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

 CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY

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 HENRY B. WHEATLEY F. S. A. 

 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. MARCH 1667-1668

March 1st (Lord's day). Up very betimes, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry's; and there, largely carrying with me all my notes and papers, did run over our whole defence in the business of tickets, in order to theanswering the House on Thursday next; and I do think, unless they be setwithout reason to ruin us, we shall make a good defence. I find him ingreat anxiety, though he will not discover it, in the business of theproceedings of Parliament; and would as little as is possible have hisname mentioned in our discourse to them; and particularly the business ofselling places is now upon his hand to defend himself in; wherein I didhelp him in his defence about the flag-maker's place, which is named inthe House. We did here do the like about the complaint of want ofvictuals in the fleete in the year 1666, which will lie upon me to defendalso. So that my head is full of care and weariness in my employment. Thence home, and there my mind being a little lightened by my morning'swork in the arguments I have now laid together in better method for ourdefence to the Parliament, I to talk with my wife; and in lieu of a coachthis year, I have got my wife to be contented with her closet being madeup this summer, and going into the country this summer for a month or two, to my father's, and there Mercer and Deb. And Jane shall go with her, which I the rather do for the entertaining my wife, and preventing offallings out between her and my father or Deb. , which uses to be the fateof her going into the country. After dinner by coach to Westminster, andthere to St. Margaret's church, thinking to have seen Betty Michell, butshe was not there, but met her father and mother and with them to herfather's house, where I never was before, but was mighty much made of, with some good strong waters, which they have from their son Michell, andmighty good people they are. Thence to Mrs. Martin's, where I have notbeen also a good while, and with great difficulty, company being there, did get an opportunity to hazer what I would con her, and here I wasmightily taken with a starling which she hath, that was the King's, whichhe kept in his bedchamber; and do whistle and talk the most and best thatever I heard anything in my life. Thence to visit Sir H. Cholmly, whocontinues still sick of his cold, and thence calling, but in vain, tospeak with Sir G. Carteret at his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where Ispoke with nobody, but home, where spent the evening talking with W. Hewerabout business of the House, and declaring my expectation of all our beingturned out. Hither comes Carcasse to me about business, and there didconfess to me of his own accord his having heretofore discovered as acomplaint against Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen and me that we did prefer thepaying of some men to man "The Flying Greyhound" to others, by order underour hands. The thing upon recollection I believe is true, and do hope nogreat matter can be made of it, but yet I would be glad to have my nameout of it, which I shall labour to do; in the mean time it weighs as a newtrouble on my mind, and did trouble me all night. So without supper tobed, my eyes being also a little overwrought of late that I could not stayup to read. 

2nd. Up and betimes to the office, where I did much business, and severalcome to me, and among others I did prepare Mr. Warren, and by and by SirD. Gawden, about what presents I have had from them, that they may notpublish them, or if they do, that in truth I received none on the accountof the Navy but Tangier, and this is true to the former, and in both thatI never asked any thing of them. I must do the like with the rest. Mr. Moore was with me, and he do tell me, and so W. Hewer tells me, he hearsthis morning that all the town is full of the discourse that the Officersof the Navy shall be all turned out, but honest Sir John Minnes, who, Godknows, is fitter to have been turned out himself than any of us, doing theKing more hurt by his dotage and folly than all the rest can do by theirknavery, if they had a mind to it. At noon home to dinner, where wasMercer, and very merry as I could be with my mind so full of business, andso with my wife, her and the girl, to the King's house to see the "VirginMartyr" again, which do mightily please me, but above all the musique atthe coming down of the angel, which at this hearing the second time, dostill commend me as nothing ever did, and the other musique is nothing toit. Thence with my wife to the 'Change, and so, calling at the Cocke alehouse, we home, and there I settle to business, and with my peoplepreparing my great answer to the Parliament for the office about ticketstill past 1 a o'clock at night, and then home to supper and to bed, keeping Mr. Gibson all night with me. This day I have the news that mysister was married on Thursday last to Mr. Jackson; so that work is, Ihope, well over. 

3rd. Up betimes to work again, and then met at the Office, where to ourgreat business of this answer to the Parliament; where to my greatvexation I find my Lord Brouncker prepared only to excuse himself, whileI, that have least reason to trouble myself, am preparing with great painsto defend them all: and more, I perceive, he would lodge the beginning ofdischarging ships by ticket upon me; but I care not, for I believe I shallget more honour by it when the Parliament, against my will, shall see howthe whole business of the Office was done by me. At noon rose and todinner. My wife abroad with Mercer and Deb. Buying of things, but I withmy clerks home to dinner, and thence presently down with Lord Brouncker, W. Pen, T. Harvy, T. Middleton, and Mr. Tippets, who first took his placethis day at the table, as a Commissioner, in the room of CommissionerPett. Down by water to Deptford, where the King, Queene, and Court are tosee launched the new ship built by Mr. Shish, called "The Charles. " 2 Godsend her better luck than the former! Here some of our brethren, who wentin a boat a little before my boat, did by appointment take opportunity ofasking the King's leave that we might make full use of the want of money, in our excuse to the Parliament for the business of tickets, and otherthings they will lay to our charge, all which arose from nothing else: andthis the King did readily agree to, and did give us leave to make our fulluse of it. The ship being well launched, I back again by boat, setting[Sir] T. Middleton and Mr. Tippets on shore at Ratcliffe, I home and thereto my chamber with Mr. Gibson, and late up till midnight preparing morethings against our defence on Thursday next to my content, though vexedthat all this trouble should be on me. So to supper and to bed. 

4th. Up betimes and with Sir W. Pen in his coach to White Hall, there towait upon the Duke of York and the Commissioners of the Treasury, [Sir] W. Coventry and Sir John Duncombe, who do declare that they cannot find themoney we demand, and we that less than what we demand will not set out thefleet intended, and so broke up, with no other conclusion than that theywould let us have what they could get and we would improve that as well aswe could. So God bless us, and prepare us against the consequences ofthese matters. Thence, it being a cold wet day, I home with Sir J. Minnesin his coach, and called by the way at my bookseller's and took home withme Kercher's Musurgia--very well bound, but I had no comfort to look uponthem, but as soon as I come home fell to my work at the office, shuttingthe doors, that we, I and my clerks, might not be interrupted, and so, only with room for a little dinner, we very busy all the day till nightthat the officers met for me to give them the heads of what I intended tosay, which I did with great discontent to see them all rely on me thathave no reason at all to trouble myself about it, nor have any thanks fromthem for my labour, but contrarily Brouncker looked mighty dogged, asthinking that I did not intend to do it so as to save him. This troubledme so much as, together with the shortness of the time and muchness of thebusiness, did let me be at it till but about ten at night, and then quiteweary, and dull, and vexed, I could go no further, but resolved to leavethe rest to to-morrow morning, and so in full discontent and weariness didgive over and went home, with[out] supper vexed and sickish to bed, andthere slept about three hours, but then waked, and never in so muchtrouble in all my life of mind, thinking of the task I have upon me, andupon what dissatisfactory grounds, and what the issue of it may be to me. 

5th. With these thoughts I lay troubling myself till six o'clock, restless, and at last getting my wife to talk to me to comfort me, whichshe at last did, and made me resolve to quit my hands of this Office, andendure the trouble of it no longer than till I can clear myself of it. Sowith great trouble, but yet with some ease, from this discourse with mywife, I up, and to my Office, whither come my clerks, and so I did huddlethe best I could some more notes for my discourse to-day, and by nineo'clock was ready, and did go down to the Old Swan, and there by boat, with T. H[ater] and W. H[ewer] with me, to Westminster, where I foundmyself come time enough, and my brethren all ready. But I full ofthoughts and trouble touching the issue of this day; and, to comfortmyself, did go to the Dog and drink half-a-pint of mulled sack, and in theHall [Westminster] did drink a dram of brandy at Mrs. Hewlett's; and withthe warmth of this did find myself in better order as to courage, truly. So we all up to the lobby; and between eleven and twelve o'clock, werecalled in, with the mace before us, into the House, where a mighty fullHouse; and we stood at the bar, namely, Brouncker, Sir J. Minnes, Sir T. Harvey, and myself, W. Pen being in the House, as a Member. I perceivethe whole House was full, and full of expectation of our defence what itwould be, and with great prejudice. After the Speaker had told us thedissatisfaction of the House, and read the Report of the Committee, Ibegan our defence most acceptably and smoothly, and continued at itwithout any hesitation or losse, but with full scope, and all my reasonfree about me, as if it had been at my own table, from that time till pastthree in the afternoon; and so ended, without any interruption from theSpeaker; but we withdrew. And there all my Fellow-Officers, and all theworld that was within hearing, did congratulate me, and cry up my speechas the best thing they ever heard; and my Fellow-Officers overjoyed in it;we were called in again by and by to answer only one question, touchingour paying tickets to ticket-mongers; and so out; and we were in hopes tohave had a vote this day in our favour, and so the generality of the Housewas; but my speech, being so long, many had gone out to dinner and come inagain half drunk; and then there are two or three that are professedenemies to us and every body else; among others, Sir T. Littleton, SirThomas Lee, Mr. Wiles, the coxcomb whom I saw heretofore at thecock-fighting, and a few others; I say, these did rise up and speakagainst the coming to a vote now, the House not being full, by reason ofseveral being at dinner, but most because that the House was to attend theKing this afternoon, about the business of religion, wherein they pray himto put in force all the laws against Nonconformists and Papists; and thisprevented it, so that they put it off to to-morrow come se'nnight. However, it is plain we have got great ground; and everybody says I havegot the most honour that any could have had opportunity of getting; and sowith our hearts mightily overjoyed at this success, we all to dinner toLord Brouncker's--that is to say, myself, T. Harvey, and W. Pen, and theredined; and thence with Sir Anthony Morgan, who is an acquaintance ofBrouncker's, a very wise man, we after dinner to the King's house, andthere saw part of "The Discontented Colonel, " but could take no greatpleasure in it, because of our coming in in the middle of it. After theplay, home with W. Pen, and there to my wife, whom W. Hewer had told of mysuccess, and she overjoyed, and I also as to my particular; and, aftertalking awhile, I betimes to bed, having had no quiet rest a good while. 

6th. Up betimes, and with Sir D. Gawden to Sir W, Coventry's chamber:where the first word he said to me was, "Good-morrow, Mr. Pepys, that mustbe Speaker of the Parliament-house:" and did protest I had got honour forever in Parliament. He said that his brother, that sat by him, admiresme; and another gentleman said that I could not get less than L1000 a-yearif I would put on a gown and plead at the Chancery-bar; but, what pleasesme most, he tells me that the Sollicitor-Generall did protest that hethought I spoke the best of any man in England. After several talks withhim alone, touching his own businesses, he carried me to White Hall, andthere parted; and I to the Duke of York's lodgings, and find him going tothe Park, it being a very fine morning, and I after him; and, as soon ashe saw me, he told me, with great satisfaction, that I had converted agreat many yesterday, and did, with great praise of me, go on with thediscourse with me. And, by and by, overtaking the King, the King and Dukeof York come to me both; and he--[The King]--said, "Mr. Pepys, I am veryglad of your success yesterday;" and fell to talk of my well speaking; andmany of the Lords there. My Lord Barkeley did cry the up for what theyhad heard of it; and others, Parliament-men there, about the King, did saythat they never heard such a speech in their lives delivered in thatmanner. Progers, of the Bedchamber, swore to me afterwards beforeBrouncker, in the afternoon, that he did tell the King that he thought Imight teach the Sollicitor-Generall. Every body that saw me almost cometo me, as Joseph Williamson and others, with such eulogys as cannot beexpressed. From thence I went to Westminster Hall, where I met Mr. G. Montagu, who come to me and kissed me, and told me that he had oftenheretofore kissed my hands, but now he would kiss my lips: protesting thatI was another Cicero, and said, all the world said the same of me. Mr. Ashburnham, and every creature I met there of the Parliament, or that knewanything of the Parliament's actings, did salute me with this honour:--Mr. Godolphin;--Mr. Sands, who swore he would go twenty mile, at any time, tohear the like again, and that he never saw so many sit four hours togetherto hear any man in his life, as there did to hear me; Mr. Chichly, --SirJohn Duncomb, --and everybody do say that the kingdom will ring of myabilities, and that I have done myself right for my whole life: and soCaptain Cocke, and others of my friends, say that no man had ever such anopportunity of making his abilities known; and, that I may cite all atonce, Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower did tell me that Mr. Vaughan did protestto him, and that, in his hearing it, said so to the Duke of Albemarle, andafterwards to W. Coventry, that he had sat twenty-six years in Parliamentand never heard such a speech there before: for which the Lord God make methankful! and that I may make use of it not to pride and vain-glory, butthat, now I have this esteem, I may do nothing that may lessen it! Ispent the morning thus walking in the Hall, being complimented byeverybody with admiration: and at noon stepped into the Legg with SirWilliam Warren, who was in the Hall, and there talked about a little ofhis business, and thence into the Hall a little more, and so with him bycoach as far as the Temple almost, and there 'light, to follow my LordBrouncker's coach, which I spied, and so to Madam Williams's, where Iovertook him, and agreed upon meeting this afternoon, and so home todinner, and after dinner with W. Pen, who come to my house to call me, toWhite Hall, to wait on the Duke of York, where he again and all thecompany magnified me, and several in the Gallery: among others, my LordGerard, who never knew me before nor spoke to me, desires his being betteracquainted with me; and [said] that, at table where he was, he never heardso much said of any man as of me, in his whole life. We waited on theDuke of York, and thence into the Gallery, where the House of Lords waitedthe King's coming out of the Park, which he did by and by; and there, inthe Vane-room, my Lord Keeper delivered a message to the King, the Lordsbeing about him, wherein the Barons of England, from many good arguments, very well expressed in the part he read out of, do demand precedence inEngland of all noblemen of either of the King's other two kingdoms, betheir title what it will; and did shew that they were in England reputedbut as Commoners, and sat in the House of Commons, and at conferences withthe Lords did stand bare. It was mighty worth my hearing: but the Kingdid only say that he would consider of it, and so dismissed them. ThenceBrouncker and I to the Committee of Miscarriages sitting in the Court ofWards, expecting with Sir D. Gawden to have been heard against PrinceRupert's complaints for want of victuals. But the business of Holmes'scharge against Sir Jer. Smith, which is a most shameful scandalous thingfor Flag officers to accuse one another of, and that this should be heardhere before men that understand it not at all, and after it hath beenexamined and judged in before the King and Lord High Admirall and otherable seamen to judge, it is very hard. But this business did keep themall the afternoon, so we not heard but put off to another day. Thence, with the Lieutenant of the Tower, in his coach home; and there, with greatpleasure, with my wife, talking and playing at cards a little--she, and I, and W. Hewer, and Deb. , and so, after a little supper, I to bed. 

7th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, at noon home todinner, where Mercer with us, and after dinner she, my wife, Deb. , and I, to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Spanish Gipsys, " the secondtime of acting, and the first that I saw it. A very silly play, onlygreat variety of dances, and those most excellently done, especially onepart by one Hanes, only lately come thither from the Nursery, anunderstanding fellow, but yet, they say, hath spent L1000 a-year before hecome thither. This day my wife and I full of thoughts about Mrs. Piercessending me word that she, and my old company, Harris and Knipp, would comeand dine with us next Wednesday, how we should do-to receive or put themoff, my head being, at this time, so full of business, and my wife in nomind to have them neither, and yet I desire it. Come to no resolutiontonight. Home from the playhouse to the office, where I wrote what I hadto write, and among others to my father to congratulate my sister'smarriage, and so home to supper a little and then to bed. 

8th (Lord's day). At my sending to desire it, Sir J. Robinson, Lieutenantof the Tower, did call me with his coach, and carried me to White Hall, where met with very many people still that did congratulate my speech theother day in the House of Commons, and I find all the world almost ringsof it. Here spent the morning walking and talking with one or other, andamong the rest with Sir W. Coventry, who I find full of care in his ownbusiness, how to defend himself against those that have a mind to chokehim; and though, I believe, not for honour and for the keeping hisemployment, but for his safety and reputation's sake, is desirous topreserve himself free from blame, and among other mean ways which himselfdid take notice to me to be but a mean thing he desires me to getinformation against Captain Tatnell, thereby to diminish his testimony, who, it seems, hath a mind to do W. Coventry hurt: and I will do it withall my heart; for Tatnell is a very rogue. He would be glad, too, that Icould find anything proper for his taking notice against Sir F. Hollis. At noon, after sermon, I to dinner with Sir G. Carteret to Lincoln's InnFields, where I find mighty deal of company--a solemn day for some of hisand her friends, and dine in the great dining-room above stairs, where SirG. Carteret himself, and I, and his son, at a little table by, the greattable being full of strangers. Here my Lady Jem. Do promise to come, andbring my Lord Hinchingbroke and his lady some day this week, to dinner tome, which I am glad of. After dinner, I up with her husband, Sir PhilipCarteret, to his closet, where, beyond expectation, I do find many prettythings, wherein he appears to be ingenious, such as in painting, anddrawing, and making of watches, and such kind of things, above myexpectation; though, when all is done, he is a shirke, who owns his owingme L10 for his lady two or three years ago, and yet cannot provide to payme. The company by and by parted, and G. Carteret and I to White Hall, where I set him down and took his coach as far as the Temple, it raining, and there took a hackney and home, and so had my head combed, and then tobed. 

9th. Up betimes, and anon with Sir W. Warren, who come to speak with me, by coach to White Hall, and there met Lord Brouncker: and he and I to theCommissioners of the Treasury, where I find them mighty kind to me, more, I think, than was wont. And here I also met Colvill, the goldsmith; whotells me, with great joy, how the world upon the 'Change talks of me; andhow several Parliamentmen, viz. , Boscawen and Major [Lionel] Walden, ofHuntingdon, who, it seems, do deal with him, do say how bravely I didspeak, and that the House was ready to have given me thanks for it; butthat, I think, is a vanity. Thence I with Lord Brouncker, and did take uphis mistress, Williams, and so to the 'Change, only to shew myself, anddid a little business there, and so home to dinner, and then to the officebusy till the evening, and then to the Excize Office, where I find Mr. Ball in a mighty trouble that he is to be put out of his place atMidsummer, the whole Commission being to cease, and the truth is I thinkthey are very fair dealing men, all of them. Here I did do a littlebusiness, and then to rights home, and there dispatched many papers, andso home late to supper and to bed, being eased of a great many thoughts, and yet have a great many more to remove as fast as I can, my mind beingburdened with them, having been so much employed upon the public businessof the office in their defence before the Parliament of late, and thefurther cases that do attend it. 

10th. Up, and to the office betimes, where all the morning. At noon hometo dinner with my clerks, and after dinner comes Kate Joyce, who tells meshe is putting off her house, which I am glad of, but it was pleasant thatshe come on purpose to me about getting a ticket paid, and in her wayhither lost her ticket, so that she is at a great loss what to do. --Therecomes in then Mrs. Mercer, the mother, the first time she has been heresince her daughter lived with us, to see my wife, and after a little talkI left them and to the office, and thence with Sir D. Gawden toWestminster Hall, thinking to have attended the Committee about theVictualling business, but they did not meet, but here we met Sir R. Brookes, who do mightily cry up my speech the other day, saying myfellow-officers are obliged to me, as indeed they are. Thence with Sir D. Gawden homewards, calling at Lincolne's Inn Fields: but my Lady Jemimahwas not within: and so to Newgate, where he stopped to give directions tothe jaylor about a Knight, one Sir Thomas Halford brought in yesterday forkilling one Colonel Temple, falling out at a taverne. So thence as far asLeadenhall, and there I 'light, and back by coach to Lincoln's Inn Fields;but my Lady was not come in, and so I am at a great loss whether she andher brother Hinchingbroke and sister will dine with me to-morrow or no, which vexes me. So home; and there comes Mr. Moore to me, who tells methat he fears my Lord Sandwich will meet with very great difficulties togo through about the prizes, it being found that he did give orders formore than the King's letter do justify; and then for the Act ofResumption, which he fears will go on, and is designed only to do himhurt, which troubles me much. He tells me he believes the Parliament willnot be brought to do anything in matters of religion, but will adhere tothe Bishops. So he gone, I up to supper, where I find W. Joyce and Harmancome to see us, and there was also Mrs. Mercer and her two daughters, andhere we were as merry as that fellow Joyce could make us with his madtalking, after the old wont, which tired me. But I was mightily pleasedwith his singing; for the rogue hath a very good eare, and a good voice. Here he stayed till he was almost drunk, and then away at about ten atnight, and then all broke up, and I to bed. 

11th. Up, and betimes to the office, where busy till 8 o'clock, and thenwent forth, and meeting Mr. Colvill, I walked with, him to his building, where he is building a fine house, where he formerly lived, in LumbardStreet: and it will be a very fine street. Thence walked down to theThree Cranes and there took boat to White Hall, where by direction Iwaited on the Duke of York about office business, and so by water toWestminster, where walking in the Hall most of the morning, and up to myLady Jem. In Lincoln's Inn Fields to get her to appoint the day certainwhen she will come and dine with me, and she hath appointed Saturday next. So back to Westminster; and there still walked, till by and by comes SirW. Coventry, and with him Mr. Chichly and Mr. Andrew Newport, I to dinnerwith them to Mr. Chichly's, in Queene Street, in Covent Garden. A veryfine house, and a man that lives in mighty great fashion, with all thingsin a most extraordinary manner noble and rich about him, and eats in theFrench fashion all; and mighty nobly served with his servants, and verycivilly; that I was mighty pleased with it: and good discourse. He is agreat defender of the Church of England, and against the Act forComprehension, which is the work of this day, about which the House islike to sit till night. After dinner, away with them back to Westminster, where, about four o'clock, the House rises, and hath done nothing more inthe business than to put off the debate to this day month. In the meantime the King hath put out his proclamations this day, as the Housedesired, for the putting in execution the Act against Nonconformists andPapists, but yet it is conceived that for all this some liberty must begiven, and people will have it. Here I met with my cozen Roger Pepys, whois come to town, and hath been told of my performance before the House theother day, and is mighty proud of it, and Captain Cocke met me hereto-day, and told me that the Speaker says he never heard such a defencemade; in all his life, in the House; and that the Sollicitor-Generall docommend me even to envy. I carried cozen Roger as far as the Strand, where, spying out of the coach Colonel Charles George Cocke, formerly avery great man, and my father's customer, whom I have carried clothes to, but now walks like a poor sorry sneake, he stopped, and I 'light to him. This man knew me, which I would have willingly avoided, so much pride Ihad, he being a man of mighty height and authority in his time, but nowsignifies nothing. Thence home, where to the office a while and thenhome, where W. Batelier was and played at cards and supped with us, myeyes being out of order for working, and so to bed. 

12th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, at noon home, andafter dinner with wife and Deb. , carried them to Unthanke's, and I toWestminster Hall expecting our being with the Committee this afternoonabout Victualling business, but once more waited in vain. So after a turnor two with Lord Brouncker, I took my wife up and left her at the 'Changewhile I to Gresham College, there to shew myself; and was there greeted byDr. Wilkins, Whistler, and others, as the patron of the Navy Office, andone that got great fame by my late speech to the Parliament. Here I saw agreat trial of the goodness of a burning glass, made of a new figure, notspherical (by one Smithys, I think, they call him), that did burn a gloveof my Lord Brouncker's from the heat of a very little fire, which aburning glass of the old form, or much bigger, could not do, which wasmighty pretty. Here I heard Sir Robert Southwell give an account of somethings committed to him by the Society at his going to Portugall, which hedid deliver in a mighty handsome manner. 

 [At the meeting of the Royal Society on March 12th, 1668, "Mr. Smethwick's glasses were tried again; and his telescope being compared with another longer telescope, and the object-glasses exchanged, was still found to exceed the other in goodness; and his burning concave being compared with a spherical burning-glass of almost twice the diameter, and held to the fire, it burnt gloves, whereas the other spherical ones would not burn at all. "--"Sir Robert Southwell being lately returned from Portugal, where he had been ambassador from the king, and being desired to acquaint the society with what he had done with respect to the instructions, which he had received from them before his departure from England, related, that he had lodged the astronomical quadrant, which the society had sent to Portugal to make observations with there, with a body of men at Lisbon, who had applied themselves among other kinds of literature to mathematics" (Birch's "History of the Royal Society, " vol. Ii. , p. 256). ]

Thence went away home, and there at my office as long as my eyes wouldendure, and then home to supper, and to talk with Mr. Pelling, who tellsme what a fame I have in the City for my late performance; and upon thewhole I bless God for it. I think I have, if I can keep it, done myself agreat deal of repute. So by and by to bed. 

13th. Up betimes to my office, where to fit myself for attending theParliament again, not to make any more speech, which, while my fame isgood, I will avoid, for fear of losing it; but only to answer to whatobjections will be made against us. Thence walked to the Old Swan anddrank at Michell's, whose house is going up apace. Here I saw Betty, butcould not baiser la, and so to Westminster, there to the Hall, where up tomy cozen Roger Pepys at the Parliament door, and there he took me aside, and told me how he was taken up by one of the House yesterday, for movingfor going on with the King's supply of money, without regard to thekeeping pace therewith, with the looking into miscarriages, and was toldby this man privately that it did arise because that he had a kinsmanconcerned therein; and therefore he would prefer the safety of his kinsmanto the good of the nation, and that there was great things against us andagainst me, for all my fine discourse the other day. But I did bid him beat no pain for me; for I knew of nothing but what I was very well preparedto answer; and so I think I am, and therefore was not at all disquieted bythis. Thence he to the House, and I to the Hall, where my Lord Brounckerand the rest waiting till noon and not called for by the House, they beingupon the business of money again, and at noon all of us to Chatelin's, theFrench house in Covent Garden, to dinner--Brouncker, J. Minnes, W. Pen, T. Harvey, and myself--and there had a dinner cost us 8s. 6d. A-piece, adamned base dinner, which did not please us at all, so that I am not fondof this house at all, but do rather choose the Beare. After dinner toWhite Hall to the Duke of York, and there did our usual business, complaining of our standing still in every-respect for want of money, butno remedy propounded, but so I must still be. Thence with our company tothe King's playhouse, where I left them, and I, my head being full ofto-morrow's dinner, I to my Lord Crew's, there to invite Sir Thomas Crew;and there met with my Lord Hinchingbroke and his lady, the first time Ispoke to her. I saluted her; and she mighty civil and; with my LadyJemimah, do all resolve to be very merry to-morrow at my house. My LadyHinchingbroke I cannot say is a beauty, nor ugly; but is altogether acomely lady enough, and seems very good-humoured, and I mighty glad of theoccasion of seeing her before to-morrow. Thence home; and there find onelaying of my napkins against tomorrow in figures of all sorts, which ismighty pretty; and, it seems, it is his trade, and he gets much money byit; and do now and then furnish tables with plate and linnen for a feastat so much, which is mighty pretty, and a trade I could not have thoughtof. I find my wife upon the bed not over well, her breast being broke outwith heat, which troubles her, but I hope it will be for her good. ThenceI to Mrs. Turner, and did get her to go along with me to the Frenchpewterer's, and there did buy some new pewter against to-morrow; andthence to White Hall, to have got a cook of her acquaintance, the best inEngland, as she says. But after we had with much ado found him, he couldnot come, nor was Mr. Gentleman in town, whom next I would have had, norwould Mrs. Stone let her man Lewis come, whom this man recommended to me;so that I was at a mighty loss what in the world to do for a cooke, Philips being out of town. Therefore, after staying here at Westminster agreat while, we back to London, and there to Philips's, and his mandirected us to Mr. Levett's, who could not come, and he sent to two more, and they could not; so that, at last, Levett as a great kindness didresolve he would leave his business and come himself, which set me ingreat ease in my mind, and so home, and there with my wife setting allthings in order against to-morrow, having seen Mrs. Turner at home, and solate to bed. 

14th. Up very betimes, and with Jane to Levett's, there to conclude uponour dinner; and thence to the pewterer's, to buy a pewter sesterne, [A pewter cistern was formerly part of the furniture of a well- appointed dining-room; the plates were rinsed in it, when necessary, during the meal. A magnificent silver cistern is still preserved in the dining-room at Burghley House, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter. It is said to be the largest piece of plate in England, and was once the subject of a curious wager. --B. ]

which I have ever hitherto been without, and so up and down upon severaloccasions to set matters in order, and that being done I out of doors toWestminster Hall, and there met my Lord Brouncker, who tells me that ourbusiness is put off till Monday, and so I was mighty glad that I was easedof my attendance here, and of any occasion that might put me out ofhumour, as it is likely if we had been called before the Parliament. Therefore, after having spoke with Mr. Godolphin and cozen Roger, I awayhome, and there do find everything in mighty good order, only my wife notdressed, which troubles me. Anon comes my company, viz. , my LordHinchingbroke and his lady, Sir Philip Carteret and his, lady, Godolphinand my cozen Roger, and Creed: and mighty merry; and by and by to dinner, which was very good and plentifull: (I should have said, and Mr. GeorgeMontagu), who come at a very little warning, which was exceeding kind ofhim. And there, among other things, my Lord had Sir Samuel Morland's lateinvention for casting up of sums of L. S. D. ;

 [The same as Morland's so-called calculating machine. Sir Samuel published in 1673 "The Description and Use of two Arithmetick Instruments, together with a short Treatise of Arithmetic, as likewise a Perpetual Almanack and severall useful tables. "]

which is very pretty, but not very useful. Most of our discourse was ofmy Lord Sandwich and his family, as being all of us of the family; andwith extraordinary pleasure all the afternoon, thus together eating andlooking over my closet: and my Lady Hinchingbroke I find a verysweet-natured and well-disposed lady, a lover of books and pictures, andof good understanding. About five o'clock they went; and then my wife andI abroad by coach into Moorefields, only for a little ayre, and so homeagain, staying no where, and then up to her chamber, there to talk withpleasure of this day's passages, and so to bed. This day I had thewelcome news of our prize being come safe from Holland, so as I shall havehopes, I hope, of getting my money of my Lady Batten, or good part of it. 

15th (Lord's day). Up and walked, it being fine dry weather, to Sir W. Coventry's, overtaking my boy Ely (that was), and he walked with me, beinggrown a man, and I think a sober fellow. He parted at Charing Cross, andI to Sir W. Coventry's, and there talked with him about the Commissionersof Accounts, who did give in their report yesterday to the House, and dolay little upon us as aggravate any thing at present, but only do give anaccount of the dissatisfactory account they receive from Sir G. Carteret, which I am sorry for, they saying that he tells them not any time when hepaid any sum, which is fit for them to know for the computing of interest, but I fear he is hardly able to tell it. They promise to give them anaccount of the embezzlement of prizes, wherein I shall be somethingconcerned, but nothing that I am afeard of, I thank God. Thence walkedwith W. Coventry into the Park, and there met the King and the Duke ofYork, and walked a good while with them: and here met Sir Jer. Smith, whotells me he is like to get the better of Holmes, and that when he is cometo an end of that, he will do Hollis's business for him, in the House, forhis blasphemies, which I shall be glad of. So to White Hall, and therewalked with this man and that man till chapel done, and, the King dinedand then Sir Thomas Clifford, the Comptroller, took me with him to dinnerto his lodgings, where my Lord Arlington and a great deal of good andgreat company; where I very civilly used by them, and had a most excellentdinner: and good discourse of Spain, Mr. Godolphin being there;particularly of the removal of the bodies of all the dead Kings of Spainthat could be got together, and brought to the Pantheon at the Escuriall, when it was finished, and there placed before the altar, there to lie forever; and there was a sermon made to them upon this text, "Arida ossa, audite verbum Dei;" and a most eloquent sermon, as they say, who say theyhave read it. After dinner, away hence, and I to Mrs. Martin's, and therespent the afternoon, and did hazer con elle, and here was her sister andMrs. Burrows, and so in the evening got a coach and home, and there findMr. Pelting and W. Hewer, and there talked and supped, Pelting being gone, and mightily pleased with a picture that W. Hewer brought hither ofseveral things painted upon a deale board, which board is so well paintedthat in my whole life I never was so well pleased or surprized with anypicture, and so troubled that so good pictures should be painted upon apiece of bad deale. Even after I knew that it was not board, but only thepicture of a board, I could not remove my fancy. After supper to bed, being very sleepy, and, I bless God, my mind being at very good presentrest. 

16th. Up, to set my papers and books in order, and put up my plate sincemy late feast, and then to Westminster, by water, with Mr. Hater, andthere, in the Hall, did walk all the morning, talking with one or other, expecting to have our business in the House; but did now a third time waitto no purpose, they being all this morning upon the business of Barker'spetition about the making void the Act of Settlement in Ireland, whichmakes a great deal of hot work: and, at last, finding that by all men'sopinion they could not come to our matter today, I with Sir W. Pen home, and there to dinner, where I find, by Willet's crying, that her mistresshad been angry with her: but I would take no notice of it. Busy all theafternoon at the office, and then by coach to the Excize Office, but lostmy labour, there being nobody there, and so back again home, and after alittle at the office I home, and there spent the evening with my wifetalking and singing, and so to bed with my mind pretty well at ease. Thisevening W. Pen and Sir R. Ford and I met at the first's house to talk ofour prize that is now at last come safe over from Holland, by which I hopeto receive some if not all the benefit of my bargain with W. Batten for myshare in it, which if she had miscarried I should have doubted of my LadyBatten being left little able to have paid me. 

17th. Up betimes and to the office, where all the morning busy, and thenat noon home to dinner, and so again to the office awhile, and then abroadto the Excize-Office, where I met Mr. Ball, and did receive the paper Iwent for; and there fell in talk with him, who, being an old cavalier, doswear and curse at the present state of things, that we should be broughtto this, that we must be undone and cannot be saved; that the Parliamentis sitting now, and will till midnight, to find how to raise thisL300, 000, and he doubts they will not do it so as to be seasonable for theKing: but do cry out against our great men at Court; how it is a finething for a Secretary of State to dance a jigg, and that it was not soheretofore; and, above all, do curse my Lord of Bristoll, saying the worstnews that ever he heard in his life, or that the Devil could ever bringus, was this Lord's coming to prayers the other day in the House of Lords, by which he is coming about again from being a Papist, which will undothis nation; and he says he ever did say, at the King's first coming in, that this nation could not be safe while that man was alive. Having donethere, I away towards Westminster, but seeing by the coaches the House tobe up, I stopped at the 'Change (where, I met Mrs. Turner, and did giveher a pair of gloves), and there bought several things for my wife, and soto my bookseller's, and there looked for Montaigne's Essays, [This must have been Florio's translation, as Cotton's was not published until 1685. ]

which I heard by my Lord Arlington and Lord Blaney so much commended, andintend to buy it, but did not now, but home, where at the office did somebusiness, as much as my eyes would give leave, and so home to supper, Mercer with us talking and singing, and so to bed. The House, I hear, have this day concluded upon raising L100, 000 of the L300, 000 by wine, andthe rest by a poll-[tax], and have resolved to excuse the Church, inexpectation that they will do the more of themselves at this juncture; andI do hear that Sir W. Coventry did make a speech in behalf of the Clergy. 

18th. Up betimes to Westminster, where met with cozen Roger and Creed andwalked with them, and Roger do still continue of the mind that there is noother way of saving this nation but by dissolving this Parliament andcalling another; but there are so many about the King that will not beable to stand, if a new Parliament come, that they will not persuade theKing to it. I spent most of the morning walking with one or other, andanon met Doll Lane at the Dog tavern, and there je did hater what I diddesire with her . . . And I did give her as being my valentine 20s. Tobuy what elle would. Thence away by coach to my bookseller's, and toseveral places to pay my debts, and to Ducke Lane, and there boughtMontaigne's Essays, in English, and so away home to dinner, and afterdinner with W. Pen to White Hall, where we and my Lord Brouncker attendedthe Council, to discourse about the fitness of entering of men presentlyfor the manning of the fleete, before one ship is in condition to receivethem. W. Coventry did argue against it: I was wholly silent, because Isaw the King, upon the earnestness of the Prince, was willing to it, crying very sillily, "If ever you intend to man the fleete, without beingcheated by the captains and pursers, you may go to bed, and resolve neverto have it manned;" and so it was, like other things, over-ruled that allvolunteers should be presently entered. Then there was another greatbusiness about our signing of certificates to the Exchequer for [prize]goods, upon the L1, 20, 000 Act, which the Commissioners of the Treasury didall oppose, and to the laying fault upon us. But I did then speak to thejustifying what we had done, even to the angering of Duncomb and Clifford, which I was vexed at: but, for all that, I did set the Office and myselfright, and went away with the victory, my Lord Keeper saying that he wouldnot advise the Council to order us to sign no more certificates. But, before I began to say anything in this matter, the King and the Duke ofYork talking at the Council-table, before all the Lords, of the Committeeof Miscarriages, how this entering of men before the ships could be readywould be reckoned a miscarriage; "Why, " says the King, "it is then but Mr. Pepys making of another speech to them;" which made all the Lords, andthere were by also the Atturny and Sollicitor-Generall, look upon me. Thence Sir W. Coventry, W. Pen and I, by hackney-coach to take a littleayre in Hyde Parke, the first time I have been there this year; and we didmeet many coaches going and coming, it being mighty pleasant weather; andso, coming back again, I 'light in the Pell Mell; and there went to seeSir H. Cholmly, who continues very ill of his cold. And there come in SirH. Yelverton, whom Sir H. Cholmly commended me to his acquaintance, whichthe other received, but without remembering to me, or I him, of our beingschool-fellows together; and I said nothing of it. But he took notice ofmy speech the other day at the bar of the House; and indeed I perceive heis a wise man by his manner of discourse, and here he do say that the townis full of it, that now the Parliament hath resolved upon L300, 000, theKing, instead of fifty, will set out but twenty-five ships, and the Dutchas many; and that Smith is to command them, who is allowed to have thebetter of Holmes in the late dispute, and is in good esteem in theParliament, above the other. Thence home, and there, in favour to my eyes, stayed at home, reading the ridiculous History of my Lord Newcastle, wroteby his wife, which shews her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, andhe an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him, and of him. 

 ["The Life of the thrice noble, high, and puissant Prince, William Cavendish, Duke . . . Of Newcastle, " by his duchess, of which the first edition, in folio, was published in 1667. ]

Betty Turner sent my wife the book to read, and it being a fair print, toease my eyes, which would be reading, I read that. Anon comes Mrs. Turnerand sat and talked with us, and most about the business of Ackworth, [William Acworth, storekeeper at Woolwich, was accused of converting stores to his own use (see "Calendar of State Papers, " 1667-68, p. 279). ]

which comes before us to-morrow, that I would favour it, but I do notthink, notwithstanding all the friendship I can shew him, that he canescape, and therefore it had been better that he had followed the advice Isent him the other day by Mrs. Turner, to make up the business. Soparted, and I to bed, my eyes being very bad; and I know not how in theworld to abstain from reading. 

19th. Up, and betimes to the Old Swan, and by water to White Hall, andthence to W. Coventry's, where stayed but a little to talk with him, andthence by water back again, it being a mighty fine, clear spring morning. Back to the Old Swan, and drank at Michell's, whose house goes up apace, but I could not see Betty, and thence walked all along Thames Street, which I have not done since it was burned, as far as Billingsgate; andthere do see a brave street likely to be, many brave houses being built, and of them a great many by Mr. Jaggard; but the raising of the streetwill make it mighty fine. So to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and thence to the office, very busy till fiveo'clock, and then to ease my eyes I took my wife out and Deb. To the'Change, and there bought them some things, and so home again and to theoffice, ended my letters, and so home to read a little more in lastnight's book, with much sport, it being a foolish book, and so to supperand to bed. This afternoon I was surprized with a letter without a nameto it, very well writ, in a good stile, giving me notice of my cozen KateJoyce's being likely to ruin herself by marriage, and by ill reportsalready abroad of her, and I do fear that this keeping of an inne mayspoil her, being a young and pretty comely woman, and thought to be leftwell. I did answer the letter with thanks and good liking, and amresolved to take the advice he gives me, and go see her, and find out whatI can: but if she will ruin herself, I cannot help it, though I should betroubled for it. 

20th. Up betimes, and to my Office, where we had a meeting extraordinaryto consider of several things, among others the sum of money fit to bedemanded ready money, to enable us to set out 27 ships, every body beingnow in pain for a fleete, and everybody endeavouring to excuse themselvesfor the not setting out of one, and our true excuse is lack of money. Atit all the morning, and so at noon home to dinner with my clerks, my wifeand Deb. Being busy at work above in her chamber getting things ready andfine for her going into the country a week or two hence. I away by coachto White Hall, where we met to wait on the Duke of York, and, soon asprayers were done, it being Good Friday, he come to us, and we did alittle business and presented him with our demand of money, and so brokeup, and I thence by coach to Kate Joyce's, being desirous and in pain tospeak with her about the business that I received a letter yesterday, buthad no opportunity of speaking with her about it, company being with her, so I only invited her to come and dine with me on Sunday next, and so awayhome, and for saving my eyes at my chamber all the evening pricking downsome things, and trying some conclusions upon my viall, in order to theinventing a better theory of musique than hath yet been abroad; and Ithink verily I shall do it. So to supper with my wife, who is in verygood humour with her working, and so am I, and so to bed. This day atCourt I do hear that Sir W. Pen do command this summer's fleete; and Mr. Progers of the Bedchamber, as a secret, told me that the Prince Rupert istroubled at it, and several friends of his have been with him to know thereason of it; so that he do pity Sir W. Pen, whom he hath great kindnessfor, that he should not at any desire of his be put to this service, andthereby make the Prince his enemy, and contract more envy from otherpeople. But I am not a whit sorry if it should be so, first for theKing's sake, that his work will be better done by Sir W. Pen than thePrince, and next that Pen, who is a false rogue, may be bit a little byit. 

21st. Up betimes to the office, and there we sat all the morning, at noonhome with my clerks, a good dinner, and then to the Office, and wrote myletters, and then abroad to do several things, and pay what little scoresI had, and among others to Mrs. Martin's, and there did give 20s. To Mrs. Cragg, her landlady, who was my Valentine in the house, as well as DollLane . . . . So home and to the office, there to end my letters, andso home, where Betty Turner was to see my wife, and she being gone I to mychamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed. 

22nd (Easter day). I up, and walked to the Temple, and there got a coach, and to White Hall, where spoke with several people, and find by all thatPen is to go to sea this year with this fleete; and they excuse thePrince's going, by saying it is not a command great enough for him. Here Imet with Brisband, and, after hearing the service at the King's chapel, where I heard the Bishop of Norwich, Dr. Reynolds, the old presbyterian, begin a very plain sermon, he and I to the Queen's chapel, and there didhear the Italians sing; and indeed their musick did appear most admirableto me, beyond anything of ours: I was never so well satisfied in my lifewith it. So back to White Hall, and there met Mr. Pierce, and adjustedtogether how we should spend to-morrow together, and so by coach I home todinner, where Kate Joyce was, as I invited her, and had a good dinner, only she and us; and after dinner she and I alone to talk about herbusiness, as I designed; and I find her very discreet, and she assures meshe neither do nor will incline to the doing anything towards marriage, without my advice, and did tell me that she had many offers, and thatHarman and his friends would fain have her; but he is poor, and hath poorfriends, and so it will not be advisable: but that there is another, atobacconist, one Holinshed, whom she speaks well of, to be a plain, soberman, and in good condition, that offers her very well, and submits to memy examining and inquiring after it, if I see good, which I do like of it, for it will be best for her to marry, I think, as soon as she can--atleast, to be rid of this house; for the trade will not agree with a youngwidow, that is a little handsome, at least ordinary people think her so. Being well satisfied with her answer, she anon went away, and I to mycloset to make a few more experiments of my notions in musique, and sothen my wife and I to walk in the garden, and then home to supper and tobed. 

23rd. Up, and after discoursing with my wife about many things touchingthis day's dinner, I abroad, and first to the taverne to pay what I owethere, but missed of seeing the mistress of the house, and there bespokewine for dinner, and so away thence, and to Bishopsgate Streete, thinkingto have found a Harpsicon-maker that used to live there before the fire, but he is gone, and I have a mind forthwith to have a little Harpsiconmade me to confirm and help me in my musique notions, which my head isnow-a-days full of, and I do believe will come to something that is verygood. Thence to White Hall, expecting to have heard the Bishop ofLincolne, my friend, preach, for so I understood he would do yesterday, but was mistaken, and therefore away presently back again, and there findeverything in good order against dinner, and at noon come Mr. Pierce andshe, and Mrs. Manuel, the Jew's wife, and Mrs. Corbet, and Mrs. Piercesboy and girl. But we are defeated of Knepp, by her being forced to actto-day, and also of Harris, which did trouble me, they being my chiefguests. However, I had an extraordinary good dinner, and the betterbecause dressed by my own servants, and were mighty merry; and here wasMr. Pelling by chance come and dined with me; and after sitting long atdinner, I had a barge ready at Tower-wharfe, to take us in, and so wewent, all of us, up as high as Barne-Elms, a very fine day, and all theway sang; and Mrs. Manuel sings very finely, and is a mighty discreet, sober-carriaged woman, that both my wife and I are mightily taken withher, and sings well, and without importunity or the contrary. AtBarne-Elms we walked round, and then to the barge again, and had muchmerry talk, and good singing; and come before it was dark to the NewExchange stairs, and there landed, and walked up to Mrs. Pierces, where wesat awhile, and then up to their dining-room. And so, having a violin andtheorbo, did fall to dance, here being also Mrs. Floyd come hither, and byand by Mr. Harris. But there being so few of us that could dance, and mywife not being very well, we had not much pleasure in the dancing: therewas Knepp also, by which with much pleasure we did sing a little, and so, about ten o'clock, I took coach with my wife and Deb. , and so home, andthere to bed. 

24th. Up pretty betimes, and so there comes to me Mr. Shish, to desire myappearing for him to succeed Mr. Christopher Pett, lately dead, in hisplace of Master-Shipwright of Deptford and Woolwich, which I do resolve topromote what I can. So by and by to White Hall, and there to the Duke ofYork's chamber, where I understand it is already resolved by the King andDuke of York that Shish shall have the place. From the Duke's chamber SirW. Coventry and I to walk in the Matted Gallery; and there, among otherthings, he tells me of the wicked design that now is at last contrivingagainst him, to get a petition presented from people that the money theyhave paid to W. Coventry for their places may be repaid them back; andthat this is set on by Temple and Hollis of the Parliament, and, amongother mean people in it, by Captain Tatnell: and he prays me that I willuse some effectual way to sift Tatnell what he do, and who puts him on inthis business, which I do undertake, and will do with all my skill for hisservice, being troubled that he is still under this difficulty. Thence upand down Westminster by Mrs. Burroughes her mother's shop, thinking tohave seen her, but could not, and therefore back to White Hall, wheregreat talk of the tumult at the other end of the town, about Moore-fields, among the 'prentices, taking the liberty of these holydays to pull downbawdy-houses. 

 [It was customary for the apprentices of the metropolis to avail themselves of their holidays, especially on Shrove Tuesday, to search after women of ill fame, and to confine them during the season of Lent. See a "Satyre against Separatists, " 1642. 

 "Stand forth, Shrove Tuesday, one a' the silenc'st bricklayers; 'Tis in your charge to pull down bawdy-houses. "

 Middleton's Inner Temple Masque, 1619, Works, ed. Bullen, vii. , 209. ]

And, Lord! to see the apprehensions which this did give to all people atCourt, that presently order was given for all the soldiers, horse andfoot, to be in armes! and forthwith alarmes were beat by drum and trumpetthrough Westminster, and all to their colours, and to horse, as if theFrench were coming into the town! So Creed, whom I met here, and I toLincolne's Inn-fields, thinking to have gone into the fields to have seenthe 'prentices; but here we found these fields full of soldiers all in abody, and my Lord Craven commanding of them, and riding up and down togive orders, like a madman. And some young men we saw brought by soldiersto the Guard at White Hall, and overheard others that stood by say, thatit was only for pulling down the bawdy-houses; and none of the bystandersfinding fault with them, but rather of the soldiers for hindering them. And we heard a justice of the Peace this morning say to the King, that hehad been endeavouring to suppress this tumult, but could not; and that, imprisoning some [of them] in the new prison at Clerkenwell, the rest didcome and break open the prison and release them; and that they do give outthat they are for pulling down the bawdy-houses, which is one of thegreatest grievances of the nation. To which the King made a very poor, cold, insipid answer: "Why, why do they go to them, then?" and that wasall, and had no mind to go on with the discourse. Mr. Creed and I todinner to my Lord Crew, where little discourse, there being none but us atthe table, and my Lord and my Lady Jemimah, and so after dinner away, Creed and I to White Hall, expecting a Committee of Tangier, but come toolate. So I to attend the Council, and by and by were called in with LordBrouncker and Sir W. Pen to advise how to pay away a little money to mostadvantage to the men of the yards, to make them dispatch the ships goingout, and there did make a little speech, which was well liked, and afterall it was found most satisfactory to the men, and best for the king'sdispatch, that what money we had should be paid weekly to the men fortheir week's work until a greater sum could be got to pay them theirarrears and then discharge them. But, Lord! to see what shifts and whatcares and thoughts there was employed in this matter how to do the King'swork and please the men and stop clamours would make a man think the Kingshould not eat a bit of good meat till he has got money to pay the men, but I do not see the least print of care or thoughts in him about it atall. Having done here, I out and there met Sir Fr. Hollis, who do stilltell me that, above all things in the world, he wishes he had my tongue inhis mouth, meaning since my speech in Parliament. He took Lord Brounckerand me down to the guards, he and his company being upon the guardsto-day; and there he did, in a handsome room to that purpose, make usdrink, and did call for his bagpipes, which, with pipes of ebony, tiptwith silver, he did play beyond anything of that kind that ever I heard inmy life; and with great pains he must have obtained it, but with painsthat the instrument do not deserve at all; for, at the best, it is mightybarbarous musick. So home and there to my chamber, to prick out my song, "It is Decreed, " intending to have it ready to give Mr. Harris onThursday, when we meet, for him to sing, believing that he will do it moreright than a woman that sings better, unless it were Knepp, which I cannothave opportunity to teach it to. This evening I come home from White Hallwith Sir W. Pen, who fell in talk about his going to sea this year, andthe difficulties that arise to him by it, by giving offence to the Prince, and occasioning envy to him, and many other things that make it a badmatter, at this time of want of money and necessaries, and bad and unevencounsels at home, --for him to go abroad: and did tell me how much with theKing and Duke of York he had endeavoured to be excused, desiring thePrince might be satisfied in it, who hath a mind to go; but he tells methey will not excuse him, and I believe it, and truly do judge it a pieceof bad fortune to W. Pen. 

25th. Up, and walked to White Hall, there to wait on the Duke of York, which I did: and in his chamber there, first by hearing the Duke of Yorkcall me by my name, my Lord Burlington did come to me, and with greatrespect take notice of me and my relation to my Lord Sandwich, and expressgreat kindness to me; and so to talk of my Lord Sandwich's concernments. By and by the Duke of York is ready; and I did wait for an opportunity ofspeaking my mind to him about Sir J. Minnes, his being unable to do theKing any service, which I think do become me to do in all respects, andhave Sir W. Coventry's concurrence therein, which I therefore will seek aspeedy opportunity to do, come what will come of it. The Duke of York andall with him this morning were full of the talk of the 'prentices, who arenot yet [put] down, though the guards and militia of the town have been inarmes all this night, and the night before; and the 'prentices have madefools of them, sometimes by running from them and flinging stones at them. Some blood hath been spilt, but a great many houses pulled down; and, among others, the Duke of York was mighty merry at that of Damaris Page's, the great bawd of the seamen; and the Duke of York complained merrily thathe hath lost two tenants, by their houses being pulled down, who paid himfor their wine licenses L15 a year. But here it was said how these idlefellows have had the confidence to say that they did ill in contentingthemselves in pulling down the little bawdyhouses, and did not go and pulldown the great bawdy-house at White Hall. And some of them have the lastnight had a word among them, and it was "Reformation and Reducement. "This do make the courtiers ill at ease to see this spirit among people, though they think this matter will not come to much: but it speakspeople's minds; and then they do say that there are men of understandingamong them, that have been of Cromwell's army: but how true that is, Iknow not. Thence walked a little to Westminster, but met with nobody tospend any time with, and so by coach homeward, and in Seething Lane metyoung Mrs. Daniel, and I stopt, and she had been at my house, but foundnobody within, and tells me that she drew me for her Valentine this year, so I took her into the coach, and was going to the other end of the town, thinking to have taken her abroad, but remembering that I was to go outwith my wife this afternoon, . . . And so to a milliner at the cornershop going into Bishopsgate and Leadenhall Street, and there did give hereight pair of gloves, and so dismissed her, and so I home and to dinner, and then with my wife to the King's playhouse to see "The Storme, " whichwe did, but without much pleasure, it being but a mean play compared with"The Tempest, " at the Duke of York's house, though Knepp did act her partof grief very well. Thence with my wife and Deb. By coach to Islington, to the old house, and there eat and drank till it was almost night, andthen home, being in fear of meeting the 'prentices, who are many of themyet, they say, abroad in the fields, but we got well home, and so I to mychamber a while, and then to supper and to bed. 

26th. Up betimes to the office, where by and by my Lord Brouncker and Imet and made an end of our business betimes. So I away with him to Mrs. Williams's, and there dined, and thence I alone to the Duke of York'shouse, to see the new play, called "The Man is the Master, " where thehouse was, it being not above one o'clock, very full. But my wife andDeb. Being there before, with Mrs. Pierce and Corbet and Betty Turner, whom my wife carried with her, they made me room; and there I sat, itcosting me 8s. Upon them in oranges, at 6d. A-piece. By and by the Kingcome; and we sat just under him, so that I durst not turn my back all theplay. The play is a translation out of French, and the plot Spanish, butnot anything extraordinary at all in it, though translated by Sir W. Davenant, and so I found the King and his company did think meanly of it, though there was here and there something pretty: but the most of themirth was sorry, poor stuffe, of eating of sack posset and slabberingthemselves, and mirth fit for clownes; the prologue but poor, and theepilogue little in it but the extraordinariness of it, it being sung byHarris and another in the form of a ballet. Thence, by agreement, we allof us to the Blue Balls, hard by, whither Mr. Pierce also goes with us, who met us at the play, and anon comes Manuel, and his wife, and Knepp, and Harris, who brings with him Mr. Banister, the great master of musique;and after much difficulty in getting of musique, we to dancing, and thento a supper of some French dishes, which yet did not please me, and thento dance and sing; and mighty merry we were till about eleven or twelve atnight, with mighty great content in all my company, and I did, as I loveto do, enjoy myself in my pleasure as being the height of what we takepains for and can hope for in this world, and therefore to be enjoyedwhile we are young and capable of these joys. My wife extraordinary fineto-day, in her flower tabby suit, bought a year and more ago, before mymother's death put her into mourning, and so not worn till this day: andevery body in love with it; and indeed she is very fine and handsome init. I having paid the reckoning, which come to almost L4. , we parted: mycompany and William Batelier, who was also with us, home in a coach, roundby the Wall, where we met so many stops by the Watches, that it cost usmuch time and some trouble, and more money, to every Watch, to them todrink; this being encreased by the trouble the 'prentices did lately givethe City, so that the Militia and Watches are very strict at this time;and we had like to have met with a stop for all night at the Constable'swatch, at Mooregate, by a pragmatical Constable; but we come well home atabout two in the morning, and so to bed. This noon, from Mrs. Williams's, my Lord Brouncker sent to Somersett House to hear how the Duchess ofRichmond do; and word was brought him that she is pretty well, but mightyfull of the smallpox, by which all do conclude she will be wholly spoiled, which is the greatest instance of the uncertainty of beauty that could bein this age; but then she hath had the benefit of it to be first married, and to have kept it so long, under the greatest temptations in the worldfrom a King, and yet without the least imputation. This afternoon, at theplay, Sir Fr. Hollis spoke to me as a secret, and matter of confidence inme, and friendship to Sir W. Pen, who is now out of town, that it werewell he were made acquainted that he finds in the House of Commons, whichmet this day, several motions made for the calling strictly again upon theMiscarriages, and particularly in the business of the Prises, and the notprosecuting of the first victory, only to give an affront to Sir W. Pen, whose going to sea this year do give them matter of great dislike. Sothough I do not much trouble myself for him, yet I am sorry that he shouldhave this fall so unhappily without any fault, but rather merit of his ownthat made him fitter for this command than any body else, and the more forthat this business of his may haply occasion their more eager pursuitagainst the whole body of the office. 

27th. Up, and walked to the waterside, and thence to White Hall to theDuke of York's chamber, where he being ready he went to a Committee ofTangier, where I first understand that my Lord Sandwich is, in his comingback from Spayne, to step over thither, to see in what condition the placeis, which I am glad of, hoping that he will be able to do some good there, for the good of the place, which is so much out of order. Thence to walka little in Westminster Hall, where the Parliament I find sitting, butspoke with nobody to let me know what they are doing, nor did I enquire. Thence to the Swan and drank, and did baiser Frank, and so down by waterback again, and to the Exchange a turn or two, only to show myself, andthen home to dinner, where my wife and I had a small squabble, but I firstthis day tried the effect of my silence and not provoking her when she isin an ill humour, and do find it very good, for it prevents its coming tothat height on both sides which used to exceed what was fit between us. So she become calm by and by and fond, and so took coach, and she to themercer's to buy some lace, while I to White Hall, but did nothing, butthen to Westminster Hall and took a turn, and so to Mrs. Martin's, andthere did sit a little and talk and drink, and did hazer con her, and sotook coach and called my wife at Unthanke's, and so up and down to theNursery, where they did not act, then to the New Cockpit, and theremissed, and then to Hide Parke, where many coaches, but the dust so great, that it was troublesome, and so by night home, where to my chamber andfinished my pricking out of my song for Mr. Harris ("It is decreed"), andso a little supper, being very sleepy and weary since last night, and soby to o'clock to bed and slept well all night. This day, at noon, comesMr. Pelling to me, and shews me the stone cut lately out of Sir ThomasAdams' (the old comely Alderman's) body, which is very large indeed, bigger I think than my fist, and weighs above twenty-five ounces and, which is very miraculous, he never in all his life had any fit of it, butlived to a great age without pain, and died at last of something else, without any sense of this in all his life. This day Creed at White Hallin discourse told me what information he hath had, from very good hands, of the cowardice and ill-government of Sir Jer. Smith and Sir ThomasAllen, and the repute they have both of them abroad in the Streights, fromtheir deportment when they did at several times command there; and that, above all Englishmen that ever were there, there never was any man thatbehaved himself like poor Charles Wager, whom the very Moores do mention, with teares sometimes. 

28th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy, and at noon hometo dinner with my clerks; and though my head full of business, yet I had adesire to end this holyday week with a play; and so, with my wife andDeb. , to the King's house, and there saw "The Indian Emperour, " a verygood play indeed, and thence directly home, and to my writing of myletters, and so home to supper and to bed for fearing my eyes. Ourgreatest business at the office to-day is our want of money for thesetting forth of these ships that are to go out, and my people at dinnertell me that they do verily doubt that the want of men will be so great, as we must press; and if we press, there will be mutinies in the town; forthe seamen are said already to have threatened the pulling down of theTreasury Office; and if they do once come to that, it will not be longbefore they come to ours. 

29th (Lord's day). Up, and I to Church, where I have not been these manyweeks before, and there did first find a strange Reader, who could notfind in the Service-book the place for churching women, but was fain tochange books with the clerke: and then a stranger preached, a seeming ableman; but said in his pulpit that God did a greater work in raising of anoake-tree from an akehorne, than a man's body raising it, at the last day, from his dust (shewing the possibility of the Resurrection): which was, methought, a strange saying. At home to dinner, whither comes and dineswith me W. Howe, and by invitation Mr. Harris and Mr. Banister, mostextraordinary company both, the latter for musique of all sorts, theformer for everything: here we sang, and Banister played on the theorbo, and afterwards Banister played on his flageolet, and I had very gooddiscourse with him about musique, so confirming some of my new notionsabout musique that it puts me upon a resolution to go on and make a schemeand theory of musique not yet ever made in the world. Harris do socommend my wife's picture of Mr. Hales's, that I shall have him drawHarris's head; and he hath also persuaded me to have Cooper draw mywife's, which, though it cost L30, yet I will have done. Thus spent theafternoon most deliciously, and then broke up and walked with them as faras the Temple, and there parted, and I took coach to Westminster, butthere did nothing, meeting nobody that I had a mind to speak with, and sohome, and there find Mr. Pelling, and then also comes Mrs. Turner, andsupped and talked with us, and so to bed. I do hear by several that SirW. Pen's going to sea do dislike the Parliament mightily, and that theyhave revived the Committee of Miscarriages to find something to preventit; and that he being the other day with the Duke of Albemarle to ask hisopinion touching his going to sea, the Duchess overheard and come in tohim, and asks W. Pen how he durst have the confidence to offer to go tosea again, to the endangering the nation, when he knew himself such acoward as he was, which, if true, is very severe. 

30th. Up betimes, and so to the office, there to do business till aboutto o'clock, and then out with my wife and Deb. And W. Hewer by coach toCommon-garden Coffee-house, where by appointment I was to meet Harris;which I did, and also Mr. Cooper, the great painter, and Mr. Hales: andthence presently to Mr. Cooper's house, to see some of his work, which isall in little, but so excellent as, though I must confess I do think thecolouring of the flesh to be a little forced, yet the painting is soextraordinary, as I do never expect to see the like again. Here I did seeMrs. Stewart's picture as when a young maid, and now just done before herhaving the smallpox: and it would make a man weep to see what she wasthen, and what she is like to be, by people's discourse, now. Here I sawmy Lord Generall's picture, and my Lord Arlington and Ashly's, and severalothers; but among the rest one Swinfen, that was Secretary to my LordManchester, Lord Chamberlain, with Cooling, done so admirably as I neversaw any thing: but the misery was, this fellow died in debt, and neverpaid Cooper for his picture; but, it being seized on by his creditors, among his other goods, after his death, Cooper himself says that he didbuy it, and give L25 out of his purse for it, for what he was to have hadbut L30. Being infinitely satisfied with this sight, and resolving thatmy wife shall be drawn by him when she comes out of the country, I awaywith Harris and Hales to the Coffee-house, sending my people away, andthere resolve for Hales to begin Harris's head for me, which I will be atthe cost of. After a little talk, I away to White Hall and Westminster, where I find the Parliament still bogling about the raising of this money:and every body's mouth full now; and Mr. Wren himself tells me that theDuke of York declares to go to sea himself this year; and I perceive it isonly on this occasion of distaste of the Parliament against W. Pen'sgoing, and to prevent the Prince's: but I think it is mighty hot counselfor the Duke of York at this time to go out of the way; but, Lord! what apass are all our matters come to! At noon by appointment to Cursitor'sAlley, in Chancery Lane, to meet Captain Cocke and some other creditors ofthe Navy, and their Counsel, Pemberton, North, Offly, and Charles Porter;and there dined, and talked of the business of the assignments on theExchequer of the L1, 250, 000 on behalf of our creditors; and there I doperceive that the Counsel had heard of my performance in theParliamenthouse lately, and did value me and what I said accordingly. Atdinner we had a great deal of good discourse about Parliament: theirnumber being uncertain, and always at the will of the King to encrease, ashe saw reason to erect a new borough. But all concluded that the bane ofthe Parliament hath been the leaving off the old custom of the placesallowing wages to those that served them in Parliament, by which theychose men that understood their business and would attend it, and theycould expect an account from, which now they cannot; and so the Parliamentis become a company of men unable to give account for the interest of theplace they serve for. Thence, the meeting of the Counsel with the King'sCounsel this afternoon being put off by reason of the death of SerjeantMaynard's lady, I to White Hall, where the Parliament was to wait on theKing; and they did: and it was to be told that he did think fit to tellthem that they might expect to be adjourned at Whitsuntide, and that theymight make haste to raise their money; but this, I fear, will displeasethem, who did expect to sit as long as they pleased, and whether this bedone by the King upon some new counsel I know not, for the King must bebeholding to them till they do settle this business of money. Great talkto-day as if Beaufort was come into the Channel with about 20 ships, andit makes people apprehensive, but yet the Parliament do not stir a bitfaster in the business of money. Here I met with Creed, expecting aCommittee of Tangier, but the Committee met not, so he and I up and down, having nothing to do, and particularly to the New Cockpit by the King'sGate in Holborne, but seeing a great deal of rabble we did refuse to goin, but took coach and to Hide Park, and there till all the tour wasempty, and so he and I to the Lodge in the Park, and there eat and dranktill it was night, and then carried him to White Hall, having hadabundance of excellent talk with him in reproach of the times andmanagements we live under, and so I home, and there to talk and to supperwith my wife, and so to bed. 

31st. Up pretty betimes and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon I home to dinner, where uncle Thomas dined with me, as he doevery quarter, and I paid him his pension; and also comes Mr. Hollier alittle fuddled, and so did talk nothing but Latin, and laugh, that it wasvery good sport to see a sober man in such a humour, though he was notdrunk to scandal. At dinner comes a summons for this office and theVictualler to attend a Committee of Parliament this afternoon, with Sir D. Gawden, which I accordingly did, with my papers relating to the sending ofvictuals to Sir John Harman's fleete; and there, Sir R. Brookes in thechair, we did give them a full account, but, Lord! to see how full theyare and immoveable in their jealousy that some means are used to keepHarman from coming home, for they have an implacable desire to know thebottom of the not improving the first victory, and would lay it uponBrouncker. Having given them good satisfaction I away thence, up anddown, wanting a little to see whether I could get Mrs. Burroughes out, butelle being in the shop ego did speak con her much, she could not then gofar, and so I took coach and away to Unthanke's, and there took up my wifeand Deb. , and to the Park, where, being in a hackney, and they undressed, was ashamed to go into the tour, but went round the park, and so withpleasure home, where Mr. Pelting come and sat and talked late with us, andhe being gone, I called Deb. To take pen, ink, and paper and write downwhat things come into my head for my wife to do in order to her going intothe country, and the girl, writing not so well as she would do, cried, andher mistress construed it to be sullenness, and so away angry with hertoo, but going to bed she undressed me, and there I did give her goodadvice and baiser la, elle weeping still. 

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