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. FEBRUARY 1667-1668

February 1st. Up, and to the office pretty betimes, and the Board notmeeting as soon as I wished, I was forced to go to White Hall inexpectation of a Committee for Tangier, but when I come it was put off, and so home again to the office, and sat till past two o'clock; where atthe Board some high words passed between Sir W. Pen and I, begun by me, and yielded to by him, I being in the right in finding fault with him forhis neglect of duty. At noon home to dinner, and after dinner out with mywife, thinking to have gone to the Duke of York's playhouse, but was, tomy great content in the saving my vow, hindered by coming a little toolate; and so, it being a fine day, we out to Islington, and there to theold house and eat cheese-cakes and drank and talked, and so home in theevening, the ways being mighty bad, so as we had no pleasure in beingabroad at all almost, but only the variety of it, and so to the office, where busy late, and then home to supper and to bed, my head mighty fullof business now on my hands: viz. , of finishing my Tangier Accounts; ofauditing my last year's Accounts; of preparing answers to theCommissioners of Accounts; of drawing up several important letters to theDuke of York and the Commissioners of the Treasury; the marrying of mysister; the building of a coach and stables against summer, and thesetting many things in the Office right; and the drawing up a new form ofContract with the Victualler of the Navy, and several other things, whichpains, however, will go through with, among others the taking care of KateJoyce in that now she is in at present for saving her estate. 

2nd (Lord's day). Wife took physick this day, I all day at home, and allthe morning setting my books in order in my presses, for the followingyear, their number being much increased since the last, so as I am fain tolay by several books to make room for better, being resolved to keep nomore than just my presses will contain. At noon to dinner, my wife comingdown to me, and a very good dinner we had, of a powdered leg of pork and aloin of lamb roasted, and with much content she and I and Deb. Afterdinner, my head combed an hour, and then to work again, and at it, doingmany things towards the setting my accounts and papers in order, and so inthe evening Mr. Pelling supping with us, and to supper, and so to bed. 

3rd. Up, and to the office, where with my clerks all the morning verybusy about several things there wherein I was behindhand. At noon home todinner, and thence after dinner to the Duke of York's house, to the play, "The Tempest, " which we have often seen, but yet I was pleased again, andshall be again to see it, it is so full of variety, and particularly thisday I took pleasure to learn the tune of the seaman's dance, which I havemuch desired to be perfect in, and have made myself so. So home with mywife and Deb. , and there at the office met to my trouble with a warrantfrom the Commissioners of Accounts for my attending them and Cocke twodays hence, which I apprehend by Captain Cocke's being to go also, to beabout the prizes. But, however, there is nothing of crime can be laid tomy charge, and the worst that can be is to refund my L500 profit, and whocan help it. So I resolve not to be troubled at it, though I fear Icannot bear it so, my spirit being very poor and mean as to the bearingwith trouble that I do find of myself. So home, and there to my chamberand did some business, --and thence to supper and to bed. 

4th. Up, and to the office, where a full Board sat all the morning, busyamong other things concerning a solemn letter we intend to write to theDuke of York about the state of the things of the Navy, for want of money, though I doubt it will be to little purpose. After dinner I abroad bycoach to Kate Joyce's, where the jury did sit where they did before, abouther husband's death, and their verdict put off for fourteen days longer, at the suit of somebody, under pretence of the King; but it is only to getmoney out of her to compound the matter. But the truth is, something theywill make out of Stillingfleete's sermon, which may trouble us, hedeclaring, like a fool, in his pulpit, that he did confess that his lossesin the world did make him do what he did. This do vex me to see howfoolish our Protestant Divines are, while the Papists do make it the dutyof Confessor to be secret, or else nobody would confess their sins tothem. All being put off for to-day, I took my leave of Kate, who ismightily troubled at it for her estate sake, not for her husband; for hersorrow for that, I perceive, is all over. I home, and, there to my officebusy till the evening, and then home, and there my wife and Deb. And I andBetty Turner, I employed in the putting new titles to my books, which weproceeded on till midnight, and then being weary and late to bed. 

5th. Up, and I to Captain Cocke's, where he and I did discourse of ourbusiness that we are to go about to the Commissioners of Accounts aboutour prizes, and having resolved to conceal nothing but to confess thetruth, the truth being likely to do us most good, we parted, and I toWhite Hall, where missing of the Commissioners of the Treasury, I to theCommissioners of Accounts, where I was forced to stay two hours before Iwas called in, and when come in did take an oath to declare the truth towhat they should ask me, which is a great power; I doubt more than the Actdo, or as some say can, give them, to force a man to swear againsthimself; and so they fell to enquire about the business of prize-goods, wherein I did answer them as well as I could, answer them in everythingthe just truth, keeping myself to that. I do perceive at last, that, thatthey did lay most like a fault to me was, that I did buy goods upon myLord Sandwich's declaring that it was with the King's allowance, and mybelieving it, without seeing the King's allowance, which is a thing I willown, and doubt not to justify myself in. That that vexed me most was, their having some watermen by, to witness my saying that they were roguesthat they had betrayed my goods, which was upon some discontent with oneof the watermen that I employed at Greenwich, who I did think did discoverthe goods sent from Rochester to the Custom-House officer; but this can dome no great harm. They were inquisitive into the minutest particulars, and the evening great information; but I think that they can do me nohurt, at the worst, more than to make me refund, if it must be known, whatprofit I did make of my agreement with Captain Cocke; and yet, though thisbe all, I do find so poor a spirit within me, that it makes me almost outof my wits, and puts me to so much pain, that I cannot think of anything, nor do anything but vex and fret, and imagine myself undone, so that I amashamed of myself to myself, and do fear what would become of me if anyreal affliction should come upon me. After they had done with me, theycalled in Captain Cocke, with whom they were shorter; and I do fear he mayanswer foolishly, for he did speak to me foolishly before he went in; butI hope to preserve myself, and let him shift for himself as well as hecan. So I away, walked to my flageolet maker in the Strand, and therestaid for Captain Cocke, who took me up and carried me home, and therecoming home and finding dinner done, and Mr. Cooke, who come for my LadySandwich's plate, which I must part with, and so endanger the losing of mymoney, which I lent upon my thoughts of securing myself by that plate. But it is no great sum--but L60: and if it must be lost, better that, thana greater sum. I away back again, to find a dinner anywhere else, and soI, first, to the Ship Tavern, thereby to get a sight of the prettymistress of the house, with whom I am not yet acquainted at all, and I doalways find her scolding, and do believe she is an ill-natured devil, thatI have no great desire to speak to her. Here I drank, and away by coach tothe Strand, there to find out Mr. Moore, and did find him at the Bell Inn, and there acquainted him with what passed between me and the Commissionersto-day about the prize goods, in order to the considering what to do aboutmy Lord Sandwich, and did conclude to own the thing to them as done by theKing's allowance, and since confirmed. Thence to other discourse, amongothers, he mightily commends my Lord Hinchingbroke's match and Lady, though he buys her L10, 000 dear, by the jointure and settlement his fathermakes her; and says that the Duke of York and Duchess of York did come tosee them in bed together, on their wedding-night, and how my Lord hadfifty pieces of gold taken out of his pocket that night, after he was inbed. He tells me that an Act of Comprehension is likely to pass thisParliament, for admitting of all persuasions in religion to the publicobservation of their particular worship, but in certain places, and thepersons therein concerned to be listed of this, or that Church; which, itis thought, will do them more hurt than good, and make them not own, theirpersuasion. He tells me that there is a pardon passed to the Duke ofBuckingham, my Lord of Shrewsbury, and the rest, for the late duell andmurder;

 [The royal pardon was thus announced in the "Gazette" of February 24th, 1668: "This day his Majesty was pleased to declare at the Board, that whereas, in contemplation of the eminent services heretofore done to his Majesty by most of the persons who were engaged in the late duel, or rencounter, wherein William Jenkins was killed, he Both graciously pardon the said offence: nevertheless, He is resolved from henceforth that on no pretence whatsoever any pardon shall be hereafter granted to any person whatsoever for killing of any man, in any duel or rencounter, but that the course of law shall wholly take place in all such cases. " The warrant for a pardon to George, Duke of Buckingham, is dated January 27th, 1668; and on the following day was issued, "Warrant for a grant to Francis, Earl of Shrewsbury, of pardon for killing William Jenkins, and for all duels, assaults, or batteries on George, Duke of Buckingham, Sir John Talbot, Sir Robert Holmes, or any other, whether indicted or not for the same, with restitution of lands, goods, &c. " ("Calendar of State Papers, " 1667-68, pp. 192, 193). ]

which he thinks a worse fault than any ill use my late Lord Chancellorever put the Great Seal to, and will be so thought by the Parliament, forthem to be pardoned without bringing them to any trial: and that my LordPrivy-Seal therefore would not have it pass his hand, but made it go byimmediate warrant; or at least they knew that he would not pass it, and sodid direct it to go by immediate warrant, that it might not come to him. He tells me what a character my Lord Sandwich hath sent over of Mr. Godolphin, as the worthiest man, and such a friend to him as he may betrusted in any thing relating to him in the world; as one whom, he says, he hath infallible assurances that he will remaine his friend which isvery high, but indeed they say the gentleman is a fine man. Thence, aftereating a lobster for my dinner, having eat nothing to-day, we broke up, here coming to us Mr. Townsend of the Wardrobe, who complains of theCommissioners of the Treasury as very severe against my Lord Sandwich, butnot so much as they complain of him for a fool and a knave, and so I lethim alone, and home, carrying Mr. Moore as far as Fenchurch Street, and Ihome, and there being vexed in my mind about my prize businesses I to mychamber, where my wife and I had much talk of W. Hewer, she telling methat he is mightily concerned for my not being pleased with him, and isherself mightily concerned, but I have much reason to blame him for hislittle assistance he gives me in my business, not being able to copy out aletter with sense or true spelling that makes me mad, and indeed he is inthat regard of as little use to me as the boy, which troubles me, and Iwould have him know it, --and she will let him know it. By and by tosupper, and so to bed, and slept but ill all night, my mind running like afool on my prize business, which according to my reason ought not totrouble me at all. 

6th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and among otherthings Sir H. Cholmly comes to me about a little business, and there tellsme how the Parliament, which is to meet again to-day, are likely to fallheavy on the business of the Duke of Buckingham's pardon; and I shall beglad of it: and that the King hath put out of the Court the two Hides, myLord Chancellor's two sons, and also the Bishops of Rochester andWinchester, the latter of whom should have preached before him yesterday, being Ash Wednesday, and had his sermon ready, but was put by; which isgreat news: He gone, we sat at the office all the morning, and at noonhome to dinner, and my wife being gone before, I to the Duke of York'splayhouse; where a new play of Etherige's, called "She Would if sheCould;" and though I was there by two o'clock, there was 1000 people putback that could not have room in the pit: and I at last, because my wifewas there, made shift to get into the 18d. Box, and there saw; but, Lord!how full was the house, and how silly the play, there being nothing in theworld good in it, and few people pleased in it. The King was there; but Isat mightily behind, and could see but little, and hear not all. The playbeing done, I into the pit to look (for) my wife, and it being dark andraining, I to look my wife out, but could not find her; and so staid goingbetween the two doors and through the pit an hour and half, I think, afterthe play was done; the people staying there till the rain was over, and totalk with one another. And, among the rest, here was the Duke ofBuckingham to-day openly sat in the pit; and there I found him with myLord Buckhurst, and Sidly, and Etherige, the poet; the last of whom I didhear mightily find fault with the actors, that they were out of humour, and had not their parts perfect, and that Harris did do nothing, nor couldso much as sing a ketch in it; and so was mightily concerned while all therest did, through the whole pit, blame the play as a silly, dull thing, though there was something very roguish and witty; but the design of theplay, and end, mighty insipid. At last I did find my wife staying for mein the entry; and with her was Betty Turner, Mercer, and Deb. So I got acoach, and a humour took us, and I carried them to Hercules Pillars, andthere did give them a kind of a supper of about 7s. , and very merry, andhome round the town, not through the ruines; and it was pretty how thecoachman by mistake drives us into the ruines from London-wall intoColeman Street: and would persuade me that I lived there. And the truthis, I did think that he and the linkman had contrived some roguery; but itproved only a mistake of the coachman; but it was a cunning place to havedone us a mischief in, as any I know, to drive us out of the road into theruines, and there stop, while nobody could be called to help us. But wecome safe home, and there, the girls being gone home, I to the office, where a while busy, my head not being wholly free of my trouble about myprize business, I home to bed. This evening coming home I did put my handunder the coats of Mercer and did touch her thigh, but then she did put bymy hand and no hurt done, but talked and sang and was merry. 

7th. Up, and to the office, to the getting of my books in order, to carryto the Commissioners of Accounts this morning. This being done, I awayfirst to Westminster Hall, and there met my cozen, Roger Pepys, by hisdesire, the first time I have seen him since his coming to town, theParliament meeting yesterday and adjourned to Monday next; and here hetells me that Mr. Jackson, my sister's servant, is come to town, and haththis day suffered a recovery on his estate, in order to the making her asettlement. The young man is gone out of the Hall, so I could not now seehim, but here I walked a good while with my cozen, and among other thingsdo hear that there is a great triall between my Lord Gerard and Carrto-day, who is indicted for his life at the King's Bench, for running fromhis colours; but all do say that my Lord Gerard, though he designs theruining of this man, will not get any thing by it. Thence to theCommissioners of Accounts, and there presented my books, and was made tosit down, and used with much respect, otherwise than the other day, when Icome to them as a criminal about the business of the prizes. I sat herewith them a great while, while my books were inventoried. And here dohear from them by discourse that they are like to undo the Treasurer'sinstruments of the Navy by making it a rule that they shall repay allmoney paid to wrong parties, which is a thing not to be supported by thesepoor creatures the Treasurer's instruments, as it is also hard for seamento be ruined by their paying money to whom they please. I know not whatwill be the issue of it. I find these gentlemen to sit all day, and onlyeat a bit of bread at noon, and a glass of wine; and are resolved to gothrough their business with great severity and method. Thence I, abouttwo o'clock, to Westminster Hall, by appointment, and there met my cozenRoger again, and Mr. Jackson, who is a plain young man, handsome enoughfor Pall, one of no education nor discourse, but of few words, and onealtogether that, I think, will please me well enough. My cozen had got meto give the odd sixth L100 presently, which I intended to keep to thebirth of the first child: and let it go--I shall be eased of the care, andso, after little talk, we parted, resolving to dine together at my housetomorrow. So there parted, my mind pretty well satisfied with this plainfellow for my sister, though I shall, I see, have no pleasure nor contentin him, as if he had been a man of reading and parts, like Cumberland, andto the Swan, and there sent for a bit of meat and eat and drank, and so toWhite Hall to the Duke of York's chamber, where I find him and my fellowsat their usual meeting, discoursing about securing the Medway this year, which is to shut the door after the horse is stole. However, it is good. Having done here, my Lord Brouncker, and W. Pen, and I, and with us SirArnold Breames, to the King's playhouse, and there saw a piece of "Love ina Maze, " a dull, silly play, I think; and after the play, home with W. Penand his son Lowther, whom we met there, and then home and sat most of theevening with my wife and Mr. Pelting, talking, my head being full ofbusiness of one kind or other, and most such as do not please me, and soto supper and to bed. 

8th. Up, and to the office, where sat all day, and at noon home, andthere find cozen Roger and Jackson by appointment come to dine with me, and Creed, and very merry, only Jackson hath few words, and I like himnever the worse for it. The great talk is of Carr's coming off in all histrials, to the disgrace of my Lord Gerard, to that degree, and the rippingup of so many notorious rogueries and cheats of my Lord's, that my Lord, it is thought, will be ruined; and, above all things, do skew the madnessof the House of Commons, who rejected the petition of this poor man by acombination of a few in the House; and, much more, the base proceedings(just the epitome of all our publick managements in this age), of theHouse of Lords, that ordered him to stand in the pillory for those verythings, without hearing and examining what he hath now, by the seeking ofmy Lord Gerard himself, cleared himself of, in open Court, to the gaininghimself the pity of all the world, and shame for ever to my Lord Gerard. We had a great deal of good discourse at table, and after dinner we fourmen took coach, and they set me down at the Old Exchange, and they home, having discoursed nothing today with cozen or Jackson about our business. I to Captain Cocke's, and there discoursed over our business of prizes, and I think I shall go near to state the matter so as to secure myselfwithout wrong to him, doing nor saying anything but the very truth. Thence away to the Strand, to my bookseller's, and there staid an hour, and bought the idle, rogueish book, "L'escholle des filles;" which I havebought in plain binding, avoiding the buying of it better bound, because Iresolve, as soon as I have read it, to burn it, that it may not stand inthe list of books, nor among them, to disgrace them if it should be found. Thence home, and busy late at the office, and then home to supper and tobed. My wife well pleased with my sister's match, and designing how to bemerry at their marriage. And I am well at ease in my mind to think thatthat care will be over. This night calling at the Temple, at theAuditor's, his man told me that he heard that my account must be broughtto the view of the Commissioners of Tangier before it can be passed, whichthough I know no hurt in it, yet it troubled me lest there should be anyor any designed by them who put this into the head of the Auditor, Isuppose Auditor Beale, or Creed, because they saw me carrying my accountanother way than by them. 

9th (Lord's day). Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the officedoing business, and also reading a little of "L'escholle des filles, "which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once toread over to inform himself in the villainy of the world. At noon home todinner, where by appointment Mr. Pelting come and with him three friends, Wallington, that sings the good base, and one Rogers, and a gentleman, ayoung man, his name Tempest, who sings very well indeed, and understandsanything in the world at first sight. After dinner we into ourdining-room, and there to singing all the afternoon. (By the way, I mustremember that Pegg Pen was brought to bed yesterday of a girl; and, amongother things, if I have not already set it down, that hardly ever wasremembered such a season for the smallpox as these last two months havebeen, people being seen all up and down the streets, newly come out afterthe smallpox. ) But though they sang fine things, yet I must confess that Idid take no pleasure in it, or very little, because I understood not thewords, and with the rests that the words are set, there is no sense norunderstanding in them though they be English, which makes me weary ofsinging in that manner, it being but a worse sort of instrumental musick. We sang until almost night, and drank mighty good store of wine, and thenthey parted, and I to my chamber, where I did read through "L'escholle desfilles, " a lewd book, but what do no wrong once to read for informationsake . . . . And after I had done it I burned it, that it might not beamong my books to my shame, and so at night to supper and to bed. 

10th. Up, and by coach to Westminster, and there made a visit to Mr. Godolphin, at his chamber; and I do find him a very pretty and ableperson, a man of very fine parts, and of infinite zeal to my LordSandwich; and one that says he is, he believes, as wise and able a personas any prince in the world hath. He tells me that he meets withunmannerly usage by Sir Robert Southwell, in Portugall, who would signwith him in his negociations there, being a forward young man: but that myLord mastered him in that point, it being ruled for my Lord here, at ahearing of a Committee of the Council. He says that if my Lord cancompass a peace between Spain and Portugall, and hath the doing of it andthe honour himself, it will be a thing of more honour than ever any manhad, and of as much advantage. Thence to Westminster Hall, where the Hallmighty full: and, among other things, the House begins to sit to-day, andthe King come. But, before the King's coming, the House of Commons met;and upon information given them of a Bill intended to be brought in, ascommon report said, for Comprehension, they did mightily and generallyinveigh against it, and did vote that the King should be desired by theHouse (and the message delivered by the Privy-counsellers of the House)that the laws against breakers of the Act of Uniformity should be put inexecution: and it was moved in the House that, if any people had a mind tobring any new laws into the House, about religion, they might come, as aproposer of new laws did in Athens, with ropes about their necks. By andby the King comes to the Lords' House, and there tells them of his leaguewith Holland, and the necessity of a fleete, and his debts; and, therefore, want of money; and his desire that they would think of some wayto bring in all his Protestant subjects to a right understanding and peaceone with another; meaning the Bill of Comprehension. The Commons comingto their House, it was moved that the vote passed this morning might besuspended, because of the King's speech, till the House was full andcalled over, two days hence: but it was denied, so furious they areagainst this Bill: and thereby a great blow either given to the King orPresbyters, or, which is the rather of the two, to the House itself, bydenying a thing desired by the King, and so much desired by much thegreater part of the nation. Whatever the consequence be, if the King be aman of any stomach and heat, all do believe that he will resent this vote. Thence with Creed home to my house to dinner, where I met with Mr. Jackson, and find my wife angry with Deb. , which vexes me. After dinnerby coach away to Westminster; taking up a friend of Mr. Jackson's, a younglawyer, and parting with Creed at White Hall. They and I to WestminsterHall, and there met Roger Pepys, and with him to his chamber, and thereread over and agreed upon the Deed of Settlement to our minds: my sisterto have L600 presently, and she to be joyntured in L60 per annum; whereinI am very well satisfied. Thence I to the Temple to Charles Porter'slodgings, where Captain Cocke met me, and after long waiting, onPemberton, [Francis Pemberton, afterwards knighted, and made Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1679. His career was a most singular one, he having been twice removed from the Bench, and twice imprisoned by the House of Commons. He twice returned to the bar, and after his second return he practised with great success as a serjeant for the next fourteen years till his death, June 10th, 1697. Evelyn says, "He was held to be the most learned of the judges and an honest man" ("Diary, " October 4th, 1683). ]

an able lawyer, about the business of our prizes, and left the matter withhim to think of against to-morrow, this being a matter that do muchtrouble my mind, though there be no fault in it that I need fear theowning that I know of. Thence with Cocke home to his house and there lefthim, and I home, and there got my wife to read a book I bought to-day, andcome out to-day licensed by Joseph Williamson for Lord Arlington, shewingthe state of England's affairs relating to France at this time, and thewhole body of the book very good and solid, after a very foolishintroduction as ever I read, and do give a very good account of theadvantage of our league with Holland at this time. So, vexed in my mindwith the variety of cares I have upon me, and so to bed. 

11th. At the office all the morning, where comes a damned summons toattend the Committee of Miscarriages to-day, which makes me mad, that Ishould by my place become the hackney of this Office, in perpetual troubleand vexation, that need it least. At noon home to dinner, where littlepleasure, my head being split almost with the variety of troubles upon meat this time, and cares, and after dinner by coach to Westminster Hall, and sent my wife and Deb. To see "Mustapha" acted. Here I brought a bookto the Committee, and do find them; and particularly Sir Thomas Clarges, mighty hot in the business of tickets, which makes me mad to see them biteat the stone, and not at the hand that flings it, and here my LordBrouncker unnecessarily orders it that he is called in to give opportunityto present his report of the state of the business of paying by ticket, which I do not think will do him any right, though he was made believethat it did operate mightily, and that Sir Fresh. Hollis did make a mightyharangue and to much purpose in his defence, but I believe no such effectsof it, for going in afterward I did hear them speak with prejudice of it, and that his pleading of the Admiral's warrant for it now was only anevasion, if not an aspersion upon the Admirall, and therefore they wouldnot admit of this his report, but go on with their report as they hadresolved before. The orders they sent for this day was the first orderthat I have yet met with about this business, and was of my own singlehand warranting, but I do think it will do me no harm, and therefore donot much trouble myself with it, more than to see how much trouble I ambrought to who have best deported myself in all the King's business. Thence with Lord Brouncker, and set him down at Bow Streete, and so to theDuke of York's playhouse, and there saw the last act for nothing, where Inever saw such good acting of any creature as Smith's part of Zanger; andI do also, though it was excellently acted by---------, do yet wantBetterton mightily. Thence to the Temple, to Porter's chamber, whereCocke met me, and after a stay there some time, they two and I toPemberton's chamber, and there did read over the Act of calling people toaccount, and did discourse all our business of the prizes; and, upon thewhole, he do make it plainly appear, that there is no avoiding to givethese Commissioners satisfaction in everything they will ask; and thatthere is fear lest they may find reason to make us refund for all theextraordinary profit made by those bargains; and do make me resolve ratherto declare plainly, and, once for all, the truth of the whole, and what myprofit hath been, than be forced at last to do it, and in the meantimelive in gain, as I must always do: and with this resolution on my part Ideparted, with some more satisfaction of mind, though with less hopes ofprofit than I expected. It was pretty here to see the heaps of money uponthis lawyer's table; and more to see how he had not since last night spentany time upon our business, but begun with telling us that we were not atall concerned in that Act; which was a total mistake, by his not havingread over the Act at all. Thence to Porter's chamber, where Captain Cockehad fetched my wife out of the coach, and there we staid and talked anddrank, he being a very generous, good-humoured man, and so away by coach, setting Cocke at his house, and we with his coach home, and there I to theoffice, and there till past one in the morning, and so home to supper andto bed, my mind at pretty good ease, though full of care and fear of loss. This morning my wife in bed told me the story of our Tom and Jane:--howthe rogue did first demand her consent to love and marry him, and then, with pretence of displeasing me, did slight her; but both he and she haveconfessed the matter to her, and she hath charged him to go on with hislove to her, and be true to her, and so I think the business will go on, which, for my love to her, because she is in love with him, I am pleasedwith; but otherwise I think she will have no good bargain of it, at leastif I should not do well in my place. But if I do stand, I do intend togive her L50 in money, and do them all the good I can in my way. 

12th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning drawing up mynarrative of my proceedings and concernments in the buying of prize-goods, which I am to present to the Committee for Accounts; and being come to aresolution to conceal nothing from them, I was at great ease how to drawit up without any inventions or practise to put me to future pain orthoughts how to carry on, and now I only discover what my profit was, andat worst I suppose I can be made but to refund my profit and so let it go. At noon home to dinner, where Mr. Jackson dined with me, and after dinnerI (calling at the Excise Office, and setting my wife and Deb. At hertailor's) did with Mr. Jackson go to find my cozen Roger Pepys, which Idid in the Parliament House, where I met him and Sir Thomas Crew and Mr. George Montagu, who are mighty busy how to save my Lord's name from beingin the Report for anything which the Committee is commanded to report tothe House of the miscarriages of the late war. I find they drivefuriously still in the business of tickets, which is nonsense in itselfand cannot come to any thing. Thence with cozen Roger to his lodgings, and there sealed the writings with Jackson, about my sister's marriage:and here my cozen Roger told me the pleasant passage of a fellow'sbringing a bag of letters to-day, into the lobby of the House, and leftthem, and withdrew himself without observation. The bag being opened, theletters were found all of one size, and directed with one hand: a letterto most of the Members of the House. The House was acquainted with it, and voted they should be brought in, and one opened by the Speaker;wherein if he found any thing unfit to communicate, to propose a Committeeto be chosen for it. The Speaker opening one, found it only a case with alibell in it, printed: a satire most sober and bitter as ever I read; andevery letter was the same. So the House fell a-scrambling for them likeboys: and my cozen Roger had one directed to him, which he lent me toread. So away, and took up my wife, and setting Jackson down at FetterLane end, I to the old Exchange to look Mr. Houblon, but, not finding him, did go home, and there late writing a letter to my Lord Sandwich, and togive passage to a letter of great moment from Mr. Godolphin to him, whichI did get speedy passage for by the help of Mr. Houblon, who come late tome, and there directed the letter to Lisbon under cover of his, and herewe talked of the times, which look very sad and distracted, and made goodmirth at this day's passage in the House, and so parted; and going to thegate with him, I found his lady and another fine lady sitting an hourtogether, late at night, in their coach, while he was with me, which is solike my wife, that I was mighty taken with it, though troubled for it. Sohome to supper and to bed. This day Captain Cocke was with theCommissioners of Accounts to ask more time for his bringing in his answerabout the prize goods, and they would not give him 14 days as he asks, butwould give only two days, which was very hard, I think, and did trouble mefor fear of their severity, though I have prepared my matter so as to defyit. 

13th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home todinner, and thence with my wife and Deb. To White Hall, setting, them ather tailor's, and I to the Commissioners of the Treasury, where myselfalone did argue the business of the East India Company against their wholeCompany on behalf of the King before the Lords Commissioners, and to verygood effect, I think, and with reputation. That business being over, theLords and I had other things to talk about, and among the rest, about ourmaking more assignments on the Exchequer since they bid us hold, whereatthey were extraordinary angry with us, which troubled me a little, thoughI am not concerned in it at all. Waiting here some time without, I didmeet with several people, among others Mr. Brisband, who tells me indiscourse that Tom Killigrew hath a fee out of the Wardrobe for cap andbells, [The Lord Chamberlain's Records contain a copy of a warrant dated July 12th, 1661, "to deliver to Mr. Killegrew thirty yards of velvett, three dozen of fringe, and sixteene yards of Damaske for the year 1661. " The heading of this entry is "Livery for ye jester" (Lowe's "Betterton, " p. 70). ]

under the title of the King's Foole or jester; and may with privilegerevile or jeere any body, the greatest person, without offence, by theprivilege of his place. Thence took up my wife, and home, and there busylate at the office writing letters, and so home to supper and to bed. TheHouse was called over to-day. This morning Sir G. Carteret come to theOffice to see and talk with me: and he assures me that to this day theKing is the most kind man to my Lord Sandwich in the whole world; that hehimself do not now mind any publick business, but suffers things to go onat Court as they will, he seeing all likely to come to ruin: that thismorning the Duke of York sent to him to come to make up one of a Committeeof the Council for Navy Affairs; where, when he come, he told the Duke ofYork that he was none of them: which shews how things are now-a-daysordered, that there should be a Committee for the Navy; and the LordAdmiral not know the persons of it! And that Sir G. Carteret and my LordAnglesey should be left out of it, and men wholly improper put into it. Ido hear of all hands that there is a great difference at this day betweenmy Lord Arlington and Sir W. Coventry, which I am sorry for. 

14th (Valentine's day). Up, being called up by Mercer, who come to be myValentine, and so I rose and my wife, and were merry a little, I stayingto talk, and did give her a guinny in gold for her Valentine's gift. Therecomes also my cozen Roger Pepys betimes, and comes to my wife, for her tobe his Valentine, whose Valentine I was also, by agreement to be so to herevery year; and this year I find it is likely to cost L4 or L5 in a ringfor her, which she desires. Cozen Roger did come also to speak with SirW. Pen, who was quoted, it seems, yesterday by Sir Fr. Hollis to have saidthat if my Lord Sandwich had done so and so, we might have taken all theDutch prizes at the time when he staid and let them go. But Sir W. Pen didtell us he should say nothing in it but what would do my Lord honour, andhe is a knave I am able to prove if he do otherwise. He gone, I to myOffice, to perfect my Narrative about prize-goods; and did carry it to theCommissioners of Accounts, who did receive it with great kindness, andexpress great value of, and respect to me: and my heart is at rest that itis lodged there, in so full truth and plainness, though it may hereafterprove some loss to me. But here I do see they are entered into manyenquiries about prizes, by the great attendance of commanders and othersbefore them, which is a work I am not sorry for. Thence I away, with myhead busy, but my heart at pretty good ease, to the Old Exchange, andthere met Mr. Houblon. I prayed him to discourse with some of themerchants that are of the Committee for Accounts, to see how they doresent my paper, and in general my particular in the relation to thebusiness of the Navy, which he hath promised to do carefully for me andtell me. Here it was a mighty pretty sight to see old Mr. Houblon, whom Inever saw before, and all his sons about him, all good merchants. Thencehome to dinner, and had much discourse with W. Hewer about my going tovisit Colonel Thomson, one of the Committee of Accounts, who, among therest, is mighty kind to me, and is likely to mind our business more thanany; and I would be glad to have a good understanding with him. Thenceafter dinner to White Hall, to attend the Duke of York, where I did lethim know, too, the troublesome life we lead, and particularly myself, bybeing obliged to such attendances every day as I am, on one Committee oranother. And I do find the Duke of York himself troubled, and willing notto be troubled with occasions of having his name used among theParliament, though he himself do declare that he did give directions toLord Brouncker to discharge the men at Chatham by ticket, and will own it, if the House call for it, but not else. Thence I attended the King andCouncil, and some of the rest of us, in a business to be heard about thevalue of a ship of one Dorrington's:--and it was pretty to observe how SirW. Pen making use of this argument against the validity of an oath, against the King, being made by the master's mate of the ship, who was buta fellow of about 23 years of age--the master of the ship, against whom wepleaded, did say that he did think himself at that age capable of beingmaster's mate of any ship; and do know that he, himself, Sir W: Pen, wasso himself, and in no better degree at that age himself: which word didstrike Sir W. Pen dumb, and made him open his mouth no more; and I saw theKing and Duke of York wink at one another at it. This done, we into thegallery; and there I walked with several people, and among others my LordBrouncker, who I do find under much trouble still about the business ofthe tickets, his very case being brought in; as is said, this day in theReport of the Miscarriages. And he seems to lay much of it on me, which Idid clear and satisfy him in; and would be glad with all my heart to servehim in, and have done it more than he hath done for himself, he notdeserving the least blame, but commendations, for this. I met with mycozen Roger Pepys and Creed; and from them understand that the Report wasread to-day of the Miscarriages, wherein my Lord Sandwich is [named] aboutthe business I mentioned this morning; but I will be at rest, for it cando him no hurt. Our business of tickets is soundly up, and many others:so they went over them again, and spent all the morning on the first, which is the dividing of the fleete; wherein hot work was, and that amonggreat men, Privy-Councillors, and, they say, Sir W. Coventry; but I do notmuch fear it, but do hope that it will shew a little, of the Duke ofAlbemarle and the Prince to have been advisers in it: but whereas theyordered that the King's Speech should be considered today, they took nonotice of it at all, but are really come to despise the King in allpossible ways of chewing it. And it was the other day a strange saying, as I am told by my cozen Roger Pepys, in the House, when it was moved thatthe King's speech should be considered, that though the first part of theSpeech, meaning the league that is there talked of, be the only goodpublick thing that hath been done since the King come into England, yet itmight bear with being put off to consider, till Friday next, which wasthis day. Secretary Morrice did this day in the House, when they talkedof intelligence, say that he was allowed but L70 a-year forintelligence, --[Secret service money]--whereas, in Cromwell's time, he[Cromwell] did allow L70, 000 a-year for it; and was confirmed therein byColonel Birch, who said that thereby Cromwell carried the secrets of allthe princes of Europe at his girdle. The House is in a most brokencondition; nobody adhering to any thing, but reviling and finding fault:and now quite mad at the Undertakers, as they are commonly called, Littleton, Lord Vaughan, Sir R. Howard, and others that are brought overto the Court, and did undertake to get the King money; but they despise, and would not hear them in the House; and the Court do do as much, seeingthat they cannot be useful to them, as was expected. In short, it isplain that the King will never be able to do any thing with thisParliament; and that the only likely way to do better, for it cannot doworse, is to break this and call another Parliament; and some do thinkthat it is intended. I was told to-night that my Lady Castlemayne is sogreat a gamester as to have won L5000 in one night, and lost L25, 000 inanother night, at play, and hath played L1000 and L1500 at a cast. Thenceto the Temple, where at Porter's chamber I met Captain Cocke, but lost ourlabour, our Counsellor not being within, Pemberton, and therefore home andlate at my office, and so home to supper and to bed. 

15th. Up betimes, and with Captain Cocke my coach to the Temple to hisCounsel again about the prize goods in order to the drawing up of hisanswer to them, where little done but a confirmation that our bestinterest is for him to tell the whole truth, and so parted, and I home tothe office, where all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, and afterdinner all the afternoon and evening till midnight almost, and till I hadtired my own backe, and my wife's, and Deb. 's, in titleing of my books forthe present year, and in setting them in order, which is now done to myvery good satisfaction, though not altogether so completely as I thinkthey were the last year, when my mind was more at leisure to mind it. Soabout midnight to bed, where my wife taking some physic overnight itwrought with her, and those coming upon her with great gripes, she was inmighty pain all night long, yet, God forgive me! I did find that I wasmost desirous to take my rest than to ease her, but there was nothing Icould do to do her any good with. 

16th (Lord's day). Up, and to my chamber, where all the morning making acatalogue of my books, which did find me work, but with great pleasure, mychamber and books being now set in very good order, and my chamber washedand cleaned, which it had not been in some months before, my business andtrouble having been so much. At noon Mr. Holliard put in, and dined withmy wife and me, who was a little better to-day. His company very good. His story of his love and fortune, which hath been very good and very badin the world, well worth hearing. Much discourse also about the bad stateof the Church, and how the Clergy are come to be men of no worth in theworld; and, as the world do now generally discourse, they must bereformed; and I believe the Hierarchy will in a little time be shaken, whether they will or no; the King being offended with them, and set uponit, as I hear. He gone, after dinner to have my head combed, and then tomy chamber and read most of the evening till pretty late, when, my wifenot being well, I did lie below stairs in our great chamber, where I sleptwell. 

17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning till noon getting somethings more ready against the afternoon for the Committee of Accounts, which did give me great trouble, to see how I am forced to dance afterthem in one place, and to answer Committees of Parliament in another. Atnoon thence toward the Committee, but meeting with Sir W. Warren in FleetStreet he and I to the Ordinary by Temple Bar and there dined together, and to talk, where he do seem to be very high now in defiance of theBoard, now he says that the worst is come upon him to have his accountsbrought to the Committee of Accounts, and he do reflect upon my latecoldness to him, but upon the whole I do find that he is still a cunningfellow, and will find it necessary to be fair to me, and what hath passedbetween us of coldness to hold his tongue, which do please me very well. Thence to the Committee, where I did deliver the several things theyexpected from me, with great respect and show of satisfaction, and my mindthereby eased of some care. But thence I to Westminster Hall, and therespent till late at night walking to and again with many people, and therein general I hear of the great high words that were in the House onSaturday last, upon the first part of the Committee's Report about thedividing of the fleete; wherein some would have the counsels of the Kingto be declared, and the reasons of them, and who did give them; where SirW. Coventry laid open to them the consequences of doing that, that theKing would never have any honest and wise men ever to be of his Council. They did here in the House talk boldly of the King's bad counsellors, andhow they must be all turned out, and many of them, and better; brought in:and the proceedings of the Long-Parliament in the beginning of the warwere called to memory: and the King's bad intelligence was mentioned, wherein they were bitter against my Lord Arlington, saying, among otherthings, that whatever Morrice's was, who declared he had but L750 a-yearallowed him for intelligence, the King paid too dear for my LordArlington's, in giving him L10, 000 and a barony for it. Sir W. Coventrydid here come to his defence, in the business of the letter that was sentto call back Prince Rupert, after he was divided from the fleete, whereingreat delay was objected; but he did show that he sent it at one in themorning, when the Duke of York did give him the instructions after supperthat night, and did clear himself well of it: only it was laid as a fault, which I know not how he removes, of not sending it by an express, but bythe ordinary post; but I think I have heard he did send it to my LordArlington's; and that there it lay for some hours; it coming not to SirPhilip Honiwood's hand at Portsmouth till four in the afternoon that day, being about fifteen or sixteen hours in going; and about this, I think, Ihave heard of a falling out between my Lord Arlington, heretofore, and W. Coventry. Some mutterings I did hear of a design of dissolving theParliament; but I think there is no ground for it yet, though Oliver wouldhave dissolved them for half the trouble and contempt these have put uponthe King and his councils. The dividing of the fleete, however, is, Ihear, voted a miscarriage, and the not building a fortification atSheernesse: and I have reason every hour to expect that they will vote thelike of our paying men off by ticket; and what the consequence of thatwill be I know not, but I am put thereby into great trouble of mind. Idid spend a little time at the Swan, and there did kiss the maid, Sarah. At noon home, and there up to my wife, who is still ill, and supped withher, my mind being mighty full of trouble for the office and myconcernments therein, and so to supper and talking with W. Hewer in herchamber about business of the office, wherein he do well understandhimself and our case, and it do me advantage to talk with him and the restof my people. I to bed below as I did last night. 

18th. Up by break of day, and walked down to the old Swan, where I findlittle Michell building, his booth being taken down, and a foundation laidfor a new house, so that that street is like to be a very fine place. Idrank, but did not see Betty, and so to Charing Cross stairs, and thencewalked to Sir W. Coventry's, [Sir William Coventry's love of money is said by Sir John Denham to have influenced him in promoting naval officers, who paid him for their commissions. 

 "Then Painter! draw cerulian Coventry Keeper, or rather Chancellor o' th' sea And more exactly to express his hue, Use nothing but ultra-mariuish blue. To pay his fees, the silver trumpet spends, And boatswain's whistle for his place depends. Pilots in vain repeat their compass o'er, Until of him they learn that one point more The constant magnet to the pole doth hold, Steel to the magnet, Coventry to gold. Muscovy sells us pitch, and hemp, and tar; Iron and copper, Sweden; Munster, war; Ashley, prize; Warwick, custom; Cart'ret, pay; But Coventry doth sell the fleet away. "--B. ]

and talked with him, who tells me how he hath been persecuted, and how heis yet well come off in the business of the dividing of the fleete, andthe sending of the letter. He expects next to be troubled about thebusiness of bad officers in the fleete, wherein he will bid them name whomthey call bad, and he will justify himself, having never disposed of anybut by the Admiral's liking. And he is able to give an account of allthem, how they come recommended, and more will be found to have beenplaced by the Prince and Duke of Albemarle than by the Duke of York duringthe war, and as no bad instance of the badness of officers he and I didlook over the list of commanders, and found that we could presentlyrecollect thirty-seven commanders that have been killed in actuall servicethis war. He tells me that Sir Fr. Hollis is the main man that hathpersecuted him hitherto, in the business of dividing the fleete, sayingvainly that the want of that letter to the Prince hath given him that, that he shall remember it by to his grave, meaning the loss of his arme;when, God knows! he is as idle and insignificant a fellow as ever comeinto the fleete. He tells me that in discourse on Saturday he did repeatSir Rob. Howard's words about rowling out of counsellors, that for hispart he neither cared who they rowled in, nor who they rowled out, bywhich the word is become a word of use in the House, the rowling out ofofficers. I will remember what, in mirth, he said to me this morning, when upon this discourse he said, if ever there was another Dutch war, they should not find a Secretary; "Nor, " said I, "a Clerk of the Acts, forI see the reward of it; and, thanked God! I have enough of my own to buyme a good book and a good fiddle, and I have a good wife;"--"Why, " sayshe, "I have enough to buy me a good book, and shall not need a fiddle, because I have never a one of your good wives. " I understand by him thatwe are likely to have our business of tickets voted a miscarriage, but[he] cannot tell me what that will signify more than that he thinks theywill report them to the King and there leave them, but I doubt they willdo more. Thence walked over St. James's Park to White Hall, and thence toWestminster Hall, and there walked all the morning, and did speak withseveral Parliament-men-among others, Birch, who is very kind to me, andcalls me, with great respect and kindness, a man of business, and hethinks honest, and so long will stand by me, and every such man, to thedeath. My business was to instruct them to keep the House from fallinginto any mistaken vote about the business of tickets, before they werebetter informed. I walked in the Hall all the morning with my LordBrouncker, who was in great pain there, and, the truth is, his businessis, without reason, so ill resented by the generality of the House, that Iwas almost troubled to be seen to walk with him, and yet am able tojustify him in all, that he is under so much scandal for. Here I did geta copy of the report itself, about our paying off men by tickets; and ammightily glad to see it, now knowing the state of our case, and what wehave to answer to, and the more for that the House is like to be kept byother business to-day and to-morrow, so that, against Thursday, I shall beable to draw up some defence to put into some Member's hands, to informthem, and I think we may [make] a very good one, and therefore my mind ismightily at ease about it. This morning they are upon a Bill, brought into-day by Sir Richard Temple, for obliging the King to call Parliamentsevery three years; or, if he fail, for others to be obliged to do it, andto keep him from a power of dissolving any Parliament in less than fortydays after their first day of sitting, which is such a Bill as do speakvery high proceedings, to the lessening of the King; and this they willcarry, and whatever else they desire, before they will give any money; andthe King must have money, whatever it cost him. I stepped to the DogTavern, and thither come to me Doll Lane, and there we did drink together, and she tells me she is my valentine . . . . Thence, she being gone, and having spoke with Mr. Spicer here, whom I sent for hither to discourseabout the security of the late Act of 11 months' tax on which I havesecured part of my money lent to Tangier. I to the Hall, and there metSir W. Pen, and he and I to the Beare, in Drury Lane, an excellentordinary, after the French manner, but of Englishmen; and there had a goodfricassee, our dinner coming to 8s. , which was mighty pretty, to my greatcontent; and thence, he and I to the King's house, and there, in one ofthe upper boxes, saw "Flora's Vagarys, " which is a very silly play; andthe more, I being out of humour, being at a play without my wife, and sheill at home, and having no desire also to be seen, and, therefore, couldnot look about me. Thence to the Temple, and there we parted, and I tosee Kate Joyce, where I find her and her friends in great ease of mind, the jury having this day given in their verdict that her husband died of afeaver. Some opposition there was, the foreman pressing them to declarethe cause of the feaver, thinking thereby to obstruct it: but they didadhere to their verdict, and would give no reason; so all trouble is nowover, and she safe in her estate, which I am mighty glad of, and so tookleave, and home, and up to my wife, not owning my being at a play, andthere she shews me her ring of a Turky-stone set with little sparks ofdyamonds, [The turquoise. This stone was sometimes referred to simply as the turkey, and Broderip ("Zoological Recreations") conjectured that the bird (turkey) took its name from the blue or turquoise colour of the skin about its head. ]

which I am to give her, as my Valentine, and I am not much troubled at it. It will cost me near L5--she costing me but little compared with otherwives, and I have not many occasions to spend on her. So to my office, where late, and to think upon my observations to-morrow, upon the reportof the Committee to the Parliament about the business of tickets, whereofmy head is full, and so home to supper and to bed. 

19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning drawing up an answerto the Report of the Committee for miscarriages to the Parliament touchingour paying men by tickets, which I did do in a very good manner I think. Dined with my clerks at home, where much good discourse of our business ofthe Navy, and the trouble now upon us, more than we expected. After dinnermy wife out with Deb. , to buy some things against my sister's wedding, andI to the office to write fair my business I did in the morning, and in theevening to White Hall, where I find Sir W. Coventry all alone, a greatwhile with the Duke of York, in the King's drawing-room, they two talkingtogether all alone, which did mightily please me. Then I did get Sir W. Coventry (the Duke of York being gone) aside, and there read over mypaper, which he liked and corrected, and tells me it will be hard toescape, though the thing be never so fair, to have it voted a miscarriage;but did advise me and my Lord Brouncker, who coming by did join with us, to prepare some members in it, which we shall do. Here I do hear how LaRoche, a French captain, who was once prisoner here, being with his shipat Plymouth, hath played some freakes there, for which his men being beatout of the town, he hath put up his flag of defiance, and also, somewherethereabout, did land with his men, and go a mile into the country, and didsome pranks, which sounds pretty odd, to our disgrace, but we are incondition now to bear any thing. But, blessed be God! all the Court isfull of the good news of my Lord Sandwich's having made a peace betweenSpain and Portugall, which is mighty great news, and, above all, to myLord's honour, more than any thing he ever did; and yet I do fear it willnot prevail to secure him in Parliament against incivilities there. Thence, took up my wife at Unthanke's, and so home, and there my mindbeing full of preparing my paper against to-morrow for the House, with anaddress from the office to the House, I to the office, very late, and thenhome to supper and to bed. 

20th. Up, and to the office a while, and thence to White Hall by coachwith Mr. Batelier with me, whom I took up in the street. I thence bywater to Westminster Hall, and there with Lord Brouncker, Sir T. Harvy, Sir J. Minnes, did wait all the morning to speak to members about ourbusiness, thinking our business of tickets would come before the Houseto-day, but we did alter our minds about the petition to the House, sending in the paper to them. But the truth is we were in a great hurry, but it fell out that they were most of the morning upon the business ofnot prosecuting the first victory; which they have voted one of thegreatest miscarriages of the whole war, though they cannot lay the faultanywhere yet, because Harman is not come home. This kept them all themorning, which I was glad of. So down to the Hall, where my wife byagreement stayed for me at Mrs. Michell's, and there was Mercer and thegirl, and I took them to Wilkinson's the cook's in King Street (where Ifind the master of the house hath been dead for some time), and theredined, and thence by one o'clock to the King's house: a new play, "TheDuke of Lerma, " of Sir Robert Howard's: where the King and Court was; andKnepp and Nell spoke the prologue most excellently, especially Knepp, whospoke beyond any creature I ever, heard. The play designed to reproachour King with his mistresses, that I was troubled for it, and expected itshould be interrupted; but it ended all well, which salved all. The playa well-writ and good play, only its design I did not like of reproachingthe King, but altogether a very good and most serious play. Thence home, and there a little to the office, and so home to supper, where Mercer withus, and sang, and then to bed. 

21st. At the office all the morning to get a little business done, Ihaving, and so the whole office, been put out of doing any business therefor this week by our trouble in attending the Parliament. Hither comes tome young Captain Beckford, the slopseller, and there presents me a littlepurse with gold in it, it being, as he told me, for his present to me, atthe end of the last year. I told him I had not done him any service Iknew of. He persisted, and I refused, but did at several denials; andtelling him that it was not an age to take presents in, he told me he hadreason to present me with something, and desired me to accept of it, which, at his so urging me, I did, and so fell to talk of his business, and so parted. I do not know of any manner of kindness I have done himthis last year, nor did expect any thing. It was therefore very welcometo me, but yet I was not fully satisfied in my taking it, because of mysubmitting myself to the having it objected against me hereafter, and therather because this morning Jacke Fen come and shewed me an order from theCommissioners of Accounts, wherein they demand of him an account upon oathof all the sums of money that have been by him defalked or taken from anyman since their time, of enquiry upon any payments, and if this should, asit is to be feared, come to be done to us, I know not what I shall thendo, but I shall take counsel upon it. At noon by coach towardsWestminster, and met my Lord Brouncker, and W. Pen, and Sir T. Harvey, inKing's Street, coming away from the Parliament House; and so I to them, and to the French ordinary, at the Blue Bells, in Lincolne's Inn Fields, and there dined and talked. And, among other things, they tell me how theHouse this day is still as backward for giving any money as ever, and dodeclare they will first have an account of the disposals of the lastPoll-bill, and eleven months' tax: and it is pretty odde that the veryfirst sum mentioned in the account brought in by Sir Robert Long, of thedisposal of the Poll-bill money, is L5000 to my Lord Arlington forintelligence; which was mighty unseasonable, so soon after they had somuch cried out against his want of intelligence. The King do also own butL250, 000, or thereabouts, yet paid on the Poll-bill, and that he hathcharged L350, 000 upon it. This makes them mad; for that the formerPoll-bill, that was so much less in its extent than the last, which tookin all sexes and qualities, did come to L350, 000. Upon the whole, Iperceive they are like to do nothing in this matter to please the King, orrelieve the State, be the case never so pressing; and, therefore, it isthought by a great many that the King cannot be worse if he shoulddissolve them: but there is nobody dares advise it, nor do he consider anything himself. Thence, having dined for 20s. , we to the Duke of York atWhite Hall, and there had our usual audience, and did little but talk ofthe proceedings of the Parliament, wherein he is as much troubled as we;for he is not without fears that they do ayme at doing him hurt; but yethe declares that he will never deny to owne what orders he hath given toany man to justify him, notwithstanding their having sent to him to desirehis being tender to take upon him the doing any thing of that kind. Thence with Brouncker and T. Harvey to Westminster Hall, and there metwith Colonel Birch and Sir John Lowther, and did there in the lobby readover what I have drawn up for our defence, wherein they own themselvesmightily satisfied; and Birch, like a particular friend, do take it uponhim to defend us, and do mightily do me right in all his discourse. Herewalked in the Hall with him a great while, and discoursed with severalmembers, to prepare them in our business against to-morrow, and meeting mycozen Roger Pepys, he showed me Granger's written confession, [Pepys here refers to the extraordinary proceedings which occurred between Charles, Lord Gerard, and Alexander Fitton, of which a narrative was published at the Hague in 1665. Granger was a witness in the cause, and was afterwards said to be conscience-stricken from his perjury. Some notice of this case will be found in North's "Examen, " p. 558; but the copious and interesting note in Ormerod's "History of Cheshire, " Vol. Iii. , p. 291, will best satisfy the reader, who will not fail to be struck by the paragraph with which it is closed-viz. , "It is not improbable that Alexander Fitton, who, in the first instance, gained rightful possession of Gawsworth under an acknowledged settlement, was driven headlong into unpremeditated guilt by the production of a revocation by will which Lord Gerard had so long concealed. Having lost his own fortune in the prosecution of his claims, he remained in gaol till taken out by James II. To be made Chancellor of Ireland (under which character Hume first notices him), was knighted, and subsequently created Lord Gawsworth after the abdication of James, sat in his parliament in Dublin in 1689, and then is supposed to have accompanied his fallen master to France. Whether the conduct of Fitton was met, as he alleges, by similar guilt on the part of Lord Gerard, God only can judge; but his hand fell heavily on the representatives of that noble house. In less than half a century the husbands of its two co-heiresses, James, Duke of Hamilton, and Charles, Lord Mohun, were slain by each other's hands in a murderous duel arising out of a dispute relative to the partition of the Fitton estates, and Gawsworth itself passed to an unlineal hand, by a series of alienations complicated beyond example in the annals of this country. "--B. ]

of his being forced by imprisonment, &c. , by my Lord Gerard, mostbarbarously to confess his forging of a deed in behalf of Fitton, in thegreat case between him [Fitton] and my Lord Gerard; which business isunder examination, and is the foulest against my Lord Gerard that ever anything in the world was, and will, all do believe, ruine him; and I shallbe glad of it. Thence with Lord Brouncker and T. Harvey as far as the NewExchange, and there at a draper's shop drawing up a short note of whatthey are to desire of the House for our having a hearing before theydetermine any thing against us, which paper is for them to show to whatfriends they meet against to-morrow, I away home to the office, and therebusy pretty late, and here comes my wife to me, who hath been at PeggPen's christening, which, she says, hath made a flutter and noise; but wasas mean as could be, and but little company, just like all the rest thatthat family do. So home to supper and to bed, with my head full of adefence before the Parliament tomorrow, and therein content myself verywell, and with what I have done in preparing some of the members thereofin order thereto. 

22nd. Up, and by coach through Ducke Lane, and there did buy Kircher'sMusurgia, cost me 35s. , a book I am mighty glad of, expecting to findgreat satisfaction in it. Thence to Westminster Hall and the lobby, andup and down there all the morning, and to the Lords' House, and heard theSolicitor-General plead very finely, as he always do; and this was indefence of the East India Company against a man that complains of wrongfrom them, and thus up and down till noon in expectation of our businesscoming on in the House of Commons about tickets, but they being busy aboutmy Lord Gerard's business I did give over the thoughts of ours coming on, and so with my wife, and Mercer, and Deb. , who come to the Hall to me, Iaway to the Beare, in Drury Lane, and there bespoke a dish of meat; and, in the mean time, sat and sung with Mercer; and, by and by, dined withmighty pleasure, and excellent meat, one little dish enough for us all, and good wine, and all for 8s. , and thence to the Duke's playhouse, andthere saw "Albumazar, " an old play, this the second time of acting. It issaid to have been the ground of B. Jonson's "Alchymist;" but, saving theridicuiousnesse of Angell's part, which is called Trinkilo, I do not seeany thing extraordinary in it, but was indeed weary of it before it wasdone. The King here, and, indeed, all of us, pretty merry at the mimiquetricks of Trinkilo. So home, calling in Ducke Lane for the book I boughtthis morning, and so home, and wrote my letters at the office, and thenhome to supper and to bed. 

23rd (Lord's day). Up, and, being desired by a messenger from Sir G. Carteret, I by water over to Southwarke, and so walked to the Falkon, onthe Bank-side, and there got another boat, and so to Westminster, where Iwould have gone into the Swan; but the door was locked; and the girl couldnot let me in, and so to Wilkinson's in King Street, and there wiped myshoes, and so to Court, where sermon not yet done I met with Brisband; andhe tells me, first, that our business of tickets did come to debateyesterday, it seems, after I was gone away, and was voted a miscarriage ingeneral. He tells me in general that there is great looking after places, upon a presumption of a great many vacancies; and he did shew me a fellowat Court, a brother of my Lord Fanshaw's, a witty but rascally fellow, without a penny in his purse, that was asking him what places there werein the Navy fit for him, and Brisband tells me, in mirth, he told him theClerke of the Acts, and I wish he had it, so I were well and quietly ridof it; for I am weary of this kind of trouble, having, I think, enoughwhereon to support myself. By and by, chapel done, I met with Sir W. Coventry, and he and I walked awhile together in the Matted Gallery; andthere he told me all the proceedings yesterday: that the matter is found, in general, a miscarriage, but no persons named; and so there is no greatmatter to our prejudice yet, till, if ever, they come to particularpersons. He told me Birch was very industrious to do what he could, anddid, like a friend; but they were resolved to find the thing, in general, a miscarriage; and says, that when we shall think fit to desire its beingheard, as to our own defence, it will be granted. He tells me how hehath, with advantage, cleared himself in what concerns himself therein, byhis servant Robson, which I am glad of. He tells me that there is aletter sent by conspiracy to some of the House, which he hath seen, aboutthe matter of selling of places, which he do believe he shall be calledupon to-morrow for: and thinks himself well prepared to defend himself init; and then neither he, nor his friends for him, are afeard of anythingto his prejudice. Thence by coach, with Brisband, to Sir G. Carteret's, inLincoln's Inn Fields, and there dined: a good dinner and good company; andafter dinner he and I alone, discoursing of my Lord Sandwich's matters;who hath, in the first business before the House, been very kindly usedbeyond expectation, the matter being laid by, till his coming home and oldMr. Vaughan did speak for my Lord, which I am mighty glad of. Thebusiness of the prizes is the worst that can be said, and therein I dofear something may lie hard upon him; but, against this, we must preparethe best we can for his defence. Thence with G. Carteret to White Hall, where I, finding a meeting of the Committee of the Council for the Navy, his Royal Highness there, and Sir W. Pen, and, some of the Brethren of theTrinity House to attend, I did go in with them; and it was to be informedof the practice heretofore, for all foreign nations, at enmity one withanother, to forbear any acts of hostility to one another, in the presenceof any of the King of England's ships, of which several instances weregiven: and it is referred to their further enquiry, in order to the givinginstructions accordingly to our ships now, during the war between Spainand France. Would to God we were in the same condition as heretofore, tochallenge and maintain this our dominion! Thence with W. Pen homeward, and quite through to Mile End, for a little ayre; the days being nowpretty long, but the ways mighty dirty, and here we drank at the Rose, theold house, and so back again, talking of the Parliament and our troublewith them and what passed yesterday. Going back again, Sir R. Brookesovertook us coming to town; who hath played the jacke with us all, and isa fellow that I must trust no more, he quoting me for all he hath said inthis business of tickets; though I have told him nothing that either isnot true, or I afeard to own. But here talking, he did discourse in thisstile: "We, "--and "We" all along, --"will not give any money, be thepretence never so great, nay, though the enemy was in the River of Thamesagain, till we know what is become of the last money given;" and I dobelieve he do speak the mind of his fellows, and so let them, if the Kingwill suffer it. He gone, we home, and there I to read, and my belly beingfull of my dinner to-day, I anon to bed, and there, as I have for manydays, slept not an hour quietly, but full of dreams of our defence to theParliament and giving an account of our doings. This evening, my wife didwith great pleasure shew me her stock of jewells, encreased by the ringshe hath made lately as my Valentine's gift this year, a Turky stone' setwith diamonds: and, with this and what she had, she reckons that she hathabove L150 worth of jewells, of one kind or other; and I am glad of it, for it is fit the wretch should have something to content herself with. 

24th. Up, and to my office, where most of the morning, entering myjournal for the three days past. Thence about noon with my wife to theNew Exchange, by the way stopping at my bookseller's, and there leaving myKircher's Musurgia to be bound, and did buy "L'illustre Bassa, " in fourvolumes, for my wife. Thence to the Exchange and left her; while meetingDr. Gibbons there, he and I to see an organ at the Dean of Westminster'slodgings at the Abby, the Bishop of Rochester's; where he lives like agreat prelate, his lodgings being very good; though at present under greatdisgrace at Court, being put by his Clerk of the Closet's place. I sawhis lady, of whom the 'Terrae Filius' of Oxford was once so merry;

 [A scholar appointed to make a satirical and jesting speech at an Act in the University of Oxford. Mr. Christopher Wordsworth gives, in his "Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century, " 1874, a list of terra-filii from 1591 to 1713 (pp. 296- 298, 680). The 'terrae filius' was sometimes expelled the university on account of the licence of his speech. The practice was discontinued early in the eighteenth century. ]

and two children, whereof one a very pretty little boy, like him, so fatand black. Here I saw the organ; but it is too big for my house, and thefashion do not please me enough; and therefore will not have it. Thenceto the 'Change back again, leaving him, and took my wife and Deb. Home, and there to dinner alone, and after dinner I took them to theNursery, --[Theatre company of young actors in training. ]--where none of usever were before; where the house is better and the musique better than welooked for, and the acting not much worse, because I expected as bad ascould be: and I was not much mistaken, for it was so. However, I waspleased well to see it once, it being worth a man's seeing to discover thedifferent ability and understanding of people, and the different growth ofpeople's abilities by practise. Their play was a bad one, called"Jeronimo is Mad Again, " a tragedy. Here was some good company by us, whodid make mighty sport at the folly of their acting, which I could notneither refrain from sometimes, though I was sorry for it. So away hencehome, where to the office to do business a while, and then home to supperand to read, and then to bed. I was prettily served this day at theplayhouse-door, where, giving six shillings into the fellow's hand for usthree, the fellow by legerdemain did convey one away, and with so muchgrace faced me down that I did give him but five, that, though I knew thecontrary, yet I was overpowered by his so grave and serious demanding theother shilling, that I could not deny him, but was forced by myself togive it him. After I come home this evening comes a letter to me fromCaptain Allen, formerly Clerk of the Ropeyard at Chatham, and whom I waskind to in those days, who in recompense of my favour to him then do giveme notice that he hears of an accusation likely to be exhibited against meof my receiving L50 of Mason, the timber merchant, and that his wife hathspoke it. I am mightily beholden to Captain Allen for this, though thething is to the best of my memory utterly false, and I do believe it to bewholly so, but yet it troubles me to have my name mentioned in thisbusiness, and more to consider how I may be liable to be accused where Ihave indeed taken presents, and therefore puts me on an enquiry, into myactings in this kind and prepare against a day of accusation. 

25th. Up, having lain the last night the first night that I have lainwith my wife since she was last ill, which is about eight days. To theoffice, where busy all the morning. At noon comes W. Howe to me, toadvise what answer to give to the business of the prizes, wherein I didgive him the best advice I could; but am sorry to see so many things, wherein I doubt it will not be prevented but Sir Roger Cuttance and Mr. Pierce will be found very much concerned in goods beyond the distribution, and I doubt my Lord Sandwich too, which troubles me mightily. He gone Ito dinner, and thence set my wife at the New Exchange, and I to Mr. Clerke, my solicitor, to the Treasury chamber, but the Lords did not sit, so I by water with him to the New Exchange, and there we parted, and Itook my wife and Deb. Up, and to the Nursery, where I was yesterday, andthere saw them act a comedy, a pastorall, "The Faythful Shepherd, " havingthe curiosity to see whether they did a comedy better than a tragedy; butthey do it both alike, in the meanest manner, that I was sick of it, butonly for to satisfy myself once in seeing the manner of it, but I shallsee them no more, I believe. Thence to the New Exchange, to take somethings home that my wife hath bought, a dressing-box, and other things forher chamber and table, that cost me above L4, and so home, and there tothe office, and tell W. Hewer of the letter from Captain Allen last night, to give him caution if any thing should be discovered of his dealings withanybody, which I should for his sake as well, or more than for my own, besorry for; and with great joy I do find, looking over my memorandum books, which are now of great use to me, and do fully reward me for all my carein keeping them, that I am not likely to be troubled for any thing of thekind but what I shall either be able beforehand to prevent, or ifdiscovered, be able to justify myself in, and I do perceive, by Sir W. Warren's discourse, that they [the House] do all they can possibly to getout of him and others, what presents they have made to the Officers of theNavy; but he tells me that he hath denied all, though he knows that he isforsworn as to what relates to me. So home to supper and to bed. 

26th. Up, and by water to Charing Cross stairs, and thence to W. Coventryto discourse concerning the state of matters in the Navy, where heparticularly acquainted me with the trouble he is like to meet with aboutthe selling of places, all carried on by Sir Fr. Hollis, but he seems notto value it, being able to justify it to be lawful and constant practice, and never by him used in the least degree since he upon his own motion didobtain a salary of L500 in lieu thereof. Thence to the Treasury Chamberabout a little business, and so home by coach, and in my way did meet W. Howe going to the Commissioners of Accounts. I stopped and spoke to him, and he seems well resolved what to answer them, but he will find them verystrict, and not easily put off: So home and there to dinner, and afterdinner comes W. Howe to tell me how he sped, who says he was used civilly, and not so many questions asked as he expected; but yet I do perceiveenough to shew that they do intend to know the bottom of things, and whereto lay the great weight of the disposal of these East India goods, andthat they intend plainly to do upon my Lord Sandwich. Thence with him bycoach and set him down at the Temple, and I to Westminster Hall, where, itbeing now about six o'clock, I find the House just risen; and met with SirW. Coventry and the Lieutenant of the Tower, they having sat all day; andwith great difficulty have got a vote for giving the King L300, 000, not tobe raised by any land-tax. The sum is much smaller than I expected, andthan the King needs; but is grounded upon Mr. Wren's reading our estimatesthe other day of L270, 000, to keep the fleete abroad, wherein we demandednothing for setting and fitting of them out, which will cost almostL200, 000, I do verily believe: and do believe that the King hath no causeto thank Wren for this motion. I home to Sir W. Coventry's lodgings, withhim and the Lieutenant of the Tower, where also was Sir John Coventry, andSir John Duncomb, and Sir Job Charleton. And here a great deal of gooddiscourse: and they seem mighty glad to have this vote pass, which I didwonder at, to see them so well satisfied with so small a sum, Sir JohnDuncomb swearing, as I perceive he will freely do, that it was as much asthe nation could beare. Among other merry discourse about spending ofmoney, and how much more chargeable a man's living is now more than it washeretofore, Duncomb did swear that in France he did live of L100 a yearwith more plenty, and wine and wenches, than he believes can be done nowfor L200, which was pretty odd for him, being a Committee-man's son, tosay. Having done here, and supped, where I eat very little, we home inSir John Robinson's coach, and there to bed. 

27th. All the morning at the office, and at noon home to dinner, andthence with my wife and Deb. To the King's House, to see "The VirginMartyr, " the first time it hath been acted a great while: and it is mightypleasant; not that the play is worth much, but it is finely acted by BeckeMarshall. But that which did please me beyond any thing in, the wholeworld was the wind-musique when the angel comes down, which is so sweetthat it ravished me, and indeed, in a word, did wrap up my soul so that itmade me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with mywife; that neither then, nor all the evening going home, and at home, Iwas able to think of any thing, but remained all night transported, so asI could not believe that ever any musick hath that real command over thesoul of a man as this did upon me: and makes me resolve to practicewind-musique, and to make my wife do the like. 

28th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning doing business, andafter dinner with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, where we and the rest of uspresented a great letter of the state of our want of money to his RoyalHighness. I did also present a demand of mine for consideration for mytravelling-charges of coach and boat-hire during the war, which, thoughhis Royal Highness and the company did all like of, yet, contrary to myexpectation, I find him so jealous now of doing any thing extraordinary, that he desired the gentlemen that they would consider it, and reporttheir minds in it to him. This did unsettle my mind a great while, notexpecting this stop: but, however, I shall do as well, I know, though itcauses me a little stop. But that, that troubles me most is, that whilewe were thus together with the Duke of York, comes in Mr. Wren from theHouse, where, he tells us, another storm hath been all this day almostagainst the Officers of the Navy upon this complaint, --that though theyhave made good rules for payment of tickets, yet that they have notobserved them themselves, which was driven so high as to have it urgedthat we should presently be put out of our places: and so they have atlast ordered that we shall be heard at the bar of the House upon thisbusiness on Thursday next. This did mightily trouble me and us all; butme particularly, who am least able to bear these troubles, though I havethe least cause to be concerned in it. Thence, therefore, to visit Sir H. Cholmly, who hath for some time been ill of a cold; and thence walkedtowards Westminster, and met Colonel Birch, who took me back to walk withhim, and did give me an account of this day's heat against the NavyOfficers, and an account of his speech on our behalf, which was very good;and indeed we are much beholden to him, as I, after I parted with him, didfind by my cozen Roger, whom I went to: and he and I to his lodgings. Andthere he did tell me the same over again; and how much Birch did stand upin our defence; and that he do see that there are many desirous to have usout of the Office; and the House is so furious and passionate, that hethinks nobody can be secure, let him deserve never so well. But now, hetells me, we shall have a fair hearing of the House, and he hopes justiceof them: but, upon the whole, he do agree with me that I should hold myhand as to making any purchase of land, which I had formerly discoursedwith him about, till we see a little further how matters go. He tells methat that made them so mad to-day first was, several letters in the Houseabout the Fanatickes, in several places, coming in great bodies, andturning people out of the churches, and there preaching themselves, andpulling the surplice over the Parsons' heads: this was confirmed fromseveral places; which makes them stark mad, especially the hectors andbravadoes of the House, who shew all the zeal on this occasion. Havingdone with him, I home vexed in my mind, and so fit for no business, butsat talking with my wife and supped with her; and Nan Mercer come and satall the evening with us, and much pretty discourse, which did a littleease me, and so to bed. 

29th. Up, and walked to Captain Cocke's, where Sir G. Carteret promisedto meet me and did come to discourse about the prize-business of my LordSandwich's, which I perceive is likely to be of great ill consequence tomy Lord, the House being mighty vehement in it. We could say little butadvise that his friends should labour to get it put off, till he comes. Wedid here talk many things over, in lamentation of the present posture ofaffairs, and the ill condition of all people that have had anything to dounder the King, wishing ourselves a great way off: Here they tell me howSir Thomas Allen hath taken the Englishmen out of "La Roche, " and takenfrom him an Ostend prize which La Roche had fetched out of our harbours;and at this day La Roche keeps upon our coasts; and had the boldness toland some men and go a mile up into the country, and there took some goodsbelonging to this prize out of a house there; which our King resents, and, they say, hath wrote to the King of France about; and everybody do think awar will follow; and then in what a case we shall be for want of money, nobody knows. Thence to the office, where we sat all the morning, and atnoon home to dinner, and to the office again in the afternoon, where wemet to consider of an answer to the Parliament about the not paying oftickets according to our own orders, to which I hope we shall be able togive a satisfactory answer, but that the design of the House beingapparently to remove us, I do question whether the best answer willprevail with them. This done I by coach with my wife to Martin, mybookseller's, expecting to have had my Kercher's Musurgia, but to mytrouble and loss of trouble it was not done. So home again, my head fullof thoughts about our troubles in the office, and so to the office. Wroteto my father this post, and sent him now Colvill's--[The Goldsmith. ]--notefor L600 for my sister's portion, being glad that I shall, I hope, havethat business over before I am out of place, and I trust I shall be ableto save a little of what I have got, and so shall not be troubled to be atease; for I am weary of this life. So ends this month, with a great dealof care and trouble in my head about the answerings of the Parliament, andparticularly in our payment of seamen by tickets. 

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 Being very poor and mean as to the bearing with trouble Bite at the stone, and not at the hand that flings it Burned it, that it might not be among my books to my shame Come to see them in bed together, on their wedding-night Fear what would become of me if any real affliction should come Force a man to swear against himself L'escholle des filles, a lewd book Live of L100 a year with more plenty, and wine and wenches No pleasure--only the variety of it