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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 EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY

 HENRY B. WHEATLEY F. S. A. 

 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 

 1669 N. S. 

 JANUARY 1668-1669

January 1st. Up, and presented from Captain Beckford with a noble silverwarming-pan, which I am doubtful whether to take or no. Up, and with W. Hewer to the New Exchange, and then he and I to the cabinet-shops, to lookout, and did agree, for a cabinet to give my wife for a New-year's gift;and I did buy one cost me L11, which is very pretty, of walnutt-tree, andwill come home to-morrow. So back to the old Exchange, and there met myuncle Wight; and there walked, and met with the Houblons, and talked withthem--gentlemen whom I honour mightily: and so to my uncle's, and met mywife; and there, with W. Hewer, we dined with our family, and had a verygood dinner, and pretty merry and after dinner, my wife and I with ourcoach to the King's playhouse, and there in a box saw "The Mayden Queene. "Knepp looked upon us, but I durst not shew her any countenance; and, aswell as I could carry myself, I found my wife uneasy there, poor wretch!therefore, I shall avoid that house as much as I can. So back to myaunt's, and there supped and talked, and staid pretty late, it being dryand moonshine, and so walked home, and to bed in very good humour. 

2nd. Up, at the office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, whereI find my cabinet come home, and paid for it, and it pleases me and mywife well. So after dinner busy late at the office, and so home and tobed. 

3rd (Lord's day). Up, and busy all the morning, getting rooms and dinnerready for my guests, which were my uncle and aunt Wight, and two of theircousins, and an old woman, and Mr. Mills and his wife; and a good dinner, and all our plate out, and mighty fine and merry, only I a little vexed atburning a new table-cloth myself, with one of my trencher-salts. Dinnerdone, I out with W. Hewer and Mr. Spong, who by accident come to dine withme, and good talk with him: to White Hall by coach, and there left him, and I with my Lord Brouncker to attend the Duke of York, and then up anddown the House till the evening, hearing how the King do intend thisfrosty weather, it being this day the first, and very hard frost, thathath come this year, and very cold it is. So home; and to supper andread; and there my wife and I treating about coming to an allowance to mywife for clothes; and there I, out of my natural backwardness, did hangoff, which vexed her, and did occasion some discontented talk in bed, whenwe went to bed; and also in the morning, but I did recover all in themorning. 

4th. Lay long, talking with my wife, and did of my own accord come to anallowance of her of L30 a-year for all expences, clothes and everything, which she was mightily pleased with, it being more than ever she asked orexpected, and so rose, with much content, and up with W. Hewer to WhiteHall, there to speak with Mr. Wren, which I did about several things ofthe office entered in my memorandum books, and so about noon, goinghomeward with W. Hewer, he and I went in and saw the great tall woman thatis to be seen, who is but twenty-one years old, and I do easily standunder her arms. Then, going further, The. Turner called me, out of hercoach where her mother, &c. , was, and invited me by all means to dine withthem, at my cozen Roger's mistress's, the widow Dickenson! So, I went tothem afterwards, and dined with them, and mighty handsomely treated, andshe a wonderful merry, good-humoured, fat, but plain woman, but I believea very good woman, and mighty civil to me. Mrs. Turner, the mother, andMrs. Dyke, and The. , and Betty was the company, and a gentleman of theiracquaintance. Betty I did long to see, and she is indifferent pretty, butnot what the world did speak of her; but I am mighty glad to have one sopretty of our kindred. After dinner, I walked with them, to shew them thegreat woman, which they admire, as well they may; and so back with them, and left them; and I to White Hall, where a Committee of Tangier met, butlittle to do there, but I did receive an instance of the Duke of York'skindness to me, and the whole Committee, that they would not order anything about the Treasurer for the Corporation now in establishing, withoutmy assent, and considering whether it would be to my wrong or no. Thenceup and down the house, and to the Duke of York's side, and there in theDuchess's presence; and was mightily complimented by my Lady Peterborough, in my Lord Sandwich's presence, whom she engaged to thank me for mykindness to her and her Lord. . . . By and by I met my Lord Brouncker;and he and I to the Duke of York alone, and discoursed over the carriageof the present Treasurers, in opposition to, or at least independency of, the Duke of York, or our Board, which the Duke of York is sensible of, andall remember, I believe; for they do carry themselves very respectlesslyof him and us. We also declared our minds together to the Duke of Yorkabout Sir John Minnes's incapacity to do any service in the Office, andthat it is but to betray the King to have any business of trust committedto his weakness. So the Duke of York was very sensible of it and promisedto speak to the King about it. That done, I with W. Hewer took up my wifeat Unthank's, and so home, and there with pleasure to read and talk, andso to supper, and put into writing, in merry terms, our agreement betweenmy wife and me, about L30 a-year, and so to bed. This was done under bothour hands merrily, and put into W. Hewer's to keep. 

5th. Up, and to the office all the morning, the frost and coldcontinuing. At noon home with my people to dinner; and so to work at theoffice again; in the evening comes Creed to me, and tells me his wife isat my house. So I in, and spent an hour with them, the first time shehath been here, or I have seen her, since she was married. She is notoverhandsome, though a good lady, and one I love. So after some pleasantdiscourse, they gone, I to the Office again, and there late, and then hometo supper to my wife, who is not very well of those, and so sat talkingtill past one in the morning, and then to bed. 

6th (Twelfth day). Up, and to look after things against dinner to-day formy guests, and then to the Office to write down my journall for five orsix days backward, and so home to look after dinner, it being now almostnoon. At noon comes Mrs. Turner and Dyke, and Mrs. Dickenson, and thencomes The. And Betty Turner, the latter of which is a very pretty girl;and then Creed and his wife, whom I sent for, by my coach. These were myguests, and Mrs. Turner's friend, whom I saw the other day, Mr. Wicken, and very merry we were at dinner, and so all the afternoon, talking, andlooking up and down my house; and in the evening I did bring out mycake--a noble cake, and there cut it into pieces, with wine and gooddrink: and after a new fashion, to prevent spoiling the cake, did put somany titles into a hat, and so drew cuts; and I was the Queene; and The. Turner, King--Creed, Sir Martin Marr-all; and Betty, Mrs. Millicent: andso we were mighty merry till it was night; and then, being moonshine andfine frost, they went home, I lending some of them my coach to help tocarry them, and so my wife and I spent the rest of the evening in talk andreading, and so with great pleasure to bed. 

7th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning, and then at noonhome to dinner, and thence my wife and I to the King's playhouse, andthere saw "The Island Princesse, " the first time I ever saw it; and it isa pretty good play, many good things being in it, and a good scene of atown on fire. We sat in an upper box, and the jade Nell come and sat inthe next box; a bold merry slut, who lay laughing there upon people; andwith a comrade of hers of the Duke's house, that come in to see the play. Thence home and to the office to do some business, and so home to supperand to bed. 

8th. Up, and with Colonel Middleton, in his coach, and Mr. Tippets toWhite Hall; and there attended the Duke of York with the rest, where theDuke was mighty plain with the Treasurers, according to the advice my LordBrouncker and I did give him the other night, and he did it fully; and soas, I believe, will make the Treasurers carefull of themselves, unlessthey do resolve upon defying the Duke of York. Thence with W. Hewer home, and to dinner, and so out again, my wife and I and Mr. Hater to WhiteHall, where she set us down, and she up and down to buy things, while weat the Treasury-Chamber, where I alone did manage the business of "TheLeopard" against the whole Committee of the East India Company, with Mr. Blackburne with them; and to the silencing of them all, to my no greatcontent. Thence walked to my wife, and so set out for home in our coach, it being very cold weather, and so to the office to do a little business, and then home to my wife's chamber, my people having laid the cloth, andgot the rooms all clean above-stairs to-night for our dinner to-morrow, and therefore I to bed. 

9th. Up, and at the office all the morning, and at noon, my LordBrouncker, Mr. Wren, Joseph Williamson, and Captain Cocke, dined with me;and, being newly sat down, comes in, by invitation of Williamson's, theLieutenant of the Tower, and he brings in with him young Mr. Whore, whosefather, of the Tower, I know. --And here I had a neat dinner, and all in sogood manner and fashion, and with so good company, and everything to mymind, as I never had more in my life--the company being to my heart'scontent, and they all well pleased. So continued, looking over my booksand closet till the evening, and so I to the Office and did a good deal ofbusiness, and so home to supper and to bed with my mind mightily pleasedwith this day's management, as one of the days of my life of fullestcontent. 

10th (Lord's day). Accidentally talking of our maids before we rose, Isaid a little word that did give occasion to my wife to fall out; and shedid most vexatiously, almost all the morning, but ended most perfect goodfriends; but the thoughts of the unquiet which her ripping up of oldfaults will give me, did make me melancholy all day long. So about noon, past 12, we rose, and to dinner, and then to read and talk, my wife and Ialone, for Balty was gone, who come to dine with us, and then in theevening comes Pelting to sit and talk with us, and so to supper and prettymerry discourse, only my mind a little vexed at the morning's work, butyet without any appearance. So after supper to bed. 

11th. Up, and with W. Hewer, my guard, to White Hall, where no Committeeof Tangier met, so up and down the House talking with this and that man, and so home, calling at the New Exchange for a book or two to send to Mr. Shepley and thence home, and thence to the 'Change, and there did a littlebusiness, and so walked home to dinner, and then abroad with my wife tothe King's playhouse, and there saw "The Joviall Crew, " but ill acted towhat it was heretofore, in Clun's time, and when Lacy could dance. Thenceto the New Exchange, to buy some things; and, among others, my wife didgive me my pair of gloves, which, by contract, she is to give me in herL30 a-year. Here Mrs. Smith tells us of the great murder thereabouts, onSaturday last, of one Captain Bumbridge, by one Symons, both of heracquaintance; and hectors that were at play, and in drink: the former iskilled, and is kinsman to my Lord of Ormond, which made him speak of itwith so much passion, as I overheard him this morning, but could not makeanything of it till now, but would they would kill more of them. So home;and there at home all the evening; and made Tom to prick down some littleconceits and notions of mine, in musique, which do mightily encourage meto spend some more thoughts about it; for I fancy, upon good reason, thatI am in the right way of unfolding the mystery of this matter, better thanever yet. 

12th. Up, and to the Office, where, by occasion of a message from theTreasurers that their Board found fault with Commissioner Middleton, Iwent up from our Board to the Lords of the Treasury to meet ourTreasurers, and did, and there did dispute the business, it being aboutthe matter of paying a little money to Chatham Yard, wherein I find theTreasurers mighty supple, and I believe we shall bring them to reason, though they begun mighty upon us, as if we had no power of directing them, but they, us. Thence back presently home, to dinner, where I discern mywife to have been in pain about where I have been, but said nothing to me, but I believe did send W. Hewer to seek me, but I take no notice of it, but am vexed. So to dinner with my people, and then to the Office, whereall the afternoon, and did much business, and at it late, and so home tosupper, and to bed. This day, meeting Mr. Pierce at White Hall, he tellsme that his boy hath a great mind to see me, and is going to school again;and Dr. Clerke, being by, do tell me that he is a fine boy; but I durstnot answer anything, because I durst not invite him to my house, for fearof my wife; and therefore, to my great trouble, was forced to neglect thatdiscourse. But here Mr. Pierce, I asking him whither he was going, toldme as a great secret that he was going to his master's mistress, Mrs. Churchill, with some physic; meaning for the pox I suppose, or else thatshe is got with child. This evening I observed my wife mighty dull, and Imyself was not mighty fond, because of some hard words she did give me atnoon, out of a jealousy at my being abroad this morning, which, God knows, it was upon the business of the Office unexpectedly: but I to bed, notthinking but she would come after me. But waking by and by out of aslumber, which I usually fall into presently after my coming into the bed, I found she did not prepare to come to bed, but got fresh candles, andmore wood for her fire, it being mighty cold, too. At this beingtroubled, I after a while prayed her to come to bed, all my people beinggone to bed; so, after an hour or two, she silent, and I now and thenpraying her to come to bed, she fell out into a fury, that I was a rogue, and false to her. But yet I did perceive that she was to seek what tosay, only she invented, I believe, a business that I was seen in a hackneycoach with the glasses up with Deb. , but could not tell the time, nor wassure I was he. I did, as I might truly, deny it, and was mightilytroubled, but all would not serve. At last, about one o'clock, she come tomy side of the bed, and drew my curtaine open, and with the tongs red hotat the ends, made as if she did design to pinch me with them, at which, indismay, I rose up, and with a few words she laid them down; and did bylittle and, little, very sillily, let all the discourse fall; and abouttwo, but with much seeming difficulty, come to bed, and there lay well allnight, and long in bed talking together, with much pleasure, it being, Iknow, nothing but her doubt of my going out yesterday, without telling herof my going, which did vex her, poor wretch! last night, and I cannotblame her jealousy, though it do vex me to the heart. 

13th. So up and by coach to Sir W. Coventry's, but he gone out, so I toWhite Hall, and thence walked out into the Park, all in the snow, with theDuke of York and the rest, and so home, after visiting my LadyPeterborough, and there by invitation find Mr. Povy, and there was alsoTalbot Pepys, newly come from Impington, and dined with me; and afterdinner and a little talk with Povy about publick matters, he gone, and Iand my wife and Talbot towards the Temple, and there to the King'splayhouse, and there saw, I think, "The Maiden Queene, " and so home and tosupper and read, and to bed. This day come home the instrument I have solong longed for, the Parallelogram. 

14th. Up and to the office, where all the morning busy, and so home todinner, where Goodgroome with us, and after dinner a song, and then to theoffice, where busy till night, and then home to work there with W. Hewerto get ready some Tangier papers against to-morrow, and so to supper andto bed. 

15th. Up, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry, where with him a good while inhis chamber, talking of one thing or another; among others, he told me ofthe great factions at Court at this day, even to the sober engaging ofgreat persons, and differences, and making the King cheap and ridiculous. It is about my Lady Harvy's being offended at Doll Common's acting ofSempronia, to imitate her; for which she got my Lord Chamberlain, herkinsman, to imprison Doll: when my Lady Castlemayne made the King torelease her, and to order her to act it again, worse than ever, the otherday, where the King himself was: and since it was acted again, and my LadyHarvy provided people to hiss her and fling oranges at her: but, it seemsthe heat is come to a great height, and real troubles at Court about it. Thence he and I out of doors, but he to Sir J. Duncomb, and I to WhiteHall through the Park, where I met the King and the Duke of York, and sowalked with them, and so to White Hall, where the Duke of York met theoffice and did a little business; and I did give him thanks for his favourto me yesterday, at the Committee of Tangier, in my absence, Mr. Povyhaving given me advice of it, of the discourse there of doing something asto the putting the payment of the garrison into some undertaker's hand, Alderman Backewell, which the Duke of York would not suffer to go on, without my presence at the debate. And he answered me just thus: that heought to have a care of him that do the King's business in the manner thatI do, and words of more force than that. Then down with Lord Brouncker toSir R. Murray, into the King's little elaboratory, under his closet, apretty place; and there saw a great many chymical glasses and things, butunderstood none of them. So I home and to dinner, and then out again andstop with my wife at my cozen Turner's where I staid and sat a while, andcarried The. And my wife to the Duke of York's house, to "Macbeth, " andmyself to White Hall, to the Lords of the Treasury, about Tangierbusiness; and there was by at much merry discourse between them and myLord Anglesey, who made sport of our new Treasurers, and called them hisdeputys, and much of that kind. And having done my own business, I awayback, and carried my cozen Turner and sister Dyke to a friend's house, where they were to sup, in Lincoln's Inn Fields; and I to the Duke ofYork's house and saw the last two acts, and so carried The. Thither, andso home with my wife, who read to me late, and so to supper and to bed. This day The. Turner shewed me at the play my Lady Portman, who has grownout of my knowledge. 

16th. Up, and to the office all the morning, dined at home with mypeople, and so all the afternoon till night at the office busy, and sohome to supper and to bed. This morning Creed, and in the afternoon comesPovy, to advise with me about my answer to the Lords [Commissioners] ofTangier, about the propositions for the Treasurership there, which I amnot much concerned for. But the latter, talking of publick things, toldme, as Mr. Wren also did, that the Parliament is likely to meets again, the King being frighted with what the Speaker hath put him in mind of--hispromise not to prorogue, but only to adjourne them. They speak mightyfreely of the folly of the King in this foolish woman's business, of myLady Harvy. Povy tells me that Sir W. Coventry was with the King alone, an hour this day; and that my Lady Castlemayne is now in a higher commandover the King than ever--not as a mistress, for she scorns him, but as atyrant, to command him: and says that the Duchess of York and the Duke ofYork are mighty great with her, which is a great interest to my LordChancellor's' family; and that they do agree to hinder all they can theproceedings of the Duke of Buckingham and Arlington: and so we are in theold mad condition, or rather worse than any; no man knowing what theFrench intend to do the next summer. 

17th (Lord's day). To church myself after seeing every thing fitted fordinner, and so, after church, home, and thither comes Mrs. Batelier andher two daughters to dinner to us; and W. Hewer and his mother, and Mr. Spong. We were very civilly merry, and Mrs. Batelier a very discreetwoman, but mighty fond in the stories she tells of her son Will. Afterdinner, Mr. Spong and I to my closet, there to try my instrumentParallelogram, which do mighty well, to my full content; but only a littlestiff, as being new. Thence, taking leave of my guests, he and I and W. Hewer to White Hall, and there parting with Spong, a man that I mightilylove for his plainness and ingenuity, I into the Court, and there up anddown and spoke with my Lords Bellassis and Peterborough about the businessnow in dispute, about my deputing a Treasurer to pay the garrison atTangier, which I would avoid, and not be accountable, and they will serveme therein. Here I met Hugh May, and he brings me to the knowledge of SirHenry Capell, a Member of Parliament, and brother of my Lord of Essex, whohath a great value, it seems, for me; and they appoint a day to come anddine with me, and see my books, and papers of the Office, which I shall beglad to shew them, and have opportunity to satisfy them therein. Here allthe discourse is, that now the King is of opinion to have the Parliamentcalled, notwithstanding his late resolutions for proroguing them; sounstable are his councils, and those about him. So staying late talkingin the Queen's side, I away, with W. Hewer home, and there to read andtalk with my wife, and so to bed. 

18th. Up by candlelight, and with W. Hewer walked to the Temple, andthence took coach and to Sir William Coventry's, and there discoursed thebusiness of my Treasurer's place, at Tangier, wherein he consents to mydesire, and concurs therein, which I am glad of, that I may not beaccountable for a man so far off. And so I to my Lord Sandwich's, andthere walk with him through the garden, to White Hall, where he tells mewhat he had done about this Treasurer's place, and I perceive the wholething did proceed from him: that finding it would be best to have theGovernor have nothing to do with the pay of the garrison, he did proposeto the Duke of York alone that a pay-master should be there; and thatbeing desirous to do a courtesy to Sir Charles Harbord, and to prevent theDuke of York's looking out for any body else, he did name him to the Dukeof York. That when he come the other day to move this to the Board ofTangier, the Duke of York, it seems, did readily reply, that it was fit tohave Mr. Pepys satisfied therein first, and that it was not good to makeplaces for persons. This my Lord in great confidence tells me, that he dotake very ill from the Duke of York, though nobody knew the meaning ofthese words but him; and that he did take no notice of them, but bit hislip, being satisfied that the Duke of York's care of me was as desirableto him, as it could be to have Sir Charles Harbord: and did seemindustrious to let me see that he was glad that the Duke of York and hemight come to contend who shall be the kindest to me, which I owned as hisgreat love, and so I hope and believe it is, though my Lord did go alittle too far in this business, to move it so far, without consulting me. But I took no notice of that, but was glad to see this competition comeabout, that my Lord Sandwich is apparently jealous of my thinking that theDuke of York do mean me more kindness than him. So we walked together, and I took this occasion to invite him to dinner one day to my house, andhe readily appointed Friday next, which I shall be glad to have over tohis content, he having never yet eat a bit of my bread. Thence to the Dukeof York on the King's side, with our Treasurers of the Navy, to discoursesome business of the Navy, about the pay of the yards, and there I wastaken notice of, many Lords being there in the room, of the Duke of York'sconference with me; and so away, and meeting Mr. Sidney Montagu andSheres, a small invitation served their turn to carry them to London, where I paid Sheres his L100, given him for his pains in drawing the plateof Tangier fortifications, &c. , and so home to my house to dinner, where Ihad a pretty handsome sudden dinner, and all well pleased; and thence wethree and my wife to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "TheWitts, " a medley of things, but some similes mighty good, though illmixed; and thence with my wife to the Exchange and bought some things, andso home, after I had been at White Hall, and there in the Queen'swithdrawing-room invited my Lord Peterborough to dine with me, with myLord Sandwich, who readily accepted it. Thence back and took up my wifeat the 'Change, and so home. This day at noon I went with my younggentlemen (thereby to get a little time while W. Hewer went home to bidthem get a dinner ready) to the Pope's Head tavern, there to see the finepainted room which Rogerson told me of, of his doing; but I do not like itat all, though it be good for such a publick room. 

19th. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon eat a mouthful, andso with my wife to Madam Turner's, and find her gone, but The. Staid forus; and so to the King's house, to see "Horace;" this the third day of itsacting--a silly tragedy; but Lacy hath made a farce of severaldances--between each act, one: but his words are but silly, and inventionnot extraordinary, as to the dances; only some Dutchmen come out of themouth and tail of a Hamburgh sow. Thence, not much pleased with the play, set them at home in the Strand; and my wife and I home, and there to do alittle business at the Office, and so home to supper and to bed. 

20th. Up; and my wife, and I, and W. Hewer to White Hall, where she setus down; and there I spoke with my Lord Peterborough, to tell him of theday for his dining with me being altered by my Lord Sandwich from Fridayto Saturday next. And thence heard at the Council-board the City, bytheir single counsel Symson, and the company of Strangers Merchants, adebate the business of water-baylage; a tax demanded upon all goods, bythe City, imported and exported: which these Merchants oppose, anddemanding leave to try the justice of the City's demand by a Quo Warranto, which the City opposed, the Merchants did quite lay the City on theirbacks with great triumph, the City's cause being apparently too weak: buthere I observed Mr. Gold, the merchant, to speak very well, and verysharply, against the City. Thence to my wife at Unthanke's, and with herand W. Hewer to Hercules Pillars, calling to do two or three things by theway, end there dined, and thence to the Duke of York's house, and saw"Twelfth Night, " as it is now revived; but, I think, one of the weakestplays that ever I saw on the stage. This afternoon, before the play, Icalled with my wife at Dancre's, the great landscape-painter, by Mr. Povy's advice; and have bespoke him to come to take measure of mydining-room panels, and there I met with the pretty daughter of thecoalseller's, that lived in Cheapside, and now in Covent Garden, who hathher picture drawn here, but very poorly; but she is a pretty woman, andnow, I perceive, married, a very pretty black woman. So, the play done, wehome, my wife letting fall some words of her observing my eyes to bemightily employed in the playhouse, meaning upon women, which did vex me;but, however, when we come home, we were good friends; and so to read, andto supper, and so to bed. 

21st. Up, and walked to the Temple, it being frosty, and there took coach, my boy Tom with me, and so to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, wherethey met, and by and by and till twelve at noon upon business, amongothers mine, where my desire about being eased of appointing and standingaccountable for a Treasurer there was well accepted, and they will thinkof some other way. This I was glad of, finding reason to doubt that Imight in this (since my Lord Sandwich made me understand what he had saidto the Duke of York herein) fear to offend either the Duke of York bydenying it, for he seemed on Sunday night last, when I first made known mydesire to him herein to be a little amused at it, though I knew not thenthe reason, or else offend my Lord Sandwich by accepting it, or denying itin a manner that might not forward his desire for Sir Charles Harbord, butI thank God I did it to my great content without any offence, I think, toeither. Thence in my own coach home, where I find Madam Turner, Dyke, andThe. , and had a good dinner for them, and merry; and so carried them tothe Duke of York's house, all but Dyke, who went away on other business;and there saw "The Tempest;" but it is but ill done by Gosnell, in lieu ofMoll Davis. Thence set them at home, and my wife and I to the 'Change, andso home, where my wife mighty dogged, and I vexed to see it, beingmightily troubled, of late, at her being out of humour, for fear of herdiscovering any new matter of offence against me, though I am conscious ofnone; but do hate to be unquiet at home. So, late up, silent, and notsupping, but hearing her utter some words of discontent to me withsilence, and so to bed, weeping to myself for grief, which she discerning, come to bed, and mighty kind, and so with great joy on both sides tosleep. 

22nd. Up, and with W. Hewer to White Hall, and there attended the Duke ofYork, and thence to the Exchange, in the way calling at several places onoccasions relating to my feast to-morrow, on which my mind is now set; ashow to get a new looking-glass for my dining-room, and some pewter, andgood wine, against to-morrow; and so home, where I had the looking-glassset up, cost me L6 7s. 6d. And here at the 'Change I met with Mr. Dancre, the famous landscape painter, with whom I was on Wednesday; and hetook measure of my panels in my dining-room, where, in the four, I intendto have the four houses of the King, White Hall, Hampton Court, Greenwich, and Windsor. He gone, I to dinner with my people, and so to my office todispatch a little business, and then home to look after things againstto-morrow, and among other things was mightily pleased with the fellowthat come to lay the cloth, and fold the napkins, which I like so well, asthat I am resolved to give him 40s. To teach my wife to do it. So tosupper, with much kindness between me and my wife, which, now-a-days, isall my care, and so to bed. 

23rd. Up, and again to look after the setting things right againstdinner, which I did to very good content. So to the office, where all themorning till noon, when word brought me to the Board that my Lord Sandwichwas come; so I presently rose, leaving the Board ready to rise, and thereI found my Lord Sandwich, Peterborough, and Sir Charles Harbord; andpresently after them comes my Lord Hinchingbroke, Mr. Sidney, and SirWilliam Godolphin. And after greeting them, and some time spent in talk, dinner was brought up, one dish after another, but a dish at a time, butall so good; but, above all things, the variety of wines, and excellent oftheir kind, I had for them, and all in so good order, that they weremightily pleased, and myself full of content at it: and indeed it was, ofa dinner of about six or eight dishes, as noble as any man need to have, Ithink; at least, all was done in the noblest manner that ever I had any, and I have rarely seen in my life better anywhere else, even at the Court. After dinner, my Lords to cards, and the rest of us sitting about them andtalking, and looking on my books and pictures, and my wife's drawings, which they commend mightily; and mighty merry all day long, with exceedinggreat content, and so till seven at night; and so took their leaves, itbeing dark and foul weather. Thus was this entertainment over, the bestof its kind, and the fullest of honour and content to me, that ever I hadin my life: and shall not easily have so good again. The truth is, I havesome fear that I am more behind-hand in the world for these last twoyears, since I have not, or for some time could not, look after myaccounts, which do a little allay my pleasure. But I do trust in God I ampretty well yet, and resolve, in a very little time, to look into myaccounts, and see how they stand. So to my wife's chamber, and theresupped, and got her cut my hair and look my shirt, for I have itchedmightily these 6 or 7 days, and when all comes to all she finds that I amlousy, having found in my head and body about twenty lice, little andgreat, which I wonder at, being more than I have had I believe these 20years. I did think I might have got them from the little boy, but theydid presently look him, and found none. So how they come I know not, butpresently did shift myself, and so shall be rid of them, and cut my hairclose to my head, and so with much content to bed. 

24th (Lord's day). An order brought me in bed, for the Principal Officersto attend the King at my Lord Keeper's this afternoon, it being resolvedlate the last night; and, by the warrant, I find my Lord Keeper did notthen know the cause of it, the messenger being ordered to call upon him, to tell it him by the way, as he come to us. So I up, and to my Office toset down my Journall for yesterday, and so home, and with my wife toChurch, and then home, and to dinner, and after dinner out with my wife bycoach, to cozen Turner's, where she and The. Gone to church, but I left mywife with Mrs. Dyke and Joyce Norton, whom I have not seen till now sincetheir coming to town: she is become an old woman, and with as cunning alook as ever, and thence I to White Hall, and there walked up and downtill the King and Duke of York were ready to go forth; and here I metWill. Batelier, newly come post from France, his boots all dirty. Hebrought letters to the King, and I glad to see him, it having beenreported that he was drowned, for some days past, and then, he being gone, I to talk with Tom Killigrew, who told me and others, talking about theplayhouse, that he is fain to keep a woman on purpose at 20s. A week tosatisfy 8 or 10 of the young men of his house, whom till he did so hecould never keep to their business, and now he do. By and by the Kingcomes out, and so I took coach, and followed his coaches to my LordKeeper's, at Essex House, where I never was before, since I saw my oldLord Essex lie in state when he was dead; a large, but ugly house. Hereall the Officers of the Navy attended, and by and by were called in to theKing and Cabinet, where my Lord, who was ill, did lie upon the bed, as myold Lord Treasurer, or Chancellor, heretofore used to; and the businesswas to know in what time all the King's ships might be repaired, fit forservice. The Surveyor answered, in two years, and not sooner. I did givethem hopes that, with supplies of money suitable, we might have them allfit for sea some part of the summer after this. Then they demanded inwhat time we could set out forty ships. It was answered, as they might bechosen of the newest and most ready, we could, with money, get forty readyagainst May. The King seemed mighty full that we should have money to doall that we desired, and satisfied that, without it, nothing could bedone: and so, without determining any thing, we were dismissed; and Idoubt all will end in some little fleete this year, and those of hiredmerchant-men, which would indeed be cheaper to the King, and have manyconveniences attending it, more than to fit out the King's own; and this, I perceive, is designed, springing from Sir W. Coventry's counsel; and theKing and most of the Lords, I perceive, full of it, to get the King'sfleete all at once in condition for service. Thence I with Mr. Wren inhis coach to my cozen Turner's for discourse sake, and in our way he toldme how the business of the Parliament is wholly laid aside, it beingoverruled now, that they shall not meet, but must be prorogued, upon thisargument chiefly, that all the differences between the two Houses, andthings on foot, that were matters of difference and discontent, may belaid aside, and must begin again, if ever the House shall have a mind topursue them. They must begin all anew. Here he set me down, and I to mycozen Turner, and stayed and talked a little; and so took my wife, andhome, and there to make her read, and then to supper, and to bed. Atsupper come W. Batelier and supped with us, and told us many pretty thingsof France, and the greatness of the present King. 

25th. Up, and to the Committee of Tangier, where little done, and thenceI home by my own coach, and busy after dinner at my office all theafternoon till late at night, that my eyes were tired. So home, and mywife shewed me many excellent prints of Nanteuil's and others, which W. Batelier hath, at my desire, brought me out of France, of the King, andColbert, and others, most excellent, to my great content. But he hathalso brought a great many gloves perfumed, of several sorts; but all toobig by half for her, and yet she will have two or three dozen of them, which vexed me, and made me angry. So she, at last, to please me, didcome to take what alone I thought fit, which pleased me. So, after alittle supper, to bed, my eyes being very bad. 

26th. Up, and to the office, where busy sitting all the morning. Then tothe Office again, and then to White Hall, leaving my wife at Unthanke's;and I to the Secretary's chamber, where I was, by particular order, thisday summoned to attend, as I find Sir D. Gawden also was. And here was theKing and the Cabinet met; and, being called in, among the rest I find myLord Privy Seale, whom I never before knew to be in so much play, as to beof the Cabinet. The business is, that the Algerines have broke the peacewith us, by taking some Spaniards and goods out of an English ship, whichhad the Duke of York's pass, of which advice come this day; and the Kingis resolved to stop Sir Thomas Allen's fleete from coming home till hehath amends made him for this affront, and therefore sent for us to adviseabout victuals to be sent to that fleete, and some more ships; wherein Ianswered them to what they demanded of me, which was but some few meanthings; but I see that on all these occasions they seem to rely most uponme. And so, this being done, I took coach and took up my wife andstraight home, and there late at the office busy, and then home, and thereI find W. Batelier hath also sent the books which I made him bring me outof France. Among others, L'Estat, de France, Marnix, &c. , to my greatcontent; and so I was well pleased with them, and shall take a time tolook them over: as also one or two printed musick-books of songs; but myeyes are now too much out of tune to look upon them with any pleasure, therefore to supper and to bed. 

27th. Up, and with Sir John Minnes in his coach to White Hall, wherefirst we waited on the Lords of the Treasury about finishing theVictualling Contract; and there also I was put to it to make good ourletter complaining against my Lord Anglesey's failing us in the payment ofthe moneys assigned us upon the Customs, where Mr. Fenn was, and I knowwill tell my Lord; but it is no matter, I am over shy already, andtherefore must not fear. Then we up to a Committee of the Council for theNavy, about a business of Sir D. Gawden's relating to the Victualling, andthence I by hackney to the Temple to the Auditor's man, and with him to atavern to meet with another under-auditor to advise about the clearing ofmy Lord Bellasses' accounts without injuring myself and perplexing myaccounts, and so thence away to my cozen Turner's, where I find RogerPepys come last night to town, and here is his mistress, Mrs. Dickenson, and by and by comes in Mr. Turner, a worthy, sober, serious man--I honourhim mightily. And there we dined, having but an ordinary dinner; and so, after dinner, she, and I, and Roger, and his mistress, to the Duke ofYork's playhouse, and there saw "The Five Hours' Adventure, " which hathnot been acted a good while before, but once, and is a most excellentplay, I must confess. My wife and The. Come after us, after they had beento buy some things abroad, and so after the play done we to see them home, and then home ourselves, and my wife to read to me, and so to supper andto bed. 

28th. Up, and to the office, where all the afternoon, also after dinner, and there late dispatching much business, and then home to supper with mywife, and to get her to read to me, and here I did find that Mr. Shereshath, beyond his promise, not only got me a candlestick made me, after aform he remembers to have seen in Spain, for keeping the light from one'seyes, but hath got it done in silver very neat, and designs to give it me, in thanks for my paying him his L100 in money, for his service at Tangier, which was ordered him; but I do intend to force him to make me [pay] forit. But I yet, without his direction, cannot tell how it is to be madeuse of. So after a little reading to bed. 

29th. Up, and with W. Hewer in Colonel Middleton's coach to White Hall, and there to the Duke of York, to attend him, where among other things Idid give a severe account of our proceedings, and what we found, in thebusiness of Sir W. Jenings's demand of Supernumeraries. I thought it agood occasion to make an example of him, for he is a proud, idle fellow;and it did meet with the Duke of York's acceptance and well-liking; and hedid call him in, after I had done, and did not only give him a softrebuke, but condemns him to pay both their victuals and wages, or righthimself of the purser. This I was glad of, and so were all the rest ofus, though I know I have made myself an immortal enemy by it. Thence homeby hackney, calling Roger Pepys at the Temple gate in the bookseller'sshop, and to the Old Exchange, where I staid a little to invite my uncleWight, and so home, and there find my aunt Wight and her husband comepresently, and so to dinner; and after dinner Roger, and I, and my wife, and aunt, to see Mr. Cole; but he nor his wife was within, but we lookedupon his picture of Cleopatra, which I went principally to see, being somuch commended by my wife and aunt; but I find it a base copy of a goodoriginall, that vexed me to hear so much commended. Thence to see Creed'swife, and did so, and staid a while, where both of them within; and here Imet Mr. Bland, newly come from Gales [Cadiz] after his differences withNorwood. I think him a foolish, light-headed man; but certainly he hathbeen abused in this matter by Colonel Norwood. Here Creed shewed me a copyof some propositions, which Bland and others, in the name of theCorporation of Tangier, did present to Norwood, for his opinion in, inorder to the King's service, which were drawn up very humbly, and werereally good things; but his answer to them was in the most shitten proud, carping, insolent, and ironically-prophane stile, that ever I saw in mylife, so as I shall never think the place can do well, while he is there. Here, after some talk, and Creed's telling us that he is upon taking thenext house to his present lodgings, which is next to that that my cozenTom Pepys once lived in, in Newport Street, in Covent Garden; and is in agood place, and then, I suppose, he will keep his coach. So, settingRoger down at the Temple, who tells me that he is now concluded in allmatters with his widow, we home, and there hired my wife to make an end ofBoyle's Book of Formes, to-night and to-morrow; and so fell to read andsup, and then to bed. This day, Mr. Ned Pickering brought his lady to seemy wife, in acknowledgment of a little present of oranges and olives, which I sent her, for his kindness to me in the buying of my horses, whichwas very civil. She is old, but hath, I believe, been a pretty comelywoman:

30th. Lay long in bed, it being a fast-day for the murder of the lateKing; and so up and to church, where Dr. Hicks made a dull sermon; and sohome, and there I find W. Batelier and Balty, and they dined with us, andI spent all the afternoon with my wife and W. Batelier talking, and thenmaking them read, and particularly made an end of Mr. Boyle's Book ofFormes, which I am glad to have over, and then fell to read a Frenchdiscourse, which he hath brought over with him for me, to invite thepeople of France to apply themselves to Navigation, which it do very well, and is certainly their interest, and what will undo us in a few years, ifthe King of France goes on to fit up his Navy, and encrease it and histrade, as he hath begun. At night to supper, and after supper, and W. Batelier gone, my wife begun another book I lately bought, called "TheState of England, " which promises well, and is worth reading, and so aftera while to bed. 

31st (Lord's day). Lay long talking with pleasure, and so up and I tochurch, and there did hear the Doctor that is lately turned Divine, I haveforgot his name, I met him a while since at Sir D. Gawden's at dinner, Dr. Waterhouse! He preaches in a devout manner of way, not elegant nor verypersuasive, but seems to mean well, and that he would preach holily; andwas mighty passionate against people that make a scoff of religion. And, the truth is, I did observe Mrs. Hollworthy smile often, and many othersof the parish, who, I perceive, have known him, and were in mightyexpectation of hearing him preach, but could not forbear smiling, and sheparticularly upon me, and I on her. So home to dinner: and before dinnerto my Office, to set down my journal for this week, and then home todinner; and after dinner to get my wife and boy, one after another, toread to me: and so spent the afternoon and the evening, and so aftersupper to bed. And thus endeth this month, with many different days ofsadness and mirth, from differences between me and my wife, from herremembrance of my late unkindness to her with Willet, she not being ableto forget it, but now and then hath her passionate remembrance of it asoften as prompted to it by any occasion; but this night we are at presentvery kind. And so ends this month. 

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 Dine with them, at my cozen Roger's mistress's Dutchmen come out of the mouth and tail of a Hamburgh sow Fain to keep a woman on purpose at 20s. A week Find it a base copy of a good originall, that vexed me Found in my head and body about twenty lice, little and great I have itched mightily these 6 or 7 days I know I have made myself an immortal enemy by it Lady Castlemayne is now in a higher command over the King Mighty fond in the stories she tells of her son Will Observing my eyes to be mightily employed in the playhouse Proud, carping, insolent, and ironically-prophane stile She finds that I am lousy Unquiet which her ripping up of old faults will give me Up, and with W. Hewer, my guard, to White Hall Weeping to myself for grief, which she discerning, come to bed