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 LIBRARYMAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M. A. LATE FELLOWAND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE

(Unabridged)

WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES

By Samuel Pepys

Edited With Additions By

Henry B. Wheatley F. S. A. 

 LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS YORK ST. COVENT GARDEN CAMBRIDGE DEIGHTON BELL & CO. 

 1893

PREFACE

Although the Diary of Samuel Pepys has been in the hands of the publicfor nearly seventy years, it has not hitherto appeared in its entirety. In the original edition of 1825 scarcely half of the manuscript wasprinted. Lord Braybrooke added some passages as the various editionswere published, but in the preface to his last edition he wrote: "thereappeared indeed no necessity to amplify or in any way to alter the textof the Diary beyond the correction of a few verbal errors and corruptpassages hitherto overlooked. "

The public knew nothing as to what was left unprinted, and there wastherefore a general feeling of gratification when it was announced someeighteen years ago that a new edition was to be published by the Rev. Mynors Bright, with the addition of new matter equal to a third of thewhole. It was understood that at last the Diary was to appear inits entirety, but there was a passage in Mr. Bright's preface whichsuggested a doubt respecting the necessary completeness. He wrote: "Itwould have been tedious to the reader if I had copied from the Diary theaccount of his daily work at the office. "

As a matter of fact, Mr. Bright left roughly speaking about one-fifth ofthe whole Diary still unprinted, although he transcribed the whole, andbequeathed his transcript to Magdalene College. 

It has now been decided that the whole of the Diary shall be madepublic, with the exception of a few passages which cannot possibly beprinted. It may be thought by some that these omissions are due to anunnecessary squeamishness, but it is not really so, and readers aretherefore asked to have faith in the judgment of the editor. Where anypassages have been omitted marks of omission are added, so that in allcases readers will know where anything has been left out. 

Lord Braybrooke made the remark in his "Life of Pepys, " that "the cipheremployed by him greatly resembles that known by the name of 'Rich'ssystem. '" When Mr. Bright came to decipher the MS. , he discovered thatthe shorthand system used by Pepys was an earlier one than Rich's, viz. , that of Thomas Shelton, who made his system public in 1620. 

In his various editions Lord Braybrooke gave a large number of valuablenotes, in the collection and arrangement of which he was assisted bythe late Mr. John Holmes of the British Museum, and the late Mr. JamesYeowell, sometime sub-editor of "Notes and Queries. " Where these notesare left unaltered in the present edition the letter "B. " has beenaffixed to them, but in many instances the notes have been altered andadded to from later information, and in these cases no mark is affixed. A large number of additional notes are now supplied, but still much hashad to be left unexplained. Many persons are mentioned in the Diary whowere little known in the outer world, and in some instances it hasbeen impossible to identify them. In other cases, however, it has beenpossible to throw light upon these persons by reference to differentportions of the Diary itself. I would here ask the kind assistanceof any reader who is able to illustrate passages that have been leftunnoted. I have received much assistance from the various books in whichthe Diary is quoted. Every writer on the period covered by the Diaryhas been pleased to illustrate his subject by quotations from Pepys, andfrom these books it has often been possible to find information whichhelps to explain difficult passages in the Diary. 

Much illustrative matter of value was obtained by Lord Braybrooke fromthe "Diurnall" of Thomas Rugge, which is preserved in the British Museum(Add. MSS. 10, 116, 10, 117). The following is the description of thisinteresting work as given by Lord Braybrooke

 "MERCURIUS POLITICUS REDIVIVUS;

 or, A Collection of the most materiall occurrances and transactions in Public Affairs since Anno Dni, 1659, untill 28 March, 1672, serving as an annuall diurnall for future satisfaction and information, BY THOMAS RUGGE. 

 Est natura hominum novitatis avida. --Plinius. 

 "This MS. Belonged, in 1693, to Thomas Grey, second Earl of Stamford. It has his autograph at the commencement, and on the sides are his arms (four quarterings) in gold. In 1819, it was sold by auction in London, as part of the collection of Thomas Lloyd, Esq. (No. 1465), and was then bought by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller. Whilst Mr. Lloyd was the possessor, the MS. Was lent to Dr. Lingard, whose note of thanks to Mr. Lloyd is preserved in the volume. From Thorpe it appears to have passed to Mr. Heber, at the sale of whose MSS. In Feb. 1836, by Mr. Evans, of Pall Mall, it was purchased by the British Museum for L8 8s. 

 "Thomas Rugge was descended from an ancient Norfolk family, and two of his ancestors are described as Aldermen of Norwich. His death has been ascertained to have occurred about 1672; and in the Diary for the preceding year he complains that on account of his declining health, his entries will be but few. Nothing has been traced of his personal circumstances beyond the fact of his having lived for fourteen years in Covent Garden, then a fashionable locality. "

Another work I have found of the greatest value is the late Mr. J. E. Doyle's "Official Baronage of England" (1886), which contains a mass ofvaluable information not easily to be obtained elsewhere. By referenceto its pages I have been enabled to correct several erroneous dates inprevious notes caused by a very natural confusion of years in the caseof the months of January, February, and March, before it was finallyfixed that the year should commence in January instead of March. Moreconfusion has probably been introduced into history from this than fromany other cause of a like nature. The reference to two years, as in thecase of, say, Jan. 5, 1661-62, may appear clumsy, but it is the onlysafe plan of notation. If one year only is mentioned, the reader isnever sure whether or not the correction has been made. It is a matterfor sincere regret that the popular support was withheld from Mr. Doyle's important undertaking, so that the author's intention ofpublishing further volumes, containing the Baronies not dealt with inthose already published, was frustrated. 

My labours have been much lightened by the kind help which I havereceived from those interested in the subject. Lovers of Pepys arenumerous, and I have found those I have applied to ever willing togive me such information as they possess. It is a singular pleasure, therefore, to have an opportunity of expressing publicly my thanksto these gentlemen, and among them I would especially mention Messrs. Fennell, Danby P. Fry, J. Eliot Hodgkin, Henry Jackson, J. K. Laughton, Julian Marshall, John Biddulph Martin, J. E. Matthew, Philip Norman, Richard B. Prosser, and Hugh Callendar, Fellow of Trinity College, who verified some of the passages in the manuscript. To the Masterand Fellows of Magdalene College, also, I am especially indebted forallowing me to consult the treasures of the Pepysian Library, and moreparticularly my thanks are due to Mr. Arthur G. Peskett, the Librarian. 

 H. B. W. BRAMPTON, OPPIDANS ROAD, LONDON, N. W. February, 1893. 

PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE DIARY. 

I. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. , F. R. S. , Secretary to the Admiralty inthe reigns of Charles II. And James II. , comprising his Diary from 1659to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, A. B. , of St. John's College, Cambridge, from the original Shorthand MS. In the Pepysian Library, anda Selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard, LordBraybrooke. In two volumes. London, Henry Colburn... 1825. 4vo. 

2. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. , F. R. S.... Second edition. In fivevolumes. London, Henry Colburn.... 1828. 8vo. 

3. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F. R. S. , Secretary to theAdmiralty in the reigns of Charles II. And James II. ; with a Life andNotes by Richard, Lord Braybrooke; the third edition, considerablyenlarged. London, Henry Colburn.... 1848-49. 5 vols. Sm. 8vo. 

4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F. R. S.... The fourthedition, revised and corrected. In four volumes. London, published forHenry Colburn by his successors, Hurst and Blackett... 1854. 8vo. 

The copyright of Lord Braybrooke's edition was purchased by the late Mr. Henry G. Bohn, who added the book to his Historical Library. 

5. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq. , F. R. S. , from his MS. Cypber in the Pepysian Library, with a Life and Notes by Richard, Lord Braybrooke. Deciphered, with additional notes, by the Rev. MynorsBright, M. A.... London, Bickers and Son, 1875-79. 6 vols. 8vo. 

Nos. 1, 2 and 3 being out of copyright have been reprinted by variouspublishers. 

No. 5 is out of print. 

 PARTICULARS OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 

The family of Pepys is one of considerable antiquity in the east ofEngland, and the Hon. Walter Courtenay Pepys

 [Mr. W. C. Pepys has paid great attention to the history of his family, and in 1887 he published an interesting work entitled "Genealogy of the Pepys Family, 1273-1887, " London, George Bell and Sons, which contains the fullest pedigrees of the family yet issued. ]

says that the first mention of the name that he has been able to find isin the Hundred Rolls (Edw. I, 1273), where Richard Pepis and John Pepesare registered as holding lands in the county of Cambridge. In the nextcentury the name of William Pepis is found in deeds relating to lands inthe parish of Cottenham, co. Cambridge, dated 1329 and 1340 respectively(Cole MSS. , British Museum, vol. I. , p. 56; vol. Xlii. , p. 44). According to the Court Roll of the manor of Pelhams, in the parish ofCottenham, Thomas Pepys was "bayliffe of the Abbot of Crowland in 1434, "but in spite of these references, as well as others to persons ofthe same name at Braintree, Essex, Depedale, Norfolk, &c. , the firstancestor of the existing branches of the family from whom Mr. WalterPepys is able to trace an undoubted descent, is "William Pepis theelder, of Cottenham, co. Cambridge, " whose will is dated 20th March, 1519. 

In 1852 a curious manuscript volume, bound in vellum, and entitled"Liber Talboti Pepys de instrumentis ad Feoda pertinentibusexemplificatis, " was discovered in an old chest in the parish church ofBolney, Sussex, by the vicar, the Rev. John Dale, who delivered itto Henry Pepys, Bishop of Worcester, and the book is still in thepossession of the family. This volume contains various genealogicalentries, and among them are references to the Thomas Pepys of 1434mentioned above, and to the later William Pepys. The reference to thelatter runs thus:--

 "A Noate written out of an ould Booke of my uncle William Pepys. "

 "William Pepys, who died at Cottenham, 10 H. 8, was brought up by the Abbat of Crowland, in Huntingdonshire, and he was borne in Dunbar, in Scotland, a gentleman, whom the said Abbat did make his Bayliffe of all his lands in Cambridgeshire, and placed him in Cottenham, which William aforesaid had three sonnes, Thomas, John, and William, to whom Margaret was mother naturallie, all of whom left issue. "

In illustration of this entry we may refer to the Diary of June 12th, 1667, where it is written that Roger Pepys told Samuel that "wedid certainly come out of Scotland with the Abbot of Crowland. " Thereferences to various members of the family settled in Cottenham andelsewhere, at an early date already alluded to, seem to show that thereis little foundation for this very positive statement. 

With regard to the standing of the family, Mr. Walter Pepys writes:--

 "The first of the name in 1273 were evidently but small copyholders. Within 150 years (1420) three or four of the name had entered the priesthood, and others had become connected with the monastery of Croyland as bailiffs, &c. In 250 years (1520) there were certainly two families: one at Cottenham, co. Cambridge, and another at Braintree, co. Essex, in comfortable circumstances as yeomen farmers. Within fifty years more (1563), one of the family, Thomas, of Southcreeke, co. Norfolk, had entered the ranks of the gentry sufficiently to have his coat-of-arms recognized by the Herald Cooke, who conducted the Visitation of Norfolk in that year. From that date the majority of the family have been in good circumstances, with perhaps more than the average of its members taking up public positions. "

There is a very general notion that Samuel Pepys was of plebeian birthbecause his father followed the trade of a tailor, and his own remark, "But I believe indeed our family were never considerable, "--[February10th, 1661-62. ] has been brought forward in corroboration of this view, but nothing can possibly be more erroneous, and there can be no doubtthat the Diarist was really proud of his descent. This may be seen fromthe inscription on one of his book-plates, where he is stated to be:--

 "Samuel Pepys of Brampton in Huntingdonshire, Esq. , Secretary of the Admiralty to his Matr. King Charles the Second: Descended from ye antient family of Pepys of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire. "

Many members of the family have greatly distinguished themselves sincethe Diarist's day, and of them Mr. Foss wrote ("Judges of England, " vol. Vi. , p. 467):--

 "In the family of Pepys is illustrated every gradation of legal rank from Reader of an Inn of Court to Lord High Chancellor of England. "

The William Pepys of Cottenham who commences the pedigree had three sonsand three daughters; from the eldest son (Thomas) descended thefirst Norfolk branch, from the second son (John Pepys of Southcreeke)descended the second Norfolk branch, and from the third son (William)descended the Impington branch. The latter William had four sons and twodaughters; two of these sons were named Thomas, and as they were bothliving at the same time one was distinguished as "the black" and theother as "the red. " Thomas the red had four sons and four daughters. John, born 1601, was the third son, and he became the father of Samuelthe Diarist. Little is known of John Pepys, but we learn when the Diaryopens that he was settled in London as a tailor. He does not appear tohave been a successful man, and his son on August 26th, 1661, found thatthere was only L45 owing to him, and that he owed about the same sum. He was a citizen of London in 1650, when his son Samuel was admittedto Magdalene College, but at an earlier period he appears to have hadbusiness relations with Holland. 

In August, 1661, John Pepys retired to a small property at Brampton(worth about L80 per annum), which had been left to him by his eldestbrother, Robert Pepys, where he died in 1680. 

The following is a copy of John Pepys's will:

 "MY FATHER'S WILL. [Indorsement by S. Pepys. ]

 "Memorandum. That I, John Pepys of Ellington, in the county of Huntingdon, Gent. ", doe declare my mind in the disposall of my worldly goods as followeth:

 "First, I desire that my lands and goods left mee by my brother, Robert Pepys, deceased, bee delivered up to my eldest son, Samuell Pepys, of London, Esqr. , according as is expressed in the last Will of my brother Robert aforesaid. 

 "Secondly, As for what goods I have brought from London, or procured since, and what moneys I shall leave behind me or due to me, I desire may be disposed of as followeth:

 "Imprimis, I give to the stock of the poore of the parish of Brampton, in which church I desire to be enterred, five pounds. 

 "Item. I give to the Poore of Ellington forty shillings. 

 "Item. I desire that my two grandsons, Samuell and John Jackson, have ten pounds a piece. 

 "Item. I desire that my daughter, Paulina Jackson, may have my largest silver tankerd. 

 "Item. I desire that my son John Pepys may have my gold seale-ring. 

 "Lastly. I desire that the remainder of what I shall leave be equally distributed between my sons Samuel and John Pepys and my daughter Paulina Jackson. 

 "All which I leave to the care of my eldest son Samuel Pepys, to see performed, if he shall think fit. 

 "In witness hereunto I set my hand. "

His wife Margaret, whose maiden name has not been discovered, diedon the 25th March, 1667, also at Brampton. The family of these twoconsisted of six sons and five daughters: John (born 1632, died 1640), Samuel (born 1633, died 1703), Thomas (born 1634, died 1664), Jacob(born 1637, died young), Robert (born 1638, died young), and John (born1641, died 1677); Mary (born 1627), Paulina (born 1628), Esther (born1630), Sarah (born 1635; these four girls all died young), and Paulina(born 1640, died 1680), who married John Jackson of Brampton, and hadtwo sons, Samuel and John. The latter was made his heir by Samuel Pepys. 

Samuel Pepys was born on the 23rd February, 1632-3, but the place ofbirth is not known with certainty. Samuel Knight, D. D. , author of the"Life of Colet, " who was a connection of the family (having marriedHannah Pepys, daughter of Talbot Pepys of Impington), says positivelythat it was at Brampton. His statement cannot be corroborated by theregisters of Brampton church, as these records do not commence until theyear 1654. 

Samuel's early youth appears to have been spent pretty equally betweentown and country. When he and his brother Tom were children they livedwith a nurse (Goody Lawrence) at Kingsland, and in after life Samuelrefers to his habit of shooting with bow and arrow in the fields aroundthat place. He then went to school at Huntingdon, from which he wastransferred to St. Paul's School in London. He remained at the latterplace until 1650, early in which year his name was entered as a sizar onthe boards of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was admitted on the 21st June, but subsequently he transferred his allegiance to Magdalene College, where he was admitted a sizar on the 1st October of this same year. He did not enter into residence until March 5th, 1650-51, but in thefollowing month he was elected to one of Mr. Spendluffe's scholarships, and two years later (October 14th, 1653) he was preferred to one on Dr. John Smith's foundation. 

Little or nothing is known of Pepys's career at college, but soonafter obtaining the Smith scholarship he got into trouble, and, with acompanion, was admonished for being drunk. 

 [October 21st, 1653. "Memorandum: that Peapys and Hind were solemnly admonished by myself and Mr. Hill, for having been scandalously over-served with drink ye night before. This was done in the presence of all the Fellows then resident, in Mr. Hill's chamber. --JOHN WOOD, Registrar. " (From the Registrar's-book of Magdalene College. )]

His time, however, was not wasted, and there is evidence that he carriedinto his busy life a fair stock of classical learning and a true love ofletters. Throughout his life he looked back with pleasure to the time hespent at the University, and his college was remembered in his willwhen he bequeathed his valuable library. In this same year, 1653, hegraduated B. A. On the 1st of December, 1655, when he was still withoutany settled means of support, he married Elizabeth St. Michel, abeautiful and portionless girl of fifteen. Her father, AlexanderMarchant, Sieur de St. Michel, was of a good family in Anjou, and son ofthe High Sheriff of Bauge (in Anjou). Having turned Huguenot at the ageof twenty-one, when in the German service, his father disinherited him, and he also lost the reversion of some L20, 000 sterling which his uncle, a rich French canon, intended to bequeath to him before he left theRoman Catholic church. He came over to England in the retinue ofHenrietta Maria on her marriage with Charles I, but the queen dismissedhim on finding that he was a Protestant and did not attend mass. Being ahandsome man, with courtly manners, he found favour in the sight ofthe widow of an Irish squire (daughter of Sir Francis Kingsmill), who married him against the wishes of her family. After the marriage, Alexander St. Michel and his wife having raised some fifteen hundredpounds, started, for France in the hope of recovering some part of thefamily property. They were unfortunate in all their movements, and ontheir journey to France were taken prisoners by the Dunkirkers, whostripped them of all their property. They now settled at Bideford inDevonshire, and here or near by were born Elizabeth and the rest of thefamily. At a later period St. Michel served against the Spaniards at thetaking of Dunkirk and Arras, and settled at Paris. He was an unfortunateman throughout life, and his son Balthasar says of him: "My father atlast grew full of whimsies and propositions of perpetual motion, &c. , tokings, princes and others, which soaked his pocket, and brought all ourfamily so low by his not minding anything else, spending all he had gotand getting no other employment to bring in more. " While he was awayfrom Paris, some "deluding papists" and "pretended devouts" persuadedMadame St. Michel to place her daughter in the nunnery of the Ursulines. When the father heard of this, he hurried back, and managed to getElizabeth out of the nunnery after she had been there twelve days. Thinking that France was a dangerous place to live in, he removed hisfamily to England, where soon afterwards his daughter was married, although, as Lord Braybrooke remarks, we are not told how she becameacquainted with Pepys. St. Michel was greatly pleased that his daughterhad become the wife of a true Protestant, and she herself said to him, kissing his eyes: "Dear father, though in my tender years I was bymy low fortune in this world deluded to popery, by the fond dictatesthereof I have now (joined with my riper years, which give me someunderstanding) a man to my husband too wise and one too religious to theProtestant religion to suffer my thoughts to bend that way any more. "

 [These particulars are obtained from an interesting letter from Balthasar St. Michel to Pepys, dated "Deal, Feb. 8, 1673-4, " and printed in "Life, Journals, and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, " 1841, vol. I. , pp. 146-53. ]

Alexander St. Michel kept up his character for fecklessness throughlife, and took out patents for curing smoking chimneys, purifying water, and moulding bricks. In 1667 he petitioned the king, asserting that hehad discovered King Solomon's gold and silver mines, and the Diaryof the same date contains a curious commentary upon these visions ofwealth:--

 "March 29, 1667. 4s. A week which his (Balty St. Michel's) father receives of the French church is all the subsistence his father and mother have, and about; L20 a year maintains them. "

As already noted, Pepys was married on December 1st, 1655. This dateis given on the authority of the Registers of St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, [The late Mr. T. C. Noble kindly communicated to me a copy of the original marriage certificate, which is as follows: "Samuell Peps of this parish Gent. & Elizabeth De Snt. Michell of Martins in the fields, Spinster. Published October 19tn, 22nd, 29th 1655, and were married by Richard Sherwin Esqr one of the justices of the Peace of the Cittie and Lyberties of Westm. December 1st. (Signed) Ri. Sherwin. "]

but strangely enough Pepys himself supposed his wedding day to have beenOctober 10th. Lord Braybrooke remarks on this, "It is notorious that the registers in those times were very ill kept, of which we have here a striking instance.... Surely a man who kept a diary could not have made such a blunder. "

What is even more strange than Pepys's conviction that he was married onOctober 10th is Mrs. Pepys's agreement with him: On October 10th, 1666, we read, "So home to supper, and to bed, it being my wedding night, but how many years I cannot tell; but my wife says ten. "

Here Mrs. Pepys was wrong, as it was eleven years; so she may have beenwrong in the day also. In spite of the high authority of Mr. And Mrs. Pepys on a question so interesting to them both, we must accept theregister as conclusive on this point until further evidence of itsincorrectness is forthcoming. 

Sir Edward Montage (afterwards Earl of Sandwich), who was Pepys'sfirst cousin one remove (Pepys's grandfather and Montage's mother beingbrother and sister), was a true friend to his poor kinsman, and he atonce held out a helping hand to the imprudent couple, allowing themto live in his house. John Pepys does not appear to have been insufficiently good circumstances to pay for the education of his son, and it seems probable that Samuel went to the university under hisinfluential cousin's patronage. At all events he owed his success inlife primarily to Montage, to whom he appears to have acted as a sort ofagent. 

On March 26th, 1658, he underwent a successful operation for the stone, and we find him celebrating each anniversary of this important event ofhis life with thanksgiving. He went through life with little troubleon this score, but when he died at the age of seventy a nest of sevenstones was found in his left kidney. 

 ["June 10th, 1669. I went this evening to London, to carry Mr. Pepys to my brother Richard, now exceedingly afflicted with the stone, who had been successfully cut, and carried the stone, as big as a tennis ball, to show him and encourage his resolution to go thro' the operation. "--Evelyn's Diary. ]

In June, 1659, Pepys accompanied Sir Edward Montage in the "Naseby, "when the Admiral of the Baltic Fleet and Algernon Sidney went to theSound as joint commissioners. It was then that Montage corresponded withCharles II. , but he had to be very secret in his movements on account ofthe suspicions of Sidney. Pepys knew nothing of what was going on, as heconfesses in the Diary:

 "I do from this raise an opinion of him, to be one of the most secret men in the world, which I was not so convinced of before. "

On Pepys's return to England he obtained an appointment in the office ofMr. , afterwards Sir George Downing, who was one of the Four Tellers ofthe Receipt of the Exchequer. He was clerk to Downing when he commencedhis diary on January 1st, 1660, and then lived in Axe Yard, close byKing Street, Westminster, a place on the site of which was built FludyerStreet. This, too, was swept away for the Government offices in 1864-65. His salary was L50 a year. Downing invited Pepys to accompany him toHolland, but he does not appear to have been very pressing, and a fewdays later in this same January he got him appointed one of the Clerksof the Council, but the recipient of the favour does not appear tohave been very grateful. A great change was now about to take place inPepys's fortunes, for in the following March he was made secretary toSir Edward Montage in his expedition to bring about the Restorationof Charles II. , and on the 23rd he went on board the "Swiftsure" withMontage. On the 30th they transferred themselves to the "Naseby. " Owingto this appointment of Pepys we have in the Diary a very full accountof the daily movements of the fleet until, events having followed theirnatural course, Montage had the honour of bringing Charles II. To Dover, where the King was received with great rejoicing. Several of the shipsin the fleet had names which were obnoxious to Royalists, and on the23rd May the King came on board the "Naseby" and altered there--the"Naseby" to the "Charles, " the "Richard" to the "Royal James, " the"Speaker" to the "Mary, " the "Winsby" to the "Happy Return, " the"Wakefield" to the "Richmond, " the "Lambert" to the "Henrietta, " the"Cheriton" to the "Speedwell, " and the "Bradford" to the "Success. "This portion of the Diary is of particular interest, and the variousexcursions in Holland which the Diarist made are described in a veryamusing manner. 

When Montagu and Pepys had both returned to London, the former told thelatter that he had obtained the promise of the office of Clerk of theActs for him. Many difficulties occurred before Pepys actually securedthe place, so that at times he was inclined to accept the offers whichwere made to him to give it up. General Monk was anxious to get theoffice for Mr. Turner, who was Chief Clerk in the Navy Office, but inthe end Montagu's influence secured it for Pepys. Then Thomas Barlow, who had been appointed Clerk of the Acts in 1638, turned up, andappeared likely to become disagreeable. Pepys bought him off with anannuity of too, which he did not have to pay for any length of time, as Barlow died in February, 1664-65. It is not in human nature to begreatly grieved at the death of one to whom you have to pay an annuity, and Pepys expresses his feelings in a very naive manner:--

 "For which God knows my heart I could be as sorry as is possible for one to be for a stranger by whose death he gets L100 per annum, he being a worthy honest man; but when I come to consider the providence of God by this means unexpectedly to give me L100 a year more in my estate, I have cause to bless God, and do it from the bottom of my heart. "

This office was one of considerable importance, for not only was theholder the secretary or registrar of the Navy Board, but he was also oneof the principal officers of the navy, and, as member of the board, ofequal rank with the other commissioners. This office Pepys held duringthe whole period of the Diary, and we find him constantly fighting forhis position, as some of the other members wished to reduce his rankmerely to that of secretary. In his contention Pepys appears to havebeen in the right, and a valuable MS. Volume in the Pepysian librarycontains an extract from the Old Instructions of about 1649, in whichthis very point is argued out. The volume appears to have been madeup by William Penn the Quaker, from a collection of manuscripts on theaffairs of the navy found in his father's, "Sir William Penn's closet. "It was presented to Charles II. , with a dedication ending thus:--

 "I hope enough to justifie soe much freedome with a Prince that is so easie to excuse things well intended as this is "BY "Great Prince, "Thy faithfull subject, "WM. PENN"

 "London, the 22 of the Mo. Called June, 1680. "

It does not appear how the volume came into Pepys's possession. It mayhave been given him by the king, or he may have taken it as a perquisiteof his office. The book has an index, which was evidently added byPepys; in this are these entries, which show his appreciation of thecontents of the MS. :--

 "Clerk of the Acts, his duty, his necessity and usefulness. "

The following description of the duty of the Clerk of the Acts showsthe importance of the office, and the statement that if the clerk isnot fitted to act as a commissioner he is a blockhead and unfit for hisemployment is particularly racy, and not quite the form of expressionone would expect to find in an official document:

 "CLERKE OF THE ACTS. 

 "The clarke of the Navye's duty depends principally upon rateing (by the Board's approbation) of all bills and recording of them, and all orders, contracts & warrants, making up and casting of accompts, framing and writing answers to letters, orders, and commands from the Councell, Lord High Admirall, or Commissioners of the Admiralty, and he ought to be a very able accomptant, well versed in Navall affairs and all inferior officers dutyes. 

 "It hath been objected by some that the Clarke of the Acts ought to be subordinate to the rest of the Commissioners, and not to be joyned in equall power with them, although he was so constituted from the first institution, which hath been an opinion only of some to keep him at a distance, least he might be thought too forward if he had joynt power in discovering or argueing against that which peradventure private interest would have concealed; it is certaine no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe, and possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment. But why he should not make as able a Commissioner as a Shipp wright lett wise men judge. "

In Pepys's patent the salary is stated to be L33 6s. 8d. , but this wasonly the ancient "fee out of the Exchequer, " which had been attached tothe office for more than a century. Pepys's salary had been previouslyfixed at L350 a-year. 

Neither of the two qualifications upon which particular stress is laidin the above Instructions was possessed by Pepys. He knew nothing aboutthe navy, and so little of accounts that apparently he learned themultiplication table for the first time in July, 1661. We see fromthe particulars given in the Diary how hard he worked to obtain theknowledge required in his office, and in consequence of his assiduityhe soon became a model official. When Pepys became Clerk of the Actshe took up his residence at the Navy Office, a large building situatedbetween Crutched Friars and Seething Lane, with an entrance in each ofthose places. On July 4th, 1660, he went with Commissioner Pett to viewthe houses, and was very pleased with them, but he feared that the moreinfluential officers would jockey him out of his rights. His fears werenot well grounded, and on July 18th he records the fact that he dined inhis own apartments, which were situated in the Seething Lane front. 

On July 24th, 1660, Pepys was sworn in as Lord Sandwich's deputy for aClerkship of the Privy Seal. This office, which he did not think muchof at first, brought him "in for a time L3 a day. " In June, 1660, he wasmade Master of Arts by proxy, and soon afterwards he was sworn in asa justice of the Peace for Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Hampshire, thecounties in which the chief dockyards were situated. 

Pepys's life is written large in the Diary, and it is not necessary hereto do more than catalogue the chief incidents of it in chronologicalorder. In February, 1661-62, he was chosen a Younger Brother ofthe Trinity House, and in April, 1662, when on an official visit toPortsmouth Dockyard, he was made a burgess of the town. In August of thesame year he was appointed one of the commissioners for the affairs ofTangier. Soon afterwards Thomas Povy, the treasurer, got his accountsinto a muddle, and showed himself incompetent for the place, so thatPepys replaced him as treasurer to the commission. 

In March, 1663-64, the Corporation of the Royal Fishery was appointed, with the Duke of York as governor, and thirty-two assistants, mostly"very great persons. " Through Lord Sandwich's influence Pepys was madeone of these. 

The time was now arriving when Pepys's general ability and devotion tobusiness brought him prominently into notice. During the Dutch war theunreadiness of the ships, more particularly in respect to victualling, was the cause of great trouble. The Clerk of the Acts did his utmostto set things right, and he was appointed Surveyor-General of theVictualling Office. The kind way in which Mr. Coventry proposed himas "the fittest man in England" for the office, and the Duke of York'sexpressed approval, greatly pleased him. 

During the fearful period when the Plague was raging, Pepys stuck to hisbusiness, and the chief management of naval affairs devolved upon him, for the meetings at the Navy Office were but thinly attended. In aletter to Coventry he wrote:--

 "The sickness in general thickens round us, and particularly upon our neighbourhood. You, sir, took your turn of the sword; I must not, therefore, grudge to take mine of the pestilence. "

At this time his wife was living at Woolwich, and he himself with hisclerks at Greenwich; one maid only remained in the house in London. 

Pepys rendered special service at the time of the Fire of London. Hecommunicated the king's wishes to the Lord Mayor, and he saved the NavyOffice by having up workmen from Woolwich and Deptford Dockyards to pulldown the houses around, and so prevent the spread of the flames. 

When peace was at length concluded with the Dutch, and people hadtime to think over the disgrace which the country had suffered by thepresence of De Ruyter's fleet in the Medway, it was natural that apublic inquiry into the management of the war should be undertaken. AParliamentary Committee was appointed in October, 1667, to inquire intothe matter. Pepys made a statement which satisfied the committee, butfor months afterwards he was continually being summoned to answer somecharge, so that he confesses himself as mad to "become the hackney ofthis office in perpetual trouble and vexation that need it least. "

At last a storm broke out in the House of Commons against the principalofficers of the navy, and some members demanded that they should be putout of their places. In the end they were ordered to be heard in theirown defence at the bar of the House. The whole labour of the defencefell upon Pepys, but having made out his case with great skill, he wasrewarded by a most unexpected success. On the 5th March, 1667-68, hemade the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours, with theeffect that he so far removed the prejudice against the officers of theNavy Board, that no further proceedings were taken in parliament on thesubject. He was highly praised for his speech, and he was naturally muchelated at his brilliant success. 

About the year 1664 we first hear of a defect in Pepys's eyesight. Heconsulted the celebrated Cocker, and began to wear green spectacles, butgradually this defect became more pronounced, and on the 31st of May, 1669, he wrote the last words in his Diary:

 "And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now as long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand. "

He feared blindness and was forced to desist, to his lasting regret andour great loss. 

At this time he obtained leave of absence from the duties of his office, and he set out on a tour through France and Holland accompanied by hiswife. In his travels he was true to the occupation of his life, and madecollections respecting the French and Dutch navies. Some months afterhis return he spoke of his journey as having been "full of health andcontent, " but no sooner had he and his wife returned to London than thelatter became seriously ill with a fever. The disease took a fatal turn, and on the 10th of November, 1669, Elizabeth Pepys died at the earlyage of twenty-nine years, to the great grief of her husband. She diedat their house in Crutched Friars, and was buried at St. Olave's Church, Hart Street, where Pepys erected a monument to her memory. 

Pepys's successful speech at the bar of the House of Commons madehim anxious to become a member, and the Duke of York and Sir WilliamCoventry heartily supported him in his resolution. An opening occurredin due course, at Aldborough, in Suffolk, owing to the death of SirRobert Brooke in 1669, but, in consequence of the death of his wife, Pepys was unable to take part in the election. His cause was warmlyespoused by the Duke of York and by Lord Henry Howard (afterwards Earlof Norwich and sixth Duke of Norfolk), but the efforts of his supportersfailed, and the contest ended in favour of John Bruce, who representedthe popular party. In November, 1673, Pepys was more successful, andwas elected for Castle Rising on the elevation of the member, Sir RobertPaston, to the peerage as Viscount Yarmouth. His unsuccessful opponent, Mr. Offley, petitioned against the return, and the election wasdetermined to be void by the Committee of Privileges. The Parliament, however, being prorogued the following month without the House's comingto any vote on the subject, Pepys was permitted to retain his seat. Amost irrelevant matter was introduced into the inquiry, and Pepys wascharged with having a crucifix in his house, from which it was inferredthat he was "a papist or popishly inclined. " The charge was groundedupon reported assertions of Sir John Banks and the Earl of Shaftesbury, which they did not stand to when examined on the subject, and the chargewas not proved to be good. 

 ["The House then proceeding upon the debate touching the Election for Castle Rising, between Mr. Pepys and Mr. Offley, did, in the first place, take into consideration what related personally to Mr. Pepys. Information being given to the House that they had received an account from a person of quality, that he saw an Altar with a Crucifix upon it, in the house of Mr. Pepys; Mr. Pepys, standing up in his place, did heartily and flatly deny that he ever had any Altar or Crucifix, or the image or picture of any Saint whatsoever in his house, from the top to the bottom of it; and the Members being called upon to name the person that gave them the information, they were unwilling to declare it without the order of the House; which, being made, they named the Earl of Shaftesbury; and the House being also informed that Sir J. Banks did likewise see the Altar, he was ordered to attend the Bar of the House, to declare what he knew of this matter. 'Ordered that Sir William Coventry, Sir Thomas Meeres, and Mr. Garraway do attend Lord Shaftesbury on the like occasion, and receive what information his Lordship, can give on this matter. '"--Journals of the House of Commons, vol. Ix. , p. 306. --" 13th February, Sir W. Coventry reports that they attended the Earl of Shaftesbury, and received from him the account which they had put in writing. The Earl of Shaftesbury denieth that he ever saw an Altar in Mr. Pepys's house or lodgings; as to the Crucifix, he saith he hath, some imperfect memory of seeing somewhat which he conceived to be a Crucifix. When his Lordship was asked the time, he said it was before the burning of the Office of the Navy. Being asked concerning the manner, he said he could not remember whether it were painted or carved, or in what manner the thing was; and that his memory was so very imperfect in it, that if he were upon his oath he could give no testimony. "--. Ibid. , vol. Ix. , p. 309. --" 16th February--Sir John Banks was called in--The Speaker desired him to answer what acquaintance he had with; Mr. Pepys, and whether he used to have recourse to him to his house and had ever seen there any Altar or Crucifix, or whether he knew of his being a Papist, or Popishly inclined. Sir J. Banks said that he had known and had been acquainted with Mr. Pepys several years, and had often visited him and conversed with him at the Navy Office, and at his house there upon several occasions, and that he never saw in his house there any Altar or Crucifix, and that he does not believe him to be a Papist, or that way inclined in the least, nor had any reason or ground to think or believe it. "--Ibid. , vol, ix. , p. 310. ]

It will be seen from the extracts from the Journals of the House ofCommons given in the note that Pepys denied ever having had an altar orcrucifix in his house. In the Diary there is a distinct statement ofhis possession of a crucifix, but it is not clear from the followingextracts whether it was not merely a varnished engraving of theCrucifixion which he possessed:

 July 20, 1666. "So I away to Lovett's, there to see how my picture goes on to be varnished, a fine crucifix which will be very fine. " August 2. "At home find Lovett, who showed me my crucifix, which will be very fine when done. " Nov. 3. "This morning comes Mr. Lovett and brings me my print of the Passion, varnished by him, and the frame which is indeed very fine, though not so fine as I expected; but pleases me exceedingly. "

Whether he had or had not a crucifix in his house was a matter forhimself alone, and the interference of the House of Commons was a grossviolation of the liberty of the subject. 

In connection with Lord Shaftesbury's part in this matter, the late Mr. W. D. Christie found the following letter to Sir Thomas Meres among thepapers at St. Giles's House, Dorsetshire:--

 "Exeter House, February 10th, 1674. 

 "Sir, --That there might be no mistake, I thought best to put my answer in writing to those questions that yourself, Sir William Coventry, and Mr. Garroway were pleased to propose to me this morning from the House of Commons, which is that I never designed to be a witness against any man for what I either heard or saw, and therefore did not take so exact notice of things inquired of as to be able to remember them so clearly as is requisite to do in a testimony upon honour or oath, or to so great and honourable a body as the House of Commons, it being some years distance since I was at Mr. Pepys his lodging. Only that particular of an altar is so signal that I must needs have remembered it had I seen any such thing, which I am sure I do not. This I desire you to communicate with Sir William Coventry and Mr. Garroway to be delivered as my answer to the House of Commons, it being the same I gave you this morning. 

 "I am, Sir, "Your most humble servant, "SHAFTESBURY. "

After reading this letter Sir William Coventry very justly remarked, "There are a great many more Catholics than think themselves so, ifhaving a crucifix will make one. " Mr. Christie resented the remarkson Lord Shaftesbury's part in this persecution of Pepys made by LordBraybrooke, who said, "Painful indeed is it to reflect to what lengththe bad passions which party violence inflames could in those dayscarry a man of Shaftesbury's rank, station, and abilities. " Mr. Christieobserves, "It is clear from the letter to Meres that Shaftesbury showedno malice and much scrupulousness when a formal charge, involvingimportant results, was founded on his loose private conversations. " Thiswould be a fair vindication if the above attack upon Pepys stood alone, but we shall see later on that Shaftesbury was the moving spirit in astill more unjustifiable attack. 

Lord Sandwich died heroically in the naval action in Southwold Bay, andon June 24th, 1672, his remains were buried with some pomp in WestminsterAbbey. There were eleven earls among the mourners, and Pepys, as thefirst among "the six Bannerolles, " walked in the procession. 

About this time Pepys was called from his old post of Clerk of theActs to the higher office of Secretary of the Admiralty. His firstappointment was a piece of favouritism, but it was due to his meritsalone that he obtained the secretaryship. In the summer of 1673, theDuke of York having resigned all his appointments on the passing ofthe Test Act, the King put the Admiralty into commission, and Pepys wasappointed Secretary for the Affairs of the Navy. 

 [The office generally known as Secretary of the Admiralty dates back many years, but the officer who filled it was sometimes Secretary to the Lord High Admiral, and sometimes to the Commission for that office. "His Majesties Letters Patent for ye erecting the office of Secretary of ye Admiralty of England, and creating Samuel Pepys, Esq. , first Secretary therein, " is dated June 10th, 1684. ]

He was thus brought into more intimate connection with Charles II. , whotook the deepest interest in shipbuilding and all naval affairs. TheDuke of Buckingham said of the King:--

 "The great, almost the only pleasure of his mind to which he seemed addicted was shipping and sea affairs, which seemed to be so much his talent for knowledge as well as inclination, that a war of that kind was rather an entertainment than any disturbance to his thoughts. "

When Pepys ceased to be Clerk of the Acts he was able to obtain theappointment for his clerk, Thomas Hayter, and his brother, John Pepys, who held it jointly. The latter does not appear to have done much creditto Samuel. He was appointed Clerk to the Trinity House in 1670 on hisbrother's recommendation, and when he died in 1677 he was in debt L300to his employers, and this sum Samuel had to pay. In 1676 Pepys wasMaster of the Trinity House, and in the following year Master of theClothworkers' Company, when he presented a richly-chased silver cup, which is still used at the banquets of the company. On Tuesday, 10thSeptember, 1677, the Feast of the Hon. Artillery Company was held atMerchant Taylors' Hall, when the Duke of York, the Duke of Somerset, theLord Chancellor, and other distinguished persons were present. On thisoccasion Viscount Newport, Sir Joseph Williamson, and Samuel Pepysofficiated as stewards. 

About this time it is evident that the secretary carried himself withsome haughtiness as a ruler of the navy, and that this was resented bysome. An amusing instance will be found in the Parliamentary Debates. On May 11th, 1678, the King's verbal message to quicken the supply wasbrought in by Mr. Secretary Williamson, when Pepys spoke to this effect:

 "When I promised that the ships should be ready by the 30th of May, it was upon the supposition of the money for 90 ships proposed by the King and voted by you, their sizes and rates, and I doubt not by that time to have 90 ships, and if they fall short it will be only from the failing of the Streights ships coming home and those but two..... 

 "Sir Robert Howard then rose and said, 'Pepys here speaks rather like an Admiral than a Secretary, "I" and "we. " I wish he knows half as much of the Navy as he pretends. '"

Pepys was chosen by the electors of Harwich as their member in the shortParliament that sat from March to July, 1679, his colleague being SirAnthony Deane, but both members were sent to the Tower in May on abaseless charge, and they were superseded in the next Parliament thatmet on the 17th October, 1679. 

The high-handed treatment which Pepys underwent at this time exhibitsa marked instance of the disgraceful persecution connected with theso-called Popish plot. He was totally unconnected with the RomanCatholic party, but his association with the Duke of York was sufficientto mark him as a prey for the men who initiated this "Terror" of theseventeenth century. Sir. Edmund Berry Godfrey came to his death inOctober, 1678, and in December Samuel Atkins, Pepys's clerk, was broughtto trial as an accessory to his murder. Shaftesbury and the others nothaving succeeded in getting at Pepys through his clerk, soon afterwardsattacked him more directly, using the infamous evidence of ColonelScott. Much light has lately been thrown upon the underhand dealingsof this miscreant by Mr. G. D. Scull, who printed privately in 1883 avaluable work entitled, "Dorothea Scott, otherwise Gotherson, and Hogbenof Egerton House, Kent, 1611-1680. "

John Scott (calling himself Colonel Scott) ingratiated himself intoacquaintance with Major Gotherson, and sold to the latter large tractsof land in Long Island, to which he had no right whatever. DorotheaGotherson, after her husband's death, took steps to ascertain the exactstate of her property, and obtained the assistance of Colonel FrancisLovelace, Governor of New York. Scott's fraud was discovered, and apetition for redress was presented to the King. The result of this wasthat the Duke of York commanded Pepys to collect evidence against Scott, and he accordingly brought together a great number of depositions andinformation as to his dishonest proceedings in New England, Long Island, Barbadoes, France, Holland, and England, and these papers are preservedamong the Rawlinson Manuscripts in the Bodleian. Scott had his revenge, and accused Pepys of betraying the Navy by sending secret particularsto the French Government, and of a design to dethrone the king andextirpate the Protestant religion. Pepys and Sir Anthony Deane werecommitted to the Tower under the Speaker's warrant on May 22nd, 1679, and Pepys's place at the Admiralty was filled by the appointment ofThomas Hayter. When the two prisoners were brought to the bar of theKing's Bench on the 2nd of June, the Attorney-General refused bail, butsubsequently they were allowed to find security for L30, 000. 

Pepys was put to great expense in collecting evidence against Scott andobtaining witnesses to clear himself of the charges brought againsthim. He employed his brother-in-law, Balthasar St. Michel, tocollect evidence in France, as he himself explains in a letter to theCommissioners of the Navy:--

 "His Majesty of his gracious regard to me, and the justification of my innocence, was then pleased at my humble request to dispence with my said brother goeing (with ye shippe about that time designed for Tangier) and to give leave to his goeing into France (the scene of ye villannys then in practice against me), he being the only person whom (from his relation to me, together with his knowledge in the place and language, his knowne dilligence and particular affection towards mee) I could at that tyme and in soe greate a cause pitch on, for committing the care of this affaire of detecting the practice of my enemies there. "

In the end Scott refused to acknowledge to the truth of his originaldeposition, and the prisoners were relieved from their bail on February12th, 1679-80. John James, a butler previously in Pepys's service, confessed on his deathbed in 1680 that he had trumped up the whole storyrelating to his former master's change of religion at the instigation ofMr. William Harbord, M. P. For Thetford. 

Pepys wrote on July 1st, 1680, to Mrs. Skinner:

 "I would not omit giving you the knowledge of my having at last obtained what with as much reason I might have expected a year ago, my full discharge from the bondage I have, from one villain's practice, so long lain under. "

William Harbord, of Cadbury, co. Somerset, second son of Sir CharlesHarbord, whom he succeeded in 1682 as Surveyor. General of the LandRevenues of the Crown, was Pepys's most persistent enemy. Several papersreferring to Harbord's conduct were found at Scott's lodging after hisflight, and are now preserved among the Rawlinson MSS. In the Bodleian. One of these was the following memorandum, which shows pretty plainlyPepys's opinion of Harbord:--

 "That about the time of Mr. Pepys's surrender of his employment of Secretary of the Admiralty, Capt. Russell and myself being in discourse about Mr. Pepys, Mr. Russell delivered himself in these or other words to this purport: That he thought it might be of advantage to both, if a good understanding were had between his brother Harbord and Mr. Pepys, asking me to propose it to Mr. Pepys, and he would to his brother, which I agreed to, and went immediately from him to Mr. Pepys, and telling him of this discourse, he gave me readily this answer in these very words: That he knew of no service Mr. Harbord could doe him, or if he could, he should be the last man in England he would receive any from. "

 [William Harbord sat as M. P. For Thetford in several parliaments. In 1689 he was chosen on the Privy Council, and in 1690 became Vice- Treasurer for Ireland. He was appointed Ambassador to Turkey in 1692, and died at Belgrade in July of that year. ]

Besides Scott's dishonesty in his dealings with Major Gotherson, itcame out that he had cheated the States of Holland out of L7, 000, inconsequence of which he was hanged in effigy at the Hague in 1672. In1682 he fled from England to escape from the law, as he had been guiltyof wilful murder by killing George Butler, a hackney coachman, and hereached Norway in safety, where he remained till 1696. In that year someof his influential friends obtained a pardon for him from William III. , and he returned to England. 

In October, 1680, Pepys attended on Charles II. At Newmarket, and therehe took down from the King's own mouth the narrative of his Majesty'sescape from Worcester, which was first published in 1766 by Sir DavidDalrymple (Lord Hailes) from the MS. , which now remains in the Pepysianlibrary both in shorthand and in longhand? It is creditable to CharlesII. And the Duke of York that both brothers highly appreciated theabilities of Pepys, and availed themselves of his knowledge of navalaffairs. 

In the following year there was some chance that Pepys might retire frompublic affairs, and take upon himself the headship of one of the chiefCambridge colleges. On the death of Sir Thomas Page, the Provost ofKing's College, in August, 1681, Mr. S. Maryon, a Fellow of ClareHall, recommended Pepys to apply to the King for the appointment, beingassured that the royal mandate if obtained would secure his election. Heliked the idea, but replied that he believed Colonel Legge (afterwardsLord Dartmouth) wanted to get the office for an old tutor. Nothingfurther seems to have been done by Pepys, except that he promised ifhe were chosen to give the whole profit of the first year, and at leasthalf of that of each succeeding year, to "be dedicated to the generaland public use of the college. " In the end Dr. John Coplestone wasappointed to the post. 

On May 22nd, 1681, the Rev. Dr. Milles, rector of St. Olave's, who isso often mentioned in the Diary, gave Pepys a certificate as to hisattention to the services of the Church. It is not quite clear what wasthe occasion of the certificate, but probably the Diarist wished to haveit ready in case of another attack upon him in respect to his tendencytowards the Church of Rome. 

Early in 1682 Pepys accompanied the Duke of York to Scotland, andnarrowly escaped shipwreck by the way. Before letters could arrivein London to tell of his safety, the news came of the wreck of the"Gloucester" (the Duke's ship), and of the loss of many lives. Hisfriends' anxiety was relieved by the arrival of a letter which Pepyswrote from Edinburgh to Hewer on May 8th, in which he detailed theparticulars of the adventure. The Duke invited him to go on board the"Gloucester" frigate, but he preferred his own yacht (the "Catherine "), in which he had more room, and in consequence of his resolution he savedhimself from the risk of drowning. On May 5th the frigate struck uponthe sand called "The Lemon and Oar, " about sixteen leagues from themouth of the Humber. This was caused by the carelessness of the pilot, to whom Pepys imputed "an obstinate over-weening in opposition to thecontrary opinions of Sir I. Berry, his master, mates, Col. Legg, theDuke himself, and several others, concurring unanimously in not beingyet clear of the sands. " The Duke and his party escaped, but numberswere drowned in the sinking ship, and it is said that had the wreckoccurred two hours earlier, and the accompanying yachts been at thedistance they had previously been, not a soul would have escaped. 

Pepys stayed in Edinburgh for a short time, and the Duke of York allowedhim to be present at two councils. He then visited; with Colonel GeorgeLegge, some of the principal places in the neighbourhood, such asStirling, Linlithgow, Hamilton, and Glasgow. The latter place hedescribes as "a very extraordinary town indeed for beauty and trade, much superior to any in Scotland. "

Pepys had now been out of office for some time, but he was soon to haveemployment again. Tangier, which was acquired at the marriage of theKing to Katharine of Braganza, had long been an incumbrance, and itwas resolved at last to destroy the place. Colonel Legge (now LordDartmouth) was in August, 1683, constituted Captain-General of hisMajesty's forces in Africa, and Governor of Tangier, and sent with afleet of about twenty sail to demolish and blow up the works, destroythe harbour, and bring home the garrison. Pepys received the King'scommands to accompany Lord Dartmouth on his expedition, but the latter'sinstructions were secret, and Pepys therefore did not know what had beendecided upon. He saw quite enough, however, to form a strong opinion ofthe uselessness of the place to England. Lord Dartmouth carried outhis instructions thoroughly, and on March 29th, 1684, he and his party(including Pepys) arrived in the English Channel. 

The King himself now resumed the office of Lord High Admiral, andappointed Pepys Secretary of the Admiralty, with a salary of L500 perannum. In the Pepysian Library is the original patent, dated June10th, 1684: "His Majesty's Letters Patent for ye erecting the office ofSecretary of ye Admiralty of England, and creating Samuel Pepys, Esq. , first Secretary therein. " In this office the Diarist remained until theperiod of the Revolution, when his official career was concluded. 

A very special honour was conferred upon Pepys in this year, when he waselected President of the Royal Society in succession to Sir Cyril Wyche, and he held the office for two years. Pepys had been admitted a fellowof the society on February 15th, 1664-65, and from Birch's "History" wefind that in the following month he made a statement to the society:--

"Mr. Pepys gave an account of what information he had received from theMaster of the Jersey ship which had been in company with Major Holmes inthe Guinea voyage concerning the pendulum watches (March 15th, 1664-5). "

The records of the society show that he frequently made himself usefulby obtaining such information as might be required in his department. After he retired from the presidency, he continued to entertain some ofthe most distinguished members of the society on Saturday evenings athis house in York Buildings. Evelyn expressed the strongest regretwhen it was necessary to discontinue these meetings on account of theinfirmities of the host. 

In 1685 Charles II. Died, and was succeeded by James, Duke of York. Fromhis intimate association with James it might have been supposed that along period of official life was still before Pepys, but the new king'sbigotry and incapacity soon made this a practical impossibility. Atthe coronation of James II. Pepys marched in the procession immediatelybehind the king's canopy, as one of the sixteen barons of the CinquePorts. 

In the year 1685 a new charter was granted to the Trinity Company, andPepys was named in it the first master, this being the second time thathe had held the office of master. 

Evelyn specially refers to the event in his Diary, and mentions thedistinguished persons present at the dinner on July 20th. 

It is evident that at this time Pepys was looked upon as a speciallyinfluential man, and when a parliament was summoned to meet on May 19th, 1685, he was elected both for Harwich and for Sandwich. He chose toserve for Harwich, and Sir Philip Parker was elected to fill his placeat Sandwich. 

This parliament was dissolved by proclamation July 2nd, 1687, and onAugust 24th the king declared in council that another parliament shouldbe summoned for November 27th, 1688, but great changes took place beforethat date, and when the Convention Parliament was called togetherin January and February, 1689-90, Pepys found no place in it. Theright-hand man of the exiled monarch was not likely to find favour inthe eyes of those who were now in possession. When the election forHarwich came on, the electors refused to return him, and the streetsechoed to the cry of "No Tower men, no men out of the Tower!" They didnot wish to be represented in parliament by a disgraced official. 

We have little or no information to guide us as to Pepys's proceedingsat the period of the Revolution. We know that James II. Just before hisflight was sitting to Kneller for a portrait intended for the Secretaryto the Admiralty, and that Pepys acted in that office for the last timeon 20th February, 1688-89, but between those dates we know nothing ofthe anxieties and troubles that he must have suffered. On the 9th Marchan order was issued from the Commissioners of the Admiralty for himto deliver up his books, &c. , to Phineas Bowies, who superseded him assecretary. 

Pepys had many firm friends upon whom he could rely, but he had alsoenemies who lost no opportunity of worrying him. On June 10th, 1690, Evelyn has this entry in his Diary, which throws some light upon theevents of the time:--

 "Mr. Pepys read to me his Remonstrance, skewing with what malice and injustice he was suspected with Sir Anth. Deane about the timber of which the thirty ships were built by a late Act of Parliament, with the exceeding danger which the fleete would shortly be in, by reason of the tyranny and incompetency of those who now managed the Admiralty and affairs of the Navy, of which he gave an accurate state, and shew'd his greate ability. "

On the 25th of this same month Pepys was committed to the Gatehouse atWestminster on a charge of having sent information to the French Courtof the state of the English navy. There was no evidence of any kindagainst him, and at the end of July he was allowed to return to his ownhouse on account of ill-health. Nothing further was done in respect tothe charge, but he was not free till some time after, and he was longkept in anxiety, for even in 1692 he still apprehended some freshpersecution. 

Sir Peter Palavicini, Mr. James Houblon, Mr. Blackburne, and Mr. Martinbailed him, and he sent them the following circular letter:--

 "October 15, 1690. 

 "Being this day become once again a free man in every respect, I mean but that of my obligation to you and the rest of my friends, to whom I stand indebted for my being so, I think it but a reasonable part of my duty to pay you and them my thanks for it in a body; but know not how otherwise to compass it than by begging you, which I hereby do, to take your share with them and me here, to-morrow, of a piece of mutton, which is all I dare promise you, besides that of being ever, "Your most bounden and faithful humble servant, "S. P. "

He employed the enforced idleness caused by being thrust out of hisemployment in the collection of the materials for the valuable workwhich he published in 1690, under the title of "Memoirs of the Navy. "Little more was left for him to do in life, but as the government becamemore firmly established, and the absolute absurdity of the idea ofhis disloyalty was proved, Pepys held up his head again as a man to berespected and consulted, and for the remainder of his life he was lookedupon as the Nestor of the Navy. 

There is little more to be told of Pepys's life. He continued to keepup an extended correspondence with his many friends, and as Treasurerof Christ's Hospital he took very great interest in the welfare ofthat institution. He succeeded in preserving from impending ruin themathematical foundation which had been originally designed by him, andthrough his anxious solicitations endowed and cherished by CharlesII. And James II. One of the last public acts of his life was thepresentation of the portrait of the eminent Dr. John Wallis, SavilianProfessor of Geometry, to the University of Oxford. 

In 1701 he sent Sir Godfrey Kneller to Oxford to paint the portrait, andthe University rewarded him with a Latin diploma containing in gorgeouslanguage the expression of thanks for his munificence. '

On the 26th May, 1703, Samuel Pepys, after long continued suffering, breathed his last in the presence of the learned Dr. George Hickes, thenonjuring Dean of Worcester, and the following letter from John Jacksonto his uncle's lifelong friend Evelyn contains particulars as to thecause of death:

 Mr. Jackson to Mr. Evelyn. 

 "Clapham, May 28th, 1703. "Friday night. 

 "Honoured Sir, "'Tis no small addition to my grief, to be obliged to interrupt the quiet of your happy recess with the afflicting tidings of my Uncle Pepys's death: knowing how sensibly you will partake with me herein. But I should not be faithful to his desires, if I did not beg your doing the honour to his memory of accepting mourning from him, as a small instance of his most affectionate respect and honour for you. I have thought myself extremely unfortunate to be out of the way at that only time when you were pleased lately to touch here, and express so great a desire of taking your leave of my Uncle; which could not but have been admitted by him as a most welcome exception to his general orders against being interrupted; and I could most heartily wish that the circumstances of your health and distance did not forbid me to ask the favour of your assisting in the holding up of the pawll at his interment, which is intended to be on Thursday next; for if the manes are affected with what passes below, I am sure this would have been very grateful to his. 

 "I must not omit acquainting you, sir, that upon opening his body, (which the uncommonness of his case required of us, for our own satisfaction as well as public good) there was found in his left kidney a nest of no less than seven stones, of the most irregular, figures your imagination can frame, and weighing together four ounces and a half, but all fast linked together, and adhering to his back; whereby they solve his having felt no greater pains upon motion, nor other of the ordinary symptoms of the stone. Some other lesser defects there also were in his body, proceeding from the same cause. But his stamina, in general, were marvellously strong, and not only supported him, under the most exquisite pains, weeks beyond all expectations; but, in the conclusion, contended for nearly forty hours (unassisted by any nourishment) with the very agonies of death, some few minutes excepted, before his expiring, which were very calm. 

 "There remains only for me, under this affliction, to beg the consolation and honour of succeeding to your patronage, for my Uncle's sake; and leave to number myself, with the same sincerity he ever did, among your greatest honourers, which I shall esteem as one of the most valuable parts of my inheritances from him; being also, with the faithfullest wishes of health and a happy long life to you, "Honoured Sir, "Your most obedient and "Most humble Servant, "J. JACKSON. 

 "Mr. Hewer, as my Uncle's Executor, and equally your faithful Servant, joins with me in every part hereof. 

 "The time of my Uncle's departure was about three-quarters past three on Wednesday morning last. "

Evelyn alludes in his Diary to Pepys's death and the present to him of asuit of mourning. He speaks in very high terms of his friend:--

 "1703, May 26th. This day died Mr. Sam Pepys, a very worthy, industrious, and curious person, none in England exceeding him in knowledge of the navy, in which he had passed thro' all the most considerable offices, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary of the Admiralty, all which he performed with great integrity. When K. James II. Went out of England, he laid down his office, and would serve no more, but withdrawing himselfe from all public affaires, he liv'd at Clapham with his partner Mr. Hewer, formerly his clerk, in a very noble and sweete place, where he enjoy'd the fruits of his labours in greate prosperity. He was universally belov'd, hospitable, generous, learned in many things, skilfd in music, a very greate cherisher of learned men of whom he had the conversation .... Mr. Pepys had been for neere 40 yeeres so much my particular friend that Mr. Jackson sent me compleat mourning, desiring me to be one to hold up the pall at his magnificent obsequies, but my indisposition hinder'd me from doing him this last office. "

The body was brought from Clapham and buried in St. Olave's Church, Hart Street, on the 5th June, at nine o'clock at night, in a vault justbeneath the monument to the memory of Mrs. Pepys. Dr. Hickes performedthe last sad offices for his friend. 

Pepys's faithful friend, Hewer, was his executor, and his nephew, JohnJackson, his heir. Mourning was presented to forty persons, and a largenumber of rings to relations, godchildren, servants, and friends, also to representatives of the Royal Society, of the Universities ofCambridge and Oxford, of the Admiralty, and of the Navy Office. The bulkof the property was bequeathed to Jackson, but the money which was leftwas much less than might have been expected, for at the time of Pepys'sdeath there was a balance of L28, 007 2s. 1d. Due to him from the Crown, and none of this was ever paid. The books and other collections wereleft to Magdalene College, Cambridge, but Jackson was to have possessionof them during his lifetime. These were the most important portion ofPepys's effects, for with them was the manuscript of the immortal Diary. The following are the directions for the disposition of the library, taken from Harl. MS. , No. 7301:

 "For the further settlement and preservation of my said library, after the death of my nephew. John Jackson, I do hereby declare, That could I be sure of a constant succession of heirs from my said nephew, qualified like himself for the use of such a library, I should not entertain a thought of its ever being alienated from them. But this uncertainty considered, with the infinite pains, and time, and cost employed in my collecting, methodising and reducing the same to the state it now is, I cannot but be greatly solicitous that all possible provision should be made for its unalterable preservation and perpetual security against the ordinary fate of such collections falling into the hands of an incompetent heir, and thereby being sold, dissipated, or embezzled. And since it has pleased God to visit me in a manner that leaves little appearance of being myself restored to a condition of concerting the necessary measures for attaining these ends, I must and do with great confidence rely upon the sincerity and direction of my executor and said nephew for putting in execution the powers given them, by my forementioned will relating hereto, requiring that the same be brought to a determination in twelve months after my decease, and that special regard be had therein to the following particulars which I declare to be my present thoughts and prevailing inclinations in this matter, viz. :

 "1. That after the death of my said nephew, my said library be placed and for ever settled in one of our universities, and rather in that of Cambridge than Oxford. 

 "2. And rather in a private college there, than in the public library. 

 "3. And in the colleges of Trinity or Magdalen preferably to all others. 

 "4. And of these too, 'caeteris paribus', rather in the latter, for the sake of my own and my nephew's education therein. 

 "5. That in which soever of the two it is, a fair roome be provided therein. 

 "6. And if in Trinity, that the said roome be contiguous to, and have communication with, the new library there. 

 "7. And if in Magdalen, that it be in the new building there, and any part thereof at my nephew's election. 

 "8. That my said library be continued in its present form and no other books mixed therein, save what my nephew may add to theirs of his own collecting, in distinct presses. 

 "9. That the said room and books so placed and adjusted be called by the name of 'Bibliotheca Pepysiana. '

 "10. That this 'Bibliotheca Pepysiana' be under the sole power and custody of the master of the college for the time being, who shall neither himself convey, nor suffer to be conveyed by others, any of the said books from thence to any other place, except to his own lodge in the said college, nor there have more than ten of them at a time; and that of those also a strict entry be made and account kept, at the time of their having been taken out and returned, in a book to be provided, and remain in the said library for that purpose only. 

 "11. That before my said library be put into the possession of either of the said colleges, that college for which it shall be designed, first enter into covenants for performance of the foregoing articles. 

 "12. And that for a yet further security herein, the said two colleges of Trinity and Magdalen have a reciprocal check upon one another; and that college which shall be in present possession of the said library, be subject to an annual visitation from the other, and to the forfeiture thereof to the life, possession, and use of the other, upon conviction of any breach of their said covenants. 

 "S. PEPYS. "

The library and the original book-cases were not transferred toMagdalene College until 1724, and there they have been preserved insafety ever since. 

A large number of Pepys's manuscripts appear to have remained unnoticedin York Buildings for some years. They never came into Jackson's hands, and were thus lost to Magdalene College. Dr. Rawlinson afterwardsobtained them, and they were included in the bequest of his books to theBodleian Library. 

Pepys was partial to having his portrait taken, and he sat to Savill, Hales, Lely, and Kneller. Hales's portrait, painted in 1666, is now inthe National Portrait Gallery, and an etching from the original formsthe frontispiece to this volume. The portrait by Lely is in the PepysianLibrary. Of the three portraits by Kneller, one is in the hall ofMagdalene College, another at the Royal Society, and the third was lentto the First Special Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, by the lateMr. Andrew Pepys Cockerell. Several of the portraits have been engraved, but the most interesting of these are those used by Pepys himself asbook-plates. These were both engraved by Robert White, and taken frompaintings by Kneller. 

The church of St. Olave, Hart Street, is intimately associated withPepys both in his life and in his death, and for many years the questionhad been constantly asked by visitors, "Where is Pepys's monument?"On Wednesday, July 5th, 1882, a meeting was held in the vestry of thechurch, when an influential committee was appointed, upon which all thegreat institutions with which Pepys was connected were represented bytheir masters, presidents, or other officers, with the object of takingsteps to obtain an adequate memorial of the Diarist. Mr. (now Sir)Alfred Blomfield, architect of the church, presented an appropriatedesign for a monument, and sufficient subscriptions having been obtainedfor the purpose, he superintended its erection. On Tuesday afternoon, March 18th, 1884, the monument, which was affixed to the wall of thechurch where the gallery containing Pepys's pew formerly stood, wasunveiled in the presence of a large concourse of visitors. The Earlof Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, consented to unveil themonument, but he was at the last moment prevented by public businessfrom attending. The late Mr. Russell Lowell, then the American Minister, took Lord Northbrook's place, and made a very charming and appreciativespeech on the occasion, from which the following passages areextracted:--

 "It was proper, " his Excellency said, "that he should read a note he had received from Lord Northbrook. This was dated that day from the Admiralty, and was as follows:

 "'My dear Mr. Lowell, "'I am very much annoyed that I am prevented from assisting at the ceremony to-day. It would be very good if you would say that nothing but very urgent business would have kept me away. I was anxious to give my testimony to the merits of Pepys as an Admiralty official, leaving his literary merits to you. He was concerned with the administration of the Navy from the Restoration to the Revolution, and from 1673 as secretary. I believe his merits to be fairly stated in a contemporary account, which I send. 

 "'Yours very truly, "'NORTHBROOK. 

 "The contemporary account, which Lord Northbrook was good enough to send him, said:

 "'Pepys was, without exception, the greatest and most useful Minister that ever filled the same situations in England, the acts and registers of the Admiralty proving this beyond contradiction. The principal rules and establishments in present use in these offices are well known to have been of his introducing, and most of the officers serving therein since the Restoration, of his bringing- up. He was a most studious promoter and strenuous asserter of order and discipline. Sobriety, diligence, capacity, loyalty, and subjection to command were essentials required in all whom he advanced. Where any of these were found wanting, no interest or authority was capable of moving him in favour of the highest pretender. Discharging his duty to his Prince and country with a religious application and perfect integrity, he feared no one, courted no one, and neglected his own fortune. '

 "That was a character drawn, it was true, by a friendly hand, but to those who were familiar with the life of Pepys, the praise hardly seemed exaggerated. As regarded his official life, it was unnecessary to dilate upon his peculiar merits, for they all knew how faithful he was in his duties, and they all knew, too, how many faithful officials there were working on in obscurity, who were not only never honoured with a monument but who never expected one. The few words, Mr. Lowell went on to remark, which he was expected to say upon that occasion, therefore, referred rather to what he believed was the true motive which had brought that assembly together, and that was by no means the character of Pepys either as Clerk of the Acts or as Secretary to the Admiralty. This was not the place in which one could go into a very close examination of the character of Pepys as a private man. He would begin by admitting that Pepys was a type, perhaps, of what was now called a 'Philistine'. We had no word in England which was equivalent to the French adjective Bourgeois; but, at all events, Samuel Pepys was the most perfect type that ever existed of the class of people whom this word described. He had all its merits as well as many of its defects. With all those defects, however perhaps in consequence of them--Pepys had written one of the most delightful books that it was man's privilege to read in the English language or in any other. Whether Pepys intended this Diary to be afterwards read by the general public or not--and this was a doubtful question when it was considered that he had left, possibly by inadvertence, a key to his cypher behind him--it was certain that he had left with us a most delightful picture, or rather he had left the power in our hands of drawing for ourselves some, of the most delightful pictures, of the time in which he lived. There was hardly any book which was analogous to it..... If one were asked what were the reasons for liking Pepys, it would be found that they were as numerous as the days upon which he made an entry in his Diary, and surely that was sufficient argument in his favour. There was no book, Mr. Lowell said, that he knew of, or that occurred to his memory, with which Pepys's Diary could fairly be compared, except the journal of L'Estoile, who had the same anxious curiosity and the same commonness, not to say vulgarity of interest, and the book was certainly unique in one respect, and that was the absolute sincerity of the author with himself. Montaigne is conscious that we are looking over his shoulder, and Rousseau secretive in comparison with him. The very fact of that sincerity of the author with himself argued a certain greatness of character. Dr. Hickes, who attended Pepys at his deathbed, spoke of him as 'this great man, ' and said he knew no one who died so greatly. And yet there was something almost of the ridiculous in the statement when the 'greatness' was compared with the garrulous frankness which Pepys showed towards himself. There was no parallel to the character of Pepys, he believed, in respect of 'naivete', unless it were found in that of Falstaff, and Pepys showed himself, too, like Falstaff, on terms of unbuttoned familiarity with himself. Falstaff had just the same 'naivete', but in Falstaff it was the 'naivete' of conscious humour. In Pepys it was quite different, for Pepys's 'naivete' was the inoffensive vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass. Falstaff had a sense, too, of inadvertent humour, but it was questionable whether Pepys could have had any sense of humour at all, and yet permitted himself to be so delightful. There was probably, however, more involuntary humour in Pepys's Diary than there was in any other book extant. When he told his readers of the landing of Charles II. At Dover, for instance, it would be remembered how Pepys chronicled the fact that the Mayor of Dover presented the Prince with a Bible, for which he returned his thanks and said it was the 'most precious Book to him in the world. ' Then, again, it would be remembered how, when he received a letter addressed 'Samuel Pepys, Esq. , ' he confesses in the Diary that this pleased him mightily. When, too, he kicked his cookmaid, he admits that he was not sorry for it, but was sorry that the footboy of a worthy knight with whom he was acquainted saw him do it. And the last instance he would mention of poor Pepys's 'naivete' was when he said in the Diary that he could not help having a certain pleasant and satisfied feeling when Barlow died. Barlow, it must be remembered, received during his life the yearly sum from Pepys of L100. The value of Pepys's book was simply priceless, and while there was nothing in it approaching that single page in St. Simon where he described that thunder of courtierly red heels passing from one wing of the Palace to another as the Prince was lying on his death-bed, and favour was to flow from another source, still Pepys's Diary was unequalled in its peculiar quality of amusement. The lightest part of the Diary was of value, historically, for it enabled one to see London of 200 years ago, and, what was more, to see it with the eager eyes of Pepys. It was not Pepys the official who had brought that large gathering together that day in honour of his memory: it was Pepys the Diarist. "

In concluding this account of the chief particulars of Pepys's lifeit may be well to add a few words upon the pronunciation of hisname. Various attempts appear to have been made to represent thisphonetically. Lord Braybrooke, in quoting the entry of death fromSt. Olave's Registers, where the spelling is "Peyps, " wrote, "This isdecisive as to the proper pronunciation of the name. " This spelling mayshow that the name was pronounced as a monosyllable, but it is scarcelyconclusive as to anything else, and Lord Braybrooke does not say whathe supposes the sound of the vowels to have been. At present there arethree pronunciations in use--Peps, which is the most usual; Peeps, whichis the received one at Magdalene College, and Peppis, which I learn fromMr. Walter C. Pepys is the one used by other branches of the family. Mr. Pepys has paid particular attention to this point, and in his valuable"Genealogy of the Pepys Family" (1887) he has collected seventeenvarieties of spelling of the name, which are as follows, the dates ofthe documents in which the form appears being attached:

1. Pepis (1273); 2. Pepy (1439); 3. Pypys (1511); 4. Pipes (1511); 5. Peppis (1518); 6. Peppes (1519); 7. Pepes (1520); 8. Peppys (1552); 9. Peaps (1636); 10. Pippis (1639); 11. Peapys (1653); 12. Peps (1655); 13. Pypes (1656); 14. Peypes (1656); 15. Peeps (1679); 16. Peepes (1683);17. Peyps (1703). Mr. Walter Pepys adds:--

 "The accepted spelling of the name 'Pepys' was adopted generally about the end of the seventeenth century, though it occurs many years before that time. There have been numerous ways of pronouncing the name, as 'Peps, ' 'Peeps, ' and 'Peppis. ' The Diarist undoubtedly pronounced it 'Peeps, ' and the lineal descendants of his sister Paulina, the family of 'Pepys Cockerell' pronounce it so to this day. The other branches of the family all pronounce it as 'Peppis, ' and I am led to be satisfied that the latter pronunciation is correct by the two facts that in the earliest known writing it is spelt 'Pepis, ' and that the French form of the name is 'Pepy. '"

The most probable explanation is that the name in the seventeenthcentury was either pronounced 'Pips' or 'Papes'; for both the forms 'ea'and 'ey' would represent the latter pronunciation. The general change inthe pronunciation of the spelling 'ea' from 'ai' to 'ee' took place in alarge number of words at the end of the seventeenth and beginning ofthe eighteenth-century, and three words at least (yea, break, and great)keep this old pronunciation still. The present Irish pronunciationof English is really the same as the English pronunciation of theseventeenth century, when the most extensive settlement of Englishmenin Ireland took place, and the Irish always pronounce ea like ai (as, He gave him a nate bating--neat beating). Again, the 'ey' of Peyps wouldrhyme with they and obey. English literature is full of illustrations ofthe old pronunciation of ea, as in "Hudibras;"

 "Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated as to cheat, "

which was then a perfect rhyme. In the "Rape of the Lock" tea (tay)rhymes with obey, and in Cowper's verses on Alexander Selkirk sea rhymeswith survey. ' It is not likely that the pronunciation of the name wasfixed, but there is every reason to suppose that the spellings of Peypsand Peaps were intended to represent the sound Pepes rather than Peeps. 

In spite of all the research which has brought to light so manyincidents of interest in the life of Samuel Pepys, we cannot but feelhow dry these facts are when placed by the side of the living details ofthe Diary. It is in its pages that the true man is displayed, and it hastherefore not been thought necessary here to do more than set down inchronological order such facts as are known of the life outside theDiary. A fuller "appreciation" of the man must be left for some futureoccasion. 

 H. B. W. 

JANUARY 1659-1660

 [The year did not legally begin in England before the 25th March until the act for altering the style fixed the 1st of January as the first day of the year, and previous to 1752 the year extended from March 25th to the following March 24th. Thus since 1752 we have been in the habit of putting the two dates for the months of January and February and March 1 to 24--in all years previous to 1752. Practically, however, many persons considered the year to commence with January 1st, as it will be seen Pepys did. The 1st of January was considered as New Year's day long before Pepys's time. The fiscal year has not been altered; and the national accounts are still reckoned from old Lady Day, which falls on the 6th of April. ]

Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold. 

 [Pepys was successfully cut for the stone on March 26th, 1658. See March 26th below. Although not suffering from this cause again until the end of his life, there are frequent references in the Diary to pain whenever he caught cold. In a letter from Pepys to his nephew Jackson, April 8th, 1700, there is a reference to the breaking out three years before his death of the wound caused by the cutting for the stone: "It has been my calamity for much the greatest part of this time to have been kept bedrid, under an evil so rarely known as to have had it matter of universal surprise and with little less general opinion of its dangerousness; namely, that the cicatrice of a wound occasioned upon my cutting for the stone, without hearing anything of it in all this time, should after more than 40 years' perfect cure, break out again. " At the post-mortem examination a nest of seven stones, weighing four and a half ounces, was found in the left kidney, which was entirely ulcerated. ]

I lived in Axe Yard, [Pepys's house was on the south side of King Street, Westminster; it is singular that when he removed to a residence in the city, he should have settled close to another Axe Yard. Fludyer Street stands on the site of Axe Yard, which derived its name from a great messuage or brewhouse on the west side of King Street, called "The Axe, " and referred to in a document of the 23rd of Henry VIII--B. ]

having my wife, and servant Jane, and no more in family than us three. My wife.... Gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last dayof the year.... [the hope was belied. ]

[Ed. Note:.... Are used to denote censored passages]

The condition of the State was thus; viz. The Rump, after beingdisturbed by my Lord Lambert, [John Lambert, major-general in the Parliamentary army. The title Lord was not his by right, but it was frequently given to the republican officers. He was born in 1619, at Calton Hall, in the parish of Kirkby-in-Malham-Dale, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. In 1642 he was appointed captain of horse under Fairfax, and acted as major-general to Cromwell in 1650 during the war in Scotland. After this Parliament conferred on him a grant of lands in Scotland worth L1000 per annum. He refused to take the oath of allegiance to Cromwell, for which the Protector deprived him of his commission. After Cromwell's death he tried to set up a military government. The Commons cashiered Lambert, Desborough, and other officers, October 12th, 1659, but Lambert retaliated by thrusting out the Commons, and set out to meet Monk. His men fell away from him, and he was sent to the Tower, March 3rd, 1660, but escaped. In 1662 he was tried on a charge of high treason and condemned, but his life was spared. It is generally stated that he passed the remainder of his life in the island of Guernsey, but this is proved to be incorrect by a MS. In the Plymouth Athenaeum, entitled "Plimmouth Memoirs collected by James Yonge, 1684" This will be seen from the following extracts quoted by Mr. R. J. King, in "Notes and Queries, " "1667 Lambert the arch-rebel brought to this island [St. Nicholas, at the entrance of Plymouth harbour]. " "1683 Easter day Lambert that olde rebell dyed this winter on Plimmouth Island where he had been prisoner 15 years and more. "]

was lately returned to sit again. The officers of the Army all forced toyield. Lawson

 [Sir John Lawson, the son of a poor man at Hull, entered the navy as a common sailor, rose to the rank of admiral, and distinguished himself during the Protectorate. Though a republican, he readily closed with the design of restoring the King. He was vice-admiral under the Earl of Sandwich, and commanded the "London" in the squadron which conveyed Charles II. To England. He was mortally wounded in the action with the Dutch off Harwich, June, 1665. He must not be confounded with another John Lawson, the Royalist, of Brough Hall, in Yorkshire, who was created a Baronet by Charles II, July 6th, 1665. ]

lies still in the river, and Monk--[George Monk, born 1608, created Dukeof Albemarle, 1660, married Ann Clarges, March, 1654, died January 3rd, 1676. ]--is with his army in Scotland. Only my Lord Lambert is not yetcome into the Parliament, nor is it expected that he will without beingforced to it. The new Common Council of the City do speak very high; andhad sent to Monk their sword-bearer, to acquaint him with their desiresfor a free and full Parliament, which is at present the desires, and thehopes, and expectation of all. Twenty-two of the old secluded members

 ["The City sent and invited him [Monk] to dine the next day at Guildhall, and there he declared for the members whom the army had forced away in year forty-seven and forty-eight, who were known by the names of secluded members. "--Burnet's Hist. Of his Own Time, book i. ]

having been at the House-door the last week to demand entrance, but itwas denied them; and it is believed that [neither] they nor the peoplewill be satisfied till the House be filled. My own private conditionvery handsome, and esteemed rich, but indeed very poor; besides my goodsof my house, and my office, which at present is somewhat uncertain. Mr. Downing master of my office. 

 [George Downing was one of the Four Tellers of the Receipt of the Exchequer, and in his office Pepys was a clerk. He was the son of Emmanuel Downing of the Inner Temple, afterwards of Salem, Massachusetts, and of Lucy, sister of Governor John Winthrop. He is supposed to have been born in August, 1623. He and his parents went to New England in 1638, and he was the second graduate of Harvard College. He returned to England about 1645, and acted as Colonel Okey's chaplain before he entered into political life. Anthony a Wood (who incorrectly describes him as the son of Dr. Calybute Downing, vicar of Hackney) calls Downing a sider with all times and changes: skilled in the common cant, and a preacher occasionally. He was sent by Cromwell to Holland in 1657, as resident there. At the Restoration, he espoused the King's cause, and was knighted and elected M. P. For Morpeth, in 1661. Afterwards, becoming Secretary to the Treasury and Commissioner of the Customs, he was in 1663 created a Baronet of East Hatley, in Cambridgeshire, and was again sent Ambassador to Holland. His grandson of the same name, who died in 1749, was the founder of Downing College, Cambridge. The title became extinct in 1764, upon the decease of Sir John Gerrard Downing, the last heir-male of the family. Sir George Downing's character will be found in Lord Clarendon's "Life, " vol. Iii. P. 4. Pepys's opinion seems to be somewhat of a mixed kind. He died in July, 1684. ]

Jan. 1st (Lord's day). This morning (we living lately in the garret, )I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn anyother, clothes but them. Went to Mr. Gunning's

 [Peter Gunning, afterwards Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, and successively Bishop of Chichester and Ely. He had continued to read the Liturgy at the chapel at Exeter House when the Parliament was most predominant, for which Cromwell often rebuked him. Evelyn relates that on Christmas Day, 1657, the chapel was surrounded with soldiers, and the congregation taken prisoners, he and his wife being among them. There are several notices of Dr. Gunning in Evelyn's Diary. When he obtained the mastership of St. John's College upon the ejection of Dr. Tuckney, he allowed that Nonconformist divine a handsome annuity during his life. He was a great controversialist, and a man of great reading. Burnet says he "was a very honest sincere man, but of no sound judgment, and of no prudence in affairs" ("Hist. Of his Own. Time"). He died July 6th, 1684, aged seventy-one. ]

chapel at Exeter House, where he made a very good sermon upon thesewords:--"That in the fulness of time God sent his Son, made of a woman, "&c. ; showing, that, by "made under the law, " is meant his circumcision, which is solemnized this day. Dined at home in the garret, where my wifedressed the remains of a turkey, and in the doing of it she burned herhand. I staid at home all the afternoon, looking over my accounts; thenwent with my wife to my father's, and in going observed the great postswhich the City have set up at the Conduit in Fleet-street. Supt at myfather's, where in came Mrs. The. Turner--[Theophila Turner, daughter ofSergeant John and Jane Turner, who married Sir Arthur Harris, Bart. Shedied 1686. ]--and Madam Morrice, and supt with us. After that my wife andI went home with them, and so to our own home. 

2nd. In the morning before I went forth old East brought me a dozen ofbottles of sack, and I gave him a shilling for his pains. Then I went toMr. Sheply, --[Shepley was a servant of Admiral Sir Edward Montagu]--whowas drawing of sack in the wine cellar to send to other places as a giftfrom my Lord, and told me that my Lord had given him order to give methe dozen of bottles. Thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. Calthropp about the L60 due to my Lord, [Sir Edward Montagu, born 1625, son of Sir Sidney Montagu, by Paulina, daughter of John Pepys of Cottenham, married Jemima, daughter of John Crew of Stene. He died in action against the Dutch in Southwold Bay, May 28th, 1672. The title of "My Lord" here applied to Montagu before he was created Earl of Sandwich is of the same character as that given to General Lambert. ]

but missed of him, he being abroad. Then I went to Mr. Crew's

 [John Crew, born 1598, eldest son of Sir Thomas Crew, Sergeant-at- Law and Speaker of the House of Commons. He sat for Brackley in the Long Parliament. Created Baron Crew of Stene, in the county of Northampton, at the coronation of Charles II. He married Jemima, daughter and co-heir of Edward Walgrave (or Waldegrave) of Lawford, Essex. His house was in Lincoln's Inn Fields. He died December 12th, 1679. ]

and borrowed L10 of Mr. Andrewes for my own use, and so went to myoffice, where there was nothing to do. Then I walked a great while inWestminster Hall, where I heard that Lambert was coming up to London;that my Lord Fairfax

 [Thomas, Lord Fairfax, Generalissimo of the Parliament forces. After the Restoration, he retired to his country seat, where he lived in private till his death, 1671. In a volume (autograph) of Lord Fairfax's Poems, preserved in the British Museum, 11744, f. 42, the following lines occur upon the 30th of January, on which day the King was beheaded. It is believed that they have never been printed. 

 "O let that day from time be bloted quitt, And beleef of 't in next age be waved, In depest silence that act concealed might, That so the creadet of our nation might be saved; But if the powre devine hath ordered this, His will's the law, and our must aquiess. "

 These wretched verses have obviously no merit; but they are curious as showing that Fairfax, who had refused to act as one of Charles I's judges; continued long afterwards to entertain a proper horror for that unfortunate monarch's fate. It has recently been pointed out to me, that the lines were not originally composed by Fairfax, being only a poor translation of the spirited lines of Statius (Sylvarum lib. V. Cap. Ii. L. 88)

 "Excidat illa dies aevo, ne postera credant Secula, nos certe taceamus; et obruta multa Nocte tegi propria patiamur crimina gentis. "

 These verses were first applied by the President de Thou to the massacre of St. Bartholomew, 1572; and in our day, by Mr. Pitt, in his memorable speech in the House of Commons, January, 1793, after the murder of Louis XVI. --B. ]

was in the head of the Irish brigade, but it was not certain what hewould declare for. The House was to-day upon finishing the act for theCouncil of State, which they did; and for the indemnity to the soldiers;and were to sit again thereupon in the afternoon. Great talk that manyplaces have declared for a free Parliament; and it is believed that theywill be forced to fill up the House with the old members. From the HallI called at home, and so went to Mr. Crew's (my wife she was to go toher father's), thinking to have dined, but I came too late, so Mr. Mooreand I and another gentleman went out and drank a cup of ale togetherin the new market, and there I eat some bread and cheese for my dinner. After that Mr. Moore and I went as far as Fleet-street together andparted, he going into the City, I to find Mr. Calthrop, but failed againof finding him, so returned to Mr. Crew's again, and from thence wentalong with Mrs. Jemimah

 [Mrs. Jemimah, or Mrs. Jem, was Jemima, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Montagu. At this time she and her sister, Mrs. Ann, seem to have been living alone with their maids in London, and Pepys's duty was to look after them. ]

home, and there she taught me how to play at cribbage. Then I went home, and finding my wife gone to see Mrs. Hunt, I went to Will's, [Pepys constantly visited "Will's" about this time; but this could not be the famous coffee-house in Covent Garden, because he mentions visiting there for the first time, February 3rd, 1663-64. It was most probably the house of William Joyce, who kept a place of entertainment at Westminster (see Jan. 29th). ]

and there sat with Mr. Ashwell talking and singing till nine o'clock, and so home, there, having not eaten anything but bread and cheese, mywife cut me a slice of brawn which. I received from my Lady;--[Jemima, wife of Sir Edward Montagu, daughter of John Crew of Stene, afterwardsLord Crew. ]--which proves as good as ever I had any. So to bed, and mywife had a very bad night of it through wind and cold. 

3rd. I went out in the morning, it being a great frost, and walked toMrs. Turner's

 [Jane, daughter of John Pepys of South Creake, Norfolk, married to John Turner, Sergeant-at-law, Recorder of York; their only child, Theophila, frequently mentioned as The. Or Theoph. , became the wife of Sir Arthur Harris, Bart. , of Stowford, Devon, and died 1686, s. P. ]

to stop her from coming to see me to-day, because of Mrs. Jem's corning, thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. Calthrop, and walked inhis chamber an hour, but could not see him, so went to Westminster, where I found soldiers in my office to receive money, and paid it them. At noon went home, where Mrs. Jem, her maid, Mr. Sheply, Hawly, andMoore dined with me on a piece of beef and cabbage, and a collar ofbrawn. We then fell to cards till dark, and then I went home with Mrs. Jem, and meeting Mr. Hawly got him to bear me company to Chancery Lane, where I spoke with Mr. Calthrop, he told me that Sir James Calthrop waslately dead, but that he would write to his Lady, that the money may bespeedily paid. Thence back to White Hall, where I understood that theParliament had passed the act for indemnity to the soldiers and officersthat would come in, in so many days, and that my Lord Lambert shouldhave benefit of the said act. They had also voted that all vacancies inthe House, by the death of any of the old members, shall be filled up;but those that are living shall not be called in. Thence I went home, and there found Mr. Hunt and his wife, and Mr. Hawly, who sat with metill ten at night at cards, and so broke up and to bed. 

4th. Early came Mr. Vanly--[Mr Vanley appears to have been Pepys'slandlord; he is mentioned again in the Diary on September 20th, 1660. ]--to me for his half-year's rent, which I had not in the house, but took his man to the office and there paid him. Then I went downinto the Hall and to Will's, where Hawly brought a piece of his Cheshirecheese, and we were merry with it. Then into the Hall again, where I metwith the Clerk and Quarter Master of my Lord's troop, and took them tothe Swan' and gave them their morning's draft, [It was not usual at this time to sit down to breakfast, but instead a morning draught was taken at a tavern. ]

they being just come to town. Mr. Jenkins shewed me two bills ofexchange for money to receive upon my Lord's and my pay. It snowed hardall this morning, and was very cold, and my nose was much swelled withcold. Strange the difference of men's talk! Some say that Lambert mustof necessity yield up; others, that he is very strong, and that theFifth-monarchy-men [will] stick to him, if he declares for a freeParliament. Chillington was sent yesterday to him with the vote ofpardon and indemnity from the Parliament. From the Hall I came home, where I found letters from Hinchinbroke

 [Hinchinbroke was Sir Edward Montagu's seat, from which he afterwards took his second title. Hinchinbroke House, so often mentioned in the Diary, stood about half a mile to the westward of the town of Huntingdon. It was erected late in the reign of Elizabeth, by Sir Henry Cromwell, on the site of a Benedictine nunnery, granted at the Dissolution, with all its appurtenances, to his father, Richard Williams, who had assumed the name of Cromwell, and whose grandson, Sir Oliver, was the uncle and godfather of the Protector. The knight, who was renowned for, his hospitality, had the honour of entertaining King James at Hinchinbroke, but, getting into pecuniary difficulties, was obliged to sell his estates, which were conveyed, July 28th, 1627, to Sir Sidney Montagu of Barnwell, father of the first Earl of Sandwich, in whose descendant they are still vested. On the morning of the 22nd January, 1830, during the minority of the seventh Earl, Hinchinbroke was almost entirely destroyed by fire, but the pictures and furniture were mostly saved, and the house has been rebuilt in the Elizabethan style, and the interior greatly improved, under the direction of Edward Blore, Esq. , R. A. --B. ]

and news of Mr. Sheply's going thither the next week. I dined at home, and from thence went to Will's to Shaw, who promised me to go along withme to Atkinson's about some money, but I found him at cards with Spicerand D. Vines, and could not get him along with me. I was vext at this, and went and walked in the Hall, where I heard that the Parliament spentthis day in fasting and prayer; and in the afternoon came letters fromthe North, that brought certain news that my Lord Lambent his forceswere all forsaking him, and that he was left with only fifty horse, andthat he did now declare for the Parliament himself; and that my LordFairfax did also rest satisfied, and had laid down his arms, and thatwhat he had done was only to secure the country against my Lord Lamberthis raising of money, and free quarter. I went to Will's again, whereI found them still at cards, and Spicer had won 14s. Of Shaw and Vines. Then I spent a little time with G. Vines and Maylard at Vines's at ourviols. 

 [It was usual to have a "chest of viols, " which consisted of six, viz. , two trebles, two tenors, and two basses (see note in North's "Memoirs of Musick, " ed. Rimbault, p. 70). The bass viol was also called the 'viola da gamba', because it was held between the legs. ]

So home, and from thence to Mr. Hunt's, and sat with them and Mr. Hawlyat cards till ten at night, and was much made of by them. Home and so tobed, but much troubled with my nose, which was much swelled. 

5th. I went to my office, where the money was again expected fromthe Excise office, but none brought, but was promised to be sent thisafternoon. I dined with Mr. Sheply, at my Lord's lodgings, upon histurkey-pie. And so to my office again; where the Excise money wasbrought, and some of it told to soldiers till it was dark. Then I wenthome, and after writing a letter to my Lord and told him the newsthat the Parliament hath this night voted that the members that weredischarged from sitting in the years 1648 and 49, were duly discharged;and that there should be writs issued presently for the calling ofothers in their places, and that Monk and Fairfax were commanded up totown, and that the Prince's lodgings were to be provided for Monk atWhitehall. Then my wife and I, it being a great frost, went to Mrs. Jem's, in expectation to eat a sack-posset, but Mr. Edward--[EdwardMontage, son of Sir Edward, and afterwards Lord Hinchinbroke. ]--notcoming it was put off; and so I left my wife playing at cards with her, and went myself with my lanthorn to Mr. Fage, to consult concerningmy nose, who told me it was nothing but cold, and after that we diddiscourse concerning public business; and he told me it is true the Cityhad not time enough to do much, but they are resolved to shake off thesoldiers; and that unless there be a free Parliament chosen, he didbelieve there are half the Common Council will not levy any money byorder of this Parliament. From thence I went to my father's, where Ifound Mrs. Ramsey and her grandchild, a pretty girl, and staid a whileand talked with them and my mother, and then took my leave, onlyheard of an invitation to go to dinner to-morrow to my cosen ThomasPepys. --[Thomas Pepys, probably the son of Thomas Pepys of London (born, 1595), brother of Samuel's father, John Pepys. ]--I went back to Mrs. Jem, and took my wife and Mrs. Sheply, and went home. 

6th. This morning Mr. Sheply and I did eat our breakfast at Mrs. Harper's, (my brother John' being with me, )

 [John Pepys was born in 1641, and his brother Samuel took great interest in his welfare, but he did not do any great credit to his elder. ]

upon a cold turkey-pie and a goose. From thence I went to my office, where we paid money to the soldiers till one o'clock, at which timewe made an end, and I went home and took my wife and went to my cosen, Thomas Pepys, and found them just sat down to dinner, which was verygood; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was nothandsome. After dinner I took my leave, leaving my wife with my cozenStradwick, --[Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice ofIreland, and wife of Thomas Stradwick. ]--and went to Westminster to Mr. Vines, where George and I fiddled a good while, Dick and his wife (whowas lately brought to bed) and her sister being there, but Mr. Hudsonnot coming according to his promise, I went away, and calling at myhouse on the wench, I took her and the lanthorn with me to my cosenStradwick, where, after a good supper, there being there my father, mother, brothers, and sister, my cosen Scott and his wife, Mr. Drawwaterand his wife, and her brother, Mr. Stradwick, we had a brave cakebrought us, and in the choosing, Pall was Queen and Mr. Stradwick wasKing. After that my wife and I bid adieu and came home, it being still agreat frost. 

7th. At my office as I was receiving money of the probate of wills, incame Mrs. Turner, Theoph. , Madame Morrice, and Joyce, and after I haddone I took them home to my house and Mr. Hawly came after, and I got adish of steaks and a rabbit for them, while they were playing a game ortwo at cards. In the middle of our dinner a messenger from Mr. Downingcame to fetch me to him, so leaving Mr. Hawly there, I went and wasforced to stay till night in expectation of the French Embassador, whoat last came, and I had a great deal of good discourse with one of hisgentlemen concerning the reason of the difference between the zeal ofthe French and the Spaniard. After he was gone I went home, and foundmy friends still at cards, and after that I went along with them to Dr. Whores (sending my wife to Mrs. Jem's to a sack-posset), where Iheard some symphony and songs of his own making, performed by Mr. May, Harding, and Mallard. Afterwards I put my friends into a coach, and wentto Mrs. Jem's, where I wrote a letter to my Lord by the post, and had mypart of the posset which was saved for me, and so we went home, and putin at my Lord's lodgings, where we staid late, eating of part of histurkey-pie, and reading of Quarles' Emblems. So home and to bed. 

8th (Sunday). In the morning I went to Mr. Gunning's, where a goodsermon, wherein he showed the life of Christ, and told us good authorityfor us to believe that Christ did follow his father's trade, and wasa carpenter till thirty years of age. From thence to my father's todinner, where I found my wife, who was forced to dine there, we nothaving one coal of fire in the house, and it being very hard frostyweather. In the afternoon my father, he going to a man's to demand somemoney due to my Aunt Bells my wife and I went to Mr. Mossum's, where astrange doctor made a very good sermon. From thence sending my wife tomy father's, I went to Mrs. Turner's, and staid a little while, and thento my father's, where I found Mr. Sheply, and after supper went hometogether. Here I heard of the death of Mr. Palmer, and that he was to beburied at Westminster tomorrow. 

9th. For these two or three days I have been much troubled with thoughtshow to get money to pay them that I have borrowed money of, by reasonof my money being in my uncle's hands. I rose early this morning, andlooked over and corrected my brother John's speech, which he is to makethe next apposition, --[Declamations at St. Paul's School, in whichthere were opponents and respondents. ]--and after that I went towards myoffice, and in my way met with W. Simons, Muddiman, and Jack Price, andwent with them to Harper's and in many sorts of talk I staid till twoof the clock in the afternoon. I found Muddiman a good scholar, an archrogue; and owns that though he writes new books for the Parliament, yet he did declare that he did it only to get money; and did talk verybasely of many of them. Among other things, W. Simons told me how hisuncle Scobel was on Saturday last called to the bar, for entering inthe journal of the House, for the year 1653, these words: "This day hisExcellence the Lord General Cromwell dissolved this House;" which wordsthe Parliament voted a forgery, and demanded of him how they came to beentered. He answered that they were his own handwriting, and that hedid it by virtue of his office, and the practice of his predecessor; andthat the intent of the practice was to--let posterity know how such andsuch a Parliament was dissolved, whether by the command of the King, orby their own neglect, as the last House of Lords was; and that to thisend, he had said and writ that it was dissolved by his Excellence theLord G[eneral]; and that for the word dissolved, he never at the timedid hear of any other term; and desired pardon if he would not dareto make a word himself when it was six years after, before they camethemselves to call it an interruption; but they were so little satisfiedwith this answer, that they did chuse a committee to report to theHouse, whether this crime of Mr. Scobell's did come within the act ofindemnity or no. Thence I went with Muddiman to the Coffee-House, andgave 18d. To be entered of the Club. Thence into the Hall, where Iheard for certain that Monk was coming to London, and that Bradshaw's 2lodgings were preparing for him. Thence to Mrs. Jem's, and found her inbed, and she was afraid that it would prove the small-pox. Thence backto Westminster Hall, where I heard how Sir H. Vane--[Sir Harry Vane theyounger, an inflexible republican. He was executed in 1662, on a chargeof conspiring the death of Charles I. ]--was this day voted out of theHouse, and to sit no more there; and that he would retire himself to hishouse at Raby, as also all the rest of the nine officers that had theircommissions formerly taken away from them, were commanded to theirfarthest houses from London during the pleasure of the Parliament. HereI met with the Quarter Master of my Lord's troop, and his clerk Mr. Jenings, and took them home, and gave them a bottle of wine, and theremainder of my collar of brawn; and so good night. After that came inMr. Hawly, who told me that I was mist this day at my office, and thatto-morrow I must pay all the money that I have, at which I was put to agreat loss how I should get money to make up my cash, and so went to bedin great trouble. 

10th. Went out early, and in my way met with Greatorex, --[RalphGreatorex, the well-known mathematical instrument maker of his day. Heis frequently mentioned by Pepys. ]--and at an alehouse he showed me thefirst sphere of wire that ever he made, and indeed it was very pleasant;thence to Mr. Crew's, and borrowed L10, and so to my office, and wasable to pay my money. Thence into the Hall, and meeting the QuarterMaster, Jenings, and Captain Rider, we four went to a cook's to dinner. Thence Jenings and I into London (it being through heat of the sun agreat thaw and dirty) to show our bills of return, and coming back dranka pint of wine at the Star in Cheapside. So to Westminster, overtakingCaptain Okeshott in his silk cloak, whose sword got hold of many peoplein walking. Thence to the Coffee-house, where were a great confluence ofgentlemen; viz. Mr. Harrington, Poultny, chairman, Gold, Dr. Petty; &c. , where admirable discourse till at night. Thence with Doling to MotherLams, who told me how this day Scott

 [Thomas Scott, M. P. , was made Secretary of State to the Commonwealth on the 17th of this same January. He signed the death warrant of Charles I. , for which he was executed at Charing Cross, October 16th, 1660. He gloried in his offence, and desired to have written on his tombstone, "Thomas Scott who adjudged to death the late king. "]

was made Intelligencer, and that the rest of the members that wereobjected against last night, their business was to be heard this dayse'nnight. Thence I went home and wrote a letter, and went to Harper's, and staid there till Tom carried it to the postboy at Whitehall. So hometo bed. 

11th. Being at Will's with Captain Barker, who hath paid me L300 thismorning at my office, in comes my father, and with him I walked, andleave him at W. Joyce's, and went myself to Mr. Crew's, but came toolate to dine, and therefore after a game at shittle-cocks--[The gameof battledore and shuttlecock was formerly much played even in tenniscourts, and was a very violent game. ]--with Mr. Walgrave and Mr. Edward, I returned to my father, and taking him from W. Joyce's, who was notabroad himself, we inquired of a porter, and by his direction went to analehouse, where after a cup or two we parted. I went towards London, andin my way went in to see Crowly, who was now grown a very great loon andvery tame. Thence to Mr. Steven's with a pair of silver snuffers, andbought a pair of shears to cut silver, and so homeward again. From homeI went to see Mrs. Jem, who was in bed, and now granted to have thesmall-pox. Back again, and went to the Coffee-house, but tarried not, and so home. 

12th. I drink my morning at Harper's with Mr. Sheply and a seaman, andso to my office, where Captain Holland came to see me, and appointed ameeting in the afternoon. Then wrote letters to Hinchinbroke and sealedthem at Will's, and after that went home, and thence to the Half Moon, where I found the Captain and Mr. Billingsly and Newman, a barber, wherewe were very merry, and had the young man that plays so well on theWelsh harp. Billingsly paid for all. Thence home, and finding my lettersthis day not gone by the carrier I new sealed them, but my brother Tomcoming we fell into discourse about my intention to feast the Joyces. I sent for a bit of meat for him from the cook's, and forgot to send myletters this night. So I went to bed, and in discourse broke to my wifewhat my thoughts were concerning my design of getting money by, &c. 

13th. Coming in the morning to my office, I met with Mr. Fage and tookhim to the Swan? He told me how high Haselrigge, and Morly, the lastnight began at my Lord Mayor's to exclaim against the City of London, saying that they had forfeited their charter. And how the Chamberlainof the City did take them down, letting them know how much they wereformerly beholding to the City, &c. He also told me that Monk's letterthat came to them by the sword-bearer was a cunning piece, and thatwhich they did not much trust to; but they were resolved to make nomore applications to the Parliament, nor to pay any money, unless thesecluded members be brought in, or a free Parliament chosen. Thenceto my office, where nothing to do. So to Will's with Mr. Pinkney, whoinvited me to their feast at his Hall the next Monday. Thence I wenthome and took my wife and dined at Mr. Wades, and after that we went andvisited Catan. From thence home again, and my wife was very unwilling tolet me go forth, but with some discontent would go out if I did, and Igoing forth towards Whitehall, I saw she followed me, and so I staid andtook her round through Whitehall, and so carried her home angry. ThenceI went to Mrs. Jem, and found her up and merry, and that it did notprove the small-pox, but only the swine-pox; so I played a game or twoat cards with her. And so to Mr. Vines, where he and I and Mr. Hudsonplayed half-a-dozen things, there being there Dick's wife and hersister. After that I went home and found my wife gone abroad to Mr. Hunt's, and came in a little after me. --So to bed. 

14th. Nothing to do at our office. Thence into the Hall, and just as Iwas going to dinner from Westminster Hall with Mr. Moore (with whomI had been in the lobby to hear news, and had spoke with Sir AnthonyAshley Cooper about my Lord's lodgings) to his house, I met with CaptainHolland, who told me that he hath brought his wife to my house, so Iposted home and got a dish of meat for them. They staid with me all theafternoon, and went hence in the evening. Then I went with my wife, and left her at market, and went myself to the Coffee-house, andheard exceeding good argument against Mr. Harrington's assertion, that overbalance of propriety [i. E. , property] was the foundation ofgovernment. Home, and wrote to Hinchinbroke, and sent that and my otherletter that missed of going on Thursday last. So to bed. 

15th. Having been exceedingly disturbed in the night with the barkingof a dog of one of our neighbours that I could not sleep for an houror two, I slept late, and then in the morning took physic, and so staidwithin all day. At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected aswell as I could his Greek speech to say the Apposition, though I believehe himself was as well able to do it as myself. After that we went toread in the great Officiale about the blessing of bells in the Church ofRome. After that my wife and I in pleasant discourse till night, thenI went to supper, and after that to make an end of this week's notes inthis book, and so to bed. It being a cold day and a great snow my physicdid not work so well as it should have done. 

16th. In the morning I went up to Mr. Crew's, and at his bedside he gaveme direction to go to-morrow with Mr. Edward to Twickenham, and likewisedid talk to me concerning things of state; and expressed his mind howjust it was that the secluded members should come to sit again. I wentfrom thence, and in my way went into an alehouse and drank my morningdraft with Matthew Andrews and two or three more of his friends, coachmen. And of one of them I did hire a coach to carry us to-morrowto Twickenham. From thence to my office, where nothing to do; but Mr. Downing he came and found me all alone; and did mention to me his goingback into Holland, and did ask me whether I would go or no, but gave melittle encouragement, but bid me consider of it; and asked me whether Idid not think that Mr. Hawly could perform the work of my office aloneor no. I confess I was at a great loss, all the day after, to bethinkmyself how to carry this business. At noon, Harry Ethall came to me andwent along with Mr. Maylard by coach as far as Salsbury Court, and therewe set him down, and we went to the Clerks, where we came a littletoo late, but in a closet we had a very good dinner by Mr. Pinkny'scourtesy, and after dinner we had pretty good singing, and one, Hazard, sung alone after the old fashion, which was very much cried up, but Idid not like it. Thence we went to the Green Dragon, on Lambeth Hill, both the Mr. Pinkney's, Smith, Harrison, Morrice, that sang the bass, Sheply and I, and there we sang of all sorts of things, and I venturedwith good success upon things at first sight, and after that I played onmy flageolet, and staid there till nine o'clock, very merry and drawnon with one song after another till it came to be so late. After thatSheply, Harrison and myself, we went towards Westminster on foot, andat the Golden Lion, near Charing Cross, we went in and drank a pint ofwine, and so parted, and thence home, where I found my wife and maida-washing. I staid up till the bell-man came by with his bell just undermy window as I was writing of this very line, and cried, "Past one ofthe clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning. " I then went to bed, andleft my wife and the maid a-washing still. 

17th. Early I went to Mr. Crew's, and having given Mr. Edward moneyto give the servants, I took him into the coach that waited for us andcarried him to my house, where the coach waited for me while I and thechild went to Westminster Hall, and bought him some pictures. In theHall I met Mr. Woodfine, and took him to Will's and drank with him. Thence the child and I to the coach, where my wife was ready, and sowe went towards Twickenham. In our way, at Kensington we understood howthat my Lord Chesterfield had killed another gentleman about half anhour before, and was fled. 

 [Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, ob. 1713, act. Suae 80. We learn, from the memoir prefixed to his "Printed Correspondence, " that he fought three duels, disarming and wounding his first and second antagonists, and killing the third. The name of the unfortunate gentleman who fell on this occasion was Woolly. Lord Chesterfield, absconding, went to Breda, where he obtained the royal pardon from Charles II. He acted a busy part in the eventful times in which he lived, and was remarkable for his steady adherence to the Stuarts. Lord Chesterfield's letter to Charles II. , and the King's answer granting the royal pardon, occur in the Correspondence published by General Sir John Murray, in 1829. 

 "Jan. 17th, 1659. The Earl of Chesterfield and Dr. Woolly's son of Hammersmith, had a quarrel about a mare of eighteen pounds price; the quarrel would not be reconciled, insomuch that a challenge passed between them. They fought a duel on the backside of Mr. Colby's house at Kensington, where the Earl and he had several passes. The Earl wounded him in two places, and would fain have then ended, but the stubbornness and pride of heart of Mr. Woolly would not give over, and the next pass [he] was killed on the spot. The Earl fled to Chelsea, and there took water and escaped. The jury found it chance-medley. "--Rugge's "Diurnal, " Addit MSS. , British Museum. --B. ]

We went forward and came about one of the clock to Mr. Fuller's, but hewas out of town, so we had a dinner there, and I gave the child 40s. To give to the two ushers. After that we parted and went homewards, itbeing market day at Brainford [Brentford]. I set my wife down and wentwith the coach to Mr. Crew's, thinking to have spoke with Mr. Mooreand Mrs. Jem, he having told me the reason of his melancholy was someunkindness from her after so great expressions of love, and how he hadspoke to her friends and had their consent, and that he would desireme to take an occasion of speaking with her, but by no means not toheighten her discontent or distaste whatever it be, but to make it up ifI can. But he being out of doors, I went away and went to see Mrs. Jem, who was now very well again, and after a game or two at cards, I lefther. So I went to the Coffee Club, and heard very good discourse; itwas in answer to Mr. Harrington's answer, who said that the state of theRoman government was not a settled government, and so it was no wonderthat the balance of propriety [i. E. , property] was in one hand, and thecommand in another, it being therefore always in a posture of war; butit was carried by ballot, that it was a steady government, though it istrue by the voices it had been carried before that it was an unsteadygovernment; so to-morrow it is to be proved by the opponents that thebalance lay in one hand, and the government in another. Thence I wentto Westminster, and met Shaw and Washington, who told me how this daySydenham

 [Colonel William Sydenham had been an active officer during the Civil Wars, on the Parliament side; M. P. For Dorsetshire, Governor of Melcombe, and one of the Committee of Safety. He was the elder brother of the celebrated physician of that name. --B. ]

was voted out of the House for sitting any more this Parliament, andthat Salloway was voted out likewise and sent to the Tower, duringthe pleasure of the House. Home and wrote by the Post, and carried toWhitehall, and coming back turned in at Harper-'s, where Jack Price was, and I drank with him and he told me, among other, things, how much theProtector

 [Richard Cromwell, third son of Oliver Cromwell, born October 4th, 1626, admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn, May 27th, 1647, fell into debt and devoted himself to hunting and field sports. His succession to his father as Protector was universally accepted at first, but the army soon began to murmur because he was not a general. Between the dissensions of various parties he fell, and the country was left in a state of anarchy: He went abroad early in the summer of 1660, and lived abroad for some years, returning to England in 1680. After his fall he bore the name of John Clarke. Died at Cheshunt, July 12th, 1712. ]

is altered, though he would seem to bear out his trouble very well, yethe is scarce able to talk sense with a man; and how he will say that"Who should a man trust, if he may not trust to a brother and an uncle;"and "how much those men have to answer before God Almighty, for theirplaying the knave with him as they did. " He told me also, that therewas; L100, 000 offered, and would have been taken for his restitution, had not the Parliament come in as they did again; and that he do believethat the Protector will live to give a testimony of his valour andrevenge yet before he dies, and that the Protector will say so himselfsometimes. Thence I went home, it being late and my wife in bed. 

18th. To my office and from thence to Will's, and there Mr. Sheplybrought me letters from the carrier and so I went home. After that toWilkinson's, where we had a dinner for Mr. Talbot, Adams, Pinkny and hisson, but his son did not come. Here we were very merry, and while I washere Mr. Fuller came thither and staid a little, while. 

After that we all went to my Lord's, whither came afterwards Mr. Harrison, and by chance seeing Mr. Butler--[Mr. Butler is usually styledby Pepys Mons. L'Impertinent. ]--coming by I called him in and so wesat drinking a bottle of wine till night. At which time MistressAnn--[Probably Mrs. (afterwards Lady) Anne Montagu, daughter of SirEdward Montagu, and sister to Mrs. Jem. ]--came with the key of my Lord'sstudy for some things, and so we all broke up and after I had gone to myhouse and interpreted my Lord's letter by his character--[The making ofciphers was a popular amusement about this time. Pepys made several forMontagu, Downing, and others. ]--I came to her again and went with her toher lodging and from thence to Mr. Crew's, where I advised with himwhat to do about my Lord's lodgings and what answer to give to Sir Ant. Cooper and so I came home and to bed. All the world is at a loss tothink what Monk will do: the City saying that he will be for them, andthe Parliament saying he will be for them. 

19th. This morning I was sent for to Mr. Downing, and at his bed side hetold me, that he had a kindness for me, and that he thought that he haddone me one; and that was, that he had got me to be one of the Clerks ofthe Council; at which I was a little stumbled, and could not tell whatto do, whether to thank him or no; but by and by I did; but not veryheartily, for I feared that his doing of it was but only to ease himselfof the salary which he gives me. After that Mr. Sheply staying below allthis time for me we went thence and met Mr. Pierce, [Pepys had two friends named Pierce, one the surgeon and the other the purser; he usually (but not always) distinguishes them. The one here alluded to was probably the surgeon, and husband of pretty Mrs. Pierce. After the Restoration James Pearse or Pierce became Surgeon to the Duke of York, and he was also Surgeon-General of the Fleet. ]

so at the Harp and Ball drank our morning draft and so to Whitehallwhere I met with Sir Ant. Cooper and did give him some answer from myLord and he did give us leave to keep the lodgings still. And so we diddetermine thereupon that Mr. Sheply might now go into the country andwould do so to-morrow. Back I went by Mr. Downing's order and staidthere till twelve o'clock in expectation of one to come to read somewritings, but he came not, so I staid all alone reading the answer ofthe Dutch Ambassador to our State, in answer to the reasons of my Lord'scoming home, which he gave for his coming, and did labour herein tocontradict my Lord's arguments for his coming home. Thence to my officeand so with Mr. Sheply and Moore, to dine upon a turkey with Mrs. Jem, and after that Mr. Moore and I went to the French Ordinary, where Mr. Downing this day feasted Sir Arth. Haselrigge, and a great many more ofthe Parliament, and did stay to put him in mind of me. Here he gave mea note to go and invite some other members to dinner tomorrow. So I wentto White Hall, and did stay at Marsh's, with Simons, Luellin, and allthe rest of the Clerks of the Council, who I hear are all turned out, only the two Leighs, and they do all tell me that my name was mentionedthe last night, but that nothing was done in it. Hence I went and didleave some of my notes at the lodgings of the members and so home. Tobed. 

20th. In the morning I went to Mr. Downing's bedside and gave him anaccount what I had done as to his guests, land I went thence to my LordWiddrington who I met in the street, going to seal the patents forthe judges to-day, and so could not come to dinner. I called upon Mr. Calthrop about the money due to my Lord. Here I met with Mr. Woodfineand drank with him at the Sun in Chancery Lane and so to WestminsterHall, where at the lobby I spoke with the rest of my guests and so to myoffice. At noon went by water with Mr. Maylard and Hales to the Swan inFish Street at our Goal Feast, where we were very merry at our Joleof Ling, and from thence after a great and good dinner Mr. Falconbergewould go drink a cup of ale at a place where I had like to have shotat a scholar that lay over the house of office. Thence calling on Mr. Stephens and Wootton (with whom I drank) about business of my Lord's Iwent to the Coffee Club where there was nothing done but choosing of aCommittee for orders. Thence to Westminster Hall where Mrs. Lane and therest of the maids had their white scarfs, all having been at the burialof a young bookseller in the Hall. 

 [These stationers and booksellers, whose shops disfigured Westminster Hall down to a late period, were a privileged class. In the statutes for appointing licensers and regulating the press, there is a clause exempting them from the pains and penalties of these obnoxious laws. ]

Thence to Mr. Sheply's and took him to my house and drank with him inorder to his going to-morrow. So parted and I sat up late making up myaccounts before he go. This day three citizens of London went to meetMonk from the Common Council!

 "Jan. 20th. Then there went out of the City, by desire of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Alderman Fowke and Alderman Vincett, alias Vincent, and Mr. Broomfield, to compliment General Monk, who lay at Harborough Town, in Leicestershire. "

 "Jan. 21st. Because the Speaker was sick, and Lord General Monk so near London, and everybody thought that the City would suffer for their affronts to the soldiery, and because they had sent the sword- bearer to, the General without the Parliament's consent, and the three Aldermen were gone to give him the welcome to town, these four lines were in almost everybody's mouth:

 "Monk under a hood, not well understood, The City pull in their horns; The Speaker is out, and sick of the gout, And the Parliament sit upon thorns. " --Rugge's 'Diurnal. '--B. "

21st. Up early in finishing my accounts and writing to my Lord and fromthence to my Lord's and took leave of Mr. Sheply and possession of allthe keys and the house. Thence to my office for some money to pay Mr. Sheply and sent it him by the old man. I then went to Mr. Downing whochid me because I did not give him notice of some of his guests failedhim but I told him that I sent our porter to tell him and he was notwithin, but he told me that he was within till past twelve o'clock. Sothe porter or he lied. Thence to my office where nothing to do. Thenwith Mr. Hawly, he and I went to Mr. Crew's and dined there. Thenceinto London, to Mr. Vernon's and I received my L25 due by bill for mytroopers' pay. Then back again to Steadman's. At the Mitre, in Fleetstreet, in our way calling on Mr. Fage, who told me how the City havesome hopes of Monk. Thence to the Mitre, where I drank a pint of wine, the house being in fitting for Banister to come hither from Paget's. Thence to Mrs. Jem and gave her L5. So home and left my money and toWhitehall where Luellin and I drank and talked together an hour atMarsh's and so up to the clerks' room, where poor Mr. Cook, a black man, that is like to be put out of his clerk's place, came and railed at mefor endeavouring to put him out and get myself in, when I was alreadyin a good condition. But I satisfied him and after I had wrote a letterthere to my Lord, wherein I gave him an account how this day Lenthalltook his chair again, and [the House] resolved a declaration to bebrought in on Monday next to satisfy the world what they intend to do. So home and to bed. 

22nd. I went in the morning to Mr. Messum's, where I met with W. Thurburn and sat with him in his pew. A very eloquent sermon about theduty of all to give good example in our lives and conversation, which Ifear he himself was most guilty of not doing. After sermon, at the doorby appointment my wife met me, and so to my father's to dinner, where wehad not been to my shame in a fortnight before. After dinner my fathershewed me a letter from Mr. Widdrington, of Christ's College, inCambridge, wherein he do express very great kindness for my brother, and my father intends that my brother shall go to him. To church in theafternoon to Mr. Herring, where a lazy poor sermon. And so home withMrs. Turner and sitting with her a while we went to my father's where wesupt very merry, and so home. This day I began to put on buckles to myshoes, which I have bought yesterday of Mr. Wotton. 

23rd. In the morning called out to carry L20 to Mr. Downing, which I didand came back, and finding Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, I took him to theAxe and gave him his morning draft. Thence to my office and there didnothing but make up my balance. Came home and found my wife dressing ofthe girl's head, by which she was made to look very pretty. I went outand paid Wilkinson what I did owe him, and brought a piece of beef homefor dinner. Thence I went out and paid Waters, the vintner, and went tosee Mrs. Jem, where I found my Lady Wright, but Scott was so drunk thathe could not be seen. Here I staid and made up Mrs. Ann's bills, andplayed a game or two at cards, and thence to Westminster Hall, it beingvery dark. I paid Mrs. Michell, my bookseller, and back to Whitehall, and in the garden, going through to the Stone Gallery--[The StoneGallery was a long passage between the Privy Garden and the river. Itled from the Bowling Green to the Court of the Palace]--I fell into aditch, it being very dark. At the Clerk's chamber I met with Simonsand Luellin, and went with them to Mr. Mount's chamber at the Cock Pit, where we had some rare pot venison, and ale to abundance till almosttwelve at night, and after a song round we went home. This day theParliament sat late, and resolved of the declaration to be printed forthe people's satisfaction, promising them a great many good things. 

24th. In the morning to my office, where, after I had drank my morningdraft at Will's with Ethell and Mr. Stevens, I went and told part of theexcise money till twelve o'clock, and then called on my wife and tookher to Mr. Pierces, she in the way being exceedingly troubled with apair of new pattens, and I vexed to go so slow, it being late. Therewhen we came we found Mrs. Carrick very fine, and one Mr. Lucy, whocalled one another husband and wife, and after dinner a great dealof mad stir. There was pulling off Mrs. Bride's and Mr. Bridegroom'sribbons;

 [The scramble for ribbons, here mentioned by Pepys in connection with weddings (see also January 26th, 1660-61, and February 8th, 1662-3), doubtless formed part of the ceremony of undressing the bridegroom, which, as the age became more refined, fell into disuse. All the old plays are silent on the custom; the earliest notice of which occurs in the old ballad of the wedding of Arthur O'Bradley, printed in the Appendix to "Robin Hood, " 1795, where we read--

 "Then got they his points and his garters, And cut them in pieces like martyrs; And then they all did play For the honour of Arthur O'Bradley. "

 Sir Winston Churchill also observes ("Divi Britannici, " p. 340) that James I. Was no more troubled at his querulous countrymen robbing him than a bridegroom at the losing of his points and garters. Lady Fanshawe, in her "Memoirs, " says, that at the nuptials of Charles II. And the Infanta, "the Bishop of London declared them married in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and then they caused the ribbons her Majesty wore to be cut in little pieces; and as far as they would go, every one had some. " The practice still survives in the form of wedding favours. 

 A similar custom is still of every day's occurrence at Dieppe. Upon the morrow after their marriage, the bride and bridegroom perambulate the streets, followed by a numerous cortege, the guests at the wedding festival, two and two; each individual wearing two bits of narrow ribbon, about two inches in length, of different colours, which are pinned crossways upon the breast. These morsels of ribbons originally formed the garters of the bride and bridegroom, which had been divided amidst boisterous mirth among the assembled company, the moment the happy pair had been formally installed in the bridal bed. --Ex. Inf. Mr. William. Hughes, Belvedere, Jersey. --B. ]

with a great deal of fooling among them that I and my wife did not like. Mr. Lucy and several other gentlemen coming in after dinner, swearingand singing as if they were mad, only he singing very handsomely. Therecame in afterwards Mr. Southerne, clerk to Mr. Blackburne, and withhim Lambert, lieutenant of my Lord's ship, and brought with them thedeclaration that came out to-day from the Parliament, wherein theydeclare for law and gospel, and for tythes; but I do not find people aptto believe them. After this taking leave I went to my father's, andmy wife staying there, he and I went to speak with Mr. Crumlum (in themeantime, while it was five o'clock, he being in the school, we wentto my cozen Tom Pepys' shop, the turner in Paul's Churchyard, and drankwith him a pot of ale); he gave my father directions what to do aboutgetting my brother an exhibition, and spoke very well of my brother. Thence back with my father home, where he and I spoke privately in thelittle room to my sister Pall about stealing of things as my wife'sscissars and my maid's book, at which my father was much troubled. Hencehome with my wife and so to Whitehall, where I met with Mr. Hunt andLuellin, and drank with them at Marsh's, and afterwards went up andwrote to my Lord by the post. This day the Parliament gave order thatthe late Committee of Safety should come before them this day se'nnight, and all their papers, and their model of Government that they had made, to be brought in with them. So home and talked with my wife about ourdinner on Thursday. 

25th. Called up early to Mr. Downing; he gave me a Character, such a oneas my Lord's, to make perfect, and likewise gave me his order for L500to carry to Mr. Frost, which I did and so to my office, where I did dosomething about the character till twelve o'clock. Then home findfound my wife and the maid at my Lord's getting things ready againstto-morrow. I went by water to my Uncle White's' to dinner, where Imet my father, where we alone had a fine jole of Ling to dinner. Afterdinner I took leave, and coming home heard that in Cheapside there hadbeen but a little before a gibbet set up, and the picture of Huson

 [John Hewson, who, from a low origin, became a colonel in the Parliament army, and sat in judgment on the King: he escaped hanging by flight, and died in 1662, at Amsterdam. A curious notice of Hewson occurs in Rugge's "Diurnal, " December 5th, 1659, which states that "he was a cobbler by trade, but a very stout man, and a very good commander; but in regard of his former employment, they [the city apprentices] threw at him old shoes, and slippers, and turniptops, and brick-bats, stones, and tiles. "... "At this time [January, 1659-60] there came forth, almost every day, jeering books: one was called 'Colonel Hewson's Confession; or, a Parley with Pluto, ' about his going into London, and taking down the gates of Temple-Bar. " He had but one eye, which did not escape the notice of his enemies. --B. ]

hung upon it in the middle of the street. I called at Paul's Churchyard, where I bought Buxtorf's Hebrew Grammar; and read a declaration of thegentlemen of Northampton which came out this afternoon. Thence to myfather's, where I staid with my mother a while and then to Mr. Crew'sabout a picture to be sent into the country, of Mr. Thomas Crew, to myLord. So [to] my Lady Wright to speak with her, but she was abroad, soMr. Evans, her butler, had me into his buttery, and gave me sack anda lesson on his lute, which he played very well. Thence I went to myLord's and got most things ready against tomorrow, as fires and layingthe cloth, and my wife was making of her tarts and larding of herpullets till eleven o'clock. This evening Mr. Downing sent for me, andgave me order to go to Mr. Jessop for his papers concerning his dispatchto Holland which were not ready, only his order for a ship to transporthim he gave me. To my Lord's again and so home with my wife, tired withthis day's work. 

26th. To my office for L20 to carry to Mr. Downing, which I did and backagain. Then came Mr. Frost to pay Mr. Downing his L500, and I went tohim for the warrant and brought it Mr. Frost. Called for some papers atWhitehall for Mr. Downing, one of which was an Order of the Council forL1800 per annum, to be paid monthly; and the other two, Orders to theCommissioners of Customs, to let his goods pass free. Home from myoffice to my Lord's lodgings where my wife had got ready a very finedinner--viz. A dish of marrow bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal;a dish of fowl, three pullets, and two dozen of larks all in a dish; agreat tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns andcheese. My company was my father, my uncle Fenner, his two sons, Mr. Pierce, and all their wives, and my brother Tom. We were as merry as Icould frame myself to be in the company, W. Joyce talking after the oldrate and drinking hard, vexed his father and mother and wife. And I didperceive that Mrs. Pierce her coming so gallant, that it put the twoyoung women quite out of courage. When it became dark they all wentaway but Mr. Pierce, and W. Joyce, and their wives and Tom, and drank abottle of wine afterwards, so that Will did heartily vex his father andmother by staying. At which I and my wife were much pleased. Then theyall went and I fell to writing of two characters for Mr. Downing, andcarried them to him at nine o'clock at night, and he did not like thembut corrected them, so that to-morrow I am to do them anew. To my Lord'slodging again and sat by the great log, it being now a very good fire, with my wife, and ate a bit and so home. The news this day is a letterthat speaks absolutely Monk's concurrence with this Parliament, andnothing else, which yet I hardly believe. After dinner to-day myfather showed me a letter from my Uncle Robert, in answer to my last, concerning my money which I would have out of my Coz. Beck's' hand, wherein Beck desires it four months longer, which I know not how tospare. 

27th. Going to my office I met with Tom Newton, my old comrade, and tookhim to the Crown in the Palace, and gave him his morning draft. And ashe always did, did talk very high what he would do with the Parliament, that he would have what place he would, and that he might be one of theClerks to the Council if he would. Here I staid talking with him tillthe offices were all shut, and then I looked in the Hall, and was toldby my bookseller, Mrs. Michell, that Mr. G. Montagu had inquired therefor me. So I went to his house, and was forced by him to dine with him, and had a plenteous brave dinner and the greatest civility that ever Ihad from any man. Thence home and so to Mrs. Jem, and played with herat cards, and coming home again my wife told me that Mr. Hawly had beenthere to speak with me, and seemed angry that I had not been at theoffice that day, and she told me she was afraid that Mr. Downing mayhave a mind to pick some hole in my coat. So I made haste to him, butfound no such thing from him, but he sent me to Mr. Sherwin's aboutgetting Mr. Squib to come to him tomorrow, and I carried him an answer. So home and fell a writing the characters for Mr. Downing, and aboutnine at night Mr. Hawly came, and after he was gone I sat up till almosttwelve writing, and--wrote two of them. In the morning up early andwrote another, my wife lying in bed and reading to me. 

28th. I went to Mr. Downing and carried him three characters, and thento my office and wrote another, while Mr. Frost staid telling money. Andafter I had done it Mr. Hawly came into the office and I left him andcarried it to Mr. Downing, who then told me that he was resolved to begone for Holland this morning. So I to my office again, and dispatch mybusiness there, and came with Mr. Hawly to Mr. Downing's lodging, andtook Mr. Squib from White Hall in a coach thither with me, and there wewaited in his chamber a great while, till he came in; and in the meantime, sent all his things to the barge that lay at Charing-CrossStairs. Then came he in, and took a very civil leave of me, beyond myexpectation, for I was afraid that he would have told me something ofremoving me from my office; but he did not, but that he would do me anyservice that lay in his power. So I went down and sent a porter to myhouse for my best fur cap, but he coming too late with it I did notpresent it to him. Thence I went to Westminster Hall, and bound up mycap at Mrs. Michell's, who was much taken with my cap, and endeavouredto overtake the coach at the Exchange and to give it him there, but Imet with one that told me that he was gone, and so I returned and wentto Heaven, [A place of entertainment within or adjoining Westminster Hall. It is called in "Hudibras, " "False Heaven, at the end of the Hall. " There were two other alehouses near Westminster Hall, called Hell and Purgatory. 

 "Nor break his fast In Heaven and Hell. "

 Ben Jonson's Alchemist, act v. SC. 2. ]

where Luellin and I dined on a breast of mutton all alone, discoursingof the changes that we have seen and the happiness of them that haveestates of their own, and so parted, and I went by appointment to myoffice and paid young Mr. Walton L500; it being very dark he took L300by content. He gave me half a piece and carried me in his coach toSt. Clement's, from whence I went to Mr. Crew's and made even with Mr. Andrews, and took in all my notes and gave him one for all. Then tomy Lady Wright and gave her my Lord's letter which he bade me give herprivately. So home and then to Will's for a little news, then came homeagain and wrote to my Lord, and so to Whitehall and gave them to thepost-boy. Back again home and to bed. 

29th. In the morning I went to Mr. Gunning's, where he made an excellentsermon upon the 2d of the Galatians, about the difference that fellbetween St. Paul and St. Peter (the feast day of St. Paul being a dayor two ago), whereby he did prove, that, contrary to the doctrine ofthe Roman Church, St. Paul did never own any dependance, or that he wasinferior to St. Peter, but that they were equal, only one a particularcharge of preaching to the Jews, and the other to the Gentiles. HereI met with Mr. Moore, and went home with him to dinner to Mr. Crew's, where Mr. Spurrier being in town did dine with us. From thence I wenthome and spent the afternoon in casting up my accounts, and do findmyself to be worth L40 and more, which I did not think, but am afraidthat I have forgot something. To my father's to supper, where I heard bymy brother Tom how W. Joyce would the other day have Mr. Pierce and hiswife to the tavern after they were gone from my house, and that he hadso little manners as to make Tom pay his share notwithstanding thathe went upon his account, and by my father I understand that my uncleFenner and my aunt were much pleased with our entertaining them. Aftersupper home without going to see Mrs. Turner. 

30th. This morning, before I was up, I fell a-singing of my song, "Great, good, and just, " &c. 

 [This is the beginning of the Marquis of Montrose's verses on the execution of Charles I. , which Pepys had set to music:

 "Great, good, and just, could I but rate My grief and thy too rigid fate, I'd weep the world to such a strain That it should deluge once again. But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies More from Briareus' hands, than Argus eyes, I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds, And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds. "]

and put myself thereby in mind that this was the fatal day, now tenyears since, his Majesty died. Scull the waterman came and brought mea note from the Hope from Mr. Hawly with direction, about his money, hetarrying there till his master be gone. To my office, where I receivedmoney of the excise of Mr. Ruddyer, and after we had done went to Will'sand staid there till 3 o'clock and then I taking my L12 10s. 0d. Due tome for my last quarter's salary, I went with them by water to London tothe house where Signr. Torriano used to be and staid there a while withMr. Ashwell, Spicer and Ruddier. Then I went and paid L12 17s. 6d. Duefrom me to Captn. Dick Matthews according to his direction the last weekin a letter. After that I came back by water playing on my flageoletteand not finding my wife come home again from her father's I went and satawhile and played at cards with Mrs. Jam, whose maid had newly got anague and was ill thereupon. So homewards again, having great need todo my business, and so pretending to meet Mr. Shott the wood monger ofWhitehall I went and eased myself at the Harp and Ball, and thence homewhere I sat writing till bed-time and so to bed. There seems now to bea general cease of talk, it being taken for granted that Monk do resolveto stand to the Parliament, and nothing else. Spent a little time thisnight in knocking up nails for my hat and cloaks in my chamber. 

31st. In the morning I fell to my lute till 9 o'clock. Then to my Lord'slodgings and set out a barrel of soap to be carried to Mrs. Ann. Here Imet with Nick Bartlet, one that had been a servant of my Lord's at seaand at Harper's gave him his morning draft. So to my office where Ipaid; L1200 to Mr. Frost and at noon went to Will's to give one of theExcise office a pot of ale that came to-day to tell over a bag of histhat wanted; L7 in it, which he found over in another bag. Then home anddined with my wife when in came Mr. Hawly newly come from shipboardfrom his master, and brought me a letter of direction what to do inhis lawsuit with Squib about his house and office. After dinner toWestminster Hall, where all we clerks had orders to wait upon theCommittee, at the Star Chamber that is to try Colonel Jones, [Colonel John Jones, impeached, with General Ludlow and Miles Corbet, for treasonable practices in Ireland. ]

and were to give an account what money we had paid him; but theCommittee did not sit to-day. Hence to Will's, where I sat an hour ortwo with Mr. Godfrey Austin, a scrivener in King Street. Here I met andafterwards bought the answer to General Monk's letter, which is a verygood one, and I keep it by me. Thence to Mrs. Jem, where I found hermaid in bed in a fit of the ague, and Mrs. Jem among the people below atwork and by and by she came up hot and merry, as if they had given herwine, at which I was troubled, but said nothing; after a game at cards, I went home and wrote by the post and coming back called in at Harper'sand drank with Mr. Pulford, servant to Mr. Waterhouse, who tells me, that whereas my Lord Fleetwood should have answered to the Parliamentto-day, he wrote a letter and desired a little more time, he being agreat way out of town. And how that he is quite ashamed of himself, andconfesses how he had deserved this, for his baseness to his brother. And that he is like to pay part of the money, paid out of the Exchequerduring the Committee of Safety, out of his own purse again, which I amglad of. Home and to bed, leaving my wife reading in Polixandre. 

 ["Polexandre, " by Louis Le Roy de Gomberville, was first published in 1632. "The History of Polexander" was "done into English by W. Browne, " and published in folio, London, 1647. It was the earliest of the French heroic romances, and it appears to have been the model for the works of Calprenede and Mdlle. De Scuderi; see Dunlop's "History of Fiction" for the plot of the romance. ]

I could find nothing in Mr. Downing's letter, which Hawly brought me, concerning my office; but I could discern that Hawly had a mind that Iwould get to be Clerk of the Council, I suppose that he might have thegreater salary; but I think it not safe yet to change this for a publicemployment. 

FEBRUARY 1659-1660

February 1st. In the morning went to my office where afterwards theold man brought me my letters from the carrier. At noon I went home anddined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else. After that Iwent to the Hall and there met with Mr. Swan and went with him to Mr. Downing's Counsellor, who did put me in very little hopes about thebusiness between Mr. Downing and Squib, and told me that Squib wouldcarry it against him, at which I was much troubled, and with him wentto Lincoln's Inn and there spoke with his attorney, who told me theday that was appointed for the trial. From thence I went to SirHarry Wright's and got him to give me his hand for the L60 which I amto-morrow to receive from Mr. Calthrop and from thence to Mrs. Jem andspoke with Madam Scott and her husband who did promise to have the thingfor her neck done this week. Thence home and took Gammer East, and Jamesthe porter, a soldier, to my Lord's lodgings, who told me how they weredrawn into the field to-day, and that they were ordered to march awayto-morrow to make room for General Monk; but they did shut their ColonelFitch, and the rest of the officers out of the field, and swore theywould not go without their money, and if they would not give it them, they would go where they might have it, and that was the City. So theColonel went to the Parliament, and commanded what money could be got, to be got against to-morrow for them, and all the rest of the soldiersin town, who in all places made a mutiny this day, and do agreetogether. Here I took some bedding to send to Mrs. Ann for her to liein now she hath her fits of the ague. Thence I went to Will's and staidlike a fool there and played at cards till 9 o'clock and so came home, where I found Mr. Hunt and his wife who staid and sat with me till 10and so good night. 

2d. Drank at Harper's with Doling, and so to my office, where I foundall the officers of the regiments in town, waiting to receive money thattheir soldiers might go out of town, and what was in the Exchequer theyhad. At noon after dining at home I called at Harper's for Doling, andhe and I met with Luellin and drank with him at the Exchequer at CharingCross, and thence he and I went to the Temple to Mr. Calthrop's chamber, and from thence had his man by water to London Bridge to Mr. Calthrop, a grocer, and received L60 for my Lord. In our way we talked with ourwaterman, White, who told us how the watermen had lately been abused bysome that had a desire to get in to be watermen to the State, and hadlately presented an address of nine or ten thousand hands to stand bythis Parliament, when it was only told them that it was to a petitionagainst hackney coaches; and that to-day they had put out another toundeceive the world and to clear themselves, and that among the restCropp, my waterman and one of great practice, was one that did cheatthem thus. After I had received the money we went to the Bridge Tavernand drank a quart of wine and so back by water, landing Mr. Calthrop'sman at the Temple and we went homewards, but over against SomersetHouse, hearing the noise of guns, we landed and found the Strand fullof soldiers. So I took my money and went to Mrs. Johnson, my Lord'ssempstress, and giving her my money to lay up, Doling and I went upstairs to a window, and looked out and see the foot face the horse andbeat them back, and stood bawling and calling in the street for a freeParliament and money. By and by a drum was heard to beat a march comingtowards them, and they got all ready again and faced them, and theyproved to be of the same mind with them; and so they made a great dealof joy to see one another. After all this, I took my money, and wenthome on foot and laying up my money, and changing my stockings andshoes, I this day having left off my great skirt suit, and put on mywhite suit with silver lace coat, and went over to Harper's, where I metwith W. Simons, Doling, Luellin and three merchants, one of which hadoccasion to use a porter, so they sent for one, and James the soldiercame, who told us how they had been all day and night upon their guardat St. James's, and that through the whole town they did resolve tostand to what they had began, and that to-morrow he did believe theywould go into the City, and be received there. After all this we went toa sport called, selling of a horse for a dish of eggs and herrings, andsat talking there till almost twelve o'clock and then parted, they wereto go as far as Aldgate. Home and to bed. 

3rd. Drank my morning draft at Harper's, and was told there that thesoldiers were all quiet upon promise of pay. Thence to St. James's Park, and walked there to my place for my flageolet and then played a little, it being a most pleasant morning and sunshine. Back to Whitehall, wherein the guard-chamber I saw about thirty or forty 'prentices of theCity, who were taken at twelve o'clock last night and brought prisonershither. Thence to my office, where I paid a little more money to someof the soldiers under Lieut. -Col. Miller (who held out the Tower againstthe Parliament after it was taken away from Fitch by the Committee ofSafety, and yet he continued in his office). About noon Mrs. Turner cameto speak with me, and Joyce, and I took them and shewed them the mannerof the Houses sitting, the doorkeeper very civilly opening the door forus. Thence with my cozen Roger Pepys, [Roger Pepys, son of Talbot Pepys of Impington, a barrister of the Middle Temple, M. P. For Cambridge, 1661-78, and Recorder of that town, 1660-88. He married, for the third time, Parnell, daughter and heiress of John Duke, of Workingham, co. Suffolk, and this was the wedding for which the posy ring was required. ]

it being term time, we took him out of the Hall to Priors, the Rhenishwine-house, and there had a pint or two of wine and a dish of anchovies, and bespoke three or four dozen bottles of wine for him against hiswedding. After this done he went away, and left me order to call andpay for all that Mrs. Turner would have. So we called for nothing morethere, but went and bespoke a shoulder of mutton at Wilkinson's to beroasted as well as it could be done, and sent a bottle of wine hometo my house. In the meantime she and I and Joyce went walking all overWhite Hall, whither General Monk was newly come, and we saw all hisforces march by in very good plight and stout officers. Thence to myhouse where we dined, but with a great deal of patience, for the muttoncame in raw, and so we were fain to stay the stewing of it. In themeantime we sat studying a Posy

 [It is supposed that the fashion of having mottoes inscribed on rings was of Roman origin. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the posy was inscribed on the outside of the ring, and in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was placed inside. A small volume was published in 1674, entitled "Love's Garland: or Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves, and such pretty tokens that Lovers send their Loves. "]

for a ring for her which she is to have at Roger Pepys his wedding. After dinner I left them and went to hear news, but only found that theParliament House was most of them with Monk at White Hall, and thatin his passing through the town he had many calls to him for a freeParliament, but little other welcome. I saw in the Palace Yard howunwilling some of the old soldiers were yet to go out of town withouttheir money, and swore if they had it not in three days, as they werepromised, they would do them more mischief in the country than ifthey had staid here; and that is very likely, the country being alldiscontented. The town and guards are already full of Monk's soldiers. I returned, and it growing dark I and they went to take a turn in thepark, where Theoph. (who was sent for to us to dinner) outran my wifeand another poor woman, that laid a pot of ale with me that she wouldoutrun her. After that I set them as far as Charing Cross, and thereleft them and my wife, and I went to see Mrs. Ann, who began very highabout a flock bed I sent her, but I took her down. Here I played atcards till 9 o'clock. So home and to bed. 

4th. In the morning at my lute an hour, and so to my office, where Istaid expecting to have Mr. Squib come to me, but he did not. At noonwalking in the Hall I found Mr. Swan and got him and Captain Stonetogether, and there advised about Mr. Downing's business. So to Will's, and sat there till three o'clock and then to Mr. Swan's, where I foundhis wife in very genteel mourning for her father, and took him out bywater to the Counsellor at the Temple, Mr. Stephens, and from thence toGray's Inn, thinking to speak with Sotherton Ellis, but found him not, so we met with an acquaintance of his in the walks, and went and drank, where I ate some bread and butter, having ate nothing all day, whilethey were by chance discoursing of Marriot, the great eater, so that Iwas, I remember, ashamed to eat what I would have done. Here Swan shewedus a ballad to the tune of Mardike which was most incomparably wrote ina printed hand, which I borrowed of him, but the song proved but silly, and so I did not write it out. Thence we went and leaving Swan at hismaster's, my Lord Widdrington, I met with Spicer, Washington, and D. Vines in Lincoln's Inn Court, and they were buying of a hanging jack toroast birds on of a fellow that was there selling of some. I was fain toslip from there and went to Mrs. Crew's to her and advised about a maidto come and be with Mrs. Jem while her maid is sick, but she could sparenone. Thence to Sir Harry Wright's, but my lady not being within I spoketo Mrs. Carter about it, who will get one against Monday. So with a linkboy

 [Links were torches of tow or pitch to light the way. Ed. ]

to Scott's, where Mrs. Ann was in a heat, but I spoke not to her, but told Mrs. Jem what I had done, and after that went home and wroteletters into the country by the post, and then played awhile on my lute, and so done, to supper and then to bed. All the news to-day is, thatthe Parliament this morning voted the House to be made up four hundredforthwith. This day my wife killed her turkeys that Mr. Sheply gave her, that came out of Zealand with my Lord, and could not get her m'd Jane byno means at any time to kill anything. 

5th, (Lord's day). In the morning before church time Mr. Hawly, who hadfor this day or two looked something sadly, which methinks did speaksomething in his breast concerning me, came to me telling me that hewas out L24 which he could not tell what was become of, and that he doremember that he had such a sum in a bag the other day, and could nottell what he did with it, at which I was very sorry but could nothelp him. In the morning to Mr. Gunning, where a stranger, an old man, preached a good honest sermon upon "What manner of love is this thatwe should be called the sons of God. " After sermon I could not find mywife, who promised to be at the gate against my coming out, and waitedthere a great while; then went to my house and finding her gone Ireturned and called at the Chequers, thinking to dine at the ordinarywith Mr. Chetwind and Mr. Thomas, but they not being there I went to myfather and found her there, and there I dined. To their church in theafternoon, and in Mrs. Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hoodand kept it. A stranger preached a poor sermon, and so read over thewhole book of the story of Tobit. After sermon home with Mrs. Turner, staid with her a little while, then she went into the court to achristening and we to my father's, where I wrote some notes for mybrother John to give to the Mercers' to-morrow, it being the day oftheir apposition. After supper home, and before going to bed I staidwriting of this day its passages, while a drum came by, beating of astrange manner of beat, now and then a single stroke, which my wifeand I wondered at, what the meaning of it should be. This afternoonat church I saw Dick Cumberland newly come out of the country from hisliving, but did not speak to him. 

6th. Before I went to my office I went to Mr. Crew's and paid Mr. Andrews the same L60 that he had received of Mr. Calthrop the last week. So back to Westminster and walked with him thither, where we found thesoldiers all set in the Palace Yard, to make way for General Monk tocome to the House. At the Hall we parted, and meeting Swan, he and I tothe Swan and drank our morning draft. So back again to the Hall, whereI stood upon the steps and saw Monk go by, he making observance to thejudges as he went along. At noon my father dined with me upon my turkeythat was brought from Denmark, and after dinner he and I to the BullHead Tavern, where we drank half a pint of wine and so parted. I to Mrs. Ann, and Mrs. Jem being gone out of the chamber she and I had a veryhigh bout, I rattled her up, she being in her bed, but she becoming morecool, we parted pretty good friends. Thence I went to Will's, where Istaid at cards till 10 o'clock, losing half a crown, and so home to bed. 

7th. In the morning I went early to give Mr. Hawly notice of my beingforced to go into London, but he having also business we left our officebusiness to Mr. Spicer and he and I walked as far as the Temple, whereI halted a little and then went to Paul's School, but it being too soon, went and drank my morning draft with my cozen Tom Pepys the turner, andsaw his house and shop, thence to school, where he that made the speechfor the seventh form in praise of the founder, did show a book whichMr. Crumlum had lately got, which is believed to be of the Founder's ownwriting. After all the speeches, in which my brother John came off aswell as any of the rest, I went straight home and dined, then to theHall, where in the Palace I saw Monk's soldiers abuse Billing and allthe Quakers, that were at a meeting-place there, and indeed the soldiersdid use them very roughly and were to blame. 

 ["Fox, or some other 'weighty' friend, on hearing of this, complained to Monk, who issued the following order, dated March 9th: 'I do require all officers and soldiers to forbear to disturb peaceable meetings of the Quakers, they doing nothing prejudicial to the Parliament or the Commonwealth of England. George Monk. ' This order, we are told, had an excellent effect on the soldiers. "--A. C. Bickley's 'George Fox and the Early Quakers, London, 1884, p. 179. The Quakers were at this time just coming into notice. The first preaching of George Fox, the founder, was in 1648, and in 1655 the preachers of the sect numbered seventy-three. Fox computed that there were seldom less than a thousand quakers in prison. The statute 13 and 14 Car. II. Cap. I. (1662) was "An act for preventing the mischiefs and dangers that may arise by certain persons called quakers and others, refusing to take lawful oaths. " Billing is mentioned again on July 22nd, 1667, when he addressed Pepys in Westminster Hall. ]

So after drinking with Mr. Spicer, who had received L600 for me thismorning, I went to Capt. Stone and with him by coach to the TempleGardens (all the way talking of the disease of the stone), where we metMr. Squib, but would do nothing till to-morrow morning. Thence back onfoot home, where I found a letter from my Lord in character [privatecryptic code Ed. ], which I construed, and after my wife had shewn mesome ribbon and shoes that she had taken out of a box of Mr. Montagu'swhich formerly Mr. Kipps had left here when his master was at sea, Iwent to Mr. Crew and advised with him about it, it being concerning myLord's coming up to Town, which he desires upon my advice the last weekin my letter. Thence calling upon Mrs. Ann I went home, and wrote incharacter to my Lord in answer to his letter. This day Mr. Crew toldme that my Lord St. John is for a free Parliament, and that he is verygreat with Monk, who hath now the absolute command and power to do anything that he hath a mind to do. Mr. Moore told me of a picture hungup at the Exchange of a great pair of buttocks shooting of a turd intoLawson's mouth, and over it was wrote "The thanks of the house. " Boys donow cry "Kiss my Parliament, instead of "Kiss my [rump], " so great andgeneral a contempt is the Rump come to among all the good and bad. 

8th. A little practice on my flageolet, and afterwards walking in myyard to see my stock of pigeons, which begin now with the spring tobreed very fast. I was called on by Mr. Fossan, my fellow pupil atCambridge, and I took him to the Swan in the Palace yard, and dranktogether our morning draft. Thence to my office, where I received money, and afterwards Mr. Carter, my old friend at Cambridge, meeting me as Iwas going out of my office I took him to the Swan, and in the way I metwith Captain Lidcott, and so we three went together and drank there, theCaptain talking as high as ever he did, and more because of the fall ofhis brother Thurlow. 

 [John Thurloe, born 1616; Secretary of State to Cromwell; M. P. For Ely, 1656, and for the University of Cambridge in Richard Cromwell's Parliament of December, 1658. He was never employed after the Restoration, although the King solicited his services. He died February 21st, 1668. Pepys spells the name Thurlow, which was a common spelling at the time. ]

Hence I went to Captain Stone, who told me how Squib had been with him, and that he could do nothing with him, so I returned to Mr. Carter andwith him to Will's, where I spent upon him and Monsieur L'Impertinent, alias Mr. Butler, who I took thither with me, and thence to a Rhenishwine house, and in our way met with Mr. Hoole, where I paid for my cozenRoger Pepys his wine, and after drinking we parted. So I home, in my waydelivering a letter which among the rest I had from my Lord to-day toSir N. Wheeler. At home my wife's brother brought her a pretty blackdog which I liked very well, and went away again. Hence sending a porterwith the hamper of bottles to the Temple I called in my way upon Mrs. Jem, who was much frighted till I came to tell her that her mother waswell. So to the Temple, where I delivered the wine and received themoney of my cos. Roger that I laid out, and thence to my father's, wherehe shewed me a base angry letter that he had newly received from myuncle Robert about my brother John, at which my father was very sad, butI comforted him and wrote an answer. My brother John has an exhibitiongranted him from the school. My father and I went down to his kitchen, and there we eat and drank, and about 9 o'clock I went away homewards, and in Fleet Street, received a great jostle from a man that had a mindto take the wall, which I could not help?

 [This was a constant trouble to the pedestrian until the rule of passing to the right of the person met was generally accepted. Gay commences his "Trivia" with an allusion to this--

 "When to assert the wall, and when resign--"

 and the epigram on the haughty courtier and the scholar is well known. ]

I came home and to bed. Went to bed with my head not well by my toomuch drinking to-day, and I had a boil under my chin which troubled mecruelly. 

9th. Soon as out of my bed I wrote letters into the country to go bycarrier to-day. Before I was out of my bed, I heard the soldiers verybusy in the morning, getting their horses ready where they lay atHilton's, but I knew not then their meaning in so doing: After I hadwrote my letters I went to Westminster up and down the Hall, and withMr. Swan walked a good [deal] talking about Mr. Downing's business. I went with him to Mr. Phelps's house where he had some business tosolicit, where we met Mr. Rogers my neighbour, who did solicit againsthim and talked very high, saying that he would not for a L1000 appear ina business that Swan did, at which Swan was very angry, but I believehe might be guilty enough. In the Hall I understand how Monk is thismorning gone into London with his army; and met with Mr. Fage, whotold me that he do believe that Monk is gone to secure some of theCommon-council of the City, who were very high yesterday there, and didvote that they would not pay any taxes till the House was filled up. I went to my office, where I wrote to my Lord after I had been at theUpper Bench, where Sir Robert Pye

 [Sir Robert Pye, the elder, was auditor of the Exchequer, and a staunch Royalist. He garrisoned his house at Faringdon, which was besieged by his son, of the same names, a decided Republican, son- in-law to Hampden, and colonel of horse under Fairfax. The son, here spoken of, was subsequently committed to the Tower for presenting a petition to the House of Commons from the county of Berks, which he represented in Parliament, complaining of the want of a settled form of government. He had, however, the courage to move for an habeas corpus, but judge Newdigate decided that the courts of law had not the power to discharge him. Upon Monk's coming to London, the secluded members passed a vote to liberate Pye, and at the Restoration he was appointed equerry to the King. He died in 1701. --B. ]

this morning came to desire his discharge from the Tower; but it couldnot be granted. After that I went to Mrs. Jem, who I had promised to goalong with to her Aunt Wright's, but she was gone, so I went thither, and after drinking a glass of sack I went back to Westminster Hall, andmeeting with Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who would needs take me home, whereMr. Lucy, Burrell, and others dined, and after dinner I went home andto Westminster Hall, where meeting Swan I went with him by water to theTemple to our Counsel, and did give him a fee to make a motion to-morrowin the Exchequer for Mr. Downing. Thence to Westminster Hall, whereI heard an action very finely pleaded between my Lord Dorset and someother noble persons, his lady and other ladies of quality being here, and it was about; L330 per annum, that was to be paid to a poor Spittal, which was given by some of his predecessors; and given on his side. Thence Swan and I to a drinking-house near Temple Bar, where while hewrote I played on my flageolet till a dish of poached eggs was got readyfor us, which we eat, and so by coach home. I called at Mr. Harper's, who told me how Monk had this day clapt up many of the Common-council, and that the Parliament had voted that he should pull down their gatesand portcullisses, their posts and their chains, which he do intend todo, and do lie in the City all night. I went home and got some ahlumto my mouth, where I have the beginnings of a cancer, and had also aplaster to my boil underneath my chin. 

10th. In the morning I went to Mr. Swan, who took me to the Court ofWards, where I saw the three Lords Commissioners sitting upon some causewhere Mr. Scobell was concerned, and my Lord Fountaine took him upvery roughly about some things that he said. After that we went to theExchequer, where the Barons were hearing of causes, and there I madeaffidavit that Mr. Downing was gone into Holland by order of the Councilof State, and this affidavit I gave to Mr. Stevens our lawyer. Thence tomy office, where I got money of Mr. Hawly to pay the lawyer, and therefound Mr. Lenard, one of the Clerks of the Council, and took him to theSwan and gave him his morning draft. Then home to dinner, and after thatto the Exchequer, where I heard all the afternoon a great many causesbefore the Barons; in the end came ours, and Squib proved clearly by hispatent that the house and office did now belong to him. Our lawyer madesome kind of opposition, but to no purpose, and so the cause was foundagainst us, and the foreman of the jury brought in L10 damages, whichthe whole Court cried shame of, and so he cried 12d. Thence I went home, vexed about this business, and there I found Mr. Moore, and with himwent into London to Mr. Fage about the cancer in my mouth, which beginsto grow dangerous, who gave me something for it, and also told me whatMonk had done in the City, how he had pulled down the most part of thegates and chains that they could break down, and that he was now goneback to White Hall. The City look mighty blank, and cannot tell whatin the world to do; the Parliament having this day ordered that theCommon-council sit no more; but that new ones be chosen according towhat qualifications they shall give them. Thence I went and drank withMr. Moore at the Sugar Loaf by Temple Bar, where Swan and I were lastnight, and so we parted. At home I found Mr. Hunt, who sat talking withme awhile, and so to bed. 

11th. This morning I lay long abed, and then to my office, where I readall the morning my Spanish book of Rome. At noon I walked in the Hall, where I heard the news of a letter from Monk, who was now gone into theCity again, and did resolve to stand for the sudden filling up of theHouse, and it was very strange how the countenance of men in the Hallwas all changed with joy in half an hour's time. So I went up to thelobby, where I saw the Speaker reading of the letter; and after it wasread, Sir A. Haselrigge came out very angry, and Billing--[The quakermentioned before on the 7th of this month. ]--standing at the door, took him by the arm, and cried, "Thou man, will thy beast carry thee nolonger? thou must fall!" The House presently after rose, and appointedto meet again at three o'clock. I went then down into the Hall, where Imet with Mr. Chetwind, who had not dined no more than myself, and so wewent toward London, in our way calling at two or three shops, but couldhave no dinner. At last, within Temple Bar, we found a pullet readyroasted, and there we dined. After that he went to his office inChancery Lane, calling at the Rolls, where I saw the lawyers pleading. Then to his office, where I sat in his study singing, while he was withhis man (Mr. Powell's son) looking after his business. Thence we tookcoach for the City to Guildhall, where the Hall was full of peopleexpecting Monk and Lord Mayor to come thither, and all very joyfull. Here we stayed a great while, and at last meeting with a friend ofhis we went to the 3 Tun tavern and drank half a pint of wine, and notliking the wine we went to an alehouse, where we met with company ofthis third man's acquaintance, and there we drank a little. Hence I wentalone to Guildhall to see whether Monk was come again or no, and metwith him coming out of the chamber where he had been with the Mayor andAldermen, but such a shout I never heard in all my life, crying out, "God bless your Excellence. " Here I met with Mr. Lock, and took him toan alehouse, and left him there to fetch Chetwind; when we were cometogether, Lock told us the substance of the letter that went from Monkto the Parliament; wherein, after complaints that he and his officerswere put upon such offices against the City as they could not do withany content or honour, that there are many members now in the House thatwere of the late tyrannical Committee of Safety. That Lambert and Vaneare now in town, contrary to the vote of Parliament. That there weremany in the House that do press for new oaths to be put upon men;whereas we have more cause to be sorry for the many oaths that we havealready taken and broken. That the late petition of the fanatique peoplepresented by Barebone, for the imposing of an oath upon all sorts ofpeople, was received by the House with thanks. That therefore he [Monk]do desire that all writs for filling up of the House be issued by Fridaynext, and that in the mean time, he would retire into the City andonly leave them guards for the security of the House and Council. Theoccasion of this was the order that he had last night to go into theCity and disarm them, and take away their charter; whereby he and hisofficers say that the House had a mind to put them upon things thatshould make them odious; and so it would be in their power to do whatthey would with them. He told us that they [the Parliament] had sentScott and Robinson to him [Monk] this afternoon, but he would not hearthem. And that the Mayor and Aldermen had offered him their own housesfor himself and his officers; and that his soldiers would lack fornothing. And indeed I saw many people give the soldiers drink and money, and all along in the streets cried, "God bless them!" and extraordinarygood words. Hence we went to a merchant's house hard by, where Lockwrote a note and left, where I saw Sir Nich. Crisp, and so we went tothe Star Tavern (Monk being then at Benson's), where we dined and Iwrote a letter to my Lord from thence. In Cheapside there was a greatmany bonfires, and Bow bells and all the bells in all the churches aswe went home were a-ringing. Hence we went homewards, it being about teno'clock. But the common joy that was every where to be seen! The numberof bonfires, there being fourteen between St. Dunstan's and Temple Bar, and at Strand Bridge' I could at one view tell thirty-one fires. InKing-street seven or eight; and all along burning, and roasting, anddrinking for rumps. There being rumps tied upon sticks and carried upand down. The butchers at the May Pole in the Strand rang a peal withtheir knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On LudgateHill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting of it. Indeed it was past imagination, both thegreatness and the suddenness of it. At one end of the street you wouldthink there was a whole lane of fire, and so hot that we were fain tokeep still on the further side merely for heat. We came to the Chequersat Charing Cross, where Chetwind wrote a letter and I gave him anaccount of what I had wrote for him to write. Thence home and sent myletters to the posthouse in London, and my wife and I (after Mr. Huntwas gone, whom I found waiting at my house) went out again to show herthe fires, and after walking as far as the Exchange we returned and tobed. 

12th. In the morning, it being Lord's day, Mr. Pierce came to me toenquire how things go. We drank our morning draft together and thenceto White Hall, where Dr. Hones preached; but I staid not to hear, butwalking in the court, I heard that Sir Arth. Haselrigge was newly goneinto the City to Monk, and that Monk's wife removed from White Hall lastnight. Home again, where at noon came according to my invitation my cos. Thos. Pepys and his partner and dined with me, but before dinner we wentand took a walk round the park, it being a most pleasant day as ever Isaw. After dinner we three went into London together, where I heard thatMonk had been at Paul's in the morning, and the people had shouted muchat his coming out of the church. In the afternoon he was at a church inBroad-street, whereabout he do lodge. But not knowing how to see him wewent and walked half a hour in Moorfields, which were full of people, itbeing so fine a day. Here I took leave of them, and so to Paul's, whereI met with Mr. Kirton's' apprentice (the crooked fellow) and walkedup and down with him two hours, sometimes in the street looking for atavern to drink in, but not finding any open, we durst not knock; othertimes in the churchyard, where one told me that he had seen the letterprinted. Thence to Mr. Turner's, where I found my wife, Mr. Edw. Pepys, and Roger' and Mr. Armiger being there, to whom I gave as good anaccount of things as I could, and so to my father's, where CharlesGlascocke was overjoyed to see how things are now; who told me the boyshad last night broke Barebone's windows. Hence home, and being near homewe missed our maid, and were at a great loss and went back a great wayto find her, but when we could not see her we went homewards and foundher there, got before us which we wondered at greatly. So to bed, wheremy wife and I had some high words upon my telling her that I would flingthe dog which her brother gave her out of window if he [dirtied] thehouse any more. 

13th. To my office till noon, thence home to dinner, my mouth beingvery bad of the cancer and my left leg beginning to be sore again. Afterdinner to see Mrs. Jem, and in the way met with Catan on foot in thestreet and talked with her a little, so home and took my wife to myfather's. In my way I went to Playford's, and for two books that I hadand 6s. 6d. To boot I had my great book of songs which he sells alwaysfor r 4s. At my father's I staid a while, while my mother sent her maidBess to Cheapside for some herbs to make a water for my mouth. Then Iwent to see Mr. Cumberland, and after a little stay with him I returned, and took my wife home, where after supper to bed. This day Monk wasinvited to White Hall to dinner by my Lords; not seeming willing, hewould not come. I went to Mr. Fage from my father's, who had been thisafternoon with Monk, who do promise to live and die with the City, andfor the honour of the City; and indeed the City is very open-handed tothe soldiers, that they are most of them drunk all day, and have moneygiven them. He did give me something for my mouth which I did use thisnight. 

14th. Called out in the morning by Mr. Moore, whose voice my wifehearing in my dressing-chamber with me, got herself ready, and came downand challenged him for her valentine, this being the day. 

 [The practice of choosing valentines was very general at this time, but some of the best examples of the custom are found in this Diary. ]

To Westminster Hall, there being many new remonstrances and declarationsfrom many counties to Monk and the City, and one coming from the Northfrom Sir Thomas Fairfax. Hence I took him to the Swan and gave him hismorning draft. So to my office, where Mr. Hill of Worcestershire cameto see me and my partner in our office, with whom we went to Will's todrink. At noon I went home and so to Mr. Crew's, but they had dined, andso I went to see Mrs. Jem where I stayed a while, and home again whereI stayed an hour or two at my lute, and so forth to Westminster Hall, where I heard that the Parliament hath now changed the oath so muchtalked of to a promise; and that among other qualifications for themembers that are to be chosen, one is, that no man, nor the son ofany man that hath been in arms during the life of the father, shall becapable of being chosen to sit in Parliament. To Will's, where like afool I staid and lost 6d. At cards. So home, and wrote a letter to myLord by the post. So after supper to bed. This day, by an order of theHouse, Sir H. Vane was sent out of town to his house in Lincolnshire. 

15th. Called up in the morning by Captain Holland and Captain Cuttance, and with them to Harper's, thence to my office, thence with Mr. Hill ofWorcestershire to Will's, where I gave him a letter to Nan Pepys, andsome merry pamphlets against the Rump to carry to her into the country. So to Mr. Crew's, where the dining room being full, Mr. Walgrave andI dined below in the buttery by ourselves upon a good dish of butteredsalmon. Thence to Hering' the merchant about my Lord's Worcester moneyand back to Paul's Churchyard, where I staid reading in Fuller's Historyof the Church of England an hour or two, and so to my father's, whereMr. Hill came to me and I gave him direction what to do at Worcesterabout the money. Thence to my Lady Wright's and gave her a letter frommy Lord privily. So to Mrs. Jem and sat with her, who dined at Mr. Crew's to-day, and told me that there was at her coming away at leastforty gentlemen (I suppose members that were secluded, for Mr. Walgravetold me that there were about thirty met there the last night) camedropping in one after another thither. Thence home and wrote into thecountry against to-morrow by the carrier and so to bed. At my father'sI heard how my cousin Kate Joyce had a fall yesterday from her horseand had some hurt thereby. No news to-day, but all quiet to see what theParliament will do about the issuing of the writs to-morrow for fillingup of the House, according to Monk's desire. 

16th, In the morning at my lute. Then came Shaw and Hawly, and I gavethem their morning draft at my house. So to my office, where I wrote bythe carrier to my Lord and sealed my letter at Will's, and gave it oldEast to carry it to the carrier's, and to take up a box of china orangesand two little barrels of scallops at my house, which Captain Cuttancesent to me for my Lord. Here I met with Osborne and with Shaw andSpicer, and we went to the Sun Tavern in expectation of a dinner, wherewe had sent us only two trenchers-full of meat, at which we were verymerry, while in came Mr. Wade and his friend Capt. Moyse (who told usof his hopes to get an estate merely for his name's sake), and here westaid till seven at night, I winning a quart of sack of Shaw that onetrencherfull that was sent us was all lamb and he that it was veal. Iby having but 3d. In my pocket made shift to spend no more, whereas ifI had had more I had spent more as the rest did, so that I see it isan advantage to a man to carry little in his pocket. Home, and aftersupper, and a little at my flute, I went to bed. 

17th. In the morning Tom that was my Lord's footboy came to see me andhad 10s. Of me of the money which I have to keep of his. So that now Ihave but 35s. More of his. Then came Mr. Hills the instrument maker, andI consulted with him about the altering my lute and my viall. After thatI went into my study and did up my accounts, and found that I am about;L40 beforehand in the world, and that is all. So to my office and fromthence brought Mr. Hawly home with me to dinner, and after dinner wrotea letter to Mr. Downing about his business and gave it Hawly, and sowent to Mr. Gunning's to his weekly fast, and after sermon, meetingthere with Monsieur L'Impertinent, we went and walked in the park tillit was dark. I played on my pipe at the Echo, and then drank a cup ofale at Jacob's. So to Westminster Hall, and he with me, where I heardthat some of the members of the House were gone to meet with some of thesecluded members and General Monk in the City. Hence we went to WhiteHall, thinking to hear more news, where I met with Mr. Hunt, who told mehow Monk had sent for all his goods that he had here into the City; andyet again he told me, that some of the members of the House had this daylaid in firing into their lodgings at White Hall for a good while, so that we are at a great stand to think what will become ofthings, whether Monk will stand to the Parliament or no. Hence Mons. L'Impertinent and I to Harper's, and there drank a cup or two to theKing, and to his fair sister Frances--[Frances Butler, the great beauty, who is sometimes styled. La belle Boteler. ]--good health, of whom we hadmuch discourse of her not being much the worse for the small pox, whichshe had this last summer. So home and to bed. This day we are invited tomy uncle Fenner's wedding feast, but went not, this being the 27th year. 

18th. A great while at my vial and voice, learning to sing "Fly boy, flyboy, " without book. So to my office, where little to do. In the Hall Imet with Mr. Eglin and one Looker, a famous gardener, servant to my LordSalsbury, and among other things the gardener told a strange passage ingood earnest.... Home to dinner, and then went to my Lord's lodgings tomy turret there and took away most of my books, and sent them home bymy maid. Thither came Capt. Holland to me who took me to the Half Moontavern and Mr. Southorne, Blackburne's clerk. Thence he took me to theMitre in Fleet Street, where we heard (in a room over the music room)very plainly through the ceiling. Here we parted and I to Mr. Wotton's, and with him to an alehouse and drank while he told me a great manystories of comedies that he had formerly seen acted, and the names ofthe principal actors, and gave me a very good account of it. Thence toWhitehall, where I met with Luellin and in the clerk's chamber wrote aletter to my Lord. So home and to bed. This day two soldiers were hangedin the Strand for their late mutiny at Somerset-house. 

19th (Lord's day). Early in the morning I set my books that I broughthome yesterday up in order in my study. Thence forth to Mr. Harper's todrink a draft of purle, --[Purl is hot beer flavoured with wormwood orother aromatic herbs. The name is also given to hot beer flavoured withgin, sugar, and ginger. ]--whither by appointment Monsieur L'Impertinent, who did intend too upon my desire to go along with me to St. Bartholomew's, to hear one Mr. Sparks, but it raining very hard we wentto Mr. Gunning's and heard an excellent sermon, and speaking of thecharacter that the Scripture gives of Ann the mother of the blessedVirgin, he did there speak largely in commendation of widowhood, andnot as we do to marry two or three wives or husbands, one after another. Here I met with Mr. Moore, and went home with him to dinner, where hetold me the discourse that happened between the secluded members and themembers of the House, before Monk last Friday. How the secluded said, that they did not intend by coming in to express revenge upon these men, but only to meet and dissolve themselves, and only to issue writs for afree Parliament. He told me how Haselrigge was afraid to have the candlecarried before him, for fear that the people seeing him, would do himhurt; and that he is afraid to appear in the City. That there is greatlikelihood that the secluded members will come in, and so Mr. Crew andmy Lord are likely to be great men, at which I was very glad. Afterdiner there was many secluded members come in to Mr. Crew, which, it being the Lord's day, did make Mr. Moore believe that there wassomething extraordinary in the business. Hence home and brought my wifeto Mr. Mossum's to hear him, and indeed he made a very good sermon, butonly too eloquent for a pulpit. Here Mr. L'Impertinent helped me to aseat. After sermon to my father's; and fell in discourse concerning ourgoing to Cambridge the next week with my brother John. To Mrs. Turnerwhere her brother, Mr. Edward Pepys, was there, and I sat a great whiletalking of public business of the times with him. So to supper to myFather's, all supper talking of John's going to Cambridge. So home, andit raining my wife got my mother's French mantle and my brother John'shat, and so we went all along home and to bed. 

20th. In the morning at my lute. Then to my office, where my partnerand I made even our balance. Took him home to dinner with me, where mybrother John came to dine with me. After dinner I took him to my studyat home and at my Lord's, and gave him some books and other thingsagainst his going to Cambridge. After he was gone I went forth toWestminster Hall, where I met with Chetwind, Simons, and Gregory. Andwith them to Marsh's at Whitehall to drink, and staid there a prettywhile reading a pamphlet well writ and directed to General Monk, inpraise of the form of monarchy which was settled here before the wars. 

 [This pamphlet is among the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts (British Museum), and dated in MS. This same day, February 20th-- "A Plea for Limited Monarchy as it was established in this Nation before the late War. In an Humble Address to his Excellency General Monck. By a Zealot for the good old Laws of his Country, before any Faction or Caprice, with additions. " "An Eccho to the Plea for Limited Monarchy, &c. , " was published soon afterwards. ]

They told me how the Speaker Lenthall do refuse to sign the writs forchoice of new members in the place of the excluded; and by that meansthe writs could not go out to-day. In the evening Simons and I to theCoffee Club, where nothing to do only I heard Mr. Harrington, and myLord of Dorset and another Lord, talking of getting another place as theCockpit, and they did believe it would come to something. After a smalldebate upon the question whether learned or unlearned subjects are thebest the Club broke up very poorly, and I do not think they will meetany more. Hence with Vines, &c. To Will's, and after a pot or two home, and so to bed. 

21st. In the morning going out I saw many soldiers going towardsWestminster, and was told that they were going to admit the secludedmembers again. So I to Westminster Hall, and in Chancery Row I saw abouttwenty of them who had been at White Hall with General Monk, who camethither this morning, and made a speech to them, and recommended to thema Commonwealth, and against Charles Stuart. They came to the House andwent in one after another, and at last the Speaker came. But it is verystrange that this could be carried so private, that the other members ofthe House heard nothing of all this, till they found them in the House, insomuch that the soldiers that stood there to let in the secludedmembers, they took for such as they had ordered to stand there to hindertheir coming in. Mr. Prin came with an old basket-hilt sword on, and hada great many great shouts upon his going into the Hall. They sat tillnoon, and at their coming out Mr. Crew saw me, and bid me come to hishouse, which I did, and he would have me dine with him, which I did; andhe very joyful told me that the House had made General Monk, General ofall the Forces in England, Scotland, and Ireland; and that upon Monk'sdesire, for the service that Lawson had lately done in pulling down theCommittee of Safety, he had the command of the Sea for the time being. He advised me to send for my Lord forthwith, and told me that there isno question that, if he will, he may now be employed again; and that theHouse do intend to do nothing more than to issue writs, and to settlea foundation for a free Parliament. After dinner I back to WestminsterHall with him in his coach. Here I met with Mr. Lock and Pursell, Masters of Music, --[Henry Purcell, father of the celebrated composer, was gentleman of the Chapel Royal. ]--and with them to the Coffee House, into a room next the water, by ourselves, where we spent an hour or twotill Captain Taylor came to us, who told us, that the House had votedthe gates of the City to be made up again, and the members of the Citythat are in prison to be set at liberty; and that Sir G. Booth's'case be brought into the House to-morrow. Here we had variety of braveItalian and Spanish songs, and a canon for eight voices, which Mr. Lockhad lately made on these words: "Domine salvum fac Regem, " an admirablething. Here also Capt. Taylor began a discourse of something that he hadlately writ about Gavelkind in answer to one that had wrote a pieceupon the same subject; and indeed discovered a great deal of studyin antiquity in his discourse. Here out of the window it was a mostpleasant sight to see the City from one end to the other with a gloryabout it, so high was the light of the bonfires, and so thick round theCity, and the bells rang everywhere. Hence home and wrote to my Lord, afterwards came down and found Mr. Hunt (troubled at this change) andMr. Spong, who staid late with me singing of a song or two, and soparted. My wife not very well, went to bed before. This morning I met inthe Hall with Mr. Fuller, of Christ's, and told him of my design togo to Cambridge, and whither. He told me very freely the temper of Mr. Widdrington, how he did oppose all the fellows in the College, and thatthere was a great distance between him and the rest, at which I was verysorry, for that he told me he feared it would be little to my brother'sadvantage to be his pupil. 

22nd. In the morning intended to have gone to Mr. Crew's to borrow somemoney, but it raining I forbore, and went to my Lord's lodging and lookthat all things were well there. Then home and sang a song to my viall, so to my office and to Will's, where Mr. Pierce found me out, and toldme that he would go with me to Cambridge, where Colonel Ayre's regiment, to which he was surgeon, lieth. Walking in the Hall, I saw Major-GeneralBrown, who had along time been banished by the Rump, but now with hisbeard overgrown, he comes abroad and sat in the House. To my father'sto dinner, where nothing but a small dish of powdered beef--[Boiledsalt beef. To powder was to sprinkle with salt, and the powdering tub avessel in which meat was salted. ]--and dish of carrots; they being allbusy to get things ready for my brother John to go to-morrow. Afterdinner, my wife staying there, I went to Mr. Crew's, and got; L5 of Mr. Andrews, and so to Mrs. Jemimah, who now hath her instrument about herneck, and indeed is infinitely, altered, and holds her head upright. Ipaid her, maid 40s. Of the money that I have received of Mr. Andrews. Hence home to my study, where I only wrote thus much of this day'spassages to this * and so out again. To White Hall, where I met withWill. Simons and Mr. Mabbot at Marsh's, who told me how the House hadthis day voted that the gates of the City should be set up at the costof the State. And that Major-General Brown's being proclaimed a traitorbe made void, and several other things of that nature. Home for mylanthorn and so to my father's, where I directed John what books to putfor Cambridge. After that to supper, where my Uncle Fenner and my Aunt, The. Turner, and Joyce, at a brave leg of veal roasted, and werevery merry against John's going to Cambridge. I observed this day howabominably Barebone's windows are broke again last night. At past 9o'clock my wife and I went home. 

23rd. Thursday, my birthday, now twenty-seven years. A pretty fairmorning, I rose and after writing a while in my study I went forth. To my office, where I told Mr. Hawly of my thoughts to go out of townto-morrow. Hither Mr. Fuller comes to me and my Uncle Thomas too, thenceI took them to drink, and so put off my uncle. So with Mr. Fuller hometo my house, where he dined with me, and he told my wife and me a greatmany stories of his adversities, since these troubles, in being forcedto travel in the Catholic countries, &c. He shewed me his bills, but Ihad not money to pay him. We parted, and I to Whitehall, where I was tosee my horse which Mr. Garthwayt lends me to-morrow. So home, where Mr. Pierce comes to me about appointing time and place where and when tomeet tomorrow. So to Westminster Hall, where, after the House rose, Imet with Mr. Crew, who told me that my Lord was chosen by 73 voices, to be one of the Council of State. Mr. Pierpoint had the most, 101, and himself the next, too. He brought me in the coach home. He and Mr. Anslow being in it. I back to the Hall, and at Mrs. Michell's shop staidtalking a great while with her and my Chaplain, Mr. Mumford, and dranka pot or two of ale on a wager that Mr. Prin is not of the Council. Homeand wrote to my Lord the news of the choice of the Council by the post, and so to bed. 

24th. I rose very early, and taking horse at Scotland Yard, at Mr. Garthwayt's stable, I rode to Mr. Pierces, who rose, and in a quarter ofan hour, leaving his wife in bed (with whom Mr. Lucy methought was veryfree as she lay in bed), we both mounted, and so set forth about sevenof the clock, the day and the way very foul. About Ware we overtook Mr. Blayton, brother-in-law to Dick Vines, who went thenceforwards with us, and at Puckeridge we baited, where we had a loin of mutton fried, andwere very merry, but the way exceeding bad from Ware thither. Then upagain and as far as Foulmer, within six miles of Cambridge, my marebeing almost tired: here we lay at the Chequer, playing at cards tillsupper, which was a breast of veal roasted. I lay with Mr. Pierce, whowe left here the next morning upon his going to Hinchingbroke to speakwith my Lord before his going to London, and we two come to Cambridge byeight o'clock in the morning. 

25th. To the Falcon, in the Petty Cury, [The old Falcon Inn is on the south side of Petty Cury. It is now divided into three houses, one of which is the present Falcon Inn, the other two being houses with shops. The Falcon yard is but little changed. From the size of the whole building it must have been the principal inn of the town. The room said to have been used by Queen Elizabeth for receptions retains its original form. --M. B. 

 The Petty Cury. The derivation of the name of this street, so well known to all Cambridge men, is a matter of much dispute among antiquaries. (See "Notes and Queries. ") The most probable meaning of it is the Parva Cokeria, or little cury, where the cooks of the town lived, just as "The Poultry, " where the Poulters (now Poulterers) had their shops. "The Forme of Cury, " a Roll of Antient English Cookery, was compiled by the principal cooks of that "best and royalest viander of all Christian Kings, " Richard the Second, and edited with a copious Index and Glossary by Dr. Samuel Pegge, 1780. --M. B. ]

where we found my father and brother very well. After dressing myself, about ten o'clock, my father, brother, and I to Mr. Widdririgton, atChrist's College, who received us very civilly, and caused my brother tobe admitted, while my father, he, and I, sat talking. After thatdone, we take leave. My father and brother went to visit some friends, Pepys's, scholars in Cambridge, while I went to Magdalene College, toMr. Hill, with whom I found Mr. Zanchy, Burton, and Hollins, and wasexceeding civilly received by them. I took leave on promise to sup withthem, and to my Inn again, where I dined with some others that werethere at an ordinary. After dinner my brother to the College, and myfather and I to my Cozen Angier's, to see them, where Mr. Fairbrothercame to us. Here we sat a while talking. My father he went to lookafter his things at the carrier's, and my brother's chamber, while Mr. Fairbrother, my Cozen Angier, and Mr. Zanchy, whom I met at Mr. Merton'sshop (where I bought 'Elenchus Motuum', having given my former to Mr. Downing when he was here), to the Three Tuns, where we drank pretty hardand many healths to the King, &c. , till it began to be darkish: then webroke up and I and Mr. Zanchy went to Magdalene College, where a veryhandsome supper at Mr. Hill's chambers, I suppose upon a club amongthem, where in their discourse I could find that there was nothingat all left of the old preciseness in their discourse, specially onSaturday nights. And Mr. Zanchy told me that there was no such thingnow-a-days among them at any time. After supper and some discoursethen to my Inn, where I found my father in his chamber, and after somediscourse, and he well satisfied with this day's work, we went to bed, my brother lying with me, his things not being come by the carrier thathe could not lie in the College. 

26th (Sunday). My brother went to the College to Chapel. My father andI went out in the morning, and walked out in the fields behind King'sCollege, and in King's College Chapel Yard, where we met with Mr. Fairbrother, who took us to Botolph's Church, where we heard Mr. Nicholas, of Queen's College, who I knew in my time to be Tripos, [The Tripos or Bachelor of the Stool, who made the speech on Ash Wednesday, when the senior Proctor called him up and exhorted him to be witty but modest withal. Their speeches, especially after the Restoration, tended to be boisterous, and even scurrilous. "26 Martii 1669. Da Hollis, fellow of Clare Hall is to make a publick Recantation in the Bac. Schools for his Tripos speeche. " The Tripos verses still come out, and are circulated on Ash Wednesday. The list of successful candidates for honours is printed on the same paper, hence the term "Tripos" applied to it. ]

with great applause, upon this text, "For thy commandments are broad. "Thence my father and I to Mr. Widdrington's chamber to dinner, where heused us very courteously again, and had two Fellow Commoners at tablewith him, and Mr. Pepper, a Fellow of the College. After dinner, whilewe sat talking by the fire, Mr. Pierces man came to tell me that hismaster was come to town, so my father and I took leave, and found Mr. Pierce at our Inn, who told us that he had lost his journey, for my Lordwas gone from Hinchingbroke to London on Thursday last, at which I wasa little put to a stand. So after a cup of drink I went to MagdaleneCollege to get the certificate of the College for my brother's entrancethere, that he might save his year. I met with Mr. Burton in the Court, who took me to Mr. Pechell's chamber, where he was and Mr. Zanchy. Byand by, Mr. Pechell and Sanchy and I went out, Pechell to Church, Sanchyand I to the Rose Tavern, where we sat and drank till sermon done, andthen Mr. Pechell came to us, and we three sat drinking the King's andhis whole family's health till it began to be dark. Then we parted;Sanchy and I went to my lodging, where we found my father and Mr. Pierceat the door, and I took them both and Mr. Blayton to the Rose Tavern, and there gave them a quart or two of wine, not telling them that we hadbeen there before. After this we broke up, and my father, Mr. Zanchy, and I to my Cosen Angier to supper, where I caused two bottles of wineto be carried from the Rose Tavern; that was drunk up, and I had not thewit to let them know at table that it was I that paid for them, and so Ilost my thanks for them. After supper Mr. Fairbrother, who supped therewith us, took me into a room by himself, and shewed me a pitiful copyof verses upon Mr. Prinn which he esteemed very good, and desired thatI would get them given to Mr. Prinn, in hopes that he would get him someplace for it, which I said I would do, but did laugh in my sleeve tothink of his folly, though indeed a man that has always expressed greatcivility to me. After that we sat down and talked; I took leave ofall my friends, and so to my Inn, where after I had wrote a note andenclosed the certificate to Mr. Widdrington, I bade good night to myfather, and John went to bed, but I staid up a little while, playing thefool with the lass of the house at the door of the chamber, and so tobed. 

27th. Up by four o'clock, and after I was ready, took my leave of myfather, whom I left in bed, and the same of my brother John, to whom Igave 10s. Mr. Blayton and I took horse and straight to Saffron Walden, where at the White Hart, we set up our horses, and took the master ofthe house to shew us Audley End House, who took us on foot throughthe park, and so to the house, where the housekeeper shewed us all thehouse, in which the stateliness of the ceilings, chimney-pieces, andform of the whole was exceedingly worth seeing. He took us into thecellar, where we drank most admirable drink, a health to the King. HereI played on my flageolette, there being an excellent echo. He shewed usexcellent pictures; two especially, those of the four Evangelists andHenry VIII. After that I gave the man 2s. For his trouble, and went backagain. In our going, my landlord carried us through a very old hospitalor almshouse, where forty poor people was maintained; a very oldfoundation; and over the chimney in the mantelpiece was an inscriptionin brass: "Orate pre anima Thomae Bird, " &c. ; and the poor box also wason the same chimney-piece, with an iron door and locks to it, into whichI put 6d. They brought me a draft of their drink in a brown bowl, tiptwith silver, which I drank off, and at the bottom was a picture of theVirgin and the child in her arms, done in silver. So we went to our Inn, and after eating of something, and kissed the daughter of the house, she being very pretty, we took leave, and so that night, the road prettygood, but the weather rainy to Ep[p]ing, where we sat and played a gameat cards, and after supper, and some merry talk with a plain bold maidof the house, we went to bed. 

28th. Up in the morning, and had some red herrings to our breakfast, while my boot-heel was a-mending, by the same token the boy left thehole as big as it was before. Then to horse, and for London through theforest, where we found the way good, but only in one path, which we keptas if we had rode through a canal all the way. We found the shops allshut, and the militia of the red regiment in arms at the Old Exchange, among whom I found and spoke to Nich. Osborne, who told me that it wasa thanksgiving-day through the City for the return of the Parliament. At Paul's I light, Mr. Blayton holding my horse, where I found Dr. Reynolds' in the pulpit, and General Monk there, who was to have a greatentertainment at Grocers' Hall. So home, where my wife and all well. Shifted myself, --[Changed his dress. ]--and so to Mr. Crew's, and then toSir Harry Wright's, where I found my Lord at dinner, who called for mein, and was glad to see me. There was at dinner also Mr. John Wright andhis lady, a very pretty lady, Alderman Allen's daughter. I dinedhere with Will. Howe, and after dinner went out with him to buy a hat(calling in my way and saw my mother), which we did at the Plough inFleet Street by my Lord's direction, but not as for him. Here we metwith Mr. Pierce a little before, and he took us to the Greyhound Tavern, and gave us a pint of wine, and as the rest of the seamen do, talkedvery high again of my Lord. After we had done about the hat we wenthomewards, he to Mr. Crew's and I to Mrs. Jem, and sat with her alittle. Then home, where I found Mr. Sheply, almost drunk, come to seeme, afterwards Mr. Spong comes, with whom I went up and played with hima Duo or two, and so good night. I was indeed a little vexed with Mr. Sheply, but said nothing, about his breaking open of my study at myhouse, merely to give him the key of the stair door at my Lord's, whichlock he might better have broke than mine. 

29th. To my office, and drank at Will's with Mr. Moore, who told me howmy Lord is chosen General at Sea by the Council, and that it is thoughtthat Monk will be joined with him therein. Home and dined, after dinnermy wife and I by water to London, and thence to Herring's, the merchantin Coleman Street, about L50 which he promises I shall have on Saturdaynext. So to my mother's, and then to Mrs. Turner's, of whom I tookleave, and her company, because she was to go out of town to-morrowwith Mr. Pepys into Norfolk. Here my cosen Norton gave me a brave cup ofmetheglin, [A liquor made of honey and water, boiled and fermenting. By 12 Charles II. Cap. 23, a grant of certain impositions upon beer, ale, and other liquors, a duty of 1d. Per gallon was laid upon "all metheglin or mead. "]

the first I ever drank. To my mother's and supped there. 

She shewed me a letter to my father from my uncle inviting him to cometo Brampton while he is in the country. So home and to bed. This day myLord came to the House, the first time since he came to town; but he hadbeen at the Council before. 

MARCH 1659-1660

March 1st. In the morning went to my Lord's lodgings, thinking to havespoke with Mr. Sheply, having not been to visit him since my coming totown. But he being not within I went up, and out of the box where myLord's pamphlets lay, I chose as many as I had a mind to have for my ownuse and left the rest. Then to my office, where little to do, abutMr. Sheply comes to me, so at dinner time he and I went to Mr. Crew's, whither Mr. Thomas was newly come to town, being sent with Sir H. Yelverton, a my old school-fellow at Paul's School, to bring the thanksof the county to General Monk for the return of the Parliament. But oldMr. Crew and my Lord not coming home to dinner, we tarried late beforewe went to dinner, it being the day that John, Mr. John Crew's coachman, was to be buried in the afternoon, he being a day or two before killedwith a blow of one of his horses that struck his skull into his brain. From thence Mr. Sheply and I went into London to Mr. Laxton's; my Lord'sapothecary, and so by water to Westminster, where at the Sun [tavern] heand I spent two or three hours in a pint or two of wine, discoursing ofmatters in the country, among other things telling me that my uncledid to him make a very kind mention of me, and what he would do for me. Thence I went home, and went to bed betimes. This day the Parliament didvote that they would not sit longer than the 15th day of this month. 

2d. This morning I went early to my Lord at Mr. Crew's, where I spoke tohim. Here were a great many come to see him, as Secretary Thurlow who isnow by this Parliament chosen again Secretary of State. There were alsoGeneral Monk's trumpeters to give my Lord a sound of their trumpets thismorning. Thence I went to my office, and wrote a letter to Mr. Downingabout the business of his house. Then going home, I met with Mr. Eglin, Chetwind, and Thomas, who took me to the Leg [another tavern] in King'sstreet, where we had two brave dishes of meat, one of fish, a carp andsome other fishes, as well done as ever I ate any. After that to theSwan tavern, where we drank a quart or two of wine, and so parted. SoI to Mrs. Jem and took Mr. Moore with me (who I met in the street), andthere I met W. Howe and Sheply. After that to Westminster Hall, whereI saw Sir G. Booth at liberty. This day I hear the City militia is putinto good posture, and it is thought that Monk will not be able to doany great matter against them now, if he have a mind. I understand thatmy Lord Lambert did yesterday send a letter to the Council, and thatto-night he is to come and appear to the Council in person. Sir ArthurHaselrigge do not yet appear in the House. Great is the talk of asingle person, and that it would now be Charles, George, or Richardagain. --[Charles II. , or George Monk, or Richard Cromwell. ]--For thelast of which, my Lord St. John is said to speak high. Great also is thedispute now in the House, in whose name the writs shall run for the nextParliament; and it is said that Mr. Prin, in open House, said, "In KingCharles's. " From Westminster Hall home. Spent the evening in my study, and so after some talk with my wife, then to bed. 

3d. To Westminster Hall, where I found that my Lord was last night votedone of the Generals at Sea, and Monk the other. I met my Lord in theHall, who bid me come to him at noon. I met with Mr. Pierce the purser, Lieut. Lambert, Mr. Creed, and Will. Howe, and went with them to theSwan tavern. Up to my office, but did nothing. At noon home to dinner toa sheep's head. My brother Tom came and dined with me, and told me thatmy mother was not very well, and that my Aunt Fenner was very ill too. After dinner I to Warwick House, in Holborn, to my Lord, where he dinedwith my Lord of Manchester, Sir Dudley North, my Lord Fiennes, and myLord Barkly. I staid in the great hall, talking with some gentlementhere, till they all come out. Then I, by coach with my Lord, to Mr. Crew's, in our way talking of publick things, and how I should lookafter getting of his Commissioner's despatch. He told me he feared therewas new design hatching, as if Monk had a mind to get into the saddle. Here I left him, and went by appointment to Hering, the merchant, butmissed of my money, at which I was much troubled, but could not helpmyself. Returning, met Mr. Gifford, who took me and gave me half a pintof wine, and told me, as I hear this day from many, that things are in avery doubtful posture, some of the Parliament being willing to keep thepower in their hands. After I had left him, I met with Tom Harper, who took me into a place in Drury Lane, where we drank a great dealof strong water, more than ever I did in my life at onetime before. Hetalked huge high that my Lord Protector would come in place again, whichindeed is much discoursed of again, though I do not see it possible. Hence home and wrote to my father at Brampton by the post. So to bed. This day I was told that my Lord General Fleetwood told my lord that hefeared the King of Sweden is dead of a fever at Gottenburg. 

4th. Lord's day. Before I went to church I sang Orpheus' Hymn to myviall. After that to Mr. Gunning's, an excellent sermon upon charity. Then to my mother to dinner, where my wife and the maid were come. Afterdinner we three to Mr. Messum's where we met Mons. L'Impertinent, whogot us a seat and told me a ridiculous story how that last week he hadcaused a simple citizen to spend; L80 in entertainments of him and somefriends of his upon pretence of some service that he would do him in hissuit after a widow. Then to my mother again, and after supper she and Italked very high about religion, I in defence of the religion I was bornin. Then home. 

5th. Early in the morning Mr. Hill comes to string my theorbo, [The theorbo was a bass lute. Having gut strings it was played with the fingers. There is a humorous comparison of the long waists of ladies, which came into fashion about 1621, with the theorbo, by Bishop Corbet:

 "She was barr'd up in whale-bones, that did leese None of the whale's length, for they reached her knees; Off with her head, and then she hath a middle As her waste stands, just like the new found fiddle, The favourite Theorbo, truth to tell ye, Whose neck and throat are deeper than the belly. "

 Corbet, 'Iter Boreale'. ]

which we were about till past ten o'clock, with a great deal ofpleasure. Then to Westminster, where I met with Mr. Sheply and Mr. Pinkney at Will's, who took me by water to Billingsgate, at theSalutation Tavern, whither by-and-by, Mr. Talbot and Adams came, andbring a great [deal of] good meat, a ham of bacon, &c. Here we staidand drank till Mr. Adams began to be overcome. Then we parted, and so toWestminster by water, only seeing Mr. Pinkney at his own house, where heshewed me how he had alway kept the Lion and Unicorn, in the back of hischimney, bright, in expectation of the King's coming again. At homeI found Mr. Hunt, who told me how the Parliament had voted that theCovenant be printed and hung in churches again. Great hopes of theKing's coming again. To bed. 

6th. (Shrove Tuesday. ) I called Mr. Sheply and we both went up to myLord's lodgings at Mr. Crew's, where he bade us to go home again, andget a fire against an hour after. Which we did at White Hall, whitherhe came, and after talking with him and me about his going to sea, hecalled me by myself to go along with him into the garden, where he askedme how things were with me, and what he had endeavoured to do with myuncle to get him to do something for me but he would say nothing too. Helikewise bade me look out now at this turn some good place, and he woulduse all his own, and all the interest of his friends that he had inEngland, to do me good. And asked me whether I could, without too muchinconvenience, go to sea as his secretary, and bid me think of it. Healso began to talk of things of State, and told me that he should wantone in that capacity at sea, that he might trust in, and therefore hewould have me to go. He told me also, that he did believe the King wouldcome in, and did discourse with me about it, and about the affectionof the people and City, at which I was full glad. After he was gone, Iwaiting upon him through the garden till he came to the Hall, where Ileft him and went up to my office, where Mr. Hawly brought one to me, a seaman, that had promised Rio to him if he get him a purser's place, which I think to endeavour to do. Here comes my uncle Tom, whom Itook to Will's and drank with, poor man, he comes to inquire about theknights of Windsor, of which he desires to get to be one. 

 [The body of Poor Knights of Windsor was founded by Edward III. The intention of the king with regard to the poor knights was to provide relief and comfortable subsistence for such valiant soldiers as happened in their old age to fall into poverty and decay. On September 20th, 1659, a Report having been read respecting the Poor Knights of Windsor, the House "ordered that it be referred to a Committee, to look into the revenue for maintenance of the Poor Knights of Windsor, " &c. (See Tighe and Davis's "Annals of Windsor. ")]

While we were drinking, in comes Mr. Day, a carpenter in Westminster, totell me that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that I must go with him to theiryearly Club upon this day, which I confess I had quite forgot. So I wentto the Bell, where were Mr. Eglin, Veezy, Vincent a butcher, one more, and Mr. Tanner, with whom I played upon a viall, and he a viallin, afterdinner, and were very merry, with a special good dinner, a leg of vealand bacon, two capons and sausages and fritters, with abundance of wine. After that I went home, where I found Kate Sterpin who hath not beenhere a great while before. She gone I went to see Mrs. Jem, at whosechamber door I found a couple of ladies, but she not being there, wehunted her out, and found that she and another had hid themselves behinda door. Well, they all went down into the dining-room, where it was fullof tag, rag, and bobtail, dancing, singing, and drinking, of which I wasashamed, and after I had staid a dance or two I went away. Going home, called at my Lord's for Mr. Sheply, but found him at the Lion with apewterer, that he had bought pewter to-day of. With them I drank, and sohome and wrote by the post, by my Lord's command, for J. Goods to comeup presently. For my Lord intends to go forthwith into the Swiftsuretill the Nazeby be ready. This day I hear that the Lords do intend tosit, and great store of them are now in town, and I see in the Hallto-day. Overton at Hull do stand out, but can, it is thought, donothing; and Lawson, it is said, is gone with some ships thither, butall that is nothing. My Lord told me, that there was great endeavours tobring in the Protector again; but he told me, too, that he did believeit would not last long if he were brought in; no, nor the King neither(though he seems to think that he will come in), unless he carry himselfvery soberly and well. Every body now drinks the King's health withoutany fear, whereas before it was very private that a man dare do it. Monkthis day is feasted at Mercers' Hall, and is invited one after anotherto all the twelve Halls in London! Many think that he is honest yet, andsome or more think him to be a fool that would raise himself, but thinkthat he will undo himself by endeavouring it. My mind, I must needsremember, has been very much eased and joyed at my Lord's greatexpressions of kindness this day, and in discourse thereupon my wife andI lay awake an hour or two in our bed. 

7th. (Ash Wednesday. ) In the morning I went to my Lord at Mr. Crew's, in my way Washington overtook me and told me upon my question whetherhe knew of any place now void that I might have, by power over friends, that this day Mr. G. Montagu was to be made 'Custos Rotulorum' forWestminster, and that by friends I might get to be named by him Clerk ofthe Peace, with which I was, as I am at all new things, very much joyed, so when I came to Mr. Crew's, I spoke to my Lord about it, who told mehe believed Mr. Montagu had already promised it, and that it was givenhim only that he might gratify one person with the place I look for. Here, among many that were here, I met with Mr. Lynes, the surgeon, whopromised me some seeds of the sensitive plant. 

 [Evelyn, about the same date (August 9th, 1661), "tried several experiments on the sensitive plant and humilis, which contracted with the least touch of the sun through a burning glass, though it rises and opens only when it shines on it"]

I spoke too with Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who gave me great encouragementto go to sea with my Lord. Thence going homewards, my Lord overtook mein his coach, and called me in, and so I went with him to St. James's, and G. Montagu being gone to White Hall, we walked over the Parkthither, all the way he discoursing of the times, and of the changeof things since the last year, and wondering how he could bear with sogreat disappointment as he did. He did give me the best advice that hecould what was best for me, whether to stay or go with him, and offeredall the ways that could be, how he might do me good, with the greatestliberty and love that could be. I left him at Whitehall, and myself wentto Westminster to my office, whither nothing to do, but I did discoursewith Mr. Falconbridge about Le Squire's place, and had his consent toget it if I could. I afterwards in the Hall met with W. Simons, whoput me in the best way how to get it done. Thence by appointment tothe Angel in King Street, where Chetwind, Mr. Thomas and Doling were atoysters, and beginning Lent this day with a fish dinner. After dinnerMr. Thomas and I by water to London, where I went to Herring's andreceived the L50 of my Lord's upon Frank's bill from Worcester. I gavein the bill and set my hand to his bill. Thence I went to the Pope'sHead Alley and called on Adam Chard, and bought a catcall there, it costme two groats. Thence went and gave him a cup of ale. After that to theSun behind the Exchange, where meeting my uncle Wight by the way, tookhim with me thither, and after drinking a health or two round at theCock (Mr. Thomas being gone thither), we parted, he and I homewards, parted at Fleet Street, where I found my father newly come home fromBrampton very well. He left my uncle with his leg very dangerous, and dobelieve he cannot continue in that condition long. He tells me that myuncle did acquaint him very largely what he did intend to do with hisestate, to make me his heir and give my brother Tom something, and thatmy father and mother should have likewise something, to raise portionsfor John and Pall. I pray God he may be as good as his word. Here Istaid and supped and so home, there being Joyce Norton there and Ch. Glascock. Going home I called at Wotton's and took home a piece ofcheese. At home Mr. Sheply sat with me a little while, and so we allto bed. This news and my Lord's great kindness makes me very cheerfulwithin. I pray God make me thankful. This day, according to order, SirArthur [Haselrigge] appeared at the House; what was done I know not, butthere was all the Rumpers almost come to the House to-day. My Lord didseem to wonder much why Lambert was so willing to be put into the Tower, and thinks he has some design in it; but I think that he is so poor thathe cannot use his liberty for debts, if he were at liberty; and so it isas good and better for him to be there, than any where else. 

8th. To Whitehall to bespeak some firing for my father at Short's, andlikewise to speak to Mr. Blackburne about Batters being gunner in the"Wexford. " Then to Westminster Hall, where there was a general damp overmen's minds and faces upon some of the Officers of the Army being aboutmaking a remonstrance against Charles Stuart or any single person; butat noon it was told, that the General had put a stop to it, so all waswell again. Here I met with Jasper, who was to look for me to bring meto my Lord at the lobby; whither sending a note to my Lord, he comes outto me and gives me direction to look after getting some money for himfrom the Admiralty, seeing that things are so unsafe, that he would notlay out a farthing for the State, till he had received some money oftheirs. Home about two o'clock, and took my wife by land to PaternosterRow, to buy some Paragon for a petticoat and so home again. In my waymeeting Mr. Moore, who went home with me while I ate a bit and so backto Whitehall again, both of us. He waited at the Council for Mr. Crew. I to the Admiralty, where I got the order for the money, and have takencare for the getting of it assigned upon Mr. Hutchinson, Treasurer forthe Navy, against tomorrow. Hence going home I met with Mr. King thatbelonged to the Treasurers at War and took him to Harper's, who told methat he and the rest of his fellows are cast out of office by the newTreasurers. This afternoon, some of the Officers of the Army, and someof the Parliament, had a conference at White Hall to make all rightagain, but I know not what is done. This noon I met at the Dog tavernCaptain Philip Holland, with whom I advised how to make some advantageof my Lord's going to sea, which he told me might be by having offive or six servants entered on board, and I to give them what wages Ipleased, and so their pay to be mine; he was also very urgent to haveme take the Secretary's place, that my Lord did proffer me. At the sametime in comes Mr. Wade and Mr. Sterry, secretary to the plenipotentiaryin Denmark, who brought the news of the death of the King of Swedenat Gottenburgh the 3rd of the last month, and he told me what a greatchange he found when he came here, the secluded members being restored. He also spoke very freely of Mr. Wades profit, which he made while hewas in Zeeland, how he did believe that he cheated Mr. Powell, and thathe made above L500 on the voyage, which Mr. Wade did very angrily deny, though I believe he was guilty enough. 

9th. To my Lord at his lodging, and came to Westminster with him in thecoach, with Mr. Dudley with him, and he in the Painted Chamber

 [The Painted Chamber, or St. Edward's Chamber, in the old Palace at Westminster. The first name was given to it from the curious paintings on the walls, and the second from the tradition that Edward the Confessor died in it. ]

walked a good while; and I telling him that I was willing and readyto go with him to sea, he agreed that I should, and advised me whatto write to Mr. Downing about it, which I did at my office, that by myLord's desire I offered that my place might for a while be supplied byMr. Moore, and that I and my security should be bound by the same bondfor him. I went and dined at Mr. Crew's, where Mr. Hawly comes to me, and I told him the business and shewed him the letter promising him L20a year, which he liked very well of. I did the same to Mr. Moore, whichhe also took for a courtesy. In the afternoon by coach, taking Mr. Butler with me to the Navy Office, about the L500 for my Lord, which Iam promised to have to-morrow morning. Then by coach back again, and atWhite Hall at the Council Chamber spoke with my Lord and got him to signthe acquittance for the L500, and he also told me that he had spoke toMr. Blackburne to put off Mr. Creed and that I should come to him fordirection in the employment. After this Mr. Butler and I to Harper's, where we sat and drank for two hours till ten at night; the old womanshe was drunk and began to talk foolishly in commendation of her sonJames. Home and to bed. All night troubled in my thoughts how to ordermy business upon this great change with me that I could not sleep, andbeing overheated with drink I made a promise the next morning to drinkno strong drink this week, for I find that it makes me sweat and puts mequite out of order. This day it was resolved that the writs do go out inthe name of the Keepers of the Liberty, and I hear that it is resolvedprivately that a treaty be offered with the King. And that Monk didcheck his soldiers highly for what they did yesterday. 

10th. In the morning went to my father's, whom I took in his cuttinghouse, --[His father was a tailor, and this was his cutting-outroom. ]--and there I told him my resolution to go to sea with my Lord, and consulted with him how to dispose of my wife, and we resolved ofletting her be at Mr. Bowyer's. Thence to the Treasurer of the Navy, where I received L500 for my Lord, and having left L200 of it withMr. Rawlinson at his house for Sheply, I went with the rest to the Suntavern on Fish Street Hill, where Mr. Hill, Stevens and Mr. Hater ofthe Navy Office had invited me, where we had good discourse and a finebreakfast of Mr. Hater. Then by coach home, where I took occasion totell my wife of my going to sea, who was much troubled at it, and waswith some dispute at last willing to continue at Mr. Bowyer's in myabsence. After this to see Mrs. Jem and paid her maid L7, and then toMr. Blackburne, who told me what Mr. Creed did say upon the news of mycoming into his place, and that he did propose to my Lord that thereshould be two Secretaries, which made me go to Sir H. Wright's where myLord dined and spoke with him about it, but he seemed not to agree tothe motion. Hither W. Howe comes to me and so to Westminster. In the wayhe told me, what I was to provide and so forth against my going. He wentwith me to my office, whither also Mr. Madge comes half foxed and playedthe fool upon the violin that made me weary. Then to Whitehall and sohome and set many of my things in order against my going. My wife waslate making of caps for me, and the wench making an end of a pair ofstockings that she was knitting of. So to bed. 

11th. (Sunday. ) All the day busy without my band on, putting up my booksand things, in order to my going to sea. At night my wife and I went tomy father's to supper, where J. Norton and Chas. Glascocke supt with us, and after supper home, where the wench had provided all things againsttomorrow to wash, and so to bed, where I much troubled with my cold andcoughing. 

12th. This day the wench rose at two in the morning to wash, and my wifeand I lay talking a great while. I by reason of my cold could not tellhow to sleep. My wife and I to the Exchange, where we bought a greatmany things, where I left her and went into London, and at Bedells thebookseller's at the Temple gate I paid L12 10s. 6d. For Mr. Fuller byhis direction. So came back and at Wilkinson's found Mr. Sheply and somesea people, as the cook of the Nazeby and others, at dinner. Then to theWhite Horse in King Street, where I got Mr. Buddle's horse to ride toHuntsmore to Mr. Bowyer's, where I found him and all well, and willingto have my wife come and board with them while I was at sea, which wasthe business I went about. Here I lay and took a thing for my cold, namely a spoonful of honey and a nutmeg scraped into it, by Mr. Bowyer'sdirection, and so took it into my mouth, which I found did do me muchgood. 

13th. It rained hard and I got up early, and got to London by 8 o'clockat my Lord's lodgings, who told me that I was to be secretary, and Creedto be deputy treasurer to the Fleet, at which I was troubled, but Icould not help it. After that to my father's to look after things, andso at my shoemaker's and others. At night to Whitehall, where I met withSimons and Luellin at drink with them at Roberts at Whitehall. Then tothe Admiralty, where I talked with Mr. Creed till the Brothers, and theywere very seemingly willing and glad that I have the place since my Lordwould dispose of it otherwise than to them. Home and to bed. This daythe Parliament voted all that had been done by the former Rump againstthe House of Lords be void, and to-night that the writs go out withoutany qualification. Things seem very doubtful what will be the end ofall; for the Parliament seems to be strong for the King, while thesoldiers do all talk against. 

14th. To my Lord, where infinity of applications to him and to me. To mygreat trouble, my Lord gives me all the papers that was given to him, toput in order and give him an account of them. Here I got half-a-piece ofa person of Mr. Wright's recommending to my Lord to be Preacher of theSpeaker frigate. I went hence to St. James's and Mr. Pierce the surgeonwith me, to speak with Mr. Clerke, Monk's secretary, about getting somesoldiers removed out of Huntingdon to Oundle, which my Lord told mehe did to do a courtesy to the town, that he might have the greaterinterest in them, in the choice of the next Parliament; not that heintends to be chosen himself, but that he might have Mr. G. Montaguand my Lord Mandeville chose there in spite of the Bernards. This done(where I saw General Monk and methought he seemed a dull heavy man), heand I to Whitehall, where with Luellin we dined at Marsh's. Coming hometelling my wife what we had to dinner, she had a mind to some cabbage, and I sent for some and she had it. Went to the Admiralty, where astrange thing how I am already courted by the people. This morning amongothers that came to me I hired a boy of Jenkins of Westminster and Burrto be my clerk. This night I went to Mr. Creed's chamber where he gaveme the former book of the proceedings in the fleet and the Seal. Then toHarper's where old Beard was and I took him by coach to my Lord's, buthe was not at home, but afterwards I found him out at Sir H. Wright's. Thence by coach, it raining hard, to Mrs. Jem, where I staid a while, and so home, and late in the night put up my things in a sea-chest thatMr. Sheply lent me, and so to bed. 

15th. Early packing up my things to be sent by cart with the rest of myLord's. So to Will's, where I took leave of some of my friends. Here Imet Tom Alcock, one that went to school with me at Huntingdon, but I hadnot seen him these sixteen years. So in the Hall paid and made even withMrs. Michell; afterwards met with old Beale, and at the Axe paid himthis quarter to Ladyday next. In the afternoon Dick Mathews comes todine, and I went and drank with him at Harper's. So into London bywater, and in Fish Street my wife and I bought a bit of salmon for 8d. And went to the Sun Tavern and ate it, where I did promise to give herall that I have in the world but my books, in case I should die at sea. From thence homewards; in the way my wife bought linen for three smocksand other things. I went to my Lord's and spoke with him. So home withMrs. Jem by coach and then home to my own house. From thence to the Foxin King-street to supper on a brave turkey of Mr. Hawly's, withsome friends of his there, Will Bowyer, &c. After supper I went toWestminster Hall, and the Parliament sat till ten at night, thinking andbeing expected to dissolve themselves to-day, but they did not. Greattalk to-night that the discontented officers did think this night tomake a stir, but prevented. To the Fox again. Home with my wife, and tobed extraordinary sleepy. 

16th. No sooner out of bed but troubled with abundance of clients, seamen. My landlord Vanly's man came to me by my direction yesterday, for I was there at his house as I was going to London by water, and Ipaid him rent for my house for this quarter ending at Lady day, and tookan acquittance that he wrote me from his master. Then to Mr. Sheply, tothe Rhenish Tavern House, where Mr. Pim, the tailor, was, and gave us amorning draft and a neat's tongue. Home and with my wife to London, wedined at my father's, where Joyce Norton and Mr. Armiger dined also. After dinner my wife took leave of them in order to her going to-morrowto Huntsmore. In my way home I went to the Chapel in Chancery Laneto bespeak papers of all sorts and other things belonging to writingagainst my voyage. So home, where I spent an hour or two about mybusiness in my study. Thence to the Admiralty, and staid a while, sohome again, where Will Bowyer came to tell us that he would bear my wifecompany in the coach to-morrow. Then to Westminster Hall, where I heardhow the Parliament had this day dissolved themselves, and did pass verycheerfully through the Hall, and the Speaker without his mace. The wholeHall was joyful thereat, as well as themselves, and now they begin totalk loud of the King. To-night I am told, that yesterday, about fiveo'clock in the afternoon, one came with a ladder to the Great Exchange, and wiped with a brush the inscription that was upon King Charles, andthat there was a great bonfire made in the Exchange, and people calledout "God bless. King Charles the Second!"

 ["Then the writing in golden letters, that was engraven under the statue of Charles I, in the Royal Exchange ('Exit tyrannus, Regum ultimus, anno libertatis Angliae, anno Domini 1648, Januarie xxx. ) was washed out by a painter, who in the day time raised a ladder, and with a pot and brush washed the writing quite out, threw down his pot and brush and said it should never do him any more service, in regard that it had the honour to put out rebels' hand-writing. He then came down, took away his ladder, not a misword said to him, and by whose order it was done was not then known. The merchants were glad and joyful, many people were gathered together, and against the Exchange made a bonfire. "Rugge's Diurnal. " In the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts at the British Museum is a pamphlet which is dated in MS. March 21st, 1659-60, where this act is said to be by order of Monk: "The Loyal Subjects Teares for the Sufferings and Absence of their Sovereign Charles II. , King of England, Scotland, and Ireland; with an Observation upon the expunging of 'Exit Tyrannus, Regum ultimus', by order of General Monk, and some Advice to the Independents, Anabaptists, Phanatiques, &c. London, 1660. "]

From the Hall I went home to bed, very sad in mind to part with my wife, but God's will be done. 

17th. This morning bade adieu in bed to the company of my wife. We roseand I gave my wife some money to serve her for a time, and what papersof consequence I had. Then I left her to get her ready and went to myLord's with my boy Eliezer to my Lord's lodging at Mr. Crew's. Here Ihad much business with my Lord, and papers, great store, given me by myLord to dispose of as of the rest. After that, with Mr. Moore home to myhouse and took my wife by coach to the Chequer in Holborn, where, afterwe had drank, &c. , she took coach and so farewell. I staid behind withTom Alcock and Mr. Anderson, my old chamber fellow at Cambridge hisbrother, and drank with them there, who were come to me thither aboutone that would have a place at sea. Thence with Mr. Hawly to dinner atMr. Crew's. After dinner to my own house, where all things were put upinto the dining-room and locked up, and my wife took the keys along withher. 

This day, in the presence of Mr. Moore (who made it) and Mr. Hawly, Idid before I went out with my wife, seal my will to her, whereby I didgive her all that I have in the world, but my books which I give to mybrother John, excepting only French books, which my wife is to have. Inthe evening at the Admiralty, I met my Lord there and got a commissionfor Williamson to be captain of the Harp frigate, and afterwards wentby coach taking Mr. Crips with me to my Lord and got him to sign it attable as he was at supper. And so to Westminster back again with himwith me, who had a great desire to go to sea and my Lord told me that hewould do him any favour. So I went home with him to his mother's houseby me in Axe Yard, where I found Dr. Clodius's wife and sat theretalking and hearing of old Mrs. Crisp playing of her old lessons uponthe harpsichon till it was time to go to bed. After that to bed, andLaud, her son lay with me in the best chamber in her house, which indeedwas finely furnished. 

18th. I rose early and went to the barber's (Jervas) in Palace Yard andI was trimmed by him, and afterwards drank with him a cup or two of ale, and did begin to hire his man to go with me to sea. Then to my Lord'slodging where I found Captain Williamson and gave him his commissionto be Captain of the Harp, and he gave me a piece of gold and 20s. Insilver. So to my own house, where I staid a while and then to dinnerwith Mr. Shepley at my Lord's lodgings. After that to Mr. Mossum's, where he made a very gallant sermon upon "Pray for the life of the Kingand the King's son. " (Ezra vi. 10. ) From thence to Mr. Crew's, but myLord not being within I did not stay, but went away and met with Mr. Woodfine, who took me to an alehouse in Drury Lane, and we sat and dranktogether, and ate toasted cakes which were very good, and we had a greatdeal of mirth with the mistress of the house about them. From thencehomewards, and called at Mr. Blagrave's, where I took up my note that hehad of mine for 40s. , which he two years ago did give me as a pawn whilehe had my lute. So that all things are even between him and I. So toMrs. Crisp, where she and her daughter and son and I sat talkingtill ten o'clock at night, I giving them the best advice that I couldconcerning their son, how he should go to sea, and so to bed. 

19th. Early to my Lord, where infinity of business to do, which makesmy head full; and indeed, for these two or three days, I have not beenwithout a great many cares and thoughts concerning them. After that tothe Admiralty, where a good while with Mr. Blackburne, who told me thatit was much to be feared that the King would come in, for all good menand good things were now discouraged. Thence to Wilkinson's, whereMr. Sheply and I dined; and while we were at dinner, my Lord Monk'slifeguard come by with the Serjeant at Arms before them, with twoProclamations, that all Cavaliers do depart the town; but the other thatall officers that were lately disbanded should do the same. The last ofwhich Mr. R. Creed, I remember, said, that he looked upon it as if theyhad said, that all God's people should depart the town. Thence with somesea officers to the Swan, where we drank wine till one comes to me topay me some money from Worcester, viz. , L25. His name is Wilday. I satin another room and took my money and drank with him till the rest of mycompany were gone and so we parted. Going home the water was high, and so I got Crockford to carry me over it. So home, and left my moneythere. All the discourse now-a-day is, that the King will come again;and for all I see, it is the wishes of all; and all do believe that itwill be so. My mind is still much troubled for my poor wife, but I hopethat this undertaking will be worth my pains. To Whitehall and staidabout business at the Admiralty late, then to Tony Robins's, where Capt. Stokes, Mr. Luddington and others were, and I did solicit the Captainfor Laud Crisp, who gave me a promise that he would entertain him. Afterthat to Mrs. Crisp's where Dr. Clodius and his wife were. He very merrywith drink. We played at cards late and so to bed. This day my Lorddined at my Lord Mayor's [Allen], and Jasper was made drunk, which myLord was very angry at. 

20th. This morning I rose early and went to my house to put things in alittle order against my going, which I conceive will be to-morrow (theweather still very rainy). After that to my Lord, where I found verygreat deal of business, he giving me all letters and papers that cometo him about business, for me to give him account of when we comeon shipboard. Hence with Capt. Isham by coach to Whitehall to theAdmiralty. He and I and Chetwind, Doling and Luellin dined together atMarsh's at Whitehall. So to the Bull Head whither W. Simons comes to usand I gave them my foy

 [Foy. A feast given by one who is about to leave a place. In Kent, according to Grose, a treat to friends, either at going abroad or coming home. See Diary, November 25th, 1661. ]

against my going to sea; and so we took leave one of another, theypromising me to write to me to sea. Hither comes Pim's boy, by mydirection, with two monteeres--[Monteeres, montero (Spanish), a kind ofhuntsman's cap. ]--for me to take my choice of, and I chose the saddestcolour and left the other for Mr. Sheply. Hence by coach to London, andtook a short melancholy leave of my father and mother, without havingthem to drink, or say anything of business one to another. And indeed Ihad a fear upon me I should scarce ever see my mother again, she havinga great cold then upon her. Then to Westminster, where by reason of rainand an easterly wind, the water was so high that there was boats rowedin King Street and all our yard was drowned, that one could not go to myhouse, so as no man has seen the like almost, most houses full of water. 

 ["In this month the wind was very high, and caused great tides, so that great hurt was done to the inhabitants of Westminster, King Street being quite drowned. The Maidenhead boat was cast away, and twelve persons with her. Also, about Dover the waters brake in upon the mainland; and in Kent was very much damage done; so that report said, there was L20, 000 worth of harm done. "--Rugge's Diurnal. --B. ]

Then back by coach to my Lord's; where I met Mr. Sheply, who staid withme waiting for my Lord's coming in till very late. Then he and I, andWilliam Howe went with our swords to bring my Lord home from Sir H. Wright's. He resolved to go to-morrow if the wind ceased. Sheply and Ihome by coach. I to Mrs. Crisp's, who had sat over a good supper longlooking for me. So we sat talking and laughing till it was very late, and so Laud and I to bed. 

21st. To my Lord's, but the wind very high against us, and the weatherbad we could not go to-day; here I did very much business, and then tomy Lord Widdrington's from my Lord, with his desire that he might havethe disposal of the writs of the Cinque Ports. My Lord was very civil tome, and called for wine, and writ a long letter in answer. Thence I wentto a tavern over against Mr. Pierce's with judge Advocate Fowler and Mr. Burr, and sat and drank with them two or three pints of wine. After thatto Mr. Crew's again and gave my Lord an account of what I had done, andso about my business to take leave of my father and mother, which bya mistake I have put down yesterday. Thence to Westminster to Crisp's, where we were very merry; the old woman sent for a supper for me, andgave me a handkercher with strawberry buttons on it, and so to bed. 

22nd. Up very early and set things in order at my house, and so tookleave of Mrs. Crispe and her daughter (who was in bed) and of Mrs. Hunt. Then to my Lord's lodging at the gate and did so there, where Mr. Hawlycame to me and I gave him the key of my house to keep, and he went withme to Mr. Crew's, and there I took my last leave of him. But the weathercontinuing very bad my Lord would not go to-day. My Lord spent thismorning private in sealing of his last will and testament with Mr. W. Mountagu. After that I went forth about my own business to buy a pair ofriding grey serge stockings and sword and belt and hose, and after thattook Wotton and Brigden to the Pope's Head Tavern in Chancery Lane, where Gilb. Holland and Shelston were, and we dined and drank a greatdeal of wine, and they paid all. Strange how these people do now promiseme anything; one a rapier, the other a vessel of wine or a gun, and oneoffered me his silver hatband to do him a courtesy. I pray God tokeep me from being proud or too much lifted up hereby. After that toWestminster, and took leave of Kate Sterpin who was very sorry to partwith me, and after that of Mr. George Mountagu, and received my warrantof Mr. Blackburne, to be Secretary to the two Generals of the Fleet. Then to take my leave of the Clerks of the Council, and thence Dolingand Luellin would have me go with them to Mount's chamber, where wesat and talked and then I went away. So to my Lord (in my way meetingChetwind and Swan and bade them farewell) where I lay all night with Mr. Andrews. This day Mr. Sheply went away on board and I sent my boy withhim. This day also Mrs. Jemimah went to Marrowbone, so I could not seeher. Mr. Moore being out of town to-night I could not take leave of himnor speak to him about business which troubled me much. I left my smallcase therefore with Mr. Andrews for him. 

23rd. Up early, carried my Lord's will in a black box to Mr. WilliamMontagu for him to keep for him. Then to the barber's and put on mycravat there. So to my Lord again, who was almost ready to be gone andhad staid for me. Hither came Gilb. Holland, and brought me a stickrapier and Shelston a sugar-loaf, and had brought his wife who he saidwas a very pretty woman to the Ship tavern hard by for me to see butI could not go. Young Reeve also brought me a little perspective glasswhich I bought for my Lord, it cost me 8s. So after that my Lord in SirH. Wright's coach with Captain Isham, Mr. Thomas, John Crew, W. Howe, and I in a Hackney to the Tower, where the barges staid for us; my Lordand the Captain in one, and W. Howe and I, &c. , in the other, to theLong Reach, where the Swiftsure lay at anchor; (in our way we saw thegreat breach which the late high water had made, to the loss of manyL1000 to the people about Limehouse. ) Soon as my Lord on board, theguns went off bravely from the ships. And a little while after comes theVice-Admiral Lawson, and seemed very respectful to my Lord, and so didthe rest of the Commanders of the frigates that were thereabouts. I tothe cabin allotted for me, which was the best that any had that belongedto my Lord. I got out some things out of my chest for writing and towork presently, Mr. Burr and I both. I supped at the deck table with Mr. Sheply. We were late writing of orders for the getting of ships ready, &c. ; and also making of others to all the seaports between Hastings andYarmouth, to stop all dangerous persons that are going or coming betweenFlanders and there. After that to bed in my cabin, which was but short;however I made shift with it and slept very well, and the weather beinggood I was not sick at all yet, I know not what I shall be. 

24th. At work hard all the day writing letters to the Council, &c. Thisday Mr. Creed came on: board and dined very boldly with my Lord, buthe could not get a bed there. At night Capt. Isham who had been atGravesend all last night and to-day came and brought Mr. Lucy (oneacquainted with Mrs. Pierce, with whom I had been at her house), I drankwith him in the Captain's cabin, but my business could not stay withhim. I despatch many letters to-day abroad and it was late before wecould get to bed. Mr. Sheply and Howe supped with me in my cabin. Theboy Eliezer flung down a can of beer upon my papers which made me givehim a box of the ear, it having all spoiled my papers and cost me agreat deal of work. So to bed. 

25th. (Lord's day). About two o'clock in the morning, letters came fromLondon by our coxon, so they waked me, but I would not rise but bid himstay till morning, which he did, and then I rose and carried them into my Lord, who read them a-bed. Among the rest, there was the writand mandate for him to dispose to the Cinque Ports for choice ofParliament-men. There was also one for me from Mr. Blackburne, who withhis own hand superscribes it to S. P. Esq. , of which God knows I wasnot a little proud. After that I wrote a letter to the Clerk of DoverCastle, to come to my Lord about issuing of those writs. About teno'clock Mr. Ibbott, at the end of the long table, begun to prayand preach and indeed made a very good sermon, upon the duty of allChristians to be stedfast in faith. After that Captain Cuttance andI had oysters, my Lord being in his cabin not intending to stir outto-day. After that up into the great cabin above to dinner with theCaptain, where was Captain Isham and all the officers of the ship. Itook place of all but the Captains; after dinner I wrote a great manyletters to my friends at London. After that, sermon again, at which Islept, God forgive me! After that, it being a fair day, I walked withthe Captain upon the deck talking. At night I supped with him and afterthat had orders from my Lord about some business to be done againstto-morrow, which I sat up late and did and then to bed. 

26th. This day it is two years since it pleased God that I was cut ofthe stone at Mrs. Turner's in Salisbury Court. And did resolve while Ilive to keep it a festival, as I did the last year at my house, and forever to have Mrs. Turner and her company with me. But now it pleases Godthat I am where I am and so prevented to do it openly; only within mysoul I can and do rejoice, and bless God, being at this time blessed behis holy name, in as good health as ever I was in my life. This morningI rose early, and went about making of an establishment of the wholeFleet, and a list of all the ships, with the number of men and guns:About an hour after that, we had a meeting of the principal commandersand seamen, to proportion out the number of these things. After thatto dinner, there being very many commanders on board. All the afternoonvery many orders were made, till I was very weary. At night Mr. Sheplyand W. Howe came and brought some bottles of wine and some things to eatin my cabin, where we were very merry, remembering the day of beingcut for the stone. Captain Cuttance came afterwards and sat drinking abottle of wine till eleven, a kindness he do not usually do the greatestofficer in the ship. After that to bed. 

27th. Early in the morning at making a fair new establishment of theFleet to send to the Council. This morning, the wind came about, and wefell into the Hope, --[A reach of the Thames near Tilbury. ]--and in ourpassing by the Vice-Admiral, he and the rest of the frigates, with him, did give us abundance of guns and we them, so much that the report ofthem broke all the windows in my cabin and broke off the iron bar thatwas upon it to keep anybody from creeping in at the Scuttle. --["A smallhole or port cut either in the deck or side of a ship, generally forventilation. That in the deck is a small hatch-way. "--Smyth's Sailor'sWord-Book. ]--This noon I sat the first time with my Lord at table sincemy coming to sea. All the afternoon exceeding busy in writing of lettersand orders. In the afternoon, Sir Harry Wright came onboard us, abouthis business of being chosen Parliament-man. My Lord brought him to seemy cabin, when I was hard a-writing. At night supped with my Lord too, with the Captain, and after that to work again till it be very late. Soto bed. 

28th. This morning and the whole day busy, and that the more because Mr. Burr was about his own business all the day at Gravesend. At night therewas a gentleman very well bred, his name was Banes, going for Flushing, who spoke French and Latin very well, brought by direction from CaptainClerke hither, as a prisoner, because he called out of the vessel thathe went in, "Where is your King, we have done our business, Vive leRoi. " He confessed himself a Cavalier in his heart, and that he and hiswhole family had fought for the King; but that he was then drunk, havingbeen all night taking his leave at Gravesend the night before, andso could not remember what it was that he said; but in his words andcarriage showed much of a gentleman. My Lord had a great kindness forhim, but did not think it safe to release him, but commanded him tobe used civilly, so he was taken to the Master's Cabin and had supperthere. In the meantime I wrote a letter to the Council about him, and anorder for the vessel to be sent for back that he was taken out of. Buta while after, he sent a letter down to my Lord, which my Lord did likevery well, and did advise with me what was best to be done. So I put insomething to my Lord and then to the Captain that the gentleman was tobe released and the letter stopped, which was done. So I went up and satand talked with him in Latin and French, and drank a bottle or two withhim; and about eleven at night he took boat again, and so God bless him. Thence I to my cabin and to bed. This day we had news of the election atHuntingdon for Bernard and Pedly, at which my Lord was much troubled forhis friends' missing of it. 

29th. We lie still a little below Gravesend. At night Mr. Sheplyreturned from London, and told us of several elections for the nextParliament. That the King's effigies was new making to be set up inthe Exchange again. This evening was a great whispering of some of theVice-Admiral's captains that they were dissatisfied, and did intend tofight themselves, to oppose the General. But it was soon hushed, and theVice-Admiral did wholly deny any such thing, and protested to stand bythe General. At night Mr. Sheply, W. Howe, and I supped in my cabin. Soup to the Master's cabin, where we sat talking, and then to bed. 

30th. I was saluted in the morning with two letters, from some that Ihad done a favour to, which brought me in each a piece of gold. Thisday, while my Lord and we were at dinner, the Nazeby came in sighttowards us, and at last came to anchor close by us. After dinner my Lordand many others went on board her, where every thing was out of order, and a new chimney made for my Lord in his bedchamber, which he was muchpleased with. My Lord, in his discourse, discovered a great deal of loveto this ship. 

31st. This morning Captain Jowles of the "Wexford" came on board, forwhom I got commission from my Lord to be commander of the ship. Upon thedoing thereof he was to make the 20s. Piece that he sent me yesterday, up L5; wherefore he sent me a bill that he did owe me L4. , which I sentmy boy to Gravesend with him, and he did give the boy L4 for me, and theboy gave him the bill under his hand. This morning, Mr. Hill that livesin Axe-yard was here on board with the Vice-Admiral. I did give him abottle of wine, and was exceedingly satisfied of the power that I haveto make my friends welcome. Many orders to make all the afternoon. Atnight Mr. Sheply, Howe, Ibbott, and I supped in my cabin together. 

APRIL 1660

April 1st (Lord's day). Mr. Ibbott preached very well. After dinner myLord did give me a private list of all the ships that were to be set outthis summer, wherein I do discern that he bath made it his care to putby as much of the Anabaptists as he can. By reason of my Lord and mybeing busy to send away the packet by Mr. Cooke of the Nazeby, it wasfour o'clock before we could begin sermon again. This day Captain Guycome on board from Dunkirk, who tells me that the King will come in, andthat the soldiers at Dunkirk do drink the King's health in the streets. At night the Captain, Sir R. Stayner, Mr. Sheply, and I did sup togetherin the Captain's cabin. I made a commission for Captain Wilgness, ofthe Bear, to-night, which got me 30s. So after writing a while I went tobed. 

2d. Up very early, and to get all my things and my boy's packed up. Great concourse of commanders here this morning to take leave of my Lordupon his going into the Nazeby, so that the table was full, so theredined below many commanders, and Mr. Creed, who was much troubled tohear that he could not go along with my Lord, for he had already got allhis things thither, thinking to stay there, but W. Howe was very highagainst it, and he indeed did put him out, though everybody was glad ofit. After dinner I went in one of the boats with my boy before my Lord, and made shift before night to get my cabin in pretty good order. Itis but little, but very convenient, having one window to the seaand another to the deck, and a good bed. This morning comes Mr. Ed. Pickering, like a coxcomb as he always was. He tells me that the Kingwill come in, but that Monk did resolve to have the doing of it himself, or else to hinder it. 

3d. Late to bed. About three in the morning there was great knocking atmy cabin, which with much difficulty (so they say) waked me, and Irose, but it was only for a packet, so went to my bed again, and in themorning gave it my Lord. This morning Capt. Isham comes on board to seemy Lord and drunk his wine before he went into the Downs, there likewisecome many merchants to get convoy to the Baltique, which a course wastaken for. They dined with my Lord, and one of them by name AldermanWood talked much to my Lord of the hopes that we have now to be settled, (under the King he meant); but my Lord took no notice of it. Afterdinner which was late my Lord went on shore, and after him I and Capt. Sparling went in his boat, but the water being almost at low water wecould not stay for fear of not getting into our boat again. So backagain. This day come the Lieutenant of the Swiftsure, who was sent bymy Lord to Hastings, one of the Cinque Ports, to have got Mr. EdwardMontagu to have been one of their burgesses, but could not, for theywere all promised before. After he had done his message, I took him andMr. Pierce, the surgeon (who this day came on board, and not before), tomy cabin, where we drank a bottle of wine. At night, busy a-writing, andso to bed. My heart exceeding heavy for not hearing of my dear wife, andindeed I do not remember that ever my heart was so apprehensive of herabsence as at this very time. 

4th. This morning I dispatch many letters of my own private business toLondon. There come Colonel Thomson with the wooden leg, and General Pen, [This is the first mention in the Diary of Admiral (afterwards Sir William) Penn, with whom Pepys was subsequently so particularly intimate. At this time admirals were sometimes styled generals. William Penn was born at Bristol in 1621, of the ancient family of the Penns of Penn Lodge, Wilts. He was Captain at the age of twenty-one; Rear-Admiral of Ireland at twenty-three; Vice-Admiral of England and General in the first Dutch war, at thirty-two. He was subsequently M. P. For Weymouth, Governor of Kingsale, and Vice- Admiral of Munster. He was a highly successful commander, and in 1654 he obtained possession of Jamaica. He was appointed a Commissioner of the Navy in 1660, in which year he was knighted. After the Dutch fight in 1665, where he distinguished himself as second in command under the Duke of York, he took leave of the sea, but continued to act as a Commissioner for the Navy till 1669, when he retired to Wanstead, on account of his bodily infirmities, and dying there, September 16th, 1670, aged forty-nine, was buried in the church of St. Mary Redcliffe, in Bristol, where a monument to his memory was erected. ]

and dined with my Lord and Mr. Blackburne, who told me that it wascertain now that the King must of necessity come in, and that one of theCouncil told him there is something doing in order to a treaty alreadyamong them. And it was strange to hear how Mr. Blackburne did alreadybegin to commend him for a sober man, and how quiet he would be underhis government, &c. I dined all alone to prevent company, which wasexceeding great to-day, in my cabin. After these two were gone Sir W. Wheeler and Sir John Petters came on board and staid about two or threehours, and so went away. The Commissioners came to-day, only to consultabout a further reducement of the Fleet, and to pay them as fast as theycan. I did give Davis, their servant, L5 10s. To give to Mr. Moore fromme, in part of the L7 that I borrowed of him, and he is to discount therest out of the 36s. That he do owe me. At night, my Lord resolved tosend the Captain of our ship to Waymouth and promote his being chosenthere, which he did put himself into a readiness to do the next morning. 

5th. Infinity of business all the morning of orders to make, that Iwas very much perplexed that Mr. Burr had failed me of coming back lastnight, and we ready to set sail, which we did about noon, and came inthe evening to Lee roads and anchored. At night Mr. Sheply overtook uswho had been at Gray's Market this morning. I spent all the afternoonupon the deck, it being very pleasant weather. This afternoon Sir Rich. Stayner and Mr. Creed, after we were come to anchor, did come on board, and Creed brought me L30, which my Lord had ordered him to pay me uponaccount, and Captain Clerke brought me a noted caudle. At night verysleepy to bed. 

6th. This morning came my brother-in-law Balty to see me, and to desireto be here with me as Reformado, --["a broken or disbanded officer. "]which did much trouble me. But after dinner (my Lord using him verycivilly, at table) I spoke to my Lord, and he presented me a letter toCaptain Stokes for him that he should be there. All the day withhim walking and talking, we under sail as far as the Spitts. In theafternoon, W. Howe and I to our viallins, the first time since we cameon board. This afternoon I made even with my Lord to this day, and didgive him all the money remaining in my hands. In the evening, it beingfine moonshine, I staid late walking upon the quarter-deck with Mr. Cuttance, learning of some sea terms; and so down to supper and to bed, having an hour before put Balty into Burr's cabin, he being out of theship. 

7th. This day, about nine o'clock in the morning, the wind grew high, and we being among the sands lay at anchor; I began to be dizzy andsqueamish. Before dinner my Lord sent for me down to eat some oysters, the best my Lord said that ever he ate in his life, though I have ate asgood at Bardsey. After dinner, and all the afternoon I walked upon thedeck to keep myself from being sick, and at last about five o'clock, went to bed and got a caudle made me, and sleep upon it very well. Thisday Mr. Sheply went to Sheppy. 

8th (Lord's day). Very calm again, and I pretty well, but my head akedall day. About noon set sail; in our way I see many vessels and masts, which are now the greatest guides for ships. We had a brave wind all theafternoon, and overtook two good merchantmen that overtook us yesterday, going to the East Indies. The lieutenant and I lay out of his windowwith his glass, looking at the women that were on board them, beingpretty handsome. This evening Major Willoughby, who had been here threeor four days on board with Mr. Pickering, went on board a catch [ketch]for Dunkirk. We continued sailing when I went to bed, being somewhatill again, and Will Howe, the surgeon, parson, and Balty supped in theLieutenant's cabin and afterwards sat disputing, the parson for and Iagainst extemporary prayers, very hot. 

9th. We having sailed all night, were come in sight of the Nore andSouth Forelands in the morning, and so sailed all day. In the afternoonwe had a very fresh gale, which I brooked better than I thought I shouldbe able to do. This afternoon I first saw France and Calais, with whichI was much pleased, though it was at a distance. About five o'clock wecame to the Goodwin, so to the Castles about Deal; where our Fleet lay, among whom we anchored. Great was the shout of guns from the castlesand ships, and our answers, that I never heard yet so great rattling ofguns. Nor could we see one another on board for the smoke that was amongus, nor one ship from another. Soon as we came to anchor, the captainscame from on board their ships all to us on board. This afternoon Iwrote letters for my Lord to the Council, &c. , which Mr. Dickering wasto carry, who took his leave this night of my Lord, and Balty after Ihad wrote two or three letters by him to my wife and Mr. Bowyer, and haddrank a bottle of wine with him in my cabin which J. Goods and W. Howebrought on purpose, he took leave of me too to go away to-morrow morningwith Mr. Dickering. I lent Balty 15s. Which he was to pay to my wife. Itwas one in the morning before we parted. This evening Mr. Sheply cameon board, having escaped a very great danger upon a sand coming fromChatham. 

10th. This morning many or most of the commanders in the Fleet came onboard and dined here, so that some of them and I dined together in theRound-house, where we were very merry. Hither came the Vice-Admiral tous, and sat and talked and seemed a very good-natured man. At night as Iwas all alone in my cabin, in a melancholy fit playing on my viallin, myLord and Sir R. Stayner came into the coach

 ["A sort of chamber or apartment in a large ship of war, just before the great cabin. The floor of it is formed by the aftmost part of the quarter deck, and the roof of it by the poop: it is generally the habitation of the flag-captain. "--Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book. ]

and supped there, and called me out to supper with them. After that upto the Lieutenant's cabin, where he and I and Sir Richard sat till 11o'clock talking, and so to bed. This day my Lord Goring returned fromFrance, and landed at Dover. 

11th. A Gentleman came this morning from my Lord of Manchester tomy Lord for a pass for Mr. Boyle, ' which was made him. I ate a goodbreakfast by my Lord's orders with him in the great cabin below. Thewind all this day was very high, so that a gentleman that was at dinnerwith my Lord that came along with Sir John Bloys (who seemed a fine man)was forced to rise from table. This afternoon came a great packet ofletters from London directed to me, among the rest two from my wife, the first that I have since coming away from London. All the news fromLondon is that things go on further towards a King. That the Skinners'Company the other day at their entertaining of General Monk had tookdown the Parliament Arms in their Hall, and set up the King's. In theevening my Lord and I had a great deal of discourse about the severalCaptains of the Fleet and his interest among them, and had his mindclear to bring in the King. He confessed to me that he was not sure ofhis own Captain [Cuttance] to be true to him, and that he did not likeCaptain Stokes. At night W. Howe and I at our viallins in my cabin, where Mr. Ibbott and the lieutenant were late. I staid the lieutenantlate, shewing him my manner of keeping a journal. After that to bed. Itcomes now into my mind to observe that I am sensible that I have been alittle too free to make mirth with the minister of our ship, he being avery sober and an upright man. 

12th. This day, the weather being very bad, we had no strangers onboard. In the afternoon came the Vice-Admiral on board, with whom myLord consulted, and I sent a packet to London at night with severalletters to my friends, as to my wife about my getting of money forher when she should need it, to Mr. Bowyer that he tell me when theMessieurs of the offices be paid, to Mr. Moore about the business of myoffice, and making even with him as to matter of money. At night after Ihad despatched my letters, to bed. 

13th. This day very foul all day for rain and wind. In the afternoon setmy own things in my cabin and chests in better order than hitherto, andset my papers in order. At night sent another packet to London by thepost, and after that was done I went up to the lieutenant's cabin andthere we broached a vessel of ale that we had sent for among us fromDeal to-day. There was the minister and doctor with us. After thattill one o'clock in the morning writing letters to Mr. Downing about mybusiness of continuing my office to myself, only Mr. Moore to execute itfor me. I had also a very serious and effectual letter from my Lordto him to that purpose. After that done then to bed, and it being veryrainy, and the rain coming upon my bed, I went and lay with John Goodsin the great cabin below, the wind being so high that we were faro tolower some of the masts. I to bed, and what with the goodness of the bedand the rocking of the ship I slept till almost ten o'clock, and then--

14th. Rose and drank a good morning draught there with Mr. Sheply, which occasioned my thinking upon the happy life that I live now, had Inothing to care for but myself. The sea was this morning very high, and looking out of the window I saw our boat come with Mr. Pierce, thesurgeon, in it in great danger, who endeavouring to come on board us, had like to have been drowned had it not been for a rope. This day I wasinformed that my Lord Lambert is got out of the Towers and that there isL100 proffered to whoever shall bring him forth to the Council of State. 

 [The manner of the escape of John Lambert, out of the Tower, on the 11th inst. , as related by Rugge:--"That about eight of the clock at night he escaped by a rope tied fast to his window, by which he slid down, and in each hand he had a handkerchief; and six men were ready to receive him, who had a barge to hasten him away. She who made the bed, being privy to his escape, that night, to blind the warder when he came to lock the chamber-door, went to bed, and possessed Colonel Lambert's place, and put on his night-cap. So, when the said warder came to lock the door, according to his usual manner, he found the curtains drawn, and conceiving it to be Colonel John Lambert, he said, 'Good night, my Lord. ' To which a seeming voice replied, and prevented all further jealousies. The next morning, on coming to unlock the door, and espying her face, he cried out, 'In the name of God, Joan, what makes you here? Where is my Lord Lambert?' She said, 'He is gone; but I cannot tell whither. ' Whereupon he caused her to rise, and carried her before the officer in the Tower, and [she] was committed to custody. Some said that a lady knit for him a garter of silk, by which he was conveyed down, and that she received L100 for her pains. "--B]

My Lord is chosen at Waymouth this morning; my Lord had his freedombrought him by Captain Tiddiman of the port of Dover, by which he iscapable of being elected for them. This day I heard that the Army had ingeneral declared to stand by what the next Parliament shall do. At nightsupped with my Lord. 

15th (Lord's day). Up early and was trimmed by the barber in the greatcabin below. After that to put my clothes on and then to sermon, andthen to dinner, where my Lord told us that the University of Cambridgehad a mind to choose him for their burgess, which he pleased himselfwith, to think that they do look upon him as a thriving man, and saidso openly at table. At dinner-time Mr. Cook came back from London with apacket which caused my Lord to be full of thoughts all day, and at nighthe bid me privately to get two commissions ready, one for Capt. RobertBlake to be captain of the Worcester, in the room of Capt. Dekings, ananabaptist, and one that had witnessed a great deal of discontent withthe present proceedings. The other for Capt. Coppin to come out of thatinto the Newbury in the room of Blake, whereby I perceive that GeneralMonk do resolve to make a thorough change, to make way for the King. From London I hear that since Lambert got out of the Tower, theFanatiques had held up their heads high, but I hope all that will cometo nothing. Late a writing of letters to London to get ready for Mr. Cook. Then to bed. 

16th. And about 4 o'clock in the morning Mr. Cook waked me where I layin the great cabin below, and I did give him his packet and directionsfor London. So to sleep again. All the morning giving out orders andtickets to the Commanders of the Fleet to discharge all supernumerariesthat they had above the number that the Council had set in their lastestablishment. After dinner busy all the afternoon writing, and so tillnight, then to bed. 

17th. All the morning getting ready commissions for the Vice-Admiral andthe Rear-Admiral, wherein my Lord was very careful to express theutmost of his own power, commanding them to obey what orders they shouldreceive from the Parliament, &c. , or both or either of the Generals. 

 [Sir Edward Montagu afterwards recommended the Duke of York as High Admiral, to give regular and lawful commissions to the Commanders of the Fleet, instead of those which they had received from Sir Edward himself, or from the Rump Parliament. --Kennett's Register, p. 163. ]

The Vice-Admiral dined with us, and in the afternoon my Lord calledme to give him the commission for him, which I did, and he gave it himhimself. A very pleasant afternoon, and I upon the deck all the day, itwas so clear that my Lord's glass shewed us Calais very plain, and thecliffs were as plain to be seen as Kent, and my Lord at first made mebelieve that it was Kent. At night, after supper, my Lord called forthe Rear-Admiral's commission, which I brought him, and I sitting inmy study heard my Lord discourse with him concerning D. King's andNewberry's being put out of commission. And by the way I did observethat my Lord did speak more openly his mind to me afterwards at nightthan I can find that he did to the Rear-Admiral, though his greatconfidant. For I was with him an hour together, when he told me clearlyhis thoughts that the King would carry it, and that he did think himselfvery happy that he was now at sea, as well for his own sake, as that hethought he might do his country some service in keeping things quiet. To bed, and shifting myself from top to toe, there being J. Goods and W. Howe sat late by my bedside talking. So to sleep, every day bringing mea fresh sense of the pleasure of my present life. 

18th. This morning very early came Mr. Edward Montagu on board, but whatwas the business of his coming again or before without any servantand making no stay at all I cannot guess. This day Sir R. Stayner, Mr. Sheply, and as many of my Lord's people as could be spared went to Doverto get things ready against to-morrow for the election there. I allthe afternoon dictating in my cabin (my own head being troubled withmultiplicity of business) to Burr, who wrote for me above a dozenletters, by which I have made my mind more light and clear than I havehad it yet since I came on board. At night sent a packet to London, andMr. Cook returned hence bringing me this news, that the Sectaries dotalk high what they will do, but I believe all to no purpose, but theCavaliers are something unwise to talk so high on the other side as theydo. That the Lords do meet every day at my Lord of Manchester's, andresolve to sit the first day of the Parliament. That it is evident nowthat the General and the Council do resolve to make way for the King'scoming. And it is now clear that either the Fanatiques must now beundone, or the gentry and citizens throughout England, and clergy mustfall, in spite of their militia and army, which is not at all possibleI think. At night I supped with W. Howe and Mr. Luellin (being the firsttime that I had been so long with him) in the great cabin below. Afterthat to bed, and W. Howe sat by my bedside, and he and I sang a psalm ortwo and so I to sleep. 

19th. A great deal of business all this day, and Burr being gone toshore without my leave did vex me much. At dinner news was brought usthat my Lord was chosen at Dover. This afternoon came one Mr. Mansell onboard as a Reformado, to whom my Lord did shew exceeding great respect, but upon what account I do not yet know. This day it has rained much, sothat when I came to go to bed I found it wet through, so I was fain towrap myself up in a dry sheet, and so lay all night. 

20th. All the morning I was busy to get my window altered, and tohave my table set as I would have it, which after it was done I wasinfinitely pleased with it, and also to see what a command I have tohave every one ready to come and go at my command. This evening came Mr. Boyle on board, for whom I writ an order for a ship to transport himto Flushing. He supped with my Lord, my Lord using him as a personof honour. This evening too came Mr. John Pickering on board us. This evening my head ached exceedingly, which I impute to my sittingbackwards in my cabin, otherwise than I am used to do. To-night Mr. Sheply told me that he heard for certain at Dover that Mr. Edw. Montagudid go beyond sea when he was here first the other day, and I am apt tobelieve that he went to speak with the King. This day one told me howthat at the election at Cambridge for knights of the shire, Wendby andThornton by declaring to stand for the Parliament and a King and thesettlement of the Church, did carry it against all expectation againstSir Dudley North and Sir Thomas Willis! I supped to-night with Mr. Sheply below at the half-deck table, and after that I saw Mr. Pickeringwhom my Lord brought down to his cabin, and so to bed. 

21st. This day dined Sir John Boys

 [Of Bonnington and Sandwich, Gentleman of the Privy-Chamber to Charles I. He defended Donnington Castle, Berkshire, for the King against Jeremiah Horton, 1644, and received an augmentation to his arms in consequence. ]

and some other gentlemen formerly great Cavaliers, and among the restone Mr. Norwood, for whom my Lord give a convoy to carry him to theBrill, --[Brielle, or Den Briel, a seaport town in the province of SouthHolland. ]--but he is certainly going to the King. For my Lord commandedme that I should not enter his name in my book. My Lord do show them andthat sort of people great civility. All their discourse and others areof the King's coming, and we begin to speak of it very freely. And heardhow in many churches in London, and upon many signs there, and uponmerchants' ships in the river, they had set up the King's arms. In theafternoon the Captain would by all means have me up to his cabin, andthere treated me huge nobly, giving me a barrel of pickled oysters, and opened another for me, and a bottle of wine, which was a very greatfavour. At night late singing with W. Howe, and under the barber's handsin the coach. This night there came one with a letter from Mr. Edw. Montagu to my Lord, with command to deliver it to his own hands. I dobelieve that he do carry some close business on for the King. 

 [Pepys's guess at E. Montagu's business is confirmed by Clarendon's account of his employment of him to negotiate with Lord Sandwich on behalf of the King. ("History of the Rebellion, " book xvi. )--Notes and Queries, vol. X. P. 3--M. B. ]

This day I had a large letter from Mr. Moore, giving me an account ofthe present dispute at London that is like to be at the beginning ofthe Parliament, about the House of Lords, who do resolve to sit with theCommons, as not thinking themselves dissolved yet. Which, whether itbe granted or no, or whether they will sit or no, it will bring a greatmany inconveniences. His letter I keep, it being a very well writ one. 

22d (Easter Sunday). Several Londoners, strangers, friends of theCaptains, dined here, who, among other things told us, how the King'sArms are every day set up in houses and churches, particularly inAllhallows Church in Thames-street, John Simpson's church, which beingprivately done was, a great eye-sore to his people when they came tochurch and saw it. Also they told us for certain, that the King's statueis making by the Mercers' Company (who are bound to do it) to set up inthe Exchange. After sermon in the afternoon I fell to writing lettersagainst to-morrow to send to London. After supper to bed. 

23rd. All the morning very busy getting my packet ready for London, onlyfor an hour or two had the Captain and Mr. Sheply in my cabin at thebarrel of pickled oysters that the Captain did give me on Saturday last. After dinner I sent Mr. Dunn to London with the packet. This afternoonI had 40s. Given me by Captain Cowes of the Paradox. ' In the evening thefirst time that we had any sport among the seamen, and indeed there wasextraordinary good sport after my Lord had done playing at ninepins. After that W. Howe and I went to play two trebles in the greatcabin below, which my Lord hearing, after supper he called for ourinstruments, and played a set of Lock's, two trebles, and a base, andthat being done, he fell to singing of a song made upon the Rump, withwhich he played himself well, to the tune of "The Blacksmith. " After allthat done, then to bed. 

 ["The Blacksmith" was the same tune as "Green Sleeves. " The earliest known copy of "The Praise of the Blacksmith" is in "An Antidote against Melancholy, " 1661. See "Roxburghe Ballads, " ed. W. Chappell, 1872, vol. Ii. P. 126. (Ballad Society:)]

24th. This morning I had Mr. Luellin and Mr. Sheply to the remainderof my oysters that were left yesterday. After that very busy allthe morning. While I was at dinner with my Lord, the Coxon of theVice-Admiral came for me to the Vice-Admiral to dinner. So I told myLord and he gave me leave to go. I rose therefore from table and went, where there was very many commanders, and very pleasant we were on boardthe London, which hath a state-room much bigger than the Nazeby, but notso rich. After that, with the Captain on board our own ship, where wewere saluted with the news of Lambert's being taken, which news wasbrought to London on Sunday last. He was taken in Northamptonshire byColonel Ingoldsby, at the head of a party, by which means their wholedesign is broke, and things now very open and safe. And every man beginsto be merry and full of hopes. In the afternoon my Lord gave a greatlarge character to write out, so I spent all the day about it, and aftersupper my Lord and we had some more very good musique and singing of"Turne Amaryllis, " as it is printed in the song book, with which my Lordwas very much pleased. After that to bed. 

25th. All the morning about my Lord's character. Dined to-day withCaptain Clerke on board the Speaker (a very brave ship) where was theVice-Admiral, Rear-Admiral, and many other commanders. After dinnerhome, not a little contented to see how I am treated, and with whatrespect made a fellow to the best commanders in the Fleet. All theafternoon finishing of the character, which I did and gave it my Lord, it being very handsomely done and a very good one in itself, but thatnot truly Alphabetical. Supped with Mr. Sheply, W. Howe, &c. In Mr. Pierce, the Purser's cabin, where very merry, and so to bed. CaptainIsham came hither to-day. 

26th. This day came Mr. Donne back from London, who brought letters withhim that signify the meeting of the Parliament yesterday. And in theafternoon by other letters I hear, that about twelve of the Lords metand had chosen my Lord of Manchester' Speaker of the House of Lords (theyoung Lords that never sat yet, do forbear to sit for the present); andSir Harbottle Grimstone, Speaker for the House of Commons. The House ofLords sent to have a conference with the House of Commons, which, aftera little debate, was granted. Dr. Reynolds' preached before the Commonsbefore they sat. My Lord told me how Sir H. Yelverton (formerly myschool-fellow) was chosen in the first place for Northamptonshireand Mr. Crew in the second. And told me how he did believe that theCavaliers have now the upper hand clear of the Presbyterians. All theafternoon I was writing of letters, among the rest one to W. Simons, Peter Luellin and Tom Doling, which because it is somewhat merry I keepa copy of. After that done Mr. Sheply, W. Howe and I down with J. Goodsinto my Lord's storeroom of wine and other drink, where it was verypleasant to observe the massy timbers that the ship is made of. We inthe room were wholly under water and yet a deck below that. After thatto supper, where Tom Guy supped with us, and we had very good laughing, and after that some musique, where Mr. Pickering beginning to play abass part upon the viall did it so like a fool that I was ashamed ofhim. After that to bed. 

27th. This morning Burr was absent again from on board, which I wastroubled at, and spoke to Mr. Pierce, Purser, to speak to him of it, andit is my mind. This morning Pim [the tailor] spent in my cabin, puttinga great many ribbons to a suit. After dinner in the afternoon came onboard Sir Thomas Hatton and Sir R. Maleverer going for Flushing; but allthe world know that they go where the rest of the many gentlemen go thatevery day flock to the King at Breda. 

 [The King arrived at Breda on the 14th April. Sir W. Lower writes ("Voiage and Residence of Charles II. In Holland, " p. 5): "Many considerations obliged him to depart the territories under the obedience of the King of Spain in this conjuncture of affairs. "]

They supped here, and my Lord treated them as he do the rest that gothither, with a great deal of civility. While we were at supper a packetcame, wherein much news from several friends. The chief is that, that Ihad from Mr. Moore, viz. That he fears the Cavaliers in the House willbe so high, that the others will be forced to leave the House and fallin with General Monk, and so offer things to the King so high on thePresbyterian account that he may refuse, and so they will endeavour somemore mischief; but when I told my Lord it, he shook his head and toldme, that the Presbyterians are deceived, for the General is certainlyfor the King's interest, and so they will not be able to prevail thatway with him. After supper the two knights went on board the Grantham, that is to convey them to Flushing. I am informed that the Exchequeris now so low, that there is not L20 there, to give the messenger thatbrought the news of Lambert's being taken; which story is very strangethat he should lose his reputation of being a man of courage now atone blow, for that he was not able to fight one stroke, but desired ofColonel Ingoldsby several times for God's sake to let him escape. Latereading my letters, my mind being much troubled to think that, afterall our hopes, we should have any cause to fear any more disappointmentstherein. To bed. This day I made even with Mr. Creed, by sending him mybill and he me my money by Burr whom I sent for it. 

28th. This morning sending a packet by Mr. Dunne to London. In theafternoon I played at ninepins with Mr. Pickering, I and Mr. Pettagainst him and Ted Osgood, and won a crown apiece of him. He had notmoney enough to pay me. After supper my Lord exceeding merry, and he andI and W. Howe to sing, and so to bed. 

29th (Sunday). This day I put on first my fine cloth suit made of acloak that had like to have been [dirted] a year ago, the very day thatI put it on. After sermon in the morning Mr. Cook came from London witha packet, bringing news how all the young lords that were not in armsagainst the Parliament do now sit. That a letter is come from the Kingto the House, which is locked up by the Council 'till next Tuesdaythat it may be read in the open House when they meet again, they havingadjourned till then to keep a fast tomorrow. And so the contents is notyet known. L13, 000 of the L20, 000 given to General Monk is paid out ofthe Exchequer, he giving L12 among the teller clerks of Exchequer. MyLord called me into the great cabin below, where I opened my letters andhe told me that the Presbyterians are quite mastered by the Cavaliers, and that he fears Mr. Crew did go a little too far the other day inkeeping out the young lords from sitting. That he do expect that theKing should be brought over suddenly, without staying to make any termsat all, saying that the Presbyterians did intend to have brought himin with such conditions as if he had been in chains. But he shook hisshoulders when he told me how Monk had betrayed him, for it was he thatdid put them upon standing to put out the lords and other members thatcame not within the qualifications, which he [Montagu] did not like, buthowever he [Monk] had done his business, though it be with some kindof baseness. After dinner I walked a great while upon the deck with thechyrurgeon and purser, and other officers of the ship, and they all prayfor the King's coming, which I pray God send. 

30th. All the morning getting instructions ready for the Squadron ofships that are going to-day to the Streights, among others CaptainTeddiman, Curtis, and Captain Robert Blake to be commander of the wholeSquadron. After dinner to ninepins, W. Howe and I against Mr. Creed andthe Captain. We lost 5s. Apiece to them. After that W. Howe, Mr. Sheplyand I got my Lord's leave to go to see Captain Sparling. So we took boatand first went on shore, it being very pleasant in the fields; but avery pitiful town Deal is. We went to Fuller's (the famous place forale), but they have none but what was in the vat. After that to Poole's, a tavern in the town, where we drank, and so to boat again, and went tothe Assistance, where we were treated very civilly by the Captain, andhe did give us such music upon the harp by a fellow that he keeps onboard that I never expect to hear the like again, yet he is a drunkensimple fellow to look on as any I ever saw. After that on board theNazeby, where we found my Lord at supper, so I sat down and verypleasant my Lord was with Mr. Creed and Sheply, who he puzzled aboutfinding out the meaning of the three notes which my Lord had cut overthe chrystal of his watch. After supper some musique. Then Mr. Sheply, W. Howe and I up to the Lieutenant's cabin, where we drank, and I and W. Howe were very merry, and among other frolics he pulls out the spigot ofthe little vessel of ale that was there in the cabin and drew some intohis mounteere, and after he had drank, I endeavouring to dash it in hisface, he got my velvet studying cap and drew some into mine too, thatwe made ourselves a great deal of mirth, but spoiled my clothes with theale that we dashed up and down. After that to bed very late with drinkenough in my head. 

MAY 1660

May 1st. This morning I was told how the people of Deal have set up twoor three Maypoles, and have hung up their flags upon the top of them, and do resolve to be very merry to-day. It being a very pleasant day, Iwished myself in Hide Park. This day I do count myself to have had fulltwo years of perfect cure for the stone, for which God of heavenbe blessed. This day Captain Parker came on board, and without hisexpectation I had a commission for him for the Nonsuch frigate

 [The "Nonsuch" was a fourth-rate of thirty-two guns, built at Deptford in 1646 by Peter Pett, jun. The captain was John Parker. ]

(he being now in the Cheriton), for which he gave me a French pistole. Captain H. Cuttance has commission for the Cheriton. After dinner tonine-pins, and won something. The rest of the afternoon in my cabinwriting and piping. While we were at supper we heard a great noise uponthe Quarter Deck, so we all rose instantly, and found it was to save thecoxon of the Cheriton, who, dropping overboard, could not be saved, butwas drowned. To-day I put on my suit that was altered from the greatskirts to little ones. To-day I hear they were very merry at Deal, setting up the King's flag upon one of their maypoles, and drinking hishealth upon their knees in the streets, and firing the guns, which thesoldiers of the Castle threatened; but durst not oppose. 

2nd. In the morning at a breakfast of radishes at the Purser's cabin. After that to writing till dinner. At which time comes Dunne fromLondon, with letters that tell us the welcome news of the Parliament'svotes yesterday, which will be remembered for the happiest May-day thatbath been many a year to England. The King's letter was read in theHouse, wherein he submits himself and all things to them, as to an Actof Oblivion to all, ["His Majesty added thereunto an excellent Declaration for the safety and repose of those, who tortured in their consciences, for having partaken in the rebellion, might fear the punishment of it, and in that fear might oppose the tranquillity of the Estate, and the calling in of their lawful Prince. It is printed and published as well as the letter, but that shall not hinder me to say, that there was never seen a more perfect assemblage of all the most excellent natural qualities, and of all the venues, as well Royal as Christian, wherewith a great Prince may be endowed, than was found in those two wonderful productions. "--Sir William Lowers 'Relation ... Of the voiage and Residence Which... Charles the II. Hath made in Holland, ' Hague, 1660, folio, p. 3. ]

unless they shall please to except any, as to the confirming of thesales of the King's and Church lands, if they see good. The House uponreading the letter, ordered L50, 000 to be forthwith provided to send toHis Majesty for his present supply; and a committee chosen to return ananswer of thanks to His Majesty for his gracious letter; and that theletter be kept among the records of the Parliament; and in all this notso much as one No. So that Luke Robinson himself stood up and made arecantation for what he had done, and promises to be a loyal subjectto his Prince for the time to come. The City of London have put aDeclaration, wherein they do disclaim their owing any other governmentbut that of a King, Lords, and Commons. Thanks was given by the House toSir John Greenville, [Created Earl of Bath, 1661; son of Sir Bevil Grenville, killed at the battle of Lansdowne; he was, when a boy, left for dead on the field at the second battle of Newbury, and said to have been the only person entrusted by Charles II. And Monk in bringing about the Restoration. ]

one of the bedchamber to the King, who brought the letter, and theycontinued bare all the time it was reading. Upon notice made from theLords to the Commons, of their desire that the Commons would join withthem in their vote for King, Lords, and Commons; the Commons did concurand voted that all books whatever that are out against the Government ofKing, Lords, and Commons, should be brought into the House and burned. Great joy all yesterday at London, and at night more bonfires than ever, and ringing of bells, and drinking of the King's health upon their kneesin the streets, which methinks is a little too much. But everybody seems to be very joyfull in the business, insomuch that oursea-commanders now begin to say so too, which a week ago they would notdo. 

 ["The picture of King Charles II. Was often set up in houses, without the least molestation, whereas a while ago, it was almost a hanging matter so to do; but now the Rump Parliament was so hated and jeered at, that the butchers' boys would say, 'Will you buy any Parliament rumps and kidneys?' And it was a very ordinary thing to see little children make a fire in the streets, and burn rumps. " --Rugge's Diurnal. --B. ]

And our seamen, as many as had money or credit for drink, did do nothingelse this evening. This day came Mr. North (Sir Dudley North's son) onboard, to spend a little time here, which my Lord was a little troubledat, but he seems to be a fine gentleman, and at night did play his partexceeding well at first sight. After musique I went up to the Captain'sCabin with him and Lieutenant Ferrers, who came hither to-day fromLondon to bring this news to my Lord, and after a bottle of wine we allto bed. 

3d. This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letterto the two Generals to be communicated to the fleet. 

 ["King Charles II. His Declaration to all his loving Subjects of the Kingdome of England, dated from his Court at Breda in Holland 4/14 of April, 1660, and read in Parliament with his Majesties Letter of the same date to his Excellence the Ld. Gen. Monck to be communicated to the Ld. President of the Council of State and to the Officers of the Army under his Command. London, Printed by W. Godbid for John Playford in the Temple, 1660. " 40, pp. 8. ]

The contents of the letter are his offer of grace to all that will comein within forty days, only excepting them that the Parliament shallhereafter except. That the sales of lands during these troubles, and allother things, shall be left to the Parliament, by which he will stand. The letter dated at Breda, April, 4 1660, in the 12th year of his reign. Upon the receipt of it this morning by an express, Mr. Phillips, oneof the messengers of the Council from General Monk, my Lord summoned acouncil of war, and in the mean time did dictate to me how he would havethe vote ordered which he would have pass this council. Which done, the Commanders all came on board, and the council sat in the coach (thefirst council of war that had been in my time), where I read the letterand declaration; and while they were discoursing upon it, I seemed todraw up a vote, which being offered, they passed. Not one man seemed tosay no to it, though I am confident many in their hearts were againstit. After this was done, I went up to the quarter-deck with my Lord andthe Commanders, and there read both the papers and the vote; which done, and demanding their opinion, the seamen did all of them cry out, "Godbless King Charles!" with the greatest joy imaginable. That being done, Sir R. Stayner, who had invited us yesterday, took all the Commandersand myself on board him to dinner, which not being ready, I went withCaptain Hayward to the Plimouth and Essex, and did what I had to dothere and returned, where very merry at dinner. After dinner, to therest of the ships (staid at the Assistance to hear the harper a goodwhile) quite through the fleet. Which was a very brave sight to visitall the ships, and to be received with the respect and honour that I wason board them all; and much more to see the great joy that I brought toall men; not one through the whole fleet showing the least dislike ofthe business. In the evening as I was going on board the Vice-Admiral, the General began to fire his guns, which he did all that he had in theship, and so did all the rest of the Commanders, which was very gallant, and to hear the bullets go hissing over our heads as we were in theboat. This done and finished my Proclamation, I returned to the Nazeby, where my Lord was much pleased to hear how all the fleet took it in atransport of joy, showed me a private letter of the King's to him, andanother from the Duke of York in such familiar style as to their commonfriend, with all kindness imaginable. And I found by the letters, andso my Lord told me too, that there had been many letters passed betweenthem for a great while, and I perceive unknown to Monk. And among therest that had carried these letters Sir John Boys is one, and that Mr. Norwood, which had a ship to carry him over the other day, when my Lordwould not have me put down his name in the book. The King speaks ofhis being courted to come to the Hague, but do desire my Lord's advicewhither to come to take ship. And the Duke offers to learn the seaman'strade of him, in such familiar words as if Jack Cole and I had writthem. This was very strange to me, that my Lord should carry all thingsso wisely and prudently as he do, and I was over joyful to see him in sogood condition, and he did not a little please himself to tell me how hehad provided for himself so great a hold on the King. 

After this to supper, and then to writing of letters till twelve atnight, and so up again at three in the morning. My Lord seemed to putgreat confidence in me, and would take my advice in many things. Iperceive his being willing to do all the honour in the world to Monk, and to let him have all the honour of doing the business, though he willmany times express his thoughts of him to be but a thick-sculled fool. So that I do believe there is some agreement more than ordinary betweenthe King and my Lord to let Monk carry on the business, for it is hethat must do the business, or at least that can hinder it, if he be notflattered and observed. This, my Lord will hint himself sometimes. MyLord, I perceive by the King's letter, had writ to him about his father, Crew, --[When only seventeen years old, Montagu had married Jemima, daughter of John Crew, created afterwards Baron Crew of Stene. ]--and theKing did speak well of him; but my Lord tells me, that he is afeard thathe hath too much concerned himself with the Presbyterians against theHouse of Lords, which will do him a great discourtesy. 

4th. I wrote this morning many letters, and to all the copies of thevote of the council of war I put my name, that if it should come inprint my name maybe at it. I sent a copy of the vote to Doling, inclosedin this letter:

 "SIR, "He that can fancy a fleet (like ours) in her pride, with pendants loose, guns roaring, caps flying, and the loud 'Vive le Roys, ' echoed from one ship's company to another, he, and he only, can apprehend the joy this inclosed vote was received with, or the blessing he thought himself possessed of that bore it, and is

 "Your humble servant. "

About nine o'clock I got all my letters done, and sent them by themessenger that came yesterday. This morning came Captain Isham on boardwith a gentleman going to the King, by whom very cunningly, my Lordtells me, he intends to send an account of this day's and yesterday'sactions here, notwithstanding he had writ to the Parliament to haveleave of them to send the King the answer of the fleet. Since my writingof the last paragraph, my Lord called me to him to read his letter tothe King, to see whether I could find any slips in it or no. And as muchof the letter' as I can remember, is thus:

 "May it please your Most Excellent Majesty, " and so begins. 

 "That he yesterday received from General Monk his Majesty's letter and direction; and that General Monk had desired him to write to the Parliament to have leave to send the vote of the seamen before he did send it to him, which he had done by writing to both Speakers; but for his private satisfaction he had sent it thus privately (and so the copy of the proceedings yesterday was sent him), and that this come by a gentleman that came this day on board, intending to wait upon his Majesty, that he is my Lord's countryman, and one whose friends have suffered much on his Majesty's behalf. That my Lords Pembroke and Salisbury are put out of the House of Lords. That my Lord is very joyful that other countries do pay him the civility and respect due to him; and that he do much rejoice to see that the King do resolve to receive none of their assistance (or some such words), from them, he having strength enough in the love and loyalty of his own subjects to support him. That his Majesty had chosen the best place, Scheveling, --[Schevingen, the port of the Hague]--for his embarking, and that there is nothing in the world of which he is more ambitious, than to have the honour of attending his Majesty, which he hoped would be speedy. That he had commanded the vessel to attend at Helversluce--[Hellevoetsluis, in South Holland] --till this gentleman returns, that so if his Majesty do not think it fit to command the fleet himself, yet that he may be there to receive his commands and bring them to his Lordship. He ends his letter, that he is confounded with the thoughts of the high expressions of love to him in the King's letter, and concludes, "Your most loyall, dutifull, faithfull and obedient subject and servant, E. M. "

The rest of the afternoon at ninepins. In the evening came a packet fromLondon, among the rest a letter from my wife, which tells me that shehas not been well, which did exceedingly trouble me, but my Lord sendingMr. Cook at night, I wrote to her and sent a piece of gold enclosed toher, and wrote also to Mrs. Bowyer, and enclosed a half piece to herfor a token. After supper at the table in the coach, my Lord talkingconcerning the uncertainty of the places of the Exchequer to them thathad them now; he did at last think of an office which do belong to himin case the King do restore every man to his places that ever had beenpatent, which is to be one of the clerks of the signet, which will be afine employment for one of his sons. After all this discourse we brokeup and to bed. 

In the afternoon came a minister on board, one Mr. Sharpe, who is goingto the King; who tells me that Commissioners are chosen both of Lordsand Commons to go to the King; and that Dr. Clarges

 [Thomas Clarges, physician to the army, created a baronet, 1674, died 1695. He had been previously knighted; his sister Anne married General Monk. "The Parliament also permitted General Monk to send Mr. Clarges, his brother-in-law, accompanied with some officers of the army, to assure his Majesty of the fidelity and obedience of the army, which had made publick and solemn protestations thereof, after the Letter and Declaration was communicated unto them by the General. "--Sir William Lowers Relation... Of the Voiage and Residence which... Charles the II. Hath made in Holland, Hague, 1660, folio. ]

is going to him from the Army, and that he will be here to-morrow. Myletters at night tell me, that the House did deliver their letter to SirJohn Greenville, in answer to the King's sending, and that they givehim L500 for his pains, to buy him a jewel, and that besides the L50, 000ordered to be borrowed of the City for the present use of the King, thetwelve companies of the City do give every one of them to his Majesty, as a present, L1000. 

5th. All the morning very busy writing letters to London, and a packetto Mr. Downing, to acquaint him with what had been done lately in thefleet. And this I did by my Lord's command, who, I thank him, did ofhimself think of doing it, to do me a kindness, for he writ a letterhimself to him, thanking him for his kindness to me. All the afternoonat ninepins, at night after supper good musique, my Lord, Mr. North, Iand W. Howe. After that to bed. This evening came Dr. Clarges to Deal, going to the King; where the towns-people strewed the streets withherbes against his coming, for joy of his going. Never was there sogeneral a content as there is now. I cannot but remember that our parsondid, in his prayer to-night, pray for the long life and happiness ofour King and dread Soveraign, that may last as long as the sun and moonendureth. 

6th (Lord's day). This morning while we were at sermon comes in Dr. Clarges and a dozen gentlemen to see my Lord, who, after sermon, dined with him; I remember that last night upon discourseconcerning Clarges my Lord told me that he was a man of smallentendimiento. --[Entendimiento, Spanish: the understanding. ]--Thisafternoon there was a gentleman with me, an officer of Dunkirk goingover, who came to me for an order and told me he was lately with myuncle and Aunt Fenner and that Kate's fits of the convulsions did holdher still. It fell very well to-day, a stranger preached here for Mr. Ibbot, one Mr. Stanley, who prayed for King Charles, by the Grace ofGod, &c. , which gave great contentment to the gentlemen that were onboard here, and they said they would talk of it, when they come toBreda, as not having it done yet in London so publickly. After they weregone from on board, my Lord writ a letter to the King and give it tome to carry privately to Sir William Compton' on board the Assistance, which I did, and after a health to his Majesty on board there, I leftthem under sail for Breda. Back again and found them at sermon. I wentup to my cabin and looked over my accounts, and find that, all my debtspaid and my preparations to sea paid for, I have L640 clear in my purse. After supper to bed. 

7th. This morning Captain Cuttance sent me 12 bottles of Margate ale. Three of them I drank presently with some friends in the Coach. MyLord went this morning about the flag-ships in a boat, to see whatalterations there must be, as to the arms and flags. He did give meorder also to write for silk flags and scarlett waistcloathes. 

 [Waist-cloths are the painted canvas coverings of the hammocks which are stowed in the waist-nettings. ]

For a rich barge; for a noise of trumpets, [A set or company of musicians, an expression constantly used by old writers without any disparaging meaning. It is sometimes applied to voices as well as to instruments. ]

and a set of fidlers. Very great deal of company come today, amongothers Mr. Bellasses, Sir Thomas Lenthropp, Sir Henry Chichley, ColonelPhilip Honiwood, and Captain Titus, the last of whom my Lord showed allour cabins, and I suppose he is to take notice what room there will befor the King's entertainment. Here were also all the Jurates of the townof Dover come to give my Lord a visit, and after dinner all went away. I could not but observe that the Vice-Admiral after dinner came into thegreat cabin below, where the Jurates and I and the commanders for wantof room dined, and there told us we must drink a health to the King, and himself called for a bottle of wine, and begun his and the Duke ofYork's. In the afternoon I lost 5s. At ninepins. After supper musique, and to bed. Having also among us at the Coach table wrote a letter tothe French ambassador, in French, about the release of a ship we hadtaken. After I was in bed Mr. Sheply and W. Howe came and sat in mycabin, where I gave them three bottles of Margate ale, and sat laughingand very merry, till almost one o'clock in the morning, and so goodnight. 

8th. All the morning busy. After dinner come several persons of honour, as my Lord St. John and others, for convoy to Flushing, and great givingof them salutes. My Lord and we at nine-pins: I lost 9s. While we wereat play Mr. Cook brings me word of my wife. He went to Huntsmore to seeher, and brought her and my father Bowyer to London, where he left herat my father's, very well, and speaks very well of her love to me. My letters to-day tell me how it was intended that the King should beproclaimed to-day in London, with a great deal of pomp. I had also newswho they are that are chosen of the Lords and Commons to attend theKing. And also the whole story of what we did the other day in thefleet, at reading of the King's declaration, and my name at the bottomof it. After supper some musique and to bed. I resolving to rise betimesto-morrow to write letters to London. 

9th. Up very early, writing a letter to the King, as from the twoGenerals of the fleet, in answer to his letter to them, wherein my Lorddo give most humble thanks for his gracious letter and declaration; andpromises all duty and obedience to him. This letter was carried thismorning to Sir Peter Killigrew, [Sir Peter Killigrew, Knight, of Arwenack, Cornwall, was known as "Peter the Post, " from the alacrity with which he despatched "like wild fire" all the messages and other commissions entrusted to him in the King's cause. His son Peter, who succeeded his uncle as second baronet in 1665, was M. P. For Camelford in 1660. ]

who came hither this morning early to bring an order from the Lords'House to my Lord, giving him power to write an answer to the King. Thismorning my Lord St. John and other persons of honour were here to seemy Lord, and so away to Flushing. After they were gone my Lord and Ito write letters to London, which we sent by Mr. Cook, who was verydesirous to go because of seeing my wife before she went out of town. As we were sitting down to dinner, in comes Noble with a letter from theHouse of Lords to my Lord, to desire him to provide ships to transportthe Commissioners to the King, which are expected here this week. Hebrought us certain news that the King was proclaimed yesterday withgreat pomp, and brought down one of the Proclamations, with great joy tous all; for which God be praised. After dinner to ninepins and lost 5s. This morning came Mr. Saunderson, [Afterwards Sir William Sanderson, gentleman of the chamber, author of the "History of Mary Queen of Scots, James I. , and Charles I. " His wife, Dame Bridget, was mother of the maids. ]

that writ the story of the King, hither, who is going over to the King. He calls me cozen and seems a very knowing man. After supper to bedbetimes, leaving my Lord talking in the Coach with the Captain. 

10th. This morning came on board Mr. Pinkney and his son, going to theKing with a petition finely writ by Mr. Whore, for to be the King'sembroiderer; for whom and Mr. Saunderson I got a ship. This morning comemy Lord Winchelsea and a great deal of company, and dined here. Inthe afternoon, while my Lord and we were at musique in the great cabinbelow, comes in a messenger to tell us that Mr. Edward Montagu, [Sir Edward Montagu's eldest son, afterwards second Earl of Sandwich, called by Pepys "The child. "]

my Lord's son, was come to Deal, who afterwards came on board with Mr. Pickering with him. The child was sick in the evening. At night, while my Lord was at supper, in comes my Lord Lauderdale and Sir JohnGreenville, who supped here, and so went away. After they were gone, myLord called me into his cabin, and told me how he was commanded to setsail presently for the King, ["Ordered that General Montagu do observe the command of His Majesty for the disposing of the fleet, in order to His Majesty's returning home to England to his kingly government: and that all proceedings in law be in His Majesty's name. "--Rugge's Diurnal. --B. ]

and was very glad thereof, and so put me to writing of letters andother work that night till it was very late, he going to bed. I got himafterwards to sign things in bed. After I had done some more work I tobed also. 

11th. Up very early in the morning, and so about a great deal ofbusiness in order to our going hence to-day. Burr going on shore lastnight made me very angry. So that I sent for Mr. Pitts to come tome fromthe Vice-Admiral's, intending not to have employed Burr any more. ButBurr by and by coming and desiring humbly that I would forgive him andPitts not coming I did set him to work. This morning we began to pulldown all the State's arms in the fleet, having first sent to Doverfor painters and others to come to set up the King's. The rest of themorning writing of letters to London which I afterwards sent by Dunne. Ihad this morning my first opportunity of discoursing with Dr. Clarke, [Timothy Clarke, M. D. , one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society. He was appointed one of the physicians in ordinary to Charles II. On the death of Dr. Quartermaine in 1667. ]

whom I found to be a very pretty man and very knowing. He is now goingin this ship to the King. There dined here my Lord Crafford and my LordCavendish, and other Scotchmen whom I afterwards ordered to be receivedon board the Plymouth, and to go along with us. After dinner we setsail from the Downs, I leaving my boy to go to Deal for my linen. In theafternoon overtook us three or four gentlemen; two of the Berties, andone Mr. Dormerhoy, a Scotch gentleman, whom I afterwards found to be avery fine man, who, telling my Lord that they heard the Commissionerswere come out of London to-day, my Lord dropt anchor over against DoverCastle (which give us about thirty guns in passing), and upon a highdebate with the Vice and Rear Admiral whether it were safe to go andnot stay for the Commissioners, he did resolve to send Sir R. Stayner toDover, to enquire of my Lord Winchelsea, whether or no they are come outof London, and then to resolve to-morrow morning of going or not; whichwas done. It blew very hard all this night that I was afeard of myboy. About 11 at night came the boats from Deal, with great store ofprovisions, by the same token John Goods told me that above 20 of thefowls are smothered, but my boy was put on board the Northwich. To bed. 

12th. This morning I inquired for my boy, whether he was come well orno, and it was told me that he was well in bed. My Lord called me to hischamber, he being in bed, and gave me many orders to make for directionfor the ships that are left in the Downs, giving them the greatestcharge in the world to bring no passengers with them, when they comeafter us to Scheveling Bay, excepting Mr. Edward Montagu, Mr. ThomasCrew, and Sir H. Wright. Sir R. Stayner hath been here early in themorning and told my Lord, that my Lord Winchelsea understands byletters, that the Commissioners are only to come to Dover to attend thecoming over of the King. So my Lord did give order for weighing anchor, which we did, and sailed all day. In our way in the morning, comingin the midway between Dover and Calais, we could see both places veryeasily, and very pleasant it was to me that the further we went the morewe lost sight of both lands. In the afternoon at cards with Mr. Northand the Doctor. --[Clarke]--There by us, in the Lark frigate, Sir R. Freeman and some others, going from the King to England, come to seemy Lord and so onward on their voyage. In the afternoon upon thequarterdeck the Doctor told Mr. North and me an admirable story called"The Fruitless Precaution, " an exceeding pretty story and worthy mygetting without book when I can get the book. [??] This evening came Mr. Sheply on board, whom we had left at Deal and Dover getting of provisionand borrowing of money. In the evening late, after discoursing with theDoctor, &c. , to bed. 

13th (Lord's day). Trimmed in the morning, after that to the cook's roomwith Mr. Sheply, the first time that I was there this voyage. Then tothe quarter-deck, upon which the tailors and painters were at work, cutting out some pieces of yellow cloth into the fashion of a crown andC. R. And put it upon a fine sheet, and that into the flag instead ofthe State's arms, which after dinner was finished and set up afterit had been shewn to my Lord, who took physic to-day and was in hischamber, and liked it so well as to bid me give the tailors 20s. Amongthem for doing of it. This morn Sir J. Boys and Capt. Isham met us inthe Nonsuch, the first of whom, after a word or two with my Lord, wentforward, the other staid. I heard by them how Mr. Downing had nevermade any address to the King, and for that was hated exceedingly by theCourt, and that he was in a Dutch ship which sailed by us, then goingto England with disgrace. Also how Mr. Morland was knighted by the Kingthis week, and that the King did give the reason of it openly, thatit was for his giving him intelligence all the time he was clerk toSecretary Thurloe. In the afternoon a council of war, only to acquaintthem that the Harp must be taken out of all their flags, [In May, 1658, the old Union Jack (being the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew combined) was revived, with the Irish harp over the centre of the flag. This harp was taken off at the Restoration. (See "The National Flags of the Commonwealth, " by H. W. Henfrey, " Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. , " vol. Xxxi, p. 54. ) The sign of the "Commonwealth Arms" was an uncommon one, but a token of one exists-- "Francis Wood at ye Commonwealth arms in Mary Maudlens" [St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street]. ]

it being very offensive to the King. Mr. Cook, who came after us in theYarmouth, bringing me a letter from my wife and a Latin letter from mybrother John, with both of which I was exceedingly pleased. No sermonall day, we being under sail, only at night prayers, wherein Mr. Ibbottprayed for all that were related to us in a spiritual and fleshly way. We came within sight of Middle's shore. Late at night we writ lettersto the King of the news of our coming, and Mr. Edward Picketing carriedthem. Capt. Isham went on shore, nobody showing of him any respect; sothe old man very fairly took leave of my Lord, and my Lord very coldlybid him "God be with you, " which was very strange, but that I hear thathe keeps a great deal of prating and talking on shore, on board, at theKing's Courts, what command he had with my Lord, &c. After letters weregone then to bed. 

14th. In the morning when I woke and rose, I saw myself out of thescuttle close by the shore, which afterwards I was told to be the Dutchshore; the Hague was clearly to be seen by us. My Lord went up in hisnightgown into the cuddy, ["A sort of cabin or cook-room, generally in the fore-part, but sometimes near the stern of lighters and barges of burden. "--Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book. ]

to see how to dispose thereof for himself and us that belong to him, togive order for our removal to-day. Some nasty Dutchmen came on board toproffer their boats to carry things from us on shore, &c. , to get moneyby us. Before noon some gentlemen came on board from the shore to kissmy Lord's hands. And by and by Mr. North and Dr. Clerke went to kiss theQueen of Bohemia's' hands, from my Lord, with twelve attendants from onboard to wait on them, among which I sent my boy, who, like myself, iswith child to see any strange thing. After noon they came back againafter having kissed the Queen of Bohemia's hand, and were sent again bymy Lord to do the same to the Prince of Orange. 

 [Son of the Prince of Orange and Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I. --afterwards William III. He was then in his tenth year, having been born in 1650. ]

So I got the Captain to ask leave for me to go, which my Lord did give, and I taking my boy and judge Advocate with me, went in company withthem. The weather bad; we were sadly washed when we came near the shore, it being very hard to land there. The shore is, as all the countrybetween that and the Hague, all sand. The rest of the company got acoach by themselves; Mr. Creed and I went in the fore part of a coachwherein were two very pretty ladies, very fashionable and with blackpatches, who very merrily sang all the way and that very well, and werevery free to kiss the two blades that were with them. I took out myflageolette and piped, but in piping I dropped my rapier-stick, but whenI came to the Hague, I sent my boy back again for it and he found it, for which I did give him 6d. , but some horses had gone over it and brokethe scabbard. The Hague is a most neat place in all respects. The housesso neat in all places and things as is possible. Here we walked up anddown a great while, the town being now very full of Englishmen, forthat the Londoners were come on shore today. But going to see thePrince, --[Prince of Orange, afterwards William III. ]--he was gone forthwith his governor, and so we walked up and down the town and court tosee the place; and by the help of a stranger, an Englishman, we sawa great many places, and were made to understand many things, as theintention of may-poles, which we saw there standing at every great man'sdoor, of different greatness according to the quality of the person. About 10 at night the Prince comes home, and we found an easy admission. His attendance very inconsiderable as for a prince; but yet handsome, and his tutor a fine man, and himself a very pretty boy. It was brightmoonshine to-night. This done we went to a place we had taken to supin, where a sallet and two or three bones of mutton were provided for amatter of ten of us which was very strange. After supper the Judge and Ito another house, leaving them there, and he and I lay in one press bed, there being two more in the same room, but all very neat and handsome, my boy sleeping upon a bench by me. 

15th. We lay till past three o'clock, then up and down the town, to seeit by daylight, where we saw the soldiers of the Prince's guard, allvery fine, and the burghers of the town with their arms and muskets asbright as silver. And meeting this morning a schoolmaster that spokegood English and French, he went along with us and shewed us the wholetown, and indeed I cannot speak enough of the gallantry of the town. Every body of fashion speaks French or Latin, or both. The women manyof them very pretty and in good habits, fashionable and black spots. Hewent with me to buy a couple of baskets, one of them for Mrs. Pierce, the other for my wife. After he was gone, we having first drank with himat our lodging, the judge and I to the Grande Salle where we were shewedthe place where the States General sit in council. The hall is a greatplace, where the flags that they take from their enemies are all hungup; and things to be sold, as in Westminster Hall, and not much unlikeit, but that not so big, but much neater. After that to a bookseller'sand bought for the love of the binding three books: the French Psalms infour parts, Bacon's Organon, and Farnab. Rhetor. 

 ["Index Rhetoricus" of Thomas Farnaby was a book which went through several editions. The first was published at London by R. Allot in 1633. ]

After that the judge, I and my boy by coach to Scheveling again, wherewe went into a house of entertainment and drank there, the wind beingvery high, and we saw two boats overset and the gallants forced to bepulled on shore by the heels, while their trunks, portmanteaus, hats, and feathers, were swimming in the sea. Among others I saw the ministersthat come along with the Commissioners (Mr. Case among the rest) sadlydipped. 

 [Thomas Case, born 1598, was a famous preacher and a zealous advocate for the Solemn League and Covenant, a member of the assembly of divines, and rector of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. He was one of the deputation to Charles II. At Breda, and appointed a royal chaplain. He was ejected by the Act of Uniformity, but remained in London after his ejection. Died May 30th, 1682. ]

So they came in where we were, and I being in haste left my Copenhagenknife, and so lost it. Having staid here a great while a gentleman thatwas going to kiss my Lord's hand, from the Queen of Bohemia, and I hireda Dutch boat for four rixdollars to carry us on board. We were fain towait a great while before we could get off from the shore, the sea beingvery rough. The Dutchman would fain have made all pay that came intoour boat besides us two and our company, there being many of our ship'scompany got in who were on shore, but some of them had no money, havingspent all on shore. Coming on board we found all the Commissioners ofthe House of Lords at dinner with my Lord, who after dinner went awayfor shore. Mr. Morland, now Sir Samuel, was here on board, but I do notfind that my Lord or any body did give him any respect, he being lookedupon by him and all men as a knave. Among others he betrayed Sir Rich. Willis

 [This is somewhat different to the usual account of Morland's connection with Sir Richard Willis. In the beginning of 1659 Cromwell, Thurloe, and Willis formed a plot to inveigle Charles II. Into England and into the hands of his enemies. The plot was discussed in Thurloe's office, and Morland, who pretended to be asleep, heard it and discovered it. Willis sent for Morland, and received him in a cellar. He said that one of them must have discovered the plot. He laid his hand upon the Bible and swore that he had not been the discoverer, calling upon Morland to do the same. Morland, with presence of mind, said he was ready to do so if Willis would give him a reason why he should suspect him. By this ready answer he is said to have escaped the ordeal (see Birch's "Life of Thurloe"). ]

that married Dr. F. Jones's daughter, that he had paid him L1000 at onetime by the Protector's and Secretary Thurloe's order, for intelligencethat he sent concerning the King. In the afternoon my Lord called meon purpose to show me his fine cloathes which are now come hither, andindeed are very rich as gold and silver can make them, only his sword heand I do not like. In the afternoon my Lord and I walked together inthe coach two hours, talking together upon all sorts of discourse: asreligion, wherein he is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I, saying, that indeed the Protestants as to the Church of Rome arewholly fanatiques: he likes uniformity and form of prayer; aboutState-business, among other things he told me that his conversion tothe King's cause (for so I was saying that I wondered from what time theKing could look upon him to become his friend), commenced from his beingin the Sound, when he found what usage he was likely to have from aCommonwealth. My Lord, the Captain, and I supped in my Lord's chamber, where I did perceive that he did begin to show me much more respect thanever he did yet. After supper, my Lord sent for me, intending to haveme play at cards with him, but I not knowing cribbage, we fell intodiscourse of many things, till it was so rough sea and the ship rolledso much that I was not able to stand, and so he bid me go to bed. 

16th. Soon as I was up I went down to be trimmed below in the greatcabin, but then come in some with visits, among the rest one fromAdmiral Opdam, [The admiral celebrated in Lord Dorset's ballad, "To all you ladies now at land. "

 "Should foggy Opdam chance to know Our sad and dismal story; The Dutch would scorn so weak a foe, And quit their fort at Goree For what resistance can they find From men who've left their hearts behind?"--B. ]

who spoke Latin well, but not French nor English, to whom my Lord mademe to give his answer and to entertain; he brought my Lord a tierce ofwine and a barrel of butter, as a present from the Admiral. After thatto finish my trimming, and while I was doing of it in comes Mr. Northvery sea-sick from shore, and to bed he goes. After that to dinner, where Commissioner Pett was come to take care to get all things readyfor the King on board. My Lord in his best suit, this the first day, inexpectation to wait upon the King. But Mr. Edw. Pickering coming fromthe King brought word that the King would not put my Lord to the troubleof coming to him; but that he would come to the shore to look upon thefleet to-day, which we expected, and had our guns ready to fire, andour scarlet waistcloathes out and silk pendants, but he did not come. MyLord and we at ninepins this afternoon upon the Quarterdeck, which wasvery pretty sport. This evening came Mr. John Pickering on board, likean ass, with his feathers and new suit that he had made at the Hague. MyLord very angry for his staying on shore, bidding me a little before tosend to him, telling me that he was afraid that for his father's sake hemight have some mischief done him, unless he used the General's name. Tosupper, and after supper to cards. I stood by and looked on till 11 atnight and so to bed. This afternoon Mr. Edwd. Pickering told me in whata sad, poor condition for clothes and money the King was, and all hisattendants, when he came to him first from my Lord, their clothes notbeing worth forty shillings the best of them. 

 [Andrew Marvell alludes to the poor condition, for clothes and money, in which the King was at this time, in "A Historical Poem":--

 "At length, by wonderful impulse of fate, The people call him back to help the State; And what is more, they send him money, too, And clothe him all from head to foot anew. "]

And how overjoyed the King was when Sir J. Greenville brought him somemoney; so joyful, that he called the Princess Royal and Duke of York tolook upon it as it lay in the portmanteau before it was taken out. My Lord told me, too, that the Duke of York is made High Admiral ofEngland. 

17th. Up early to write down my last two days' observations. Dr. Clerkecame to me to tell me that he heard this morning, by some Dutch that arecome on board already to see the ship, that there was a Portuguese takenyesterday at the Hague, that had a design to kill the King. But this Iheard afterwards was only the mistake upon one being observed to walkwith his sword naked, he having lost his scabbard. Before dinner Mr. Edw. Pickering and I, W. Howe, Pim, and my boy, --[Edward Montagu, afterwards Lord Hinchinbroke. ]--to Scheveling, where we took coach, andso to the Hague, where walking, intending to find one that might showus the King incognito, I met with Captain Whittington (that had formerlybrought a letter to my Lord from the Mayor of London) and he did promiseme to do it, but first we went and dined at a French house, but paid16s. For our part of the club. At dinner in came Dr. Cade, a merry madparson of the King's. And they two after dinner got the child and me(the others not being able to crowd in) to see the King, who kissed thechild very affectionately. Then we kissed his, and the Duke of York's, and the Princess Royal's hands. The King seems to be a very sober man;and a very splendid Court he hath in the number of persons of qualitythat are about him, English very rich in habit. From the King to theLord Chancellor, [On January 29th, 1658, Charles II. Entrusted the Great Seal to Sir Edward Hyde, with the title of Lord Chancellor, and in that character Sir Edward accompanied the King to England. ]

who did lie bed-rid of the gout: he spoke very merrily to the childand me. After that, going to see the Queen of Bohemia, I met with Dr. Fullers whom I sent to a tavern with Mr. Edw. Pickering, while I andthe rest went to see the Queen, --[Henrietta Maria. ]--who used us veryrespectfully; her hand we all kissed. She seems a very debonaire, butplain lady. After that to the Dr. 's, where we drank a while or so. In acoach of a friend's of Dr. Cade we went to see a house of the PrincessDowager's in a park about half-a-mile or a mile from the Hague, wherethere is one, the most beautiful room for pictures in the whole world. She had here one picture upon the top, with these words, dedicating itto the memory of her husband:--"Incomparabili marito, inconsolabilisvidua. "

 [Mary, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of Charles I. , and widow of William of Nassau, Prince of Orange. She was not supposed to be inconsolable, and scandal followed her at the court of Charles II. , where she died of small-pox, December 24th, 1660. ]

Here I met with Mr. Woodcock of Cambridge, Mr. Hardy and another, andMr. Woodcock beginning we had two or three fine songs, he and I, andW. Howe to the Echo, which was very pleasant, and the more because in aheaven of pleasure and in a strange country, that I never was taken upmore with a sense of pleasure in my life. After that we parted and backto the Hague and took a tour or two about the Forehault, --[The Voorhoutis the principal street of the Hague, and it is lined with handsometrees. ]--where the ladies in the evening do as our ladies do in HidePark. But for my life I could not find one handsome, but their coachesvery rich and themselves so too. From thence, taking leave of theDoctor, we took wagon to Scheveling, where we had a fray with theBoatswain of the Richmond, who would not freely carry us on board, butat last he was willing to it, but then it was so late we durst not go. So we returned between 10 and 11 at night in the dark with a wagon withone horse to the Hague, where being come we went to bed as well as wecould be accommodated, and so to sleep. 

18th. Very early up, and, hearing that the Duke of York, our Lord HighAdmiral, would go on board to-day, Mr. Pickering and I took waggon forScheveling, leaving the child in Mr. Pierces hands, with directions tokeep him within doors all day till he heard from me. But the wind beingvery high that no boats could get off from shore, we returned tothe Hague (having breakfasted with a gentleman of the Duke's, andCommissioner Pett, sent on purpose to give notice to my Lord of hiscoming), where I hear that the child is gone to Delfe to see the town. So we all and Mr. Ibbott, the Minister, took a schuit--[The trekschuit(drag-boat) along the canal is still described as an agreeableconveyance from Leyden to Delft. ]--and very much pleased with the mannerand conversation of the passengers, where most speak French; went afterthem, but met them by the way. But however we went forward making nostop. Where when we were come we got a smith's boy of the town to goalong with us, but could speak nothing but Dutch, and he showed us thechurch where Van Trump lies entombed with a very fine monument. Hisepitaph concluded thus:--"Tandem Bello Anglico tantum non victor, certeinvictus, vivere et vincere desiit. " There is a sea-fight cut in marble, with the smoke, the best expressed that ever I saw in my life. Fromthence to the great church, that stands in a fine great market-place, over against the Stadt-house, and there I saw a stately tomb of theold Prince of Orange, of marble and brass; wherein among other raritiesthere are the angels with their trumpets expressed as it were crying. Here were very fine organs in both the churches. It is a most sweettown, with bridges, and a river in every street. Observing that in everyhouse of entertainment there hangs in every room a poor-man's box, anddesiring to know the reason thereof, it was told me that it is theircustom to confirm all bargains by putting something into the poorpeople's box, and that binds as fast as any thing. We also saw theGuesthouse, where it was very pleasant to see what neat preparationthere is for the poor. We saw one poor man a-dying there. After we hadseen all, we light by chance of an English house to drink in, where wewere very merry, discoursing of the town and the thing that hangs up inthe Stadthouse like a bushel, which I was told is a sort of punishmentfor some sort of offenders to carry through the streets of the town overhis head, which is a great weight. Back by water, where a pretty soberDutch lass sat reading all the way, and I could not fasten any discourseupon her. At our landing we met with Commissioner Pett going down to thewater-side with Major Harly, who is going upon a dispatch into England. They having a coach I left the Parson and my boy and went along withCommissioner Pett, Mr. Ackworth and Mr. Dawes his friends, to thePrincess Dowager's house again. Thither also my Lord Fairfax and someother English Lords did come to see it, and my pleasure was increased byseeing of it again. Besides we went into the garden, wherein are gallantnuts better than ever I saw, and a fine Echo under the house in a vaultmade on purpose with pillars, where I played on my flageolette to greatadvantage. Back to the Hague, where not finding Mr. Edward, I was muchtroubled, but went with the Parson to supper to Commissioner Pett, where we sat late. And among other mirth Mr. Ackworth vyed wives, eachendeavouring to set his own wife out to the best advantage, he having asthey said an extraordinary handsome wife. But Mr. Dawes could not be gotto say anything of his. After that to our lodging where W. Howe and Iexceeding troubled not to know what is become of our young gentleman. Soto bed. 

19th. Up early, hearing nothing of the child, and went to Scheveling, where I found no getting on board, though the Duke of York sent everyday to see whether he could do it or no. Here I met with Mr. Pinkney andhis sons, and with them went back to the Hague, in our way lighting andgoing to see a woman that makes pretty rock-work in shells, &c. , whichcould I have carried safe I would have bought some of. At the Haguewe went to buy some pictures, where I saw a sort of painting done uponwoollen cloth, drawn as if there was a curtain over it, which was verypleasant, but dear. Another pretty piece of painting I saw, on whichthere was a great wager laid by young Pinkney and me whether it was aprincipal or a copy. But not knowing how to decide, it was broken off, and I got the old man to lay out as much as my piece of gold come to, and so saved my money, which had been 24s. Lost, I fear. While we werehere buying of pictures, we saw Mr. Edward and his company land. Whotold me that they had been at Leyden all night, at which I was veryangry with Mr. Pierce, and shall not be friends I believe a good while. To our lodging to dinner. After that out to buy some linen to wearagainst to-morrow, and so to the barber's. After that by waggon toLausdune, where the 365 children were born. We saw the hill where theysay the house stood and sunk wherein the children were born. The basinswherein the male and female children were baptized do stand over a largetable that hangs upon a wall, with the whole story of the thing in Dutchand Latin, beginning, "Margarita Herman Comitissa, " &c. The thing wasdone about 200 years ago. 

The town is a little small village which answers much to one of oursmall villages, such a one as Chesterton in all respects, and one couldhave thought it in England but for the language of the people. We wentinto a little drinking house where there were a great many Dutch boorseating of fish in a boorish manner, but very merry in their way. Butthe houses here as neat as in the great places. From thence to the Hagueagain playing at crambo--[Crambo is described as "a play at short versesin which a word is given, and the parties contend who can find mostrhymes to it. "]--in the waggon, Mr. Edward, Mr. Ibbott, W. Howe, Mr. Pinkney, and I. When we were come thither W. Howe, and Mr. Ibbott, andMr. Pinckney went away for Scheveling, while I and the child to walk upand down the town, where I met my old chamber-fellow, Mr. Ch. Anderson, and a friend of his (both Physicians), Mr. Wright, who took me to aDutch house, where there was an exceeding pretty lass, and right for thesport, but it being Saturday we could not have much of her company, but however I staid with them (having left the child with my unclePickering, whom I met in the street) till 12 at night. By that timeCharles was almost drunk, and then broke up, he resolving to go thitheragain, after he had seen me at my lodging, and lie with the girl, whichhe told me he had done in the morning. Going to my lodging we met withthe bellman, who struck upon a clapper, which I took in my hand, and itis just like the clapper that our boys frighten the birds away from thecorn with in summer time in England. To bed. 

20th. Up early, and with Mr. Pickering and the child by waggon toScheveling, where it not being yet fit to go off, I went to lie down ina chamber in the house, where in another bed there was a pretty Dutchwoman in bed alone, but though I had a month's-mind

 [Month's-mind. An earnest desire or longing, explained as alluding to "a woman's longing. " See Shakespeare, "Two Gentlemen of Verona, " act i. Sc. 2:

 "I see you have a month's mind to them. "--M. B. ]

I had not the boldness to go to her. So there I slept an hour or two. Atlast she rose, and then I rose and walked up and down the chamber, andsaw her dress herself after the Dutch dress, and talked to her as muchas I could, and took occasion, from her ring which she wore on her firstfinger, to kiss her hand, but had not the face to offer anything more. So at last I left her there and went to my company. About 8 o'clock Iwent into the church at Scheveling, which was pretty handsome, andin the chancel a very great upper part of the mouth of a whale, whichindeed was of a prodigious bigness, bigger than one of our long boatsthat belong to one of our ships. Commissioner Pett at last came to ourlodging, and caused the boats to go off; so some in one boat and some inanother we all bid adieu to the shore. But through badness of weather wewere in great danger, and a great while before we could get to theship, so that of all the company not one but myself that was not sick. I keeping myself in the open air, though I was soundly wet for it. Thishath not been known four days together such weather at this time ofyear, a great while. Indeed our fleet was thought to be in great danger, but we found all well, and Mr. Thos. Crew came on board. I having spokea word or two with my Lord, being not very well settled, partly throughlast night's drinking and want of sleep, I lay down in my gown upon mybed and slept till the 4 o'clock gun the next morning waked me, which Itook for 8 at night, and rising ... Mistook the sun rising for the sunsetting on Sunday night. 

21st. So into my naked bed

 [This is a somewhat late use of an expression which was once universal. It was formerly the custom for both sexes to sleep in bed without any nightlinen. 

 "Who sees his true love in her naked bed, Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white. "

 Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis. 

 Nares ("Glossary") notes the expression so late as in the very odd novel by T. Amory, called "John Bunde, " where a young lady declares, after an alarm, "that she would never go into naked bed on board ship again. " Octavo edition, vol. I. P. 90. ]

and slept till 9 o'clock, and then John Goods waked me, [by] and by thecaptain's boy brought me four barrels of Mallows oysters, which CaptainTatnell had sent me from Murlace. --[Apparently Mallows stands for St. Malo and Murlace for Morlaise. ]--The weather foul all this day also. After dinner, about writing one thing or other all day, and setting mypapers in order, having been so long absent. At night Mr. Pierce, Purser(the other Pierce and I having not spoken to one another since we fellout about Mr. Edward), and Mr. Cook sat with me in my cabin and suppedwith me, and then I went to bed. By letters that came hither in myabsence, I understand that the Parliament had ordered all persons to besecured, in order to a trial, that did sit as judges in the late King'sdeath, and all the officers too attending the Court. Sir John Lenthallmoving in the House, that all that had borne arms against the Kingshould be exempted from pardon, he was called to the bar of the House, and after a severe reproof he was degraded his knighthood. At Court Ifind that all things grow high. The old clergy talk as being sure oftheir lands again, and laugh at the Presbytery; and it is believed thatthe sales of the King's and Bishops' lands will never be confirmed byParliament, there being nothing now in any man's, power to hinder themand the King from doing what they have a mind, but every body willingto submit to any thing. We expect every day to have the King and Dukeon board as soon as it is fair. My Lord do nothing now, but offers allthings to the pleasure of the Duke as Lord High Admiral. So that I am ata loss what to do. 

22nd. Up very early, and now beginning to be settled in my wits again, I went about setting down my last four days' observations this morning. After that, was trimmed by a barber that has not trimmed me yet, mySpaniard being on shore. News brought that the two Dukes are coming onboard, which, by and by, they did, in a Dutch boats the Duke of York inyellow trimmings, the Duke of Gloucester

 [Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the youngest child of Charles L, born July 6th, 16--, who, with his sister Elizabeth, was allowed a meeting with his father on the night before the King's execution. Burnet says: "He was active, and loved business; was apt to have particular friendships, and had an insinuating temper which was generally very acceptable. The King loved him much better than the Duke of York. " He died of smallpox at Whitehall, September 13th, 1660, and was buried in Henry VII's Chapel. ]

in grey and red. My Lord went in a boat to meet them, the Captain, myself, and others, standing at the entering port. So soon as they wereentered we shot the guns off round the fleet. After that they went toview the ship all over, and were most exceedingly pleased with it. They seem to be both very fine gentlemen. After that done, upon thequarter-deck table, under the awning, the Duke of York and my Lord, Mr. Coventry, [William Coventry, to whom Pepys became so warmly attached afterwards, was the fourth son of Thomas, first Lord Coventry, the Lord Keeper. He was born in 1628, and entered at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1642; after the Restoration he became private secretary to the Duke of York, his commission as Secretary to the Lord High Admiral not being conferred until 1664; elected M. P. For Great Yarmouth in 1661. In 1662 he was appointed an extra Commissioner of the Navy, an office he held until 1667; in 1665, knighted and sworn a Privy Councillor, and, in 1667, constituted a Commissioner of the Treasury; but, having been forbid the court on account of his challenging the Duke of Buckingham, he retired into the country, nor could he subsequently be prevailed upon to accept of any official employment. Burnet calls Sir William Coventry the best speaker in the House of Commons, and "a man of the finest and best temper that belonged to the court, " and Pepys never omits an opportunity of paying a tribute to his public and private worth. He died, 1686, of gout in the stomach. ]

and I, spent an hour at allotting to every ship their service, in theirreturn to England; which having done, they went to dinner, where thetable was very full: the two Dukes at the upper end, my Lord Opdam nexton one side, and my Lord on the other. Two guns given to every man whilehe was drinking the King's health, and so likewise to the Duke's health. I took down Monsieur d'Esquier to the great cabin below, and dined withhim in state alone with only one or two friends of his. All dinner theharper belonging to Captain Sparling played to the Dukes. After dinner, the Dukes and my Lord to see the Vice and Rear-Admirals; and I in a boatafter them. After that done, they made to the shore in the Dutch boatthat brought them, and I got into the boat with them; but the shore wasso full of people to expect their coming, as that it was as black (whichotherwise is white sand), as every one could stand by another. When wecame near the shore, my Lord left them and came into his own boat, andGeneral Pen and I with him; my Lord being very well pleased with thisday's work. By the time we came on board again, news is sent us that theKing is on shore; so my Lord fired all his guns round twice, and all thefleet after him, which in the end fell into disorder, which seemed veryhandsome. The gun over against my cabin I fired myself to the King, which was the first time that he had been saluted by his own ships sincethis change; but holding my head too much over the gun, I had almostspoiled my right eye. Nothing in the world but going of guns almost allthis day. In the evening we began to remove cabins; I to the carpenter'scabin, and Dr. Clerke with me, who came on board this afternoon, havingbeen twice ducked in the sea to-day coming from shore, and Mr. Northand John Pickering the like. Many of the King's servants came on boardto-night; and so many Dutch of all sorts came to see the ship till itwas quite dark, that we could not pass by one another, which was agreat trouble to us all. This afternoon Mr. Downing (who was knightedyesterday by the King') was here on board, and had a ship for hispassage into England, with his lady and servants. 

 ["About midnight arrived there Mr. Downing, who did the affairs of England to the Lords the Estates, in quality of Resident under Oliver Cromwell, and afterward under the pretended Parliament, which having changed the form of the government, after having cast forth the last Protector, had continued him in his imploiment, under the quality of Extraordinary Envoy. He began to have respect for the King's person, when he knew that all England declared for a free parliament, and departed from Holland without order, as soon as he understood that there was nothing that could longer oppose the re- establishment of monarchal government, with a design to crave letters of recommendation to General Monk. This lord considered him, as well because of the birth of his wife, which is illustrious, as because Downing had expressed some respect for him in a time when that eminent person could not yet discover his intentions. He had his letters when he arrived at midnight at the house of the Spanish Embassador, as we have said. He presented them forthwith to the King, who arose from table a while after, read the letters, receiv'd the submissions of Downing, and granted him the pardon and grace which he asked for him to whom he could deny nothing. Some daies after the King knighted him, and would it should be believed, that the strong aversions which this minister of the Protector had made appear against him on all occasions, and with all sorts of persons indifferently, even a few daies before the publick and general declaration of all England, proceeded not from any evil intention, but only from a deep dissimulation, wherewith he was constrained to cover his true sentiments, for fear to prejudice the affairs of his Majesty. "--Sir William Lowers Relation... Of the Voiage and Residence which... Charles the II. Hath made in Holland, Hague, 1660, folio, pp. 72-73. ]

By the same token he called me to him when I was going to write theorder, to tell me that I must write him Sir G. Downing. My Lord lay inthe roundhouse to-night. This evening I was late writing a French lettermyself by my Lord's order to Monsieur Kragh, Embassador de Denmarke a laHaye, which my Lord signed in bed. After that I to bed, and the Doctor, and sleep well. 

23rd. The Doctor and I waked very merry, only my eye was very red andill in the morning from yesterday's hurt. In the morning came infinityof people on board from the King to go along with him. My Lord, Mr. Crew, and others, go on shore to meet the King as he comes off fromshore, where Sir R. Stayner bringing His Majesty into the boat, I hearthat His Majesty did with a great deal of affection kiss my Lord uponhis first meeting. The King, with the two Dukes and Queen of Bohemia, Princess Royal, and Prince of Orange, came on board, where I in theircoming in kissed the King's, Queen's, and Princess's hands, havingdone the other before. Infinite shooting off of the guns, and that in adisorder on purpose, which was better than if it had been otherwise. All day nothing but Lords and persons of honour on board, that we wereexceeding full. Dined in a great deal of state, the Royall company bythemselves in the coach, which was a blessed sight to see. I dined withDr. Clerke, Dr. Quarterman, and Mr. Darcy in my cabin. This morningMr. Lucy came on board, to whom and his company of the King's Guard inanother ship my Lord did give three dozen of bottles of wine. He madefriends between Mr. Pierce and me. After dinner the King and Dukealtered the name of some of the ships, viz. The Nazeby into Charles; theRichard, James; the Speakers Mary; the Dunbar (which was not in companywith us), the Henry; Winsly, Happy Return; Wakefield, Richmond; Lambert;the Henrietta; Cheriton, the Speedwell; Bradford, the Success. Thatdone, the Queen, Princess Royal, and Prince of Orange, took leave ofthe King, and the Duke of York went on board the London, and the Dukeof Gloucester, the Swiftsure. Which done, we weighed anchor, and witha fresh gale and most happy weather we set sail for England. All theafternoon the King walked here and there, up and down (quite contraryto what I thought him to have been), very active and stirring. Upon thequarterdeck he fell into discourse of his escape from Worcester, [For the King's own account of his escape dictated to Pepys, see "Boscobel" (Bohn's "Standard Library"). ]

where it made me ready to weep to hear the stories that he told of hisdifficulties that he had passed through, as his travelling four days andthree nights on foot, every step up to his knees in dirt, with nothingbut a green coat and a pair of country breeches on, and a pair ofcountry shoes that made him so sore all over his feet, that he couldscarce stir. Yet he was forced to run away from a miller and othercompany, that took them for rogues. His sitting at table at one place, where the master of the house, that had not seen him in eight years, didknow him, but kept it private; when at the same table there was one thathad been of his own regiment at Worcester, could not know him, but madehim drink the King's health, and said that the King was at least fourfingers higher than he. At another place he was by some servants of thehouse made to drink, that they might know him not to be a Roundhead, which they swore he was. In another place at his inn, the master of thehouse, [This was at Brighton. The inn was the "George, " and the innkeeper was named Smith. Charles related this circumstance again to Pepys in October, 1680. He then said, "And here also I ran into another very great danger, as being confident I was known by the master of the inn; for, as I was standing after supper by the fireside, leaning my hand upon a chair, and all the rest of the company being gone into another room, the master of the inn came in and fell a- talking with me, and just as he was looking about, and saw there was nobody in the room, he upon a sudden kissed my hand that was upon the back of the chair, and said to me, 'God bless you wheresoever you go! I do not doubt before I die, but to be a lord, and my wife a lady. ' So I laughed, and went away into the next room. "]

as the King was standing with his hands upon the back of a chair by thefire-side, kneeled down and kissed his hand, privately, saying, thathe would not ask him who he was, but bid God bless him whither he wasgoing. Then the difficulty of getting a boat to get into France, wherehe was fain to plot with the master thereof to keep his design from thefour men and a boy (which was all his ship's company), and so got toFecamp in France. 

 [On Saturday, October 11th, 1651, Colonel Gunter made an agreement at Chichester with Nicholas Tettersell, through Francis Mansell (a French merchant), to have Tettersell's vessel ready at an hour's warning. Charles II. , in his narrative dictated to Pepys in 1680, said, "We went to a place, four miles off Shoreham, called Brighthelmstone, where we were to meet with the master of the ship, as thinking it more convenient to meet there than just at Shoreham, where the ship was. So when we came to the inn at Brighthelmstone we met with one, the merchant Francis Mansell] who had hired the vessel, in company with her master [Tettersell], the merchant only knowing me, as having hired her only to carry over a person of quality that was escaped from the battle of Worcester without naming anybody. "

 The boat was supposed to be bound for Poole, but Charles says in his narrative: "As we were sailing the master came to me, and desired me that I would persuade his men to use their best endeavours with him to get him to set us on shore in France, the better to cover him from any suspicion thereof, upon which I went to the men, which were four and a boy. "

 After the Restoration Mansell was granted a pension of L200 a year, and Tettersell one of L100 a year. (See "Captain Nicholas Tettersell and the Escape of Charles II. , " by F. E. Sawyer, F. S. A. , "Sussex Archaeological Collections, " vol. Xxxii. Pp. 81-104). )

At Rouen he looked so poorly, that the people went into the rooms beforehe went away to see whether he had not stole something or other. In theevening I went up to my Lord to write letters for England, which we sentaway with word of our coming, by Mr. Edw. Pickering. The King suppedalone in the coach; after that I got a dish, and we four supped in mycabin, as at noon. About bed-time my Lord Bartlett

 [A mistake for Lord Berkeley of Berkeley, who had been deputed, with Lord Middlesex and four other Peers, by the House of Lords to present an address of congratulation to the King. --B. ]

(who I had offered my service to before) sent for me to get him a bed, who with much ado I did get to bed to my Lord Middlesex in the greatcabin below, but I was cruelly troubled before I could dispose of him, and quit myself of him. So to my cabin again, where the company stillwas, and were talking more of the King's difficulties; as how he wasfain to eat a piece of bread and cheese out of a poor boy's pocket; how, at a Catholique house, he was fain to lie in the priest's hole a goodwhile in the house for his privacy. After that our company broke up, andthe Doctor and I to bed. We have all the Lords Commissioners on boardus, and many others. Under sail all night, and most glorious weather. 

24th. Up, and made myself as fine as I could, with the Tinning stockingson and wide canons--["Cannions, boot hose tops; an old-fashionedornament for the legs. " That is to say, a particular addition tobreeches. ]--that I bought the other day at Hague. Extraordinary pressof noble company, and great mirth all the day. There dined with me in mycabin (that is, the carpenter's) Dr. Earle

 [John Earle, born about 1601; appointed in 1643 one of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, but his principles did not allow him to act. He accompanied Charles II. When he was obliged to fly from England. Dean of Westminster at the Restoration, Bishop of Worcester, November 30th, 1662, and translated to Salisbury, September 28th, 1663. He was tender to the Nonconformists, and Baxter wrote of him, "O that they were all such!" Author of "Microcosmography. " Died November 17th, 1665, and was buried in the chapel of Merton College, of which he had been a Fellow. Charles II. Had the highest esteem for him. ]

and Mr. Hollis, [Denzil Holles, second son of John, first Earl of Clare, born at Houghton, Notts, in 1597. He was one of the five members charged with high treason by Charles I. In 1641. He was a Presbyterian, and one of the Commissioners sent by Parliament to wait on Charles II. At the Hague. Sir William Lower, in his "Relation, " 1660, writes: "All agreed that never person spake with more affection nor expressed himself in better terms than Mr. Denzil Hollis, who was orator for the Deputies of the Lower House, to whom those of London were joined. " He was created Baron Holles on April 20th, 1661, on the occasion of the coronation of Charles II. ]

the King's Chaplins, Dr. Scarborough, [Charles Scarburgh, M. D. , an eminent physician who suffered for the royal cause during the Civil Wars. He was born in London, and educated at St. Paul's School and Caius College, Cambridge. He was ejected from his fellowship at Caius, and withdrew to Oxford. He entered himself at Merton College, then presided over by Harvey, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. He was knighted by Charles II. In 1669, and attended the King in his last illness. He was also physician to James II. And to William III. , and died February 26th, 1693-4. ]

Dr. Quarterman, and Dr. Clerke, Physicians, Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Fox

 [Stephen Fox, born 1627, and said to have been a choir-boy in Salisbury Cathedral. He was the first person to announce the death of Cromwell to Charles II. , and at the Restoration he was made Clerk of the Green Cloth, and afterwards Paymaster of the Forces. He was knighted in 1665. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Whittle of Lancashire. (See June 25th, 1660. ) Fox died in 1716. His sons Stephen and Henry were created respectively Earl of Ilchester and Lord Holland. ]

(both very fine gentlemen), the King's servants, where we had bravediscourse. Walking upon the decks, where persons of honour all theafternoon, among others, Thomas Killigrew (a merry droll, but agentleman of great esteem with the King), who told us many merrystories: one, how he wrote a letter three or four days ago to thePrincess Royal, about a Queen Dowager of Judaea and Palestine, that wasat the Hague incognita, that made love to the King, &c. , which was Mr. Cary (a courtier's) wife that had been a nun, who are all married toJesus. At supper the three Drs. Of Physic again at my cabin; where Iput Dr. Scarborough in mind of what I heard him say about the use of theeyes, which he owned, that children do, in every day's experience, lookseveral ways with both their eyes, till custom teaches them otherwise. And that we do now see but with one eye, our eyes looking in parallellines. After this discourse I was called to write a pass for my LordMandeville to take up horses to London, which I wrote in the King'sname, --[This right of purveyance was abolished in Charles's reign. ]--andcarried it to him to sign, which was the first and only one that everhe signed in the ship Charles. To bed, coming in sight of land a littlebefore night. 

25th. By the morning we were come close to the land, and every bodymade ready to get on shore. The King and the two Dukes did eat theirbreakfast before they went, and there being set some ship's diet beforethem, only to show them the manner of the ship's diet, they eat ofnothing else but pease and pork, and boiled beef. I had Mr. Darcy in mycabin and Dr. Clerke, who eat with me, told me how the King had givenL50 to Mr. Sheply for my Lord's servants, and L500 among the officersand common men of the ship. I spoke with the Duke of York aboutbusiness, who called me Pepys by name, and upon my desire did promise mehis future favour. Great expectation of the King's making some Knights, but there was none. About noon (though the brigantine that Beale madewas there ready to carry him) yet he would go in my Lord's barge withthe two Dukes. Our Captain steered, and my Lord went along bare withhim. I went, and Mr. Mansell, and one of the King's footmen, with a dogthat the King loved, [Charles II. 's love of dogs is well known, but it is not so well known that his dogs were continually being stolen from him. In the "Mercurius Publicus, " June 28-July 5, 1660, is the following advertisement, apparently drawn up by the King himself: "We must call upon you again for a Black Dog between a greyhound and a spaniel, no white about him, onely a streak on his brest, and his tayl a little bobbed. It is His Majesties own Dog, and doubtless was stoln, for the dog was not born nor bred in England, and would never forsake His master. Whoesoever findes him may acquaint any at Whitehal for the Dog was better known at Court, than those who stole him. Will they never leave robbing his Majesty! Must he not keep a Dog? This dog's place (though better than some imagine) is the only place which nobody offers to beg. " (Quoted in "Notes and Queries, " 7th S. , vii. 26, where are printed two other advertisements of Charles's lost dogs. )]

(which [dirted] the boat, which made us laugh, and me think that a Kingand all that belong to him are but just as others are), in a boat byourselves, and so got on shore when the King did, who was received byGeneral Monk with all imaginable love and respect at his entranceupon the land of Dover. Infinite the crowd of people and the horsemen, citizens, and noblemen of all sorts. The Mayor of the town came and gavehim his white staff, the badge of his place, which the King did givehim again. The Mayor also presented him from the town a very rich Bible, which he took and said it was the thing that he loved above all thingsin the world. A canopy was provided for him to stand under, which hedid, and talked awhile with General Monk and others, and so into astately coach there set for him, and so away through the town towardsCanterbury, without making any stay at Dover. The shouting and joyexpressed by all is past imagination. Seeing that my Lord did not stirout of his barge, I got into a boat, and so into his barge, whither Mr. John Crew stepped, and spoke a word or two to my Lord, and so returned, we back to the ship, and going did see a man almost drowned that fellout of his boat into the sea, but with much ado was got out. My Lordalmost transported with joy that he had done all this without any theleast blur or obstruction in the world, that could give an offence toany, and with the great honour he thought it would be to him. Beingovertook by the brigantine, my Lord and we went out of our barge intoit, and so went on board with Sir W. Batten, [Clarendon describes William Batten as an obscure fellow, and, although unknown to the service, a good seaman, who was in 1642 made Surveyor to the Navy; in which employ he evinced great animosity against the King. The following year, while Vice-Admiral to the Earl of Warwick, he chased a Dutch man-of-war into Burlington Bay, knowing that Queen Henrietta Maria was on board; and then, learning that she had landed and was lodged on the quay, he fired above a hundred shot upon the house, some of which passing through her majesty's chamber, she was obliged, though indisposed, to retire for safety into the open fields. This act, brutal as it was, found favour with the Parliament. But Batten became afterwards discontented; and, when a portion of the fleet revolted, he carried the "Constant Warwick, " one of the best ships in the Parliament navy, over into Holland, with several seamen of note. For this act of treachery he was knighted and made a Rear-Admiral by Prince Charles. We hear no more of Batten till the Restoration, when he became a Commissioner of the Navy, and was soon after M. P. For Rochester. See an account of his second wife, in note to November 24th, 1660, and of his illness and death, October 5th, 1667. He had a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Martha, by his first wife. --B. ]

and the Vice and Rear-Admirals. At night my Lord supped and Mr. ThomasCrew with Captain Stoakes, I supped with the Captain, who told me whatthe King had given us. My Lord returned late, and at his coming did giveme order to cause the marke to be gilded, and a Crown and C. R. To bemade at the head of the coach table, where the King to-day with his ownhand did mark his height, which accordingly I caused the painter to do, and is now done as is to be seen. 

26th. Thanks to God I got to bed in my own poor cabin, and slept welltill 9 o'clock this morning. Mr. North and Dr. Clerke and all the greatcompany being gone, I found myself very uncouth all this day forwant thereof. My Lord dined with the Vice-Admiral to-day (who is asofficious, poor man! as any spaniel can be; but I believe all to nopurpose, for I believe he will not hold his place), so I dined commanderat the coach table to-day, and all the officers of the ship with me, andMr. White of Dover. After a game or two at nine-pins, to work all theafternoon, making above twenty orders. In the evening my Lord havingbeen a-shore, the first time that he hath been a-shore since he came outof the Hope (having resolved not to go till he had brought his Majestyinto England), returned on board with a great deal of pleasure. Isupped with the Captain in his cabin with young Captain Cuttance, andafterwards a messenger from the King came with a letter, and to go intoFrance, and by that means we supped again with him at 12 o'clock atnight. This night the Captain told me that my Lord had appointed me L30out of the 1000 ducats which the King had given to the ship, at which myheart was very much joyed. To bed. 

27th (Lord's day). Called up by John Goods to see the Garter and Heraldscoat, which lay in the coach, brought by Sir Edward Walker, [Edward Walker was knighted February 2nd, 1644-5, and on the 24th of the same month was sworn in as Garter King at Arms. He adhered to the cause of the king, and published "Iter Carolinum", being a succinct account of the necessitated marches, retreats, and sufferings of his Majesty King Charles I. , from Jan. 10, 1641, to the time of his death in 1648, collected by a daily attendant upon his sacred Majesty during all that time: He joined Charles II. In exile, and received the reward of his loyalty at the Restoration. He died at Whitehall, February 19th, 1676-7, and was buried at Stratford-on-Avon, his daughter having married Sir John Clepton of that place. ]

King at Arms, this morning, for my Lord. My Lord hath summoned all theCommanders on board him, to see the ceremony, which was thus: Sir Edwardputting on his coat, and having laid the George and Garter, and theKing's letter to my Lord, upon a crimson cushion (in the coach, all theCommanders standing by), makes three congees to him, holding the cushionin his arms. Then laying it down with the things upon it upon a chair, he takes the letter, and delivers it to my Lord, which my Lord breaksopen and gives him to read. It was directed to our trusty and wellbeloved Sir Edward Montagu, Knight, one of our Generals at sea, and ourCompanion elect of our Noble Order of the Garter. The contents of theletter is to show that the Kings of England have for many years madeuse of this honour, as a special mark of favour, to persons of goodextraction and virtue (and that many Emperors, Kings and Princes ofother countries have borne this honour), and that whereas my Lord is ofa noble family, and hath now done the King such service by sea, at thistime, as he hath done; he do send him this George and Garter to wear asKnight of the Order, with a dispensation for the other ceremonies ofthe habit of the Order, and other things, till hereafter, when it canbe done. So the herald putting the ribbon about his neck, and the Garterabout his left leg, he salutes him with joy as Knight of the Garter, andthat was all. After that was done, and the Captain and I had breakfastedwith Sir Edward while my Lord was writing of a letter, he took his leaveof my Lord, and so to shore again to the King at Canterbury, where heyesterday gave the like honour to General Monk, ["His Majesty put the George on his Excellency, and the two Dukes put on the Garter. The Princes thus honoured the Lord-General for the restoration of that lawful family. "--Rugge's Diurnal. ]

who are the only two for many years that have had the Garter given them, before they had other honours of Earldom, or the like, excepting onlythe Duke of Buckingham, who was only Sir George Villiers when he wasmade Knight of the Garter. A while after Mr. Thos. Crew and Mr. J. Pickering (who had staid long enough to make all the world see him to bea fool), took ship for London. So there now remain no strangers withmy Lord but Mr. Hetley, who had been with us a day before the King wentfrom us. My Lord and the ship's company down to sermon. I staid above towrite and look over my new song book, which came last night to me fromLondon in lieu of that that my Lord had of me. The officers being allon board, there was not room for me at table, so I dined in my cabin, where, among other things, Mr. Drum brought me a lobster and a bottle ofoil, instead of a bottle of vinegar, whereby I spoiled my dinner. Manyorders in the ordering of ships this afternoon. Late to a sermon. Afterthat up to the Lieutenant's cabin, where Mr. Sheply, I, and the Ministersupped, and after that I went down to W. Howe's cabin, and there, with agreat deal of pleasure, singing till it was late. After that to bed. 

28th. Called up at two in the morning for letters for my Lord fromthe Duke of York, but I went to bed again till 5. Trimmed early thismorning. This morning the Captain did call over all the men in the ship(not the boys), and give every one of them a ducat of the King's moneythat he gave the ship, and the officers according to their quality. Ireceived in the Captain's cabin, for my share, sixty ducats. The rest ofthe morning busy writing letters. So was my Lord that he would not cometo dinner. After dinner to write again in order to sending to London, but my Lord did not finish his, so we did not send to London to-day. Agreat part of the afternoon at nine-pins with my Lord and Mr. Hetley. I lost about 4s. Supped with my Lord, and after that to bed. At night Ihad a strange dream of--myself, which I really did, and having kicked myclothes off, I got cold; and found myself all much wet in the morning, and had a great deal of pain... Which made me very melancholy. 

29th. The King's birthday. Busy all the morning writing letters toLondon, among the rest one to Mr. Chetwind to give me an account ofthe fees due to the Herald for the Order of the Garter, which my Lorddesires to know. After dinner got all ready and sent away Mr. Cook toLondon with a letter and token to my wife. After that abroad to shorewith my Lord (which he offered me of himself, saying that I had a greatdeal of work to do this month, which was very true). On shore we tookhorses, my Lord and Mr. Edward, Mr. Hetly and I, and three or fourservants, and had a great deal of pleasure in riding. Among other thingsmy Lord showed me a house that cost a great deal of money, and is builtin so barren and inconvenient a place that my Lord calls it the fool'shouse. At last we came upon a very high cliff by the sea-side, and rodeunder it, we having laid great wagers, I and Dr. Mathews, that it wasnot so high as Paul's; my Lord and Mr. Hetly, that it was. But we ridingunder it, my Lord made a pretty good measure of it with two sticks, andfound it to be not above thirty-five yards high, and Paul's is reckonedto be about ninety. From thence toward the barge again, and in our wayfound the people at Deal going to make a bonfire for joy of the day, itbeing the King's birthday, and had some guns which they did fire at myLord's coming by. For which I did give twenty shillings among them todrink. While we were on the top of the cliffe, we saw and heard our gunsin the fleet go off for the same joy. And it being a pretty fair day wecould see above twenty miles into France. Being returned on board, myLord called for Mr. Sheply's book of Paul's, by which we were confirmedin our wager. After that to supper and then to musique, and so tobed. The pain that I have got last night by cold is not yet gone, buttroubles me at the time of.... This day, it is thought, the King doenter the city of London. 

 ["Divers maidens, in behalf of themselves and others, presented a petition to the Lord Mayor of London, wherein they pray his Lordship to grant them leave and liberty to meet His Majesty on the day of his passing through the city; and if their petition be granted, that they will all be clad in white waistcoats and crimson petticoats, and other ornaments of triumph and rejoicing. "-Rugge's Diurnal, May, 1660. --B. ]

30th. About eight o'clock in the morning the lieutenant came to meto know whether I would eat a dish of mackerel, newly catched, for mybreakfast, which the Captain and we did in the coach. All yesterdayand to-day I had a great deal of pain... And in my back, which made meafeard. But it proved nothing but cold, which I took yesterday night. All this morning making up my accounts, in which I counted that I hadmade myself now worth about L80, at which my heart was glad, and blessedGod. Many Dover men come and dine with my Lord. My Lord at ninepins inthe afternoon. In the afternoon Mr. Sheply told me how my Lord had putme down for 70 guilders among the money which was given to my Lord'sservants, which my heart did much rejoice at. My Lord supped alone inhis chamber. Sir R. Stayner supped with us, and among other things toldus how some of his men did grumble that no more of the Duke's moneycome to their share and so would not receive any; whereupon he called upthose that had taken it, and gives them three shares apiece more, whichwas very good, and made good sport among the seamen. To bed. 

31st. This day my Lord took physic, and came not out of his chamber. 

All the morning making orders. After dinner a great while below in thegreat cabin trying with W. Howe some of Mr. Laws' songs, ' particularlythat of "What is a kiss, " with which we had a great deal of pleasure. After that to making of orders again. Captain Sparling of the Assistancebrought me a pair of silk stockings of a light blue, which I wasmuch pleased with. The Captain and I to supper, and after that a mostpleasant walk till to at night with him upon the deck, it being a fineevening. My pain was gone again that I had yesterday, blessed be God. This day the month ends, I in very good health, and all the world in amerry mood because of the King's coming. This day I began to teach Mr. Edward; who I find to have a very good foundation laid for his Latin byMr. Fuller. I expect every minute to hear how my poor wife do. I findmyself in all things well as to body and mind, but troubled for theabsence of my wife. 

JUNE 1660

June 1st. This morning Mr. Sheply disposed of the money that the Dukeof York did give my Lord's servants, 22 ducatoons 3 came to my share, whereof he told me to give Jaspar something because my Lord left himout. 

 [Foreign coins were in frequent use at this time. A Proclamation, January 29th, 1660-61, declared certain foreign gold and silver coins to be current at certain rates. The rate of the ducatoon was at 5s. 9d. ]

I did give Mr. Sheply the fine pair of buckskin gloves that I boughtmyself about five years ago. My Lord took physic to-day, and so come notout all day. The Captain on shore all day. After dinner Captain Jefferysand W. Howe, and the Lieutenant and I to ninepins, where I lost abouttwo shillings and so fooled away all the afternoon. At night Mr. Cookecomes from London with letters, leaving all things there very gallantand joyful. And brought us word that the Parliament had ordered the29th of May, the King's birthday, to be for ever kept as a day ofthanksgiving for our redemption from tyranny, and the King's return tohis Government, he entering London that day. My wife was in London whenhe came thither, and had been there a week with Mr. Bowyer and his wife. My poor wife has not been well a week before, but thanks be to God iswell again. She would fain see me and be at her house again, but wemust be content. She writes word how the Joyces grow very rich and veryproud, but it is no matter, and that there was a talk that I shouldbe knighted by the King, which they (the Joyces) laugh at; but I thinkmyself happier in my wife and estate than they are in theirs. To bed. The Captain come on board, when I was going to bed, quite fuddled;and himself the next morning told me so too, that the Vice-Admiral, Rear-Admiral, and he had been drinking all day. 

2d. Being with my Lord in the morning about business in his cabin, Itook occasion to give him thanks for his love to me in the share thathe had given me of his Majesty's money, and the Duke's. He told the hehoped to do me a more lasting kindness, if all things stand as theyare now between him and the King, but, says he, "We must have a littlepatience and we will rise together; in the mean time I will do you allthe good jobs I can. " Which was great content for me to hear from myLord. All the morning with the Captain, computing how much the thirtyships that come with the King from Scheveling their pay comes to for amonth (because the King promised to give them all a month's pay), andit comes to L6, 538, and the Charles particularly L777. I wish we hadthe money. All the afternoon with two or three captains in the Captain'scabin, drinking of white wine and sugar, and eating pickled oysters, where Captain Sparling told us the best story that ever I heard, abouta gentleman that persuaded a country fool to let him gut his oysters orelse they would stink. At night writing letters to London and Weymouth, for my Lord being now to sit in the House of Peers he endeavours to getMr. Edward Montagu for Weymouth and Mr. George for Dover. Mr. Cooke latewith me in my cabin while I wrote to my wife, and drank a bottle of wineand so took leave of me on his journey and I to bed. 

3d. Waked in the morning by one who when I asked who it was, he told meone from Bridewell, which proved Captain Holland. I rose presently tohim. He is come to get an order for the setting out of his ship, and torenew his commission. He tells me how every man goes to the Lord Mayorto set down their names, as such as do accept of his Majesty's pardon, and showed me a certificate under the Lord Mayor's hand that he had doneso. 

At sermon in the morning; after dinner into my cabin, to cast myaccounts up, and find myself to be worth near L100, for which I blessAlmighty God, it being more than I hoped for so soon, being I believenot clearly worth L25 when I came to sea besides my house and goods. Then to set my papers in order, they being increased much upon my handsthrough want of time to put them in order. The ship's company all thiswhile at sermon. After sermon my Lord did give me instruction to writeto London about business, which done, after supper to bed. 

4th. Waked in the morning at four o'clock to give some money to Mr. Hetly, who was to go to London with the letters that I wrote yesterdaynight. After he was gone I went and lay down in my gown upon my bedagain an hour or two. At last waked by a messenger come for a PostWarrant for Mr. Hetly and Mr. Creed, who stood to give so little fortheir horses that the men would not let them have any without a warrant, which I sent them. All the morning getting Captain Holland's commissiondone, which I did, and he at noon went away. I took my leave of him uponthe quarter-deck with a bottle of sack, my Lord being just set down todinner. Then he being gone I went to dinner and after dinner to my cabinto write. This afternoon I showed my Lord my accounts, which he passed, and so I think myself to be worth near L100 now. In the evening I madean order for Captain Sparling of the Assistance to go to Middleburgh, tofetch over some of the King's goods. I took the opportunity to send allmy Dutch money, 70 ducatoons and 29 gold ducats to be changed, if hecan, for English money, which is the first venture that ever I made, andso I have been since a little afeard of it. After supper some musicand so to bed. This morning the King's Proclamation against drinking, swearing, and debauchery, was read to our ships' companies in the fleet, and indeed it gives great satisfaction to all. 

 [The King's "Proclamation against vicious, debauched, and prophane Persons" is dated May 30th. It is printed in "Somers's Tracts, " ed. 1812, vol. Vii. P. 423. ]

5th. A-bed late. In the morning my Lord went on shore with theVice-Admiral a-fishing, and at dinner returned. In the afternoon Iplayed at ninepins with my Lord, and when he went in again I got him tosign my accounts for L115, and so upon my private balance I find myselfconfirmed in my estimation that I am worth L100. In the evening in mycabin a great while getting the song without book, "Help, help Divinity, &c. " After supper my Lord called for the lieutenant's cittern, andwith two candlesticks with money in them for symballs, we made barber'smusic, [In the "Notices of Popular Histories, " printed for the Percy Society, there is a curious woodcut representing the interior of a barber's shop, in which, according to the old custom, the person waiting to be shaved is playing on the "ghittern" till his turn arrives. Decker also mentions a "barber's cittern, " for every serving-man to play upon. This is no doubt "the barber's music" with which Lord Sandwich entertained himself. --B. ]

with which my Lord was well pleased. So to bed. 

6th. In the morning I had letters come, that told me among other things, that my Lord's place of Clerk of the Signet was fallen to him, which hedid most lovingly tell me that I should execute, in case he couldnot get a better employment for me at the end of the year. Because hethought that the Duke of York would command all, but he hoped that theDuke would not remove me but to my advantage. 

I had a great deal of talk about my uncle Robert, [Robert Pepys of Brampton, eldest son of Thomas Pepys the red, and brother of Samuel's father. ]

and he told me that he could not tell how his mind stood as to hisestate, but he would do all that lay in his power for me. After dinnercame Mr. Gooke from London, who told me that my wife he left well atHuntsmore, though her health not altogether so constant as it used tobe, which my heart is troubled for. Mr. Moore's letters tell me thathe thinks my Lord will be suddenly sent for up to London, and so I gotmyself in readiness to go. 

My letters tell me, that Mr. Calamy

 [Edmund Calamy, D. D. , the celebrated Nonconformist divine, born February, 1600, appointed Chaplain to Charles II. , 1660. He refused the bishopric of Lichfield which was offered to him. Died October 29th, 1666. ]

had preached before the King in a surplice (this I heard afterwardsto be false); that my Lord, Gen. Monk, and three more Lords, are madeCommissioners for the Treasury;

 [The names of the Commissioners were--Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, General Monk, Thomas, Earl of Southampton, John, Lord Robartes, Thomas, Lord Colepeper, Sir Edward Montagu, with Sir Edward Nicholas and Sir William Morrice as principal Secretaries of State. The patents are dated June 19th, 1660. ]

that my Lord had some great place conferred on him, and they say Masterof the Wardrobe;

 [The duty of the Master of the Wardrobe was to provide "proper furniture for coronations, marriages, and funerals" of the sovereign and royal family, "cloaths of state, beds, hangings, and other necessaries for the houses of foreign ambassadors, cloaths of state for Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Prince of Wales, and ambassadors abroad, " as also to provide robes for Ministers of State, Knights of the Garter, &c. The last Master of the Wardrobe was Ralph, Duke of Montague, who died 1709. ]

that the two Dukes--[Duke of York and Duke of Gloucester. ]--do haunt thePark much, and that they were at a play, Madam Epicene, --["Epicene, orthe Silent Woman, " a comedy, by Ben Jonson. ]--the other day; that Sir. Ant. Cooper, Mr. Hollis, and Mr. Annesly, & late President of the Councilof State, are made Privy Councillors to the King. At night very busysending Mr. Donne away to London, and wrote to my father for a coat tobe made me against I come to London, which I think will not be long. Atnight Mr. Edward Montagu came on board and staid long up with my Lord. Ito bed and about one in the morning, 7th. W. Howe called me up to give him a letter to carry to my Lord thatcame to me to-day, which I did and so to, sleep again. About threein the morning the people began to wash the deck, and the water camepouring into my mouth, which waked me, and I was fain to rise and geton my gown, and sleep leaning on my table. This morning Mr. Montagu wentaway again. After dinner come Mr. John Wright and Mr. Moore, with thesight of whom my heart was very glad. They brought an order for myLord's coming up to London, which my Lord resolved to do tomorrow. Allthe afternoon getting my things in order to set forth to-morrow. Atnight walked up and down with Mr. Moore, who did give me an account ofall things at London. Among others, how the Presbyterians would be angryif they durst, but they will not be able to do any thing. Most of theCommanders on board and supped with my Lord. Late at night came Mr. Edw. Pickering from London, but I could not see him this night. I went withMr. Moore to the Master's cabin, and saw him there in order to going tobed. After that to my own cabin to put things in order and so to bed. 

8th. Out early, took horses at Deale. I troubled much with the King'sgittar, and Fairbrother, the rogue that I intrusted with the carrying ofit on foot, whom I thought I had lost. Col. Dixwell's horse taken by asoldier and delivered to my Lord, and by him to me to carry to London. Came to Canterbury, dined there. I saw the minster and the remains ofBecket's tomb. To Sittiligborne and Rochester. At Chatham and Rochesterthe ships and bridge. Mr. Hetly's mistake about dinner. Come toGravesend. A good handsome wench I kissed, the first that I have seena great while. Supped with my Lord, drank late below with Penrose, the Captain. To bed late, having first laid out all my things againstto-morrow to put myself in a walking garb. Weary and hot to bed to Mr. Moore. 

9th. Up betimes, 25s. The reckoning for very bare. Paid the house andby boats to London, six boats. Mr. Moore, W. Howe, and I, and then thechild in the room of W. Howe. Landed at the Temple. To Mr. Crew's. Tomy father's and put myself into a handsome posture to wait upon my Lord, dined there. To White Hall with my Lord and Mr. Edwd. Montagu. Found theKing in the Park. There walked. Gallantly great. 

10th. (Lord's day. ) At my father's found my wife and to walk with her inLincoln's Inn walks. 

11th. Betimes to my Lord. Extremely much people and business. So withhim to Whitehall to the Duke. Back with him by coach and left him inCovent Garden. I back to Will's and the Hall to see my father. Then tothe Leg in King Street with Mr. Moore, and sent for. L'Impertinent todinner with me. After that with Mr. Moore about Privy Seal business. ToMr. Watkins, so to Mr. Crew's. Then towards my father's met my Lord andwith him to Dorset House to the Chancellor. So to Mr. Crew's and saw myLord at supper, and then home, and went to see Mrs. Turner, and so tobed. 

12th. Visited by the two Pierces, Mr. Blackburne, Dr. Clerk and Mr. Creed, and did give them a ham of bacon. So to my Lord and with him tothe Duke of Gloucester. The two Dukes dined with the Speaker, and Isaw there a fine entertainment and dined with the pages. To Mr. Crew's, whither came Mr. Greatorex, and with him to the Faithornes, and soto the Devils tavern. To my Lord's and staid till 12 at night aboutbusiness. So to my father's, my father and mother in bed, who had beenwith my uncle Fenner, &c. , and my wife all day and expected me. But Ifound Mr. Cook there, and so to bed. 

13th. To my Lord's and thence to the Treasurer's of the Navy, ' with Mr. Creed and Pierce the Purser to Rawlinson's, whither my uncle Wight came, and I spent 12s. Upon them. So to Mr. Crew's, where I blotted a newcarpet--[It was customary to use carpets as table cloths. ]--that washired, but got it out again with fair water. By water with my Lord ina boat to Westminster, and to the Admiralty, now in a new place. Afterbusiness done there to the Rhenish wine-house with Mr. Blackburne, Creed, and Wivell. So to my Lord's lodging and to my father's, and tobed. 

14th. Up to my Lord and from him to the Treasurer of the Navy for L500. After that to a tavern with Washington the Purser, very gallant, and ateand drank. To Mr. Crew's and laid my money. To my Lady Pickering withthe plate that she did give my Lord the other day. Then to Will'sand met William Symons and Doling and Luellin, and with them to theBull-head, and then to a new alehouse in Brewer's Yard, where Winterthat had the fray with Stoakes, and from them to my father's. 

15th. All the morning at the Commissioners of the Navy about gettingout my bill for L650 for the last quarter, which I got done with a greatdeal of ease, which is not common. After that with Mr. Turner to theDolphin and drunk, and so by water to W. Symons, where D. Scobell withhis wife, a pretty and rich woman. Mrs. Symons, a very fine woman, verymerry after dinner with marrying of Luellin and D. Scobell's kinswomanthat was there. Then to my Lord who told me how the King has given himthe place of the great Wardrobe. My Lord resolves to have Sarah again. Ito my father's, and then to see my uncle and aunt Fenner. So home and tobed. 

16th. Rose betimes and abroad in one shirt, which brought me a greatcold and pain. Murford took me to Harvey's by my father's to drink andtold me of a business that I hope to get L5 by. To my Lord, and so toWhite Hall with him about the Clerk of the Privy Seal's place, which heis to have. 

Then to the Admiralty, where I wrote same letters. Here Coll. Thompsontold me, as a great secret; that the Nazeby was on fire when the Kingwas there, but that is not known; when God knows it is quite false. Gota piece of gold from Major Holmes for the horse of Dixwell's Ibrought to town. Dined at Mr. Crew's, and after dinner with my Lord toWhitehall. Court attendance infinite tedious. Back with my Lord to myLady Wright's and staid till it had done raining, which it had not donea great while. After that at night home to my father's and to bed. 

17th (Lord's day). Lay long abed. To Mr. Mossum's; a good sermon. Thisday the organs did begin to play at White Hall before the King. --[Allorgans were removed from churches by an ordinance dated 1644. ]--Dined atmy father's. After dinner to Mr. Mossum's again, and so in the garden, and heard Chippell's father preach, that was Page to the Protector, andjust by the window that I stood at sat Mrs. Butler, the great beauty. After sermon to my Lord. Mr. Edward and I into Gray's Inn walks, and sawmany beauties. So to my father's, where Mr. Cook, W. Bowyer, and my cozRoger Wharton supped and to bed. 

18th. To my Lord's, where much business and some hopes of getting somemoney thereby. With him to the Parliament House, where he did intend tohave gone to have made his appearance to-day, but he met Mr. Crew uponthe stairs, and would not go in. He went to Mrs. Brown's, and staid tillword was brought him what was done in the House. This day they made anend of the twenty men to be excepted from pardon to their estates. By barge to Stepny with my Lord, where at Trinity House we had greatentertainment. With, my Lord there went Sir W. Pen, Sir H. Wright, Hetly, Pierce; Creed, Hill, I and other servants. Back again to theAdmiralty, and so to my Lord's lodgings, where he told me that he didlook after the place of the Clerk of the Acts--[The letters patentappointing Pepys to the office of Clerk of the Acts is dated July 13th, 1660. ]--for me. So to Mr. Crew's and my father's and to bed. My wifewent this day to Huntsmore for her things, and I was very lonely allnight. This evening my wife's brother, Balty, came to me to let me knowhis bad condition and to get a place for him, but I perceive he standsupon a place for a gentleman, that may not stain his family when, Godhelp him, he wants bread. 

19th. Called on betimes by Murford, who showed me five pieces to get abusiness done for him and I am resolved to do it. , Much business at myLord's. This morning my Lord went into the House of Commons, and therehad the thanks of the House, in the name of the Parliament and Commonsof England, for his late service to his King and Country. A motion wasmade for a reward for him, but it was quashed by Mr. Annesly, who, abovemost men, is engaged to my Lord's and Mr. Crew's families. Meeting withCaptain Stoakes at Whitehall, I dined with him and Mr. Gullop, aparson (with whom afterwards I was much offended at his importunity andimpertinence, such another as Elborough), [Thomas Elborough was one of Pepys's schoolfellows, and afterwards curate of St. Lawrence Poultney. ]

and Mr. Butler, who complimented much after the same manner as theparson did. After that towards my Lord's at Mr. Crew's, but was met withby a servant of my Lady Pickering, who took me to her and she told methe story of her husband's case and desired my assistance with my Lord, and did give me, wrapped up in paper, L5 in silver. After that to myLord's, and with him to Whitehall and my Lady Pickering. My Lord wentat night with the King to Baynard's Castle' to supper, and I home to myfather's to bed. My wife and the girl and dog came home to-day. When Icame home I found a quantity of chocolate left for me, I know not fromwhom. We hear of W. Howe being sick to-day, but he was well at night. 

20th. Up by 4 in the morning to write letters to sea and a commissionfor him that Murford solicited for. Called on by Captain Sparling, whodid give me my Dutch money again, and so much as he had changed intoEnglish money, by which my mind was eased of a great deal of trouble. Some other sea captains. I did give them a good morning draught, and soto my Lord (who lay long in bed this day, because he came home late fromsupper with the King). With my Lord to the Parliament House, and, afterthat, with him to General Monk's, where he dined at the Cock-pit. I homeand dined with my wife, now making all things ready there again. Thenceto my Lady Pickering, who did give me the best intelligence about theWardrobe. Afterwards to the Cockpit to my Lord with Mr. Townsend, oneformerly and now again to be employed as Deputy of the Wardrobe. Thenceto the Admiralty, and despatched away Mr. Cooke to sea; whose businesswas a letter from my Lord about Mr. G. Montagu to be chosen asa Parliament-man in my Lord's room at Dover;' and another to theVice-Admiral to give my Lord a constant account of all things in thefleet, merely that he may thereby keep up his power there; anotherletter to Captn. Cuttance to send the barge that brought the King onshore, to Hinchingbroke by Lynne. To my own house, meeting G. Vines, and drank with him at Charing Cross, now the King's Head Tavern. Withmy wife to my father's, where met with Swan, --[William Swan is calleda fanatic and a very rogue in other parts of the Diary. ]--an oldhypocrite, and with him, his friend and my father, and my cozen Scott tothe Bear Tavern. To my father's and to bed. 

21st. To my Lord, much business. With him to the Council Chamber, wherehe was sworn; and the charge of his being admitted Privy Counsellor isL26. To the Dog Tavern at Westminster, where Murford with Captain Curleand two friends of theirs went to drink. Captain Curle, late of theMaria, gave me five pieces in gold and a silver can for my wife for theCommission I did give him this day for his ship, dated April 20, 1660last. Thence to the Parliament door and came to Mr. Crew's to dinnerwith my Lord, and with my Lord to see the great Wardrobe, where Mr. Townsend brought us to the governor of some poor children in tawnyclothes; who had been maintained there these eleven years, which put myLord to a stand how to dispose of them, that he may have the house forhis use. The children did sing finely, and my Lord did bid me give themfive pieces in gold at his going away. Thence back to White Hall, where, the King being gone abroad, my Lord and I walked a great whilediscoursing of the simplicity of the Protector, in his losing all thathis father had left him. My Lord told me, that the last words that heparted with the Protector with (when he went to the Sound), were, thathe should rejoice more to see him in his grave at his return home, thanthat he should give way to such things as were then in hatching, andafterwards did ruin him: and the Protector said, that whatever G. Montagu, my Lord Broghill, Jones, and the Secretary, would have him todo, he would do it, be it what it would. Thence to my wife, meetingMr. Blagrave, who went home with me, and did give me a lesson uponthe flageolet, and handselled my silver can with my wife and me. Tomy father's, where Sir Thomas Honeywood and his family were come of asudden, and so we forced to lie all together in a little chamber, threestories high. 

22d. To my Lord, where much business. With him to White Hall, where theDuke of York not being up, we walked a good while in the Shield Gallery. Mr. Hill (who for these two or three days hath constantly attended myLord) told me of an offer of L500 for a Baronet's dignity, which I toldmy Lord of in the balcone in this gallery, and he said he would think ofit. I to my Lord's and gave order for horses to be got to draw my Lord'sgreat coach to Mr. Crew's. Mr. Morrice the upholsterer came himselfto-day to take notice what furniture we lack for our lodgings atWhitehall. My dear friend Mr. Fuller of Twickenham and I dined alone atthe Sun Tavern, where he told me how he had the grant of being Deanof St. Patrick's, in Ireland; and I told him my condition, and bothrejoiced one for another. Thence to my Lord's, and had the great coachto Brigham's, who went with me to the Half Moon, and gave me a can ofgood julep, and told me how my Lady Monk deals with him and othersfor their places, asking him L500, though he was formerly the King'scoach-maker, and sworn to it. My Lord abroad, and I to my house andset things in a little order there. So with Mr. Moore to my father's, Istaying with Mrs. Turner who stood at her door as I passed. Among otherthings she told me for certain how my old Lady Middlesex----herself theother day in the presence of the King, and people took notice of it. Thence called at my father's, and so to Mr. Crew's, where Mr. Hetley hadsent a letter for me, and two pair of silk stockings, one for W. Howe, and the other for me. To Sir H. Wright's to my Lord, where he, was, andtook direction about business, and so by link home about 11 o'clock. Tobed, the first time since my coming from sea, in my own house, for whichGod be praised. 

23d. By water with Mr. Hill towards my Lord's lodging and so to myLord. With him to Whitehall, where I left him and went to Mr. Holmes todeliver him the horse of Dixwell's that had staid there fourteen days atthe Bell. So to my Lord's lodgings, where Tom Guy came to me, and therestaid to see the King touch people for the King's evil. But he did notcome at all, it rayned so; and the poor people were forced to stand allthe morning in the rain in the garden. Afterward he touched them in theBanquetting-house. 

 [This ceremony is usually traced to Edward the Confessor, but there is no direct evidence of the early Norman kings having touched for the evil. Sir John Fortescue, in his defence of the House of Lancaster against that of York, argued that the crown could not descend to a female, because the Queen is not qualified by the form of anointing her, used at the coronation, to cure the disease called the King's evil. Burn asserts, "History of Parish Registers, " 1862, p. 179, that "between 1660 and 1682, 92, 107 persons were touched for the evil. " Everyone coming to the court for that purpose, brought a certificate signed by the minister and churchwardens, that he had not at any time been touched by His Majesty. The practice was supposed to have expired with the Stuarts, but the point being disputed, reference was made to the library of the Duke of Sussex, and four several Oxford editions of the Book of Common Prayer were found, all printed after the accession of the house of Hanover, and all containing, as an integral part of the service, "The Office for the Healing. " The stamp of gold with which the King crossed the sore of the sick person was called an angel, and of the value of ten shillings. It had a hole bored through it, through which a ribbon was drawn, and the angel was hanged about the patient's neck till the cure was perfected. The stamp has the impression of St. Michael the Archangel on one side, and a ship in full sail on the other. "My Lord Anglesey had a daughter cured of the King's evil with three others on Tuesday. "--MS. Letter of William Greenhill to Lady Bacon, dated December 31st, 1629, preserved at Audley End. Charles II. "touched" before he came to the throne. "It is certain that the King hath very often touched the sick, as well at Breda, where he touched 260 from Saturday the 17 of April to Sunday the 23 of May, as at Bruges and Bruxels, during the residence he made there; and the English assure... It was not without success, since it was the experience that drew thither every day, a great number of those diseased even from the most remote provinces of Germany. "--Sir William Lower's Relation of the Voiage and Residence which Charles the II. Hath made in Holland, Hague, 1660, p. 78. Sir William Lower gives a long account of the touching for the evil by Charles before the Restoration. ]

With my Lord, to my Lord Frezendorfe's, where he dined to-day. Where hetold me that he had obtained a promise of the Clerk of the Acts placefor me, at which I was glad. Met with Mr. Chetwind, and dined with himat Hargrave's, the Cornchandler, in St. Martin's Lane, where a gooddinner, where he showed me some good pictures, and an instrument hecalled an Angelique. 

 [An angelique is described as a species of guitar in Murray's "New English Dictionary, " and this passage from the Diary is given as a quotation. The word appears as angelot in Phillips's "English Dictionary" (1678), and is used in Browning's "Sordello, " as a "plaything of page or girl. "]

With him to London, changing all my Dutch money at Backwell's

 [Alderman Edward Backwell, an eminent banker and goldsmith, who is frequently mentioned in the Diary. His shop was in Lombard Street. He was ruined by the closing of the Exchequer by Charles II. In 1672. The crown then owed him L295, 994 16s. 6d. , in lieu of which the King gave him an annuity of L17, 759 13s. 8d. Backwell retired into Holland after the closing of the Exchequer, and died there in 1679. See Hilton Price's "Handbook of London Bankers, " 1876. ]

for English, and then to Cardinal's Cap, where he and the CityRemembrancer who paid for all. Back to Westminster, where my Lord was, and discoursed with him awhile about his family affairs. So he wentaway, I home and wrote letters into the country, and to bed. 

24th. Sunday. Drank my morning draft at Harper's, and bought a pair ofgloves there. So to Mr. G. Montagu, and told him what I had receivedfrom Dover, about his business likely to be chosen there. So home andthence with my wife towards my father's. She went thither, I to Mr. Crew's, where I dined and my Lord at my Lord Montagu of Boughton inLittle Queen Street. In the afternoon to Mr. Mossum's with Mr. Moore, and we sat in Mr. Butler's pew. Then to Whitehall looking for my Lordbut in vain, and back again to Mr. Crew's where I found him and did givehim letters. Among others some simple ones from our Lieutenant, Lieut. Lambert to him and myself, which made Mr. Crew and us all laugh. I wentto my father's to tell him that I would not come to supper, and so aftermy business done at Mr. Crew's I went home and my wife within a littlewhile after me, my mind all this while full of thoughts for my place ofClerk of the Acts. 

25th. With my Lord at White Hall, all the morning. I spoke with Mr. Coventry about my business, who promised me all the assistance I couldexpect. Dined with young Mr. Powell, lately come from the Sound, beingamused at our great changes here, and Mr. Southerne, now Clerk to Mr. Coventry, at the Leg in King-street. Thence to the Admiralty, where Imet with Mr. Turner

 [Thomas Turner (or Tourner) was General Clerk at the Navy Office, and on June 30th he offered Pepys L150 to be made joint Clerk of the Acts with him. In a list of the Admiralty officers just before the King came in, preserved in the British Museum, there occur, Richard Hutchinson; Treasury of the Navy, salary L1500; Thomas Tourner, General Clerk, for himself and clerk, L100. ]

of the Navy-office, who did look after the place of Clerk of the Acts. He was very civil to me, and I to him, and shall be so. There camea letter from my Lady Monk to my Lord about it this evening, but herefused to come to her, but meeting in White Hall, with Sir ThomasClarges, her brother, my Lord returned answer, that he could not desistin my business; and that he believed that General Monk would take itill if my Lord should name the officers in his army; and therefore hedesired to have the naming of one officer in the fleet. With my Lord bycoach to Mr. Crew's, and very merry by the way, discoursing of the latechanges and his good fortune. Thence home, and then with my wife toDorset House, to deliver a list of the names of the justices of thepeace for Huntingdonshire. By coach, taking Mr. Fox part of the way withme, that was with us with the King on board the Nazeby, who I foundto have married Mrs. Whittle, that lived at Mr. Geer's so long. A verycivil gentleman. At Dorset House I met with Mr. Kipps, my old friend, with whom the world is well changed, he being now sealbearer to the LordChancellor, at which my wife and I are well pleased, he being a verygood natured man. Home and late writing letters. Then to my Lord'slodging, this being the first night of his coming to Whitehall to liesince his coming from sea. 

26th. My Lord dined at his lodgings all alone to-day. I went toSecretary Nicholas

 [Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to Charles I. And II. He was dismissed from his office through the intrigues of Lady Castlemaine in 1663. He died 1669, aged seventy-seven. ]

to carry him my Lord's resolutions about his title, which he had chosen, and that is Portsmouth. 

 [Montagu changed his mind, and ultimately took his title from the town of Sandwich, leaving that of Portsmouth for the use of a King's mistress. ]

I met with Mr. Throgmorton, a merchant, who went with me to the oldThree Tuns, at Charing Cross, who did give me five pieces of gold for todo him a small piece of service about a convoy to Bilbo, which I did. Inthe afternoon, one Mr. Watts came to me, a merchant, to offer me L500 ifI would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place. I pray God direct me inwhat I do herein. Went to my house, where I found my father, and carriedhim and my wife to Whitefriars, and myself to Puddlewharf, tothe Wardrobe, to Mr. Townsend, who went with me to Backwell, thegoldsmith's, and there we chose L100 worth of plate for my Lord to giveSecretary Nicholas. Back and staid at my father's, and so home to bed. 

27th. With my Lord to the Duke, where he spoke to Mr. Coventry todespatch my business of the Acts, in which place every body gives mejoy, as if I were in it, which God send. 

 [The letters patent, dated July 13th, 12 Charles II. , recite and revoke letters patent of February 16th, 14 Charles I. , whereby the office of Clerk of the Ships had been given to Dennis Fleming and Thomas Barlow, or the survivor. D. F. Was then dead, but T. B. Living, and Samuel Pepys was appointed in his room, at a salary of L33 6s. 8d. Per annum, with 3s. 4d. For each day employed in travelling, and L6 per annum for boathire, and all fees due. This salary was only the ancient "fee out of the Exchequer, " which had been attached to the office for more than a century. Pepys's salary had been previously fixed at L350 a year. ]

Dined with my Lord and all the officers of his regiment, who invited myLord and his friends, as many as he would bring, to dinner, at the Swan, at Dowgate, a poor house and ill dressed, but very good fish and plenty. Here Mr. Symons, the Surgeon, told me how he was likely to lose hisestate that he had bought, at which I was not a little pleased. ToWestminster, and with Mr. Howe by coach to the Speaker's, where my Lordsupped with the King, but I could not get in. So back again, and aftera song or two in my chamber in the dark, which do (now that the bed isout) sound very well, I went home and to bed. 

28th. My brother Tom came to me with patterns to choose for a suit. I paid him all to this day, and did give him L10 upon account. To Mr. Coventry, who told me that he would do me all right in my business. ToSir G. Downing, the first visit I have made him since he came. He isso stingy a fellow I care not to see him; I quite cleared myself of hisoffice, and did give him liberty to take any body in. Hawly and he areparted too, he is going to serve Sir Thos. Ingram. I went also thismorning to see Mrs. Pierce, the chirurgeon['s wife]. I found her in bedin her house in Margaret churchyard. Her husband returned to sea. I didinvite her to go to dinner with me and my wife to-day. After all this tomy Lord, who lay a-bed till eleven o'clock, it being almost five beforehe went to bed, they supped so late last night with the King. Thismorning I saw poor Bishop Wren

 [Matthew Wren, born 1585, successively Bishop of Hereford, Norwich, and Ely. At the commencement of the Rebellion he was sent to the Tower, and remained a prisoner there eighteen years. Died April 24th, 1667. ]

going to Chappel, it being a thanksgiving-day

 ["A Proclamation for setting apart a day of Solemn and Publick Thanksgiving throughout the whole Kingdom, " dated June 5th, 1660. ]

for the King's return. After my Lord was awake, I went up to him to theNursery, where he do lie, and, having talked with him a little, I tookleave and carried my wife and Mrs. Pierce to Clothworkers'-Hall, todinner, where Mr. Pierce, the Purser, met us. We were invited by Mr. Chaplin, the Victualler, where Nich. Osborne was. Our entertainment verygood, a brave hall, good company, and very good music. Where among otherthings I was pleased that I could find out a man by his voice, whom Ihad never seen before, to be one that sang behind the curtaineformerly at Sir W. Davenant's opera. Here Dr. Gauden and Mr. Gauden thevictualler dined with us. After dinner to Mr. Rawlinson's, [Daniel Rawlinson kept the Mitre in Fenchurch Street, and there is a farthing token of his extant, "At the Mitetr in Fenchurch Streete, D. M. R. " The initials stand for Daniel and Margaret Rawlinson (see "Boyne's Trade Tokens, " ed. Williamson, vol. I. , 1889, p. 595) In "Reliquiae Hearnianae" (ed. Bliss, 1869, vol. Ii. P. 39) is the following extract from Thomas Rawlinson's Note Book R. : "Of Daniel Rawlinson, my grandfather, who kept the Mitre tavern in Fenchurch Street, and of whose being sequestred in the Rump time I have heard much, the Whiggs tell this, that upon the king's murder he hung his signe in mourning. He certainly judged right. The honour of the Mitre was much eclipsed through the loss of so good a parent of the church of England. These rogues say, this endeared him so much to the churchmen that he soon throve amain and got a good estate. " Mrs. Rawlinson died of the plague (see August 9th, 1666), and the house was burnt in the Great Fire. Mr. Rawlinson rebuilt the Mitre, and he had the panels of the great room painted with allegorical figures by Isaac Fuller. Daniel was father of Sir Thomas Rawlinson, of whom Thomas Hearne writes (October 1st, 1705): "Sir Thomas Rawlinson is chosen Lord Mayor of London for ye ensueing notwithstanding the great opposition of ye Whigg party" (Hearne's "Collections, " ed. Doble, 1885, vol. I. P. 51). The well-known antiquaries, Thomas and Richard Rawlinson, sons of Sir Thomas, were therefore grandsons of Daniel. ]

to see him and his wife, and would have gone to my Aunt Wight, but thather only child, a daughter, died last night. Home and to my Lord, whosupped within, and Mr. E. Montagu, Mr. Thos. Crew, and others with himsat up late. I home and to bed. 

29th. This day or two my maid Jane--[Jane Wayneman. ]--has been lame, that we cannot tell what to do for want of her. Up and to White Hall, where I got my warrant from the Duke to be Clerk of the Acts. Also Igot my Lord's warrant from the Secretary for his honour of Earle ofPortsmouth, and Viscount Montagu of Hinchingbroke. So to my Lord, togive him an account of what I had done. Then to Sir Geffery Palmer, togive them to him to have bills drawn upon them, who told me that my Lordmust have some good Latinist to make the preamble to his Patent, whichmust express his late service in the best terms that he can, and he toldme in what high flaunting terms Sir J. Greenville had caused his tobe done, which he do not like; but that Sir Richard Fanshawe had doneGeneral Monk's very well. Back to Westminster, and meeting Mr. Townsendin the Palace, he and I and another or two went and dined at the Legthere. Then to White Hall, where I was told by Mr. Hutchinson at theAdmiralty, that Mr. Barlow, my predecessor, Clerk of the Acts, is yetalive, and coming up to town to look after his place, which made myheart sad a little. At night told my Lord thereof, and he bade me getpossession of my Patent; and he would do all that could be done to keephim out. This night my Lord and I looked over the list of the Captains, . And marked some that my Lord had a mind to have put out. Home and tobed. Our wench very lame, abed these two days. 

30th. By times to Sir R. Fanshawe to draw up the preamble to my Lord'sPatent. So to my Lord, and with him to White Hall, where I saw a greatmany fine antique heads of marble, that my Lord Northumberland had giventhe King. Here meeting with Mr. De Cretz, he looked over many of thepieces, in the gallery with me and told me [by] whose hands they were, with great pleasure. Dined at home and Mr. Hawly with me upon six of mypigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill here. This day came Will, [William Wayneman was constantly getting into trouble, and Pepys had to cane him. He was dismissed on July 7th, 1663. ]

my boy, to me; the wench continuing lame, so that my wife could not belonger without somebody to help her. In the afternoon with Sir EdwardWalker, at his lodgings by St. Giles Church, for my Lord's pedigree, andcarried it to Sir R. Fanshawe. To Mr. Crew's, and there took money andpaid Mrs. Anne, Mrs. Jemima's maid, off quite, and so she went away andanother came to her. To White Hall with Mr. Moore, where I met witha letter from Mr. Turner, offering me L150 to be joined with me in mypatent, and to advise me how to improve the advantage of my place, andto keep off Barlow. To my Lord's till late at night, and so home. 

JULY 1660

July 1st. This morning came home my fine Camlett cloak, [Camlet was a mixed stuff of wool and silk. It was very expensive, and later Pepys gave L24 for a suit. (See June 1st, 1664. )]

with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I prayGod to make me able to pay for it. I went to the cook's and got a goodjoint of meat, and my wife and I dined at home alone. In the afternoonto the Abbey, where a good sermon by a stranger, but no Common Prayeryet. After sermon called in at Mrs. Crisp's, where I saw Mynheer Roder, that is to marry Sam Hartlib's sister, a great fortune for her tolight on, she being worth nothing in the world. Here I also saw Mrs. Greenlife, who is come again to live in Axe Yard with her new husbandMr. Adams. Then to my Lord's, where I staid a while. So to see for Mr. Creed to speak about getting a copy of Barlow's patent. To my Lord's, where late at night comes Mr. Morland, whom I left prating with my Lord, and so home. 

2nd. Infinite of business that my heart and head and all were full. Metwith purser Washington, with whom and a lady, a friend of his, I dinedat the Bell Tavern in King Street, but the rogue had no more mannersthan to invite me and to let me pay my club. All the afternoon with myLord, going up and down the town; at seven at night he went home, andthere the principal Officers of the Navy, [A list of the Officers of the Admiralty, May 31st, 1660. From a MS. In the Pepysian Library in Pepys's own handwriting. His Royal Highness James, Duke of York, Lord High Admiral. Sir George Carteret, Treasurer. Sir Robert Slingsby, (soon after) Comptroller. Sir William Batten, Surveyor. Samuel Pepys, Esq. , Clerk of the Acts. 

 John, Lord Berkeley (of Stratton, )| Sir William Penn, | Commissioners. Peter Pett, Esq. --B, ] |

among the rest myself was reckoned one. We had order to meet to-morrow, to draw up such an order of the Council as would put us into actionbefore our patents were passed. At which my heart was glad. At nightsupped with my Lord, he and I together, in the great dining-room aloneby ourselves, the first time I ever did it in London. Home to bed, mymaid pretty well again. 

3d. All the morning the Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, we metat Sir G. Carteret's

 [Sir George Carteret, born 1599, had originally been bred to the sea service, and became Comptroller of the Navy to Charles I. , and Governor of Jersey, where he obtained considerable reputation by his gallant defence of that island against the Parliament forces. At the Restoration he was made Vice-Chamberlain to the King, Treasurer of the Navy, and a Privy Councillor, and in 1661 he was elected M. P. For Portsmouth. In 1666 he exchanged the Treasurership of the Navy with the Earl of Anglesea for the Vice-Treasurership of Ireland. He became a Commissioner of the Admiralty in 1673. He continued in favour with Charles II. Till his death, January 14th, 1679, in his eightieth year. He married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Carteret, Knight of St. Ouen, and had issue three sons and five daughters. ]

chamber, and agreed upon orders for the Council to supersede the oldones, and empower us to act. Dined with Mr. Stephens, the Treasurer'sman of the Navy, and Mr. Turner, to whom I offered L50 out of my ownpurse for one year, and the benefit of a Clerk's allowance beside, whichhe thanked me for; but I find he hath some design yet in his head, whichI could not think of. In the afternoon my heart was quite pulled down, by being told that Mr. Barlow was to enquire to-day for Mr. Coventry;but at night I met with my Lord, who told me that I need not fear, forhe would get me the place against the world. And when I came to W. Howe, he told me that Dr. Petty had been with my Lord, and did tell himthat Barlow was a sickly man, and did not intend to execute the placehimself, which put me in great comfort again. Till 2 in the morningwriting letters and things for my Lord to send to sea. So home to mywife to bed. 

4th. Up very early in the morning and landing my wife at White Friarsstairs, I went to the Bridge and so to the Treasurer's of the Navy, withwhom I spake about the business of my office, who put me into very goodhopes of my business. At his house comes Commissioner Pett, and he and Iwent to view the houses in Seething Lane, belonging to the Navy, [The Navy Office was erected on the site of Lumley House, formerly belonging to the Fratres Sancta Crucis (or Crutched Friars), and all business connected with naval concerns was transacted there till its removal to Somerset House. --The ground was afterwards occupied by the East India Company's warehouses. The civil business of the Admiralty was removed from Somerset House to Spring Gardens in 1869. ]

where I find the worst very good, and had great fears in my mind thatthey will shuffle me out of them, which troubles me. From thence to theExcise Office in Broad Street, where I received L500 for my Lord, byappointment of the Treasurer, and went afterwards down with Mr. Luddyardand drank my morning draft with him and other officers. Thence to Mr. Backewell's, the goldsmith, where I took my Lord's L100 in plate for Mr. Secretary Nicholas, and my own piece of plate, being a state dish andcup in chased work for Mr. Coventry, cost me above L19. Carried theseand the money by coach to my Lord's at White Hall, and from thencecarried Nicholas's plate to his house and left it there, intendingto speak with him anon. So to Westminster Hall, where meeting with M. L'Impertinent and W. Bowyer, I took them to the Sun Tavern, and gavethem a lobster and some wine, and sat talking like a fool till 4o'clock. So to my Lord's, and walking all the afternoon in White HallCourt, in expectation of what shall be done in the Council as to ourbusiness. It was strange to see how all the people flocked togetherbare, to see the King looking out of the Council window. At night myLord told me how my orders that I drew last night about giving us powerto act, are granted by the Council. At which he and I were very glad. Home and to bed, my boy lying in my house this night the first time. 

5th. This morning my brother Tom brought me my jackanapes coat withsilver buttons. It rained this morning, which makes us fear that theglory of this great day will be lost; the King and Parliament being tobe entertained by the City to-day with great pomp. 

 ["July 5th. His Majesty, the two Dukes, the House of Lords, and the House of Commons, and the Privy Council, dined at the Guildhall. Every Hall appeared with their colours and streamers to attend His Majesty; the Masters in gold chains. Twelve pageants in the streets between Temple Bar and Guildhall. Forty brace of bucks were that day spent in the City of London. "--Rugge's Diurnal. --B. ]

Mr. Hater' was with me to-day, and I agreed with him to be my clerk. 

 [Thomas Hayter. He remained with Pepys for some time; and by his assistance was made Petty Purveyor of Petty Missions. He succeeded Pepys as Clerk of the Acts in 1673, and in 1679 he was Secretary of the Admiralty, and Comptroller of the Navy from 1680 to 1682. ]

Being at White Hall, I saw the King, the Dukes, and all their attendantsgo forth in the rain to the City, and it bedraggled many a fine suit ofclothes. I was forced to walk all the morning in White Hall, not knowinghow to get out because of the rain. Met with Mr. Cooling, my LordChamberlain's secretary, who took me to dinner among the gentlemenwaiters, and after dinner into the wine-cellar. He told me how he hada project for all us Secretaries to join together, and get money bybringing all business into our hands. Thence to the Admiralty, where Mr. Blackburne and I (it beginning to hold up) went and walked an hour ortwo in the Park, he giving of me light in many things in my way in thisoffice that I go about. And in the evening I got my present of platecarried to Mr. Coventry's. At my Lord's at night comes Dr. Petty to me, to tell me that Barlow had come to town, and other things, which put meinto a despair, and I went to bed very sad. 

6th. In the morning with my Lord at Whitehall, got the order of theCouncil for us to act. From thence to Westminster Hall, and there metwith the Doctor that shewed us so much kindness at the Hague, and tookhim to the Sun tavern, and drank with him. So to my Lord's and dinedwith W. Howe and Sarah, thinking it might be the last time that Imight dine with them together. In the afternoon my Lord and I, andMr. Coventry and Sir G. Carteret, went and took possession of the NavyOffice, whereby my mind was a little cheered, but my hopes not great. From thence Sir G. Carteret and I to the Treasurer's Office, where heset some things in order. And so home, calling upon Sir Geoffry Palmer, who did give me advice about my patent, which put me to some doubt toknow what to do, Barlow being alive. Afterwards called at Mr. Pim's, about getting me a coat of velvet, and he took me to the Half Moon, andthe house so full that we staid above half an hour before we could getanything. So to my Lord's, where in the dark W. Howe and I did singextemporys, and I find by use that we are able to sing a bass and atreble pretty well. So home, and to bed. 

7th. To my Lord, one with me to buy a Clerk's place, and I did demandL100. To the Council Chamber, where I took an order for the advance ofthe salaries of the officers of the Navy, and I find mine to be raisedto L350 per annum. Thence to the Change, where I bought two fine printsof Ragotti from Rubens, and afterwards dined with my Uncle and AuntWight, where her sister Cox and her husband were. After that to Mr. Rawlinson's with my uncle, and thence to the Navy Office, where I beganto take an inventory of the papers, and goods, and books of the office. To my Lord's, late writing letters. So home to bed. 

8th (Lord's day). To White Hall chapel, where I got in with ease bygoing before the Lord Chancellor with Mr. Kipps. Here I heard very goodmusic, the first time that ever I remember to have heard the organs andsinging-men in surplices in my life. 

 [During the Commonwealth organs were destroyed all over the country, and the following is the title of the Ordinances under which this destruction took place: "Two Ordinances of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the speedy demolishing of all organs, images, and all matters of superstitious monuments in all Cathedrals and Collegiate or Parish Churches and Chapels throughout the Kingdom of England and the dominion of Wales; the better to accomplish the blessed reformation so happily begun, and to remove all offences and things illegal in the worship of God. Dated May 9th, 1644. " When at the period of the Restoration music again obtained its proper place in the services of the Church, there was much work for the organ builders. According to Dr. Rimbault ("Hopkins on the Organ, " 1855, p. 74), it was more than fifty years after the Restoration when our parish churches began commonly to be supplied with organs. Drake says, in his "Eboracum" (published in 1733), that at that date only one parish church in the city of York possessed an organ. Bernard Schmidt, better known as "Father Smith, " came to England from Germany at the time of the Restoration, and he it was who built the organ at the Chapel Royal. He was in high favour with Charles II. , who allowed, him apartments in Whitehall Palace. ]

The Bishop of Chichester preached before the King, and made a greatflattering sermon, which I did not like that Clergy should meddle withmatters of state. Dined with Mr. Luellin and Salisbury at a cook's shop. Home, and staid all the afternoon with my wife till after sermon. Theretill Mr. Fairebrother came to call us out to my father's to supper. Hetold me how he had perfectly procured me to be made Master in Arts byproxy, which did somewhat please me, though I remember my cousin RogerPepys was the other day persuading me from it. While we were at suppercame Win. Howe to supper to us, and after supper went home to bed. 

9th. All the morning at Sir G. Palmer's advising about getting my billdrawn. From thence to the Navy office, where in the afternoon we met andsat, and there I begun to sign bills in the Office the first time. Fromthence Captain Holland and Mr. Browne of Harwich took me to a tavern anddid give me a collation. From thence to the Temple to further my billsbeing done, and so home to my Lord, and thence to bed. 

10th. This day I put on first my new silk suit, the first that ever Iwore in my life. This morning came Nan Pepys' husband Mr. Hall to seeme being lately come to town. I had never seen him before. I took him tothe Swan tavern with Mr. Eglin and there drank our morning draft. Home, and called my wife, and took her to Dr. Clodius's to a great wedding ofNan Hartlib to Mynheer Roder, which was kept at Goring House with verygreat state, cost, and noble company. But, among all the beauties there, my wife was thought the greatest. After dinner I left the company, andcarried my wife to Mrs. Turner's. I went to the Attorney-General's, andhad my bill which cost me seven pieces. I called my wife, and set herhome. And finding my Lord in White Hall garden, I got him to go to theSecretary's, which he did, and desired the dispatch of his and my billsto be signed by the King. His bill is to be Earl of Sandwich, ViscountHinchingbroke, and Baron of St. Neot's. 

 [The motive for Sir Edward Montagu's so suddenly altering his intended title is not explained; probably, the change was adopted as a compliment to the town of Sandwich, off which the Fleet was lying before it sailed to bring Charles from Scheveling. Montagu had also received marked attentions from Sir John Boys and other principal men at Sandwich; and it may be recollected, as an additional reason, that one or both of the seats for that borough have usually been placed at the disposal of the Admiralty. The title of Portsmouth was given, in 1673, for her life, to the celebrated Louise de Querouaille, and becoming extinct with her, was, in 1743, conferred upon John Wallop, Viscount Lymington, the ancestor of the present Earl of Portsmouth. --B. ]

Home, with my mind pretty quiet: not returning, as I said I would, tosee the bride put to bed. 

11th. With Sir W. Pen by water to the Navy office, where we met, anddispatched business. And that being done, we went all to dinner to theDolphin, upon Major Brown's invitation. After that to the office again, where I was vexed, and so was Commissioner Pett, to see a busy fellowcome to look out the best lodgings for my Lord Barkley, and thecombining between him and Sir W. Pen; and, indeed, was troubled muchat it. Home to White Hall, and took out my bill signed by the King, andcarried it to Mr. Watkins of the Privy Seal to be despatched there, andgoing home to take a cap, I borrowed a pair of sheets of Mr. Howe, andby coach went to the Navy office, and lay (Mr. Hater, my clerk, with me)at Commissioner Willoughby's' house, where I was received by him verycivilly and slept well. 

12th. Up early and by coach to White Hall with Commissioner Pett, where, after we had talked with my Lord, I went to the Privy Seal and got mybill perfected there, and at the Signet: and then to the House of Lords, and met with Mr. Kipps, who directed me to Mr. Beale to get my patentengrossed; but he not having time to get it done in Chancery-hand, I wasforced to run all up and down Chancery-lane, and the Six Clerks' Office

 [The Six Clerks' Office was in Chancery Lane, near the Holborn end. The business of the office was to enrol commissions, pardons, patents, warrants, &c. , that had passed the Great Seal; also other business in Chancery. In the early history of the Court of Chancery, the Six Clerks and their under-clerks appear to have acted as the attorneys of the suitors. As business increased, these under-clerks became a distinct body, and were recognized by the court under the denomination of 'sworn clerks, ' or 'clerks in court. ' The advance of commerce, with its consequent accession of wealth, so multiplied the subjects requiring the judgment of a Court of Equity, that the limits of a public office were found wholly inadequate to supply a sufficient number of officers to conduct the business of the suitors. Hence originated the 'Solicitors' of the "Court of Chancery. " See Smith's "Chancery Practice, " p. 62, 3rd edit. The "Six Clerks" were abolished by act of Parliament, 5 Vict. C. 5. ]

but could find none that could write the hand, that were at leisure. And so in a despair went to the Admiralty, where we met the first timethere, my Lord Montagu, my Lord Barkley, Mr. Coventry, and all therest of the principal Officers and Commissioners, [except] only theController, who is not yet chosen. At night to Mr. Kipps's lodgings, butnot finding him, I went to Mr. Spong's and there I found him and got himto come to me to my Lord's lodgings at 11 o'clock of night, when I gothim to take my bill to write it himself (which was a great providencethat he could do it) against to-morrow morning. I late writing lettersto sea by the post, and so home to bed. In great trouble because I heardat Mr. Beale's to-day that Barlow had been there and said that he wouldmake a stop in the business. 

13th. Up early, the first day that I put on my black camlett coat withsilver buttons. To Mr. Spong, whom I found in his night-down writingof my patent, and he had done as far as he could "for that &c. " by8 o'clock. It being done, we carried it to Worcester House to theChancellor, where Mr. Kipps (a strange providence that he should now bein a condition to do me a kindness, which I never thought him capable ofdoing for me), got me the Chancellor's recepi to my bill; and so carriedit to Mr. Beale for a dockett; but he was very angry, and unwilling todo it, because he said it was ill writ (because I had got it writ byanother hand, and not by him); but by much importunity I got Mr. Spongto go to his office and make an end of my patent; and in the mean timeMr. Beale to be preparing my dockett, which being done, I did give himtwo pieces, after which it was strange how civil and tractable he wasto me. From thence I went to the Navy office, where we despatched muchbusiness, and resolved of the houses for the Officers and Commissioners, which I was glad of, and I got leave to have a door made me into theleads. From thence, much troubled in mind about my patent, I went to Mr. Beale again, who had now finished my patent and made it ready for theSeal, about an hour after I went to meet him at the Chancellor's. SoI went away towards Westminster, and in my way met with Mr. Spong, andwent with him to Mr. Lilly and ate some bread and cheese, and drank withhim, who still would be giving me council of getting my patent out, for fear of another change, and my Lord Montagu's fall. After that toWorcester House, where by Mr. Kipps's means, and my pressing in GeneralMontagu's name to the Chancellor, I did, beyond all expectation, get myseal passed; and while it was doing in one room, I was forced to keepSir G. Carteret (who by chance met me there, ignorant of my business) intalk, while it was a doing. Went home and brought my wife with me intoLondon, and some money, with which I paid Mr. Beale L9 in all, and tookmy patent of him and went to my wife again, whom I had left in a coachat the door of Hinde Court, and presented her with my patent at whichshe was overjoyed; so to the Navy office, and showed her my house, andwere both mightily pleased at all things there, and so to my business. So home with her, leaving her at her mother's door. I to my Lord's, where I dispatched an order for a ship to fetch Sir R. Honywood home, for which I got two pieces of my Lady Honywood by young Mr. Powell. Latewriting letters; and great doings of music at the next house, which wasWhally's; the King and Dukes there with Madame Palmer, [Barbara Villiers, only child of William, second Viscount Grandison, born November, 1640, married April 14th, 1659, to Roger Palmer, created Earl of Castlemaine, 1661. She became the King's mistress soon after the Restoration, and was in 1670 made Baroness Nonsuch, Countess of Southampton, and Duchess of Cleveland. She had six children by the King, one of them being created Duke of Grafton, and the eldest son succeeding her as Duke of Cleveland. She subsequently married Beau Fielding, whom she prosecuted for bigamy. She died October 9th, 1709, aged sixty-nine. Her life was written by G. Steinman Steinman, and privately printed 1871, with addenda 1874, and second addenda 1878. ]

a pretty woman that they have a fancy to, to make her husband a cuckold. Here at the old door that did go into his lodgings, my Lord, I, and W. Howe, did stand listening a great while to the music. After that home tobed. This day I should have been at Guildhall to have borne witness formy brother Hawly against Black Collar, but I could not, at which I wastroubled. To bed with the greatest quiet of mind that I have had agreat while, having ate nothing but a bit of bread and cheese at Lilly'sto-day, and a bit of bread and butter after I was a-bed. 

14th. Up early and advised with my wife for the putting of all ourthings in a readiness to be sent to our new house. To my Lord's, wherehe was in bed very late. So with Major Tollhurst and others to Harper's, and I sent for my barrel of pickled oysters and there ate them; while wewere doing so, comes in Mr. Pagan Fisher; the poet, and promises me whathe had long ago done, a book in praise of the King of France, with myarmes, and a dedication to me very handsome. After him comes Mr. Sheplycome from sea yesterday, whom I was glad to see that he may ease me ofthe trouble of my Lord's business. So to my Lord's, where I staid doinghis business and taking his commands. After that to Westminster Hall, where I paid all my debts in order to my going away from hence. Here Imet with Mr. Eglin, who would needs take me to the Leg in KingStreet and gave me a dish of meat to dinner; and so I sent for Mons. L'Impertinent, where we sat long and were merry. After that parted, andI took Mr. Butler [Mons. L'Impertinent] with me into London by coachand shewed him my house at the Navy Office, and did give order for thelaying in coals. So into Fenchurch Street, and did give him a glass ofwine at Rawlinson's, and was trimmed in the street. So to my Lord's latewriting letters, and so home, where I found my wife had packed up allher goods in the house fit for a removal. So to bed. 

15th. Lay long in bed to recover my rest. Going forth met with Mr. Sheply, and went and drank my morning draft with him at Wilkinson's, and my brother Spicer. --[Jack Spicer, brother clerk of the PrivySeal. ]--After that to Westminster Abbey, and in Henry the Seventh'sChappell heard part of a sermon, the first that ever I heard there. Tomy Lord's and dined all alone at the table with him. After dinner he andI alone fell to discourse, and I find him plainly to be a sceptic in allthings of religion, and to make no great matter of anything therein, butto be a perfect Stoic. In the afternoon to Henry the Seventh's Chappell, where I heard service and a sermon there, and after that meeting W. Bowyer there, he and I to the Park, and walked a good while till night. So to Harper's and drank together, and Captain Stokes came to us and soI fell into discourse of buying paper at the first hand in my office, and the Captain promised me to buy it for me in France. After that tomy Lord's lodgings, where I wrote some business and so home. My wifeat home all the day, she having no clothes out, all being packed upyesterday. For this month I have wholly neglected anything of news, andso have beyond belief been ignorant how things go, but now by my patentmy mind is in some quiet, which God keep. I was not at my father'sto-day, I being afraid to go for fear he should still solicit me tospeak to my Lord for a place in the Wardrobe, which I dare not do, because of my own business yet. My wife and I mightily pleased with ournew house that we hope to have. My patent has cost me a great deal ofmoney, about L40, which is the only thing at present which do troubleme much. In the afternoon to Henry the Seventh's chapel, where I hearda sermon and spent (God forgive me) most of my time in looking upon Mrs. Butler. After that with W. Bowyer to walk in the Park. Afterwards tomy Lord's lodgings, and so home to bed, having not been at my father'sto-day. 

16th, This morning it proved very rainy weather so that I could notremove my goods to my house. I to my office and did business there, andso home, it being then sunrise, but by the time that I got to my houseit began to rain again, so that I could not carry my goods by cart as Iwould have done. After that to my Lord's and so home and to bed. 

17th. This morning (as indeed all the mornings nowadays) much businessat my Lord's. There came to my house before I went out Mr. Barlow, anold consumptive man, and fair conditioned, with whom I did discourse agreat while, and after much talk I did grant him what he asked, viz. , L50 per annum, if my salary be not increased, and (100 per annum, incase it be to L350), at which he was very well pleased to be paid as Ireceived my money and not otherwise. Going to my Lord's I found my Lordhad got a great cold and kept his bed, and so I brought him to my Lord'sbedside, and he and I did agree together to this purpose what I shouldallow him. That done and the day proving fair I went home and got all mygoods packed up and sent away, and my wife and I and Mrs. Hunt went bycoach, overtaking the carts a-drinking in the Strand. Being come to myhouse and set in the goods, and at night sent my wife and Mrs. Hunt tobuy something for supper; they bought a Quarter of Lamb, and so we ateit, but it was not half roasted. Will, Mr. Blackburne's nephew, is soobedient, that I am greatly glad of him. At night he and I and Mrs. Hunthome by water to Westminster. I to my Lord, and after having done somebusiness with him in his chamber in the Nursery, which has been nowhis chamber since he came from sea, I went on foot with a linkboy to myhome, where I found my wife in bed and Jane washing the house, and Willthe boy sleeping, and a great deal of sport I had before I could wakehim. I to bed the first night that I ever lay here with my wife. 

18th. This morning the carpenter made an end of my door out of mychamber upon the leads. 

This morning we met at the office: I dined at my house in Seething Lane, and after that, going about 4 o'clock to Westminster, I met with Mr. Carter and Mr. Cooke coming to see me in a coach, and so I returnedhome. I did also meet with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, with a porter withhim, with a barrel of Lemons, which my man Burr sends me from sea. Itook all these people home to my house and did give them some drink, and after them comes Mr. Sheply, and after a little stay we all went bywater to Westminster as far as the New Exchange. Thence to my Lordabout business, and being in talk in comes one with half a buck fromHinchinbroke, and it smelling a little strong my Lord did give it me(though it was as good as any could be). I did carry it to my mother, where I had not been a great while, and indeed had no great mind to go, because my father did lay upon me continually to do him a kindness atthe Wardrobe, which I could not do because of my own business being sofresh with my Lord. But my father was not at home, and so I did leavethe venison with her to dispose of as she pleased. After that home, where W. Hewer now was, and did lie this night with us, the first night. My mind very quiet, only a little trouble I have for the great debtswhich I have still upon me to the Secretary, Mr. Kipps, and Mr. Spongfor my patent. 

19th. I did lie late a-bed. I and my wife by water, landed her atWhitefriars with her boy with an iron of our new range which is alreadybroke and my wife will have changed, and many other things she has tobuy with the help of my father to-day. I to my Lord and found him inbed. This day I received my commission to swear people the oath ofallegiance and supremacy delivered me by my Lord. After talk with myLord I went to Westminster Hall, where I took Mr. Michell and his wife, and Mrs. Murford we sent for afterwards, to the Dog Tavern, where I didgive them a dish of anchovies and olives and paid for all, and did talkof our old discourse when we did use to talk of the King, in the time ofthe Rump, privately; after that to the Admiralty Office, in White Hall, where I staid and writ my last observations for these four dayslast past. Great talk of the difference between the Episcopal andPresbyterian Clergy, but I believe it will come to nothing. So home andto bed. 

20th. We sat at the office this morning, Sir W. Batten and Mr. Pettbeing upon a survey to Chatham. This morning I sent my wife to myfather's and he is to give me L5 worth of pewter. After we rose at theoffice, I went to my father's, where my Uncle Fenner and all his crewand Captain Holland and his wife and my wife were at dinner at a venisonpasty of the venison that I did give my mother the other day. I did thistime show so much coldness to W. Joyce that I believe all the table tooknotice of it. After that to Westminster about my Lord's business and sohome, my Lord having not been well these two or three days, and I hearthat Mr. Barnwell at Hinchinbroke is fallen sick again. Home and to bed. 

21st. This morning Mr. Barlow had appointed for me to bring him whatform I would have the agreement between him and me to pass, which I didto his lodgings at the Golden Eagle in the new street--[Still retainsthe name New Street. ]--between Fetter Lane and Shoe Lane, where he likedit very well, and I from him went to get Mr. Spong to engross it induplicates. To my Lord and spoke to him about the business of the PrivySeal for me to be sworn, though I got nothing by it, but to do Mr. Moore a kindness, which he did give me a good answer to. Went to the SixClerks' office to Mr. Spong for the writings, and dined with him at aclub at the next door, where we had three voices to sing catches. Soto my house to write letters and so to Whitehall about business of myLord's concerning his creation, --[As Earl of Sandwich. ]--and so home andto bed. 

22nd. Lord's day. All this last night it had rained hard. My brother Tomcame this morning the first time to see me, and I paid him all that Iowe my father to this day. Afterwards I went out and looked into severalchurches, and so to my uncle Fenner's, whither my wife was got beforeme, and we, my father and mother, and all the Joyces, and my aunt Bell, whom I had not seen many a year before. After dinner to White Hall (mywife to church with K. Joyce), where I find my Lord at home, and walkedin the garden with him, he showing me all the respect that can be. Ileft him and went to walk in the Park, where great endeavouring to getinto the inward Park, --[This is still railed off from St. James's Park, and called the Enclosure. ]--but could not get in; one man was basted bythe keeper, for carrying some people over on his back through the water. Afterwards to my Lord's, where I staid and drank with Mr. Sheply, havingfirst sent to get a pair of oars. It was the first time that ever I wentby water on the Lord's day. Home, and at night had a chapter read; andI read prayers out of the Common Prayer Book, the first time that ever Iread prayers in this house. So to bed. 

23rd. This morning Mr. Barlow comes to me, and he and I went forth toa scrivener in Fenchurch Street, whom we found sick of the gout in bed, and signed and sealed our agreement before him. He urged to have thesewords (in consideration whereof) to be interlined, which I granted, though against my will. Met this morning at the office, and afterwardsMr. Barlow by appointment came and dined with me, and both of us verypleasant and pleased. After dinner to my Lord, who took me to SecretaryNicholas, and there before him and Secretary Morris, my Lord and I uponour knees together took our oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy; and theOath of the Privy Seal, of which I was much glad, though I am not likelyto get anything by it at present; but I do desire it, for fear of aturn-out of our office. That done and my Lord gone from me, I went withMr. Cooling and his brother, and Sam Hartlibb, little Jennings and someothers to the King's Head Tavern at Charing Cross, where after drinkingI took boat and so home, where we supped merrily among ourselves (ourlittle boy proving a droll) and so after prayers to bed. This day myLord had heard that Mr. Barnwell was dead, but it is not so yet, thoughhe be very ill. I was troubled all this day with Mr. Cooke, beingwilling to do him good, but my mind is so taken up with my own businessthat I cannot. 

24th. To White Hall, where I did acquaint Mr. Watkins with my beingsworn into the Privy Seal, at which he was much troubled, but put it upand did offer me a kinsman of his to be my clerk, which I did give himsome hope of, though I never intend it. In the afternoon I spent muchtime in walking in White Hall Court with Mr. Bickerstaffe, who was veryglad of my Lord's being sworn, because of his business with hisbrother Baron, which is referred to my Lord Chancellor, and to be endedto-morrow. Baron had got a grant beyond sea, to come in before thereversionary of the Privy Seal. This afternoon Mr. Mathews came to me, to get a certificate of my Lord's and my being sworn, which I put insome forwardness, and so home and to bed. 

25th. In the morning at the office, and after that down to Whitehall, where I met with Mr. Creed, and with him and a Welsh schoolmaster, agood scholar but a very pedagogue, to the ordinary at the Leg in KingStreet. ' I got my certificate of my Lord's and my being sworn. Thismorning my Lord took leave of the House of Commons, and had the thanksof the House for his great services to his country. In the afternoon(but this is a mistake, for it was yesterday in the afternoon) MonsieurL'Impertinent and I met and I took him to the Sun and drank with him, and in the evening going away we met his mother and sisters and fathercoming from the Gatehouse; where they lodge, where I did the first timesalute them all, and very pretty Madame Frances--[Frances Butler, thebeauty. ]--is indeed. After that very late home and called in TowerStreet, and there at a barber's was trimmed the first time. Home and tobed. 

26th. Early to White Hall, thinking to have a meeting of my Lord and theprincipal officers, but my Lord could not, it being the day that hewas to go and be admitted in the House of Lords, his patent being done, which he presented upon his knees to the Speaker; and so it was read inthe House, and he took his place. I at the Privy Seal Office with Mr. Hooker, who brought me acquainted with Mr. Crofts of the Signet, andI invited them to a dish of meat at the Leg in King Street, and so wedined there and I paid for all and had very good light given me as to myemployment there. Afterwards to Mr. Pierces, where I should have dinedbut I could not, but found Mr. Sheply and W. Howe there. After we haddrunk hard we parted, and I went away and met Dr. Castle, who is one ofthe Clerks of the Privy Seal, and told him how things were with my Lordand me, which he received very gladly. I was this day told how Baronagainst all expectation and law has got the place of Bickerstaffe, andso I question whether he will not lay claim to wait the next month, butmy Lord tells me that he will stand for it. In the evening I met with T. Doling, who carried me to St. James's Fair, [August, 1661: "This year the Fair, called St. James's Fair, was kept the full appointed time, being a fortnight; but during that time many lewd and infamous persons were by his Majesty's express command to the Lord Chamberlain, and his Lordship's direction to Robert Nelson, Esq. , committed to the House of Correction. "--Rugge's Diurnal. St; James's fair was held first in the open space near St. James's Palace, and afterwards in St. James's Market. It was prohibited by the Parliament in 1651, but revived at the Restoration. It was, however, finally suppressed before the close of the reign of Charles II. ]

and there meeting with W. Symons and his wife, and Luellin, and D. Scobell's wife and cousin, we went to Wood's at the Pell Mell

 [This is one of the earliest references to Pall Mall as an inhabited street, and also one of the earliest uses of the word clubbing. ]

(our old house for clubbing), and there we spent till 10 at night, atwhich time I sent to my Lord's for my clerk Will to come to me, and soby link home to bed. Where I found Commissioner Willoughby had sentfor all his things away out of my bedchamber, which is a littledisappointment, but it is better than pay too dear for them. 

27th: The last night Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen came to their housesat the office. Met this morning and did business till noon. Dined athome and from thence to my Lord's where Will, my clerk, and I were allthe afternoon making up my accounts, which we had done by night, and Ifind myself worth about L100 after all my expenses. At night I sent toW. Bowyer to bring me L100, being that he had in his hands of my Lord's. In keeping, out of which I paid Mr. Sheply all that remained due to myLord upon my balance, and took the rest home with me late at night. Wegot a coach, but the horses were tired and could not carry us fartherthan St. Dunstan's. So we 'light and took a link and so home weary tobed. 

28th. Early in the morning rose, and a boy brought me a letter fromPoet Fisher, who tells me that he is upon a panegyrique of the King, and desired to borrow a piece of me; and I sent him half a piece. ToWestminster, and there dined with Mr. Sheply and W. Howe, afterwardsmeeting with Mr. Henson, who had formerly had the brave clock that wentwith bullets (which is now taken away from him by the King, it being hisgoods). 

 [Some clocks are still made with a small ball, or bullet, on an inclined plane, which turns every minute. The King's clocks probably dropped bullets. Gainsborough the painter had a brother who was a dissenting minister at Henley-on-Thames, and possessed a strong genius for mechanics. He invented a clock of a very peculiar construction, which, after his death, was deposited in the British Museum. It told the hour by a little bell, and was kept in motion by a leaden bullet, which dropped from a spiral reservoir at the top of the clock, into a little ivory bucket. This was so contrived as to discharge it at the bottom, and by means of a counter-weight was carried up to the top of the clock, where it received another bullet, which was discharged as the former. This seems to have been an attempt at the perpetual motion. --Gentleman's Magazine, 1785, p. 931. --B. ]

I went with him to the Swan Tavern and sent for Mr. Butler, who was nowall full of his high discourse in praise of Ireland, whither he and hiswhole family are going by Coll. Dillon's persuasion, but so many lies Inever heard in praise of anything as he told of Ireland. So home late atnight and to bed. 

29th. Lord's day. I and my boy Will to Whitehall, and I with my Lordto White Hall Chappell, where I heard a cold sermon of the Bishop ofSalisbury's, and the ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdothem. My Lord went to dinner at Kensington with my Lord Camden. So Idined and took Mr. Birfett, my Lord's chaplain, and his friend alongwith me, with Mr. Sheply at my Lord's. In the afternoon with Dick Vinesand his brother Payton, we walked to Lisson Green and Marybone and backagain, and finding my Lord at home I got him to look over my accounts, which he did approve of and signed them, and so we are even to this day. Of this I was glad, and do think myself worth clear money about L120. Home late, calling in at my father's without stay. To bed. 

30th. Sat at our office to-day, and my father came this day the firsttime to see us at my new office. And Mrs. Crisp by chance came in andsat with us, looked over our house and advised about the furnishing ofit. This afternoon I got my L50, due to me for my first quarter's salaryas Secretary to my Lord, paid to Tho. Hater for me, which he receivedand brought home to me, of which I am full glad. To Westminster andamong other things met with Mr. Moore, and took him and his friend, abookseller of Paul's Churchyard, to the Rhenish Winehouse, and drinkingthere the sword-bearer of London (Mr. Man) came to ask for us, with whomwe sat late, discoursing about the worth of my office of Clerk of theActs, which he hath a mind to buy, and I asked four years' purchase. Weare to speak more of it to-morrow. Home on foot, and seeing him at homeat Butler's merry, he lent me a torch, which Will carried, and so home. 

31st. To White Hall, where my Lord and the principal officers met, andhad a great discourse about raising of money for the Navy, which is invery sad condition, and money must be raised for it. Mr. Blackburne, Dr. Clerke, and I to the Quaker's and dined there. I back to the Admiralty, and there was doing things in order to the calculating of the debts ofthe Navy and other business, all the afternoon. At night I went to thePrivy Seal, where I found Mr. Crofts and Mathews making up all theirthings to leave the office tomorrow, to those that come to wait thenext month. I took them to the Sun Tavern and there made them drink, and discoursed concerning the office, and what I was to expect tomorrowabout Baron, who pretends to the next month. Late home by coach so faras Ludgate with Mr. Mathews, and thence home on foot with W. Hewer withme, and so to bed. 

AUGUST 1660

August 1st. Up very early, and by water to Whitehall to my Lord's, andthere up to my Lord's lodging (Win. Howe being now ill of the gout atMr. Pierce's), and there talked with him about the affairs of the Navy, and how I was now to wait today at the Privy Seal. Commissioner Pettwent with me, whom I desired to make my excuse at the office for myabsence this day. Hence to the Privy Seal Office, where I got (byMr. Mathews' means) possession of the books and table, but with someexpectation of Baron's bringing of a warrant from the King to have thismonth. Nothing done this morning, Baron having spoke to Mr. Woodson andGroome (clerks to Mr. Trumbull of the Signet) to keep all work in theirhands till the afternoon, at which time he expected to have his warrantfrom the King for this month. --[The clerks of the Privy Seal took theduty of attendance for a month by turns. ]--I took at noon Mr. Harperto the Leg in King Street, and did give him his dinner, who did stilladvise me much to act wholly myself at the Privy Seal, but I told himthat I could not, because I had other business to take up my time. Inthe afternoon at, the office again, where we had many things to sign;and I went to the Council Chamber, and there got my Lord to sign thefirst bill, and the rest all myself; but received no money today. AfterI had signed all, I went with Dick Scobell and Luellin to drink at abottle beer house in the Strand, and after staying there a while (hadsent W. Hewer home before), I took boat and homewards went, and in FishStreet bought a Lobster, and as I had bought it I met with Winter andMr. Delabarr, and there with a piece of sturgeon of theirs we went tothe Sun Tavern in the street and ate them. Late home and to bed. 

2d. To Westminster by water with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen (ourservants in another boat) to the Admiralty; and from thence I went tomy Lord's to fetch him thither, where we stayed in the morning aboutordering of money for the victuailers, and advising how to get a sum ofmoney to carry on the business of the Navy. From thence dined with Mr. Blackburne at his house with his friends (his wife being in the countryand just upon her return to London), where we were very well treated andmerry. From thence W. Hewer and I to the office of Privy Seal, whereI stayed all the afternoon, and received about L40 for yesterday andto-day, at which my heart rejoiced for God's blessing to me, to give methis advantage by chance, there being of this L40 about L10 due to mefor this day's work. So great is the present profit of this office, above what it was in the King's time; there being the last month about300 bills; whereas in the late King's time it was much to have 40. Withmy money home by coach, it, being the first time that I could get homebefore our gates were shut since I came to the Navy office. When I camehome I found my wife not very well of her old pain.... Which she hadwhen we were married first. I went and cast up the expense that I laidout upon my former house (because there are so many that are desirous ofit, and I am, in my mind, loth to let it go out of my hands, for fear ofa turn). I find my layings-out to come to about L20, which with my finewill come to about L22 to him that shall hire my house of me. --[Pepyswished to let his house in Axe Yard now that he had apartments at theNavy Office. ]--To bed. 

3rd. Up betimes this morning, and after the barber had done with me, then to the office, where I and Sir William Pen only did meet anddespatch business. At noon my wife and I by coach to Dr. Clerke's todinner: I was very much taken with his lady, a comely, proper woman, though not handsome; but a woman of the best language I ever heard. Heredined Mrs. Pierce and her husband. After dinner I took leave to goto Westminster, where I was at the Privy Seal Office all day, signingthings and taking money, so that I could not do as I had intended, thatis to return to them and go to the Red Bull Playhouse, [This well-known theatre was situated in St. John's Street on the site of Red Bull Yard. Pepys went there on March 23rd, 1661, when he expressed a very poor opinion of the place. T. Carew, in some commendatory lines on Sir William. Davenant's play, "The just Italian, " 1630, abuses both audiences and actors:--

 "There are the men in crowded heaps that throng To that adulterate stage, where not a tongue Of th' untun'd kennel can a line repeat Of serious sense. "

 There is a token of this house (see "Boyne's Trade Tokens, " ed. Williamson, vol. I. , 1889, p. 725). ]

but I took coach and went to see whether it was done so or no, and Ifound it done. So I returned to Dr. Clerke's, where I found them and mywife, and by and by took leave and went away home. 

4th. To White Hall, where I found my Lord gone with the King by waterto dine at the Tower with Sir J. Robinson, ' Lieutenant. I found my LadyJemimah--[Lady Jemima Montage, daughter of Lord Sandwich, previouslydescribed as Mrs. Jem. ]--at my Lord's, with whom I staid and dined, allalone; after dinner to the Privy Seal Office, where I did business. Soto a Committee of Parliament (Sir Hen[eage] Finch, Chairman), to givethem an answer to an order of theirs, "that we could not give them anyaccount of the Accounts of the Navy in the years 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, asthey desire. " After that I went and bespoke some linen of Betty Lanein the Hall, and after that to the Trumpet, where I sat and talked withher, &c. At night, it being very rainy, and it thundering and lightningexceedingly, I took coach at the Trumpet door, taking MonsieurL'Impertinent along with me as far as the Savoy, where he said he wentto lie with Cary Dillon, [Colonel Cary Dillon, a friend of the Butlers, who courted the fair Frances; but the engagement was subsequently broken off, see December 31 st, 1661. ]

and is still upon the mind of going (he and his whole family) toIreland. Having set him down I made haste home, and in the courtyard, it being very dark, I heard a man inquire for my house, and having askedhis business, he told me that my man William (who went this morning--outof town to meet his aunt Blackburne) was come home not very well to hismother, and so could not come home to-night. At which I was very sorry. I found my wife still in pain. To bed, having not time to write letters, and indeed having so many to write to all places that I have no heart togo about them. Mrs. Shaw did die yesterday and her husband so sick thathe is not like to live. 

5th. Lord's day. My wife being much in pain, I went this morning to Dr. Williams (who had cured her once before of this business), in Holborn, and he did give me an ointment which I sent home by my boy, and aplaister which I took with me to Westminster (having called and seen mymother in the morning as I went to the doctor), where I dined with Mr. Sheply (my Lord dining at Kensington). After dinner to St. Margaret's, where the first time I ever heard Common Prayer in that Church. I satwith Mr. Hill in his pew; Mr. Hill that married in Axe Yard and that wasaboard us in the Hope. Church done I went and Mr. Sheply to see W. Howeat Mr. Pierces, where I staid singing of songs and psalms an hour ortwo, and were very pleasant with Mrs. Pierce and him. Thence to myLord's, where I staid and talked and drank with Mr. Sheply. After thatto Westminster stairs, where I saw a fray between Mynheer Clinke, aDutchman, that was at Hartlibb's wedding, and a waterman, which madegood sport. After that I got a Gravesend boat, that was come up to fetchsome bread on this side the bridge, and got them to carry me to thebridge, and so home, where I found my wife. After prayers I to bed toher, she having had a very bad night of it. This morning before I was upWill came home pretty well again, he having been only weary with riding, which he is not used to. 

6th. This morning at the office, and, that being done, home to dinnerall alone, my wife being ill in pain a-bed, which I was troubled at, andnot a little impatient. After dinner to Whitehall at the Privy Seal allthe afternoon, and at night with Mr. Man to Mr. Rawlinson's in FenchurchStreet, where we staid till eleven o'clock at night. So home and to bed, my wife being all this day in great pain. This night Mr. Man offered meL1000 for my office of Clerk of the Acts, which made my mouth water; butyet I dare not take it till I speak with my Lord to have his consent. 

7th. This morning to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and took Mr. Moore andmyself and dined at my Lord's with Mr. Sheply. While I was at dinner income Sam. Hartlibb and his brother-in-law, now knighted by the King, torequest my promise of a ship for them to Holland, which I had promisedto get for them. After dinner to the Privy Seal all the afternoon. Atnight, meeting Sam. Hartlibb, he took me by coach to Kensington, tomy Lord of Holland's; I staid in the coach while he went in about hisbusiness. He staying long I left the coach and walked back again beforeon foot (a very pleasant walk) to Kensington, where I drank and staidvery long waiting for him. At last he came, and after drinking at theinn we went towards Westminster. Here I endeavoured to have looked outJane that formerly lived at Dr. Williams' at Cambridge, whom I had longthought to live at present here, but I found myself in an error, meetingone in the place where I expected to have found her, but she proved notshe though very like her. We went to the Bullhead, where he and I satand drank till 11 at night, and so home on foot. Found my wife prettywell again, and so to bed. 

8th. We met at the office, and after that to dinner at home, andfrom thence with my wife by water to Catan Sterpin, with whom and hermistress Pye we sat discoursing of Kate's marriage to Mons. Petit, hermistress and I giving the best advice we could for her to suspendher marriage till Mons. Petit had got some place that may be able tomaintain her, and not for him to live upon the portion that she shallbring him. From thence to Mr. Butler's to see his daughters, the firsttime that ever we made a visit to them. We found them very pretty, andColl. Dillon there, a very merry and witty companion, but methinks theylive in a gaudy but very poor condition. From thence, my wife and Iintending to see Mrs. Blackburne, who had been a day or two again to seemy wife, but my wife was not in condition to be seen, but she not beingat home my wife went to her mother's and I to the Privy Seal. At nightfrom the Privy Seal, Mr. Woodson and Mr. Jennings and I to the SunTavern till it was late, and from thence to my Lord's, where my wife wascome from Mrs. Blackburne's to me, and after I had done some businesswith my Lord, she and I went to Mrs. Hunt's, who would needs have us tolie at her house to-night, she being with my wife so late at my Lord'swith us, and would not let us go home to-night. We lay there all nightvery pleasantly and at ease... 

9th. Left my wife at Mrs. Hunt's and I to my Lord's, and from thencewith judge Advocate Fowler, Mr. Creed, and Mr. Sheply to the RhenishWine-house, and Captain Hayward of the Plymouth, who is now ordered tocarry my Lord Winchelsea, Embassador to Constantinople. We werevery merry, and judge Advocate did give Captain Hayward his Oath ofAllegiance and Supremacy. Thence to my office of Privy Seal, and, havingsigned some things there, with Mr. Moore and Dean Fuller to the Leg inKing Street, and, sending for my wife, we dined there very merry, andafter dinner, parted. After dinner with my wife to Mrs. Blackburne tovisit her. She being within I left my wife there, and I to the PrivySeal, where I despatch some business, and from thence to Mrs. Blackburneagain, who did treat my wife and me with a great deal of civility, anddid give us a fine collation of collar of beef, &c. Thence I, havingmy head full of drink from having drunk so much Rhenish wine in themorning, and more in the afternoon at Mrs. Blackburne's, came home andso to bed, not well, and very ill all night. 

10th. I had a great deal of pain all night, and a great loosing upon meso that I could not sleep. In the morning I rose with much pain and tothe office. I went and dined at home, and after dinner with great painin my back I went by water to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and that donewith Mr. Moore and Creed to Hide Park by coach, and saw a fine foot-racethree times round the Park between an Irishman and Crow, that was oncemy Lord Claypoole's footman. (By the way I cannot forget that my LordClaypoole did the other day make enquiry of Mrs. Hunt, concerning myHouse in Axe-yard, and did set her on work to get it of me for him, which methinks is a very great change. ) Crow beat the other by above twomiles. Returned from Hide Park, I went to my Lord's, and took Will (whowaited for me there) by coach and went home, taking my lute home withme. It had been all this while since I came from sea at my Lord's forhim to play on. To bed in some pain still. For this month or two it isnot imaginable how busy my head has been, so that I have neglected towrite letters to my uncle Robert in answer to many of his, and toother friends, nor indeed have I done anything as to my own family, andespecially this month my waiting at the Privy Seal makes me much moreunable to think of anything, because of my constant attendance thereafter I have done at the Navy Office. But blessed be God for my goodchance of the Privy Seal, where I get every day I believe about L3. Thisplace I got by chance, and my Lord did give it me by chance, neither henor I thinking it to be of the worth that he and I find it to be. Neversince I was a man in the world was I ever so great a stranger to publicaffairs as now I am, having not read a new book or anything like it, orenquiring after any news, or what the Parliament do, or in any wise howthings go. Many people look after my house in Axe-yard to hire it, sothat I am troubled with them, and I have a mind to get the money to buygoods for my house at the Navy Office, and yet I am loth to put it offbecause that Mr. Man bids me L1000 for my office, which is so great asum that I am loth to settle myself at my new house, lest I should takeMr. Man's offer in case I found my Lord willing to it. 

11th. I rose to-day without any pain, which makes me think that my painyesterday was nothing but from my drinking too much the day before. Tomy Lord this morning, who did give me order to get some things readyagainst the afternoon for the Admiralty where he would meet. To thePrivy Seal, and from thence going to my own house in Axeyard, I wentin to Mrs. Crisp's, where I met with Mr. Hartlibb; for whom I wrote aletter for my Lord to sign for a ship for his brother and sister, whowent away hence this day to Gravesend, and from thence to Holland. Ifound by discourse with Mrs. Crisp that he is very jealous of her, forthat she is yet very kind to her old servant Meade. Hence to my Lord'sto dinner with Mr. Sheply, so to the Privy Seal; and at night home, andthen sent for the barber, and was trimmed in the kitchen, the firsttime that ever I was so. I was vexed this night that W. Hewer was out ofdoors till ten at night but was pretty well satisfied again when my wifetold me that he wept because I was angry, though indeed he did give mea good reason for his being out; but I thought it a good occasion to lethim know that I do expect his being at home. So to bed. 

12th. Lord's day. To my Lord, and with him to White Hall Chappell, whereMr. Calamy preached, and made a good sermon upon these words "To whommuch is given, of him much is required. " He was very officious with histhree reverences to the King, as others do. After sermon a brave anthemof Captain Cooke's, [Henry Cooke, chorister of the Chapel Royal, adhered to the royal cause at the breaking out of the Civil Wars, and for his bravery obtained a captain's commission. At the Restoration he received the appointment of Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal; he was an excellent musician, and three of his pupils turned out very distinguished musicians, viz, Pelham Humphrey, John Blow, and Michael Wise. He was one of the original performers in the "Siege, of Rhodes. " He died July 13th, 1672, : and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey. In another place, Pepys says, "a vain coxcomb he is, though he sings so well. "]

which he himself sung, and the King was well pleased with it. My Lorddined at my Lord Chamberlain's, and I at his house with Mr. Sheply. After dinner I did give Mr. Donne; who is going to sea, the key of mycabin and direction for the putting up of my things. 

After, that I went to walk, and meeting Mrs. Lane of Westminster Hall, Itook her to my Lord's, and did give her a bottle of wine in the garden, where Mr. Fairbrother, of Cambridge, did come and found us, and drankwith us. After that I took her to my house, where I was exceeding freein dallying with her, and she not unfree to take it. At night home andcalled at my father's, where I found Mr. Fairbrother, but I did not staybut went homewards and called in at Mr. Rawlinson's, whither my uncleWight was coming and did come, but was exceeding angry (he being alittle fuddled, and I think it was that I should see him in that case)as I never saw him in my life, which I was somewhat troubled at. Homeand to bed. 

13th. A sitting day at our office. After dinner to Whitehall; to thePrivy Seal, whither my father came to me, and staid talking with me agreat while, telling me that he had propounded Mr. John Pickering forSir Thomas Honywood's daughter, which I think he do not deserve for hisown merit: I know not what he may do for his estate. My father and Creedand I to the old Rhenish Winehouse, and talked and drank till night. Then my father home, and I to my Lord's; where he told me that he wouldsuddenly go into the country, and so did commend the business of his seacommission to me in his absence. After that home by coach, and took myL100 that I had formerly left at Mr. Rawlinson's, home with me, which isthe first that ever I was master of at once. To prayers, and to bed. 

14th. To the Privy Seal, and thence to my Lord's, where Mr. Pim, thetailor, and I agreed upon making me a velvet coat. From thence to thePrivy Seal again, where Sir Samuel Morland came in with a Baronet'sgrant to pass, which the King had given him to make money of. Here hestaid with me a great while; and told me the whole manner of his servingthe King in the time of the Protector; and how Thurloe's bad usage madehim to do it; how he discovered Sir R. Willis, and how he hath sunk hisfortune for the King; and that now the King hath given him a pension ofL500 per annum out of the Post Office for life, and the benefit of twoBaronets; all which do make me begin to think that he is not so much afool as I took him to be. Home by water to the Tower, where my father, Mr. Fairbrother, and Cooke dined with me. After dinner in comes youngCaptain Cuttance of the Speedwell, who is sent up for the gratuity giventhe seamen that brought the King over. He brought me a firkin of butterfor my wife, which is very welcome. My father, after dinner, takesleave, after I had given him 40s. For the last half year for my brotherJohn at Cambridge. I did also make even with Mr. Fairbrother for mydegree of Master of Arts, which cost me about L9 16s. To White Hall, andmy wife with me by water, where at the Privy Seal and elsewhere all theafternoon. At night home with her by water, where I made good sport withhaving the girl and the boy to comb my head, before I went to bed, inthe kitchen. 

15th. To the office, and after dinner by water to White Hall, whereI found the King gone this morning by 5 of the clock to see a Dutchpleasure-boat below bridge, [A yacht which was greatly admired, and was imitated and improved by Commissioner Pett, who built a yacht for the King in 1661, which was called the "Jenny. " Queen Elizabeth had a yacht, and one was built by Phineas Pett in 1604. ]

where he dines, and my Lord with him. The King do tire all his peoplethat are about him with early rising since he came. To the office, allthe afternoon I staid there, and in the evening went to WestminsterHall, where I staid at Mrs. Michell's, and with her and her husbandsent for some drink, and drank with them. By the same token she andMrs. Murford and another old woman of the Hall were going a gossipingtonight. From thence to my Lord's, where I found him within, and he didgive me direction about his business in his absence, he intending togo into the country to-morrow morning. Here I lay all night in the oldchamber which I had now given up to W. Howe, with whom I did intend tolie, but he and I fell to play with one another, so that I made him togo lie with Mr. Sheply. So I lay alone all night. 

16th. This morning my Lord (all things being ready) carried me by coachto Mr. Crew's, (in the way talking how good he did hope my place wouldbe to me, and in general speaking that it was not the salary of anyplace that did make a man rich, but the opportunity of getting moneywhile he is in the place) where he took leave, and went into the coach, and so for Hinchinbroke. My Lady Jemimah and Mr. Thomas Crew in thecoach with him. Hence to Whitehall about noon, where I met with Mr. Madge, who took me along with him and Captain Cooke (the famous singer)and other masters of music to dinner at an ordinary about Charing Crosswhere we dined, all paying their club. Hence to the Privy Seal, wherethere has been but little work these two days. In the evening home. 

17th. To the office, and that done home to dinner where Mr. Unthanke, my wife's tailor, dined with us, we having nothing but a dish of sheep'strotters. After dinner by water to Whitehall, where a great deal ofbusiness at the Privy Seal. At night I and Creed and the judge-Advocatewent to Mr. Pim, the tailor's, who took us to the Half Moon, and theredid give us great store of wine and anchovies, and would pay for themall. This night I saw Mr. Creed show many the strangest emotions toshift off his drink I ever saw in my life. By coach home and to bed. 

18th. This morning I took my wife towards Westminster by water, andlanded her at Whitefriars, with L5 to buy her a petticoat, and I tothe Privy Seal. By and by comes my wife to tell me that my father haspersuaded her to buy a most fine cloth of 26s. A yard, and a rich lace, that the petticoat will come to L5, at which I was somewhat troubled, but she doing it very innocently, I could not be angry. I did give hermore money, and sent her away, and I and Creed and Captain Hayward (whois now unkindly put out of the Plymouth to make way for Captain Allen togo to Constantinople, and put into his ship the Dover, which I know willtrouble my Lord) went and dined at the Leg in King Street, where CaptainFerrers, my Lord's Cornet, comes to us, who after dinner took me andCreed to the Cockpitt play, [The Cockpit Theatre, situated in Drury Lane, was occupied as a playhouse in the reign of James I. It was occupied by Davenant and his company in 1658, and they remained in it until November 15th, 1660, when they removed to Salisbury Court. ]

the first that I have had time to see since my coming from sea, "TheLoyall Subject, " where one Kinaston, a boy, acted the Duke's sister, butmade the loveliest lady that ever I saw in my life, only her voice notvery good. After the play done, we three went to drink, and by CaptainFerrers' means, Kinaston and another that acted Archas, the General, came and drank with us. Hence home by coach, and after being trimmed, leaving my wife to look after her little bitch, which was just nowa-whelping, I to bed. 

19th (Lord's day). In the morning my wife tells me that the bitch haswhelped four young ones and is very well after it, my wife having had agreat fear that she would die thereof, the dog that got them being verybig. This morning Sir W. Batten, Pen, and myself, went to church to thechurchwardens, to demand a pew, which at present could not be given us, but we are resolved to have one built. So we staid and heard Mr. Mills;'a very, good minister. Home to dinner, where my wife had on her newpetticoat that she bought yesterday, which indeed is a very fine clothand a fine lace; but that being of a light colour, and the lace allsilver, it makes no great show. Mr. Creed and my brother Tom dined withme. After dinner my wife went and fetched the little puppies to us, which are very pretty ones. After they were gone, I went up to put mypapers in order, and finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up, I was angry with her, which I was troubled for. After that my wife and Iwent and walked in the garden, and so home to bed. 

20th (Office day). As Sir W. Pen and I were walking in the garden, a messenger came to me from the Duke of York to fetch me to the LordChancellor. So (Mrs. Turner with her daughter The. Being come to myhouse to speak with me about a friend of hers to send to sea) I wentwith her in her coach as far as Worcester House, but my Lord Chancellorbeing gone to the House of Lords, I went thither, and (there being alaw case before them this day) got in, and there staid all the morning, seeing their manner of sitting on woolpacks, &c. , which I never didbefore. 

 [It is said that these woolpacks were placed in the House of Lords for the judges to sit on, so that the fact that wool was a main source of our national wealth might be kept in the popular mind. The Lord Chancellor's seat is now called the Woolsack. ]

After the House was up, I spoke to my Lord, and had order from him tocome to him at night. This morning Mr. Creed did give me the Papers thatconcern my Lord's sea commission, which he left in my hands and went tosea this day to look after the gratuity money. 

This afternoon at the Privy Seal, where reckoning with Mr. Moore, he hadgot L100 for me together, which I was glad of, guessing that the profitsof this month would come to L100. 

In the evening I went all alone to drink at Mr. Harper's, where I foundMrs. Crisp's daughter, with whom and her friends I staid and drank, andso with W. Hewer by coach to Worcester House, where I light, sending himhome with the L100 that I received to-day. Here I staid, and saw my LordChancellor come into his Great Hall, where wonderful how much companythere was to expect him at a Seal. Before he would begin any business, he took my papers of the state of the debts of the Fleet, and thereviewed them before all the people, and did give me his advice privatelyhow to order things, to get as much money as we can of the Parliament. That being done, I went home, where I found all my things come home fromsea (sent by desire by Mr. Dun), of which I was glad, though many ofmy things are quite spoilt with mould by reason of lying so long ashipboard, and my cabin being not tight. I spent much time to dispose ofthem tonight, and so to bed. 

21st. This morning I went to White Hall with Sir W. Pen by water, who inour passage told me how he was bred up under Sir W. Batten. We went toMr. Coventry's chamber, and consulted of drawing my papers of debts ofthe Navy against the afternoon for the Committee. So to the Admiralty, where W. Hewer and I did them, and after that he went to his Aunt'sBlackburn (who has a kinswoman dead at her house to-day, and was tobe buried to-night, by which means he staid very late out). I toWestminster Hall, where I met Mr. Crew and dined with him, where theredined one Mr. Hickeman, an Oxford man, who spoke very much against theheight of the now old clergy, for putting out many of the religiousfellows of Colleges, and inveighing against them for their being drunk, which, if true, I am sorry to hear. After that towards Westminster, where I called on Mr. Pim, and there found my velvet coat (the firstthat ever I had) done, and a velvet mantle, which I took to the PrivySeal Office, and there locked them up, and went to the Queen's Court, and there, after much waiting, spoke with Colonel Birch, who read mypapers, and desired some addition, which done I returned to the PrivySeal, where little to do, and with Mr. Moore towards London, and in ourway meeting Monsieur Eschar (Mr. Montagu's man), about the Savoy, hetook us to the Brazennose Tavern, and there drank and so parted, andI home by coach, and there, it being post-night, I wrote to my Lordto give him notice that all things are well; that General Monk is madeLieutenant of Ireland, which my Lord Roberts (made Deputy) do not likeof, to be Deputy to any man but the King himself. After that to bed. 

22nd. Office, which done, Sir W. Pen took me into the garden, and theretold me how Mr. Turner do intend to petition the Duke for an allowanceextra as one of the Clerks of the Navy, which he desired me to joinwith him in the furthering of, which I promised to do so that it did notreflect upon me or to my damage to have any other added, as if I was notable to perform my place; which he did wholly disown to be any of hisintention, but far from it. I took Mr. Hater home with me to dinner, with whom I did advise, who did give me the same counsel. After dinnerhe and I to the office about doing something more as to the debts of theNavy than I had done yesterday, and so to Whitehall to the PrivySeal, and having done there, with my father (who came to see me) toWestminster Hall and the Parliament House to look for Col. Birch, butfound him not. In the House, after the Committee was up, I met with Mr. G. Montagu, and joyed him in his entrance (this being his 3d day) forDover. Here he made me sit all alone in the House, none but he and I, half an hour, discoursing how things stand, and in short he told mehow there was like to be many factions at Court between Marquis Ormond, General Monk, and the Lord Roberts, about the business of Ireland; asthere is already between the two Houses about the Act of Indemnity; andin the House of Commons, between the Episcopalian and Presbyterian men. Hence to my father's (walking with Mr. Herring, the minister of St. Bride's), and took them to the Sun Tavern, where I found George, my olddrawer, come again. From thence by water, landed them at Blackfriars, and so home and to bed. 

23rd. By water to Doctors' Commons to Dr. Walker, to give him my Lord'spapers to view over concerning his being empowered to be Vice-Admiralunder the Duke of York. There meeting with Mr. Pinkney, he and I toa morning draft, and thence by water to White Hall, to the ParliamentHouse, where I spoke with Colonel Birch, and so to the Admiraltychamber, where we and Mr. Coventry had a meeting about severalbusinesses. Amongst others, it was moved that Phineas Pett (kinsman tothe Commissioner) of Chatham, should be suspended his employment tillhe had answered some articles put in against him, as that he shouldformerly say that the King was a bastard and his mother a whore. Henceto Westminster Hall, where I met with my father Bowyer, and Mr. Spicer, and them I took to the Leg in King Street, and did give them a dish ortwo of meat, and so away to the Privy Seal, where, the King being outof town, we have had nothing to do these two days. To Westminster Hall, where I met with W. Symons, T. Doling, and Mr. Booth, and with them tothe Dogg, where we eat a musk melon

 ["Melons were hardly known in England till Sir George Gardiner brought one from Spain, when they became in general estimation. The ordinary price was five or six shillings. "--Quarterly Review, vol, xix. ]

(the first that I have eat this year), and were very merry with W. Symons, calling him Mr. Dean, because of the Dean's lands that his unclehad left him, which are like to be lost all. Hence home by water, andvery late at night writing letters to my Lord to Hinchinbroke, and alsoto the Vice-Admiral in the Downs, and so to bed. 

24th. Office, and thence with Sir William Batten and Sir William Pen tothe parish church to find out a place where to build a seat or a galleryto sit in, and did find one which is to be done speedily. Hence withthem to dinner at a tavern in Thames Street, where they were invited toa roasted haunch of venison and other very good victuals and company. Hence to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, but nothing to do. At night byland to my father's, where I found my mother not very well. I did giveher a pint of sack. My father came in, and Dr. T. Pepys, who talked withme in French about looking out for a place for him. But I found him aweak man, and speaks the worst French that ever I heard of one thathad been so long beyond sea. Hence into Pant's Churchyard and boughtBarkley's Argenis in Latin, and so home and to bed. I found at home thatCaptain Burr had sent me 4 dozen bottles of wine today. The King cameback to Whitehall to-night. 

25th. This morning Mr. Turner and I by coach from our office toWhitehall (in our way I calling on Dr. Walker for the papers I didgive him the other day, which he had perused and found that the Duke'scounsel had abated something of the former draught which Dr. Walker drewfor my Lord) to Sir G. Carteret, where we there made up an estimate ofthe debts of the Navy for the Council. At noon I took Mr. Turner andMr. Moore to the Leg in King Street, and did give them a dinner, andafterward to the Sun Tavern, and did give Mr. Turner a glass of wine, there coming to us Mr. Fowler the apothecary (the judge's son) with abook of lute lessons which his father had left there for me, such as heformerly did use to play when a young man, and had the use of his hand. To the Privy Seal, and found some business now again to do there. ToWestminster Hall for a new half-shirt of Mrs. Lane, and so home bywater. Wrote letters by the post to my Lord and to sea. This night W. Hewer brought me home from Mr. Pim's my velvet coat and cap, the firstthat ever I had. So to bed. 

26th (Lord's day). With Sir W. Pen to the parish church, where we areplaced in the highest pew of all, where a stranger preached a dry andtedious long sermon. Dined at home. To church again in the afternoonwith my wife; in the garden and on the leads at night, and so to supperand to bed. 

27th. This morning comes one with a vessel of Northdown ale from Mr. Pierce, the purser, to me, and after him another with a brave Turkeycarpet and a jar of olives from Captain Cuttance, and a pair of fineturtle-doves from John Burr to my wife. These things came up to-day inour smack, and my boy Ely came along with them, and came after officewas done to see me. I did give him half a crown because I saw that hewas ready to cry to see that he could not be entertained by me here. Inthe afternoon to the Privy Seal, where good store of work now toward theend of the month. From thence with Mr. Mount, Luellin, and others to theBull head till late, and so home, where about to o'clock Major Hart cameto me, whom I did receive with wine and anchovies, which made me so drythat I was ill with them all night, and was fain to have the girle riseand fetch me some drink. 

28th. At home looking over my papers and books and house as to thefitting of it to my mind till two in the afternoon. Some time I spentthis morning beginning to teach my wife some scale in music, and foundher apt beyond imagination. To the Privy Seal, where great store of workto-day. Colonel Scroope--[Colonel Adrian Scroope, one of the persons whosat in judgment upon Charles I. ]--is this day excepted out of the Actof Indemnity, which has been now long in coming out, but it is expectedto-morrow. I carried home L80 from the Privy Seal, by coach, and atnight spent a little more time with my wife about her music with greatcontent. This day I heard my poor mother had then two days been veryill, and I fear she will not last long. To bed, a little troubled that Ifear my boy Will

 [Pepys refers to two Wills. This was Will Wayneman; the other was William Hewer. ]

is a thief and has stole some money of mine, particularly a letter thatMr. Jenkins did leave the last week with me with half a crown in it tosend to his son. 

29th (Office day). Before I went to the office my wife and I examinedmy boy Will about his stealing of things, but he denied all with thegreatest subtlety and confidence in the world. To the office, and afteroffice then to the Church, where we took another view of the place wherewe had resolved to build a gallery, and have set men about doing it. Home to dinner, and there I found my wife had discovered my boy Will'stheft and a great deal more than we imagined, at which I was vexed andintend to put him away. To my office at the Privy Seal in the afternoon, and from thence at night to the Bull Head, with Mount, Luellin, andothers, and hence to my father's, and he being at my uncle Fenner's, Iwent thither to him, and there sent for my boy's father and talked withhim about his son, and had his promise that if I will send home his boy, he will take him notwithstanding his indenture. Home at night, and findthat my wife had found out more of the boy's stealing 6s. Out of W. Hewer's closet, and hid it in the house of office, at which my heart wastroubled. To bed, and caused the boy's clothes to be brought up tomy chamber. But after we were all a-bed, the wench (which lies in ourchamber) called us to listen of a sudden, which put my wife into such afright that she shook every joint of her, and a long time that I couldnot get her out of it. The noise was the boy, we did believe, got ina desperate mood out of his bed to do himself or William [Hewer] somemischief. But the wench went down and got a candle lighted, and findingthe boy in bed, and locking the doors fast, with a candle burning allnight, we slept well, but with a great deal of fear. 

30th. We found all well in the morning below stairs, bu the boy in a sadplight of seeming sorrow; but he is the most cunning rogue that everI met with of his age. To White Hall, where I met with the Act ofIndemnity--[12 Car. II. Cap. II, an act of free and general pardon, indemnity, and oblivion. ]--(so long talked of and hoped for), with theAct of Rate for Pole-money, an for judicial proceedings. At WestminsterHall I met with Mr. Paget the lawyer, and dined with him at Heaven. Thisafternoon my wife went to Mr. Pierce's wife's child's christening, andwas urged to be godmother, but I advised her before-hand not to do it, so she did not, but as proxy for my Lady Jemimah. This the first daythat ever I saw my wife wear black patches since we were married!

 [The fashion of placing black patches on the face was introduced towards the close of the reign of Charles I. , and the practice is ridiculed in the "Spectator. "]

My Lord came to town to-day, but coming not home till very late I staidtill 10 at night, and so home on foot. Mr. Sheply and Mr. Childe thisnight at the tavern. 

31st. Early to wait upon my Lord at White Hall, and with him to theDuke's chamber. So to my office in Seething Lane. Dined at home, andafter dinner to my Lord again, who told me that he is ordered to gosuddenly to sea, and did give me some orders to be drawing up againsthis going. This afternoon I agreed to let my house quite out of my handsto Mr. Dalton (one of the wine sellers to the King, with whom I haddrunk in the old wine cellar two or three times) for L41. At nightmade even at Privy Seal for this month against tomorrow to giveup possession, but we know not to whom, though we most favour Mr. Bickerstaffe, with whom and Mr. Matthews we drank late after office wasdone at the Sun, discoursing what to do about it tomorrow against Baron, and so home and to bed. Blessed be God all things continue well with andfor me. I pray God fit me for a change of my fortune. 

SEPTEMBER 1660

September 1st. This morning I took care to get a vessel to carry myLord's things to the Downs on Monday next, and so to White Hall to myLord, where he and I did look over the Commission drawn for him by theDuke's Council, which I do not find my Lord displeased with, thoughshort of what Dr. Walker did formerly draw for him. Thence to the PrivySeal to see how things went there, and I find that Mr. Baron had bya severe warrant from the King got possession of the office from hisbrother Bickerstaffe, which is very strange, and much to our admiration, it being against all open justice. Mr. Moore and I and several othersbeing invited to-day by Mr. Goodman, a friend of his, we dined at theBullhead upon the best venison pasty that ever I eat of in my life, andwith one dish more, it was the best dinner I ever was at. Here rosein discourse at table a dispute between Mr. Moore and Dr. Clerke, theformer affirming that it was essential to a tragedy to have the argumentof it true, which the Doctor denied, and left it to me to be judge, andthe cause to be determined next Tuesday morning at the same place, uponthe eating of the remains of the pasty, and the loser to spend 10s. Allthis afternoon sending express to the fleet, to order things against myLord's coming and taking direction of my Lord about some rich furnitureto take along with him for the Princess!--[Mary, Princess Royal andPrincess of Orange, who died in December of this year. ]--And talkingof this, I hear by Mr. Townsend, that there is the greatest preparationagainst the Prince de Ligne's a coming over from the King of Spain, that ever was in England for their Embassador. Late home, and what withbusiness and my boy's roguery my mind being unquiet, I went to bed. 

2nd (Sunday). To Westminster, my Lord being gone before my coming tochapel. I and Mr. Sheply told out my money, and made even for my PrivySeal fees and gratuity money, &c. , to this day between my Lord and me. After that to chappell, where Dr. Fern, a good honest sermon upon "TheLord is my shield. " After sermon a dull anthem, and so to my Lord's (hedining abroad) and dined with Mr. Sheply. So, to St. Margarett's, andheard a good sermon upon the text "Teach us the old way, " or somethinglike it, wherein he ran over all the new tenets in policy and religion, which have brought us into all our late divisions. From church to Mrs. Crisp's (having sent Win. Hewer home to tell my wife that I couldnot come home to-night because of my Lord's going out early to-morrowmorning), where I sat late, and did give them a great deal of wine, itbeing a farewell cup to Laud Crisp. I drank till the daughter began tobe very loving to me and kind, and I fear is not so good as she shouldbe. To my Lord's, and to bed with Mr. Sheply. 

3rd. Up and to Mr. -----, the goldsmith near the new Exchange, where Ibought my wedding ring, and there, with much ado, got him to put a goldring to the jewell, which the King of Sweden did give my Lord: out ofwhich my Lord had now taken the King's picture, and intends to make aGeorge of it. This morning at my Lord's I had an opportunity to speakwith Sir George Downing, who has promised me to give me up my bond, andto pay me for my last quarter while I was at sea, that so I may pay Mr. Moore and Hawly. About noon my Lord, having taken leave of the King inthe Shield Gallery (where I saw with what kindness the King did hug myLord at his parting), I went over with him and saw him in his coach atLambeth, and there took leave of him, he going to the Downs, which putme in mind of his first voyage that ever he made, which he did beginlike this from Lambeth. In the afternoon with Mr. Moore to my house tocast up our Privy Seal accounts, where I found that my Lord's comes to400 and odd pounds, and mine to L132, out of which I do give him as goodas L25 for his pains, with which I doubt he is not satisfied, but myheart is full glad. Thence with him to Mr. Crew's, and did fetch as muchmoney as did make even our accounts between him and me. Home, and therefound Mr. Cooke come back from my Lord for me to get him some thingsbought for him to be brought after them, a toilet cap and comb case ofsilk, to make use of in Holland, for he goes to the Hague, which I cando to-morrow morning. This day my father and my uncle Fenner, and bothhis sons, have been at my house to see it, and my wife did treat themnobly with wine and anchovies. By reason of my Lord's going to-day Icould not get the office to meet to-day. 

4th. I did many things this morning at home before I went out, aslooking over the joiners, who are flooring my diningroom, and doingbusiness with Sir Williams

 ["Both Sir Williams" is a favourite expression with Pepys, meaning Sir William Batten and Sir William Penn. ]

both at the office, and so to Whitehall, and so to the Bullhead, wherewe had the remains of our pasty, where I did give my verdict against Mr. Moore upon last Saturday's wager, where Dr. Fuller coming in do confirmme in my verdict. From thence to my Lord's and despatched Mr. Cooke awaywith the things to my Lord. From thence to Axe Yard to my house, wherestanding at the door Mrs. Diana comes by, whom I took into my houseupstairs, and there did dally with her a great while, and found thatin Latin "Nulla puella negat. " So home by water, and there sat up latesetting my papers in order, and my money also, and teaching my wife hermusic lesson, in which I take great pleasure. So to bed. 

5th. To the office. From thence by coach upon the desire of theprincipal officers to a Master of Chancery to give Mr. Stowell his oath, whereby he do answer that he did hear Phineas Pett say very high wordsagainst the King a great while ago. Coming back our coach broke, and soStowell and I to Mr. Rawlinson's, and after a glass of wine parted, andI to the office, home to dinner, where (having put away my boy in themorning) his father brought him again, but I did so clear up my boy'sroguery to his father, that he could not speak against my putting himaway, and so I did give him 10s. For the boy's clothes that I madehim, and so parted and tore his indenture. All the afternoon with theprincipal officers at Sir W. Batten's about Pett's business (where Ifirst saw Col. Slingsby, who has now his appointment for Comptroller), but did bring it to no issue. This day I saw our Dedimus to be swornin the peace by, which will be shortly. In the evening my wife being alittle impatient I went along with her to buy her a necklace of pearl, which will cost L4 10s. , which I am willing to comply with her in forher encouragement, and because I have lately got money, having now aboveL200 in cash beforehand in the world. Home, and having in our way boughta rabbit and two little lobsters, my wife and I did sup late, and so tobed. Great news now-a-day of the Duke d'Anjou's

 [Philip, Duke of Anjou, afterwards Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIV. (born 1640, died 1701), married the Princess Henrietta, youngest daughter of Charles I. , who was born June 16th, 1664, at Exeter. She was known as "La belle Henriette. " In May, 1670, she came to Dover on a political mission from Louis XIV. To her brother Charles II. , but the visit was undertaken much against the wish of her husband. Her death occurred on her return to France, and was attributed to poison. It was the occasion of one of the finest of Bossuet's "Oraisons Funebres. "]

desire to marry the Princesse Henrietta. Hugh Peters is said to betaken, [Hugh Peters, born at Fowey, Cornwall, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated M. A. 1622. He was tried as one of the regicides, and executed. A broadside, entitled "The Welsh Hubub, or the Unkennelling and earthing of Hugh Peters that crafty Fox, " was printed October 3rd, 1660. ]

and the Duke of Gloucester is ill, and it is said it will prove thesmall-pox. 

6th. To Whitehall by water with Sir W. Batten, and in our passage toldme how Commissioner Pett did pay himself for the entertainment that hedid give the King at Chatham at his coming in, and 20s. A day all thetime he was in Holland, which I wonder at, and so I see there is a greatdeal of envy between the two. At Whitehall I met with Commissioner Pett, who told me how Mr. Coventry and Fairbank his solicitor are falling out, one complaining of the other for taking too great fees, which is tootrue. I find that Commissioner Pett is under great discontent, and isloth to give too much money for his place, and so do greatly desire meto go along with him in what we shall agree to give Mr. Coventry, whichI have promised him, but am unwilling to mix my fortune with him thatis going down the wind. We all met this morning and afterwards at theAdmiralty, where our business is to ask provision of victuals ready forthe ships in the Downs, which we did, Mr. Gauden promising to go himselfthither and see it done. Dined Will and I at my Lord's upon a joint ofmeat that I sent Mrs. Sarah for. Afterwards to my office and sent all mybooks to my Lord's, in order to send them to my house that I now dwellin. Home and to bed. 

7th. Not office day, and in the afternoon at home all the day, it beingthe first that I have been at home all day since I came hither. Puttingmy papers, books and other things in order, and writing of letters. Thisday my Lord set sail from the Downs for Holland. 

8th. All day also at home. At night sent for by Sir W. Pen, with whom Isat late drinking a glass of wine and discoursing, and I find him to bea very sociable man, and an able man, and very cunning. 

9th (Sunday). In the morning with Sir W. Pen to church, and a very goodsermon of Mr. Mills. Home to dinner, and Sir W. Pen with me to such as Ihad, and it was very handsome, it being the first time that he ever sawmy wife or house since we came hither. Afternoon to church with my wife, and after that home, and there walked with Major Hart, who came to seeme, in the garden, who tells me that we are all like to be speedilydisbanded;

 [The Trained Bands were abolished in 1663, but those of the City of London were specially excepted. The officers of the Trained Bands were supplied by the Hon. Artillery Company. ]

and then I lose the benefit of a muster. After supper to bed. 

10th (Office day). News of the Duke's intention to go tomorrow tothe fleet for a day or two to meet his sister. Col. Slingsby and I toWhitehall, thinking to proffer our service to the Duke to wait upon him, but meeting with Sir G. Carteret he sent us in all haste back again tohire two Catches for the present use of the Duke. So we returned andlanded at the Bear at the Bridge foot, where we saw Southwark Fair (Ihaving not at all seen Bartholomew Fair), and so to the Tower wharf, where we did hire two catches. So to the office and found Sir W. Battenat dinner with some friends upon a good chine of beef, on which I ateheartily, I being very hungry. Home, where Mr. Snow (whom afterwardswe called one another cozen) came to me to see me, and with him and oneShelston, a simple fellow that looks after an employment (that was withme just upon my going to sea last), to a tavern, where till late withthem. So home, having drunk too much, and so to bed. 

11th. At Sir W. Batten's with Sir W. Pen we drank our morning draft, andfrom thence for an hour in the office and dispatch a little business. Dined at Sir W. Batten's, and by this time I see that we are like tohave a very good correspondence and neighbourhood, but chargeable. Allthe afternoon at home looking over my carpenters. At night I calledThos. Hater out of the office to my house to sit and talk with me. Afterhe was gone I caused the girl to wash the wainscot of our parlour, which she did very well, which caused my wife and I good sport. Up tomy chamber to read a little, and wrote my Diary for three or four dayspast. The Duke of York did go to-day by break of day to the Downs. TheDuke of Gloucester ill. The House of Parliament was to adjourn to-day. Iknow not yet whether it be done or no. To bed. 

12th (Office day). This noon I expected to have had my cousin Snow andmy father come to dine with me, but it being very rainy they did notcome. My brother Tom came to my house with a letter from my brotherJohn, wherein he desires some books: Barthol. Anatom. , Rosin. Rom. Antiq. , and Gassend. Astronom. , the last of which I did give him, and anangel--[A gold coin varying in value at different times from 6s. 8d. To10s. ]--against my father buying of the others. At home all the afternoonlooking after my workmen, whose laziness do much trouble me. This daythe Parliament adjourned. 

13th. Old East comes to me in the morning with letters, and I did givehim a bottle of Northdown ale, which made the poor man almost drunk. Inthe afternoon my wife went to the burial of a child of my cozen Scott's, and it is observable that within this month my Aunt Wight was brought tobed of two girls, my cozen Stradwick of a girl and a boy, and my cozenScott of a boy, and all died. In the afternoon to Westminster, where Mr. Dalton was ready with his money to pay me for my house, but our writingsnot being drawn it could not be done to-day. I met with Mr. Hawly, whowas removing his things from Mr. Bowyer's, where he has lodged a greatwhile, and I took him and W. Bowyer to the Swan and drank, and Mr. Hawly did give me a little black rattoon, --[Probably an Indian rattancane. ]--painted and gilt. Home by water. This day the Duke of Gloucesterdied of the small-pox, by the great negligence of the doctors. 

14th (Office day). I got L42 15s. Appointed me by bill for my employmentof Secretary to the 4th of this month, it being the last money I shallreceive upon that score. My wife went this afternoon to see my mother, who I hear is very ill, at which my heart is very sad. In the afternoonLuellin comes to my house, and takes me out to the Mitre in Wood Street, where Mr. Samford, W. Symons and his wife, and Mr. Scobell, Mr. Mountand Chetwind, where they were very merry, Luellin being drunk, and Ibeing to defend the ladies from his kissing them, I kissed them myselfvery often with a great deal of mirth. Parted very late, they by coachto Westminster, and I on foot. 

15th. Met very early at our office this morning to pick out thetwenty-five ships which are to be first paid off: After that toWestminster and dined with Mr. Dalton at his office, where we had onegreat court dish, but our papers not being done we could [not] make anend of our business till Monday next. Mr. Dalton and I over the water toour landlord Vanly, with whom we agree as to Dalton becoming a tenant. Back to Westminster, where I met with Dr. Castles, who chidd me for someerrors in our Privy-Seal business; among the rest, for letting the feesof the six judges pass unpaid, which I know not what to say to, till Ispeak to Mr. Moore. I was much troubled, for fear of being forced to paythe money myself. Called at my father's going home, and bespoke mourningfor myself, for the death of the Duke of Gloucester. I found my motherpretty well. So home and to bed. 

16th (Sunday). To Dr. Hardy's church, and sat with Mr. Rawlinson andheard a good sermon upon the occasion of the Duke's death. His text was, "And is there any evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it?" Hometo dinner, having some sport with Win. [Hewer], who never had been atCommon Prayer before. After dinner I alone to Westminster, where I spentmy time walking up and down in Westminster Abbey till sermon time withBen. Palmer and Fetters the watchmaker, who told me that my Lord ofOxford is also dead of the small-pox; in whom his family dies, after 600years having that honour in their family and name. From thence to thePark, where I saw how far they had proceeded in the Pell-mell, and inmaking a river through the Park, which I had never seen before since itwas begun. 

 [This is the Mall in St. James's Park, which was made by Charles II. , the former Mall (Pall Mall) having been built upon during the Commonwealth. Charles II. Also formed the canal by throwing the several small ponds into one. ]

Thence to White Hall garden, where I saw the King in purple mourning forhis brother. 

 ["The Queen-mother of France, " says Ward, in his Diary, p. 177, "died at Agrippina, 1642, and her son Louis, 1643, for whom King Charles mourned in Oxford in purple, which is Prince's mourning. "]

So home, and in my way met with Dinah, who spoke to me and told me shehad a desire to speak too about some business when I came to Westminsteragain. Which she spoke in such a manner that I was afraid she might tellme something that I would not hear of our last meeting at my house atWestminster. Home late, being very dark. A gentleman in the Poultry hada great and dirty fall over a waterpipe that lay along the channel. 

17th. Office very early about casting up the debts of those twenty-fiveships which are to be paid off, which we are to present to the Committeeof Parliament. I did give my wife L15 this morning to go to buy mourningthings for her and me, which she did. Dined at home and Mr. Moore withme, and afterwards to Whitehall to Mr. Dalton and drank in the Cellar, where Mr. Vanly according to appointment was. Thence forth to see thePrince de Ligne, Spanish Embassador, come in to his audience, which wasdone in very great state. That being done, Dalton, Vanly, Scrivenerand some friends of theirs and I to the Axe, and signed and sealed ourwritings, and hence to the Wine cellar again, where I received L41 formy interest in my house, out of which I paid my Landlord to Michaelmasnext, and so all is even between him and me, and I freed of my poorlittle house. Home by link with my money under my arm. So to bed afterI had looked over the things my wife had bought to-day, with whichbeing not very well pleased, they costing too much, I went to bed in adiscontent. Nothing yet from sea, where my Lord and the Princess are. 

18th. At home all the morning looking over my workmen in my house. Afterdinner Sir W. Batten, Pen, and myself by coach to Westminster Hall, where we met Mr. Wayte the lawyer to the Treasurer, and so we went up tothe Committee of Parliament, which are to consider of the debts of theArmy and Navy, and did give in our account of the twenty-five ships. Col. Birch was very impertinent and troublesome. But at last we didagree to fit the accounts of our ships more perfectly for their viewwithin a few days, that they might see what a trouble it is to do whatthey desire. From thence Sir Williams both going by water home, I tookMr. Wayte to the Rhenish winehouse, and drank with him and so parted. Thence to Mr. Crew's and spoke with Mr. Moore about the business ofpaying off Baron our share of the dividend. So on foot home, by the waybuying a hat band and other things for my mourning to-morrow. So homeand to bed. This day I heard that the Duke of York, upon the news of thedeath of his brother yesterday, came hither by post last night. 

19th (Office day). I put on my mourning and went to the office. At noonthinking to have found my wife in hers, I found that the tailor hadfailed her, at which I was vexed because of an invitation that we haveto a dinner this day, but after having waited till past one o'clock Iwent, and left her to put on some other clothes and come after me to theMitre tavern in Wood-street (a house of the greatest note in London), where I met W. Symons, and D. Scobell, and their wives, Mr. Samford, Luellin, Chetwind, one Mr. Vivion, and Mr. White, [According to Noble, Jeremiah White married Lady Frances Cromwell's waiting-woman, in Oliver's lifetime, and they lived together fifty years. Lady Frances had two husbands, Mr. Robert Rich and Sir John Russell of Chippenham, the last of whom she survived fifty-two years dying 1721-22 The story is, that Oliver found White on his knees to Frances Cromwell, and that, to save himself, he pretended to have been soliciting her interest with her waiting-woman, whom Oliver compelled him to marry. (Noble's "Life of Cromwell, " vol. Ii. Pp. 151, 152. ) White was born in 1629 and died 1707. ]

formerly chaplin to the Lady Protectresse--[Elizabeth, wife of OliverCromwell. ]--(and still so, and one they say that is likely to get myLady Francess for his wife). Here we were very merry and had a very gooddinner, my wife coming after me hither to us. 

Among other pleasures some of us fell to handycapp, ["A game at cards not unlike Loo, but with this difference, the winner of one trick has to put in a double stake, the winner of two tricks a triple stake, and so on. Thus, if six persons are playing, and the general stake is 1s. , suppose A gains the three tricks, he gains 6s. , and has to 'hand i' the cap, ' or pool, 4s. For the next deal. Suppose A gains two tricks and B one, then A gains 4s. And B 2s. , and A has to stake 3s. And B 2s. For the next deal. "--Hindley's Tavern Anecdotes. --M. B. ]

a sport that I never knew before, which was very good. We staid tillit was very late; it rained sadly, but we made shift to get coaches. Sohome and to bed. 

20th. At home, and at the office, and in the garden walking with bothSir Williams all the morning. After dinner to Whitehall to Mr. Dalton, and with him to my house and took away all my papers that were left inmy closet, and so I have now nothing more in the house or to do withit. We called to speak with my Landlord Beale, but he was not within butspoke with the old woman, who takes it very ill that I did not let herhave it, but I did give her an answer. From thence to Sir G. Downing andstaid late there (he having sent for me to come to him), which was totell me how my Lord Sandwich had disappointed him of a ship to bringover his child and goods, and made great complaint thereof; but I gothim to write a letter to Lawson, which it may be may do the business forhim, I writing another also about it. While he was writing, and his Ladyand I had a great deal of discourse in praise of Holland. By water tothe Bridge, and so to Major Hart's lodgings in Cannon-street, who usedme very kindly with wine and good discourse, particularly upon the illmethod which Colonel Birch and the Committee use in defending of thearmy and the navy; promising the Parliament to save them a great dealof money, when we judge that it will cost the King more than if they hadnothing to do with it, by reason of their delays and scrupulous enquirysinto the account of both. So home and to bed. 

21st (Office day). There all the morning and afternoon till 4 o'clock. Hence to Whitehall, thinking to have put up my books at my Lord's, butam disappointed from want of a chest which I had at Mr. Bowyer's. Backby water about 8 o'clock, and upon the water saw the corpse of the Dukeof Gloucester brought down Somerset House stairs, to go by water toWestminster, to be buried to-night. I landed at the old Swan and went tothe Hoop Tavern, and (by a former agreement) sent for Mr. Chaplin, whowith Nicholas Osborne and one Daniel came to us and we drank off twoor three quarts of wine, which was very good; the drawing of our winecausing a great quarrel in the house between the two drawers whichshould draw us the best, which caused a great deal of noise and fallingout till the master parted them, and came up to us and did give us alarge account of the liberty that he gives his servants, all alike, todraw what wine they will to please his customers; and we did eat above200 walnuts. About to o'clock we broke up and so home, and in my way Icalled in with them at Mr. Chaplin's, where Nicholas Osborne did give mea barrel of samphire, [Samphire was formerly a favourite pickle; hence the "dangerous trade" of the samphire gatherer ("King Lear, " act iv. Sc. 6) who supplied the demand. It was sold in the streets, and one of the old London cries was "I ha' Rock Samphier, Rock Samphier!"]

and showed me the keys of Mardyke Fort, [A fort four miles east of Dunkirk, probably dismantled when that town was sold to Louis XIV. ]

which he that was commander of the fort sent him as a token when thefort was demolished, which I was mightily pleased to see, and will getthem of him if I can. Home, where I found my boy (my maid's brother)come out of the country to-day, but was gone to bed and so I could notsee him to-night. To bed. 

22nd. This morning I called up my boy, and found him a pretty, well-looked boy, and one that I think will please me. I went thismorning by land to Westminster along with Luellin, who came to my housethis morning to get me to go with him to Capt. Allen to speak with himfor his brother to go with him to Constantinople, but could not findhim. We walked on to Fleet street, where at Mr. Standing's in SalsburyCourt we drank our morning draft and had a pickled herring. Among otherdiscourse here he told me how the pretty woman that I always loved atthe beginning of Cheapside that sells child's coats was served by theLady Bennett (a famous strumpet), who by counterfeiting to fall into aswoon upon the sight of her in her shop, became acquainted with her, andat last got her ends of her to lie with a gentleman that had hired herto procure this poor soul for him. To Westminster to my Lord's, andthere in the house of office vomited up all my breakfast, my stomachbeing ill all this day by reason of the last night's debauch. Here Isent to Mr. Bowyer's for my chest and put up my books and sent themhome. I staid here all day in my Lord's chamber and upon the leadsgazing upon Diana, who looked out of a window upon me. At last I wentout to Mr. Harper's, and she standing over the way at the gate, I wentover to her and appointed to meet to-morrow in the afternoon at myLord's. Here I bought a hanging jack. From thence by coach home by theway at the New Exchange

 [In the Strand; built, under the auspices of James I. , in 1608, out of the stables of Durham House, the site of the present Adelphi. The New Exchange stood where Coutts's banking-house now is. "It was built somewhat on the model of the Royal Exchange, with cellars beneath, a walk above, and rows of shops over that, filled chiefly with milliners, sempstresses, and the like. " It was also called "Britain's Burse. " "He has a lodging in the Strand... To watch when ladies are gone to the china houses, or to the Exchange, that he may meet them by chance and give them presents, some two or three hundred pounds worth of toys, to be laughed at"--Ben Jonson, The Silent Woman, act i. Sc. 1. ]

I bought a pair of short black stockings, to wear over a pair of silkones for mourning; and here I met with The. Turner and Joyce, buying ofthings to go into mourning too for the Duke, (which is now the modeof all the ladies in town), where I wrote some letters by the post toHinchinbroke to let them know that this day Mr. Edw. Pickering is comefrom my Lord, and says that he left him well in Holland, and that hewill be here within three or four days. To-day not well of my lastnight's drinking yet. I had the boy up to-night for his sister to teachhim to put me to bed, and I heard him read, which he did pretty well. 

23rd (Lord's day). My wife got up to put on her mourning to-day and togo to Church this morning. I up and set down my journall for these 5days past. This morning came one from my father's with a black clothcoat, made of my short cloak, to walk up and down in. To church mywife and I, with Sir W. Batten, where we heard of Mr. Mills a very goodsermon upon these words, "So run that ye may obtain. " After dinner allalone to Westminster. At Whitehall I met with Mr. Pierce and his wife(she newly come forth after childbirth) both in mourning for the Duke ofGloucester. She went with Mr. Child to Whitehall chapel and Mr. Piercewith me to the Abbey, where I expected to hear Mr. Baxter or Mr. Rowepreach their farewell sermon, and in Mr. Symons's pew I sat and heardMr. Rowe. Before sermon I laughed at the reader, who in his prayerdesires of God that He would imprint his word on the thumbs of our righthands and on the right great toes of our right feet. In the midst of thesermon some plaster fell from the top of the Abbey, that made me and allthe rest in our pew afeard, and I wished myself out. After sermon withMr. Pierce to Whitehall, and from thence to my Lord, but Diana did notcome according to our agreement. So calling at my father's (wheremy wife had been this afternoon but was gone home) I went home. Thisafternoon, the King having news of the Princess being come to Margate, he and the Duke of York went down thither in barges to her. 

24th (Office day). From thence to dinner by coach with my wife to myCozen Scott's, and the company not being come, I went over the way tothe Barber's. So thither again to dinner, where was my uncle Fenner andmy aunt, my father and mother, and others. Among the rest my Cozen Rich. Pepys, [Richard Pepys, eldest son of Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. He went to Boston, Mass. , in 1634, and returned to England about 1646. ]

their elder brother, whom I had not seen these fourteen years, eversince he came from New England. It was strange for us to go a gossipingto her, she having newly buried her child that she was brought tobed of. I rose from table and went to the Temple church, where I hadappointed Sir W. Batten to meet him; and there at Sir Heneage FinchSollicitor General's chambers, before him and Sir W. Wilde, [William Wilde, elected Recorder on November 3rd, 1659, and appointed one of the commissioners sent to Breda to desire Charles II. To return to England immediately. He was knighted after the King's return, called to the degree of Serjeant, and created a baronet, all in the same year. In 1668 he ceased to be Recorder, and was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1673 he was removed to the King's Bench. He was turned out of his office in 1679 on account of his action in connection with the Popish Plot, and died November 23rd of the same year. ]

Recorder of London (whom we sent for from his chamber) we were swornjustices of peace for Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Southampton; withwhich honour I did find myself mightily pleased, though I am whollyignorant in the duty of a justice of peace. From thence with Sir Williamto Whitehall by water (old Mr. Smith with us) intending to speak withSecretary Nicholas about the augmentation of our salaries, but beingforth we went to the Three Tuns tavern, where we drank awhile, and thencame in Col. Slingsby and another gentleman and sat with us. From thenceto my Lord's to enquire whether they have had any thing from my Lordor no. Knocking at the door, there passed me Mons. L'Impertinent [Mr. Butler] for whom I took a coach and went with him to a dancing meetingin Broad Street, at the house that was formerly the glass-house, LukeChannel, Master of the School, where I saw good dancing, but it growinglate, and the room very full of people and so very hot, I went home. 

25th. To the office, where Sir W. Batten, Colonel Slingsby, and I satawhile, and Sir R. Ford

 [Sir Richard Ford was one of the commissioners sent to Breda to desire Charles II. To return to England immediately. ]

coming to us about some business, we talked together of the interestof this kingdom to have a peace with Spain and a war with Franceand Holland; where Sir R. Ford talked like a man of great reason andexperience. And afterwards I did send for a cup of tee'

 [That excellent and by all Physicians, approved, China drink, called by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Tay alias Tee, is sold at the Sultaness Head Coffee-House, in Sweetings Rents, by the "Royal Exchange, London. " "Coffee, chocolate, and a kind of drink called tee, sold in almost every street in 1659. "--Rugge's Diurnal. It is stated in "Boyne's Trade Tokens, " ed. Williamson, vol. I. , 1889, p. 593 "that the word tea occurs on no other tokens than those issued from 'the Great Turk' (Morat ye Great) coffeehouse in Exchange Alley. The Dutch East India Company introduced tea into Europe in 1610, and it is said to have been first imported into England from Holland about 1650. The English "East India Company" purchased and presented 2 lbs. Of tea to Charles II. In 1660, and 23 lbs. In 1666. The first order for its importation by the company was in 1668, and the first consignment of it, amounting to 143 lbs. , was received from Bantam in 1669 (see Sir George Birdwood's "Report on the Old Records at the India Office, " 1890, p. 26). By act 12 Car. II. , capp. 23, 24, a duty of 8d. Per gallon was imposed upon the infusion of tea, as well as on chocolate and sherbet. ]

(a China drink) of which I never had drank before, and went away. Thencame Col. Birch and Sir R. Browne by a former appointment, and withthem from Tower wharf in the barge belonging to our office we went toDeptford to pay off the ship Success, which (Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Pen coming afterwards to us) we did, Col. Birch being a mighty busy manand one that is the most indefatigable and forward to make himself workof any man that ever I knew in my life. At the Globe we had a verygood dinner, and after that to the pay again, which being finished wereturned by water again, and I from our office with Col. Slingsby bycoach to Westminster (I setting him down at his lodgings by the way) toinquire for my Lord's coming thither (the King and the Princess

 ["The Princess Royall came from Gravesend to Whitehall by water, attended by a noble retinue of about one hundred persons, gentry, and servants, and tradesmen, and tirewomen, and others, that took that opportunity to advance their fortunes, by coming in with so excellent a Princess as without question she is. "-Rugge's Diurnal. A broadside, entitled "Ourania, the High and Mighty Lady the Princess Royal of Aurange, congratulated on her most happy arrival, September the 25th, 1660, " was printed on the 29th. ]

coming up the river this afternoon as we were at our pay), and I foundhim gone to Mr. Crew's, where I found him well, only had got some cornsupon his foot which was not well yet. My Lord told me how the ship thatbrought the Princess and him (The Tredagh) did knock six times upon theKentish Knock, [A shoal in the North Sea, off the Thames mouth, outside the Long Sand, fifteen miles N. N. E. Of the North Foreland. It measures seven miles north-eastward, and about two miles in breadth. It is partly dry at low water. A revolving light was set up in 1840. ]

which put them in great fear for the ship; but got off well. He toldme also how the King had knighted Vice-Admiral Lawson and Sir RichardStayner. From him late and by coach home, where the plasterers being atwork in all the rooms in my house, my wife was fain to make a bed uponthe ground for her and me, and so there we lay all night. 

26th. Office day. That done to the church, to consult about our gallery. So home to dinner, where I found Mrs. Hunt, who brought me a letter forme to get my Lord to sign for her husband, which I shall do for her. Athome with the workmen all the afternoon, our house being in a most sadpickle. In the evening to the office, where I fell a-reading of Speed'sGeography for a while. So home thinking to have found Will at home, buthe not being come home but gone somewhere else I was very angry, andwhen he came did give him a very great check for it, and so I went tobed. 

27th. To my Lord at Mr. Crew's, and there took order about some businessof his, and from thence home to my workmen all the afternoon. In theevening to my Lord's, and there did read over with him and Dr. Walkermy lord's new commission for sea, and advised thereupon how to have itdrawn. So home and to bed. 

28th (Office day). This morning Sir W. Batten and Col. Slingsby wentwith Col. Birch and Sir Wm. Doyly to Chatham to pay off a ship there. So only Sir W. Pen and I left here in town. All the afternoon among myworkmen till 10 or 11 at night, and did give them drink and very merrywith them, it being my luck to meet with a sort of drolling workmen onall occasions. To bed. 

29th. All day at home to make an end of our dirty work of theplasterers, and indeed my kitchen is now so handsome that I did notrepent of all the trouble that I have been put to, to have it done. Thisday or yesterday, I hear, Prince Rupert

 [This is the first mention in the Diary of this famous prince, third son of Frederick, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, and Elizabeth, daughter of James I. , born December 17th, 1619. He died at his house in Spring Gardens, November 29th, 1682. ]

is come to Court; but welcome to nobody. 

30th (Lord's day). To our Parish church both forenoon and afternoon allalone. At night went to bed without prayers, my house being every wherefoul above stairs. 

OCTOBER 1660

October 1st. Early to my Lord to Whitehall, and there he did give mesome work to do for him, and so with all haste to the office. Dined athome, and my father by chance with me. After dinner he and I advisedabout hangings for my rooms, which are now almost fit to be hung, thepainters beginning to do their work to-day. After dinner he and I to theMiter, where with my uncle Wight (whom my father fetched thither), whileI drank a glass of wine privately with Mr. Mansell, a poor Reformado ofthe Charles, who came to see me. Here we staid and drank three or fourpints of wine and so parted. I home to look after my workmen, and atnight to bed. The Commissioners are very busy disbanding of the army, which they say do cause great robbing. My layings out upon my house anfurniture are so great that I fear I shall not be able to go throughthem without breaking one of my bags of L100, I having but L200 yet inthe world. 

2nd. With Sir Wm. Pen by water to Whitehall, being this morning visitedbefore I went out by my brother Tom, who told me that for his lying outof doors a day and a night my father had forbade him to come any moreinto his house, at which I was troubled, and did soundly chide him fordoing so, and upon confessing his fault I told him I would speak to myfather. At Whitehall I met with Captain Clerk, and took him to the Legin King Street, and did give him a dish or two of meat, and his purserthat was with him, for his old kindness to me on board. After dinner Ito Whitehall, where I met with Mrs. Hunt, and was forced to wait uponMr. Scawen at a committee to speak for her husband, which I did. Afterthat met with Luellin, Mr. Fage, and took them both to the Dog, and didgive them a glass of wine. After that at Will's I met with Mr. Spicer, and with him to the Abbey to see them at vespers. There I found but athin congregation already. So I see that religion, be it what it will, is but a humour, [The four humours of the body described by the old physicians were supposed to exert their influence upon the mind, and in course of time the mind as well as the body was credited with its own particular humours. The modern restricted use of the word humour did not become general until the eighteenth century. ]

and so the esteem of it passeth as other things do. From thence with himto see Robin Shaw, who has been a long time ill, and I have not seenhim since I came from sea. He is much changed, but in hopes to be wellagain. From thence by coach to my father's, and discoursed with himabout Tom, and did give my advice to take him home again, which I thinkhe will do in prudence rather than put him upon learning the way ofbeing worse. So home, and from home to Major Hart, who is just goingout of town to-morrow, and made much of me, and did give me the oaths ofsupremacy and allegiance, that I may be capable of my arrears. So homeagain, where my wife tells me what she has bought to-day, namely, a bedand furniture for her chamber, with which very well pleased I went tobed. 

3d. With Sir W. Batten and Pen by water to White Hall, where a meetingof the Dukes of York and Albemarle, my Lord Sandwich and all theprincipal officers, about the Winter Guard, but we determined ofnothing. To my Lord's, who sent a great iron chest to White Hall; andI saw it carried, into the King's closet, where I saw most incomparablepictures. Among the rest a book open upon a desk, which I durst havesworn was a reall book, and back again to my Lord, and dined all alonewith him, who do treat me with a great deal of respect; and after dinnerdid discourse an hour with me, and advise about some way to get himselfsome money to make up for all his great expenses, saying that hebelieved that he might have any thing that he would ask of the King. This day Mr. Sheply and all my Lord's goods came from sea, some of themlaid of the Wardrobe and some brought to my Lord's house. From thenceto our office, where we met and did business, and so home and spent theevening looking upon the painters that are at work in my house. This dayI heard the Duke speak of a great design that he and my Lord of Pembrokehave, and a great many others, of sending a venture to some parts ofAfrica to dig for gold ore there. They intend to admit as many as willventure their money, and so make themselves a company. L250 is thelowest share for every man. But I do not find that my Lord do much likeit. At night Dr. Fairbrother (for so he is lately made of the Civil Law)brought home my wife by coach, it being rainy weather, she having beenabroad today to buy more furniture for her house. 

4th. This morning I was busy looking over papers at the office allalone, and being visited by Lieut. Lambert of the Charles (to whom I wasformerly much beholden), I took him along with me to a little alehousehard by our office, whither my cozen Thomas Pepys the turner had sentfor me to show me two gentlemen that had a great desire to be known tome, one his name is Pepys, of our family, but one that I never heard ofbefore, and the other a younger son of Sir Tho. Bendishes, and so weall called cozens. After sitting awhile and drinking, my two new cozens, myself, and Lieut. Lambert went by water to Whitehall, and from thenceI and Lieut. Lambert to Westminster Abbey, where we saw Dr. Frewentranslated to the Archbishoprick of York. Here I saw the Bishops ofWinchester, Bangor, Rochester, Bath and Wells, and Salisbury, all intheir habits, in King Henry Seventh's chappell. But, Lord! at theirgoing out, how people did most of them look upon them as strangecreatures, and few with any kind of love or respect. From thence at 2to my Lord's, where we took Mr. Sheply and Wm. Howe to the Raindeer, andhad some oysters, which were very good, the first I have eat this year. So back to my Lord's to dinner, and after dinner Lieut. Lambert and Idid look upon my Lord's model, and he told me many things in a ship thatI desired to understand. From thence by water I (leaving Lieut. Lambertat Blackfriars) went home, and there by promise met with Robert Shaw andJack Spicer, who came to see me, and by the way I met upon Tower Hillwith Mr. Pierce the surgeon and his wife, and took them home and didgive them good wine, ale, and anchovies, and staid them till night, and so adieu. Then to look upon my painters that are now at work in myhouse. At night to bed. 

5th. Office day; dined at home, and all the afternoon at home to see mypainters make an end of their work, which they did to-day to my content, and I am in great joy to see my house likely once again to be clean. Atnight to bed. 

6th. Col. Slingsby and I at the office getting a catch ready for thePrince de Ligne to carry his things away to-day, who is now going homeagain. About noon comes my cozen H. Alcock, for whom I brought a letterfor my Lord to sign to my Lord Broghill for some preferment in Ireland, whither he is now a-going. After him comes Mr. Creed, who brought mesome books from Holland with him, well bound and good books, which Ithought he did intend to give me, but I found that I must pay him. Hedined with me at my house, and from thence to Whitehall together, whereI was to give my Lord an account of the stations and victualls of thefleet in order to the choosing of a fleet fit for him to take to sea, to bring over the Queen, but my Lord not coming in before 9 at night Istaid no longer for him, but went back again home and so to bed. 

7th (Lord's day). To White Hall on foot, calling at my father's tochange my long black cloak for a short one (long cloaks being now quiteout); but he being gone to church, I could not get one, and thereforeI proceeded on and came to my Lord before he went to chapel and so wentwith him, where I heard Dr. Spurstow preach before the King a poor drysermon; but a very good anthem of Captn. Cooke's afterwards. Going outof chapel I met with Jack Cole, my old friend (whom I had not seen agreat while before), and have promised to renew acquaintance in Londontogether. To my Lord's and dined with him; he all dinner time talkingFrench to me, and telling me the story how the Duke of York hath got myLord Chancellor's daughter with child, [Anne Hyde, born March 12th, 1637, daughter of Edward, first Earl of Clarendon. She was attached to the court of the Princess of Orange, daughter of Charles I. , 1654, and contracted to James, Duke of York, at Breda, November 24th, 1659. The marriage was avowed in London September 3rd, 1660. She joined the Church of Rome in 1669, and died March 31st, 1671. ]

and that she, do lay it to him, and that for certain he did promise hermarriage, and had signed it with his blood, but that he by stealth hadgot the paper out of her cabinet. And that the King would have him tomarry her, but that he will not. 

 [The Duke of York married Anne Hyde, and he avowed the marriage September 3rd, so that Pepys was rather behindhand in his information. ]

So that the thing is very bad for the Duke, and them all; but my Lord domake light of it, as a thing that he believes is not a new thing for theDuke to do abroad. Discoursing concerning what if the Duke should marryher, my Lord told me that among his father's many old sayings that hehad wrote in a book of his, this is one--that he that do get a wenchwith child and marry her afterwards is as if a man should----in his hatand then clap it on his head. I perceive my Lord is grown a man veryindifferent in all matters of religion, and so makes nothing ofthese things. After dinner to the Abbey, where I heard them read thechurch-service, but very ridiculously, that indeed I do not in myselflike it at all. A poor cold sermon of Dr. Lamb's, one of the prebends, in his habit, came afterwards, and so all ended, and by my troth apitiful sorry devotion that these men pay. So walked home by land, andbefore supper I read part of the Marian persecution in Mr. Fuller. So tosupper, prayers, and to bed. 

8th. Office day, and my wife being gone out to buy some household stuff, I dined all alone, and after dinner to Westminster, in my way meetingMr. Moore coming to me, who went back again with me calling at severalplaces about business, at my father's about gilded leather for mydining room, at Mr. Crew's about money, at my Lord's about the same, butmeeting not Mr. Sheply there I went home by water, and Mr. Moore withme, who staid and supped with me till almost 9 at night. We love oneanother's discourse so that we cannot part when we do meet. He tells methat the profit of the Privy Seal is much fallen, for which I am verysorry. He gone and I to bed. 

9th. This morning Sir W. Batten with Colonel Birch to Deptford, to payoff two ships. Sir W. Pen and I staid to do business, and afterwardstogether to White Hall, where I went to my Lord, and found him in bednot well, and saw in his chamber his picture, --[Lord Sandwich's portraitby Lely, see post, 22nd of this same month. ]--very well done; and amwith child

 [A figurative expression for an eager longing desire, used by Udall and by Spenser. The latest authority given by Dr. Murray in the "New English Dictionary, " is Bailey in 1725. ]

till I get it copied out, which I hope to do when he is gone to sea. ToWhitehall again, where at Mr. Coventry's chamber I met with Sir W. Penagain, and so with him to Redriffe by water, and from thence walkedover the fields to Deptford (the first pleasant walk I have had a greatwhile), and in our way had a great deal of merry discourse, and findhim to be a merry fellow and pretty good natured, and sings very bawdysongs. So we came and found our gentlemen and Mr. Prin at the pay. Aboutnoon we dined together, and were very merry at table telling of tales. After dinner to the pay of another ship till 10 at night, and so home inour barge, a clear moonshine night, and it was 12 o'clock before we gothome, where I found my wife in bed, and part of our chambers hung to-dayby the upholster, but not being well done I was fretted, and so in adiscontent to bed. I found Mr. Prin a good, honest, plain man, but inhis discourse not very free or pleasant. Among all the tales that passedamong us to-day, he told us of one Damford, that, being a black man, didscald his beard with mince-pie, and it came up again all white in thatplace, and continued to his dying day. Sir W. Pen told us a good jestabout some gentlemen blinding of the drawer, and who he catched was topay the reckoning, and so they got away, and the master of the housecoming up to see what his man did, his man got hold of him, thinkingit to be one of the gentlemen, and told him that he was to pay thereckoning. 

10th. Office day all the morning. In the afternoon with the upholsterseeing him do things to my mind, and to my content he did fit my chamberand my wife's. At night comes Mr. Moore, and staid late with me to tellme how Sir Hards. Waller--[Sir Hardress Waller, Knt. , one of Charles I. Judges. His sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life. ]--(who onlypleads guilty), Scott, Coke, Peters, Harrison, [General Thomas Harrison, son of a butcher at Newcastle-under-Lyme, appointed by Cromwell to convey Charles I. From Windsor to Whitehall, in order to his trial. He signed the warrant for the execution of the King. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered on the 13th. ]

&c. Were this day arraigned at the bar at the Sessions House, therebeing upon the bench the Lord Mayor, General Monk, my Lord of Sandwich, &c. ; such a bench of noblemen as had not been ever seen in England! Theyall seem to be dismayed, and will all be condemned without question. InSir Orlando Bridgman's charge, he did wholly rip up the unjustness ofthe war against the King from the beginning, and so it much reflectsupon all the Long Parliament, though the King had pardoned them, yetthey must hereby confess that the King do look upon them as traitors. To-morrow they are to plead what they have to say. At night to bed. 

11th. In the morning to my Lord's, where I met with Mr. Creed, and withhim and Mr. Blackburne to the Rhenish wine house, where we sat drinkingof healths a great while, a thing which Mr. Blackburne formerly wouldnot upon any terms have done. After we had done there Mr. Creed and I tothe Leg in King Street, to dinner, where he and I and my Will had a goodudder to dinner, and from thence to walk in St. James's Park, where weobserved the several engines at work to draw up water, with which sightI was very much pleased. Above all the rest, I liked best that which Mr. Greatorex brought, which is one round thing going within all with a pairof stairs round; round which being laid at an angle of 45 deg. , do carryup the water with a great deal of ease. Here, in the Park, we met withMr. Salisbury, who took Mr. Creed and me to the Cockpitt to see "TheMoore of Venice, " which was well done. Burt acted the Moore; 'by thesame token, a very pretty lady that sat by me, called out, to seeDesdemona smothered. From thence with Mr. Creed to Hercules Pillars, where we drank and so parted, and I went home. 

12th. Office day all the morning, and from thence with Sir W. Batten andthe rest of the officers to a venison pasty of his at the Dolphin, wheredined withal Col. Washington, Sir Edward Brett, and Major Norwood, verynoble company. After dinner I went home, where I found Mr. Cooke, whotold me that my Lady Sandwich is come to town to-day, whereupon I wentto Westminster to see her, and found her at super, so she made me sitdown all alone with her, and after supper staid and talked with her, she showing me most extraordinary love and kindness, and do give me goodassurance of my uncle's resolution to make me his heir. From thence homeand to bed. 

13th. To my Lord's in the morning, where I met with Captain Cuttance, but my Lord not being up I went out to Charing Cross, to seeMajor-general Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered; which was donethere, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. Hewas presently cut down, and his head and heart shown to the people, atwhich there was great shouts of joy. It is said, that he said that hewas sure to come shortly at the right hand of Christ to judge them thatnow had judged him; and that his wife do expect his coming again. Thusit was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall, and to see thefirst blood shed in revenge for the blood of the King at Charing Cross. From thence to my Lord's, and took Captain Cuttance and Mr. Sheply tothe Sun Tavern, and did give them some oysters. After that I went bywater home, where I was angry with my wife for her things lying about, and in my passion kicked the little fine basket, which I bought her inHolland, and broke it, which troubled me after I had done it. Within allthe afternoon setting up shelves in my study. At night to bed. 

14th (Lord's day). Early to my Lord's, in my way meeting with Dr. Fairbrother, who walked with me to my father's back again, and there wedrank my morning draft, my father having gone to church and my motherasleep in bed. Here he caused me to put my hand among a great manyhonorable hands to a paper or certificate in his behalf. To White Hallchappell, where one Dr. Crofts made an indifferent sermon, and after itan anthem, ill sung, which made the King laugh. Here I first did see thePrincess Royal since she came into England. Here I also observed, howthe Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wantonlythrough the hangings that parts the King's closet and the closet wherethe ladies sit. To my Lord's, where I found my wife, and she and I diddine with my Lady (my Lord dining with my Lord Chamberlain), who didtreat my wife with a good deal of respect. In the evening we went homethrough the rain by water in a sculler, having borrowed some coats ofMr. Sheply. So home, wet and dirty, and to bed. 

15th. Office all the morning. My wife and I by water; I landed her atWhitefriars, she went to my father's to dinner, it being my father'swedding day, there being a very great dinner, and only the Fenners andJoyces there. This morning Mr. Carew

 [John Carew signed the warrant for the execution of Charles I. He held the religion of the Fifth Monarchists, and was tried October 12th, 1660. He refused to avail himself of many opportunities of escape, and suffered death with much composure. ]

was hanged and quartered at Charing Cross; but his quarters, by a greatfavour, are not to be hanged up. I was forced to go to my Lord's to gethim to meet the officers of the Navy this afternoon, and so could not goalong with her, but I missed my Lord, who was this day upon the benchat the Sessions house. So I dined there, and went to White Hall, where Imet with Sir W. Batten and Pen, who with the Comptroller, Treasurer, andMr. Coventry (at his chamber) made up a list of such ships as are fitto be kept out for the winter guard, and the rest to be paid off by theParliament when they can get money, which I doubt will not be a greatwhile. That done, I took coach, and called my wife at my father's, andso homewards, calling at Thos. Pepys the turner's for some things thatwe wanted. And so home, where I fell to read "The Fruitless Precaution"(a book formerly recommended by Dr. Clerke at sea to me), which I readin bed till I had made an end of it, and do find it the best writ talethat ever I read in my life. After that done to sleep, which I did notvery well do, because that my wife having a stopping in her nose shesnored much, which I never did hear her do before. 

16th. This morning my brother Tom came to me, with whom I made even formy last clothes to this day, and having eaten a dish of anchovies withhim in the morning, my wife and I did intend to go forth to see a playat the Cockpit this afternoon, but Mr. Moore coming to me, my wifestaid at home, and he and I went out together, with whom I called atthe upholsters and several other places that I had business with, andso home with him to the Cockpit, where, understanding that "Wit withoutmoney" was acted, I would not stay, but went home by water, by the wayreading of the other two stories that are in the book that I read lastnight, which I do not like so well as it. Being come home, Will. Toldme that my Lord had a mind to speak with me to-night; so I returnedby water, and, coming there, it was only to enquire how the ships wereprovided with victuals that are to go with him to fetch over the Queen, which I gave him a good account of. He seemed to be in a melancholyhumour, which, I was told by W. Howe, was for that he had lately losta great deal of money at cards, which he fears he do too much addicthimself to now-a-days. So home by water and to bed. 

17th. Office day. At noon came Mr. Creed to me, whom I took alongwith me to the Feathers in Fish Street, where I was invited by CaptainCuttance to dinner, a dinner made by Mr. Dawes and his brother. We hadtwo or three dishes of meat well done; their great design was to get meconcerned in a business of theirs about a vessel of theirs that is inthe service, hired by the King, in which I promise to do them all theservice I can. From thence home again with Mr. Crew, where I findingMrs. The. Turner and her aunt Duke I would not be seen but walked in thegarden till they were gone, where Mr. Spong came to me and Mr. Creed, Mr. Spong and I went to our music to sing, and he being gone, my wifeand I went to put up my books in order in closet, and I to give her herbooks. After that to bed. 

18th. This morning, it being expected that Colonel Hacker and Axtellshould die, I went to Newgate, but found they were reprieved tillto-morrow. So to my aunt Fenner's, where with her and my uncle I drankmy morning draft. So to my father's, and did give orders for a pairof black baize linings to be made me for my breeches against to-morrowmorning, which was done. So to my Lord's, where I spoke with my Lord, and he would have had me dine with him, but I went thence to Mr. Blackburne, where I met my wife and my Will's father and mother (thefirst time that ever I saw them), where we had a very fine dinner. Mr. Creed was also there. This day by her high discourse I found Mrs. Blackburne to be a very high dame and a costly one. Home with my wifeby coach. This afternoon comes Mr. Chaplin and N. Osborn to my house, ofwhom I made very much, and kept them with me till late, and so to bed. At my coming home. I did find that The. Turner hath sent for a pair ofdoves that my wife had promised her; and because she did not send themin the best cage, she sent them back again with a scornful letter, withwhich I was angry, but yet pretty well pleased that she was crossed. 

19th. Office in the morning. This morning my dining-room was finishedwith green serge hanging and gilt leather, which is very handsome. Thismorning Hacker and Axtell were hanged and quartered, as the rest are. This night I sat up late to make up my accounts ready against to-morrowfor my Lord. I found him to be above L80 in my debt, which is a goodsight, and I bless God for it. 

20th. This morning one came to me to advise with me where to make me awindow into my cellar in lieu of one which Sir W. Batten had stoppedup, and going down into my cellar to look I stepped into a great heapof----by which I found that Mr. Turner's house of office is full andcomes into my cellar, which do trouble me, but I shall have it helped. To my Lord's by land, calling at several places about business, where Idined with my Lord and Lady; when he was very merry, and did talk veryhigh how he would have a French cook, and a master of his horse, and hislady and child to wear black patches; which methought was strange, buthe is become a perfect courtier; and, among other things, my Lady sayingthat she could get a good merchant for her daughter Jem. , he answered, that he would rather see her with a pedlar's pack at her back, so shemarried a gentleman, than she should marry a citizen. This afternoon, going through London, and calling at Crowe's the upholster's, in SaintBartholomew's, I saw the limbs of some of our new traitors set uponAldersgate, which was a sad sight to see; and a bloody week this and thelast have been, there being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered. Home, andafter writing a letter to my uncle by the post, I went to bed. 

21st (Lord's day). To the Parish church in the morning, where a goodsermon by Mr. Mills. After dinner to my Lord's, and from thence to theAbbey, where I met Spicer and D. Vines and others of the old crew. Soleaving my boy at the Abbey against I came back, we went to Prior's bythe Hall back door, but there being no drink to be had we went away, and so to the Crown in the Palace Yard, I and George Vines by the waycalling at their house, where he carried me up to the top of his turret, where there is Cooke's head set up for a traytor, and Harrison's set upon the other side of Westminster Hall. Here I could see them plainly, asalso a very fair prospect about London. From the Crown to the Abbey tolook for my boy, but he was gone thence, and so he being a novice I wasat a loss what was become of him. I called at my Lord's (where I foundMr. Adams, Mr. Sheply's friend) and at my father's, but found him not. So home, where I found him, but he had found the way home well enough, of which I was glad. So after supper, and reading of some chapters, Iwent to bed. This day or two my wife has been troubled with her boils inthe old place, which do much trouble her. Today at noon (God forgive me)I strung my lute, which I had not touched a great while before. 

22nd. Office day; after that to dinner at home upon some ribs of roastbeef from the Cook's (which of late we have been forced to do becauseof our house being always under the painters' and other people's hands, that we could not dress it ourselves). After dinner to my Lord's, whereI found all preparing for my Lord's going to sea to fetch the Queentomorrow. At night my Lord came home, with whom I staid long, and talkedof many things. Among others I got leave to have his picture, that wasdone by Lilly, [Peter Lely, afterwards knighted. He lived in the Piazza, Covent Garden. This portrait was bought by Lord Braybrooke at Mr. Pepys Cockerell's sale in 1848, and is now at Audley End. ]

copied, and talking of religion, I found him to be a perfect Sceptic, and said that all things would not be well while there was so muchpreaching, and that it would be better if nothing but Homilies wereto be read in Churches. This afternoon (he told me) there hath been ameeting before the King and my Lord Chancellor, of some Episcopalian andPresbyterian Divines; but what had passed he could not tell me. AfterI had done talk with him, I went to bed with Mr. Sheply in his chamber, but could hardly get any sleep all night, the bed being ill made and hea bad bedfellow. 

23rd. We rose early in the morning to get things ready for My Lord, andMr. Sheply going to put up his pistols (which were charged with bullets)into the holsters, one of them flew off, and it pleased God that, themouth of the gun being downwards, it did us no hurt, but I think I neverwas in more danger in my life, which put me into a great fright. Abouteight o'clock my Lord went; and going through the garden my Lord metwith Mr. William Montagu, who told him of an estate of land lately comeinto the King's hands, that he had a mind my Lord should beg. To whichend my Lord writ a letter presently to my Lord Chancellor to do it forhim, which (after leave taken of my Lord at White Hall bridge) I didcarry to Warwick House to him; and had a fair promise of him, thathe would do it this day for my Lord. In my way thither I met theLord Chancellor and all the judges riding on horseback and going toWestminster Hall, it being the first day of the term, which was thefirst time I ever saw any such solemnity. Having done there I returnedto Whitehall, where meeting with my brother Ashwell and his cozen Sam. Ashwell and Mr. Mallard, I took them to the Leg in King Street and gavethem a dish of meat for dinner and paid for it. From thence going toWhitehall I met with Catan Stirpin in mourning, who told me that hermistress was lately dead of the small pox, and that herself was nowmarried to Monsieur Petit, as also what her mistress had left her, whichwas very well. She also took me to her lodging at an Ironmonger's inKing Street, which was but very poor, and I found by a letter that sheshewed me of her husband's to the King, that he is a right Frenchman, and full of their own projects, he having a design to reform theuniversities, and to institute schools for the learning of alllanguages, to speak them naturally and not by rule, which I know willcome to nothing. From thence to my Lord's, where I went forth by coachto Mrs. Parker's with my Lady, and so to her house again. From thence Itook my Lord's picture, and carried it to Mr. De Cretz to be copied. Soto White Hall, where I met Mr. Spong, and went home with him and played, and sang, and eat with him and his mother. After supper we looked overmany books, and instruments of his, especially his wooden jack in hischimney, which goes with the smoke, which indeed is very pretty. I foundhim to be as ingenious and good-natured a man as ever I met with in mylife, and cannot admire him enough, he being so plain and illiterate aman as he is. From thence by coach home and to bed, which was welcome tome after a night's absence. 

24th. I lay and slept long to-day. Office day. I took occasion to beangry with my wife before I rose about her putting up of half a crown ofmine in a paper box, which she had forgot where she had lain it. But wewere friends again as we are always. Then I rose to Jack Cole, who cameto see me. Then to the office, so home to dinner, where I found CaptainMurford, who did put L3 into my hands for a friendship I had done him, but I would not take it, but bade him keep it till he has enough to buymy wife a necklace. This afternoon people at work in my house to make alight in my yard into my cellar. To White Hall, in my way met with Mr. Moore, who went back with me. He tells me, among other things, thatthe Duke of York is now sorry for his lying with my Lord Chancellor'sdaughter, who is now brought to bed of a boy. From Whitehall to Mr. DeCretz, who I found about my Lord's picture. From thence to Mr. Lilly's, where, not finding Mr. Spong, I went to Mr. Greatorex, where I met him, and so to an alehouse, where I bought of him a drawing-pen; and he didshow me the manner of the lamp-glasses, which carry the light a greatway, good to read in bed by, and I intend to have one of them. So to Mr. Lilly's with Mr. Spong, where well received, there being a club to-nightamong his friends. Among the rest Esquire Ashmole, who I found was avery ingenious gentleman. With him we two sang afterward in Mr. Lilly'sstudy. That done, we all pared; and I home by coach, taking Mr. Booker'with me, who did tell me a great many fooleries, which may be done bynativities, and blaming Mr. Lilly for writing to please his friends andto keep in with the times (as he did formerly to his own dishonour), andnot according to the rules of art, by which he could not well err, as hehad done. I set him down at Lime-street end, and so home, where I founda box of Carpenter's tools sent by my cozen, Thomas Pepys, which I hadbespoke of him for to employ myself with sometimes. To bed. 

25th. All day at home doing something in order to the fitting of myhouse. In the evening to Westminster about business. So home and to bed. This night the vault at the end of the cellar was emptied. 

26th. Office. My father and Dr. Thomas Pepys dined at my house, the lastof whom I did almost fox with Margate ale. My father is mightily pleasedwith my ordering of my house. I did give him money to pay several bills. After that I to Westminster to White Hall, where I saw the Duke deSoissons go from his audience with a very great deal of state: his owncoach all red velvet covered with gold lace, and drawn by six barbes, and attended by twenty pages very rich in clothes. To Westminster Hall, and bought, among, other books, one of the Life of our Queen, which Iread at home to my wife; but it was so sillily writ, that we did nothingbut laugh at it: among other things it is dedicated to that paragon ofvirtue and beauty, the Duchess of Albemarle. Great talk as if theDuke of York do now own the marriage between him and the Chancellor'sdaughter. 

27th. In London and Westminster all this day paying of money and buyingof things for my house. In my going I went by chance by my new LordMayor's house (Sir Richard Browne), by Goldsmith's Hall, which is nowfitting, and indeed is a very pretty house. In coming back I called atPaul's Churchyard and bought Alsted's Encyclopaedia, ' which cost me 38s. Home and to bed, my wife being much troubled with her old pain. 

28th (Lord's day). There came some pills and plaister this morningfrom Dr. Williams for my wife. I to Westminster Abbey, where with muchdifficulty, going round by the cloysters, I got in; this day being agreat day for the consecrating of five Bishopps, which was done aftersermon; but I could not get into Henry the Seventh's chappell. So I wentto my Lord's, where I dined with my Lady, and my young Lord, and Mr. Sidney, who was sent for from Twickenham to see my Lord Mayor's showto-morrow. Mr. Child did also dine with us. After dinner to White Hallchappell; my Lady and my Lady Jemimah and I up to the King's closet (whois now gone to meet the Queen). So meeting with one Mr. Hill, that didknow my Lady, he did take us into the King's closet, and there we didstay all service-time, which I did think a great honour. We went home tomy Lord's lodgings afterwards, and there I parted with my Lady and wenthome, where I did find my wife pretty well after her physic. So to bed. 

29th. I up early, it being my Lord Mayor's day, [When the calendar was reformed in England by the act 24 Geo. II. C. 23, different provisions were made as regards those anniversaries which affect directly the rights of property and those which do not. Thus the old quarter days are still noted in our almanacs, and a curious survival of this is brought home to payers of income tax. The fiscal year still begins on old Lady-day, which now falls on April 6th. All ecclesiastical fasts and feasts and other commemorations which did not affect the rights of property were left on their nominal days, such as the execution of Charles I. On January 30th and the restoration of Charles II. On May 29th. The change of Lord Mayor's day from the 29th of October to the 9th of November was not made by the act for reforming the calendar (c. 23), but by another act of the same session (c. 48), entitled "An Act for the Abbreviation of Michaelmas Term, " by which it was enacted, "that from and after the said feast of St. Michael, which shall be in the year 1752, the said solemnity of presenting and swearing the mayors of the city of London, after every annual election into the said office, in the manner and form heretofore used on the 29th day of October, shall be kept and observed on the ninth day of November in every year, unless the same shall fall on a Sunday, and in that case on the day following. "]

(Sir Richd. Browne), and neglecting my office I went to the Wardrobe, where I met my Lady Sandwich and all the children; and after drinking ofsome strange and incomparable good clarett of Mr. Rumball's he and Mr. Townsend did take us, and set the young Lords at one Mr. Nevill's, adraper in Paul's churchyard; and my Lady and my Lady Pickering and I toone Mr. Isaacson's, a linendraper at the Key in Cheapside; where therewas a company of fine ladies, and we were very civilly treated, and hada very good place to see the pageants, which were many, and I believegood, for such kind of things, but in themselves but poor and absurd. After the ladies were placed I took Mr. Townsend and Isaacson to thenext door, a tavern, and did spend 5s. Upon them. The show being done, we got as far as Paul's with much ado, where I left my Lady in thecoach, and went on foot with my Lady Pickering to her lodging, which wasa poor one in Blackfryars, where she never invited me to go in at all, which methought was very strange for her to do. So home, where I wastold how my Lady Davis is now come to our next lodgings, and has lockedup the leads door from me, which puts me into so great a disquiet that Iwent to bed, and could not sleep till morning at it. 

30th. Within all the morning and dined at home, my mind being sotroubled that I could not mind nor do anything till I spoke with theComptroller to whom the lodgings belong. In the afternoon, to ease mymind, I went to the Cockpit all alone, and there saw a very fine playcalled "The Tamer Tamed;" very well acted. That being done, I went toMr. Crew's, where I had left my boy, and so with him and Mr. Moore(who would go a little way with me home, as he will always do) to theHercules Pillars to drink, where we did read over the King's declarationin matters of religion, which is come out to-day, which is very wellpenned, I think to the satisfaction of most people. So home, where Iam told Mr. Davis's people have broken open the bolt of my chamber doorthat goes upon the leads, which I went up to see and did find it so, which did still trouble me more and more. And so I sent for Griffith, and got him to search their house to see what the meaning of it mightbe, but can learn nothing to-night. But I am a little pleased that Ihave found this out. I hear nothing yet of my Lord, whether he be gonefor the Queen from the Downs or no; but I believe he is, and that he isnow upon coming back again. 

31st Office day. Much troubled all this morning in my mind about thebusiness of my walk on the leads. I spoke of it to the Comptroller andthe rest of the principal officers, who are all unwilling to meddle inanything that may anger my Lady Davis. And so I am fain to give over forthe time that she do continue therein. Dined at home, and after dinnerto Westminster Hall, where I met with Billing the quaker at Mrs. Michell's shop, who is still of the former opinion he was of against theclergymen of all sorts, and a cunning fellow I find him to be. Home, andthere I had news that Sir W. Pen is resolved to ride to Sir W. Batten'scountry house to-morrow, and would have me go with him, so I sat uplate, getting together my things to ride in, and was fain to cut an oldpair of boots to make leathers for those I was to wear. This month Iconclude with my mind very heavy for the loss of the leads, as also forthe greatness of my late expenses, insomuch that I do not think that Ihave above L150 clear money in the world, but I have, I believe, gota great deal of good household stuff: I hear to-day that the Queen islanded at Dover, and will be here on Friday next, November 2nd. My wifehas been so ill of late of her old pain that I have not known her thisfortnight almost, which is a pain to me. 

NOVEMBER 1660

November 1st. This morning Sir W. Pen and I were mounted early, and hadvery merry discourse all the way, he being very good company. We cameto Sir W. Batten's, where he lives like a prince, and we were made verywelcome. Among other things he showed us my Lady's closet, where wasgreat store of rarities; as also a chair, which he calls King Harry'schair, where he that sits down is catched with two irons, that comeround about him, which makes good sport. Here dined with us two orthree more country gentle men; among the rest Mr. Christmas, my oldschool-fellow, with whom I had much talk. He did remember that I was agreat Roundhead when I was a boy, and I was much afraid that he wouldhave remembered the words that I said the day the King was beheaded(that, were I to preach upon him, my text should be "The memory of thewicked shall rot"); but I found afterwards that he did go away fromschool before that time. 

 [Pepys might well be anxious on this point, for in October of this year Phieas Pett, assistant master shipwright at Chatham, was dismissed from his post for having when a Child spoken disrespectfully of the King. See ante, August 23rd. ]

He did make us good sport in imitating Mr. Case, Ash, and Nye, theministers, which he did very well, but a deadly drinker he is, and grownexceeding fat. From his house to an ale-house near the church, where wesat and drank and were merry, and so we mounted for London again, Sir W. Batten with us. We called at Bow and drank there, and took leave of Mr. Johnson of Blackwall, who dined with us and rode with us thus far. Sohome by moonlight, it being about 9 o'clock before we got home. 

2nd. Office. Then dined at home, and by chance Mr. Holliard

 [Thomas Holliard or Hollier was appointed in 1638 surgeon for scald heads at St. Thomas's Hospital, and on January 25th, 1643-4, he was chosen surgeon in place of Edward Molins. In 1670 his son of the same names was allowed to take his place during his illness. Ward, in his Diary, p. 235, mentions that the porter at St. Thomas's Hospital told him, in 1661, of Mr. Holyard's having cut thirty for the stone in one year, who all lived. ]

called at dinner time and dined with me, with whom I had great discourseconcerning the cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether anyeffect at all. In the afternoon I went forth and saw some silver bossesput upon my new Bible, which cost me 6s. 6d. The making, and 7s. 6d. Thesilver, which, with 9s. 6d. The book, comes in all to L1 3s. 6d. Fromthence with Mr. Cooke that made them, and Mr. Stephens the silversmithto the tavern, and did give them a pint of wine. So to White Hall, wherewhen I came I saw the boats going very thick to Lambeth, and all thestairs to be full of people. I was told the Queen was a-coming;

 ["Nov. 2. The Queen-mother and the Princess Henrietta came into London, the Queen having left this land nineteen years ago. Her coming was very private, Lambeth-way, where the King, Queen, and the Duke of York, and the rest, took water, crossed the Thames, and all safely arrived at Whitehall. --"Rugge's Diurnal. "]

so I got a sculler for sixpence to carry me thither and back again, butI could not get to see the Queen; so come back, and to my Lord's, wherehe was come; and I supt with him, he being very merry, telling merrystories of the country mayors, how they entertained the King all theway as he come along; and how the country gentlewomen did hold up theirheads to be kissed by the King, not taking his hand to kiss as theyshould do. I took leave of my Lord and Lady, and so took coach at WhiteHall and carried Mr. Childe as far as the Strand, and myself got as faras Ludgate by all the bonfires, but with a great deal of trouble; andthere the coachman desired that I would release him, for he durst notgo further for the fires. So he would have had a shilling or 6d. Forbringing of me so far; but I had but 3d. About me and did give him it. In Paul's church-yard I called at Kirton's, and there they had got amass book for me, which I bought and cost me twelve shillings; and, whenI came home, sat up late and read in it with great pleasure to my wife, to hear that she was long ago so well acquainted with. So to bed. Iobserved this night very few bonfires in the City, not above three inall London, for the Queen's coming; whereby I guess that (as I believedbefore) her coming do please but very few. 

3d. Saturday. At home all the morning. In the afternoon to WhiteHall, where my Lord and Lady were gone to kiss the Queene's hand. ToWestminster Hall, where I met with Tom Doling, and we two took Mrs. Laneto the alehouse, where I made her angry with commending of Tom Newtonand her new sweetheart to be both too good for her, so that we partedwith much anger, which made Tom and me good sport. So home to writeletters by the post, and so to bed. 

4th (Lord's day). In the morn to our own church, where Mr. Mills didbegin to nibble at the Common Prayer, by saying "Glory be to the Father, &c. " after he had read the two psalms; but the people had been so littleused to it, that they could not tell what to answer. This declaration ofthe King's do give the Presbyterians some satisfaction, and a pretenceto read the Common Prayer, which they would not do before because oftheir former preaching against it. After dinner to Westminster, where Iwent to my Lord's, and having spoke with him, I went to the Abbey, wherethe first time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral! Thence tomy Lord's, where I found Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, and with him and Mr. Sheply, in our way calling at the Bell to see the seven Flanders maresthat my Lord has bought lately, where we drank several bottles of Hullale. Much company I found to come to her, and cannot wonder at it, forshe is very pretty and wanton. Hence to my father's, where I found mymother in greater and greater pain of the stone. I staid long and drankwith them, and so home and to bed. My wife seemed very pretty to-day, itbeing the first time I had given her leave to wear a black patch. 

5th (Office day). Being disappointed of money, we failed of going toDeptford to pay off the Henrietta to-day. Dined at home, and at home allday, and at the office at night, to make up an account of what the debtsof nineteen of the twenty-five ships that should have been paid off, is increased since the adjournment of the Parliament, they being to sitagain to-morrow. This 5th of November is observed exceeding well in theCity; and at night great bonfires and fireworks. At night Mr. Moore cameand sat with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in manylaw notions, in which I took great pleasure. To bed. 

6th. In the morning with Sir W. Batten and Pen by water to Westminster, where at my Lord's I met with Mr. Creed. With him to see my Lord'spicture (now almost done), and thence to Westminster Hall, where wefound the Parliament met to-day, and thence meeting with Mr. Chetwind, I took them to the Sun, and did give them a barrel of oysters, and hadgood discourse; among other things Mr. Chetwind told me how he did fearthat this late business of the Duke of York's would prove fatal to myLord Chancellor. From thence Mr. Creed and I to Wilkinson's, and dinedtogether, and in great haste thence to our office, where we met all, forthe sale of two ships by an inch of candle

 [The old-fashioned custom of sale by auction by inch of candle was continued in sales by the Admiralty to a somewhat late date. See September 3rd, 1662. ]

(the first time that ever I saw any of this kind), where I observed howthey do invite one another, and at last how they all do cry, --[To crywas to bid. ]--and we have much to do to tell who did cry last. The shipswere the Indian, sold for L1, 300, and the Half-moon, sold for L830. Home, and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hangedfor the King's death, and found good satisfaction in reading thereof. Atnight to bed, and my wife and I did fall out about the dog's being putdown into the cellar, which I had a mind to have done because of hisfouling the house, and I would have my will, and so we went to bed andlay all night in a quarrel. This night I was troubled all night with adream that my wife was dead, which made me that I slept ill all night. 

7th (Office day). This day my father came to dine at my house, but beingsent for in the morning I could not stay, but went by water to my Lord, where I dined with him, and he in a very merry humour (present Mr. Borfett and Childe) at dinner: he, in discourse of the great opinion ofthe virtue--gratitude (which he did account the greatest thing in theworld to him, and had, therefore, in his mind been often troubled inthe late times how to answer his gratitude to the King, who raised hisfather), did say it was that did bring him to his obedience to the King;and did also bless himself with his good fortune, in comparison towhat it was when I was with him in the Sound, when he durst not own hiscorrespondence with the King; which is a thing that I never did hear ofto this day before; and I do from this raise an opinion of him, to beone of the most secret men in the world, which I was not so convinced ofbefore. After dinner he bid all go out of the room, and did tell mehow the King had promised him L4000 per annum for ever, and had alreadygiven him a bill under his hand (which he showed me) for L4000 that Mr. Fox is to pay him. My Lord did advise with me how to get this received, and to put out L3000 into safe hands at use, and the other he will makeuse of for his present occasion. This he did advise with me about withmuch secresy. After all this he called for the fiddles and books, and wetwo and W. Howe, and Mr. Childe, did sing and play some psalmes of Will. Lawes's, and some songs; and so I went away. So I went to see my Lord'spicture, which is almost done, and do please me very well. Hence toWhitehall to find out Mr. Fox, which I did, and did use me very civilly, but I did not see his lady, whom I had so long known when she was amaid, Mrs. Whittle. From thence meeting my father Bowyer, I took him toMr. Harper's, and there drank with him. Among other things in discoursehe told me how my wife's brother had a horse at grass with him, whichI was troubled to hear, it being his boldness upon my score. Home bycoach, and read late in the last night's book of Trials, and toldmy wife about her brother's horse at Mr. Bowyer's, who is also muchtroubled for it, and do intend to go to-morrow to inquire the truth. Notwithstanding this was the first day of the King's proclamationagainst hackney coaches coming into the streets to stand to be hired, yet I got one to carry me home. 

 ["A Proclamation to restrain the abuses of Hackney Coaches in the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs thereof. " This is printed in "Notes and Queries, " First Series, vol. Viii. P. 122. "In April, 1663, the poor widows of hackney-coachmen petitioned for some relief, as the parliament had reduced the number of coaches to 400; there were before, in and about London, more than 2, 000. " --Rugge's Diurnal. ]

8th. This morning Sir Wm. And the Treasurer and I went by barge with SirWm. Doyley and Mr. Prin to Deptford, to pay off the Henrietta, and hada good dinner. I went to Mr. Davys's and saw his house (where I wasonce before a great while ago) and I found him a very pretty man. In theafternoon Commissioner Pett and I went on board the yacht, which indeedis one of the finest things that ever I saw for neatness and room in sosmall a vessel. Mr. Pett is to make one to outdo this for the honour ofhis country, which I fear he will scarce better. From thence with himas far as Ratcliffe, where I left him going by water to London, andI (unwilling to leave the rest of the officers) went back again toDeptford, and being very much troubled with a sudden looseness, I wentinto a little alehouse at the end of Ratcliffe, and did give a groat fora pot of ale, and there I did... So went forward in my walk with somemen that were going that way a great pace, and in our way we met withmany merry seamen that had got their money paid them to-day. We sat verylate doing the work and waiting for the tide, it being moonshine we gotto London before two in the morning. So home, where I found my wife up, she shewed me her head which was very well dressed to-day, she havingbeen to see her father and mother. So to bed. 

9th. Lay long in bed this morning though an office day, because of ourgoing to bed late last night. Before I went to my office Mr. Creed cameto me about business, and also Mr. Carter, my old Cambridge friend, cameto give me a visit, and I did give them a morning draught in my study. So to the office, and from thence to dinner with Mr. Wivell at theHoop Tavern, where we had Mr. Shepley, Talbot, Adams, Mr. Chaplin andOsborne, and our dinner given us by Mr. Ady and another, Mr. Wine, theKing's fishmonger. Good sport with Mr. Talbot, who eats no sort of fish, and there was nothing else till we sent for a neat's tongue. From thenceto Whitehall where I found my Lord, who had an organ set up to-day inhis dining-room, but it seems an ugly one in the form of Bridewell. Thence I went to Sir Harry Wright's, where my Lord was busy at cards, and so I staid below with Mrs. Carter and Evans (who did give me alesson upon the lute), till he came down, and having talked with himat the door about his late business of money, I went to my father's andstaid late talking with my father about my sister Pall's coming to livewith me if she would come and be as a servant (which my wife did seem tobe pretty willing to do to-day), and he seems to take it very well, andintends to consider of it. Home and to bed. 

10th. Up early. Sir Wm. Batten and I to make up an account of the wagesof the officers and mariners at sea, ready to present to the Committeeof Parliament this afternoon. Afterwards came the Treasurer andComptroller, and sat all the morning with us till the business was done. So we broke up, leaving the thing to be wrote over fair and carried toTrinity House for Sir Wm. Batten's hand. When staying very long I found(as appointed) the Treasurer and Comptroller at Whitehall, and so wewent with a foul copy to the Parliament house, where we met withSir Thos. Clarges and Mr. Spry, and after we had given them goodsatisfaction we parted. The Comptroller and I to the coffee-house, where he shewed me the state of his case; how the King did owe him aboutL6000. But I do not see great likelihood for them to be paid, since theybegin already in Parliament to dispute the paying of the just sea-debts, which were already promised to be paid, and will be the undoing ofthousands if they be not paid. So to Whitehall to look but could notfind Mr. Fox, and then to Mr. Moore at Mr. Crew's, but missed of himalso. So to Paul's Churchyard, and there bought Montelion, which thisyear do not prove so good as the last was; so after reading it I burntit. After reading of that and the comedy of the Rump, which is also verysilly, I went to bed. This night going home, Will and I bought a goose. 

11th (Lord's day). This morning I went to Sir W. Batten's about goingto Deptford to-morrow, and so eating some hog's pudding of my Lady'smaking, of the hog that I saw a fattening the other day at her house, heand I went to Church into our new gallery, the first time it was used, and it not being yet quite finished, there came after us Sir W. Pen, Mr. Davis, and his eldest son. There being no woman this day, we sat in theforemost pew, and behind us our servants, and I hope it will not alwaysbe so, it not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us. This day also did Mr. Mills begin to read all the Common Prayer, which Iwas glad of. Home to dinner, and then walked to Whitehall, it beingvery cold and foul and rainy weather. I found my Lord at home, andafter giving him an account of some business, I returned and went tomy father's where I found my wife, and there we supped, and Dr. ThomasPepys, who my wife told me after I was come home, that he had told mybrother Thomas that he loved my wife so well that if she had a childhe would never marry, but leave all that he had to my child, and aftersupper we walked home, my little boy carrying a link, and Will leadingmy wife. So home and to prayers and to bed. I should have said thatbefore I got to my Lord's this day I went to Mr. Fox's at Whitehall, when I first saw his lady, formerly Mrs. Elizabeth Whittle, whom I hadformerly a great opinion of, and did make an anagram or two upon hername when I was a boy. She proves a very fine lady, and mother to finechildren. To-day I agreed with Mr. Fox about my taking of the; L4000 ofhim that the King had given my Lord. 

12th. Lay long in bed to-day. Sir Wm. Batten went this morning toDeptford to pay off the Wolf. Mr. Comptroller and I sat a while at theoffice to do business, and thence I went with him to his house in LimeStreet, a fine house, and where I never was before, and from thence bycoach (setting down his sister at the new Exchange) to Westminster Hall, where first I met with Jack Spicer and agreed with him to help me totell money this afternoon. Hence to De Cretz, where I saw my Lord'spicture finished, which do please me very well. So back to the Hall, where by appointment I met the Comptroller, and with him and three orfour Parliament men I dined at Heaven, and after dinner called at Will'son Jack Spicer, and took him to Mr. Fox's, who saved me the labour oftelling me the money by giving me; L3000 by consent (the other L1000 Iam to have on Thursday next), which I carried by coach to the Exchequer, and put it up in a chest in Spicer's office. From thence walked to myfather's, where I found my wife, who had been with my father to-day, buying of a tablecloth and a dozen of napkins of diaper the first thatever I bought in my life. My father and I took occasion to go forth, andwent and drank at Mr. Standing's, and there discoursed seriously aboutmy sister's coming to live with me, which I have much mind for her goodto have, and yet I am much afeard of her ill-nature. Coming home again, he and I, and my wife, my mother and Pall, went all together into thelittle room, and there I told her plainly what my mind was, to haveher come not as a sister in any respect, but as a servant, which shepromised me that she would, and with many thanks did weep for joy, whichdid give me and my wife some content and satisfaction. So by coach homeand to bed. The last night I should have mentioned how my wife and Iwere troubled all night with the sound of drums in our ears, which inthe morning we found to be Mr. Davys's jack, [The date of the origin of smoke jacks does not appear to be known, but the first patent taken out for an improved smoke-jack by Peter Clare is dated December 24th, 1770. The smoke jack consists of a wind-wheel fixed in the chimney, which communicates motion by means of an endless band to a pulley, whence the motion is transmitted to the spit by gearing. In the valuable introduction to the volume of "Abridgments of Specifications relating to Cooking, 1634-1866" (Patent Office), mention is made of an Italian work by Bartolomeo Scappi, published first at Rome in 1572, and afterwards reprinted at Venice in 1622, which gives a complete account of the kitchens of the time and the utensils used in them. In the plates several roasting-jacks are represented, one worked by smoke or hot air and one by a spring. ]

but not knowing the cause of its going all night, I understand to-daythat they have had a great feast to-day. 

13th. Early going to my Lord's I met with Mr. Moore, who was going to myhouse, and indeed I found him to be a most careful, painful, --[Painful, i. E. Painstaking or laborious. Latimer speaks of the "painfulmagistrates. "]--and able man in business, and took him by water to theWardrobe, and shewed him all the house; and indeed there is a great dealof room in it, but very ugly till my Lord hath bestowed great cost uponit. So to the Exchequer, and there took Spicer and his fellow clerksto the Dog tavern, and did give them a peck of oysters, and so home todinner, where I found my wife making of pies and tarts to try, her ovenwith, which she has never yet done, but not knowing the nature of it, did heat it too hot, and so a little overbake her things, but knows howto do better another time. At home all the afternoon. At night made upmy accounts of my sea expenses in order to my clearing off my imprestbill of L30 which I had in my hands at the beginning of my voyage; whichI intend to shew to my Lord to-morrow. To bed. 

14th (Office day). But this day was the first that we do begin to sitin the afternoon, and not in the forenoon, and therefore I went intoCheapside to Mr. Beauchamp's, the goldsmith, to look out a piece ofplate to give Mr. Fox from my Lord, for his favour about the L4, 000, and did choose a gilt tankard. So to Paul's Churchyard and bought"Cornelianum dolium:"

 ["Cornelianum dolium" is a Latin comedy, by T. R. , published at London in 1638. Douce attributed it to Thomas Randolph (d. 1635). The book has a frontispiece representing the sweating tub which, from the name of the patient, was styled Cornelius's tub. There is a description of the play in the "European Magazine, " vol. Xxxvii. (1805), p. 343]

So home to dinner, and after that to the office till late at night, andso Sir W. Pen, the Comptroller, and I to the Dolphin, where we found SirW. Batten, who is seldom a night from hence, and there we did drinka great quantity of sack and did tell many merry stories, and in goodhumours we were all. So home and to bed. 

15th. To Westminster, and it being very cold upon the water I went allalone to the Sun and drank a draft of mulled white wine, and so to Mr. De Cretz, whither I sent for J. Spicer (to appoint him to expect me thisafternoon at the office, with the other L1000 from Whitehall), andhere we staid and did see him give some finishing touches to my Lord'spicture, so at last it is complete to my mind, and I leave mine with himto copy out another for himself, and took the original by a porter withme to my Lord's, where I found my Lord within, and staid hearing him andMr. Child playing upon my Lord's new organ, the first time I ever heardit. My Lord did this day show me the King's picture, which was done inFlanders, that the King did promise my Lord before he ever saw him, andthat we did expect to have had at sea before the King came to us; butit came but to-day, and indeed it is the most pleasant and the most likehim that ever I saw picture in my life. As dinner was coming on table, my wife came to my Lord's, and I got her carried in to my Lady, who tookphysic to-day, and was just now hiring of a French maid that was withher, and they could not understand one another till my wife came tointerpret. Here I did leave my wife to dine with my Lord, the first timehe ever did take notice of her as my wife, and did seem to have a justesteem for her. And did myself walk homewards (hearing that Sir W. Penwas gone before in a coach) to overtake him and with much ado at lastdid in Fleet Street, and there I went in to him, and there was SirArnold Brames, and we all three to Sir W. Batten's to dinner, he havinga couple of Servants married to-day; and so there was a great number ofmerchants, and others of good quality on purpose after dinner to makean offering, which, when dinner was done, we did, and I did give tenshillings and no more, though I believe most of the rest did give more, and did believe that I did so too. From thence to Whitehall again bywater to Mr. Fox and by two porters carried away the other L1000. He wasnot within himself, but I had it of his kinsman, and did give him L4. And other servants something; but whereas I did intend to have given Mr. Fox himself a piece of plate of L50 I was demanded L100, for the fee ofthe office at 6d. A pound, at which I was surprised, but, however, Idid leave it there till I speak with my Lord. So I carried it to theExchequer, where at Will's I found Mr. Spicer, and so lodged it at hisoffice with the rest. From thence after a pot of ale at Will's I tookboat in the dark and went for all that to the old Swan, and so to SirWm. Batten's, and leaving some of the gallants at cards I went home, where I found my wife much satisfied with my Lord's discourse andrespect to her, and so after prayers to bed. 

16th. Up early to my father's, where by appointment Mr. Moore came tome, and he and I to the Temple, and thence to Westminster Hall to speakwith Mr. Wm. Montagu about his looking upon the title of those landswhich I do take as security for L3000 of my Lord's money. That beingdone Mr. Moore and I parted, and in the Hall I met with Mr. Fontleroy(my old acquaintance, whom I had not seen a long time), and he and I tothe Swan, and in discourse he seems to be wise and say little, though Iknow things are changed against his mind. Thence home by water, where myfather, Mr. Snow, and Mr. Moore did dine with me. After dinner Mr. Snowand I went up together to discourse about the putting out of L80 to aman who lacks the money and would give me L15 per annum for 8 yearsfor it, which I did not think profit enough, and so he seemed to bedisappointed by my refusal of it, but I would not now part with my moneyeasily. He seems to do it as a great favour to me to offer to come inupon a way of getting of money, which they call Bottomry, ["The contract of bottomry is a negotiable instrument, which may be put in suit by the person to whom it is transferred; it is in use in all countries of maritime commerce and interests. A contract in the nature of a mortgage of a ship, when the owner of it borrows money to enable him to carry on the voyage, and pledges the keel or bottom of the ship as a security for the repayment. If the ship be lost the lender loses his whole money; but if it returns in safety, then he shall receive back his principal, and also the premium stipulated to be paid, however it may exceed the usual or legal rate of interest. "--Smyth's "Sailor's Word Book". ]

which I do not yet understand, but do believe there may be something init of great profit. After we were parted I went to the office, and therewe sat all the afternoon, and at night we went to a barrel of oystersat Sir W. Batten's, and so home, and I to the setting of my papers inorder, which did keep me up late. So to bed. 

17th. In the morning to Whitehall, where I inquired at the PrivySeal Office for a form for a nobleman to make one his Chaplain. But Iunderstanding that there is not any, I did draw up one, and so to myLord's, and there I did give him it to sign for Mr. Turner to be hisfirst Chaplain. I did likewise get my Lord to sign my last sea accounts, so that I am even to this day when I have received the balance of Mr. Creed. I dined with my Lady and my Lady Pickering, where her son Johndined with us, who do continue a fool as he ever was since I knew him. His mother would fain marry him to get a portion for his sister Bettybut he will not hear of it. Hither came Major Hart this noon, who tellsme that the Regiment is now disbanded, and that there is some moneycoming to me for it. I took him to my Lord to Mr. Crew's, and fromthence with Mr. Shepley and Mr. Moore to the Devil Tavern, and there wedrank. So home and wrote letters by the post. Then to my lyra viall, [The lyre viol is a viol with extra open bass strings, holding the same relation to the viol as the theorbo does to the lute. A volume entitled "Musick's Recreation on the Lyra Viol, " was printed by John Playford in 1650. ]

and to bed. 

18th (Lord's day). In the morning to our own church, Where Mr. Powel (acrook legged man that went formerly with me to Paul's School), preacheda good sermon. In the afternoon to our own church and my wife with me(the first time that she and my Lady Batten came to sit in our new pew), and after sermon my Lady took us home and there we supped with her andSir W. Batten, and Pen, and were much made of. The first time that evermy wife was there. So home and to bed. 

19th (Office day). After we had done a little at the office thismorning, I went with the Treasurer in his coach to White Hall, and inour way, in discourse, do find him a very good-natured man; and, talkingof those men who now stand condemned for murdering the King, he saysthat he believes that, if the law would give leave, the King is a man ofso great compassion that he would wholly acquit them. Going to my Lord'sI met with Mr. Shepley, and so he and I to the Sun, and I did give him amorning draft of Muscadine. 

 [Muscadine or muscadel, a rich sort of wine. 'Vinum muscatum quod moschi odorem referat. '

 "Quaffed off the muscadel, and threw the sops All in the sexton's face. "

 Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, act iii. SC. 2. --M. B. ]

And so to see my Lord's picture at De Cretz, and he says it is very likehim, and I say so too. After that to Westminster Hall, and there hearingthat Sir W. Batten was at the Leg in the Palace, I went thither, andthere dined with him and some of the Trinity House men who had obtainedsomething to-day at the House of Lords concerning the Ballast Office. After dinner I went by water to London to the Globe in Cornhill, andthere did choose two pictures to hang up in my house, which my wifedid not like when I came home, and so I sent the picture of Paris backagain. To the office, where we sat all the afternoon till night. Sohome, and there came Mr. Beauchamp to me with the gilt tankard, and Idid pay him for it L20. So to my musique and sat up late at it, and soto bed, leaving my wife to sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call thewench up to wash. 

20th. About two o'clock my wife wakes me, and comes to bed, and so bothto sleep and the wench to wash. I rose and with Will to my Lord's byland, it being a very hard frost, the first we have had this year. ThereI staid with my Lord and Mr. Shepley, looking over my Lord's accountsand to set matters straight between him and Shepley, and he did committhe viewing of these accounts to me, which was a great joy to me to seethat my Lord do look upon me as one to put trust in. Hence to the organ, where Mr. Child and one Mr Mackworth (who plays finely upon the violin)were playing, and so we played till dinner and then dined, where my Lordin a very good humour and kind to me. After dinner to the Temple, whereI met Mr. Moore and discoursed with him about the business of puttingout my Lord's L3000, and that done, Mr. Shepley and I to the newPlay-house near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (which was formerly Gibbon'stennis-court), where the play of "Beggar's Bush" was newly begun; and sowe went in and saw it, it was well acted: and here I saw the first timeone Moone, [Michael Mohun, or Moone, the celebrated actor, who had borne a major's commission in the King's army. The period of his death is uncertain, but he is known to have been dead in 1691. Downes relates that an eminent poet [Lee] seeing him act Mithridates "vented suddenly this saying: 'Oh, Mohun, Mohun, thou little man of mettle, if I should write a 100, I'd write a part for thy mouth. '" --Roscius Anglicanus, p. 17. ]

who is said to be the best actor in the world, lately come over with theKing, and indeed it is the finest play-house, I believe, that ever wasin England. From thence, after a pot of ale with Mr. Shepley at a househard by, I went by link home, calling a little by the way at my father'sand my uncle Fenner's, where all pretty well, and so home, where I foundthe house in a washing pickle, and my wife in a very joyful conditionwhen I told her that she is to see the Queen next Thursday, which putsme in mind to say that this morning I found my Lord in bed late, hehaving been with the King, Queen, and Princess, at the Cockpit

 [The Cockpit at Whitehall. The plays at the Cockpit in Drury Lane were acted in the afternoon. ]

all night, where. General Monk treated them; and after supper a play, where the King did put a great affront upon Singleton's' musique, hebidding them stop and bade the French musique play, which, my Lord says, do much outdo all ours. But while my Lord was rising, I went to Mr. Fox's, and there did leave the gilt tankard for Mrs. Fox, and then tothe counting-house to him, who hath invited me and my wife to dine withhim on Thursday next, and so to see the Queen and Princesses. 

21st. Lay long in bed. This morning my cozen Thomas Pepys, the turner, sent me a cupp of lignum vitae

 [A hard, compact, black-green wood, obtained from 'Guaiacum offcinale', from which pestles, ship-blocks, rollers, castors, &c. , are turned. ]

for a token. This morning my wife and I went to Paternoster Row, andthere we bought some green watered moyre for a morning wastecoate. Andafter that we went to Mr. Cade's' to choose some pictures for our house. After that my wife went home, and I to Pope's Head, and bought me anaggate hafted knife, which cost me 5s. So home to dinner, and so to theoffice all the afternoon, and at night to my viallin (the first timethat I have played on it since I came to this house) in my dining room, and afterwards to my lute there, and I took much pleasure to have theneighbours come forth into the yard to hear me. So down to supper, andsent for the barber, who staid so long with me that he was locked intothe house, and we were fain to call up Griffith, to let him out. So upto bed, leaving my wife to wash herself, and to do other things againstto-morrow to go to court. 

22d. This morning came the carpenters to make me a door at the otherside of my house, going into the entry, which I was much pleased with. At noon my wife and I walked to the Old Exchange, and there she boughther a white whisk

 [A gorget or neckerchief worn by women at this time. "A woman's neck whisk is used both plain and laced, and is called of most a gorget or falling whisk, because it falleth about the shoulders. " --Randle Hohnt (quoted by Planche). ]

and put it on, and I a pair of gloves, and so we took coach forWhitehall to Mr. Fox's, where we found Mrs. Fox within, and an aldermanof London paying L1000 or L1500 in gold upon the table for the King, which was the most gold that ever I saw together in my life. Mr. Foxcame in presently and did receive us with a great deal of respect; andthen did take my wife and I to the Queen's presence-chamber; where hegot my wife placed behind the Queen's chair, and I got into the crowd, and by and by the Queen and the two Princesses came to dinner. The Queena very little plain old woman, and nothing more in her presence in anyrespect nor garb than any ordinary woman. The Princess of Orange I hadoften seen before. The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much belowmy expectation; and her dressing of herself with her hair frized shortup to her ears, did make her seem so much the less to me. But my wifestanding near her with two or three black patches on, and well dressed, did seem to me much handsomer than she. Dinner being done, we went toMr. Fox's again, where many gentlemen dined with us, and most princelydinner, all provided for me and my friends, but I bringing none butmyself and wife, he did call the company to help to eat up so much goodvictuals. At the end of dinner, my Lord Sandwich's health was drunk inthe gilt tankard that I did give to Mrs. Fox the other day. After dinnerI had notice given me by Will my man that my Lord did inquire for me, so I went to find him, and met him and the Duke of York in a coach goingtowards Charing Cross. I endeavoured to follow them but could not, soI returned to Mr. Fox, and after much kindness and good discourse weparted from thence. I took coach for my wife and me homewards, and Ilight at the Maypole in the Strand, and sent my wife home. I to the newplayhouse and saw part of the "Traitor, " a very good Tragedy; Mr. Moondid act the Traitor very well. So to my Lord's, and sat there with myLady a great while talking. Among other things, she took occasion toinquire (by Madame Dury's late discourse with her) how I did treat mywife's father and mother. At which I did give her a good account, andshe seemed to be very well opinioned of my wife. From thence to WhiteHall at about 9 at night, and there, with Laud the page that went withme, we could not get out of Henry the Eighth's gallery into the furtherpart of the boarded gallery, where my Lord was walking with my LordOrmond; and we had a key of Sir S. Morland's, but all would not do; tillat last, by knocking, Mr. Harrison the door-keeper did open us the door, and, after some talk with my Lord about getting a catch to carry my LordSt. Albans a goods to France, I parted and went home on foot, it beingvery late and dirty, and so weary to bed. 

23rd. This morning standing looking upon the workmen doing of my newdoor to my house, there comes Captain Straughan the Scot (to whom theKing has given half of the money that the two ships lately sold dobring), and he would needs take me to the Dolphin, and give me a glassof ale and a peck of oysters, he and I. He did talk much what he is ableto advise the King for good husbandry in his ships, as by ballastingthem with lead ore and many other tricks, but I do believe that he is aknowing man in sea-business. Home and dined, and in the afternoon to theoffice, where till late, and that being done Mr. Creed did come to speakwith me, and I took him to the Dolphin, where there was Mr. Pierce thepurser and his wife and some friends of theirs. So I did spend a crownupon them behind the bar, they being akin to the people of the house, and this being the house where Mr. Pierce was apprentice. After theywere gone Mr. Creed and I spent an hour in looking over the accountwhich he do intend to pass in our office for his lending moneys, whichI did advise about and approve or disapprove of as I saw cause. Afteran hour being, serious at this we parted about 11 o'clock at night. So Ihome and to bed, leaving my wife and the maid at their linen to get up. 

24th. To my Lord's, where after I had done talking with him Mr. Townsend, Rumball, Blackburn, Creed and Shepley and I to the Rhenishwinehouse, and there I did give them two quarts of Wormwood wine, [Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) is celebrated for its intensely bitter, tonic, and stimulating qualities, which have caused it to be used in various medicinal preparations, and also in the making of liqueurs, as wormwood wine and creme d'absinthe. ]

and so we broke up. So we parted, and I and Mr. Creed to WestminsterHall and looked over a book or two, and so to my Lord's, where I dinedwith my lady, there being Mr. Child and Mrs. Borfett, who are neverabsent at dinner there, under pretence of a wooing. From thence I to Mr. De Cretz and did take away my Lord's picture, which is now finished forme, and I paid L3 10s. For it and the frame, and am well pleased with itand the price. So carried it home by water, Will being with me. At home, and had a fire made in my closet, and put my papers and books and thingsin order, and that being done I fell to entering these two good songs ofMr. Lawes, "Helpe, helpe, O helpe, " and "O God of Heaven and Hell" in mysong book, to which I have got Mr. Child to set the base to the Theorbo, and that done to bed. 

25th (Lord's day). In the forenoon I alone to our church, and afterdinner I went and ranged about to many churches, among the rest to theTemple, where I heard Dr. Wilkins' a little (late Maister of Trinityin Cambridge). That being done to my father's to see my mother who istroubled much with the stone, and that being done I went home, where Ihad a letter brought me from my Lord to get a ship ready to carry theQueen's things over to France, she being to go within five or six days. So to supper and to bed. 

26th (Office day). To it all the morning, and dined at home where myfather come and dined with me, who seems to take much pleasure to havea son that is neat in his house. I being now making my new door into theentry, which he do please himself much with. After dinner to the officeagain, and there till night. And that being done the Comptroller andI to the Mitre to a glass of wine, when we fell into a discourse ofpoetry, and he did repeat some verses of his own making which were verygood. Home, there hear that my Lady Batten had given my wife a visit(the first that ever she made her), which pleased me exceedingly. Soafter supper to bed. 

27th. To Whitehall, where I found my Lord gone abroad to the Wardrobe, whither he do now go every other morning, and do seem to resolveto understand and look after the business himself. From thence toWestminster Hall, and in King Street there being a great stop ofcoaches, there was a falling out between a drayman and my LordChesterfield's coachman, and one of his footmen killed. At the Hall Imet with Mr. Creed, and he and I to Hell to drink our morning draught, and so to my Lord's again, where I found my wife, and she and I dinedwith him and my Lady, and great company of my Lord's friends, and myLord did show us great respect. Soon as dinner was done my wife tookher leave, and went with Mr. Blackburne and his wife to London to achristening of a Brother's child of his on Tower Hill, and I to a play, "The Scorn-full Lady, " and that being done, I went homewards, and metMr. Moore, who had been at my house, and took him to my father's, and wethree to Standing's to drink. Here Mr. Moore told me how the House hadthis day voted the King to have all the Excise for ever. This day I doalso hear that the Queen's going to France is stopt, which do like, mewell, because then the King will be in town the next month, which is mymonth again at the Privy Seal. From thence home, where when I come Ido remember that I did leave my boy Waineman at Whitehall with order tostay there for me in the court, at which I was much troubled, but about11 o'clock at night the boy came home well, and so we all to bed. 

28th. This morning went to Whitehall to my Lord's, where Major Hart didpay me; L23 14s. 9d. , due to me upon my pay in my Lord's troop at thetime of our disbanding, which is a great blessing to have without takingany law in the world for. But now I must put an end to any hopes ofgetting any more, so that I bless God for this. From thence with Mr. Shepley and Pinkney to the Sun, and did give them a glass of wine and apeck of oysters for joy of my getting this money. So home, where Ifound that Mr. Creed had sent me the L11 5s. That is due to me uponthe remains of account for my sea business, which is also so much clearmoney to me, and my bill of impresse

 [For "bill of impress" In Italian 'imprestare' means "to lend. " In the ancient accounts of persons officially employed by the crown, money advanced, paid on, account, was described as "de prestito, " or "in prestitis. "--M. B. ]

for L30 is also cleared, so that I am wholly clear as to the sea in allrespects. To the office, and was there till late at night, and amongthe officers do hear that they may have our salaries allowed by theTreasurer, which do make me very glad, and praise God for it. Home tosupper, and Mr. Hater supped with me, whom I did give order to take upmy money of the Treasurer to-morrow if it can be had. So to bed. 

29th. In the morning seeing a great deal of foul water come into myparlour from under the partition between me and Mr. Davis, I did stepthither to him and tell him of it, and he did seem very ready to haveit stopt, and did also tell me how thieves did attempt to rob his houselast night, which do make us all afraid. This noon I being troubled thatthe workmen that I have to do my door were called to Mr. Davis's away, I sent for them, when Mr. Davis sent to inquire a reason of, and I didgive him a good one, that they were come on purpose to do some work withme that they had already begun, with which he was well pleased, and Iglad, being unwilling to anger them. In the afternoon Sir W. Batten andI met and did sell the ship Church for L440; and we asked L391, and thatbeing done, I went home, and Dr. Petty came to me about Mr. Barlow'smoney, and I being a little troubled to be so importuned before I hadreceived it, and that they would have it stopt in Mr. Fenn's hands, Idid force the Doctor to go fetch the letter of attorney that he had toreceive it only to make him same labour, which he did bring, and Mr. Hales came along with him from the Treasury with my money for the firstquarter (Michaelmas last) that ever I received for this employment. So Ipaid the Dr. L25 and had L62 10s. For myself, and L7 10s. To myself alsofor Will's salary, which I do intend yet to keep for myself. With thismy heart is much rejoiced, and do bless Almighty God that he is pleasedto send so sudden and unexpected payment of my salary so soon after mygreat disbursements. So that now I am worth L200 again. In a greatease of mind and spirit I fell about the auditing of Mr. Shepley's lastaccounts with my Lord by my Lord's desire, and about that I sat till12 o'clock at night, till I began to doze, and so to bed, with my heartpraising God for his mercy to us. 

30th (Office day). To the office, where Sir G. Carteret did give us anaccount how Mr. Holland do intend to prevail with the Parliament to tryhis project of discharging the seamen all at present by ticket, and sopromise interest to all men that will lend money upon them at eight percent. , for so long as they are unpaid; whereby he do think to take awaythe growing debt, which do now lie upon the kingdom for lack of presentmoney to discharge the seamen. But this we are, troubled at as somediminution to us. I having two barrels of oysters at home, I caused oneof them and some wine to be brought to the inner room in the office, andthere the Principal Officers did go and eat them. So we sat till noon, and then to dinner, and to it again in the afternoon till night. Athome I sent for Mr. Hater, and broke the other barrel with him, and didafterwards sit down discoursing of sea terms to learn of him. And hebeing gone I went up and sat till twelve at night again to make an endof my Lord's accounts, as I did the last night. Which at last I made agood end of, and so to bed. 

DECEMBER 1660

December 1st. This morning, observing some things to be laid up not asthey should be by the girl, I took a broom and basted her till shecried extremely, which made me vexed, but before I went out I left herappeased. So to Whitehall, where I found Mr. Moore attending for me atthe Privy Seal, but nothing to do to-day. I went to my Lord St. Albanslodgings, and found him in bed, talking to a priest (he looked like one)that leaned along over the side of the bed, and there I desired to knowhis mind about making the catch stay longer, which I got ready for himthe other day. He seems to be a fine civil gentleman. To my Lord's, anddid give up my audit of his accounts, which I had been then two daysabout, and was well received by my Lord. I dined with my Lord and Lady, and we had a venison pasty. Mr. Shepley and I went into London, andcalling upon Mr. Pinkney, the goldsmith, he took us to the tavern, andgave us a pint of wine, and there fell into our company old Mr. Flowerand another gentleman; who tell us how a Scotch knight was killed baselythe other day at the Fleece in Covent Garden, where there had been agreat many formerly killed. So to Paul's Churchyard, and there I tookthe little man at Mr. Kirton's and Mr. Shepley to Ringstead's at theStar, and after a pint of wine I went home, my brains somewhat troubledwith so much wine, and after a letter or two by the post I went to bed. 

2d (Lord's day). My head not very well, and my body out of order by lastnight's drinking, which is my great folly. To church, and Mr. Mills madea good sermon; so home to dinner. My wife and I all alone to a leg ofmutton, the sawce of which being made sweet, I was angry at it, and eatnone, but only dined upon the marrow bone that we had beside. To churchin the afternoon, and after sermon took Tom Fuller's Church History andread over Henry the 8th's life in it, and so to supper and to bed. 

3rd. This morning I took a resolution to rise early in the morning, andso I rose by candle, which I have not done all this winter, and spent mymorning in fiddling till time to go to the office, where Sir G. Carteretdid begin again discourse on Mr. Holland's proposition, which the Kingdo take very ill, and so Sir George in lieu of that do propose that theseamen should have half in ready money and tickets for the other half, to be paid in three months after, which we judge to be very practicable. After office home to dinner, where come in my cozen Snow by chance, andI had a very good capon to dinner. So to the office till night, and sohome, and then come Mr. Davis, of Deptford (the first time that everhe was at my house), and after him Mons. L'Impertinent, who is to go toIreland to-morrow, and so came to take his leave of me. They both foundme under the barber's hand; but I had a bottle of good sack in thehouse, and so made them very welcome. Mr. Davis sat with me a good whileafter the other was gone, talking of his hard usage and of the endeavourto put him out of his place in the time of the late Commissioners, andhe do speak very highly of their corruption. After he was gone I fella reading 'Cornelianum dolium' till 11 o'clock at night with greatpleasure, and after that to bed. 

4th. To Whitehall to Sir G. Carteret's chamber, where all the officersmet, and so we went up to the Duke of York, and he took us into hiscloset, and we did open to him our project of stopping the growingcharge of the fleet by paying them in hand one moyety, and the otherfour months hence. This he do like, and we returned by his order to SirG. Carteret's chamber, and there we did draw up this design in order tobe presented to the Parliament. From thence I to my Lord's, and dinedwith him and told him what we had done to-day. Sir Tho. Crew dined withmy Lord to-day, and we were very merry with Mrs. Borfett, who dinedthere still as she has always done lately. After dinner Sir Tho. And myLady to the Playhouse to see "The Silent Woman. " I home by water, andwith Mr. Hater in my chamber all alone he and I did put this morning'sdesign into order, which being done I did carry it to Sir W. Batten, where I found some gentlemen with him (Sir W. Pen among the rest prettymerry with drink) playing at cards, and there I staid looking upon themtill one o'clock in the morning, and so Sir W. Pen and I went away, and I to bed. This day the Parliament voted that the bodies of Oliver, Ireton, Bradshaw, &c. , should be taken up out of their graves in theAbbey, and drawn to the gallows, and there hanged and buried under it:which (methinks) do trouble me that a man of so great courage as he was, should have that dishonour, though otherwise he might deserve it enough. 

5th. This morning the Proposal which I wrote the last night I showed tothe officers this morning, and was well liked of, and I wrote it fairfor Sir. G. Carteret to show to the King, and so it is to go to theParliament. I dined at home, and after dinner I went to the new Theatreand there I saw "The Merry Wives of Windsor" acted, the humours of thecountry gentleman and the French doctor very well done, but the rest butvery poorly, and Sir J. Falstaffe t as bad as any. From thence to Mr. Will. Montagu's chamber to have sealed some writings tonight between SirR. Parkhurst and myself about my Lord's L2000, but he not coming, I wentto my father's and there found my mother still ill of the stone, andhad just newly voided one, which she had let drop into the chimney, andlooked and found it to shew it me. From thence home and to bed. 

6th. This morning some of the Commissioners of Parliament and Sir W. Batten went to Sir G. Carteret's office here in town, and paid off theChesnut. I carried my wife to White Friars and landed her there, andmyself to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, where abundance of pardons toseal, but I was much troubled for it because that there are no fees nowcoming for them to me. Thence Mr. Moore and I alone to the Leg in KingStreet, and dined together on a neat's tongue and udder. From thenceby coach to Mr. Crew's to my Lord, who told me of his going out of townto-morrow to settle the militia in Huntingdonshire, and did desire me tolay up a box of some rich jewels and things that there are in it, whichI promised to do. After much free discourse with my Lord, who tells mehis mind as to his enlarging his family, &c. , and desiring me to lookhim out a Master of the Horse and other servants, we parted. From thenceI walked to Greatorex (he was not within), but there I met with Mr. Jonas Moore, [Jonas Moore was born at Whitley, Lancashire, February 8th, 1617, and was appointed by Charles I. Tutor to the Duke of York. Soon after the Restoration he was knighted and made Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. He was famous as a mathematician, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society. He died August 27th, 1679, and at his funeral sixty pieces of ordnance were discharged at the Tower. ]

and took him to the Five Bells, ' and drank a glass of wine and left him. To the Temple, when Sir R. Parkhurst (as was intended the last night)did seal the writings, and is to have the L2000 told to-morrow. From, thence by water to Parliament Stairs, and there at an alehouse to Doling(who is suddenly to go into Ireland to venture his fortune); Simonds(who is at a great loss for L200 present money, which I was loth to lethim have, though I could now do it, and do love him and think him honestand sufficient, yet lothness to part with money did dissuade me fromit); Luellin (who was very drowsy from a dose that he had got the lastnight), Mr. Mount and several others, among the rest one Mr. Pierce, an army man, who did make us the best sport for songs and stories ina Scotch tone (which he do very well) that ever I heard in my life. Inever knew so good a companion in all my observation. From thence tothe bridge by water, it being a most pleasant moonshine night, witha waterman who did tell such a company of bawdy stories, how once hecarried a lady from Putney in such a night as this, and she bade him liedown by her, which he did, and did give her content, and a great dealmore roguery. Home and found my girl knocking at the door (it being 11o'clock at night), her mistress having sent her out for some trivialbusiness, which did vex me when I came in, and so I took occasion to goup and to bed in a pet. Before I went forth this morning, one came tome to give me notice that the justices of Middlesex do meet to-morrowat Hicks Hall, and that I as one am desired to be there, but I fear Icannot be there though I much desire it. 

7th. This morning the judge Advocate Fowler came to see me, and he andI sat talking till it was time to go to the office. To the office andthere staid till past 12 o'clock, and so I left the Comptroller andSurveyor and went to Whitehall to my Lord's, where I found my Lord gonethis morning to Huntingdon, as he told me yesterday he would. I staidand dined with my Lady, there being Laud the page's mother' there, anddined also with us, and seemed to have been a very pretty woman and ofgood discourse. Before dinner I examined Laud in his Latin and found hima very pretty boy and gone a great way in Latin. After dinner I took abox of some things of value that my Lord had left for me to carry to theExchequer, which I did, and left them with my Brother Spicer, who alsohad this morning paid L1000 for me by appointment to Sir R. Parkhurst. So to the Privy Seal, where I signed a deadly number of pardons, whichdo trouble me to get nothing by. Home by water, and there was muchpleased to see that my little room is likely to come to be finishedsoon. I fell a-reading Fuller's History of Abbys, and my wife in GreatCyrus till twelve at night, and so to bed. 

8th. To Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and thence to Mr. Pierces theSurgeon to tell them that I would call by and by to go to dinner. But Igoing into Westminster Hall met with Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Pen (whowere in a great fear that we had committed a great error of L100, 000 inour late account gone into the Parliament in making it too little), andso I was fain to send order to Mr. Pierces to come to my house; and alsoto leave the key of the chest with Mr. Spicer; wherein my Lord's moneyis, and went along with Sir W. Pen by water to the office, and therewith Mr. Huchinson we did find that we were in no mistake. And so Iwent to dinner with my wife and Mr. And Mrs. Pierce the Surgeon to Mr. Pierce, the Purser (the first time that ever I was at his house) whodoes live very plentifully and finely. We had a lovely chine of beef andother good things very complete and drank a great deal of wine, and herdaughter played after dinner upon the virginals, [All instruments of the harpsichord and spinet kind were styled virginals. ]

and at night by lanthorn home again, and Mr. Pierce and his wife beinggone home I went to bed, having drunk so much wine that my head wastroubled and was not very well all night, and the wind I observed wasrose exceedingly before I went to bed. 

9th (Lord's day). Being called up early by Sir W. Batten I rose and wentto his house and he told me the ill news that he had this morning fromWoolwich, that the Assurance (formerly Captain Holland's ship, and nowCaptain Stoakes's, designed for Guiny and manned and victualled), was bya gust of wind sunk down to the bottom. Twenty men drowned. Sir Williamsboth went by barge thither to see how things are, and I am sent to theDuke of York to tell him, and by boat with some other company going toWhitehall from the Old Swan. I went to the Duke. And first calling uponMr. Coventry at his chamber, I went to the Duke's bed-side, who had satup late last night, and lay long this morning, who was much surprised, therewith. This being done I went to chappell, and sat in Mr. Blagrave'spew, and there did sing my part along with another before the King, andwith much ease. From thence going to my Lady I met with a letter frommy Lord (which Andrew had been at my house to bring me and missed me), commanding me to go to Mr. Denham, to get a man to go to him to-morrowto Hinchinbroke, to contrive with him about some alterations in hishouse, which I did and got Mr. Kennard. Dined with my Lady and staid allthe afternoon with her, and had infinite of talk of all kind of things, especially of beauty of men and women, with which she seems to be muchpleased to talk of. From thence at night to Mr. Kennard and took him toMr. Denham, the Surveyor's. Where, while we could not speak with him, his chief man (Mr. Cooper) did give us a cup of good sack. From thencewith Mr. Kennard to my Lady who is much pleased with him, and after aglass of sack there; we parted, having taken order for a horse or twofor him and his servant to be gone to-morrow. So to my father's, whereI sat while they were at supper, and I found my mother below, stairsand pretty well. Thence home, where I hear that the Comptroller had somebusiness with me, and (with Giffin's lanthorn) I went to him and therestaid in discourse an hour 'till late, and among other things he showedme a design of his, by the King's making an Order of Knights of the Sealto give an encouragement for persons of honour to undertake the serviceof the sea, and he had done it with great pains and very ingeniously. Sohome and to prayers and to bed. 

10th. Up exceedingly early to go to the Comptroller, but he not beingup and it being a very fine, bright, moonshine morning I went and walkedall alone twenty turns in Cornhill, from Gracious Street corner to theStockes and back again, from 6 o'clock till past 7, so long that I wasweary, and going to the Comptroller's thinking to find him ready, Ifound him gone, at which I was troubled, and being weary went home, and from thence with my wife by water to Westminster, and put her to myfather Bowyer's (they being newly come out of the country), but I couldnot stay there, but left her there. I to the Hall and there met withCol. Slingsby. So hearing that the Duke of York is gone down thismorning, to see the ship sunk yesterday at Woolwich, he and I returnedby his coach to the office, and after that to dinner. After dinner hecame to me again and sat with me at my house, ands among other discoursehe told me that it is expected that the Duke will marry the LordChancellor's daughter at last which is likely to be the ruin of Mr. Davis and my Lord Barkley, who have carried themselves so high againstthe Chancellor; Sir Chas. Barkley swearing that he and others had lainwith her often, which all believe to be a lie. He and I in the eveningto the Coffee House in Cornhill, the first time that ever I was there, and I found much pleasure in it, through the diversity of company anddiscourse. Home and found my wife at my Lady Batten's, and have made abargain to go see the ship sunk at Woolwich, where both the Sir Williamsare still since yesterday, and I do resolve to go along with them. Fromthence home and up to bed, having first been into my study, and to easemy mind did go to cast up how my cash stands, and I do find as near as Ican that I am worth in money clear L240, for which God be praised. Thisafternoon there was a couple of men with me with a book in each of theirhands, demanding money for pollmoney, [Pepys seems to have been let off very easily, for, by Act of Parliament 18 Car. II. Cap. I (1666), servants were to pay one shilling in the pound of their wages, and others from one shilling to three shillings in the pound. ]

and I overlooked the book and saw myself set down Samuel Pepys, gent. 10s. For himself and for his servants 2s. , which I did presently paywithout any dispute, but I fear I have not escaped so, and thereforeI have long ago laid by L10 for them, but I think I am not bound todiscover myself. 

11th. My wife and I up very early this day, and though the weather wasvery bad and the wind high, yet my Lady Batten and her maid and we twodid go by our barge to Woolwich (my Lady being very fearfull) where wefound both Sir Williams and much other company, expecting the weatherto be better, that they might go about weighing up the Assurance, which lies there (poor ship, that I have been twice merry in, in Captn. Holland's time, ) under water, only the upper deck may be seen and themasts. Captain Stoakes is very melancholy, and being in search for someclothes and money of his, which he says he hath lost out of his cabin. I did the first office of a justice of Peace to examine a seamanthereupon, but could find no reason to commit him. This last tide theKingsale was also run aboard and lost her mainmast, by another ship, which makes us think it ominous to the Guiny voyage, to have two ofher ships spoilt before they go out. After dinner, my Lady being veryfearfull she staid and kept my wife there, and I and another gentleman, a friend of Sir W. Pen's, went back in the barge, very merry by theway, as far as Whitehall in her. To the Privy Seal, where I signedmany pardons and some few things else. From thence Mr. Moore and I intoLondon to a tavern near my house, and there we drank and discoursed ofways how to put out a little money to the best advantage, and at presenthe has persuaded me to put out L250 for L50 per annum for eight years, and I think I shall do it. Thence home, where I found the wench washing, and I up to my study, and there did make up an even L100, and sealed itto lie by. After that to bed. 

12th. Troubled with the absence of my wife. This morning I went (afterthe Comptroller and I had sat an hour at the office) to Whitehallto dine with my Lady, and after dinner to the Privy Seal and sealedabundance of pardons and little else. From thence to the Exchequer anddid give my mother Bowyer a visit and her daughters, the first time thatI have seen them since I went last to sea. From thence up with J. Spicerto his office and took L100, and by coach with it as far as my father's, where I called to see them, and my father did offer me six pieces ofgold, in lieu of six pounds that he borrowed of me the other day, butit went against me to take it of him and therefore did not, though I wasafterwards a little troubled that I did not. Thence home, and took outthis L100 and sealed it up with the other last night, it being the firstL200 that ever I saw together of my own in my life. For which God bepraised. So to my Lady Batten, and sat an hour or two, and talked withher daughter and people in the absence of her father and mother and mywife to pass away the time. After that home and to bed, reading myselfasleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside. 

13th. All the day long looking upon my workmen who this day began topaint my parlour. Only at noon my Lady Batten and my wife came home, and so I stepped to my Lady's, where were Sir John Lawson and CaptainHolmes, and there we dined and had very good red wine of my Lady's ownmaking in England. 

14th. Also all this day looking upon my workmen. Only met with theComptroller at the office a little both forenoon and afternoon, and atnight step a little with him to the Coffee House where we light uponvery good company and had very good discourse concerning insects andtheir having a generative faculty as well as other creatures. Thisnight in discourse the Comptroller told me among other persons that wereheretofore the principal officers of the Navy, there was one Sir PeterBuck, a Clerk of the Acts, of which to myself I was not a little proud. 

15th. All day at home looking upon my workmen, only at noon Mr. Moorecame and brought me some things to sign for the Privy Seal and dinedwith me. We had three eels that my wife and I bought this morning ofa man, that cried them about, for our dinner, and that was all I didto-day. 

16th. In the morning to church, and then dined at home. In the afternoonI to White Hall, where I was surprised with the news of a plot againstthe King's person and my Lord Monk's; and that since last night thereare about forty taken up on suspicion; and, amongst others, it was mylot to meet with Simon Beale, the Trumpeter, who took me and Tom Dolinginto the Guard in Scotland Yard, and showed us Major-General Overton, where I heard him deny that he is guilty of any such things; but thatwhereas it is said that he is found to have brought many arms to town, he says it is only to sell them, as he will prove by oath. From thencewith Tom Doling and Boston and D. Vines (whom we met by the way) toPrice's, and there we drank, and in discourse I learnt a pretty trick totry whether a woman be a maid or no, by a string going round her head tomeet at the end of her nose, which if she be not will come a great waybeyond. Thence to my Lady's and staid with her an hour or two talking ofthe Duke of York and his lady, the Chancellor's daughter, between whom, she tells me, that all is agreed and he will marry her. But I know nothow true yet. It rained hard, and my Lady would have had me have thecoach, but I would not, but to my father's, where I met my wife, andthere supped, and after supper by link home and to bed. 

17th. All day looking after my workmen, only in the afternoon to theoffice where both Sir Williams were come from Woolwich, and tell usthat, contrary to their expectations, the Assurance is got up, withoutmuch damage to her body, only to the goods that she hath within her, which argues her to be a strong, good ship. This day my parlour isgilded, which do please me well. 

18th. All day at home, without stirring at all, looking after myworkmen. 

19th. At noon I went and dined with my Lady at Whitehall, and so backagain to the office, and after that home to my workmen. This night Mr. Gauden sent me a great chine of beef and half a dozen of tongues. 

20th. All day at home with my workmen, that I may get all done beforeChristmas. This day I hear that the Princess Royal has the small pox. 

21st. By water to Whitehall (leaving my wife at Whitefriars going to myfather's to buy her a muff and mantle), there I signed many things atthe Privy Seal, and carried L200 from thence to the Exchequer, and laidit up with Mr. Hales, and afterwards took him and W. Bowyer to the Swanand drank with them. They told me that this is St. Thomas's [day], andthat by an old custom, this day the Exchequer men had formerly, and dointend this night to have a supper; which if I could I promised tocome to, but did not. To my Lady's, and dined with her: she told me howdangerously ill the Princess Royal is and that this morning she was saidto be dead. But she hears that she hath married herself to youngJermyn, which is worse than the Duke of York's marrying the Chancellor'sdaughter, which is now publicly owned. After dinner to the office allthe afternoon. At seven at night I walked through the dirt to Whitehallto see whether my Lord be come to town, and I found him come and atsupper, and I supped with him. He tells me that my aunt at Brampton hasvoided a great stone (the first time that ever I heard she was troubledtherewith) and cannot possibly live long, that my uncle is pretty well, but full of pain still. After supper home and to bed. 

22nd. All the morning with my painters, who will make an end of all thisday I hope. At noon I went to the Sun tavern; on Fish Street hill, to adinner of Captn. Teddimans, where was my Lord Inchiquin (who seems to bea very fine person), Sir W. Pen, Captn. Cuttance, and one Mr. Lawrence(a fine gentleman now going to Algiers), and other good company, wherewe had a very fine dinner, good musique, and a great deal of wine. Westaid here very late, at last Sir W. Pen and I home together, he soovercome with wine that he could hardly go; I was forced to lead himthrough the streets and he was in a very merry and kind mood. I home(found my house clear of the workmen and their work ended), my headtroubled with wine, and I very merry went to bed, my head akeing allnight. 

23rd (Lord's day). In the morning to Church, where our pew all coveredwith rosemary and baize. A stranger made a dull sermon. Home and foundmy wife and maid with much ado had made shift to spit a great turkeysent me this week from Charles Carter, my old colleague, now minister inHuntingdonshire, but not at all roasted, and so I was fain to stay tilltwo o'clock, and after that to church with my wife, and a good sermonthere was, and so home. All the evening at my book, and so to supper andto bed. 

24th. In the morning to the office and Commissioner Pett (who seldomcomes there) told me that he had lately presented a piece of plate(being a couple of flaggons) to Mr. Coventry, but he did not receivethem, which also put me upon doing the same too; and so after dinnerI went and chose a payre of candlesticks to be made ready for me atAlderman Backwell's. To the office again in the afternoon till night, and so home, and with the painters till 10 at night, making an end of myhouse and the arch before my door, and so this night I was rid of themand all other work, and my house was made ready against to-morrow beingChristmas day. This day the Princess Royal died at Whitehall. 

25th (Christmas day). In the morning very much pleased to see my houseonce more clear of workmen and to be clean, and indeed it is so, farbetter than it was that I do not repent of my trouble that I have beenat. In the morning to church, where Mr. Mills made a very good sermon. After that home to dinner, where my wife and I and my brother Tom (whothis morning came to see my wife's new mantle put on, which do please mevery well), to a good shoulder of mutton and a chicken. After dinner tochurch again, my wife and I, where we had a dull sermon of a stranger, which made me sleep, and so home, and I, before and after supper, to mylute and Fuller's History, at which I staid all alone in my chamber till12 at night, and so to bed. 

26th. In the morning to Alderman Backwell's for the candlesticks for Mr. Coventry, but they being not done I went away, and so by coach to Mr. Crew's, and there took some money of Mr. Moore's for my Lord, and so tomy Lord's, where I found Sir Thomas Bond (whom I never saw before) witha message from the Queen about vessells for the carrying over of hergoods, and so with him to Mr. Coventry, and thence to the office (beingsoundly washed going through the bridge) to Sir Wm. Batten and Pen (thelast of whom took physic to-day), and so I went up to his chamber, andthere having made an end of the business I returned to White Hall bywater, and dined with my Lady Sandwich, who at table did tell me howmuch fault was laid upon Dr. Frazer and the rest of the Doctors, for thedeath of the Princess! My Lord did dine this day with Sir Henry Wright, in order to his going to sea with the Queen. Thence to my fatherBowyer's where I met my wife, and with her home by water. 

27th. In the morning to Alderman Backwell's again, where I found thecandlesticks done, and went along with him in his coach to my Lord's andleft the candlesticks with Mr. Shepley. I staid in the garden talkingmuch with my Lord, who do show me much of his love and do communicatehis mind in most things to me, which is my great content. Home and withmy wife to Sir W. Batten's to dinner, where much and good company. Mywife not very well went home, I staid late there seeing them play atcards, and so home to bed. This afternoon there came in a strange lordto Sir William Batten's by a mistake and enters discourse with him, sothat we could not be rid of him till Sir Arn. Breames and Mr. Bens andSir W. Pen fell a-drinking to him till he was drunk, and so sent himaway. About the middle of the night I was very ill--I think with eatingand drinking too much--and so I was forced to call the maid, who pleasedmy wife and I in her running up and down so innocently in her smock, and vomited in the bason, and so to sleep, and in the morning was prettywell, only got cold, and so had pain.... As I used to have. 

28th. Office day. There all the morning. Dined at home alone with mywife, and so staid within all the afternoon and evening; at my lute, with great pleasure, and so to bed with great content. 

29th. Within all the morning. Several people to speak with me; Mr. Shepley for L100; Mr. Kennard and Warren, the merchant, about deals formy Lord. Captain Robert Blake lately come from the Straights aboutsome Florence Wine for my Lord, and with him I went to Sir W. Pen, who offering me a barrel of oysters I took them both home to my house(having by chance a good piece of roast beef at the fire for dinner), and there they dined with me, and sat talking all the afternoon-goodcompany. Thence to Alderman Backwell's and took a brave state-plate andcupp in lieu of the candlesticks that I had the other day and carriedthem by coach to my Lord's and left them there. And so back to myfather's and saw my mother, and so to my uncle Fenner's, whither myfather came to me, and there we talked and drank, and so away; I homewith my father, he telling me what bad wives both my cozen Joycesmake to their husbands, which I much wondered at. After talking of mysister's coming to me next week, I went home and to bed. 

30th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and being up, I went with Will tomy Lord's, calling in at many churches in my way. There I found Mr. Shepley, in his Venetian cap, taking physique in his chamber, and withhim I sat till dinner. My Lord dined abroad and my Lady in her chamber, so Mr. Hetly, Child and I dined together, and after dinner Mr. Child andI spent some time at the lute, and so promising to prick me some lessonsto my theorbo he went away to see Henry Laws, who lies very sick. I tothe Abby and walked there, seeing the great confusion of people thatcome there to hear the organs. So home, calling in at my father's, but staid not, my father and mother being both forth. At home I fella-reading of Fuller's Church History till it was late, and so to bed. 

31st. At the office all the morning and after that home, and not stayingto dine I went out, and in Paul's Church-yard I bought the play of"Henry the Fourth, " and so went to the new Theatre (only calling at Mr. Crew's and eat a bit with the people there at dinner) and saw it acted;but my expectation being too great, it did not please me, as otherwise Ibelieve it would; and my having a book, I believe did spoil it a little. That being done I went to my Lord's, where I found him private at cardswith my Lord Lauderdale and some persons of honour. So Mr. Shepley andI over to Harper's, and there drank a pot or two, and so parted. My boytaking a cat home with him from my Lord's, which Sarah had given him formy wife, we being much troubled with mice. At Whitehall inquiring for acoach, there was a Frenchman with one eye that was going my way, so heand I hired the coach between us and he set me down in Fenchurch Street. Strange how the fellow, without asking, did tell me all what he was, andhow he had ran away from his father and come into England to serve theKing, and now going back again. Home and to bed. 

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 A very fine dinner A good handsome wench I kissed, the first that I have seen Among all the beauties there, my wife was thought the greatest An exceeding pretty lass, and right for the sport An offer of L500 for a Baronet's dignity And in all this not so much as one Asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside Barkley swearing that he and others had lain with her often Bought for the love of the binding three books Boy up to-night for his sister to teach him to put me to bed But we were friends again as we are always But I think I am not bound to discover myself Cavaliers have now the upper hand clear of the Presbyterians Confusion of years in the case of the months of January (etc. ) Court attendance infinite tedious Cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether Diana did not come according to our agreement Did not like that Clergy should meddle with matters of state Dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else Dined upon six of my pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill Do press for new oaths to be put upon men Drink at a bottle beer house in the Strand Drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wanton Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment Fashionable and black spots Finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up First time I had given her leave to wear a black patch First time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral Five pieces of gold for to do him a small piece of service Fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March Formerly say that the King was a bastard and his mother a whore Gave him his morning draft Gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be kissed by the King God help him, he wants bread. Had no more manners than to invite me and to let me pay Hand i' the cap Hanging jack to roast birds on Have her come not as a sister in any respect, but as a servant Have not known her this fortnight almost, which is a pain to me He and I lay in one press bed, there being two more He is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I He that must do the business, or at least that can hinder it He was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good while He did very well, but a deadly drinker he is He made the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours He knew nothing about the navy Hired her to procure this poor soul for him How the Presbyterians would be angry if they durst I fear is not so good as she should be I never designed to be a witness against any man I was demanded L100, for the fee of the office at 6d. A pound I took a broom and basted her till she cried extremely I pray God to make me able to pay for it. I was angry with her, which I was troubled for I went to the cook's and got a good joint of meat I was exceeding free in dallying with her, and she not unfree I was a great Roundhead when I was a boy If it should come in print my name maybe at it Ill all this day by reason of the last night's debauch In discourse he seems to be wise and say little In comes Mr. North very sea-sick from shore In perpetual trouble and vexation that need it least Inoffensive vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass It not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us John Pickering on board, like an ass, with his feathers King do tire all his people that are about him with early rising King's Proclamation against drinking, swearing, and debauchery Kiss my Parliament, instead of "Kiss my [rump]" Kissed them myself very often with a great deal of mirth L100 worth of plate for my Lord to give Secretary Nicholas Learned the multiplication table for the first time in 1661 Learnt a pretty trick to try whether a woman be a maid or no Long cloaks being now quite out Made to drink, that they might know him not to be a Roundhead Montaigne is conscious that we are looking over his shoulder Most of my time in looking upon Mrs. Butler Mottoes inscribed on rings was of Roman origin Much troubled with thoughts how to get money My luck to meet with a sort of drolling workmen on all occasions My new silk suit, the first that ever I wore in my life My wife and I had some high words My wife was very unwilling to let me go forth My wife was making of her tarts and larding of her pullets My Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his chamber Nothing in it approaching that single page in St. Simon Offer me L500 if I would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place Petition against hackney coaches Playing the fool with the lass of the house Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves Presbyterians against the House of Lords Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques Put to a great loss how I should get money to make up my cash Resolve to have the doing of it himself, or else to hinder it Sceptic in all things of religion She had six children by the King Show many the strangest emotions to shift off his drink Sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call the wench up to wash Smoke jack consists of a wind-wheel fixed in the chimney So we went to bed and lay all night in a quarrel So I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pet Some merry talk with a plain bold maid of the house Strange thing how I am already courted by the people Strange how civil and tractable he was to me The present Irish pronunciation of English The rest did give more, and did believe that I did so too The ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo them There being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered This afternoon I showed my Lord my accounts, which he passed This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall To see the bride put to bed To the Swan and drank our morning draft To see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered Upon the leads gazing upon Diana We cannot tell what to do for want of her (the maid) Wedding for which the posy ring was required Went to bed with my head not well by my too much drinking to-day Where I find the worst very good Which I did give him some hope of, though I never intend it Woman that they have a fancy to, to make her husband a cuckold