THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M. A. F. R. S. 

 CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY

 TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M. A. LATE FELLOW AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE

 (Unabridged)

 WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES

 EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY

 HENRY B. WHEATLEY F. S. A. 

 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER 1663

Sept. 1st. Up pretty betimes, and after a little at my viall to myoffice, where we sat all the morning, and I got my bill among others formy carved work (which I expected to have paid for myself) signed at thetable, and hope to get the money back again, though if the rest had notgot it paid by the King, I never intended nor did desire to have him payfor my vanity. In the evening my brother John coming to me to complainthat my wife seems to be discontented at his being here, and shows himgreat disrespect; so I took and walked with him in the garden, anddiscoursed long with him about my affairs, and how imprudent it is for myfather and mother and him to take exceptions without great cause at mywife, considering how much it concerns them to keep her their friend andfor my peace; not that I would ever be led by her to forget or desert themin the main, but yet she deserves to be pleased and complied with alittle, considering the manner of life that I keep her to, and howconvenient it were for me to have Brampton for her to be sent to when Ihave a mind or occasion to go abroad to Portsmouth or elsewhere. Sodirected him how to behave himself to her, and gave him other counsel; andso to my office, where late. 

2nd. Up betimes and to my office, and thence with Sir J. Minnes by coachto White Hall, where met us Sir W. Batten, and there staid by the CouncilChamber till the Lords called us in, being appointed four days ago toattend them with an account of the riott among the seamen the other day, when Sir J. Minnes did as like a coxcomb as ever I saw any man speak in mylife, and so we were dismissed, they making nothing almost of the matter. We staid long without, till by and by my Lord Mayor comes, who also wascommanded to be there, and he having, we not being within with him, anadmonition from the Lords to take better care of preserving the peace, wejoyned with him, and the Lords having commanded Sir J. Minnes to prosecutethe fellows for the riott, we rode along with my Lord Mayor in his coachto the Sessions House in the Old Bayley, where the Sessions are nowsitting. Here I heard two or three ordinary tryalls, among others one(which, they say, is very common now-a-days, and therefore in my nowtaking of mayds I resolve to look to have some body to answer for them) awoman that went and was indicted by four names for entering herself acookemayde to a gentleman that prosecuted her there, and after 3 days runaway with a silver tankard, a porringer of silver, and a couple of spoons, and being now found is found guilty, and likely will be hanged. By and byup to dinner with my Lord Mayor and the Aldermen, and a very great dinnerand most excellent venison, but it almost made me sick by not daring todrink wine. After dinner into a withdrawing room; and there we talked, among other things, of the Lord Mayor's sword. They tell me this sword, they believe, is at least a hundred or two hundred years old; and anotherthat he hath, which is called the Black Sword, which the Lord Mayor wearswhen he mournes, but properly is their Lenten sword to wear upon GoodFriday and other Lent days, is older than that. Thence I, leaving Sir J. Minnes to look after his indictment drawing up, I home by water, and therefound my wife mightily pleased with a present of shells, fine shells givenher by Captain Hickes, and so she and I up and look them over, and indeedthey are very pleasant ones. By and by in comes Mr. Lewellin, lately comefrom Ireland, to see me, and he tells me how the English interest fallsmightily there, the Irish party being too great, so that most of the oldrebells are found innocent, and their lands, which were forfeited andbought or given to the English, are restored to them; which gives greatdiscontent there among the English. He being gone, I to my office, wherelate, putting things in order, and so home to supper and to bed. Goingthrough the City, my Lord Mayor told me how the piller set up by ExeterHouse is only to show where the pipes of water run to the City; andobserved that this City is as well watered as any city in the world, andthat the bringing the water to the City hath cost it first and last aboveL300, 000; but by the new building, and the building of St. James's by myLord St. Albans, [It was at this time that the Earl of St. Albans planned St. James's Square, which was first styled "The Piazza. " The "Warrant for a grant to Baptist May and Abraham Cowley on nomination of the Earl of St. Albans of several parcels of ground in Pall Mall described, on rental of L80, for building thereon a square of 13 or 14 great and good houses, " was dated September 24th, 1664. ]

which is now about (and which the City stomach I perceive highly, but darenot oppose it), were it now to be done, it would not be done for a millionof money. 

3rd. Up betimes, and for an hour at my viall before my people rise. Thenup and to the office a while, and then to Sir W. Batten, who is going thisday for pleasure down to the Downes. I eat a breakfast with them, and atmy Lady's desire with them by coach to Greenwich, where I went aboard withthem on the Charlotte yacht. The wind very fresh, and I believe they willbe all sicke enough, besides that she is mighty troublesome on the water. Methinks she makes over much of her husband's ward, young Mr. Griffin, asif she expected some service from him when he comes to it, being a prettyyoung boy. I left them under sayle, and I to Deptford, and, after a wordor two with Sir J. Minnes, walked to Redriffe and so home. In my way, itcoming into my head, overtaking of a beggar or two on the way that lookedlike Gypsys, what the Gypsys 8 or 9 days ago had foretold, that somebodythat day se'nnight should be with me to borrow money, but I should lendnone; and looking, when I came to my office, upon my journall, that mybrother John had brought a letter that day from my brother Tom to borrowL20 more of me, which had vexed me so that I had sent the letter to myfather into the country, to acquaint him of it, and how little he isbeforehand that he is still forced to borrow. But it pleased me mightilyto see how, contrary to my expectations, having so lately lent him L20, and belief that he had money by him to spare, and that after some days notthinking of it, I should look back and find what the Gypsy had told me tobe so true. After dinner at home to my office, and there till late doingbusiness, being very well pleased with Mr. Cutler's coming to me aboutsome business, and among other things tells me that they value me as a manof business, which he accounts the best virtuoso, and I know his thinkingme so, and speaking where he comes, may be of good use to me. Home tosupper, and to bed. 

4th. Up betimes, and an hour at my viall, and then abroad by water toWhite Hall and Westminster Hall, and there bought the first newes-books ofL'Estrange's writing;

 [Roger L'Estrange, a voluminous writer of pamphlets and periodical papers, and translator of classics, &c. Born 1616. He was Licenser of the Press to Charles II. And James II. ; and M. P. For Winchester in James II. 's parliament. L'Estrange was knighted in the reign of James II. , and died 1704. In 1663 L'Estrange set up a paper called "The Public Intelligencer, " which came out on August 31st, and continued to be published twice a week till January 19th, 1665, when it was superseded by the scheme of publishing the "London Gazette, " the first number of which appeared on February 4th following. ]

he beginning this week; and makes, methinks, but a simple beginning. Thento speak to Mrs. Lane, who seems desirous to have me come to see her andto have her company as I had a little while ago, which methinks if shewere very modest, considering how I tumbled her and tost her, she shouldnot. Thence to Mrs. Harper, and sent for Creed, and there Mrs. Harpersent for a maid for me to come to live with my wife. I like the maid'slooks well enough, and I believe may do well, she looking very modestlyand speaking so too. I directed her to speak with my wife, and so Creedand I away to Mr. Povy's, and he not being at home, walked to Lincoln'sInn walks, which they are making very fine, and about one o'clock wentback to Povy's; and by and by in comes he, and so we sat and down todinner, and his lady, whom I never saw before (a handsome old woman thatbrought him money that makes him do as he does), and so we had plenty ofmeat and drink, though I drunk no wine, though mightily urged to it, andin the exact manner that I never saw in my life any where, and he the mostfull and satisfied in it that man can be in this world with any thing. After dinner done, to see his new cellars, which he has made so fine withso noble an arch and such contrivances for his barrels and bottles, and ina room next to it such a grotto and fountayne, which in summer will be sopleasant as nothing in the world can be almost. But to see how he himselfdo pride himself too much in it, and command and expect to have alladmiration, though indeed everything do highly deserve it, is a littletroublesome. Thence Creed and I away, and by his importunity away bycoach to Bartholomew Fayre, where I have no mind to go without my wife, and therefore rode through the fayre without 'lighting, and away home, leaving him there; and at home made my wife get herself presently ready, and so carried her by coach to the fayre, and showed her the monkeysdancing on the ropes, which was strange, but such dirty sport that I wasnot pleased with it. There was also a horse with hoofs like rams hornes, a goose with four feet, and a cock with three. Thence to another place, and saw some German Clocke works, the Salutation of the Virgin Mary, andseveral Scriptural stories; but above all there was at last representedthe sea, with Neptune, Venus, mermaids, and Ayrid on a dolphin, the searocking, so well done, that had it been in a gaudy manner and place, andat a little distance, it had been admirable. Thence home by coach with mywife, and I awhile to the office, and so to supper and to bed. This day Iread a Proclamation for calling in and commanding every body to apprehendmy Lord Bristoll. 

5th. Up betimes and to my viall awhile, and so to the office, and theresat, and busy all the morning. So at noon to the Exchange, and so home todinner, where I met Creed, who dined with me, and after dinner mightilyimportuned by Captain Hicks, who came to tell my wife the names and storyof all the shells, which was a pretty present he made her the other day. He being gone, Creed, my wife, and I to Cornhill, and after many tryallsbought my wife a chintz, that is, a painted Indian callico, for to lineher new study, which is very pretty. So home with her, and then I away(Creed being gone) to Captain Minors upon Tower Hill, and there, abatingonly some impertinence of his, I did inform myself well in things relatingto the East Indys; both of the country and the disappointment the King metwith the last voyage, by the knavery of the Portugall Viceroy, and theinconsiderablenesse of the place of Bombaim, [Bombay, which was transferred to the East India Company in 1669. The seat of the Western Presidency of India was removed from Surat to Bombay in 1685-87. ]

if we had had it. But, above all things, it seems strange to me thatmatters should not be understood before they went out; and also that sucha thing as this, which was expected to be one of the best parts of theQueen's portion, should not be better understood; it being, if we had it, but a poor place, and not really so as was described to our King in thedraught of it, but a poor little island; whereas they made the King andLord Chancellor, and other learned men about the King, believe that that, and other islands which are near it, were all one piece; and so thedraught was drawn and presented to the King, and believed by the King andexpected to prove so when our men came thither; but it is quite otherwise. Thence to my office, and after several letters writ, home to supper and tobed, and took a pill. I hear this day that Sir W. Batten was fain to putashore at Queenborough with my Lady, who has been so sick she swears neverto go to sea again. But it happens well that Holmes is come home into theDownes, where he will meet my Lady, and it may be do her more good thanshe looked for. He brings news of the peace between Tangier and theMoors, but the particulars I know not. He is come but yesterday. 

6th (Lord's day). My pill I took last night worked very well, and I laylong in bed and sweat to get away the itching all about my body from headto foot, which is beginning again as it did the last winter, and I findafter I am up that it is abated. I staid at home all day and my wifealso, whom, God forgive me, I staid along with me for fear of her seeingof Pembleton. But she and I entertained one another all day long withgreat pleasure, contriving about my wife's closet and the bedchamber, whither we intend to go up she and I to-day. We dined alone and suppedalso at night, my brother John with us, and so to prayers and to bed. 

7th. Up pretty betimes, and awhile to my vyall, and then abroad toseveral places, to buy things for the furnishing my house and my wife'scloset, and then met my uncle Thomas, by appointment, and he and I to thePrerogative Office in Paternoster Row, and there searched and found myuncle Day's will, end read it over and advised upon it, and his wife'safter him, and though my aunt Perkins testimony is very good, yet I fearthe estate being great, and the rest that are able to inform us in thematter are all possessed of more or less of the estate, it will be hardfor us ever to do anything, nor will I adventure anything till I see whatpart will be given to us by my uncle Thomas of all that is gained. But Ihad another end of putting my uncle into some doubt, that so I might keephim: yet from going into the country that he may be there against theCourt at his own charge, and so I left him and his son at a loss what todo till I see them again. And so I to my Lord Crew's, thinking to havedined there, but it was too late, and so back and called at my brother'sand Mr. Holden's about several businesses, and went all alone to the BlackSpread Eagle in Bride Lane, and there had a chopp of veale and some bread, cheese, and beer, cost me a shilling to my dinner, and so through FleetAlly, God forgive me, out of an itch to look upon the sluts there, againstwhich when I saw them my stomach turned, and so to Bartholomew Fayre, where I met with Mr. Pickering, and he and I to see the monkeys at theDutch house, which is far beyond the other that my wife and I saw theother day; and thence to see the dancing on the ropes, which was very poorand tedious. But he and I fell in discourse about my Lord Sandwich. Hetells me how he is sorry for my Lord at his being at Chelsey, and that hisbut seeming so to my Lord without speaking one word, had put him clear outof my Lord's favour, so as that he was fain to leave him before he wentinto the country, for that he was put to eat with his servants; but Icould not fish from him, though I knew it, what was the matter; but amvery sorry to see that my Lord hath thus much forgot his honour, but amresolved not to meddle with it. The play being done, I stole from him andhied home, buying several things at the ironmonger's--dogs, tongs, andshovels--for my wife's closett and the rest of my house, and so home, andthence to my office awhile, and so home to supper and to bed. By myletters from Tangier today I hear that it grows very strong by land, andthe Mole goes on. They have lately killed two hundred of the Moores, andlost about forty or fifty. I am mightily afeard of laying out too muchmoney in goods upon my house, but it is not money flung away, though Ireckon nothing money but when it is in the bank, till I have a good sumbeforehand in the world. 

8th. Up and to my viall a while, and then to my office on Phillips havingbrought me a draught of the Katherine yacht, prettily well done for thecommon way of doing it. At the office all the morning making up our lasthalf year's account to my Lord Treasurer, which comes to L160, 000 or thereabouts, the proper expense of this half year, only with an addition ofL13, 000 for the third due of the last account to the Treasurer for hisdisbursements, and L1100 for this half year's; so that in three years anda half his thirds come to L14, 100. Dined at home with my wife. It beingwashing day, we had a good pie baked of a leg of mutton; and then to myoffice, and then abroad, and among other places to Moxon's, and therebought a payre of globes cost me L3 10s. , with which I am well pleased, Ibuying them principally for my wife, who has a mind to understand them, and I shall take pleasure to teach her. But here I saw his great windowin his dining room, where there is the two Terrestrial Hemispheres, sopainted as I never saw in my life, and nobly done and to good purpose, done by his own hand. Thence home to my office, and there at businesslate, and then to supper home and to bed, my people sitting up longer thanordinary before they had done their washing. 

9th. Up by break of day, and then to my vials a while, and so to Sir W. Warren's by agreement, and after talking and eating something with him, heand I down by water to Woolwich, and there I did several businesses, andhad good discourse, and thence walked to Greenwich; in my way a little boyovertook us with a fine cupp turned out of Lignum Vitae, which the poorchild confessed was made in the King's yard by his father, a turner there, and that he do often do it, and that I might have one, and God knows what, which I shall examine. Thence to Sir W. Warren's again, and there drew upa contract for masts which he is to sell us, and so home to dinner, finding my poor wife busy. I, after dinner, to the office, and then toWhite Hall, to Sir G. Carteret's, but did not speak with him, and so toWestminster Hall, God forgive me, thinking to meet Mrs. Lane, but she wasnot there, but here I met with Ned Pickering, with whom I walked 3 or 4hours till evening, he telling me the whole business of my Lord's follywith this Mrs. Becke, at Chelsey, of all which I am ashamed to see my Lordso grossly play the beast and fool, to the flinging off of all honour, friends, servants, and every thing and person that is good, and only willhave his private lust undisturbed with this common . . . . His sittingup night after night alone, suffering nobody to come to them, and all theday too, casting off Pickering, basely reproaching him with his smallestate, which yet is a good one, and other poor courses to obtain privacybeneath his honour, and with his carrying her abroad and playing on hislute under her window, and forty other poor sordid things, which I amgrieved to hear; but believe it to no purpose for me to meddle with it, but let him go on till God Almighty and his own conscience and thoughts ofhis lady and family do it. So after long discourse, to my fullsatisfaction but great trouble, I home by water and at my office late, andso to supper to my poor wife, and so to bed, being troubled to think thatI shall be forced to go to Brampton the next Court, next week. 

10th. Up betimes and to my office, and there sat all the morning making agreat contract with Sir W. Warren for L3, 000 worth of masts; but, goodGod! to see what a man might do, were I a knave, the whole business frombeginning to end being done by me out of the office, and signed to by themupon the once reading of it to them, without the least care orconsultation either of quality, price, number, or need of them, only ingeneral that it was good to have a store. But I hope my pains was such, as the King has the best bargain of masts has been bought these 27 yearsin this office. Dined at home and then to my office again, many peopleabout business with me, and then stepped a little abroad about business tothe Wardrobe, but missed Mr. Moore, and elswhere, and in my way met Mr. Moore, who tells me of the good peace that is made at Tangier with theMoores, but to continue but from six months to six months, and that theMole is laid out, and likely to be done with great ease and successe, weto have a quantity of ground for our cattle about the town to our use. Tomy office late, and then home to supper, after writing letters, and tobed. This day our cook maid (we having no luck in maids now-adays), whichwas likely to prove a good servant, though none of the best cooks, fellsick and is gone to her friends, having been with us but 4 days. 

11th. This morning, about two or three o'clock, knocked up in our backyard, and rising to the window, being moonshine, I found it was theconstable and his watch, who had found our back yard door open, and socame in to see what the matter was. So I desired them to shut the door, and bid them good night, and so to bed again, and at 6 o'clock up and awhile to my vyall, and then to the office, where all the morning upon thevictualler's accounts, and then with him to dinner at the Dolphin, where Ieat well but drank no wine neither; which keeps me in such good order thatI am mightily pleased with myself for it. Hither Mr. Moore came to me, and he and I home and advised about business, and so after an hour'sexamining the state of the Navy debts lately cast up, I took coach to SirPhilip Warwick's, but finding Sir G. Carteret there I did not go in, butdirectly home, again, it raining hard, having first of all been with Creedand Mrs. Harper about a cook maid, and am like to have one from Creed'slodging. In my way home visited my Lord Crew and Sir Thomas, thinkingthey might have enquired by the by of me touching my Lord's matters atChelsey, but they said nothing, and so after some slight common talk I bidthem good night. At home to my office, and after a while doing businesshome to supper and bed. 

12th. Up betimes, and by water to White Hall; and thence to Sir PhilipWarwick, and there had half an hour's private discourse with him; and didgive him some good satisfaction in our Navy matters, and he also me, as tothe money paid and due to the Navy; so as he makes me assured byparticulars, that Sir G. Carteret is paid within L80, 000 every farthingthat we to this day, nay to Michaelmas day next have demanded; and that, Iam sure, is above L50, 000 snore than truly our expenses have been, whatever is become of the money. Home with great content that I have thusbegun an acquaintance with him, who is a great man, and a man of as muchbusiness as any man in England; which I will endeavour to deserve andkeep. Thence by water to my office, in here all the morning, and so tothe 'Change at noon, and there by appointment met and bring home my uncleThomas, who resolves to go with me to Brampton on Monday next. I wish hemay hold his mind. I do not tell him, and yet he believes that there is aCourt to be that he is to do some business for us there. The truth is Ido find him a much more cunning fellow than I ever took him for, nay inhis very drink he has his wits about him. I took him home to dinner, andafter dinner he began, after a glass of wine or two, to exclaim againstSir G. Carteret and his family in Jersey, bidding me to have a care ofhim, and how high, proud, false, and politique a fellow he is, and how lowhe has been under his command in the island. After dinner, and longdiscourse, he went away to meet on Monday morning, and I to my office, andthence by water to White Hall and Westminster Hall about severalbusinesses, and so home, and to my office writing a laborious letter aboutour last account to my Lord Treasurer, which took me to one o'clock in themorning, 13th (Lord's day). So that Griffin was fain to carry it to Westminster togo by express, and my other letters of import to my father and elsewherecould not go at all. To bed between one and two and slept till 8, and laytalking till 9 with great pleasure with my wife. So up and put my clothesin order against tomorrow's journey, and then at noon at dinner, and allthe afternoon almost playing and discoursing with my wife with greatcontent, and then to my office there to put papers in order against mygoing. And by and by comes my uncle Wight to bid us to dinner to-morrowto a haunch of venison I sent them yesterday, given me by Mr. Povy, but Icannot go, but my wife will. Then into the garden to read my weekly vows, and then home, where at supper saying to my wife, in ordinary fondness, "Well! shall you and I never travel together again?" she took me up andoffered and desired to go along with me. I thinking by that means to haveher safe from harm's way at home here, was willing enough to feign, andafter some difficulties made did send about for a horse and other things, and so I think she will go. So, in a hurry getting myself and her thingsready, to bed. 

14th. Up betimes, and my wife's mind and mine holding for her going, soshe to get her ready, and I abroad to do the like for myself, and so home, and after setting every thing at my office and at home in order, by coachto Bishop's Gate, it being a very promising fair day. There at theDolphin we met my uncle Thomas and his son-in-law, which seems a verysober man, and Mr. Moore. So Mr. Moore and my wife set out before, and myuncle and I staid for his son Thomas, who, by a sudden resolution, ispreparing to go with us, which makes me fear something of mischief whichthey design to do us. He staying a great while, the old man and I before, and about eight miles off, his son comes after us, and about six milesfurther we overtake Mr. Moore and my wife, which makes me mightilyconsider what a great deal of ground is lost in a little time, when it isto be got up again by another, that is to go his own ground and theother's too; and so after a little bayte (I paying all the reckonings thewhole journey) at Ware, to Buntingford, where my wife, by drinking somecold beer, being hot herself, presently after 'lighting, begins to besick, and became so pale, and I alone with her in a great chamber there, that I thought she would have died, and so in great horror, and having agreat tryall of my true love and passion for her, called the mayds andmistresse of the house, and so with some strong water, and after a littlevomit, she came to be pretty well again; and so to bed, and I having puther to bed with great content, I called in my company, and supped in thechamber by her, and being very merry in talk, supped and then parted, andI to bed and lay very well. This day my cozen Thomas dropped his hanger, and it was lost. 

15th. Up pretty betimes and rode as far as Godmanehester, Mr. Moorehaving two falls, once in water and another in dirt, and there 'light andeat and drunk, being all of us very weary, but especially my uncle andwife. Thence to Brampton to my father's, and there found all well, butnot sensible how they ought to treat my uncle and his son, at least tillthe Court be over, which vexed me, but on my counsel they carried it fairto them; and so my father, cozen Thomas, and I up to Hinchingbroke, whereI find my Lord and his company gone to Boughton, which vexed me; but thereI find my Lady and the young ladies, and there I alone with my Lady twohours, she carrying me through every part of the house and gardens, whichare, and will be, mighty noble indeed. Here I saw Mrs. Betty Pickering, who is a very well-bred and comely lady, but very fat. Thence, without somuch as drinking, home with my father and cozen, who staid for me, and toa good supper; after I had had an hour's talk with my father abroad in thefields, wherein he begun to talk very highly of my promises to him ofgiving him the profits of Sturtlow, as if it were nothing that I give himout of my purse, and that he would have me to give this also from myselfto my brothers and sister; I mean Brampton and all, I think: I confess Iwas angry to hear him talk in that manner, and took him up roundly in it, and advised him if he could not live upon L50 per ann. , which was anotherpart of his discourse, that he would think to come and live at Tom'sagain, where L50 per ann. Will be a good addition to Tom's trade, and Ithink that must be done when all is done. But my father spoke nothingmore of it all the time I was in the country, though at the time he seemedto like it well enough. I also spoke with Piggott too this evening beforeI went in to supper, and doubt that I shall meet with some knots in mybusiness to-morrow before I can do it at the Court, but I shall do mybest. After supper my uncle and his son to Stankes's to bed, whichtroubles me, all our father's beds being lent to Hinchingbroke, and so mywife and I to bed, she very weary. 

16th. Up betimes, and with my wife to Hinchingbroke to see my Lady, shebeing to go to my Lord this morning, and there I left her, and so back tothe Court, and heard Sir R. Bernard's charges to the Courts Baron andLeete, which took up till noon, and were worth hearing, and after puttingmy business into some way, went home to my father's to dinner, and afterdinner to the Court, where Sir Robert and his son came again by and by, and then to our business, and my father and I having given bond to him forthe L21 Piggott owed him, my uncle Thomas did quietly admit himself andsurrender to us the lands first mortgaged for our whole debt, and SirRobert added to it what makes it up L209, to be paid in six months. Butwhen I came to give him an account of more lands to be surrendered to us, wherein Piggott's wife was concerned, and she there to give her consent, Sir Robert would not hear of it, but began to talk very high that we werevery cruel, and we had caution enough for our money, and he could not inconscience let the woman do it, and reproached my uncle, both he and hisson, with taking use upon use for this money. To all which I did give himsuch answers and spoke so well, and kept him so to it, that all the Courtwas silent to hear us, and by report since do confess they did never hearthe like in the place. But he by a wile had got our bond, and I wascontent to have as much as I could though I could not get all, and so tookPiggott's surrender of them without his wife, and by Sir Robert's ownconsent did tell the Court that if the money were not paid in the time, and the security prove not sufficient, I would conclude myself wronged bySir Robert, which he granted I should do. This kept us till night, but amheartily glad it ended so well on my uncle's part, he doing that andPrior's little house very willingly. So the Court broke up, and my fatherand Mr. Shepley and I to Gorrum's to drink, and then I left them, and tothe Bull, where my uncle was to . Hear what he and the people said of ourbusiness, and here nothing but what liked me very well. So by and by homeand to supper, and with my mind in pretty good quiett, to bed. 

17th. Up, and my father being gone to bed ill last night and continuingso this morning, I was forced to come to a new consideration, whether itwas fit for to let my uncle and his son go to Wisbeach about my uncleDay's estate alone or no, and concluded it unfit; and so resolved to gowith them myself, leaving my wife there, I begun a journey with them, andwith much ado, through the fens, along dikes, where sometimes we wereready to have our horses sink to the belly, we got by night, with greatdeal of stir and hard riding, to Parson's Drove, a heathen place, where Ifound my uncle and aunt Perkins, and their daughters, poor wretches! in asad, poor thatched cottage, like a poor barn, or stable, peeling of hemp, in which I did give myself good content to see their manner of preparingof hemp; and in a poor condition of habitt took them to our miserable inn, and there, after long stay, and hearing of Frank, their son, the miller, play, upon his treble, as he calls it, with which he earns part of hisliving, and singing of a country bawdy song, we sat down to supper; thewhole crew, and Frank's wife and child, a sad company, of which I wasashamed, supped with us. And after supper I, talking with my aunt abouther report concerning my uncle Day's will and surrender, I found her insuch different reports from what she writes and says to the people, andshort of what I expected, that I fear little will be done of good in it. By and by newes is brought to us that one of our horses is stole out ofthe stable, which proves my uncle's, at which I am inwardly glad--I mean, that it was not mine; and at this we were at a great loss; and theydoubting a person that lay at next door, a Londoner, some lawyer's clerk, we caused him to be secured in his bed, and other care to be taken toseize the horse; and so about twelve at night or more, to bed in a sad, cold, nasty chamber, only the mayde was indifferent handsome, and so I hada kiss or two of her, and I to bed, and a little after I was asleep theywaked me to tell me that the horse was found, which was good newes, and soto sleep till the morning, but was bit cruelly, and nobody else of ourcompany, which I wonder at, by the gnatts. 

18th. Up, and got our people together as soon as we could; and aftereating a dish of cold cream, which was my supper last night too, we tookleave of our beggarly company, though they seem good people, too; and overmost sad Fenns, all the way observing the sad life which the people of theplace which if they be born there, they do call the Breedlings' of theplace, do live, sometimes rowing from one spot to another, and thenwadeing, to Wisbeach, a pretty town, and a fine church and library, wheresundry very old abbey manuscripts; and a fine house, built on the churchground by Secretary Thurlow, and a fine gallery built for him in thechurch, but now all in the Bishop of Ely's hands. After visiting thechurch, &c. , we went out of the towne, by the help of a stranger, to findout one Blinkhorne, a miller, of whom we might inquire something of oldDay's disposal of his estate, and in whose hands it now is; and by greatchance we met him, and brought him to our inn to dinner; and instead ofbeing informed in his estate by this fellow, we find that he is the nextheir to the estate, which was matter, of great sport to my cozen Thomasand me, to see such a fellow prevent us in our hopes, he being Day'sbrother's, daughter's son, whereas we are but his sister's sons andgrandsons; so that, after all, we were fain to propose our matter to him, and to get him to give us leave to look after the business, and so he tohave one-third part, and we two to have the other two-third parts, of whatshould be recovered of the estate, which he consented to; and after somediscourse and paying the reckoning, we mounted again, and rode, being verymerry at our defeat, to Chatteris, my uncle very weary, and after supper, and my telling of three stories, to their good liking, of spirits, we allthree in a chamber went to bed. 

19th. Up pretty betimes, and after eating something, we set out and I(being willing thereto) went by a mistake with them to St. Ives, andthere, it being known that it was their nearer way to London, I took leaveof them there, they going straight to London and I to Brampton, where Ifind my father ill in bed still, and Madam Norbery (whom and her fairdaughter and sister I was ashamed to kiss, but did, my lip being sore withriding in the wind and bit with the gnatts), lately come to town, come tosee my father and mother, and they after a little stay being gone, I toldmy father my success. And after dinner my wife and I took horse, and rodewith marvellous, and the first and only hour of, pleasure, that ever I hadin this estate since I had to do with it, to Brampton woods; and throughthe wood rode, and gathered nuts in my way, and then at Graffam to an oldwoman's house to drink, where my wife used to go; and being in allcircumstances highly pleased, and in my wife's riding and good company atthis time, I rode, and she showed me the river behind my father's house, which is very pleasant, and so saw her home, and I straight to Huntingdon, and there met Mr. Shepley and to the Crown (having sent home my horse byStankes), and there a barber came and trimmed me, and thence walked toHinchingbroke, where my Lord and ladies all are just alighted. And so Iin among them, and my Lord glad to see me, and the whole company. Here Istaid and supped with them, and after a good stay talking, but yetobserving my Lord not to be so mightily ingulphed in his pleasure in thecountry as I expected and hoped, I took leave of them, and after a walk inthe courtyard in the dark with Mr. Howe, who tells me that my Lord do notenjoy himself and please himself as he used to do, but will hasten up toLondon, and that he is resolved to go to Chelsey again, which we areheartily grieved for and studious how to prevent if it be possible, I tookhorse, there being one appointed for me, and a groom to attend me, and sohome, where my wife: staid up and sister for me, and so to bed, troubledfor what I hear of my Lord. 

20th (Lord's day). Up, and finding my father somewhat better, walked toHuntingdon church, where in my Lord's pew, with the young ladies, by myLord's own showing me the place, I stayed the sermon, and so toHinchingbroke, walking with Mr. Shepley and Dr. King, whom they account awitty man here, as well as a good physician, and there my Lord took mewith the rest of the company, and singly demanded my opinion in the walksin his garden, about the bringing of the crooked wall on the mount to ashape; and so to dinner, there being Collonel Williams and much othercompany, and a noble dinner. But having before got my Lord's warrant fortravelling to-day, there being a proclamation read yesterday against it atHuntingdon, at which I am very glad, I took leave, leaving them at dinner, and walked alone to my father's, and there, after a word or two to myfather and mother, my wife and I mounted, and, with my father's boy, upona horse I borrowed of Captain Ferrers, we rode to Bigglesworth by the helpof a couple of countrymen, that led us through the very long and dangerouswaters, because of the ditches on each side, though it begun to be verydark, and there we had a good breast of mutton roasted for us, and supped, and to bed. 

21st. Up very betimes by break of day, and got my wife up, whom thethought of this day's long journey do discourage; and after eatingsomething, and changing of a piece of gold to pay the reckoning, wemounted, and through Baldwicke, where a fayre is kept to-day, and a greatone for cheese and other such commodities, and so to Hatfield, it beingmost curious weather from the time we set out to our getting home, andhere we dined, and my wife being very weary, and believing that it wouldbe hard to get her home to-night, and a great charge to keep her longerabroad, I took the opportunity of an empty coach that was to go to London, and left her to come in it to London, for half-a-crown, and so I and theboy home as fast as we could drive, and it was even night before we gothome. So that I account it very good fortune that we took this course, being myself very weary, much more would my wife have been. At home foundall very well and my house in good order. To see Sir W. Pen, who ispretty well, and Sir J. Minnes, who is a little lame on one foot, and therest gone to Chatham, viz. : Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Batten, who has inmy absence inveighed against my contract the other day for Warren's masts, in which he is a knave, and I shall find matter of tryumph, but it vexesme a little. So home, and by and by comes my wife by coach well home, andhaving got a good fowl ready for supper against her coming, we eatheartily, and so with great content and ease to our own bed, there nothingappearing so to our content as to be at our own home, after being abroadawhile. 

22nd. I up, well refreshed after my journey, and to my office and thereset some things in order, and then Sir W. Pen and I met and held anoffice, and at noon to dinner, and so by water with my wife toWestminster, she to see her father and mother, and we met again at myLord's lodgings, and thence by water home again, where at the door we metSir W. Pen and his daughter coming to visit us, and after their visit I tomy office, and after some discourse to my great satisfaction with Sir W. Warren about our bargain of masts, I wrote my letters by the post, and sohome to supper and to bed. This day my wife showed me bills printed, wherein her father, with Sir John Collidon and Sir Edward Ford, have got apatent for curing of smoky chimneys. 

 [The Patent numbered 138 is printed in the appendix to Wheatley's "Samuel Pepys and the World he lived in" (p. 241). It is drawn in favour of John Colladon, Doctor in Physicke, and of Alexander Marchant, of St. Michall, and describes "a way to prevent and cure the smoakeing of Chimneys, either by stopping the tunnell towards the top, and altering the former course of the smoake, or by setting tunnells with checke within the chimneyes. " Sir Edward Ford's name does not appear in the patent. ]

I wish they may do good thereof, but fear it will prove but a poorproject. This day the King and Queen are to come to Oxford. I hear myLady Castlemaine is for certain gone to Oxford to meet him, having lainwithin here at home this week or two, supposed to have miscarried; but forcertain is as great in favour as heretofore;

 [According to Collins, Henry Fitzroy, Lady Castlemaine's second son by Charles II. , was born on September 20th, 1663. He was the first Duke of Grafton. --B. ]

at least Mrs. Sarah at my Lord's, who hears all from their own family, dosay so. Every day brings newes of the Turke's advance into Germany, tothe awakeing of all the Christian Princes thereabouts, and possessinghimself of Hungary. My present care is fitting my wife's closett and myhouse, and making her a velvet coate, and me a new black cloth suit, andcoate and cloake, and evening my reckoning as well as I can againstMichaelmas Day, hoping for all that to have my balance as great or greaterthan ever I had yet. 

23rd. Up betimes and to my office, where setting down my journall while Iwas in the country to this day, and at noon by water to my Lord Crew's, and there dined with him and Sir Thomas, thinking to have them inquiresomething about my Lord's lodgings at Chelsey, or any thing of that sort, but they did not, nor seem to take the least notice of it, which is theirdiscretion, though it might be better for my Lord and them too if theydid, that so we might advise together for the best, which cannot be whilewe seem ignorant one to another, and it is not fit for me to begin thediscourse. Thence walked to several places about business and toWestminster Hall, thinking to meet Mrs. Lane, which is my great vanityupon me at present, but I must correct it. She was not in the way. So bywater home and to my office, whither by and by came my brother John, whois to go to Cambridge to-morrow, and I did give him a most severereprimand for his bad account he gives me of his studies. This I did withgreat passion and sharp words, which I was sorry to be forced to say, butthat I think it for his good, forswearing doing anything for him, and thatwhich I have yet, and now do give him, is against my heart, and will alsobe hereafter, till I do see him give me a better account of his studies. I was sorry to see him give me no answer, but, for aught I see, to hear mewithout great resentment, and such as I should have had: in his condition. But I have done my duty, let him do his, for I am resolved to be as goodas my word. After two hours walking in the garden, till after it wasdark, I ended with him and to my office, and there set some papers inorder, and so to supper, and my poor wife, who is mighty busy at home;fitting her closet. So to bed. 

24th. Up betimes, and after taking leave of my brother, John, who wentfrom me to my father's this day, I went forth by water to Sir PhilipWarwick's, where I was with him a pretty while; and in discourse he tellsme, and made it; appear to me, that the King cannot be in debt to the Navyat this time L5, 000; and it is my opinion that Sir G. Carteret do owe theKing money, and yet the whole Navy debt paid. Thence I parted, beingdoubtful of myself that I have not, spoke with the gravity and weight thatI ought to do in so great a business. But I rather hope it is mydoubtfulness of myself, and the haste which he was in, some very greatpersonages waiting for him without, while he was with me, that made himwilling to be gone. To the office by water, where we sat doing little, now Mr. Coventry is not here, but only vex myself to see what a sort ofcoxcombs we are when he is not here to undertake such a business as we do. In the afternoon telling my wife that I go to Deptford, I went, by waterto Westminster Hall, and there finding Mrs. Lane, took her over toLambeth, where we were lately, and there, did what I would with her, butonly the main thing, which she; would not consent to, for which God bepraised . . . . . But, trust in the Lord, I shall never do so againwhile I live. After being tired with her company I landed her at White;Hall, and so home and at my office writing letters till 12 at nightalmost, and then home to supper and bed, and there found my poor wife hardat work, which grieved my heart to see that I should abuse so good awretch, and that is just with God to make her bad with me for my wronginof her, but I do resolve never to do the like again. So to bed. 

25th. Lay pretty long in bed, and so to my office all the morning till byand by called out by Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, with them by waterto Deptford, where it of a sudden did lighten, thunder, and rain so as wecould do nothing but stay in Davis's house, and by and by Sir J. Minnesand I home again by water, and I home to dinner, and after dinner to theoffice, and there till night all alone, even of my clerks being there, doing of business, and so home and to bed. 

26th. Up and to my office, and there we sat till noon, and then I to theExchange, but did little there, but meeting Mr. Rawlinson he would needshave me home to dinner, and Mr. Deane of Woolwich being with me I took himwith me, and there we dined very well at his own dinner, only noinvitation, but here I sat with little pleasure, considering my wife athome alone, and so I made what haste home I could, and was forced to sitdown again at dinner with her, being unwilling to neglect her by beingknown to dine abroad. My doing so being only to keep Deane from dining athome with me, being doubtful what I have to eat. So to the office, andthere till late at night, and so home to supper and bed, being mightilypleased to find my wife so mindful of her house. 

27th (Lord's day). Lay chatting with my wife a good while, then up andgot me ready and to church, without my man William, whom I have not seento-day, nor care, but would be glad to have him put himself far enough outof my favour that he may not wonder to have me put him away. So home todinner, being a little troubled to see Pembleton out again, but I do notdiscern in my wife the least memory of him. Dined, and so to my office alittle, and then to church again, where a drowsy sermon, and so home tospend the evening with my poor wife, consulting about her closett, clothes, and other things. At night to supper, though with littlecomfort, I finding myself both head and breast in great pain, and whattroubles me most my right ear is almost deaf. It is a cold, which GodAlmighty in justice did give me while I sat lewdly sporting with Mrs. Lanethe other day with the broken window in my neck. I went to bed with aposset, being very melancholy in consideration of the loss of my hearing. 

28th. Up, though with pain in my head, stomach, and ear, and that deaf soas in my way by coach to White Hall with Sir J. Minnes I called at Mr. Holliard's, who did give me some pills, and tells me I shall have myhearing again and be well. So to White Hall, where Sir J. Minnes and Idid spend an hour in the Gallery, looking upon the pictures, in which hehath some judgment. And by and by the Commissioners for Tangier met: andthere my Lord Teviott, together with Captain Cuttance, Captain Evans, andJonas Moore, sent to that purpose, did bring us a brave draught of theMole to be built there; and report that it is likely to be the mostconsiderable place the King of England hath in the world; and so I am aptto think it will. After discourse of this, and of supplying the garrisonwith some more horse, we rose; and Sir J. Minnes and I home again, findingthe street about our house full, Sir R. Ford beginning his shrievaltyto-day and, what with his and our houses being new painted, the streetbegins to look a great deal better than it did, and more gracefull. Homeand eat one bit of meat, and then by water with him and Sir W. Batten to asale of old provisions at Deptford, which we did at Captain Boddily'shouse, to the value of L600 or L700, but I am not satisfied with themethod used in this thing. Then home again by water, and after a littleat my office, and visit Sir W. Pen, who is not very well again, with hislate pain, home to supper, being hungry, and my ear and cold not so bad Ithink as it was. So to bed, taking one of my pills. Newes that the Kingcomes to town for certain on Thursday next from his progresse. 

29th. Took two pills more in the morning and they worked all day, and Ikept the house. About noon dined, and then to carry several heavy thingswith my wife up and down stairs, in order to our going to lie above, andWill to come down to the Wardrobe, and that put me into a violent sweat, so I had a fire made, and then, being dry again, she and I to put up somepaper pictures in the red chamber, where we go to lie very pretty, and themap of Paris. Then in the evening, towards night, it fell to thunder, lighten, and rain so violently that my house was all afloat, and I in allthe rain up to the gutters, and there dabbled in the rain and wet half anhour, enough to have killed a man. That done downstairs to dry myselfagain, and by and by come Mr. Sympson to set up my wife's chimney-piece inher closett, which pleases me, and so that being done, I to supper and tobed, shifting myself from top to toe, and doubtful of my doing myselfhurt. 

30th. Rose very well, and my hearing pretty well again, and so to myoffice, by and by Mr. Holliard come, and at my house he searched my ear, and I hope all will be well, though I do not yet hear so well as I used todo with my right ear. So to my office till noon, and then home to dinner, and in the afternoon by water to White Hall, to the Tangier Committee;where my Lord Tiviott about his accounts; which grieves me to see that hisaccounts being to be examined by us, there are none of the great men atthe Board that in compliment will except against any thing in hisaccounts, and so none of the little persons dare do it: so the King isabused. Thence home again by water with Sir W. Rider, and so to myoffice, and there I sat late making up my month's accounts, and, blessedbe God, do find myself L760 creditor, notwithstanding that for clothes formyself and wife, and layings out on her closett, I have spent this monthL47. So home, where I found our new cooke-mayde Elizabeth, whom my wifenever saw at all, nor I but once at a distance before, but recommendedwell by Mr. Creed, and I hope will prove well. So to supper, prayers, andbed. This evening Mr. Coventry is come to St. James's, but I did not gosee him, and tomorrow the King, Queen, Duke and his Lady, and the wholeCourt comes to towne from their progresse. Myself and family well, onlymy father sicke in the country. All the common talke for newes is theTurke's advance in Hungary, &c. 

 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. OCTOBER 1663

October 1st. Up and betimes to my office, and then to sit, where Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, Sir J. Minnes, Mr. Coventry andmyself, a fuller board than by the King's progresse and the late pays andmy absence has been a great while. Sat late, and then home to dinner. After dinner I by water to Deptford about a little business, and so backagain, buying a couple of good eeles by the way, and after writing by thepost, home to see the painter at work, late, in my wife's closet, and soto supper and to bed, having been very merry with the painter, late, whilehe was doing his work. This day the King and Court returned from theirprogress. 

2nd. Up betimes and by water to St. James's, and there visited Mr. Coventry as a compliment after his new coming to town, but had no greattalk with him, he being full of business. So back by foot through London, doing several errands, and at the 'Change met with Mr. Cutler, and he andI to a coffee-house, and there discoursed, and he do assure me that thereis great likelyhood of a war with Holland, but I hope we shall be in goodcondition before it comes to break out. I like his company, and will makemuch of his acquaintance. So home to dinner with my wife, who is overhead and eares in getting her house up, and so to the office, and with Mr. Lewes, late, upon some of the old victuallers' accounts, and so home tosupper and to bed, up to our red chamber, where we purpose always to lie. This day I received a letter from Mr. Barlow, with a Terella, [Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, F. R. S. , has kindly supplied me with the following interesting note on the terrella (or terella): The name given by Dr. William Gilbert, author of the famous treatise, "De Magnete" (Lond. 1600), to a spherical loadstone, on account of its acting as a model, magnetically, of the earth; compass-needles pointing to its poles, as mariners' compasses do to the poles of the earth. The term was adopted by other writers who followed Gilbert, as the following passage from Wm. Barlowe's "Magneticall Advertisements" (Lond. 1616) shows: "Wherefore the round Loadstone is significantly termed by Doct. Gilbert Terrella, that is, a little, or rather a very little Earth: For it representeth in an exceeding small model (as it were) the admirable properties magneticall of the huge Globe of the earth" (op. Cit, p. 55). Gilbert set great store by his invention of the terrella, since it led him to propound the true theory of the mariners' compass. In his portrait of himself which he had painted for the University of Oxford he was represented as holding in his hand a globe inscribed terella. In the Galileo Museum in Florence there is a terrella twenty-seven inches in diameter, of loadstone from Elba, constructed for Cosmo de' Medici. A smaller one contrived by Sir Christopher Wren was long preserved in the museum of the Royal Society (Grew's "Rarities belonging to the Royal Society, " p. 364). Evelyn was shown "a pretty terrella described with all ye circles and skewing all y magnetic deviations" (Diary, July 3rd, 1655). ]

which I had hoped he had sent me, but to my trouble I find it is topresent from him to my Lord Sandwich, but I will make a little use of itfirst, and then give it him. 

3rd. Up, being well pleased with my new lodging and the convenience ofhaving our mayds and none else about us, Will lying below. So to theoffice, and there we sat full of business all the morning. At noon I hometo dinner, and then abroad to buy a bell to hang by our chamber door tocall the mayds. Then to the office, and met Mr. Blackburne, who came toknow the reason of his kinsman (my Will) his being observed by his friendsof late to droop much. I told him my great displeasure against him andthe reasons of it, to his great trouble yet satisfaction, for my care overhim, and how every thing I said was for the good of the fellow, and hewill take time to examine the fellow about all, and to desire my pleasureconcerning him, which I told him was either that he should became a betterservant or that we would not have him under my roof to be a trouble. Hetells me in a few days he will come to me again and we shall agree what todo therein. I home and told my wife all, and am troubled to see that myservants and others should be the greatest trouble I have in the world, more than for myself. We then to set up our bell with a smith very well, and then I late at the office. So home to supper and to bed. 

4th (Lord's day). Up and to church, my house being miserably overfloodedwith rayne last night, which makes me almost mad. At home to dinner withmy wife, and so to talk, and to church again, and so home, and all theevening most pleasantly passed the time in good discourse of our fortuneand family till supper, and so to bed, in some pain below, through coldgot. 

5th. Up with pain, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach to the Temple, andthen I to my brother's, and up and down on business, and so to the NewExchange, and there met Creed, and he and I walked two or three hours, talking of many businesses, especially about Tangier, and my Lord Tiviot'sbringing in of high accounts, and yet if they were higher are like to passwithout exception, and then of my Lord Sandwich sending a messenger toknow whether the King intends to come to Newmarket, as is talked, that hemay be ready to entertain him at Hinchingbroke. Thence home and dined, and my wife all day putting up her hangings in her closett, which she dovery prettily herself with her own hand, to my great content. So I to theoffice till night, about several businesses, and then went and sat an houror two with Sir W. Pen, talking very largely of Sir J. Minnes's simplicityand unsteadiness, and of Sir W. Batten's suspicious dealings, wherein Iwas open, and he sufficiently, so that I do not care for his telling oftales, for he said as much, but whether that were so or no I said nothingbut what is my certain knowledge and belief concerning him. Thence hometo bed in great pain. 

6th. Slept pretty well, and my wife waked to ring the bell to call up ourmayds to the washing about 4 o'clock, and I was and she angry that ourbell did not wake them sooner, but I will get a bigger bell. So we tosleep again till 8 o'clock, and then I up in some ease to the office, where we had a full board, where we examined Cocke's second account, whenMr. Turner had drawn a bill directly to be paid the balance thereof, asMr. Cocke demanded, and Sir J. Minnes did boldly assert the truth of it, and that he had examined it, when there is no such thing, but manyvouchers, upon examination, missing, and we saw reason to strike offseveral of his demands, and to bring down his 5 per cent. Commission to 3per cent. So we shall save the King some money, which both theComptroller and his clerke had absolutely given away. There was also twooccasions more of difference at the table; the one being to make out abill to Captain Smith for his salary abroad as commander-in-chief in theStreights. Sir J. Minnes did demand an increase of salary for his beingVice-Admiral in the Downes, he having received but 40s. Without anincrease, when Sir J. Lawson, in the same voyage, had L3, and others havealso had increase, only he, because he was an officer of the board, wasworse used than any body else, and particularly told Sir W. Batten that hewas the opposer formerly of his having an increase, which I did wonder tohear him so boldly lay it to him. So we hushed up the dispute, andoffered, if he would, to examine precedents, and report them, if there wasany thing to his advantage to be found, to the Duke. The next was, Mr. Chr. Pett and Deane were summoned to give an account of some knees

 ["Naturally grown timber or bars of iron bent to a right angle or to fit the surfaces and to secure bodies firmly together as hanging knees secure the deck beams to the sides. "--Smyth's Sailor's Word- Book. There are several kinds of knees. ]

which Pett reported bad, that were to be served in by Sir W. Warren, wehaving contracted that none should be served but such as were to beapproved of by our officers. So that if they were bad they were to beblamed for receiving them. Thence we fell to talk of Warren's othergoods, which Pett had said were generally bad, and falling to thiscontract again, I did say it was the most cautious and as good a contractas had been made here, and the only [one] that had been in such terms. SirJ. Minnes told me angrily that Winter's timber, bought for 33s. Per load, was as good and in the same terms. I told him that it was not so, butthat he and Sir W. Batten were both abused, and I would prove it was asdear a bargain as had been made this half year, which occasioned highwords between them and me, but I am able to prove it and will. That alsowas so ended, and so to other business. At noon Lewellin coming to me Itook him and Deane, and there met my uncle Thomas, and we dined together, but was vexed that, it being washing-day, we had no meat dressed, but sentto the Cook's, and my people had so little witt to send in our meat fromabroad in that Cook's dishes, which were marked with the name of the Cookupon them, by which, if they observed anything, they might know it was notmy own dinner. After dinner we broke up, and I by coach, setting downLuellin in Cheapside. So to White Hall, where at the Committee ofTangier, but, Lord! how I was troubled to see my Lord Tiviott's accountsof L10, 000 paid in that manner, and wish 1000 times I had not been there. Thence rose with Sir G. Carteret and to his lodgings, and there discoursedof our frays at the table to-day, and particularly of that of thecontract, and the contract of masts the other day, declaring my fairdealing, and so needing not any man's good report of it, or word for it, and that I would make it so appear to him, if he desired it, which he did, and I will do it. Thence home by water in great pain, and at my office awhile, and thence a little to Sir W. Pen, and so home to bed, and findingmyself beginning to be troubled with wind as I used to be, and in pain inmaking water, I took a couple of pills that I had by me of Mr. Hollyard's. 

7th. They wrought in the morning, and I did keep my bed, and my paincontinued on me mightily that I kept within all day in great pain, andcould break no wind nor have any stool after my physic had done working. So in the evening I took coach and to Mr. Holliard's, but he was not athome, and so home again, and whether the coach did me good or no I knownot . . . . So to bed and lay in good ease all night, and . . . . Pretty well to the morning . . . . . 

 [Pepys's prescription for the colic:

 "Balsom of Sulphur, 3 or 4 drops in a spoonfull of Syrrup of Colts foote, not eating or drinking two hours before or after. 

 "The making of this Balsom:

 "2/3ds of fine Oyle, and 1/3d of fine Brimstone, sett 13 or 14 houres upon yt fire, simpring till a thicke Stufte lyes at ye Bottome, and ye Balsom at ye topp. Take this off &c. 

 "Sir Rob. Parkhurst for ye Collique. "--M. B. ]

8th. So, keeping myself warm, to the office, and at noon home to dinner, my pain coming again by breaking no wind nor having any stool. So to Mr. Holliard, and by his direction, he assuring me that it is nothing of thestone, but only my constitution being costive, and that, and cold fromwithout, breeding and keeping the wind, I took some powder that he didgive me in white wine, and sat late up, till past eleven at night, with mywife in my chamber till it had done working, which was so weakly that Icould hardly tell whether it did work or no. My mayds being at this timein great dirt towards getting of all my house clean, and weary and havinga great deal of work to do therein to-morrow and next day, were gone tobed before my wife and I, who also do lie in our room more like beaststhan Christians, but that is only in order to having of the house shortlyin a cleaner, or rather very clean condition. Some ease I had so long asthis did keep my body loose, and I slept well. 

9th. And did keep my bed most of this morning, my body I find being stillbound and little wind, and so my pain returned again, though not so bad, but keeping my body with warm clothes very hot I made shift to endure it, and at noon sent word to Mr. Hollyard of my condition, that I couldneither have a natural stool nor break wind, and by that means still inpain and frequent offering to make water. So he sent me two bottles ofdrink and some syrup, one bottle to take now and the other to-morrowmorning. So in the evening, after Commissioner Pett, who came to visitme, and was going to Chatham, but methinks do talk to me in quite anothermanner, doubtfully and shyly, and like a stranger, to what he didheretofore. After I saw he was gone I did drink one of them, but it was amost loathsome draught, and did keep myself warm after it, and had thatafternoon still a stool or two, but in no plenty, nor any wind almostcarried away, and so to bed. In no great pain, but do not think myselflikely to be well till I have a freedom of stool and wind. Most of thisday and afternoon my wife and I did spend together in setting things nowup and in order in her closet, which indeed is, and will be, when I canget her some more things to put in it, a very pleasant place, and is atpresent very pretty, and such as she, I hope, will find great content in. So to bed. 

10th. Up, and not in any good ease yet, but had pain in making water, andsome course. I see I must take besides keeping myself warm to make myselfbreak wind and go freely to stool before I can be well, neither of which Ican do yet, though I have drank the other bottle of Mr. Hollyard's againstmy stomach this morning. I did, however, make shift to go to the office, where we sat, and there Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten did advise me totake some juniper water, and Sir W. Batten sent to his Lady for some forme, strong water made of juniper. Whether that or anything else of mydraught this morning did it I cannot tell, but I had a couple of stoolsforced after it . . . . But whether I shall grow better upon it Icannot tell. Dined at home at noon, my wife and house in the dirtiestpickle that ever she and it was in almost, but in order, I hope, thisnight to be very clean. To the office all the afternoon upon victuallingbusiness, and late at it, so after I wrote by the post to my father, Ihome. This evening Mr. Hollyard sends me an electuary to take (a walnutquantity of it) going to bed, which I did. 'Tis true I slept well, androse in a little ease in the morning. 

11th (Lord's day). And was mightily pleased to see my house clean and ingood condition, but something coming into my wife's head, and mine, to bedone more about bringing the green bed into our chamber, which ishandsomer than the red one, though not of the colour of our hangings, mywife forebore to make herself clean to-day, but continued in a sluttishcondition till to-morrow. I after the old passe, all the day withindoors, . . . . The effect of my electuary last night, and the greatestof my pain I find to come by my straining . . . . For all this I eatwith a very good stomach, and as much as I use to do, and so I did thisnoon, and staid at home discoursing and doing things in my chamber, altering chairs in my chamber, and set them above in the red room, theybeing Turkey work, and so put their green covers upon those that wereabove, not so handsome. At night fell to reading in the Church History ofFuller's, and particularly Cranmer's letter to Queen Elizabeth, whichpleases me mightily for his zeal, obedience, and boldness in a cause ofreligion. After supper to bed as I use to be, in pain . . . . . 

12th. Up (though slept well) and made some water in the morning [as] Iused to do, and a little pain returned to me, and some fears, but beingforced to go to the Duke at St. James's, I took coach and in my way calledupon Mr. Hollyard and had his advice to take a glyster. At St. James's weattended the Duke all of us. And there, after my discourse, Mr. Coventryof his own accord begun to tell the Duke how he found that discourseabroad did run to his prejudice about the fees that he took, and how hesold places and other things; wherein he desired to appeal to hisHighness, whether he did any thing more than what his predecessors did, and appealed to us all. So Sir G. Carteret did answer that some fees wereheretofore taken, but what he knows not; only that selling of places neverwas nor ought to be countenanced. So Mr. Coventry very hotly answered toSir G. Carteret, and appealed to himself whether he was not one of thefirst that put him upon looking after this taking of fees, and that hetold him that Mr. Smith should say that he made L5000 the first year, andhe believed he made L7000. This Sir G. Carteret denied, and said, that ifhe did say so he told a lie, for he could not, nor did know, that ever hedid make that profit of his place; but that he believes he might say L2500the first year. Mr. Coventry instanced in another thing, particularlywherein Sir G. Carteret did advise with him about the selling of theAuditor's place of the stores, when in the beginning there was anintention of creating such an office. This he confessed, but with somelessening of the tale Mr. Coventry told, it being only for a respect to myLord Fitz-Harding. In fine, Mr. Coventry did put into the Duke's hand alist of above 250 places that he did give without receiving one farthing, so much as his ordinary fees for them, upon his life and oath; and thatsince the Duke's establishment of fees he had never received one tokenmore of any man; and that in his whole life he never conditioned ordiscoursed of any consideration from any commanders since he came to theNavy. And afterwards, my Lord Barkeley merrily discoursing that he wishedhis profit greater than it was, and that he did believe that he had gotL50, 000 since he came in, Mr. Coventry did openly declare that hisLordship, or any of us, should have not only all he had got, but all thathe had in the world (and yet he did not come a beggar into the Navy, norwould yet be thought to speak in any contempt of his Royall Highness'sbounty), and should have a year to consider of it too, for L25, 000. TheDuke's answer was, that he wished we all had made more profit than he hadof our places, and that we had all of us got as much as one man belowstayres in the Court, which he presently named, and it was Sir GeorgeLane! This being ended, and the list left in the Duke's hand, we parted, and I with Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W. Batten by coach tothe Exchange, and there a while, and so home, and whether it be thejogging, or by having my mind more employed (which I believe is a greatmatter) I know not, but . . . . I begin to be suddenly well, at leastbetter than I was. So home and to dinner, and thence by coach to the OldExchange, and there cheapened some laces for my wife, and then toMr. -----the great laceman in Cheapside, and bought one cost me L4. More by20s. Than I intended, but when I came to see them I was resolved to buyone worth wearing with credit, and so to the New Exchange, and there putit to making, and so to my Lord's lodgings and left my wife, and so I tothe Committee of Tangier, and then late home with my wife again by coach, beginning to be very well, and yet when I came home . . . . The littlestraining which I thought was no strain at all at the present did by andby bring me some pain for a good while. Anon, about 8 o'clock, my wifedid give me a clyster which Mr. Hollyard directed, viz. , a pint of strongale, 4 oz. Of sugar, and 2 oz. Of butter. It lay while I lay upon the bedabove an hour, if not two, and then thinking it quite lost I rose, and byand by it began with my walking to work, and gave me three or four mostexcellent stools and carried away wind, put me in excellent ease, andtaking my usual walnut quantity of electuary at my going into bed I hadabout two stools in the night . . . . . 

13th. And so rose in the morning in perfect good ease . . . . Continued all the morning well, and in the afternoon had a natural easilyand dry stoole, the first I have had these five days or six, for which Godbe praised, and so am likely to continue well, observing for the time tocome when any of this pain comes again

(1) To begin to keep myself as warm as I can. 

(2) Strain as little as ever I can backwards, remembering that my painwill come by and by, though in the very straining I do not feel it. 

(3) Either by physic forward or by clyster backward or both ways to get aneasy and plentiful going to stool and breaking of wind. 

(4) To begin to suspect my health immediately when I begin to becomecostive and bound, and by all means to keep my body loose, and that toobtain presently after I find myself going the contrary. 

This morning at the office, and at noon with Creed to the Exchange, wheremuch business, but, Lord! how my heart, though I know not reason for it, began to doubt myself, after I saw Stint, Field's one-eyed solicitor, though I know not any thing that they are doing, or that they endeavourany thing further against us in the business till the terme. Home, andCreed with me to dinner, and after dinner John Cole, my old friend, cameto see and speak with me about a friend. I find him ingenious, but moreand more discern his city pedantry; but however, I will endeavour to havehis company now and then, for that he knows much of the temper of theCity, and is able to acquaint therein as much as most young men, being oflarge acquaintance, and himself, I think, somewhat unsatisfied with thepresent state of things at Court and in the Church. Then to the office, and there busy till late, and so home to my wife, with some ease andpleasure that I hope to be able to follow my business again, which byGod's leave I am resolved to return to with more and more eagerness. Ifind at Court, that either the King is doubtfull of some disturbance, orelse would seem so (and I have reason to hope it is no worse), by hiscommanding all commanders of castles, &c. , to repair to their charges; andmustering the Guards the other day himself, where he found reason todislike their condition to my Lord Gerard, finding so many absent men, ordead pays. 

 [This is probably an allusion to the practice of not reporting the deaths of soldiers, that the officers might continue to draw their pay. --B. ]

My Lady Castlemaine, I hear, is in as great favour as ever, and the Kingsupped with her the very first night he came from Bath: and last night andthe night before supped with her; when there being a chine of beef toroast, and the tide rising into their kitchen that it could not be roastedthere, and the cook telling her of it, she answered, "Zounds! she must setthe house on fire but it should be roasted!" So it was carried to Mrs. Sarah's husband's, and there it was roasted. So home to supper and tobed, being mightily pleased with all my house and my red chamber, where mywife and I intend constantly to lie, and the having of our dressing roomand mayds close by us without any interfering or trouble. 

14th. Up and to my office, where all the morning, and part of it Sir J. Minnes spent, as he do every thing else, like a fool, reading the Anatomyof the body to me, but so sillily as to the making of me understand anything that I was weary of him, and so I toward the 'Change and met withMr. Grant, and he and I to the Coffee-house, where I understand by himthat Sir W. Petty and his vessel are coming, and the King intends to go toPortsmouth to meet it. Thence home and after dinner my wife and I, by Mr. Rawlinson's conduct, to the Jewish Synagogue: where the men and boys intheir vayles, and the women behind a lattice out of sight; and some thingsstand up, which I believe is their Law, in a press to which all coming indo bow; and at the putting on their vayles do say something, to whichothers that hear him do cry Amen, and the party do kiss his vayle. Theirservice all in a singing way, and in Hebrew. And anon their Laws thatthey take out of the press are carried by several men, four or fiveseveral burthens in all, and they do relieve one another; and whether itis that every one desires to have the carrying of it, I cannot tell, thusthey carried it round about the room while such a service is singing. Andin the end they had a prayer for the King, which they pronounced his namein Portugall; but the prayer, like the rest, in Hebrew. But, Lord! to seethe disorder, laughing, sporting, and no attention, but confusion in alltheir service, more like brutes than people knowing the true God, wouldmake a man forswear ever seeing them more and indeed I never did see somuch, or could have imagined there had been any religion in the wholeworld so absurdly performed as this. Away thence with my mind stronglydisturbed with them, by coach and set down my wife in Westminster Hall, and I to White Hall, and there the Tangier Committee met, but the Duke andthe Africa Committee meeting in our room, Sir G. Carteret; Sir W. Compton, Mr. Coventry, Sir W. Rider, Cuttance and myself met in another room, withchairs set in form but no table, and there we had very fine discourses ofthe business of the fitness to keep Sally, and also of the terms of ourKing's paying the Portugees that deserted their house at Tangier, whichdid much please me, and so to fetch my wife, and so to the New Exchangeabout her things, and called at Thomas Pepys the turner's and boughtsomething there, an so home to supper and to bed, after I had been a goodwhile with Sir W. Pen, railing and speaking freely our minds against SirW. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, but no more than the folly of one and theknavery of the other do deserve. 

15th. Up, I bless God being now in pretty good condition, but cannot cometo make natural stools yet . . . . . So up and to the office, wherewe sat all the morning, and at noon dined at home, my head full ofbusiness, and after stepping abroad to buy a thing or two, compasses andsnuffers for my wife, I returned to my office and there mighty busy tillit was late, and so home well contented with the business that I had donethis afternoon, and so to supper and to bed. 

16th. Up and to my office, where all the morning doing business, and atnoon home to dinner, and then up to remove my chest and clothes up stairsto my new wardrobe, that I may have all my things above where I lie, andso by coach abroad with my wife, leaving her at my Lord's till I went tothe Tangier Committee, where very good discourse concerning the Articlesof peace to be continued with Guyland, and thence took up my wife, andwith her to her tailor's, and then to the Exchange and to several places, and so home and to my office, where doing some business, and then home tosupper and to bed. 

17th. Up and to my office, and there we sat a very full board all themorning upon some accounts of Mr. Gauden's. Here happened somethingconcerning my Will which Sir W. Batten would fain charge upon him, and Iheard him mutter something against him of complaint for his oftenreceiving people's money to Sir G. Carteret, which displeased me much, butI will be even with him. Thence to the Dolphin Tavern, and there Mr. Gauden did give us a great dinner. Here we had some discourse of theQueen's being very sick, if not dead, the Duke and Duchess of York beingsent for betimes this morning to come to White Hall to her. So to myoffice and there late doing business, and so home to supper, my housebeing got mighty clean to my great content from top to toe, and so to bed, myself beginning to be in good condition of health also, but only mylaying out so much money upon clothes for myself and wife and her closettroubles me. 

18th (Lord's day). Up, and troubled at a distaste my wife took at a smallthing that Jane did, and to see that she should be so vexed that I tookpart with Jane, wherein I had reason; but by and by well again, and so mywife in her best gown and new poynt that I bought her the other day, tochurch with me, where she has not been these many weeks, and her maydeJane with her. I was troubled to see Pembleton there, but I thought itprudence to take notice myself first of it and show my wife him, and so bylittle and little considering that it mattered not much his being there Igrew less concerned and so mattered it not much, and the less when, anon, my wife showed me his wife, a pretty little woman, and well dressed, witha good jewel at her breast. The parson, Mr. Mills, I perceive, did notknow whether to pray for the Queen or no, and so said nothing about her;which makes me fear she is dead. But enquiring of Sir J. Minnes, he toldme that he heard she was better last night. So home to dinner, and Tomcame and dined with me, and so, anon, to church again, and there a simplecoxcomb preached worse than the Scot, and no Pembleton nor his wife there, which pleased me not a little, and then home and spent most of the eveningat Sir W. Pen's in complaisance, seeing him though he deserves no respectfrom me. This evening came my uncle Wight to speak with me about my uncleThomas's business, and Mr. Moore came, 4 or 5 days out of the country andnot come to see me before, though I desired by two or three messengersthat he would come to me as soon as he came to town. Which do trouble meto think he should so soon forget my kindness to him, which I am afraid hedo. After walking a good while in the garden with these, I went up againto Sir W. Pen, and took my wife home, and after supper to prayers, andread very seriously my vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my lategreat expenses, but I hope in God I do not, and so to bed. 

19th. Waked with a very high wind, and said to my wife, "I pray God Ihear not of the death of any great person, this wind is so high!" fearingthat the Queen might be dead. So up; and going by coach with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes to St. James's, they tell me that Sir W. Compton, who it is true had been a little sickly for a week or fortnight, but wasvery well upon Friday at night last at the Tangier Committee with us, wasdead--died yesterday: at which I was most exceedingly surprised, he being, and so all the world saying that he was, one of the worthyest men and bestofficers of State now in England; and so in my conscience he was: of thebest temper, valour, abilities of mind, integrity, birth, fine person, anddiligence of any one man he hath left behind him in the three kingdoms;and yet not forty years old, or if so, that is all. 

 [Sir William Compton (1625-1663) was knighted at Oxford, December 12th, 1643. He was called by Cromwell "the sober young man and the godly cavalier. " After the Restoration he was M. P. For Cambridge (1661), and appointed Master of the Ordnance. He died in Drury Lane, suddenly, as stated in the text, and was buried at Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire. ]

I find the sober men of the Court troubled for him; and yet not so as tohinder or lessen their mirth, talking, laughing, and eating, drinking, anddoing every thing else, just as if there was no such thing, which is asgood an instance for me hereafter to judge of death, both as to theunavoidableness, suddenness, and little effect of it upon the spirits ofothers, let a man be never so high, or rich, or good; but that all diealike, no more matter being made of the death of one than another, andthat even to die well, the praise of it is not considerable in the world, compared to the many in the world that know not nor make anything of it, nor perhaps to them (unless to one that like this poor gentleman, who isone of a thousand, there nobody speaking ill of him) that will speak illof a man. Coming to St. James's, I hear that the Queen did sleep fivehours pretty well to-night, and that she waked and gargled her mouth, andto sleep again; but that her pulse beats fast, beating twenty to theKing's or my Lady Suffolk's eleven; but not so strong as it was. It seemsshe was so ill as to be shaved and pidgeons put to her feet, and to havethe extreme unction given her by the priests, who were so long about itthat the doctors were angry. The King, they all say; is most fondlydisconsolate for her, and weeps by her, which makes her weep;

 ["The queen was given over by her physicians, . . . , and the good nature of the king was much affected with the situation in which he saw! a princess whom, though he did not love her, yet he greatly esteemed. She loved him tenderly, and thinking that it was the last time she should ever speak to him, she told him 'That the concern he showed for her death was enough to make her quit life with regret; but that not possessing charms sufficient to merit his tenderness, she had at least the consolation in dying to give place to a consort who might be more worthy, of it and to whom heaven, perhaps, might grant a blessing that had been refused to her. ' At these words she bathed his hands with some tears which he thought would be her last; he mingled his own with hers, and without supposing she would take him at his word, he conjured her to live for his sake. "--Grammont Memoirs, chap. Vii. ]

which one this day told me he reckons a good sign, for that it carriesaway some rheume from the head. This morning Captain Allen tells me howthe famous Ned Mullins, by a slight fall, broke his leg at the ancle, which festered; and he had his leg cut off on Saturday, but so ill done, notwithstanding all the great chyrurgeons about the town at the doing ofit, that they fear he will not live with it, which is very strange, besides the torment he was put to with it. After being a little with theDuke, and being invited to dinner to my Lord Barkeley's, and so, notknowing how to spend our time till noon, Sir W. Batten and I took coach, and to the Coffee-house in Cornhill;

 [This may be the Coffee House in Exchange Alley, which had for a sign, Morat the Great, or The Great Turk, where coffee was sold in berry, in powder, and pounded in a mortar. There is a token of the house, see "Boyne's Tokens, " ed. Williamson, vol. I. , p. 592. ]

where much talk about the Turk's proceedings, and that the plague is gotto Amsterdam, brought by a ship from Argier; and it is also carried toHambrough. The Duke says the King purposes to forbid any of their shipscoming into the river. The Duke also told us of several Christiancommanders (French) gone over to the Turks to serve them; and upon inquiryI find that the King of France do by this aspire to the Empire, and so toget the Crown of Spayne also upon the death of the King, which is veryprobable, it seems. Back to St. James's, and there dined with my LordBarkeley and his lady, where Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Batten, and myself, with two gentlemen more; my Lady, and one of the ladies of honour to theDuchesse (no handsome woman, but a most excellent hand). A fine Frenchdinner, and so we after dinner broke up and to Creed's new lodgings inAxe-yard, which I like very well and so with him to White Hall and walkedup and down in the galleries with good discourse, and anon Mr. Coventryand Povy, sad for the loss of one of our number we sat down as a Committeefor Tangier and did some business and so broke up, and I down with Mr. Coventry and in his chamber discoursing of business of the office and SirJ. Minnes and Sir W. Batten's carriage, when he most ingeniously tells mehow they have carried themselves to him in forbearing to speak the otherday to the Duke what they know they have so largely at other times said tohim, and I told him what I am put to about the bargain for masts. Iperceive he thinks of it all and will remember it. Thence took up my wifeat Mrs. Harper's where she and Jane were, and so called at the NewExchange for some things for her, and then at Tom's went up and saw hishouse now it is finished, and indeed it is very handsome, but he notwithin and so home and to my office; and then to supper and to bed. 

20th. Up and to the office, where we sat; and at noon Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, and I to dinner to my Lord Mayor's, being invited, wherewas the Farmers of the Customes, my Lord Chancellor's three sons, andother great and much company, and a very great noble dinner, as thisMayor--[Sir John Robinson. ]--is good for nothing else. No extraordinarydiscourse of any thing, every man being intent upon his dinner, and myselfwilling to have drunk some wine to have warmed my belly, but I did for myoath's sake willingly refrain it, but am so well pleased and satisfiedafterwards thereby, for it do keep me always in so good a frame of mindthat I hope I shall not ever leave this practice. Thence home, and tookmy wife by coach to White Hall, and she set down at my Lord's lodgings, Ito a Committee of Tangier, and thence with her homeward, calling atseveral places by the way. Among others at Paul's Churchyard, and while Iwas in Kirton's shop, a fellow came to offer kindness or force to my wifein the coach, but she refusing, he went away, after the coachman hadstruck him, and he the coachman. So I being called, went thither, and thefellow coming out again of a shop, I did give him a good cuff or two onthe chops, and seeing him not oppose me, I did give him another; at lastfound him drunk, of which I was glad, and so left him, and home, and so tomy office awhile, and so home to supper and to bed. This evening, at myLord's lodgings, Mrs. Sarah talking with my wife and I how the Queen do, and how the King tends her being so ill. She tells us that the Queen'ssickness is the spotted fever; that she was as full of the spots as aleopard which is very strange that it should be no more known; but perhapsit is not so. And that the King do seem to take it much to heart, forthat he hath wept before her; but, for all that; that he hath not missedone night since she was sick, of supping with my Lady Castlemaine; which Ibelieve is true, for she [Sarah] says that her husband hath dressed thesuppers every night; and I confess I saw him myself coming through thestreet dressing of a great supper to-night, which Sarah says is also forthe King and her; which is a very strange thing. 

21st. Up, and by and by comes my brother Tom to me, though late (which dovex me to the blood that I could never get him to come time enough to me, though I have spoke a hundred times; but he is very sluggish, and toonegligent ever to do well at his trade I doubt), and having latelyconsidered with my wife very much of the inconvenience of my going in nobetter plight, we did resolve of putting me into a better garb, and, amongother things, to have a good velvet cloake; that is, of cloth lined withvelvet and other things modish, and a perruque, and so I sent him and herout to buy me velvet, and I to the Exchange, and so to Trinity House, andthere dined with Sir W. Batten, having some business to speak with him, and Sir W. Rider. Thence, having my belly full, away on foot to mybrother's, all along Thames Streete, and my belly being full of smallbeer, I did all alone, for health's sake, drink half a pint of Rhenishwine at the Still-yard, mixed with beer. From my brother's with my wifeto the Exchange, to buy things for her and myself, I being in a humour oflaying out money, but not prodigally, but only in clothes, which I everyday see that I suffer for want of, I so home, and after a little at myoffice, home to supper and to bed. Memorandum: This morning one Mr. Commander, a scrivener, came to me from Mr. Moore with a deed of which. Mr. Moore had told me, that my Lord had made use of my name, and that Iwas desired by my Lord to sign it. Remembering this very well, thoughunderstanding little of the particulars, I read it over, and found itconcern Sir Robt. Bernard and Duckinford, their interest in the manor ofBrampton. So I did sign it, declaring to Mr. Commander that I am onlyconcerned in having my name at my Lord Sandwich's desire used therein, andso I sealed it up after I had signed and sealed the deed, and desired himto give it so sealed to Mr. Moore. I did also call at the Wardrobe thisafternoon to have told Mr. Moore of it, but he was not within, but knowingMr. Commander to have the esteem of a good and honest man with my LordCrew, I did not doubt to intrust him with the deed after I had signed it. This evening after I came home I begun to enter my wife in arithmetique, in order to her studying of the globes, and she takes it very well, and, Ihope, with great pleasure, I shall bring her to understand many finethings. 

22nd. Up to the office, where we sat till noon and then I home to dinner, and after dinner with my wife to her study and there read some morearithmetique, which she takes with great ease and pleasure. This morning, hearing that the Queen grows worse again, I sent to stop the making of myvelvet cloake, till I see whether she lives or dies. So a little abroadabout several businesses, and then home and to my office till night, andthen home to supper, teach my wife, and so to bed. 

23rd. Up, and this morning comes Mr. Clerke, and tells me that theInjunction against Trice is dismissed again, which troubles me much. So Iam to look after it in the afternoon. There comes also by appointment myuncle Thomas, to receive the first payment of his daughter's money. Butshowing of me the original of the deed by which his daughter gives herright to her legacy to him, and the copy of it attested by the Scrivener, for me to keep by me, I did find some difference, and thereupon did lookmore into it, and at last did find the whole thing a forgery; yet hemaintained it again and again, upon oath, that it had been signed andsealed by my cozen Mary ever since before her marriage. So I told him tohis teeth he did like a knave, and so he did, and went with him to theScrivener at Bedlam, and there found how it came to pass, viz. , that hehad lost, or pretends to have lost, the true original, and that so he wasforced to take this course; but a knave, at least a man that values notwhat he swears to, I perceive he is. But however I am now better able tosee myself fully secured before I part with the money, for I find that hisson Charles has right to this legacy till the first L100 of his daughter'sportion be paid, he being bond for it. So I put him upon getting both hissons to be bound for my security, and so left him and so home, and thenabroad to my brother's, but found him abroad at the young couple that wasmarried yesterday, and he one of the Br[ide's] men, a kinswoman(Brumfield) of the Joyces married to an upholster. Thence walked to theKing's Head at Charing Cross and there dined, and hear that the Queenslept pretty well last night, but her fever continues upon her still. Itseems she hath never a Portuguese doctor here. Thence by appointment tothe Six Clerks' office to meet Mr. Clerke, which I did and there waitedall the afternoon for Wilkinson my attorney, but he came not, and so vexedand weary we parted, and I endeavoured but in vain to have found Dr. Williams, of whom I shall have use in Trice's business, but I could notfind him. So weary walked home; in my way bought a large kitchen knifeand half dozen oyster knives. Thence to Mr. Holliard, who tells me thatMullins is dead of his leg cut off the other day, but most basely done. He tells me that there is no doubt but that all my slyme do come away inmy water, and therefore no fear of the stone; but that my water being soslymy is a good sign. He would have me now and then to take a clyster, the same I did the other day, though I feel no pain, only to keep meloose, and instead of butter, which he would have to be salt butter, hewould have me sometimes use two or three ounces of honey, at other timestwo or three ounces of Linseed oil. Thence to Mr. Rawlinson's and saw someof my new bottles made, with my crest upon them, filled with wine, aboutfive or six dozen. So home and to my office a little, and thence home toprepare myself against T. Trice, and also to draw a bond fit for my uncleand his sons to enter into before I pay them the money. That done to bed. 

24th. Up and to my office, where busy all the morning about Mr. Gauden'saccount, and at noon to dinner with him at the Dolphin, where mighty merryby pleasant stories of Mr. Coventry's and Sir J. Minnes's, which I haveput down some of in my book of tales. Just as I was going out my uncleThomas came to the with a draught of a bond for him and his sons to signto me about the payment of the L20 legacy, which I agreed to, but he wouldfain have had from me the copy of the deed, which he had forged and didbring me yesterday, but I would not give him it. Says [he] I perceivethen you will keep it to defame me with, and desired me not to speak ofit, for he did it innocently. Now I confess I do not find any great hurtin the thing, but only to keep from me a sight of the true original deed, wherein perhaps there was something else that may touch this business ofthe legacy which he would keep from me, or it may be, it is really lost ashe says it is. But then he need not have used such a slight, but confessit without danger. Thence by coach with Mr. Coventry to the Temple, andthence I to the Six Clerks' office, and discoursed with my Attorney andSolicitor, and he and I to Mr. Turner, who puts me in great fear that Ishall not get retayned again against Tom Trice; which troubles me. Thence, it being night, homewards, and called at Wotton's and tried someshoes, but he had none to fit me. He tells me that by the Duke of York'spersuasion Harris is come again to Sir W. Davenant upon his terms that hedemanded, which will make him very high and proud. Thence to anothershop, and there bought me a pair of shoes, and so walked home and to myoffice, and dispatch letters by the post, and so home to supper and tobed, where to my trouble I find my wife begin to talk of her being aloneall day, which is nothing but her lack of something to do, for while shewas busy she never, or seldom, complained . . . . . The Queen is in agood way of recovery; and Sir Francis Pridgeon hath got great honour byit, it being all imputed to his cordiall, which in her dispaire did giveher rest and brought her to some hopes of recovery. It seems that, afterthe much talk of troubles and a plot, something is found in the North thata party was to rise, and some persons that were to command it are found, as I find in a letter that Mr. Coventry read to-day about it from thoseparts. 

 [This refers to a rising in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which took place on October 12th, and was known as the Farneley Wood Plot. The rising was easily put down, and several prisoners were taken. A special commission of oyer and terminer was sent down to York to try the prisoners in January, 1663-64, when twenty-one were convicted and executed. (See Whitaker's "Loidis and Elmete, " 1816. )]

25th (Lord's day). Up, and my wife and I to church, where it is strangeto see how the use and seeing Pembleton come with his wife thither tochurch, I begin now to make too great matter of it, which before was soterrible to me. Dined at home, my wife and I alone, a good dinner, and soin the afternoon to church again, where the Scot preached, and I sleptmost of the afternoon. So home, and my wife and I together all theevening discoursing, and then after reading my vowes to myself, and mywife with her mayds (who are mighty busy to get it dispatched because oftheir mistress's promise, that when it is done they shall have leave allto go see their friends at Westminster, whither my wife will carry them)preparing for their washing to-morrow, we hastened to supper and to bed. 

26th. Waked about one o'clock in the morning . . . . My wife beingwaked rung her bell, and the mayds rose and went to washing, we to sleepagain till 7 o'clock, and then up, and I abroad to look out Dr. Williams, but being gone out I went to Westminster, and there seeing my LordSandwich's footman knew he was come to town, and so I went in and saw him, and received a kind salute from him, but hear that my father is very illstill. Thence to Westminster Hall with Creed, and spent the morningwalking there, where, it being Terme time, I met several persons, andtalked with them, among others Dr. Pierce, who tells me that the Queen isin a way to be pretty well again, but that her delirium in her headcontinues still; that she talks idle, not by fits, but always, which insome lasts a week after so high a fever, in some more, and in some forever; that this morning she talked mightily that she was brought to bed, and that she wondered that she should be delivered without pain andwithout spueing or being sicke, and that she was troubled that her boy wasbut an ugly boy. But the King being by, said, "No, it is a very prettyboy. "--"Nay, " says she, "if it be like you it is a fine boy indeed, and Iwould be very well pleased with it. " The other day she talked mightily ofSir H. Wood's lady's great belly, and said if she should miscarry he wouldnever get another, and that she never saw such a man as this Sir H. Woodin her life, and seeing of Dr. Pridgeon, she said, "Nay, Doctor, you neednot scratch your head, there is hair little enough already in the place. "But methinks it was not handsome for the weaknesses of Princes to betalked of thus. Thence Creed and I to the King's Head ordinary, wheremuch and very good company, among others one very talking man, but ascholler, that would needs put in his discourse and philosophy upon everyoccasion, and though he did well enough, yet his readiness to speak spoiltall. Here they say that the Turkes go on apace, and that my LordCastlehaven is going to raise 10, 000 men here for to go against him; thatthe King of France do offer to assist the Empire upon condition that hemay be their Generalissimo, and the Dolphin chosen King of the Romans: andit is said that the King of France do occasion this difference among theChristian Princes of the Empire, which gives the Turke such advantages. They say also that the King of Spayne is making all imaginable forceagainst Portugall again. Thence Creed and I to one or two periwigg shopsabout the Temple, having been very much displeased with one that we saw, ahead of greasy and old woman's haire, at Jervas's in the morning; andthere I think I shall fit myself of one very handsomely made. Thence bycoach, my mind being troubled for not meeting with Dr. Williams, to St. Catharine's to look at a Dutch ship or two for some good handsome maps, but met none, and so back to Cornhill to Moxon's, but it being dark westaid not to see any, then to coach again, and presently spying Sir W. Batten; I 'light and took him in and to the Globe in Fleete Streete, byappointment, where by and by he and I with our solicitor to Sir F. Turnerabout Field's business, and back to the Globe, and thither I sent for Dr. Williams, and he is willing to swear in my behalf against T. Trice, viz. , that at T. Trice's desire we have met to treat about our business. Thence(I drinking no wine) after an hour's stay Sir W. Batten and another, andhe drinking, we home by coach, and so to my office and set down myJournall, and then home to supper and to bed, my washing being in a goodcondition over. I did give Dr. Williams 20s. Tonight, but it was after hehad answered me well to what I had to ask him about this business, and itwas only what I had long ago in my petty bag book allotted for him besidesthe bill of near L4 which I paid him a good while since by my brother Tomfor physique for my wife, without any consideration to this business thathe is to do for me, as God shall save me. Among the rest, talking of theEmperor at table to-day one young gentleman, a pretty man, and it seems aParliament man, did say that he was a sot;

 [Leopold I, the Holy Roman Emperor, was born June 9th, 1640. He became King of Hungary in 1655, and King of Bohemia in 1658, in which year he received the imperial crown. The Princes of the German Empire watched for some time the progress of his struggle with the Turks with indifference, but in 1663 they were induced to grant aid to Leopold after he had made a personal appeal to them in the diet at Ratisbon. ]

for he minded nothing of the Government, but was led by the Jesuites. Several at table took him up, some for saying that he was a sot in beingled by the Jesuites, [who] are the best counsel he can take. Anothercommander, a Scott[ish] Collonell, who I believe had several under him, that he was a man that had thus long kept out the Turke till now, and didmany other great things, and lastly Mr. Progers, one of our courtiers, whotold him that it was not a thing to be said of any Soveraigne Prince, behis weaknesses what they will, to be called a sot, which methinks was veryprettily said. 

27th. Up, and my uncle Thomas and his scrivener bringing me a bond andaffidavit to my mind, I paid him his L20 for his daughter's legacy, and L5more for a Quarter's annuity, in the manner expressed in each acquittance, to which I must be referred on any future occasion, and to the bond andaffidavit. Thence to the office and there sat till noon, and then home todinner, and after dinner (it being a foul house to-day among my maids, making up their clothes) abroad with my Will with me by coach to Dr, Williams, and with him to the Six Clerks's office, and there, by advice ofhis acquaintance, I find that my case, through my neglect and the neglectof my lawyers, is come to be very bad, so as that it will be very hard toget my bill retayned again. However, I got him to sign and swear anaffidavit that there was treaties between T. Trice and me with as muchadvantage as I could for me, but I will say that for him he was most exactas ever I saw man in my life, word by word what it was that he swore to, and though, God forgive me, I could have been almost naturally willing tohave let him ignorantly have sworn to something that was not of itselfvery certain, either or no, yet out of his own conscience and care healtered the words himself so as to make them very safe for him to swear. This I carrying to my clerk Wilkinson, and telling him how I heard mattersto stand, he, like a conceited fellow, made nothing of it but advised meto offer Trice's clerks the cost of the dismission, viz. , 46s. 8d. , whichI did, but they would not take it without his client. Immediatelythereupon we parted, and met T. Trice coming into the room, and he came tome and served me with a subpoena for these very costs, so I paid it him, but Lord! to see his resolution, and indeed discretion, in the wording ofhis receipt, he would have it most express to my greatest disadvantagethat could be, yet so as I could not deny to give it him. That beingpaid, my clerke, and then his began to ask why we could not think, beingfriends, of referring it, or stating it, first ourselves, and then put itto some good lawyer to judge in it. From one word to more we wereresolved to try, and to that end to step to the Pope's Head Taverne, andthere he and his Clerke and Attorney and I and my Clerke, and sent for Mr. Smallwood, and by and by comes Mr. Clerke, my Solicitor, and after I hadprivately discoursed with my men and seen how doubtfully they talked, andwhat future certain charge and trouble it would be, with a doubtfulvictory, I resolved to condescend very low, and after some talke alltogether Trice and I retired, and he came to L150 the lowest, and I bidhim L80. So broke off and then went to our company, and they putting usto a second private discourse, at last I was contented to give him L100, he to spend 40s. Of it among this good company that was with us. So wewent to our company, both seeming well pleased that we were come to anend, and indeed I am in the respects above said, though it be a great sumfor us to part with. I am to pay him by giving him leave to buy about L40worth of Piggott's land and to strike off so much of Piggott's debt, andthe other to give him bond to pay him in 12 months after without interest, only giving him a power to buy more land of Piggott and paying him thatway as he did for the other, which I am well enough contented with, or atleast to take the land at that price and give him the money. This last Idid not tell him, but I shall order it so. Having agreed upon to-morrowcome se'nnight for the spending of the 40s. At Mr. Rawlinson's, we parted, and I set T. Trice down in Paul's Churchyard and I by coach home and to myoffice, and there set down this day's passages, and so home to supper andto bed. Mr. Coventry tells me to-day that the Queen had a very good nightlast night; but yet it is strange that still she raves and talks of littlemore than of her having of children, and fancys now that she hath threechildren, and that the girle is very like the King. And this morningabout five o'clock waked (the physician feeling her pulse, thinking to bebetter able to judge, she being still and asleep, waked her) and the firstword she said was, "How do the children?"

28th. Up and at my office all the morning, and at noon Mr. Creed came tome and dined with me, and after dinner Murford came to me and he and Idiscoursed wholly upon his breach of contract with us. After that Mr. Creed and I abroad, I doing several errands, and with him at last to thegreat coffee-house, and there after some common discourse we parted and Ihome, paying what I owed at the Mitre in my way, and at home Sympson thejoyner coming he set up my press for my cloaks and other small things, andso to my office a little, and to supper, and to bed. This morning Mr. Blackburne came to me, and telling me what complaints Will made of theusage he had from my wife and other discouragements, and, I seeing him, instead of advising, rather favouring his kinsman, I told him freely mymind, but friendlily, and so we have concluded to have him have a lodgingelsewhere, and that I will spare him L15 of his salary, and if I do notneed to keep another L20. 

29th. Up, it being my Lord Mayor's day, Sir Anthony Bateman. Thismorning was brought home my new velvet cloake, that is, lined with velvet, a good cloth the outside, the first that ever I had in my life, and I prayGod it may not be too soon now that I begin to wear it. I had it this daybrought, thinking to have worn it to dinner, but I thought it would bebetter to go without it because of the crowde, and so I did not wear it. We met a little at the office, and then home again and got me ready to goforth, my wife being gone forth by my consent before to see her father andmother, and taken her cooke mayde and little girle to Westminster with herfor them to see their friends. This morning in dressing myself andwanting a band, [The band succeeded the ruff as the ordinary civil costume. The lawyers, who now retain bands, and the clergy, who have only lately left them off, formerly wore ruffs. ]

I found all my bands that were newly made clean so ill smoothed that Icrumpled them, and flung them all on the ground, and was angry with Jane, which made the poor girle mighty sad, so that I were troubled for itafterwards. At noon I went forth, and by coach to Guild Hall (by the waycalling at Mr. Rawlinson's), and there was admitted, and meeting with Mr. Proby (Sir R. Ford's son), and Lieutenant-Colonel Baron, a City commander, we went up and down to see the tables; where under every salt there was abill of fare, and at the end of the table the persons proper for thetable. Many were the tables, but none in the Hall but the Mayor's and theLords of the Privy Council that had napkins

 [As the practice of eating with forks gradually was introduced from Italy into England, napkins were not so generally used, but considered more as an ornament than a necessary. 

 "The laudable use of forks, Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy, To the sparing of napkins. "

 Ben Jonson, The Devil is an Ass, act v. , sc. 3. 

 The guests probably brought their own knife and fork with them in a case. --M. B. ]

or knives, which was very strange. We went into the Buttry, and therestayed and talked, and then into the Hall again: and there wine wasoffered and they drunk, I only drinking some hypocras, which do not breakmy vowe, it being, to the best of my present judgement, only a mixedcompound drink, and not any wine. 

 [A drink, composed usually of red wine, but sometimes of white, with the addition of sugar and spices. Sir Walter Scott ("Quarterly Review, " vol. Xxxiii. ) says, after quoting this passage of Pepys, "Assuredly his pieces of bacchanalian casuistry can only be matched by that of Fielding's chaplain of Newgate, who preferred punch to wine, because the former was a liquor nowhere spoken against in Scripture. "]

If I am mistaken, God forgive me! but I hope and do think I am not. Byand by met with Creed; and we, with the others, went within the severalCourts, and there saw the tables prepared for the Ladies and Judges andBishopps: all great sign of a great dinner to come. By and by about oneo'clock, before the Lord Mayor came, come into the Hall, from the roomwhere they were first led into, the Lord Chancellor (Archbishopp beforehim), with the Lords of the Council, and other Bishopps, and they todinner. Anon comes the Lord Mayor, who went up to the lords, and then tothe other tables to bid wellcome; and so all to dinner. I sat near Proby, Baron, and Creed at the Merchant Strangers' table; where ten good dishesto a messe, with plenty of wine of all sorts, of which I drunk none; butit was very unpleasing that we had no napkins nor change of trenchers, anddrunk out of earthen pitchers and wooden dishes. --[The City plate wasprobably melted during the Civil War. -M. B. ]--It happened that after thelords had half dined, came the French Embassador, up to the lords' table, where he was to have sat; but finding the table set, he would not sit downnor dine with the Lord Mayor, who was not yet come, nor have a table tohimself, which was offered; but in a discontent went away again. After Ihad dined, I and Creed rose and went up and down the house, and up to thelady's room, and there stayed gazing upon them. But though there weremany and fine, both young and old, yet I could not discern one handsomeface there; which was very strange, nor did I find the lady that youngDawes married so pretty as I took her for, I having here an opportunity oflooking much upon her very near. I expected musique, but there was nonebut only trumpets and drums, which displeased me. The dinner, it seems, is made by the Mayor and two Sheriffs for the time being, the Lord Mayorpaying one half, and they the other. And the whole, Proby says, isreckoned to come to about 7 or L800 at most. Being wearied with lookingupon a company of ugly women, Creed and I went away, and took coach andthrough Cheapside, and there saw the pageants, which were very silly, andthence to the Temple, where meeting Greatorex, he and we to HerculesPillars, there to show me the manner of his going about of draining offenns, which I desired much to know, but it did not appear verysatisfactory to me, as he discoursed it, and I doubt he will faile in it. Thence I by coach home, and there found my wife come home, and by and bycame my brother Tom, with whom I was very angry for not sending me a billwith my things, so as that I think never to have more work done by him ifever he serves me so again, and so I told him. The consideration oflaying out L32 12s. This very month in his very work troubles me also, andone thing more, that is to say, that Will having been at home all the day, I doubt is the occasion that Jane has spoken to her mistress tonight thatshe sees she cannot please us and will look out to provide herselfelsewhere, which do trouble both of us, and we wonder also at her, but yetwhen the rogue is gone I do not fear but the wench will do well. To theoffice a little, to set down my Journall, and so home late to supper andto bed. The Queen mends apace, they say; but yet talks idle still. 

30th. Lay long in bed with my wife, and then up and a while at my office, and so to the Change, and so [home] again, and there I found my wife in agreat passion with her mayds. I upstairs to set some things in order inour chamber and wardrobe, and so to dinner upon a good dish of stewedbeef, then up again about my business. Then by coach with my wife to theNew Exchange, and there bought and paid for several things, and then back, calling at my periwigg-makers, and there showed my wife the periwigg madefor me, and she likes it very well, and so to my brother's, and to buy apair of boddice for her, and so home, and to my office late, and then hometo my wife, purposing to go on to a new lesson in arithmetique with her. So to supper and to bed. The Queen mends apace, but her head still light. My mind very heavy thinking of my great layings out lately, and what theymust still be for clothes, but I hope it is in order to getting ofsomething the more by it, for I perceive how I have hitherto suffered forlack of going as becomes my place. After a little discourse with my wifeupon arithmetique, to bed. 

31st. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noonhome to dinner, where Creed came and dined with me, and after dinner heand I upstairs, and I showed him my velvet cloake and other things ofclothes, that I have lately bought, which he likes very well, and I tookhis opinion as to some things of clothes, which I purpose to wear, beingresolved to go a little handsomer than I have hitherto. Thence to theoffice; where busy till night, and then to prepare my monthly account, about which I staid till 10 or 11 o'clock at night, and to my great sorrowfind myself L43 worse than I was the last month, which was then L760, andnow it is but L717. But it hath chiefly arisen from my layings-out inclothes for myself and wife; viz. , for her about L12, and for myself L55, or thereabouts; having made myself a velvet cloake, two new cloth suits, black, plain both; a new shagg

 [Shag was a stuff similar to plush. In 1703 a youth who was missing is described in an advertisement as wearing "red shag breeches, striped with black stripes. " (Planche's "Cyclopxdia of Costume "). ]

gowne, trimmed with gold buttons and twist, with a new hat, and, silk topsfor my legs, and many other things, being resolved henceforward to go likemyself. And also two perriwiggs, one whereof costs me L3, and the other40s. --I have worn neither yet, but will begin next week, God willing. Sothat I hope I shall not need now to lay out more money a great while, Ihaving laid out in clothes for myself and wife, and for her closett andother things without, these two months, this and the last, besideshousehold expenses of victuals, &c. , above L110. But I hope I shall withmore comfort labour to get more, and with better successe than when, forwant of clothes, I was forced to sneake like a beggar. Having done this Iwent home, and after supper to bed, my mind being eased in knowing mycondition, though troubled to think that I have been forced to spend somuch. 

Thus I end this month worth L717, or thereabouts, with a good deal of goodgoods more than I had, and a great deal of new and good clothes. Mygreatest trouble and my wife's is our family, mighty out of order by thisfellow Will's corrupting the mayds by his idle talke and carriage, whichwe are going to remove by hastening him out of the house, which his uncleBlackburne is upon doing, and I am to give him L20 per annum toward hismaintenance. The Queene continues lightheaded, but in hopes to recover. The plague is much in Amsterdam, and we in fears of it here, which Goddefend. 

 [Defend is used in the sense of forbid. It is a Gallicism from the French "defendre. "]

The Turke goes on mightily in the Emperor's dominions, and the Princescannot agree among themselves how to go against him. Myself in prettygood health now, after being ill this month for a week together, butcannot yet come to . . . . Well, being so costive, but for this monthalmost I have not had a good natural stool, but to this hour am forced totake physic every night, which brings me neither but one stool, and thatin the morning as soon as I am up, all the rest of the day very costive. My father has been very ill in the country, but I hope better again now. Iam lately come to a conclusion with Tom Trice to pay him L100, which is agreat deale of money, but I hope it will save a great deale more. Butthus everything lessens, which I have and am like to have, and therefore Imust look about me to get something more than just my salary, or else Imay resolve to live well and die a beggar. 

 ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:

 And so to sleep till the morning, but was bit cruelly And there, did what I would with her Content as to be at our own home, after being abroad awhile Found guilty, and likely will be hanged (for stealing spoons) Half a pint of Rhenish wine at the Still-yard, mixed with beer His readiness to speak spoilt all No more matter being made of the death of one than another Out of an itch to look upon the sluts there Plague is much in Amsterdam, and we in fears of it here Pride himself too much in it Reckon nothing money but when it is in the bank Resolve to live well and die a beggar Scholler, that would needs put in his discourse (every occasion) She was so ill as to be shaved and pidgeons put to her feet The plague is got to Amsterdam, brought by a ship from Argier We having no luck in maids now-a-days Who is over head and eares in getting her house up