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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 WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES

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 HENRY B. WHEATLEY F. S. A. 

 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. MAY 1668

May 1st, 1668. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy. Thento Westminster Hall, and there met Sir W. Pen, who labours to have hisanswer to his impeachment, and sent down from the Lords' House, read bythe House of Commons; but they are so busy on other matters, that hecannot, and thereby will, as he believes, by design, be prevented fromgoing to sea this year. Here met my cozen Thomas Pepys of Deptford, andtook some turns with him; who is mightily troubled for this Act now passedagainst Conventicles, and in few words, and sober, do lament the conditionwe are in, by a negligent Prince and a mad Parliament. Thence I by coachto the Temple, and there set him down, and then to Sir G. Carteret's todine, but he not being at home, I back again to the New Exchange a little, and thence back again to Hercules Pillars, and there dined all alone, andthen to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Surprizall;" and adisorder in the pit by its raining in, from the cupola at top, it being avery foul day, and cold, so as there are few I believe go to the Parkto-day, if any. Thence to Westminster Hall, and there I understand howthe Houses of Commons and Lords are like to disagree very much, about thebusiness of the East India Company and one Skinner; to the latter of whichthe Lords have awarded L5000 from the former, for some wrong done himheretofore; and the former appealing to the Commons, the Lords vote theirpetition a libell; and so there is like to follow very hot work. Thenceby water, not being able to get a coach, nor boat but a sculler, and thatwith company, is being so foul a day, to the Old Swan, and so home, andthere spent the evening, making Balty read to me, and so to supper and tobed. 

2nd. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon with Lord Brounckerin his coach as far as the Temple, and there 'light and to HerculesPillars, and there dined, and thence to the Duke of York's playhouse, at alittle past twelve, to get a good place in the pit, against the new play, and there setting a poor man to keep my place, I out, and spent an hour atMartin's, my bookseller's, and so back again, where I find the house quitefull. But I had my place, and by and by the King comes and the Duke ofYork; and then the play begins, called "The Sullen Lovers; or, TheImpertinents, " having many good humours in it, but the play tedious, andno design at all in it. But a little boy, for a farce, do dancePolichinelli, the best that ever anything was done in the world, by allmen's report: most pleased with that, beyond anything in the world, andmuch beyond all the play. Thence to the King's house to see Knepp, butthe play done; and so I took a hackney alone, and to the park, and therespent the evening, and to the lodge, and drank new milk. And so home tothe Office, ended my letters, and, to spare my eyes, home, and played onmy pipes, and so to bed. 

3rd (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where I saw Sir A. Rickard, thoughhe be under the Black Rod, by order of the Lords' House, upon the quarrelbetween the East India Company and Skinner, which is like to come to avery great heat between the two Houses. At noon comes Mr. Mills and hiswife, and Mr. Turner and his wife, by invitation to dinner, and we weremighty merry, and a very pretty dinner, of my Bridget and Nell's dressing, very handsome. After dinner to church again . . . . So home and withSir W. Pen took a hackney, and he and I to Old Street, to a brew-housethere, to see Sir Thomas Teddiman, who is very ill in bed of a fever, got, I believe, by the fright the Parliament have put him into, of late. Buthe is a good man, a good seaman, and stout. Thence Pen and I toIslington, and there, at the old house, eat, and drank, and merry, andthere by chance giving two pretty fat boys each of them a cake, theyproved to be Captain Holland's children, whom therefore I pity. So roundby Hackney home, having good discourse, he [Pen] being very open to me inhis talk, how the King ought to dissolve this Parliament, when the Bill ofMoney is passed, they being never likely to give him more; how he [theKing] hath great opportunity of making himself popular by stopping thisAct against Conventicles; and how my Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, if theParliament continue, will undoubtedly fall, he having managed that placewith so much self-seeking, and disorder, and pleasure, and some great menare designing to overthrow [him], as, among the rest, my Lord Orrery; andthat this will try the King mightily, he being a firm friend to my LordLieutenant. So home; and to supper a little, and then to bed, havingstepped, after I come home, to Alderman Backewell's about business, andthere talked a while with him and his wife, a fine woman of the country, and how they had bought an estate at Buckeworth, within four mile ofBrampton. 

4th. Up betimes, and by water to Charing Cross, and so to W. Coventry, and there talked a little with him, and thence over the Park to WhiteHall, and there did a little business at the Treasury, and so to the Duke, and there present Balty to the Duke of York and a letter from the Board tohim about him, and the Duke of York is mightily pleased with him, and Idoubt not his continuance in employment, which I am glad of. Thence withSir H. Cholmly to Westminster Hall talking, and he crying mightily out ofthe power the House of Lords usurps in this business of the East IndiaCompany. Thence away home and there did business, and so to dinner, mysister Michell and I, and thence to the Duke of York's house, and theresaw "The Impertinents" again, and with less pleasure than before, it beingbut a very contemptible play, though there are many little wittyexpressions in it; and the pit did generally say that of it. Thence, goingout, Mrs. Pierce called me from the gallery, and there I took her and Mrs. Corbet by coach up and down, and took up Captain Rolt in the street; andat last, it being too late to go to the Park, I carried them to the Bearein Drury Lane, and there did treat them with a dish of mackrell, the firstI have seen this year, and another dish, and mighty merry; and so carriedher home, and thence home myself, well pleased with this evening'spleasure, and so to bed. 

5th. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home to dinner andCreed with me, and after dinner he and I to the Duke of York's playhouse;and there coming late, he and I up to the balcony-box, where we find myLady Castlemayne and several great ladies; and there we sat with them, andI saw "The Impertinents" once more, now three times, and the three onlydays it hath been acted. And to see the folly how the house do this daycry up the play more than yesterday! and I for that reason like it, Ifind, the better, too; by Sir Positive At-all, I understand, is meant SirRobert Howard. My Lady [Castlemaine] pretty well pleased with it; buthere I sat close to her fine woman, Willson, who indeed is very handsome, but, they say, with child by the King. I asked, and she told me this wasthe first time her Lady had seen it, I having a mind to say something toher. One thing of familiarity I observed in my Lady Castlemayne: shecalled to one of her women, another that sat by this, for a little patchoff her face, and put it into her mouth and wetted it, and so clapped itupon her own by the side of her mouth, I suppose she feeling a pimplerising there. Thence with Creed to Westminster Hall, and there met withcozen Roger, who tells me of the great conference this day between theLords and Commons, about the business of the East India Company, as beingone of the weightiest conferences that hath been, and managed asweightily. I am heartily sorry I was not there, it being upon a mightypoint of the privileges of the subjects of England, in regard to theauthority of the House of Lords, and their being condemned by them as theSupreme Court, which, we say, ought not to be, but by appeal from otherCourts. And he tells me that the Commons had much the better of them, inreason and history there quoted, and believes the Lords will let it fall. Thence to walk in the Hall, and there hear that Mrs. Martin's child, mygod-daughter, is dead, and so by water to the Old Swan, and thence home, and there a little at Sir W. Pen's, and so to bed. 

6th. Up, and to the office, and thence to White Hall, but come too lateto see the Duke of York, with whom my business was, and so to WestminsterHall, where met with several people and talked with them, and among otherthings understand that my Lord St. John is meant by Mr. Woodcocke, in "TheImpertinents. "

 ["Whilst Positive walks, like Woodcock in the park, Contriving projects with a brewer's clerk. "

 Andrew Marvell's "Instructions to a Painter, " part iii. , to which is subjoined the following note: "Sir Robert Howard, and Sir William Bucknell, the brewer. "--Works, ed. By Capt. E. Thompson, vol. Iii. , p. 405. --B. ]

Here met with Mrs. Washington, my old acquaintance of the Hall, whosehusband has a place in the Excise at Windsor, and it seems lives well. Ihave not seen her these 8 or 9 years, and she begins to grow old, Iperceive, visibly. So time do alter, and do doubtless the like in myself. This morning the House is upon the City Bill, and they say hath passed it, though I am sorry that I did not think to put somebody in mind of movingfor the churches to be allotted according to the convenience of thepeople, and not to gratify this Bishop, or that College. Thence by waterto the New Exchange, where bought a pair of shoe-strings, and so to Mr. Pierces, where invited, and there was Knepp and Mrs. Foster and heredined, but a poor, sluttish dinner, as usual, and so I could not beheartily merry at it: here saw her girl's picture, but it is mighty farshort of her boy's, and not like her neither; but it makes Hales'spicture of her boy appear a good picture. Thence to White Hall, walkedwith Brisband, who dined there also, and thence I back to the King'splayhouse, and there saw "The Virgin Martyr, " and heard the musick that Ilike so well, and intended to have seen Knepp, but I let her alone; andhaving there done, went to Mrs. Pierces back again, where she was, andthere I found her on a pallet in the dark . . . , that is Knepp. Andso to talk; and by and by did eat some curds and cream, and thence awayhome, and it being night, I did walk in the dusk up and down, roundthrough our garden, over Tower Hill, and so through Crutched Friars, threeor four times, and once did meet Mercer and another pretty lady, but beingsurprized I could say little to them, although I had an opportunity ofpleasing myself with them, but left them, and then I did see our Nell, Payne's daughter, and her je did desire venir after me, and so elle didsee me to, Tower Hill to our back entry there that comes upon the degresentrant into nostra garden . . . , and so parted, and je home to put upthings against to-morrow's carrier for my wife; and, among others, a veryfine salmon-pie, sent me by Mr. Steventon, W. Hewer's uncle, and so tobed. 

7th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home todinner, and thither I sent for Mercer to dine with me, and after dinnershe and I called Mrs. Turner, and I carried them to the Duke of York'shouse, and there saw "The Man's the Master, " which proves, upon my seeingit again, a very good play. Thence called Knepp from the King's house, where going in for her, the play being done, I did see Beck Marshall comedressed, off of the stage, and looks mighty fine, and pretty, and noble:and also Nell, in her boy's clothes, mighty pretty. But, Lord! theirconfidence! and how many men do hover about them as soon as they come offthe stage, and how confident they are in their talk! Here I did kiss thepretty woman newly come, called Pegg, that was Sir Charles Sidly'smistress, a mighty pretty woman, and seems, but is not, modest. Here tookup Knepp into our coach, and all of us with her to her lodgings, andthither comes Bannister with a song of hers, that he hath set in SirCharles Sidly's play for her, which is, I think, but very meanly set; butthis he did, before us, teach her, and it being but a slight, silly, shortayre, she learnt it presently. But I did get him to prick me down thenotes of the Echo in "The Tempest, " which pleases me mightily. Here wasalso Haynes, the incomparable dancer of the King's house, and a seemingcivil man, and sings pretty well, and they gone, we abroad to Marrowbone, and there walked in the garden, the first time I ever was there; and apretty place it is, and here we eat and drank and stayed till 9 at night, and so home by moonshine . . . . And so set Mrs. Knepp at her lodging, and so the rest, and I home talking with a great deal of pleasure, and sohome to bed. 

8th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning. Towards noon Ito Westminster and there understand that the Lords' House did sit tilleleven o'clock last night, about the business in difference between themand the Commons, in the matter of the East India Company. Here took aturn or two, and up to my Lord Crew's, and there dined; where Mr. Case, the minister, a dull fellow in his talk, and all in the Presbyterianmanner; a great deal of noise and a kind of religious tone, but very dull. After dinner my Lord and I together. He tells me he hears that there aregreat disputes like to be at Court, between the factions of the two women, my Lady Castlemayne and Mrs. Stewart, who is now well again, and the Kinghath made several public visits to her, and like to come to Court: theother is to go to Barkeshire-house, which is taken for her, and they say aPrivy-Seal is passed for L5000 for it. He believes all will come to ruin. Thence I to White Hall, where the Duke of York gone to the Lords' House, where there is to be a conference on the Lords' side to the Commons thisafternoon, giving in their Reasons, which I would have been at, but couldnot; for, going by direction to the Prince's chamber, there Brouncker, W. Pen, and Mr. Wren, and I, met, and did our business with the Duke of York. But, Lord! to see how this play of Sir Positive At-all, --["TheImpertinents. "]--in abuse of Sir Robert Howard, do take, all the Duke'sand every body's talk being of that, and telling more stories of him, ofthe like nature, that it is now the town and country talk, and, they say, is most exactly true. The Duke of York himself said that of his playingat trap-ball is true, and told several other stories of him. This beingdone, Brouncker, Pen, and I to Brouncker's house, and there sat andtalked, I asking many questions in mathematics to my Lord, which he do methe pleasure to satisfy me in, and here we drank and so spent an hour, andso W. Pen and I home, and after being with W. Pen at his house an hour, Ihome and to bed. 

9th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning we sat. Here I firsthear that the Queene hath miscarryed of a perfect child, being gone aboutten weeks, which do shew that she can conceive, though it be unfortunatethat she cannot bring forth. Here we are told also that last night theDuchesse of Monmouth, dancing at her lodgings, hath sprained her thigh. Here we are told also that the House of Commons sat till five o'clock thismorning, upon the business of the difference between the Lords and them, resolving to do something therein before they rise, to assert theirprivileges. So I at noon by water to Westminster, and there find the Kinghath waited in the Prince's chamber these two hours, and the Houses arenot ready for him. The Commons having sent this morning, after their longdebate therein the last night, to the Lords, that they do think the onlyexpedient left to preserve unity between the two Houses is, that they doput a stop to any proceedings upon their late judgement against the EastIndia Company, till their next meeting; to which the Lords returned answerthat they would return answer to them by a messenger of their own, whichthey not presently doing, they were all inflamed, and thought it was onlya trick, to keep them in suspense till the King come to adjourne them;and, so, rather than lose the opportunity of doing themselves right, theypresently with great fury come to this vote: "That whoever should assistin the execution of the judgement of the Lords against the Company, shouldbe held betrayers of the liberties of the people of England, and of theprivileges of that House. " This the Lords had notice of, and were mad atit; and so continued debating without any design to yield to the Commons, till the King come in, and sent for the Commons, where the Speaker made ashort but silly speech, about their giving Him L300, 000; and then theseveral Bills, their titles were read, and the King's assent signified inthe proper terms, according to the nature of the Bills, of which aboutthree or four were public Bills, and seven or eight private ones, theadditional Bills for the building of the City and the Bill againstConventicles being none of them. The King did make a short, silly speech, which he read, giving them thanks for the money, which now, he said, hedid believe would be sufficient, because there was peace between hisneighbours, which was a kind of a slur, methought, to the Commons; andthat he was sorry for what he heard of difference between the two Houses, but that he hoped their recesse would put them into a way ofaccommodation; and so adjourned them to the 9th of August, and thenrecollected himself, and told them the 11th; so imperfect a speaker he is. So the Commons went to their House, and forthwith adjourned; and the Lordsresumed their House, the King being gone, and sat an hour or two after, but what they did, I cannot tell; but every body expected they wouldcommit Sir Andrew Rickard, Sir Samuel Barnardiston, Mr. Boone, and Mr. Wynne, who were all there, and called in, upon their knees, to the bar ofthe House; and Sir John Robinson I left there, endeavouring to preventtheir being committed to the Tower, lest he should thereby be forced todeny their order, because of this vote of the Commons, whereof he is one, which is an odde case. 

 [This "odd case" was that of Thomas Skinner and the East India Company. According to Ralph, the Commons had ordered Skinner, the plaintiff, into the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms, and the Lords did the same by Sir Samuel Barnadiston, deputy-governor of the company, as likewise Sir Andrew Rickard, Mr. Rowland Gwynn, and Mr. Christopher Boone. --B. ]

Thence I to the Rose Taverne in Covent Garden, and there sent for a pulletand dined all alone, being to meet Sir W. Pen, who by and by come, and heand I into the King's house, and there "The Mayd's Tragedy, " a good play, but Knepp not there; and my head and eyes out of order, the first from mydrinking wine at dinner, and the other from my much work in the morning. Thence parted, and I towards the New Exchange and there bought a pair ofblack silk stockings at the hosier's that hath the very pretty woman tohis wife, about ten doors on this side of the 'Change, and she is indeedvery pretty, but I think a notable talking woman by what I heard to othersthere. Thence to Westminster Hall, where I hear the Lords are up, butwhat they have done I know not, and so walked toward White Hall and thenceby water to the Tower, and so home and there to my letters, and so to SirW. Pen's; and there did talk with Mrs. Lowther, who is very kind to me, more than usual, and I will make use of it. She begins to draw very well, and I think do as well, if not better, than my wife, if it be true thatshe do it herself, what she shews me, and so to bed, and my head akeingall night with the wine I drank to-day, and my eyes ill. So lay long, myhead pretty well in the morning. 

10th (Lord's day). Up, and to the office, there to do, business tillchurch time, when Mr. Shepley, newly come to town, come to see me, and wehad some discourse of all matters, and particularly of my Lord Sandwich'sconcernments, and here did by the by as he would seem tell me that myLady--[Lady Sandwich. ]--had it in her thoughts, if she had occasion, to, borrow L100 of me, which I did not declare any opposition to, though Idoubt it will be so much lost. But, however, I will not deny my Lady, ifshe ask it, whatever comes of it, though it be lost; but shall be gladthat it is no bigger sum. And yet it vexes me though, and the morebecause it brings into my head some apprehensions what trouble I may hereafter be brought to when my Lord comes home, if he should ask me to comeinto bonds with him, as I fear he will have occasions to make money, but Ihope I shall have the wit to deny it. He being gone, I to church, and sohome, and there comes W. Hewer and Balty, and by and by I sent for Mercerto come and dine with me, and pretty merry, and after dinner I fell toteach her "Canite Jehovae, " which she did a great part presently, and soshe away, and I to church, and from church home with my Lady Pen; and, after being there an hour or so talking, I took her, and Mrs. Lowther, andold Mrs. Whistler, her mother-in-law, by water with great pleasure as faras Chelsy, and so back to Spring Garden, at Fox-hall, and there walked, and eat, and drank, and so to water again, and set down the old woman athome at Durham Yard:' and it raining all the way, it troubled us; but, however, my cloak kept us all dry, and so home, and at the Tower wharfthere we did send for a pair of old shoes for Mrs. Lowther, and there Idid pull the others off and put them on, elle being peu shy, but do speakcon mighty kindness to me that she would desire me pour su mari if it wereto be done . . . . . Here staid a little at Sir W. Pen's, who wasgone to bed, it being about eleven at night, and so I home to bed. 

11th. Up, and to my office, where alone all the morning. About nooncomes to me my cousin Sarah, and my aunt Livett, newly come out ofGloucestershire, good woman, and come to see me; I took them home, andmade them drink, but they would not stay dinner, I being alone. But herethey tell me that they hear that this day Kate Joyce was to be married toa man called Hollingshed, whom she indeed did once tell me of, and desiredme to enquire after him. But, whatever she said of his being rich, I dofear, by her doing this without my advice, it is not as it ought to be;but, as she brews, let her bake. They being gone, I to dinner with Baltyand his wife, who is come to town to-day from Deptford to see us, andafter dinner I out and took a coach, and called Mercer, and she and I tothe Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Tempest, " and between twoacts, I went out to Mr. Harris, and got him to repeat to me the words ofthe Echo, while I writ them down, having tried in the play to have wrotethem; but, when I had done it, having done it without looking upon mypaper, I find I could not read the blacklead. But now I have got the wordsclear, and, in going in thither, had the pleasure to see the actors intheir several dresses, especially the seamen and monster, which were verydroll: so into the play again. But there happened one thing which vexedme, which is, that the orange-woman did come in the pit, and challenge mefor twelve oranges, which she delivered by my order at a late play, atnight, to give to some ladies in a box, which was wholly untrue, but yetshe swore it to be true. But, however, I did deny it, and did not payher; but, for quiet, did buy 4s. Worth of oranges of her, at 6d. A-piece. Here I saw first my Lord Ormond since his coming from Ireland, which isnow about eight days. After the play done, I took Mercer by water toSpring Garden; and there with great pleasure walked, and eat, and drank, and sang, making people come about us, to hear us, and two little childrenof one of our neighbours that happened to be there, did come into ourarbour, and we made them dance prettily. So by water, with greatpleasure, down to the Bridge, and there landed, and took water again onthe other side; and so to the Tower, and I saw her home, I myself home tomy chamber, and by and by to bed. 

12th. Up, and to the office, where we sat, and sat all the morning. HereLord Anglesey was with us, and in talk about the late difference betweenthe two Houses, do tell us that he thinks the House of Lords may be in anerror, at least, it is possible they may, in this matter of Skinner; andhe doubts they may, and did declare his judgement in the House of Lordsagainst their proceedings therein, he having hindered 100 originall causesbeing brought into their House, notwithstanding that he was put upondefending their proceedings: but that he is confident that the House ofCommons are in the wrong, in the method they take to remedy an error ofthe Lords, for no vote of theirs can do it; but, in all like cases, theCommons have done it by petition to the King, sent up to the Lords, and bythem agreed to, and so redressed, as they did in the Petition of Right. He says that he did tell them indeed, which is talked of, and which didvex the Commons, that the Lords were "Judices nati et Conciliarii nati;"but all other judges among us are under salary, and the Commons themselvesserved for wages; and therefore the Lords, in reason, were the freerjudges. At noon to dinner at home, and after dinner, where Creed dinedwith me, he and I, by water to the Temple, where we parted, and I both tothe King's and Duke of York's playhouses, and there went through thehouses to see what faces I could spy that I knew, and meeting none, I awayby coach to my house, and then to Mrs. Mercer's, where I met with her twodaughters, and a pretty-lady I never knew yet, one Mrs. Susan Gayet, avery pretty black lady, that speaks French well, and is a Catholick, andmerchant's daughter, by us, and here was also Mrs. Anne Jones, and aftersitting and talking a little, I took them out, and carried them throughHackney to Kingsland, and there walked to Sir G. Whitmore's house, where Ihave not been many a day; and so to the old house at Islington, and eat, and drank, and sang, and mighty merry; and so by moonshine with infinitepleasure home, and there sang again in Mercer's garden. And so parted, Ihaving there seen a mummy in a merchant's warehouse there, all the middleof the man or woman's body, black and hard. I never saw any before, and, therefore, it pleased me much, though an ill sight; and he did give me alittle bit, and a bone of an arme, I suppose, and so home, and there tobed. 

13th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and so to Sir H. Cholmly's, who notbeing up I made a short visit to Sir W. Coventry, and he and I through thePark to White Hall, and thence I back into the Park, and there met Sir H. Cholmly, and he and I to Sir Stephen Fox's, where we met and consideredthe business of the Excise, how far it is charged in reference to thepayment of the Guards and Tangier. Thence he and I walked to WestminsterHall and there took a turn, it being holyday, and so back again, and I tothe mercer's, and my tailor's about a stuff suit that I am going to make. Thence, at noon, to Hercules Pillars, and there dined all alone, and so toWhite Hall, some of us attended the Duke of York as usual, and so toattend the Council about the business of Hemskirke's project of building aship that sails two feet for one of any other ship, which the Council didagree to be put in practice, the King to give him, if it proves good, L5000 in hand, and L15, 000 more in seven years, which, for my part, Ithink a piece of folly for them to meddle with, because the secret cannotbe long kept. So thence, after Council, having drunk some of the King'swine and water with Mr. Chevins, my Lord Brouncker, and some others, I bywater to the Old Swan, and there to Michell's, and did see her and drinkthere, but he being there je ne baiser la; and so back again by water toSpring Garden all alone, and walked a little, and so back again home, andthere a little to my viall, and so to bed, Mrs. Turner having sat andsupped with me. This morning I hear that last night Sir Thomas Teddiman, poor man! did die by a thrush in his mouth: a good man, and stout andable, and much lamented; though people do make a little mirth, and say, asI believe it did in good part, that the business of the Parliament didbreak his heart, or, at least, put him into this fever and disorder, thatcaused his death. 

14th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noonhome to dinner with my people, but did not stay to dine out with them, butrose and straight by water to the Temple, and so to Penny's, my tailor's, where by and by by agreement Mercer, and she, to my great content, bringsMrs. Gayet, and I carried them to the King's house; but, coming too soon, we out again to the Rose taverne, and there I did give them a tankard ofcool drink, the weather being very hot, and then into the playhouse again, and there saw "The Country Captain, " a very dull play, that did give us nocontent, and besides, little company there, which made it very unpleasing. Thence to the waterside, at Strand bridge, and so up by water and toFox-hall, where we walked a great while, and pleased mightily with thepleasure thereof, and the company there, and then in, and eat and drank, and then out again and walked, and it beginning to be dark, we to a cornerand sang, that everybody got about us to hear us; and so home, where I sawthem both at their doors, and, full of the content of this afternoon'spleasure, I home and to walk in the garden a little, and so home to bed. 

15th. Up, and betimes to White Hall, and there met with Sir H. Cholmly atSir Stephen Fox's, and there was also the Cofferer, and we did thereconsider about our money and the condition of the Excise, and after muchdispute agreed upon a state thereof and the manner of our future course ofpayments. Thence to the Duke of York, and there did a little navybusiness as we used to do, and so to a Committee for Tangier, where Godknows how my Lord Bellasses's accounts passed; understood by nobody but myLord Ashly, who, I believe, was mad to let them go as he pleased. Buthere Sir H. Cholmly had his propositions read, about a greater price forhis work of the Mole, or to do it upon account, which, being read, he wasbid to withdraw. But, Lord! to see how unlucky a man may be, by chance;for, making an unfortunate minute when they were almost tired with theother business, the Duke of York did find fault with it, and that made allthe rest, that I believe he had better have given a great deal, and hadnothing said to it to-day; whereas, I have seen other things moreextravagant passed at first hearing, without any difficulty. Thence I tomy Lord Brouncker's, at Mrs. Williams's, and there dined, and she did shewme her closet, which I was sorry to see, for fear of her expectingsomething from me; and here she took notice of my wife's not once comingto see her, which I am glad of; for she shall not--a prating, vain, idlewoman. Thence with Lord Brouncker to Loriners'-hall, [The Loriners, or Lorimers (bit-makers), of London are by reputation an ancient mistery, but they were first incorporated by letters patent of 10 Queen Anne (December 3rd, 1711). Their small hall was at the corner of Basinghall Street in London Wall. The company has no hall now. ]

by Mooregate, a hall I never heard of before, to Sir Thomas Teddiman'sburial, where most people belonging to the sea were. And here we hadrings: and here I do hear that some of the last words that he said were, that he had a very good King, God bless him! but that the Parliament hadvery ill rewarded him for all the service he had endeavoured to do themand his country; so that, for certain, this did go far towards his death. But, Lord! to see among [the company] the young commanders, and ThomasKilligrew and others that come, how unlike a burial this was, O'Briantaking out some ballads out of his pocket, which I read, and the rest comeabout me to hear! and there very merry we were all, they being newballets. By and by the corpse went; and I, with my Lord Brouncker, andDr. Clerke, and Mr. Pierce, as far as the foot of London-bridge; and therewe struck off into Thames Street, the rest going to Redriffe, where he isto be buried. And we 'light at the Temple, and there parted; and I to theKing's house, and there saw the last act of "The Committee, " thinking tohave seen Knepp there, but she did not act. And so to my bookseller's, and there carried home some books-among others, "Dr. Wilkins's ReallCharacter, " and thence to Mrs. Turner's, and there went and sat, and sheshowed me her house from top to bottom, which I had not seen before, veryhandsome, and here supped, and so home, and got Mercer, and she and I inthe garden singing till ten at night, and so home to a little supper, andthen parted, with great content, and to bed. The Duchesse of Monmouth'ship is, I hear, now set again, after much pain. I am told also that theCountess of Shrewsbury is brought home by the Duke of Buckingham to hishouse, where his Duchess saying that it was not for her and the other tolive together in a house, he answered, Why, Madam, I did think so, and, therefore, have ordered your coach to be ready, to carry you to yourfather's, which was a devilish speech, but, they say, true; and my LadyShrewsbury is there, it seems. 

16th. Up; and to the Office, where we sat all the morning; and at noon, home with my people to dinner; and thence to the Office all the afternoon, till, my eyes weary, I did go forth by coach to the King's playhouse, andthere saw the best part of "The Sea Voyage, " where Knepp I see do her partof sorrow very well. I afterwards to her house; but she did not comepresently home; and there je did kiss her ancilla, which is so mightybelle; and I to my tailor's, and to buy me a belt for my new suit againstto-morrow; and so home, and there to my Office, and afterwards latewalking in the garden; and so home to supper, and to bed, after Nell'scutting of my hair close, the weather being very hot. 

17th (Lord's day). Up, and put on my new stuff-suit, with ashoulder-belt, according to the new fashion, and the bands of my vest andtunique laced with silk lace, of the colour of my suit: and so, veryhandsome, to Church, where a dull sermon and of a stranger, and so home;and there I find W. Howe, and a younger brother of his, come to dine withme; and there comes Mercer, and brings with her Mrs. Gayet, which pleasedme mightily; and here was also W. Hewer, and mighty merry; and afterdinner to sing psalms. But, Lord! to hear what an excellent base thisyounger brother of W. Howe's sings, even to my astonishment, and mightypleasant. By and by Gayet goes away, being a Catholick, to her devotions, and Mercer to church; but we continuing an hour or two singing, and soparted; and I to Sir W. Pen's, and there sent for a hackney-coach; and heand she [Lady Pen] and I out, to take the gyre. We went to Stepney, andthere stopped at the Trinity House, he to talk with the servants thereagainst to-morrow, which is a great day for the choice of a new Master, and thence to Mile End, and there eat and drank, and so home; and I suppedwith them--that is, eat some butter and radishes, which is my excuse fornot eating any other of their victuals, which I hate, because of theirsluttery: and so home, and made my boy read to me part of Dr. Wilkins'snew book of the "Real Character;" and so to bed. 

18th. Up, and to my office, where most of the morning doing business andseeing my window-frames new painted, and then I out by coach to my LordBellasses, at his new house by my late Lord Treasurer's, and there met himand Mr. Sherwin, Auditor Beale, and Creed, about my Lord's accounts, andhere my Lord shewed me his new house, which, indeed, is mighty noble, andgood pictures--indeed, not one bad one in it. Thence to my tailor's, andthere did find Mercer come with Mrs. Horsfield and Gayet according to mydesire, and there I took them up, it being almost twelve o'clock, or alittle more, and carried them to the King's playhouse, where the doorswere not then open; but presently they did open; and we in, and find manypeople already come in, by private ways, into the pit, it being the firstday of Sir Charles Sidly's new play, so long expected, "The MullberryGuarden, " of whom, being so reputed a wit, all the world do expect greatmatters. I having sat here awhile, and eat nothing to-day, did slip out, getting a boy to keep my place; and to the Rose Tavern, and there got halfa breast of mutton, off of the spit, and dined all alone. And so to theplay again, where the King and Queen, by and by, come, and all the Court;and the house infinitely full. But the play, when it come, though therewas, here and there, a pretty saying, and that not very many neither, yetthe whole of the play had nothing extraordinary in it, at all, neither oflanguage nor design; insomuch that the King I did not see laugh, norpleased the whole play from the beginning to the end, nor the company;insomuch that I have not been less pleased at a new play in my life, Ithink. And which made it the worse was, that there never was worse musickplayed--that is, worse things composed, which made me and Captain Rolt, who happened to sit near me, mad. So away thence, very little satisfiedwith the play, but pleased with my company. I carried them to Kensington, to the Grotto, and there we sang, to my great content, only vexed, ingoing in, to see a son of Sir Heneage Finch's beating of a poor little dogto death, letting it lie in so much pain that made me mad to see it, till, by and by, the servants of the house chiding of their young master, one ofthem come with a thong, and killed the dog outright presently. Thence toWestminster palace, and there took boat and to Fox Hall, where we walked, and eat, and drank, and sang, and very merry. But I find Mrs. Horsfieldone of the veriest citizen's wives in the world, so full of little sillytalk, and now and then a little sillily bawdy, that I believe if you hadher sola a man might hazer all with her. So back by water to WestminsterPalace, and there got a coach which carried us as far as the Minorys, andthere some thing of the traces broke, and we forced to 'light, and walkedto Mrs. Horsfield's house, it being a long and bad way, and dark, andhaving there put her in a doors, her husband being in bed, we left her andso back to our coach, where the coachman had put it in order, but couldnot find his whip in the dark a great while, which made us stay long. Atlast getting a neighbour to hold a candle out of their window Mercer foundit, and so away we home at almost 12 at night, and setting them both attheir homes, I home and to bed. 

19th. Up, and called on Mr. Pierce, who tells me that after all this adoWard is come to town, and hath appeared to the Commissioners of Accountsand given such answers as he thinks will do every body right, and let theworld see that their great expectations and jealousies have been vain inthis matter of the prizes. The Commissioners were mighty inquisitivewhether he was not instructed by letters or otherwise from hence from myLord Sandwich's friends what to say and do, and particularly from me, which he did wholly deny, as it was true, I not knowing the man that Iknow of. He tells me also that, for certain, Mr. Vaughan is made LordChief justice, which I am glad of. He tells me, too; that since my Lordof Ormond's coming over, the King begins to be mightily reclaimed, andsups every night with great pleasure with the Queene: and yet, it seems, he is mighty hot upon the Duchess of Richmond; insomuch that, upon Sundaywas se'nnight, at night, after he had ordered his Guards and coach to beready to carry him to the Park, he did, on a sudden, take a pair of oarsor sculler, and all alone, or but one with him, go to Somersett House, andthere, the garden-door not being open, himself clamber over the walls tomake a visit to her, which is a horrid shame. He gone, I to the office, where we sat all the morning, Sir W. Pen sick of the gout comes not out. After dinner at home, to White Hall, it being a very rainy day, and therea Committee for Tangier, where I was mightily pleased to see Sir W. Coventry fall upon my Lord Bellasses' business of the 3d. In every pieceof it which he would get to himself, making the King pay 4s. 9d, while heputs them off for 4s. 6d. , so that Sir W. Coventry continues still thesame man for the King's good. But here Creed did vex me with saying thatI ought first to have my account past by the Commissioners of Tangierbefore in the Exchequer. Thence W. Coventry and I in the Matted gallery, and there he did talk very well to me about the way to save the credit ofthe officers of the Navy, and their places too, by making use of thisinterval of Parliament to be found to be mending of matters in the Navy, and that nothing but this will do it, and gives an instance in themselvesof the Treasury, whereof himself and Sir John Duncombe all the world knowshave enemies, and my Lord Ashly a man obnoxious to most, and Sir ThomasClifford one that as a man suddenly rising and a creature of my LordArlington's hath enemies enough (none of them being otherwise but the Dukeof Albemarle), yet with all this fault they hear nothing of the businessof the Treasury, but all well spoken of there. He is for the removal ofSir John Minnes, thinking that thereby the world will see a greater changein the hands than now they do; and I will endeavour it, and endeavour todo some good in the office also. So home by coach, and to the office, where ended my letters, and then home, and there got Balty to read to meout of Sorbiere's Observations in his Voyage into England, and then tobed. 

20th. Up, and with Colonell Middleton, in a new coach he hath made him, very handsome, to White Hall, where the Duke of York having removed hislodgings for this year to St. James's, we walked thither; and there findthe Duke of York coming to White Hall, and so back to the Council-chamber, where the Committee of the Navy sat; and here we discoursed severalthings; but, Lord! like fools; so as it was a shame to see things of thisimportance managed by a Council that understand nothing of them: and, among other things, one was about this building of a ship with Hemskirke'ssecret, to sail a third faster than any other ship; but he hath got PrinceRupert on his side, and by that means, I believe, will get his conditionsmade better than he would otherwise, or ought indeed. Having done there, Imet with Sir Richard Browne, and he took me to dinner with him to a newtavern, above Charing Cross, where some clients of his did give him a gooddinner, and good company; among others, one Bovy, a solicitor, and lawyerand merchant all together, who hath travelled very much, did talk somethings well; but only he is a "Sir Positive:" but the talk of theirtravels over the Alps very fine. Thence walked to the King's playhouse, and saw "The Mulberry Garden" again, and cannot be reconciled to it, butonly to find here and there an independent sentence of wit, and that isall. Here met with Creed; and took him to Hales's, and there saw thebeginnings of Harris's head which he draws for me, which I do not yetlike. So he and I down to the New Exchange, and there cheapened ribbandsfor my wife, and so down to the Whey house and drank some and eat somecurds, which did by and by make my belly ake mightily. So he and I toWhite Hall, and walked over the Park to the Mulberry-Garden, [On the site of the present Buckingham Palace and gardens. Originally a garden of mulberry trees, planted by James I. In 1609 with the intention of cultivating the manufacture of English silks. ]

where I never was before; and find it a very silly place, worse thanSpring-garden, and but little company, and those a rascally, whoring, roguing sort of people, only a wilderness here, that is somewhat pretty, but rude. Did not stay to drink, but walked an hour and so away toCharing Cross, and there took coach and away home, in my way going intoBishopsgate Street, to bespeak places for myself and boy to go toCambridge in the coach this week, and so to Brampton, to see my wife. Sohome, and to supper and to bed. 

21st. Up, and busy to send some things into the country, and then to theOffice, where meets me Sir Richard Ford, who among other thingscongratulates me, as one or two did yesterday, [on] my great purchase; andhe advises me rather to forbear, if it be not done, as a thing that theworld will envy me in: and what is it but my cozen Tom Pepys's buying ofMartin Abbey, in Surry! which is a mistake I am sorry for, and yet do fearthat it may spread in the world to my prejudice. All the morning at theoffice, and at noon my clerks dined with me, and there do hear from themhow all the town is full of the talk of a meteor, or some fire, that didon Saturday last fly over the City at night, which do put me in mind that, being then walking in the dark an hour or more myself in the garden, afterI had done writing, I did see a light before me come from behind me, whichmade me turn back my head; and I did see a sudden fire or light running inthe sky, as it were towards Cheapside ward, and it vanished very quick, which did make me bethink myself what holyday it was, and took it for somerocket, though it was much brighter than any rocket, and so thought nomore of it, but it seems Mr. Hater and Gibson going home that night didmeet with many clusters of people talking of it, and many people of thetowns about the city did see it, and the world do make much discourse ofit, their apprehensions being mighty full of the rest of the City to beburned, and the Papists to cut our throats. Which God prevent! Thenceafter dinner I by coach to the Temple, and there bought a new book ofsongs set to musique by one Smith of Oxford, some songs of Mr. Cowley's, and so to Westminster, and there to walk a little in the Hall, and so toMrs. Martin's, and there did hazer cet que je voudrai mit her, and drankand sat most of the afternoon with her and her sister, and here shepromises me her fine starling, which was the King's, and speaks finely, which I shall be glad of, and so walked to the Temple, meeting in thestreet with my cozen Alcocke, the young man, that is a good sober youth, Ihave not seen these four or five years, newly come to town to look foremployment: but I cannot serve him, though I think he deserves well, andso I took coach and home to my business, and in the evening took Mrs. Turner and Mercer out to Mile End and drank, and then home, and sang; andeat a dish of greene pease, the first I have seen this year, given me byMr. Gibson, extraordinary young and pretty, and so saw them at home, andso home to bed. Sir W. Pen continues ill of the gout. 

22nd. Up, and all the morning at the office busy. At noon home with mypeople to dinner, where good discourse and merry. After dinner comes Mr. Martin, the purser, and brings me his wife's starling, which was formerlythe King's bird, that do speak and whistle finely, which I am mighty proudof and shall take pleasure in it. Thence to the Duke of York's house to aplay, and saw Sir Martin Marr-all, where the house is full; and though Ihave seen it, I think, ten times, yet the pleasure I have is yet as greatas ever, and is undoubtedly the best comedy ever was wrote. Thence to mytailor's and a mercer's for patterns to carry my wife of cloth and silkfor a bed, which I think will please her and me, and so home, and fittedmyself for my journey to-morrow, which I fear will not be pleasant, because of the wet weather, it raining very hard all this day; but theless it troubles me because the King and Duke of York and Court are atthis day at Newmarket, at a great horse-race, and proposed great pleasurefor two or three days, but are in the same wet. So from the office hometo supper, and betimes to bed. 

23rd. Up by four o'clock; and, getting my things ready, and recommendingthe care of my house to W. Hewer, I with my boy Tom, whom I take with me, to the Bull, in Bishopsgate Street, and there, about six, took coach, heand I, and a gentleman and his man, there being another coach also, withas many more, I think, in it; and so away to Bishop's Stafford, and theredined, and changed horses and coach, at Mrs. Aynsworth's; but I took noknowledge of her. Here the gentleman and I to dinner, and in comesCaptain Forster, an acquaintance of his, he that do belong to my LordAnglesey, who had been at the late horse-races at Newmarket, where theKing now is, and says that they had fair weather there yesterday, thoughwe here, and at London, had nothing but rain, insomuch that the ways aremighty full of water, so as hardly to be passed. Here I hear Mrs. Aynsworth is going to live at London: but I believe will be mistaken init; for it will be found better for her to be chief where she is, than tohave little to do at London. There being many finer than she there. Afterdinner away again and come to Cambridge, after much bad way, about nine atnight; and there, at the Rose, I met my father's horses, with a man, staying for me. But it is so late, and the waters so deep, that I durstnot go to-night; but after supper to bed; and there lay very ill, byreason of some drunken scholars making a noise all night, and vexed forfear that the horses should not be taken up from grass, time enough forthe morning. Well pleased all this journey with the conversation of himthat went with me, who I think is a lawyer, and lives about Lynne, but hisname I did not ask. 

24th (Lord's day). I up, at between two and three in the morning, and, calling up my boy, and father's boy, we set out by three o'clock, it beinghigh day; end so through the water with very good success, though verydeep almost all the way, and got to Brampton, where most of them in bed, and so I weary up to my wife's chamber, whom I find in bed, and pretendeda little not well, and indeed she hath those upon her, but fell to talkand mightily pleased both of us, and upgot the rest, Betty Turner andWillet and Jane, all whom I was glad to see, and very merry, and got meready in my new stuff clothes that I send down before me, and so my wifeand they got ready too, while I to my father, poor man, and walked withhim up and down the house--it raining a little, and the waters all overPortholme and the meadows, so as no pleasure abroad. Here I saw mybrothers and sister Jackson, she growing fat, and, since being married, Ithink looks comelier than before: but a mighty pert woman she is, and Ithink proud, he keeping her mighty handsome, and they say mighty fond, andare going shortly to live at Ellington of themselves, and will keepmalting, and grazing of cattle. At noon comes Mr. Phillips and dines withus, and a pretty odd-humoured man he seems to be; but good withal, but ofmighty great methods in his eating and drinking, and will not kiss a womansince his wife's death. After dinner my Lady Sandwich sending to seewhether I was come, I presently took horse, and find her and her family atchapel; and thither I went in to them, and sat out the sermon, where Iheard Jervas Fullwood, now their chaplain, preach a very good and seraphickind of sermon, too good for an ordinary congregation. After sermon, Iwith my Lady, and my Lady Hinchingbroke, and Paulina, and LordHinchingbroke, to the dining-room, saluting none of them, and there satand talked an hour or two, with great pleasure and satisfaction, to myLady, about my Lord's matters; but I think not with that satisfaction toher, or me, that otherwise would, she knowing that she did designtomorrow, and I remaining all the while in fear, of being asked to lendher some money, as I was afterward, when I had taken leave of her, by Mr. Shepley, L100, which I will not deny my Lady, and am willing to be foundwhen my Lord comes home to have done something of that kind for them, andso he riding to Brampton and supping there with me he did desire it of mefrom my Lady, and I promised it, though much against my will, for I fearit is as good as lost. After supper, where very merry, we to bed, myselfvery weary and to sleep all night. 

25th. Waked betimes, and lay long . . . . And there fell to talking, and by and by rose, it being the first fair day, and yet not quite fair, that we have had some time, and so up, and to walk with my father again inthe garden, consulting what to do with him and this house when Pall andher husband go away; and I think it will be to let it, and he go live withher, though I am against letting the house for any long time, because ofhaving it to retire to, ourselves. So I do intend to think more of itbefore I resolve. By and by comes Mr. Cooke to see me and so spent themorning, and he gone by and by at noon to dinner, where Mr. Shepley comeand we merry, all being in good humour between my wife and her peopleabout her, and after dinner took horse, I promising to fetch her awayabout fourteen days hence, and so calling all of us, we men on horseback, and the women and my father, at Goody Gorum's, and there in a frolicdrinking I took leave, there going with me and my boy, my two brothers, and one Browne, whom they call in mirth Colonell, for our guide, and alsoMr. Shepley, to the end of Huntingdon, and another gentleman whoaccidentally come thither, one Mr. Castle; and I made them drink at theChequers, where I observed the same tapster, Tom, that was there when Iwas a little boy and so we, at the end of the town, took leave of Shepleyand the other gentleman, and so we away and got well to Cambridge, aboutseven to the Rose, the waters not being now so high as before. And here'lighting, I took my boy and two brothers, and walked to MagdaleneCollege: and there into the butterys, as a stranger, and there drank mybellyfull of their beer, which pleased me, as the best I ever drank: andhear by the butler's man, who was son to Goody Mulliner over against theCollege, that we used to buy stewed prunes of, concerning the College andpersons in it; and find very few, only Mr. Hollins and Pechell, I think, that were of my time. But I was mightily pleased to come in thiscondition to see and ask, and thence, giving the fellow something, awaywalked to Chesterton, to see our old walk, and there into the Church, thebells ringing, and saw the place I used to sit in, and so to the ferry, and ferried over to the other side, and walked with great pleasure, theriver being mighty high by Barnewell Abbey: and so by Jesus College to thetown, and so to our quarters, and to supper, and then to bed, being veryweary and sleepy and mightily pleased with this night's walk. 

26th. Up by four o'clock; and by the time we were ready, and had eat, wewere called to the coach, where about six o'clock we set out, there beinga man and two women of one company, ordinary people, and one lady alone, that is tolerably handsome, but mighty well spoken, whom I took greatpleasure in talking to, and did get her to read aloud in a book she wasreading, in the coach, being the King's Meditations;--[The meditations ondeath, and prayers used by Charles I. Shortly before his execution]--andthen the boy and I to sing, and so about noon come to Bishop's Stafford, to another house than what we were at the other day, and better used. Andhere I paid for the reckoning 11s. , we dining together, and pretty merry;and then set out again, sleeping most part of the way; and got toBishopsgate Street before eight o'clock, the waters being now most of themdown, and we avoiding the bad way in the forest by a privy way, whichbrought us to Hodsden; and so to Tibalds, that road, which was mightypleasant. So home, where we find all well, and brother Balty and his wifelooking to the house, she mighty fine, in a new gold-laced 'just a cour'. I shifted myself, and so to see Mrs. Turner, and Mercer appearing over theway, called her in, and sat and talked, and then home to my house by andby, and there supped and talked mighty merry, and then broke up and tobed, being a little vexed at what W. Hewer tells me Sir John Shaw did thisday in my absence say at the Board, complaining of my doing of him injuryand the board permitting it, whereas they had more reason to exceptagainst his attributing that to me alone which I could not do but withtheir condent and direction, it being to very good service to the King, and which I shall be proud to have imputed to me alone. The King I hearcome to town last night. 

27th. Up, and to the office, where some time upon Sir D. Gawden'saccounts, and then I by water to Westminster for some Tangier orders, andso meeting with Mr. Sawyers my old chamber-fellow, he and I by watertogether to the Temple, he giving me an account of the base, rude usage, which he and Sir G. Carteret had lately, before the Commissioners ofAccounts, where he was, as Counsel to Sir G. Carteret, which I was sorryto hear, they behaving themselves like most insolent and ill-mannered men. Thence by coach to the Exchange, and there met with Sir H. Cholmly atColvill's; and there did give him some orders, and so home, and there tothe office again, where busy till two o'clock, and then with Sir D. Gawdento his house, with my Lord Brouncker and Sir J. Minnes, to dinner, wherewe dined very well, and much good company, among others, a Dr. , a fat man, whom by face I know, as one that uses to sit in our church, that afterdinner did take me out, and walked together, who told me that he had nownewly entered himself into Orders, in the decay of the Church, and didthink it his duty so to do, thereby to do his part toward the support andreformation thereof; and spoke very soberly, and said that just about thesame age Dr. Donne did enter into Orders. I find him a sober gentleman, and a man that hath seen much of the world, and I think may do good. Thence after dinner to the office, and there did a little business, and soto see Sir W. Pen, who I find still very ill of the goute, sitting in hisgreat chair, made on purpose for persons sick of that disease, for theirease; and this very chair, he tells me, was made for my Lady Lambert!Thence I by coach to my tailor's, there to direct about the making of meanother suit, and so to White Hall, and through St. James's Park to St. James's, thinking to have met with Mr. Wren, but could not, and sohomeward toward the New Exchange, and meeting Mr. Creed he and I to drinksome whey at the whey-house, and so into the 'Change and took a walk ortwo, and so home, and there vexed at my boy's being out of doors till tenat night, but it was upon my brother Jackson's business, and so I was theless displeased, and then made the boy to read to me out of Dr. Wilkinshis "Real Character, " and particularly about Noah's arke, where he do givea very good account thereof, shewing how few the number of the severalspecies of beasts and fowls were that were to be in the arke, and thatthere was room enough for them and their food and dung, which do please memightily and is much beyond what ever I heard of the subject, and so tobed. 

28th. Up, to set right some little matters of my Tangier accounts, and soto the office, where busy all the morning, and then home with my people todinner, and after dinner comes about a petition for a poor womanwhose-ticket she would get paid, and so talked a little and did baiserher, and so to the office, being pleased that this morning my booksellerbrings me home Marcennus's book of musick, ' which costs me L3 2s. ; but isa very fine book. So to the office and did some business, and then bycoach to the New Exchange, and there by agreement at my bookseller's shopmet Mercer and Gayet, and took them by water, first to one of theNeat-houses, where walked in the garden, but nothing but a bottle of wineto be had, though pleased with seeing the garden; and so to Fox Hall, where with great pleasure we walked, and then to the upper end of thefurther retired walk, and there sat and sang, and brought great manygallants and fine people about us, and, upon the bench, we did by and byeat and drink what we had, and very merry: and so with much pleasure tothe Old Swan, and walked with them home, and there left them, and so Ihome to my business at the office a little, and so to bed. 

29th. Betimes up, and up to my Tangier accounts, and then by water to theCouncil Chamber, and there received some directions from the Duke of Yorkand the Committee of the Navy there about casting up the charge of thepresent summer's fleete, that so they may come within the bounds of thesum given by the Parliament. But it is pretty to see how Prince Rupertand other mad, silly people, are for setting out but a little fleete, there being no occasion for it; and say it will be best to save the moneyfor better uses. But Sir W. Coventry did declare that, in wisdom, it wasbetter to do so; but that, in obedience to the Parliament, he was [for]setting out the fifty sail talked on, though it spent all the money, andto little purpose; and that this was better than to leave it to theParliament to make bad construction of their thrift, if any trouble shouldhappen. Thus wary the world is grown! Thence back again presently home, and did business till noon: and then to Sir G. Carteret's to dinner, withmuch good company, it being the King's birthday, and many healths drunk:and here I did receive another letter from my Lord Sandwich, whichtroubles me to see how I have neglected him, in not writing, or but once, all this time of his being abroad; and I see he takes notice, but yetgently, of it, that it puts me to great trouble, and I know not how to getout of it, having no good excuse, and too late now to mend, he beingcoming home. Thence home, whither, by agreement, by and by comes Mercerand Gayet, and two gentlemen with them, Mr. Monteith and Pelham, theformer a swaggering young handsome gentleman, the latter a sober citizenmerchant. Both sing, but the latter with great skill-the other, no skill, but a good voice, and a good basse, but used to sing only tavern tunes;and so I spent all this evening till eleven at night singing with them, till I was tired of them, because of the swaggering fellow with the base, though the girl Mercer did mightily commend him before to me. This nightje had agreed par' alter at Deptford, there par' avoir lain con the moherde Bagwell, but this company did hinder me. 

30th. Up, and put on a new summer black bombazin suit, and so to theoffice; and being come now to an agreement with my barber, to keep myperriwig in good order at 20s. A-year, I am like to go very spruce, morethan I used to do. All the morning at the office and at noon home todinner, and so to the King's playhouse, and there saw "Philaster;" whereit is pretty to see how I could remember almost all along, ever since Iwas a boy, Arethusa, the part which I was to have acted at Sir RobertCooke's; and it was very pleasant to me, but more to think what aridiculous thing it would have been for me to have acted a beautifulwoman. Thence to Mr. Pierces, and there saw Knepp also, and were merry;and here saw my little Lady Katherine Montagu come to town, about hereyes, which are sore, and they think the King's evil, poor, pretty lady. Here I was freed from a fear that Knepp was angry or might take advantageto declare the essay that je did the other day, quand je was con her. . . Thence to the New Exchange, and there met Harris and Rolt, and oneRichards, a tailor and great company-keeper, and with these over to FoxHall, and there fell into the company of Harry Killigrew, a rogue newlycome back out of France, but still in disgrace at our Court, and youngNewport and others, as very rogues as any in the town, who were ready totake hold of every woman that come by them. And so to supper in anarbour: but, Lord! their mad bawdy talk did make my heart ake! And here Ifirst understood by their talk the meaning of the company that lately werecalled Ballets; Harris telling how it was by a meeting of some youngblades, where he was among them, and my Lady Bennet

 [Evidently adopted as a cant expression. The woman here alluded to was a procuress well known in her day, and described in the "Tatler" (No. 84) as "the celebrated Madam Bennet. " We further learn, from the "Spectator" (No. 266), that she was the Lady B. To whom Wycherley addressed his ironical dedication of "The Plain Dealer, " which is considered as a masterpiece of raillery. It is worthy of remark that the fair sex may justly complain of almost every word in the English language designating a woman having, at some time or another, been used as a term of reproach; for we find Mother, Madam, Mistress, and Miss, all denoting women of bad character; and here Pepys adds the title of my Lady to the number, and completes the ungracious catalogue. --B. ]

and her ladies; and their there dancing naked, and all the roguish thingsin the world. But, Lord! what loose cursed company was this, that I wasin to-night, though full of wit; and worth a man's being in for once, toknow the nature of it, and their manner of talk, and lives. Thence setRolt and some of [them] at the New Exchange, and so I home, and mybusiness being done at the office, I to bed. 

31st (Lord's day). Up, and to church in the morning. At noon I sent forMr. Mills and his wife and daughter to dine, and they dined with me, andW. Hewer, and very good company, I being in good humour. They gone tochurch, comes Mr. Tempest, and he and I sang a psalm or two, and soparted, and I by water to the New Exchange, and there to Mrs. Pierces, where Knepp, and she, and W. Howe, and Mr. Pierce, and little Betty, overto Fox Hall, and there walked and supped with great pleasure. Here wasMrs. Manuel also, and mighty good company, and good mirth in making W. Howe spend his six or seven shillings, and so they called him altogether"Cully. " So back, and at Somerset-stairs do understand that a boy isnewly drowned, washing himself there, and they cannot find his body. Soseeing them home, I home by water, W. Howe going with me, and after sometalk he lay at my house, and all to bed. Here I hear that Mrs. Davis isquite gone from the Duke of York's house, and Gosnell comes in her room, which I am glad of. At the play at Court the other night, Mrs. Davis wasthere; and when she was to come to dance her jigg, the Queene would notstay to see it, which people do think it was out of displeasure at herbeing the King's whore, that she could not bear it. My Lady Castlemayneis, it seems, now mightily out of request, the King coming little to her, and thus she mighty melancholy and discontented. 

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 And will not kiss a woman since his wife's death Beating of a poor little dog to death, letting it lie City to be burned, and the Papists to cut our throats Disorder in the pit by its raining in, from the cupola Down to the Whey house and drank some and eat some curds Eat some butter and radishes Little company there, which made it very unpleasing So time do alter, and do doubtless the like in myself There setting a poor man to keep my place Whom I find in bed, and pretended a little not well