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

 EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY

 HENRY B. WHEATLEY F. S. A. 

 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. NOVEMBER 1668

November 1st (Lord's day). Up, and with W. Hewer at my chamber all thismorning, going further in my great business for the Duke of York, and soat noon to dinner, and then W. Hewer to write fair what he had writ, andmy wife to read to me all the afternoon, till anon Mr. Gibson come, and heand I to perfect it to my full mind, and so to supper and to bed, my mindyet at disquiet that I cannot be informed how poor Deb. Stands with hermistress, but I fear she will put her away, and the truth is, though it bemuch against my mind and to my trouble, yet I think that it will be fitthat she should be gone, for my wife's peace and mine, for she cannot butbe offended at the sight of her, my wife having conceived this jealousy ofme with reason, and therefore for that, and other reasons of expense, itwill be best for me to let her go, but I shall love and pity her. Thisnoon Mr. Povy sent his coach for my wife and I to see, which we likemightily, and will endeavour to have him get us just such another. 

2nd. Up, and a cold morning, by water through bridge without a cloak, andthere to Mr. Wren at his chamber at White Hall, the first time of hiscoming thither this year, the Duchess coming thither tonight, and there heand I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn upabout the several answers of the officers of this Office to the Duke ofYork's reflections, and did debate a little what advice to give the Dukeof York when he comes to town upon it. Here come in Lord Anglesy, and Iperceive he makes nothing of this order for his suspension, resolving tocontend and to bring it to the Council on Wednesday when the King is cometo town to-morrow, and Mr. Wren do join with him mightily in it, and dolook upon the Duke of York as concerned more in it than he. So to visitCreed at his chamber, but his wife not come thither yet, nor do he tell mewhere she is, though she be in town, at Stepney, at Atkins's. So to Mr. Povy's to talk about a coach, but there I find my Lord Sandwich, andPeterborough, and Hinchingbroke, Charles Harbord, and Sidney Montagu; andthere I was stopped, and dined mighty nobly at a good table, with onelittle dish at a time upon it, but mighty merry. I was glad to see it:but sorry, methought, to see my Lord have so little reason to be merry, and yet glad, for his sake, to have him cheerful. After dinner up, andlooked up and down the house, and so to the cellar; and thence I sliptaway, without taking leave, and so to a few places about business, andamong others to my bookseller's in Duck Lane, and so home, where the housestill full of dirt by painters and others, and will not be clean a goodwhile. So to read and talk with my wife till by and by called to theoffice about Sir W. Warren's business, where we met a little, and thenhome to supper and to bed. This day I went, by Mr. Povy's direction, to acoachmaker near him, for a coach just like his, but it was sold this verymorning. 

3rd. Up, and all the morning at the Office. At noon to dinner, and thento the Office, and there busy till 12 at night, without much pain to myeyes, but I did not use them to read or write, and so did hold out verywell. So home, and there to supper, and I observed my wife to eye my eyeswhether I did ever look upon Deb. , which I could not but do now and then(and to my grief did see the poor wretch look on me and see me look onher, and then let drop a tear or two, which do make my heart relent atthis minute that I am writing this with great trouble of mind, for she isindeed my sacrifice, poor girle); and my wife did tell me in bed by the byof my looking on other people, and that the only way is to put things outof sight, and this I know she means by Deb. , for she tells me that herAunt was here on Monday, and she did tell her of her desire of partingwith Deb. , but in such kind terms on both sides that my wife is mightilytaken with her. I see it will be, and it is but necessary, and therefore, though it cannot but grieve me, yet I must bring my mind to give way toit. We had a great deal of do this day at the Office aboutClutterbucke, --[See note to February 4th, 1663-64]--I declaring my dissentagainst the whole Board's proceedings, and I believe I shall go near toshew W. Pen a very knave in it, whatever I find my Lord Brouncker. 

4th. Up, and by coach to White Hall; and there I find the King and Dukeof York come the last night, and every body's mouth full of my LordAnglesey's suspension being sealed; which it was, it seems, yesterday; sothat he is prevented in his remedy at the Council; and, it seems, the twonew Treasurers did kiss the King's hand this morning, brought in by myLord Arlington. They walked up and down together the Court this day, andseveral people joyed them; but I avoided it, that I might not be seen tolook either way. This day also I hear that my Lord Ormond is to bedeclared in Council no more Deputy Governor of Ireland, his commissionbeing expired: and the King is prevailed with to take it out of his hands;which people do mightily admire, saying that he is the greatest subject ofany prince in Christendome, and hath more acres of land than any, and hathdone more for his Prince than ever any yet did. But all will not do; hemust down, it seems, the Duke of Buckingham carrying all before him. Butthat, that troubles me most is, that they begin to talk that the Duke ofYork's regiment is ordered to be disbanded; and more, that undoubtedly hisAdmiralty will follow: which do shake me mightily, and I fear will haveill consequences in the nation, for these counsels are very mad. The Dukeof York do, by all men's report, carry himself wonderfull submissive tothe King, in the most humble manner in the world; but yet, it seems, nothing must be spared that tends to, the keeping out of the Chancellor;and that is the reason of all this. The great discourse now is, that theParliament shall be dissolved and another called, which shall give theKing the Deane and Chapter lands; and that will put him out of debt. Andit is said that Buckingham do knownly meet daily with Wildman and otherCommonwealth-men; and that when he is with them, he makes the King believethat he is with his wenches; and something looks like the Parliament'sbeing dissolved, by Harry Brouncker's being now come back, and appearsthis day the first day at White Hall; but hath not been yet with the King, but is secure that he shall be well received, I hear. God bless us, whensuch men as he shall be restored! But that, that pleases me most is, thatseveral do tell me that Pen is to be removed; and others, that he hathresigned his place; and particularly Spragg tells me for certain that hehath resigned it, and is become a partner with Gawden in the Victualling:in which I think he hath done a very cunning thing; but I am sure I amglad of it; and it will be well for the King to have him out of thisOffice. Thence by coach, doing several errands, home and there to dinner, and then to the Office, where all the afternoon till late at night, and sohome. Deb. Hath been abroad to-day with her friends, poor girle, Ibelieve toward the getting of a place. This day a boy is sent me out ofthe country from Impington by my cozen Roger Pepys' getting, whom Ivisited this morning at his chamber in the Strand and carried him toWestminster Hall, where I took a turn or two with him and Sir John Talbot, who talks mighty high for my Lord of Ormond: and I perceive this family ofthe Talbots hath been raised by my Lord. When I come home to-night I findDeb. Not come home, and do doubt whether she be not quite gone or no, butmy wife is silent to me in it, and I to her, but fell to other discourse, and indeed am well satisfied that my house will never be at peace betweenmy wife and I unless I let her go, though it grieves me to the heart. Mywife and I spent much time this evening talking of our being put out ofthe Office, and my going to live at Deptford at her brother's, till I canclear my accounts, and rid my hands of the town, which will take me a yearor more, and I do think it will be best for me to do so, in order to ourliving cheap, and out of sight. 

5th. Up, and Willet come home in the morning, and, God forgive me! Icould not conceal my content thereat by smiling, and my wife observed it, but I said nothing, nor she, but away to the office. Presently up bywater to White Hall, and there all of us to wait on the Duke of York, which we did, having little to do, and then I up and down the house, tillby and by the Duke of York, who had bid me stay, did come to his closetagain, and there did call in me and Mr. Wren; and there my paper, that Ihave lately taken pains to draw up, was read, and the Duke of York pleasedtherewith; and we did all along conclude upon answers to my mind for theBoard, and that that, if put in execution, will do the King's business. But I do now more and more perceive the Duke of York's trouble, and thathe do lie under great weight of mind from the Duke of Buckingham'scarrying things against him; and particularly when I advised that he woulduse his interest that a seaman might come into the room of W. Pen, who isnow declared to be gone from us to that of the Victualling, and did shewhow the Office would now be left without one seaman in it, but theSurveyour and the Controller, who is so old as to be able to do nothing, he told me plainly that I knew his mind well enough as to seamen, but thatit must be as others will. And Wren did tell it me as a secret, that whenthe Duke of York did first tell the King about Sir W. Pen's leaving of theplace, and that when the Duke of York did move the King that eitherCaptain Cox or Sir Jer. Smith might succeed him, the King did tell himthat that was a matter fit to be considered of, and would not agree toeither presently; and so the Duke of York could not prevail for either, nor knows who it shall be. The Duke of York did tell me himself, that ifhe had not carried it privately when first he mentioned Pen's leaving hisplace to the King, it had not been done; for the Duke of Buckingham andthose of his party do cry out upon it, as a strange thing to trust such athing into the hands of one that stands accused in Parliament: and thatthey have so far prevailed upon the King that he would not have him namedin Council, but only take his name to the Board; but I think he said thatonly D. Gawden's name shall go in the patent; at least, at the time whenSir Richard Browne asked the King the names of D. Gawden's security, theKing told him it was not yet necessary for him to declare them. And byand by, when the Duke of York and we had done, and Wren brought into thecloset Captain Cox and James Temple About business of the Guiney Company, and talking something of the Duke of Buckingham's concernment therein, andsays the Duke of York, "I will give the Devil his due, as they say theDuke of Buckingham hath paid in his money to the Company, " or something ofthat kind, wherein he would do right to him. The Duke of York told me howthese people do begin to cast dirt upon the business that passed theCouncil lately, touching Supernumeraries, as passed by virtue of hisauthority there, there being not liberty for any man to withstand what theDuke of York advises there; which, he told me, they bring only as anargument to insinuate the putting of the Admiralty into Commission, whichby all men's discourse is now designed, and I perceive the same by him. This being done, and going from him, I up and down the house to hear news:and there every body's mouth full of changes; and, among others, the Dukeof York's regiment of Guards, that was raised during the late war at sea, is to be disbanded: and also, that this day the King do intend to declarethat the Duke of Ormond is no more Deputy of Ireland, but that he will putit into Commission. This day our new Treasurers did kiss the King's hand, who complimented them, as they say, very highly, that he had for a longtime been abused in his Treasurer, and that he was now safe in theirhands. I saw them walk up and down the Court together all this morning;the first time I ever saw Osborne, who is a comely gentleman. This day Iwas told that my Lord Anglesey did deliver a petition on Wednesday inCouncil to the King, laying open, that whereas he had heard that hisMajesty had made such a disposal of his place, which he had formerlygranted him for life upon a valuable consideration, and that, without anything laid to his charge, and during a Parliament's sessions, he prayedthat his Majesty would be pleased to let his case be heard before theCouncil and the judges of the land, who were his proper counsel in allmatters of right: to which, I am told, the King, after my Lord's beingwithdrawn, concluded upon his giving him an answer some few days hence;and so he was called in, and told so, and so it ended. Having heard allthis I took coach and to Mr. Povy's, where I hear he is gone to the SwedesResident in Covent Garden, where he is to dine. I went thither, but he isnot come yet, so I to White Hall to look for him, and up and down walkingthere I met with Sir Robert Holmes, who asking news I told him of Sir W. Pen's going from us, who ketched at it so as that my heart misgives methat he will have a mind to it, which made me heartily sorry for my words, but he invited me and would have me go to dine with him at theTreasurer's, Sir Thomas Clifford, where I did go and eat some oysters;which while we were at, in comes my Lord Keeper and much company; and so Ithought it best to withdraw. And so away, and to the Swedes Agent's, andthere met Mr. Povy; where the Agent would have me stay and dine, therebeing only them, and Joseph Williamson, and Sir Thomas Clayton; but whathe is I know not. Here much extraordinary noble discourse of foreignprinces, and particularly the greatness of the King of France, and of hisbeing fallen into the right way of making the kingdom great, which [none]of his ancestors ever did before. I was mightily pleased with thiscompany and their discourse, so as to have been seldom so much in all mylife, and so after dinner up into his upper room, and there did see apiece of perspective, but much inferior to Mr. Povy's. Thence with Mr. Povy spent all the afternoon going up and down among the coachmakers inCow Lane, and did see several, and at last did pitch upon a littlechariott, whose body was framed, but not covered, at the widow's, thatmade Mr. Lowther's fine coach; and we are mightily pleased with it, itbeing light, and will be very genteel and sober: to be covered withleather, and yet will hold four. Being much satisfied with this, Icarried him to White Hall; and so by coach home, where give my wife a goodaccount of my day's work, and so to the office, and there late, and so tobed. 

6th. Up, and presently my wife up with me, which she professedly now doevery day to dress me, that I may not see Willet, and do eye me, whether Icast my eye upon her, or no; and do keep me from going into the room whereshe is among the upholsters at work in our blue chamber. So abroad toWhite Hall by water, and so on for all this day as I have by mistake setdown in the fifth day after this mark. 

 [In the margin here is the following: "Look back one leaf for my mistake. "]

In the room of which I should have said that I was at the office all themorning, and so to dinner, my wife with me, but so as I durst not lookupon the girle, though, God knows, notwithstanding all my protestations Icould not keep my mind from desiring it. After dinner to the officeagain, and there did some business, and then by coach to see Roger Pepysat his lodgings, next door to Arundell House, a barber's; and there I didsee a book, which my Lord Sandwich hath promised one to me of, "ADescription of the Escuriall in Spain;" which I have a great desire tohave, though I took it for a finer book when he promised it me. With himto see my cozen Turner and The. , and there sat and talked, they beingnewly come out of the country; and here pretty merry, and with The. Toshew her a coach at Mr. Povy's man's, she being in want of one, and soback again with her, and then home by coach, with my mind troubled andfinding no content, my wife being still troubled, nor can be at peacewhile the girle is there, which I am troubled at on the other side. Wepast the evening together, and then to bed and slept ill, she beingtroubled and troubling me in the night with talk and complaints upon theold business. This is the day's work of the 5th, though it stands underthe 6th, my mind being now so troubled that it is no wonder that I fallinto this mistake more than ever I did in my life before. 

7th. Up, and at the office all the morning, and so to it again afterdinner, and there busy late, choosing to employ myself rather than go hometo trouble with my wife, whom, however, I am forced to comply with, andindeed I do pity her as having cause enough for her grief. So to bed, andthere slept ill because of my wife. This afternoon I did go out towardsSir D. Gawden's, thinking to have bespoke a place for my coach and horses, when I have them, at the Victualling Office; but find the way so bad andlong that I returned, and looked up and down for places elsewhere, in aninne, which I hope to get with more convenience than there. 

8th (Lord's day). Up, and at my chamber all the morning, setting papersto rights, with my boy; and so to dinner at noon. The girle with us, butmy wife troubled thereat to see her, and do tell me so, which troubles me, for I love the girle. At my chamber again to work all the afternoon tillnight, when Pelling comes, who wonders to find my wife so dull andmelancholy, but God knows she hath too much cause. However, as pleasantas we can, we supped together, and so made the boy read to me, the poorgirle not appearing at supper, but hid herself in her chamber. So that Icould wish in that respect that she was out of the house, for our peace isbroke to all of us while she is here, and so to bed, where my wife mightyunquiet all night, so as my bed is become burdensome to me. 

9th. Up, and I did by a little note which I flung to Deb. Advise her thatI did continue to deny that ever I kissed her, and so she might governherself. The truth is that I did adventure upon God's pardoning me thislie, knowing how heavy a thing it would be for me to the ruin of the poorgirle, and next knowing that if my wife should know all it were impossibleever for her to be at peace with me again, and so our whole lives would beuncomfortable. The girl read, and as I bid her returned me the note, flinging it to me in passing by. And so I abroad by [coach] to WhiteHall, and there to the Duke of York to wait on him, who told me that SirW. Pen had been with him this morning, to ask whether it would be fit forhim to sit at the Office now, because of his resolution to be gone, and tobecome concerned in the Victualling. The Duke of York answered, "Yes, till his contract was signed:" Thence I to Lord Sandwich's, and there tosee him; but was made to stay so long, as his best friends are, and when Icome to him so little pleasure, his head being full of his own business, Ithink, that I have no pleasure [to] go to him. Thence to White Hall withhim, to the Committee of Tangier; a day appointed for him to give anaccount of Tangier, and what he did, and found there, which, though he hadadmirable matter for it, and his doings there were good, and would haveafforded a noble account, yet he did it with a mind so low and mean, anddelivered in so poor a manner, that it appeared nothing at all, nor anybody seemed to value it; whereas, he might have shewn himself to havemerited extraordinary thanks, and been held to have done a very greatservice: whereas now, all that cost the King hath been at for his journeythrough Spain thither, seems to be almost lost. After we were up, Creedand I walked together, and did talk a good while of the weak report myLord made, and were troubled for it; I fearing that either his mind andjudgment are depressed, or that he do it out of his great neglect, and somy fear that he do all the rest of his affairs accordingly. So I staidabout the Court a little while, and then to look for a dinner, and had itat Hercules-Pillars, very late, all alone, costing me 10d. And so to theExcise Office, thinking to meet Sir Stephen Fox and the Cofferer, but theformer was gone, and the latter I met going out, but nothing done, and soI to my bookseller's, and also to Crow's, and there saw a piece of my bed, and I find it will please us mightily. So home, and there find my wifetroubled, and I sat with her talking, and so to bed, and there veryunquiet all night. 

10th. Up, and my wife still every day as ill as she is all night, willrise to see me out doors, telling me plainly that she dares not let me seethe girle, and so I out to the office, where all the morning, and so hometo dinner, where I found my wife mightily troubled again, more than ever, and she tells me that it is from her examining the girle and getting aconfession now from her of all . . . . Which do mightily trouble me, asnot being able to foresee the consequences of it, as to our future peacetogether. So my wife would not go down to dinner, but I would dine in herchamber with her, and there after mollifying her as much as I could wewere pretty quiet and eat, and by and by comes Mr. Hollier, and dinesthere by himself after we had dined, and he being gone, we to talk again, and she to be troubled, reproaching me with my unkindness and perjury, Ihaving denied my ever kissing her. As also with all her old kindnesses tome, and my ill-using of her from the beginning, and the many temptationsshe hath refused out of faithfulness to me, whereof several she wasparticular in, and especially from my Lord Sandwich, by the sollicitationof Captain Ferrers, and then afterward the courtship of my LordHinchingbrooke, even to the trouble of his lady. All which I didacknowledge and was troubled for, and wept, and at last pretty goodfriends again, and so I to my office, and there late, and so home tosupper with her, and so to bed, where after half-an-hour's slumber shewakes me and cries out that she should never sleep more, and so keptraving till past midnight, that made me cry and weep heartily all thewhile for her, and troubled for what she reproached me with as before, andat last with new vows, and particularly that I would myself bid the girlebe gone, and shew my dislike to her, which I will endeavour to perform, but with much trouble, and so this appeasing her, we to sleep as well aswe could till morning. 

11th. Up, and my wife with me as before, and so to the Office, where, bya speciall desire, the new Treasurers come, and there did shew theirPatent, and the Great Seal for the suspension of my Lord Anglesey: andhere did sit and discourse of the business of the Office: and brought Mr. Hutchinson with them, who, I hear, is to be their Paymaster, in the roomof Mr. Waith. For it seems they do turn out every servant that belongs tothe present Treasurer: and so for Fenn, do bring in Mr. Littleton, SirThomas's brother, and oust all the rest. But Mr. Hutchinson do alreadysee that his work now will be another kind of thing than before, as to thetrouble of it. They gone, and, indeed, they appear, both of them, veryintelligent men, I home to dinner, and there with my people dined, and soto my wife, who would not dine with [me] that she might not have the girlecome in sight, and there sat and talked a while with her and pretty quiet, I giving no occasion of offence, and so to the office [and then by coachto my cozen Roger Pepys, who did, at my last being with him this dayse'nnight, move me as to the supplying him with L500 this term, and L500the next, for two years, upon a mortgage, he having that sum to pay, adebt left him by his father, which I did agree to, trusting to his honestyand ability, and am resolved to do it for him, that I may not have all Ihave lie in the King's hands. Having promised him this I returned homeagain, where to the office], and there having done, I home and to supperand to bed, where, after lying a little while, my wife starts up, and withexpressions of affright and madness, as one frantick, would rise, and Iwould not let her, but burst out in tears myself, and so continued almosthalf the night, the moon shining so that it was light, and after muchsorrow and reproaches and little ravings (though I am apt to think theywere counterfeit from her), and my promise again to discharge the girlemyself, all was quiet again, and so to sleep. 

12th. Up, and she with me as heretofore, and so I to the Office, whereall the morning, and at noon to dinner, and Mr. Wayth, who, being at myoffice about business, I took him with me to talk and understand hismatters, who is in mighty trouble from the Committee of Accounts about hiscontracting with this Office for sayle-cloth, but no hurt can be laid athis door in it, but upon us for doing it, if any, though we did it by theDuke of York's approval, and by him I understand that the new Treasurersdo intend to bring in all new Instruments, and so having dined we parted, and I to my wife and to sit with her a little, and then called her andWillet to my chamber, and there did, with tears in my eyes, which I couldnot help, discharge her and advise her to be gone as soon as she could, and never to see me, or let me see her more while she was in the house, which she took with tears too, but I believe understands me to be herfriend, and I am apt to believe by what my wife hath of late told me is acunning girle, if not a slut. Thence, parting kindly with my wife, I awayby coach to my cozen Roger, according as by mistake (which the trouble ofmy mind for some days has occasioned, in this and another case a day ortwo before) is set down in yesterday's notes, and so back again, and withMr. Gibson late at my chamber making an end of my draught of a letter forthe Duke of York, in answer to the answers of this Office, which I havenow done to my mind, so as, if the Duke likes it, will, I think, put anend to a great deal of the faults of this Office, as well as my troublefor them. So to bed, and did lie now a little better than formerly, butwith little, and yet with some trouble. 

13th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to White Hall, where to the Dukeof York, and there did our usual business; and thence I to theCommissioners of the Treasury, where I staid, and heard an excellent caseargued between my Lord Gerard and the Town of Newcastle, about a piece ofground which that Lord hath got a grant of, under the Exchequer Seal, which they were endeavouring to get of the King under the Great Seal. Iliked mightily the Counsel for the town, Shaftow, their Recorder, and Mr. Offly. But I was troubled, and so were the Lords, to hear my Lord fly outagainst their great pretence of merit from the King, for their sufferingsand loyalty; telling them that they might thank him for that repute whichthey have for their loyalty, for that it was he that forced them to be so, against their wills, when he was there: and, moreover, did offer a paperto the Lords to read from the Town, sent in 1648; but the Lords would notread it; but I believe it was something about bringing the King to trial, or some such thing, in that year. Thence I to the Three Tuns Tavern, byCharing Cross, and there dined with W. Pen, Sir J. Minnes, andCommissioner Middleton; and as merry as my mind could be, that hath somuch trouble upon it at home. And thence to White Hall, and there staidin Mr. Wren's chamber with him, reading over my draught of a letter, whichMr. Gibson then attended me with; and there he did like all, but doubtedwhether it would be necessary for the Duke to write in so sharp a style tothe Office, as I had drawn it in; which I yield to him, to consider thepresent posture of the times and the Duke of York and whether it were notbetter to err on that hand than the other. He told me that he did notthink it was necessary for the Duke of York to do so, and that it wouldnot suit so well with his nature nor greatness; which last, perhaps, istrue, but then do too truly shew the effects of having Princes in places, where order and discipline should be. I left it to him to do as the Dukeof York pleases; and so fell to other talk, and with great freedom, ofpublic things; and he told me, upon my several inquiries to that purpose, that he did believe it was not yet resolved whether the Parliament shouldever meet more or no, the three great rulers of things now standingthus:--The Duke of Buckingham is absolutely against their meeting, asmoved thereto by his people that he advises with, the people of the latetimes, who do never expect to have any thing done by this Parliament fortheir religion, and who do propose that, by the sale of the Church-lands, they shall be able to put the King out of debt: my Lord Keeper is utterlyagainst putting away this and choosing another Parliament, lest they proveworse than this, and will make all the King's friends, and the Kinghimself, in a desperate condition: my Lord Arlington know not which isbest for him, being to seek whether this or the next will use him worst. He tells me that he believes that it is intended to call this Parliament, and try them with a sum of money; and, if they do not like it, then tosend them going, and call another, who will, at the ruin of the Churchperhaps, please the King with what he will for a time. And he tells me, therefore, that he do believe that this policy will be endeavoured by theChurch and their friends--to seem to promise the King money, when it shallbe propounded, but make the King and these great men buy it dear, beforethey have it. He tells me that he is really persuaded that the design ofthe Duke of Buckingham is, by bringing the state into such a condition as, if the King do die without issue, it shall, upon his death, break intopieces again; and so put by the Duke of York, who they have disobliged, they know, to that degree, as to despair of his pardon. He tells me thatthere is no way to rule the King but by brisknesse, which the Duke ofBuckingham hath above all men; and that the Duke of York having it not, his best way is what he practices, that is to say, a good temper, whichwill support him till the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Arlington fall out, which cannot be long first, the former knowing that the latter did, in thetime of the Chancellor, endeavour with the Chancellor to hang him at thattime, when he was proclaimed against. And here, by the by, he told methat the Duke of Buckingham did, by his friends, treat with my LordChancellor, by the mediation of Matt. Wren and Matt. Clifford, to fall inwith my Lord Chancellor; which, he tells me, he did advise my LordChancellor to accept of, as that, that with his own interest and the Dukeof York's, would undoubtedly have assured all to him and his family; butthat my Lord Chancellor was a man not to be advised, thinking himself toohigh to be counselled: and so all is come to nothing; for by that meansthe Duke of Buckingham became desperate, and was forced to fall in withArlington, to his [the Chancellor's] ruin. Thence I home, and there totalk, with great pleasure all the evening, with my wife, who tells me thatDeb, has been abroad to-day, and is come home and says she has got a placeto go to, so as she will be gone tomorrow morning. This troubled me, andthe truth is, I have a good mind to have the maidenhead of this girl, which I should not doubt to have if je could get time para be con her. But she will be gone and I not know whither. Before we went to bed mywife told me she would not have me to see her or give her her wages, andso I did give my wife L10 for her year and half a quarter's wages, whichshe went into her chamber and paid her, and so to bed, and there, blessedbe God! we did sleep well and with peace, which I had not done in nowalmost twenty nights together. This afternoon I went to my coachmaker andCrow's, and there saw things go on to my great content. This morning, atthe Treasury-chamber, I did meet Jack Fenn, and there he did shew me myLord Anglesey's petition and the King's answer: the former good and stout, as I before did hear it: but the latter short and weak, saying that he wasnot, by what the King had done, hindered from taking the benefit of hislaws, and that the reason he had to suspect his mismanagement of his moneyin Ireland, did make him think it unfit to trust him with his Treasury inEngland, till he was satisfied in the former. 

14th. Up, and had a mighty mind to have seen or given her a little money, to which purpose I wrapt up 40s. In paper, thinking to have given her alittle money, but my wife rose presently, and would not let me be out ofher sight, and went down before me into the kitchen, and come up and toldme that she was in the kitchen, and therefore would have me go round theother way; which she repeating and I vexed at it, answered her a littleangrily, upon which she instantly flew out into a rage, calling me dog androgue, and that I had a rotten heart; all which, knowing that I deservedit, I bore with, and word being brought presently up that she was goneaway by coach with her things, my wife was friends, and so all quiet, andI to the Office, with my heart sad, and find that I cannot forget thegirl, and vexed I know not where to look for her. And more troubled tosee how my wife is by this means likely for ever to have her hand over me, that I shall for ever be a slave to her--that is to say, only in mattersof pleasure, but in other things she will make [it] her business, I know, to please me and to keep me right to her, which I will labour to beindeed, for she deserves it of me, though it will be I fear a little timebefore I shall be able to wear Deb, out of my mind. At the Office all themorning, and merry at noon, at dinner; and after dinner to the Office, where all the afternoon, doing much business, late. My mind being free ofall troubles, I thank God, but only for my thoughts of this girl, whichhang after her. And so at night home to supper, and then did sleep withgreat content with my wife. I must here remember that I have lain with mymoher as a husband more times since this falling out than in I believetwelve months before. And with more pleasure to her than I think in allthe time of our marriage before. 

15th (Lord's day). Up, and after long lying with pleasure talking with mywife, and then up to look up and down our house, which will when ourupholster hath done be mighty fine, and so to my chamber, and there did doseveral things among my papers, and so to the office to write down myjournal for 6 or 7 days, my mind having been so troubled as never to getthe time to do it before, as may appear a little by the mistakes I havemade in this book within these few days. At noon comes Mr. Shepley todine with me and W. Howe, and there dined and pretty merry, and so afterdinner W. Howe to tell me what hath happened between him and theCommissioners of late, who are hot again, more than ever, about my LordSandwich's business of prizes, which I am troubled for, and the morebecause of the great security and neglect with which, I think, my Lord dolook upon this matter, that may yet, for aught I know, undo him. Theygone, and Balty being come from the Downs, not very well, is come this dayto see us, I to talk with him, and with some pleasure, hoping that he willmake a good man. I in the evening to my Office again, to make an end ofmy journall, and so home to my chamber with W. Hewer to settle somepapers, and so to supper and to bed, with my mind pretty quiet, and lesstroubled about Deb. Than I was, though yet I am troubled, I must confess, and would be glad to find her out, though I fear it would be my ruin. This evening there come to sit with us Mr. Pelling, who wondered to see mywife and I so dumpish, but yet it went off only as my wife's not beingwell, and, poor wretch, she hath no cause to be well, God knows. 

16th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there at the robe chamber at aCommittee for Tangier, where some of us--my Lord Sandwich, Sir W. Coventry, and myself, with another or two--met to debate the business ofthe Mole, and there drew up reasons for the King's taking of it into hisown hands, and managing of it upon accounts with Sir H. Cholmley. Thisbeing done I away to Holborne, about Whetstone's Park, where I never wasin my life before, where I understand by my wife's discourse that Deb. Isgone, which do trouble me mightily that the poor girle should be in adesperate condition forced to go thereabouts, and there not hearing of anysuch man as Allbon, with whom my wife said she now was, I to the Strand, and there by sending Drumbleby's boy, my flageolet maker, to Eagle Court, where my wife also by discourse lately let fall that he did lately live, Ifind that this Dr. Allbon is a kind of poor broken fellow that dare notshew his head nor be known where he is gone, but to Lincoln's Inn Fields Iwent to Mr. Povy's, but missed him, and so hearing only that this Allbonis gone to Fleet Street, I did only call at Martin's, my bookseller's, andthere bought "Cassandra, " and some other French books for my wife'scloset, and so home, having eat nothing but two pennyworths of oysters, opened for me by a woman in the Strand, while the boy went to and again toinform me about this man, and therefore home and to dinner, and so all theafternoon at the office, and there late busy, and so home to supper, andpretty pleasant with my wife to bed, rested pretty well. 

17th. Up, and to the Office all the morning, where the new Treasurerscome, their second time, and before they sat down, did discourse with theBoard, and particularly my Lord Brouncker, about their place, which theychallenge, as having been heretofore due, and given to their predecessor;which, at last, my Lord did own hath been given him only out of courtesyto his quality, and that he did not take it as a right at the Board: sothey, for the present, sat down, and did give him the place, but, I think, with an intent to have the Duke of York's directions about it. My wife andmaids busy now, to make clean the house above stairs, the upholstershaving done there, in her closet and the blue room, and they are mightypretty. At my office all the afternoon and at night busy, and so home tomy wife, and pretty pleasant, and at mighty ease in my mind, being inhopes to find Deb. , and without trouble or the knowledge of my wife. Soto supper at night and to bed. 

18th. Lay long in bed talking with my wife, she being unwilling to haveme go abroad, saying and declaring herself jealous of my going out forfear of my going to Deb. , which I do deny, for which God forgive me, for Iwas no sooner out about noon but I did go by coach directly to SomersetHouse, and there enquired among the porters there for Dr. Allbun, and thefirst I spoke with told me he knew him, and that he was newly gone intoLincoln's Inn Fields, but whither he could not tell me, but that one ofhis fellows not then in the way did carry a chest of drawers thither withhim, and that when he comes he would ask him. This put me into somehopes, and I to White Hall, and thence to Mr. Povy's, but he at dinner, and therefore I away and walked up and down the Strand between the twoturnstiles, hoping to see her out of a window, and then employed a porter, one Osberton, to find out this Doctor's lodgings thereabouts, who byappointment comes to me to Hercules pillars, where I dined alone, buttells me that he cannot find out any such, but will enquire further. Thence back to White Hall to the Treasury a while, and thence to theStrand, and towards night did meet with the porter that carried the chestof drawers with this Doctor, but he would not tell me where he lived, being his good master, he told me, but if I would have a message to him hewould deliver it. At last I told him my business was not with him, but alittle gentlewoman, one Mrs. Willet, that is with him, and sent him to seehow she did from her friend in London, and no other token. He goes whileI walk in Somerset House, walk there in the Court; at last he comes backand tells me she is well, and that I may see her if I will, but no more. So I could not be commanded by my reason, but I must go this very night, and so by coach, it being now dark, I to her, close by my tailor's, andshe come into the coach to me, and je did baiser her . . . . I didnevertheless give her the best council I could, to have a care of herhonour, and to fear God, and suffer no man para avoir to do con her as jehave done, which she promised. Je did give her 20s. And directions paralaisser sealed in paper at any time the name of the place of her being atHerringman's, my bookseller in the 'Change, by which I might go para her, and so bid her good night with much content to my mind, and resolution tolook after her no more till I heard from her. And so home, and there toldmy wife a fair tale, God knows, how I spent the whole day, with which thepoor wretch was satisfied, or at least seemed so, and so to supper and tobed, she having been mighty busy all day in getting of her house in orderagainst to-morrow to hang up our new hangings and furnishing our bestchamber. 

19th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, with my heart full of joy tothink in what a safe condition all my matters now stand between my wifeand Deb, and me, and at noon running up stairs to see the upholsters, whoare at work upon hanging my best room, and setting up my new bed, I findmy wife sitting sad in the dining room; which enquiring into the reasonof, she begun to call me all the false, rotten-hearted rogues in theworld, letting me understand that I was with Deb. Yesterday, which, thinking it impossible for her ever to understand, I did a while deny, butat last did, for the ease of my mind and hers, and for ever to dischargemy heart of this wicked business, I did confess all, and above stairs inour bed chamber there I did endure the sorrow of her threats and vows andcurses all the afternoon, and, what was worse, she swore by all that wasgood that she would slit the nose of this girle, and be gone herself thisvery night from me, and did there demand 3 or L400 of me to buy my peace, that she might be gone without making any noise, or else protested thatshe would make all the world know of it. So with most perfect confusionof face and heart, and sorrow and shame, in the greatest agony in theworld I did pass this afternoon, fearing that it will never have an end;but at last I did call for W. Hewer, who I was forced to make privy now toall, and the poor fellow did cry like a child, [and] obtained what I couldnot, that she would be pacified upon condition that I would give it undermy hand never to see or speak with Deb, while I live, as I did before withPierce and Knepp, and which I did also, God knows, promise for Deb. Too, but I have the confidence to deny it to the perjury of myself. So, beforeit was late, there was, beyond my hopes as well as desert, a durablepeace; and so to supper, and pretty kind words, and to bed, and there jedid hazer con eile to her content, and so with some rest spent the nightin bed, being most absolutely resolved, if ever I can master this bout, never to give her occasion while I live of more trouble of this or anyother kind, there being no curse in the world so great as this of thedifferences between myself and her, and therefore I do, by the grace ofGod, promise never to offend her more, and did this night begin to pray toGod upon my knees alone in my chamber, which God knows I cannot yet doheartily; but I hope God will give me the grace more and more every day tofear Him, and to be true to my poor wife. This night the upholsters didfinish the hanging of my best chamber, but my sorrow and trouble is sogreat about this business, that it puts me out of all joy in looking uponit or minding how it was. 

20th. This morning up, with mighty kind words between my poor wife and I;and so to White Hall by water, W. Hewer with me, who is to go with meevery where, until my wife be in condition to go out along with meherself; for she do plainly declare that she dares not trust me out alone, and therefore made it a piece of our league that I should alway takesomebody with me, or her herself, which I am mighty willing to, being, bythe grace of God, resolved never to do her wrong more. We landed at theTemple, and there I bid him call at my cozen Roger Pepys's lodgings, and Istaid in the street for him, and so took water again at the Strand stairs;and so to White Hall, in my way I telling him plainly and truly myresolutions, if I can get over this evil, never to give new occasion forit. He is, I think, so honest and true a servant to us both, and one thatloves us, that I was not much troubled at his being privy to all this, butrejoiced in my heart that I had him to assist in the making us friends, which he did truly and heartily, and with good success, for I did get himto go to Deb. To tell her that I had told my wife all of my being with herthe other night, that so if my wife should send she might not make thebusiness worse by denying it. While I was at White Hall with the Duke ofYork, doing our ordinary business with him, here being also the first timethe new Treasurers. W. Hewer did go to her and come back again, and so Itook him into St. James's Park, and there he did tell me he had been withher, and found what I said about my manner of being with her true, and hadgiven her advice as I desired. I did there enter into more talk about mywife and myself, and he did give me great assurance of several particularcases to which my wife had from time to time made him privy of her loyaltyand truth to me after many and great temptations, and I believe themtruly. I did also discourse the unfitness of my leaving of my employmentnow in many respects to go into the country, as my wife desires, but thatI would labour to fit myself for it, which he thoroughly understands, anddo agree with me in it; and so, hoping to get over this trouble, we aboutour business to Westminster Hall to meet Roger Pepys, which I did, and didthere discourse of the business of lending him L500 to answer someoccasions of his, which I believe to be safe enough, and so took leave ofhim and away by coach home, calling on my coachmaker by the way, where Ilike my little coach mightily. But when I come home, hoping for a furtherdegree of peace and quiet, I find my wife upon her bed in a horrible rageafresh, calling me all the bitter names, and, rising, did fall to revileme in the bitterest manner in the world, and could not refrain to strikeme and pull my hair, which I resolved to bear with, and had good reason tobear it. So I by silence and weeping did prevail with her a little to bequiet, and she would not eat her dinner without me; but yet by and by intoa raging fit she fell again, worse than before, that she would slit thegirl's nose, and at last W. Hewer come in and come up, who did allay herfury, I flinging myself, in a sad desperate condition, upon the bed in theblue room, and there lay while they spoke together; and at last it come tothis, that if I would call Deb. Whore under my hand and write to her thatI hated her, and would never see her more, she would believe me and trustin me, which I did agree to, only as to the name of whore I would haveexcused, and therefore wrote to her sparing that word, which my wifethereupon tore it, and would not be satisfied till, W. Hewer winking uponme, I did write so with the name of a whore as that I did fear she mighttoo probably have been prevailed upon to have been a whore by her carriageto me, and therefore as such I did resolve never to see her more. Thispleased my wife, and she gives it W. Hewer to carry to her with a sharpmessage from her. So from that minute my wife begun to be kind to me, andwe to kiss and be friends, and so continued all the evening, and fell totalk of other matters, with great comfort, and after supper to bed. Thisevening comes Mr. Billup to me, to read over Mr. Wren's alterations of mydraught of a letter for the Duke of York to sign, to the Board; which Ilike mighty well, they being not considerable, only in mollifying somehard terms, which I had thought fit to put in. From this to otherdiscourse; and do find that the Duke of York and his master, Mr. Wren, dolook upon this service of mine as a very seasonable service to the Duke ofYork, as that which he will have to shew to his enemies in his ownjustification, of his care of the King's business; and I am sure I amheartily glad of it, both for the King's sake and the Duke of York's, andmy own also; for, if I continue, my work, by this means, will be the less, and my share in the blame also. He being gone, I to my wife again, and sospent the evening with very great joy, and the night also with good sleepand rest, my wife only troubled in her rest, but less than usual, forwhich the God of Heaven be praised. I did this night promise to my wifenever to go to bed without calling upon God upon my knees by prayer, and Ibegun this night, and hope I shall never forget to do the like all mylife; for I do find that it is much the best for my soul and body to livepleasing to God and my poor wife, and will ease me of much care as well asmuch expense. 

21st. Up, with great joy to my wife and me, and to the office, where W. Hewer did most honestly bring me back the part of my letter to Deb. Wherein I called her whore, assuring me that he did not shew it her, andthat he did only give her to understand that wherein I did declare mydesire never to see her, and did give her the best Christian counsel hecould, which was mighty well done of him. But by the grace of God, thoughI love the poor girl and wish her well, as having gone too far toward theundoing her, yet I will never enquire after or think of her more, my peacebeing certainly to do right to my wife. At the Office all the morning;and after dinner abroad with W. Hewer to my Lord Ashly's, where my LordBarkeley and Sir Thomas Ingram met upon Mr. Povy's account, where I was ingreat pain about that part of his account wherein I am concerned, aboveL150, I think; and Creed hath declared himself dissatisfied with it, sofar as to desire to cut his "Examinatur" out of the paper, as the onlycondition in which he would be silent in it. This Povy had the wit toyield to; and so when it come to be inquired into, I did avouch the truthof the account as to that particular, of my own knowledge, and so it wentover as a thing good and just--as, indeed, in the bottom of it, it is;though in strictness, perhaps, it would not so well be understood. ThisCommittee rising, I, with my mind much satisfied herein, away by coachhome, setting Creed into Southampton Buildings, and so home; and thereended my letters, and then home to my wife, where I find my house cleannow, from top to bottom, so as I have not seen it many a day, and to thefull satisfaction of my mind, that I am now at peace, as to my poor wife, as to the dirtiness of my house, and as to seeing an end, in a greatmeasure, to my present great disbursements upon my house, and coach andhorses. 

22nd (Lord's day). My wife and I lay long, with mighty content; and sorose, and she spent the whole day making herself clean, after four or fiveweeks being in continued dirt; and I knocking up nails, and making littlesettlements in my house, till noon, and then eat a bit of meat in thekitchen, I all alone. And so to the Office, to set down my journall, forsome days leaving it imperfect, the matter being mighty grievous to me, and my mind, from the nature of it; and so in, to solace myself with mywife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy; and so, aftersupper, to bed. This day my boy's livery is come home, the first I everhad, of greene, lined with red; and it likes me well enough. 

23rd. Up, and called upon by W. Howe, who went, with W. Hewer with me, bywater, to the Temple; his business was to have my advice about a place heis going to buy--the Clerk of the Patent's place, which I understand not, and so could say little to him, but fell to other talk, and setting him inat the Temple, we to White Hall, and there I to visit Lord Sandwich, whois now so reserved, or moped rather, I think, with his own business, thathe bids welcome to no man, I think, to his satisfaction. However, I bearwith it, being willing to give him as little trouble as I can, and toreceive as little from him, wishing only that I had my money in my purse, that I have lent him; but, however, I shew no discontent at all. So toWhite Hall, where a Committee of Tangier expected, but none met. I metwith Mr. Povy, who I discoursed with about publick business, who tells methat this discourse which I told him of, of the Duke of Monmouth beingmade Prince of Wales, hath nothing in it; though he thinks there are allthe endeavours used in the world to overthrow the Duke of York. He wouldnot have me doubt of my safety in the Navy, which I am doubtful of fromthe reports of a general removal; but he will endeavour to inform me, whathe can gather from my Lord Arlington. That he do think that the Duke ofBuckingham hath a mind rather to overthrow all the kingdom, and bring in aCommonwealth, wherein he may think to be General of their Army, or to makehimself King, which, he believes, he may be led to, by some advice he hathhad with conjurors, which he do affect. Thence with W. Hewer, who goes upand down with me like a jaylour, but yet with great love and to my greatgood liking, it being my desire above all things to please my wifetherein. I took up my wife and boy at Unthank's, and from there toHercules Pillars, and there dined, and thence to our upholster's, aboutsome things more to buy, and so to see our coach, and so to thelooking-glass man's, by the New Exchange, and so to buy a picture for ourblue chamber chimney, and so home; and there I made my boy to read to memost of the night, to get through the Life of the Archbishop ofCanterbury. At supper comes Mary Batelier, and with us all the evening, prettily talking, and very innocent company she is; and she gone, we withmuch content to bed, and to sleep, with mighty rest all night. 

24th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, where Mr. Gentleman, the cook, and an old woman, his third or fourth wife, come and dined with us, to enquire about a ticket of his son's, that isdead; and after dinner, I with Mr. Hosier to my closet, to discourse ofthe business of balancing Storekeeper's accounts, which he hath takengreat pains in reducing to a method, to my great satisfaction; and I shallbe glad both for the King's sake and his, that the thing may be put inpractice, and will do my part to promote it. That done, he gone, I to theOffice, where busy till night; and then with comfort to sit with my wife, and get her to read to me, and so to supper, and to bed, with my mind atmighty ease. 

25th. Up, and by coach with W. Hewer to see W. Coventry; but he gone out, I to White Hall, and there waited on Lord Sandwich, which I have littleencouragement to do, because of the difficulty of seeing him, and thelittle he hath to say to me when I do see him, or to any body else, buthis own idle people about him, Sir Charles Harbord, &c. Thence walkedwith him to White Hall, where to the Duke of York; and there the Duke, andWren, and I, by appointment in his closet, to read over our letter to theOffice, which he heard, and signed it, and it is to my mind, Mr. Wrenhaving made it somewhat sweeter to the Board, and yet with all the advicefully, that I did draw it up with. He [the Duke] said little more to usnow, his head being full of other business; but I do see that he docontinue to put a value upon my advice; and so Mr. Wren and I to hischamber, and there talked: and he seems to hope that these people, theDuke of Buckingham and Arlington, will run themselves off of their legs;they being forced to be always putting the King upon one idle thing orother, against the easiness of his nature, which he will never be able tobear, nor they to keep him to, and so will lose themselves. And, forinstance of their little progress, he tells me that my Lord of Ormond islike yet to carry it, and to continue in his command in Ireland; at least, they cannot get the better of him yet. But he tells me that the Keeper iswrought upon, as they say, to give his opinion for the dissolving of theParliament, which, he thinks, will undo him in the eyes of the people. Hedo not seem to own the hearing or fearing of any thing to be done in theAdmiralty, to the lessening of the Duke of York, though he hears how thetown talk's full of it. Thence I by coach home, and there find my cozenRoger come to dine with me, and to seal his mortgage for the L500 I lendhim; but he and I first walked to the 'Change, there to look for my uncleWight, and get him to dinner with us. So home, buying a barrel of oystersat my old oyster-woman's, in Gracious Street, but over the way to whereshe kept her shop before. So home, and there merry at dinner; and themoney not being ready, I carried Roger Pepys to Holborn Conduit, and thereleft him going to Stradwick's, whom we avoided to see, because of our longabsence, and my wife and I to the Duke of York's house, to see "TheDuchesse of Malfy, " a sorry play, and sat with little pleasure, for fearof my wife's seeing me look about, and so I was uneasy all the while, though I desire and resolve never to give her trouble of that kind more. So home, and there busy at the Office a while, and then home, where mywife to read to me, and so to supper, and to bed. This evening, to mygreat content, I got Sir Richard Ford to give me leave to set my coach inhis yard. 

26th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, where I was to havedelivered the Duke of York's letter of advice to the Board, in answer toour several answers to his great letter; but Lord Brouncker not beingthere, and doubtful to deliver it before the new Treasurers, I forbore itto next sitting. So home at noon to dinner, where I find Mr. Pierce andhis wife but I was forced to shew very little pleasure in her being therebecause of my vow to my wife; and therefore was glad of a very badoccasion for my being really troubled, which is, at W. Hewer's losing of atally of L1000, which I sent him this day to receive of the Commissionersof Excise. So that though I hope at the worst I shall be able to getanother, yet I made use of this to get away as soon as I had dined, andtherefore out with him to the Excise Office to make a stop of its payment, and so away to the coachmaker's and several other places, and so awayhome, and there to my business at the office, and thence home, and theremy wife to read to me, and W. Hewer to set some matters of accounts rightat my chamber, to bed. 

27th. Up, and with W. Hewer to see W. Coventry again, but missed himagain, by coming too late, the man of [all] the world that I am resolvedto preserve an interest in. Thence to White Hall, and there at our usualwaiting on the Duke of York; and that being done, I away to the Exchequer, to give a stop, and take some advice about my lost tally, wherein I shallhave some remedy, with trouble, and so home, and there find Mr. Povy, byappointment, to dine with me; where a pretty good dinner, but for want ofthought in my wife it was but slovenly dressed up; however, much pleasantdiscourse with him, and some serious; and he tells me that he would, byall means, have me get to be a Parliament-man the next Parliament, whichhe believes there will be one, which I do resolve of. By and by comes mycozen Roger, and dines with us; and, after dinner, did seal his mortgage, wherein I do wholly rely on his honesty, not having so much as read overwhat he hath given me for it, nor minded it, but do trust to his integritytherein. They all gone, I to the office and there a while, and then hometo ease my eyes and make my wife read to me. 

28th. Up, and all the morning at the Office, where, while I was sitting, one comes and tells me that my coach is come. So I was forced to go out, and to Sir Richard Ford's, where I spoke to him, and he is very willing tohave it brought in, and stand there; and so I ordered it, to my greatcontent, it being mighty pretty, only the horses do not please me, and, therefore, resolve to have better. At noon home to dinner, and so to theoffice again all the afternoon, and did a great deal of business, and sohome to supper and to bed, with my mind at pretty good ease, having thisday presented to the Board the Duke of York's letter, which, I perceive, troubled Sir W. Pen, he declaring himself meant in that part, thatconcerned excuse by sickness; but I do not care, but am mightily glad thatit is done, and now I shall begin to be at pretty good ease in the Office. This morning, to my great content, W. Hewer tells me that a porter iscome, who found my tally in Holborne, and brings it him, for which hegives him 20s. 

29th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed with pleasure with my wife, with whomI have now a great deal of content, and my mind is in other things alsomightily more at ease, and I do mind my business better than ever and ammore at peace, and trust in God I shall ever be so, though I cannot yetget my mind off from thinking now and then of Deb. , but I do ever since mypromise a while since to my wife pray to God by myself in my chamber everynight, and will endeavour to get my wife to do the like with me ere long, but am in much fear of what she lately frighted me with about her being aCatholique; and I dare not, therefore, move her to go to church, for fearshe should deny me; but this morning, of her own accord, she spoke ofgoing to church the next Sunday, which pleases me mightily. This morningmy coachman's clothes come home; and I like the livery mightily, and so Iall the morning at my chamber, and dined with my wife, and got her to readto me in the afternoon, till Sir W. Warren, by appointment, comes to me, who spent two hours, or three, with me, about his accounts of Gottenburgh, which are so confounded, that I doubt they will hardly ever pass withoutmy doing something, which he desires of me, and which, partly from fear, and partly from unwillingness to wrong the King, and partly from its beingof no profit to me, I am backward to give way to, though the poor man doindeed deserve to be rid of this trouble, that he hath lain so long under, from the negligence of this Board. We afterwards fell to other talk, andhe tells me, as soon as he saw my coach yesterday, he wished that theowner might not contract envy by it; but I told him it was now manifestlyfor my profit to keep a coach, and that, after employments like mine foreight years, it were hard if I could not be justly thought to be able todo that. 

 [Though our journalist prided himself not a little upon becoming possessed of a carriage, the acquisition was regarded with envy and jealousy by his enemies, as will appear by the following extract from the scurrilous pamphlet, "A Hue and Cry after P. And H. And Plain Truth (or a Private Discourse between P. And H. ), " in which Pepys and Hewer are severely handled: "There is one thing more you must be mightily sorry for with all speed. Your presumption in your coach, in which you daily ride, as if you had been son and heir to the great Emperor Neptune, or as if you had been infallibly to have succeeded him in his government of the Ocean, all which was presumption in the highest degree. First, you had upon the fore part of your chariot, tempestuous waves and wrecks of ships; on your left hand, forts and great guns, and ships a-fighting; on your right hand was a fair harbour and galleys riding, with their flags and pennants spread, kindly saluting each other, just like P[epys] and H[ewer]. Behind it were high curled waves and ships a-sinking, and here and there an appearance of some bits of land. "]

He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read, and made an end ofthe Life of Archbishop Laud, which is worth reading, as informing a manplainly in the posture of the Church, and how the things of it weremanaged with the same self-interest and design that every other thing is, and have succeeded accordingly. So to bed. 

30th. Up betimes, and with W. Hewer, who is my guard, to White Hall, to aCommittee of Tangier, where the business of Mr. Lanyon

 [John Lanyon, agent of the Navy Commissioners at Plymouth. The cause of complaint appears to have been connected with his contract for Tangier. In 1668 a charge was made against Lanyon and Thomas Yeabsley that they had defrauded the king in the freighting of the ship "Tiger" ("Calendar of State Papers, " 1668-69, p. 138). ]

took up all the morning; and where, poor man! he did manage his businesswith so much folly, and ill fortune to boot, that the Board, before hiscoming in, inclining, of their own accord, to lay his cause aside, andleave it to the law, but he pressed that we would hear it, and it ended tothe making him appear a very knave, as well as it did to me a fool also, which I was sorry for. Thence by water, Mr. Povy, Creed, and I, toArundell House, and there I did see them choosing their Council, it beingSt. Andrew's-day; and I had his Cross

 [The cross of St. Andrew, like that of St. Patrick, is a saltire. The two, combined with the red cross of St. George, form the Union flag. ]

set on my hat, as the rest had, and cost me 2s. , and so leaving them Iaway by coach home to dinner, and my wife, after dinner, went the firsttime abroad to take the maidenhead of her coach, calling on Roger Pepys, and visiting Mrs. Creed, and my cozen Turner, while I at home all theafternoon and evening, very busy and doing much work, to my great content. Home at night, and there comes Mrs. Turner and Betty to see us, and suppedwith us, and I shewed them a cold civility for fear of troubling my wife, and after supper, they being gone, we to bed. Thus ended this month, withvery good content, that hath been the most sad to my heart and the mostexpenseful to my purse on things of pleasure, having furnished my wife'scloset and the best chamber, and a coach and horses, that ever I yet knewin the world: and do put me into the greatest condition of outward statethat ever I was in, or hoped ever to be, or desired: and this at a timewhen we do daily expect great changes in this Office: and by all reportswe must, all of us, turn out. But my eyes are come to that condition thatI am not able to work: and therefore that, and my wife's desire, make mehave no manner of trouble in my thoughts about it. So God do his will init!

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 Calling me dog and rogue, and that I had a rotten heart Have me get to be a Parliament-man the next Parliament I have a good mind to have the maidenhead of this girl Resolve never to give her trouble of that kind more Should alway take somebody with me, or her herself There being no curse in the world so great as this