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Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jan/Feb 1663/64

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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.

                               1663-1664



January 1st, 1663-64.

Went to bed between 4 and 5 in the morning with my mind in good temper of
satisfaction and slept till about 8, that many people came to speak with
me.  Among others one came with the best New Year's gift that ever I had,
namely from Mr. Deering, with a bill of exchange drawn upon himself for
the payment of L50 to Mr. Luellin.  It being for my use with a letter of
compliment.  I am not resolved what or how to do in this business, but I
conclude it is an extraordinary good new year's gift, though I do not
take the whole, or if I do then give some of it to Luellin.  By and by
comes Captain Allen and his son Jowles and his wife, who continues pretty
still.  They would have had me set my hand to a certificate for his
loyalty, and I know not what his ability for any employment.  But I did
not think it fit, but did give them a pleasing denial, and after sitting
with me an hour they went away.  Several others came to me about
business, and then being to dine at my uncle Wight's I went to the
Coffee-house, sending my wife by Will, and there staid talking an hour
with Coll. Middleton, and others, and among other things about a very
rich widow, young and handsome, of one Sir Nicholas Gold's, a merchant,
lately fallen, and of great courtiers that already look after her: her
husband not dead a week yet.  She is reckoned worth L80,000.  Thence to
my uncle Wight's, where Dr. of -----, among others, dined, and his wife,
a seeming proud conceited woman, I know not what to make of her, but the
Dr's. discourse did please me very well about the disease of the stone,
above all things extolling Turpentine, which he told me how it may be
taken in pills with great ease.  There was brought to table a hot pie
made of a swan I sent them yesterday, given me by Mr. Howe, but we did
not eat any of it.  But my wife and I rose from table, pretending
business, and went to the Duke's house, the first play I have been at
these six months, according to my last vowe, and here saw the so much
cried-up play of "Henry the Eighth;" which, though I went with resolution
to like it, is so simple a thing made up of a great many patches, that,
besides the shows and processions in it, there is nothing in the world
good or well done.  Thence mightily dissatisfied back at night to my
uncle Wight's, and supped with them, but against my stomach out of the
offence the sight of my aunt's hands gives me, and ending supper with a
mighty laugh, the greatest I have had these many months, at my uncle's
being out in his grace after meat, we rose and broke up, and my wife and
I home and to bed, being sleepy since last night.



2nd.  Up and to the office, and there sitting all the morning, and at
noon to the 'Change, in my going met with Luellin and told him how I had
received a letter and bill for L50 from Mr. Deering, and delivered it to
him, which he told me he would receive for me.  To which I consented,
though professed not to desire it if he do not consider himself
sufficiently able by the service I have done, and that it is rather my
desire to have nothing till he be further sensible of my service.  From
the 'Change I brought him home and dined with us, and after dinner I took
my wife out, for I do find that I am not able to conquer myself as to
going to plays till I come to some new vowe concerning it, and that I am
now come, that is to say, that I will not see above one in a month at any
of the publique theatres till the sum of 50s. be spent, and then none
before New Year's Day next, unless that I do become worth L1000 sooner
than then, and then am free to come to some other terms, and so leaving
him in Lombard Street I took her to the King's house, and there met Mr.
Nicholson, my old colleague, and saw "The Usurper," which is no good
play, though better than what I saw yesterday.  However, we rose
unsatisfied, and took coach and home, and I to the office late writing
letters, and so to supper and to bed.



3rd (Lord's day).  Lay long in bed, and then rose and with a fire in my
chamber staid within all day, looking over and settling my accounts in
good order, by examining all my books, and the kitchen books, and I find
that though the proper profit of my last year was but L305, yet I did by
other gain make it up L444., which in every part of it was unforeseen of
me, and therefore it was a strange oversight for lack of examining my
expenses that I should spend L690 this year, but for the time to come I
have so distinctly settled all my accounts in writing and the particulars
of all my several layings out, that I do hope I shall hereafter make a
better judgment of my spendings than ever.  I dined with my wife in her
chamber, she in bed, and then down again and till 11 at night, and broke
up and to bed with great content, but could not make an end of writing
over my vows as I purposed, but I am agreed in every thing how to order
myself for the year to come, which I trust in God will be much for my
good.  So up to prayers and to bed.  This evening Sir W. Pen came to
invite me against next Wednesday, being Twelfth day, to his usual feast,
his wedding day.



4th.  Up betimes, and my wife being ready, and her mayd Besse and the
girl, I carried them by coach and set them all down in Covent Garden and
there left them, and I to my Lord Sandwich's lodgings, but he not being
up, I to the Duke's chamber, and there by and by to his closett, where
since his lady was ill, a little red bed of velvet is brought for him to
lie alone, which is a very pretty one.  After doing business here, I to
my Lord's again, and there spoke with him, and he seems now almost
friends again as he used to be.  Here meeting Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon,
he told me among other Court newes, how the Queene is very well again,
and the King lay with her on Saturday night last; and that she speaks now
very pretty English, and makes her sense out now and then with pretty
phrazes: as among others this is mightily cried up; that, meaning to say
that she did not like such a horse so well as the rest, he being too
prancing and full of tricks, she said he did make too much vanity.
Thence to the Tennis Court, after I had spent a little time in
Westminster Hall, thinking to have met with Mrs. Lane, but I could not
and am glad of it, and there saw the King play at Tennis and others: but
to see how the King's play was extolled without any cause at all, was a
loathsome sight, though sometimes, indeed, he did play very well and
deserved to be commended; but such open flattery is beastly.  Afterwards
to St. James's Parke, being unwilling to go to spend money at the
ordinary, and there spent an hour or two, it being a pleasant day, seeing
people play at Pell Mell; where it pleased me mightily to hear a gallant,
lately come from France, swear at one of his companions for suffering his
man (a spruce blade) to be so saucy as to strike a ball while his master
was playing on the Mall.

     [When Egerton was Bishop of Durham, he often played at bowls with
     his guests on the public days.  On an occasion of this sort, a
     visitor happening to cross the lawn, one of the chaplains exclaimed,
     "You must not shake the green, for the bishop is going to bowl."-B.]

Thence took coach at White Hall and took up my wife, who is mighty sad to
think of her father, who is going into Germany against the Turkes; but
what will become of her brother I know not.  He is so idle, and out of
all capacity, I think, to earn his bread.  Home and at my office till is
at night making my solemn vowes for the next year, which I trust in the
Lord I shall keep, but I fear I have a little too severely bound myself
in some things and in too many, for I fear I may forget some.  But
however, I know the worst, and shall by the blessing of God observe to
perform or pay my forfeits punctually.  So home and to bed with my mind
at rest.



5th.  Up and to our office, where we sat all the morning, where my head
being willing to take in all business whatever, I am afraid I shall over
clogg myself with it.  But however, it is my desire to do my duty and
shall the willinger bear it.  At noon home and to the 'Change, where I
met with Luellin, who went off with me and parted to meet again at the
Coffeehouse, but missed.  So home and found him there, and Mr. Barrow
came to speak with me, so they both dined with me alone, my wife not
being ready, and after dinner I up in my chamber with Barrow to discourse
about matters of the yard with him, and his design of leaving the place,
which I am sorry for, and will prevent if I can.  He being gone then
Luellin did give me the L50 from Mr. Deering, which he do give me for my
pains in his business and what I may hereafter take for him, though there
is not the least word or deed I have yet been guilty of in his behalf but
what I am sure has been to the King's advantage and the profit of the
service, nor ever will.  And for this money I never did condition with
him or expected a farthing at the time when I did do him the service, nor
have given any receipt for it, it being brought me by Luellin, nor do
purpose to give him any thanks for it, but will wherein I can faithfully
endeavour to see him have the privilege of his Patent as the King's
merchant.  I did give Luellin two pieces in gold for a pair of gloves for
his kindness herein.  Then he being gone, I to my office, where busy till
late at night, that through my room being over confounded in business I
could stay there no longer, but went home, and after a little supper to
bed.



6th (Twelfth day).  Up and to my office, where very busy all the morning,
being indeed over loaded with it through my own desire of doing all I
can.  At noon to the 'Change, but did little, and so home to dinner with
my poor wife, and after dinner read a lecture to her in Geography, which
she takes very prettily and with great pleasure to her and me to teach
her, and so to the office again, where as busy as ever in my life, one
thing after another, and answering people's business, particularly
drawing up things about Mr. Wood's masts, which I expect to have a
quarrel about with Sir W. Batten before it be ended, but I care not.
At night home to my wife, to supper, discourse, prayers, and to bed.
This morning I began a practice which I find by the ease I do it with
that I shall continue, it saving me money and time; that is, to trimme
myself with a razer: which pleases me mightily.



7th.  Up, putting on my best clothes and to the office, where all the
morning we sat busy, among other things upon Mr. Wood's performance of
his contract for masts, wherein I was mightily concerned, but I think was
found all along in the right, and shall have my desire in it to the
King's advantage.  At noon, all of us to dinner to Sir W. Pen's, where a
very handsome dinner, Sir J. Lawson among others, and his lady and his
daughter, a very pretty lady and of good deportment, with looking upon
whom I was greatly pleased, the rest of the company of the women were all
of our own house, of no satisfaction or pleasure at all.  My wife was not
there, being not well enough, nor had any great mind.  But to see how Sir
W. Pen imitates me in everything, even in his having his chimney piece in
his dining room the same with that in my wife's closett, and in every
thing else I perceive wherein he can.  But to see again how he was out
in one compliment: he lets alone drinking any of the ladies' healths that
were there, my Lady Batten and Lawson, till he had begun with my Lady
Carteret, who was absent, and that was well enough, and then Mr.
Coventry's mistresse, at which he was ashamed, and would not have had him
have drunk it, at least before the ladies present, but his policy, as he
thought, was such that he would do it.  After dinner by coach with Sir G.
Carteret and Sir J. Minnes by appointment to Auditor Beale's in Salisbury
Court, and there we did with great content look over some old ledgers to
see in what manner they were kept, and indeed it was in an extraordinary
good method, and such as (at least out of design to keep them employed) I
do persuade Sir J. Minnes to go upon, which will at least do as much good
it may be to keep them for want of something to do from envying those
that do something.  Thence calling to see whether Mrs. Turner was
returned, which she is, and I spoke one word only to her, and away again
by coach home and to my office, where late, and then home to supper and
bed.



8th.  Up and all the morning at my office and with Sir J. Minnes,
directing him and Mr. Turner about keeping of their books according to
yesterday's work, wherein I shall make them work enough.  At noon to the
'Change, and there long, and from thence by appointment took Luellin,
Mount, and W. Symons, and Mr. Pierce, the chirurgeon, home to dinner with
me and were merry.  But, Lord! to hear how W. Symons do commend and look
sadly and then talk bawdily and merrily, though his wife was dead but the
other day, would make a dogg laugh.  After dinner I did go in further
part of kindness to Luellin for his kindness about Deering's L50 which he
procured me the other day of him.  We spent all the afternoon together
and then they to cards with my wife, who this day put on her Indian blue
gowne which is very pretty, where I left them for an hour, and to my
office, and then to them again, and by and by they went away at night,
and so I again to my office to perfect a letter to Mr. Coventry about
Department Treasurers, wherein I please myself and hope to give him
content and do the King service therein.  So having done, I home and to
teach my wife a new lesson in the globes, and to supper, and to bed.  We
had great pleasure this afternoon; among other things, to talk of our old
passages together in Cromwell's time; and how W. Symons did make me laugh
and wonder to-day when he told me how he had made shift to keep in, in
good esteem and employment, through eight governments in one year (the
dear 1659, which were indeed, and he did name them all), and then failed
unhappy in the ninth, viz. that of the King's coming in.  He made good to
me the story which Luellin did tell me the other day, of his wife upon
her death-bed; how she dreamt of her uncle Scobell, and did foretell,
from some discourse she had with him, that she should die four days
thence, and not sooner, and did all along say so, and did so.  Upon the
'Change a great talke there was of one Mr. Tryan, an old man, a merchant
in Lyme-Streete, robbed last night (his man and mayde being gone out
after he was a-bed), and gagged and robbed of L1050 in money and about
L4000 in jewells, which he had in his house as security for money.  It is
believed by many circumstances that his man is guilty of confederacy, by
their ready going to his secret till in his desk, wherein the key of his
cash-chest lay.



9th.  Up (my underlip being mightily swelled, I know not how but by
overrubbing it, it itching) and to the office, where we sat all the
morning, and at noon I home to dinner, and by discourse with my wife
thought upon inviting my Lord Sandwich to a dinner shortly.  It will cost
me at least ten or twelve pounds; but, however, some arguments of
prudence I have, which however I shall think again upon before I proceed
to that expence.  After dinner by coach I carried my wife and Jane to
Westminster, leaving her at Mr. Hunt's, and I to Westminster Hall, and
there visited Mrs. Lane, and by appointment went out and met her at the
Trumpet, Mrs. Hare's, but the room being damp we went to the Bell tavern,
and there I had her company, but could not do as I used to do (yet
nothing but what was honest) .  .  .  .  .  So I to talk about her having
Hawley, she told me flatly no, she could not love him.  I took occasion
to enquire of Howlett's daughter, with whom I have a mind to meet a
little to see what mettle the young wench is made of, being very pretty,
but she tells me she is already betrothed to Mrs. Michell's son, and she
in discourse tells me more, that Mrs. Michell herself had a daughter
before marriage, which is now near thirty years old, a thing I could not
have believed.  Thence leading her to the Hall, I took coach and called
my wife and her mayd, and so to the New Exchange, where we bought several
things of our pretty Mrs. Dorothy Stacy, a pretty woman, and has the
modestest look that ever I saw in my life and manner of speech.  Thence
called at Tom's and saw him pretty well again, but has not been currant.
So homeward, and called at Ludgate, at Ashwell's uncle's, but she was not
within, to have spoke to her to have come to dress my wife at the time my
Lord dines here.  So straight home, calling for Walsingham's Manuals at
my bookseller's to read but not to buy, recommended for a pretty book by
Sir W. Warren, whose warrant however I do not much take till I do read
it.  So home to supper and to bed, my wife not being very well since she
came home, being troubled with a fainting fit, which she never yet had
before since she was my wife.



10th (Lord's day).  Lay in bed with my wife till 10 or 11 o'clock, having
been very sleepy all night.  So up, and my brother Tom being come to see
me, we to dinner, he telling me how Mrs. Turner found herself
discontented with her late bad journey, and not well taken by them in the
country, they not desiring her coming down, nor the burials of Mr. Edward
Pepys's corps there.  After dinner I to the office, where all the
afternoon, and at night my wife and I to my uncle Wight's, and there eat
some of their swan pie, which was good, and I invited them to my house to
eat a roasted swan on Tuesday next, which after I was come home did make
a quarrels between my wife and I, because she had appointed a wish
to-morrow.  But, however, we were friends again quickly.  So to bed.
All our discourse to-night was Mr. Tryan's late being robbed; and that
Collonell Turner (a mad, swearing, confident fellow, well known by all,
and by me), one much indebted to this man for his very livelihood, was
the man that either did or plotted it; and the money and things are found
in his hand, and he and his wife now in Newgate for it; of which we are
all glad, so very a known rogue he was.



11th.  Waked this morning by 4 o'clock by my wife to call the mayds to
their wash, and what through my sleeping so long last night and vexation
for the lazy sluts lying so long again and their great wash, neither my
wife nor I could sleep one winke after that time till day, and then I
rose and by coach (taking Captain Grove with me and three bottles of
Tent, which I sent to Mrs. Lane by my promise on Saturday night last) to
White Hall, and there with the rest of our company to the Duke and did
our business, and thence to the Tennis Court till noon, and there saw
several great matches played, and so by invitation to St. James's; where,
at Mr. Coventry's chamber, I dined with my Lord Barkeley, Sir G.
Carteret, Sir Edward Turner, Sir Ellis Layton, and one Mr. Seymour, a
fine gentleman; were admirable good discourse of all sorts, pleasant and
serious.  Thence after dinner to White Hall, where the Duke being busy at
the Guinny business, the Duke of Albemarle, Sir W. Rider, Povy, Sir J.
Lawson and I to the Duke of Albemarle's lodgings, and there did some
business, and so to the Court again, and I to the Duke of York's
lodgings, where the Guinny company are choosing their assistants for the
next year by ballotting.  Thence by coach with Sir J. Robinson,
Lieutenant of the Tower, he set me down at Cornhill, but, Lord!  the
simple discourse that all the way we had, he magnifying his great
undertakings and cares that have been upon him for these last two years,
and how he commanded the city to the content of all parties, when the
loggerhead knows nothing almost that is sense.  Thence to the Coffee-
house, whither comes Sir W. Petty and Captain Grant, and we fell in talke
(besides a young gentleman, I suppose a merchant, his name Mr. Hill, that
has travelled and I perceive is a master in most sorts of musique and
other things) of musique; the universal character; art of memory;
Granger's counterfeiting of hands and other most excellent discourses to
my great content, having not been in so good company a great while, and
had I time I should covet the acquaintance of that Mr. Hill.  This
morning I stood by the King arguing with a pretty Quaker woman, that
delivered to him a desire of hers in writing.  The King showed her Sir
J. Minnes, as a man the fittest for her quaking religion, saying that his
beard was the stiffest thing about him, and again merrily said, looking
upon the length of her paper, that if all she desired was of that length
she might lose her desires; she modestly saying nothing till he begun
seriously to discourse with her, arguing the truth of his spirit against
hers; she replying still with these words, "O King!" and thou'd him all
along.  The general talke of the towne still is of Collonell Turner,
about the robbery; who, it is thought, will be hanged.  I heard the Duke
of York tell to-night, how letters are come that fifteen are condemned
for the late plot by the judges at York; and, among others, Captain
Oates, against whom it was proved that he drew his sword at his going
out, and flinging away the scabbard, said that he would either return
victor or be hanged.  So home, where I found the house full of the
washing and my wife mighty angry about Will's being here to-day talking
with her mayds, which she overheard, idling of their time, and he telling
what a good mayd my old Jane was, and that she would never have her like
again.  At which I was angry, and after directing her to beat at least
the little girl, I went to the office and there reproved Will, who told
me that he went thither by my wife's order, she having commanded him to
come thither on Monday morning.  Now God forgive me! how apt I am to be
jealous of her as to this fellow, and that she must needs take this time,
when she knows I must be gone out to the Duke, though methinks had she
that mind she would never think it discretion to tell me this story of
him, to let me know that he was there, much less to make me offended with
him, to forbid him coming again.  But this cursed humour I cannot cool in
myself by all the reason I have, which God forgive me for, and convince
me of the folly of it, and the disquiet it brings me.  So home, where,
God be thanked, when I came to speak to my wife my trouble of mind soon
vanished, and to bed.  The house foul with the washing and quite out of
order against to-morrow's dinner.



12th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon to
the 'Change awhile, and so home, getting things against dinner ready, and
anon comes my uncle Wight and my aunt, with their cozens Mary and Robert,
and by chance my uncle Thomas Pepys.  We had a good dinner, the chief
dish a swan roasted, and that excellent meate.  At, dinner and all day
very merry.  After dinner to cards, where till evening, then to the
office a little, and to cards again with them, and lost half-a-crowne.
They being gone, my wife did tell me how my uncle did this day accost her
alone, and spoke of his hoping she was with child, and kissing her
earnestly told her he should be very glad of it, and from all
circumstances methinks he do seem to have some intention of good to us,
which I shall endeavour to continue more than ever I did yet.  So to my
office till late, and then home to bed, after being at prayers, which is
the first time after my late vowe to say prayers in my family twice in
every week.



13th.  Up and to my office a little, and then abroad to many several
places about business, among others to the geometrical instrument makers,
and through Bedlam (calling by the way at an old bookseller's and there
fell into looking over Spanish books and pitched upon some, till I
thought of my oathe when I was going to agree for them, and so with much
ado got myself out of the shop glad at my heart and so away) to the
African House to look upon their book of contracts for several
commodities for my information in the prices we give in the Navy.  So to
the Coffee [house] where extraordinary good discourse of Dr. Whistler's'
upon my question concerning the keeping of masts, he arguing against
keeping them dry, by showing the nature of corruption in bodies and the
several ways thereof.  So to the 'Change, and thence with Sir W. Rider to
the Trinity House to dinner, and then home and to my office till night,
and then with Mr. Bland to Sir T. Viner's about pieces of eight for Sir
J. Lawson, and so back to my office, and there late upon business, and so
home to supper and to bed.



14th.  Up and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon all of
us, viz., Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Batten at one end, and Mr. Coventry,
Sir J. Minnes and I (in the middle at the other end, being taught how to
sit there all three by my sitting so much the backwarder) at the other
end, to Sir G. Carteret's, and there dined well.  Here I saw Mr. Scott,
the bastard that married his youngest daughter.  Much pleasant talk at
table, and then up and to the office, where we sat long upon our design
of dividing the Controller's work into some of the rest of our hands for
the better doing of it, but he would not yield to it, though the simple
man knows in his heart that he do not do one part of it.  So he taking
upon him to do it all we rose, I vexed at the heart to see the King's
service run after this manner, but it cannot be helped.  Thence to the
Old James to the reference about Mr. Bland's business.  Sir W. Rider
being now added to us, and I believe we shall soon come to some
determination in it.  So home and to my office, did business, and then up
to Sir W. Pen and did express my trouble about this day's business, he
not being there, and plainly told him what I thought of it, and though I
know him a false fellow yet I adventured, as I have done often, to tell
him clearly my opinion of Sir W. Batten and his design in this business,
which is very bad.  Hence home, and after a lecture to my wife in her
globes, to prayers and to bed.



15th.  Up and to my office, where all the morning, and among other things
Mr. Turner with me, and I did tell him my mind about the Controller his
master and all the office, and my mind touching himself too, as he did
carry himself either well or ill to me and my clerks, which I doubt not
but it will operate well.  Thence to the 'Change, and there met my uncle
Wight, who was very kind to me, and would have had me home with him, and
so kind that I begin to wonder and think something of it of good to me.
Thence home to dinner, and after dinner with Mr. Hater by water, and
walked thither and back again from Deptford, where I did do something
checking the iron business, but my chief business was my discourse with
Mr. Hater about what had passed last night and to-day about the office
business, and my resolution to do him all the good I can therein.  So
home, and my wife tells me that my uncle Wight hath been with her, and
played at cards with her, and is mighty inquisitive to know whether she
is with child or no, which makes me wonder what his meaning is, and after
all my thoughts, I cannot think, unless it be in order to the making his
will, that he might know how to do by me, and I would to God my wife had
told him that she was.



16th.  Up, and having paid some money in the morning to my uncle Thomas
on his yearly annuity, to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At
noon I to the 'Change about some pieces of eight for Sir J. Lawson.
There I hear that Collonell Turner is found guilty of felony at the
Sessions in Mr. Tryan's business, which will save his life.  So home and
met there J. Hasper come to see his kinswoman our Jane.  I made much of
him and made him dine with us, he talking after the old simple manner
that he used to do.  He being gone, I by water to Westminster Hall, and
there did see Mrs. Lane.  .  .  .  .  So by coach home and to my office,
where Browne of the Minerys brought me an Instrument made of a Spyral
line very pretty for all questions in Arithmetique almost, but it must be
some use that must make me perfect in it.  So home to supper and to bed,
with my mind 'un peu troubled pour ce que fait' to-day, but I hope it
will be 'la dernier de toute ma vie.'



17th (Lord's day).  Up, and I and my wife to church, where Pembleton
appeared, which, God forgive me, did vex me, but I made nothing of it.
So home to dinner, and betimes my wife and I to the French church and
there heard a good sermon, the first time my wife and I were there ever
together.  We sat by three sisters, all pretty women.  It was pleasant to
hear the reader give notice to them, that the children to be catechized
next Sunday were them of Hounsditch and Blanche Chapiton.  Thence home,
and there found Ashwell come to see my wife (we having called at her
lodging the other, day to speak with her about dressing my wife when my
Lord Sandwich dines here), and is as merry as ever, and speaks as
disconcerned for any difference between us on her going away as ever.
She being gone, my wife and I to see Sir W. Pen and there supped with him
much against my stomach, for the dishes were so deadly foule that I could
not endure to look upon them.  So after supper home to prayers and to
bed.



18th.  Up, being troubled to find my wife so ready to have me go out of
doors.  God forgive me for my jealousy! but I cannot forbear, though God
knows I have no reason to do so, or to expect her being so true to me as
I would have her.  I abroad to White Hall, where the Court all in
mourning for the Duchesse of Savoy.  We did our business with the Duke,
and so I to W. Howe at my Lord's lodgings, not seeing my Lord, he being
abroad, and there I advised with W. Howe about my having my Lord to
dinner at my house, who likes it well, though it troubles me that I
should come to need the advice of such a boy, but for the present it is
necessary.  Here I found Mr. Mallard, and had from him a common tune set
by my desire to the Lyra Vyall, which goes most admirably.  Thence home
by coach to the 'Change, after having been at the Coffee-house, where I
hear Turner is found guilty of felony and burglary; and strange stories
of his confidence at the barr, but yet great indiscretion in his
argueing.  All desirous of his being hanged.  So home and found that Will
had been with my wife.  But, Lord! why should I think any evil of that;
and yet I cannot forbear it.  But upon enquiry, though I found no reason
of doubtfulness, yet I could not bring my nature to any quiet or content
in my wife all day and night, nor though I went with her to divert myself
at my uncle Wight's, and there we played at cards till 12 at night and
went home in a great shower of rain, it having not rained a great while
before.  Here was one Mr. Benson, a Dutchman, played and supped with us,
that pretends to sing well, and I expected great matters but found
nothing to be pleased with at all.  So home and to bed, yet troubled in
my mind.



19th.  Up, without any kindness to my wife, and so to the office, where
we sat all the morning, and at noon I to the 'Change, and thence to Mr.
Cutler's with Sir W. Rider to dinner, and after dinner with him to the
Old James upon our reference of Mr. Bland's, and, having sat there upon
the business half an hour, broke up, and I home and there found Madame
Turner and her sister Dike come to see us, and staid chatting till night,
and so away, and I to my office till very late, and my eyes began to fail
me, and be in pain which I never felt to now-a-days, which I impute to
sitting up late writing and reading by candle-light.  So home to supper
and to bed.



20th.  Up and by coach to my Lord Sandwich's, and after long staying till
his coming down (he not sending for me up, but it may be he did not know
I was there), he came down, and I walked with him to the Tennis Court,
and there left him, seeing the King play.  At his lodgings this morning
there came to him Mr. W. Montague's fine lady, which occasioned my Lord's
calling me to her about some business for a friend of hers preferred to
be a midshipman at sea.  My Lord recommended the whole matter to me.
She is a fine confident lady, I think, but not so pretty as I once
thought her.  My Lord did also seal a lease for the house he is now
taking in Lincoln's Inn Fields, which stands him in 250 per annum rent.
Thence by water to my brother's, whom I find not well in bed, sicke,
they think, of a consumption, and I fear he is not well, but do not
complain, nor desire to take anything.  From him I visited Mr. Honiwood,
who is lame, and to thank him for his visit to me the other day, but we
were both abroad.  So to Mr. Commander's in Warwicke Lane, to speak to
him about drawing up my will, which he will meet me about in a day or
two.  So to the 'Change and walked home, thence with Sir Richard Ford,
who told me that Turner is to be hanged to-morrow, and with what
impudence he hath carried out his trial; but that last night, when he
brought him newes of his death, he began to be sober and shed some tears,
and he hopes will die a penitent; he having already confessed all the
thing, but says it was partly done for a joke, and partly to get an
occasion of obliging the old man by his care in getting him his things
again, he having some hopes of being the better by him in his estate at
his death.  Home to dinner, and after dinner my wife and I by water,
which we have not done together many a day, that is not since last
summer, but the weather is now very warm, and left her at Axe Yard, and I
to White Hall, and meeting Mr. Pierce walked with him an hour in the
Matted Gallery; among other things he tells me that my Lady Castlemaine
is not at all set by by the King, but that he do doat upon Mrs. Stewart
only; and that to the leaving of all business in the world, and to the
open slighting of the Queene; that he values not who sees him or stands
by him while he dallies with her openly; and then privately in her
chamber below, where the very sentrys observe his going in and out; and
that so commonly, that the Duke or any of the nobles, when they would ask
where the King is, they will ordinarily say, "Is the King above, or
below?"  meaning with Mrs. Stewart: that the King do not openly disown my
Lady Castlemaine, but that she comes to Court; but that my Lord
FitzHarding and the Hambletons,

     [The three brothers, George Hamilton, James Hamilton, and the Count
     Antoine Hamilton, author of the "Memoires de Grammont."]

and sometimes my Lord Sandwich, they say, have their snaps at her.  But
he says my Lord Sandwich will lead her from her lodgings in the darkest
and obscurest manner, and leave her at the entrance into the Queene's
lodgings, that he might be the least observed; that the Duke of Monmouth
the King do still doat on beyond measure, insomuch that the King only,
the Duke of York, and Prince Rupert, and the Duke of Monmouth, do now
wear deep mourning, that is, long cloaks, for the Duchesse of Savoy; so
that he mourns as a Prince of the Blood, while the Duke of York do no
more, and all the nobles of the land not so much; which gives great
offence, and he says the Duke of York do consider.  But that the Duke of
York do give himself up to business, and is like to prove a noble Prince;
and so indeed I do from my heart think he will.  He says that it is
believed, as well as hoped, that care is taken to lay up a hidden
treasure of money by the King against a bad day. pray God it be so!  but
I should be more glad that the King himself would look after business,
which it seems he do not in the least.  By and by came by Mr. Coventry,
and so we broke off; and he and I took a turn or two and so parted, and
then my Lord Sandwich came upon me, to speak with whom my business of
coming again to-night to this ende of the town chiefly was, in order to
the seeing in what manner he received me, in order to my inviting him to
dinner to my house, but as well in the morning as now, though I did wait
upon him home and there offered occasion of talk with him, yet he treated
me, though with respect, yet as a stranger, without any of the intimacy
or friendship which he used to do, and which I fear he will never,
through his consciousness of his faults, ever do again.  Which I must
confess do trouble me above anything in the world almost, though I
neither do need at present nor fear to need to be so troubled, nay, and
more, though I do not think that he would deny me any friendship now if I
did need it, but only that he has not the face to be free with me, but do
look upon me as a remembrancer of his former vanity, and an espy upon his
present practices, for I perceive that Pickering to-day is great with him
again, and that he has done a great courtesy for Mr. Pierce, the
chirurgeon, to a good value, though both these and none but these did I
mention by name to my Lord in the business which has caused all this
difference between my Lord and me.  However, I am resolved to forbear my
laying out my money upon a dinner till I see him in a better posture, and
by grave and humble, though high deportment, to make him think I do not
want him, and that will make him the readier to admit me to his
friendship again, I believe the soonest of anything but downright
impudence, and thrusting myself, as others do, upon him, which yet I
cannot do, not [nor] will not endeavour.  So home, calling with my wife to
see my brother again, who was up, and walks up and down the house pretty
well, but I do think he is in a consumption.  Home, troubled in mind for
these passages with my Lord, but am resolved to better my case in my
business to make my stand upon my owne legs the better and to lay up as
well as to get money, and among other ways I will have a good fleece out
of Creed's coat ere it be long, or I will have a fall.  So to my office
and did some business, and then home to supper and to bed, after I had by
candlelight shaved myself and cut off all my beard clear, which will make
my worke a great deal the less in shaving.



21st.  Up, and after sending my wife to my aunt Wight's to get a place to
see Turner hanged, I to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at
noon going to the 'Change; and seeing people flock in the City, I
enquired, and found that Turner was not yet hanged.  And so I went among
them to Leadenhall Street, at the end of Lyme Street, near where the
robbery was done; and to St. Mary Axe, where he lived.  And there I got
for a shilling to stand upon the wheel of a cart, in great pain, above an
houre before the execution was done; he delaying the time by long
discourses and prayers one after another, in hopes of a reprieve; but
none came, and at last was flung off the ladder in his cloake.  A comely-
looked man he was, and kept his countenance to the end: I was sorry to
see him.  It was believed there were at least 12 or 14,000 people in the
street.  So I home all in a sweat, and dined by myself, and after dinner
to the Old James, and there found Sir W. Rider and Mr. Cutler at dinner,
and made a second dinner with them, and anon came Mr. Bland and Custos,
and Clerke, and so we fell to the business of reference, and upon a
letter from Mr. Povy to Sir W. Rider and I telling us that the King is
concerned in it, we took occasion to fling off the business from off our
shoulders and would have nothing to do with it, unless we had power from
the King or Commissioners of Tangier, and I think it will be best for us
to continue of that mind, and to have no hand, it being likely to go
against the King.  Thence to the Coffee-house, and heard the full of
Turner's discourse on the cart, which was chiefly to clear himself of all
things laid to his charge but this fault, for which he now suffers, which
he confesses.  He deplored the condition of his family, but his chief
design was to lengthen time, believing still a reprieve would come,
though the sheriff advised him to expect no such thing, for the King was
resolved to grant none.  After that I had good discourse with a pretty
young merchant with mighty content.  So to my office and did a little
business, and then to my aunt Wight's to fetch my wife home, where Dr.
Burnett did tell me how poorly the sheriffs did endeavour to get one
jewell returned by Turner, after he was convicted, as a due to them, and
not to give it to Mr. Tryan, the true owner, but ruled against them, to
their great dishonour.  Though they plead it might be another jewell for
ought they know and not Tryan's.  After supper home, and my wife tells me
mighty stories of my uncle's fond and kind discourses to her to-day,
which makes me confident that he has thoughts of kindness for us, he
repeating his desire for her to be with child, for it cannot enter into
my head that he should have any unworthy thoughts concerning her.  After
doing some business at my office, I home to supper, prayers, and to bed.



22nd.  Up, and it being a brave morning, with a gaily to Woolwich, and
there both at the Ropeyarde and the other yarde did much business, and
thence to Greenwich to see Mr. Pett and others value the carved work of
the "Henrietta" (God knows in an ill manner for the King), and so to
Deptford, and there viewed Sir W. Petty's vessel; which hath an odd
appearance, but not such as people do make of it, for I am of the opinion
that he would never have discoursed so much of it, if it were not better
than other vessels, and so I believe that he was abused the other day, as
he is now, by tongues that I am sure speak before they know anything good
or bad of her.  I am sorry to find his ingenuity discouraged so.  So
home, reading all the way a good book, and so home to dinner, and after
dinner a lesson on the globes to my wife, and so to my office till 10 or
11 o'clock at night, and so home to supper and to bed.



23rd.  Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At noon home
to dinner, where Mr. Hawly came to see us and dined with us, and after we
had dined came Mr. Mallard, and after he had eat something, I brought
down my vyall which he played on, the first maister that ever touched her
yet, and she proves very well and will be, I think, an admirable
instrument.  He played some very fine things of his owne, but I was
afeard to enter too far in their commendation for fear he should offer to
copy them for me out, and so I be forced to give or lend him something.
So to the office in the evening, whither Mr. Commander came to me, and we
discoursed about my will, which I am resolved to perfect the next week by
the grace of God.  He being gone, I to write letters and other business
late, and so home to supper and to bed.



24th (Lord's day).  Lay long in bed, and then up, and being desirous to
perform my vowes that I lately made, among others, to be performed this
month, I did go to my office, and there fell on entering, out of a bye-
book, part of my second journall-book, which hath lain these two years
and more unentered.  Upon this work till dinner, and after dinner to it
again till night, and then home to supper, and after supper to read a
lecture to my wife upon the globes, and so to prayers and to bed.  This
evening also I drew up a rough draught of my last will to my mind.



25th.  Up and by coach to Whitehall to my Lord's lodgings, and seeing
that knowing that I was in the house, my Lord did not nevertheless send
for me up, I did go to the Duke's lodgings, and there staid while he was
making ready, in which time my Lord Sandwich came, and so all into his
closet and did our common business, and so broke up, and I homeward by
coach with Sir W. Batten, and staid at Warwicke Lane and there called
upon Mr. Commander and did give him my last will and testament to write
over in form, and so to the 'Change, where I did several businesses.  So
home to dinner, and after I had dined Luellin came and we set him
something to eat, and I left him there with my wife, and to the office
upon a particular meeting of the East India Company, where I think I did
the King good service against the Company in the business of their
sending our ships home empty from the Indies contrary to their contract,
and yet, God forgive me!  I found that I could be willing to receive a
bribe if it were offered me to conceal my arguments that I found against
them, in consideration that none of my fellow officers, whose duty it is
more than mine, had ever studied the case, or at this hour do understand
it, and myself alone must do it.  That being done Mr. Povy and Bland came
to speak with me about their business of the reference, wherein I shall
have some more trouble, but cannot help it, besides I hope to make some
good use of Mr. Povy to my advantage.  So home after business done at my
office, to supper, and then to the globes with my wife, and so to bed.
Troubled a little in mind that my Lord Sandwich should continue this
strangeness to me that methinks he shows me now a days more than while
the thing was fresh.



26th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At noon to
the 'Change, after being at the Coffee-house, where I sat by Tom
Killigrew, who told us of a fire last night in my Lady Castlemaine's
lodging, where she bid L40 for one to adventure the fetching of a cabinet
out, which at last was got to be done; and the fire at last quenched
without doing much wrong.  To 'Change and there did much business, so
home to dinner, and then to the office all the afternoon.  And so at
night my aunt Wight and Mrs. Buggin came to sit with my wife, and I in to
them all the evening, my uncle coming afterward, and after him Mr. Benson
the Dutchman, a frank, merry man.  We were very merry and played at cards
till late and so broke up and to bed in good hopes that this my
friendship with my uncle and aunt will end well.



27th.  Up and to the office, and at noon to the Coffeehouse, where I sat
with Sir G. Ascue

     [Sir George Ayscue or Askew.  After his return from his imprisonment
     he declined to go to sea again, although he was twice afterwards
     formally appointed.  He sat on the court-martial on the loss of the
     "Defiance" in 1668.]

and Sir William Petty, who in discourse is, methinks, one of the most
rational men that ever I heard speak with a tongue, having all his
notions the most distinct and clear, and, among other things (saying,
that in all his life these three books were the most esteemed and
generally cried up for wit in the world "Religio Medici," "Osborne's
Advice to a Son,"

     [Francis Osborne, an English writer of considerable abilities and
     popularity, was the author of "Advice to a Son," in two parts,
     Oxford, 1656-8, 8vo.  He died in 1659.  He is the same person
     mentioned as "My Father Osborne," October 19th, 1661.--B.]

and "Hudibras "), did say that in these--in the two first principally--the
wit lies, and confirming some pretty sayings, which are generally like
paradoxes, by some argument smartly and pleasantly urged, which takes
with people who do not trouble themselves to examine the force of an
argument, which pleases them in the delivery, upon a subject which they
like; whereas, as by many particular instances of mine, and others, out
of Osborne, he did really find fault and weaken the strength of many of
Osborne's arguments, so as that in downright disputation they would not
bear weight; at least, so far, but that they might be weakened, and
better found in their rooms to confirm what is there said.  He shewed
finely whence it happens that good writers are not admired by the present
age; because there are but few in any age that do mind anything that is
abstruse and curious; and so longer before any body do put the true
praise, and set it on foot in the world, the generality of mankind
pleasing themselves in the easy delights of the world, as eating,
drinking, dancing, hunting, fencing, which we see the meanest men do the
best, those that profess it.  A gentleman never dances so well as the
dancing master, and an ordinary fiddler makes better musique for a
shilling than a gentleman will do after spending forty, and so in all the
delights of the world almost.  Thence to the 'Change, and after doing
much business, home, taking Commissioner Pett with me, and all alone
dined together.  He told me many stories of the yard, but I do know him
so well, and had his character given me this morning by Hempson, as well
as my own too of him before, that I shall know how to value any thing he
says either of friendship or other business.  He was mighty serious with
me in discourse about the consequence of Sir W. Petty's boat, as the most
dangerous thing in the world, if it should be practised by endangering
our losse of the command of the seas and our trade, while the Turkes and
others shall get the use of them, which, without doubt, by bearing more
sayle will go faster than any other ships, and, not being of burden, our
merchants cannot have the use of them and so will be at the mercy of
their enemies.  So that I perceive he is afeard that the honour of his
trade will down, though (which is a truth) he pretends this consideration
to hinder the growth of this invention.  He being gone my wife and I took
coach and to Covent Garden, to buy a maske at the French House, Madame
Charett's, for my wife; in the way observing the streete full of coaches
at the new play, "The Indian Queene;" which for show, they say, exceeds
"Henry the Eighth."  Thence back to Mrs. Turner's and sat a while with
them talking of plays and I know not what, and so called to see Tom, but
not at home, though they say he is in a deep consumption, and Mrs. Turner
and Dike and they say he will not live two months to an end.  So home and
to the office, and then to supper and to bed.



28th.  Up and to the office, where all the morning sitting, and at noon
upon several things to the 'Change, and thence to Sir G. Carteret's to
dinner of my own accord, and after dinner with Mr. Wayth down to Deptford
doing several businesses, and by land back again, it being very cold, the
boat meeting me after my staying a while for him at an alehouse by
Redriffe stairs.  So home, and took Will coming out of my doors, at which
I was a little moved, and told my wife of her keeping him from the office
(though God knows my base jealous head was the cause of it), which she
seemed troubled at, and that it was only to discourse with her about
finding a place for her brother.  So I to my office late, Mr. Commander
coming to read over my will in order to the engrossing it, and so he
being gone I to other business, among others chiefly upon preparing
matters against Creed for my profit, and so home to supper and bed, being
mightily troubled with my left eye all this evening from some dirt that
is got into it.



29th.  Up, and after shaving myself (wherein twice now, one after
another, I have cut myself much, but I think it is from the bluntness of
the razor) there came Mr. Deane to me and staid with me a while talking
about masts, wherein he prepared me in several things against Mr. Wood,
and also about Sir W. Petty's boat, which he says must needs prove a
folly, though I do not think so unless it be that the King will not have
it encouraged.  At noon, by appointment, comes Mr. Hartlibb and his wife,
and a little before them Messrs. Langley and Bostocke (old acquaintances
of mine at Westminster, clerks), and after shewing them my house and
drinking they set out by water, my wife and I with them down to Wapping
on board the "Crowne," a merchantman, Captain Floyd, a civil person.
Here was Vice-Admiral Goodson, whom the more I know the more I value for
a serious man and staunch.  Here was Whistler the flagmaker, which vexed
me, but it mattered not.  Here was other sorry company and the discourse
poor, so that we had no pleasure there at all, but only to see and bless
God to find the difference that is now between our condition and that
heretofore, when we were not only much below Hartlibb in all respects,
but even these two fellows above named, of whom I am now quite ashamed
that ever my education should lead me to such low company, but it is
God's goodness only, for which let him be praised.  After dinner I. broke
up and with my wife home, and thence to the Fleece in Cornhill, by
appointment, to meet my Lord Marlborough, a serious and worthy gentleman,
who, after doing our business, about the company, he and they began to
talk of the state of the Dutch in India, which is like to be in a little
time without any controll; for we are lost there, and the Portuguese as.
bad.  Thence to the Coffee-house, where good discourse, specially of Lt.-
Coll. Baron touching the manners of the Turkes' Government, among whom he
lived long.  So to my uncle Wight's, where late playing at cards, and so
home.



30th.  Up, and a sorry sermon of a young fellow I knew at Cambridge; but
the day kept solemnly for the King's murder, and all day within doors
making up my Brampton papers, and in the evening Mr. Commander came and
we made perfect and signed and sealed my last will and testament, which
is so to my mind, and I hope to the liking of God Almighty, that I take
great joy in myself that it is done, and by that means my mind in a good
condition of quiett.  At night to supper and to bed.  This evening, being
in a humour of making all things even and clear in the world, I tore some
old papers; among others, a romance which (under the title of "Love a
Cheate ") I begun ten years ago at Cambridge; and at this time reading it
over to-night I liked it very well, and wondered a little at myself at my
vein at that time when I wrote it, doubting that I cannot do so well now
if I would try.



31st (Lord's day).  Up, and in my chamber all day long (but a little at
dinner) settling all my Brampton accounts to this day in very good order,
I having obliged myself by oathe to do that and some other things within
this month, and did also perfectly prepare a state of my estate and
annexed it to my last will and testament, which now is perfect, and,
lastly, I did make up my monthly accounts, and find that I have gained
above L50 this month clear, and so am worth L858 clear, which is the
greatest sum I ever yet was master of, and also read over my usual vowes,
as I do every Lord's day, but with greater seriousness than ordinary, and
I do hope that every day I shall see more and more the pleasure of
looking after my business and laying up of money, and blessed be God for
what I have already been enabled by his grace to do.  So to supper and to
bed with my mind in mighty great ease and content, but my head very full
of thoughts and business to dispatch this next month also, and among
others to provide for answering to the Exchequer for my uncle's being
Generall-Receiver in the year 1647, which I am at present wholly unable
to do, but I must find time to look over all his papers.






                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                               FEBRUARY
                               1663-1664


February 1st.  Up (my maids rising early this morning to washing), and
being ready I found Mr. Strutt the purser below with 12 bottles of sacke,
and tells me (which from Sir W. Batten I had heard before) how young Jack
Davis has railed against Sir W. Batten for his endeavouring to turn him
out of his place, at which for the fellow's sake, because it will likely
prove his ruin, I am sorry, though I do believe he is a very arch rogue.
I took Strutt by coach with me to White Hall, where I set him down, and I
to my Lord's, but found him gone out betimes to the Wardrobe, which I am
glad to see that he so attends his business, though it troubles me that
my counsel to my prejudice must be the cause of it.  They tell me that he
goes into the country next week, and that the young ladies come up this
week before the old lady.[??  D.W.]  Here I hear how two men last night,
justling for the wall about the New Exchange, did kill one another, each
thrusting the other through; one of them of the King's Chappell, one
Cave, and the other a retayner of my Lord Generall Middleton's.  Thence
to White Hall; where, in the Duke's chamber, the King came and stayed an
hour or two laughing at Sir W. Petty, who was there about his boat; and
at Gresham College in general; at which poor Petty was, I perceive, at
some loss; but did argue discreetly, and bear the unreasonable follies of
the King's objections and other bystanders with great discretion; and
offered to take oddes against the King's best boates; but the King would
not lay, but cried him down with words only.  Gresham College he mightily
laughed at, for spending time only in weighing of ayre, and doing nothing
else since they sat.  Thence to Westminster Hall, and there met with
diverse people, it being terme time.  Among others I spoke with Mrs.
Lane, of whom I doubted to hear something of the effects of our last
meeting about a fortnight or three weeks ago, but to my content did not.
Here I met with Mr. Pierce, who tells me of several passages at Court,
among others how the King, coming the other day to his Theatre to see
"The Indian Queene" (which he commends for a very fine thing), my Lady
Castlemaine was in the next box before he came; and leaning over other
ladies awhile to whisper to the King, she rose out of the box and went
into the King's, and set herself on the King's right hand, between the
King and the Duke of York; which, he swears, put the King himself, as
well as every body else, out of countenance; and believes that she did it
only to show the world that she is not out of favour yet, as was
believed.  Thence with Alderman Maynell by his coach to the 'Change, and
there with several people busy, and so home to dinner, and took my wife
out immediately to the King's Theatre, it being a new month, and once a
month I may go, and there saw "The Indian Queene" acted; which indeed is
a most pleasant show, and beyond my expectation; the play good, but
spoiled with the ryme, which breaks the sense.  But above my expectation
most, the eldest Marshall did do her part most excellently well as I ever
heard woman in my life; but her voice not so sweet as Ianthe's; but,
however, we came home mightily contented.  Here we met Mr. Pickering and
his mistress, Mrs. Doll Wilde; he tells me that the business runs high
between the Chancellor and my Lord Bristoll against the Parliament; and
that my Lord Lauderdale and Cooper open high against the Chancellor;
which I am sorry for.  In my way home I 'light and to the Coffee-house,
where I heard Lt. Coll. Baron tell very good stories of his travels over
the high hills in Asia above the clouds, how clear the heaven is above
them, how thicke like a mist the way is through the cloud that wets like
a sponge one's clothes, the ground above the clouds all dry and parched,
nothing in the world growing, it being only a dry earth, yet not so hot
above as below the clouds.  The stars at night most delicate bright and a
fine clear blue sky, but cannot see the earth at any time through the
clouds, but the clouds look like a world below you.  Thence home and to
supper, being hungry, and so to the office, did business, specially about
Creed, for whom I am now pretty well fitted, and so home to bed.  This
day in Westminster Hall W. Bowyer told me that his father is dead lately,
and died by being drowned in the river, coming over in the night; but he
says he had not been drinking.  He was taken with his stick in his hand
and cloake over his shoulder, as ruddy as before he died.  His horse was
taken overnight in the water, hampered in the bridle, but they were so
silly as not to look for his master till the next morning, that he was
found drowned.



2nd.  Up and to the office, where, though Candlemas day, Mr. Coventry and
Sir W. Pen and I all the morning, the others being at a survey at
Deptford.  At noon by coach to the 'Change with Mr. Coventry, thence to
the Coffee-house with Captain Coeke, who discoursed well of the good
effects in some kind of a Dutch warr and conquest (which I did not
consider before, but the contrary) that is, that the trade of the world
is too little for us two, therefore one must down: 2ndly, that though our
merchants will not be the better husbands by all this, yet our wool will
bear a better price by vaunting of our cloths, and by that our tenants
will be better able to pay rents, and our lands will be more worth, and
all our owne manufactures, which now the Dutch outvie us in; that he
thinks the Dutch are not in so good a condition as heretofore because of
want of men always, and now from the warrs against the Turke more than
ever.  Then to the 'Change again, and thence off to the Sun Taverne with
Sir W. Warren, and with him discoursed long, and had good advice, and
hints from him, and among other things he did give me a payre of gloves
for my wife wrapt up in paper, which I would not open, feeling it hard;
but did tell him that my wife should thank him, and so went on in
discourse.  When I came home, Lord! in what pain I was to get my wife out
of the room without bidding her go, that I might see what these gloves
were; and, by and by, she being gone, it proves a payre of white gloves
for her and forty pieces in good gold, which did so cheer my heart, that
I could eat no victuals almost for dinner for joy to think how God do
bless us every day more and more, and more yet I hope he will upon the
increase of my duty and endeavours.  I was at great losse what to do,
whether tell my wife of it or no, which I could hardly forbear, but yet I
did and will think of it first before I do, for fear of making her think
me to be in a better condition, or in a better way of getting money, than
yet I am.  After dinner to the office, where doing infinite of business
till past to at night to the comfort of my mind, and so home with joy to
supper and to bed.  This evening Mr. Hempson came and told me how Sir W,
Batten his master will not hear of continuing him in his employment as
Clerk of the Survey at Chatham, from whence of a sudden he has removed
him without any new or extraordinary cause, and I believe (as he himself
do in part write, and J. Norman do confess) for nothing but for that he
was twice with me the other day and did not wait upon him.  So much he
fears me and all that have to do with me.  Of this more in the Mem. Book
of my office upon this day, there I shall find it.



3rd.  Up, and after a long discourse with my cozen Thomas Pepys, the
executor, I with my wife by coach to Holborn, where I 'light, and she to
her father's, I to the Temple and several places, and so to the 'Change,
where much business, and then home to dinner alone; and so to the Mitre
Taverne by appointment (and there met by chance with W. Howe come to buy
wine for my Lord against his going down to Hinchingbroke, and I private
with him a great while discoursing of my Lord's strangeness to me; but he
answers that I have no reason to think any such thing, but that my Lord
is only in general a more reserved man than he was before) to meet Sir W.
Rider and Mr. Clerke, and there after much ado made an end, giving Mr.
Custos L202 against Mr. Bland, which I endeavoured to bring down but
could not, and think it is well enough ended for Mr. Bland for all that.
Thence by coach to fetch my wife from her brother's, and found her gone
home.  Called at Sir Robert Bernard's about surrendering my estate in
reversion to the use of my life, which will be done, and at Roger Pepys,
who was gone to bed in pain of a boyle that he could not sit or stand.
So home, where my wife is full of sad stories of her good-natured father
and roguish brother, who is going for Holland and his wife, to be a
soldier.  And so after a little at the office to bed.  This night late
coming in my coach, coming up Ludgate Hill, I saw two gallants and their
footmen taking a pretty wench, which I have much eyed, lately set up shop
upon the hill, a seller of riband and gloves.  They seek to drag her by
some force, but the wench went, and I believe had her turn served, but,
God forgive me! what thoughts and wishes I had of being in their place.
In Covent Garden to-night, going to fetch home my wife, I stopped at the
great Coffee-house' there, where I never was before; where Dryden the
poet (I knew at Cambridge), and all the wits of the town, and Harris the
player, and Mr. Hoole of our College.  And had I had time then, or could
at ether times, it will be good coming thither, for there, I perceive, is
very witty and pleasant discourse.  But I could not tarry, and as it was
late, they were all ready to go away.



4th.  Up and to the office, where after a while sitting, I left the board
upon pretence of serious business, and by coach to Paul's School, where I
heard some good speeches of the boys that were to be elected this year.
Thence by and by with Mr. Pullen and Barnes (a great Non-Conformist) with
several others of my old acquaintance to the Nag's Head Taverne, and
there did give them a bottle of sacke, and away again and I to the
School, and up to hear the upper form examined; and there was kept by
very many of the Mercers, Clutterbucke, a Barker, Harrington, and others;
and with great respect used by them all, and had a noble dinner.  Here
they tell me, that in Dr. Colett's will he says that he would have a
Master found for the School that hath good skill in Latin, and (if it
could be) one that had some knowledge of the Greeke; so little was Greeke
known here at that time.  Dr. Wilkins and one Mr. Smallwood, Posers.
After great pleasure there, and specially to Mr. Crumlum, so often to
tell of my being a benefactor to the School, I to my bookseller's and
there spent an hour looking over Theatrum Urbium and Flandria illustrata,
with excellent cuts, with great content.  So homeward, and called at my
little milliner's, where I chatted with her, her husband out of the way,
and a mad merry slut she is.  So home to the office, and by and by comes
my wife home from the burial of Captain Grove's wife at Wapping (she
telling me a story how her mayd Jane going into the boat did fall down
and show her arse in the boat), and alone comes my uncle Wight and Mr.
Maes with the state of their case, which he told me very discreetly, and
I believe is a very hard one, and so after drinking a bottle of ale or
two they gone, and I a little more to the office, and so home to prayers
and to bed.  This evening I made an end of my letter to Creed about his
pieces of eight, and sent it away to him.  I pray God give good end to it
to bring me some money, and that duly as from him.



5th.  Up, and down by water, a brave morning, to Woolwich, and there
spent an houre or two to good purpose, and so walked to Greenwich and
thence to Deptford, where I found (with Sir W. Batten upon a survey) Sir
J. Minnes, Sir W. Pen, and my Lady Batten come down and going to dinner.
I dined with them, and so after dinner by water home, all the way going
and coming reading" Faber Fortunae," which I can never read too often.
At home a while with my wife, and so to my office, where till 8 o'clock,
and then home to look over some Brampton papers, and my uncle's accounts
as Generall-Receiver of the County for 1647 of our monthly assessment,
which, contrary to my expectation, I found in such good order and so,
thoroughly that I did not expect, nor could have thought, and that being
done, having seen discharges for every farthing of money he received, I
went to bed late with great quiett.



6th.  Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and so at noon
to the 'Change, where I met Mr. Coventry, the first time I ever saw him
there, and after a little talke with him and other merchants, I up and
down about several businesses, and so home, whither came one Father
Fogourdy, an Irish priest, of my wife's and her mother's acquaintance in
France, a sober, discreet person, but one that I would not have converse
with my wife for fear of meddling with her religion, but I like the man
well.  Thence with my wife abroad, and left her at Tom's, while I abroad
about several businesses and so back to her, myself being vexed to find
at my first coming Tom abroad, and all his books, papers, and bills loose
upon the open table in the parlour, and he abroad, which I ranted at him
for when he came in.  Then by coach home, calling at my cozen Scott's,
who (she) lies dying, they say, upon a miscarriage.  My wife could not be
admitted to see her, nor anybody.  At home to the office late writing
letters, and then home to supper and to bed.  Father Fogourdy confirms to
me the newes that for certain there is peace between the Pope and King of
France.



7th (Lord's day).  Up and to church, and thence home, my wife being ill .
.  .  .  kept her bed all day, and I up and dined by her bedside, and
then all the afternoon till late at night writing some letters of
business to my father stating of matters to him in general of great
import, and other letters to ease my mind in the week days that I have
not time to think of, and so up to my wife, and with great mirth read Sir
W. Davenant's two speeches in dispraise of London and Paris, by way of
reproach one to another, and so to prayers and to bed.



8th.  Up, and by coach called upon Mr. Phillips, and after a little talk
with him away to my Lord Sandwich's, but he being gone abroad, I staid a
little and talked with Mr. Howe, and so to Westminster in term time, and
there met Mr. Pierce, who told me largely how the King still do doat upon
his women, even beyond all shame; and that the good Queen will of herself
stop before she goes sometimes into her dressing-room, till she knows
whether the King be there, for fear he should be, as she hath sometimes
taken him, with Mrs. Stewart; and that some of the best parts of the
Queen's joynture are, contrary to faith, and against the opinion of my
Lord Treasurer and his Council, bestowed or rented, I know not how, to my
Lord Fitz-Harding and Mrs. Stewart, and others of that crew that the King
do doat infinitely upon the Duke of Monmouth, apparently as one that he
intends to have succeed him.  God knows what will be the end of it!
After he was gone I went and talked with Mrs. Lane about persuading her
to Hawly, and think she will come on, which I wish were done, and so to
Mr. Howlett and his wife, and talked about the same, and they are
mightily for it, and I bid them promote it, for I think it will be for
both their goods and my content.  But I was much pleased to look upon
their pretty daughter, which is grown a pretty mayd, and will make a fine
modest woman.  Thence to the 'Change by coach, and after some business
done, home to dinner, and thence to Guildhall, thinking to have heard
some pleading, but there were no Courts, and so to Cade's, the stationer,
and there did look upon some pictures which he promised to give me the
buying of, but I found he would have played the Jacke with me, but at
last he did proffer me what I expected, and I have laid aside L10 or L12
worth, and will think of it, but I am loth to lay out so much money upon
them.  So home a little vexed in my mind to think how to-day I was forced
to compliment W. Howe and admit myself to an equality with Mr. Moore,
which is come to challenge in his discourse with me, but I will admit it
no more, but let me stand or fall, I will show myself as strange to them
as my Lord do himself to me.  After at the office till 9 o'clock, I home
in fear of some pain by taking cold, and so to supper and to bed.



9th.  Up and to the office, where sat all the morning.  At noon by coach
with Mr. Coventry to the 'Change, where busy with several people.  Great
talke of the Dutch proclaiming themselves in India, Lords of the Southern
Seas, and deny traffick there to all ships but their owne, upon pain of
confiscation; which makes our merchants mad.  Great doubt of two ships of
ours, the "Greyhound" and another, very rich, coming from the Streights,
for fear of the Turkes.  Matters are made up between the Pope and the
King of France; so that now all the doubt is, what the French will do
with their armies.  Thence home, and there found Captain Grove in
mourning for his wife, and Hawly, and they dined with me.  After dinner,
and Grove gone, Hawly and I talked of his mistress, Mrs. Lane, and I
seriously advising him and inquiring his condition, and do believe that I
shall bring them together.  By and by comes Mr. Moore, with whom much
good discourse of my Lord, and among other things told me that my Lord is
mightily altered, that is, grown very high and stately, and do not admit
of any to come into his chamber to him, as heretofore, and that I must
not think much of his strangeness to me, for it was the same he do to
every body, and that he would not have me be solicitous in the matter,
but keep off and give him now and then a visit and no more, for he says
he himself do not go to him now a days but when he sends for him, nor
then do not stay for him if he be not there at the hour appointed, for,
says he, I do find that I can stand upon my own legs and I will not by
any over submission make myself cheap to any body and contemptible,
which was the doctrine of the world that I lacked most, and shall follow
it.  I discoursed with him about my money that my Lord hath, and the
L1000 that I stand bound with him in, to my cozen Thomas Pepys, in both
which I will get myself at liberty as soon as I can; for I do not like
his being angry and in debt both together to me; and besides, I do not
perceive he looks after paying his debts, but runs farther and farther
in.  He being gone, my wife and I did walk an houre or two above in our
chamber, seriously talking of businesses.  I told her my Lord owed me
L700, and shewed her the bond, and how I intended to carry myself to my
Lord.  She and I did cast about how to get Captain Grove for my sister,
in which we are mighty earnest at present, and I think it would be a good
match, and will endeavour it.  So to my office a while, then home to
supper and to bed.



10th.  Up, and by coach to my Lord Sandwich, to his new house, a fine
house, but deadly dear, in Lincoln's Inne Fields, where I found and spoke
a little to him.  He is high and strange still, but did ask me how my
wife did, and at parting remembered him to his cozen, which I thought was
pretty well, being willing to flatter myself that in time he will be well
again.  Thence home straight and busy all the forenoon, and at noon with
Mr. Bland to Mr. Povy's, but he being at dinner and full of company we
retreated and went into Fleet Street to a friend of his, and after a
long stay, he telling me the long and most perplexed story of Coronell
and Bushell's business of sugars, wherein Parke and Green and Mr. Bland
and 40 more have been so concerned about the King of Portugal's duties,
wherein every party has laboured to cheat another, a most pleasant and
profitable story to hear, and in the close made me understand Mr. Maes'
business better than I did before.  By and by dinner came, and after
dinner and good discourse that and such as I was willing for improvement
sake to hear, I went away too to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier,
where I took occasion to demand of Creed whether he had received my
letter, and he told me yes, and that he would answer it, which makes me
much wonder what he means to do with me, but I will be even with him
before I have done, let him make as light of it as he will.  Thence to
the Temple, where my cozen Roger Pepys did show me a letter my Father
wrote to him last Terme to shew me, proposing such things about Sturtlow
and a portion for Pall, and I know not what, that vexes me to see him
plotting how to put me to trouble and charge, and not thinking to pay our
debts and legacys, but I will write him a letter will persuade him to be
wiser.  So home, and finding my wife abroad (after her coming home from
being with my aunt Wight to-day to buy Lent provisions) gone with Will to
my brother's, I followed them by coach, but found them not, for they were
newly gone home from thence, which troubled me.  I to Sir Robert
Bernard's chamber, and there did surrender my reversion in Brampton lands
to the use of my will, which I was glad to have done, my will being now
good in all parts.  Thence homewards, calling a little at the Coffee-
house, where a little merry discourse, and so home, where I found my
wife, who says she went to her father's to be satisfied about her
brother, who I found at my house with her.  He is going this next tide
with his wife into Holland to seek his fortune.  He had taken his leave
of us this morning.  I did give my wife 10s. to give him, and a coat that
I had by me, a close-bodied light-coloured cloth coat, with a gold
edgeing in each seam, that was the lace of my wife's best pettycoat that
she had when I married her.  I staid not there, but to my office, where
Stanes the glazier was with me till to at night making up his contract,
and, poor man, I made him almost mad through a mistake of mine, but did
afterwards reconcile all, for I would not have the man that labours to
serve the King so cheap above others suffer too much.  He gone I did a
little business more, and so home to supper and to bed, being now pretty
well again, the weather being warm.  My pain do leave me without coming
to any great excesse, but my cold that I had got I suppose was not very
great, it being only the leaving of my wastecoat unbuttoned one morning.



11th.  Up, after much pleasant discourse with my wife, and to the office,
where we sat all the morning, and did much business, and some much to my
content by prevailing against Sir W. Batten for the King's profit.  At
noon home to dinner, my wife and I hand to fist to a very fine pig.  This
noon Mr. Falconer came and visited my wife, and brought her a present, a
silver state-cup and cover, value about L3 or L4, for the courtesy I did
him the other day.  He did not stay dinner with me.  I am almost sorry
for this present, because I would have reserved him for a place to go in
summer a-visiting at Woolwich with my wife.



12th.  Up, and ready, did find below Mr. Creed's boy with a letter from
his master for me.  So I fell to reading it, and it is by way of stating
the case between S. Pepys and J. Creed most excellently writ, both
showing his stoutness and yet willingness to peace, reproaching me yet
flattering me again, and in a word in as good a manner as I think the
world could have wrote, and indeed put me to a greater stand than ever I
thought I could have been in this matter.  All the morning thinking how
to behave myself in the business, and at noon to the Coffee-house; thence
by his appointment met him upon the 'Change, and with him back to the
Coffee-house, where with great seriousness and strangeness on both sides
he said his part and I mine, he sometimes owning my favour and
assistance, yet endeavouring to lessen it, as that the success of his
business was not wholly or very much to be imputed to that assistance: I
to alledge the contrary, and plainly to tell him that from the beginning
I never had it in my mind to do him all that kindnesse for nothing, but
he gaining 5 or L600, I did expect a share of it, at least a real and not
a complimentary acknowledgment of it.  In fine I said nothing all the
while that I need fear he can do me more hurt with them than before I
spoke them.  The most I told him was after we were come to a peace, which
he asked me whether he should answer the Board's letter or no.  I told
him he might forbear it a while and no more.  Then he asked how the
letter could be signed by them without their much enquiry.  I told him it
was as I worded it and nothing at all else of any moment, whether my
words be ever hereafter spoken of again or no.  So that I have the same
neither better nor worse force over him that I had before, if he should
not do his part.  And the peace between us was this: Says he after all,
well, says he, I know you will expect, since there must be some
condescension, that it do become me to begin it, and therefore, says he,
I do propose (just like the interstice between the death of the old and
the coming in of the present king, all the time is swallowed up as if it
had never been) so our breach of friendship may be as if it had never
been, that I should lay aside all misapprehensions of him or his first
letter, and that he would reckon himself obliged to show the same
ingenuous acknowledgment of my love and service to him as at the
beginning he ought to have done, before by my first letter I did (as he
well observed) put him out of a capacity of doing it, without seeming to
do it servilely, and so it rests, and I shall expect how he will deal
with me.  After that I began to be free, and both of us to discourse of
other things, and he went home with me and dined with me and my wife and
very pleasant, having a good dinner and the opening of my lampry (cutting
a notch on one side), which proved very good.  After dinner he and I to
Deptford, walking all the way, where we met Sir W. Petty and I took him
back, and I got him to go with me to his vessel and discourse it over to
me, which he did very well, and then walked back together to the
waterside at Redriffe, with good discourse all the way.  So Creed and I
by boat to my house, and thence to coach with my wife and called at
Alderman Backewell's and there changed Mr. Falconer's state-cup, that he
did give us the other day, for a fair tankard.  The cup weighed with the
fashion L5 16s., and another little cup that Joyce Norton did give us
17s., both L6 13s.; for which we had the tankard, which came to L6 10s.,
at 5s. 7d.  per oz., and 3s. in money, and with great content away thence
to my brother's, Creed going away there, and my brother bringing me the
old silk standard that I lodged there long ago, and then back again home,
and thence, hearing that my uncle Wight had been at my house, I went to
him to the Miter, and there with him and Maes, Norbury, and Mr. Rawlinson
till late eating some pot venison (where the Crowne earthen pot pleased
me mightily), and then homewards and met Mr. Barrow, so back with him to
the Miter and sat talking about his business of his discontent in the
yard, wherein sometimes he was very foolish and pettish, till 12 at
night, and so went away, and I home and up to my wife a-bed, with my mind
ill at ease whether I should think that I had by this made myself a bad
end by missing the certainty of L100 which I proposed to myself so much,
or a good one by easing myself of the uncertain good effect but the
certain trouble and reflection which must have fallen on me if we had
proceeded to a public dispute, ended besides embarking myself against my
Lord, who (which I had forgot) had given him his hand for the value of
the pieces of eight at his rates which were all false, which by the way I
shall take heed to the giving of my Lord notice of it hereafter whenever
he goes out again.



13th.  Up, and after I had told my wife in the morning in bed the
passages yesterday with Creed my head and heart was mightily lighter than
they were before, and so up and to the office, and thence, after sitting,
at 11 o'clock with Mr. Coventry to the African House, and there with Sir
W. Ryder by agreement we looked over part of my Lord Peterborough's
accounts, these being by Creed and Vernaty.  Anon down to dinner to a
table which Mr. Coventry keeps here, out of his L300 per annum as one of
the Assistants to the Royall Company, a very pretty dinner, and good
company, and excellent discourse, and so up again to our work for an hour
till the Company came to having a meeting of their own, and so we broke
up and Creed and I took coach and to Reeves, the perspective glass maker,
and there did indeed see very excellent microscopes, which did discover a
louse or mite or sand most perfectly and largely.  Being sated with that
we went away (yet with a good will were it not for my obligation to have
bought one) and walked to the New Exchange, and after a turn or two and
talked I took coach and home, and so to my office, after I had been with
my wife and saw her day's work in ripping the silke standard, which we
brought home last night, and it will serve to line a bed, or for twenty
uses, to our great content.  And there wrote fair my angry letter to my
father upon that that he wrote to my cozen Roger Pepys, which I hope will
make him the more carefull to trust to my advice for the time to come
without so many needless complaints and jealousys, which are troublesome
to me because without reason.



14th (Lord's day).  Up and to church alone, where a lazy sermon of Mr.
Mills, upon a text to introduce catechizing in his parish, which I
perceive he intends to begin.  So home and very pleasant with my wife at
dinner.  All the afternoon at my office alone doing business, and then in
the evening after a walk with my wife in the garden, she and I to my
uncle Wight's to supper, where Mr. Norbury, but my uncle out of tune, and
after supper he seemed displeased mightily at my aunt's desiring [to] put
off a copper kettle, which it seems with great study he had provided to
boil meat in, and now she is put in the head that it is not wholesome,
which vexed him, but we were very merry about it, and by and by home, and
after prayers to bed.



15th.  Up, and carrying my wife to my Lord's lodgings left her, and I to
White Hall, to the Duke; where he first put on a periwigg to-day; but
methought his hair cut short in order thereto did look very prettily of
itself, before he put on his periwigg.

     [Charles II. followed his brother in the use of the periwig in the
     following April.]

Thence to his closet and there did our business, and thence Mr. Coventry
and I down to his chamber and spent a little time, and so parted, and I
took my wife homeward, I stopping at the Coffee-house, and thence a while
to the 'Change, where great newes of the arrivall of two rich ships, the
Greyhound and another, which they were mightily afeard of, and great
insurance given, and so home to dinner, and after an houre with my wife
at her globes, I to the office, where very busy till 11 at night, and so
home to supper and to bed.  This afternoon Sir Thomas Chamberlin came to
the office to me, and showed me several letters from the East Indys,
showing the height that the Dutch are come to there, showing scorn to all
the English, even in our only Factory there of Surat, beating several
men, and hanging the English Standard St. George under the Dutch flagg in
scorn; saying, that whatever their masters do or say at home, they will
do what they list, and will be masters of all the world there; and have
so proclaimed themselves Soveraigne of all the South Seas; which
certainly our King cannot endure, if the Parliament will give him money.
But I doubt and yet do hope they will not yet, till we are more ready for
it.



16th.  Up and to the office, where very busy all the morning, and most
with Mr. Wood, I vexing him about his masts.  At noon to the 'Change a
little and thence brought Mr. Barrow to dinner with me, where I had a
haunch of venison roasted, given me yesterday, and so had a pretty
dinner, full of discourse of his business, wherein the poor man is
mightily troubled, and I pity him in it, but hope to get him some ease.
He being gone I to the office, where very busy till night, that my uncle
Wight and Mr. Maes came to me, and after discourse about Maes' business
to supper very merry, but my mind upon my business, and so they being
gone I to my Vyall a little, which I have not done some months, I think,
before, and then a little to my office, at 11 at night, and so home and
to bed.



17th.  Up, and with my wife, setting her down by her father's in Long
Acre, in so ill looked a place, among all the whore houses, that I was
troubled at it, to see her go thither.  Thence I to White Hall and there
walked up and down talking with Mr. Pierce, who tells me of the King's
giving of my Lord Fitz-Harding two leases which belong indeed to the
Queene, worth L20,000 to him; and how people do talk of it, and other
things of that nature which I am sorry to hear.  He and I walked round
the Park with great pleasure, and back again, and finding no time to
speak with my Lord of Albemarle, I walked to the 'Change and there met my
wife at our pretty Doll's, and so took her home, and Creed also whom I
met there, and sent her hose, while Creed and I staid on the 'Change, and
by and by home and dined, where I found an excellent mastiffe, his name
Towser, sent me by a chyrurgeon.  After dinner I took my wife again by
coach (leaving Creed by the way going to Gresham College, of which he is
now become one of the virtuosos) and to White Hall, where I delivered a
paper about Tangier to my Lord Duke of Albemarle in the council chamber,
and so to Mrs. Hunt's to call my wife, and so by coach straight home, and
at my office till 3 o'clock in the morning, having spent much time this
evening in discourse with Mr. Cutler, who tells me how the Dutch deal
with us abroad and do not value us any where, and how he and Sir W. Rider
have found reason to lay aside Captain Cocke in their company, he having
played some indiscreet and unfair tricks with them, and has lost himself
every where by his imposing upon all the world with the conceit he has of
his own wit, and so has, he tells me, Sir R. Ford also, both of whom are
very witty men.  He being gone Sir W. Rider came and staid with me till
about 12 at night, having found ourselves work till that time, about
understanding the measuring of Mr. Wood's masts, which though I did so
well before as to be thought to deal very hardly against Wood, yet I am
ashamed I understand it no better, and do hope yet, whatever be thought
of me, to save the King some more money, and out of an impatience to
breake up with my head full of confused confounded notions, but nothing
brought to a clear comprehension, I was resolved to sit up and did till
now it is ready to strike 4 o'clock, all alone, cold, and my candle not
enough left to light me to my owne house, and so, with my business
however brought to some good understanding, and set it down pretty clear,
I went home to bed with my mind at good quiet, and the girl sitting up
for me (the rest all a-bed).  I eat and drank a little, and to bed,
weary, sleepy, cold, and my head akeing.



18th.  Called up to the office and much against my will I rose, my head
aching mightily, and to the office, where I did argue to good purpose for
the King, which I have been fitting myself for the last night against Mr.
Wood about his masts, but brought it to no issue.  Very full of business
till noon, and then with Mr. Coventry to the African House, and there
fell to my Lord Peterborough's accounts, and by and by to dinner, where
excellent discourse, Sir G. Carteret and others of the African Company
with us, and then up to the accounts again, which were by and by done,
and then I straight home, my head in great pain, and drowsy, so after
doing a little business at the office I wrote to my father about sending
him the mastiff was given me yesterday.  I home and by daylight to bed
about 6 o'clock and fell to sleep, wakened about 12 when my wife came to
bed, and then to sleep again and so till morning, and then:



19th.  Up in good order in my head again and shaved myself, and then to
the office, whither Mr. Cutler came, and walked and talked with me a
great while; and then to the 'Change together; and it being early, did
tell me several excellent examples of men raised upon the 'Change by
their great diligence and saving; as also his owne fortune, and how
credit grew upon him; that when he was not really worth L1100, he had
credit for L100,000 of Sir W. Rider how he rose; and others.  By and by
joyned with us Sir John Bankes; who told us several passages of the East
India Company; and how in his very case, when there was due to him and
Alderman Mico L64,000 from the Dutch for injury done to them in the East
Indys, Oliver presently after the peace, they delaying to pay them the
money, sent them word, that if they did not pay them by such a day, he
would grant letters of mark to those merchants against them; by which
they were so fearful of him, they did presently pay the money every
farthing.  By and by, the 'Change filling, I did many businesses, and
about 2 o'clock went off with my uncle Wight to his house, thence by
appointment we took our wives (they by coach with Mr. Mawes) and we on
foot to Mr. Jaggard, a salter, in Thames Street, for whom I did a
courtesy among the poor victuallers, his wife, whom long ago I had seen,
being daughter to old Day, my uncle Wight's master, is a very plain
woman, but pretty children they have.  They live methought at first in
but a plain way, but afterward I saw their dinner, all fish, brought in
very neatly, but the company being but bad I had no great pleasure in it.
After dinner I to the office, where we should have met upon business
extraordinary, but business not coming we broke up, and I thither again
and took my wife; and taking a coach, went to visit my Ladys Jemimah and
Paulina Montagu, and Mrs. Elizabeth Dickering, whom we find at their
father's new house

     [The Earl of Sandwich had just moved to a house in Lincoln's Inn
     Fields.  Elizabeth Dickering, who afterwards married John Creed, was
     niece to Lord Sandwich.]

in Lincolne's Inn Fields; but the house all in dirt.  They received us
well enough; but I did not endeavour to carry myself over familiarly with
them; and so after a little stay, there coming in presently after us my
Lady Aberguenny and other ladies, we back again by coach, and visited, my
wife did, my she cozen Scott, who is very ill still, and thence to
Jaggard's again, where a very good supper and great store of plate; and
above all after supper Mrs. Jaggard did at my entreaty play on the Vyall,
but so well as I did not think any woman in England could and but few
Maisters, I must confess it did mightily surprise me, though I knew
heretofore that she could play, but little thought so well.  After her I
set Maes to singing, but he did it so like a coxcomb that I was sick of
him.  About 11 at night I carried my aunt home by coach, and then home
myself, having set my wife down at home by the way.  My aunt tells me
they are counted very rich people, worth at least 10 or L12,000, and
their country house all the yeare long and all things liveable, which
mightily surprises me to think for how poore a man I took him when I did
him the courtesy at our office.  So after prayers to bed, pleased at
nothing all the day but Mrs. Jaggard playing on the Vyall, and that was
enough to make me bear with all the rest that did not content me.



20th.  Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon to
the 'Change with Mr. Coventry and thence home to dinner, after dinner by
a gaily down to Woolwich, where with Mr. Falconer, and then at the other
yard doing some business to my content, and so walked to Greenwich, it
being a very fine evening and brought right home with me by water, and so
to my office, where late doing business, and then home to supper and to
bed.



21st. (Lord's day).  Up, and having many businesses at the office to-day
I spent all the morning there drawing up a letter to Mr. Coventry about
preserving of masts, being collections of my own, and at noon home to
dinner, whither my brother Tom comes, and after dinner I took him up and
read my letter lately of discontent to my father, and he is seemingly
pleased at it, and cries out of my sister's ill nature and lazy life
there.  He being gone I to my office again, and there made an end of my
morning's work, and then, after reading my vows of course, home and back
again with Mr. Maes and walked with him talking of his business in the
garden, and he being gone my wife and I walked a turn or two also, and
then my uncle Wight fetching of us, she and I to his house to supper,
and by the way calling on Sir G. Carteret to desire his consent to my
bringing Maes to him, which he agreed to.  So I to my uncle's, but staid
a great while vexed both of us for Maes not coming in, and soon he came,
and I with him from supper to Sir G. Carteret, and there did largely
discourse of the business, and I believe he may expect as much favour as
he can do him, though I fear that will not be much.  So back, and after
sitting there a good while, we home, and going my wife told me how my
uncle when he had her alone did tell her that he did love her as well as
ever he did, though he did not find it convenient to show it publicly for
reasons on both sides, seeming to mean as well to prevent my jealousy as
his wife's, but I am apt to think that he do mean us well, and to give us
something if he should die without children.  So home to prayers and to
bed.  My wife called up the people to washing by four o'clock in the
morning; and our little girl Susan is a most admirable Slut and pleases
us mightily, doing more service than both the others and deserves wages
better.



22nd.  Up and shaved myself, and then my wife and I by coach out, and I
set her down by her father's, being vexed in my mind and angry with her
for the ill-favoured place, among or near the whore houses, that she is
forced to come to him.  So left her there, and I to Sir Th. Warwick's but
did not speak with him.  Thence to take a turn in St. James's Park, and
meeting with Anth. Joyce walked with him a turn in the Pell Mell and so
parted, he St. James's ward and I out to Whitehall ward, and so to a
picture-sellers by the Half Moone in the street over against the
Exchange, and there looked over the maps of several cities and did buy
two books of cities stitched together cost me 9s. 6d., and when I came
home thought of my vowe, and paid 5s. into my poor box for it, hoping in
God that I shall forfeit no more in that kind.  Thence, meeting Mr.
Moore, and to the Exchange and there found my wife at pretty Doll's, and
thence by coach set her at my uncle Wight's, to go with my aunt to market
once more against Lent, and I to the Coffee-house, and thence to the
'Change, my chief business being to enquire about the manner of other
countries keeping of their masts wet or dry, and got good advice about
it, and so home, and alone ate a bad, cold dinner, my people being at
their washing all day, and so to the office and all the afternoon upon my
letter to Mr. Coventry about keeping of masts, and ended it very well at
night and wrote it fair over.  This evening came Mr. Alsopp the King's
brewer, with whom I spent an houre talking and bewailing the posture of
things at present; the King led away by half-a-dozen men, that none of
his serious servants and friends can come at him.  These are Lauderdale,
Buckingham, Hamilton, Fitz-Harding (to whom he hath, it seems, given
L2,000 per annum in the best part of the King's estate); and that that
the old Duke of Buckingham could never get of the King.  Progers is
another, and Sir H. Bennett.  He loves not the Queen at all, but is
rather sullen to her; and she, by all reports, incapable of children.
He is so fond of the Duke of Monmouth, that every body admires it; and he
says the Duke hath said, that he would be the death of any man that says
the King was not married to his mother: though Alsopp says, it is well
known that she was a common whore before the King lay with her.  But it
seems, he says, that the King is mighty kind to these his bastard
children; and at this day will go at midnight to my Lady Castlemaine's
nurses, and take the child and dance it in his arms: that he is not
likely to have his tables up again in his house,--[The tables at which
the king dined in public.-B.]--for the crew that are about him will not
have him come to common view again, but keep him obscurely among
themselves.  He hath this night, it seems, ordered that the Hall (which
there is a ball to be in to-night before the King) be guarded, as the
Queen-Mother's is, by his Horse Guards; whereas heretofore they were by
the Lord Chamberlain or Steward, and their people.  But it is feared they
will reduce all to the soldiery, and all other places taken away; and
what is worst of all, that he will alter the present militia, and bring
all to a flying army.  That my Lord Lauderdale, being Middleton's enemy,
and one that scorns the Chancellor even to open affronts before the King,
hath got the whole power of Scotland into his hand; whereas the other day
he was in a fair way to have had his whole estate, and honour, and life,
voted away from him.  That the King hath done himself all imaginable
wrong in the business of my Lord Antrim, in Ireland; who, though he was
the head of rebels, yet he by his letter owns to have acted by his
father's and mother's, and his commissions; but it seems the truth is, he
hath obliged himself, upon the clearing of his estate, to settle it upon
a daughter of the Queene-Mother's (by my Lord Germin, I suppose,) in
marriage, be it to whom the Queene pleases; which is a sad story.  It
seems a daughter of the Duke of Lenox's was, by force, going to be
married the other day at Somerset House, to Harry Germin; but she got
away and run to the King, and he says he will protect her. She is, it
seems, very near akin to the King: Such mad doings there are every day
among them!  The rape upon a woman at Turnstile the other day, her
husband being bound in his shirt, they both being in bed together, it
being night, by two Frenchmen, who did not only lye with her but abused
her with a linke, is hushed up for L300, being the Queen Mother's
servants.  There was a French book in verse, the other day, translated
and presented to the Duke of Monmouth in such a high stile, that the Duke
of York, he tells me, was mightily offended at it.  The Duke of
Monmouth's mother's brother hath a place at Court; and being a Welchman
(I think he told me) will talk very broad of the King's being married to
his sister.  The King did the other day, at the Council, commit my Lord
Digby's' chaplin, and steward, and another servant, who went upon the
process begun there against their lord, to swear that they saw him at
church, end receive the Sacrament as a Protestant, (which, the judges
said, was sufficient to prove him such in the eye of the law); the King,
I say, did commit them all to the Gate-house, notwithstanding their
pleading their dependance upon him, and the faith they owed him as their
lord, whose bread they eat.  And that the King should say, that he would
soon see whether he was King, or Digby.  That the Queene-Mother hath
outrun herself in her expences, and is now come to pay very ill, or run
in debt; the money being spent that she received for leases.  He believes
there is not any money laid up in bank, as I told him some did hope; but
he says, from the best informers he can assure me there is no such thing,
nor any body that should look after such a thing; and that there is not
now above L80,000 of the Dunkirke money left in stock.  That Oliver in
the year when he spent L1,400,000 in the Navy, did spend in the whole
expence of the kingdom L2,600,000.  That all the Court are mad for a
Dutch war; but both he and I did concur, that it was a thing rather to be
dreaded than hoped for; unless by the French King's falling upon
Flanders, they and the Dutch should be divided.  That our Embassador had,
it is true, an audience; but in the most dishonourable way that could be;
for the Princes of the Blood (though invited by our Embassador, which was
the greatest absurdity that ever Embassador committed these 400 years)
were not there; and so were not said to give place to our King's
Embassador.  And that our King did openly say, the other day in the Privy
Chamber, that he would not be hectored out of his right and preeminencys
by the King of France, as great as he was.  That the Pope is glad to
yield to a peace with the French (as the newes-book says), upon the
basest terms that ever was.  That the talke which these people about our
King, that I named before, have, is to tell him how neither privilege of
Parliament nor City is any thing; but his will is all, and ought to be
so: and their discourse, it seems, when they are alone, is so base and
sordid, that it makes the eares of the very gentlemen of the back-stairs
(I think he called them) to tingle to hear it spoke in the King's
hearing; and that must be very bad indeed.  That my Lord Digby did send
to Lisbon a couple of priests, to search out what they could against the
Chancellor concerning the match, as to the point of his knowing before-
hand that the Queene was not capable of bearing children; and that
something was given her to make her so.  But as private as they were,
when they came thither they were clapped up prisoners.  That my Lord
Digby endeavours what he can to bring the business into the House of
Commons, hoping there to master the Chancellor, there being many enemies
of his there; but I hope the contrary.  That whereas the late King did
mortgage 'Clarendon' to somebody for L20,000, and this to have given it
to the Duke of Albemarle, and he sold it to my Lord Chancellor, whose
title of Earldome is fetched from thence; the King hath this day sent his
order to the Privy Seale for the payment of this L20,000 to my Lord
Chancellor, to clear the mortgage!  Ireland in a very distracted
condition about the hard usage which the Protestants meet with, and the
too good which the Catholiques.  And from altogether, God knows my heart,
I expect nothing but ruine can follow, unless things are better ordered
in a little time.  He being gone my wife came and told me how kind my
uncle Wight had been to her to-day, and that though she says that all his
kindness comes from respect to her she discovers nothing but great
civility from him, yet but what she says he otherwise will tell me, but
to-day he told her plainly that had she a child it should be his heir,
and that should I or she want he would be a good friend to us, and did
give my wife instructions to consent to all his wife says at any time,
she being a pettish woman, which argues a design I think he has of
keeping us in with his wife in order to our good sure, and he declaring
her jealous of him that so he dares not come to see my wife as otherwise
he would do and will endeavour to do.  It looks strange putting all
together, but yet I am in hopes he means well.  My aunt also is mighty
open to my wife and tells her mighty plain how her husband did intend to
double her portion to her at his death as a jointure.  That he will give
presently L100 to her niece Mary and a good legacy at his death, and it
seems did as much to the other sister, which vexed [me] to think that he
should bestow so much upon his wife's friends daily as he do, but it
cannot be helped for the time past, and I will endeavour to remedy it for
the time to come.  After all this discourse with my wife at my office
alone, she home to see how the wash goes on and I to make an end of my
work, and so home to supper and to bed.



23rd.  Up, it being Shrove Tuesday, and at the office sat all the
morning, at noon to the 'Change and there met with Sir W. Rider, and of a
sudden knowing what I had at home, brought him and Mr. Cutler and Mr.
Cooke, clerk to Mr. Secretary Morrice, a sober and pleasant man, and one
that I knew heretofore, when he was my Lord 's secretary at Dunkirke.  I
made much of them and had a pretty dinner for a sudden.  We talked very
pleasantly, and they many good discourses of their travels abroad.  After
dinner they gone, I to my office, where doing many businesses very late,
but to my good content to see how I grow in estimation every day more and
more, and have things given more oftener than I used to have formerly, as
to have a case of very pretty knives with agate shafts by Mrs. Russell.
So home and to bed.  This day, by the blessing of God, I have lived
thirty-one years in the world; and, by the grace of God, I find myself
not only in good health in every thing, and particularly as to the stone,
but only pain upon taking cold, and also in a fair way of coming to a
better esteem and estate in the world, than ever I expected.  But I pray
God give me a heart to fear a fall, and to prepare for it!



24th (Ash-Wednesday).  Up and by water, it being a very fine morning, to
White Hall, and there to speak with Sir Ph. Warwicke, but he was gone out
to chappell, so I spent much of the morning walking in the Park, and
going to the Queene's chappell, where I staid and saw their masse, till a
man came and bid me go out or kneel down: so I did go out.  And thence to
Somerset House; and there into the chappell, where Monsieur d'Espagne
used to preach.  But now it is made very fine, and was ten times more
crouded than the Queene's chappell at St. James's; which I wonder at.
Thence down to the garden of Somerset House, and up and down the new
building, which in every respect will be mighty magnificent and costly.
I staid a great while talking with a man in the garden that was sawing of
a piece of marble, and did give him 6d. to drink.  He told me much of the
nature and labour of the worke, how he could not saw above 4 inches of
the stone in a day, and of a greater not above one or two, and after it
is sawed, then it is rubbed with coarse and then with finer and finer
sand till they come to putty, and so polish it as smooth as glass.  Their
saws have no teeth, but it is the sand only which the saw rubs up and
down that do the thing.  Thence by water to the Coffee-house, and there
sat with Alderman Barker talking of hempe and the trade, and thence to
the 'Change a little, and so home and dined with my wife, and then to the
office till the evening, and then walked a while merrily with my wife in
the garden, and so she gone, I to work again till late, and so home to
supper and to bed.



25th.  Up and to the office, where we sat, and thence with Mr. Coventry
by coach to the glasshouse and there dined, and both before and after did
my Lord Peterborough's accounts.  Thence home to the office, and there
did business till called by Creed, and with him by coach (setting my wife
at my brother's) to my Lord's, and saw the young ladies, and talked a
little with them, and thence to White Hall, a while talking but doing no
business, but resolved of going to meet my Lord tomorrow, having got a
horse of Mr. Coventry to-day.  So home, taking up my wife, and after
doing something at my office home, God forgive me, disturbed in my mind
out of my jealousy of my wife tomorrow when I am out of town, which is a
hell to my mind, and yet without all reason.  God forgive me for it, and
mend me.--[Sam measures his wife's morals by his own yardstick.  D.W.]--
So home, and getting my things ready for me, weary to bed.



26th.  Up, and after dressing myself handsomely for riding, I out, and by
water to Westminster, to Mr. Creed's chamber, and after drinking some
chocolate, and playing on the vyall, Mr. Mallard being there, upon
Creed's new vyall, which proves, methinks, much worse than mine, and,
looking upon his new contrivance of a desk and shelves for books, we set
out from an inne hard by, whither Mr. Coventry's horse was carried, and
round about the bush through bad ways to Highgate.  Good discourse in the
way had between us, and it being all day a most admirable pleasant day,
we, upon consultation, had stopped at the Cocke, a mile on this side
Barnett, being unwilling to put ourselves to the charge or doubtful
acceptance of any provision against my Lord's coming by, and there got
something and dined, setting a boy to look towards Barnett Hill, against
their coming; and after two or three false alarms, they come, and we met
the coach very gracefully, and I had a kind receipt from both Lord and
Lady as I could wish, and some kind discourse, and then rode by the coach
a good way, and so fell to discoursing with several of the people, there
being a dozen attending the coach, and another for the mayds and parson.
Among others talking with W. Howe, he told me how my Lord in his hearing
the other day did largely tell my Lord Peterborough and Povy (who went
with them down to Hinchinbrooke) how and when he discarded Creed, and
took me to him, and that since the Duke of York has several times thanked
him for me, which did not a little please me, and anon I desiring Mr.
Howe to tell me upon [what] occasion this discourse happened, he desired
me to say nothing of it now, for he would not have my Lord to take notice
of our being together, but he would tell me another time, which put me
into some trouble to think what he meant by it.  But when we came to my
Lord's house, I went in; and whether it was my Lord's neglect, or general
indifference, I know not, but he made me no kind of compliment there;
and, methinks, the young ladies look somewhat highly upon me.  So I went
away without bidding adieu to anybody, being desirous not to be thought
too servile.  But I do hope and believe that my Lord do yet value me as
high as ever, though he dare not admit me to the freedom he once did, and
that my Lady is still the same woman.  So rode home and there found my
uncle Wight.  'Tis an odd thing as my wife tells me his caressing her and
coming on purpose to give her visits, but I do not trouble myself for him
at all, but hope the best and very good effects of it.  He being gone I
eat something and my wife.  I told all this day's passages, and she to
give me very good and rational advice how to behave myself to my Lord and
his family, by slighting every body but my Lord and Lady, and not to seem
to have the least society or fellowship with them, which I am resolved to
do, knowing that it is my high carriage that must do me good there, and
to appear in good clothes and garbe.  To the office, and being weary,
early home to bed.



27th.  Up, but weary, and to the office, where we sat all the morning.
Before I went to the office there came Bagwell's wife to me to speak for
her husband.  I liked the woman very well and stroked her under the chin,
but could not find in my heart to offer anything uncivil to her, she
being, I believe, a very modest woman.  At noon with Mr. Coventry to the
African house, and to my Lord Peterborough's business again, and then to
dinner, where, before dinner, we had the best oysters I have seen this
year, and I think as good in all respects as ever I eat in my life.  I
eat a great many.  Great, good company at dinner, among others Sir Martin
Noell, who told us the dispute between him, as farmer of the Additional
Duty, and the East India Company, whether callicos be linnen or no; which
he says it is, having been ever esteemed so: they say it is made of
cotton woole, and grows upon trees, not like flax or hempe.  But it was
carried against the Company, though they stand out against the verdict.
Thence home and to the office, where late, and so home to supper and to
bed, and had a very pleasing and condescending answer from my poor father
to-day in answer to my angry discontentful letter to him the other day,
which pleases me mightily.



28th (Lord's day).  Up and walked to Paul's; and by chance it was an
extraordinary day for the Readers of the Inns of Court and all the
Students to come to church, it being an old ceremony not used these
twenty-five years, upon the first Sunday in Lent.  Abundance there was of
Students, more than there was room to seat but upon forms, and the Church
mighty full.  One Hawkins preached, an Oxford man.  A good sermon upon
these words: "But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable."
Both before and after sermon I was most impatiently troubled at the
Quire, the worst that ever I heard.  But what was extraordinary, the
Bishop of London, who sat there in a pew, made a purpose for him by the
pulpitt, do give the last blessing to the congregation; which was, he
being a comely old man, a very decent thing, methought.  The Lieutenant
of the Tower, Sir J. Robinson, would needs have me by coach home with
him, and sending word home to my house I did go and dine with him, his
ordinary table being very good, and his lady a very high-carriaged but
comely big woman; I was mightily pleased with her.  His officers of his
regiment dined with him.  No discourse at table to any purpose, only
after dinner my Lady would needs see a boy which was represented to her
to be an innocent country boy brought up to towne a day or two ago, and
left here to the wide world, and he losing his way fell into the Tower,
which my Lady believes, and takes pity on him, and will keep him; but
though a little boy and but young, yet he tells his tale so readily and
answers all questions so wittily, that for certain he is an arch rogue,
and bred in this towne; but my Lady will not believe it, but ordered
victuals to be given him, and I think will keep him as a footboy for
their eldest son.  After dinner to chappell in the Tower with the
Lieutenant, with the keyes carried before us, and the Warders and
Gentleman-porter going before us.  And I sat with the Lieutenant in his
pew, in great state, but slept all the sermon.  None, it seems, of the
prisoners in the Tower that are there now, though they may, will come to
prayers there.  Church being done, I back to Sir John's house and there
left him and home, and by and by to Sir W. Pen, and staid a while talking
with him about Sir J. Minnes his folly in his office, of which I am sicke
and weary to speak of it, and how the King is abused in it, though Pen, I
know, offers the discourse only like a rogue to get it out of me, but I
am very free to tell my mind to him, in that case being not unwilling he
should tell him again if he will or any body else.  Thence home, and
walked in the garden by brave moonshine with my wife above two hours,
till past 8 o'clock, then to supper, and after prayers to bed.



29th.  Up and by coach with Sir W. Pen to Charing Cross, and there I
'light, and to Sir Phillip Warwick to visit him and discourse with him
about navy business, which I did at large and he most largely with me,
not only about the navy but about the general Revenue of England, above
two hours, I think, many staying all the while without, but he seemed to
take pains to let me either understand the affairs of the Revenue or else
to be a witness of his pains and care in stating it.  He showed me indeed
many excellent collections of the State of the Revenue in former Kings
and the late times, and the present.  He showed me how the very
Assessments between 1643 and 1659, which were taxes (besides Excise,
Customes, Sequestrations, Decimations, King and Queene's and Church
Lands, or any thing else but just the Assessments), come to above fifteen
millions.  He showed me a discourse of his concerning the Revenues of
this and foreign States.  How that of Spayne was great, but divided with
his kingdoms, and so came to little.  How that of France did, and do much
exceed ours before for quantity; and that it is at the will of the Prince
to tax what he will upon his people; which is not here.  That the
Hollanders have the best manner of tax, which is only upon the expence of
provisions, by an excise; and do conclude that no other tax is proper for
England but a pound-rate, or excise upon the expence of provisions.  He
showed me every particular sort of payment away of money, since the
King's coming in, to this day; and told me, from one to one, how little
he hath received of profit from most of them; and I believe him truly.
That the L1,200,000 which the Parliament with so much ado did first vote
to give the King, and since hath been reexamined by several committees of
the present Parliament, is yet above L300,000 short of making up really
to the King the L1,200,000, as by particulars he showed me.

     [A committee was appointed in September, 1660, to consider the
     subject of the King's revenue, and they "reported to the Commons that
     the average revenue of Charles I., from 1637 to 1641 inclusive, had
     been L895,819, and the average expenditure about L1,110,000.  At
     that time prices were lower and the country less burthened with navy
     and garrisons, among which latter Dunkirk alone now cost more than
     L100,000 a year.  It appeared, therefore, that the least sum to
     which the King could be expected to 'conform his expense' was
     L1,200,000."  Burnet writes, "It was believed that if two millions
     had been asked he could have carried it.  But he (Clarendon) had no
     mind to put the King out of the necessity of having recourse to his
     Parliament."--Lister's Life of Clarendon, vol. ii., pp.  22, 23.]

And in my Lord Treasurer's excellent letter to the King upon this
subject, he tells the King how it was the spending more than the revenue
that did give the first occasion of his father's ruine, and did since to
the rebels; who, he says, just like Henry the Eighth, had great and
sudden increase of wealth, but yet, by overspending, both died poor; and
further tells the King how much of this L1,200,000 depends upon the life
of the Prince, and so must be renewed by Parliament again to his
successor; which is seldom done without parting with some of the
prerogatives of the Crowne; or if denied and he persists to take it of
the people, it gives occasion to a civill war, which may, as it did in
the late business of tonnage and poundage, prove fatal to the Crowne.
He showed me how many ways the Lord Treasurer did take before he moved
the King to farme the Customes in the manner he do, and the reasons that
moved him to do it.  He showed the a very excellent argument to prove,
that our importing lesse than we export, do not impoverish the kingdom,
according to the received opinion: which, though it be a paradox, and
that I do not remember the argument, yet methought there was a great
deale in what he said.  And upon the whole I find him a most exact and
methodicall man, and of great industry: and very glad that he thought fit
to show me all this; though I cannot easily guess the reason why he
should do it to me, unless from the plainness that he sees I use to him
in telling him how much the King may suffer for our want of understanding
the case of our Treasury.  Thence to White Hall (where my Lord Sandwich
was, and gave me a good countenance, I thought), and before the Duke did
our usual business, and so I about several businesses in the house, and
then out to the Mewes with Sir W. Pen.  But in my way first did meet with
W. Howe, who did of himself advise me to appear more free with my Lord
and to come to him, for my own strangeness he tells me he thinks do make
my Lord the worse.  At the Mewes Sir W. Pen and Mr. Baxter did shew me
several good horses, but Pen, which Sir W. Pen did give the Duke of York,
was given away by the Duke the other day to a Frenchman, which Baxter is
cruelly vexed at, saying that he was the best horse that he expects a
great while to have to do with.  Thence I to the 'Change, and thence to a
Coffee-house with Sir W. Warren, and did talk much about his and Wood's
business, and thence homewards, and in my way did stay to look upon a
fire in an Inneyard in Lumbard Streete.  But, Lord! how the mercers and
merchants who had warehouses there did carry away their cloths and silks.
But at last it was quenched, and I home to dinner, and after dinner
carried my wife and set her and her two mayds in Fleete Streete to buy
things, and I to White Hall to little purpose, and so to Westminster
Hall, and there talked with Mrs. Lane and Howlett, but the match with
Hawly I perceive will not take, and so I am resolved wholly to avoid
occasion of further ill with her.  Thence by water to Salsbury Court, and
found my wife, by agreement, at Mrs. Turner's, and after a little stay
and chat set her and young Armiger down in Cheapside, and so my wife and
I home.  Got home before our mayds, who by and by came with a great cry
and fright that they had like to have been killed by a coach; but, Lord!
to see how Jane did tell the story like a foole and a dissembling
fanatique, like her grandmother, but so like a changeling, would make a
man laugh to death almost, and yet be vexed to hear her.  By and by to
the office to make up my monthly accounts, which I make up to-night, and
to my great content find myself worth eight hundred and ninety and odd
pounds, the greatest sum I ever yet knew, and so with a heart at great
case to bed.




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A mad merry slut she is
A real and not a complimentary acknowledgment
At least 12 or 14,000 people in the street (to see the hanging)
Bearing more sayle will go faster than any other ships(multihull)
But the wench went, and I believe had her turn served
Chatted with her, her husband out of the way
Could not saw above 4 inches of the stone in a day
Do look upon me as a remembrancer of his former vanity
Fear of making her think me to be in a better condition
Few in any age that do mind anything that is abstruse
God forgive me! what thoughts and wishes I had
Good writers are not admired by the present
Hear something of the effects of our last meeting (pregnancy?)
I do not like his being angry and in debt both together to me
I will not by any over submission make myself cheap
Ireland in a very distracted condition
Jane going into the boat did fall down and show her arse
King is mighty kind to these his bastard children
King still do doat upon his women, even beyond all shame
Mankind pleasing themselves in the easy delights of the world
Play good, but spoiled with the ryme, which breaks the sense
Pleased to look upon their pretty daughter
Pray God give me a heart to fear a fall, and to prepare for it!
Pretty sayings, which are generally like paradoxes
Ryme, which breaks the sense
Sent my wife to get a place to see Turner hanged
Sheriffs did endeavour to get one jewell
So home to prayers and to bed
Such open flattery is beastly
Talked with Mrs. Lane about persuading her to Hawly
Their saws have no teeth, but it is the sand only
There did see Mrs. Lane.  .  .  .  .
Travels over the high hills in Asia above the clouds
Wherein every party has laboured to cheat another
Willing to receive a bribe if it were offered me
Would make a dogg laugh



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