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Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, Nov/Dec 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.
                           NOVEMBER & DECEMBER
                                  1663


November 1st (Lord's day).  This morning my brother's man brought me a
new black baize waistecoate, faced with silke, which I put on from this
day, laying by half-shirts for this winter.  He brought me also my new
gowne of purple shagg, trimmed with gold, very handsome; he also brought
me as a gift from my brother, a velvet hat, very fine to ride in, and the
fashion, which pleases me very well, to which end, I believe, he sent it
me, for he knows I had lately been angry with him.  Up and to church with
my wife, and at noon dined at home alone, a good calves head boiled and
dumplings, an excellent dinner methought it was.  Then to church again,
whither Sir W. Pen came, the first time he has been at church these
several months, he having been sicke all the while.  Home and to my
office, where I taught my wife some part of subtraction, and then fell
myself to set some papers of my last night's accounts in order, and so to
supper home, and after supper another bout at arithmetique with my wife,
and then to my office again and made an end of my papers, and so home to
prayers, and then to read my vowes, and to bed.



2d.  Up, and by coach to White Hall, and there in the long Matted Gallery
I find Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W. Batten--and by and by
comes the King to walk there with three or four with him; and soon as he
saw us, says he, "Here is the Navy Office," and there walked twenty turns
the length of the gallery, talking, methought, but ordinary talke.  By
and by came the Duke, and he walked, and at last they went into the
Duke's lodgings.  The King staid so long that we could not discourse with
the Duke, and so we parted.  I heard the Duke say that he was going to
wear a perriwigg; and they say the King also will.  I never till this day
observed that the King is mighty gray.  Thence, meeting with Creed,
walked with him to Westminster Hall, and thence by coach took up Mrs.
Hunt, and carried her towards my house, and we light at the 'Change, and
sent her to my house, Creed and I to the Coffeehouse, and then to the
'Change, and so home, and carried a barrel of oysters with us, and so to
dinner, and after a good dinner left Mrs. Hunt and my wife making
marmalett of quinces, and Creed and I to the perriwigg makers, but it
being dark concluded of nothing, and so Creed went away, and I with Sir
W. Pen, who spied me in the street, in his coach home.  There found them
busy still, and I up to my vyall.  Anon, the comfiture being well done,
my wife and I took Mrs. Hunt at almost 9 at night by coach and carried
Mrs. Hunt home, and did give her a box of sugar and a haunch of venison
given me by my Lady the other day.  We did not 'light, but saw her within
doors, and straight home, where after supper there happening some
discourse where my wife thought she had taken Jane in a lie, she told me
of it mighty triumphantly, but I, not seeing reason to conclude it a lie,
was vexed, and my wife and I to very high words, wherein I up to my
chamber, and she by and by followed me up, and to very bad words from her
to me, calling me perfidious and man of no conscience, whatever I pretend
to, and I know not what, which troubled me mightily, and though I would
allow something to her passion, yet I see again and again that she spoke
but somewhat of what she had in her heart.  But I tempered myself very
well, so as that though we went to bed with discontent she yielded to me
and began to be fond, so that being willing myself to peace, we did
before we sleep become very good friends, it being past 12 o'clock, and
so with good hearts and joy to rest.

3rd.  Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, and at noon to
the Coffee-house, and there heard a long and most passionate discourse
between two doctors of physique, of which one was Dr. Allen, whom I knew
at Cambridge, and a couple of apothecarys; these maintaining chymistry
against them Galenicall physique; and the truth is, one of the
apothecarys whom they charged most, did speak very prettily, that is, his
language and sense good, though perhaps he might not be so knowing a
physician as to offer to contest with them.  At last they came to some
cooler terms, and broke up.  I home, and there Mr. Moore coming by my
appointment dined with me, and after dinner came Mr. Goldsborough, and we
discoursed about the business of his mother, but could come to no
agreement in it but parted dissatisfied.  By and by comes Chapman, the
periwigg-maker, and upon my liking it, without more ado I went up, and
there he cut off my haire, which went a little to my heart at present to
part with it; but, it being over, and my periwigg on, I paid him L3 for
it; and away went he with my owne haire to make up another of, and I by
and by, after I had caused all my mayds to look upon it; and they
conclude it do become me; though Jane was mightily troubled for my
parting of my own haire, and so was Besse, I went abroad to the
Coffeehouse, and coming back went to Sir W. Pen and there sat with him
and Captain Cocke till late at night, Cocke talking of some of the Roman
history very well, he having a good memory.  Sir W. Pen observed
mightily, and discoursed much upon my cutting off my haire, as he do of
every thing that concerns me, but it is over, and so I perceive after a
day or two it will be no great matter.



4th.  Up and to my office, shewing myself to Sir W. Batten, and Sir J.
Minnes, and no great matter made of my periwigg, as I was afeard there
would be.  Among other things there came to me Shales of Portsmouth, by
my order, and I began to discourse with him about the arrears of stores
belonging to the Victualling Office there, and by his discourse I am in
some hopes that if I can get a grant from the King of such a part of all
I discover I may chance to find a way to get something by the by, which
do greatly please me the very thoughts of.  Home to dinner, and very
pleasant with my wife, who is this day also herself making of marmalett
of quince, which she now do very well herself.  I left her at it and by
coach I to the New Exchange and several places to buy and bring home
things, among others a case I bought of the trunk maker's for my
periwigg, and so home and to my office late, and among other things wrote
a letter to Will's uncle to hasten his removal from me, and so home to
supper and to bed.  This morning Captain Cocke did give me a good account
of the Guinny trade.  The Queene is in a great way to recovery.  This
noon came John Angier to me in a pickle, I was sad to see him, desiring
my good word for him to go a trooper to Tangier, but I did schoole him
and sent him away with good advice, but no present encouragement.
Presently after I had a letter from his poor father at Cambridge, who is
broke, it seems, and desires me to get him a protection, or a place of
employment; but, poor man, I doubt I can helpe him, but will endeavour
it.



5th.  Lay long in bed, then up, called by Captain Cocke about business of
a contract of his for some Tarre, and so to the office, and then to Sir
W. Pen and there talked, and he being gone came Sir W. Warren and
discoursed about our business with Field, and at noon by agreement to the
Miter to dinner upon T. Trice's 40s., to be spent upon our late
agreement.  Here was a very poor dinner and great company.  All our
lawyers on both sides, and several friends of his and some of mine
brought by him, viz., Mr. Moore, uncle Wight, Dr. Williams, and my cozen
Angier, that lives here in town, who t Captain John Shales after dinner
carried me aside and showed me a letter from his poor brother at
Cambridge to me of the same contents with that yesterday to me desiring
help from me.  Here I was among a sorry company without any content or
pleasure, and at the last the reckoning coming to above 40s. by 15s., he
would have me pay the 10s. and he would pay the 5s., which was so poor
that I was ashamed of it, and did it only to save contending with him.
There, after agreeing a day for him and I to meet and seal our agreement,
I parted and home, and at the office by agreement came Mr. Shales, and
there he and I discourse till late the business of his helping me in the
discovery of some arrears of provisions and stores due to the stores at
Portsmouth, out of which I may chance to get some money, and save the
King some too, and therefore I shall endeavour to do the fellow some
right in other things here to his advantage between Mr. Gauden and him.
He gone my wife and I to her arithmetique, in which she pleases me well,
and so to the office, there set down my Journall, and so home to supper
and to bed.  A little troubled to see how my family is out of order by
Will's being there, and also to hear that Jane do not please my wife as I
expected and would have wished.



6th.  This morning waking, my wife was mighty-earnest with me to persuade
me that she should prove with child since last night, which, if it be,
let it come, and welcome.  Up to my office, whither Commissioner Pett
came, newly come out of the country, and he and I walked together in the
garden talking of business a great while, and I perceive that by our
countenancing of him he do begin to pluck up his head, and will do good
things I hope in the yard.  Thence, he being gone, to my office and there
dispatched many people, and at noon to the 'Change to the coffee-house,
and among other things heard Sir John Cutler say, that of his owne
experience in time of thunder, so many barrels of beer as have a piece of
iron laid upon them will not be soured, and the others will.  Thence to
the 'Change, and there discoursed with many people, and I hope to settle
again to my business and revive my report of following of business, which
by my being taken off for a while by sickness and, laying out of money
has slackened for a little while.  Home, and there found Mrs. Hunt, who
dined very merry, good woman; with us.  After dinner came in Captain
Grove, and he and I alone to talk of many things, and among many others
of the Fishery, in which he gives the such hopes that being at this time
full of projects how to get a little honestly, of which some of them I
trust in God will take, I resolved this afternoon to go and consult my
Lord Sandwich about it, and so, being to carry home Mrs. Hunt, I took her
and my wife by coach and set them at Axe Yard, and I to my Lord's and
thither sent for Creed and discoursed with him about it, and he and I to
White Hall, where Sir G. Carteret and my Lord met me very fortunately,
and wondered first to see me in my perruque, and I am glad it is over,
and then, Sir G. Carteret being gone, I took my Lord aside, who do give
me the best advice he can, and telling me how there are some projectors,
by name Sir Edward Ford, who would have the making of farthings,

     [Sir Edward Ford, son of Sir William Ford of Harting, born at Up
     Park in 1605.  "After the Restoration he invented a mode of coining
     farthings.  Each piece was to differ minutely from another to
     prevent forgery.  He failed in procuring a patent for these in
     England, but obtained one for Ireland.  He died in Ireland before he
     could carry his design into execution, on September 3rd, 1670"
     ("Dictionary of National Biography ").]

and out of that give so much to the King for the maintenance of the
Fishery; but my Lord do not like that, but would have it go as they
offered the last year, and so upon my desire he promises me when it is
seasonable to bring me into the commission with others, if any of them
take, and I perceive he and Mr. Coventry are resolved to follow it hard.
Thence, after walking a good while in the Long gallery, home to my Lord's
lodging, my Lord telling me how my father did desire him to speak to me
about my giving of my sister something, which do vex me to see that he
should trouble my Lord in it, but however it is a good occasion for me to
tell my Lord my condition, and so I was glad of it.  After that we begun
to talk of the Court, and he tells me how Mr. Edward Montagu begins to
show respect to him again after his endeavouring to bespatter him all
was, possible; but he is resolved never to admit him into his friendship
again.  He tells me how he and Sir H. Bennet, the Duke of Buckingham and
his Duchesse, was of a committee with somebody else for the getting of
Mrs. Stewart for the King; but that she proves a cunning slut, and is
advised at Somerset House by the Queene-Mother, and by her mother, and so
all the plot is spoiled and the whole committee broke.  Mr. Montagu and
the Duke of Buckingham fallen a-pieces, the Duchesse going to a nunnery;
and so Montagu begins to enter friendship with my Lord, and to attend the
Chancellor whom he had deserted.  My Lord tells me that Mr. Montagu,
among other things, did endeavour to represent him to the Chancellor's
sons as one that did desert their father in the business of my Lord of
Bristoll; which is most false, being the only man that hath several times
dined with him when no soul hath come to him, and went with him that very
day home when the Earl impeached him in the Parliament House, and hath
refused ever to pay a visit to my Lord of Bristoll, not so much as in
return to a visit of his.  So that the Chancellor and my Lord are well
known and trusted one by another.  But yet my Lord blames the Chancellor
for desiring to have it put off to the next Session of Parliament,
contrary to my Lord Treasurer's advice, to whom he swore he would not do
it: and, perhaps, my Lord Chancellor, for aught I see by my Lord's
discourse, may suffer by it when the Parliament comes to sit.  My Lord
tells me that he observes the Duke of York do follow and understand
business very well, and is mightily improved thereby.  Here Mr. Pagett
coming in I left my Lord and him, and thence I called my wife and her
maid Jane and by coach home and to my office, where late writing some
things against tomorrow, and so home to supper and to bed.  This morning
Mr. Blackburne came to me to let me know that he had got a lodging very
commodious for his kinsman, and so he is ready at my pleasure to go when
I would bid him, and so I told him that I would in a day or two send to
speak with him and he and I would talk and advise Will what to do, of
which I am very glad.



7th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and Sir W. Pen
and I had a word or two, where by opposing him in not being willing to
excuse a mulct put upon the purser of the James, absent from duty, he
says, by his business and order, he was mighty angry, and went out of the
office like an asse discontented: At which I am never a whit sorry; I
would not have [him] think that I dare not oppose him, where I see reason
and cause for it.  Home to dinner, and then by coach abroad about several
businesses to several places, among others to Westminster Hall, where,
seeing Howlett's daughter going out of the other end of the Hall, I
followed her if I would to have offered talk to her and dallied with her
a little, but I could not overtake her.  Then calling at Unthank's for
something of my wife's not done, a pretty little gentlewoman, a lodger
there, came out to tell me that it was not yet done, which though it
vexed me yet I took opportunity of taking her by the hand with the boot,
and so found matter to talk a little the longer to her, but I was ready
to laugh at myself to see how my anger would not operate, my
disappointment coming to me by such a messenger.  Thence to Doctors'
Commons and there consulted Dr. Turner about some differences we have
with the officers of the East India ships about goods brought by them
without paying freight, which we demand of them.  So home to my office,
and there late writing letters, and so home to supper and to bed, having
got a scurvy cold by lying cold in my head the last night.  This day
Captain Taylor brought me a piece of plate, a little small state dish, he
expecting that I should get him some allowance for demorage

     ["'Demurrage' is the compensation due to a shipowner from a
     freighter for unduly decaying his vessel in port beyond the time
     specified in the charter-party or bill of lading.  It is in fact an
     extended freight.  A ship, unjustly detained as a prize is entitled
     to 'demurrage.'"--Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book, 1867.]

of his ship "William," kept long at Tangier, which I shall and may justly
do.



8th (Lord's day).  Up, and it being late, to church without my wife, and
there I saw Pembleton come into the church and bring his wife with him, a
good comely plain woman, and by and by my wife came after me all alone,
which I was a little vexed at.  I found that my coming in a perriwigg did
not prove so strange to the world as I was afear'd it would, for I
thought that all the church would presently have cast their eyes all upon
me, but I found no such thing.  Here an ordinary lazy sermon of Mr.
Mill's, and then home to dinner, and there Tom came and dined with us;
and after dinner to talk about a new black cloth suit that I have a
making, and so at church time to church again, where the Scott preached,
and I slept most of the time.  Thence home, and I spent most of the
evening upon Fuller's "Church History" and Barckly's "Argeny," and so
after supper to prayers and to bed, a little fearing my pain coming back
again, myself continuing as costive as ever, and my physic ended, but I
had sent a porter to-day for more and it was brought me before I went to
bed, and so with pretty good content to bed.



9th.  Up and found myself very well, and so by coach to White Hall and
there met all my fellow officers, and so to the Duke, where, when we came
into his closett, he told us that Mr. Pepys was so altered with his new
perriwigg that he did not know him.  So to our discourse, and among and
above other things we were taken up in talking upon Sir J. Lawson's
coming home, he being come to Portsmouth; and Captain Berkely is come to
towne with a letter from the Duana of Algier to the King, wherein they do
demand again the searching of our ships and taking out of strangers, and
their goods; and that what English ships are taken without the Duke's
pass they will detain (though it be flat contrary to the words of the
peace) as prizes, till they do hear from our King, which they advise him
may be speedy.  And this they did the very next day after they had
received with great joy the Grand Seignor's confirmation of the Peace
from Constantinople by Captain Berkely; so that there is no command nor
certainty to be had of these people.  The King is resolved to send his
will by a fleete of ships; and it is thought best and speediest to send
these very ships that are now come home, five sail of good ships, back
again after cleaning, victualling, and paying them.  But it is a pleasant
thing to think how their Basha, Shavan Aga, did tear his hair to see the
soldiers order things thus; for (just like his late predecessor) when
they see the evil of war with England, then for certain they complain to
the Grand Seignor of him, and cut his head off:  this he is sure of, and
knows as certain.  Thence to Westminster Hall, where I met with Mr.
Pierce, chyrurgeon; and among other things he asked me seriously whether
I knew anything of my Lord's being out of favour with the King; and told
me, that for certain the King do take mighty notice of my Lord's living
obscurely in a corner not like himself, and becoming the honour that he
is come to.  I was sorry to hear, and the truth is, from my Lord's
discourse among his people (which I am told) of the uncertainty of
princes' favours, and his melancholy keeping from Court, I am doubtful of
some such thing;  but I seemed wholly strange to him in it, but will make
my use of it.  He told me also how loose the Court is, nobody looking
after business, but every man his lust and gain; and how the King is now
become besotted upon Mrs. Stewart, that he gets into corners, and will be
with her half an houre together kissing her to the observation of all the
world; and she now stays by herself and expects it, as my Lady
Castlemaine did use to do; to whom the King, he says, is still kind, so
as now and then he goes to have a chat with her as he believes;  but with
no such fondness as he used to do.  But yet it is thought that this new
wench is so subtle, that she lets him not do any thing than is safe to
her, but yet his doting is so great that, Pierce tells me, it is verily
thought if the Queene had died, he would have married her.  The Duke of
Monmouth is to have part of the Cockpitt new built for lodgings for him,
and they say to be made Captain of the Guards in the room of my Lord
Gerard.  Having thus talked with him, there comes into the Hall Creed and
Ned Pickering, and after a turne or two with them, it being noon, I
walked with them two to the King's Head ordinary, and there we dined;
little discourse but what was common, only that the Duke of Yorke is a
very, desperate huntsman, but I was ashamed of Pickering, who could not
forbear having up my Lord Sandwich now and then in the most paltry
matters abominable.  Thence I took leave of them, and so having taken up
something at my wife's tailor's, I home by coach and there to my office,
whither Shales came and I had much discourse with him about the business
of the victualling, and thence in the evening to the Coffee-house, and
there sat till by and by, by appointment Will brought me word that his
uncle Blackburne was ready to speak with me.  So I went down to him, and
he and I to a taverne hard by, and there I begun to speak to Will
friendlily, advising him how to carry himself now he is going from under
my roof, without any reflections upon the occasion from whence his
removal arose.  This his uncle seconded, and after laying down to him his
duty to me, and what I expect of him, in a discourse of about a quarter
of an houre or more, we agreed upon his going this week, towards the
latter (end) of the week, and so dismissed him, and Mr. Blackburne and I
fell to talk of many things, wherein I did speak so freely to him in many
things agreeing with his sense that he was very open to me: first, in
that of religion, he makes it great matter of prudence for the King and
Council to suffer liberty of conscience; and imputes the losse of Hungary
to the Turke from the Emperor's denying them this liberty of their
religion.  He says that many pious ministers of the word of God, some
thousands of them, do now beg their bread: and told me how highly the
present clergy carry themselves every where, so as that they are hated
and laughed at by everybody; among other things, for their
excommunications, which they send upon the least occasions almost that
can be.  And I am convinced in my judgement, not only from his discourse,
but my thoughts in general, that the present clergy will never heartily
go down with the generality of the commons of England; they have been so
used to liberty and freedom, and they are so acquainted with the pride
and debauchery of the present clergy.  He did give me many stories of the
affronts which the clergy receive in all places of England from the
gentry and ordinary persons of the parish.  He do tell me what the City
thinks of General Monk, as of a most perfidious man that hath betrayed
every body, and the King also; who, as he thinks, and his party, and so I
have heard other good friends of the King say, it might have been better
for the King to have had his hands a little bound for the present, than
be forced to bring such a crew of poor people about him, and be liable to
satisfy the demands of every one of them.  He told me that to his
knowledge (being present at every meeting at the Treaty at the Isle of
Wight), that the old King did confess himself overruled and convinced in
his judgement against the Bishopps, and would have suffered and did agree
to exclude the service out of the churches, nay his own chappell; and
that he did always say, that this he did not by force, for that he would
never abate one inch by any vyolence; but what he did was out of his
reason and judgement.  He tells me that the King by name, with all his
dignities, is prayed for by them that they call Fanatiques, as heartily
and powerfully as in any of the other churches that are thought better:
and that, let the King think what he will, it is them that must helpe him
in the day of warr.  For as they are the most, so generally they are the
most substantial sort of people, and the soberest; and did desire me to
observe it to my Lord Sandwich, among other things, that of all the old
army now you cannot see a man begging about the street; but what?  You
shall have this captain turned a shoemaker; the lieutenant, a baker; this
a brewer; that a haberdasher; this common soldier, a porter; and every
man in his apron and frock, &c., as if they never had done anything else:
whereas the others go with their belts and swords, swearing and cursing,
and stealing; running into people's houses, by force oftentimes, to carry
away something; and this is the difference between the temper of one and
the other; and concludes (and I think with some reason,) that the spirits
of the old parliament soldiers are so quiett and contented with God's
providences, that the King is safer from any evil meant him by them one
thousand times more than from his own discontented Cavalier.  And then to
the publique management of business: it is done, as he observes, so
loosely and so carelessly, that the kingdom can never be happy with it,
every man looking after himself, and his owne lust and luxury; among
other things he instanced in the business of money, he do believe that
half of what money the Parliament gives the King is not so much as
gathered.  And to the purpose he told me how the Bellamys (who had some
of the Northern counties assigned them for their debt for the petty
warrant victualling) have often complained to him that they cannot get it
collected, for that nobody minds, or, if they do, they won't pay it in.
Whereas (which is a very remarkable thing,) he hath been told by some of
the Treasurers at Warr here of late, to whom the most of the L120,000
monthly was paid, that for most months the payments were gathered so
duly, that they seldom had so much or more than 40s., or the like, short
in the whole collection; whereas now the very Commissioners for
Assessments and other publique payments are such persons, and those that
they choose in the country so like themselves, that from top to bottom
there is not a man carefull of any thing, or if he be, he is not solvent;
that what between the beggar and the knave, the King is abused the best
part of all his revenue.  From thence we began to talk of the Navy, and
particularly of Sir W. Pen, of whose rise to be a general I had a mind to
be informed.  He told me he was always a conceited man, and one that
would put the best side outward, but that it was his pretence of sanctity
that brought him into play.  Lawson, and Portman, and the Fifth-monarchy
men, among whom he was a great brother, importuned that he might be
general; and it was pleasant to see how Blackburne himself did act it,
how when the Commissioners of the Admiralty would enquire of the captains
and admirals of such and such men, how they would with a sigh and casting
up the eyes say, "Such a man fears the Lord," or, "I hope such a man hath
the Spirit of God," and such things as that.  But he tells me that there
was a cruel articling against Pen after one fight, for cowardice, in
putting himself within a coyle of cables, of which he had much ado to
acquit himself: and by great friends did it, not without remains of
guilt, but that his brethren had a mind to pass it by, and Sir H. Vane
did advise him to search his heart, and see whether this fault or a
greater sin was not the occasion of this so great tryall.  And he tells
me, that what Pen gives out about Cromwell's sending and entreating him
to go to Jamaica, is very false; he knows the contrary: besides, the
Protector never was a man that needed to send for any man, specially such
a one as he, twice.  He tells me that the business of Jamaica did
miscarry absolutely by his pride, and that when he was in the Tower he
would cry like a child.  This he says of his own personal knowledge, and
lastly tells me that just upon the turne, when Monk was come from the
North to the City, and did begin to think of bringing in the King, Pen
was then turned Quaker.  This he is most certain of.  He tells me that
Lawson was never counted any thing but only a seaman, and a stout man,
but a false man, and that now he appears the greatest hypocrite in the
world.  And Pen the same.  He tells me that it is much talked of, that
the King intends to legitimate the Duke of Monmouth; and that he has not,
nor his friends of his persuasion, have any hopes of getting their
consciences at liberty but by God Almighty's turning of the King's heart,
which they expect, and are resolved to live and die in quiett hopes of
it; but never to repine, or act any thing more than by prayers towards
it.  And that not only himself but all of them have, and are willing at
any time to take the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.  Thus far, and
upon many more things, we had discoursed when some persons in a room hard
by began to sing in three parts very finely and to play upon a flagilette
so pleasantly that my discourse afterwards was but troublesome, and I
could not attend it, and so, anon, considering of a sudden the time of
night, we found it 11 o'clock, which I thought it had not been by two
hours, but we were close in talk, and so we rose, he having drunk some
wine and I some beer and sugar, and so by a fair moonshine home and to
bed, my wife troubled with tooth ache.  Mr. Blackburne observed further
to me, some certain notice that he had of the present plot so much talked
of; that he was told by Mr. Rushworth,  how one Captain Oates, a great
discoverer, did employ several to bring and seduce others into a plot,
and that one of his agents met with one that would not listen to him, nor
conceal what he had offered him, but so detected the trapan.  This, he
says, is most true.  He also, among other instances how the King is
served, did much insist upon the cowardice and corruption of the King's
guards and militia, which to be sure will fail the King, as they have
done already, when there will be occasion for them.



10th.  Up and to the office, where we sat till noon, and then to the
Exchange, where spoke with several and had my head casting about how to
get a penny and I hope I shall, and then hone, and there Mr. Moore by
appointment dined with me, and after dinner all the afternoon till night
drawing a bond and release against to-morrow for T. Trice, and I to come
to a conclusion in which I proceed with great fear and jealousy, knowing
him to be a rogue and one that I fear has at this time got too great a
hank--[hold]--over me by the neglect of my lawyers.  But among other
things I am come to an end with Mr. Moore for a L32, a good while lying
in my hand of my Lord Privy Seal's which he for the odd L7 do give me a
bond to secure me against, and so I got L25 clear.  Then, he being gone,
to the office and there late setting down yesterday's remarkable
discourses, and so home and to supper, late, and to bed.  The Queene, I
hear, is now very well again, and that she hath bespoke herself a new
gowne.



11th.  Up and to my office all the morning, and at noon to the Coffee-
house, where with Dr. Allen some good discourse about physique and
chymistry.  And among other things, I telling him what Dribble the German
Doctor do offer of an instrument to sink ships; he tells me that which is
more strange, that something made of gold, which they call in chymistry
Aurum fulminans, a grain, I think he said, of it put into a silver spoon
and fired, will give a blow like a musquett, and strike a hole through
the spoon downward, without the least force upward; and this he can make
a cheaper experiment of, he says, with iron prepared.  Thence to the
'Change, and being put off a meeting with T. Trice, he not coming, I home
to dinner, and after dinner by coach with my wife to my periwigg maker's
for my second periwigg, but it is not done, and so, calling at a place or
two, home, and there to my office, and there taught my wife a new lesson
in arithmetique and so sent her home, and I to several businesses; and so
home to supper and to bed, being mightily troubled with a cold in my
stomach and head, with a great pain by coughing.



12th.  Lay long in bed, indeed too long, divers people and the officers
staying for me.  My cozen Thomas Pepys the executor being below, and I
went to him and stated reckonings about our debt, for his payments of
money to my uncle Thomas heretofore by the Captain's orders.  I did not
pay him but will soon do it if I can.  To the office and there all the
morning, where Sir W. Pen, like a coxcomb, was so ready to cross me in a
motion I made unawares for the entering a man at Chatham into the works,
wherein I was vexed to see his spleene, but glad to understand it, and
that it was in no greater a matter, I being not at all concerned here.
To the 'Change and did several businesses there and so home with Mr.
Moore to dinner, my wife having dined, with Mr. Hollyard with her to-day,
he being come to advise her about her hollow sore place.  After dinner
Mr. Moore and I discoursing of my Lord's negligence in attendance at
Court, and the discourse the world makes of it, with the too great reason
that I believe there is for it; I resolved and took coach to his
lodgings, thinking to speak with my Lord about it without more ado.
Here I met Mr. Howe, and he and I largely about it, and he very soberly
acquainted me how things are with my Lord, that my Lord do not do
anything like himself, but follows his folly, and spends his time either
at cards at Court with the ladies, when he is there at all, or else at
Chelsy with the slut to his great disgrace, and indeed I do see and
believe that my Lord do apprehend that he do grow less too at Court.
Anon my Lord do come in, and I begun to fall in discourse with him, but
my heart did misgive me that my Lord would not take it well, and then
found him not in a humour to talk, and so after a few ordinary words, my
Lord not talking in the manner as he uses to do; I took leave, and spent
some time with W. Howe again, and told him how I could not do what I had
so great a mind and resolution to do, but that I thought it would be as
well to do it in writing, which he approves of, and so I took leave of
him, and by coach home, my mind being full of it, and in pain concerning
it.  So to my office busy very late, the nights running on faster than
one thinks, and so to supper and to bed.



13th.  Up and to my office, busy all the morning with Commissioner Pett;
at noon I to the Exchange, and meeting Shales, he and I to the Coffee-
house and there talked of our victualling matters, which I fear will come
to little.  However I will go on and carry it as far as I can.  So home
to dinner where I expected Commissioner Pett, and had a good dinner, but
he came not.  After dinner came my perriwigg-maker, and brings me a
second periwigg, made of my own haire, which comes to 21s. 6d. more than
the worth of my own haire, so that they both come to L4 1s. 6d., which he
sayth will serve me two years, but I fear it.  He being gone, I to my
office, and put on my new shagg purple gowne, with gold buttons and loop
lace, I being a little fearful of taking cold and of pain coming upon me.
Here I staid making an end of a troublesome letter, but to my advantage,
against Sir W. Batten, giving Sir G. Carteret an account of our late
great contract with Sir W. Warren for masts, wherein I am sure I did the
King L600 service.  That done home to my wife to take a clyster, which I
did, and it wrought very well and brought a great deal of wind, which I
perceive is all that do trouble me.  After that, about 9 or 10 o'clock,
to supper in my wife's chamber, and then about 12 to bed.



14th.  Up and to the office, where we sat, and after we had almost done,
Sir W. Batten desired to have the room cleared, and there he did acquaint
the board how he was obliged to answer to something lately said which did
reflect upon the Comptroller and him, and to that purpose told how the
bargain for Winter's timber did not prove so bad as I had reported to the
board it would.  After he had done I cleared the matter that I did not
mention the business as a thing designed by me against them, but was led
to it by Sir J. Minnes, and that I said nothing but what I was told by
Mayers the surveyor as much as by Deane upon whom they laid all the
fault, which I must confess did and do still trouble me, for they report
him to be a fellow not fit to be employed, when in my conscience he
deserves better than any officer in the yard.  I thought it not
convenient to vindicate him much now, but time will serve when I will do
it, and I am bound to do it.  I offered to proceed to examine and prove
what I said if they please, but Mr. Coventry most discreetly advised not,
it being to no purpose, and that he did believe that what I said did not
by my manner of speaking it proceed from any design of reproaching them,
and so it ended.  But my great trouble is for poor Deane.  At noon home
and dined with my wife, and after dinner Will told me if I pleased he was
ready to remove his things, and so before my wife I did give him good
counsel, and that his going should not abate my kindnesse for him, if he
carried himself well, and so bid "God bless him," and left him to remove
his things, the poor lad weeping, but I am apt to think matters will be
the better both for him and us.  So to the office and there late busy.
In the evening Mr. Moore came to tell me that he had no opportunity of
speaking his mind to my Lord yesterday, and so I am resolved to write to
him very suddenly.  So after my business done I home, I having staid till
12 o'clock at night almost, making an end of a letter to Sir G. Carteret
about the late contract for masts, wherein I have done myself right, and
no wrong to Sir W. Batten.  This night I think is the first that I have
lain without ever a man in my house besides myself, since I came to keep
any.  Will being this night gone to his lodging, and by the way I hear
to-day that my boy Waynman has behaved himself so with Mr. Davis that
they have got him put into a Barbadoes ship to be sent away, and though
he sends to me to get a release for him I will not out of love to the
boy, for I doubt to keep him here were to bring him to the gallows.



15th (Lord's day).  Lay very long in bed with my wife and then up and to
my office there to copy fair my letter to Sir G. Carteret, which I did,
and by and by most opportunely a footman of his came to me about other
business, and so I sent it him by his own servant.  I wish good luck with
it.  At noon home to dinner, my wife not being up, she lying to expect
Mr. Holyard the surgeon.  So I dined by myself, and in the afternoon to
my office again, and there drew up a letter to my Lord, stating to him
what the world talks concerning him, and leaving it to him and myself to
be thought of by him as he pleases, but I have done but my duty in it.
I wait Mr. Moore's coming for his advice about sending it.  So home to
supper to my wife, myself finding myself by cold got last night beginning
to have some pain, which grieves me much in my mind to see to what a
weakness I am come.  This day being our Queene's birthday, the guns of
the Tower went all off; and in the evening the Lord Mayor sent from
church to church to order the constables to cause bonfires to be made in
every streete, which methinks is a poor thing to be forced to be
commanded.  After a good supper with my wife, and hearing of the mayds
read in the Bible, we to prayers, and to bed.



16th.  Up, and being ready then abroad by coach to White Hall, and there
with the Duke, where Mr. Coventry did a second time go to vindicate
himself against reports and prove by many testimonies that he brought,
that he did nothing but what had been done by the Lord Admiral's
secretaries heretofore, though he do not approve of it, nor since he had
any rule from the Duke hath he exceeded what he is there directed to
take, and the thing I think is very clear that they always did take and
that now he do take less than ever they did heretofore.  Thence away, and
Sir G. Carteret did call me to him and discourse with me about my letter
yesterday, and did seem to take it unkindly that I should doubt of his
satisfaction in the bargain of masts, and did promise me that hereafter
whatever he do hear to my prejudice he would tell me before he would
believe it, and that this was only Sir W. Batten's report in this
business, which he says he did ever approve of, in which I know he lies.
Thence to my Lord's lodgings thinking to find Mr. Moore, in order to the
sending away my letter of reproof to my Lord, but I do not find him, but
contrary do find my Lord come to Court, which I am glad to hear and
should be more glad to hear that he do follow his business that I may not
have occasion to venture upon his good nature by such a provocation as my
letter will be to him.  So by coach home, to the Exchange, where I talked
about several businesses with several people, and so home to dinner with
my wife, and then in the afternoon to my office, and there late, and in
the evening Mr. Hollyard came, and he and I about our great work to look
upon my wife's malady, which he did, and it seems her great conflux of
humours, heretofore that did use to swell there, did in breaking leave a
hollow which has since gone in further and further; till now it is near
three inches deep, but as God will have it do not run into the bodyward,
but keeps to the outside of the skin, and so he must be forced to cut it
open all along, and which my heart I doubt will not serve for me to see
done, and yet she will not have any body else to see it done, no, not her
own mayds, and so I must do it, poor wretch, for her.  To-morrow night he
is to do it.  He being gone, I to my office again a little while, and so
home to supper and to bed.



17th.  Up, and while I am dressing myself, Mr. Deane of Woolwich came to
me, and I did tell him what had happened to him last Saturday in the
office, but did encourage him to make no matter of it, for that I did not
fear but he would in a little time be master of his enemies as much as
they think to master him, and so he did tell me many instances of the
abominable dealings of Mr. Pett of Woolwich towards him.  So we broke up,
and I to the office, where we sat all the forenoon doing several
businesses, and at noon I to the 'Change where Mr. Moore came to me, and
by and by Tom Trice and my uncle Wight, and so we out to a taverne (the
New Exchange taverne over against the 'Change where I never was before,
and I found my old playfellow Ben Stanley master of it), and thence to a
scrivener to draw up a bond, and to another tavern (the King's Head) we
went, and calling on my cozen Angier at the India House there we eat a
bit of pork from a cookes together, and after dinner did seal the bond,
and I did take up the old bond of my uncle's to my aunt, and here T.
Trice before them do own all matters in difference between us is clear as
to this business, and that he will in six days give me it under the hand
of his attorney that there is no judgment against the bond that may give
me any future trouble, and also a copy of their letters of his
Administration to Godfrey, as much of it as concerns me to have.  All
this being done towards night we broke up, and so I home and with Mr.
Moore to my office, and there I read to him the letter I have wrote to
send to my Lord to give him an account how the world, both city and
court, do talk of him and his living as he do there in such a poor and
bad house so much to his disgrace.  Which Mr. Moore do conclude so well
drawn: that he would not have me by any means to neglect sending it,
assuring me in the best of his judgment that it cannot but endear me to
my Lord instead of what I fear of getting his offence, and did offer to
take the same words and send them as from, him with his hand to him,
which I am not unwilling should come (if they are at all fit to go) from
any body but myself, and so, he being gone, I did take a copy of it to
keep by me in shorthand, and sealed them up to send to-morrow by my Will.
So home, Mr. Hollyard being come to my wife, and there she being in bed,
he and I alone to look again upon her .  .  , and there he do find that,
though it would not be much pain, yet she is so fearful,  and the thing
will be somewhat painful in the tending, which I shall not be able to
look after, but must require a nurse and people about her; so that upon
second thoughts he believes that a fomentation will do as well, and
though it will be troublesome yet no pain, and what her mayd will be able
to do without knowing directly what it is for, but only that it may be
for the piles.  For though it be nothing but what is fiery honest, yet my
wife is loth to give occasion of discourse concerning it.  By this my
mind and my wife's is much eased, for I confess I should have been
troubled to have had my wife cut before my face, I could not have borne
to have seen it.  I had great discourse with him about my disease.  He
tells me again that I must eat in a morning some loosening gruel, and at
night roasted apples, that I must drink now and then ale with my wine,
and eat bread and butter and honey, and rye bread if I can endure it, it
being loosening.  I must also take once a week a clyster of his last
prescription, only honey now and then instead of butter, which things I
am now resolved to apply myself to.  He being gone I to my office again
to a little business, and then home to supper and to bed, being in, a
little pain by drinking of cold small beer to-day and being in a cold
room at the Taverne I believe.



18th.  Up, and after being ready, and done a little business at the
office, I and Mr. Hater by water to Redriffe, and so walked to Deptford,
where I have not been a very great, while, and there paid off the Milford
in very good order, and all respect showed me in the office as much as
there used to be to any of the rest or the whole board.  That done at
noon I took Captain Terne, and there coming in by chance Captain
Berkeley, him also to dinner with me to the Globe.  Captain Berkeley, who
was lately come from Algier, did give us a good account of the place, and
how the Basha there do live like a prisoner, being at the mercy of the
soldiers and officers, so that there is nothing but a great confusion
there.  After dinner came Sir W. Batten, and I left him to pay off
another ship, and I walked home again reading of a little book of new
poems of Cowley's, given me by his brother.  Abraham do lie, it seems,
very sicke, still, but like to recover.  At my office till late, and then
came Mr. Hollyard so full of discourse and Latin that I think he hath got
a cupp, but I do not know; but full of talke he is in defence of Calvin
and Luther.  He begun this night the fomentation to my wife, and I hope
it will do well with her.  He gone, I to the office again a little, and
so to bed.  This morning I sent Will with my great letter of reproof to
my Lord Sandwich, who did give it into his owne hand.  I pray God give a
blessing to it, but confess I am afeard what the consequence may be to me
of good or bad, which is according to the ingenuity that he do receive it
with.  However, I am satisfied that it will do him good, and that he
needs it:

     MY LORD,

     I do verily hope that neither the manner nor matter of this advice
     will be condemned by your Lordship, when for my defence in the first
     I shall alledge my double attempt, since your return from
     Hinchinbroke, of doing it personally, in both of which your
     Lordship's occasions, no doubtfulnesse of mine, prevented me, and
     that being now fearful of a sudden summons to Portsmouth, for the
     discharge of some ships there, I judge it very unbecoming the duty
     which every bit of bread I eat tells me I owe to your Lordship to
     expose the safety of your honour to the uncertainty of my return.
     For the matter, my Lord, it is such as could I in any measure think
     safe to conceal from, or likely to be discovered to you by any other
     hand, I should not have dared so far to owne what from my heart I
     believe is false, as to make myself but the relater of other's
     discourse; but, sir, your Lordship's honour being such as I ought to
     value it to be, and finding both in city and court that discourses
     pass to your prejudice, too generally for mine or any man's
     controllings but your Lordship's, I shall, my Lord, without the
     least greatening or lessening the matter, do my duty in laying it
     shortly before you.

     People of all conditions, my Lord, raise matter of wonder from your
     Lordship's so little appearance at Court: some concluding thence
     their disfavour thereby, to which purpose I have had questions asked
     me, and endeavouring to put off such insinuations by asserting the
     contrary, they have replied, that your Lordship's living so beneath
     your quality, out of the way, and declining of Court attendance,
     hath been more than once discoursed about the King.  Others, my
     Lord, when the chief ministers of State, and those most active of
     the Council have been reckoned up, wherein your Lordship never used
     to want an eminent place, have said, touching your Lordship, that
     now your turn was served, and the King had given you a good estate,
     you left him to stand or fall as he would, and, particularly in that
     of the Navy, have enlarged upon your letting fall all service there.

     Another sort, and those the most, insist upon the bad report of the
     house wherein your Lordship, now observed in perfect health again,
     continues to sojourne, and by name have charged one of the daughters
     for a common courtizan, alledging both places and persons where and
     with whom she hath been too well known, and how much her wantonnesse
     occasions, though unjustly, scandal to your Lordship, and that as
     well to gratifying of some enemies as to the wounding of more
     friends I am not able to tell.

     Lastly, my Lord, I find a general coldness in all persons towards
     your Lordship, such as, from my first dependance on you, I never yet
     knew, wherein I shall not offer to interpose any thoughts or advice
     of mine, well knowing your Lordship needs not any.  But with a most
     faithful assurance that no person nor papers under Heaven is privy
     to what I here write, besides myself and this, which I shall be
     careful to have put into your owne hands, I rest confident of your
     Lordship's just construction of my dutifull intents herein, and in
     all humility take leave, may it please your Lordship,

     Your Lordship's most obedient Servant, S. P.


The foregoing letter was sealed up, and enclosed in this that follows

     MY LORD,

     If this finds your Lordship either not alone, or not at leisure, I
     beg the suspending your opening of the enclosed till you shall have
     both, the matter very well bearing such a delay, and in all humility
     remain, may it please your Lordship,

     Your Lordship's most obedient Servant, S. P.

     November 17, 1663.

     My servant hath my directions to put this into your Lordship's owne
     hand, but not to stay for any answer.



19th.  Up, and to the office, where (Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten
being gone this morning to Portsmouth) the rest of us met, and rode at
noon.  So I to the 'Change, where little business, and so home to dinner,
and being at dinner Mr. Creed in and dined with us, and after dinner Mr.
Gentleman, my Jane's father, to see us and her.  And after a little stay
with them, I was sent for by Sir G. Carteret by agreement, and so left
them, and to him and with him by coach to my Lord Treasurer, to discourse
with him about Mr. Gauden's having of money, and to offer to him whether
it would not be necessary, Mr. Gauden's credit being so low as it is, to
take security of him if he demands any great sum, such as L20,000, which
now ought to be paid him upon his next year's declaration.  Which is a
sad thing, that being reduced to this by us, we should be the first to
doubt his credit; but so it is.  However, it will be managed with great
tenderness to him.  My Lord Treasurer we found in his bed-chamber, being
laid up of the goute.  I find him a very ready man, and certainly a brave
servant to the King: he spoke so quick and sensibly of the King's charge.
Nothing displeased me in him but his long nails, which he lets grow upon
a pretty thick white short hand, that it troubled me to see them.  Thence
with Sir G. Carteret by coach, and he set me down at the New Exchange.
In our way he told me there is no such thing likely yet as a Dutch war,
neither they nor we being in condition for it, though it will come
certainly to that in some time, our interests lying the same way, that is
to say, in trade.  But not yet.  Thence to the Temple, and there visited
my cozen Roger Pepys and his brother Dr. John, a couple, methinks, of
very ordinary men, and thence to speak [with] Mr. Moore, and met him by
the way, who tells me, to my great content, that he believes my letter to
my Lord Sandwich hath wrought well upon him, and that he will look after
himself and his business upon it, for he begins already to do so.  But I
dare not conclude anything till I see him, which shall be to-morrow
morning, that I may be out of my pain to know how he takes it of me.  He
and I to the Coffee-house, and there drank and talked a little, and so I
home, and after a little at my office home to supper and to bed, not
knowing how to avoid hopes from Mr. Moore's words to-night, and yet I am
fearful of the worst.



20th.  Up, and as soon as I could to my Lord Sandwich's lodgings, but he
was gone out before, and so I am defeated of my expectation of being
eased one way or other in the business of my Lord.  But I went up to Mr.
Howe, who I saw this day the first time in a periwigg, which becomes him
very well, and discoursed with him.  He tells me that my Lord is of a
sudden much changed, and he do believe that he do take my letter well.
However, we do both bless God that it hath so good an effect upon him.
Thence I home again, calling at the Wardrobe, where I found my Lord, but
so busy with Mr. Townsend making up accounts there that I was unwilling
to trouble him, and so went away.  By and by to the Exchange, and there
met by agreement Mr. Howe, and took him with a barrel of oysters home to
dinner, where we were very merry, and indeed I observe him to be a very
hopeful young man, but only a little conceited.  After dinner I took him
and my wife, and setting her in Covent Garden at her mother's, he and I
to my Lord's, and thence I with Mr. Moore to White Hall, there the King
and Council being close, and I thinking it an improper place to meet my
Lord first upon the business; I took coach, and calling my wife went
home, setting Mr. Moore down by the way, and having been late at the
office alone looking over some plates of the Northern seas, the White
seas, and Archangell river, I went home, and, after supper, to bed.  My
wife tells me that she and her brother have had a great falling out to-
night, he taking upon him to challenge great obligation upon her, and
taxing her for not being so as she ought to be to her friends, and that
she can do more with me than she pretends, and I know not what, but God
be thanked she cannot.  A great talke there is today of a crush between
some of the Fanatiques up in arms, and the King's men in the North; but
whether true I know not yet.



21st.  At the office all the morning and at noon I receive a letter from
Mr. Creed, with a token, viz., a very noble parti-coloured Indian gowne
for my wife.  The letter is oddly writ, over-prizing his present, and
little owning any past service of mine, but that this was his genuine
respects, and I know not what: I confess I had expectations of a better
account from him of my service about his accounts, and so give his boy
12d., and sent it back again, and after having been at the pay of a ship
this afternoon at the Treasury, I went by coach to Ludgate, and, by
pricing several there, I guess this gowne may be worth about L12 or L15.
But, however, I expect at least L50 of him.  So in the evening I wrote
him a letter telling him clearly my mind, a copy of which I keep and of
his letter and so I resolve to have no more such correspondence as I used
to have but will have satisfaction of him as I do expect.  So to write my
letters, and after all done I went home to supper and to bed, my mind
being pretty well at ease from my letter to Creed, and more for my
receipt this afternoon of L17 at the Treasury, for the L17 paid a year
since to the carver for his work at my house, which I did intend to have
paid myself, but, finding others to do it, I thought it not amisse to get
it too, but I am afeard that we may hear of it to our greater prejudices
hereafter.



22nd (Lord's day).  Up pretty early, and having last night bespoke a
coach, which failed me this morning, I walked as far as the Temple, and
there took coach, and to my Lord's lodgings, whom I found ready to go to
chappell; but I coming, he begun, with a very serious countenance, to
tell me that he had received my late letter, wherein first he took notice
of my care of him and his honour, and did give me thanks for that part of
it where I say that from my heart I believe the contrary of what I do
there relate to be the discourse of others; but since I intended it not a
reproach, but matter of information, and for him to make a judgment of it
for his practice, it was necessary for me to tell him the persons of whom
I have gathered the several particulars which I there insist on.  I would
have made excuses in it; but, seeing him so earnest in it, I found myself
forced to it, and so did tell him Mr. Pierce; the chyrurgeon, in that of
his Lordship's living being discoursed of at Court; a mayd servant that-
I kept, that lived at Chelsy school; and also Mr. Pickering, about the
report touching the young woman; and also Mr. Hunt, in Axe Yard, near
whom she lodged.  I told him the whole city do discourse concerning his
neglect of business; and so I many times asserting my dutifull intention
in all this, and he owning his accepting of it as such.  That that
troubled me most in particular is, that he did there assert the civility
of the people of the house, and the young gentlewoman, for whose reproach
he was sorry.  His saying that he was resolved how to live, and that
though he was taking a house, meaning to live in another manner, yet it
was not to please any people, or to stop report, but to please himself,
though this I do believe he might say that he might not seem to me to be
so much wrought upon by what I have writ; and lastly, and most of all,
when I spoke of the tenderness that I have used in declaring this to him,
there being nobody privy to it, he told me that I must give him leave to
except one.  I told him that possibly somebody might know of some
thoughts of mine, I having borrowed some intelligence in this matter from
them, but nobody could say they knew of the thing itself what I writ.
This, I confess, however, do trouble me, for that he seemed to speak it
as a quick retort, and it must sure be Will. Howe, who did not see
anything of what I writ, though I told him indeed that I would write; but
in this, I think, there is no great hurt.  I find him, though he cannot
but owne his opinion of my good intentions, and so, he did again and
again profess it, that he is troubled in his mind at it; and I confess,
I think I may have done myself an injury for his good, which, were it to
do again, and that I believed he would take it no better, I think I
should sit quietly without taking any notice of it, for I doubt there is
no medium between his taking it very well or very ill.  I could not
forbear weeping before him at the latter end, which, since, I am ashamed
of, though I cannot see what he can take it to proceed from but my
tenderness and good will to him.  After this discourse was ended, he
began to talk very, cheerfully of other things, and I walked with him to
White Hall, and we discoursed of the pictures in the gallery, which, it
may be, he might do out of policy, that the boy might not see any,
strangeness in him; but I rather think that his mind was somewhat eased,
and hope that he will be to me as he was before.  But, however, I doubt
not when he sees that I follow my business, and become an honour to him,
and not to be like to need him, or to be a burden to him, and rather able
to serve him than to need him, and if he do continue to follow business,
and so come to his right witts again, I do not doubt but he will then
consider my faithfulnesse to him, and esteem me as he ought.  At chappell
I had room in the Privy Seale pew with other gentlemen, and there heard
Dr. Killigrew, preach, but my mind was so, I know not whether troubled,
or only full of thoughts of what had passed between my Lord and me that I
could not mind it, nor can at this hour remember three words.  The anthem
was good after sermon, being the fifty-first psalme, made for five voices
by one of Captain Cooke's boys, a pretty boy.  And they say there are
four or five of them that can do as much.  And here I first perceived
that the King is a little musicall, and kept good time with his hand all
along the anthem.  Up into the gallery after sermon and there I met
Creed.  We saluted one another and spoke but not one word of what had
passed yesterday between us, but told me he was forced to such a place to
dinner and so we parted.  Here I met Mr. Povy, who tells me how Tangier
had like to have been betrayed, and that one of the King's officers is
come, to whom 8,000 pieces of eight were offered for his part.  Hence I
to the King's Head ordinary, and there dined, good and much company, and
a good dinner: most of their discourse was about hunting, in a dialect I
understand very little.  Thence by coach to our own church, and there my
mind being yet unsettled I could mind nothing, and after sermon home and
there told my wife what had passed, and thence to my office, where doing
business only to keep my mind employed till late; and so home to supper,
to prayers, and to bed.



23rd: Up and to Alderman Backwell's, where Sir W. Rider, by appointment,
met us to consult about the insuring of our hempe ship from Archangell,
in which we are all much concerned, by my Lord Treasurer's command.  That
being put in a way I went to Mr. Beacham, one of our jury, to confer with
him about our business with Field at our trial to-morrow, and thence to
St. Paul's Churchyarde, and there bespoke "Rushworth's Collections," and
"Scobell's Acts of the Long Parliament,"' &c., which I will make the King
pay for as to the office; and so I do not break my vow at all.  Back to
the Coffee-house, and then to the 'Change, where Sir W. Rider and I did
bid 15 per cent., and nobody will take it under 20 per cent., and the
lowest was 15 per cent.  premium, and 15 more to be abated in case of
losse, which we did not think fit without order to give, and so we
parted, and I home to a speedy, though too good a dinner to eat alone,
viz., a good goose and a rare piece of roast beef.  Thence to the Temple,
but being there too soon and meeting Mr. Moore I took him up and to my
Lord Treasurer's, and thence to Sir Ph. Warwick's, where I found him and
did desire his advice, who left me to do what I thought fit in this
business of the insurance, and so back again to the Temple all the way
telling Mr. Moore what had passed between my Lord and me yesterday, and
indeed my fears do grow that my Lord will not reform as I hoped he would
nor have the ingenuity to take my advice as he ought kindly.  But however
I am satisfied that the one person whom he said he would take leave to
except is not Mr. Moore, and so W. Howe I am sure could tell him nothing
of my letter that ever he saw it.  Here Mr. Moore and I parted, and I up
to the Speaker's chamber, and there met Mr. Coventry by appointment to
discourse about Field's business, and thence we parting I homewards and
called at the Coffeehouse, and there by great accident hear that a letter
is come that our ship is safe come to Newcastle.  With this news I went
like an asse presently to Alderman Backewell and, told him of it, and he
and I went to the African House in Broad Street to have spoke with Sir W.
Rider to tell him of it, but missed him.  Now what an opportunity had I
to have concealed this and seemed to have made an insurance and got L100
with the least trouble and danger in the whole world.  This troubles me
to think I should be so oversoon.  So back again with Alderman Backewell
talking of the new money, which he says will never be counterfeited, he
believes; but it is deadly inconvenient for telling, it is so thick, and
the edges are made to turn up.  I found him as full of business, and, to
speak the truth, he is a very painfull man, and ever was, and now-a-days
is well paid for it.  So home and to my office, doing business late in
order to the getting a little money, and so home to supper and to bed.



24th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon to
the 'Change, where everybody joyed me in our hemp ship's coming safe, and
it seems one man, Middleburgh, did give 20 per cent. in gold last night,
three or four minutes before the newes came of her being safe.  Thence
with Mr. Deane home and dined, and after dinner and a good deal of
discourse of the business of Woolwich Yard, we opened his draught of a
ship which he has made for me, and indeed it is a most excellent one and
that that I hope will be of good use to me as soon as I get a little
time, and much indebted I am to the poor man.  Toward night I by coach to
Whitehall to the Tangier committee, and there spoke with my Lord and he
seems mighty kind to me, but I will try him to-morrow by a visit to see
whether he holds it or no.  Then home by coach again and to my office,
where late with Captain Miners about the East India business.  So home to
supper and to bed, being troubled to find myself so bound as I am,
notwithstanding all the physic that I take.  This day our tryall was with
Field, and I hear that they have given him L29 damage more, which is a
strange thing, but yet not so much as formerly, nor as I was afeard of.



25th.  Up and to Sir G. Carteret's house, and with him by coach to
Whitehall.  He uses me mighty well to my great joy, and in our discourse
took occasion to tell me that as I did desire of him the other day so he
desires of me the same favour that we may tell one another at any time
any thing that passes among us at the office or elsewhere wherein we are
either dissatisfied one with another, and that I should find him in all
things as kind and ready to serve me as my own brother.  This methinks-
was very sudden and extraordinary and do please me mightily, and I am
resolved by no means ever to lose him again if I can.  He told me that he
did still observe my care for the King's service in my office.  He set me
down in Fleet Street and thence I by another coach to my Lord Sandwich's,
and there I did present him Mr. Barlow's "Terella," with which he was
very much pleased, and he did show me great kindnesse, and by other
discourse I have reason to think that he is not at all, as I feared he
would be, discontented against me more than the trouble of the thing will
work upon him.  I left him in good humour, and I to White Hall, to the
Duke of York and Mr. Coventry, and there advised about insuring the hempe
ship at 12 per cent., notwithstanding her being come to Newcastle, and I
do hope that in all my three places which are now my hopes and supports I
may not now fear any thing, but with care, which through the Lord's
blessing I will never more neglect, I don't doubt but to keep myself up
with them all.  For in the Duke, and Mr. Coventry, my Lord Sandwich and
Sir G. Carteret I place my greatest hopes, and it pleased me yesterday
that Mr. Coventry in the coach (he carrying me to the Exchange at noon
from the office) did, speaking of Sir W. Batten, say that though there
was a difference between them, yet he would embrace any good motion of
Sir W. Batten to the King's advantage as well as of Mr. Pepys' or any
friend he had.   And when I talked that I would go about doing something
of the Controller's work when I had time, and that I thought the
Controller would not take it ill, he wittily replied that there was
nothing in the world so hateful as a dog in the manger.  Back by coach
to the Exchange, there spoke with Sir W. Rider about insuring, and spoke
with several other persons about business, and shall become pretty well
known quickly.  Thence home to dinner with my poor wife, and with great
joy to my office, and there all the afternoon about business, and among
others Mr. Bland came to me and had good discourse, and he has chose me
a referee for him in a business, and anon in the evening comes Sir W.
Warren, and he and I had admirable discourse.  He advised me in things I
desired about, bummary,--[bottomry]--and other ways of putting out money
as in parts of ships, how dangerous they are, and lastly fell to talk of
the Dutch management of the Navy, and I think will helpe me to some
accounts of things of the Dutch Admiralty, which I am mighty desirous to
know.  He seemed to have been mighty privy with my Lord Albemarle in
things before this great turn, and to the King's dallying with him and
others for some years before, but I doubt all was not very true.
However, his discourse is very useful in general, though he would seem a
little more than ordinary in this.  Late at night home to supper and to
bed, my mind in good ease all but my health, of which I am not a little
doubtful.



26th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon I
to the 'Change, and there met with Mr. Cutler the merchant, who would
needs have me home to his house by the Dutch Church, and there in an old
but good house, with his wife and mother, a couple of plain old women,
I dined a good plain dinner, and his discourse after dinner with me upon
matters of the navy victualling very good and worth my hearing, and so
home to my office in the afternoon with my mind full of business, and
there at it late, and so home to supper to my poor wife, and to bed,
myself being in a little pain.  .  .  .  . by a stroke .  .  .  .  in
pulling up my breeches yesterday over eagerly, but I will lay nothing to
it till I see whether it will cease of itself or no.  The plague, it
seems, grows more and more at Amsterdam; and we are going upon making of
all ships coming from thence and Hambrough, or any other infected places,
to perform their Quarantine (for thirty days as Sir Rd. Browne expressed
it in the order of the Council, contrary to the import of the word,
though in the general acceptation it signifies now the thing, not the
time spent in doing it) in Holehaven, a thing never done by us before.



27th.  Up and to my office, where busy with great delight all the
morning, and at noon to the 'Change, and so home to dinner with my poor
wife, and with great content to my office again, and there hard at work
upon stating the account of the freights due to the King from the East
India Company till late at night, and so home to supper and to bed.  My
wife mightily pleased with my late discourse of getting a trip over to
Calais, or some other port of France, the next summer, in one of the
yachts, and I believe I shall do it, and it makes good sport that my
mayde Jane dares not go, and Besse is wild to go, and is mad for joy, but
yet will be willing to stay if Jane hath a mind, which is the best temper
in this and all other things that ever I knew in my life.



28th.  Up and at the office sat all the morning, and at noon by Mr.
Coventry's coach to the 'Change, and after a little while there where I
met with Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, who tells me for good newes that my
Lord Sandwich is resolved to go no more to Chelsy, and told me he
believed that I had been giving my Lord some counsel, which I neither
denied nor affirmed, but seemed glad with him that he went thither no
more, and so I home to dinner, and thence abroad to Paul's Church Yard,
and there looked upon the second part of Hudibras, which I buy not, but
borrow to read, to see if it be as good as the first, which the world cry
so mightily up, though it hath not a good liking in me, though I had
tried by twice or three times reading to bring myself to think it witty.
Back again home and to my office, and there late doing business and so
home to supper and to bed.  I have been told two or three times, but to-
day for certain I am told how in Holland publickly they have pictured our
King with reproach.  One way is with his pockets turned the wrong side
outward, hanging out empty; another with two courtiers picking of his
pockets; and a third, leading of two ladies, while others abuse him;
which amounts to great contempt.



29th (Lord's day).  This morning I put on my best black cloth suit,
trimmed with scarlett ribbon, very neat, with my cloake lined with
velvett, and a new beaver, which altogether is very noble, with my black
silk knit canons I bought a month ago.  I to church alone, my wife not
going, and there I found my Lady Batten in a velvet gown, which vexed me
that she should be in it before my wife, or that I am able to put her
into one, but what cannot be, cannot be.  However, when I came home I
told my wife of it, and to see my weaknesse, I could on the sudden have
found my heart to have offered her one, but second thoughts put it by,
and indeed it would undo me to think of doing as Sir W. Batten and his
Lady do, who has a good estate besides his office.  A good dinner we had
of boeuf a la mode, but not roasted so well as my wife used to do it.
So after dinner I to the French Church, but that being too far begun I
came back to St. Dunstan's by six and heard a good sermon, and so home
and to my office all, the evening making up my accounts of this month,
and blessed be God I have got up my crumb again to L770, the most that
ever I had yet, and good clothes a great many besides, which is a great
mercy of God to me.  So home to supper and to bed.



30th.  Was called up by a messenger from Sir W. Pen to go with him by
coach to White Hall.  So I got up and went with him, and by the way he
began to observe to me some unkind dealing of mine to him a weeke or two
since at the table, like a coxcomb, when I answered him pretty freely
that I would not think myself to owe any man the service to do this or
that because they would have it so (it was about taking of a mulct upon a
purser for not keeping guard at Chatham when I was there), so he talked
and I talked and let fall the discourse without giving or receiving any
great satisfaction, and so to other discourse, but I shall know him still
for a false knave.  At White Hall we met the Duke in the Matted Gallery,
and there he discoursed with us; and by and by my Lord Sandwich came and
stood by, and talked; but it being St. Andrew's, and a collar-day, he
went to the Chappell, and we parted.  From him and Sir W. Pen and I back
again and 'light at the 'Change, and to the Coffee-house, where I heard
the best story of a cheate intended by a Master of a ship, who had
borrowed twice his money upon the bottomary, and as much more insured
upon his ship and goods as they were worth, and then would have cast her
away upon the coast of France, and there left her, refusing any pilott
which was offered him; and so the Governor of the place took her and sent
her over hither to find an owner, and so the ship is come safe, and goods
and all; they all worth L500, and he had one way or other taken L3000.
The cause is to be tried to-morrow at Guildhall, where I intend to be.
Thence home to dinner, and then with my wife to her arithmetique.  In the
evening came W. Howe to see me, who tells me that my Lord hath been angry
three or four days with him, would not speak to him; at last did, and
charged him with having spoken to me about what he had observed
concerning his Lordship, which W. Howe denying stoutly, he was well at
ease; and continues very quiett, and is removing from Chelsy as fast as
he can, but, methinks, both by my Lord's looks upon me to-day, or it may
be it is only my doubtfulness, and by W. Howe's discourse, my Lord is not
very well pleased, nor, it may be, will be a good while, which vexes me;
but I hope all will over in time, or else I am but ill rewarded for my
good service.  Anon he and I to the Temple and there parted, and I to my
cozen Roger Pepys, whom I met going to his chamber; he was in haste, and
to go out of town tomorrow.  He tells me of a letter from my father which
he will keep to read to me at his coming to town again.  I perceive it is
about my father's jealousys concerning my wife's doing ill offices with
me against him only from the differences they had when she was there,
which he very unwisely continues to have and troubles himself and friends
about to speak to me in, as my Lord Sandwich, Mr. Moore, and my cozen
Roger, which vexes me, but I must impute it to his age and care for my
mother and Pall and so let it go.  After little discourse with him I took
coach and home, calling upon my bookseller's for two books, Rushworth's
and Scobell's Collections.  I shall make the King pay for them.  The
first I spent some time at the office to read and it is an excellent
book.  So home and spent the evening with my wife in arithmetique, and so
to supper and to bed.  I end this month with my mind in good condition
for any thing else, but my unhappy adventuring to disoblige my Lord by
doing him service in representing to him the discourse of the world
concerning him and his affairs.






                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                                 DECEMBER
                                   1663

December 1st.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At
noon I home to dinner with my poor wife, with whom now-a-days I enjoy
great pleasure in her company and learning of Arithmetique.  After dinner
I to Guild Hall to hear a tryall at King's Bench, before Lord Chief
Justice Hide, about the insurance of a ship, the same I mention in my
yesterday's journall, where everything was proved how money was so taken
up upon bottomary and insurance, and the ship left by the master and
seamen upon rocks, where, when the sea fell at the ebb, she must perish.
The master was offered helpe, and he did give the pilotts 20 sols to
drink to bid them go about their business, saying that the rocks were
old, but his ship was new, and that she was repaired for L6 and less all
the damage that she received, and is now brought by one, sent for on
purpose by the insurers, into the Thames, with her cargo, vessels of
tallow daubed over with butter, instead of all butter, the whole not
worth above L500, ship and all, and they had took up, as appeared, above
L2,400.  He had given his men money to content them; and yet, for all
this, he did bring some of them to swear that it was very stormy weather,
and [they] did all they could to save her, and that she was seven feete
deep water in hold, and were fain to cut her main and foremast, that the
master was the last man that went out, and they were fain to force [him]
out when she was ready to sink; and her rudder broke off, and she was
drawn into the harbour after they were gone, as wrecke all broken, and
goods lost: that she could not be carried out again without new building,
and many other things so contrary as is not imaginable more.  There was
all the great counsel in the kingdom in the cause; but after one witnesse
or two for the plaintiff, it was cried down as a most notorious cheate;
and so the jury, without going out, found it for the plaintiff.  But it
was pleasant to see what mad sort of testimonys the seamen did give, and
could not be got to speak in order: and then their terms such as the
judge could not understand; and to hear how sillily the Counsel and judge
would speak as to the terms necessary in the matter, would make one
laugh: and above all, a Frenchman that was forced to speak in French, and
took an English oathe he did not understand, and had an interpreter sworn
to tell us what he said, which was the best testimony of all.  So home
well satisfied with this afternoon's work, purposing to spend an
afternoon or two every term so, and so to my office a while and then home
to supper, arithmetique with my wife, and to bed.  I heard other causes,
and saw the course of pleading by being at this trial, and heard and
learnt two things: one is that every man has a right of passage in, but
not a title to, any highway.  The next, that the judge would not suffer
Mr. Crow, who hath fined for Alderman, to be called so, but only Mister,
and did eight or nine times fret at it, and stop every man that called
him so.



2nd.  My wife troubled all last night with the toothache and this
morning.  I up and to my office, where busy, and so home to dinner with
my wife, who is better of her tooth than she was, and in the afternoon by
agreement called on by Mr. Bland, and with him to the Ship a neighbour
tavern and there met his antagonist Mr. Custos and his referee Mr. Clarke
a merchant also, and begun the dispute about the freight of a ship hired
by Mr. Bland to carry provisions to Tangier, and the freight is now
demanded, whereas he says that the goods were some spoiled, some not
delivered, and upon the whole demands L1300 of the other, and their minds
are both so high, their demands so distant, and their words so many and
hot against one another that I fear we shall bring it to nothing.  But
however I am glad to see myself so capable of understanding the business
as I find I do, and shall endeavour to do Mr. Bland all the just service
I can therein.  Here we were in a bad room, which vexed me most, but we.
meet at another house next.  So at noon I home and to my office till 9
o'clock, and so home to my wife to keep her company, arithmetique, then
to supper, and to bed, she being well of her tooth again.



3rd.  Up and to the office, where all the forenoon, and then (by Mr.
Coventry's coach) to the 'Change, and so home to dinner, very pleasant
with my poor wife.  Somebody from Portsmouth, I know not who, has this
day sent me a Runlett of Tent.  So to my office all the afternoon, where
much business till late at night, and so home to my wife, and then
to supper and to bed.  This day Sir G. Carteret did tell us at the table,
that the Navy (excepting what is due to the Yards upon the quarter now
going on, and what few bills he hath not heard of) is quite out of debt;
which is extraordinary good newes, and upon the 'Change to hear how our
creditt goes as good as any merchant's upon the 'Change is a joyfull
thing to consider, which God continue!  I am sure the King will have the
benefit of it, as well as we some peace and creditt.



4th.  Up pretty betimes, that is about 7 o'clock, it being now dark then,
and so got me ready, with my clothes, breeches and warm stockings, and by
water with Henry Russell, cold and wet and windy to Woolwich, to a hempe
ship there, and staid looking upon it and giving direction as to the
getting it ashore, and so back again very cold, and at home without going
on shore anywhere about 12 o'clock, being fearful of taking cold, and so
dined at home and shifted myself, and so all the afternoon at my office
till night, and then home to keep my poor wife company, and so to supper
and to bed.



5th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and then with
the whole board, viz., Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and myself along
with Captain Allen home to dinner, where he lives hard by in Mark Lane,
where we had a very good plain dinner and good welcome, in a pretty
little house but so smoky that it was troublesome to us all till they put
out the fire, and made one of charcoale.  I was much pleased with this
dinner for the many excellent stories told by Mr. Coventry, which I have
put down in my book of tales and so shall not mention them here.  We
staid till night, and then Mr. Coventry away, and by and by I home to my
office till 9 or 10 at night, and so home to supper and to bed after some
talke and Arithmetique with my poor wife, with whom now-a-days I live
with great content, out of all trouble of mind by jealousy (for which God
forgive me), or any other distraction more than my fear of my Lord
Sandwich's displeasure.



6th (Lord's day).  Lay long in bed, and then up and to church alone,
which is the greatest trouble that I have by not having a man or, boy to
wait on me, and so home to dinner, my wife, it being a cold day, and it
begun to snow (the first snow we have seen this year) kept her bed till
after dinner, and I below by myself looking over my arithmetique books
and timber rule.  So my wife rose anon, and she and I all the afternoon
at arithmetique, and she is come to do Addition, Subtraction, and
Multiplicacion very well, and so I purpose not to trouble her yet with
Division, but to begin with the Globes to her now.  At night came Captain
Grove to discourse with me about Field's business and of other matters,
and so, he being gone, I to my office, and spent an houre or two reading
Rushworth, and so to supper home, and to prayers and bed, finding myself
by cold to have some pain begin with me, which God defend should
increase.



7th.  Up betimes, and, it being a frosty morning, walked on foot to White
Hall, but not without some fear of my pain coming.  At White Hall I hear
and find that there was the last night the greatest tide that ever was
remembered in England to have been in this river: all White Hall having
been drowned, of which there was great discourse.  Anon we all met, and
up with the Duke and did our business, and by and by my Lord of Sandwich
came in, but whether it be my doubt or no I cannot tell, but I do not
find that he made any sign of kindnesse or respect to me, which troubles
me more than any thing in the world.  After done there Sir W. Batten and
Captain Allen and I by coach to the Temple, where I 'light, they going
home, and indeed it being my trouble of mind to try whether I could meet
with my Lord Sandwich and try him to see how he will receive me.  I took
coach and back again to Whitehall, but there could not find him.  But
here I met Dr. Clerke, and did tell him my story of my health; how my
pain comes to me now-a-days.  He did write something for me which I shall
take when there is occasion.  I then fell to other discourse of Dr.
Knapp, who tells me he is the King's physician, and is become a solicitor
for places for people, and I am mightily troubled with him.  He tells me
he is the most impudent fellow in the world, that gives himself out to be
the King's physician, but it is not so, but is cast out of the Court.
From thence I may learn what impudence there is in the world, and how a
man may be deceived in persons: Anon the King and Duke and Duchesse came
to dinner in the Vane-roome, where I never saw them before; but it seems
since the tables are done, he dines there all together.  The Queene is
pretty well, and goes out of her chamber to her little chappell in the
house.  The King of France, they say, is hiring of sixty sail of ships of
the Dutch, but it is not said for what design.  By and by, not hoping to
see my Lord, I went to the King's Head ordinary, where a good dinner but
no discourse almost, and after dinner by coach, home, and found my wife
this cold day not yet out of bed, and after a little good talk with her
to my office, and there spent my time till late.  Sir W. Warren two or
three hours with me talking of trade, and other very good discourse,
which did please me very, well, and so, after reading in Rushworth, home
to supper and to bed.



8th.  Lay long in bed, and then up and to the office, where we sat all
the morning, and among other things my Lord Barkely called in question
his clerk Mr. Davy for something which Sir W. Batten and I did tell him
yesterday, but I endeavoured to make the least of it, and so all was put
up.  At noon to the 'Change, and among other businesses did discourse
with Captain Taylor, and I think I shall safely get L20 by his ship's
freight at present, besides what it may be I may get hereafter.  So home
to dinner, and thence by coach to White Hall, where a great while walked
with my Lord Tiviott, whom I find a most carefull, thoughtfull, and
cunning man, as I also ever took him to be.  He is this day bringing in
an account where he makes the King debtor to him L10,000 already on the
garrison of Tangier account; but yet demands not ready money to pay it,
but offers such ways of paying it out of the sale of old decayed
provisions as will enrich him finely.  Anon came my Lord Sandwich, and
then we fell to our business at the Committee about my Lord Tiviott's
accounts, wherein I took occasion to speak now and then, so as my Lord
Sandwich did well seem to like of it, and after we were up did bid me
good night in a tone that, methinks, he is not so displeased with me as I
did doubt he is; however, I will take a course to know whether he be or
no.  The Committee done, I took coach and home to my office, and there
late, and so to supper at home, and to bed, being doubtful of my pain
through the very cold weather which we have, but I will take all the care
I can to prevent it.



9th.  Lay very long in bed for fear of my pain, and then rose and went to
stool (after my wife's way, who by all means would have me sit long and
upright) very well, and being ready to the office.  From thence I was
called by and by to my wife, she not being well.  So to her, and found
her in great pain. . . . . .  So by and by to my office again, and then
abroad to look out a cradle to burn charcoal in at my office, and I found
one to my mind in Newgate Market, and so meeting Hoby's man in the
street, I spoke to him to serve it in to the office for the King.  So
home to dinner, and after talk with my wife, she in bed and pain all day,
I to my office most of the evening, and then home to my wife.  This day
Mrs. Russell did give my wife a very fine St. George, in alabaster, which
will set out my wife's closett mightily.  This evening at the office,
after I had wrote my day's passages, there came to me my cozen Angier of
Cambridge, poor man, making his moan, and obtained of me that I would
send his son to sea as a Reformado, which I will take care to do.  But to
see how apt every man is to forget friendship in time of adversity.  How
glad was I when he was gone, for fear he should ask me to be bond for
him, or to borrow money of me.



10th.  Up, pretty well, the weather being become pretty warm again, and
to the office, where we sat all the morning, and I confess having
received so lately a token from Mrs. Russell, I did find myself concerned
for our not buying some tallow of her (which she bought on purpose
yesterday most unadvisedly to her great losse upon confidence of putting
it off to us).  So hard it is for a man not to be warped against his duty
and master's interest that receives any bribe or present, though not as a
bribe, from any body else.  But she must be contented, and I to do her a
good turn when I can without wrong to the King's service.  Then home to
dinner (and did drink a glass of wine and beer, the more for joy that
this is the shortest day in the year,--[Old Style]--which is a pleasant
consideration) with my wife.  She in bed but pretty well, and having a
messenger from my brother, that he is not well nor stirs out of doors, I
went forth to see him, and found him below, he has not been well, but is
not ill.  I found him taking order for the distribution of Mrs. Ramsey's
coals, a thing my father for many years did, and now he after him, which
I was glad to see, as also to hear that Mr. Wheatly begins to look after
him.  I hope it is about his daughter.  Thence to St. Paul's Church Yard,
to my bookseller's, and having gained this day in the office by my
stationer's bill to the King about 40s. or L3, I did here sit two or
three hours calling for twenty books to lay this money out upon, and
found myself at a great losse where to choose, and do see how my nature
would gladly return to laying out money in this trade.  I could not tell
whether to lay out my money for books of pleasure, as plays, which my
nature was most earnest in; but at last, after seeing Chaucer, Dugdale's
History of Paul's, Stows London, Gesner, History of Trent, besides
Shakespeare, Jonson, and Beaumont's plays, I at last chose Dr. Fuller's
Worthys, the Cabbala or Collections of Letters of State, and a little
book, Delices de Hollande, with another little book or two, all of good
use or serious pleasure: and Hudibras, both parts, the book now in
greatest fashion for drollery, though I cannot, I confess, see enough
where the wit lies.  My mind being thus settled, I went by linke home,
and so to my office, and to read in Rushworth; and so home to supper and
to bed.  Calling at Wotton's, my shoemaker's, today, he tells me that Sir
H. Wright is dying; and that Harris is come to the Duke's house again;
and of a rare play to be acted this week of Sir William Davenant's: the
story of Henry the Eighth with all his wives.



11th.  Up and abroad toward the Wardrobe, and going out Mr. Clerke met me
to tell me that Field has a writ against me in this last business of L30
10s., and that he believes he will get an execution against me this
morning, and though he told me it could not be well before noon, and that
he would stop it at the Sheriff's, yet it is hard to believe with what
fear I did walk and how I did doubt at every man I saw and do start at
the hearing of one man cough behind my neck.  I to, the Wardrobe and
there missed Mr. Moore.  So to Mr. Holden's and evened all reckonings
there for hats, and then walked to Paul's Churchyard and after a little
at my bookseller's and bought at a shop Cardinall Mazarin's Will in
French.  I to the Coffeehouse and there among others had good discourse
with an Iron Merchant, who tells me the great evil of discouraging our
natural manufacture of England in that commodity by suffering the Swede
to bring in three times more than ever they did and our owne Ironworks be
lost, as almost half of them, he says, are already.  Then I went and sat
by Mr. Harrington, and some East country merchants, and talking of the
country about Quinsborough, and thereabouts, he told us himself that for
fish, none there, the poorest body, will buy a dead fish, but must be
alive, unless it be in winter; and then they told us the manner of
putting their nets into the water.  Through holes made in the thick ice,
they will spread a net of half a mile long; and he hath known a hundred
and thirty and a hundred and seventy barrels of fish taken at one
draught.  And then the people come with sledges upon the ice, with snow
at the bottome, and lay the fish in and cover them with snow, and so
carry them to market.  And he hath seen when the said fish have been
frozen in the sledge, so as that he hath taken a fish and broke a-pieces,
so hard it hath been; and yet the same fishes taken out of the snow, and
brought into a hot room, will be alive and leap up and down.  Swallows
are often brought up in their nets out of the mudd from under water,
hanging together to some twigg or other, dead in ropes, and brought to
the fire will come to life.  Fowl killed in December.  (Alderman Barker
said) he did buy, and putting into the box under his sledge, did forget
to take them out to eate till Aprill next, and they then were found
there, and were through the frost as sweet and fresh and eat as well as
at first killed.  Young beares are there; their flesh sold in market as
ordinarily as beef here, and is excellent sweet meat.  They tell us that
beares there do never hurt any body, but fly away from you, unless you
pursue and set upon them; but wolves do much mischief.  Mr. Harrington
told us how they do to get so much honey as they send abroad.  They make
hollow a great fir-tree, leaving only a small slitt down straight in one
place, and this they close up again, only leave a little hole, and there
the bees go in and fill the bodys of those trees as full of wax and honey
as they can hold; and the inhabitants at times go and open the slit, and
take what they please without killing the bees, and so let them live
there still and make more.  Fir trees are always planted close together,
because of keeping one another from the violence of the windes; and when
a fell is made, they leave here and there a grown tree to preserve the
young ones coming up.  The great entertainment and sport of the Duke of
Corland, and the princes thereabouts, is hunting; which is not with dogs
as we, but he appoints such a day, and summons all the country-people as
to a campagnia; and by several companies gives every one their circuit,
and they agree upon a place where the toyle is to be set; and so making
fires every company as they go, they drive all the wild beasts, whether
bears, wolves, foxes, swine, and stags, and roes, into the toyle; and
there the great men have their stands in such and such places, and shoot
at what they have a mind to, and that is their hunting.  They are not
very populous there, by reason that people marry women seldom till they
are towards or above thirty; and men thirty or forty years old, or more
oftentimes.  Against a publique hunting the Duke sends that no wolves be
killed by the people; and whatever harm they do, the Duke makes it good
to the person that suffers it: as Mr. Harrington instanced in a house
where he lodged, where a wolfe broke into a hog-stye, and bit three or
four great pieces off the back of the hog, before the house could come to
helpe it (it calling, and that did give notice to the people of the
house); and the man of the house told him that there were three or four
wolves thereabouts that did them great hurt; but it was no matter, for
the Duke was to make it good to him, otherwise he would kill them.  Hence
home and upstairs, my wife keeping her bed, and had a very good dinner,
and after dinner to my office, and there till late busy.  Among other
things Captain Taylor came to me about his bill for freight, and besides
that I found him contented that I have the L30 I got, he do offer me to
give me L6 to take the getting of the bill paid upon me, which I am ready
to do, but I am loath to have it said that I ever did it.  However, I
will do him the service to get it paid if I can and stand to his courtesy
what he will give me.  Late to supper home, and to my great joy I have by
my wife's good advice almost brought myself by going often and leisurely
to the stool that I am come almost to have my natural course of stool as
well as ever, which I pray God continue to me.



12th.  Up and to the office where all the morning, and among other things
got Sir G. Carteret to put his letters to Captain Taylor's bill by which
I am in hopes to get L5, which joys my heart.  We had this morning a
great dispute between Mr. Gauden, Victualler of the Navy, and Sir J.
Lawson, and the rest of the Commanders going against Argier, about their
fish and keeping of Lent; which Mr. Gauden so much insists upon to have
it observed, as being the only thing that makes up the loss of his dear
bargain all the rest of the year.  At noon went home and there I found
that one Abrahall, who strikes in for the serving of the King with Ship
chandlery ware, has sent my wife a Japan gowne, which pleases her very
well and me also, it coming very opportune, but I know not how to carry
myself to him, I being already obliged so far to Mrs. Russell, so that I
am in both their pays.  To the Exchange, where I had sent Luellin word I
would come to him, and thence brought him home to dinner with me.  He
tells me that W. Symon's wife is dead, for which I am sorry, she being a
good woman, and tells me an odde story of her saying before her death,
being in good sense, that there stood her uncle Scobell.  Then he began
to tell me that Mr. Deering had been with him to desire him to speak to
me that if I would get him off with these goods upon his hands, he would
give me 50 pieces, and further that if I would stand his friend to helpe
him to the benefit of his patent as the King's merchant, he could spare
me L200 per annum out of his profits.  I was glad to hear both of these,
but answered him no further than that as I would not by any thing be
bribed to be unjust in my dealings,

     [Edward Dering was granted, August, 1660, "the office of King's
     merchant in the East, for buying and providing necessaries for
     apparelling the Navy" ("Calendar," Domestic, 1660-61, p.  212).
     There is evidence among the State Papers of some dissatisfaction
     with the timber, &c., which he supplied to the Navy, and at this
     time he appears to have had some stores left on his hands.]

so I was not so squeamish as not to take people's acknowledgment where I
had the good fortune by my pains to do them good and just offices, and so
I would not come to be at any agreement with him, but I would labour to
do him this service and to expect his consideration thereof afterwards as
he thought fit.  So I expect to hear more of it.  I did make very much of
Luellin in hopes to have some good by this business, and in the evening
received some money from Mr. Moore, and so went and settled accounts in
my books between him and me, and I do hope at Christmas not only to find
myself as rich or more than ever I was yet, but also my accounts in less
compass, fewer reckonings either of debts or moneys due to me, than ever
I have been for some years, and indeed do so, the goodness of God
bringing me from better to a better expectation and hopes of doing well.
This day I heard my Lord Barkeley tell Sir G. Carteret that he hath
letters from France that the King hath unduked twelve Dukes, only to show
his power and to crush his nobility, who he said he did see had
heretofore laboured to cross him.  And this my Lord Barkeley did mightily
magnify, as a sign of a brave and vigorous mind, that what he saw fit to
be done he dares do.  At night, after business done at my office, home to
supper and to bed.  I have forgot to set down a very remarkable passage
that, Lewellen being gone, and I going into the office, and it begun to
be dark, I found nobody there, my clerks being at the burial of a child
of W. Griffin's, and so I spent a little time till they came, walking in
the garden, and in the mean time, while I was walking Mrs. Pen's pretty
maid came by my side, and went into the office, but finding nobody there
I went in to her, being glad of the occasion.  She told me as she was
going out again that there was nobody there, and that she came for a
sheet of paper.  So I told her I would supply her, and left her in the
office and went into my office and opened my garden door, thinking to
have got her in, and there to have caressed her, and seeming looking for
paper, I told her this way was as near a way for her, but she told me she
had left the door open and so did not come to me.  So I carried her some
paper and kissed her, leading her by the hand to the garden door and
there let her go.  But, Lord! to see how much I was put out of order by
this surprisal, and how much I could have subjected my mind to have
treated and been found with this wench, and how afterwards I was troubled
to think what if she should tell this and whether I had spoke or done any
thing that might be unfit for her to tell.  But I think there was nothing
more passed than just what I here write.



13th (Lord's day).  Up and made me ready for Church, but my wife and I
had a difference about her old folly that she would fasten lies upon her
mayds, and now upon Jane, which I did not see enough to confirm me in it,
and so would not consent to her.  To church, where after sermon home, and
to my office, before dinner, reading my vowes, and so home to dinner,
where Tom came to me and he and I dined together, my wife not rising all
day, and after dinner I made even accounts with him, and spent all the
afternoon in my chamber talking of many things with him, and about
Wheately's daughter for a wife for him, and then about the Joyces and
their father Fenner, how they are sometimes all honey one with another
and then all turd, and a strange rude life there is among them.  In the
evening, he gone, I to my office to read Rushworth upon the charge and
answer of the Duke of Buckingham, which is very fine, and then to do a
little business against to-morrow, and so home to supper to my wife, and
then to bed.



14th.  Up by candlelight, which I do not use to do, though it be very
late, that is to say almost 8 o'clock, and out by coach to White Hall,
where we all met and to the Duke, where I heard a large discourse between
one that goes over an agent from the King to Legorne and thereabouts, to
remove the inconveniences his ships are put to by denial of pratique;
which is a thing that is now-a-days made use of only as a cheat, for a
man may buy a bill of health for a piece of eight, and my enemy may agree
with the Intendent of the Sante for ten pieces of eight or so; that he
shall not give me a bill of health, and so spoil me in my design,
whatever it be.  This the King will not endure, and so resolves either to
have it removed, or to keep all ships from coming in, or going out there,
so long as his ships are stayed for want hereof.  Then, my Lord Sandwich
being there, we all went into the Duke's closet and did our business.
But among other things, Lord! what an account did Sir J. Minnes and Sir
W. Batten make of the pulling down and burning of the head of the
Charles, where Cromwell was placed with people under his horse, and
Peter, as the Duke called him, is praying to him; and Sir J. Minnes would
needs infer the temper of the people from their joy at the doing of this
and their building a gibbet for the hanging of his head up, when God
knows, it is even the flinging away of L100 out of the King's purse, to
the building of another, which it seems must be a Neptune.  Thence I
through White Hall only to see what was doing, but meeting none that I
knew I went through the garden to my Lord Sandwich's lodging, where I
found my Lord got before me (which I did not intend or expect) and was
there trying some musique, which he intends for an anthem of three parts,
I know not whether for the King's chapel or no, but he seems mighty
intent upon it.  But it did trouble me to hear him swear before God and
other oathes, as he did now and then without any occasion, which methinks
did so ill become him, and I hope will be a caution for me, it being so
ill a thing in him.  The musique being done, without showing me any good
or ill countenance, he did give me his hat and so adieu, and went down to
his coach without saying anything to me.  He being gone I and Mr. Howe
talked a good while.  He tells me that my Lord, it is true, for a while
after my letter, was displeased, and did shew many slightings of me when
he had occasion of mentioning me to his Lordship, but that now my Lord is
in good temper and he do believe will shew me as much respect as ever,
and would have me not to refrain to come to him.  This news I confess did
much trouble me, but when I did hear how he is come to himself, and hath
wholly left Chelsy, and the slut, and that I see he do follow his
business, and becomes in better repute than before, I am rejoiced to see
it, though it do cost me some disfavour for a time, for if not his good
nature and ingenuity, yet I believe his memory will not bear it always in
his mind.  But it is my comfort that this is the thing that after so many
years good service that has made him my enemy.  Thence to the King's Head
ordinary, and there dined among a company of fine gentlemen; some of them
discoursed of the King of France's greatness, and how he is come to make
the Princes of the Blood to take place of all foreign Embassadors, which
it seems is granted by them of Venice and other States, and expected from
my Lord.  Hollis, our King's Embassador there; and that either upon that
score or something else he hath not had his entry yet in Paris, but hath
received several affronts, and among others his harnesse cut, and his
gentlemen of his horse killed, which will breed bad blood if true.  They
say also that the King of France hath hired threescore ships of Holland,
and forty of the Swede, but nobody knows what to do; but some great
designs he hath on foot against the next year.  Thence by coach home and
to my office, where I spent all the evening till night with Captain
Taylor discoursing about keeping of masts, and when he was gone, with Sir
W. Warren, who did give me excellent discourse about the same thing,
which I have committed to paper, and then fell to other talk of his being
at Chatham lately and there discoursing of his masts.  Commissioner Pett
did let fall several scurvy words concerning my pretending to know masts
as well as any body, which I know proceeds ever since I told him I could
measure a piece of timber as well as anybody employed by the King.  But,
however, I shall remember him for a black sheep again a good while, with
all his fair words to me, and perhaps may let him know that my ignorance
does the King as much good as all his knowledge, which would do more it
is true if it were well used.  Then we fell to talk of Sir J. Minnes's
and Sir W. Batten's burning of Oliver's head, while he was there; which
was done with so much insulting and folly as I never heard of, and had
the Trayned Band of Rochester to come to the solemnity, which when all
comes to all, Commissioner Pett says it never was made for him; but it
troubles me the King should suffer L100 losse in his purse, to make a new
one after it was forgot whose it was, or any words spoke of it.  He being
gone I mightily pleased with his discourse, by which I always learn
something, I to read a little in Rushworth, and so home to supper to my
wife, it having been washing day, and so to bed, my mind I confess a
little troubled for my Lord Sandwich's displeasure.  But God will give me
patience to bear since it rises from so good an occasion.



15th.  Before I was up, my brother's man came to tell me that my cozen,
Edward Pepys, was dead, died at Mrs. Turner's, for which my wife and I
are very sorry, and the more for that his wife was the only handsome
woman of our name.  So up and to the office, where the greatest business
was Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten against me for Sir W. Warren's
contract for masts, to which I may go to my memorandum book to see what
past, but came off with conquest, and my Lord Barkely and Mr. Coventry
well convinced that we are well used.  So home to dinner, and thither
came to me Mr. Mount and Mr. Luellin, I think almost foxed, and there
dined with me and very merry as I could be, my mind being troubled to see
things so ordered at the Board, though with no disparagement to me at
all.  At dinner comes a messenger from the Counter with an execution
against me for the L30 10s., given the last verdict to Field.  The man's
name is Thomas, of the Poultry Counter.  I sent Griffin with him to the
Dolphin, where Sir W. Batten was at dinner, and he being satisfied that I
should pay the money, I did cause the money to be paid him, and Griffin
to tell it out to him in the office.  He offered to go along with me to
Sir R. Ford, but I thought it not necessary, but let him go with it, he
also telling me that there is never any receipt for it given, but I have
good witness of the payment of it.  They being gone, Luellin having again
told me by myself that Deering is content to give me L50 if I can sell
his deals for him to the King, not that I did ever offer to take it, or
bid Luellin bargain for me with him, but did tacitly seem to be willing
to do him what service I could in it, and expect his thanks, what he
thought good.  Thence to White Hall by coach, by the way overtaking Mr.
Moore, and took him into the coach to me, and there he could tell me
nothing of my Lord, how he stands as to his thoughts or respect to me,
but concludes that though at present he may be angry yet he will come to
be pleased again with me no doubt, and says that he do mind his business
well, and keeps at Court.  So to White Hall, and there by order found
some of the Commissioners of Tangier met, and my Lord Sandwich among the
rest, to whom I bowed, but he shewed me very little if any countenance at
all, which troubles me mightily.  Having soon done there, I took up Mr.
Moore again and set him down at Pauls, by the way he proposed to me of a
way of profit which perhaps may shortly be made by money by fines upon
houses at the Wardrobe, but how I did not understand but left it to
another discourse.  So homeward, calling upon Mr. Fen, by Sir G.
Carteret's desire, and did there shew him the bill of Captain Taylor's
whereby I hope to get something justly.  Home and to my office, and there
very late with Sir W. Warren upon very serious discourse, telling him how
matters passed to-day, and in the close he and I did fall to talk very
openly of the business of this office, and (if I was not a little too
open to tell him my interest, which is my fault) he did give me most
admirable advice, and such as do speak him a most able and worthy man,
and understanding seven times more than ever I thought to be in him.  He
did particularly run over every one of the officers and commanders, and
shewed me how I had reason to mistrust every one of them, either for
their falsenesse or their over-great power, being too high to fasten a
real friendship in, and did give me a common but a most excellent saying
to observe in all my life.  He did give it in rhyme, but the sense was
this, that a man should treat every friend in his discourse and opening
his mind to him as of one that may hereafter be his foe.  He did also
advise me how I should take occasion to make known to the world my case,
and the pains that I take in my business, and above all to be sure to get
a thorough knowledge in my employment, and to that add all the interest
at Court that I can, which I hope I shall do.  He staid talking with me
till almost 12 at night, and so good night, being sorry to part with him,
and more sorry that he should have as far as Wapping to walk to-night.
So I to my Journall and so home, to supper and to bed.



16th.  Up, and with my head and heart full of my business, I to my
office, and there all the morning, where among other things to my great
content Captain Taylor brought me L40, the greater part of which I shall
gain to myself after much care and pains out of his bill of freight, as I
have at large set down in my book of Memorandums.  At noon to the 'Change
and there met with Mr. Wood by design, and got out of him to my advantage
a condition which I shall make good use of against Sir W. Batten (vide my
book of Memorandums touching the contract of masts of Sir W. Warren about
which I have had so much trouble).  So home to dinner and then to the
Star Tavern hard by to our arbitration of Mr. Bland's business, and at it
a great while, but I found no order like to be kept in our inquiry, and
Mr. Clerke, the other arbitrator, one so far from being fit (though able
as to his trade of a merchant) to inquire and to take pains in searching
out the truth on both sides, that we parted without doing anything, nor
do I believe we shall at all ever attain to anything in it.  Then home
and till 12 at night making up my accounts with great account of this
day's receipt of Captain Taylor's money and some money reimbursed me
which I have laid out on Field's business.  So home with my mind in
pretty good quiet, and to Supper and to bed.



17th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At noon home
to my poor wife and dined, and then by coach abroad to Mrs. Turner's
where I have not been for many a day, and there I found her and her
sister Dike very sad for the death of their brother.  After a little
common expression of sorrow, Mrs. Turner told me that the trouble she
would put me to was, to consult about getting an achievement prepared,
scutcheons were done already, to set over the door.  So I did go out to
Mr. Smith's, where my brother tells me the scutcheons are made, but he
not being within, I went to the Temple, and there spent my time in a
Bookseller's shop, reading in a book of some Embassages into Moscovia,
&c., where was very good reading, and then to Mrs. Turner's, and thither
came Smith to me, with whom I did agree for L4 to make a handsome one,
ell square within the frame.  After he was gone I sat an houre talking of
the suddennesse of his death within 7 days, and how by little and little
death came upon him, neither he nor they thinking it would come to that.
He died after a day's raveing, through lightness in his head for want of
sleep.  His lady did not know of his sickness, nor do they hear yet how
she takes it.  Hence home, taking some books by the way in Paul's
Churchyard by coach to my office, where late doing business, and so home
to supper and to bed.



18th.  Up, and after being ready and done several businesses with people,
I took water (taking a dram of the bottle at the waterside) with a gaily,
the first that ever I had yet, and down to Woolwich, calling at Ham
Creeke, where I met Mr. Deane, and had a great deal of talke with him
about business, and so to the Ropeyarde and Docke, discoursing several
things, and so back again and did the like at Deptford, and I find that
it is absolutely necessary for me to do thus once a weeke at least all
the yeare round, which will do me great good, and so home with great ease
and content, especially out of the content which I met with in a book I
bought yesterday, being a discourse of the state of Rome under the
present Pope, Alexander the 7th, it being a very excellent piece.  After
eating something at home, then to my office, where till night about
business to dispatch.  Among other people came Mr. Primate, the leather
seller, in Fleete Streete, to see me, he says, coming this way; and he
tells me that he is upon a proposal to the King, whereby, by a law
already in being, he will supply the King, without wrong to any man, or
charge to the people in general, so much as it is now, above L200,000 per
annum, and God knows what, and that the King do like the proposal, and
hath directed that the Duke of Monmouth, with their consent, be made
privy, and go along with him and his fellow proposer in the business, God
knows what it is; for I neither can guess nor believe there is any such
thing in his head.  At night made an end of the discourse I read this
morning, and so home to supper and to bed.



19th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and I laboured
hard at Deering's business of his deals more than I would if I did not
think to get something, though I do really believe that I did what is to
the King's advantage in it, and yet, God knows, the expectation of profit
will have its force and make a man the more earnest.  Dined at home, and
then with Mr. Bland to another meeting upon his arbitration, and seeing
we were likely to do no good I even put them upon it, and they chose Sir
W. Rider alone to end the matter, and so I am rid of it.  Thence by coach
to my shoemaker's and paid all there, and gave something to the boys' box
against Christmas.  To Mrs. Turner's, whom I find busy with Sir W.
Turner, about advising upon going down to Norfolke with the corps, and I
find him in talke a sober, considering man.  So home to my office late,
and then home to supper and to bed.  My head full of business, but pretty
good content.



20th (Lord's day).  Up and alone to church, where a common sermon of Mr.
Mills, and so home to dinner in our parler, my wife being clean, and the
first time we have dined here a great while together, and in the
afternoon went to church with me also, and there begun to take her place
above Mrs. Pen, which heretofore out of a humour she was wont to give her
as an affront to my Lady Batten.  After a dull sermon of the Scotchman,
home, and there I found my brother Tom and my two cozens Scotts, he and
she, the first time they were ever here.  And by and by in comes my
uncle.  Wight and Mr. Norbury, and they sat with us a while drinking, of
wine, of which I did give them plenty.  But the two would not stay
supper, but the other two did.  And we were as merry as I could be with
people that I do wish well to, but know not what discourse either to give
them or find from them.  We showed them our house from top to bottom, and
had a good Turkey roasted for our supper, and store of wine, and after
supper sent them home on foot, and so we to prayers and to bed.



21st.  Up betimes, my wife having a mind to have gone abroad with me, but
I had not because of troubling me, and so left her, though against my
will, to go and see her father and mother by herself, and I straight to
my Lord Sandwich's, and there I had a pretty kind salute from my Lord,
and went on to the Duke's, where my fellow officers by and by came, and
so in with him to his closet, and did our business, and so broke up, and
I with Sir W. Batten by coach to Salisbury Court, and there spoke with
Clerk our Solicitor about Field's business, and so parted, and I to Mrs.
Turner's, and there saw the achievement pretty well set up, and it is
well done.  Thence I on foot to Charing Crosse to the ordinary, and
there, dined, meeting Mr. Gauden and Creed.  Here variety of talk but to
no great purpose.  After dinner won a wager of a payre of gloves of a
crowne of Mr. Gauden upon some words in his contract for victualling.
There parted in the street with them, and I to my Lord's, but he not
being within, took coach, and, being directed by sight of bills upon the
walls, I did go to Shoe Lane to see a cocke-fighting at a new pit there,
a sport I was never at in my life; but, Lord! to see the strange variety
of people, from Parliament-man (by name Wildes, that was Deputy Governor
of the Tower when Robinson was Lord Mayor) to the poorest 'prentices,
bakers, brewers, butchers, draymen, and what not; and all these fellows
one with another in swearing, cursing, and betting.  I soon had enough of
it, and yet I would not but have seen it once, it being strange to
observe the nature of these poor creatures, how they will fight till they
drop down dead upon the table, and strike after they are ready to give up
the ghost, not offering to run away when they are weary or wounded past
doing further, whereas where a dunghill brood comes he will, after a
sharp stroke that pricks him, run off the stage, and then they wring off
his neck without more ado, whereas the other they preserve, though their
eyes be both out, for breed only of a true cock of the game.  Sometimes a
cock that has had ten to one against him will by chance give an unlucky
blow, will strike the other starke dead in a moment, that he never stirs
more; but the common rule is, that though a cock neither runs nor dies,
yet if any man will bet L10 to a crowne, and nobody take the bet, the
game is given over, and not sooner.  One thing more it is strange to see
how people of this poor rank, that look as if they had not bread to put
in their mouths, shall bet three or four pounds at one bet, and lose it,
and yet bet as much the next battle (so they call every match of two
cocks), so that one of them will lose L10 or L20 at a meeting.  Thence,
having enough of it, by coach to my Lord Sandwich's, where I find him
within with Captain Cooke and his boys, Dr. Childe, Mr. Madge, and
Mallard, playing and singing over my Lord's anthem which he hath made to
sing in the King's Chappell: my Lord saluted me kindly and took me into
the withdrawing-room, to hear it at a distance, and indeed it sounds very
finely, and is a good thing, I believe, to be made by him, and they all
commend it.  And after that was done Captain Cooke and his two boys did
sing some Italian songs, which I must in a word say I think was fully the
best musique that I ever yet heard in all my life, and it was to me a
very great pleasure to hear them.  After all musique ended, my Lord going
to White Hall, I went along with him, and made a desire for to have his
coach to go along with my cozen Edward Pepys's hearse through the City on
Wednesday next, which he granted me presently, though he cannot yet come
to speak to me in the familiar stile that he did use to do, nor can I
expect it.  But I was the willinger of this occasion to see whether he
would deny me or no, which he would I believe had he been at open
defyance against me.  Being not a little pleased with all this, though I
yet see my Lord is not right yet, I thanked his Lordship and parted with
him in White Hall.  I back to my Lord's, and there took up W. Howe in a
coach, and carried him as far as the Half Moone, and there set him down.
By the way, talking of my Lord, who is come another and a better man than
he was lately, and God be praised for it, and he says that I shall find
my Lord as he used to be to me, of which I have good hopes, but I shall
beware of him, I mean W. Howe, how I trust him, for I perceive he is not
so discreet as I took him for, for he has told Captain Ferrers (as Mr.
Moore tells me) of my letter to my Lord, which troubles me, for fear my
Lord should think that I might have told him.  So called with my coach at
my wife's brother's lodging, but she was gone newly in a coach homewards,
and so I drove hard and overtook her at Temple Bar, and there paid off
mine, and went home with her in her coach.  She tells me how there is a
sad house among her friends.  Her brother's wife proves very unquiet, and
so her mother is, gone back to be with her husband and leave the young
couple to themselves, and great trouble, and I fear great want, will be
among them, I pray keep me from being troubled with them.  At home to put
on my gowne and to my office, and there set down this day's Journall, and
by and by comes Mrs. Owen, Captain Allen's daughter, and causes me to
stay while the papers relating to her husband's place, bought of his
father, be copied out because of her going by this morning's tide home to
Chatham.  Which vexes me, but there is no help for it.  I home to supper
while a young [man] that she brought with her did copy out the things,
and then I to the office again and dispatched her, and so home to bed.



22nd.  Up and there comes my she cozen Angier, of Cambridge, to me to
speak about her son.  But though I love them, and have reason so to do,
yet, Lord!  to consider how cold I am to speak to her, for fear of giving
her too much hopes of expecting either money or anything else from me
besides my care of her son.  I let her go without drinking, though that
was against my will, being forced to hasten to the office, where we sat
all the morning, and at noon I to Sir R. Ford's, where Sir R. Browne (a
dull but it seems upon action a hot man), and he and I met upon setting a
price upon the freight of a barge sent to France to the Duchess of
Orleans.  And here by discourse I find them greatly crying out against
the choice of Sir J. Cutler to be Treasurer for Paul's upon condition
that he give L1500 towards it, and it seems he did give it upon condition
that he might be Treasurer for the work, which they say will be worth
three times as much money, and talk as if his being chosen to the office
will make people backward to give, but I think him as likely a man as
either of them, or better.  The business being done we parted, Sir R.
Ford never inviting me to dine with him at all, and I was not sorry for
it.  Home and dined.  I had a letter from W. Howe that my Lord hath
ordered his coach and six horses for me to-morrow, which pleases me
mightily to think that my Lord should do so much, hoping thereby that his
anger is a little over.  After dinner abroad with my wife by coach to
Westminster, and set her at Mrs. Hunt's while I about my business, having
in our way met with Captain Ferrers luckily to speak to him about my
coach, who was going in all haste thither, and I perceive the King and
Duke and all the Court was going to the Duke's playhouse to see "Henry
VIII."  acted, which is said to be an admirable play.  But, Lord! to see
how near I was to have broken my oathe, or run the hazard of 20s. losse,
so much my nature was hot to have gone thither; but I did not go, but
having spoke with W. Howe and known how my Lord did do this kindly as I
would have it, I did go to Westminster Hall, and there met Hawley, and
walked a great while with him.  Among other discourse encouraging him to
pursue his love to Mrs. Lane, while God knows I had a roguish meaning in
it.  Thence calling my wife home by coach, calling at several places, and
to my office, where late, and so home to supper and to bed.  This day I
hear for certain that my Lady Castlemaine is turned Papist, which the
Queene for all do not much like, thinking that she do it not for
conscience sake.  I heard to-day of a great fray lately between Sir H.
Finch's coachman, who struck with his whip a coachman of the King's to
the losse of one of his eyes; at which the people of the Exchange seeming
to laugh and make sport with some words of contempt to him, my Lord
Chamberlin did come from the King to shut up the 'Change, and by the help
of a justice, did it; but upon petition to the King it was opened again.



23rd.  Up betimes and my wife; and being in as mourning a dress as we
could, at present, without cost, put ourselves into, we by Sir W. Pen's
coach to Mrs. Turner's, at Salisbury Court, where I find my Lord's coach
and six horses.  We staid till almost eleven o'clock, and much company
came, and anon, the corps being put into the hearse, and the scutcheons
set upon it, we all took coach, and I and my wife and Auditor Beale in my
Lord Sandwich's coach, and went next to Mrs. Turner's mourning coach, and
so through all the City and Shoreditch, I believe about twenty coaches,
and four or five with six and four horses.  Being come thither, I made up
to the mourners, and bidding them a good journey, I took leave and back
again, and setting my wife into a hackney out of Bishopsgate Street, I
sent her home, and I to the 'Change and Auditor Beale about his business.
Did much business at the 'Change, and so home to dinner, and then to my
office, and there late doing business also to my great content to see God
bless me in my place and opening honest ways, I hope to get a little
money to lay up and yet to live handsomely.  So to supper and to bed.  My
wife having strange fits of the toothache, some times on this, and by and
by on that side of her tooth, which is not common.



24th.  Up betimes; and though it was a most foggy morning, and cold, yet
with a gally down to Eriffe, several times being at a loss whither we
went.  There I mustered two ships of the King's, lent by him to the Guiny
Company, which are manned better than ours at far less wages.  Thence on
board two of the King's, one of them the "Leopard," Captain Beech, who I
find an able and serious man.  He received me civilly, and his wife was
there, a very well bred and knowing woman, born at Antwerp, but speaks as
good English as myself, and an ingenious woman.  Here was also Sir G.
Carteret's son, who I find a pretty, but very talking man, but good
humour.  Thence back again, entertaining myself upon my sliding rule with
great content, and called at Woolwich, where Mr. Chr. Pett having an
opportunity of being alone did tell me his mind about several things he
thought I was offended with him in, and told me of my kindness to his
assistant.  I did give him such an answer as I thought was fit and left
him well satisfied, he offering to do me all the service, either by
draughts or modells that I should desire.  Thence straight home, being
very cold, but yet well, I thank God, and at home found my wife making
mince pies, and by and by comes in Captain Ferrers to see us, and, among
other talke, tells us of the goodness of the new play of "Henry VIII.,"
which makes me think [it] long till my time is out; but I hope before I
go I shall set myself such a stint as I may not forget myself as I have
hitherto done till I was forced for these months last past wholly to
forbid myself the seeing of one.  He gone I to my office and there late
writing and reading, and so home to bed.



25th (Christmas day).  Lay long talking pleasantly with my wife, but
among other things she begun, I know not whether by design or chance,
to enquire what she should do if I should by any accident die, to which
I did give her some slight answer; but shall make good use of it to bring
myself to some settlement for her sake, by making a will as soon as I
can.  Up and to church, where Mr. Mills made an ordinary sermon, and so
home and dined with great pleasure with my wife, and all the afternoon
first looking out at window and seeing the boys playing at many several
sports in our back yard by Sir W. Pen's, which reminded me of my own
former times, and then I began to read to my wife upon the globes with
great pleasure and to good purpose, for it will be pleasant to her and to
me to have her understand these things.  In the evening at the office,
where I staid late reading Rushworth, which is a most excellent
collection of the beginning of the late quarrels in this kingdom, and so
home to supper and to bed, with good content of mind.



26th.  Up and walked forth first to the Minerys to Brown's, and there
with great pleasure saw and bespoke several instruments, and so to
Cornhill to Mr. Cades, and there went up into his warehouse to look for a
map or two, and there finding great plenty of good pictures, God forgive
me! how my mind run upon them, and bought a little one for my wife's
closett presently, and concluded presently of buying L10 worth, upon
condition he would give me the buying of them.  Now it is true I did
still within me resolve to make the King one way or other pay for them,
though I saved it to him another way, yet I find myself too forward to
fix upon the expense, and came away with a resolution of buying them, but
do hope that I shall not upon second thoughts do it without a way made
out before I buy them to myself how to do [it] without charge to my main
stock.  Thence to the Coffee-house, and sat long in good discourse with
some gentlemen concerning the Roman Empire.  So home and found Mr.
Hollyard there, and he stayed and dined with us, we having a pheasant to
dinner.  He gone, I all the afternoon with my wife to cards, and, God
forgive me! to see how the very discourse of plays, which I shall be at
liberty to see after New Year's Day next, do set my mind upon them, but I
must be forced to stint myself very strictly before I begin, or else I
fear I shall spoil all.  In the evening came my aunt Wight's kinswoman to
see how my wife do, with a compliment from my aunt, which I take kindly
as it is unusual for her to do it, but I do perceive my uncle is very
kind to me of late.  So to my office writing letters, and then to read
and make an end of Rushworth, which I did, and do say that it is a book
the most worth reading for a man of my condition or any man that hopes to
come to any publique condition in the world that I do know.  So home to
supper and to bed.



27th.  Up and to church alone and so home to dinner with my wife very
pleasant and pleased with one another's company, and in our general
enjoyment one of another, better we think than most other couples do.  So
after dinner to the French church, but came too late, and so back to our
owne church, where I slept all the sermon the Scott preaching, and so
home, and in the evening Sir J. Minnes and I met at Sir W. Pen's about
ordering some business of the Navy, and so I home to supper, discourse,
prayers, and bed.



28th.  Up and by coach to my Lord's lodgings, but he was gone abroad, so
I lost my pains, but, however, walking through White Hall I heard the
King was gone to play at Tennis, so I down to the new Tennis Court; and
saw him and Sir Arthur Slingsby play against my Lord of Suffolke and my
Lord Chesterfield.  The King beat three, and lost two sets, they all, and
he particularly playing well, I thought.  Thence went and spoke with the
Duke of Albemarle about his wound at Newhall, but I find him a heavy dull
man, methinks, by his answers to me.  Thence to the King's Head ordinary.
and there dined, and found Creed there, but we met and dined and parted
without any thing more than "How do you?"  After dinner straight on foot
to Mr. Hollyard's, and there paid him L3 in full for his physic and work
to my wife .  .  .  .  but whether it is cured for ever or no I cannot
tell, but he says it will never come to anything, though it may be it may
ooze now and then a little.  So home and found my wife gone out with Will
(whom she sent for as she do now a days upon occasion) to have a tooth
drawn, she having it seems been in great pain all day, and at night came
home with it drawn, and pretty well.  This evening I had a stove brought
me to the office to try, but it being an old one it smokes as much as if
there was nothing but a hearth as I had before, but it may be great new
ones do not, and therefore I must enquire further.  So at night home to
supper and to bed.  The Duchesse of York is fallen sicke of the meazles.



29th.  Up and to the office, where all the morning sitting, at noon to
the 'change, and there I found and brought home Mr. Pierse the surgeon to
dinner.  Where I found also Mr. Luellin and Mount, and merry at dinner,
but their discourse so free .  .  .  .  that I was weary of them.  But
after dinner Luellin took me up to my chamber to give me L50 for the
service I did him, though not so great as he expected and I intended.
But I told him that I would not sell my liberty to any man.  If he would
give me any thing by another's hand I would endeavour to deserve it, but
I will never give him himself thanks for it, not acknowledging the
receiving of any, which he told me was reasonable.  I did also tell him
that neither this nor any thing should make me to do any thing that
should not be for the King's service besides.  So we parted and left them
three at home with my wife going to cards, and I to my office and there
staid late.  Sir W. Pen came like a cunning rogue to sit and talk with me
about office business and freely about the Comptroller's business of the
office, to which I did give him free answers and let him make the best of
them.  But I know him to be a knave, and do say nothing that I fear to
have said again.  Anon came Sir W. Warren, and after talking of his
business of the masts and helping me to understand some foul dealing in
the business of Woods we fell to other talk, and particularly to speak of
some means how to part this great familiarity between Sir W. Batten and
Sir J. Minnes, and it is easy to do by any good friend of Sir J. Minnes
to whom it will be a good service, and he thinks that Sir J. Denham will
be a proper man for it, and so do I. So after other discourse we parted,
and I home and to bed.



30th.  Up betimes and by coach to my Lord Sandwich, who I met going out,
and he did aske me how his cozen, my wife; did, the first time he hath
done so since his being offended, and, in my conscience, he would be glad
to be free with me again, but he knows not how to begin.  So he went out,
and I through the garden to Mr. Coventry, where I saw Mr. Ch. Pett
bringing him a modell, and indeed it is a pretty one, for a New Year's
gift; but I think the work not better done than mine.  With him by coach
to London, with good and friendly discourse of business and against Sir
W. Batten and his foul dealings.  So leaving him at the Guiny House I to
the Coffee House, whither came Mr. Grant and Sir W. Petty, with whom I
talked, and so did many, almost all the house there, about his new
vessel, wherein he did give me such satisfaction in every point that I am
almost confident she will prove an admirable invention.  So home to
dinner, and after being upon the 'Change awhile I dined with my wife, who
took physique to-day, and so to my office, and there all the afternoon
till late at night about office business, and so to supper and to bed.



31st.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and among
other things Sir W. Warren came about some contract, and there did at the
open table, Sir W. Batten not being there; openly defy him, and insisted
how Sir W. Batten did endeavour to oppose him in everything that he
offered.  Sir W. Pen took him up for it, like a counterfeit rogue, though
I know he was as much pleased to hear him talk so as any man there.  But
upon his speaking no more was said but to the business.  At noon we broke
up and I to the 'Change awhile, and so home again to dinner, my head
aching mightily with being overcharged with business.  We had to dinner,
my wife and I, a fine turkey and a mince pie, and dined in state, poor
wretch, she and I, and have thus kept our Christmas together all alone
almost, having not once been out, but to-morrow my vowes are all out as
to plays and wine, but I hope I shall not be long before I come to new
ones, so much good, and God's blessing, I find to have attended them.
Thence to the office and did several businesses and answered several
people, but my head aching and it being my great night of accounts, I
went forth, took coach, and to my brother's, but he was not within, and
so I back again and sat an hour or two at the Coffee [house], hearing
some simple discourse about Quakers being charmed by a string about their
wrists, and so home, and after a little while at my office, I home and
supped, and so had a good fire in my chamber and there sat till 4 o'clock
in the morning making up my accounts and writing this last Journall of
the year.  And first I bless God I do, after a large expense, even this
month, by reason of Christmas, and some payments to my father, and other
things extraordinary, find that I am worth in money, besides all my
household stuff, or any thing of Brampton, above L800, whereof in my Lord
Sandwich's hand, L700, and the rest in my hand.  So that there is not
above L5 of all my estate in money at this minute out of my hands and my
Lord's.  For which the good God be pleased to give me a thankful heart
and a mind careful to preserve this and increase it.  I do live at my
lodgings in the Navy Office, my family being, besides my wife and I, Jane
Gentleman, Besse, our excellent, good-natured cookmayde, and Susan, a
little girle, having neither man nor boy, nor like to have again a good
while, living now in most perfect content and quiett, and very frugally
also; my health pretty good, but only that I have been much troubled with
a costiveness which I am labouring to get away, and have hopes of doing
it.  At the office I am well, though envied to the devil by Sir William
Batten, who hates me to death, but cannot hurt me.  The rest either love
me, or at least do not show otherwise, though I know Sir W. Pen to be a
false knave touching me, though he seems fair.  My father and mother well
in the country; and at this time the young ladies of Hinchingbroke with
them, their house having the small-pox in it.  The Queene after a long
and sore sicknesse is become well again; and the King minds his mistresse
a little too much, if it pleased God!  but I hope all things will go
well, and in the Navy particularly, wherein I shall do my duty whatever
comes of it.  The great talke is the designs of the King of France,
whether against the Pope or King of Spayne nobody knows; but a great and
a most promising Prince he is, and all the Princes of Europe have their
eye upon him.  My wife's brother come to great unhappiness by the ill-
disposition, my wife says, of his wife, and her poverty, which she now
professes, after all her husband's pretence of a great fortune, but I see
none of them, at least they come not to trouble me.  At present I am
concerned for my cozen Angier, of Cambridge, lately broke in his trade,
and this day am sending his son John, a very rogue, to sea.  My brother
Tom I know not what to think of, for I cannot hear whether he minds his
business or not; and my brother John at Cambridge, with as little hopes
of doing good there, for when he was here he did give me great cause of
dissatisfaction with his manner of life.  Pall with my father, and God
knows what she do there, or what will become of her, for I have not
anything yet to spare her, and she grows now old, and must be disposed
of one way or other.  The Duchesse of York, at this time, sicke of the
meazles, but is growing well again.  The Turke very far entered into
Germany, and all that part of the world at a losse what to expect from
his proceedings.  Myself, blessed be God!  in a good way, and design and
resolution of sticking to my business to get a little money with doing
the best service I can to the King also; which God continue!  So ends the
old year.




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Again that she spoke but somewhat of what she had in her heart
Better we think than most other couples do
Compliment from my aunt, which I take kindly as it is unusual
Did go to Shoe Lane to see a cocke-fighting at a new pit there
Dined at home alone, a good calves head boiled and dumplings
Every man looking after himself, and his owne lust and luxury
Excommunications, which they send upon the least occasions
Expectation of profit will have its force
King was gone to play at Tennis
Opening his mind to him as of one that may hereafter be his foe
Pen was then turned Quaker
Persuade me that she should prove with child since last night
Pride and debauchery of the present clergy
Quakers being charmed by a string about their wrists
Taught my wife some part of subtraction
To bed with discontent she yielded to me and began to be fond




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