our office,
he discoursing well of the business of the Navy, and particularly of the
victualling, in which he was once I perceive concerned, and he and I
parted and I to the office and there had a difference with Sir W. Batten
about Mr. Bowyer's tarr, which I am resolved to cross, though he sent me
last night, as a bribe, a barrel of sturgeon, which, it may be, I shall
send back, for I will not have the King abused so abominably in the price
of what we buy, by Sir W. Batten's corruption and underhand dealing.  So
from the office, Mr. Wayth with me, to the Parliament House, and there I
spoke and told Sir G. Carteret all, with which he is well pleased, and do
recall his willingness yesterday, it seems, to Sir W. Batten, that we
should buy a great quantity of tarr, being abused by him.  Thence with
Mr. Wayth after drinking a cupp of ale at the Swan, talking of the
corruption of the Navy, by water.  I landed him at Whitefriars, and I to
the Exchange, and so home to dinner, where I found my wife's brother, and
thence after dinner by water to the Royall Theatre, where I resolved to
bid farewell, as shall appear by my oaths tomorrow against all plays
either at publique houses or Court till Christmas be over.  Here we saw
"The Faithfull Sheepheardesse," a most simple thing, and yet much
thronged after, and often shown, but it is only for the scenes' sake,
which is very fine indeed and worth seeing; but I am quite out of opinion
with any of their actings, but Lacy's, compared with the other house.
Thence to see Mrs. Hunt, which we did and were much made of; and in our
way saw my Lady Castlemaine, who, I fear, is not so handsome as I have
taken her for, and now she begins to decay something.  This is my wife's
opinion also, for which I am sorry.  Thence by coach, with a mad
coachman, that drove like mad, and down byeways, through Bucklersbury
home, everybody through the street cursing him, being ready to run over
them.  So home, and after writing letters by the post, home to supper and
bed.  Yesterday, upon conference with the King in the Banqueting House,
the Parliament did agree with much ado, it being carried but by forty-two
voices, that they would supply him with a sum of money; but what and how
is not yet known, but expected to be done with great disputes the next
week.  But if done at all, it is well.



14th (Lord's day).  Lay long in bed.  So up and to church.  Then to
dinner, and Tom dined with me, who I think grows a very thriving man, as
he himself tells me.  He tells me that his man John has got a wife, and
for that he intends to part with him, which I am sorry for, and then that
Mr. Armiger comes to be a constant lodger at his house, and he says has
money in his purse and will be a good paymaster, but I do much doubt it.
He being gone, I up and sending my people to church, my wife and I did
even our reckonings, and had a great deal of serious talk, wherein I took
occasion to give her hints of the necessity of our saving all we can.
I do see great cause every day to curse the time that ever I did give way
to the taking of a woman for her, though I could never have had a better,
and also the letting of her learn to dance, by both which her mind is so
devilishly taken off her business and minding her occasions, and besides
has got such an opinion in her of my being jealous, that it is never to
be removed, I fear, nor hardly my trouble that attends it; but I must
have patience.  I did give her 40s.  to carry into the country tomorrow
with her, whereof 15s. is to go for the coach-hire for her and Ashwell,
there being 20s. paid here already in earnest.  In the evening our
discourse turned to great content and love, and I hope that after a
little forgetting our late differences, and being a while absent one from
another, we shall come to agree as well as ever.  So to Sir W. Pen's to
visit him, and finding him alone, sent for my wife, who is in her riding-
suit, to see him, which she hath not done these many months I think.  By
and by in comes Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, and so we sat talking.
Among other things, Sir J. Minnes brought many fine expressions of
Chaucer, which he doats on mightily, and without doubt he is a very fine
poet.

     [Pepys continued through life an admirer of Chaucer, and we have the
     authority of Dryden himself for saying that we owe his character of
     the Good Parson to Pepys's recommendation.]

Sir W. Pen continues lame of the gout, that he cannot rise from his
chair.  So after staying an hour with him, we went home and to supper,
and so to prayers and bed.



15th.  Up betimes, and anon my wife rose and did give me her keys, and
put other things in order and herself against going this morning into the
country.  I was forced to go to Thames Street and strike up a bargain for
some tarr, to prevent being abused therein by Hill, who was with me this
morning, and is mightily surprised that I should tell him what I can have
the same tarr with his for.  Thence home, but finding my wife gone, I
took coach and after her to her inn, where I am troubled to see her
forced to sit in the back of the coach, though pleased to see her company
none but women and one parson; she I find is troubled at all, and I
seemed to make a promise to get a horse and ride after them; and so,
kissing her often, and Ashwell once, I bid them adieu.  So home by coach,
and thence by water to Deptford to the Trinity House, where I came a
little late; but I found them reading their charter, which they did like
fools, only reading here and there a bit, whereas they ought to do it
all, every word, and then proceeded to the election of a maister, which
was Sir W. Batten, without any control, who made a heavy, short speech to
them, moving them to give thanks to the late Maister for his pains, which
he said was very great, and giving them thanks for their choice of him,
wherein he would serve them to the best of his power.  Then to the choice
of their assistants and wardens, and so rose.  I might have received 2s.
6d. as a younger Brother, but I directed one of the servants of the House
to receive it and keep it.  Thence to church, where Dr. Britton preached
a sermon full of words against the Nonconformists, but no great matter in
it, nor proper for the day at all.  His text was, "With one mind and one
mouth give glory to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ."  That
done, by water, I in the barge with the Maister, to the Trinity House at
London; where, among others, I found my Lords Sandwich and Craven, and my
cousin Roger Pepys, and Sir Wm. Wheeler.  Anon we sat down to dinner,
which was very great, as they always have.  Great variety of talk.  Mr.
Prin, among many, had a pretty tale of one that brought in a bill in
parliament for the empowering him to dispose his land to such children as
he should have that should bear the name of his wife.  It was in Queen
Elizabeth's time.  One replied that there are many species of creatures
where the male gives the denomination to both sexes, as swan and
woodcock, but not above one where the female do, and that is a goose.
Both at and after dinner we had great discourses of the nature and power
of spirits, and whether they can animate dead bodies; in all which, as of
the general appearance of spirits, my Lord Sandwich is very scepticall.
He says the greatest warrants that ever he had to believe any, is the
present appearing of the Devil

     [In 1664, there being a generall report all over the kingdom of Mr.
     Monpesson his house being haunted, which hee himself affirming to
     the King and Queene to be true, the King sent the Lord Falmouth, and
     the Queene sent mee, to examine the truth of; but wee could neither
     see nor heare anything that was extraordinary; and about a year
     after, his Majesty told me that hee had discovered the cheat, and
     that Mr. Monpesson, upon his Majesty sending for him, confessed it
     to him.  And yet Mr. Monpesson, in a printed letter, had afterwards
     the confidence to deny that hee had ever made any such confession"
     ("Letters of the Second Earl of Chesterfield," p. 24, 1829, 8vo.).
     Joseph Glanville published a relation of the famous disturbance at
     the house of Mr. Monpesson, at Tedworth, Wilts, occasioned by the
     beating of an invisible drum every night for a year.  This story,
     which was believed at the time, furnished the plot for Addison's
     play of "The Drummer, or the Haunted House."  In the "Mercurius
     Publicus," April 16-23, 1663, there is a curious examination on this
     subject, by which it appears that one William Drury, of Uscut,
     Wilts, was the invisible drummer.--B.]

in Wiltshire, much of late talked of, who beats a drum up and down.
There are books of it, and, they say, very true; but my Lord observes,
that though he do answer to any tune that you will play to him upon
another drum, yet one tune he tried to play and could not; which makes
him suspect the whole; and I think it is a good argument.  Sometimes they
talked of handsome women, and Sir J. Minnes saying that there was no
beauty like what he sees in the country-markets, and specially at Bury,
in which I will agree with him that there is a prettiest women I ever
saw.  My Lord replied thus: "Sir John, what do you think of your
neighbour's wife?"  looking upon me.  "Do you not think that he hath a
great beauty to his wife?  Upon my word he hath."  Which I was not a
little proud of.  Thence by barge with my Lord to Blackfriars, where we
landed and I thence walked home, where vexed to find my boy (whom I boxed
at his coming for it) and Will abroad, though he was but upon Tower Hill
a very little while.  My head akeing with the healths I was forced to
drink to-day I sent for the barber, and he having done, I up to my wife's
closett, and there played on my viallin a good while, and without supper
anon to bed, sad for want of my wife, whom I love with all my heart,
though of late she has given me some troubled thoughts.



16th.  Up, but not so early as I intend now, and to my office, where
doing business all the morning.  At noon by desire I dined with Sir W.
Batten, who tells me that the House have voted the supply, intended for
the King, shall be by subsidy.  After dinner with Sir J. Minnes to see
some pictures at Brewer's, said to be of good hands, but I do not like
them.  So I to the office and thence to Stacy's, his Tar merchant,.
whose servant with whom I agreed yesterday for some tar do by combination
with Bowyer and Hill fall from our agreement, which vexes us all at the
office, even Sir W. Batten, who was so earnest for it.  So to the office,
where we sat all the afternoon till night, and then to Sir W. Pen, who
continues ill, and so to bed about 10 o'clock.



17th.  Up before 4 o'clock, which is the hour I intend now to rise at,
and to my office a while, and with great pleasure I fell to my business
again.  Anon went with money to my tar merchant to pay for the tar, which
he refuses to sell me; but now the master is come home, and so he speaks
very civilly, and I believe we shall have it with peace.  I brought back
my money to my office, and thence to White Hall, and in the garden spoke
to my Lord Sandwich, who is in his gold-buttoned suit, as the mode is,
and looks nobly.  Captain Ferrers, I see, is come home from France.  I
only spoke one word to him, my Lord being there.  He tells me the young
gentlemen are well there; so my Lord went to my Lord Albemarle's to
dinner, and I by water home and dined alone, and at the office (after
half an hour's viallin practice after dinner) till late at night, and so
home and to bed.  This day I sent my cozen Edward Pepys his Lady, at my
cozen Turner's, a piece of venison given me yesterday, and Madam Turner
I sent for a dozen bottles of her's, to fill with wine for her.  This day
I met with Pierce the surgeon, who tells me that the King has made peace
between Mr. Edward Montagu and his father Lord Montagu, and that all is
well again; at which; for the family's sake, I am very glad, but do not
think it will hold long.



18th.  Up by four o'clock and to my office, where all the morning writing
out in my Navy collections the ordinary estimate of the Navy, and did it
neatly.  Then dined at home alone, my mind pleased with business, but sad
for the absence of my wife.  After dinner half an hour at my viallin, and
then all the afternoon sitting at the office late, and so home and to
bed.  This morning Mr. Cutler came and sat in my closet half an hour with
me, his discourse very excellent, being a wise man, and I do perceive by
him as well as many others that my diligence is taken notice of in the
world, for which I bless God and hope to continue doing so.  Before I
went into my house this night I called at Sir W. Batten's, where finding
some great ladies at table at supper with him and his lady, I retreated
and went home, though they called to me again and again, and afterwards
sent for me.  So I went, and who should it be but Sir Fr. Clerke and his
lady and another proper lady at supper there, and great cheer, where I
staid till 11 o'clock at night, and so home and to bed.



19th.  Lay till 6 o'clock, and then up and to my office, where all the
morning, and at noon to the Exchange, and coming home met Mr. Creed, and
took him back, and he dined with me, and by and by came Mr. Moore, whom I
supplied with L30, and then abroad with them by water to Lambeth,
expecting to have seen the Archbishop lie in state; but it seems he is
not laid out yet.  And so over to White Hall, and at the Privy Seal
Office examined the books, and found the grant of increase of salary to
the principall officers in the year 1639, L300 among the Controller,
Surveyor, and Clerk of the Shippes.  Thence to Wilkinson's after a good
walk in the Park, where we met on horseback Captain Ferrers; who tells us
that the King of France is well again, and that he saw him train his
Guards, all brave men, at Paris; and that when he goes to his mistress,
Madame la Valiere, a pretty little woman, now with child by him, he goes
with his guards with him publiquely, and his trumpets and kettle-drums
with him, who stay before the house while he is with her; and yet he says
that, for all this, the Queen do not know of it, for that nobody dares to
tell her; but that I dare not believe.  Thence I to Wilkinson's, where we
had bespoke a dish of pease, where we eat them very merrily, and there
being with us the little gentleman, a friend of Captain Ferrers, that was
with my wife and I at a play a little while ago, we went thence to the
Rhenish wine-house, where we called for a red Rhenish wine called
Bleahard, a pretty wine, and not mixed, as they say.  Here Mr. Moore
showed us the French manner, when a health is drunk, to bow to him that
drunk to you, and then apply yourself to him, whose lady's health is
drunk, and then to the person that you drink to, which I never knew
before; but it seems it is now the fashion.  Thence by water home and to
bed, having played out of my chamber window on my pipe before I went to
bed, and making Will read a part of a Latin chapter, in which I perceive
in a little while he will be pretty ready, if he spends but a little
pains in it.



20th.  Up and to my office, where all the morning, and dined at home, Mr.
Deane, of Woolwich, with me, and he and I all the afternoon down by
water, and in a timber yard, measuring of timber, which I now understand
thoroughly, and shall be able in a little time to do the King great
service.  Home in the evening, and after Will's reading a little in the
Latin Testament, to bed.



21st (Lord's day).  Up betimes, and fell to reading my Latin grammar,
which I perceive I have great need of, having lately found it by my
calling Will to the reading of a chapter in Latin, and I am resolved to
go through it.  After being trimmed, I by water to White Hall, and so
over the Park, it raining hard, to Mr. Coventry's chamber, where I spent
two hours with him about business of the Navy, and how by his absence
things are like to go with us, and with good content from my being with
him he carried me by coach and set me down at Whitehall, and thence to
right home by water.  He shewed me a list, which he hath prepared for the
Parliament's view, if the business of his selling of offices should be
brought to further hearing, wherein he reckons up, as I remember, 236
offices of ships which have been disposed of without his taking one
farthing.  This, of his own accord, he opened his cabinet on purpose to
shew me, meaning, I suppose, that I should discourse abroad of it, and
vindicate him therein, which I shall with all my power do.  At home,
being wet, shifted my band and things, and then to dinner, and after
dinner went up and tried a little upon my tryangle, which I understand
fully, and with a little use I believe could bring myself to do
something.  So to church, and slept all the sermon, the Scot, to whose
voice I am not to be reconciled, preaching.  Thence with Sir J. Minnes
(who poor man had forgot that he carried me the other day to the
painter's to see some pictures which he has since bought and are brought
home) to his Jodgings to see some base things he calls them of great
masters of painting.  So I said nothing that he had shown me them
already, but commended them, and I think they are indeed good enough.
Thence to see Sir W. Pen, who continues ill of the gout still.  Here we
staid a good while, and then I to my office, and read my vows seriously
and with content, and so home to supper, to prayers, and to bed.



22nd.  Up betimes and to my office, reading over all our letters of the
office that we have wrote since I came into the Navy, whereby to bring
the whole series of matters into my memory, and to enter in my manuscript
some of them that are needful and of great influence.  By and by with Sir
W. Batten by coach to Westminster, where all along I find the shops
evening with the sides of the houses, even in the broadest streets; which
will make the City very much better than it was.  I walked in the Hall
from one man to another.  Hear that the House is still divided about the
manner of levying the subsidys which they intend to give the King, both
as to the manner, the time, and the number.  It seems the House do
consent to send to the King to desire that he would be graciously pleased
to let them know who it was that did inform him of what words Sir Richard
Temple should say, which were to this purpose: "That if the King would
side with him, or be guided by him and his party, that he should not lack
money:" but without knowing who told it, they do not think fit to call
him to any account for it.  Thence with Creed and bought a lobster, and
then to an alehouse, where the maid of the house is a confident merry
lass, and if modest is very pleasant to the customers that come thither.
Here we eat it, and thence to walk in the Park a good while.  The Duke
being gone a-hunting, and by and by came in and shifted himself; he
having in his hunting, rather than go about, 'light and led his horse
through a river up to his breast, and came so home: and when we were
come, which was by and by, we went on to him, and being ready he retired
with us, and we had a long discourse with him.  But Mr. Creed's accounts
stick still through the perverse ignorance of Sir G. Carteret, which I
cannot safely control as I would.  Thence to the Park again, and there
walked up and down an hour or two till night with Creed, talking, who is
so knowing, and a man of that reason, that I cannot but love his company,
though I do not love the man, because he is too wise to be made a friend
of, and acts all by interest and policy, but is a man fit to learn of.
So to White Hall, and by water to the Temple, and calling at my brother's
and several places, but to no purpose, I came home, and meeting Strutt,
the purser, he tells me for a secret that he was told by Field that he
had a judgment against me in the Exchequer for L400.  So I went to Sir W.
Batten, and taking Mr. Batten, his son the counsellor, with me, by coach,
I went to Clerke, our Solicitor, who tells me there can be no such thing,
and after conferring with them two together, who are resolved to look
well after the business, I returned home and to my office, setting down
this day's passages, and having a letter that all is well in the country
I went home to supper, and then a Latin chapter of Will and to bed.



23rd.  Up by four o'clock, and so to my office; but before I went out,
calling, as I have of late done, for my boy's copybook, I found that he
had not done his task; so I beat him, and then went up to fetch my rope's
end, but before I got down the boy was gone.  I searched the cellar with
a candle, and from top to bottom could not find him high nor low.  So to
the office; and after an hour or two, by water to the Temple, to my cozen
Roger; who, I perceive, is a deadly high man in the Parliament business,
and against the Court, showing me how they have computed that the King
hath spent, at least hath received, about four millions of money since he
came in: and in Sir J. Winter's case, in which I spoke to him, he is so
high that he says he deserves to be hanged, and all the high words he
could give, which I was sorry to see, though I am confident he means
well.  Thence by water home, and to the 'Change; and by and by comes the
King and the Queen by in great state, and the streets full of people.
I stood in Mr.--------'s balcone.  They dine all at my Lord Mayor's; but
what he do for victuals, or room for them, I know not.  So home to dinner
alone, and there I found that my boy had got out of doors, and came in
for his hat and band, and so is gone away to his brother; but I do
resolve even to let him go away for good and all.  So I by and by to the
office, and there had a great fray with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes,
who, like an old dotard, is led by the nose by him.  It was in Captain
Cocke's business of hemp, wherein the King is absolutely abused; but I
was for peace sake contented to be quiet and to sign to his bill, but in
my manner so as to justify myself, and so all was well; but to see what a
knave Sir W. Batten is makes my heart ake.  So late at my office, and
then home to supper and to bed, my man Will not being well.



24th.  Up before 4 o'clock, and so to my lute an hour or more, and then
by water, drinking my morning draft alone at an alehouse in Thames
Street, to the Temple, and thence after a little discourse with my cozen
Roger about some business, away by water to St. James's, and there an
hour's private discourse with Mr. Coventry, where he told me one thing to
my great joy, that in the business of Captain Cocke's hemp, disputed
before him the other day, Mr. Coventry absent, the Duke did himself tell
him since, that Mr. Pepys and he did stand up and carry it against the
rest that were there, Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Batten, which do please
me much to see that the Duke do take notice of me.  We did talk highly of
Sir W. Batten's corruption, which Mr. Coventry did very kindly say that
it might be only his heaviness and unaptness for business, that he do
things without advice and rashly, and to gratify people that do eat and
drink and play with him, and that now and then he observes that he signs
bills only in anger and fury to be rid of men.  Speaking of Sir G.
Carteret, of whom I perceive he speaks but slightly, and diminishing of
him in his services for the King in Jersey; that he was well rewarded,
and had good lands and rents, and other profits from the King, all the
time he was there; and that it was always his humour to have things done
his way.  He brought an example how he would not let the Castle there be
victualled for more than a month, that so he might keep it at his beck,
though the people of the town did offer to supply it more often
themselves, which, when one did propose to the King, Sir George Carteret
being by, says Sir George, "Let me know who they are that would do it, I
would with all my heart pay them."  "Ah, by God," says the Commander that
spoke of it, "that is it that they are afeard of, that you would hug
them," meaning that he would not endure them.  Another thing he told me,
how the Duke of York did give Sir G. Carteret and the Island his profits
as Admirall, and other things, toward the building of a pier there.  But
it was never laid out, nor like to be.  So it falling out that a lady
being brought to bed, the Duke was to be desired to be one of the
godfathers; and it being objected that that would not be proper, there
being no peer of the land to be joyned with him, the lady replied, "Why,
let him choose; and if he will not be a godfather without a peer, then
let him even stay till he hath made a pier of his own."

     [In the same spirit, long after this, some question arising as to
     the best material to be used in building Westminster Bridge, Lord
     Chesterfield remarked, that there were too many wooden piers (peers)
     at Westminster already.--B.]

He tells me, too, that he hath lately been observed to tack about at
Court, and to endeavour to strike in with the persons that are against
the Chancellor; but this he says of him, that he do not say nor do
anything to the prejudice of the Chancellor.  But he told me that the
Chancellor was rising again, and that of late Sir G. Carteret's business
and employment hath not been so full as it used to be while the
Chancellor stood up.  From that we discoursed of the evil of putting out
men of experience in business as the Chancellor, and from that to speak
of the condition of the King's party at present, who, as the Papists,
though otherwise fine persons, yet being by law kept for these fourscore
years out of employment, they are now wholly uncapable of business; and
so the Cavaliers for twenty years, who, says he, for the most part have
either given themselves over to look after country and family business,
and those the best of them, and the rest to debauchery, &c.; and that
was it that hath made him high against the late Bill brought into the
House for the making all men incapable of employment that had served
against the King.  Why, says he, in the sea-service, it is impossible to
do any thing without them, there being not more than three men of the
whole King's side that are fit to command almost; and these were Captain
Allen, Smith, and Beech; and it may be Holmes, and Utber, and Batts might
do something.  I desired him to tell me if he thought that I did speak
anything that I do against Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes out of ill
will or design.  He told me quite the contrary, and that there was reason
enough.  After a good deal of good and fine discourse, I took leave, and
so to my Lord Sandwich's house, where I met my Lord, and there did
discourse of our office businesses, and how the Duke do show me kindness,
though I have endeavoured to displease more or less of my fellow
officers, all but Mr. Coventry and Pett; but it matters not.  Yes, says
my Lord, Sir J. Minnes, who is great with the Chancellor; I told him the
Chancellor I have thought was declining, and however that the esteem he
has among them is nothing but for a jester or a ballad maker; at which my
Lord laughs, and asks me whether I believe he ever could do that well.
Thence with Mr. Creed up and down to an ordinary, and, the King's Head
being full, went to the other over against it, a pretty man that keeps
it, and good and much meat, better than the other, but the company and
room so small that he must break, and there wants the pleasure that the
other house has in its company.  Here however dined an old courtier that
is now so, who did bring many examples and arguments to prove that seldom
any man that brings any thing to Court gets any thing, but rather the
contrary; for knowing that they have wherewith to live, will not enslave
themselves to the attendance, and flattery, and fawning condition of a
courtier, whereas another that brings nothing, and will be contented to
cog, and lie, and flatter every man and woman that has any interest with
the persons that are great in favour, and can cheat the King, as nothing
is to be got without offending God and the King, there he for the most
part, and he alone, saves any thing.  Thence to St. James Park, and there
walked two or three hours talking of the difference between Sir G.
Carteret and Mr. Creed about his accounts, and how to obviate him, but
I find Creed a deadly cunning fellow and one that never do any thing
openly, but has intrigues in all he do or says.  Thence by water home to
see all well, and thence down to Greenwich, arid there walked into a
pretty common garden and there played with him at nine pins for some
drink, and to make the fellows drink that set up the pins, and so home
again being very cold, and taking a very great cold, being to-day the
first time in my tabby doublet this year.  Home, and after a small supper
Creed and I to bed.  This day I observed the house, which I took to be
the new tennis-court, newly built next my Lord's lodgings, to be fallen
down by the badness of the foundation or slight working, which my cozen
Roger and his discontented party cry out upon, as an example how the
King's work is done, which I am sorry to see him and others so apt to
think ill of things.  It hath beaten down a good deal of my Lord's
lodgings, and had like to have killed Mrs. Sarah, she having but newly
gone out of it.



25th.  Up both of us pretty early and to my chamber, where he and I did
draw up a letter to Sir G. Carteret in excuse and preparation for Creed
against we meet before the Duke upon his accounts, which I drew up and it
proved very well, but I am pleased to see with what secret cunning and
variety of artifice this Creed has carried on his business even unknown
to me, which he is now forced by an accident to communicate to me.  So
that taking up all the papers of moment which lead to the clearing of his
accounts unobserved out of the Controller's hand, which he now makes
great use of; knowing that the Controller has not wherewith to betray
him.  About this all the morning, only Mr. Bland came to me about some
business of his, and told me the news, which holds to be true, that the
Portuguese did let in the Spaniard by a plot, and they being in the midst
of the country and we believing that they would have taken the whole
country, they did all rise and kill the whole body, near 8,000 men, and
Don John of Austria having two horses killed under him, was forced with
one man to flee away.  Sir George Carteret at the office (after dinner,
and Creed being gone, for both now and yesterday I was afraid to have him
seen by Sir G. Carteret with me, for fear that he should increase his
doubt that I am of a plot with Creed in the business of his accounts) did
tell us that upon Tuesday last, being with my Lord Treasurer, he showed
him a letter from Portugall speaking of the advance of the Spaniards into
their country, and yet that the Portuguese were never more courageous
than now; for by an old prophecy, from France, sent thither some years,
though not many since, from the French King, it is foretold that the
Spaniards should come into their country, and in such a valley they
should be all killed, and then their country should be wholly delivered
from the Spaniards.  This was on Tuesday last, and yesterday came the
very first news that in this very valley they had thus routed and killed
the Spaniards, which is very strange but true.  So late at the office,
and then home to supper and to bed.  This noon I received a letter from
the country from my wife, wherein she seems much pleased with the
country; God continue that she may have pleasure while she is there.
She, by my Lady's advice, desires a new petticoat of the new silk striped
stuff, very pretty.  So I went to Paternoster Row' presently, and bought
her one, with Mr. Creed's help, a very fine rich one, the best I did see
there, and much better than she desires or expects, and sent it by Creed
to Unthanke to be made against tomorrow to send by the carrier, thinking
it had been but Wednesday to-day, but I found myself mistaken, and also
the taylor being out of the way, it could not be done, but the stuff was
sent me back at night by Creed to dispose of some other way to make, but
now I shall keep it to next week.



26th.  Up betimes, and Mr. Moore coming to see me, he and

     [Paternoster Row, now famous as the headquarters of the publishing
     houses, was at this time chiefly inhabited by mercers.  "This
     street, before the Fire of London, was taken up by eminent Mercers,
     Silkmen and Lacemen; and their shops were so resorted to by the
     nobility and gentry in their coaches, that oft times the street was
     so stop'd up that there was no passage for foot passengers"
     (Strype's "Stow," book iii., p. 195)].

I discoursed of going to Oxford this Commencement, Mr. Nathaniel Crew
being Proctor and Mr. Childe commencing Doctor of Musique this year,
which I have a great mind to do, and, if I can, will order my matters so
that I may do it.  By and by, he and I to the Temple, it raining hard, my
cozen Roger being got out, he and I walked a good while among the Temple
trees discoursing of my getting my Lord to let me have security upon his
estate for L100 per ann. for two lives, my own and my wife, for my money.
But upon second thoughts Mr. Moore tells me it is very likely my Lord
will think that I beg something, and may take it ill, and so we resolved
not to move it there, but to look for it somewhere else.  Here it raining
hard he and I walked into the King's Bench Court, where I never was
before, and there staid an hour almost, till it had done raining, which
is a sad season, that it is said there hath not been one fair day these
three months, and I think it is true, and then by water to Westminster,
and at the Parliament House I spoke with Roger Pepys.  The House is upon
the King's answer to their message about Temple, which is, that my Lord
of Bristoll did tell him that Temple did say those words; so the House
are resolved upon sending some of their members to him to know the truth,
and to demand satisfaction if it be not true.  So by water home, and
after a little while getting me ready, Sir W. Batten, Sir J. Minnes, my
Lady Batten, and I by coach to Bednall Green, to Sir W. Rider's to
dinner, where a fine place, good lady mother, and their daughter, Mrs.
Middleton, a fine woman.  A noble dinner, and a fine merry walk with the
ladies alone after dinner in the garden, which is very pleasant; the
greatest quantity of strawberrys I ever saw, and good, and a collation of
great mirth, Sir J. Minnes reading a book of scolding very prettily.
This very house

     [Sir William Rider's house was known as Kirby Castle, and was
     supposed to have been built in 1570 by John Thorpe for John Kirby.
     It was associated in rhyme with other follies of the time in bricks
     and mortar, as recorded by Stow

                   "Kirkebyes Castell, and Fisher's Follie,
                    Spinila's pleasure, and Megse's glorie."

     The place was known in Strype's time as the "Blind Beggar's House,"
     but he knew nothing of the ballad, "The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall
     Green," for he remarks, "perhaps Kirby beggared himself by it."  Sr.
     William Rider died at this house in 1669.]

was built by the Blind Beggar of Bednall Green, so much talked of and
sang in ballads; but they say it was only some of the outhouses of it.
We drank great store of wine, and a beer glass at last which made me
almost sick.  At table, discoursing of thunder and lightning, they told
many stories of their own knowledge at table of their masts being
shivered from top to bottom, and sometimes only within and the outside
whole, but among the rest Sir W. Rider did tell a story of his own
knowledge, that a Genoese gaily in Leghorn Roads was struck by thunder,
so as the mast was broke a-pieces, and the shackle upon one of the slaves
was melted clear off of his leg without hurting his leg.  Sir William
went on board the vessel, and would have contributed towards the release
of the slave whom Heaven had thus set free, but he could not compass it,
and so he was brought to his fetters again.  In the evening home, and a
little to my Tryangle, and so to bed.



27th.  Up by 4 o'clock and a little to my office.  Then comes by
agreement Sir W. Warren, and he and I from ship to ship to see deals of
all sorts, whereby I have encreased my knowledge and with great pleasure.
Then to his yard and house, where I staid two hours or more discoursing
of the expense of the navy and the corruption of Sir W. Batten and his
man Wood that he brings or would bring to sell all that is to be sold by
the Navy.  Then home to the office, where we sat a little, and at noon
home to dinner, alone, and thence, it raining hard, by water to the
Temple, and so to Lincoln's Inn, and there walked up and down to see the
new garden which they are making, and will be very pretty, and so to walk
under the Chappell by agreement, whither Mr. Clerke our Solicitor came to
me, and he fetched Mr. Long, our Attorney in the Exchequer in the
business against Field, and I directed him to come to the best and
speediest composition he could, which he will do.  So home on foot,
calling upon my brother's and elsewhere upon business, and so home to my
office, and there wrote letters to my father and wife, and so home to
bed, taking three pills overnight.



28th (Lord's day).  Early in the morning my last night's physic worked
and did give me a good stool, and then I rose and had three or four
stools, and walked up and down my chamber.  Then up, my maid rose and
made me a posset, and by and by comes Mr. Creed, and he and I spent all
the morning discoursing against to-morrow before the Duke the business of
his pieces of eight, in which the Treasurer makes so many queries.  At
noon, my physic having done working, I went down to dinner, and then he
and I up again and spent most of the afternoon reading in Cicero and
other books of good discourse, and then he went away, and then came my
brother Tom to see me, telling me how the Joyces do make themselves fine
clothes against Mary is brought to bed.  He being gone I went to cast up
my monthly accounts, and to my great trouble I find myself L7 worse than
I was the last month, but I confess it is by my reckoning beforehand a
great many things, yet however I am troubled to see that I can hardly
promise myself to lay up much from month's end to month's end, about L4
or L5 at most, one month with another, without some extraordinary
gettings, but I must and I hope I shall continue to have a care of my own
expenses.  So to the reading my vows seriously and then to supper.  This
evening there came my boy's brother to see for him, and tells me he knows
not where he is, himself being out of town this week and is very sorry
that he is gone, and so am I, but he shall come no more.  So to prayers,
and to bed.



29th.  Up betimes and to my office, and by and by to the Temple, and
there appointed to meet in the evening about my business, and thence I
walked home, and up and down the streets is cried mightily the great
victory got by the Portugalls against the Spaniards, where 10,000 slain,
3 or 4,000 taken prisoners, with all the artillery, baggage, money, &c.,
and Don John of Austria

     [He was natural son of Philip IV., King of Spain, who, after his
     father's death in 1665, exerted his whole influence to overthrow the
     Regency appointed during the young king's minority.--B.]

forced to flee with a man or two with him, which is very great news.
Thence home and at my office all the morning, and then by water to St.
James's, but no meeting to-day being holy day, but met Mr. Creed in the
Park, and after a walk or two, discoursing his business, took leave of
him in Westminster Hall, whither we walked, and then came again to the
Hall and fell to talk with Mrs. Lane, and after great talk that she never
went abroad with any man as she used heretofore to do, I with one word
got her to go with me and to meet me at the further Rhenish wine-house,
where I did give her a Lobster and do so touse her and feel her all over,
making her believe how fair and good a skin she has, and indeed she has a
very white thigh and leg, but monstrous fat.  When weary I did give over
and somebody, having seen some of our dalliance, called aloud in the
street, "Sir! why do you kiss the gentlewoman so?" and flung a stone at
the window, which vexed me, but I believe they could not see my touzing
her, and so we broke up and I went out the back way, without being
observed I think, and so she towards the Hall and I to White Hall, where
taking water I to the Temple with my cozen Roger and Mr. Goldsborough to
Gray's Inn to his counsel, one Mr. Rawworth, a very fine man, where it
being the question whether I as executor should give a warrant to
Goldsborough in my reconveying her estate back again, the mortgage being
performed against all acts of the testator, but only my own, my cozen
said he never heard it asked before; and the other that it was always
asked, and he never heard it denied, or scrupled before, so great a
distance was there in their opinions, enough to make a man forswear ever
having to do with the law; so they agreed to refer it to Serjeant
Maynard.  So we broke up, and I by water home from the Temple, and there
to Sir W. Batten and eat with him, he and his lady and Sir J. Minnes
having been below to-day upon the East India men that are come in, but
never tell me so, but that they have been at Woolwich and Deptford, and
done great deal of business.  God help them.  So home and up to my lute
long, and then, after a little Latin chapter with Will, to bed.  But I
have used of late, since my wife went, to make a bad use of my fancy with
whatever woman I have a mind to, which I am ashamed of, and shall
endeavour to do so no more.  So to sleep.



30th.  Up betimes yesterday and to-day, the sun rising very bright and
glorious; and yet yesterday, as it hath been these two months and more,
was a foul day the most part of the day.  By and by by water to White
Hall, and there to my Lord's lodgings by appointment, whither Mr. Creed
comes to me, having been at Chelsey this morning to fetch my Lord to St.
James's.  So he and I to the Park, where we understand that the King and
Duke are gone out betimes this morning on board the East India ships
lately come in, and so our meeting appointed is lost.  But he and I
walked at the further end of the Park, not to be observed, whither by and
by comes my Lord Sandwich, and he and we walked two hours and more in the
Park and then in White Hall Gallery, and lastly in White Hall garden,
discoursing of Mr. Creed's accounts, and how to answer the Treasurer's
objections.  I find that the business is L500 deep, the advantage of
Creed, and why my Lord and I should be concerned to promote his profit
with so much dishonour and trouble to us I know not, but however we shall
do what we can, though he deserves it not, for there is nothing even to
his own advantage that can be got out of him, but by mere force.  So full
of policy he is in the smallest matters, that I perceive him to be made
up of nothing but design.  I left him here, being in my mind vexed at the
trouble that this business gets me, and the distance that it makes
between Sir G. Carteret and myself, which I ought to avoyd.  Thence by
water home and to dinner, and afterwards to the office, and there sat
till evening, and then I by water to Deptford to see Sir W. Pen, who lies
ill at Captain Rooth's, but in a way to be well again this weather, this
day being the only fair day we have had these two or three months.  Among
other discourse I did tell him plainly some of my thoughts concerning Sir
W. Batten. and the office in general, upon design for him to understand
that I do mind things and will not balk to take notice of them, that when
he comes to be well again he may know how to look upon me.  Thence
homeward walked, and in my way met Creed coming to meet me, and then
turned back and walk a while, and so to boat and home by water, I being
not very forward to talk of his business, and he by design the same, to
see how I would speak of it, but I did not, but in general terms, and so
after supper with general discourse to bed and sleep.  Thus, by God's
blessing, ends this book of two years; I being in all points in good
health and a good way to thrive and do well.  Some money I do and can lay
up, but not much, being worth now above L700, besides goods of all sorts.
My wife in the country with Ashwell, her woman, with my father; myself at
home with W. Hewer and my cooke-maid Hannah, my boy Wayneman being lately
run away from me.  In my office, my repute and understanding good,
especially with the Duke and Mr. Coventry; only the rest of the officers
do rather envy than love me, I standing in most of their lights,
specially Sir W. Batten, whose cheats I do daily oppose to his great
trouble, though he appears mighty kind and willing to keep friendship
with me, while Sir J. Minnes, like a dotard, is led by the nose by him.
My wife and I, by my late jealousy, for which I am truly to be blamed,
have not the kindness between us which we used and ought to have, and I
fear will be lost hereafter if I do not take course to oblige her and yet
preserve my authority.  Publique matters are in an ill condition;
Parliament sitting and raising four subsidys for the King, which is but a
little, considering his wants; and yet that parted withal with great
hardness.  They being offended to see so much money go, and no debts of
the publique's paid, but all swallowed by a luxurious Court: which the
King it is believed and hoped will retrench in a little time, when he
comes to see the utmost of the revenue which shall be settled on him: he
expecting to have his L1,200,000 made good to him, which is not yet done
by above L150,000, as he himself reports to the House.  My differences
with my uncle Thomas at a good quiett, blessed be God!  and other
matters.  The town full of the great overthrow lately given to the
Spaniards by the Portugalls, they being advanced into the very middle of
Portugall.  The weather wet for two or three months together beyond
belief, almost not one fair day coming between till this day, which has
been a very pleasant [day] and the first pleasant [day] this summer.  The
charge of the Navy intended to be limited to L200,000 per annum, the
ordinary charge of it, and that to be settled upon the Customs.  The King
yet greatly taken up with Madam Castlemaine and Mrs. Stewart, which God
of Heaven put an end to!  Myself very studious to learn what I can of all
things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy, reading lately
what concerns measuring of timber and knowledge of the tides.  I have of
late spent much time with Creed, being led to it by his business of his
accounts, but I find him a fellow of those designs and tricks, that there
is no degree of true friendship to be made with him, and therefore I must
cast him off, though he be a very understanding man, and one that much
may be learned of as to cunning and judging of other men.  Besides, too,
I do perceive more and more that my time of pleasure and idleness of any
sort must be flung off to attend to getting of some money and the keeping
of my family in order, which I fear by my wife's liberty may be otherwise
lost.




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A woman sober, and no high-flyer, as he calls it
After awhile I caressed her and parted seeming friends
Book itself, and both it and them not worth a turd
But a woful rude rabble there was, and such noises
Did find none of them within, which I was glad of
Did so watch to see my wife put on drawers, which (she did)
Duodecimal arithmetique
Employed by the fencers to play prizes at
Enquiring into the selling of places do trouble a great many
Every small thing is enough now-a-days to bring a difference
Give her a Lobster and do so touse her and feel her all over
God knows that I do not find honesty enough in my own mind
Goes with his guards with him publiquely, and his trumpets
Great plot which was lately discovered in Ireland
He hoped he should live to see her "ugly and willing"
He is too wise to be made a friend of
I calling her beggar, and she me pricklouse, which vexed me
I slept most of the sermon
In some churches there was hardly ten people in the whole church
It must be the old ones that must do any good
Jealous, though God knows I have no great reason
John has got a wife, and for that he intends to part with him
Keep at interest, which is a good, quiett, and easy profit
Lay long in bed talking and pleasing myself with my wife
My wife and her maid Ashwell had between them spilled the pot.  .  .  .
No sense nor grammar, yet in as good words that ever I saw
Nor would become obliged too much to any
Nothing is to be got without offending God and the King
Nothing of any truth and sincerity, but mere envy and design
Reading my Latin grammar, which I perceive I have great need
Sad for want of my wife, whom I love with all my heart
Saw his people go up and down louseing themselves
See whether my wife did wear drawers to-day as she used to do
Sent me last night, as a bribe, a barrel of sturgeon
She begins not at all to take pleasure in me or study to please
She used the word devil, which vexed me
So home, and after supper did wash my feet, and so to bed
Softly up to see whether any of the beds were out of order or no
Statute against selling of offices
The goldsmith, he being one of the jury to-morrow
Thence by coach, with a mad coachman, that drove like mad
Therefore ought not to expect more justice from her
They say now a common mistress to the King
Through the Fleete Ally to see a couple of pretty [strumpets]
Upon a small temptation I could be false to her
Waked this morning between four and five by my blackbird
Whose voice I am not to be reconciled
Wife and the dancing-master alone above, not dancing but talking
Would not make my coming troublesome to any




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