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. APRIL & MAY 1669

April 1st. Up, and with Colonel Middleton, at the desire of Rear-AdmiralKempthorne, the President, for our assisting them, to the Court-martiallon board a yacht in the River here, to try the business of the Purser'scomplaints, Baker against Trevanion, his Commander, of "The Dartmouth. "But, Lord! to see what wretched doings there were among all the Commandersto ruin the Purser, and defend the Captain in all his rogueries, be it tothe prejudice of the King or Purser, no good man could bear! I confess Iwas pretty high, which did not at least the young gentlemen Commanderlike; and Middleton did the like. But could not bring it to any issuethis day, sitting till two o'clock; and therefore we being sent for, wentto Sir W. Pen's by invitation to dine; where my wife was, and my LordBrouncker and his mistress, and Sir J. Minnes and his niece; and here abad dinner, and little mirth, I being little pleased with my host. However, I made myself sociable; and so, after dinner, my wife and I, withmy Lord Brouncker and his mistress, they set us down at my cozen Turner's, and there we staid awhile and talked; and particularly here we met withDr. Ball, the Parson of the Temple, who did tell me a great many prettystories about the manner of the Parsons being paid for their preaching atPaul's heretofore, and now, and the ground of the Lecture, and heretoforethe names of the founders thereof, which were many, at some 5s. , some 6s. Per annum towards it: and had their names read in the pulpit every sermonamong those holy persons that the Church do order a collect for, givingGod thanks for. By and by comes by my desire Commissioner Middleton'scoach and horses for us, and we went with it towards the Park, thinking tohave met The. Turner and Betty, but did not; so turned back again to theirlodging, and there found them and Mr. Batelier, and there, after a littletalk, we took leave, and carry Batelier home with us. So to supper, andso to bed. 

2nd. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there with the Office attendedthe Duke of York, and staid in White Hall till about noon, and so with W. Hewer to the Cocke, and there he and I dined alone with great content, hereading to me, for my memory's sake, my late collections of the history ofthe Navy, that I might represent the same by and by to the Duke of York;and so, after dinner, he and I to White Hall, and there to the Duke ofYork's lodgings, whither he, by and by, by his appointment come: and alonewith him an hour in his closet, telling him mine and W. Coventry's advicetouching the present posture of the Navy, as the Duke of Buckingham andthe rest do now labour to make changes therein; and that it were best forhim to suffer the King to be satisfied with the bringing in of a man ortwo which they desire. I did also give the Duke of York a short accountof the history of the Navy, as to our Office, wherewith he was very wellsatisfied: but I do find that he is pretty stiff against their bringing inof men against his mind, as the Treasures were, and particularly againstChild's' coming in, because he is a merchant. After much discourse withhim, we parted; and [he to] the Council, while I staid waiting for histelling me when I should be ready to give him a written account of theadministration of the Navy. This caused me to wait the whole afternoon, till night. In the mean time, stepping to the Duchess of York's side tospeak with Lady Peterborough; I did see the young Duchess, [The Princess Mary, afterwards Queen of England. ]

a little child in hanging sleeves; dance most finely, so as almost toravish me, her ears were so good: taught by a Frenchman that didheretofore teach the King, and all the King's children, and theQueen-Mother herself, who do still dance well. Thence to the council doorand Mr. Chevins took me into the back stairs, and they with his friend, Mr. Fowkes, for whom he is very solicitous in some things depending inthis Office, he did make me, with some others that he took in (amongothers, Alderman Back well), eat a pickled herring, the largest I eversaw, and drink variety of wines till I was almost merry; but I did keep ingood tune; and so, after the Council was up, I home; and there find mywife not yet come home from Deptford, he she hath been all this day to seeher mother, but she come and by, and so to talk, and supper, and to bed. This night I did bring home from the King's potticary's, in White Hall byMr. Cooling's direction, a water that he says did him mighty good for hiseyes. I pray God it may do me good; but, by his description, his diseasewas the same as mine, and this do encourage me to use it. 

3rd. Up, and to the Council of War again, with Middleton: but theproceedings of the Commanders so devilishly bad, and so professedlypartial to the Captain, that I could endure it no longer, but tookoccasion to pretend business at the Office, and away, and ColonelMiddleton with me, who was of the same mind, and resolved to declare ourminds freely to the Duke of York about it. So to the office, where we satall the morning. Then home to dinner, and so back to the office, wherebusy late till night, and so home to supper and to bed. 

4th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where Alderman Backewell's wife, bymy invitation with my head, come up with her mother, and sat with us, andafter sermon I did walk with them home, and there left them, and home todinner, and after dinner with Sir J. Minnes and T. Middleton to WhiteHall, by appointment; and at my Lord Arlington's the Office did attend theKing and Cabal, to discourse the further quantity of victuals fit to bedeclared for, which was 2, 000 men for six months; and so without more adoor stay, there, hearing no news but that Sir Thomas Allen is to beexpected every hour at home with his fleete, or news of his being goneback to Algier, and so home, where got my wife to read to me; and so aftersupper to bed. The Queen-Mother hath been of late mighty ill, and somefears of her death. 

5th. Up, and by coach, it being very cold, to White Hall, expecting ameeting of Tangier, but it did not. But, however, did wait there all themorning, and, among other things, I spent a little time with Creed walkingin the garden, and talking about our Office, and Child's coming in to be aCommissioner; and, being his friend, I did think he might do me a kindnessto learn of him what the Duke of Buckingham and the faction do designtouching me, and to instil good words concerning me, which he says, and Ibelieve he will: and it is but necessary; for I have not a mind indeed atthis time to be put out of my Office, if I can make any shift that ishonourable to keep it; but I will not do it by deserting the Duke of York. At noon by appointment comes Mr. Sheres, and he and I to Unthanke's, wheremy wife stays for us in our coach, and Betty Turner with her; and we tothe Mulberry Garden, where Sheres is to treat us with a Spanish Olio, [An olio is a mixed dish of meat and vegetables, and, secondarily, mixture or medley. ]

by a cook of his acquaintance that is there, that was with my Lord inSpain: and without any other company, he did do it, and mighty nobly; andthe Olio was indeed a very noble dish, such as I never saw better, or anymore of. This, and the discourse he did give us of Spain, and descriptionof the Escuriall, was a fine treat. So we left other good things, thatwould keep till night, for a collation; and, with much content, took coachagain, and went five or six miles towards Branford, the Prince of Tuscany, who comes into England only to spend money and see our country, comes intothe town to-day, and is much expected; and we met him, but the coachpassing by apace, we could not see much of him but he seems a very jollyand good comely man. By the way, we overtook Captain Ferrers upon hisfine Spanish horse, and he is a fine horse indeed; but not so good, Ithink, as I have seen some. He did ride by us most of the way, and withus to the Park, and there left us, where we passed the evening, andmeeting The. Turner, Talbot, W. Batelier, and his sister, in a coach, weanon took them with us to the Mulberry Garden; and there, after a walk, tosupper upon what was left at noon; and very good; only Mr. Sheres beingtaken suddenly ill for a while, did spoil our mirth; but by and by waswell again, and we mighty merry: and so broke up, and left him at CharingCross, and so calling only at my cozen Turner's, away home, mightilypleased with the day's work, and this day come another new mayd, for amiddle mayd, but her name I know not yet; and, for a cookmaid, we have, ever since Bridget went, used a blackmoore of Mr. Batelier's, Doll, whodresses our meat mighty well, and we mightily pleased with her. So by andby to bed. 

6th. Up, and to the Office, and thence to the Excise Office about somebusiness, and so back to the office and sat till late, end thence to Mr. Batelier's to dinner, where my cozen Turner and both her daughters, andTalbot Pepys and my wife, and a mighty fine dinner. They at dinner beforeI come; and, when I had dined, I away home, and thence to White Hall, where the Board waited on the Duke of York to discourse about thedisposing of Sir Thomas Allen's fleete, which is newly come home toPortsmouth; and here Middleton and I did in plain terms acquaint the Dukeof York what we thought and had observed in the late Court-martiall, whichthe Duke did give ear to; and though he thinks not fit to revoke what isalready done in this case by a Court-martiall, yet it shall bring forthsome good laws in the behaviour of Captains to their under Officers forthe time to come. Thence home, and there, after a while at the Office, Ihome, and there come home my wife, who hath been with Batelier's late, andbeen dancing with the company, at which I seemed a little troubled, notbeing sent for thither myself, but I was not much so, but went to bed wellenough pleased. 

7th. Up, and by coach to my cozen Turner's, and invited them to dine atthe Cocke to-day, with my wife and me; and so to the Lords of theTreasury, where all the morning, and settled matters to their liking aboutthe assignments on the Customes, between the Navy Office and Victualler, and to that end spent most of the morning there with D. Gawden, and thencetook him to the Cocke, and there left him and my clerk Gibson togetherevening their reckonings, while I to the New Exchange to talk with Betty, my little sempstress; and so to Mrs. Turner's, to call them to dinner, butmy wife not come, I back again, and was overtaken by a porter, with amessage from my wife that she was ill, and could not come to us: so I backagain to Mrs. Turner's, and find them gone; and so back again to theCocke, and there find Mr: Turner, Betty, and Talbot Pepys, and they dinedwith myself Sir D. Gawden and Gibson, and mighty merry, this house beingfamous for good meat, and particularly pease-porridge and after dinnerbroke up, and they away; and I to the Council-Chamber, and there heard thegreat complaint of the City, tried against the gentlemen of the Temple, for the late riot, as they would have it, when my Lord Mayor was there. But, upon hearing the whole business, the City was certainly to blame tocharge them in this manner as with a riot: but the King and Council didforbear to determine any thing it, till the other business of the titleand privilege be decided which is now under dispute at law between them, whether Temple be within the liberty of the City or no. But I, sorry tosee the City so ill advised as to complain in a thing where their proofswere so weak. Thence to my cousin Turner's, and thence with her and herdaughters, and her sister Turner, I carrying Betty in my lap, to Talbot'schamber at the Temple, where, by agreement, the poor rogue had a prettydish of anchovies and sweetmeats for them; and hither come Mr. Eden, whowas in his mistress's disfavour ever since the other night that he come inthither fuddled, when we were there. But I did make them friends by mybuffoonery, and bringing up a way of spelling their names, and makingTheophila spell Lamton, which The. Would have to be the name of Mr. Eden'smistress, and mighty merry we were till late, and then I by coach home, and so to bed, my wife being ill of those, but well enough pleased with mybeing with them. This day I do hear that Betty Turner is to be left atschool at Hackney, which I am mightily pleased with; for then I shall, nowand then, see her. She is pretty, and a girl for that, and her relations, I love. 

8th. Up, and to White Hall, to the King's side, to find Sir T. Clifford, where the Duke of York come and found me, which I was sorry for, for fearhe should think I was making friends on that side. But I did put it offthe best I could, my being there: and so, by and by, had opportunity aloneto shew Sir T. Clifford the fair account I had drawn up of the Customes, which he liked, and seemed mightily pleased with me; and so away to theExcise-Office, to do a little business there, and so to the Office, whereall the morning. At noon home to dinner, and then to the office againtill the evening, and then with my wife by coach to Islington, to pay whatwe owe there, for the late dinner at Jane's wedding; and so round byKingsland and Hogsden home, pleased with my. Wife's singing with me, bythe way, and so to the office again a little, and then home to supper andto bed. Going this afternoon through Smithfield, I did see a coach runover the coachman's neck, and stand upon it, and yet the man rose up, andwas well after it, which I thought a wonder. 

9th. Up, and by water to White Hall, end there, with the Board, attendedthe Duke of York, and Sir Thomas Allen with us (who come to townyesterday); and it is resolved another fleete shall go to the Streightsforthwith, and he command it. But his coming home is mighty hardly talkedon by the merchants, for leaving their ships there to the mercy of theTurks: but of this more in my White-Booke. Thence out, and slipped out bywater to Westminster Hall and there thought to have spoke with Mrs. Martin, but she was not there, nor at home. So back again, and with W. Hewer by coach home and to dinner, and then to the office, and out againwith W. Hewer to the Excise-Office, and to several places; among others, to Mr. Faythorne's, to have seen an instrument which he was said to have, for drawing perspectives, but he had it not: but here I did see hiswork-house, and the best things of his doing he had by him, and so toother places among others to Westminster Hall, and I took occasion to makea step to Mrs. Martin's, the first time I have been with her since herhusband went last to sea, which is I think a year since . . . . But, Lord! to hear how sillily she tells the story of her sister Doll's beinga widow and lately brought to bed; and her husband, one Rowland Powell, drowned, sea with her husband, but by chance dead at sea, cast When Godknows she hath played the whore, and forced at this time after she wasbrought to bed, this story. Thence calling at several places by thehome, and there to the office, and then home to supper and to bed. 

10th. Up, and to the Excise-Office, and thence to White Hall a little, and so back again to the 'Change, but nobody there, it being over, and sowalked home to dinner, and after dinner comes Mr. Seymour to visit me, atalking fellow: but I hear by him that Captain Trevanion do give it outevery where, that I did overrule the whole Court-martiall against him, aslong as I was there; and perhaps I may receive, this time, some wrong byit: but I care not, for what I did was out of my desire of doing justice. So the office, where late, and then home to supper and to bed. 

11th (Lord's day. Easter day). Up, and to Church; where AldermanBackewell's wife, and mother, and boy, and another gentlewoman, did come, and sit in our pew; but no women of our own there, and so there was roomenough. Our Parson made a dull sermon, and so home to dinner; and, afterdinner, my wife and I out by coach, and Balty with us, to Loton, thelandscape-drawer, a Dutchman, living in St. James's Market, but there sawno good pictures. But by accident he did direct us to a painter that wasthen in the house with him, a Dutchman, newly come over, one Evarelst, whotook us to his lodging close by, and did shew us a little flower-pot ofhis doing, the finest thing that ever, I think, I saw in my life; thedrops of dew hanging on the leaves, so as I was forced, again and again, to put my finger to it, to feel whether my eyes were deceived or no. Hedo ask L70 for it: I had the vanity to bid him L20; but a better picture Inever saw in my whole life; and it is worth going twenty miles to see it. Thence, leaving Balty there, I took my wife to St. James's, and therecarried her to the Queen's Chapel, the first time I ever did it; and heardexcellent musick, but not so good as by accident I did hear thereyesterday, as I went through the Park from White Hall to see Sir W. Coventry, which I have forgot to set down in my journal yesterday. Andgoing out of the Chapel, I did see the Prince of Tuscany' come out, acomely, black, fat man, in a mourning suit; and my wife and I did see himthis afternoon through a window in this Chapel. All that Sir W. Coventryyesterday did tell me new was, that the King would not yet give him leaveto come to kiss his hand; and he do believe that he will not in a greatwhile do it, till those about him shall see fit, which I am sorry for. Thence to the Park, my wife and I; and here Sir W. Coventry did first seeme and my wife in a coach of our own; and so did also this night the Dukeof York, who did eye my wife mightily. But I begin to doubt that my beingso much seen in my own coach at this time, may be observed to myprejudice; but I must venture it now. So home, and by night home, and soto my office, and there set down my journal, with the help of my left eyethrough my tube, for fourteen days' past; which is so much, as, I hope, Ishall not run in arrear again, but the badness of my eyes do force me toit. So home to supper and to bed. 

12th. Up, and by water to White Hall, where I of the whole Officeattended the Duke of York at his meeting with Sir Thomas Allen and severalflag-officers, to consider of the manner of managing the war with Algiers;and, it being a thing I was wholly silent in, I did only observe; and findthat; their manner of discourse on this weighty affair was very mean anddisorderly, the Duke of York himself being the man that I thought spokemost to the purpose. Having done here, I up and down the house, talkingwith this man and that, and: then meeting Mr. Sheres, took him to see thefine flower-pot I saw yesterday, and did again offer L20 for it; but he[Verelst] insists upon L50. Thence I took him to St. James's, but therewas no musique, but so walked to White Hall, and, by and by to my wife atUnthanke's, and with her was Jane, and so to the Cocke, where they, and I, and Sheres, and Tom dined, my wife having a great desire to eat of theirsoup made of pease, and dined very well, and thence by water to theBear-Garden, and there happened to sit by Sir Fretcheville Hollis, who isstill full of his vain-glorious and prophane talk. Here we saw a prizefought between a soldier and country fellow, one Warrell, who promised theleast in his looks, and performed the most of valour in his boldness andevenness of mind, and smiles in all he did, that ever I saw and we wereall both deceived and infinitely taken with him. He did soundly beat thesoldier, and cut him over the head. Thence back to White Hall, mightilypleased, all of us, with this sight, and particularly this fellow, as amost extraordinary man for his temper and evenness in fighting. And thereleaving Sheres, we by our own coach home, and after sitting an hour, thrumming upon my viall, and singing, I to bed, and left my wife to dosomething to a waistcoat and petticoat she is to wear to-morrow. Thisevening, coming home, we overtook Alderman Backewell's coach and his lady, and followed them to their house, and there made them the first visit, where they received us with extraordinary civility, and owning theobligation. But I do, contrary to my expectation, find her something aproud and vain-glorious woman, in telling the number of her servants andfamily and expences: he is also so, but he was ever of that strain. Buthere he showed me the model of his houses that he is going to build inCornhill and Lumbard Street; but he hath purchased so much there, that itlooks like a little town, and must have cost him a great deal of money. 

13th. Up, and at the Office a good while, and then, my wife going downthe River to spend the day with her mother at Deptford, I abroad, andfirst to the milliner's in Fenchurch Street, over against Rawlinson's, andthere, meeting both him and her in the shop, I bought a pair of gloves, and fell to talk, and found so much freedom that I stayed there the bestpart of the morning till towards noon, with great pleasure, it being aholiday, and then against my will away and to the 'Change, where I left W. Hewer, and I by hackney-coach to the Spittle, and heard a piece of a dullsermon to my Lord Mayor and Aldermen, and thence saw them all take horseand ride away, which I have not seen together many a-day; their wives alsowent in their coaches; and, indeed, the sight was mighty pleasing. Thencetook occasion to go back to this milliner's [in Fenchurch Street], whosename I now understand to be Clerke; and there, her husband inviting me upto the balcony, to see the sight go by to dine at Clothworker's-Hall, Idid go up and there saw it go by: and then; there being a good piece ofcold roast beef upon the tables and one Margetts, a young merchant thatlodges there, and is likely to marry a sister of hers, I staid and eat, and had much good conversation with her, who hath the vanity to talk ofher great friends and father, one Wingate, near Welling;, that hath been aParliament-man. Here also was Stapely: the rope-merchant, and dined withus; and, after spending most of the afternoon also, I away home, and theresent for W. Hewer, and he and I by water to White Hall to loop among otherthings, for Mr. May, to unbespeak his dining with me to-morrow. But herebeing in the court-yard, God would have it, I spied Deb. , which made myheart and head to work, and I presently could not refrain, but sent W. Hewer away to look for Mr. Wren (W. Hewer, I perceive, did see her, butwhether he did see me see her I know not, or suspect my sending him away Iknow not, but my heart could not hinder me), and I run after her and twowomen and a man, more ordinary people, and she in her old clothes, andafter hunting a little, find them in the lobby of the chapel below stairs, and there I observed she endeavoured to avoid me, but I did speak to herand she to me, and did get her pour dire me ou she demeurs now, and didcharge her para say nothing of me that I had vu elle, which she didpromise, and so with my heart full of surprize and disorder I away, andmeeting with Sir H. Cholmley walked into the Park with him and back again, looking to see if I could spy her again in the Park, but I could not. Andso back to White Hall, and then back to the Park with Mr. May, but couldsee her, no more, and so with W. Hewer, who I doubt by my countenancemight see some disorder in me, we home by water, and there I find TalbotPepys, and Mrs. Turner, and Betty, come to invite us to dinner onThursday; and, after drinking, I saw them to the water-side, and so backhome through Crutched Friars, and there saw Mary Mercer, and put off myhat to her, on the other side of the way, but it being a little darkishshe did not, I think, know me well, and so to my office to put my papersin order, they having been removed for my closet to be made clean, and sohome to my wife, who is come home from Deptford. But, God forgive me, Ihardly know how to put on confidence enough to speak as innocent, havinghad this passage to-day with Deb. , though only, God knows, by accident. But my great pain is lest God Almighty shall suffer me to find out thisgirl, whom indeed I love, and with a bad amour, but I will pray to God togive me grace to forbear it. So home to supper, where very sparing in mydiscourse, not giving occasion of any enquiry where I have been to-day, orwhat I have done, and so without any trouble to-night more than my fear, we to bed. 

14th. Up, and with W. Hewer to White Hall, and there I did speak with theDuke of York, the Council sitting in the morning, and it was to direct meto have my business ready of the Administration of the Office againstSaturday next, when the King would have a hearing of it. Thence home, W. Hewer with me, and then out with my own coach to the Duke of York'splay-house, and there saw "The Impertinents, " a play which pleases me wellstill; but it is with great trouble that I now see a play, because of myeyes, the light of the candles making it very troublesome to me. Afterthe play;: my wife and I towards the Park, but it being too late we toCreed's, and there find him and her [his wife] together alone, in theirnew house, where I never was before, they lodging before at the next door, and a pretty house it is; but I do not see that they intend to keep anycoach. Here they treat us like strangers, quite according to thefashion--nothing to drink or eat, which is a thing that will spoil ourever having any acquaintance with them; for we do continue the old freedomand kindness of England to all our friends. But they do here talkmightily of my Lady Paulina making a very good end, and being mightyreligious in her lifetime; and hath left many good notes of sermons andreligion; wrote with her own hand, hand, which nobody ever knew of; whichI am glad of: but she was always a peevish lady. Thence home, and thereto talk and to supper and to bed, all being very safe as to my seeing ofpoor Deb. Yesterday. 

15th. Up, and to the office, and thence before the office sat to theExcise Office with W. Hewer, but found some occasion to go another way tothe Temple upon business, and I by Deb. 's direction did know whither inJewen Street to direct my hackney coachman, while I staid in the coach inAldgate Street, to go thither just to enquire whether Mrs. Hunt, her aunt, was in town, who brought me word she was not; thought this was as much asI could do at once, and therefore went away troubled through that I coulddo no more but to the office I must go and did, and there all the morning, but coming thither I find Bagwell's wife, who did give me a little noteinto my hand, wherein I find her para invite me para meet her inMoorfields this noon, where I might speak with her, and so after theoffice was up, my wife being gone before by invitation to my cozenTurner's to dine, I to the place, and there, after walking up and down bythe windmills, I did find her and talk with her, but it being holiday andthe place full of people, we parted, leaving further discourse and doingto another time. Thence I away, and through Jewen Street, my mind, Godknows, running that way, but stopped not, but going down Holborne hill, bythe Conduit, I did see Deb. On foot going up the hill. I saw her, and sheme, but she made no stop, but seemed unwilling to speak to me; so I awayon, but then stopped and 'light, and after her and overtook her at the endof Hosier lane in Smithfield, and without standing in the street desiredher to follow me, and I led her into a little blind alehouse within thewalls, and there she and I alone fell to talk and baiser la and toker sumammailles, but she mighty coy, and I hope modest . . . . I did giveher in a paper 20s. , and we did agree para meet again in the Hall atWestminster on Monday next; and so giving me great hopes by her carriagethat she continues modest and honest, we did there part, she going homeand I to Mrs. Turner's, but when I come back to the place where I left mycoach it was gone, I having staid too long, which did trouble me to abusethe poor fellow, so that taking another coach I did direct him to find outthe fellow and send him to me. At my cozen Turner's I find they are goneall to dinner to Povy's, and thither I, and there they were all, and W. Batelier and his sister, and had dined; but I had good things brought me, and then all up and down the house, and mightily pleased to see the finerooms: but, the truth is, there are so many bad pictures, that to me makethe good ones lose much of the pleasure in seeing them. The. And BettyTurner in new flowered tabby gowns, and so we were pretty merry, only myfear upon me for what I had newly done, do keep my content in. So, aboutfive or six o'clock, away, and I took my wife and the two Bateliers, andcarried them homeward, and W. Batelier 'lighting, I carried the womenround by Islington, and so down Bishopsgate Street home, and there to talkand sup, and then to bed. 

16th. Up, and to my chamber, where with Mr. Gibson all the morning, andthere by noon did almost finish what I had to write about theAdministration of the Office to present to the Duke of York, and my wifebeing gone abroad with W. Hewer, to see the new play to-day, at the Dukeof York's house, "Guzman, " I dined alone with my people, and in theafternoon away by coach to White Hall; and there the Office attended theDuke of York; and being despatched pretty soon, and told that we shouldnot wait on the King, as intended, till Sunday, I thence presently to theDuke of York's playhouse, and there, in the 18d. Seat, did get room to seealmost three acts of the play; but it seemed to me but very ordinary. After the play done, I into the pit, and there find my wife and W. Hewer;and Sheres got to them, which, so jealous is my nature, did trouble me, though my judgment tells me there is no hurt in it, on neither side; buthere I did meet with Shadwell, the poet, who, to my great wonder, do tellme that my Lord of [Orrery] did write this play, trying what he could doin comedy, since his heroique plays could do no more wonders. This dotrouble me; for it is as mean a thing, and so he says, as hath been uponthe stage a great while; and Harris, who hath no part in it, did come tome, and told me in discourse that he was glad of it, it being a play thatwill not take. Thence home, and to my business at the office, to finishit, but was in great pain about yesterday still, lest my wife should havesent her porter to enquire anything, though for my heart I cannot see itpossible how anything could be discovered of it, but yet such is fear asto render me full of doubt and disgust. At night to supper and to bed. 

17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon at home todinner, and there find Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, and he dined with us; andthere hearing that "The Alchymist" was acted, we did go, and took him withus to the King's house; and it is still a good play, having not been actedfor two or three years before; but I do miss Clun, for the Doctor. Butmore my eyes will not let me enjoy the pleasure I used to have in a play. Thence with my wife in hackney to Sir W. Coventry's, who being gone to thePark we drove after him, and there met him coming out, and followed himhome, and there sent my wife to Unthanke's while I spent on hour with himreading over first my draught of the Administration of the Navy, which hedo like very well; and so fell to talk of other things, and among the restof the story of his late disgrace, and how basely and in what a meanmanner the Duke of Buckingham hath proceeded against him--not like a manof honour. He tells me that the King will not give other answer about hiscoming to kiss his hands, than "Not yet. " But he says that this that hedesires, of kissing the King's hand, is only to show to the world that heis not discontented, and not in any desire to come again into play, thoughI do perceive that he speaks this with less earnestness than heretofore:and this, it may be, is, from what he told me lately, that the King isoffended at what is talked, that he hath declared himself desirous not tohave to do with any employment more. But he do tell me that the leisure hehath yet had do not at all begin to be burdensome to him, he knowing howto spend his time with content to himself; and that he hopes shortly tocontract his expence, so as that he shall not be under any straits in thatrespect neither; and so seems to be in very good condition of content. Thence I away over the Park, it being now night, to White Hall, and there, in the Duchess's chamber, do find the Duke of York; and, upon my offer tospeak with him, he did come to me, and withdrew to his closet, and theredid hear and approve my paper of the Administration of the Navy, only didbid me alter these words, "upon the rupture between the late King and theParliament, " to these, "the beginning of the late Rebellion;" giving it meas but reason to shew that it was with the Rebellion that the Navy was putby out of its old good course, into that of a Commission. Having donethis, we fell to other talk; he with great confidence telling me howmatters go among our adversaries, in reference to the Navy, and that hethinks they do begin to flag; but then, beginning to talk in general ofthe excellency of old constitutions, he did bring out of his cabinet, andmade me read it, an extract out of a book of my late Lord ofNorthumberland's, so prophetic of the: business of Chatham, as is almostmiraculous. I did desire, and he did give it me to copy out, whichpleased me mightily, and so, it being late, I away and to my wife, and byhackney; home, and there, my eyes being weary with reading so much: butyet not so much as I was afeard they would, we home to supper and to bed. 

18th (Lord's day). Up, and all the morning till 2 o'clock at my Office, with Gibson and Tom, about drawing up fair my discourse of theAdministration of the Navy, and then, Mr. Spong being come to dine withme, I in to dinner, and then out to my Office again, to examine the fairdraught; and so borrowing Sir J. Minnes's coach, he going with ColonelMiddleton, I to White Hall, where we all met and did sign it and then tomy Lord Arlington's, where the King, and the Duke of York, and PrinceRupert, as also Ormond and the two Secretaries, with my Lord Ashly and SirT. Clifton was. And there, by and by, being called in, Mr. Williamson didread over our paper, which was in a letter to the Duke of York, bound upin a book with the Duke of York's Book of Instructions. He read it well;and, after read, we were bid to withdraw, nothing being at all said to it. And by and by we were called in again, and nothing said to that business;but another begun, about the state of this year's action, and our wants ofmoney, as I had stated the same lately to our Treasurers; which I was bid, and did largely, and with great content, open. And having so done, we allwithdrew, and left them to debate our supply of money; to which, beingcalled in, and referred to attend on the Lords of the Treasury, we alldeparted. And I only staid in the House till the Council rose; and thento the Duke of York, who in the Duchess's chamber come to me, and told methat the book was there left with my Lord Arlington, for any of the Lordsto view that had a mind, and to prepare and present to the King what theyhad to say in writing, to any part of it, which is all we can desire, andso that rested. The Duke of York then went to other talk; and by and bycomes the Prince of Tuscany to visit him, and the Duchess; and I find thathe do still remain incognito, and so intends to do all the time he stayshere, for avoiding trouble to the King and himself, and expence also toboth. Thence I to White Hall Gate, thinking to have found Sir J. Minnes'scoach staying for me; but, not being there, and this being the first dayof rain we have had many a day, the streets being as dusty as in summer, Iforced to walk to my cozen Turner's, and there find my wife newly gonehome, which vexed me, and so I, having kissed and taken leave of Betty, who goes to Putney to school to-morrow, I walked through the rain to theTemple, and there, with much ado, got a coach, and so home, and there tosupper, and Pelling comes to us, and after much talk, we parted, and tobed. 

19th. Up, and with Tom (whom, with his wife, I, and my wife, had thismorning taken occasion to tell that I did intend to give him L40 forhimself, and L20 to his wife, towards their setting out in the world, andthat my wife would give her L20 more, that she might have as much to beginwith as he) by coach to White Hall, and there having set him work in theRobe Chamber, to write something for me, I to Westminster Hall, and therewalked from 10 o'clock to past 12, expecting to have met Deb. , but whethershe had been there before, and missing me went away, or is prevented incoming, and hath no mind to come to me (the last whereof, as being mostpleasing, as shewing most modesty, I should be most glad of), I know not, but she not then appearing, I being tired with walking went home, and mywife being all day at Jane's, helping her, as she said, to cut out linenand other things belonging to her new condition, I after dinner out again, and, calling for my coach, which was at the coachmaker's, and hath beenfor these two or three days, to be new painted, and the window-frames giltagainst May-day, went on with my hackney to White Hall, and thence bywater to Westminster Hall, and there did beckon to Doll Lane, now Mrs. Powell, as she would have herself called, and went to her sister Martin'slodgings, the first time I have been there these eight or ten months, Ithink, and her sister being gone to Portsmouth to her Y husband, I didstay and talk and drink with Doll . . . . So away:; and to White Hall, and there took my own coach, which was now come, and so away home, andthere to do business, and my wife being come home we to talk and to sup, there having been nothing yet like discovery in my wife of what hathlately passed with me about Deb. , and so with great content to bed

20th. Up; and to the Office, and my wife abroad with Mary Batelier, withour own coach, but borrowed Sir J Minnes's coachman, that so our own mightstay at home, to attend at dinner; our family being mightily disordered byour little boy's falling sick the last night; and we fear it will provethe small-pox. At noon comes my guest, Mr. Hugh May, and with him SirHenry Capell, my old Lord Capel's son, and Mr. Parker; and I had a prettydinner for them; and both before and after dinner had excellent discourse;and shewed them my closet and my Office, and the method of it to theirgreat content; and more extraordinary, manly discourse and opportunity ofshewing myself, and learning from others, I have not, in ordinarydiscourse, had in my life, they being all persons of worth, but especiallySir H. Capell, whose being a Parliament-man, and hearing my discourse inthe Parliament-house, hath, as May tells me, given him along desire toknow and discourse with me. In the afternoon we walked to the OldArtillery-Ground' near the Spitalfields, where I never was before, butnow, by Captain Deane's invitation, did go to see his new gun tryed, thisbeing the place where the Officers of the Ordnance do try all their greatguns; and when we come, did find that the trial had been made; and theygoing away with extraordinary report of the proof of his gun, which, fromthe shortness and bigness, they do call Punchinello. But I desiredColonel Legg to stay and give us a sight of her performance, which he did, and there, in short, against a gun more than as long and as heavy again, and charged with as much powder again, she carried the same bullet asstrong to the mark, and nearer and above the mark at a point blank thantheirs, and is more easily managed, and recoyles no more than that, whichis a thing so extraordinary as to be admired for the happiness of hisinvention, and to the great regret of the old Gunners and Officers of theOrdnance that were there, only Colonel Legg did do her much right in hisreport of her. And so, having seen this great and first experiment, weall parted, I seeing my guests into a hackney coach, and myself, withCaptain Deane, taking a hackney coach, did go out towards Bow, and went asfar as Stratford, and all the way talking of this invention, and heoffering me a third of the profit of the invention; which, for aught Iknow, or do at present think, may prove matter considerable to us: foreither the King will give him a reward for it, if he keeps it to himself, or he will give us a patent to make our profit of it: and no doubt but itwill be of profit to merchantmen and others, to have guns of the sameforce at half the charge. This was our talk: and then to talk of otherthings, of the Navy in general: and, among other things, he did tell methat he do hear how the Duke of Buckingham hath a spite at me, which Iknew before, but value it not: and he tells me that Sir T. Allen is not myfriend; but for all this I am not much troubled, for I know myself sousefull that, as I believe, they will not part with me; so I thank God mycondition is such that I can; retire, and be able to live with comfort, though not with abundance. Thus we spent the evening with extraordinarygood discourse, to my great content, and so home to the Office, and theredid some business, and then home, where my wife do come home, and I vexedat her staying out so late, but she tells me that she hath been at homewith M. Batelier a good while, so I made nothing of it, but to supper andto bed. 

21st. Up; and with my own coach as far as the Temple, and thence sent itto my cozen Turner, who, to ease her own horses, that are going with herout of town, do borrow mine to-day. So I to Auditor Wood's, and theretomeet, and met my Lord Bellassis upon some business of his accounts, andhaving done that did thence go to St. James's, and attended the Duke ofYork a little, being the first time of my waiting on him at St. James'sthis summer, whither he is now newly gone and thence walked to White Hall;and so, by and by, to the Council-Chamber, and heard a remarkable causepleaded between the Farmers of the Excise of Wiltshire, in complaintagainst the justices of Peace of Salisbury: and Sir H. Finch was for theformer. But, Lord! to see how he did with his admirable eloquence orderthe matter, is not to be conceived almost: so pleasant a thing it is tohear him plead. Then at noon by coach home, and thither by and by comescozen Turner, and The. , and Joyce, in their riding-clod: they being comefrom their lodgings to her husbands chamber, at the Temple, and there dolie, and purpose to go out of town on Friday next; and here I had a gooddinner for them. After dinner by water to White Hall, where the Duke ofYork did meet our Office, and went with us to the Lords Commissioners ofthe Treasury; and there we did go over all the business of the state I haddrawn up, of this year's action and expence, which I did do to theirsatisfaction, and convincing them of the necessity of providing moremoney, if possible, for us. Thence the Duke of York being gone, I didthere stay walking with Sir H. Cholmly in the Court, talking of news;where he told me, that now the great design of the Duke of Buckingham isto prevent the meeting, since he cannot bring about with the King thedissolving, of this Parliament, that the King may not need it; andtherefore my Lord St. Albans is hourly expected with great offers of amillion of money, --[From Louis XIV. See April 28th]--to buy our breachwith the Dutch: and this, they do think, may tempt the King to take themoney, and thereby be out of a necessity of calling the Parliament again, which these people dare not suffer to meet again: but this he doubts, andso do I, that it will be to the ruin of the nation if we fall out withHolland. This we were discoursing when my boy comes to tell me that hismistress was at the Gate with the coach, whither I went, and there find mywife and the whole company. So she, and Mrs. Turner, and The. , andTalbot, in mine: and Joyce, W. Batelier, and I, in a hackney, to HydePark, where I was ashamed to be seen; but mightily pleased, thoughtroubled, with a drunken coachman that did not remember when we come to'light, where it was that he took us up; but said at Hammersmith, andthither he was carrying of us when we come first out of the Park. So Icarried them all to Hercules-Pillars, and there did treat them: and so, about ten at night, parted, and my wife, and I, and W. Batelier, home; andhe gone, we to bed. 

22nd. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning. At noon home todinner, and Captain Deane with us; and very good discourse, andparticularly about my getting a book for him to draw up his whole theoryof shipping, which, at my desire, he hath gone far in, and hath shewn mewhat he hath done therein, to admiration. I did give him a Parallelogram, which he is mightily taken with; and so after dinner to the Office, whereall the afternoon till night late, and then home. Vexed at my wife's notbeing come home, she being gone again abroad with M. Batelier, and comenot home till ten at night, which vexed me, so that I to bed, and lay inpain awake till past one, and then to sleep. 

23rd. Going to rise, without saying anything, my wife stopped me; and, after a little angry talk, did tell me how she spent all day yesterdaywith M. Batelier and her sweetheart, and seeing a play at the New Nursery, which is set up at the house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, which was formerlythe King's house. So that I was mightily pleased again, and rose a withgreat content; and so by water to White Hall, and there to theCouncil-Chamber, and heard two or three causes: among others, that of thecomplaint of Sir Philip Howard and Watson, the inventors, as they pretend, of the business of varnishing and lackerworke, against the Company ofPainters, who take upon them to do the same thing; where I saw a greatinstance of the weakness of a young Counsel not used to such an audience, against the Solicitor-General and two more able Counsel used to it. Though he had the right of, his side, and did prevail for what hepretended to against the rest, yet it was with much disadvantage andhazard. Here, also I heard Mr. Papillion' make his defence to the King, against some complaints of the Farmers of Excise; but it was so weak, anddone only by his own seeking, that it was to his injury more than profit, and made his case the worse, being ill managed, and in a cause against theKing. Thence at noon, the Council rising, I to Unthanke's, and there byagreement met my wife, and with her to the Cocke, and did give her adinner, but yet both of us but in an ill humour, whatever was the matterwith her, but thence to the King's playhouse, and saw "The GenerousPortugalls, " a play that pleases me better and better every time we seeit; and, I thank God! it did not trouble my eyes so much as I was afeardit would. Here, by accident, we met Mr. Sheres, and yet I could not butbe troubled, because my wife do so delight to talk of him, and to see him. Nevertheless, we took him with us to our mercer's, and to the Exchange, and he helped me to choose a summer-suit of coloured camelott, coat andbreeches, and a flowered tabby vest very rich; and so home, where he tookhis leave, and down to Greenwich, where he hath some friends; and I to seeColonel Middleton, who hath been ill for a day or two, or three; and sohome to supper, and to bed. 

24th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home todinner, Mr. Sheres dining with us by agreement; and my wife, whichtroubled me, mighty careful to have a handsome dinner for him; but yet Isee no reason to be troubled at it, he being a very civil and worthy man, I think; but only it do seem to imply some little neglect of me. Afterdinner to the King's house, and there saw "The General" revived--a goodplay, that pleases me well, and thence, our coach coming for us, we partedand home, and I busy late at the office, and then home to supper and tobed. Well pleased to-night to have Lead, the vizard-maker, bring me homemy vizard, with a tube fastened in it, which, I think, will do mybusiness, at least in a great measure, for the easing of my eyes. 

25th (Lord's day). Up, and to my Office awhile, and thither comes Leadwith my vizard, with a tube fastened within both eyes; which, with thehelp which he prompts me to, of a glass in the tube, do content memightily. So to church, where a stranger made a dull sermon, but Imightily pleased to looks upon Mr. Buckworth's little pretty daughters, and so home to, dinner, where W. Howe come and dined with us; and then Ito my Office, he being gone, to write down my journal for the last twelvedays: and did it with the help of my vizard and tube fixed to it, and dofind it mighty manageable, but how helpfull to my eyes this trial willshew me. So abroad with my wife, in the afternoon, to the Park, wherevery much company, and the weather very pleasant. I carried my wife tothe Lodge, the first time this year, and there in our coach eat acheese-cake and drank a tankard of milk. I showed her this day also firstthe Prince of Tuscany, who was in the Park, and many very fine ladies, andso home, and after supper to bed. 

26th. Up, having lain long, and then by coach with W. Hewer to the ExciseOffice, and so to Lilly's, the Varnishes; who is lately dead, and his wifeand brother keep up the trade, and there I left my French prints to be puton boards:, and, while I was there, a fire burst out in a chimney of ahouse over against his house, but it was with a gun quickly put out. Soto White Hall, and did a little business there at the Treasury chamber, and so homeward, calling at the laceman's for some lace for my new suit, and at my tailor's, and so home, where to dinner, and Mr. Sheres dined, with us, who come hither to-day to teach my wife the rules of perspective;but I think, upon trial, he thinks it too hard to teach her, beingignorant of the principles of lines. After dinner comes one ColonelMacnachan, one that I see often at Court, a Scotchman, but know him not;only he brings me a letter from my Lord Middleton, who, he says, is ingreat distress for L500 to relieve my Lord Morton with, but upon, whataccount I know not; and he would have me advance it without order upon hispay for Tangier, which I was astonished at, but had the grace to deny himwith an excuse. And so he went away, leaving me a little troubled that Iwas thus driven, on a sudden, to do any thing herein; but Creed, comingjust now to see me, he approves of what I have done. And then to talk ofgeneral matters, and, by and by, Sheres being gone, my wife, and he, and Iout, and I set him down at Temple Bar, and myself and wife went down theTemple upon seeming business, only to put him off, and just at the Templegate I spied Deb. With another gentlewoman, and Deb. Winked on me andsmiled, but undiscovered, and I was glad to see her. So my wife and I tothe 'Change, about things for her; and here, at Mrs. Burnett's shop, I amtold by Betty, who was all undressed, of a great fire happened inDurham-Yard last night, burning the house of one Lady Hungerford, who wasto come to town to it this night; and so the house is burned, newfurnished, by carelessness of the girl sent to take off a candle from abunch of candles, which she did by burning it off, and left the rest, asis supposed, on fire. The King and Court were here, it seems, and stoppedthe fire by blowing up of the next house. The King and Court went out oftown to Newmarket this morning betimes, for a week. So home, and there tomy chamber, and got my wife to read to me a little, and so to supper andto bed. Coming home this night I did call at the coachmaker's, and doresolve upon having the standards of my coach gilt with this new sort ofvarnish, which will come but to 40s. ; and, contrary to my expectation, thedoing of the biggest coach all over comes not to above L6, which is [not]very much. 

27th. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning. At noon home todinner, and then to the Office again, where the afternoon busy till late, and then home, and got my wife to read to me in the Nepotisme, [The work here mentioned is a bitter satire against the Court Rome, written in Italian, and attributed to Gregorio Leti. It was first printed in 1667, without the name or place of printer, but it is from the press of the Elzevirs. The book obtained by Pepys was probably the anonymous English translation, "Il Nipotismo di Roma: or the history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV. To the death the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts. Written originally Italian in the year 1667 and Englished by W. A. London, 1669" 8vo. From this work the word Nepotism is derived, and is applied to the bad practice of statesmen, when in power, providing lucrative places for their relations. ]

which is very pleasant, and so to supper and to bed. This afternoon wasbrought to me a fresh Distringas upon the score of the Tangier accountswhich vexes me, though I hope it will not turn to my wrong. 

28th. Up, and was called upon by Sir H. Cholmly to discourse about someaccounts of his, of Tangier: and then other talk; and I find by him thatit is brought almost effect ([through] the late endeavours of the Duke ofYork Duchess, the Queen-Mother, and my Lord St. Albans, together with someof the contrary faction, my Lord Arlington), that for a sum of money weshall enter into a league with the King of France, wherein, he says, myLord Chancellor--[Clarendon; then an exile in France. ]--is also concerned;and that he believes that, in the doing hereof, it is meant that he[Clarendon] shall come again, and that this sum of money will so help theKing that he will not need the Parliament; and that, in that regard itwill be forwarded by the Duke of Buckingham and his faction, who dread theParliament. But hereby we must leave the Dutch, and that I doubt willundo us; and Sir H. Cholmly says he finds W. Coventry do think the like. Lady Castlemayne is instrumental in this matter, and, he say never moregreat with the King than she is now. But this a thing that will make theParliament and kingdom mad, and will turn to our ruine: for with thismoney the King shall wanton away his time in pleasures, and think nothingof the main till it be too late. He gone, I to the office, where busytill noon, and then home to dinner, where W. Batelier dined with us, andpretty merry, and so I to the office again. This morning Mr. Sheres sentme, in two volumes, Mariana his History of Spaine, in Spanish, anexcellent book; and I am much obliged for it to him. 

29th. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning, and at noon dined athome, and then to the Office again, there to despatch as much business asI could, that I might be at liberty to-morrow to look after my many thingsthat I have to do, against May-day. So at night home to supper and tobed. 

30th. Up, and by coach to the coachmaker's: and there I do find a greatmany ladies sitting in the body of a coach that must be ended byto-morrow: they were my Lady Marquess of Winchester, Bellassis, and othergreat ladies; eating of bread and butter, and drinking ale. I to mycoach, which is silvered over, but no varnish yet laid on, so I put it ina way of doing; and myself about other business, and particularly to seeSir W. Coventry, with whom I talked a good while to my great content; andso to other places-among others, to my tailor's: and then to thebelt-maker's, where my belt cost me 55s. , of the colour of my new suit;and here, understanding that the mistress of the house, an oldish woman ina hat hath some water good for the eyes, she did dress me, making my eyessmart most horribly, and did give me a little glass of it, which I willuse, and hope it will do me good. So to the cutler's, and there did giveTom, who was with me all day a sword cost me 12s. And a belt of my owne;and set my own silver-hilt sword a-gilding against to-morrow. Thismorning I did visit Mr. Oldenburgh, and did see the instrument forperspective made by Dr. Wren, of which I have one making by Browne; andthe sight of this do please me mightily. At noon my wife come to me at mytailor's, and I sent her home and myself and Tom dined at Hercules'Pillars; and so about our business again, and particularly to Lilly's, thevarnisher about my prints, whereof some of them are pasted upon theboards, and to my full content. Thence to the frame-maker's one Morris, in Long Acre, who shewed me several forms of frames to choose by, whichwas pretty, in little bits of mouldings, to choose by. This done, I to mycoach-maker's, and there vexed to see nothing yet done to my coach, atthree in the afternoon; but I set it in doing, and stood by it till eightat night, and saw the painter varnish which is pretty to see how everydoing it over do make it more and more yellow; and it dries as fast in thesun as it can be laid on almost; and most coaches are, now-a-days done so, and it is very pretty when laid on well, and not pale, as some are, evento shew the silver. Here I did make the workmen drink, and saw my coachcleaned and oyled; and, staying among poor people there in the alley, didhear them call their fat child Punch, which pleased me mightily that wordbeing become a word of common use for all that is thick and short. Atnight home, and there find my wife hath been making herself clean againstto-morrow; and, late as it was, I did send my coachman and horses to fetchhome the coach to-night, and so we to supper, myself most weary withwalking and standing so much, to see all things fine against to-morrow, and so to bed. God give a blessing to it! Meeting with Mr. Sheres, hewent with me up and down to several places, and, among others, to buy aperriwig, but I bought none; and also to Dancre's, where he was about mypicture of Windsor, which is mighty pretty, and so will the prospect ofRome be. 

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

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 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. MAY 1669

May 1st. Up betimes. Called up by my tailor, and there first put on asummer suit this year; but it was not my fine one of flowered tabby vest, and coloured camelott tunique, because it was too fine with the gold laceat the hands, that I was afeard to be seen in it; but put on the stuffsuit I made the last year, which is now repaired; and so did go to theOffice in it, and sat all the morning, the day looking as if it would befowle. At noon home to dinner, and there find my wife extraordinary fine, with her flowered tabby gown that she made two years ago, now lacedexceeding pretty; and, indeed, was fine all over; and mighty earnest togo, though the day was very lowering; and she would have me put on my finesuit, which I did. And so anon we went alone through the town with ournew liveries of serge, and the horses' manes and tails tied with redribbons, and the standards there gilt with varnish, and all clean, andgreen refines, that people did mightily look upon us; and, the truth is, Idid not see any coach more pretty, though more gay, than ours, all theday. But we set out, out of humour--I because Betty, whom I expected, wasnot come to go with us; and my wife that I would sit on the same seat withher, which she likes not, being so fine: and she then expected to meetSheres, which we did in the Pell Mell, and, against my will, I was forcedto take him into the coach, but was sullen all day almost, and littlecomplaisant: the day also being unpleasing, though the Park full ofcoaches, but dusty and windy, and cold, and now and then a littledribbling rain; and, what made it worst, there were so manyhackney-coaches as spoiled the sight of the gentlemen's; and so we hadlittle pleasure. But here was W. Batelier and his sister in a borrowedcoach by themselves, and I took them and we to the lodge; and at the doordid give them a syllabub, and other things, cost me 12s. , and prettymerry. And so back to the coaches, and there till the evening, and thenhome, leaving Mr. Sheres at St. James's Gate, where he took leave of usfor altogether, he; being this night to set out for Portsmouth post, inhis way to Tangier, which troubled my wife mightily, who is mighty, thoughnot, I think, too fond of him. But she was out of humour all the evening, and I vexed at her for it, and she did not rest almost all the night, soas in the night I was forced; to take her and hug her to put her to rest. So home, and after a little supper, to bed. 

2nd (Lord's day). Up, and by water to White Hall, and there visit my LordSandwich, who, after about two months' absence at Hinchingbroke, come totown last night. I saw him, and very kind; and I am glad he is so, Ihaving not wrote to him all the time, my eyes indeed not letting me. Herewith Sir Charles Herbert [Harbord], and my Lord Hinchingbroke, and Sidney, we looked upon the picture of Tangier, designed: by Charles Herbert[Harbord], and drawn by Dancre, which my Lord Sandwich admires, as beingthe truest picture that ever he's saw in his life: and it is indeed verypretty, and I will be at the cost of having one of them. Thence with themto White Hall, and there walked out the sermon, with one or other; andthen saw the Duke of York after sermon, and he talked to me a little; andso away back by water home, and after dinner got my wife to read, and thenby coach, she and I, to the Park, and there spent the evening with muchpleasure, it proving clear after a little shower, and we mighty fine asyesterday, and people mightily pleased with our coach, as I perceived; butI had not on my fine suit, being really afeard to wear it, it being sofine with the gold lace, though not gay. So home and to supper, and mywife to read, and Tom, my Nepotisme, and then to bed. 

3rd. Up, and by coach to my Lord Brouncker's, where Sir G. Carteret didmeet Sir J. Minnes and me, to discourse upon Mr. Deering's business, whowas directed, in the time of the war, to provide provisions at Hamburgh, by Sir G. Carteret's direction; and now G. Carteret is afeard to own it, it being done without written order. But by our meeting we do all beginto recollect enough to preserve Mr. Deering, I think, which, poor sillyman! I shall be glad of, it being too much he should suffer forendeavouring to serve us. Thence to St. James's, where the Duke of Yorkwas playing in the Pell Mell; and so he called me to him most part of thetime that he played, which was an hour, and talked alone to me; and, amongother things, tells me how the King will not yet be got to name anybody inthe room of Pen, but puts it off for three or four days; from whence he docollect that they are brewing something for the Navy, but what he knowsnot; but I perceive is vexed that things should go so, and he hath reason;for he told me that it is likely they will do in this as in otherthings--resolve first, and consider it and the fitness of it afterward. Thence to White Hall, and met with Creed, and I took him to the Harp andBalls, and there drank a cup of ale, he and I alone, and discoursed ofmatters; and I perceive by him that he makes no doubt but that all willturn to the old religion, for these people cannot hold things in theirhands, nor prevent its coming to that; and by his discourse fits himselffor it, and would have my Lord Sandwich do so, too, and me. After alittle talk with him, and particularly about the ruinous condition ofTangier, which I have a great mind to lay before the Duke of York, beforeit be too late, but dare not, because of his great kindness to LordMiddleton, we parted, and I homeward; but called at Povy's, and there hestopped me to dinner, there being Mr. Williamson, the Lieutenant of theTower, Mr. Childe, and several others. And after dinner, Povy and Itogether to talk of Tangier; and he would have me move the Duke of York init, for it concerns him particularly, more than any, as being the head ofus; and I do think to do it. Thence home, and at the office busy all theafternoon, and so to supper and to bed. 

4th. Up, and to the office, and then my wife being gone to see her motherat Deptford, I before the office sat went to the Excise Office, and thencebeing alone stepped into Duck Lane, and thence tried to have sent a porterto Deb. 's, but durst not trust him, and therefore having bought a book tosatisfy the bookseller for my stay there, a 12d. Book, Andronicus of TomFuller, I took coach, and at the end of Jewen Street next Red Cross StreetI sent the coachman to her lodging, and understand she is gone forGreenwich to one Marys's, a tanner's, at which I, was glad, hoping to haveopportunity to find her out; and so, in great fear of being seen, I to theoffice, and there all the morning, dined at home, and presently afterdinner comes home my wife, who I believe is jealous of my spending theday, and I had very good fortune in being at home, for if Deb. Had been tohave been found it is forty to one but I had been abroad, God forgive me. So the afternoon at the office, and at night walked with my wife in thegarden, and my Lord Brouncker with us, who is newly come to W. Pen'slodgings; and by and by comes Mr. Hooke; and my Lord, and he, and I intomy Lord's lodgings, and there discoursed of many fine things inphilosophy, to my great content, and so home to supper and to bed. 

5th. Up, and thought to have gone with Lord Brouncker to Mr. Hooke thismorning betimes; but my Lord is taken ill of the gout, and says his newlodgings have infected him, he never having had any symptoms of it tillnow. So walked to Gresham College, to tell Hooke that my Lord could notcome; and so left word, he being abroad, and I to St. James's, and thence, with the Duke of York, to White Hall, where the Board waited on him allthe morning: and so at noon with Sir Thomas Allen, and Sir Edward Scott, and Lord Carlingford, to the Spanish Embassador's, where I dined the firsttime. The Olio not so good as Sheres's. There was at the table himselfand a Spanish Countess, a good, comely, and witty lady-three Fathers andus. Discourse good and pleasant. And here was an Oxford scholar in aDoctor of Law's gowne, sent from the College where the Embassador lay, when the Court was there, to salute him before his return to Spain: Thisman, though a gentle sort of scholar, yet sat like a fool for want ofFrench or Spanish, but [knew] only Latin, which he spoke like anEnglishman to one of the Fathers. And by and by he and I to talk, and thecompany very merry at my defending Cambridge against Oxford: and I mademuch use of my French and Spanish here, to my great content. But thedinner not extraordinary at all, either for quantity or quality. Thencehome, where my wife ill of those upon the maid's bed, and troubled at mybeing abroad. So I to the office, and there till night, and then to her, and she read to me the Epistle of Cassandra, which is very good indeed;and the better to her, because recommended by Sheres. So to supper, andto bed. 

6th. Up, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry's, but he gone out. I by waterback to the Office, and there all the morning; then to dinner, and then tothe Office again, and anon with my wife by coach to take the ayre, itbeing a noble day, as far as the Greene Man, mightily pleased with ourjourney, and our condition of doing it in our own coach, and so home, andto walk in the garden, and so to supper and to bed, my eyes being bad withwriting my journal, part of it, to-night. 

7th. Up, and by coach to W. Coventry's; and there to talk with him agreat deal with great content; and so to the Duke of York, having a greatmind to speak to him about Tangier; but, when I come to it, his interestfor my Lord Middleton is such that I dare not. So to the Treasurychamber, and then walked home round by the Excise Office, having byprivate vows last night in prayer to God Almighty cleared my mind for thepresent of the thoughts of going to Deb. At Greenwich, which I did longafter. I passed by Guildhall, which is almost finished, and saw a poorlabourer carried by, I think, dead with a fall, as many there are, I hear. So home to dinner, and then to the office a little, and so to see my LordBrouncker, who is a little ill of the gout; and there Madam Williams toldme that she heard that my wife was going into France this year, which Idid not deny, if I can get time, and I pray God I may. But I wonderinghow she come to know it, she tells me a woman that my wife spoke to for amaid, did tell her so, and that a lady that desires to go thither would beglad to go in her company. Thence with my wife abroad, with our coach, most pleasant weather; and to Hackney, and into the marshes, where I neverwas before, and thence round about to Old Ford and Bow; and coming throughthe latter home, there being some young gentlewomen at a door, and Iseeming not to know who they were, my wife's jealousy told me presentlythat I knew well enough it was that damned place where Deb. Dwelt, whichmade me swear very angrily that it was false, as it was, and I carried[her] back again to see the place, and it proved not so, so I continuedout of humour a good while at it, she being willing to be friends, so Iwas by and by, saying no more of it. So home, and there met with a letterfrom Captain Silas Taylor, and, with it, his written copy of a play thathe hath wrote, and intends to have acted. --It is called "The Serenade, orDisappointment, " which I will read, not believing he can make any good ofthat kind. He did once offer to show Harris it, but Harris told him thathe would judge by one Act whether it were good or no, which is indeed afoolish saying, and we see them out themselves in the choice of a playafter they have read the whole, it being sometimes found not fit to actabove three times; nay, and some that have been refused at one house isfound a good one at the other. This made Taylor say he would not shew ithim, but is angry, and hath carried it to the other house, and he thinksit will be acted there, though he tells me they are not yet agreed uponit. But I will find time to get it read to me, and I did get my wife tobegin a little to-night in the garden, but not so much as I could make anyjudgment of it. So home to supper and to bed. 

8th. Up, and to the Office, and there comes Lead to me, and at last myvizards are done, and glasses got to put in and out, as I will; and Ithink I have brought it to the utmost, both for easiness of using andbenefit, that I can; and so I paid him 15s. For what he hath done nowlast, in the finishing them, and they, I hope, will do me a great deal ofease. At the Office all the morning, and this day, the first time, didalter my side of the table, after above eight years sitting on that nextthe fire. But now I am not able to bear the light of the windows in myeyes, I do begin there, and I did sit with much more content than I haddone on the other side for a great while, and in winter the fire will nottrouble my back. At noon home to dinner, and after dinner all theafternoon within, with Mr. Hater, Gibson, and W. Hewer, reading over anddrawing up new things in the Instructions of Commanders, which will begood, and I hope to get them confirmed by the Duke of York, though Iperceive nothing will effectually perfect them but to look over the wholebody of the Instructions, of all the Officers of a ship, and make them allperfect together. This being done, comes my bookseller, and brings mehome bound my collection of papers, about my Addresse to the Duke of Yorkin August, which makes me glad, it being that which shall do me more rightmany years hence than, perhaps, all I ever did in my life: and therefore Ido, both for my own and the King's sake, value it much. By and by alsocomes Browne, the mathematical instrument maker, and brings me home myinstrument for perspective, made according to the description of Dr. Wren's, in the late Transactions; and he hath made it, I think, very well, and that, that I believe will do the thing, and therein gives me greatcontent; but have I fear all the content that must be received by my eyesis almost lost. So to the office, and there late at business, and thenhome to supper and to bed. 

9th (Lord's day). Up; and, after dressing in my best suit with goldtrimming, I to the Office, and there with Gibson and Tom finishing againstto-morrow my notes upon Commanders' Instructions; and, when church-time, to church with my wife, leaving them at work. Dr. Mills preached a dullsermon, and so we home to dinner; and thence by coach to St. Andrew's, Holborne, thinking to have heard Dr. Stillingfleete preach, but we couldnot get a place, and so to St. Margaret's, Westminster, and there heard asermon, and did get a place, the first we have heard there these manyyears, and here at a distance I saw Betty Michell, but she is become mucha plainer woman than she was a girl. Thence towards the Park, but toosoon to go in, so went on to Knightsbridge, and there eat and drank at"The World's End, " where we had good things, and then back to the Park, and there till night, being fine weather, and much company, and so home, and after supper to bed. This day I first left off both my waistcoats byday, and my waistcoat by night, it being very hot weather, so hot as tomake me break out, here and there, in my hands, which vexes me to see, butis good for me. 

10th. Troubled, about three in the morning, with my wife's calling hermaid up, and rising herself, to go with her coach abroad, to gatherMay-dew, which she did, and I troubled for it, for fear of any hurt, goingabroad so betimes, happening to her; but I to sleep again, and she comehome about six, and to bed again all well, and I up and with Mr. Gibson bycoach to St. James's, and thence to White Hall, where the Duke of York metthe Office, and there discoursed of several things, particularly theInstructions of Commanders of ships. But here happened by chance adiscourse of the Council of Trade, against which the Duke of York ismightily displeased, and particularly Mr. Child, against whom he speakinghardly, Captain Cox did second the Duke of York, by saying that he wastalked of for an unfayre dealer with masters of ships, about freight: towhich Sir T. Littleton very hotly and foolishly replied presently, that henever heard any honest man speak ill of Child; to which the Duke of Yorkdid make a smart reply, and was angry; so as I was sorry to hear it comeso far, and that I, by seeming to assent to Cox, might be observed toomuch by Littleton, though I said nothing aloud, for this must breed greatheart-burnings. After this meeting done, the Duke of York took theTreasurers into his closet to chide them, as Mr. Wren tells me; for thatmy Lord Keeper did last night at the Council say, when nobody was ready tosay any thing against the constitution of the Navy, that he did believethe Treasurers of the Navy had something to say, which was very foul ontheir part, to be parties against us. They being gone, Mr. Wren [and I]took boat, thinking to dine with my Lord of Canterbury; but, when we cometo Lambeth, the gate was shut, which is strictly done at twelve o'clock, and nobody comes in afterwards: so we lost our labour, and therefore backto White Hall, and thence walked my boy Jacke with me, to my Lord Crew, whom I have not seen since he was sick, which is eight months ago, I thinkand there dined with him: he is mightily broke. A stranger a countrygentleman, was with him: and he pleased with my discourse accidentallyabout the decay of gentlemen's families in the country, telling us thatthe old rule was, that a family might remain fifty miles from London onehundred years, one hundred miles from London two hundred years, and sofarther, or nearer London more or less years. He also told us that he hathheard his father say, that in his time it was so rare for a countrygentleman to come to London, that, when he did come, he used to make hiswill before he set out. Thence: to St. James's, and there met the Duke ofYork, who told me, with great content, that he did now think he shouldmaster our adversaries, for that the King did tell him that he was;satisfied in the constitution of the Navy, but that it was well to givethese people leave to object against it, which they having not done, hedid give order to give warrant to the Duke of York to direct Sir JeremySmith to be a Commissioner of the Navy in the room of Pen; which, thoughhe be an impertinent fellow, yet I am glad of it, it showing that theother side is not so strong as it was: and so, in plain terms, the Duke ofYork did tell me, that they were every day losing ground; and particularlythat he would take care to keep out Child: at all which I am glad, thoughyet I dare not think myself secure, as the King may yet be wrought upon bythese people to bring changes in our Office, and remove us, ere it belong. Thence I to White Hall, an there took boat to Westminster, and toMrs. Martin's, who is not come to town from her husband at Portsmouth. Sodrank only at Cragg's with Doll, and so to the Swan, and there baiser anew maid that is there, and so to White Hall again, to a Committee ofTangier, where I see all things going to rack in the business of theCorporation, and consequently in the place, by Middleton's going. Thencewalked a little with Creed, who tells me he hears how fine my horses andcoach are, and advises me to avoid being noted for it, which I was vexedto hear taken notice of, it being what I feared and Povy told me of mygold-lace sleeves in the Park yesterday, which vexed me also, so as toresolve never to appear in Court with them, but presently to have themtaken off, as it is fit I should, and so to my wife at Unthanke's, andcoach, and so called at my tailor's to that purpose, and so home, andafter a little walk in the garden, home to supper and to bed. 

11th. My wife again up by four o'clock, to go to gather May-dew; and soback home by seven, to bed, and by and by I up and to the office, whereall the morning, and dined at noon at home with my people, and so all theafternoon. In the evening my wife and I all alone, with the boy, bywater, up as high as Putney almost, with the tide, and back again, neitherstaying going nor coming; but talking, and singing, and reading a foolishcopy of verses upon my Lord Mayor's entertaining of all the bachelors, designed in praise to my Lord Mayor, and so home and to the office alittle, and then home to bed, my eyes being bad. Some trouble at Courtfor fear of the Queen's miscarrying; she being, as they all conclude, fargone with child. 

12th. Up, and to Westminster Hall, where the term is, and this the firstday of my being there, and here by chance met Roger Pepys, come to townthe last night: I was glad to see him. After some talk with him andothers, and among others Sir Charles Harbord and Sidney Montagu, thelatter of whom is to set out to-morrow towards Flanders and Italy, Iinvited them to dine with me to-morrow, and so to Mrs. Martin's lodging, who come to town last night, and there je did hazer her, she having been amonth, I think, at Portsmouth with her husband, newly come home from theStreights. But, Lord! how silly the woman talks of her greatentertainment there, and how all the gentry come to visit her, and thatshe believes her husband is worth L6 or L700, which nevertheless I am gladof, but I doubt they will spend it a fast. Thence home, and after dinnermy wife and I to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there, in the sidebalcony, over against the musick, did hear, but not see, a new play, thefirst day acted, "The Roman Virgin, " an old play, and but ordinary, Ithought; but the trouble of my eyes with the light of the candles didalmost kill me. Thence to my Lord Sandwich's, and there had a promisefrom Sidney to come and dine with me to-morrow; and so my wife and I homein our coach, and there find my brother John, as I looked for, come totown from Ellington, where, among other things, he tell me the first newsthat my [sister Jackson] is with child, and fat gone, which I know notwhether it did more trouble or please me, having no great care for myfriends to have children; though I love other people's. So, glad to seehim, we to supper, and so to bed. 

13th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, it being a rainy foulday. But at noon comes my Lord Hinchingbroke, and Sidney, and Sir CharlesHarbord, and Roger Pepys, and dined with me; and had a good dinner, andvery merry with; us all the afternoon, it being a farewell to Sidney; andso in the evening they away, and I to my business at the Office and so tosupper, and talk with my brother, and so to bed. 

14th. Up, and to St. James's to the Duke of York, and thence to WhiteHall, where we met about office business, and then at noon with Mr. Wrento Lambeth, to dinner with the Archbishop of Canterbury; the first time Iwas ever there and I have long longed for it; where a noble house, andwell furnished with good pictures and furniture, and noble attendance ingood order, and great deal of company, though an ordinary day; andexceeding great cheer, no where better, or so much, that ever I think Isaw, for an ordinary table: and the Bishop mighty kind to me, particularlydesiring my company another time, when less company there. Most of thecompany gone, and I going, I heard by a gentleman of a sermon that was tobe there; and so I staid to hear it, thinking it serious, till by and bythe gentleman told me it was a mockery, by one Cornet Bolton, a verygentleman-like man, that behind a chair did pray and preach like aPresbyter Scot that ever I heard in my life, with all the possibleimitation in grimaces and voice. And his text about the hanging up theirharps upon the willows: and a serious good sermon too, exclaiming againstBishops, and crying up of my good Lord Eglinton, a till it made us allburst; but I did wonder to have the Bishop at this time to make himselfsport with things of this kind, but I perceive it was shewn him as ararity; and he took care to have the room-door shut, but there were abouttwenty gentlemen there, and myself, infinitely pleased with the novelty. So over to White Hall, to a little Committee of Tangier; and thencewalking in the Gallery, I met Sir Thomas Osborne, who, to my greatcontent, did of his own accord fall into discourse with me, with so muchprofessions of value and respect, placing the whole virtue of the Officeof the Navy upon me, and that for the Comptroller's place, no man inEngland was fit for it but me, when Sir J. Minnes, as he says it isnecessary, is removed: but then he knows not what to do for a man in myplace; and in discourse, though I have no mind to the other, I did bringin Tom Hater to be the fittest man in the world for it, which he took goodnotice of. But in the whole I was mightily pleased, reckoning myself nowfifty per cent. Securer in my place than I did before think myself to be. Thence to Unthanke's, and there find my wife, but not dressed, which vexedme, because going to the Park, it being a most pleasant day afteryesterday's rain, which lays all the dust, and most people going outthither, which vexed me. So home, sullen; but then my wife and I bywater, with my brother, as high as Fulham, talking and singing, andplaying the rogue with the Western barge-men, about the women of Woolwich, which mads them, an so back home to supper and to bed. 

15th. Up, and at the Office all the morning. Dined at home and Creedwith me home, and I did discourse about evening some reckonings with himin the afternoon; but I could not, for my eyes, do it, which troubled me, and vexed him that would not; but yet we were friends, I advancing himmore without it, and so to walk all the afternoon together in the garden;and I perceive still he do expect a change in of matters, especially as toreligion, and fits himself for it by professing himself for it in hisdiscourse. He gone, I to my business at my Office, and so at night hometo supper, and to bed. 

16th (Lord's day). My wife and I at church, our pew filled with Mrs. Backewell, and six more that she brought with her, which vexed me at herconfidence. Dined at home and W. Batelier with us, and I all theafternoon drawing up a foul draught of my petition to the Duke of York, about my eyes, for leave to spend three or four months out of the Office, drawing it so as to give occasion to a voyage abroad which I did, to mypretty good liking; and then with my wife to Hyde Park, where a good dealof company, and good weather, and so home to supper and to bed. 

17th. Up, and to several places doing business, and the home to dinner, and then my wife and I and brother John by coach to the King's playhouse, and saw "The Spanish Curate" revived, which is a pretty good play, but myeyes troubled with seeing it, mightily. Thence carried them and Mr. Gibson, who met me at my Lord Brouncker's with a fair copy of my petition, which I thought to shew the Duke of York this night, but could not, andtherefore carried them to the Park, where they had never been, and so hometo supper and to bed. Great the news now of the French taking St. Domingo, in Spaniola, from the Spaniards, which troubles us, that theyshould have it, and have the honour of taking it, when we could not. 

18th. Up, and to St. James's and other places, and then to the office, where all the morning. At noon home and dined in my wife's chamber, shebeing much troubled with the tooth-ake, and I staid till a surgeon of herscome, one Leeson, who hath formerly drawn her mouth, and he advised her todraw it: so I to the Office, and by and by word is come that she hathdrawn it, which pleased me, it being well done. So I home, to comforther, and so back to the office till night, busy, and so home to supper andto bed. 

19th. With my coach to St. James's; and there finding the Duke of Yorkgone to muster his men, in Hyde Park, I alone with my boy thither, andthere saw more, walking out of my coach as other gentlemen did, of asoldier's trade, than ever I did in my life: the men being mighty fine, and their Commanders, particularly the Duke of Monmouth; but me-thoughttheir trade but very easy as to the mustering of their men, and the menbut indifferently ready to perform what was commanded, in the handling oftheir arms. Here the news was first talked of Harry Killigrew's beingwounded in nine places last night, by footmen, in the highway, going fromthe Park in a hackney-coach towards Hammersmith, to his house at TurnhamGreene: they being supposed to be my Lady Shrewsbury's men, she being by, in her coach with six horses; upon an old grudge of his saying openly thathe had lain with her. Thence by and by to White Hall, and there I waitedupon the King and Queen all dinner-time, in the Queen's lodgings, shebeing in her white pinner and apron, like a woman with child; and sheseemed handsomer plain so, than dressed. And by and by, dinner done, Iout, and to walk in the Gallery, for the Duke of York's coming out; andthere, meeting Mr. May, he took me down about four o'clock to Mr. Chevins's lodgings, and all alone did get me a dish of cold chickens, andgood wine; and I dined like a prince, being before very hungry and empty. By and by the Duke of York comes, and readily took me to his closet, andreceived my petition, and discoursed about my eyes, and pitied me, andwith much kindness did give me his consent to be absent, and approved ofmy proposition to go into Holland to observe things there, of the Navy;but would first ask the King's leave, which he anon did, and did tell methat the King would be a good master to me, these were his words, about myeyes, and do like of my going into Holland, but do advise that nobodyshould know of my going thither, but pretend that I did go into thecountry somewhere, which I liked well. Glad of this, I home, and thencetook out my wife, and to Mr. Holliard's about a swelling in her cheek, buthe not at home, and so round by Islington and eat and drink, and so home, and after supper to bed. In discourse this afternoon, the Duke of Yorkdid tell me that he was the most amazed at one thing just now, that everhe was in his life, which was, that the Duke of Buckingham did just nowcome into the Queen's bed-chamber, where the King was, and much mixedcompany, and among others, Tom Killigrew, the father of Harry, who waslast night wounded so as to be in danger of death, and his man is quitedead; and [Buckingham] there in discourse did say that he had spoke withsome one that was by (which all the world must know that it must be hiswhore, my Lady Shrewsbury), who says that they did not mean to hurt, butbeat him, and that he did run first at them with his sword; so that he dohereby clearly discover that he knows who did it, and is of conspiracywith them, being of known conspiracy with her, which the Duke of York didseem to be pleased with, and said it might, perhaps, cost him his life inthe House of Lords; and I find was mightily pleased with it, saying it wasthe most impudent thing, as well as the most foolish, that ever he knewman do in all his life. 

20th. Up and to the Office, where all the morning. At noon, the wholeOffice--Brouncker, J. Minnes, T. Middleton, Samuel Pepys, and Captain Coxto dine with the Parish, at the Three Tuns, this day being Ascension-day, where exceeding good discourse among the merchants, and thence back home, and after a little talk with my wife, to my office did a great deal ofbusiness, and so with my eyes might weary, and my head full of care how toget my accounts and business settled against my journey, home to supper, and bed. Yesterday, at my coming home, I found that my wife had, on asudden, put away Matt upon some falling out, and I doubt my wife did callher ill names by my wife's own discourse; but I did not meddle to sayanything upon it, but let her go, being not sorry, because now we may getone that speaks French, to go abroad with us. 

21st. I waited with the Office upon the Duke of York in the morning. Dined at home, where Lewis Phillips the friend of his, dined with me. Inthe afternoon at the Office. In the evening visited by Roger Pepys andPhilip Packer and so home. 

22nd. Dined at home, the rest of the whole day at office. 

23rd (Lord's day). Called up by Roger Pepys and his son who to churchwith me, and then home to dinner. In the afternoon carried them toWestminster, and myself to James's, where, not finding the Duke of York, back home, and with my wife spent the evening taking the ayre aboutHackney, with great pleasure, and places we had never seen before. 

24th. To White Hall, and there all the morning, and they home, and givingorder for some business and setting my brother to making a catalogue of mybooks, I back again to W. Hewer to White Hall, where I attended the Dukeof York and was by him led to [the King], who expressed great sense of mymisfortune in my eyes, and concernment for their recovery; and accordinglysignified, not only his assent to desire therein, but commanded me to givethem rest summer, according to my late petition to the Duke of York. W. Hewer and I dined alone at the Swan; and thence having thus waited on theKing, spent till four o'clock in St. James's Park, when I met my wife atUnthanke's, and so home. 

25th. Dined at home; and the rest of the day, morning and afternoon, atthe Office. 

26th. To White Hall, where all the morning. Dined with Mr. Chevins, withAlderman Backewell, and Spragg. The Court full of the news from CaptainHubbert, of "The Milford, " touching his being affronted in the Streights, shot at, and having eight men killed him by a French man-of-war, callinghim "English dog, " and commanding him to strike, which he refused, and, asknowing himself much too weak for him, made away from him. The Queen, asbeing supposed with child, fell ill, so as to call for Madam Nun, Mr. Chevins's sister, and one of her women, from dinner from us; this beingthe last day of their doubtfulness touching her being with child; and theywere therein well confirmed by her Majesty's being well again beforenight. One Sir Edmund Bury Godfry, a woodmonger and justice of Peace inWestminster, having two days since arrested Sir Alexander Frazier forabout L30 in firing, the bailiffs were apprehended, committed to theporter's lodge, and there, by the King's command, the last night severelywhipped; from which the justice himself very hardly escaped, to such anunusual degree was the King moved therein. But he lies now in the lodge, justifying his act, as grounded upon the opinion of several of the judges, and, among others, my Lord Chief-Justice; which makes the King very angrywith the Chief-Justice, as they say; and the justice do lie and justifyhis act, and says he will suffer in the cause for the people, and dorefuse to receive almost any nutriment. The effects of it may be bad tothe Court. Expected a meeting of Tangier this afternoon, but failed. Sohome, met by my wife at Unthanke's. !

27th. At the office all the morning, dined at home, Mr. Hollier with me. Presented this day by Mr. Browne with a book of drawing by him, latelyprinted, which cost me 20s. To him. In the afternoon to the Temple, tomeet with Auditor Aldworth about my interest account, but failed meetinghim. To visit my cozen Creed, and found her ill at home, being withchild, and looks poorly. Thence to her husband, at Gresham College, uponsome occasions of Tangier; and so home, with Sir John Bankes with me, toMark Lane. 

28th. To St. James's, where the King's being with the Duke of Yorkprevented a meeting of the Tangier Commission. But, Lord! what a deal ofsorry discourse did I hear between the King and several Lords about himhere! but very mean methought. So with Creed to the Excise Office, andback to White Hall, where, in the Park, Sir G. Carteret did give me anaccount of his discourse lately, with the Commissioners of Accounts, whoexcept against many things, but none that I find considerable; amongothers, that of the Officers of the Navy selling of the King's goods, andparticularly my providing him with calico flags, which having been byorder, and but once, when necessity, and the King's apparent profit, justified it, as conformable to my particular duty, it will prove to myadvantage that it be enquired into. Nevertheless, having this morningreceived from them a demand of an account of all monies within theircognizance, received and issued by me, I was willing, upon this hint, togive myself rest, by knowing whether their meaning therein might reachonly to my Treasurership for Tangier, or the monies employed on thisoccasion. I went, therefore, to them this afternoon, to understand whatmonies they meant, where they answered me, by saying, "The eleven months'tax, customs, and prizemoney, " without mentioning, any more than Idemanding, the service they respected therein; and so, without furtherdiscourse, we parted, upon very good terms of respect, and with few words, but my mind not fully satisfied about the monies they mean. At noon Mr. Gibson and I dined at the Swan, and thence doing this at Brook house, andthence caking at the Excise Office for an account of payment of my talliesfor Tangier, I home, and thence with my wife and brother spent the eveningon the water, carrying our supper with us, as high as Chelsea; so home, making sport with the Westerne bargees, and my wife and I singing, to mygreat content. 

29th. The King's birth-day. To White Hall, where all very gay; andparticularly the Prince of Tuscany very fine, and is the first day of hisappearing out of mourning, since he come. I heard the Bishop ofPeterborough' preach but dully; but a good anthem of Pelham's. Home todinner, and then with my wife to Hyde Park, where all the evening; greatstore of company, and great preparations by the Prince of Tuscany tocelebrate the night with fire-works, for the King's birth-day. And sohome. 

30th (Whitsunday). By water to White Hall, and thence to Sir W. Coventry, where all the morning by his bed-side, he being indisposed. Our discoursewas upon the notes I have lately prepared for Commanders' Instructions;but concluded that nothing will render them effectual, without anamendment in the choice of them, that they be seamen, and not gentlemanabove the command of the Admiral, by the greatness of their relations atCourt. Thence to White Hall, and dined alone with Mr. Chevins his sister:whither by and by come in Mr. Progers and Sir Thomas Allen, and by and byfine Mrs. Wells, who is a great beauty; and there I had my full gaze uponher, to my great content, she being a woman of pretty conversation. Thence to the Duke of York, who, with the officers of the Navy, made agood entrance on my draught of my new Instructions to Commanders, as wellexpressing general [views] of a reformation among them, as liking of myhumble offers towards it. Thence being called by my wife, Mr. Gibson andI, we to the Park, whence the rain suddenly home. 

31st. Up very betimes, and so continued all the morning with W. Hewer, upon examining and stating my accounts, in order to the fitting myself togo abroad beyond sea, which the ill condition of my eyes, and my neglectfor a year or two, hath kept me behindhand in, and so as to render it verydifficult now, and troublesome to my mind to do it; but I this day made asatisfactory entrance therein. Dined at home, and in the afternoon bywater to White Hall, calling by the way at Michell's, where I have notbeen many a day till just the other day, and now I met her mother thereand knew her husband to be out of town. And here je did baiser elle, buthad not opportunity para hazer some with her as I would have offered if jehad had it. And thence had another meeting with the Duke of York, atWhite Hall, on yesterday's work, and made a good advance: and so, beingcalled by my wife, we to the Park, Mary Batelier, and a Dutch gentleman, afriend of hers, being with us. Thence to "The World's End, " adrinking-house by the Park; and there merry, and so home late. 

And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyesin the keeping of my journal, I being not able to do it any longer, havingdone now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen inmy hand; and, therefore, whatever comes of it, I must forbear: and, therefore, resolve, from this time forward, to have it kept by my peoplein long-hand, and must therefore be contented to set down no more than isfit for them and all the world to know; or, if there be any thing, whichcannot be much, now my amours to Deb. Are past, and my eyes hindering mein almost all other pleasures, I must endeavour to keep a margin in mybook open, to add, here and there, a note in short-hand with my own hand. 

And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to seemyself go into my grave: for which, and all the discomforts that willaccompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!

May 31, 1669. 

END OF THE DIARY. 

 PREFACE

 [This moved, by the editor, to the end where it seems to fit more comfortably. ]

First issue of this edition June, 1896. Reprinted 1897. 

In the present volume the Diary is completed, and we here take leaveof a writer who has done so much to interest and enlighten successivegenerations of English readers, and who is now for the first timepresented to the world as he really drew his own portrait day by day. 

No one who has followed the daily notes of Samuel Pepys from January, 1660, to May, 1669, but must feel sincere regret at their abruptconclusion, more particularly as the writer lays down his pen while in anunhappy temper. 

It is evident from the tone of his later utterances that Pepys thoughtthat he was going blind, a belief which was happily falsified. Theholiday tour in which Charles II. And James, Duke of York, took so muchinterest appears to have had its desired effect in restoring the Diaristto health. 

The rest of his eventful life must be sought in the history of the EnglishNavy which he helped to form, and in his numerous letters, which on somefuture occasion the present editor hopes to annotate. The details to beobtained from these sources form, however, but a sorry substitute for thewords written in the solitude of his office by Pepys for his own eyealone, and we cannot but feel how great is the world's loss in that henever resumed the writing of his journal. All must agree with Coleridgewhen he wrote on the margin of a copy of the Diary: "Truly may it be saidthat this was a greater and more grievous loss to the mind's eye ofposterity than to the bodily organs of Pepys himself. It makes me restlessand discontented to think what a Diary equal in minuteness and truth ofportraiture to the preceding from 1669 to 1688 or 1690 would have been forthe true causes, process and character of the Revolution. "

Most works of this nature are apt to tire when they are extended over acertain length of time, but Pepys's pages are always fresh, and mostreaders wish for more. For himself the editor can say that each time hehas read over the various proofs he has read with renewed interest, sothat it is with no ordinary feelings of regret that he comes to the end ofhis task, and he believes that every reader will feel the same regret thathe has no more to read. 

In reviewing the Diary it is impossible not to notice the growth ofhistorical interest as it proceeds. In the earlier period we find Pepyssurrounded by men not otherwise known, but as the years pass, and hisposition becomes more assured, we find him in daily communication with thechief men of his day, and evidently every one who came in contact with himappreciated his remarkable ability. The survival of the Diary must everremain a marvel. It could never have been intended for the reading ofothers, but doubtless the more elaborate portraits of persons in the laterpages were intended for use when Pepys came to write his projected historyof the Navy. 

The only man who is uniformly spoken well of in the Diary is Sir WilliamCoventry, and many of the characters introduced come in for severecastigation. It is therefore the more necessary to remember that many ofthe judgments on men were set down hastily, and would probably have beenmodified had occasion offered. At all events, we know that, however muchhe may have censured them, Pepys always helped on those who were dependentupon him. 

H. R. W. 

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 Drawing up a foul draught of my petition to the Duke of York Last day of their doubtfulness touching her being with child Quite according to the fashion--nothing to drink or eat