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

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 HENRY B. WHEATLEY F. S. A. 

 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. APRIL 1667

April 1st. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes in his coach, set him down at theTreasurer's Office in Broad-streete, and I in his coach to White Hall, andthere had the good fortune to walk with Sir W. Coventry into the garden, and there read our melancholy letter to the Duke of York, which he likes. And so to talk: and he flatly owns that we must have a peace, for wecannot set out a fleete; and, to use his own words, he fears that we shallsoon have enough of fighting in this new way, which we have thought on forthis year. He bemoans the want of money, and discovers himself jealousthat Sir G. Carteret do not look after, or concern himself for getting, money as he used to do, and did say it is true if Sir G. Carteret wouldonly do his work, and my Lord Treasurer would do his own, Sir G. Carterethath nothing to do to look after money, but if he will undertake my LordTreasurer's work to raise money of the Bankers, then people must expectthat he will do it, and did further say, that he [Carteret] and my LordChancellor do at this very day labour all they can to villify this new wayof raising money, and making it payable, as it now is, into the Exchequer;and expressly said that in pursuance hereof, my Lord Chancellor hathprevailed with the King, in the close of his last speech to the House, tosay, that he did hope to see them come to give money as it used to begiven, without so many provisos, meaning, as Sir W. Coventry says, thisnew method of the Act. While we were talking, there come Sir Thomas Allenwith two ladies; one of which was Mrs. Rebecca Allen, that I knewheretofore, the clerk of the rope-yard's daughter at Chatham, who, poorheart! come to desire favour for her husband, who is clapt up, being aLieutenant [Jowles], for sending a challenge to his Captain, in the mostsaucy, base language that could be writ. I perceive [Sir] W. Coventry iswholly resolved to bring him to punishment; for, "bear with this, " sayshe, "and no discipline shall ever be expected. " She in this sad conditiontook no notice of me, nor I of her. So away we to the Duke of York, andthere in his closett [Sir] W. Coventry and I delivered the letter, whichthe Duke of York made not much of, I thought, as to laying it to heart, asthe matter deserved, but did promise to look after the getting of moneyfor us, and I believe Sir W. Coventry will add what force he can to it. Idid speak to [Sir] W. Coventry about Balty's warrant, which is ready, andabout being Deputy Treasurer, which he very readily and friendlily agreedto, at which I was glad, and so away and by coach back to Broad-streete toSir G. Carteret's, and there found my brother passing his accounts, whichI helped till dinner, and dined there, and many good stories at dinner, among others about discoveries of murder, and Sir J. Minnes did tell ofthe discovery of his own great-grandfather's murder, fifteen years afterhe was murdered. Thence, after dinner, home and by water to Redriffe, andwalked (fine weather) to Deptford, and there did business and so backagain, walked, and pleased with a jolly femme that I saw going and comingin the way, which je could avoir been contented pour avoir staid with if Icould have gained acquaintance con elle, but at such times as these I amat a great loss, having not confidence, no alcune ready wit. So home andto the office, where late, and then home to supper and bed. This eveningMrs. Turner come to my office, and did walk an hour with me in the garden, telling me stories how Sir Edward Spragge hath lately made love to ourneighbour, a widow, Mrs. Hollworthy, who is a woman of estate, and wit andspirit, and do contemn him the most, and sent him away with the greatestscorn in the world; she tells me also odd stories how the parish talks ofSir W. Pen's family, how poorly they clothe their daughter so soon aftermarriage, and do say that Mr. Lowther was married once before, and somesuch thing there hath been, whatever the bottom of it is. But to think ofthe clatter they make with his coach, and his owne fine cloathes, and yethow meanly they live within doors, and nastily, and borrowing everythingof neighbours is a most shitten thing. 

2nd. Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting, and muchtroubled, but little business done for want of money, which makes memighty melancholy. At noon home to dinner, and Mr. Deane with me, whohath promised me a very fine draught of the Rupert, which he will makepurposely for me with great perfection, which I will make one of thebeautifullest things that ever was seen of the kind in the world, shebeing a ship that will deserve it. Then to the office, where all theafternoon very busy, and in the evening weary home and there to sing, butvexed with the unreadiness of the girle's voice to learn the latter partof my song, though I confess it is very hard, half notes. So to supperand to bed. 

3rd. Up, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall to Sir W. Coventry'schamber, and there did receive the Duke's order for Balty's receiving ofthe contingent money to be paymaster of it, and it pleases me the more forthat it is but L1500, which will be but a little sum for to try hisability and honesty in the disposing of, and so I am the willinger totrust and pass my word for him therein. By and by up to the Duke of York, where our usual business, and among other things I read two most dismalletters of the straits we are in (from Collonell Middleton andCommissioner Taylor) that ever were writ in the world, so as the Duke ofYork would have them to shew the King, and to every demand of money, whereof we proposed many and very pressing ones, Sir G. Carteret couldmake no answer but no money, which I confess made me almost ready to cryfor sorrow and vexation, but that which was the most considerable was whenSir G. Carteret did say that he had no funds to raise money on; and beingasked by Sir W. Coventry whether the eleven months' tax was not a fund, and he answered, "No, that the bankers would not lend money upon it. "Then Sir W. Coventry burst out and said he did supplicate his RoyalHighness, and would do the same to the King, that he would remember whothey were that did persuade the King from parting with the Chimney-moneyto the Parliament, and taking that in lieu which they would certainly havegiven, and which would have raised infallibly ready money; meaning thebankers and the farmers of the Chimney-money, whereof Sir, G. Carteret, Ithink, is one; saying plainly, that whoever did advise the King to that, did, as much as in them lay, cut the King's throat, and did wholly betrayhim; to which the Duke of York did assent; and remembered that the Kingdid say again and again at the time, that he was assured, and did fullybelieve, the money would be raised presently upon a land-tax. This put asall into a stound; and Sir W. Coventry went on to declare, that he wasglad he was come to have so lately concern in the Navy as he hath, for hecannot now give any good account of the Navy business; and that all hiswork now was to be able to provide such orders as would justify his RoyalHighness in the business, when it shall be called to account; and that hedo do, not concerning himself whether they are or can be performed, or no;and that when it comes to be examined, and falls on my Lord Treasurer, hecannot help it, whatever the issue of it shall be. Hereupon Sir W. Battendid pray him to keep also by him all our letters that come from the officethat may justify us, which he says he do do, and, God knows, it is an illsign when we are once to come to study how to excuse ourselves. It is asad consideration, and therewith we broke up, all in a sad posture, themost that ever I saw in my life. One thing more Sir W. Coventry did say tothe Duke of York, when I moved again, that of about L9000 debt to Lanyon, at Plymouth, he might pay L3700 worth of prize-goods, that he boughtlately at the candle, out of this debt due to him from the King; and theDuke of York, and Sir G: Carteret, and Lord Barkeley, saying, all of them, that my Lord Ashly would not be got to yield to it, who is Treasurer ofthe Prizes, Sir W. Coventry did plainly desire that it might be declaredwhether the proceeds of the prizes were to go to the helping on of thewar, or no; and, if it were, how then could this be denied? which put themall into another stound; and it is true, God forgive us! Thence to thechappell, and there, by chance, hear that Dr. Crew is to preach; and sointo the organ-loft, where I met Mr. Carteret, and my Lady Jemimah, andSir Thomas Crew's two daughters, and Dr. Childe played; and Dr. Crew didmake a very pretty, neat, sober, honest sermon; and delivered it veryreadily, decently, and gravely, beyond his years: so as I was exceedinglytaken with it, and I believe the whole chappell, he being but young; buthis manner of his delivery I do like exceedingly. His text was, "Butseeke ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all thesethings shall be added unto you. " Thence with my Lady to Sir G. Carteret'slodgings, and so up into the house, and there do hear that the Dutchletters are come, and say that the Dutch have ordered a passe to be sentfor our Commissioners, and that it is now upon the way, coming with atrumpeter blinded, as is usual. But I perceive every body begins to doubtthe success of the treaty, all their hopes being only that if it can behad on any terms, the Chancellor will have it; for he dare not come beforea Parliament, nor a great many more of the courtiers, and the King himselfdo declare he do not desire it, nor intend it but on a strait; which Goddefend him from! Here I hear how the King is not so well pleased of thismarriage between the Duke of Richmond and Mrs. Stewart, as is talked; andthat he [the Duke] by a wile did fetch her to the Beare, at theBridge-foot, where a coach was ready, and they are stole away into Kent, without the King's leave; and that the King hath said he will never seeher more; but people do think that it is only a trick. This day I sawPrince Rupert abroad in the Vane-room, pretty well as he used to be, andlooks as well, only something appears to be under his periwigg on thecrown of his head. So home by water, and there find my wife gone abroadto her tailor's, and I dined alone with W. Hewer, and then to the officeto draw up a memorial for the Duke of York this afternoon at the Councilabout Lanyon's business. By and by we met by appointment at the officeupon a reference to Carcasses business to us again from the Duke of York, but a very confident cunning rogue we have found him at length. Hecarried himself very uncivilly to Sir W. Batten this afternoon, asheretofore, and his silly Lord [Bruncker] pleaded for him, but all willnot nor shall not do for ought he shall give, though I love the man as aman of great parts and ability. Thence to White Hall by water (onlyasking Betty Michell by the way how she did), and there come too late todo any thing at the Council. So by coach to my periwigg maker's andtailor's, and so home, where I find my wife with her flageolet master, which I wish she would practise, and so to the office, and then to Sir W. Batten's, and then to Sir W. Pen's, talking and spending time in vain alittle while, and then home up to my chamber, and so to supper and to bed, vexed at two or three things, viz. That my wife's watch proves so bad asit do; the ill state of the office; and Kingdom's business; at the chargewhich my mother's death for mourning will bring me when all paid. 

4th. Up, and going down found Jervas the barber with a periwigg which Ihad the other day cheapened at Westminster, but it being full of nits, asheretofore his work used to be, I did now refuse it, having boughtelsewhere. So to the office till noon, busy, and then (which I think Ihave not done three times in my life) left the board upon occasion of aletter of Sir W. Coventry, and meeting Balty at my house I took him withme by water, and to the Duke of Albemarle to give him an account of thebusiness, which was the escaping of some soldiers for the manning of a fewships now going out with Harman to the West Indies, which is a sadconsideration that at the very beginning of the year and few ships abroadwe should be in such want of men that they do hide themselves, and swearthey will not go to be killed and have no pay. I find the Duke ofAlbemarle at dinner with sorry company, some of his officers of the Army;dirty dishes, and a nasty wife at table, and bad meat, of which I made butan ill dinner. Pretty to hear how she talked against Captain Du Tell, theFrenchman, that the Prince and her husband put out the last year; and how, says she, the Duke of York hath made him, for his good services, hisCupbearer; yet he fired more shot into the Prince's ship, and others ofthe King's ships, than of the enemy. And the Duke of Albemarle didconfirm it, and that somebody in the fight did cry out that a littleDutchman, by his ship, did plague him more than any other; upon which theywere going to order him to be sunk, when they looked and found it was DuTell, who, as the Duke of Albemarle says, had killed several men inseveral of our ships. He said, but for his interest, which he knew he hadat Court, he had hanged him at the yard's-arm, without staying for aCourt-martiall. One Colonel Howard, at the table, magnified the Duke ofAlbemarle's fight in June last, as being a greater action than ever wasdone by Caesar. The Duke of Albemarle, did say it had been no greataction, had all his number fought, as they should have done, to have beatthe Dutch; but of his 55 ships, not above 25 fought. He did give anaccount that it was a fight he was forced to: the Dutch being come in hisway, and he being ordered to the buoy of the Nore, he could not pass bythem without fighting, nor avoid them without great disadvantage anddishonour; and this Sir G. Carteret, I afterwards giving him an account ofwhat he said, says that it is true, that he was ordered up to the Nore. But I remember he said, had all his captains fought, he would no more havedoubted to have beat the Dutch, with all their number, than to eat theapple that lay on his trencher. My Lady Duchesse, among other things, discoursed of the wisdom of dividing the fleete; which the General saidnothing to, though he knows well that it come from themselves in thefleete, and was brought up hither by Sir Edward Spragge. Colonel Howard, asking how the prince did, the Duke of Albemarle answering, "Pretty well;"the other replied, "But not so well as to go to sea again. "--"How!" saysthe Duchess, "what should he go for, if he were well, for there are noships for him to command? And so you have brought your hogs to a fairmarket, " said she. [It was pretty to hear the Duke of Albemarle himselfto wish that they would come on our ground, meaning the French, for thathe would pay them, so as to make them glad to go back to France again;which was like a general, but not like an admiral. ] One at the table toldan odd passage in this late plague: that at Petersfield, I think, he said, one side of the street had every house almost infected through the town, and the other, not one shut up. Dinner being done, I brought Balty to theDuke of Albemarle to kiss his hand and thank him far his kindness the lastyear to him, and take leave of him, and then Balty and I to walk in thePark, and, out of pity to his father, told him what I had in my thoughtsto do for him about the money--that is, to make him Deputy Treasurer ofthe fleete, which I have done by getting Sir G. Carteret's consent, and anorder from the Duke of York for L1500 to be paid to him. He promises thewhole profit to be paid to my wife, for to be disposed of as she sees fit, for her father and mother's relief. So mightily pleased with our walk, itbeing mighty pleasant weather, I back to Sir G. Carteret's, and there hehad newly dined, and talked, and find that he do give every thing over forlost, declaring no money to be raised, and let Sir W. Coventry name theman that persuaded the King to take the Land Tax on promise, of raisingpresent money upon it. He will, he says, be able to clear himself enoughof it. I made him merry, with telling him how many land-admirals we areto have this year: Allen at Plymouth, Holmes at Portsmouth, Spragge forMedway, Teddiman at Dover, Smith to the Northward, and Harman to theSouthward. He did defend to me Sir W. Coventry as not guilty of thedividing of the fleete the last year, and blesses God, as I do, for myLord Sandwich's absence, and tells me how the King did lately observe tohim how they have been particularly punished that were enemies to my LordSandwich. Mightily pleased I am with his family, and my Lady Carteret wason the bed to-day, having been let blood, and tells me of my LadyJemimah's being big-bellied. Thence with him to my Lord Treasurer's, andthere walked during Council sitting with Sir Stephen Fox, talking of thesad condition of the King's purse, and affairs thereby; and how sad theKing's life must be, to pass by his officers every hour, that are fouryears behind-hand unpaid. My Lord Barkeley [of Stratton] I met withthere, and fell into talk with him on the same thing, wishing to God thatit might be remedied, to which he answered, with an oath, that it was aseasy to remedy it as anything in the world; saying, that there is himselfand three more would venture their carcasses upon it to pay all the King'sdebts in three years, had they the managing his revenue, and puttingL300, 000 in his purse, as a stock. But, Lord! what a thing is this tome, that do know how likely a man my Lord Barkeley of all the world is, todo such a thing as this. Here I spoke with Sir W. Coventry, who tells meplainly that to all future complaints of lack of money he will answer butwith the shrug of his shoulder; which methought did come to my heart, tosee him to begin to abandon the King's affairs, and let them sink or swim, so he do his owne part, which I confess I believe he do beyond any officerthe King hath, but unless he do endeavour to make others do theirs, nothing will be done. The consideration here do make me go away very sad, and so home by coach, and there took up my wife and Mercer, who had beento-day at White Hall to the Maundy, [The practice of giving alms on Maundy Thursday to poor men and women equal in number to the years of the sovereign's age is a curious survival in an altered form of an old custom. The original custom was for the king to wash the feet of twelve poor persons, and to give them a supper in imitation of Christ's last supper and his washing of the Apostles' feet. James II. Was the last sovereign to perform the ceremony in person, but it was performed by deputy so late as 1731. The Archbishop of York was the king's deputy on that occasion. The institution has passed through the various stages of feet washing with a supper, the discontinuance of the feet washing, the substitution of a gift of provisions for the supper, and finally the substitution of a gift of money for the provisions. The ceremony took place at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall; but it is now held at Westminster Abbey. Maundy is derived from the Latin word 'maudatum', which commences the original anthem sung during the ceremony, in reference to Christ's command]

it being Maundy Thursday; but the King did not wash the poor people's feethimself, but the Bishop of London did it for him, but I did not see it, and with them took up Mrs. Anne Jones at her mother's door, and so to takethe ayre to Hackney, where good neat's tongue, and things to eat anddrink, and very merry, the weather being mighty pleasant; and here I wastold that at their church they have a fair pair of organs, which playwhile the people sing, which I am mighty glad of, wishing the like at ourchurch at London, and would give L50 towards it. So very pleasant, andhugging of Mercer in our going home, we home, and then to the office to doa little business, and so to supper at home and to bed. 

5th. Up, and troubled with Mr. Carcasse's coming to speak with me, whichmade me give him occasion to fall into a heat, and he began to beill-mannered to me, which made me angry. He gone, I to Sir W. Pen aboutthe business of Mrs. Turner's son to keep his ship in employment, but sofalse a fellow as Sir W. Pen is I never did nor hope shall ever knowagain. So to the office, and there did business, till dinnertime, andthen home to dinner, wife and I alone, and then down to the Old Swan, anddrank with Betty and her husband, but no opportunity para baiser la. Soto White Hall to the Council chamber, where I find no Council held tillafter the holidays. So to Westminster Hall, and there bought a pair ofsnuffers, and saw Mrs. Howlett after her sickness come to the Hall again. So by coach to the New Exchange and Mercer's and other places to take upbills for what I owe them, and to Mrs. Pierce, to invite her to dinnerwith us on Monday, but staid not with her. In the street met with Mr. Sanchy, my old acquaintance at Cambridge, reckoned a great minister herein the City; and by Sir Richard Ford particularly, which I wonder at; formethinks, in his talk, he is but a mean man. I set him down in Holborne, and I to the Old Exchange, and there to Sir Robert Viner's, and made up myaccounts there, to my great content; but I find they do not keep them soregularly as, to be able to do it easily, and truly, and readily, norwould it have been easily stated by any body on my behalf but myself, several things being to be recalled to memory, which nobody else couldhave done, and therefore it is fully necessary for me to even accountswith these people as often as I can. So to the 'Change, and there metwith Mr. James Houblon, but no hopes, as he sees, of peace whatever wepretend, but we shall be abused by the King of France. Then home to theoffice, and busy late, and then to Sir W. Batten's, where Mr. Young wastalking about the building of the City again; and he told me that thosefew churches that are to be new built are plainly not chosen with regardto the convenience of the City; they stand a great many in a cluster aboutCornhill; but that all of them are either in the gift of the LordArchbishop, or Bishop of London, or Lord Chancellor, or gift of the City. Thus all things, even to the building of churches, are done in this world!And then he says, which I wonder at, that I should not in all this timesee, that Moorefields have houses two stories high in them, and pavedstreets, the City having let leases for seven years, which he do concludewill be very much to the hindering the building of the City; but it wasconsidered that the streets cannot be passable in London till a wholestreet be built; and several that had got ground of the City for charity, to build sheds on, had got the trick presently to sell that for L60, whichdid not cost them L20 to put up; and so the City, being very poor instock, thought it as good to do it themselves, and therefore let leasesfor seven years of the ground in Moorefields; and a good deal of thismoney, thus advanced, hath been employed for the enabling them to findsome money for Commissioner Taylor, and Sir W. Batten, towards the chargeof "The Loyall London, " or else, it is feared, it had never been paid. And Taylor having a bill to pay wherein Alderman Hooker was concerned itwas his invention to find out this way of raising money, or else this hadnot been thought on. So home to supper and to bed. This morning come tome the Collectors for my Pollmoney; for which I paid for my title asEsquire and place of Clerk of Acts, and my head and wife's, and servants'and their wages, L40 17s; and though this be a great deal, yet it is ashame I should pay no more; that is, that I should not be assessed for mypay, as in the Victualling business and Tangier; and for my money, which, of my own accord, I had determined to charge myself with L1000 money, tillcoming to the Vestry, and seeing nobody of our ablest merchants, as SirAndrew Rickard, to do it, I thought it not decent for me to do it, norwould it be thought wisdom to do it unnecessarily, but vain glory. 

6th. Up, and betimes in the morning down to the Tower wharfe, there toattend the shipping of soldiers, to go down to man some ships going out, and pretty to see how merrily some, and most go, and how sad others--theleave they take of their friends, and the terms that some wives, and otherwenches asked to part with them: a pretty mixture. So to the office, having staid as long as I could, and there sat all the morning, and thenhome at noon to dinner, and then abroad, Balty with me, and to White Hall, by water, to Sir G. Carteret, about Balty's L1500 contingent money for thefleete to the West Indys, and so away with him to the Exchange, andmercers and drapers, up and down, to pay all my scores occasioned by thismourning for my mother; and emptied a L50 bag, and it was a joy to me tosee that I am able to part with such a sum, without much inconvenience; atleast, without any trouble of mind. So to Captain Cocke's to meet Fenn, to talk about this money for Balty, and there Cocke tells me that he isconfident there will be a peace, whatever terms be asked us, and heconfides that it will take because the French and Dutch will be jealousone of another which shall give the best terms, lest the other should makethe peace with us alone, to the ruin of the third, which is our bestdefence, this jealousy, for ought I at present see. So home and there verylate, very busy, and then home to supper and to bed, the people having gottheir house very clean against Monday's dinner. 

7th (Easter day). Up, and when dressed with my wife (in mourning for mymother) to church both, where Mr. Mills, a lazy sermon. Home to dinner, wife and I and W. Hewer, and after dinner I by water to White Hall to SirG. Carteret's, there to talk about Balty's money, and did present Balty tohim to kiss his hand, and then to walk in the Parke, and heard the Italianmusique at the Queen's chapel, whose composition is fine, but yet thevoices of eunuchs I do not like like our women, nor am more pleased withit at all than with English voices, but that they do jump most excellentlywith themselves and their instrument, which is wonderful pleasant; but Iam convinced more and more, that, as every nation has a particular accentand tone in discourse, so as the tone of one not to agree with or pleasethe other, no more can the fashion of singing to words, for that thebetter the words are set, the more they take in of the ordinary tone ofthe country whose language the song speaks, so that a song well composedby an Englishman must be better to an Englishman than it can be to astranger, or than if set by a stranger in foreign words. Thence back toWhite Hall, and there saw the King come out of chapel after prayers in theafternoon, which he is never at but after having received the Sacrament:and the Court, I perceive, is quite out of mourning; and some very fine;among others, my Lord Gerard, in a very rich vest and coat. Here I metwith my Lord Bellasses: and it is pretty to see what a formal story hetells me of his leaving, his place upon the death of my Lord Cleveland, by which he is become Captain of the Pensioners; and that the King didleave it to him to keep the other or take this; whereas, I know thecontrary, that they had a mind to have him away from Tangier. He tells mehe is commanded by the King to go down to the Northward to satisfy theDeputy Lieutenants of Yorkshire, who have desired to lay down theircommissions upon pretence of having no profit by their places but charge, but indeed is upon the Duke of Buckingham's being under a cloud (of whomthere is yet nothing heard), so that the King is apprehensive of theirdiscontent, and sends him to pacify them, and I think he is as good adissembler as any man else, and a fine person he is for person, and properto lead the Pensioners, but a man of no honour nor faith I doubt. So toSir G. Carteret's again to talk with him about Balty's money, and wrote aletter to Portsmouth about part of it, and then in his coach, with hislittle daughter Porpot (as he used to nickname her), and saw her at home, and her maid, and another little gentlewoman, and so I walked into MooreFields, and, as is said, did find houses built two stories high, and liketo stand; and it must become a place of great trade, till the City bebuilt; and the street is already paved as London streets used to be, whichis a strange, and to mean unpleasing sight. So home and to my chamberabout sending an express to Portsmouth about Balty's money, and then comesMrs. Turner to enquire after her son's business, which goes but bad, whichled me to show her how false Sir W. Pen is to her, whereupon she told mehis obligations to her, and promises to her, and how a while since he didshow himself dissatisfied in her son's coming to the table and applyinghimself to me, which is a good nut, and a nut I will make use of. Shegone I to other business in my chamber, and then to supper and to bed. The Swede's Embassadors and our Commissioners are making all the hastethey can over to the treaty for peace, and I find at Court, andparticularly Lord Bellasses, says there will be a peace, and it is worthremembering what Sir W. Coventry did tell me (as a secret though) thatwhereas we are afeard Harman's fleete to the West Indys will not be gotout before the Dutch come and block us up, we shall have a happy pretextto get out our ships under pretence of attending the Embassadors andCommissioners, which is a very good, but yet a poor shift. 

8th. Up, and having dressed myself, to the office a little, and out, expecting to have seen the pretty daughter of the Ship taverne at thehither end of Billiter Lane (whom I never yet have opportunity to speakto). I in there to drink my morning draught of half a pint of Rhenishwine; but a ma doleur elle and their family are going away thence, and anew man come to the house. So I away to the Temple, to my new. Bookseller's; and there I did agree for Rycaut's late History of theTurkish Policy, which costs me 55s. ; whereas it was sold plain before thelate fire for 8s. , and bound and coloured as this is for 20s. ; for I havebought it finely bound and truly coloured, all the figures, of which therewas but six books done so, whereof the King and Duke of York, and Duke ofMonmouth, and Lord Arlington, had four. The fifth was sold, and I havebought the sixth. So to enquire out Mrs. Knipp's new lodging, but couldnot, but do hear of her at the Playhouse, where she was practising, and Isent for her out by a porter, and the jade come to me all undressed, socannot go home to my house to dinner, as I had invited her, which I wasnot much troubled at, because I think there is a distance between her andMrs. Pierce, and so our company would not be so pleasant. So home, andthere find all things in good readiness for a good dinner, and hereunexpectedly I find little Mis. Tooker, whom my wife loves not from thereport of her being already naught; however, I do shew her countenance, and by and by come my guests, Dr. Clerke and his wife, and Mrs. Worshipp, and her daughter; and then Mr. Pierce and his wife, and boy, and Betty;and then I sent for Mercer; so that we had, with my wife and I, twelve attable, and very good and pleasant company, and a most neat and excellent, but dear dinner; but, Lord! to see with what envy they looked upon all myfine plate was pleasant; for I made the best shew I could, to let themunderstand me and my condition, to take down the pride of Mrs. Clerke, whothinks herself very great. We sat long, and very merry, and all thingsagreeable; and, after dinner, went out by coaches, thinking to have seen aplay, but come too late to both houses, and then they had thoughts ofgoing abroad somewhere; but I thought all the charge ought not to be mine, and therefore I endeavoured to part the company, and so ordered it to setthem all down at Mrs. Pierces; and there my wife and I and Mercer leftthem in good humour, and we three to the King's house, and saw the latterend of the "Surprisall, " a wherein was no great matter, I thought, by whatI saw there. Thence away to Polichinello, and there had three times moresport than at the play, and so home, and there the first night we havebeen this year in the garden late, we three and our Barker singing verywell, and then home to supper, and so broke up, and to bed mightilypleased with this day's pleasure. 

9th. Up. And to the office a while, none of my fellow officers coming tosit, it being holiday, and so towards noon I to the Exchange, and there dohear mighty cries for peace, and that otherwise we shall be undone; andyet I do suspect the badness of the peace we shall make. Several docomplain of abundance of land flung up by tenants out of their hands forwant of ability to pay their rents; and by name, that the Duke ofBuckingham hath L6000 so flung up. And my father writes, that JasperTrice, upon this pretence of his tenants' dealing with him, is broke uphousekeeping, and gone to board with his brother, Naylor, at Offord; whichis very sad. So home to dinner, and after dinner I took coach and to theKing's house, and by and by comes after me my wife with W. Hewer and hismother and Barker, and there we saw "The Tameing of a Shrew, " which hathsome very good pieces in it, but generally is but a mean play; and thebest part, "Sawny, "

 [This play was entitled "Sawney the Scot, or the Taming of a Shrew, " and consisted of an alteration of Shakespeare's play by John Lacy. Although it had long been popular it was not printed until 1698. In the old "Taming of a Shrew" (1594), reprinted by Thomas Amyot for the Shakespeare Society in 1844, the hero's servant is named Sander, and this seems to have given the hint to Lacy, when altering Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew, " to foist a 'Scotsman into the action. Sawney was one of Lacy's favourite characters, and occupies a prominent position in Michael Wright's picture at Hampton Court. Evelyn, on October 3rd, 1662, "visited Mr. Wright, a Scotsman, who had liv'd long at Rome, and was esteem'd a good painter, " and he singles out as his best picture, "Lacy, the famous Roscius, or comedian, whom he has painted in three dresses, as a gallant, a Presbyterian minister, and a Scotch Highlander in his plaid. " Langbaine and Aubrey both make the mistake of ascribing the third figure to Teague in "The Committee;" and in spite of Evelyn's clear statement, his editor in a note follows them in their blunder. Planche has reproduced the picture in his "History of Costume" (Vol. Ii. , p. 243). ]

done by Lacy, hath not half its life, by reason of the words, I suppose, not being understood, at least by me. After the play was done, as I comeso I went away alone, and had a mind to have taken out Knipp to have takenthe ayre with her, and to that end sent a porter in to her that she shouldtake a coach and come to me to the Piatza in Covent Garden, where I waitedfor her, but was doubtful I might have done ill in doing it if we shouldbe visti ensemble, sed elle was gone out, and so I was eased of my care, and therefore away to Westminster to the Swan, and there did baiser lalittle missa . . . . And drank, and then by water to the Old Swan, andthere found Betty Michell sitting at the door, it being darkish. I staidand talked a little with her, but no once baiser la, though she was to mythinking at this time une de plus pretty mohers that ever I did voir in myvida, and God forgive me my mind did run sobre elle all the vespre andnight and la day suivante. So home and to the office a little, and thento Sir W. Batten's, where he tells me how he hath found his lady's jewelsagain, which have been so long lost, and a servant imprisoned andarraigned, and they were in her closet under a china cup, where he hathservants will swear they did look in searching the house; but Mrs. Turnerand I, and others, do believe that they were only disposed of by my Lady, in case she had died, to some friends of hers, and now laid there again. So home to supper, and to read the book I bought yesterday of the Turkishpolicy, which is a good book, well writ, and so owned by Dr. Clerkeyesterday to me, commending it mightily to me for my reading as the onlybook of the subject that ever was writ, yet so designedly. So to bed. 

10th. Up, and to my office a little, and then, in the garden, find Sir W. Pen; and he and I to Sir W. Batten, where he tells us news of the newdisorders of Hogg and his men in taking out of 30 tons of wine out of aprize of ours, which makes us mad; and that, added to the unwillingness ofthe men to go longer abroad without money, do lead us to conclude not tokeep her abroad any longer, of which I am very glad, for I do not like ourdoings with what we have already got, Sir W. Batten ordering the disposalof our wines and goods, and he leaves it to Morrice the cooper, who I taketo be a cunning proud knave, so that I am very desirous to adventure nofurther. So away by water from the Old Swan to White Hall, and there toSir W. Coventry's, with whom I staid a great while longer than I have donethese many months, and had opportunity of talking with him, and he dodeclare himself troubled that he hath any thing left him to do in theNavy, and would be glad to part with his whole profits and concernments init, his pains and care being wholly ineffectual during this lack of money;the expense growing infinite, the service not to be done, and disciplineand order not to be kept, only from want of money. I begun to discoursewith him the business of Tangier, which by the removal of my LordBellasses, is now to have a new Governor; and did move him, that at thisseason all the business of reforming the garrison might be considered, while nobody was to be offended; and I told him it is plain that we dooverspend our revenue: that the place is of no more profit to the Kingthan it was the first day, nor in itself of better credit; no more peopleof condition willing to live there, nor any thing like a place likely toturn his Majesty to account: that it hath been hitherto, and, for aught Isee, likely only to be used as a job to do a kindness to some Lord, or hethat can get to be Governor. Sir W. Coventry agreed with me, so as tosay, that unless the King hath the wealth of the Mogul, he would be abeggar to have his businesses ordered in the manner they now are: that hisgarrisons must be made places only of convenience to particular personsthat he hath moved the Duke of York in it; and that it was resolved tosend no Governor thither till there had been Commissioners sent to put thegarrison in order, so as that he that goes may go with limitations andrules to follow, and not to do as he please, as the rest have hithertodone. That he is not afeard to speak his mind, though to the displeasureof any man; and that I know well enough; but that, when it is come, as itis now, that to speak the truth in behalf of the King plainly do no good, but all things bore down by other measures than by what is best for theKing, he hath no temptation to be perpetually fighting of battles, itbeing more easy to him do those terms to suffer things to go on withoutgiving any man offence, than to have the same thing done, and he contractthe displeasure of all the world, as he must do, that will be for theKing. I did offer him to draw up my thoughts in this matter to present tothe Duke of York, which he approved of, and I do think to do it. So away, and by coach going home saw Sir G. Carteret going towards White Hall. So'light and by water met him, and with him to the King's little chapel; andafterwards to see the King heal the King's Evil, wherein no pleasure, Ihaving seen it before; and then to see him and the Queene and Duke of Yorkand his wife, at dinner in the Queene's lodgings; and so with Sir G. Carteret to his lodgings to dinner; where very good company; and afterdinner he and I to talk alone how things are managed, and to what ruin wemust come if we have not a peace. He did tell me one occasion, how SirThomas Allen, which I took for a man of known courage and service on theKing's side, was tried for his life in Prince Rupert's fleete, in the latetimes, for cowardice, and condemned to be hanged, and fled to Jersey;where Sir G. Carteret received him, not knowing the reason of his comingthither: and that thereupon Prince Rupert wrote to the Queen-Mother hisdislike of Sir G. Carteret's receiving a person that stood condemned; andso Sir G. Carteret was forced to bid him betake himself to some otherplace. This was strange to me. Our Commissioners are preparing to go toBredah to the treaty, and do design to be going the next week. So away bycoach home, where there should have been a meeting about Carcasse'sbusiness, but only my Lord and I met, and so broke up, Carcasse havingonly read his answer to his charge, which is well writ, but I think willnot prove to his advantage, for I believe him to be a very rogue. Sohome, and Balty and I to look Mr. Fenn at Sir G. Carteret's office inBroad Streete, and there missing him and at the banker's hard by, we home, and I down by water to Deptford Dockyard, and there did a little business, and so home back again all the way reading a little piece I lately bought, called "The Virtuoso, or the Stoicke, " proposing many things paradoxicalto our common opinions, wherein in some places he speaks well, butgenerally is but a sorry man. So home and to my chamber to enter my twolast days' journall, and this, and then to supper and to bed. Blessed beGod! I hear that my father is better and better, and will, I hope, liveto enjoy some cheerful days more; but it is strange what he writes me, that Mr. Weaver, of Huntingdon, who was a lusty, likely, and but ayoungish man, should be dead. 

11th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and (which isnow rare, he having not been with us twice I think these six months) SirG. Carteret come to us upon some particular business of his office, andwent away again. At noon I to the 'Change, and there hear by Mr. Hublonof the loss of a little East Indiaman, valued at about L20, 000, cominghome alone, and safe to within ten leagues of Scilly, and there snapt by aFrench Caper. Our merchants do much pray for peace; and he tells me thatletters are come that the Dutch have stopped the fitting of their greatships, and the coming out of a fleete of theirs of 50 sayle, that wasready to come out; but I doubt the truth of it yet. Thence to Sir G. Carteret, by his invitation to his office, where my Lady was, and dinedwith him, and very merry and good people they are, when pleased, as any Iknow. After dinner I to the office, where busy till evening, and thenwith Balty to Sir G. Carteret's office, and there with Mr. Fenn despatchedthe business of Balty's L1500 he received for the contingencies of thefleete, whereof he received about L253 in pieces of eight at a goldsmith'sthere hard by, which did puzzle me and him to tell; for I could not tellthe difference by sight, only by bigness, and that is not alwaysdiscernible, between a whole and half-piece and quarterpiece. Havingreceived this money I home with Balty and it, and then abroad by coachwith my wife and set her down at her father's, and I to White Hall, thinking there to have seen the Duchess of Newcastle's coming this nightto Court, to make a visit to the Queene, the King having been with heryesterday, to make her a visit since her coming to town. The whole storyof this lady is a romance, and all she do is romantick. Her footmen invelvet coats, and herself in an antique dress, as they say; and was theother day at her own play, "The Humourous Lovers;" the most ridiculousthing that ever was wrote, but yet she and her Lord mightily pleased withit; and she, at the end, made her respects to the players from her box, and did give them thanks. There is as much expectation of her coming toCourt, that so people may come to see her, as if it were the Queen ofSheba; but I lost my labour, for she did not come this night. So, meetingMr. Brisband, he took me up to my Lady Jemimah's chamber, who is let bloodto-day, and so there we sat and talked an hour, I think, very merry andone odd thing or other, and so away, and I took up my wife at her tailor's(whose wife is brought to bed, and my wife must be godmother), and so withmuch ado got a coach to carry us home, it being late, and so to mychamber, having little left to do at my office, my eyes being a littlesore by reason of my reading a small printed book the other day after itwas dark, and so to supper and to bed. It comes in my head to set downthat there have been two fires in the City, as I am told for certain, andit is so, within this week. 

12th. Up, and when ready, and to my office, to do a little business, and, coming homeward again, saw my door and hatch open, left so by Luce, ourcookmayde, which so vexed me, that I did give her a kick in our entry, andoffered a blow at her, and was seen doing so by Sir W. Pen's footboy, which did vex me to the heart, because I know he will be telling theirfamily of it; though I did put on presently a very pleasant face to theboy, and spoke kindly to him, as one without passion, so as it may be hemight not think I was angry, but yet I was troubled at it. So away bywater to White Hall, and there did our usual business before the Duke ofYork; but it fell out that, discoursing of matters of money, it rose to amighty heat, very high words arising between Sir G. Carteret and [Sir] W. Coventry, the former in his passion saying that the other should havehelped things if they were so bad; and the other answered, so he would, and things should have been better had he been Treasurer of the Navy. Iwas mightily troubled at this heat, and it will breed ill blood, I fear;but things are in that bad condition that I do daily expect when we shallall fly in one another's faces, when we shall be reduced, every one, toanswer for himself. We broke up; and I soon after to Sir G. Carteret'schamber, where I find the poor man telling his lady privately, and sheweeping. I went into them, and did seem, as indeed I was, troubled forthis; and did give the best advice I could, which, I think, did pleasethem: and they do apprehend me their friend, as indeed I am, for I do takethe Vice-chamberlain for a most honest man. He did assure me that he wasnot, all expences and things paid, clear in estate L15, 000 better than hewas when the King come in; and that the King and Lord Chancellor did knowthat he was worth, with the debt the King owed him, L50, 000, I think, hesaid, when the King come into England. I did pacify all I could, and thenaway by water home, there to write letters and things for the dispatch ofBalty away this day to sea; and after dinner he did go, I having given himmuch good counsell; and I have great hopes that he will make good use ofit, and be a good man, for I find him willing to take pains and verysober. He being gone, I close at my office all the afternoon getting offof hand my papers, which, by the late holidays and my laziness, were growntoo many upon my hands, to my great trouble, and therefore at it as lateas my eyes would give me leave, and then by water down to Redriffe, meaning to meet my wife, who is gone with Mercer, Barker, and the boy (itbeing most sweet weather) to walk, and I did meet with them, and walkedback, and then by the time we got home it was dark, and we staid singingin the garden till supper was ready, and there with great pleasure. But Itried my girles Mercer and Barker singly one after another, a single song, "At dead low ebb, " etc. , and I do clearly find that as to manner ofsinging the latter do much the better, the other thinking herself as I domyself above taking pains for a manner of singing, contenting ourselveswith the judgment and goodness of eare. So to supper, and then parted andto bed. 

13th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and strangehow the false fellow Commissioner. Pett was eager to have had Carcassesbusiness brought on to-day that he might give my Lord Bruncker (who hateshim, I am sure, and hath spoke as much against him to the King in myhearing as any man) a cast of his office in pleading for his man Carcasse, but I did prevent its being brought on to-day, and so broke up, and I hometo dinner, and after dinner with a little singing with some pleasure alonewith my poor wife, and then to the office, where sat all the afternoontill late at night, and then home to supper and to bed, my eyes troublingme still after candle-light, which troubles me. Wrote to my father, who, I am glad to hear, is at some ease again, and I long to have him in town, that I may see what can be done for him here; for I would fain do all Ican that I may have him live, and take pleasure in my doing well in theworld. This afternoon come Mrs. Lowther to me to the office, and there jedid toker ses mammailles and did baiser them and su bocca, which she tookfort willingly . . . . 

14th (Lord's day). Up, and to read a little in my new History of Turkey, and so with my wife to church, and then home, where is little Michell andmy pretty Betty and also Mercer, and very merry. A good dinner of roastbeef. After dinner I away to take water at the Tower, and thence toWestminster, where Mrs. Martin was not at home. So to White Hall, andthere walked up and down, and among other things visited Sir G. Carteret, and much talk with him, who is discontented, as he hath reason, to see howthings are like to come all to naught, and it is very much that thisresolution of having of country Admirals should not come to his eares tillI told him the other day, so that I doubt who manages things. From him toMargaret's Church, and there spied Martin, and home with her . . . . . But fell out to see her expensefullness, having bought Turkey work, chairs, &c. By and by away home, and there took out my wife, and the twoMercers, and two of our mayds, Barker and Jane, and over the water to theJamaica House, where I never was before, and there the girls did run forwagers over the bowling-green; and there, with much pleasure, spentlittle, and so home, and they home, and I to read with satisfaction in mybook of Turkey, and so to bed. 

15th. Lay long in bed, and by and by called up by Sir H. Cholmly, whotells me that my Lord Middleton is for certain chosen Governor of Tangier;a man of moderate understanding, not covetous, but a soldier of fortune, and poor. Here comes Mr. Sanchy with an impertinent business to me of aticket, which I put off. But by and by comes Dr. Childe by appointment, and sat with me all the morning making me bases and inward parts toseveral songs that I desired of him, to my great content. Then dined, andthen abroad by coach, and I set him down at Hatton Garden, and I to theKing's house by chance, where a new play: so full as I never saw it; Iforced to stand all the while close to the very door till I took cold, andmany people went away for want of room. The King, and Queene, and Duke ofYork and Duchesse there, and all the Court, and Sir W. Coventry. The playcalled "The Change of Crownes;" a play of Ned Howard's, the best that everI saw at that house, being a great play and serious; only Lacy did act thecountry-gentleman come up to Court, who do abuse the Court with all theimaginable wit and plainness about selling of places, and doing everything for money. The play took very much. Thence I to my newbookseller's, and there bought "Hooker's Polity, " the new edition, and"Dugdale's History of the Inns of Court, " of which there was but a fewsaved out of the fire, and Playford's new Catch-book, that hath a greatmany new fooleries in it. Then home, a little at the office, and then tosupper and to bed, mightily pleased with the new play. 

16th. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning, at noon home todinner, and thence in haste to carry my wife to see the new play I sawyesterday, she not knowing it. But there, contrary to expectation, find"The Silent Woman. " However, in; and there Knipp come into the pit. Itook her by me, and here we met with Mrs. Horsley, the pretty woman--anacquaintance of Mercer's, whose house is burnt. Knipp tells me the Kingwas so angry at the liberty taken by Lacy's, part to abuse him to hisface, that he commanded they should act no more, till Moone went and gotleave for them to act again, but not this play. The King mighty angry;and it was bitter indeed, but very true and witty. I never was more takenwith a play than I am with this "Silent Woman, " as old as it is, and asoften as I have seen it. There is more wit in it than goes to ten newplays. Thence with my wife and Knipp to Mrs. Pierce's, and saw her closetagain, and liked her picture. Thence took them all to the Cake-house, inSouthampton Market-place, where Pierce told us the story how, in goodearnest, [the King] is offended with the Duke of Richmond's marrying, andMrs. Stewart's sending the King his jewels again. As she tells it, it isthe noblest romance and example of a brave lady that ever I read in mylife. Pretty to hear them talk of yesterday's play, and I durst not ownto my wife to have seen it. Thence home and to [Sir] W. Batten!'s, wherewe have made a bargain for the ending of some of the trouble about some ofour prizes for L1400. So home to look on my new books that I have latelybought, and then to supper and to bed. 

17th. Up, and with the two Sir Williams by coach to the Duke of York, whois come to St. James's, the first time we have attended him there thisyear. In our way, in Tower Street, we saw Desbrough walking on foot: whois now no more a prisoner, and looks well, and just as he used to doheretofore. When we come to the Duke of York's I was spoke to by Mr. Bruncker on behalf of Carcasse. Thence by coach to Sir G. Carteret's, inLondon, there to pass some accounts of his, and at it till dinner, andthen to work again a little, and then go away, and my wife being sent forby me to the New Exchange I took her up, and there to the King's playhouse(at the door met with W. Joyce in the street, who come to our coach side, but we in haste took no notice of him, for which I was sorry afterwards, though I love not the fellow, yet for his wife's sake), and saw a piece of"Rollo, " a play I like not much, but much good acting in it: the housevery empty. So away home, and I a little to the office, and then to SirRobert Viner's, and so back, and find my wife gone down by water to take alittle ayre, and I to my chamber and there spent the night in reading mynew book, "Origines Juridiciales, " which pleases me. So to supper and tobed. 

18th. Up, and to read more in the "Origines, " and then to the office, where the news is strong that not only the Dutch cannot set out a fleetethis year, but that the French will not, and that he hath given the answerto the Dutch Embassador, saying that he is for the King of England's, having an honourable peace, which, if true, is the best news we have had agood while. At the office all the morning, and there pleased with thelittle pretty Deptford woman I have wished for long, and she hath occasiongiven her to come again to me. After office I to the 'Change a little, and then home and to dinner, and then by coach with my wife to the Duke ofYork's house, and there saw "The Wits, " a play I formerly loved, and isnow corrected and enlarged: but, though I like the acting, yet I like notmuch in the play now. The Duke of York and [Sir] W. Coventry gone toPortsmouth, makes me thus to go to plays. So home, and to the office alittle and then home, where I find Goodgroome, and he and I did singseveral things over, and tried two or three grace parts in Playford's newbook, my wife pleasing me in singing her part of the things she knew, which is a comfort to my very heart. So he being gone we to supper and tobed. 

19th. Up, and to the office all the morning, doing a great deal ofbusiness. At noon to dinner betimes, and then my wife and I by coach tothe Duke's house, calling at Lovett's, where I find my Lady Castlemayne'spicture not yet done, which has lain so many months there, which vexes me, but I mean not to trouble them more after this is done. So to theplayhouse, not much company come, which I impute to the heat of theweather, it being very hot. Here we saw "Macbeth, "

 [See November 5th, 1664. Downes wrote: "The Tragedy of Macbeth, alter'd by Sir William Davenant; being drest in all it's finery, as new cloaths, new scenes, machines as flyings for the Witches; with all the singing and dancing in it. The first compos'd by Mr. Lock, the other by Mr. Channell and Mr. Joseph Preist; it being all excellently perform'd, being in the nature of an opera, it recompenc'd double the expence; it proves still a lasting play. "]

which, though I have seen it often, yet is it one of the best plays for astage, and variety of dancing and musique, that ever I saw. So being verymuch pleased, thence home by coach with young Goodyer and his own sister, who offered us to go in their coach. A good-natured youth I believe heis, but I fear will mind his pleasures too much. She is pretty, and amodest, brown girle. Set us down, so my wife and I into the garden, afine moonshine evening, and there talking, and among other things shetells me that she finds by W. Hewer that my people do observe my mindingmy pleasure more than usual, which I confess, and am ashamed of, and sofrom this day take upon me to leave it till Whit-Sunday. While we weresitting in the garden comes Mrs. Turner to advise about her son, theCaptain, when I did give her the best advice I could, to look out for someland employment for him, a peace being at hand, when few ships will beemployed and very many, and these old Captains, to be provided for. Thento other talk, and among the rest about Sir W. Pen's being to buy WanstedHouse of Sir Robert Brookes, but has put him off again, and left him theother day to pay for a dinner at a tavern, which she says our parishioner, Mrs. Hollworthy, talks of; and I dare be hanged if ever he could mean tobuy that great house, that knows not how to furnish one that is not thetenth part so big. Thence I to my chamber to write a little, and then tobed, having got a mighty cold in my right eare and side of my throat, andin much trouble with it almost all the night. 

20th. Up, with much pain in my eare and palate. To the office out ofhumour all the morning. At noon dined, and with my wife to the King'shouse, but there found the bill torn down and no play acted, and so beingin the humour to see one, went to the Duke of York's house, and there saw"The Witts" again, which likes me better than it did the other day, havingmuch wit in it. Here met with Mr. Rolt, who tells me the reason of noplay to-day at the King's house. That Lacy had been committed to theporter's lodge for his acting his part in the late new play, and thatbeing thence released he come to the King's house, there met with NedHoward, the poet of the play, who congratulated his release; upon whichLacy cursed him as that it was the fault of his nonsensical play that wasthe cause of his ill usage. Mr. Howard did give him some reply; to whichLacy [answered] him, that he was more a fool than a poet; upon whichHoward did give him a blow on the face with his glove; on which Lacy, having a cane in his hand, did give him a blow over the pate. Here Roltand others that discoursed of it in the pit this afternoon did wonder thatHoward did not run him through, he being too mean a fellow to fight with. But Howard did not do any thing but complain to the King of it; so thewhole house is silenced, and the gentry seem to rejoice much at it, thehouse being become too insolent. Here were many fine ladies thisafternoon at this house as I have at any time seen, and so after the playhome and there wrote to my father, and then to walk in the garden with mywife, resolving by the grace of God to see no more plays till Whitsuntide, I having now seen a play every day this week till I have neglected mybusiness, and that I am ashamed of, being found so much absent; the Dukeof York and Sir W. Coventry having been out of town at Portsmouth did themore embolden me thereto. So home, and having brought home with me fromFenchurch Street a hundred of sparrowgrass, --[A form once so commonly usedfor asparagus that it has found its way into dictionaries. ]--cost 18d. Wehad them and a little bit of salmon, which my wife had a mind to, cost 3s. So to supper, and my pain being somewhat better in my throat, we to bed. 

21st (Lord's day). Up, and John, a hackney coachman whom of late I havemuch used, as being formerly Sir W. Pen's coachman, coming to me by mydirection to see whether I would use him to-day or no, I took him to ourbackgate to look upon the ground which is to be let there, where I have amind to buy enough to build a coach-house and stable; for I have had itmuch in my thoughts lately that it is not too much for me now, in degreeor cost, to keep a coach, but contrarily, that I am almost ashamed to beseen in a hackney, and therefore if I can have the conveniency, I willsecure the ground at least till peace comes, that I do receiveencouragement to keep a coach, or else that I may part with the groundagain. The place I like very well, being close to my owne house, and soresolve to go about it, and so home and with my wife to church, and thento dinner, Mercer with us, with design to go to Hackney to church in theafternoon. So after dinner she and I sung "Suo Moro, " which is one of thebest pieces of musique to my thinking that ever I did hear in my life;then took coach and to Hackney church, where very full, and found muchdifficulty to get pews, I offering the sexton money, and he could not helpme. So my wife and Mercer ventured into a pew, and I into another. Aknight and his lady very civil to me when they come, and the like to mywife in hers, being Sir G. Viner and his lady--rich in jewells, but mostin beauty--almost the finest woman that ever I saw. That which we wentchiefly to see was the young ladies of the schools, --[Hackney was longfamous for its boarding schools. ]--whereof there is great store, verypretty; and also the organ, which is handsome, and tunes the psalm, andplays with the people; which is mighty pretty, and makes me mighty earnestto have a pair at our church, I having almost a mind to give them a pair, if they would settle a maintenance on them for it. I am mightily takenwith them. So, church done, we to coach and away to Kingsland andIslington, and there eat and drank at the Old House, and so back, itraining a little, which is mighty welcome, it having not rained in manyweeks, so that they say it makes the fields just now mighty sweet. Sowith great pleasure home by night. Set down Mercer, and I to my chamber, and there read a great deal in Rycaut's Turkey book with great pleasure, and so eat and to bed. My sore throat still troubling me, but not somuch. This night I do come to full resolution of diligence for a goodwhile, and I hope God will give me the grace and wisdom to perform it. 

22nd. Up pretty betimes, my throat better, and so drest me, and to WhiteHall to see Sir W. Coventry, returned from Portsmouth, whom I am almostashamed to see for fear he should have been told how often I have been atplays, but it is better to see him at first than afterward. So walked tothe Old Swan and drank at Michell's, and then to White Hall and over thePark to St. James's to [Sir] W. Coventry, where well received, and gooddiscourse. He seems to be sure of a peace; that the King of France do notintend to set out a fleete, for that he do design Flanders. OurEmbassadors set out this week. Thence I over the Park to Sir G. Carteret, and after him by coach to the Lord Chancellor's house, the first time Ihave been therein; and it is very noble, and brave pictures of the ancientand present nobility, never saw better. Thence with him to London, mightymerry in the way. Thence home, and find the boy out of the house andoffice, and by and by comes in and hath been to Mercer's. I did pay hiscoat for him. Then to my chamber, my wife comes home with linen she hathbeen buying of. I then to dinner, and then down the river to Greenwich, and the watermen would go no further. So I turned them off, giving themnothing, and walked to Woolwich; there did some business, and met withCaptain Cocke and back with him. He tells me our peace is agreed on; weare not to assist the Spanyard against the French for this year, and norestitution, and we are likely to lose Poleroone. 

 [Among the State Papers is a document dated July 8th, 1667, in which we read: "At Breda, the business is so far advanced that the English have relinquished their pretensions to the ships Henry Bonaventure and Good Hope. The matter sticks only at Poleron; the States have resolved not to part with it, though the English should have a right to it" ("Calendar, " 1667, p. 278). ]

I know not whether this be true or no, but I am for peace on any terms. Hetells me how the King was vexed the other day for having no paper laid himat the Council-table, as was usual; and Sir Richard Browne did tell hisMajesty he would call the person whose work it was to provide it: whobeing come, did tell his Majesty that he was but a poor man, and was outL400 or L500 for it, which was as much as he is worth; and that he cannotprovide it any longer without money, having not received a penny since theKing's coming in. So the King spoke to my Lord Chamberlain; and many suchmementos the King do now-a-days meet withall, enough to make an ingenuousman mad. I to Deptford, and there scolded with a master for his ship'snot being gone, and so home to the office and did business till my eyesare sore again, and so home to sing, and then to bed, my eyes failing memightily:

23rd (St. George's-day). The feast being kept at White Hall, out ofdesign, as it is thought, to make the best countenance we can to theSwede's Embassadors, before their leaving us to go to the treaty abroad, to shew some jollity. We sat at the office all the morning. Word isbrought me that young Michell is come to call my wife to his wife'slabour, and she went, and I at the office full of expectation what to hearfrom poor Betty Michell. This morning much to do with Sir W. Warren, allwhose applications now are to Lord Bruncker, and I am against him now, notprofessedly, but apparently in discourse, and will be. At noon home todinner, where alone, and after dinner to my musique papers, and by and bycomes in my wife, who gives me the good news that the midwife and shealone have delivered poor Betty of a pretty girl, which I am mighty gladof, and she in good condition, my wife as well as I mightily pleased withit. Then to the office to do things towards the post, and then my wifeand I set down at her mother's, and I up and down to do business, but didlittle; and so to Mrs. Martin's, and there did hazer what I would con her, and then called my wife and to little Michell's, where we saw the littlechild, which I like mightily, being I allow very pretty, and asked her howshe did, being mighty glad of her doing well, and so home to the office, and then to my chamber, and so to bed. 

24th. Up, and with [Sir] W. Pen to St. James's, and there the Duke ofYork was preparing to go to some further ceremonies about the Garter, thathe could give us no audience. Thence to Westminster Hall, the first dayof the Term, and there joyed Mrs. Michell, who is mightily pleased with mywife's work yesterday, and so away to my barber's about my periwigg, andthen to the Exchange, there to meet Fenn about some money to be borrowedof the office of the Ordnance to answer a great pinch. So home to dinner, and in the afternoon met by agreement (being put on it by Harry Bruncker'sfrighting us into a despatch of Carcasse's business) [Lord] Bruncker, T. Harvey, [Sir] J. Minnes, [Sir] W. Batten, and I (Sir W. Pen keeping out ofthe way still), where a great many high words from Bruncker, and as manyfrom me and others to him, and to better purpose, for I think we havefortified ourselves to overthrow his man Carcasse, and to do no honour tohim. We rose with little done but great heat, not to be reconciled Idoubt, and I care not, for I will be on the right side, and that shallkeep me: Thence by coach to Sir John Duncomb's' lodging in the PellMell, --[See November 8th, 1664]--in order to the money spoken of in themorning; and there awhile sat and discoursed. : and I find him that he is avery proper man for business, being very resolute and proud, andindustrious. He told me what reformation they had made in the office ofthe Ordnance, taking away Legg's fees:

 [William Legge, eldest son of Edward Legge, sometime Vice-President of Munster, born 1609(?). He served under Maurice of Nassau and Gustavus Adolphus, and held the rank of colonel in the Royalist army. He closely attached himself to Prince Rupert, and was an active agent in affecting the reconciliation between that prince and his uncle Charles I. Colonel Legge distinguished himself in several actions, and was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Worcester; it was said that he would have "been executed if his wife had not contrived his escape from Coventry gaol in her own clothes. " He was Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles I. , and also to Charles II. ; he held the offices of Master of the Armories and Lieutenant- General of the Ordnance. He refused honours (a knighthood from Charles I. And an earldom from Charles II. ), but his eldest son George was created Baron Dartmouth in 1682. He died October 13th, 1672, at his house in the Minories, and was buried in]

and have got an order that no Treasurer after him shall ever sit at theBoard; and it is a good one: that no master of the Ordnance here shallever sell a place. He tells me they have not paid any increase of pricefor any thing during this war, but in most have paid less; and at this dayhave greater stores than they know where to lay, if there should be peace, and than ever was any time this war. That they pay every man in course, and have notice of the disposal of every farthing. Every man that theyowe money to has his share of every sum they receive; never borrowed allthis war but L30, 000 by the King's express command, but do usually staytill their assignments become payable in their own course, which is thewhole mystery, that they have had assignments for a fifth part of whateverwas assigned to the Navy. They have power of putting out and in of allofficers; are going upon a building that will cost them L12, 000; that theyout of their stock of tallies have been forced to help the Treasurer ofthe Navy at this great pinch. Then to talk of newes: that he thinks thewant of money hath undone the King, for the Parliament will never give theKing more money without calling all people to account, nor, as hebelieves, will ever make war again, but they will manage it themselves:unless, which I proposed, he would visibly become a severer inspector intohis own business and accounts, and that would gain upon the Parliamentyet: which he confesses and confirms as the only lift to set him upon hislegs, but says that it is not in his nature ever to do. He says that hebelieves but four men (such as he could name) would do the business ofboth offices, his and ours, and if ever the war were to be again it shouldbe so, he believes. He told me to my face that I was a very good clerk, and did understand the business and do it very well, and that he wouldnever desire a better. He do believe that the Parliament, if ever theymeet, will offer some alterations to the King, and will turn some of usout, and I protest I think he is in the right that either they or the Kingwill be advised to some regulations, and therefore I ought to beware, asit is easy for me to keep myself up if I will. He thinks that much of ourmisfortune hath been for want of an active Lord Treasurer, and that such aman as Sir W. Coventry would do the business thoroughly. This talk beingover, comes his boy and tells us [Sir] W. Coventry is come in, and so heand I to him, and there told the difficulty of getting this money, andthey did play hard upon Sir G. Carteret as a man moped and stunned, notknowing which way to turn himself. Sir W. Coventry cried that he wasdisheartened, and I do think that there is much in it, but Sir J. Duncombdo charge him with mighty neglect in the pursuing of his business, andthat he do not look after it himself, but leaves it to Fenn, so that I doperceive that they are resolved to scheme at bringing the business into abetter way of execution, and I think it needs, that is the truth of it. So I away to Sir G. Carteret's lodgings about this money, and contrary toexpectation I find he hath prevailed with Legg on his own bond to lend himL2000, which I am glad of, but, poor man, he little sees what observationspeople do make upon his management, and he is not a man fit to be toldwhat one hears. Thence by water at 10 at night from Westminster Bridge, having kissed little Frank, and so to the Old Swan, and walked home bymoonshine, and there to my chamber a while, and supper and to bed. 

25th. Received a writ from the Exchequer this morning of distrain forL70, 000, which troubled me, though it be but, matter of form. To theoffice, where sat all the morning. At noon my wife being to Unthanke'schristening, I to Sir W. Batten's to dinner, where merry, and the ratherbecause we are like to come to some good end in another of our prizes. Thence by coach to my Lord Treasurer's, and there being come too soon tothe New Exchange, but did nothing, and back again, and there found my LordBruncker and T. Harvy, and walked in a room very merrily discoursing. Byand by comes my Lord Ashly and tells us my Lord Treasurer is ill andcannot speak with us now. Thence away, Sir W. Pen and I and Mr. Lewes, who come hither after us, and Mr. Gawden in the last man's coach. Set medown by the Poultry, and I to Sir Robert Viner's, and there had my accountstated and took it home to review. So home to the office, and there latewriting out something, having been a little at Sir W. Batten's to talk, and there vexed to see them give order for Hogg's further abroad, and sohome and to bed. 

26th. Up, and by coach with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen to White Hall, and there saw the Duke of Albemarle, who is not well, and do grow crazy. Thence I to St. James's, to meet Sir G. Carteret, and did, and LordBerkely, to get them (as we would have done the Duke of Albemarle) to themeeting of the Lords of Appeale in the business of one of our prizes. With them to the meeting of the Guinny Company, and there staid, and wentwith Lord Berkely. While I was waiting for him in the Matted Gallery, ayoung man was most finely working in Indian inke the great picture of theKing and Queen sitting, --[Charles I. And Henrietta Maria. ]--by Van Dyke;and did it very finely. Thence to Westminster Hall to hear our cause, but[it] did not come before them to-day, so went down and walked below in theHall, and there met with Ned Pickering, who tells me the ill newes of hisnephew Gilbert, who is turned a very rogue, and then I took a turn withMr. Evelyn, with whom I walked two hours, till almost one of the clock:talking of the badness of the Government, where nothing but wickedness, and wicked men and women command the King: that it is not in his nature togainsay any thing that relates to his pleasures; that much of it arisesfrom the sickliness of our Ministers of State, who cannot be about him asthe idle companions are, and therefore he gives way to the young rogues;and then, from the negligence of the Clergy, that a Bishop shall never beseen about him, as the King of France hath always: that the King wouldfain have some of the same gang to be Lord Treasurer, which would be yetworse, for now some delays are put to the getting gifts of the King, asthat whore my Lady Byron, [Eleanor, daughter of Robert Needham, Viscount Kilmurrey, and widow of Peter Warburton, became in 1644 the second wife of John Byron, first Lord Byron. Died 1663. --B. ]

who had been, as he called it, the King's seventeenth whore abroad, didnot leave him till she had got him to give her an order for L4000 worth ofplate to be made for her; but by delays, thanks be to God! she died beforeshe had it. He tells me mighty stories of the King of France, how great aprince he is. He hath made a code to shorten the law; he hath put out allthe ancient commanders of castles that were become hereditary; he hathmade all the fryers subject to the bishops, which before were only subjectto Rome, and so were hardly the King's subjects, and that none shallbecome 'religieux' but at such an age, which he thinks will in a few, years ruin the Pope, and bring France into a patriarchate. He confirmedto me the business of the want of paper at the Council-table the otherday, which I have observed; Wooly being to have found it, and did, beingcalled, tell the King to his face the reason of it; and Mr. Evelyn tellsme several of the menial servants of the Court lacking bread, that havenot received a farthing wages since the King's coming in. He tells me theKing of France hath his mistresses, but laughs at the foolery of our King, that makes his bastards princes, [Louis made his own bastards dukes and princes, and legitimatized them as much as he could, connecting them also by marriage with the real blood-royal. --B. ]

and loses his revenue upon them, and makes his mistresses his masters andthe King of France did never grant Lavalliere

 [Louise Francoise de la Baume le Blanc de la Valliere had four children by Louis XIV. , of whom only two survived-Marie Anne Bourbon, called Mademoiselle de Blois, born in 1666, afterwards married to the Prince de Conti, and the Comte de Vermandois, born in 1667. In that year (the very year in which Evelyn was giving this account to Pepys), the Duchy of Vaujour and two baronies were created in favour of La Valliere, and her daughter, who, in the deed of creation, was legitimatized, and styled princess. --B. ]

any thing to bestow on others, and gives a little subsistence, but nomore, to his bastards. He told me the whole story of Mrs. Stewart's goingaway from Court, he knowing her well; and believes her, up to her leavingthe Court, to be as virtuous as any woman in the world: and told me, froma Lord that she told it to but yesterday, with her own mouth, and a soberman, that when the Duke of Richmond did make love to her, she did ask theKing, and he did the like also; and that the King did not deny it, and[she] told this Lord that she was come to that pass as to resolve to havemarried any gentleman of L1500 a-year that would have had her in honour;for it was come to that pass, that she could not longer continue at Courtwithout prostituting herself to the King, [Even at a much later time Mrs. Godolphin well resolved "not to talk foolishly to men, more especially THE KING, "--"be sure never to talk to THE KING" ("Life, " by Evelyn). These expressions speak volumes as to Charles's character. --B. ]

whom she had so long kept off, though he had liberty more than any otherhad, or he ought to have, as to dalliance. 

 [Evelyn evidently believed the Duchess of Richmond to be innocent; and his testimony, coupled with her own declaration, ought to weigh down all the scandal which Pepys reports from other sources. --B. ]

She told this Lord that she had reflected upon the occasion she had giventhe world to think her a bad woman, and that she had no way but to marryand leave the Court, rather in this way of discontent than otherwise, thatthe world might see that she sought not any thing but her honour; and thatshe will never come to live at Court more than when she comes to town tocome to kiss the Queene her Mistress's hand: and hopes, though she hathlittle reason to hope, she can please her Lord so as to reclaim him, thatthey may yet live comfortably in the country on his estate. She told thisLord that all the jewells she ever had given her at Court, or any otherpresents, more than the King's allowance of L700 per annum out of thePrivypurse for her clothes, were, at her first coming the King did giveher a necklace of pearl of about L1100 and afterwards, about seven monthssince, when the King had hopes to have obtained some courtesy of her, theKing did give her some jewells, I have forgot what, and I think a pair ofpendants. The Duke of York, being once her Valentine, did give her ajewell of about L800; and my Lord Mandeville, her Valentine this year, aring of about L300; and the King of France would have had her mother, who, he says, is one of the most cunning women in the world, to have let herstay in France, saying that he loved her not as a mistress, but as onethat he could marry as well as any lady in France; and that, if she mightstay, for the honour of his Court he would take care she should notrepent. But her mother, by command of the Queen-mother, thought rather tobring her into England; and the King of France did give her a jewell: sothat Mr. Evelyn believes she may be worth in jewells about L6000, and thatthat is all that she hath in the world: and a worthy woman; and in thishath done as great an act of honour as ever was done by woman. That nowthe Countesse Castlemayne do carry all before her: and among otherarguments to prove Mrs. Stewart to have been honest to the last, he saysthat the King's keeping in still with my Lady Castlemayne do show it; forhe never was known to keep two mistresses in his life, and would neverhave kept to her had he prevailed any thing with Mrs. Stewart. She isgone yesterday with her Lord to Cobham. He did tell me of the ridiculoushumour of our King and Knights of the Garter the other day, who, whereasheretofore their robes were only to be worn during their ceremonies andservice, these, as proud of their coats, did wear them all day till night, and then rode into the Parke with them on. Nay, and he tells me he didsee my Lord Oxford and the Duke of Monmouth in a hackney-coach with twofootmen in the Parke, with their robes on; which is a most scandalousthing, so as all gravity may be said to be lost among us. By and by wediscoursed of Sir Thomas Clifford, whom I took for a very rich and learnedman, and of the great family of that name. He tells me he is only a manof about seven-score pounds a-year, of little learning more than the lawof a justice of peace, which he knows well: a parson's son, got to beburgess in a little borough in the West, and here fell into theacquaintance of my Lord Arlington, whose creature he is, and never fromhim; a man of virtue, and comely, and good parts enough; and hath comeinto his place with a great grace, though with a great skip over the headsof a great many, as Chichly and Duncum, and some Lords that did expect it. By the way, he tells me, that of all the great men of England there isnone that endeavours more to raise those that he takes into favour than myLord Arlington; and that, on that score, he is much more to be made one'spatron than my Lord Chancellor, who never did, nor never will do, anything, but for money! After having this long discourse we parted, aboutone of the clock, and so away by water home, calling upon Michell, whosewife and girle are pretty well, and I home to dinner, and after dinnerwith Sir W. Batten to White Hall, there to attend the Duke of York beforecouncil, where we all met at his closet and did the little business wehad, and here he did tell us how the King of France is intent upon hisdesign against Flanders, and hath drawn up a remonstrance of the cause ofthe war, and appointed the 20th of the next month for his rendezvous, andhimself to prepare for the campaign the 30th, so that this, we are inhopes, will keep him in employment. Turenne is to be his general. Herewas Carcasses business unexpectedly moved by him, but what was donetherein appears in my account of his case in writing by itself. Certainnewes of the Dutch being abroad on our coast with twenty-four great ships. This done Sir W. Batten and I back again to London, and in the way met myLady Newcastle going with her coaches and footmen all in velvet: herself, whom I never saw before, as I have heard her often described, for all thetown-talk is now-a-days of her extravagancies, with her velvetcap, herhair about her ears; many black patches, because of pimples about hermouth; naked-necked, without any thing about it, and a blackjust-au-corps. She seemed to me a very comely woman: but I hope to seemore of her on Mayday. My mind is mightily of late upon a coach. At home, to the office, where late spending all the evening upon entering in longhand our late passages with Carcasse for memory sake, and so home in greatpain in my back by the uneasiness of Sir W. Batten's coach driving hardthis afternoon over the stones to prevent coming too late. So at night tosupper in great pain, and to bed, where lay in great pain, not able toturn myself all night. 

27th. Up with much pain, and to the office, where all the morning. Atnoon home to dinner, W. Hewer with us. This noon I got in some coals at23s. Per chaldron, a good hearing, I thank God-having not been put to buya coal all this dear time, that during this war poor people have beenforced to give 45s. And 50s. , and L3. In the afternoon (my wife andpeople busy these late days, and will be for some time, making of shirtsand smocks) to the office, where late, and then home, after letters, andso to supper and to bed, with much pleasure of mind, after havingdispatched business. This afternoon I spent some time walking with Mr. Moore, in the garden, among other things discoursing of my Lord Sandwich'sfamily, which he tells me is in a very bad condition, for want of moneyand management, my Lord's charging them with bills, and nobody, nor anything provided to answer them. He did discourse of his hopes of beingsupplied with L1900 against a present bill from me, but I took no noticeof it, nor will do it. It seems Mr. Sheply doubts his accounts are illkept, and every thing else in the family out of order, which I am grievedto hear of. 

28th (Lord's day). Lay long, my pain in my back being still great, thoughnot so great as it was. However, up and to church, where a lazy sermon, and then home and to dinner, my wife and I alone and Barker. After dinner, by water--the day being mighty pleasant, and the tide serving finely, I up(reading in Boyle's book of colours), as high as Barne Elmes, and theretook one turn alone, and then back to Putney Church, where I saw the girlsof the schools, few of which pretty; and there I come into a pew, and metwith little James Pierce, which I was much pleased at, the little roguebeing very glad to see me: his master, Reader to the Church. Here was agood sermon and much company, but I sleepy, and a little out of order, formy hat falling down through a hole underneath the pulpit, which, however, after sermon, by a stick, and the helpe of the clerke, I got up again, andthen walked out of the church with the boy, and then left him, promisinghim to get him a play another time. And so by water, the tide being withme again, down to Deptford, and there I walked down the Yard, Shish andCox with me, and discoursed about cleaning of the wet docke, and heard, which I had before, how, when the docke was made, a ship of near 500 tonswas there found; a ship supposed of Queene Elizabeth's time, and wellwrought, with a great deal of stoneshot in her, of eighteen inchesdiameter, which was shot then in use: and afterwards meeting with CaptainPerriman and Mr. Castle at Half-way Tree, they tell me of stoneshot ofthirty-six inches diameter, which they shot out of mortarpieces. Thencewalked to Half-way Tree, and there stopt and talk with Mr. Castle andCaptain Perriman, and so to Redriffe and took boat again, and so home, andthere to write down my Journall, and so to supper and to read, and so tobed, mightily pleased with my reading of Boyle's book of colours to-day, only troubled that some part of it, indeed the greatest part, I am notable to understand for want of study. My wife this night troubled at myleaving her alone so much and keeping her within doors, which indeed I donot well nor wisely in. 

29th. Up, being visited very early by Creed newly come fromHinchingbrooke, who went thither without my knowledge, and I believe onlyto save his being taxed by the Poll Bill. I did give him no very goodcountenance nor welcome, but took occasion to go forth and walked (he withme) to St. Dunstan's, and thence I to Sir W. Coventry's, where a goodwhile with him, and I think he pretty kind, but that the nature of ourpresent condition affords not matter for either of us to be pleased withany thing. We discoursed of Carcasse, whose Lord, he tells me, do makecomplaints that his clerk should be singled out, and my Lord Berkeley dotake his part. So he advises we would sum up all we have against him andlay it before the Duke of York; he condemned my Lord Bruncker. Thence toSir G. Carteret, and there talked a little while about office business, and thence by coach home, in several places paying my debts in order to myevening my accounts this month, and thence by and by to White Hall againto Sir G. Carteret to dinner, where very good company and discourse, and Ithink it my part to keep in there now more than ordinary because of theprobability of my Lord's coming soon home. Our Commissioners for thetreaty set out this morning betimes down the river. Here I hear that theDuke of Cambridge, the Duke of York's son, is very sick; and my LordTreasurer very bad of the stone, and hath been so some days. After dinnerSir G. Carteret and I alone in his closet an hour or more talking of myLord Sandwich's coming home, which, the peace being likely to be madehere, he expects, both for my Lord's sake and his own (whose interest hewants) it will be best for him to be at home, where he will be wellreceived by the King; he is sure of his service well accepted, though thebusiness of Spain do fall by this peace. He tells me my Lord Arlingtonhath done like a gentleman by him in all things. He says, if my Lord[Sandwich] were here, he were the fittest man to be Lord Treasurer of anyman in England; and he thinks it might be compassed; for he confesses thatthe King's matters do suffer through the inability of this man, who islikely to die, and he will propound him to the King. It will remove himfrom his place at sea, and the King will have a good place to bestow. Hesays to me, that he could wish, when my Lord comes, that he would thinkfit to forbear playing, as a thing below him, and which will lessen him, as it do my Lord St. Albans, in the King's esteem: and as a great secrettells me that he hath made a match for my Lord Hinchingbroke to a daughterof my Lord Burlington's, where there is a great alliance, L10, 000 portion;a civil family, and relation to my Lord Chancellor, whose son hath marriedone of the daughters; and that my Lord Chancellor do take it with verygreat kindness, so that he do hold himself obliged by it. My LordSandwich hath referred it to my Lord Crew, Sir G. Carteret, and Mr. Montagu, to end it. My Lord Hinchingbroke and the lady know nothing yetof it. It will, I think, be very happy. Very glad of this discourse, Iaway mightily pleased with the confidence I have in this family, and soaway, took up my wife, who was at her mother's, and so home, where Isettled to my chamber about my accounts, both Tangier and private, and upat it till twelve at night, with good success, when news is brought methat there is a great fire in Southwarke: so we up to the leads, and thenI and the boy down to the end of our, lane, and there saw it, it seemingpretty great, but nothing to the fire of London, that it made me thinklittle of it. We could at that distance see an engine play--that is, thewater go out, it being moonlight. By and by, it begun to slacken, andthen I home and to bed. 

30th. Up, and Mr. Madden come to speak with me, whom my people notknowing have made to wait long without doors, which vexed me. Then comesSir John Winter to discourse with me about the forest of Deane, and thenabout my Lord Treasurer, and asking me whether, as he had heard, I had notbeen cut for the stone, I took him to my closet, and there shewed it tohim, of which he took the dimensions and had some discourse of it, and Ibelieve will shew my Lord Treasurer it. Thence to the office, where wesat all the morning, but little to do, and then to the 'Change, where forcertain I hear, and the News book declares, a peace between France andPortugal. Met here with Mr. Pierce, and he tells me the Duke of Cambridgeis very ill and full of spots about his body, that Dr. Frazier knows notwhat to think of it. Then home and to dinner, and then to the office, where all the afternoon; we met about Sir W. Warren's business andaccounts, wherein I do rather oppose than forward him, but not in declaredterms, for I will not be at, enmity with him, but I will not have him findany friendship so good as mine. By and by rose and by water to WhiteHall, and then called my wife at Unthanke's. So home and to my chamber, to my accounts, and finished them to my heart's wishes and admiration, they being grown very intricate, being let alone for two months, but Ibrought them together all naturally, within a few shillings, but to mysorrow the Poll money I paid this month and mourning have made me L80 aworse man than at my last balance, so that I am worth now but L6700, whichis yet an infinite mercy to me, for which God make me thankful. So lateto supper, with a glad heart for the evening of my accounts so well, andso to bed. 

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 As he called it, the King's seventeenth whore abroad He is not a man fit to be told what one hears I having now seen a play every day this week Ill sign when we are once to come to study how to excuse King is offended with the Duke of Richmond's marrying Mrs. Stewart's sending the King his jewels again Much difficulty to get pews, I offering the sexton money My people do observe my minding my pleasure more than usual My wife this night troubled at my leaving her alone so much Never was known to keep two mistresses in his life (Charles II. ) Officers are four years behind-hand unpaid Sparrowgrass Suspect the badness of the peace we shall make Swear they will not go to be killed and have no pay