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diary  and  correspondence  of 
Samuel  Pepys,  esq^,  f.r.s. 


DIARY 

AND 

CORRESPONDENCE 

op 

Samuel  PppYs,Esa.,RR.s 

FROM    HIS    MS.  CYPHER   IN   THE    PEPYSIAN    LIBRARY, 
WITH     A     LIFE     AND     NOTES     BY 

RICHARD    LORD   BRAYBROOKE. 


DECIPHERED,    WITH     ADDITIONAL    NOTES,    BY 

REV.  MYNORS  BRIGHT,  M.A., 

rRBSIDENT    AND    SENIOR   FELLOW    OF   MAGDALENE  COLLEGE,  CAMBRIDGB. 


VOL.  II. 

March  i,  i66i — October  14,  1662. 


NEW-YORK: 

DODD,  MEAD  &  COMPANY. 


THE  NEW  YORK 
PUBLIC  LIBRARY 

814474  A 

ASTOR.  LENOX  AND 

TILDEN  FOUNDATIONS 

R  1936  L 


Quidquid  agunt  homines,  votum,  timor,  ira,  voluptas, 
Gaudia,  discursus,  nostri  est  farrago  libelli. 
Et  quando  uberior  vitiorum  copia  ?  quando 
Major,  avaritise  patuit  sinus  ? 

Juv.  Sat.  i.  85-88. 

Corruption  was  universal.  All  offices  were  made  subject  of  open 
traffic.  Nothing  could  be  done  without  a  consideration,  either,  accord- 
ing to  Forgard,  received  beforehand,  as  logice,  a  bribe,  or  after  the 
good  turn  was  done,  as  a  gratification.  .  .  .  Such  were  "  Good  King 
Charles's  golden  days." 

If,  quitting  the  broad  path  of  history,  we  seek  for  minute  informa- 
tion concerning  ancient  manners  and  customs,  the  progress  of  arts 
and  sciences,  and  the  various  branches  of  antiquity,  we  have  never 
seen  a  mine  so  rich  as  the  volumes  before  us.  The  variety  of  Pepys's 
tastes  and  pursuits  led  him  into  almost  every  department  of  life.  He 
was  a  man  of  business ;  a  man  of  information,  if  not  of  learning ;  a 
man  of  taste;  a  man  of  whim;  and,  to  a  certain  degree,  a  man  of 
pleasure.  He  was  a  statesman,  a  bel  esprit,  a  virtuoso,  and  a  con- 
noisseur. His  curiosity  made  him  an  unwearied  as  well  as  an  univer- 
sal learner,  and  whatever  he  saw  found  its  way  into  his  tables.  Thus 
his  diary  absolutely  resembles  the  genial  cauldrons  at  the  wedding  of 
Comacho,  a  souse  into  which  was  sure  to  bring  forth  at  once  abun- 
dance and  variety  of  whatever  could  gratify  the  most  eccentric  appe- 
tite. —  Quarterly  Review.     No.  66. 


PREFACE. 


Readers  of  Pepys's  Diary  will  probably  be  inter- 
ested in  the  following  particulars  respecting  the  cipher 
and  the  publication  of  the  Diary. 

"LORD  GRENVILLE  TO  THE  HON.  AND  REV.  GEORGE 
NEVILLE,  MASTER  OF  MAGDALENE  COLLEGE, 

CAMBRIDGE. 

Dropmore,  Aug.  28,  1818. 

"My  Dear  George,  —  When  my  brother  quitted  us  for 

the  Isle  of  "Wight,  he  left  with  me  a  MS.  volume  which  you 

had  put  into  his  hands.     I  have  a  little  smattering  of  the  art 

of  deciphering,  and  I  was  desirous  to  try  my  hand  on  this 

MS.,  which,  if  it  could  be  made  out,  would,  I  was  aware,  on 

many  accounts  be  extremely  interesting ;  and  would  just  now, 

^^t  could  be   published,  form    an   excellent   accompaniment 

^G  Evelyn's  delightful  Diary.     I  am  glad  to  say  that  I  have 

j^ijcceeded  to  the  utmost  of  my  expectations,  or  rather  much 

^>iJfeyond  them.    The  character  employed  is  a  shorthand,  not 

•i|ery  different  in  principle  from  those  in  use  now,  or  at  least 

ggfchose  which  were  in  use  when,  as  a  law  student,  I  practised 

shorthand.     The  writing  is  for  the   most  part   alphabetical 

(divided  into  words,  which  gives  infinite  facility  for  decipher* 


VI  PREFACE. 

ing),  but  generally  leaving  out  the  vowels,  and  there  is  a  large 
collection  of  arbitrary  signs  for  terminations,  particles,  and 
words  of  very  frequent  occurrence,  and  some,  though  not  near 
so  numerous,  for  longer  and  less  frequent  words.  The  alpha- 
bet I  have  entirely  mastered ;  the  second  class  of  signs  I  have 
so  in  a  great  measure,  and  a  considerable  portion,  though  not 
nearly  the  whole,  of  the  third,  which,  from  the  less  frequence 
of  its  occurrence,  is,  of  course,  the  more  difficult  to  the 
decipherer. 

"  But,  as  it  is,  I  could  already  furnish  you  with  a  transcript 
of  the  first  three  or  four  pages,  with  a  few  hiatuses,  and  those 
easily  supplied  (or,  at  least,  for  the  most  part  so)  by  conjecture, 
which  I  have  no  doubt  a  farther  progress  in  the  MS.  would 
soon  turn  into  certainty.  But,  having  got  so  far  as  to  make 
the  task  (I  am  confident)  quite  easy  to  any  person  who  would 
set  himself  sturdily  to  it,  I  am  unwilling  to  go  further,  because 
I  have  done  all  that  is  really  useful,  and  I  find  the  poring  over 
these  minute  characters,  though  amusing  enough,  does  no  good 
to  my  eyes. 

"What  I  would  recommend  is,  that  on  your  return  to 
Cambridge,  which  under  the  circumstances  of  this  year  must, 
I  suppose,  be  in  October,  you  should  lose  no  time  in  finding 
out  some  man  who,  for  the  lucre  of  gain  will  sacrifice  a  few 
months  to  the  labour  of  making  a  complete  transcript  of  the 
whole,  for  which  purpose  I  would  furnish  you  with  my  alphabet 
and  lists  of  arbitrary  signs,  and  also  with  the  transcript  of  the 
first  three  or  four  pages,  and  of  some  other  passages  taken 
casually  here  and  there  in  the  volume.  I  must  not,  I  believe, 
see  him  to  give  him  verbal  instructions  how  to  proceed  further 
in  deciphering  the  arbitrary  marks,  because  it  might  not  be 
right  that  he  should  know  the  MS.  to  have  been  in  my  posses- 


PREFACE,  Vll 

sion.  But  any  man  of  ordinary  talent  would,  I  am  certain,  by 
these  helps,  master  the  whole  in  the  course  of  a  week  or  ten 
days  of  steady  application,  provided  his  eyes  are  young  and 
strong,  and  that  he  is  willing  to  work  them  a  little. 

"  I  hope  there  is  no  restraint  that  would  prevent  you  from 
publishing  the  whole  when  thus  transcribed,  and  I  am  anxious 
that  you  should  lose  no  time  in  setting  about  it,  because  it  will 
be  much  best  done  under  your  own  inspection  this  year,  when 
you  must  of  necessity  be  so  much  on  the  spot.*  If  published, 
there  is  no  doubt  that  the  work  would  amply  repay  the  expense 
of  the  transcript,  for  which  I  suppose  you  will  make  a  specific 
bargain  beforehand,  after  a  few  days'  experience  shall  have 
enabled  your  decipherer  to  judge  of  the  nature  of  the  work. 

"  But  if  publication  be  impossible,  it  would  still  be  a  great 
matter  to  have  such  a  transcript  in  the  College  Library,  and  I 
would  willingly  bear  my  share  in  the  cost  of  such  a  work,  to 
which  I  am  persuaded  others  would  also  readily  contribute, 
and  which,  indeed,  need  not  be  large,  as  I  can  safely  pronounce, 
judging  by  the  little  trouble  which  I  have  found  in  doing  the 
most  difficult  part  of  the  business.  Let  me  know  where  and 
when  I  shall  send  the  book  and  the  alphabet,  &c.  If  you  could 
prevail  upon  yourself  and  Lady  Charlotte  to  find  this  place 
between  Wales  and  Cambridge,  that  would  be  best  of  all. 

"  If  no  one  else  can  or  will  undertake  it,  a  professed  short- 
hand writer  would  dispatch  your  volume  in  a  week;  but  I 
should  in  your  place  prefer  a  Cambridge  man,  to  work  under 
your  eye. 

"  Ever  yours, 

*  As  Vice-Chancellor. 


Viii  PREFACE. 

With  this  assistance  Mr.  Smith  (then  an  undergrad- 
uate of  St.  John's  College,  Cambridge)  undertook  the 
task  of  deciphering  the  whole  of  the  "  Diary  "  from 
the  six  closely-written  volumes  of  the  original  short- 
hand MS.  He  commenced  it  in  the  spring  of  1819, 
and  completed  it  in  April,  1822,  having  worked,  as 
he  says  in  a  letter  which  was  published  in  the  "  Illus- 
trated London  News,"  March  27,  1858,  for  nearly 
three  years  at  it,  usually  for  twelve  and  fourteen  hours 
a  day. 

From  this  manuscript  of  Mr.  Smith's,  Lord  Bray- 
brooke  published  in  1826  the  first  edition,  with  notes, 
of  Pepys's  Diary.  A  reprint  appeared  in  1828.  In 
1848-9  Lord  Braybrooke  published  an  enlarged  and 
revised  edition,  with  additional  notes,  and  in  1854 
appeared  the  fourth  edition,  the  last  one  "  revised  and 
corrected  "  by  Lord  Braybrooke. 

In  1872  I  learnt  the  cipher  from  a  book  in  the 
Pepysian  Library  by  Shelto7i,  called  "  Tachy-graphy 
or  short  writing,  the  most  easie,  exact,  and  speedie." 
This  was  the  dpher  used  by  Pepys.  There  are  copies 
of  several  editions  of  it  still  extant.  A  copy  of  an 
edition  pubUshed  in  1671,  which  I  very  much  value, 
has  lately  been  given  me.  With  this  help  I  have 
deciphered  afresh  the  whole  of  the  Diary. 

There  is  also  in  the  Pepysian  Library  the  account 


PREFACE,  IX 

of  Charles's  escape,  after  the  battle  of  Worcester,  taken 
down  in  short-hand  by  Pepys  from  the  King's  own 
mouth,  and  written  also  by  him  in  full. 

When  Pepys  wished  to  keep  anything  particularly 
concealed,  he  wrote  his  cipher,  generally  in  French, 
sometimes  in  Latin,  or  Greek,  or  Spanish.  This  gave 
me  a  great  deal  of  trouble.  Afterwards  he  changed 
his  plan  and  put  in  dummy  letters.  I  was  quite  puz- 
zled at  this,  and  was  nearly  giving  up  in  despair  the 
hope  of  finding  out  his  device,  but  at  last,  by  rejecting 
every  other  letter,  I  made  out  the  words.  It  would 
have  been  better  for  Pepys 's  credit  if  these  passages 
could  not  have  been  deciphered,  as  all  of  them  are 
quite  unfit  for  publication. 

(M.  B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 


March  ist,  i  6  60-61.  After  dinner  Mr.  Shepley 
and  I  in  private  talking  about  my  Lord's  intentions  to 
go  speedily  into  the  country,  but  to  what  end  we  know 
not.  We  fear  he  is  to  go  to  sea  with  this  fleet  now 
preparing.  But  we  wish  that  he  could  get  his  4000/. 
per  annum  settled  before  he  do  go.  To  WTiitefryars, 
and  saw  "  The  Bondman  "  ^  acted ;  an  excellent  play 
and  well  done.  But  above  all  that  ever  I  saw,  Better- 
ton  do  the  Bondman  the  best.  Sat  up  late,  spending 
my  thoughts  how  to  get  money  to  bear  me  out  in  my 
great  expense  at  the  Coronacion,  against  which  all 
provide,  and  scaffolds  setting  up  in  every  street.  I 
had  many  designs  in  my  head  to  get  some,  but  know 
not  which  will  take. 

2d.  After  dinner  I  went  to  the  theatre,  where  I 
found  so  few  people  (which  is  strange,  and  the  reason 
I  did  not  know)  that  I  went  out  again,  and  so  to  Sals- 
bury  Court,  where  the  house  as  full  as  could  be ;  and 
it  seems  it  was  a  new  play,  "  The  Queen's  Maske,"  ^ 

*  By  Massinger. 

2  «*  Love's  Mistress,  or  The  Queen's  Masque,"  by  T.  Heywood. 


2  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEP  VS. 

wherein  there  are  some  good  humours  :  among  others, 
a  good  jeer  to  the  old  story  of  the  Siege  of  Troy, 
making  it  to  be  a  common  country  tale.  But  above 
all  it  was  strange  to  see  so  little  a  boy  as  that  was  to 
act  Cupid,  which  is  one  of  the  greatest  parts  in  it. 

3rd  (Lord's  day).  Mr.  Woodcocke  ^  preached  at 
our  church  a  very  good  sermon  upon  the  imaginacions 
of  the  thoughts  of  man's  heart  being  only  evil.  In 
the  Abby  all  the  afternoon.  So  to  my  Lord's,  who 
come  in  late  and  tells  us  how  news  is  come  to-day  of 
Mazarin's  ^  being  dead,  which  is  very  great  news  and 
of  great  consequence.  I  lay  to-night  with  Mr.  Shep- 
ley  here,  because  of  my  Lord's  going  to-morrow. 

4th.  My  Lord  went  this  morning  on  his  journey  to 
Hinchingbroke,  Mr.  Parker  with  him ;  the  chief  busi- 
ness being  to  look  over  and  determine  how,  and  in 
what  manner,  his  great  work  of  building  shall  be  done. 
Before  his  going  he  did  give  me  some  Jewells  to  keep 
for  him,  viz.,  that  that  the  King  of  Sweden  did  give 
him,  with  the  King's  own  picture  in  it,  most  excellent- 
ly done ;  and  a  brave  George,  all  of  diamonds,  and 
this  with  the  greatest  expressions  of  love  and  confi- 
dence that  I  could  imagine  or  hope  for,  which  is  a 
very  great  joy  to  me. 

5th.   I  to  the  office,  where  Sir  Williams  both  and  I 

1  Thomas  Woodcock,  afterwards  ejected  from  St.  Andrew's,  Undershaft. 

2  Cardinal  Mazarin,  after  the  death  of  Richelieu  Prime  Minister  of 
Louis  XIII.,  and  continued  in  that  office  during  the  minority  of  Louis  XIV. 
and  the  regency  of  Anne  of  Austria.  He  was  afterwards  obliged  to  leave  the 
kingdom,  but  was  restored  to  power,  and  died  27th  February,  1660-61,  aged 
59.     (M.  B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  3 

set  about  making  an  estimate  of  all  the  officers'  sala- 
ries in  ordinary  in  the  Navy  till  lo  o'clock  at  night. 
So  home,  and  I  with  my  head  full  of  thoughts  how  to 
get  a  little  present  money,  I  eat  a  bit  of  bread  and 
cheese,  and  so  to  bed. 

6th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning.  At  dinner  Sir 
W.  Batten  came  and  took  me  and  my  wife  to  his 
house  to  dinner,  my  Lady  being  in  the  country,  where 
we  had  a  good  Lenten  dinner.  After  that  home, 
thinking  to  have  had  Sir  W.  Batten,  &c.,  to  have  eat 
a  wigg  '  at  my  house  at  night.  But  my  Lady  being 
come  home  out  of  the  country  ill  by  reason  of  much 
rain  that  has  fallen  lately,  and  the  waters  being  very 
high,  we  could  not,  and  so  I  home  and  to  bed. 

7th.  Met  Spicer  and  a  company  more  of  my  old 
acquaintance,  and  went  into  a  place  to  drink  some 
ale,  and  there  we  staid  playing  the  fool  till  late,  and 
so  I  home.  At  home  met  with  ill  news  that  my  hopes 
of  getting  some  money  for  the  Charles  were  spoiled 
through  Mr.  Waith's  perverseness,  which  did  so  vex 
me  that  I  could  not  sleep  at  night.  But  I  wrote  a 
letter  to  him  for  him  to  take  my  money  for  me,  and 
so  with  good  words  I  thought  to  coy  with  him.  To 
bed. 

8th.  All  the  morning  at  the  office.  At  noon  Sir 
W.  Batten,  Col.  Slingsby  and  I  by  coach  to  the  Tower, 
to  Sir  John  Robinson's,^  to  dinner ;  where  great  good 

^   Wigg,  a  kind  of  north  country  bun  or  tea-cake,  still  so  called,  to  my 
knowledge,  in  Staffordshire.     (M.  B.) 
2  Lieutenant  of  that  fortress. 


4  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

cheer.  High  company ;  among  others  the  Duchesse 
of  Albemarle/  who  is  ever  a  plain  homely  dowdy. 
After  dinner,  to  drink  all  the  afternoon.  Towards 
night  the  Duchesse  and  ladies  went  away.  Then  we 
set  to  it  again  till  it  was  very  late.  And  at  last  came 
in  Sir  WiUiam  Wale,^  almost  fuddled ;  and  because  I 
was  set  between  him  and  another,  only  to  keep  them 
from  talking  and  spoiling  the  company  (as  we  did  to 
others),  he  fell  out  with  the  Lieutenant  of  the  Tower; 
but  with  much  ado  we  made  him  understand  his  error, 
and  then  all  quiet.  I  was  much  contented  to  ride  in 
such  state  into  the  Tower,  and  be  received  among 
such  high  company,  while  Mr.  Mount,  my  Lady 
Duchess's  gentleman  usher,  stood  waiting  at  table, 
whom  I  ever  thought  a  man  so  much  above  me  in  all 
respects ;  also  to  hear  the  discourse  of  so  many  high 
Cavaliers  of  things  past.  It  was  a  great  content  and 
joy  to  me. 

9th.  To  my  Lord's,  where  we  found  him  lately 
come  from  Hinchingbroke.  I  staid  and  dined  with 
him.  He  took  me  aside,  and  asked  me  what  the 
world  spoke  of  the  King's  marriage.  Which  I  an- 
swering as  one  that  knew  nothing,  he  enquired  no 
further  of  me.  But  I  do  perceive  by  it  that  there  is 
something  in  it  that  is  ready  to  come  out  that  the 
world  knows  not  of  yet. 

loth  (Lord's  day).  Heard  Mr.  Mills  in  the  morn- 
ing, a  good  sermon.     Dined  at  home  on  a  poor  Lenten 

*  See  Feb.  12,  1659-60,  note. 

2  Alderman  and  Colonel  of  the  red  regiment  of  Trainbands. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  5 

dinner  of  coleworts  and  bacon.  In  the  afternoon  again 
to  church,  and  there  heard  one  Castle,  whom  I  knew 
of  my  year  at  Cambridge.     He  made  a  dull  sermon. 

nth.  After  dinner  I  went  to  the  theatre,  and  there 
saw  *^  Love's  Mistress  "  done  by  them,  which  I  do  not 
like  in  some  things  as  well  as  their  acting  in  Salsbury 
Court.  At  night  home  and  found  my  wife  come  home, 
and  she  hath  got  her  teeth  new  done  by  La  Roche, 
and  are  indeed  now  pretty  handsome,  and  I  was  much 
pleased  with  it. 

1 2th.  To  Guildhall,  and  there  set  my  hand  to  the 
book  before  Colonel  King  for  my  sea  pay,  and  blessed 
be  God  !  they  have  cast  me  at  midshipman's  pay, 
which  do  make  my  heart  very  glad.  So  home,  and 
there  had  Sir  W.  Batten  and  my  Lady  and  all  their 
company  to  a  collacion  at  my  house  till  it  was  late, 
and  so  to  bed. 

13th.  Early  up  in  the  morning  to  read  "The  Sea- 
man's Grammar  and  Dictionary  "  I  lately  have  got, 
which  do  please  me  exceeding  well. 

14th.  Dined  with  my  Lord  and  Lady,  and  so  with 
Mr.  Creed  to  the  Theatre,  and  there  saw  "  King  and 
no  King,"  ^  well  acted.  Thence  with  him  to  the  Cock 
ale  house  at  Temple  Bar. 

15th.  This  day  my  wife  and  Pall  went  to  see  my 
Lady  Kingston,  her  brother's  2  lady.^ 


*  By  Beaumont  and  Fletcher. 

2  Balthazar  St.  Michel  is  the  only  brother  of  Mrs.  Pepys  mentioned  in  the 
Diary. 

3  This  lady  has  not  been  identified. 


6  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

1 6th.  To  Whitefryers  and  saw  "The  Spanish  Cu- 
rate," ^  in  which  I  had  no  great  content.  So  home 
and  was  very  much  troubled  that  Will,  staid  out  late, 
and  went  to  bed  early,  intending  not  to  let  him  come 
in,  but  by  and  by  he  comes  and  I  did  let  him  in,  and 
he  did  tell  me  that  he  was  at  Guildhall  helping  to  pay 
off  the  seamen,  and  cast  the  books  late.  Which  since 
I  found  to  be  true. 

17th  (Lord's  day).  At  church  in  the  morning,  a 
stranger  preached  a  good  honest  and  painfull  2  sermon. 
My  wife  and  I  dined  upon  a  chine  of  beef  at  Sir  W. 
Batten's,  so  to  church  again.  Then  to  supper  at  Sir 
W.  Batten's  again,  where  my  wife  by  chance  fell  down 
and  hurt  her  knees  exceedingly. 

1 8th.  This  morning  early  Sir  W.  Batten  went  to 
Rochester,  where  he  expects  to  be  chosen  Parliament 
man.  This  day  an  ambassador  from  Florence  was 
brought  into  the  towne  in  state.  Yesterday  was  said 
to  be  the  day  that  the  Princesse  Henrietta  was  to 
marry  the  Duke  d'Anjou^  in  France.  This  day  I 
found  in  the  newes-booke  that  Roger  Pepys  is  chosen 


*  A  comedy,  by  Beaumont  and  Fletcher, 

2  "  Painful "  is  now  feeling  pain  or  inflicting  it;  it  was  once  taking  pains 
Many  things  would  not  be  so  "  painful,"  in  the  present  sense  of  the  word,  if 
they  had  been  more  "  painful "  in  the  earlier,  as  perhaps  some  sermons. 

"  Within  fourteen  generations,  the  royal  blood  of  the  kings  of  Judah  ran 
in  the  veins  of  plain  Joseph,  a  painful  carpenter."  —  Fuller,  The  Holy 
War,  book  v.  chap.  29, 

"  O  the  holiness  of  their  living,  and  patn/ttlness  of  their  preaching."  — 
Id.,  The  Holy  State,  book  ii.  chap.  6.  Trench's  Select  Glossary. 
(M.  B.) 

3  Who  soon  afterwards  took  the  title  of  Orleans. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  J 

at  Cambridge  for  the  towne,  the  first  place  that  we 
hear  of  to  have  made  their  choice  yet. 

19th.  We  met  at  the  office  this  morning  about  some 
particular  business,  and  then  Mr.  Creed  and  I  to  White- 
Fryars,  where  we  saw  "The  Bondman"  acted  most 
excellently,  and  though  I  have  seen  it  often,  yet  I  am 
every  time  more  and  more  pleased  with  Betterton's 
action. 

20th.  To  White  Hall  to  Mr.  Coventry,  where  I  did 
some  business  with  him,  and  so  with  Sir  W.  Pen  (who 
I  found  with  Mr.  Coventry  teaching  of  him  the  map 
to  understand  Jamaica).  The  great  talk  of  the  towne 
is  the  strange  election  that  the  City  of  London  made 
yesterday  for  Parliament-men ;  viz.  Fowke,  Love,  Jones, 

and ,^  men   that   are   so   far   from   being 

episcopall  that  they  are  thought  to  be  Anabaptists; 
and  chosen  with  a  great  deal  of  zeale,  in  spite  of  the 
other  party  that  thought  themselves  very  strong,  calling 
out  in  the  Hall,  "  No  Bishops  !  no  Lord  Bishops  ! " 
It  do  make  people  to  fear  it  may  come  to  worse,  by 
being  an  example  to  the  country  to  do  the  same. 
And  indeed  the  Bishops  are  so  high,  that  very  few  do 
love  them. 

2 1  St.  Up  very  early,  and  to  work  and  study  in  my 
chamber,  and  then  to  Whitehall,  and  at  noon  dined 
with  my  Lord,  who  was  very  merry,  and  after  dinner 
we  sang  and  fiddled  a  great  deal.  This  day  I  saw 
the   Florence   Ambassador   go   to   his   audience,  the 

*  Sir  W.  Thompson  was  the  fourth  member. 


8  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

weather  very  foule,  and  yet  he  and  his  company  very 
gallant. 

22nd.  About  eight  I  got  a  horse-back,  and  my 
Lady  and  her  two  daughters,  and  Sir  W.  Pen  into 
coach,  and  so  over  London  Bridge,  and  thence  to 
Dartford.  The  day  very  pleasant,  though  the  way 
bad.  Here  we  met  with  Sir  W.  Batten,  and  some 
company  along  with  him,  who  had  assisted  him  in  his 
election  at  Rochester ;  and  so  we  dined  and  were  very 
merry.  At  5  o'clock  we  set  out  again  in  a  coach 
home,  and  were  very  merry  all  the  way.  At  Deptford 
we  met  with  Mr.  Newborne,  and  some  other  friends 
and  their  wives  in  a  coach  to  meet  us,  and  so  they 
went  home  with  us,  and  at  Sir  W.  Batten's  we  supped, 
and  thence  to  bed,  my  head  akeing  ^  mightily  through 
the  wine  that  I  drank  to-day. 

23d.  To  the  Red  Bull  ^  (where  I  had  not  been 
since  plays  come  up  again)  up  to  the  tireing-room, 
where  strange  the  confusion  and  disorder  that  there 
is  among  them  in  fitting  themselves,  especially  here, 
where  the  clothes  are  very  poore,  and  the  actors  but 
common  fellows.  At  last  into  the  pitt,  where  I  think 
there  was  not  above  ten  more  than  myself,  and  not 


*  So  Pepys  invariably  writes  the  word  in  full,  it  is  hardly  ever  written  in 
cipher.     (M.  B.) 

2  The  Red  Bull  was  in  St.  John's  Street,  Clerkenwell;  but  of  an  inferior 
rank  to  the  Globe  and  Blackfriars  Theatres,  and  is  described  as 
"  that  degenerate  stage. 


Where  none  of  the  unturn'd  kennel  can  rehearse 
A  line  of  serious  sense." 


See  anie^  4th  August,  1660. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  9 

one  hundred  in  the  whole  house.  And  the  play, 
which  is  called  "  All's  lost  by  Lust/' '  poorly  done ; 
and  with  so  much  disorder,  among  others,  that  in  the 
musique-room  the  boy  that  was  to  sing  a  song,  not 
singing  it  right,  his  master  fell  about  his  eares  and 
beat  him  so,  that  it  put  the  whole  house  in  an  uprore. 
Thence  homewards,  and  at  the  Mitre  met  my  uncle 
Wight,  and  with  him  Lieut.-Col.  Baron,^  who  told  us 
how  Crofton,3  the  great  Presbyterian  minister  that  had 
lately  preached  so  highly  against  Bishops,  is  clapped 
up  this  day  into  the  Tower.  Which  do  please  some, 
and  displease  others  exceedingly. 

24th  (Lord's  day) .  My  wife  and  I  to  church,  and 
then  home  with  Sir  W.  Batten  and  my  Lady  to  dinner, 
where  very  merry,  and  then  to  church  again,  where 
Mr.  Mills  made  a  good  sermon. 

25th  (Lady  day).  This  morning  came  workmen  to 
begin  the  making  of  me  a  new  pair  of  stairs  up  out 
of  my  parler,  which,  with  other  work  that  I  have  to 
do,  I  doubt  will  keep  me  this  two  months  and  so  long 
I  shall  be  all  in  dirt ;  but  the  work  do  please  me  very 
well.  After  dinner  comes  Mr.  Salisbury  to  see  me, 
and  shewed  me  a  face  or  two  of  his  paynting,  and 


^  A  Tragedy,  by  W.  Rowley. 

2  Probably  Argal  Baron,  of  Croydon,  Lieutenant-Governor  of  Windsor 
Castle,  and  said  to  have  been  a  distinguished  Royalist. 

3  Zachary  Crofton,  ejected  from  the  curacy  of  St.  Botolph's,  Aldgate,  for 
non-conformity.  He  was  a  native  of  Ireland;  and,  according  to  Baxter,  a 
quick  and  warm,  but  upright  man.  He  was  set  at  liberty  after  a  long  confine- 
ment, and  again  imprisoned  in  Cheshire;  and,  at  length,  returning  to  London, 
kept  a  school  in  Aldgate  parish  till  his  death. 


10  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

indeed  I  perceive  that  he  will  be  a  great  master.  I 
took  him  to  Whitehall  with  me  by  water,  but  he  would 
not  by  any  means  be  moved  to  go  through  bridge, 
and  so  we  were  fain  to  go  round  by  the  Old  Swan. 
To  my  Lord's  and  there  I  shewed  him  the  King's 
picture,  which  he  intends  to  copy  out  in  little.  After 
that  I  and  Captain  Ferrers  to  Salisbury  Court  by 
water,  and  saw  part  of  the  "  Queene's  Maske."  Then 
I  to  Mrs.  Turner,  The:  Turner  being  in  a  great  chafe, 
about  being  disappointed  of  a  room  to  stand  in  at 
the  Coronacion.  So  homewards  and  took  up  a  boy 
that  had  a  lanthome,  that  was  picking  up  of  rags,  and 
got  him  to  light  me  home,  and  had  great  discourse 
with  him  how  he  could  get  sometimes  three  or  four 
bushells  of  rags  in  a  day,  and  got  3^.  a  bushell  for 
them,  and  many  other  discourses,  what  and  how  many 
ways  there  are  for  poor  children  to  get  their  livings 
honestly. 

26th.  Up  early  to  do  business  in  my  study.  This 
is  my  great  day  that  three  years  ago  I  was  cut  of  the 
stone,  and,  blessed  be  God,  I  do  yet  find  myself  very 
free  from  pain  again.  To  my  father's,  where  Mrs. 
Turner,  The.,  Joyce,  Mr.  Morrice,  Mr.  Armiger,  Mr. 
Pierce,  the  surgeon,  and  his  wife,  my  father  and 
mother,  and  myself  and  my  wife.  Very  merry  at  din- 
ner; among  other  things,  because  Mrs.  Turner  and 
her  company  eat  no  flesh  at  all  this  Lent,  and  I  had 
a  great  deal  of  good  flesh  which  made  their  mouths 
water.  I  and  my  wife  to  Salisbury  Court,  and  sat  in 
the  pitt,  and  saw  "  The  Bondman  "  done  to  admiration. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  II 

27th.  Up  early.  My  brother  Tom  comes  to  me, 
and  I  looked  over  my  old  clothes  and  did  give  him 
a  suit  of  black  stuff  clothes  and  a  hat  and  some  shoes. 
At  the  office  all  the  morning,  where  Sir  G.  Carteret 
comes,  and  there  I  did  get  him  to  promise  me  some 
money  upon  a  bill  of  exchange,  whereby  I  shall 
secure  myself  of  60/.  At  noon  I  found  my  stairs 
quite  broke  down,  that  I  could  not  get  up  but  by  a 
ladder.  To  the  Dolphin  to  a  dinner  of  Mr.  Harris's, 
where  Sir  Williams  both  and  my  Lady  Batten, '  and 
her  two  daughters,  and  other  company,  where  a  great 
deal  of  mirth,  and  there  staid  till  1 1  o'clock  at  night ; 
and  in  our  mirth  I  sang  and  sometimes  fiddled  (there 
being  a  noise  ^  of  fiddlers  there),  and  at  last  we  fell 
to  dancing,  the  first  time  that  ever  I  did  in  my  life, 
which  I  did  wonder  to  see  myself  to  do.  At  last  we 
made  Mingo,  Sir  W.  Batten's  black,  and  Jack,  Sir  W. 
Pen's,  dance,  and  it  was  strange  how  the  first  did 
dance  with  a  great  deal  of  seeming  skill. 

28th.  I  went  to  Sir  Robert  Slingsby  (he  being 
newly  maister  of  that  title  by  being  made  a  Baronett) 


^  See  ante,  Nov.  26,  1660. 

2  Noise,  a  set  or  company  of  musiciaxis,  usually  of  three,  named  from  the 
chief  performer. 

Shakespeare:  "  And  see  if  thou  canst  find  Sneak's  noise  :  Mistress  Tear- 
sheet  would  fain  hear  some  music."     2  Henry  IV.,  act  ii.  sc.  4. 

Ben  Jonson:  "  The  king  has  his  noise  of  gypsies,  as  well  as  of  bearwards 
and  other  minstrels."    Masque  of  Gypsies,  vol.  vi.  p.  102. 

In  the  sense  of  a  concert.  See  Psalm  xlvii.  5.  '*  God  is  gone  up  with  a 
merry  noise,  and  the  Lord  with  the  sound  of  a  trump." 

So  noised,  played  or  accompanied  with  music.     (M.  B.) 

See  May  7,  i66o,  note. 


12  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

to  discourse  about  Mr.  Creed's  accounts  to  be  made 
up,  and  from  thence  by  coach  to  my  cozen  Thomas 
Pepys,  to  borrow  looo/.  for  my  Lord.  Then  with  Mr. 
Shepley  to  the  Theatre  and  saw  "  Rollo  "  ^  ill  acted. 
That  done  to  drink  a  cup  of  ale  and  so  home,  where 
I  found  a  great  deal  of  work  done  to-day,  and  also 
70/.  paid  me,  so  that,  my  heart  in  great  content,  I 
went  to  bed. 

29th.  To  the  office,  where  I  found  Sir  W.  Pen  sent 
down  yesterday  to  Chatham  to  get  two  great  ships 
in  readiness  presendy  2  to  go  to  the  East  Indies  upon 
some  design  against  the  Dutch,  we  think,  at  Goa,  but 
it  is  a  great  secret  yet. 

30th.  At  the  office  we  and  Sir  W.  Rider  to  advise 
what  sort  of  provisions  to  get  ready  for  these  ships 
going  to  the  Indies. 

31st  (Sunday).  At  church,  where  a  stranger 
preached  like  a  fool.  Dined  v/ith  my  wife,  she  stay- 
ing at  home,  being  unwilling  to  dress  herself,  the 
house  being  all  dirty.  To  church  again,  and  after 
sermon  I  walked  to  my  father's,  and  to  Mr.  Turner's, 
where  I  could  not  woo  The.  to  give  me  a  lesson  upon 
the  harpsicon,  and  was  angry  at  it.  So  home  and 
finding  Will  abroad  at  Sir  W.  Batten's  talking  with 
the  people  there  (Sir  W.  and  my  Lady  being  in  the 


*  "  RoIIo,  Duke  of  Normandy,"  by  John  Fletcher, 

*  Presently t  immediately.    Shakespeare  — 

"  Therefore,  I  pray  you,  stand  not  to  discourse. 
But  mount  you  presently." 

Two  Gentle7nen  of  Verona,  act  v.  sc.  i.     (M.  E.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS,  1 3 

country),  I  took  occasion  to  be  angry  with  him,  and 
so  to  prayers  and  to  bed. 

April  I  St.  This  day  my  waiting  at  the  Privy  Scale 
comes  in  again.  To  Whitefryars,  and  there  saw  part 
of  "  Rule  a  wife  and  have  a  wife,"  ^  which  I  never  saw 
before,  but  do  not  like  it.  So  to  my  father,  and  there 
finding  a  discontent  between  my  father  and  mother 
about  the  mayde  (which  my  father  likes  and  my 
mother  dislikes),  I  staid  till  10  at  night,  persuading 
my  mother  to  understand  herself,  and  that  in  some 
high  words,  which  I  was  sorry  for,  but  she  is  gro\vn, 
poor  woman,  very  froward.  So  leaving  them  in  the 
same  discontent  I  went  away  home,  it  being  a  brave 
moonshine,  and  to  bed. 

2d.  To  St.  James's  Park,  where  I  saw  the  Duke  of 
York  playing  at  Pelemele,^  the  first  time  that  ever  I 
saw  the  sport.  Then  to  my  Lord's,  where  I  dined 
with  my  Lady,  and  after  we  had  dined  in  comes  my 
Lord  and  Ned  Pickering  hungry,  and  there  was  not  a 
bit  of  meat  left  in  the  house,  the  servants  having  eat 
up  all,  at  which  my  Lord  was  very  angry,  and  at  last 

1  By  John  Fletcher. 

2  "A  Pele  Mele  was  made  at  the  further  end  of  St.  James's  Park,  which 
was  made  for  His  Majesty  to  play,  being  a  very  princely  play."  —  RuGGE, 
It  is  derived  from  paille  viaille,  French  ;  at  which  word  Cotgrave  thus  de- 
scribes the  game  :  —  "A  game,  wherein  a  round  box  bowle  is  with  a  mallet 
struck  through  a  high  arch  of  iron  (standing,  at  either  end  of  an  alley,  one), 
which  he  that  can  do  at  the  fewest  blows,  or  at  the  number  agreed  on,  wins." 
In  France,  it  was  the  common  appellation  of  those  places  where  the  game  was 
practised.  "  As  soon  as  the  weather  and  my  leisure  permit,  you  shall  have 
the  account  you  desire  of  our  Paille-Mailes,  which  are  now  only  three,  — 
viz.,  the  Thuilleries,  the  Palais  Royal,  and  the  Arsenal." — Letter  of  Sir 
Richard  Browne t  Addit.  MSS.  No.  15,857,  fol.  149,  in  British  Museum. 


14  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

got  something  dressed.  Then  to  the  Privy  Seale,  and 
so  to  White-fryars  and  saw  "  The  Little  Thiefe,"  ^ 
which  is  a  very  merry  and  pretty  play,  and  the  little 
boy  do  very  well.  Then  to  the  Dolphin  to  Sir  W. 
Batten,  and  Pen,  and  other  company ;  among  others 
Mr.  Delabar ;  where  strange  how  these  men,  who  at 
other  times  are  all  wise  men,  do  now,  in  their  drink, 
betwitt  2  and  reproach  one  another  with  their  former 
conditions,  and  their  actions  as  in  public  concern- 
ments, till  I  was  ashamed  to  see  it. 

3rd.  Up  among  my  workmen,  my  head  akeing  all 
day  from  last  night's  debauch.  To  the  office  all  the 
morning,  and  at  noon  dined  with  Sir  W.  Batten  and 
Pen,  who  would  needs  have  me  drink  two  drafts  of 
sack  to-day  to  cure  me  of  last  night's  disease,^  which 
I  thought  strange  but  I  think  find  it  true.  I  hear  that 
the  Dutch  have  sent  the  King  a  great  present  of 
money,  which  we  think  will  stop  the  match  with  Port- 
ugal; and  judge  this  to  be  the  reason  that  our  so 
great  haste  in  sending  the  two  ships  to  the  East  Indys 
is  also  stayed. 

4th.  After  dinner  I  went  into  my  Lord  and  there 
we  had  a  great  deal  of  musique,  and  then  came  my 
cozen  Tom  Pepys  and  there  did  accept  of  the  securi- 
ty which  we  gave  him  for  his  1000/.  that  we  borrow  of 
him,  and  so  the  money  to  be  paid  next  week. 

5  th.   Up  among  my  workmen  and  so  to  the  office, 


1  "  Night  Walker,  or  Little  Thief,"  by  John  Fletcher  and  James  Shirley. 

^  To  upbraid. 

3  Hence  the  proverb,  "  Take  a  hair  of  the  dog  that  bit  you." 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  1 5 

and  then  to  Sir  W.  Pen's  with  the  other  Sir  WilKam 
and  Sir  John  Lawson  to  dinner,  and  after  that,  with 
them  to  Mr.  Lucy's,  a  merchant,  where  much  good 
company,  and  there  drank  a  great  deal  of  wine,  and 
in  discourse  fell  to  talk  of  the  weight  of  people,  which 
did  occasion  some  wagers,  and  where,  among  others, 
I  won  half  a  piece  to  be  spent.  Then  home,  and  at 
night  to  Sir  W.  Batten's,  and  there  very  merry  with  a 
good  barrell  of  oysters,  and  this  is  the  present  life  I 
lead.     Home  and  to  bed. 

6th.  To  Whitehall,  and  there  at  Privy  Scale  and 
elsewhere  did  business,  and  among  other  things  met 
with  Mr.  Townsend,  who  told  of  his  mistake  the  other 
day,  to  put  both  his  legs  through  one  of  his  knees  of 
his  breeches,  and  went  so  all  day.  Then  with  Mr. 
Creed  and  Moore  to  the  Leg  in  the  Palace  to  dinner 
which  I  gave  them,  and  after  dinner  I  saw  the  girle  of 
the  house,  being  very  pretty,  go  into  a  chamber,  and 
I  went  in  after  her  and  kissed  her.  Then  by  water, 
Creed  and  I,  to  Salisbury  Court  and  there  saw  "  Love's 
Quarrell "  acted  the  first  time,  but  I  do  not  like  the 
design  or  words. 

7th  (Lord's  day).  All  the  morning  at  home,  mak- 
ing up  my  accounts  (God  forgive  me  ! )  to  give  up  to 
my  Lord  this  afternoon.  Then  put  in  at  Paul's,  where 
I  saw  our  minister,  Mr.  Mills,  preaching  before  my 
Lord  Mayor.  So  to  White  Hall,  and  there  I  met  with 
Dr.  Fuller  I  of  Twickenham,  newly  come  from  Ire- 

I  William  Fuller,  of  Magdalene  Hall,  Oxford,  was  a  schoolmaster  at 
Twickenham  during  the  Rebellion  ;  and  at  the  Restoration  became  Dean  of 


1 6  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS, 

land;  and  took  him  to  my  Lord's,  where  he  and  I 
dined;  and  he  did  give  my  Lord  and  me  a  good 
account  of  the  condition  of  Ireland,  and  how  it 
come  to  pass,  through  the  joyning  of  the  Fanatiques 
and  the  Presbyterians,  that  the  latter  and  the  former 
are  in  their  declaration  put  together  under  the  names 
of  Fanatiques.  After  dinner,  my  Lord  and  I  and  Mr. 
Shepley  did  look  over  our  accounts  and  settle  matters 
of  money  between  us  ;  and  my  Lord  did  tell  me  much 
of  his  mind  about  getting  money  and  other  things  of 
his  family,  &c. 

8th.  Up  early,  my  Lady  Batten  knocking  at  her 
door  that  comes  into  one  of  my  chambers.  I  did 
give  directions  to  my  people  and  workmen,  and  so 
about  8  o'clock  we  took  barge  at  the  Tower,  Sir  Wil- 
liam Batten  and  his  lady,  Mrs.  Turner,  Mr.  Fowler 
and  I.  A  very  pleasant  passage  and  so  to  Gravesend, 
where  we  dined,  and  from  thence  a  coach  took  them 
and  me,  and  Mr.  Fowler  with  some  others  came  from 
Rochester  to  meet  us,  on  horseback.  At  Rochester, 
where  alight  at  Mr.  Alcock's  and  there  drank  and  had 
good  sport,  with  his  bringing  out  so  many  sorts  of 
cheese.  Then  to  the  Hill-house  at  Chatham,  where  I 
never  was  before,  and  I  found  a  pretty  pleasant  house 
and  am  pleased  with  the  armes  that  hang  up  there. 
Here  we  supped  very  merry,  and  late  to  bed ;  Sir 
William  telling  me  that  old  Edgeborrow,  his  prede- 
cessor, did  die  and  walk  in  my  chamber,  did  make 

St.  Patrick's  ;  and  in  1663,  Bishop  of  Limerick  ;  and  in  1667  was  translated 
to  Lincoln.     Ob.  1675. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  1/ 

me  somewhat  afeard,  but  not  so  much  as  for  mirth's 
sake  I  did  seem.  So  to  bed  in  the  treasurer's  chamber. 
9th.  And  lay  and  slept  well  till  3  in  the  morning, 
and  then  waking,  and  by  the  light  of  the  moon  I  saw 
my  pillow  (which  overnight  I  flung  from  me)  stand 
upright,  but  not  bethinking  myself  what  it  might  be, 
I  was  a  Httle  afeard,  but  sleep  overcame  all  and  so 
lay  till  high  morning,  at  which  time  I  had  a  candle 
brought  me  and  a  good  fire  made,  and  in  general  it 
was  a  great  pleasure  all  the  time  I  staid  here  to  see 
how  I  am  respected  and  honoured  by  all  people ;  and 
I  find  that  I  begin  to  know  now  how  to  receive  so 
much  reverence,  which  at  the  beginning  I  could  not 
tell  how  to  do.  Sir  William  and  I  by  coach  to  the 
docke  and  there  viewed  all  the  storehouses  and  the 
old  goods  that  are  this  day  to  be  sold,  which  was  great 
pleasure  to  me,  and  so  back  again  by  coach  home, 
where  we  had  a  good  dinner,  and  among  other  stran- 
gers that  come,  there  was  Mr.  Hempson  and  his  wife, 
a  pretty  woman,  and  speaks  Latin ;  Mr.  Allen  and  two 
daughters  of  his,  both  very  tall  and  the  youngest » 
very  handsome,  so  much  as  I  could  not  forbear  to 
love  her  exceedingly,  having,  among  other  things,  the 
best  hand  that  ever  I  saw.  After  dinner,  we  went  to 
fit  books  and  things  (Tom  Hater  being  this  morning 
come  to  us)  for  the  sale,  by  an  inch  of  candle,  and 
very  good  sport  we  and  the  ladies  that  stood  by  had, 
to   see    the    people    bid.     Among   other  things    sold 

^  Rebecca,  who  afterwards  married  Lieutenant  Jewkes.    See  "  Diary," 

ist  April,  1667. 


1 8  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

there  was  all  the  State's  armes,'  which  Sir  W.  Batten 
bought;  intending  to  set  up  some  of  the  images  in 
his  garden,  and  the  rest  to  burn  on  the  Coronacion 
night.  The  sale  being  done,  the  ladies  and  I  and 
Captain  Pett  and  Mr.  Castle  took  barge  and  down  we 
went  to  see  the  Sovereigne,  which  we  did,  taking  great 
pleasure  therein,  singing  all  the  way,  and,  among  other 
pleasures  I  put  my  Lady,  Mrs.  Turner,  Mrs.  Hemp- 
son,  and  the  two  Mrs.  Aliens  into  the  lanthom  and  I 
went  in  and  kissed  them,  demanding  it  as  a  fee  due 
to  a  principall  officer,  with  all  which  we  were  exceed- 
ing merry,  and  drunk  some  bottles  of  wine  and  neat's 
tongue,  &c.  Then  back  again  home  and  so  supped, 
and  after  much  mirth  to-bed. 

loth.  In  the  morning  to  see  the  Dockhouses. 
First,  Mr.  Pett's,  the  builder,  and  there  was  very 
kindly  received,  and  among  other  things  he  did  offer 
my  Lady  Batten  a  parrot,  the  best  I  ever  saw,  that 
knew  Mingo  so  soon  as  it  saw  him,  having  been  bred 
formerly  in  the  house  with  them ;  but  for  talking  and 
singing  I  never  heard  the  hke.  My  Lady  did  accept 
of  it.  Then  to  see  Commissioner  Pett's  house,  he 
and  his  family  being  absent,  and  here  I  wondered 
how  my  Lady  Batten  walked  up  and  do^vn  with  envi- 
ous looks  to  see  how  neat  and  rich  everything  is  (and 
indeed  both  the  house  and  garden  is  most  hand- 
some), saying  that  she  would  get  it,  for  it  belonged 
formerly  to   the   Surveyor   of    the    Navy.     Then   on 

'  /.  e.s  Coats  of  arms. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS.  1 9 

board  the  Prince,  now  in  the  docke,  and  indeed  it  has 
one  and  no  more  rich  cabins  for  carved  work,  but  no 
gold  in  her.  After  that  back  home,  and  there  eat  a 
Httle  dinner.  Then  to  Rochester,  and  there  saw  the 
Cathedrall,  which  is  now  fitting  for  use,  and  the  organ 
then  a- tuning.  Then  away  thence,  observing  the  great 
doors  of  the  church,  which,  they  say,  was  covered 
with  the  skins  of  the  Danes, ^  and  also  had  much 
mirth  at  a  tomb,  on  which  was  "  Come  sweet  Jesu," 
and  I  read  "  Come  sweet  Mall,"  &c.,  at  which  Cap- 
tain Pett  and  I  had  much  laughter.  So  to  the 
Salutacione  taverne,  where  Mr.  Alcock  and  many  of 
the  towne   came   and  entertained  us  with  wine  and 


^  Traditions  similar  to  that  at  Rochester,  here  alluded  to,  are  to  be  found 
in  other  places  in  England.  Sir  Harry  Englefield,  in  a  communication  made 
to  the  Society  of  Antiquaries,  July  2,  1789,  called  their  attention  to  the  curi- 
ous popular  tale  preserved  in  the  village  of  Hadstock,  Essex,  that  the  door 
of  the  church  had  been  covered  with  the  skin  of  a  Danish  pirate,  who  had 
plundered  the  church.  At  Copford,  in  the  same  county,  Sir  Harry  remarked 
that  an  exactly  similar  tradition  existed.  At  Worcester,  likewise,  it  was 
asserted  that  the  north  doors  of  the  cathedral  had  been  covered  with  the  skin 
of  a  person  who  had  sacrilegiously  robbed  the  high  altar.  The  doors  have 
been  renewed,  but  the  original  woodwork  remains  in  the  crypt,  and  portions 
of  skin  may  still  be  seen  under  the  ironwork,  with  which  the  doors  are 
clamped.  The  date  of  these  doors  appears  to  be  the  latter  part  of  the  four- 
teenth century,  the  north  porch  having  been  built  about  1385.  Portions  of 
this  supposed  human  skin,  from  each  of  the  three  places  above  mentioned, 
have  recently  been  obtained,  and  submitted  to  one  of  our  most  skilful  com- 
parative anatomists,  Mr.  John  Quequett,  the  Curator  of  the  Museum  of  the 
College  of  Surgeons,  who,  by  the  aid  of  a  powerful  microscope,  has  ascer- 
tained, beyond  question,  that  in  each  of  the  three  cases  the  skin  is  human  ; 
and  that,  in  the  instance  of  Hadstock,  it  was  the  skin  of  a  fair-haired  person,  — 
a  fact  consistent  with  the  tale  of  its  Danish  origin.  A  portion  of  the  Worces- 
ter skin  is  to  be  found  in  the  collection  of  Worcestershire  curiosities,  be- 
queathed by  Dr.  Prattinton  to  the  Society  of  Antiquaries.  —  Communicated 
by  Albert  Way,  Esq.,  F.S.A.    See  also  the  Appendix  for  further  particulars. 


20  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

oysters  and  other  things,  and  hither  come  Sir  John 
Minnes  to  us,  who  is  come  to-day  to  see  "  the  Hen- 
ery,"  in  which  he  intends  to  ride  as  Vice- Admiral  in 
narrow  seas  all  this  summer.  Here  much  mirth,  but 
I  was  a  little  troubled  to  stay  too  long,  because  of 
going  to  Hempson's,  which  afterwards  we  did,  and 
found  it  in  all  things  a  most  pretty  house,  and  rarely 
furnished,  only  it  had  a  most  ill  accesse  on  all  sides  to 
it,  which  is  a  greatest  fault  that  I  think  can  be  in  a 
house.  Here  we  had,  for  my  sake,  two  fiddles,  the 
one  a  base  viall,  on  which  he  that  played,  played  well 
some  lyra  lessons,  but  both  together  made  the  worst 
musique  that  ever  I  heard.  We  had  a  fine  collacion, 
but  I  took  little  pleasure  in  that,  for  the  illness  of  the 
musique  and  for  the  intentnesse  of  my  mind  upon 
Mrs.  Rebecca  Allen.  After  we  had  done  eating,  the 
ladies  went  to  dance,  and  among  the  men  we  had,  I 
was  forced  to  dance  too ;  and  did  make  an  ugly  shift. 
Mrs.  R.  Allen  danced  very  well,  and  seems  the  best 
humoured  woman  that  ever  I  saw.  About  9  o'clock 
Sir  William  and  my  Lady  went  home,  and  we  contin- 
ued dancing  an  houre  or  two,  and  so  broke  up  very 
pleasant  and  merry,  and  so  walked  home,  I  leading 
Mrs.  Rebecca,  who  seemed,  I  know  not  why,  in  that 
and  other  things,  to  be  desirous  of  my  favours  and 
would  in  all  things  show  me  respects.  Going  home, 
she  would  needs  have  me  sing,  and  I  did  pretty  well 
and  was  highly  esteemed  by  them.  So  to  Captain 
Allen's  (where  we  were  last  night,  and  heard  him  play 
on  the  harpsicon,  and  I  find  him  to  be  a  perfect  good 


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musician),  and  there,  having  no  mind  to  leave  Mrs. 
Rebecca,  what  with  talk  and  singing  (her  father  and  I), 
Mrs.  Turner  and  I  staid  there  till  2  o'clock  in  the 
morning  and  was  most  exceeding  merry,  and  I  had  the 
opportunity  of  kissing  Mrs.  Rebecca  very  often. 

nth.  At  2  o'clock,  with  very  great  mirth,  we  went 
to  our  lodging  and  to  bed,  and  lay  till  7,  and  then 
called  up  by  Sir  W.  Batten,  so  I  arose  and  we  did 
some  business,  and  then  came  Captn.  Allen,  and  he 
and  I  withdrew  and  sang  a  song  or  two,  and  among 
others  took  pleasure  in  "  Goe  and  bee  hanged,  that's 
good-bye."  The  young  ladies  come  too,  and  so  I  did 
again  please  myself  with  Mrs.  Rebecca,  and  about  9 
o'clock,  after  we  had  breakfasted,  we  sett  forth  for 
London,  and  indeed  I  was  a  Httle  troubled  to  part 
with  Mrs.  Rebecca,  for  which  God  forgive  me.  Thus 
we  went  away  through  Rochester.  We  baited  at 
Dartford,  and  thence  to  London,  but  of  all  the  jour- 
neys that  ever  I  made  this  was  the  merriest,  and  I  was 
in  a  strange  moode  for  mirth.  Among  other  things,  I 
got  my  Lady  to  let  her  mayde,  Mrs.  Anne,  to  ride  all 
the  way  on  horseback,  and  she  rides  exceeding  well ; 
and  so  I  called  her  my  clerk,  that  she  went  to  wait 
upon  me.  I  met  two  Httle  schoolboys  going  with 
pitchers  of  ale  to  their  schoolmaster  to  break  up 
against  Easter,  and  I  did  drink  of  some  of  one  of  them 
and  give  him  two  pence.  By  and  by  we  come  to  two 
little  girles  keeping  cows,  and  I  saw  one  of  them  very 
pretty,  so  I  had  a  mind  to  make  her  aske  my  blessing, 
and  telling  her  that  I  was  her  godfather,  she  asked  me 


22  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

innocently  whether  I  was  not  Ned  Wooding,  and  I 
said  that  I  was,  so  she  kneeled  down  and  very  simply 
called,  "  Pray,  godfather,  pray  to  God  to  bless  me," 
which  made  us  very  merry,  and  I  gave  her  twopence. 
In  several  places,  I  asked  women  whether  they  would 
sell  me  their  children,  but  they  denied  me  all,  but 
said  they  would  give  me  one  to  keep  for  them,  if  I 
would.  Mrs.  Anne  and  I  rode  under  the  man  that 
hangs  upon  Shooter's  Hill,  and  a  filthy  sight  it  was  to 
see  how  his  flesh  is  shrunk  to  his  bones.  So  home 
and  I  found  all  well,  and  a  deal  of  work  done  since  I 
went.  I  sent  to  see  how  my  wife  do,  who  is  well.  So 
to  Sir  W.  Batten's  and  there  supped,  and  very  merry 
with  the  young  ladies.  So  to  bed  very  sleepy  for  last 
night's  work,  concluding  that  it  is  the  pleasantest 
journey  in  all  respects  that  ever  I  had  in  my  life. 

1 2th.  Up  among  my  workmen.  Dined  with  Sir  W. 
Batten,  all  fish  dinner,  it  being  Good  Friday.  Then 
into  the  City  and  saw  in  what  forwardness  all  things  are 
for  the  Coronacion,  which  will  be  very  magnificent. 
Then  back  again  home  and  to  my  chamber,  to  set 
down  in  my  diary  all  my  late  journey,  which  I  do  with 
great  pleasure ;  and  while  I  am  now  writing  comes 
one  with  a  tickett  to  invite  me  to  Captain  Robert 
Blake's  buriall,  for  whose  death  I  am  very  sorry,  and 
do  much  wonder  at  it,  he  being  a  little  while  since 
a  very  likely  man  to  live  as  any  I  knew.  Since  my 
going  out  of  town,  there  is  one  Alexander  Rosse  taken 
and  sent  to  the  Counter  by  Sir  Thomas  Allen,  for 
counterfeiting  my  hand  to  a  ticket,  and  we  this  day  at 


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the  office  have  given  order  to  Mr.  Smith  to  prosecute 
him. 

13th.  To  Whitehall  by  water  from  To\vre-wharfe, 
where  we  could  not  pass  the  ordinary  way,  because 
they  were  mending  of  the  great  stone  steps  against 
the  Coronacion.  Met  my  Lord  with  the  Duke  ;  and 
after  a  little  talk  with  him,  I  went  to  the  Banquet- 
house,  and  there  saw  the  King  heale,  the  first  time 
that  ever  I  saw  him  do  it ;  which  he  did  with  great 
gravity,  and  it  seemed  to  me  to  be  an  ugly  office  and 
a  simple  one.  To  the  buriall  of  Captain  Robert 
Blake,  at  Wapping,  and  there  had  each  of  us  a  ring, 
but  it  being  dirty,  we  would  not  go  to  church  with 
them,  but  with  our  coach  we  returned,  and  then  Sir 
W.  Pen  and  I  alone  to  the  Dolphin  (Sir  W.  Batten 
being  this  day  gone  with  his  wife  to  Walthamstow  to 
keep  Easter),  and  there  had  a  supper  by  ourselves,  we 
both  being  very  hungry,  and  staying  there  late  drink- 
ing I  became  very  sleepy,  and  so  we  went  home  and 
to  bed. 

14th  (Easter.  Lord's  day).  In  the  morning  heard 
Mr.  Jacomb,'  at  Ludgate,  upon  these  words,  "  Christ 
loved  you  and  therefore  let  us  love  one  another,"  and 

^  Thomas  Jacomb,  of  Burton  Lazers,  Leicestershire,  entered  at  Magdalen 
Hall,  Oxford,  in  1640;  but  removing  to  Cambridge  on  the  breaking  out  of  the 
Rebellion,  he  obtained  a  Fellowship  at  Trinity  College,  in  the  place  of  a  loy- 
alist ejected,  and  had  the  degree  of  M.  A.  conferred  on  him.  He  afterwards 
became  rector  of  St.  Martin's-infra-Ludgate,  in  London;  and  was  put  out  for 
nonconformity  in  1662,  being  then  D.D.  He  subsequently  followed  the  trade 
of  conventicling,  which  brought  him  into  trouble;  and  he  died  March  27, 
1687,  in  the  house  of  the  Countess  of  Exeter,  to  whom  he  was  domestic 
chaplain.  —  Abridged  from  Kennett's  Register. 


24  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

made  a  gracy  sermon,  like  a  Presbyterian.  After 
dinner  I  went  to  the  Temple  and  there  heard  Dr. 
Griffith/  a  good  sermon  for  the  day;  so  with  Mr. 
Moore  (whom  I  met  there)  to  my  Lord's,  and  there 
he  shewed  me  a  copy  of  my  Lord  Chancellor's  patent 
for  Earle,  and  I  read  the  preamble,  which  is  very 
short,  modest,  and  good.  Here  my  Lord  saw  us  and 
spoke  to  me  about  getting  Mr.  Moore  to  come  and 
governe  his  house  while  he  goes  to  sea,  which  I  prom- 
ised him  to  do  and  did  afterwards  speak  to  Mr. 
Moore,  and  he  is  willing.  Then  hearing  that  Mr. 
Barnwell  was  come,  with  some  of  my  Lord's  little 
children,  yesterday  to  town,  to  see  the  Coronacion,  I 
went  and  found  them  at  the  Goate,  at  Charing  Cross, 
and  there  I  went  and  drank  with  them  a  good  while, 
whom  I  found  in  very  good  health  and  very  merry. 
Then  to  my  father's,  and  after  supper  seemed  willing 
to  go  home,  and  my  wife  seeming  to  be  so  too  I  went 
away  in  a  discontent,  but  she,  poor  wretch,  followed 
me  as  far  in  the  rain  and  dark  as  Fleet  Bridge  to  fetch 
me  back  again,  and  so  I  did. 

15  th.  From  my  father's,  it  being  a  very  foule  morn- 
ing for  the  King  and  Lords  to  go  to  Windsor,  I  went 
to  the  office  and  there  met  Mr.  Coventry  and  Sir 
Robt.  Slingsby.  Mr.  Coventry  being  gone,  and  I 
having  at  home  laid  up  200/.  which  I  had  brought 
this  morning  home  from  Alderman  Backwell's,  I  went 

I  Matthew  Griffith,  D.D.,  rector  of  St.  Mary  Magdalene,  Old  Fish  Street, 
and  preacher  at  the  Temple.  He  was  an  Episcopalian,  and  author  of  several 
printed  sermons.     He  died  in  1665. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  2$ 

home  by  coach  with  Sir  R.  Slingsby  and  dined  with 
him,  and  had  a  very  good  dinner.  His  lady  ^  seems 
a  good  woman  and  very  desirous  they  were  to  hear 
this  noon  by  the  post  how  the  election  has  gone  at 
Newcastle,  wherein  he  is  concerned,  but  the  letters 
are  not  come  yet. 

1 6th.  So  soon  as  word  was  brought  me  that  Mr. 
Coventry  was  come  with  the  barge  to  the  Towre,  I 
went  to  him,  and  found  him  reading  of  the  Psalms  in 
short  hand  (which  he  is  now  busy  about),  and  had 
good  sport  about  the  long  marks  that  are  made  there 
for  sentences  in  divinity,  which  he  is  never  like  to 
make  use  of.  Here  he  and  I  sat  till  the  Comptroller 
came  and  then  we  put  off  for  Deptford,  where  we 
went  on  board  the  King's  pleasure  boat  that  Com- 
missioner Pett  is  making,  and  indeed  it  will  be  a  most 
pretty  thing.  From  thence  to  Commr.  Pett's  lodging, 
and  there  had  a  good  breakfast,  and  in  came  the  two 
Sir  Wms.  from  Walthamstow,  and  so  we  sat  down  and 
did  a  great  deal  of  public  business  about  the  fitting 
of  the  fleet  that  is  now  going  out.  That  done  we 
went  to  the  Globe  and  there  had  a  good  dinner,  and 
by  and  by  took  barge  again  and  so  home.  By  the 
way  they  would  have  me  sing,  which  I  did  to  Mr. 
Coventry. 

1 7th.   By  land  and  saw  the  arches,^  which  are  now 


^  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Radclyffe,  of  Dilston,  Northumber- 
land, and  widow  of  Sir  William  Fenwick,  Bart.,of  Meldon.  Sir  R  Slingsby's 
first  wife  was  Elizabeth,  daughter  and  heir  of  Robert  Brooke,  of  Newcells. 

2  Erecting  in  honour  of  the  Coronation. 


26  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

almost  done  and  are  very  fine,  and  I  saw  the  picture 
of  the  ships  and  other  things  this  morning,  set  up  be- 
fore the  East  Indy  House,  which  are  well  done.  Then 
comes  Mr.  Allen  of  Chatham,  and  I  took  him  to  the 
Mitre  and  there  did  drink  with  him,  and  did  get  of 
him  the  song  that  pleased  me  so  well  there  the  other 
day,  "  Of  Shitten  come  Shites  the  beginning  of  love." 
His  daughters  are  to  come  to  towne  to-morrow,  but  I 
know  not  whether  I  shall  see  them  or  no.  That  done 
I  went  to  the  Dolphin  by  appointment  and  there  I 
met  Sir  Wms.  both  and  Mr.  Castle,  and  did  eat  a 
barrel  of  oysters  and  two  lobsters,  which  I  did  give 
them,  and  were  very  merry.  Here  we  had  much 
talk  of  Mr.  Warren's  being  knighted  ^  by  the  King, 
and  Sir  W.  B.  seemed  to  be  very  much  incensed 
against  him. 

1 8th.  Up  with  my  workmen  and  then  about  9 
o'clock  took  horse  with  both  the  Sir  Williams  for 
Walthamstow,  and  there  we  found  my  Lady  and  her 
daughters  all ;  and  a  pleasant  day  it  was,  and  all 
things  else,  but  that  my  Lady  was  in  a  bad  moode, 
which  we  were  troubled  at,  and  had  she  been  noble 
she  would  not  have  been  so  with  her  servants,  when 
we  came  thither,  and  this  Sir  W.  Pen  took  notice  of, 
as  well  as  I.  After  dinner  we  all  went  to  the  Church 
stile,2  and  there  eat  and  drank,  and  I  was  as  merry  as 


^  Knighted  the  following  year      (M.  B.) 

2  In  an  old  book  of  accounts  belonging  to  Warrington  Parish,  the  follow- 
ing minute  occurs:  — "  Nov.  5,  1688.  Payd  for  drink  at  the  Church-Steele, 
13J. ;  "  and  in  1732,  "  it  is  ordered  that  hereafter  no  money  be  spent  on  ye  sth 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  2/ 

I  could  counterfeit  myself  to  be.  Then,  it  raining 
hard,  homewards  again  and  in  our  way  met  with  two 
country  fellows  upon  one  horse,  which  I  did,  without 
much  ado,  give  the  way  to,  but  Sir  W.  Pen  would  not, 
but  struck  them  and  they  him,  and  so  passed  away, 
but  they,  giving  him  some  high  words,  he  went  back 
again  and  struck  them  off  their  horse,  in  a  simple 
fury,  and  without  much  honour,  in  my  mind,  and  so 
came  away. 

19th.  Among  my  workmen  and  then  to  the  office, 
it  being  so  foule  that  I  could  not  go  to  Whitehall  to 
see  the  Knights  of  the  Bath  made  to-day,  which  do 
trouble  me  mightily. 

20th.  Comes  my  boy  to  tell  me  that  the  Duke  of 
York  had  sent  for  all  the  principall  officers,  &c.,  to 
come  to  him  to-day.  So  I  went  by  water  to  Mr. 
Coventry's,  and  there  staid  and  talked  a  good  while 
with  him  till  all  the  rest  come.  We  went  up  and  saw 
the  Duke  dress  himself,  and  in  his  night  habitt  he  is 
a  very  plain  man.^  Then  he  sent  us  to  his  closett, 
where  we  saw  among  other  things  two  very  fine 
chests,  covered  with  gold  and  Indian  varnish,  given 
him  by  the  East  Indy  Company  of  Holland.  The 
Duke  comes ;  and  after  he  had  told  us  that  the  fleet 
was  designed  for  Algier  (which  was  kept  from  us  till 

of  November,  or  on  any  other  state  day,  on  the  parish  account,  either  at  the 
Church-Stile,  or  at  any  other  place"— G^«/.  Mag.,  Nov.  1852,  p.  442. 
Thus  the  original  reading  is  confirmed;  for  it  had  been  suggested  in  the 
"  Gent  Mag."  that  this  should  be  Church  ale. 

*  "  No  man  is  a  hero  to  his  valet-de-chambre"  a  saying  of  the  Prince  de 
Cond^. 


28  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

now),  we  did  advise  about  many  things  as  to  the 
fitting  of  the  fleet,  and  so  we  went  away.  After  that 
to  my  Lord's,  where  Sir  W.  Pen  came  to  me,  and 
dined  with  my  Lord.  After  dinner  he  and  others  that 
dined  there  went  away,  and  then  my  Lord  looked 
upon  his  pages'  and  footmen's  Hverys,  which  are 
come  home  to-day,  and  will  be  handsome,  though  not 
gaudy.  Then  with  my  Lady  and  my  Lady  Wright  to 
White  Hall ;  and  in  the  Banqueting-house  saw  the 
King  create  my  Lord  Chancellor  and  several  others, 
Earles,'  and  Mr.  Crew  and  several  others.  Barons :  ^ 
the  first  being  led  up  by  Heralds  and  five  old  Earles 
to  the  King,  and  there  the  patent  is  read,  and  the 
King  puts  on  his  vest,  and  sword,  and  coronett,  and 
gives  him  the  patent.  And  then  he  kisseth  the  King's 
hand,  and  rises  and  stands  covered  before  the  king. 
And  the  same  for  the  Barons,  only  he  is  led  up  but 
by  three  of  the  old  Barons,  and  are  girt  with  swords 
before  they  go  to  the  King.  That  being  done  (which 
was  very  pleasant  to  see  their  habitts) ,  I  carried  my 
Lady  back,  and  I  found  my  Lord  angry,  for  that  his 

1  Edward  Hyde,  Viscount  Cornbury,  and  Earl  of  Clarendon,  extinct: 
Arthur  (Lord  Capel),  Viscount  Maiden,  and  Earl  of  Essex;  Thomas  (Lord 
Brudenelll,  Earl  of  Cardigan;  Charles  Howard,  Lord  Dacre,  Viscount  Howard 
of  Morpeth,  and  Earl  of  Carlisle;  Sir  Arthur  Annesley  (Viscount  Valentia), 
Lord  Annesley,  and  Earl  of  Anglesea;  Sir  John  Granville,  Viscount  Lans- 
downe,  and  Earl  of  Bath,  extinct. 

2  John  Crewe,  Baron  Crewe  of  Stene,  extinct;  Denzil  Holies,  Baron 
Holies  of  Ifield,  extinct;  Sir  Frederick  Cornwallis,  Bart  ,  Baron  Comwallis 
of  Eye,  extinct:  Sir  Horace  Townshend,  Bart.,  Baron  Townshend  of  King's 
Lynn  (merged  in  the  Marquisate) ;  Sir  A.  A.  Cooper,  Bart.,  Baron  Ashley 
of  Winborne,  St.  Giles  (merged  in  the  Earldom  of  Shaftesbury) ;  Sir  George 
Booth,  Bart.,  Baron  Delamere  of  Dunham  Massey,  extinct. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  29 

page  had  let  my  Lord's  new  beaver  be  changed  for 
an  old  hat ;  then  I  went  away,  and  with  Mr.  Creed  to 
the  Exchange  and  bought  some  things,  as  gloves  and 
bandstrings,  &c.  So  back  to  the  Cockpitt,  and  there, 
by  the  favour  of  one  Mr.  Bowman,  he  and  I  got  in, 
and  there  saw  the  King  and  Duke  of  York  and  his 
Duchesse  (which  is  a  plain  woman,  and  like  her 
mother,  my  Lady  Chancellor).  And  so  saw  "The 
Humersome  Lieutenant "  ^  acted  before  the  King,  but 
not  very  well  done.  But  my  pleasure  was  great  to 
see  the  manner  of  it,  and  so  many  great  beauties,  but 
above  all  Mrs.  Palmer,  with  whom  the  King  do  dis- 
cover a  great  deal  of  familiarity.  So  Mr.  Creed  and 
I  (the  play  being  done)  went  to  Mrs.  Harper's,  and 
there  sat  and  drank,  it  being  about  twelve  at  night. 
The  ways  being  now  so  dirty,  and  stopped  up  with 
the  rayles  which  are  this  day  set  up  in  the  streets,  I 
would  not  go  home,  but  went  with  him  to  his  lodging 
at  Mr.  Ware's,  and  there  lay  all  night. 

2ist  (Lord's  day).  In  the  mommg  we  were  trou- 
bled to  hear  it  rain  as  it  did,  because  of  the  great 
show  to-morrow.  Here  dined  Doctor  Thos.  Pepys^ 
and  Dr.  Fayrebrother ;  and  all  our  talk  about  to-mor- 
row's showe,  and  our  trouble  that  it  is  Hke  to  be  a  wet 
day.  All  the  way  is  so  thronged  with  people  to  see 
the  triumphall  arches,  that  I  could  hardly  pass  for 
them.     So  home,  people  being  at  church,  and  I  got 

^  •'  The  Humorous  Lieutenant,"  a  Tragi-comedy,  by  Beaumont  and 
Fletcher. 

2  Doctor  in  Civil  Law. 


30  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEP  VS. 

home  unseen,  and  so  up  to  my  chamber  and  saw  done 
these  last  five  or  six  days'  diarys.  My  mind  a  httle 
troubled  about  my  workmen,  which,  being  foreigners, 
are  like  to  be  troubled  by  a  couple  of  lazy  rogues  that 
worked  with  me  the  other  day,  that  are  citizens,  and 
so  my  work  will  be  hindered,  but  I  must  prevent  it  if 
I  can. 

2  2d.   King's  Going  from  y^  Tower  to 
White  Hall. 

Up  early  and  made  myself  as  fine  as  I  could,  and 
put  on  my  velvet  coat,  the  first  day  that  I  put  it  on, 
though  made  half  a  year  ago.  And  being  ready,  Sir 
W.  Batten,  my  Lady,  and  his  two  daughters  and  his 
son  and  wife,  and  Sir  W.  Pen  and  his  son  and  I,  went 
to  Mr.  Young's,  the  flag-maker,  in  Come-hill;  and 
there  we  had  a  good  room  to  ourselves,  with  wine  and 
good  cake,  and  saw  the  show  very  well.  In  which  it 
is  impossible  to  relate  the  glory  of  this  day,  expressed 
in  the  clothes  of  them  that  rid,  and  their  horses  and 
horses-clothes,  among  others,  my  Lord  Sandwich's. 
Embroidery  and  diamonds  were  ordinary  among  them. 
The  Knights  of  the  Bath  was  a  brave  sight  of  itself; 
and  their  Esquires,  among  which  Mr.  Armiger  was  an 
Esquire  to  one  of  the  Knights.  Remarquable  were 
the  two  men  that  represent  the  two  Dukes  of  Nor- 
mandy and  Aquitane.  The  Bishops  come  next  after 
Barons,  which  is  the  higher  place ;  which  makes  me 
think  that  the  next  Parliament  they  will  be  called  to 
the  House  of  Lords.     My  Lord  Monk  rode  bare  after 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS.  3 1 

the  King,  and  led  in  his  hand  a  spare  horse,  as  being 
Master  of  the  Horse.  The  King,  in  a  most  rich  em- 
broidered suit  and  cloak,  looked  most  noble.  Wad- 
low,^  the  vintner,  at  the  Devil,^  in  Fleet-streete,  did 
lead  a  fine  company  of  soldiers,  all  young  comely 
men,  in  white  doublets.  There  followed  the  Vice- 
Chamberlain,  Sir  G.  Carteret,  a  company  of  men  all 
like  Turkes ;  ^  but  I  know  not  yet  what  they  are  for. 
The  streets  all  gravelled,  and  the  houses  hung  with 
carpets  before  them,  made  brave  show,  and  the  ladies 
out  of  the  windows,  one  of  which  over  against  us  I 
took  much  notice  of,  and  spoke  of  her,  which  made 
good  sport  among  us.     So  glorious  was  the  show  with 

^   WadloTv.     Simon  Wadlow,  the  original  of  "  old  Sir  Simon  the  king," 
the  favourite  air  of  Squire  Western  in  "  Tom  Jones." 
"  Hang  up  all  the  poor  hop-drinkers, 
Cries  old  Sim,  the  king  of  skinkers." 

Gifford's  Ben  Jonson,  vol.  ix.  p.  73.    187s. 
See  Diary,  25th  Feb.  1664-5.     (M.  B.) 

The  Ashmolean  Museum  Catalogue  mentions  "  Eight  verses  upon 
Simon  Wadloe,  Vintner,  dwelling  att  ye  sign  of  ye  Devill  and  St.  Dunstan." 
—  Apollo  et  Cohors  Musarjefu,  p.  54. 

2  We  do  not  see  any  reason  for  discrediting  the  statement  that  the  v/hole 
of  the  Devil  Tavern  was  pulled  down  in  1787,  and  of  its  having  been  pur- 
chased by  Messrs.  Child  and  Co.  for  the  sum  of  ;{|2,8oo,  and  in  the  year  fol- 
lowing the  row  of  houses  now  known  as  Child's  Place  was  built  upon  the  site. 
It  may  be  worth  recording  that  excellent  cellars  also  run  beneath  the  open 
space  in  front  of  those  houses,  as  they  were  in  all  probability  the  cellars  ia 
which  Simon  Wadlow  (the  landlord  at  the  sign  of  "St.  Dunstan  pulling  the 
Devil  by  the  nose,"  commonly  known  as  the  "  Old  Devil")  kept  his  celebrated 
wines.  The  great  room  was  called  the  Apollo.  Here  Jonson  lorded  it  with 
greater  authority  than  Dryden  did  afterwards  at  Will's,  or  Addison  at  But- 
ton's.    Takew^xomVr'n^^'s ye  Marigold.     (M.  B.) 

3  This  company  is  represented  in  the  curious  contemporary  picture  by 
Stoop,  now  at  Goodrich  Court,  Herefordshire. 


32  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS. 

gold  and  silver,  that  we  were  not  able  to  look  at  it, 
our  eyes  at  last  being  so  much  overcome  with  it. 
Both  the  King  and  the  Duke  of  York  took  notice  of 
us,  as  they  saw  us  at  the  window.  The  show  being 
ended,  Mr.  Young  did  give  us  a  dinner,  at  which  we 
were  very  merry,  and  pleased  above  imagination  at 
what  we  have  seen.  Sir  W.  Batten  going  home,  he 
and  I  called  and  drunk  some  mum  ^  and  laid  our 
wager  about  my  Lady  Faulconbridge's  name,  which 
he  says  not  to  be  Mary,^  and  so  I  won  above  20s. 
So  home,  where  Will  and  the  boy  staid  and  saw  the 
show  upon  Towre  Hill,  and  Jane  at  T.  Pepys's,  the 
Turner,  and  my  wife  at  Charles  Glassecocke's,  in  Fleet 
Street.  In  the  evening  by  water  to  White  Hall  to  my 
Lord's,  and  there  I  spoke  with  my  Lord.  He  talked 
with  me  about  his  suit,  which  was  made  in  France, 
and  cost  him  200/.,  and  very  rich  it  is  with  embroid- 
ery.    I  lay  with  Mr.  Shepley,  and 

CoRONACON  Day. 
23d.   About  4  I  rose  and  got  to  the  Abbey,  where 

^  Mum.    Ale  brewed  with  wheat  at  Brunswick. 

"  Sedulous  and  stout 
With  bowls  of  fattening  miim." 

J.  Phillips,  Cyder,  vol.  ii.  p.  231. 

As  soon  as  the  beer  begins  to  work,  they  put  into  it  the  inner  rind  of  fir,  tops 
of  fir  and  birch,  betony,  marjory,  pennyroyal,  wild  thyme,  &c.  Our  English 
brewers  use  cardamum,  ginger,  and  sassafras,  instead  of  the  inner  rind  of  fir, 
and  add  also  walnut  rinds,  madder,  red  sanders,  and  elecampane.     (M.  B.) 

2  Mary,  daughter  of  Oliver  Cromwell,  second  wife  of  Thomas,   second 
Viscount  Falconberg,  afterwards  Earl  of  Falconberg. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   FEFYS.  33 

I  followed  Sir  J.  Denham/  the  Surveyor,  with  some 
company  that  he  was  leading  in.  And  with  much 
ado,  by  the  favour  of  Mr.  Cooper,  his  man,  did  get 
up  into  a  great  scaffold  across  the  North  end  of  the 
Abbey,  where  with  a  great  deal  of  patience  I  sat  from 
past  4  till  1 1  before  the  King  came  in.  And  a  great 
pleasure  it  was  to  see  the  Abbey  raised  in  the  middle, 
all  covered  with  red,  and  a  throne  (that  is  a  chaire) 
and  footstoole  on  the  top  of  it ;  and  all  the  officers  of 
all  kinds,  so  much  as  the  ver}^  fidlers,  in  red  vests. 
At  last  comes  in  the  Dean^  and  Prebends  of  West- 
minster, with  the  Bishops  (many  of  them  in  cloth  of 
gold  copes),  and  after  them  the  Nobility,  all  in  their 
Parliament  robes,  which  was  a  most  magnificent  sight. 
Then  the  Duke,  and  the  King  with  a  sceptre  3  (carried 
by  my  Lord  Sandwich)  and  sword  and  mond  ^  before 
him,  and  the  crowne  too.  The  King  in  his  robes, 
bareheaded,  which  was  very  fine.  And  after  all  had 
placed  themselves,  there  was  a  sermon  and  the  ser- 
vice ;  and  then  in  the  Quire  at  the  high  altar,  the 
King  passed  through  all  the  ceremonies  of  the  Coro- 
nacon,  which  to  my  great  grief   I  and  most  in  the 


1  Created  at  the  Restoration  K  B.,  and  Surveyor-General  of  all  the  King's 
buildings  ;  better  known  as  the  author  of  "  Cooper's  Hill."     Ob.  1668. 

2  John  Earle,  S.T.P.,  in  1662  made  Bishop  of  Worcester,  and  translated 
to  Salisbury  the  following  year  ;  and  dying  in  1665,  was  buried  in  the  chapel 
of  Merton  College,  of  which  he  had  been  a  Fellow. 

3  It  was  Sir  Edward's  staff. 

*  Mond,  i.e.  "  the  orb."  Mond  is  explained  in  Ludwig's  "  Eng. -German 
Dictionary,"  bie  !leinc  giilbene  Toeltsfugel,  ^0  ein  jeid)en  cine^j  fa^ser^  ober 
lonigo  ift.  "  The  small  golden  orb  of  the  world,  an  emblem  of  an  Emperor 
or  King."     In  former  editions,  "wand."     (i\I.  B.; 


34  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

Abbey  could  not  see.  The  crowne  being  put  upon  his 
head,  a  great  shout  begun,  and  he  came  forth  to  the 
throne,  and  there  passed  through  more  ceremonies : 
as  taking  the  oath,  and  having  things  read  to  him 
by  the  Bishopp ;  ^  and  his  lords  (who  put  on  their 
caps  2  as  soon  as  the  King  put  on  his  cro\vne)  and 
bishops  come,  and  kneeled  before  him.  And  three 
times  the  King  at  Armes^  went  to  the  three  open 
places  4  on  the  scaffold,  and  proclaimed,  that  if  any 
one  could  show  any  reason  why  Charles  Stewart  should 
not  be  King  of  England,  that  now  he  should  come 
and  speak.  And  a  Generall  Pardon  also  was  read  by 
the  Lord  Chancellor,  and  meddalls  flung  up  and 
down  by  my  Lord  Cornwallis,5  of  silver,  but  I  could 
not  come  by  any.  But  so  great  a  noise  that  I 
could  make  but  little  of  the  musique ;  and  indeed,  it 
was  lost  to  every  body.     I  went  out  a  little  while 

1  Gilbert  Sheldon,  Bishop  of  London,  acting  for  Juxon,  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  whose  age  and  infirmities  prevented  him  from  attending. 

2  As  yet  Barons  had  no  coronet.  A  grant  of  that  outward  mark  of  digni- 
ty was  made  to  them  by  Charles  soon  after  liis  coronation.  Elizabeth  had 
assigned  coronets  to  Viscounts. 

3  Sir  Edward  Walker,  Garter  King  of  Arms. 

4  The  south,  west,  and  north  sides. 

5  Sir  Frederick  Cornwallis,  Baronet,  had  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
John  Ashburnham.  His  wife,  therefore,  and  her  brother,  John  Ashburnham, 
were  first  cousins  to  Villiers  Duke  of  Buckingham.  Rugge  states  in  July, 
i66o,  that  "  the  King  supped  with  Sir  Frederick  Cornwallis  at  Durham  Yard, 
in  the  Strand."  He  died  in  January,  1661-2,  and  was  buried  with  his  ances- 
tors at  Brome,  on  the  iSth.  See  post,  i5th  Jan.  1661-2.  Collins  and  other 
writers  erroneously  state  his  death  to  have  occurred  on  the  31st.  The  medals 
v.'hich  he  received  as  his  fee  (nearly  100  in  number)  were  carefully  preserved 
in  the  family,  and  have  been  recently  arranged,  so  as  to  form  the  setting  of  a 
large  silver  cup,  at  Audlcy  End. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  35 

before  the  King  had  done  all  his  ceremonies,  and 
went  round  the  Abbey  to  Westminster  Hall,  all  the 
way  within  rayles,  and  10,000  people  with  the  ground 
covered  with  blue  cloth ;  and  scaffolds  all  the  way. 
Into  the  Hall  I  got,  where  it  was  very  fine  with 
hangings  and  scaffolds  one  upon  another  full  of  brave 
ladies ;  and  my  wife  in  one  little  one,  on  the  right 
hand.  Here  I  staid  walking  up  and  down,  and  at  last 
upon  one  of  the  side  stalls  I  stood  and  saw  the  King 
come  in  with  all  the  persons  (but  the  soldiers)  that 
were  yesterday  in  the  cavalcade ;  and  a  most  pleasant 
sight  it  was  to  see  them  in  their  several  robes.  And 
the  King  came  in  with  his  crowne  on,  and  his  sceptre 
in  his  hand,  under  a  canopy  borne  up  by  six  silver 
staves,  carried  by  Barons  of  the  Cinque  Ports,  and 
little  bells  at  every  end.  And  after  a  long  time,  he  got 
up  to  the  farther  end,  and  all  set  themselves  down  at 
their  several  tables ;  and  that  was  also  a  brave  sight : 
and  the  King's  first  course  carried  up  by  the  Knights 
of  the  Bath.  And  many  fine  ceremonies  there  was  of 
the  Heralds  leading  up  people  before  him,  and  bow- 
ing ;  and  my  Lord  of  Albemarle's  going  to  the  kitchin 
and  eating  a  bit  of  the  first  dish  that  was  to  go  to  the 
King's  table.  But,  above  all,  was  these  three  Lords, 
Northumberland,^  and  Suffolke,^  and  the  Duke  of 
Ormond,3  coming  before   the   courses  on  horseback, 

1  Algernon  Percy,  tenth  Earl  of   Northumberland,  acting  as    Lord  High 
Q)nstable  of  England,  on  this  occasion. 

2  James  Howard,  third  Earl  of  Suffolk. 

3  James  Butler,  first  Duke  of  Ormond,  Lord  High  Steward  of  England 
pro  hdc  vice. 


36  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS, 

and  staying  so  all  dinner-time,  and  at  last  bringing  up 
(Dymock)  the  King's  Champion/  all  in  armour  on 
horseback,  with  his  speare  and  targett  carried  before 
him.  And  a  Herald  ^  proclaims  "  That  if  any  dare 
deny  Charles  Stewart  to  be  lawful  King  of  England, 
here  was  a  Champion  that  would  fight  with  him  ;  "  and 
with  these  words,  the  Champion  flings  down  his 
gauntlet,  and  all  this  he  do  three  times  in  his  going  up 
towards  the  King's  table.  At  last  when  he  is  come, 
the  King  drinks  to  him,  and  then  sends  him  the  cup 
which  is  of  gold,  and  he  drinks  it  off,  and  then  rides 
back  again  with  the  cup  in  his  hand.  I  went  from 
table  to  table  to  see  the  Bishops  and  all  others  at  their 
dinner,  and  was  infinitely  pleased  with  it.  And  at  the 
Lords'  table,  I  met  with  William  Howe,  and  he  spoke 
to  my  Lord  for  me,  and  he  did  give  me  four  rabbits 
and  a  pullet,  and  so  I  got  it  and  Mr.  Creed  and  I  got 
Mr.  Michell  to  give  us  some  bread,  and  so  we  at  a 
stall  eat  it,  as  every  body  else  did  what  they  could  get. 
I  took  a  great  deal  of  pleasure  to  go  up  and  down, 
and  look  upon  the  ladies,  and  to  hear  the  musique  of 
all  sorts,  but  above  all,  the  24  violins.^  About  six  at 
night  they  had  dined,  and  I  went  up  to  my  wife,  and 


^  Sir  Edward  Dymock,  as  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Scrivelsby,  co.  Lincoln. 
This  service  was  last  performed  by  one  of  that  family  at  the  coronation  of 
George  IV.,  and  with  the  coronation  dinner  has  since  been  dispensed  with, 

2  York  Herald,  George  Owen,  who,  it  will  be  seen,  rescued  the  canopy 
from  the  valetatlle. 

3  See  some  congratulatory  lines  on  the  coronation,  by  Henry  Bold,  of 
New  College,  Oxford,  in  Somers's  "  Tracts,"  vol.  vii.,  p.  514,  Sir  W.  Scott's 
edition. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  3/ 

there  met  with  a  pretty  lady,  Mrs.  Frankleyn,  and 
kissed  them  both.  And  strange  it  is  to  think,  that 
these  two  days  have  held  up  fair  till  now  that  all  is 
done,  and  the  King  gone  out  of  the  Hall ;  and  then 
it  fell  a-raining  and  thundering  and  lightening  as  I 
have  not  seen  it  do  for  some  years  : '  which  people  did 
take  great  notice  of;  God's  blessing  of  the  work  of 
these  two  days,  which  is  a  foolery  to  take  too  much 
notice  of  such  things.  I  observed  little  disorder  in 
all  this,  but  only  the  King's  footmen  had  got  hold  of 
the  canopy,  and  would  keep  it  from  the  Barons  of  the 
Cinque  Ports,^  which  they  endeavoured  to  force  from 


^  Baxter,  in  his  "  Life,"  mentions  this  storm.  "  On  April  23,  was  Kis 
Majesty's  coronation-day,  the  day  being  very  serene  and  fair,  till  suddenly  in 
the  afternoon,  as  they  were  returning  from  Westminster  Hall,  there  was  very 
terrible  thunders  when  none  expected  it,  which  made  me  remember  his  father's 
coronation,  on  which,  being  a  boy  at  school,  and  having  leave  to  play  for  the 
solemnity,  an  earthquake,  about  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  did  affright  the 
boys,  and  all  the  neighbourhood.  I  intend  no  commentary  on  these,  but 
only  to  relate  the  matter  of  fact." 

2  Bishop  Kennett  gives  a  somewhat  fuller  account  of  this  unseemly  broil : 
—  "  No  sooner  had  the  aforesaid  Barons  brought  up  the  King  to  the  foot  of 
the  stairs  in  Westminster  Hall,  ascending  to  his  throne,  and  turned  on  the  left 
hand  (towards  their  own  table)  out  of  the  way,  but  the  King's  footmen  most 
insolently  and  violently  seized  upon  the  canopy,  which  the  Barons  endeavour- 
ing to  keep  and  defend,  were  by  their  number  and  strength  dragged  down  to 
the  lower  end  of  the  Hall,  nevertheless  still  keeping  their  hold  ;  and  had  not 
Mr.  Owen,  York  Herald,  being  accidentally  near  the  Hall  door,  and  seeing  the 
contest,  caused  the  .same  to  be  shut,  the  footmen  had  certainly  carried  it  away 
by  force.  But  in  the  interim  also  (speedy  notice  hereof  having  been  given 
the  King)  one  of  the  Querries  were  sent  from  him,  with  command  to  imprison 
the  footmen,  and  dismiss  them  out  of  his  service,  which  put  an  end  to  the 
present  disturbance.  These  footmen  were  also  commanded  to  make  their 
submission  to  the  Court  of  Claims,  which  was  accordingly  done  by  them  the 
30th  April  following,  and  the  canopy  then  delivered  back  to  the  said  Barons." 
Whilst  this  disturbance  happened,  the  upper  end  of  the  first  table,  which  had 


38  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

them  again,  but  could  not  do  it  till  my  Lord  Duke  of 
Albemarle  caused  it  to  be  put  into  Sir  R.  Pye's  '  hand 
till  to-morrow  to  be  decided.  At  Mr.  Bovvyer's ;  a 
great  deal  of  company,  some  I  knew,  others  I  did  not. 
Here  we  staid  upon  the  leads  and  below  till  it  was 
late,  expecting  to  see  the  fire-works,  but  they  were  not 
performed  to-night :  only  the  City  had  a  light  like  a 
glory  round  about  it  with  bonfires.  At  last  I  went  to 
King-streete,  and  there  sent  Crockford  to  my  father's 
and  my  house,  to  tell  them  I  could  not  come  home 
to-night,  because  of  the  dirt,  and  a  coach  could  not 
be  had.  And  so  I  took  my  wife  and  Mrs.  Frankleyn 
(who  I  proffered  the  civility  of  lying  with  my  wife  at 
Mrs.  Hunt's  to-night)  to  Axe-yard,  in  which  at  the 
further  end  there  were  three  great  bonfires,  and  a 
great  many  great  gallants,  men  and  women  ;  and  they 
laid  hold  of  us,  and  would  have  us  drink  the  King's 
health  upon  our  knees,  kneeling  upon  a  faggot,  which 
we  all  did,  they  drinking  to  us  one  after  another. 
Which  we  thought  a  strange  frolique ;  but  these  gal- 
lants continued  thus  a  great  while,  and  I  wondered  to 
see  how  the  ladies  did  tipple.  At  last  I  sent  my  wife 
and  her  bedfellow  to  bed,  and  Mr.  Hunt  and  I  went 


been  appointed  for  the  Barons  of  the  Cinque  Ports,  was  taken  up  by  the  Bish- 
ops, Judges,  etc.,  probably  nothing  loth  to  lake  precedence  of  them  ;  and  the 
poor  Barons,  naturally  unwilling  to  lose  their  dinner,  were  necessitated  to  eat 
it  at  the  bottom  of  the  second  table,  below  the  Masters  of  Chancery  and 
others  of  the  long  robe. 

^  Sir  Robert  Pye,  Bart.,  of  Faringdon  House,  Berks  ;  married  Anne, 
danghter  of  the  celebrated  John  Hampden.  They  lived  together  sixty  years, 
and  died  in  1701,  within  a  few  weeks  of  each  other. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  39 

in  with  Mr.  Thornbury  (who  did  give  the  company  all 
their  wine,  he  being  yeoman  of  the  wine-cellar  to  the 
King)  ;  and  there,  with  his  wife  and  two  of  his  sisters, 
and  some  gallant  sparks  that  were  there,  we  drank  the 
King's  health,  and  nothing  else,  till  one  of  the  gentle- 
men fell  down  stark  drunk,  and  there  lay ;  and  I  went 
to  my  Lord's  pretty  well.  Thus  did  the  day  end  with 
joy  every  where ;  and  blessed  be  God,  I  have  not 
heard  of  any  mischance  to  any  body  through  it  all, 
but  only  to  Serj'.  Glynne,^  whose  horse  fell  upon  him 
yesterday,  and  is  like  to  kill  him,  which  people  do 
please  themselves  to  see  how  just  God  is  to  punish 
the  rogue  at  such  a  time  as  this ;  he  being  now  one 
of  the  King's  Serjeants,  and  rode  in  the  cavalcade  with 
Maynard,2  to  whom  people  wish  the  same  fortune. 
There  was  also  this  night  in  King-streete,  a  woman  had 
her  eye  put  out  by  a  boy's  flinging  a  firebrand  into  the 
coach.  Now,  after  all  this,  I  can  say  that,  besides  the 
pleasure  of  the  sight  of  these  glorious  things,  I  may  now 
shut  my  eyes  against  any  other  objects,  nor  for  the 


^  He  had  been  Recorder  of  London  ;  and  during  the  Protectorate  was 
made  Chief  Justice  of  the  Upper  Bench  ;  nevertheless  he  did  Charles  II. 
great  service,  and  was  in  consequence  knighted  and  appointed  King's  Ser- 
jeant, and  his  son  created  a  Baronet.     Ob.  1666. 

2  John  Maynard,  an  eminent  lawyer;  made  Serjeant  to  Cromwell  in  1653, 
and  afterwards  King's  Serjeant  by  Charles  II.,  who  knighted  him.  In  1661  he 
was  chosen  Member  for  Berealston,  and  sat  in  every  Parliament  till  the  Revo- 
lution. Ob.  1690,  aged  88.  He  waited  upon  William  with  an  address  of  con- 
gratulation after  the  abdication  of  James,  and  when  the  new  King,  observing 
his  age,  told  him  he  must  have  outlived  many  of  the  judges  and  of  the  law- 
yers of  his  own  standing:  "  Yes,"  replied  Sir  John,  "and  I  should  have 
outlived  the  law  too,  if  your  majesty  had  not  come  to  the  throne  of  this  coun- 
try."    (M.  B.) 


40  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

future  trouble  myself  to  see  things  of  state  and  showe, 
as  being  sure  never  to  see  the  like  again  in  this  world. 

24th.  Waked  in  the  morning  with  my  head  in  a 
sad  taking  through  the  last  night's  drink,  which  I  am 
very  sorry  for ;  so  rose  and  went  out  with  Mr.  Creed 
to  drink  our  morning  draft,  which  he  did  give  me  in 
chocolate  ^  to  settle  my  stomach.  At  night,  set  my- 
self to  write  do^vn  these  three  days'  diary,  and  while 
I  am  about  it,  I  hear  the  noise  of  the  chambers,^  and 
other  things  of  the  fire-works,  which  are  now  playing 
upon  the  Thames  before  the  King ;  and  I  wish  myself 
with  them,  being  sorry  not  to  see  them.     So  to  bed. 

25  th.  At  noon  Mr.  Moore  and  I  went  to  an  Ordi- 
nary at  the  King's  Head  in  Towre  Street,  and  there 
had  a  dirty  dinner. 

26th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning,  having  some 
thoughts  to  order  my  business  so  as  to  go  to  Ports- 
mouth the  next  week  with  Sir  Robert  Slingsby. 

27th.  Dined  with  my  Lady,  and  after  dinner  with 
Mr.  Creed  and  Captain  Ferrers  to  the  Theatre  to  see 
"The  Chances."  ^ 

28th  (Lord's  day).  In  the  morning  to  my  father's, 
where  I  dined,  and  in  the  afternoon  to  their  church, 
where  come  Mrs.  Turner  and  Mrs.  Edward  Pepys,  and 


^  Chocolate  was  introduced  into  England  about  the  year  1652.  In  the 
"  Publick  Advertiser"  of  Tuesday,  June  16-22,  1657,  ^^  ^^^  ^^e  following: 
"  In  Bishopsgate  Street  in  Queen's  Head  Alley,  at  a  Frenchman's  house,  is 
an  excellent  West  India  drink  called  chocolate,  to  be  sold,  where  you  may 
have  it  ready  at  any  time,  and  also  unmade  at  reasonable  rates."     (M.  B.) 

2  Chamber,  a  species  of  great  gun. 

3  By  Beaumont  and  Fletcher. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  4 1 

several  other  ladies,  and  so  I  went  out  of  the  pewe 
into  another.  Sent  for  to  my  father's,  where  my  cozen 
Angier  and  his  wife,  of  Cambridge,  to  whom  I  went, 
and  was  glad  to  see  them,  and  sent  for  wine  for  them, 
and  they  supped  with  my  father. 

29th.  To  the  office,  where  it  is  determined  that  I 
should  go  to  Portsmouth  to-morrow. 

30th.  This  morning  my  wife  and  I  and  Mr.  Creed 
took  coach,  and  in  Fish-street  took  up  Mr.  Hater  and 
his  wife,  who  through  her  maske  seemed  at  first  to  be 
an  old  woman,  but  afterwards  I  found  her  to  be  a  very 
pretty  modest  black  woman.  We  got  a  small  bait  at 
Leatherhead,  and  so  to  Godlyman,^  where  we  lay  all 
night,  and  were  very  merry,  having  this  day  no  other 
extraordinary  rencontre,  but  my  hat  falling  off  my 
head  at  Newington  into  the  water,  by  which  it  was 
spoiled,  and  I  ashamed  of  it.  I  am  sorry  that  I  am 
not  at  London,  to  be  at  Hide-parke  to-morrow,  among 
the  great  gallants  and  ladies,  which  will  be  very  fine. 2 

May  I  St.    Up  early,  and  bated  at  Petersfield,  in  the 

^  Godalmlng. 

2  Hyde  Park  must  have  been  the  fashionable  Mall  so  early  as  the  begin- 
ning of  the  seventeenth  century,  for  a  song  of  that  time  says  of  Hyde  Park ; 
"  What  thruch  your  ladies 
All  of  the  land 
Come  riding  hither 
Forth  of  the  Strand." 
Pinkerton's  Ancient  Scotish  Poems,  vol.  ii.  p.  499.     London,  1786. 
In  the  Prologue  to  the  Staple,  in  1625,  we  find: 

"  How  many  coaches  in  Hyde  Park  did  show  last  Spring." 

Ben  Jonson's   Works,  vol.  v.  p.  157.     1875. 
And  in  1620  it  was  a  famous  place  for  people  of  fashion  meeting  with  their 


42  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

room  which  the  King  lay  in  lately  at  his  being  there. 
Here  very  merry,  and  played  with  our  wives  at  bowles. 
Then  we  set  forth  again,  and  so  to  Portsmouth,  seem- 
ing to  me  to  be  a  very  pleasant  and  strong  place ; 
and  we  lay  at  the  Red  Lyon,  where  Haselrigge  and 
Scott  and  Walton  did  hold  their  councill,  when  they 
were  here,  against  Lambert  and  the  Committee  of 
Safety.  Several  officers  of  the  Yard  came  to  see  us 
to-night,  and  merry  we  were,  but  troubled  to  have  no 
better  lodgings. 

2nd.  Up,  and  Mr.  Creed  and  I  to  walk  round  the 
towne  upon  the  walls.  Then  to  our  inne,  and  there 
all  the  officers  of  the  Yard  to  see  me  with  great 
respect,  and  I  walked  with  them  to  the  E)ocke  and 
saw  all  the  stores,  and  much  pleased  with  the  sight 
of  the  place.  Back  and  brought  them  all  to  dinner 
with  me,  and  treated  them  handsomely ;  and  so  after 
dinner  by  water  to  the  Yard,  and  there  we  made  the 
sale  of  the  old  provisions.  Then  we  and  our  wives 
all  to  see  the  Montagu,  which  is  a  fine  ship,  and  so  to 
the  towne  again  by  water,  and  then  to  see  the  room 
where  the  Duke  of  Buckingham  ^  was  killed  by  Felton.^ 
So  to  our  lodging,  and  to  supper  and  to  bed. 


coaches.  Edward  VI.  used  to  hunt  in  Hyde  Park.  In  1653  Evelyn  writes 
("Diary,"  8vo.,  1827,  vol.  ii.  pp.  63,  64),  "I  went  to  take  the  air  in  Hyde 
Park,  where  every  coach  was  made  to  pay  a  shilling,  and  horse  td.  by  the 
sordid  fellow,  who  had  purchased  it  of  the  State,  as  they  were  '  called.'  "  — 
Buckle,  Common-place  Book,  vol.  ii.  p.  437.     (M.  B.) 

^  Killed  by  Felton  when  going  in  command  of  an  armament  for  the  relief 
of  Rochelle,  August,  1628,  in  his  36th  year.     (M.  B.) 

2  The  house  wherein  the  murder  was  committed   in  August,  1628,  is 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  43 

3rd.  Early  to  walk  with  Mr.  Creed  up  and  down 
the  towne,  and  it  was  in  his  and  some  others'  thoughts 
to  have  got  me  made  free  of  the  towne,  but  the 
Mayor,  it  seems,  unwilling,  and  so  they  could  not  do 
it.  Then  to  the  payhouse,  and  so  to  a  short  dinner, 
and  then  took  coach  to  Petersfield,  having  nothing 
more  of  trouble  in  all  my  journey,  but  the  exceeding 
unmannerly  and  most  epicure-like  palate  of  Mr.  Creed. 
Here  my  wife  and  I  lay  in  the  room  the  Queene  lately 
lay  at  her  going  into  France. 

4th.  Up  in  the  morning  and  took  coach,  and  so  to 
Gilford,  where  we  lay  at  the  Red  Lyon,  the  best  Inne, 
and  lay  in  the  room  the  King  lately  lay  in,  where  we 
had  time  to  see  the  Hospital,  built  by  Archbishop 
Abbott,  and  the  free  schoole,  and  were  civilly  treated 
by  the  Mayster.  So  to  supper,  and  to  bed,  being 
very  merry  about  our  discourse  with  the  Drawers  con- 
cerning the  minister  of  the  Towne,  with  a  red  face 
and  a  girdle. 

5th  (Lord's  day).  Mr.  Creed  and  I  went  to  the 
red-faced  Parson's  church,  and  heard  a  good  sermon 
of  him,  better  than  I  looked  for.  Then  home,  and 
had  a  good  dinner,  and  after  dinner  fell  in  some  talk 
in  Divinity  that  kept  us  till  it  was  past  Church  time. 
Anon  we  walked  into  the  garden,  and  there  played 
the  fool  a  great  while,  trying  who  of  Mr.  Creed  or 


situated  at  the  upper  end  of  the  High  Street  at  Portsmouth,  and  its  remains 
are  now  known  as  No.  10  in  that  street.  It  was  occupied  recently  as  a  ladies' 
school.  A  representation  of  the  front  of  the  house  is  given  in  Brayley's 
"  Graphic  Illustrator,"  p,  240. 


44  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

I  could  go  best  over  the  edge  of  an  old  fountaine 
well,  and  I  won  a  quart  of  sack  of  him.  Then  to 
supper  in  the  banquet  house,  and  there  my  wife  and  I 
did  talk  high,  she  against  and  I  for  Mrs.  Pierce  (that 
she  was  a  beauty),  till  we  were  both  angry.  Then 
to  walk  in  the  fields,  and  so  to  our  quarters,  and  to 
bed. 

6th.  Up  by  four  o'clock  and  took  coach,  and  staid 
by  the  way  and  eat  some  cakes,  and  so  home.  I  hear 
to-night  that  the  Duke  of  York's  son  ^  is  this  day  dead, 
which  I  believe  will  please  every  body ;  and  I  hear 
that  the  Duke  and  his  Lady  themselves  are  not  much 
troubled  at  it.^ 

7th.  My  Lady,  I  find,  is,  since  my  going,  gone  to 
the  Wardrobe.3  Then  with  Mr.  Creed  into  London  ; 
stopped  in  our  way  by  the  City  trayne-bands,  who  go 
in  much  solemnity  and  pomp  this  day  to  muster  before 
the  King  and  the  Duke,  and  shops  in  the  City  are 
shut  up  every  where  all  this  day.  He  carried  me  to 
an  ordinary  by  the  Old  Exchange,  where  we  come  a 
little  too  late,  but  we  had  very  good  cheer  for  our  18^. 
a-piece,  and  an  excellent  droll  too,  my  hoste,  and  his 
wife  so  fine  a  woman,  and  sung  and  played  so  well 
that  I  staid  a  great  while  and  drunk  a  great  deal  of 
wine.  To  bed,  having  sent  my  Lord  a  letter  to-night 
to  excuse  myself  for  not  going  with  him  to-morrow  to 

^  Charles,  Duke  of  Cambridge,  born  October  22,  1660,  ob.  May  5, 1661. 
He  was  the  first  of  eight  children  by  Anne  Hyde. 

2  The  legitimacy  of  the  infant  might  have  been  questionable.  See  Oct.  7, 
and  Dec.  16,  1660,  and  Feb.  23,  1660-61. 

3  Lord  Sandwich's  residence  as  Keeper  of  the  Wardrobe.     (M.  B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS.  45 

the  Hope,  whither  he  is  to  go  to  see  in  what  condition 
the  fleete  is  in. 

8th.  This  morning  came  my  brother  John  to  take 
his  leave  of  me,  he  being  to  return  to  Cambridge  to- 
morrow, and  after  I  had  chid  him  for  going  with  my 
Will  the  other  day  to  Deptford,  I  did  give  him  some 
good  counsell  and  20s.  in  money,  and  so  he  went 
away.  At  night  comes  my  wife  not  well  from  my 
father's,  having  had  a  fore-tooth  drawn  out  to-day, 
which  do  trouble  me.  To-day  I  received  a  letter  from 
my  uncle,  to  beg  an  old  fiddle  of  me  for  my  Cozen 
Perkin,  the  miller,  whose  mill  the  wind  hath  lately 
broke  down,  and  now  he  hath  nothing  to  live  by  but 
fiddling,  and  he  must  needs  have  it  against  Whitsun- 
tide to  play  to  the  country  girles  ;  but  it  vexed  me  to 
see  how  my  uncle  writes  to  me,  as  if  he  were  not  able 
to  buy  him  one. 

9th.  With  my  Lord  at  his  lodgings,  and  there  being 
with  him  my  Lord  Chamberlaine,'  I  spoke  for  my  old 
waterman  Payne,  to  get  into  White's  place,  who  was 
waterman  to  my  Lord  Chamberlaine,  and  is  now  to 
go  master  of  the  barge  to  my  Lord  to  sea,  and  my 
Lord  Chamberlaine  did  promise  that  Payne  should  be 
entertained  in  White's  place  with  him.  From  thence 
to  Sir  G.  Carteret,  and  there  did  get  his  promise  for 
the  payment  of  the  remainder  of  the  bill  of  Mr. 
Creed's,  wherein  of  late  I  have  been  so  much  con- 
cerned, which  did  so  much  rejoice  me  that  I  meeting 

*  The  Earl  of  Manchester. 


46  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS. 

with  Mr.  Childe  took  him  to  the  Swan  Taveme  in 
King  Street,  and  there  did  give  him  a  tankard  of 
v/hite  wine  and  sugar. 

loth.  At  the  office  all  the  morning,  and  the  after- 
noon among  my  workmen  with  great  pleasure,  because 
being  near  an  end  of  their  work. 

nth.  To  Graye's  Inne,  and  there  to  a  barber's, 
where  I  was  trimmed,  and  had  my  haire  cutt,  in  which 
I  am  lately  become  a  little  curious,  finding  that  the 
length  of  it  do  become  me  very  much. 

1 2th.  I  staid  at  home  all  this  morning,  being  the 
Lord's  day,  making  up  my  private  accounts  and  set- 
ting papers  in  order.  Dined  with  my  wife,  then  I 
walked  forth  towards  Westminster,  and  at  the  Savoy 
heard  Dr.  Fuller '  preach  upon  David's  words,^  "  I  will 
wait  with  patience  all  the  days  of  my  appointed  time 
until  my  change  comes ;  "  but  methought  it  was  a 
poor  dry  sermon.  And  I  am  afeard  my  former  high 
esteem  of  his  preaching  was  more  out  of  opinion  than 
judgment.  Met  with  Mr.  Creed,  with  whom  I  went 
and  walked  in  Grayes- Inn- walks,  and  from  thence  to 
Islington,  and  there  eate  and  drank  at  the  house  3  my 
father  and  we  were  wont  of  old  to  go  to ;  and  after 
that  walked  homeward,  and  parted  in  Smithfield  :  and 


1  The  celebrated  Thomas  Fuller,  D.D.,  the  Church  historian,  and  autlior 
of  "  The  Worthies  of  England,"  then  lecturer  at  the  Savoy.  At  his  death  in 
August  following,  he  was  chaplain  to  the  King,  prebendary  of  Salisbury,  and 
rector  of  Cranford,  where  he  was  buried. 

2  The  text  meant  is  Job  xiv.  14:  "  All  the  days  of  my  appointed  time  will 
I  wait,  till  my  change  come." 

3  The  King's  Head.     See  27th  March,  1664. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  47 

SO  I  home,  much  wondering  to  see  how  things  are 
altered  with  Mr.  Creed/  who,  twelve  months  ago, 
might  have  been  got  to  hang  himself  almost  as  soon 
as  go  to  a  drinking-house  on  a  Sunday. 

14th.  Finding  my  head  grow  weak  now-a-days  if 
I  come  to  drink  wine,  and  therefore  hope  that  I  shall 
leave  it  off  of  myself,  which  I  pray  God  I  could  do. 
My  Lord  told  me  of  his  intention  to  get  the  Muster 
Master's  place  for  Mr.  Pierce,  the  purser,  who  he  has 
a  mind  to  carry  to  sea  with  him,  and  spoke  very 
sHghtingly  of  Mr.  Creed,  as  that  he  had  no  opinion 
at  all  of  him,  but  only  he  was  forced  to  make  use  of 
him  because  of  his  present  accounts.  In  the  evening 
Mr.  Shepley  came  to  me  for  some  money,  and  so  he 
and  I  to  the  Mitre,  and  there  we  had  good  wine  and 
a  gammon  of  bacon. 

15  th.  This  afternoon  there  came  two  men  with  an 
order  from  a  Committee  of  Lords  to  demand  some 
books  of  me  out  of  the  office,  in  order  to  the  exam- 
ining of  Mr.  Hutchinson's  accounts,  but  I  give  them 
a  surly  answer,  and  they  went  away  to  complain,  which 
put  me  into  some  trouble  with  myself,  but  I  resolve 
to  go  to-morrow  myself  to  these  Lords  and  answer 
them. 

1 6th.  About  2  o'clock  went  in  my  velvet  coat  by 
water  to  the  Savoy,  and  there,  having  staid  a  good 
while,  I  was  called  into  the  Lords,  and  there,  quite 
contrary  to  my  expectations,  they  did  treat  me  very 

^  He  had  been  a  zealous  Puritan. 


48  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

civilly,  telling  me  that  what  they  had  done  was  out  of 
zeal  to  the  King's  service,  and  that  they  would  joyne 
with  the  governors  of  the  chest  with  all  their  hearts, 
since  they  knew  that  there  was  any,  which  they  did 
not  before.  I  give  them  very  respectful  answer  and 
so  went  away  to  the  Theatre,  and  there  saw  the  latter 
end  of  ''  The  Mayd's  Tragedy,"  ^  which  I  never  saw 
before,  and  methinks  it  is  too  sad  and  melancholy. 
To  the  Wardrobe,  and  there  we  found  my  Lord  newly 
gone  away  with  the  Duke  of  Ormond  and  some  others, 
w^hom  he  had  had  to  a  collacion ;  and  so  we,  with 
the  rest  of  the  servants  in  the  hall,  sat  down  and  eat 
of  the  best  cold  meats  that  ever  I  eat  on  in  all  my 
life.  From  thence  I  went  home,  Mr.  Moore  with  me 
to  the  waterside,  telling  me  how  kindly  he  is  used  by 
my  Lord  and  my  Lady  since  his  coming  hither  as  a 
servant. 

17th.  At  noon  Lieutenant  Lambert  came  to  me, 
and  he  and  I  to  the  Exchange,  and  thence  to  an 
ordinary  over  against  it,  where  to  our  dinner  we  had 
a  fellow  play  well  upon  the  bagpipes  and  whistle  like 
a  bird  exceeding  well,  and  I  had  a  fancy  to  learn  to 
whistle  as  he  do,  and  did  promise  to  come  some  other 
day  and  give  him  an  angell  to  teach  me.  To  the 
office  till  9  at  night.  So  home  to  my  musique,  and 
my  wife  and  I  sat  singing  in  my  chamber  a  good 
while  together,  and  then  to  bed. 

1 8th.   Towards  Westminster,   from  the  Towre,   by 

^  By  Beaumont  and  Fletcher.  Mohun  played  Melantiusi  Hart,  A  min- 
tor;  and  Mrs.  Marshall,  Evadne. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  49 

water,  and  was  fain  to  stand  upon  one  of  the  pieres 
about  the  bridge,  before  the  men  could  drag  their 
boat  through  the  lock,  and  which  they  could  not  do 
till  another  was  called  to  help  them.  Being  through 
bridge  I  found  the  Thames  full  of  boats  and  gallys, 
and  upon  inquiry  found  that  there  was  a  wager  to  be 
run  this  morning.  So  spying  of  Payne  in  a  gaily,  I 
went  into  him,  and  there  staid,  thinking  to  have  gone 
to  Chelsy  with  them.  But  upon  the  start,  the  wager 
boats  fell  foul  one  of  another,  till  at  last  one  of  them 
gives  over,  pretending  foule  play,  and  so  the  other 
row  away  alone,  and  all  our  sport  lost.  So  I  went 
ashore  to  Westminster ;  where  it  was  very  pleasant  to 
see  the  Hall  in  the  condition  it  is  now,  with  the  Judges 
on  the  benches  at  the  further  end  of  it,^  which  I  had 
not  seen  all  this  terme  till  now.  So  I  home,  where  I 
staid  all  the  afternoon,  and  in  the  garden  reading 
"  Faber  Fortunae  "  with  great  pleasure. 

19th  (Lord's  day).  I  walked  in  the  morning  to- 
wards Westminster,  and,  seeing  many  people  at  York 
House,2  I  went  down  and  found  them  at  masse,  it 
being  the  Spanish  ambassador's ;  3  and  so  I  got  into 


^  The  Courts  of  King's  Bench  and  Common  Pleas  were  at  the  upper  end 
of  the  hall  so  lately  as  1810. 

2  York  House  belonged  to  the  See  of  York  till  James  I.'s  time,  when  Toby 
Matthews  exchanged  it  with  the  Crown.  Chancellors  Egerton  and  Bacon 
resided  there,  after  which  it  was  granted  to  Villiers,  Duke  of  Buckingham. 
Subsequently  to  the  Restoration,  his  son  occupied  the  house  some  years,  and 
disposing  of  the  premises,  they  were  converted  into  the  streets  still  bearing 
his  names,  and  the  general  appellation  of  York  Buildings.  See  "  Handbook 
of  London,"  ubt  plura. 

3  The  Baron  de  Batteville. 


50  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

one  of  the  gallerys,  and  there  heard  two  masses  done, 
I  think,  not  in  so  much  state  as  I  have  seen  them 
heretofore.  After  that  into  the  garden,  and  walked  a 
turn  or  tv/o,  but  found  it  not  so  fine  a  place  as  I  always 
took  it  for  by  the  outside.  Capt.  Ferrers  and  Mr. 
Howe  and  myself  to  Mr.  Wilkinson's  at  the  Crowne  : 
then  to  my  Lord's,  where  we  went  and  sat  talking  and 
laughing  in  the  drawing-room  a  great  while.  All  our 
talk  about  their  going  to  sea  this  voyage,  which  Capt. 
Ferrers  is  in  some  doubt  whether  he  shall  go  or  no, 
but  swears  that  he  would  go,  if  he  were  sure  never  to 
come  back  again ;  and  I,  giving  him  some  hopes,  he 
grew  so  mad  with  joy  that  he  fell  a- dancing  and  leaping 
like  a  madman.  Now  it  fell  out  so  that  the  balcone 
windows  were  open,  and  he  went  to  the  rayle  and 
made  an  offer  to  leap  over,  and  asked  what  if  he 
should  leap  over  there.  I  told  him  I  would  give  him 
40/.  if  he  did  not  go  to  sea.  With  that  thought  I 
shut  the  doors,  and  W.  Howe  hindered  him  all  we 
could ;  yet  he  opened  them  again,  and,  with  a  vault, 
leaps  down  into  the  garden  :  —  the  greatest  and  most 
desperate  frolic  that  ever  I  saw  in  my  life.  I  run  to 
see  what  was  become  of  him,  and  we  found  him 
crawled  upon  his  knees,  but  could  not  rise ;  so  we 
went  down  into  the  garden  and  dragged  him  to  the 
bench,  where  he  looked  like  a  dead  man,  but  could 
not  stir ;  and,  though  he  had  broke  nothing,  yet  his 
pain  in  his  back  was  such  as  he  could  not  endure. 
With  this,  my  Lord  (who  was  in  the  little  new  room) 
come  to  us  in  amaze,  and  bid  us  carry  him  up,  which. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  51 

by  our  strength,  we  did,  and  so  laid  him  in  East's 
bed,  by  the  doore  ;  where  he  lay  in  great  pain.  We 
sent  for  a  doctor  and  chyrurgeon,  but  none  to  be 
found,  till  by-and-by  by  chance  comes  in  Dr.  Gierke, 
who  is  afeard  of  him.^  So  we  sent  to  get  a  lodging 
for  him,  and  I  went  up  to  my  Lord,  where  Captain 
Cooke,  Mr.  Gibbons,  and  others  of  the  King's  mu- 
sicians were  come  to  present  my  Lord  with  some 
songs  and  symphonys,  which  were  performed  very 
finely.  I  am  troubled  to  see  my  father  so  much 
decay  of  a  suddain,  as  he  do  both  in  his  seeing  and 
hearing,  and  as  much  to  hear  of  him  how  my  brother 
Tom  do  grow  disrespectful  to  him  and  my  mother.  I 
went  home,  where  to  prayers  (which  I  have  not  had 
in  my  house  a  good  while),  and  so  to  bed. 

20th.  Visited  by  Mr.  Anderson,  my  former  cham- 
ber fellow  at  Cambridge,  with  whom  I  parted  at  the 
Hague,  but  I  did  not  go  forth  with  him,  only  gave 
him  a  morning  draft  at  home.  At  noon  Mr.  Creed 
came  to  me,  and  he  and  I  to  the  Exchange,  and  so  to 
an  ordinary  to  dinner,  and  after  dinner  to  the  Mitre, 
and  there  sat  drinking  while  it  rained  very  much. 
Then  to  the  office,  where  I  found  Sir  Williams  both, 
choosing  of  masters  for  the  new  fleet  of  ships  that  is 
ordered  to  be  set  forth,  and  Pen  seeming  to  be  in 
an  ugly  humour,  not  willing  to  gratify  one  that  I  men- 
tioned to  be  put  in,  did  vex  me.  We  sat  late,  and 
so  home. 

^  He  recovered. 


52  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

2 1  St.  Up  early,  and,  with  Sir  R.  Slingsby  (and 
Major  Waters  the  deafe  gentleman,  his  friend,  for 
company's  sake)  to  the  Victualling-office  ^  (the  first 
time  that  I  ever  knew  where  it  was) ,  and  there  staid 
while  he  read  a  commission  for  enquiry  into  some 
of  the  King's  lands  and  houses  thereabouts,  that  are 
given  his  brother.  And  then  we  took  boat  to  Wool- 
wich, where  we  staid  and  gave  order  for  the  fitting 
out  of  some  more  ships  presently.  And  then  to 
Deptford,  where  we  did  the  same ;  and  so  took 
barge  again,  and  were  overtaken  by  the  King  in 
his  barge,  he  having  been  down  the  river  with  his 
yacht  this  day  for  pleasure  to  try  it ;  and,  as  I  hear, 
Commissioner  Pett's  do  prove  better  than  the  Dutch 
one,  and  that  that  his  brother  built.  While  we  were 
upon  the  water,  one  of  the  greatest  showers  of  rain 
fell  that  ever  I  saw.  The  Comptroller  and  I  landed 
with  our  barge  at  the  Temple,  and  from  thence  I  went 
to  my  father's,  and  there  did  give  order  about  some 
clothes  to  be  made,  and  did  buy  a  new  hatt,  cost 
between  20  and  30  shillings,  at  Mr.  Holden's.  So 
home. 

22nd.  To  Westminster,  and  there  missed  of  my 
Lord,  and  so  about  noon  I  and  W.  Howe  by  water  to 
the  Wardrobe,  where  my  Lord  and  all  the  officers 
of  the  Wardrobe  dined,  and  several  other  friends  of 


I  The  Victualling  Office  at  the  End  of  East  Smithfield,  according  to  Stow, 
occupied  the  site  of  the  Abbey  of  St.  Mary  of  the  Graces,  which  had  been 
founded  by  Edward  III.  to  commemorate  his  escape  from  shipwreck;  and  was 
granted  at  the  dissolution  to  Sir  Arthur  Darcy,  who  pulled  it  down. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS.  53 

my  Lord,  at  a  venison  pasty.  Before  dinner,  my  Lady 
Wright  and  my  Lady  Jem.  sang  songs  to  the  harp- 
sicon.  Very  pleasant  and  merry  at  dinner.  At  night 
before  I  went  to  bed  the  barber  came  to  trim  me 
and  wash  me,  and  so  to  bed,  in  order  to  my  being 
clean  to-morrow. 

23rd.  This  day  I  went  to  my  Lord,  and  about  many 
other  things  at  Whitehall,  and  there  made  even  my 
accounts  with  Mr.  Shepley  at  my  Lord's,  and  then 
with  him  and  Mr.  Moore  and  John  Bowles  to  the 
Rhenish  wine  house,'  and  there  came  Jonas  Moore,^ 
the  mathematician,  to  us,  and  there  he  did  by  dis- 
course make  us  fully  believe  that  England  and  France 
were  once  the  same  continent,  by  very  good  argu- 
ments, and  spoke  very  many  things,  not  so  much  to 
prove  the  Scripture  false  as  that  the  time  therein  is 
not  well  computed  nor  understood.  From  thence 
home  by  water,  and  there  shifted  myself  into  my 
black  silk  suit  (the  first  day  I  have  put  it  on  this 
year),  and  so  to  my  Lord  Mayor's  by  coach,  with  a 
great  deal  of  honourable  company,  and  great  enter- 
tainment. At  table  I  had  very  good  discourse  with 
Mr.  Ashmole,  wherein  he  did  assure  me  that  frogs 
and  many  insects  do  often  fall  from  the  sky,  ready 
formed.     Dr.  Bates's  ^  singularity  in  not  rising  up  nor 

^  In  Crooked  Lane;  but  see  August  9,  1660,  ante. 

2  Jonas  Moore,  a  native  of  Lancashire,  one  of  the  most  eminent  mathe- 
maticians of  his  day.  He  was  knighted  by  Charles  IL,  and  made  Surveyor 
of  the  Ordnance,  and  died  in  1679. 

3  Dr.  WilUam  Bates,  one  of  the  most  eminent  of  the  Puritan  divines,  and 
who  took  part  in  the  Savoy  Conference.     His  collected  writings  fill  a  large 


54  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS. 

drinking  the  King's  nor  other  healths  at  the  table 
was  very  much  observed.  From  thence  we  all  took 
coach,  and  to  our  office,  and  there  sat  till  it  was  late ; 
and  so  I  home  and  to  bed  by  day-light.  This  day 
was  kept  a  holy-day  through  the  towne ;  and  it 
pleased  me  to  see  the  little  boys  walk  up  and  down 
in  procession  with  their  broom-staffs  in  their  hands, 
as  I  had  myself  long  ago  gone.^ 

24th.  At  home  all  the  morning  making  up  my  pri- 
vate accounts,  and  this  is  the  first  time  that  I  do  find 
myself  to  be  clearly  worth  ;£"500  in  money,  besides 
all  my  goods  in  my  house,  &c.  In  the  afternoon  at 
the  office  late,  and  then  I  went  to  the  Wardrobe, 
where  I  found  my  Lord  at  supper,  and  therefore  I 
walked  a  good  while  till  he  had  done,  and  I  went  in 
to  him,  and  there  he  looked  over  my  accounts.  Then 
down  to  the  kitchen  to  eat  a  bit  of  bread  and  butter, 
which  I  did,  and  there  I  took  one  of  the  mayds  by 
the  chin,  thinking  her  to  be  Susan,  but  it  proved  to 
be  her  sister,  who  is  very  like  her. 

25  th.    All    the   morning   at   home    about   business. 

volume  in  folio.  The  dissenters  called  him  silver-tongued  Bates:  he  certainly 
was  not  a  Chrysostom. 

'  Pepys  here  refers  to  the  perambulation  of  parishes  on  Holy  Thursday, 
still  observed.  This  ceremony  was  sometimes  enlivened  by  whipping  the 
boys,  for  the  better  impressing  on  their  minds  the  remembrance  of  the  day, 
and  the  boundaries  of  the  parish,  instead  of  beating  houses  or  stones.  But 
this  would  not  have  harmonized  well  with  the  excellent  Hooker's  practice 
on  this  day,  when  he  "  always  dropped  some  loving  and  yrt<r^//^MJ  observa- 
tions, to  be  remembered  against  the  next  year,  especially  by  the  boys  and 
young  people."  Amongst  Dorsetshire  customs,  it  seems  that,  in  perambu- 
lating a  manor  or  parish,  a  boy  is  tossed  into  a  stream,  if  that  be  the  boundary; 
if  a  hedge,  a  sapling  from  it  is  applied  for  the  purpose  of  flagellation. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS.  55 

At  noon  to  the  Temple,  where  I  staid  and  looked 
over  a  book  or  two  at  Playford's,  and  then  to  the 
Theatre,  where  I  saw  a  piece  of  "The  Silent  Woman," 
which  pleased  me.  So  homewards,  and  in  my  way 
bought  "  The  Bondman  "  in  Paul's  Churchyard,  and 
so  home,  where  I  found  all  clean,  and  the  hearth  and 
range,  as  it  is  now  enlarged,  set  up,  which  pleases  me 
very  much. 

26th  (Lord's  day).  Lay  long  in  bed.  To  church 
and  heard  a  good  sermon  at  our  own  church,  where 
I  have  not  been  a  great  many  weeks.  Dined  with  my 
wife  alone  at  home  pleasing  myself  in  that  my  house 
do  begin  to  look  as  if  at  last  it  would  be  in  good 
order.  This  day  the  Parliament  received  the  com- 
munion of  Dr.  Gunning  at  St.  Margaret's,  Westmin- 
ster. In  the  afternoon  both  the  Sir  Williams  came  to 
church,  where  we  had  a  dull  stranger.  After  church 
home,  and  so  to  the  Mitre,  where  I  found  Dr.  Bur- 
nett,^ the  first  time  that  ever  I  met  him  to  drink  with 
him,  and  so  I  to  Sir  W.  Batten's,  where  I  have  on 
purpose  made  myself  a  great  stranger,  only  to  get  a 
high  opinion  a  little  more  of  myself  in  them.  Here 
I  heard  how  Mrs.  Browne,  Sir  W.  Batten's  sister,  is 
brought  to  bed,  and  I  to  be  one  of  the  godfathers, 
which  I  could  not  nor  did  deny.  Which,  however, 
did  trouble  me  very  much  to  be  at  charge  to  no  pur- 
pose, so  that  I  could  not  sleep  hardly  all  night,  but 
in  the  morning  I  bethought  myself,  and  I  think  it  is 

^  See  Diary,  25th  August,  1665:  "This  day  I  am  told  that  Dr.  Bur- 
nett, my  physician,  is  this  morning  dead  of  the  plague."     (M.  B.) 


56  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

very  well  I  should  do  it.  Sir  W.  Batten  told  me  how 
Mr.  Prin  (among  the  two  or  three  that  did  refuse 
to-day  to  receive  the  sacrament  upon  their  knees) 
was  offered  by  a  mistake  the  drinke  afterwards,  which 
he  did  receive,  being  denied  the  drinke  by  Dr.  Gun- 
ning, unless  he  would  take  it  on  his  knees;  and 
after  that  by  another  the  bread  was  brought  him,  and 
he  did  take  it  sitting,  which  is  thought  very  prepos- 
terous. 

27th.  With  my  Lords  Sandwich  and  Hinchinbroke 
to  the  Lords'  House  by  boat  at  Westminster,  and 
there  I  left  them.  Then  to  the  lobby,  and  after  wait- 
ing for  Sir  G.  Downing's  coming  out,  to  speak  with 
him  about  the  giving  me  up  of  my  bond,  for  my 
honesty  when  I  was  his  clerk,  but  to  no  purpose,  I 
went  to  Gierke's  at  the  Legg,  and  there  I  found  both 
Mr.  Pierces,  Mr.  Rolt,  formerly  too  great  a  man  to 
meet  upon  such  even  terms,  and  there  we  dined  very 
merry,  there  coming  to  us  Captain  Ferrers,  this  being 
the  first  day  of  his  going  abroad  since  his  leape 
a  week  ago,  which  I  was  greatly  glad  to  see.  By 
water  to  the  office,  and  there  sat  late,  Sir  G.  Carteret 
coming  in,  who  among  other  things  did  inquire  into 
the  naming  of  the  maisters  for  this  fleet,  and  was  very 
angry  that  they  were  named  as  they  are,  and  above 
all  to  see  the  maister  of  the  Adventure  (for  whom 
there  is  some  kind  of  difference  between  Sir  W.  Pen 
and  me)  turned  out,  who  has  been  in  her  hst.  The 
office  done,  I  went  with  the  Comptroller  to  the  Coffee 
house,  and  there  we  discoursed  of  this,  and  I  seem  to 


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be  fond  of  him,  and  indeed  I  find  I  must  carry  fair 
with  all  as  far  as  I  see  it  safe. 

28th.  With  Mr.  Shepley  to  the  Exchange  about 
business,  and  there,  by  Mr.  Rawlinson's  favour,  got 
into  a  balcone  over  against  the  Exchange ;  and  there 
saw  the  hangman  burn,  by  vote  of  Parliament,  two 
old  acts,  the  one  for  constituting  us  a  Commonwealth, 
and  the  other  ^  I  have  forgot.^  Which  still  do  make 
me  think  of  the  greatness  of  this  late  tume,  and  what 
people  will  do  to-morrow  against  what  they  all,  through 
profit  or  fear,  did  promise  and  practise  this  day.  To 
Cheapside  about  buying  a  piece  of  plate  to  give 
away  to-morrow  to  Mrs.  Browne's  child.  So  to  Sir 
W.  Pen's,  and  there  sat  alone  with  him  till  ten  at 
night  in  talk  with  great  content,  he  telling  me  things 
and  persons  that  I  did  not  understand  in  the  late 
times,  and  so  I  home  to  bed. 

29th  (King's  birth-day).  Rose  early,  and  put  six 
spoons  and  a  porringer  of  silver  in  my  pocket  to  give 
away  to-day.  Sir  W.  Pen  and  I  took  coach,  and  (the 
weather  and  ways  being  foule)  went  to  Waltham- 
stowe  ;  and  being  come  there  heard  Mr.  Radcliffe,^  my 
former  school  fellow  at  Paul's  (who  is  yet  a  mere  boy) , 
preach  upon  "  Nay,  let  him  take  all,  since  my  Lord 
the  King   is  returned,"  &c.     He  reads   all,  and   his 

^  It  was  an  Act  for  subscribing  the  Engagement. 

2  On  the  same  day  there  had  been  burned  by  the  hangman,  in  Westmin- 
ster Hall,  the  Act  for  **  erecting  an  High  Court  of  Justice  for  trying  and 
judging  Charles  Stuart."  Two  more  Acts  were  similarly  burned  the  next 
day. 

3  Jonathan  Radcliff,  A.M.,  then  Vicar  of  Walthamstow. 


58  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

sermon  very  simple,  but  I  looked  for  new  matter. 
Back  to  dinner  to  Sir  William  Batten's;  and  then, 
after  a  walk  in  the  fine  gardens,  we  went  to  Mrs. 
Browne's,  where  Sir  W.  Pen  and  I  were  godfathers, 
and  Mrs.  Jordan  ^  and  Shipman  ^  godmothers  to  her 
boy.  And  there,  before  and  after  the  christening,  we 
were  with  the  woman  above  in  her  chamber;  but 
whether  we  carried  ourselves  well  or  ill,  I  know  not ; 
but  I  was  directed  by  young  Mrs.  Batten.  One  pas- 
sage of  a  lady  that  eate  wafers  with  her  dog  did  a  little 
displease  me.  I  did  give  the  midwife  \qs.  and  the 
nurse  5^-.  and  the  mayde  of  the  house  2s,  But  for  as 
much  I  expected  to  give  the  name  to  the  childe,  but 
did  not  (it  being  called  John),  I  forbore  then  to  give 
my  plate  till  another  time  after  a  little  more  advice. 
All  being  done,  we  went  to  Mrs.  Shipman's,  who  is  a 
great  butter-woman,  and  I  did  see  there  the  most  of 
milk  and  creame,  and  the  cleanest  that  ever  I  saw  in 
my  life.  After  we  had  filled  our  bellies  with  creame, 
we  took  our  leaves  and  away.  In  our  way,  we  had 
great  sport  to  try  who  should  drive  fastest.  Sir  W. 
Batten's  coach,  or  Sir  W.  Pen's  chariott,  they  having 
four,  and  we  two  horses,  and  we  beat  them.  But  it 
cost  me  the  spoiling  of  my  clothes  and  velvet  coate 
with  dirt.  Being  come  home  I  to  bed,  and  give  my 
breeches  to  be  dried  by  the  fire  against  to-morrow. 


^  The  wife  of  Captain,  afterwards  Sir  Joseph  Jordan. 

2  Robert  Shipman  bought  the  great  tithes  of  Walthamstow  from  the 
Argall  family  in  1663 ;  and  left  them  by  will  to  his  wife  Dorothy,  from  whom 
they  passed  in  1667  to  Robert  Mascall,  merchant. 


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30th.  To  the  Wardrobe  and  there,  with  my  Lord, 
went  into  his  new  barge  to  try  her,  and  found  her  a 
good  boat,  and  Uke  my  Lord's  contrivance  of  the 
door  to  come  out  round  and  not  square  as  they  used 
to  do,  and  thence  I  to  Greatorex,  who  took  me  to 
Arundell-House,  and  there  showed  me  some  fine 
flowers  in  his  garden,  and  all  the  fine  statues  in  the 
gallery,  which  I  formerly  had  seen,  and  is  a  brave 
sight,  and  thence  to  a  blind  dark  cellar,  where  we 
had  two  bottles  of  good  ale,  and  so  after  giving  him 
direction  for  my  silver  side-table,  I  took  boat  at  Arun- 
dell  stairs.  This  day,  I  hear,  the  Parliament  have 
ordered  a  bill  to  be  brought  in  for  the  restoring  the 
Bishops  to  the  House  of  Lords ;  which  they  had  not 
done  so  soon  but  to  spite  Mr.  Prin,  who  is  every  day 
so  bitter  against  them  in  his  discourse  in  the  House. 

31st.  To  my  father's,  but  to  my  great  grief  I  found 
my  father  and  mother  in  a  great  deal  of  discontent 
one  with  another,  and  indeed  my  mother  is  grown  now 
so  pettish  that  I  know  not  how  my  father  is  able  to 
bear  with  it.  I  did  talk  to  her  so  as  did  not  indeed 
become  me,  but  I  could  not  help  it,  she  being  so  un- 
sufferably  foolish  and  simple,  so  that  my  father,  poor 
man,  is  become  a  very  unhappy  man.  There  I  dined, 
and  so  home  and  to  the  office  all  the  afternoon  till  9 
at  night.  Great  talk  now  how  the  Parliament  intend 
to  make  a  collection  of  free  gifts  to  the  King  through 
the  Kingdom ;  but  I  think  it  will  not  come  to  much.» 

*  See  31st  August,  1661,  post. 


60  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

June  I  St.  Sir  W.  Pen  and  I  and  Mr.  Gauden  by 
water  to  Woolwich,  and  there  went  from  ship  to  ship 
to  give  order  for  and  take  notice  of  their  forwardness 
to  go  forth,  and  then  to  Deptford  and  did  the  hke, 
having  dined  at  Woohvich  with  Captain  Poole  at  the 
taveme  there.  From  Deptford  we  walked  to  Redriffe, 
calling  at  the  half-way  house,  and  there  came  into  a 
room  where  there  was  infinite  of  new  cakes  placed 
that  are  made  against  Whitsuntide,  and  there  we  were 
very  merry. 

2nd.  The  barber  having  done  with  me,  I  went  to 
church,  and  there  heard  a  good  sermon  of  Mr.  Mills, 
fit  for  the  day.  Then  home  to  dinner,  and  then  to 
church  again,  and  going  home  I  found  Greatorex 
(whom  I  expected  to-day  at  dinner)  come  to  see  me, 
and  so  he  and  I  in  my  chamber  drinking  of  wine  and 
eating  of  anchovies  an  hour  or  two,  discoursing  of 
many  things  in  mathematics,  and  among  others  he 
showed  me  how  it  comes  to  pass  the  strength  that 
levers  have,  and  he  showed  me  that  what  is  got  as  to 
matter  of  strength  is  lost  by  them  as  to  matter  of 
time.  It  rained  very  hard,  as  it  hath  done  of  late  so 
much  that  we  begin  to  doubt  a  famine.  After  prayers 
to  bed. 

3rd.  To  the  Wardrobe,  where  discoursing  with  my 
Lord,  he  did  instruct  me  as  to  the  business  of  the 
Wardrobe,  in  case,  in  his  absence,  Mr.  Townsend 
should  die,  and  told  me  that  he  do  intend  to  joyne  me 
and  Mr.  Moore  with  him  as  to  the  business,  now  he  is 
going  to  sea,  and  spoke  to  me  many  other  things,  as 


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to  one  that  he  do  put  the  greatest  confidence  in,  of 
which  I  am  proud.  Here  I  had  a  good  occasion  to 
tell  him  (what  I  have  had  long  in  my  mind)  that, 
since  it  has  pleased  God  to  bless  me  with  something, 
I  am  desirous  to  lay  out  something  for  my  father,  and 
so  have  pitched  upon  Mr.  Young's  place  in  the  Ward- 
robe, which  I  desired  he  would  give  order  in  his 
absence,  if  the  place  should  fall  that  I  might  have  the 
refusal.  Which  my  Lord  did  freely  promise  me,  at 
which  I  was  very  glad,  he  saying  that  he  would  do  that 
at  the  least.  My  cozen  Scott  came  to  dine  with  me, 
and  before  we  had  done  in  comes  my  father  Bowyer 
and  my  mother  and  four  daughters,  and  a  young  gen- 
tleman and  his  sister,  their  friends,  and  there  staid  all 
the  afternoon,  which  cost  me  great  store  of  wine,  and 
were  very  merry.  Mr.  Creed  and  I  to  the  Towre,  to 
speak  for  some  ammunicion  for  my  Lord ;  and  so  he 
and  I,  with  much  pleasure,  walked  quite  round  the 
Towre,  which  I  never  did  before.  To  the  Beare,  at 
the  Bridge  foot,  thinking  to  have  met  my  Lord  Hinch- 
inbroke  and  his  brother  setting  forth  for  France ;  but 
they  being  not  come  we  went  over  to  the  Wardrobe, 
and  there  found  that  my  Lord  Abbot  Montagu  ^ 
being  not  at  Paris,  my  Lord  hath  a  mind  to  have  them 
stay  a  little  longer  before  they  go. 

4th.   To  my  Lord  Crew's  to  dinner,  and  had  very 


^  Walter,  second  son  to  the  first  Earl  of  Manchester,  embracing  the 
Romish  faith  while  on  his  travels,  was  made  Abbot  of  Pontoise,  through  the 
influence  of  Mary  de  Medici.  He  afterwards  became  almoner  to  the  Queen- 
Dowager  of  England,  and  died  1670. 


62  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEP  VS. 

good  discourse  about  having  of  young  noblemen  and 
gentlemen  to  think  of  going  to  sea,  as  being  as  hon- 
ourable service  as  the  land  war.  And  among  other 
things  he  told  us  how,  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  time,  one 
young  nobleman  would  wait  with  a  trencher  at  the 
back  of  another  till  he  came  to  age  himself.  And 
witnessed  in  my  young  Lord  of  Kent,  that  then  was, 
who  waited  upon  my  Lord  Bedford  at  table,  when  a 
letter  came  to  my  Lord  Bedford  that  the  Earldome  of 
Kent  was  fallen  to  his  servant,  the  young  Lord ;  and 
so  he  rose  from  table,  and  made  him  sit  down  in  his 
place,  and  took  a  lower  for  himself,  for  so  he  was  by 
place  to  sit.^  From  thence  to  the  Theatre  and  saw 
"  Harry  the  4th,"  a  good  play.  That  done  I  went 
over  the  water  and  walked  over  the  fields  to  South- 
warke,  and  so  home  and  to  my  lute. 

5  th.  This  morning  did  give  my  wife  4/.  to  lay  out 
upon  lace  and  other  things  for  herself.  Sir  W. .  Pen 
and  I  went  home  with  Sir  R.  Slingsby  to  bowles  in  his 
ally,  and  there  had  good  sport,  and  afterwards  went  in 
and  drank  and  talked.  I  took  my  flageolette  and 
played  upon  the  leads  in  the  garden,  where  Sir  W. 
Pen  came  out  in  his  shirt  into  his  leads,  and  there  we 
staid  talking  and  singing,  and  drinking  great  drafts  of 
claret,  and  eating  botargo^  and  bread  and  butter  till 

■^  The  Earldom  of  Kent  was  erected  for  the  Grey  family  in  1465  ;  that  of 
Bedford  for  the  Russells,  in  1550. 

2  Botargo,  a  kind  of  salt  cake,  or  rather  sausage,  made  of  the  hard  roe  of 
the  sea  mullet  pickled  with  oil  and  vinegar,  chiefly  used  to  promote  drinking 
by  causing  thirst.  Of  Gargantua  it  is  said,  "  Because  he  was  naturally  phleg- 
matic, he  began  his  meal  with  some  dozens  of  gammons,  dried  neats'  tongues, 


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1 2  at  night,  it  being  moonshine  ;  and  so  to  bed,  very 
near  fuddled. 

6th.  My  head  hath  aked  all  night,  and  all  this 
morning,  with  my  last  night's  debauch.  Called  up 
this  morning  by  Lieutenant  Lambert,'  who  is  now 
made  Captain  of  the  Nonvich,  and  he  and  I  went 
down  by  water  to  Greenwich,  in  our  way  observing 
and  discoursing  upon  the  things  of  a  ship,  he  telling 
me  all  I  asked  him,  which  was  of  good  use  to  me. 
There  we  went  and  eat  and  drank  and  heard  musique 
at  the  Globe,  and  saw  the  simple  motion  that  is  there 
of  a  woman  with  a  rod  in  her  hand  keeping  time  to 
the  musique  while  it  plays,  which  is  simple,  methinks. 
Back  again  by  water,  calling  at  Captain  Lambert's 
house,  which  is  very  handsome  and  neat,  and  a  fine 
prospect  at  top.  So  to  the  office,  where  we  sat  a  little, 
and  then  I  to  Bridewell  to  Mr.  Holland's,  where  his 
wife  also,  a  plain  dowdy,  and  his  mother  was.  Here 
came  two  young  gentlewomen  to  see  Mr.  Holland, 
and  one  of  them  could  play  pretty  well  upon  the 
viallin,  but,  good  God  !  how  these  ignorant  people  did 
cry  her  up  for  it !  We  were  very  merry.  I  staid  and 
supped  there,  and  so  home  and  to  bed.  The  weather 
very  hot,  this  night  I  left  off  my  wastecoate. 

8th.  To  Whitehall  to  my  Lord,  who  did  tell  me 
that  he  would  have  me  go  to  Mr.  Townsend,  whom  he 
had  ordered  to  discover  to  me  the  whole  mystery  of 

botargos,  sausages,  and  such  other  forerunners  of  wine."  —  Rabelais,  book  i. 
chap.  21.     See  Nares'  Glossary.     (M.  B.) 
^  See  24th  Jan.  1659-60,  ante. 


64  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

the  Wardrobe,  and  none  else  but  me,  and  that  he  will 
make  me  deputy  with  him  for  fear  that  he  should  die 
in  my  Lord's  absence,  of  which  I  was  glad.  I  went 
to  the  Theatre  and  there  saw  Bartholomew  Faire,^  the 
first  time  it  was  acted  now-a-days.  It  is  a  most  ad- 
mirable play  and  well  acted,  but  too  much  prophane 
and  abusive.  Then  away  home,  and  in  my  way  called 
upon  Mr.  Rawlinson,  for  his  advice  to  answer  a  letter 
of  my  uncle  Robert,  wherein  he  do  offer  me  a  pur- 
chase to  lay  out  some  money  upon,  that  joynes  upon 
some  of  his  o\vn  lands,  and  plainly  telling  me  that  the 
reason  of  his  advice  is  the  convenience  that  it  will  give 
me  as  to  his  estate,  of  which  I  am  exceeding  glad, 
and  am  advised  to  give  up  wholly  the  disposal  of  my 
money  to  him,  let  him  do  what  he  will  with  it,  which 
I  shall  do.     So  home  and  to  bed. 

9th  (Lord's  day).  This  day  my  wife  put  on  her 
black  silk  gowne,  which  is  now  laced  all  over  with 
black  gimp  lace,  as  the  fashion  is,  in  which  she  is  very 
pretty.  She  and  I  walked  to  my  Lady's  at  the  Ward- 
robe, and  there  dined  and  was  exceeding  much  made 
of.  After  dinner  to  Mr.  Pierce's,  and  there  he  and  I, 
and  Mr.  Symons  (dancing  master),  that  goes  to  sea 
with  my  Lord,  to  the  Swan  taverne,  and  there  drank, 
and  so  again  to  White  Hall,  and  there  met  with  Dean 
Fuller,^  and  walked  a  great  while  with  him ;  among 
other  things  discoursed  of  the  liberty  the  Bishop   (by 


^  A  comedy,  by  Ben  Jonson  ;  first  acted  in  1614. 
2  See  ante,  7th  April,  1661,  and  note. 


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name  he  of  Galloway)  ^  takes  to  admit  into  orders 
any  body  that  will ;  among  others,  Roundtree,  a  sim- 
ple mechanique  that  was  a  person  formerly  in  the 
fieet.2  He  told  me  he  would  complain  of  it.  By  and 
by  he  went  and  got  a  sculler,  and  landing  him  at 
Worcester  House,  I  and  W.  Howe,  who  came  to  us 
at  Whitehall,  went  to  the  Wardrobe.  I  went  up  to 
Jane  Shore's  towre,  and  there  W.  Howe  and  I  sang, 
and  so  took  my  wife  and  walked  home,  and  so  to 
bed. 

loth.  Early  to  my  Lord's,  who  privately  told  me 
how  the  King  had  made  him  Embassador  in  the 
bringing  over  the  Queen.     That  he  is  to  go  to  Algier, 

^  Murray  and  Heath,  whose  authority  is  generally  good,  assert  that  James 
Hamilton  was  at  this  time  Bishop  of  Galloway;  but  the  commission  for  his 
consecration  bears  date  12th  December,  1661.  Kennett  also  mentions  Thomas 
Sydserf,  who  had  been  deposed  from  the  See  of  Galloway  by  the  Presbyte- 
rians in  1638,  as  the  only  Scotch  prelate  alive  at  the  Restoration;  and  adds, 
that  he  came  up  to  London,  expecting  to  be  advanced  to  the  Primacy.  But 
he  had  so  disgusted  the  English  bishops,  that  he  was  only  removed  to  the  See 
of  Orkney,  which,  though  richly  endowed,  was  considered  at  all  times  as  a 
sinecure;  and  he  did  not  long  survive  his  translation.  At  all  events,  Hamil- 
ton was  his  successor,  and  the  Bishop  of  Galloway  mentioned  in  the  Diary, 
15th  May,  1663.  Lingard's  testimony  is  in  favour  of  Sydserf  being  the 
Bishop  of  Galloway  here  alluded  to.  The  death  of  the  Bishop  of  Orkney 
(laie  of  Galloway)  is  mentioned  in  "  The  Intelligencer,"  29th  September, 
1663. 

2  The  reading  in  the  early  editions  of  the  Diary  is,  "  a  person  formerly  of 
the  fleet;"  in  the  later  editions,  "a  parson  formerly  of  the  Fleet."  The 
cypher  for  "  person  "  or  "  parson  "  is  the  same.  I  have  preferred  the  reading 
of  the  early  ediiions,  merely  correcting  "  of"  to  "  in,"  for  two  reasons  —  one, 
because  the  marriages  were  performed  by  clergymen,  though  disreputable, 
who  would  not  require  fresh  ordination;  the  other  because,  although  there 
were  Fleet  marriages  at  that  time,  yet  they  do  not  seem  to  be  common. 
The  date  of  the  earliest  Fleet  register  now  preserved  in  the  Bishop  of  London's 
Registry  is  1674.     (M.  B.) 


66  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

&c.,  to  settle  the  business,  and  to  put  the  fleet  in 
order  there ;  and  so  to  come  back  to  Lisbone  with 
three  ships,  and  there  to  meet  the  fleet  that  is  to  fol- 
low him.  He  sent  for  me,  to  tell  me  that  he  do 
intrust  me  with  the  seeing  of  all  things  done  in  his 
absence  as  to  this  great  preparation,  as  I  shall  receive 
orders  from  my  Lord  Chancellor  and  Mr.  Edward 
Montagu.  At  all  which  my  heart  is  above  measure 
glad ;  for  my  Lord's  honour,  and  some  profit  to 
myself,  I  hope.  By  and  by,  out  with  Mr.  Shepley, 
Walden,^  Parliament- man  for  Huntingdon,  Rolt,* 
Mackworth,  and  Alderman  Backwell,  to  a  house  hard 
by,  to  drink  Lambeth  ale.  So  I  back  to  the  Ward- 
robe, and  there  found  my  Lord  going  to  Trinity 
House,3  this  being  the  solemn  day  of  choosing 
Master,  and  my  Lord  is  chosen.  I  staid  there  and 
dined  with  my  Lady;  but  after  we  were  set,  comes 
in  some  persons  of  condition,  and  so  the  children 
and  I  rose  and  dined  by  ourselves,  all  the  children  and 
I,  and  were  very  merry  and  they  mighty  fond  of  me. 

nth.  At  the  office  this  morning,  Sir  G.  Carteret 
with  us ;  and  we  agreed  upon  a  letter  to  the  Duke  of 
York,  to  tell  him  the  sad  condition  of  this  office  for 
want  of  money ;  how  men  are  not  able  to  serve  us 
more  without  some  money ;  and  that  now  the  credit 


^  Lionel. 

2  Perhaps  the  same  person  who  had  been  Envoy  from  the  Protector  to 
the  King  of  Sweden,  and  is  described  by  Kcnnett,  in  September,  1655,  as 
kinsman  to  his  Highness. 

3  In  Water  Lane,  near  the  Tower. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  6/ 

of  the  office  is  brought  so  low,  that  none  will  sell 
us  any  thing  without  our  personal  security  given  for 
the  same. 

1 2th.  Wednesday,  a  day  kept  between  a  fast  and 
a  feast,  the  Bishops  not  being  ready  enough  to  keep 
the  fast  for  foule  weather  before  fair  weather  came ; 
and  so  they  were  forced  to  keep  it  between  both.^ 
I  to  Whitehall,  and  there  with  Captain  Rolt  and  Fer- 
rers we  went  to  Lambeth  to  drink  our  morning  draft, 
where  at  the  Three  Mariners,  a  place  noted  for  their 
ale,  we  went  and  staid  awhile  very  merry,  and  so 
away.  Then  to  White  Hall,  where  I  met  my  Lord, 
who  told  me  he  must  have  300/.  laid  out  in  cloth, 
to  give  in  Barbary,  as  presents  among  the  Turkes. 
At  which  occasion  of  getting  something  I  was  very 
glad.     Home  to  supper. 

13th.  To  Alderman  Backwell's,  but  his  servants  not 
being  up,  I  went  home  and  put  on  my  gray  cloth 
suit  and  faced  white  coate,  made  of  one  of  my  wife's 
pettycoates,  the  first  time  I  have  had  it  on,  and  so 
in  a  riding  garbe  back  again  and  spoke  with  Mr.  Shaw 


1  A  Form  of  Prayer  was  published  to  be  used  in  London  on  the  12th,  and 
in  the  country  on  the  19th  of  June,  being  the  special  days  appointed  for  a 
general  fast  to  be  kept  in  the  respective  places  for  averting  those  sicknesses 
and  diseases,  that  dearth  and  scarcity,  which  justly  may  be  feared  from  the 
late  immoderate  rain  and  waters:  for  a  Thanksgiving  also  for  the  blessed 
change  of  weather;  and  the  begging  the  continuance  of  it  to  us  for  our  com- 
fort: And  likewise  for  beseeching  a  Blessing  upon  the  High  Court  of  Parlia- 
ment now  assembled:  Set  forth  by  his  Majesty's  authority.  A  Sermon  was 
preached  before  the  Commons  by  Thomas  Greenfield,  Preacher  of  Lincoln's 
Inn.  The  Lords  taxed  themselves  for  the  poor,  —  an  Earl,  los. ;  a  Baron,  los. 
Those  absent  from  Prayers  were  to  pay  a  forfeit. 


68  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

at  the  Alderman's,  who  offers  me  300/.  if  my  Lord 
pleases  to  buy  this  cloth  with,  which  pleased  me 
well.  So  to  the  Wardrobe  and  got  my  Lord  to  order 
Mr.  Creed  to  imprest'  so  much  upon  me  to  be 
paid  by  Alderman  Backwell.  So  with  my  Lord  to 
Whitehall  by  water,  and  he  having  taken  leave  of  the 
King,  comes  to  us  at  his  lodgings  and  from  thence 
goes  to  the  garden  staires  and  there  takes  barge,  and 
at  the  staires  was  met  by  Sir  R.  Slingsby,  who  there 
took  his  leave  of  my  Lord,  and  I  heard  my  Lord 
thank  him  for  his  kindness  to  me,  which  Sir  Robert 
answered  much  to  my  advantage.  I  went  down  with 
my  Lord  in  the  barge  to  Deptford,  and  there  went  on 
board  the  Dutch  yacht  and  staid  there  a  good  while, 
W.  Howe  not  being  come  with  my  Lord's  things, 
which  made  my  Lord  very  angry.  By  and  by  he 
comes  and  so  we  set  sayle,  and  anon  went  to  dinner, 
my  Lord  and  we  very  merry ;  and  after  dinner  I  went 
dowTi  below  and  there  sang,  and  took  leave  of  W. 
Howe,  Captain  Rolt,  and  the  rest  of  my  friends,  then 
went  up  and  took  leave  of  my  Lord,  who  give  me  his 
hand  and  parted  with  great  respect.  So  went  and 
Captain  Ferrers  with  me  into  our  wherry,  and  my 
Lord  did  give  five  guns,  all  they  had  charged,  which 
was  the  greatest  respect  my  Lord  could  do  me,  and 
of  which  I  was  not  a  little  proud.  So  with  a  sad  and 
merry  heart  I  left  them  sailing  pleasantly  from  Erith, 
hoping  to  be  in  the   Downes  to-morrow  early.     We 

I  See  note,  vol.  i.  p.  287.     (M.  B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  69 

toward  London  in  our  boat.  Pulled  off  our  stockings 
and  bathed  our  legs  a  great  while  in  the  river,  which 
I  had  not  done  some  years  before.  By  and  by  we 
come  to  Greenwich,  and  thinking  to  have  gone  on 
the  King's  yacht,  the  King  was  in  her,  so  we  passed 
by,  and  at  Woolwich  went  on  shore,  and  I  home  and 
with  wine  enough  in  my  head,  went  to  bed. 

14th.  To  Whitehall  to  my  Lord's,  where  I  found 
Mr.  Edward  Montagu  and  his  family  come  to  lie 
during  my  Lord's  absence.  I  sent  to  my  house  by 
my  Lord's  order  his  shipp  »  and  triangle  virginall.  So 
to  my  father's,  and  did  give  him  order  about  the 
buying  of  this  cloth  to  send  to  my  Lord.  But  I 
could  not  stay  with  him  myself,  for  having  got  a  great 
cold  by  my  playing  the  fool  in  the  water  yesterday 
I  was  in  great  pain  and  so  went  home  by  coach  to 
bed,  and  by  keeping  myself  warme,  I  came  to  some 
ease. 

15  th.  Dined  with  my  Lady,  who,  now  my  Lord  is 
gone,  is  come  to  her  poor  housekeeping  again.  Then 
to  my  father's,  who  tells  me  what  he  has  done,  and 
we  resolved  upon  two  pieces  of  scarlet,  two  of  purple, 
and  two  of  black,  and  50/.  in  linen.  I  home,  taking 
300/.  with  me  home  from  Alderman  Backwell's.  I 
was  going  to  bed,  but  there  coming  the  Purser  of  the 
King's  yacht  for  victuals  presently,^  for  the  Duke  of 
York  is  to  go  down  to-morrow,  I  got  him  to  promise 
stowage  for  these  things. 

*  Sic.  orig.,  probably  the  word  "  glass  "  was  omitted. 

2  /.  e.  immediately.    See  note,  29th  March,  1661.     (M.  B.) 


70  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

1 6th  (Lord's  day).  No  purser  coming  in  the  morn- 
ing for  the  goods,  and  I  hear  that  the  Duke  went  last 
night,  and  so  I  am  at  a  great  losse  what  to  do ;  and 
so  this  day  (though  the  Lord's  day)  staid  at  home, 
sending  Will  up  and  down  to  know  what  to  do.  The 
afternoon  (while  Will  was  abroad)  I  spent  in  reading 
*^  The  Spanish  Gypsey,"  '  a  play  not  very  good,  though 
commended  much.  At  night  resolved  to  hire  a  Mar- 
gate Hoy,  who  would  go  away  to-morrow  morning, 
Vv'hich  I  did,  and  sent  the  things  all  by  him. 

1 8th.  All  this  morning  at  home  vexing  about  the 
delay  of  my  painters,  and  about  four  in  the  afternoon 
my  wife  and  I  by  water  to  Captain  Lambert's,  where 
we  took  great  pleasure  in  their  turret-garden,  and 
seeing  the  fine  needleworks  of  his  wife,  the  best  I 
ever  saw  in  my  life,  and  afterwards  had  a  very  hand- 
some treate  and  good  musique  that  she  made  upon 
the  harpsicon,  and  with  a  great  deal  of  pleasure  staid 
till  8  at  night,  and  so  home  again,  there  being  a  little 
pretty  witty  child  that  would  not  let  us  go  without  her, 
and  so  fell  a-crying  by  the  water-side. 

19th.  One  thing  I  must  observe  here  while  I  think  of 
it,  that  I  am  now  become  the  most  negligent  man  in  the 
world  as  to  matters  of  newes,  insomuch  that,  now-a- 
days,  I  neither  can  tell  any,  nor  aske  any  of  others. 

20th.  At  home  the  greatest  part  of  the  day  to  see 
my  workmen  make  an  end,  which  this  night  they  did 
to  my  great  content. 

'  A  comedy,  by  T.  Middleton  and  W.  Rowley,  printed  1653,  and  again  in 
1661. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  J  \ 

2 1  St.  This  morning  going  to  my  father's  I  met  him, 
and  so  he  and  I  went  and  drank  our  morning  draft  at 
the  Samson  in  Paul's  Churchyard,  and  eat  some  gam- 
mon of  bacon,  &c.,  and  then  parted,  having  bought 
some  green  Say  for  curtains  in  my  parler.  Mr.  Nor- 
bury  and  I  did  discourse  of  his  wife's  house  and  land 
at  Brampton,  which  I  find  too  much  for  me  to  buy. 

22nd.  Abroad  all  the  morning.  At  noon  went  and 
dined  with  my  Lord  Crew,  where  very  much  made  of 
by  him  and  his  lady.  Then  to  the  Theatre,  "The 
Alchymist,"  ^  which  is  a  most  incomparable  play. 
And  that  being  done  I  met  with  little  Luellin  and 
Blirton,  who  took  me  to  a  friend  of  theirs  in  Lincoln's 
Inne  fields,  one  Mr.  Hodges,  where  we  drank  great 
store  of  Rhenish  wine  and  were  very  merry, 

23rd  (Lord's  day).  In  the  morning  to  church,  and 
my  wife  not  being  well,  I  went  with  Sir  W.  Batten 
home  to  dinner,  my  Lady  being  out  of  towne,  where 
there  was  Sir  W.  Pen,  Captain  Allen  and  his  daughter 
Rebecca,  and  Mr.  Hempson  and  his  wife.  After 
dinner  to  church  all  of  us  and  had  a  very  good  sermon 
of  a  stranger,  and  so  I  and  the  young  company  to 
walk  first  to  Graye's  Inn  Walks,  where  great  store  of 
gallants,  but  above  all  the  ladies  that  I  there  saw,  or 
ever  did  see,  Mrs.  Frances  Butler  ^  (Monsieur  L'lm- 
pertinent's  sister)  is  the  greatest  beauty.  Then  we 
went  to  IsUngton,  where  at  the  great  house  I  enter- 
tained them  as  well  as  I   could,  and  so   home  with 

*  By  Ben  Jonson.     (M.  B.)  2  See  July  14,  1660,  ante. 


72  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

them,  and  so  to  my  own  home  and  to  bed.  Pall, 
who  went  this  day  to  a  child's  christening  of  Kate 
Joyce's,  staid  out  all  night  at  my  father's,  she  not 
being  well. 

24th  (Midsummer-day).  We  kept  this  a  holiday, 
and  so  went  not  to  the  office  at  all.  I  and  Dr.  Wil- 
liams to  the  ordinary  over  against  the  Exchange, 
where  we  dined  and  had  great  wrangling  with  the 
master  of  the  house  when  the  reckoning  was  brought 
to  us,  he  setting  down  exceeding  high  every  thing. 

25  th.  This  morning  came  Mr.  Goodgroome  to  me, 
with  whom  I  agreed  presently  to  give  him  20J-. 
entrance,  which  I  then  did,  and  2Qs.  a  month  more  to 
teach  me  to  sing,  and  so  we  began,  and  I  hope  I  have 
come  to  something  in  it.  His  first  song  is  "  La  cruda 
la  bella."  He  gone  my  brother  Tom  comes,  with 
whom  I  made  even  with  my  father  and  the  two 
drapers  for  the  cloths  I  sent  to  sea  lately.  To  dine 
with  my  Lady  at  the  Wardrobe,  taking  Dean  Fuller 
along  with  me ;  then  home,  where  I  heard  my  father 
had  been  to  find  me  about  special  business ;  so  I  took 
coach  and  went  to  him,  and  found  by  a  letter  to  him 
from  my  aunt  that  my  uncle  Robert  is  taken  with  a 
dizzinesse  in  his  head,  so  that  they  desire  my  father 
to  come  downe  to  look  after  his  business,  by  which 
we  guess  that  he  is  very  ill,  and  so  my  father  do  think 
to  go  to-morrow.     And  so  God's  will  be  done. 

27th.  To  my  father's.  There  I  told  him  how  I 
would  have  him  speak  to  my  uncle  Robert,  when  he 
comes  thither,  concerning  my  buying  of  land,  that  I 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS,  73 

could  pay  ready  money  600/.  and  the  rest  by  150/. 
per  annum,  to  make  up  as  much  as  will  buy  50/.  per 
annum,  which  I  do,  though  I  not  worth  above  500/. 
ready  money,  that  he  may  think  me  to  be  a  greater 
saver  than  I  am.  Then  with  my  Lady  Batten,  Mrs. 
Rebecca  Allen,  Mrs.  Thompson,  &c.,  two  coaches  of 
us,  we  went  and  saw  "  Bartholomew  Fayre "  acted 
very  well.  So  home  to  bed.  This  day  Mr.  Holden 
sent  me  a  bever,  which  cost  me  4/.  5^-.' 

28th.  At  home  all  the  morning  practising  to  sing, 
which  is  now  my  great  trade,  and  at  noon  to  my 
Lady  and  dined  with  her.  So  back  and  to  the  office, 
and  there  sat  till  7  at  night,  and  then  Sir  W.  Pen  and 
I  in  his  coach  went  to  Moorefields,  and  there  walked, 
and  stood  and  saw  the  wrestling,  which  I  never  saw  so 
much  of  before,  between  the  north  and  west  country- 
men. So  home,  and  this  night  had  our  bed  set  up  in 
our  room  that  we  called  the  Nursery,  where  we  lay, 
and  I  am  very  much  pleased  with  the  room. 

29th.  By  a  letter  from  the  Duke  complaining  of 
the  delay  of  the  ships  that  are  to  be  got  ready.  Sir 
Williams  both  and  I  went  to  Deptford  and  there 
examined  into  the  delays,  and  were  satisfyed.  Mr. 
Chetwind  by  chewing  of  tobacco  is  become  very  fat 
and  sallow,  whereas  he  was  consumptive.  In  our  dis- 
course he  fell  commending  of  "  Hooker's  Ecclesiasti- 
cal Polity,"  as  the  best  book,  and  the  only  one  that 

^  Whilst  a  hat  (see  Jan.  28,  1660-61,  atite)  cost  only  35^.  See  also  Lord 
Sandwich's  vexation  at  his  beaver  being  stolen,  and  a  hat  only  left  in  lieu  of 
it,  April  30,  1661,  ajite:  and  April  19th  and  26th,  \662,post. 


74  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

made  him  a  Christian,  which  puts  me  upon  the  buj-nng 
of  it,  which  I  will  do  shortly. 

30th  (Lord's  day).  To  church,  where  we  observe 
the  trade  of  briefs  is  come  now  up  to  so  constant  a 
course  every  Sunday,  that  we  resolve  to  give  no  more 
to  them.^  Sir  Williams  both  and  I  to  Whitehall, 
where  we  met  with  the  Duke  of  York,  according  to 
an  order  sent  us  yesterday  from  him,  to  give  him  an 
account  where  the  fault  lay  in  the  not  sending  out  of 
the  ships,  which  we  find  to  be  only  the  wind  hath 
been  against  them,  and  so  they  could  not  get  out  of 
the  river.  Here  I  to  Graye's  Inn  Walk,  all  alone, 
and  with  great  pleasure  seeing  the  fine  ladies  walk 
there.  Myself  humming  to  myself  (which  now-a-days 
is  my  constant  practice  since  I  begun  to  learn  to  sing) 
the  trillo,  and  found  by  use  that  it  do  come  upon  me. 
This  day  the  Portuguese  Embassador  ^  came  to  White 
Hall  to  take  leave  of  the  King ;  he  being  now  going 
to  end  all  with  the  Queene,  and  to  send  her  over. 
Myself  in  good  health,  but  mighty  apt  to  take  cold, 
so  that  this  hot  weather  I  am  fain  to  wear  a  cloth 
before  my  stomach. 

July  I  St.   This  morning  I  went  up  and  down  into 

^  See  "Gent.  Mag.,"  vol.  xxiv.  p.  353,  from  original  MS.  book  of"  Col- 
lections in  the  Church  of  St.  Olave,  Hart  Street:  June  30,  1661." 

"  Collected    for  sevrall  inhabitants    of   the    parish    of 
St.  Dunstan's  in  the  West   towards   there    losse  by  ffire,    >   xxiis,  vii^. 
one  pound  two  shillings  and  seaven  pence." 

Entries  of  similar  collections  in  church  towards  the  relief  of  losses  by 
fire,  &c.,  on  thc/otirteen  successive  Sundays  previous  to  this  appeal.  (M.  B.) 
Briefs  were  abolished  in  1828. 

2  Don  Francisco  de  Mello,  Conde  de  Poute. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  75 

the  city,  to  buy  several  things,  as  I  have  lately  done, 
for  my  house.  Among  other  things,  a  fair  chest  of 
drawers  for  my  own  chamber,  and  an  Indian  gowne 
for  myself.  The  first  cost  me  33^-.,  the  other  345-. 
Home  and  dined  there,  and  Theodore  Goodgroome, 
my  singing  master,  with  me,  and  then  to  our  singing. 

2nd.  To  Westminster  Hall  and  there  walked  up 
and  do\vn,  it  being  Terme  time.  Spoke  with  several, 
among  others  my  cozen  Roger  Pepys,  who  was  going 
up  to  the  Parliament  House,  and  inquired  whether  I 
had  heard  from  my  father,  who  writes  that  my  uncle 
is  by  fits  stupid,  and  like  a  man  that  is  drunk,  and 
sometimes  speechless.  Went  to  Sir  William  Dave- 
nant's  ^  Opera ;  this  being  the  fourth  day  that  it  hath 
begun,  and  the  first  that  I  have  seen  it.  To-day  was 
acted  the  second  part  of  "  The  Siege  of  Rhodes."  ^ 
We  staid  a  very  great  while  for  the  King  and  the 
Queen  of  Bohemia.^  And  by  the  breaking  of  a  board 
over  our  heads,  we  had  a  great  deal  of  dust  fell  into 
the  ladies'  necks  and  the  men's  haire,  which  made 
good  sport.  The  King  being  come,  the  scene  opened  ; 
which  indeed  is  very  fine  and  magnificent,  and  well 
acted,  all  but  the  Eunuche,  who  was  so  much  out  that 
he  was  hissed  off  the  stage. 

3rd.  Dined  with  my  Lady,  who  is  in  some  mourn- 
ing for  her  brother,  Mr.  Saml.  Crew,  who  died  yester- 


^  Sir  William  Davenant,  the  celebrated  dramatic  writer,  and  patentee  of 
the  Duke's  Theatre  in  Lincoln's  Inn  Fields.     Ob.  i668,  aged  64. 

2  Of  which  Sir  W.  Davenant  was  the  author. 

3  See  May  14,  1660,  ante. 


76  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

day  of  the  spotted  fever.  So  home  through  Duck 
Lane  to  inquire  for  some  Spanish  books,  but  found 
none  that  pleased  me.  So  to  the  office.  This  day 
my  Lady  Batten  and  my  wife  were  at  the  burial  of  a 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Lawson's,  and  had  rings  for 
themselves  and  their  husbands. 

4th.  I  went  to  the  theatre,  and  there  I  saw  "  Clara- 
cilia"  ^  (the  first  time  I  ever  saw  it),  well  acted.  But 
strange  to  see  this  house,  that  used  to  be  so  thronged, 
now  empty  since  the  Opera  begun ;  and  so  will  con- 
tinue for  a  while,  I  beUeve. 

5  th.  At  home,  and  in  the  afternoon  to  the  office, 
and  that  being  done  all  went  to  Sir  W.  Batten's  and 
there  had  a  venison  pasty,  and  were  very  merry. 

6th.  Waked  this  morning  with  news,  brought  me  by 
a  messenger  on  purpose,  that  my  uncle  Robert  2  is 
dead,  and  died  yesterday ;  so  I  rose  sorry  in  some 
respect,  glad  in  my  expectations  in  another  respect. 
So  I  made  myself  ready,  went  and  told  my  uncle 
Wight,  my  Lady,  and  some  others  thereof,  and  bought 
me  a  pair  of  boots  in  St.  Martin's,  and  got  myself 
ready,  and  then  to  the  Post  House  and  set  out  about 
eleven  and  twelve  o'clock,  taking  the  messenger  with 
me  that  came  to  me,  and  so  we  rode  and  got  well  by 
nine  o'clock  to  Brampton,  where  I  found  my  father 
well.  My  uncle's  corps  in  a  coffin  standing  upon 
joynt-stooles  in  the  chimney  in  the  hall ;  but  it  begun 
to  smell,  and  so  I  caused  it  to  be  set  forth  in  the  yard 

^  A  tragi-comedy  by  Thomas  Killigrew. 
2  Of  Brampton,  in  Huntingdonshire. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  7/ 

all  night,  and  watched  by  two  men.  My  aunt  I  found 
in  bed  in  a  most  nasty  ugly  pickle,  made  me  sick  to 
see  it.  My  father  and  I  lay  together  to-night,  I 
greedy  to  see  the  will,  but  did  not  aske  to  see  it  till 
to-morrow. 

7th  (Lord's  day).  In  the  morning  my  father  and  I 
walked  in  the  garden  and  read  the  will ;  where,  though 
he  gives  me  nothing  at  present  till  my  father's  death, 
or  at  least  very  little,  yet  I  am  glad  to  see  that  he  hath 
done  so  well  for  us  all,  and  well  to  the  rest  of  his  kin- 
dred After  that  done,  we  went  about  getting  things, 
as  ribbands  and  gloves,  ready  for  the  burial.  Which 
in  the  afternoon  was  done ;  where,  it  being  Sunday, 
all  people  far  and  near  come  in ;  and  in  the  greatest 
disorder  that  ever  I  saw,  we  made  shift  to  serve  them 
with  what  we  had  of  wine  and  other  things  ;  and  then 
to  carry  him  to  the  church,  where  Mr.  Taylor  buried 
him,  and  Mr.  Turner  preached  a  funerall  sermon, 
where  he  spoke  not  particularly  of  him  anything,  but 
that  he  was  one  so  well  known  for  his  honesty,  that  it 
spoke  for  itself  above  all  that  he  could  say  for  it. 
And  so  made  a  very  good  sermon.  Home  with  some 
of  the  company  who  supped  there,  and  things  being 
quiet,  at  night  to  bed. 

8th,  9th,  loth,  nth,  12th,  13th.  I  fell  to  work,  and 
my  father  to  look  over  my  uncle's  papers  and  clothes, 
and  continued  all  this  week  upon  that  business,  much 
troubled  with  my  aunt's  base,  ugly  humours.  We  had 
news  of  Tom  Trice's  putting  in  a  caveat  against  us,  in 
behalf  of   his  mother,  to  whom  my  uncle  hath  not 


78  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

given  anything,  and  for  good  reason  therein  expressed, 
which  troubled  us  also.  But  above  all,  our  trouble  is 
to  find  that  his  estate  appears  nothing  as  we  expected, 
and  all  the  world  believes ;  nor  his  papers  so  well 
sorted  as  I  would  have  had  them,  but  all  in  confusion, 
that  break  my  brains  to  understand  them.  We  missed 
also  the  surrenders  of  his  copyhold  land,  without 
which  the  land  would  not  come  to  us,  but  to  the  heire 
at  lawe,  so  that  what  with  this,  and  the  badness  of  the 
drink  and  the  ill  opinion  I  have  of  the  meat,  and  the 
biting  of  the  gnats  by  night  and  my  disappointment  in 
getting  home  this  week,  and  the  trouble  of  sorting  all 
the  papers,  I  am  almost  out  of  my  wits  with  trouble, 
only  I  appear  the  more  contented,  because  I  would 
not  have  my  father  troubled. 

14th  (Lord's  day).  At  home,  and  Robert  Barnwell 
with  us,  and  dined,  and  in  the  evening  my  father  and 
I  walked  round  Portholme  and  viewed  all  the  fields, 
which  was  very  pleasant.  Then  to  Hinchingbroke, 
which  is  now  all  in  dirt,  because  of  my  Lord's  build- 
ing, which  will  make  it  very  magnificent.  Back  to 
Brampton. 

15  th.  Up  by  three  o'clock  this  morning,  and  rode 
to  Cambridge,  and  was  there  by  seven  o'clock,  where, 
after  I  was  trimmed,  went  to  Christ  College,  and 
found  my  brother  John  at  eight  o'clock  in  bed,  which 
vexed  me.  Then  to  King's  College  chappell,  where 
I  found  the  scholars  in  their  surplices  at  the  service 
with  the  organs,  which  is  a  strange  sight  to  what  it 
used  in  my  time  to  be  here.     Then  with  Dr.  Fair- 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS.  79 

brother  (whom  I  met  there)  to  the  Rose  taveme,  and 
called  for  some  wine,  and  sent  also  for  Mr.  Sanchy,  of 
Magdalen,  with  whom  and  other  gentlemen,  friends 
of  his,  we  were  very  merry,  and  I  treated  them  as  well 
as  I  could,  and  so  at  noon  took  horse  again,  having 
taken  leave  of  my  cozen  Angier,  and  rode  to  Imping- 
ton,  where  I  found  my  old  uncle  '  sitting  all  alone, 
like  a  man  out  of  the  world  :  he  can  hardly  see ;  but 
all  things  else  he  do  pretty  livelyly.  Then  with  Dr. 
John  Pepys  and  him  I  read  over  the  will,  and  had 
their  advice  therein,  who,  as  to  the  sufficiency  thereof 
confirmed  me,  and  advised  me  as  to  the  other  parts 
thereof.  Having  done  there,  I  rode  to  Gravely  with 
much  ado  to  inquire  for  a  surrender  of  my  uncle's  in 
some  of  the  copyholders'  hands  there,  but  I  can  hear 
of  none,  which  puts  me  into  very  great  trouble  of 
m.ind,  and  so  with  a  sad  heart  rode  home  to  Bramp- 
ton, but  made  myself  as  cheerful  as  I  could  to  my 
father,  and  so  to  bed. 

i6th,  17th,  i8th,  19th.  These  four  days  we  spent 
in  putting  things  in  order,  letting  of  the  crop  upon 
the  ground,  agreeing  with  Stankes  to  have  a  care  of 
our  business  in  our  absence,  and  we  think  ourselves 
in  nothing  happy  but  in  lighting  upon  him  to  be  our 
bayly ;  in  riding  to  Offord  and  Sturtlow,  and  up  and 
down  all  our  lands,  and  in  the  evening  walking  my 
father  and  I  about  the  fields  talking,  and  had  advice 
from  Mr.  Moore  from  London,  by  my  desire,  that  the 

I  Talbot  Pepys. 


So  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

three  witnesses  of  the  will  being  all  legatees,  will  not 
do  the  will  any  wrong.  To-night  Serjeant  Bernard,  I 
hear,  is  come  home  into  the  country.  My  aunt  con- 
tinuing in  her  base,  hypocritical  tricks,  which  both 
Jane  Perkin  (of  whom  we  make  great  use),  and  the 
mayde  do  tell  us  every  day  of. 

20th.  Up  to  Huntingdon  this  morning  to  Sir  Rob- 
ert Bernard,  with  whom  I  met  Jaspar  Trice.  So  Sir 
Robert  caused  us  to  sit  down  together  and  began 
discourse  very  fairly  between  us,  so  I  drew  out  the 
Will  and  show  it  him,  and  [he]  spoke  between  us  as 
well  as  I  could  desire,  but  could  come  to  no  issue  till 
Tom  Trice  comes.  Here  I  staid  and  dined  with  Sir 
Robert  Bernard  '  and  his  lady,  my  Lady  Digby,  a 
very  good  woman.  I  walked  home,  and  there  found 
Tom  Trice  come,  and  he  and  my  father  gone  to 
Goody  Gorum's,  where  I  found  them  and  Jaspar 
Trice  got  before  me,  and  Mr.  Greene,  and  there  had 
some  calme  discourse,  but  came  to  no  issue,  and  so 
parted. 

21  St  (Lord's  day).  At  home  all  the  morning,  put- 
ting my  papers  in  order  against  my  going  to-morrow. 
To  my  business  again  in  the  afternoon,  and  in  the 
evening  came  the  two  Trices,  Mr.  Greene,  and  Mrs. 
Phihps,  and  so  we  began  to  argue.  At  last  it  came  to 
some  agreement  that  for  our  giving  of  my  aunt  ^\o 
she  is  to  quit  the  house,  and  for  other  matters  they 

^  Sir  Robert  Bernard,  Serjeant-at-law,  of  Huntingdon,  cr.  Bart.  1662,  and 
ob.  1666.  His  second  wife,  here  mentioned,  was  Elizabeth,  relict  of  George 
Lord  Digby,  ob.  January,  1662. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  Si 

are  to  be  left  to  the  law,  which  do  please  us  all,  and 
so  we  broke  up,  pretty  well  satisfyed. 

22nd.  Up  by  three,  and  going  by  four  on  my  way 
to  London ;  but  the  day  proves  very  cold,  so  that 
having  put  on  no  stockings  but  thread  ones  under 
my  boots,  I  was  fain  at  Bigglesworth  ^  to  buy  a  pair 
of  coarse  woollen  ones,  and  put  them  on.  So  by 
degrees  till  I  come  to  Hatfield  before  twelve  o'clock, 
and  walked  all  alone  to  the  Vineyard,  which  is  now  a 
very  beautiful  place  again ;  and  coming  back  I  met 
with  Mr.  Looker,  my  Lord's  ^  gardener  (a  friend  of  Mr. 
Eglin's),  who  showed  me  the  house,  the  chappell  with 
brave  pictures,  and,  above  all,  the  gardens,  such  as  I 
never  saw  in  all  my  life  ;  nor  so  good  flowers,  nor  so 
great  gooseburys,  as  big  as  nutmegs.  Back  to  the 
inne,  and  so  to  horse  again,  and  with  much  ado  got 
to  London.  Called  at  my  uncle  Fenner's,  my  moth- 
er's, my  Lady's,  and  so  home,  in  all  which  I  found 
all  things  as  well  as  I  could  expect.  So  weary  and 
to  bed. 

23rd.  Put  on  my  mourning.  In  the  afternoon,  find- 
ing myself  unfit  for  business,  I  went  to  the  Theatre, 
and  saw  "Brenoralt,"^  I  never  saw  before.  It  seemed 
a  good  play,  but  ill  acted ;  only  I  sat  before  Mrs. 
Palmer,  the  King's  mistress,  and  filled  my  eyes  with 
her,  which  much  pleased  me.  Troubled  to  hear  how 
proud  and  idle  Pall  is  grown,  that  I  am  resolved  not 
to  keep  her. 

^  Biggleswade.  ^  William  Cecil,  second  Earl  of  Salisbury. 

3  A  tragedy,  by  Sir  John  Suckling. 


82  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

24th.  This  morning  my  wife  in  bed  tells  me  of  our 
being  robbed  of  our  silver  tankard,  which  vexed  me 
all  day  for  the  negligence  of  my  people  to  leave  the 
door  open.  To  the  Wardrobe,  but  come  too  late,  so 
dined  with  the  servants.  And  then  to  my  Lady,  who 
do  shew  my  wife  and  me  the  greatest  favour  in  the 
world,  in  which  I  take  great  content.  Home  by 
water  and  to  the  office  all  the  afternoon,  which  is  a 
great  pleasure  to  me  again,  to  talk  with  persons  of 
quality  and  to  be  in  command,  and  I  give  it  out 
among  them  that  the  estate  left  me  is  ^200  a  year 
in  land,  besides  moneys,  because  I  would  put  an 
esteem  upon  myself.  I  hear  that  my  man  Will  hath 
lost  his  clock  with  my  tankard,  at  which  I  am  very 
glad. 

25  th.  This  morning  came  my  box  of  papers  from 
Brampton  of  all  my  uncle's  papers,  which  will  now 
set  me  at  work  enough.  At  noon  I  went  to  the  Ex- 
change, where  I  met  my  uncle  Wight,  and  found  him 
so  discontented  about  my  father  (whether  that  he 
takes  it  ill  that  he  has  not  been  acquainted  with 
things,  or  whether  he  takes  it  ill  that  he  has  nothing 
left  him,  I  cannot  tell),  for  which  I  am  much  troubled, 
and  so  staid  not  long  to  talk  with  him.  Thence  to 
my  mother's,  where  I  found  my  wife  and  my  aunt 
Bell  and  Mrs.  Ramsey,  and  great  store  of  tattle  there 
was  between  the  old  women  and  my  mother,  who 
thinks  that  there  is,  God  knows  what  fallen  to  her, 
which  makes  me  mad,  but  it  was  not  a  proper  time 
to  speak  to  her  of  it,  and  so  I  went  away  with  Mr. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  83 

Moore,  and  he  and  I  to  the  Theatre,  and  saw  ^'  The 
Jovial  Crew,"  '  the  first  time  I  saw  it,  and  indeed  it 
is  as  merry  and  the  most  innocent  play  that  ever 
I  saw,  and  well  performed.  Full  of  thoughts  to 
think  of  the  trouble  that  we  shall  go  through  be- 
fore we  come  to  see  what  will  remain  to  us  of  all  our 
expectations. 

26th.  Mr.  Hill  of  Cambridge  tells  me,  that  yester- 
day put  a  change  to  the  whole  state  of  England  ^  as 
to  the  Church ;  for  the  King  now  would  be  forced  to 
favour  Presbytery,  or  that  the  City  would  leave  him  : 
but  I  heed  not  what  he  says,  though  upon  enquiry  I 
do  find  that  things  in  the  Parliament  are  in  a  great 
disorder.  Having  the  beginning  of  this  week  made 
a  vow  to  myself  to  drink  no  wine  this  week  (finding 
it  to  unfit  me  to  look  after  business),  and  this  day 
breaking  of  it  against  my  will,  I  am  much  troubled 
for  it,  but  I  hope  God  will  forgive  me. 

27th.  To  Westminster,  where  at  Mr.  Montagu's 
chamber  I  heard  a  Frenchman  play,  a  friend  of  Mon- 
sieur Eschar's,  upon  the  guitar,  most  extreme  well, 
though  at  the  best  methinks  it  is  but  a  bawble.  From 
thence  to  Westminster  Hall,  where  it  was  expected 
that  the  Parliament  was  to  have  been  adjourned  for 
two  or  three  months,  but  something  hinders  it  for  a 
day  or  two.  In  the  lobby  I  spoke  with  Mr.  George 
Montagu,  and  advised  about  a  ship  to  carry  my  Lord 

^  A  comedy,  by  Richard  Brome. 

2  When  the  Savoy  conference  ended,  the  Royal  Commission  having  ex- 
pired on  that  day. 


84  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

Hinchingbroke  and  the  rest  of  the  young  gentlemen 
to  France,  and  they  have  resolved  of  going  in  a  hired 
vessell  from  Rye,  and  not  in  a  man  of  war.  He  told 
me  in  discourse,  that  my  Lord  Chancellor  is  much 
envied,  and  that  many  great  men,  such  as  the  Duke  of 
Buckingham  and  my  Lord  of  Bristoll/  do  endeavour 
to  undermine  him,  and  that  he  believes  it  will  not  be 
done ;  for  that  the  King  (though  he  loves  him  not  in 
the  way  of  a  companion,  as  he  do  these  young  gallants 
that  can  answer  him  in  his  pleasures),  yet  cannot  be 
without  him,  for  his  policy  and  service.  From  thence 
to  the  Wardrobe,  where  my  wife  met  me,  it  being  my 
Lord  of  Sandwich's  birthday,  and  so  we  had  many 
friends  here,  Mr.  Townsend  and  his  wife,  and  Captain 
Ferrer's  lady  and  Captain  Isham,  and  were  very 
merry,  and  had  a  good  venison  pasty.  Mr.  Pargiter, 
the  merchant,  was  with  us  also.  After  dinner  Mr. 
Townsend  was  called  upon  by  Captain  Cooke  :  so  we 
three  went  to  a  taveme  hard  by,  and  there  he  did 
give  us  a  song  or  two ;  and  without  doubt  he  hath 
the  best  manner  of  singing  in  the  world.  Back  to 
my  wdfe,  and  with  my  Lady  Jem.  and  Pall  by  water 
through  bridge,  and  showed  them  the  ships  with 
great  pleasure,  and  then  took  them  to  my  house  to 
show  it  them  (my  Lady,  their  mother  having  been 
lately  all  alone  to  see  it  and  my  wife,  in  my  absence 
in  the  country),  and  we  treated  them  well,  and  were 
very  merry.     Then  back  again  through  bridge,  and  set 

^  George,  second  Earl  of  Bristol. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  85 

them  safe  at  home,  and  so  my  wife  and  I  by  coach 
home  again. 

28th.  To  church,  and  again  in  the  afternoon,  and 
then  come  home  with  us  Sir  W.  Pen,  and  drank  with 
us,  and  then  went  away,  and  my  wife  after  him  to  see 
his  daughter  that  is  lately  come  out  of  Ireland.  I 
staid  at  home  at  my  book ;  she  came  back  again  and 
tells  me  that  whereas  I  expected  she  should  have 
been  a  great  beauty,  she  is  a  very  plain  girl.  This 
evening  my  wife  gives  me  all  my  linen,  which  I  have 
put  up,  and  intend  to  keep  it  now  in  my  own  cus- 
tody. 

29th.  This  morning  we  began  again  to  sit  in  the 
mornings  at  the  office.  So  home  to  dinner,  and  my 
brother  Tom  dined  with  me,  and  after  dinner  he  and  I 
alone  in  my  chamber  had  a  great  deal  of  talke,  and 
I  find  that  unless  my  father  can  forbear  to  make  profit 
of  his  house  in  London  and  leave  it  to  Tom,  he  has 
no  mind  to  set  up  the  trade  any  where  else,  and  so  I 
know  not  what  to  do  with  him.  After  this  I  went 
with  him  to  my  mother,  and  there  told  her  how  things 
do  fall  out  short  of  our  expectations,  which  I  did 
(though  it  be  true)  to  make  her  leave  off  her  spend- 
ing, which  I  find  she  is  now-a-days  very  free  in,  build- 
ing upon  what  is  left  to  us  by  my  uncle  to  bear  her 
out  in  it,  which  troubles  me  much.  While  I  was  here 
word  is  brought  that  my  aunt  Fenner  is  exceeding  ill, 
and  that  my  mother  is  sent  for  presently  '  to  come  to 

^  Immediately.     (M.  B.) 


S6  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

her :  also  that  my  cozen  Charles  Glassecocke,  though 
very  ill  himself,  is  this  day  gone  to  the  country  to  his 
brother,  John  Glassecocke,  who  is  a-dying  there. 

30th.  After  my  singing-master  had  done  with  me 
this  morning,  I  went  to  White  Hall  and  Westminster 
Hall,  where  I  found  the  King  expected  to  come  and 
adjourne  the  Parliament.  I  found  the  two  Houses  at 
a  great  difference,  about  the  L(frds  challenging  their 
privileges  not  to  have  their  houses  searched,  which 
makes  them  deny  to  pass  the  House  of  Commons' 
Bill  for  searching  for  pamphlets  and  seditious  books. 
Thence  by  water  to  the  Wardrobe  (meeting  the  King 
upon  the  water  going  in  his  barge  to  adjourne  the 
House)  where  I  dined  with  my  Lady,  and  there  met 
Dr.  Thomas  Pepys,  who  I  found  to  be  a  silly  talking 
fellow,  but  veiy  good-natured.  So  home  to  the  office, 
where  we  met  about  the  business  of  Tangier  this  after- 
noon. To  Fleet  Street  to  find  when  the  Assizes  begin 
at  Cambridge  and  Huntingdon,  in  order  to  my  going 
to  meet  with  Roger  Pepys  for  counsel.  In  Fleet 
Streete  I  met  with  Mr.  Salisbury,  who  is  now  grown  in 
less  than  two  years'  time  so  great  a  limner  that  he  is 
become  excellent,  and  gets  a  great  deal  of  money  at 
it.     I  took  him  to  Hercules  Pillars  '  to  drink. 

31st.  Singing-master  came  to  me  this  morning; 
then  to  the  office  all  the  morning.  In  the  afternoon 
I  went  to  the  Theatre,  and  there  I  saw  "  The  Tamer 
Tamed  "  well  done.     And  then  home,  and  prepared 

'  A  tavern  in  Fleet  Street. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  8/ 

to  go  to  Walthamstow  to-morrow.  This  night  I  was 
forced  to  borrow  ;£"40  of  Sir  W.  Batten. 

August  I  St.  This  morning  Sir  WilHams  both,  and 
my  wife  and  I,  and  Mrs.  Margarett  Pen  (this  first  time 
that  I  have  seen  her  since  she  came  from  Ireland) 
went  by  coach  to  Walthamstow,  a-gossiping  to  Mrs. 
Browne,  where  I  did  give  her  six  silver  spoons  ^  for 
her  boy.  Here  we  had  a  venison  pasty,  brought  hot 
from  London,  and  were  very  merry. 

2d.  I  made  myself  ready  to  get  a-horseback  for 
Cambridge.  So  I  set  out  and  rode  to  Ware,  this 
night,  in  the  way  having  much  discourse  with  a  fell- 
monger,  a  Quaker,  who  told  me  what  a  wicked  man 
he  had  been  all  his  life-time  till  witliin  this  two  years. 
Here  I  lay,  and 

3rd.  Got  up  early  the  next  morning  and  got  to 
Barkway,  where  I  staid  and  drank,  and  there  met 
with  a  letter-carrier  of  Cambridge,  with  whom  I  rode 
all  the  way  to  Cambridge,  my  horse  being  tired,  and 
myself  very  wet  with  rayne.  I  went  to  the  Castle 
Hill,  where  the  Judges  were  at  the  Assizes ;  and  I 
staid  till  Roger  Pepys  rose  and  went  with  him,  and 
dined  with  his  brother,  the  Doctor,  and  Claxton  at 
Trinity  Hall.  Then  parted,  and  I  went  to  the  Rose, 
and  there  with  Mr.  Pechell,^  Sanchy,  and  others,  sat 


1  But  not  the  porringer  of  silver.     See  29th  May,  1661.     (M.  B.) 

2  John  Peachell,  Vicar  of  Stanwick  and  Prebendary  of  Carlisle,  made 
Master  of  Magdalene  College  1679,  suspended  from  that  office  and  deprived 
of  the  Vice-Chancellorship  for  refusing  to  admit  Alban  Francis,  a  Benedictine 
monk,  to  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  without  his  taking  the  oaths.     He  was 


88  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

and  drank  till  night  and  were  very  merry,  only  they 
tell  me  how  high  the  old  doctors  are  in  the  University 
over  those  they  found  there,  though  a  great  deal  better 
scholars  than  themselves ;  for  which  I  am  very  sorry, 


restored  by  James  the  Second's  letter  to  the  Mastership,  Oct.  1688,  and  died 
1690. 

A  copy  of  Dr.  Peachell's  sentence  as  it  was  fixt  on  the  publick  School 
Doors  and  Magdalen  College  Gates  : 

"  By  His  Majesties  Commissioners  for  Ecclesiastical  Causes  and  for  the 
Visitation  of  the  University  and  of  every  Collegiate  and  Cathedral  Churches, 
CoUedges,  Grammar  Schools,  Hospitals  and  other  the  Hke  Incorporations,  or 
Foundations  or  Societies. 

"  AVhereas  John  Peachell,  Dr.  of  Divinity,  Vice  Chancellour  of  Cambridge, 
Master  of  Magdalen  CoUedge,  in  the  said  University,  has  been  convend  be- 
fore us  for  his  disobedience  to  his  Majesties  Royal  Letters  mandatory  and 
other  his  contempts  :  and  the  said  Dr.  John  Peachell  having  been  fully  heard 
thereupon,  we  have  thought  fit  after  mature  consideration  of  the  matter  to 
declare,  decree  and  pronounce  that  the  said  Dr.  John  Peachell,  shall  for  the 
said  disobedience  and  contempt,  be  deprived  from  being  Vice  Chancellour  of 
the  said  University,  and  from  all  power  of  acting  in  the  same  :  and  also  that 
he  be  suspended  ab  officio  et  beneficio  of  his  Mastership  of  the  said  CoUedge, 
during  his  Majesties  pleasure  :  and  accordingly  we  do  by  these  presents  de- 
prive him  the  said  Di".  John  Peachell  from  being  Vice  Chancellour  of  the 
said  University  and  from  all  power  of  acting  in  the  same.  And  we  also  sus- 
pend him  ab  officio  et  beneficio  of  his  Mastership  of  the  said  CoUedge,  per- 
emptorily admonishing  and  requiring  him  hereby  to  abstain  from  the  function 
of  Master  of  the  said  CoUedge,  during  the  said  suspension  under  pain  of 
deprivation  from  his  said  Mastership.  And  we  also  further  order  and  decree, 
that  the  profit  and  perquisites  belonging  to  his  said  Mastership,  shall  during 
the  same  suspension  be  applyed  to  the  use  and  benefit  of  the  said  CoUedge. 

"  Given  under  our  Seal,  the  7th  day  of  May  1687. 
"  Finis." 

"  I  find  in  the  first  Lord  Dartmouth's  manuscript  notes  on  Bishop  Bur- 
nett's History,  that  Dr.  Peachell  afterwards  starved  himself  to  death.  Arch- 
bishop Sancroft  having  rebuked  him  for  setting  an  ill  example  in  the 
University  by  drunkenness  and  other  loose  behaviour.  He  did  penance  by 
four  days'  abstinence,  after  which  he  would  have  eaten  but  could  not."  — 
From  the  Master  of  Magdalene's  "  private  "  book.  For  his  red  ?iose,  which 
made  Pepys  ashamed  to  be  seen  with  him,  see  Diary,  3rd  May,  1667.    (M.  B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  89 

and,  above  all,  Dr.  Gunning.  At  night  I  took  horse, 
and  rode  with  Roger  Pepys  and  his  two  brothers  to 
Impington,  and  there  with  great  respect  was  led  up 
by  them  to  the  best  chamber  in  the  house,  and  there 
slept. 

4th  (Lord's  day).  Got  up,  and  by  and  by  walked 
into  the  orchard  with  my  cozen  Roger,  and  there 
plucked  some  fruit,  and  then  discoursed  at  large  about 
my  uncle's  will,  in  which  he  did  give  me  good  satis- 
faction, but  tells  me  I  shall  meet  with  a  great  deal  of 
trouble  in  it.  However,  in  all  things  he  told  me  what 
I  am  to  expect  and  what  to  do.  To  church,  and  had 
a  good  plain  sermon.  At  our  coming  in  the  country- 
people  all  rose  with  so  much  reverence ;  and  when 
the  parson  begins,  he  begins  "  Right  worshipfull  and 
dearly  beloved  "  ^  to  us.  Home  to  dinner,  and  then 
to  church  again,  and,  after  supper,  to  talk  about  pub- 
lique  matters,  wherein  Roger  Pepys  told  me  how 
basely  things  have  been  carried  in  Parliament  by  the 
young  men,  that  did  labour  to  oppose  all  things  that 
were  moved  by  serious  men.  That  they  are  the  most 
prophane  swearing  fellows  that  ever  he  heard  in  his 
life,  which  makes  him  think  that  they  will  spoil  all, 
and  bring  things  into  a  warr  again  if  they  can. 

5  th.  Early  to  Huntingdon,  but  was  fain  to  stay  a 
great  while  at  Stanton  because  of  the  rayne,  and  there 
borrowed  a  coat  of  a  man  for  6^.,  and  so  he  rode  all 
the  way,  poor  man,  without  any.     Staid  at  Hunting- 

^  This  takes  away  the  originality  of  Dean  Swift's  "  dearly  beloved 
Roger  ! " 


90  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

don  for  a  little,  but  the  judges  are  not  come  hither : 
so  I  went  to  Brampton,  and  there  found  my  father 
very  well,  and  my  aunt  gone  from  the  house,  which  I 
am  glad  of,  though  it  costs  us  a  great  deal  of  money, 
viz.,  lo/.  After  dinner  took  horse  and  rode  to  Yell- 
ing, to  my  cozen  Nightingale's,  who  hath  a  pretty 
house  here,  and  did  learn  of  her  all  she  could  tell  me 
concerning  my  business. 

6th.  Up  early  and  rode  to  Huntingdon,  where  I 
staid  with  Thos.  Trice  and  Mr.  Philips  drinking  till 
noone,  and  then  home  to  my  father,  who  could  dis- 
cerne  that  I  had  been  drinking,  which  he  did  never 
see  or  hear  of  before,  so  I  eat  a  bit  of  dinner  and 
then  took  horse  for  London,  and  with  much  ado,  the 
ways  being  very  bad,  got  to  Bald  wick,'  and  there  lay 
and  had  a  good  supper  by  myself.  The  landlady 
being  a  pretty  woman,  but  I  durst  not  take  notice  of 
her,  her  husband  being  there.  Before  supper  I  went 
to  see  the  church,  which  is  a  very  handsome  church, 
but  I  find  that  both  here,  and  every  where  else  that  I 
come,  the  Quakers  do  still  continue,  and  rather  grow 
than  lessen. 

7th.  Called  up  at  three  o'clock,  and  was  a-horseback 
by  four ;  and  as  I  was  eating  my  breakfast  I  saw  a  man 
riding  by  that  rode  a  little  way  upon  the  road  with 
me  last  night;  and  he  being  going  with  venison  in 
his  pan-yards  to  London,  I  called  him  in  and  did  give 
him  his  breakfast  with  me,  and  so  we  went  together 

I  Baldock. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  9 1 

all  the  way.  At  Hatfield  we  bayted  and  walked  into 
the  great  house  through  all  the  courts ;  and  I  would 
fain  have  stolen  a  pretty  dog  that  followed  me,  but  I 
could  not,  which  troubled  me.  To  horse  again,  and 
by  degrees  with  much  ado  got  to  London,  where  I 
found  all  well  at  home  and  at  my  father's  and  my 
Lady's,  but  no  newes  yet  from  my  Lord  where  he  is. 

8th.  Early  in  the  morning  to  Whitehall,  but  my 
Lord  Privy  Seale  came  not  all  the  morning.  To  the 
Wardrobe  to  dinner.  Back  again  to  the  Privy  Seale ; 
but  my  Lord  comes  not  all  the  afternoon,  which  made 
me  mad  and  gives  all  the  world  reason  to  talk  of  his 
delaying  of  businesse,  as  well  as  of  his  severity  and 
ill  using  of  the  Clerkes  of  the  Privy  Seale.  In  the 
evening  I  took  Mons.  Eschar  and  Mr.  Moore  and  Dr. 
Pierce's  brother  to  the  taverne  next  the  Savoy.  Here 
I  met  with  Mr.  Mage,  and  discoursing  of  musique 
Mons.  Eschar  spoke  so  much  against  the  English  and 
in  praise  of  the  French  that  made  him  mad,  and  so 
he  went  away. 

9th.  To  the  ofHce,  where  I  found  Sir  G.  Carteret 
had  a  day  or  two  ago  invited  some  of  the  officers  to 
dinner  to-day  at  Deptford.  So  at  noon,  when  I  heard 
that  he  was  a-coming,  I  went  out,  because  I  would 
see  whether  he  would  send  to  me  or  no  to  go  with 
them ;  but  he  did  not,  which  do  a  little  trouble  me 
till  I  see  how  it  comes  to  pass.  I  to  White  Hall, 
where,  after  four  o'clock,  comes  my  Lord  Privy  Seale,' 

^  William,  first  Viscount,  and  second  Baron  Say  and  Sele,  made  Lord 
Privy  Seal  at  the  Restoration.     Ob.  April,  1662. 


92  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

and  so  we  went  up  to  his  chamber  over  the  gate  at 
White  Hall,  where  he  asked  me  what  deputacon  I 
had  from  my  Lord.  I  told  him  none ;  but  that  I  am 
sworn  my  Lord's  deputy  by  both  of  the  Secretarys, 
which  did  satisfye  him.  So  he  caused  Mr.  Moore 
to  read  over  all  the  bills,  and  all  ended  very  well. 
So  that  I  see  the  Lyon  is  not  so  fierce  as  he  is 
painted. 

loth.  This  morning  came  the  mayde  that  my  wife 
hath  lately  hired  for  a  chamber  mayde.  She  is  very 
ugly,  so  that  I  cannot  care  for  her,  but  otherwise  she 
seems  very  good.  I  went  to  my  Lady's  and  dined 
with  her,  and  after  dinner  took  the  two  young  gentle- 
men and  the  two  ladies  and  carried  them  and  Captain 
Ferrers  to  the  Theatre,  and  shewed  them  "  The  merry 
Devill  of  Edmunton,"  ^  which  is  a  very  merry  play, 
the  first  time  I  ever  saw  it,  which  pleased  me  well. 
And  that  being  done  I  took  them  all  home  by  coach 
to  my  house  and  there  gave  them  fruit  to  eat  and 
wine.  So  by  water  home  with  them,  and  so  home 
myself. 

nth  (Lord's  day).  To  our  own  church  in  the  fore- 
noon, and  in  the  afternoon  to  Clerkenwell  Church, 
only  to  see  the  two  fayre  Botelers ;  and  I  happened 
to  be  placed  in  the  pew  where  they  afterwards  came 
to  sit,  but  the  pew  by  their  coming  being  too  full,  I 
went  out  into  the  next,  and  there  sat,  and  had  my  full 
view  of  them  both,  but  I  am  out  of  conceit  now  with 

^  Anonymous;  printed  in  1608. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  93 

them,  Colonel  Dillon  being  come  back  from  Ireland 
again,  and  do  still  court  them,  and  comes  to  church 
with  them,  which  makes  me  think  they  are  not  honest. 
Hence  to  Graye's-Inn  walks,  and  there  staid  a  good 
while  ;  where  I  met  with  Ned  Pickering,  who  told  me 
what  a  great  match  of  hunting  of  a  stagg  the  King 
had  yesterday;  and  how  the  King  tired  all  their 
horses,  and  come  home  with  not  above  two  or  three 
able  to  keep  pace  with  him. 

1 2th.  At  the  office  this  morning.  At  home  in  the 
afternoon,  and  had  notice  that  my  Lord  Hinching- 
broke  is  fallen  ill,  which  I  fear  is  with  the  fruit  that 
I  did  give  them  on  Saturday  last  at  my  house  :  so  in 
the  evening  I  went  thither  and  there  found  him  very 
ill,  and  in  great  fear  of  the  small-pox.  I  supped  with 
my  Lady  and  did  consult  about  him,  but  we  find  it 
best  to  let  him  lie  where  he  do ;  and  so  I  went  home 
with  my  heart  full  of  trouble  for  my  Lord  Hinching- 
broke's  sicknesse,  and  more  for  my  Lord  Sandwich's 
himself,  whom  we  are  now  confirmed  is  sick  ashore 
at  Alicante,  who,  if  he  should  miscarry,  God  knows 
in  what  condition  would  his  family  be.  I  dined  to-day 
with  my  Lord  Crew,  who  is  now  at  Sir  H.  Wright's, 
while  his  new  house  is  making  fit  for  him,  and  he  is 
much  troubled  also  at  these  things. 

13th.  To  the  Privy  Scale  in  the  morning,  then  to 
the  Wardrobe  and  found  my  young  Lord  very  ill.  So 
my  Lady  intends  to  send  her  other  three  sons,  Sidney, 
Oliver,  and  John,  to  my  house,  for  fear  of  the  small- 
pox.    After  dinner  I  went  to  my  father's,  and  Pall 


94  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

being  there  I  spoke  to  my  father  about  my  intention 
not  to  keep  her  longer  for  such  and  such  reasons, 
which  troubled  him  and  me  also,  and  had  like  to  have 
come  to  some  high  words  between  my  mother  and 
me,  who  is  become  a  very  simple  woman.  Home, 
and  there  found  my  Lady's  three  sons  come,  of  which 
I  am  glad  that  I  am  in  condition  to  do  her  and  my 
Lord  any  service  in  this  kind,  but  my  mind  is  yet 
very  much  troubled  about  my  Lord  of  Sandwich's 
health,  which  I  am  afeard  of. 

14th.  This  morning  Sir  W.  Batten,  and  Sir  W.  Pen 
and  I,  waited  upon  the  Duke  of  York  in  his  chamber, 
to  give  him  an  account  of  the  condition  of  the  Navy 
for  lack  of  money,  and  how  our  o\^^l  very  bills  are 
offered  upon  the  Exchange,  to  be  sold  at  ^o  in  the 
100  loss.  He  is  much  troubled  at  it,  and  will  speak 
to  the  King  and  Council  of  it  this  morning.  So  I 
went  to  my  Lady's  and  dined  with  her,  and  found  my 
Lord  Hinchingbroke  somewhat  better.  After  dinner 
Captain  Ferrers  and  I  to  the  Theatre,  and  there  saw 
"The  Alchymist  j  "  and  there  I  saw  Sir  W.  Pen,  who 
took  me  when  the  play  was  done  to  the  Dolphin,  but 
not  finding  Sir  W.  Batten  there,  we  went  and  carried 
a  bottle  of  wine  to  his  house,  and  there  sat  a  while 
and  talked,  and  so  home  to  bed.  At  home  I  found  a 
letter  from  Mr.  Creed  of  the  15  th  of  July  last,  that 
tells  me  that  my  Lord  is  rid  of  his  pain  (which  was 
wind  got  into  the  muscles  of  his  right  side)  and  his 
feaver,  and  is  now  in  hopes  to  go  abroad  in  a  day  or 
two,  which  do  give  me  mighty  great  comfort. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  95 

15  th.  To  the  Privy  Seale  and  Whitehall,  and  at 
noon  Sir  W.  Pen  carried  me  to  Paul's,  and  so  I  walked 
to  the  Wardrobe  and  dined  with  my  Lady,  and  there 
told  her  of  my  Lord's  sicknesse  (of  which  though  it 
hath  been  the  town-talk  this  fortnight,  she  had  heard 
nothings)  and  recovery,  of  which  she  was  glad, 
though  hardly  persuaded  of  the  latter.  I  found  my 
Lord  Hinchingbroke  better  and  better,  and  the  worst 
past.  Thence  to  the  Opera,  which  begins  again  to- 
day with  "  The  Witts,"  ^  never  acted  yet  with  scenes  ; 
and  the  King  and  Duke  and  Duchesse  were  there 
(who  dined  to-day  with  Sir  H.  Finch,  reader  at  the 
Temple,  in  great  state)  ;  and  indeed  it  is  a  most 
excellent  play,  and  admirable  scenes.  So  home  and 
was  overtaken  by  Sir  W.  Pen  in  his  coach.  So  I  fol- 
lowed him  to  the  Dolphin,  where  Sir  W.  Batten  was, 
and  there  we  sat  awhile,  and  so  home  after  we  had 
made  shift  to  fuddle  Mr.  Falconer  of  Woolv^^ch. 

1 6th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning,  though  litde  to 
do ;  because  all  our  clerkes  are  gone  to  the  buriall  of 
Tom  W^hitton,  one  of  the  Controller's  clerkes,  a  very 
ingenious,  and  a  likely  young  man  to  live,  as  any  in 
the  Office.  But  it  is  such  a  sickly  time  both  in  City 
and  country  every  where  (of  a  sort  of  fever),  that 
never  was  heard  of  almost,  unless  it  was  in  a  plague- 

^  So  of  the  Emperor  Claudius  : 

"  Dabilur  mora  parvula  dum  res 
Nota  urbi  et  populo  contingat  Principis  aures. 
Dedecus  ille  domus  sciet  ultimus." 

Juv.  Sat.  X.  340.     (M.  B.) 
2  A  comedy,  by  Sir  W.  Davenant. 


96  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

time.  Among  others,  the  famous  Tom  Fuller^  is 
dead  of  it ;  and  Dr.  Nichols,^  Dean  of  Paul's ;  and 
my  Lord  General  Monk  is  very  dangerously  ill. 
Dined  at  home  with  the  children  and  were  merry.  I 
understand  my  Aunt  Fenner  is  upon  the  point  of 
death. 

1 7th.  At  the  Privy  Scale,  where  we  had  a  seale  this 
morning.  Then  met  with  Ned  Pickering,  and  walked 
with  him  into  St.  James's  Park  (where  I  had  not  been 
a  great  while),  and  there  found  great  and  very  noble 
alterations.  And,  in  our  discourse,  he  was  very  for- 
ward to  complain  and  to  speak  loud  of  the  lewdnesse 
and  beggary  of  the  Court,  which  I  am  sorry  to  hear, 
and  which  I  am  afeard  will  bring  all  to  ruin  again. 
I  to  the  Opera,  and  saw  "  The  Witts  "  again,  which  I 
hke  exceedingly.  The  Queene  of  Bohemia  was  here, 
brought  by  my  Lord  Craven.3  So  Captain  Ferrers 
and  I  and  another  to  the  Devil  taveme  and  drank, 
and  so  by  coach  home.  Troubled  in  mind  that  I 
cannot  bring  myself  to  mind  my  business,  but  to  be 
so  much  in  love  of  plays.  We  have  been  at  a  great 
loss  a  great  while  for  a  vessel  that  I  sent  about  a 
month  ago  with  things  of  my  Lord's  to  Lynn,  and 


^  D.D.,  Author  of  the  "Worthies  of  England,"  Chaplain  to  the  King, 
and  Prebendary  of  Salisbury. 

2  Matthew  Nicholas,  D.D.,  installed  Dean  of  St.  Paul's,  July,  1660. 
Ob.  August  14,  1661,  He  was  brother  to  Sir  Edward  Nicholas,  Secretary  of 
State. 

3  William,  first  Earl  of  Craven,  a  Privy  Councillor,  and  Colonel  of  the 
Coldstream  Guards  ;  supposed  to  be  married  to  the  Queen  of  Bohemia.  Ob. 
1697,  aged  88. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  97 

cannot  till  now  hear  of  them,  but  now  we  are  told 
that  they  are  put  into  Scale  Bay,  but  to  what  purpose 
I  know  not. 

1 8th  (Lord's  day).  To  our  own  church  in  the 
morning  and  so  home  to  dinner,  where  my  father  and 
Dr.  Tom  Pepys  came  to  me  to  dine,  and  were  very 
merry.  After  dinner  I  took  my  wife  and  Mr.  Sidney 
to  my  Lady  to  see  my  Lord  Hinchingbroke,  who  is 
now  pretty  well  again,  and  sits  up  and  walks  about  his 
chamber.  So  I  went  to  White  Hall,  and  there  hear 
that  my  Lord  General  Monk  continues  very  ill :  so  I 
went  to  la  belle  Pierce  and  sat  with  her ;  and  then  to 
walk  in  St.  James's  Park,  and  saw  a  great  variety  of 
fowle  which  I  never  saw  before.  At  night  fell  to  read 
in  "  Hooker's  Ecclesiastical  Polity,"  which  Mr.  Moore 
did  give  me  last  Wednesday  very  handsomely  bound  ; 
and  which  I  shall  read  with  great  pains  and  love  for 
his  sake. 

19th.  I  am  sent  for  to  the  Privy  Scale,  and  there  I 
found  a  thing  of  my  Lord  Chancellor's  '  to  be  sealed 
this  afternoon,  and  so  I  am  forced  to  go  to  Worcester 

^  This  "  thing  "  was  probably  one  of  those  large  grants  which  Clarendon 
quietly,  or,  as  he  himself  says,  "  without  noise  or  scandal,"  procured  from  the 
King.  Besides  lands  and  manors,  Clarendon  states  at  one  time  that  the  King 
gave  him  a  "  little  billet  into  his  hand,  that  contained  a  warrant  of  his  own 
handwriting  to  Sir  Stephen  Fox  to  pay  to  the  Chancellor  the  sum  of  20,000/., 
of  which  nobody  could  have  notice."  In  1662,  he  received  25,000/.  out  of  the 
money  voted  to  the  King  by  the  Parliament  of  Ireland,  as  he  mentions  in  his 
vindication  of  himself  against  the  impeachment  of  the  Commons  :  and  we 
shall  see  that  Pepys,  in  February,  1664,  names  another  sum  of  20,000/.  given 
to  the  Chancellor  to  clear  the  mortgage  upon  Clarendon  Park  ;  and  this  last 
sum,  it  was  believed,  was  paid  from  the  money  received  from  France  by  the 
sale  of  Dunkirk. 


98  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS. 

House,  where  severall  Lords  are  met  in  Council  this 
afternoon.  And  while  I  am  waiting  there,  in  comes 
the  King  in  a  plain  common  riding-suit  and  velvet 
cap,  in  which  he  seemed  a  very  ordinary  man  to  one 
that  had  not  known  him.  Here  I  staid  till  at  last, 
hearing  that  my  Lord  Privy  Scale  had  not  the  scale 
here,  Mr.  Moore  and  I  hired  a  coach  and  went  to 
Chelsy,  and  there  at  an  alehouse  sat  and  drank  and 
past  the  time  till  my  Lord  Privy  Scale  came  to  his 
house,  and  so  we  to  him  and  examined  and  sealed  the 
thing,  and  so  homewards,  but  when  we  came  to  look 
for  our  coach  we  found  it  gone,  so  we  were  fain  to 
walk  home  afoot  and  saved  our  money.  We  met  with 
a  companion  that  walked  with  us,  and  coming  among 
some  trees  near  the  Neate '  houses,  he  began  to 
whistle,  which  did  give  us  some  suspicion,  but  it 
proved  that  he   that   answered  him  was  Mr.   Marsh 


*  "  The  Neat  Houses  are  a  parcel  of  houses  most  seated  on  the  banks  of 
the  river  Thames  and  inhabited  by  gardeners,  for  which  it  is  of  note  for  the 
supplying  London  and  Westminster  markets  with  Asparagus,  Artichoaks, 
Cauliflowers,  Musk-melons,  and  the  like  useful  things."  —  Strype,  b.  vi. 
p.  67. 

Edward  VI.  granted  the  house  called  the  Neate,  and  all  the  site,  &c., 
situated  in  the  parish  of  St.  Martin's  in  the  Fields,  to  Sir  Anthony  Browne. 
There  are  some  houses  still  called  the  Neate  Houses,  situated  near  the  water 
side,  in  that  part  of  Chelsea  which  lies  in  the  parish  of  St.  George,  Hanover 
Square,  and  was  formerly  part  of  St.  Martin's. 

"The  xiiij  of  Maie  1621.  To  the  iiij  Bearers  for  bringing  the  drowned 
woman  from  the  Thames  neare  the  Neate  house,  und."  —  Accounts  of  the 
Overseers  of  St.  Martin's  in  the  Fields.     LvsONs's  Environs,  vol.  ii.  p.  181. 

"  We  hear  that  Madam  Ellen  Gwyn's  mother  sitting  lately  by  the  water 
side  at  her  house  by  the  Neate  Houses,  near  Chelsea,  fell  accidentally  into 
the  water  and  was  drowned."  —  Domestic  Intelligencer,  August  5th,  1679. 
Cunningham,  Handbook  0/  London,  vol.  ii.  p.  580.     (M.  B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  99 

(the  Liitenist)  and  his  \vife,  and  so  we  all  walked  to 
Westminster  together,  in  our  way  drinking  a  while  at 
my  cost,  and  had  a  song  of  him,  but  his  voice  is  quite 
lost.  So  walked  home,  and  there  I  found  that  my 
Lady  do  keep  the  children  at  home,  and  lets  them 
not  come  any  more  hither  at  present,  which  a  little 
troubles  me  to  lose  their  company.  This  day  my  aunt 
Fenner  dyed. 

20th.  This  day  we  come  to  some  agreement  with 
Sir  R.  Ford  for  his  house  to  be  added  to  the  office  to 
enlarge  our  quarters. 

2 1  St.  To  Will.  Joyce's  and  to  an  alehouse,  and 
drank  a  good  while  together,  he  being  very  angry 
that  his  father  Fenner  will  give  him  and  his  brother 
no  more  for  mourning  than  their  father  did  give  him 
and  my  aunt  at  their  mother's  death,  and  a  very 
troublesome  fellow  I  still  find  him  to  be,  that  his  com- 
pany ever  wearys  me.  I  understand  by  Mr.  Moore 
that  my  Lady  Sandwich  is  brought  to  bed  yesterday 
of  a  young  Lady,  and  is  very  well.  We  went  to 
Mrs.  Terry,  a  daughter  of  Mr.  Whately's,  who  lately 
offered  a  proposal  of  her  sister  for  a  wife  for  my 
brother  Tom,  and  so  to  Mrs.  Whately's,  and  there 
were  well  received,  and  she  desirous  to  have  the  thing 
go  fonvard,  only  is  afeard  that  her  daughter  is  too 
young  and  portion  not  big  enough,  but  offers  200/. 
down  with  her.  The  girle  is  very  well  favoured,  and 
a  very  child,  but  modest,  and  one  I  think  will  do  very 
well  for  my  brother :  so  parted  till  she  hears  from 
Hatfield  from  her  husband,  who  is  there  ;  but  I  find 

814474A 


100  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

them  very  desirous  of  it,  and  so  am  I.  Hence  home 
to  my  father's,  and  I  to  the  Wardrobe,  where  I  supped 
with  the  ladies,'  and  hear  their  mother  is  well  and  the 
young  child. 

22nd.  To  the  Privy  Scale,  and  sealed;  so  home  at 
noon,  and  there  took  my  wife  by  coach  to  my  uncle 
Fenner's,  where  there  was  both  at  his  house  and  the 
Sessions,  great  deal  of  company,  but  poor  entertain- 
ment, which  I  wonder  at ;  and  the  house  so  hot,  that 
my  uncle  Wight,  my  father  and  I  were  fain  to  go  out, 
and  stay  at  an  alehouse  awhile  to  cool  ourselves. 
7'hen  back  again  and  to  church,  my  father's  family 
being  all  in  mourning,  doing  him  the  greatest  honour, 
the  world  believing  that  he  did  give  us  it :  so  to  church, 
and  staid  out  the  sermon,  and  then  with  my  aunt 
Wight,  my  wife,  and  Pall  and  I  to  her  house  by  coach, 
and  there  staid  and  supped  upon  a  Westphaha  ham, 
and  so  home  and  to  bed. 

23rd.  This  morning  I  went  to  my  father's,  and 
there  found  him  and  my  mother  in  a  discontent, 
which  troubles  me  much,  and  indeed  she  is  become 
very  simple  and  unquiet.  So  to  W.  Joyce's,  where  by 
appointment  my  wife  was,  and  I  took  her  to  the 
Opera,  and  shewed  her  "The  Witts,"  which  I  had 
seen  already  twice,  and  was  most  highly  pleased 
with  it. 

24th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning  and  did  busi- 
ness ;  by  and  by  we  are  called  to  Sir  W.  Batten's  to 

*  Montagu. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  10 1 

see  the  strange  creature  that  Captain  Holmes  hath 
brought  with  him  from  Guiny ;  it  is  a  great  baboon, 
but  so  much  hke  a  man  in  most  things,  that  though 
they  say  there  is  a  species  of  them,  yet  I  cannot 
beheve  but  that  it  is  a  monster  got  of  a  man  and  she- 
baboon.  I  do  beheve  that  it  already  understands 
much  English,  and  I  am  of  the  mind  it  might  be 
taught  to  speak  or  make  signs.  To  the  Opera,  and 
there  saw  "  Hamlet,  Prince  of  Denmarke,"  done  with 
scenes  very  well,  but  above  all,  Betterton  did  the 
Prince's  part  beyond  imagination. 

25th  (Lord's  day).  At  church  in  the  morning,  and 
dined  at  home  with  my  wife  very  comfortably,  and 
so  again  to  church  with  her,  and  had  a  very  good 
and  pungent  sermon  of  Mr.  Mills,  discoursing  the 
necessity  of  restitution.  Home,  and  I  found  my  Lady 
Batten  and  her  daughter  to  look  something  askew 
upon  my  wife,  because  my  wife  do  not  buckle  to  them, 
and  is  not  solicitous  for  their  acquaintance,  which  I 
am  not  troubled  at  at  all.  By  and  by  comes  in  my 
father,  who  intends  to  go  into  the  country  to-morrow, 
and  he  and  I  among  other  discourse  at  last  called 
Pall  up  to  us,  and  there  in  great  anger  I  told  her 
before  my  father  that  I  would  keep  her  no  longer, 
and  my  father  he  said  he  would  have  nothing  to  do 
with  her.  At  last,  after  we  had  brought  down  her 
high  spirit,  I  got  my  father  to  yield  that  she  should  go 
into  the  country  with  my  mother  and  him,  and  stay 
there  awhile  to  see  how  she  will  demean  herself. 
That  being  done,  my  father  and  I  to  my  uncle  Wight's, 


102  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

and  there  supped,  and  I  home,  my  mind  at  some  rest 
upon  this  making  an  end  with  Pall,  who  do  trouble 
me  exceedingly. 

26th.  This  morning  before  I  went  out  I  made  even 
with  my  mayde  Jane,  who  has  this  day  been  my  mayde 
three  years,  and  is  this  day  to  go  into  the  country  to 
her  mother.  The  poor  girle  cried,  and  I  could  hardly 
forbear  weeping  to  think  of  her  going,  for  though  she 
be  grown  lazy  and  spoilt  by  Pall's  coming,  yet  I  shall 
never  have  one  to  please  us  better  in  all  things,  and 
so  harmless,  while  I  live.  So  I  paid  her  her  wages 
and  gave  her  2s.  6d.  over,  and  bade  her  adieu,  with 
my  mind  full  of  trouble  at  her  going.  Hence  to  my 
father,  where  he  and  I  and  Thomas  together  setting 
things  even,  and  casting  up  my  father's  accounts,  and 
upon  the  whole  I  find  that  all  he  hath  in  money  of  his 
owne  due  to  him  in  the  world  is  but  45/.,  and  he  owes 
about  the  same  summe  :  so  that  I  cannot  but  think  in 
what  a  condition  he  had  left  my  mother  if  he  should 
have  died  before  my  uncle  Robert.  Thence  to  the 
Theatre,  and  saw  the  "  Antipodes,"  '  wherein  there  is 
much  mirth,  but  no  great  matter  else.  Hence  with 
Mr.  Bostock  to  the  Devil  taverne,  and  there  drank  and 
so  away.  I  to  my  uncle  Fenner's,  where  my  father 
was  with  him  at  an  alehouse,  and  so  we  three  went 
by  ourselves  and  sat  talking  a  great  while  about  a 
broker's  daughter  that  he  do  propose  for  a  wife  for 
Tom,  with  a  great  portion,  but  I  fear  it  will  not  take, 

^  A  comedy,  by  Richard  Brorae. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  IO3 

but  he  will  do  what  he  can.  I  found  a  letter  from 
my  Lord  Sandwich,  who  is  now  very  well  again  of  his 
feaver,  but  not  yet  gone  from  Alicante,  where  he  lay 
sick,  and  was  twice  let  blood.  This  letter  dated  the 
22nd  July  last,  which  puts  me  out  of  doubt  of  his 
being  ill. 

27th.  This  morning  to  the  Wardrobe,  and  there 
took  leave  of  my  Lord  Hinchingbroke  and  his  brother, 
and  saw  them  go  out  by  coach  toward  Rye  in  their 
way  to  France,  whom  God  blesse.  Then  I  was  called 
up  to  my  Lady's  bedside,  where  we  talked  an  houre 
about  Mr.  Edward  Montagu's  disposing  of  the  5000/. 
for  my  Lord's  departure  for  Portugal,  and  our  fears 
that  he  will  not  do  it  to  my  Lord's  honour,  and  less 
to  his  profit,  which  I  am  to  enquire  a  little  after. 
Hence  to  the  office,  and  there  sat  till  noon,  and  then 
my  wife  and  I  by  coach  to  my  cozen,  Thos.  Pepys, 
the  Executor,  to  dinner,  where  some  ladies  and  my 
father  and  mother,  where  very  merry,  but  methinks 
he  makes  but  poor  dinners  for  such  guests,  though 
there  was  a  poor  venison  pasty.  Hence  my  wife  and 
I  to  the  theatre,  and  there  saw  "  The  Joviall  Crew,"  » 
where  the  King,  Duke  and  Duchesse,  and  Madame 
Palmer,  were  ;  and  my  wife,  to  her  great  content,  had 
a  full  sight  of  them  all  the  while.  The  play  full  of 
mirth.  Hence  to  my  father's.  In  my  way  and  at 
home,  my  wife  making  a  sad  story  to  me  of  her 
brother  Baity' s  condition,  and  would  have  me  to  do 

*  Or  the  "  Merry  Beggars,"  a  Comedy,  by  Richard  Brome. 


104  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

something  for  him,  which  I  shall  endeavour  to  do, 
but  am  afeard  to  meddle  therein  for  fear  I  shall  not 
be  able  to  wipe  my  hands  of  him  again,  when  I  once 
concern  myself  for  him. 

28th.  At  home  all  the  morning  setting  papers  in 
order.  This  day  I  counterfeited  a  letter  to  Sir  W. 
Pen,  as  from  the  thiefe  that  stole  his  tankard  lately, 
only  to  abuse  and  laugh  at  him. 

29th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning,  and  at  noon 
my  father,  mother,  and  my  aunt  Bell  come  to  dine 
with  me,  and  we  were  very  merry.  Mr.  Evans,  the 
taylor,  whose  daughter  we  have  had  a  mind  to  get  for 
a  wife  for  Tom,  told  us  that  he  hath  not  to  except 
against  us  or  our  motion,  but  that  the  estate  that  God 
hath  blessed  him  with  is  too  great  to  give  where  there 
is  nothing  in  present  possession  but  a  trade  and  house  ; 
and  so  we  friendly  ended. 

30th.  At  noon  my  wife  and  I  met  at  the  Wardrobe, 
and  there  dined  with  the  children,  and  after  dinner  up 
to  my  Lady's  bedside,  and  talked  and  laughed  a  good 
while.  Then  my  wife  and  I  to  Drury  Lane  to  the 
French  comedy,  which  was  so  ill  done,  and  the  scenes 
and  company  and  every  thing  else  so  nasty  and  out 
of  order  and  poor,  that  I  was  sick  all  the  while  in 
my  mind  to  be  there.  Here  my  wife  met  with  a  son 
of  my  Lord  Somersett,^  whom  she  knew  in  France, 


^  Lord  John  Somerset,  second  son  of  the  first  Marquis  of  Worcester,  had 
himself  three  sons,  Henrj',  Thomas,  and  Charles,  but  it  is  uncertain  which  is 
here  meant.  There  was  no  other  Lord  Somerset  to  whom  the  passage  could 
apply.    It  was  probably  Thomas,  as  the  other  brothers  were  married. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS.  IO5 

a  pretty  man ;  I  showed  him  no  great  countenance, 
to  avoyd  further  acquaintance.  That  done,  there 
being  nothing  pleasant  but  the  foolery  of  the  farce, 
we  went  home. 

31st.  At  home  and  the  office  all  the  morning,  and 
at  noon  comes  Luellin  to  me,  and  he  and  I  to  Bar- 
tholomew fair,  and  there  upon  his  motion  to  a  pitiful 
alehouse,  and  then  I  back  again  to  the  fair  all  alone, 
and  there  met  with  my  Ladies  Jemimah  and  Paulina, 
with  Mr.  Pickering  and  Madamoiselle,'  at  seeing  the 
monkeys  dance,  which  was  much  to  see,  when  they 
could  be  brought  to  do  so,  but  it  troubled  me  to  sit 
among  such  nasty  company.  After  that  with  them 
into  Christ's  Hospitall,  and  there  Mr.  Pickering  bought 
them  some  fairings,  and  I  did  give  every  one  of  them 
a  bauble,  which  was  the  little  globes  of  glass  with 
things  hanging  in  them,  which  pleased  the  ladies  very 
well.  After  that  home  with  them  in  their  coach,  and 
there  was  called  up  to  my  Lady,  and  she  would  have 
me  stay  to  talk  with  her,  which  I  did  I  think  a  full 
houre.  And  the  poor  lady  did  with  so  much  inno- 
cency  tell  me  how  Mrs.  Crispe  had  told  her  that  she 
did  intend,  by  means  of  a  lady  that  lies  at  her  house, 
to  get  the  King  to  be  godfather  to  the  young  lady  that 
she  is  in  childbed  now  of;  but  to  see  in  what  a  man- 
ner my  Lady  told  it  me,  protesting  that  she  sweat  in 
the  very  telling  of  it,  was  the  greatest  pleasure  to  me 
in  the  world  to  see  the  simplicity  and  harmlessnesse 

*  The  young  ladies'  governess. 


Ip6  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

of  a  lady.     Then  down  to  supper  with  the  ladies,  and 
so  home. 

Thus  ends  the  month.  My  mayde  Jane  newly  gone, 
and  Pall  ^  left  now  to  do  all  the  work  till  another 
mayde  comes,  which  shall  not  be  till  she  goes  away 
into  the  country  with  my  mother.  Myself  and  wife  in 
good  health.  My  father  gone  to  settle  at  Brampton, 
and  myself  under  much  business  and  trouble  for  to 
settle  things  in  the  estate  to  our  content.  But  what  is 
worst,  I  find  myself  lately  too  much  given  to  seeing 
of  plays,  and  expense,  and  pleasure,  which  makes  me 
forget  my  business,  which  I  must  labour  to  amend. 
No  money  comes  in,  so  that  I  have  been  forced  to 
borrow  a  great  deal  for  my  own  expenses,  and  to 
furnish  my  father,  to  leave  things  in  order.  I  have 
some  trouble  about  m.y  brother  Tom,  who  is  now  left 
to  keep  my  father's  trade,  in  which  I  have  great  fears 
that  he  will  miscarry  for  want  of  brains  and  care.  At 
Court  things  are  in  very  ill  condition,  there  being  so 
much  emulacion,  poverty,  and  the  vices  of  drinking, 
swearing,  and  loose  amours,  that  I  know  not  what  will 
be  the  end  of  it,  but  confusion.  And  the  Clergy  so 
high,  that  all  people  that  I  meet  with  do  protest  against 
their  practice.  In  short,  I  see  no  content  or  satisfaction 
any  where,  in  any  one  sort  of  people.  The  Benevo- 
lence ^  proves  so  little  and  an  occasion  of  so  much 
discontent  every  where,  that  it  had  better  it  had  never 

^  Paulina  Pepys. 

2  A  voluntary  contribution  made  by  the  subjects  to  their  Sovereign.  Upon 
this  occasion  the  clergy  alone  gave  33,743/.     See  31st  May,  1661,  ante. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  10/ 

been  set  up.  I  think  to  subscribe  20/.  We  are  at  our 
Office  quiet,  only  for  lack  of  money  all  things  go  to 
rack.  Our  very  bills  offered  to  be  sold  upon  the  Ex- 
change at  10  per  cent.  loss.  We  are  upon  getting  Sir 
R.  Ford's  house  added  to  our  Office.  But  I  see  so 
many  difficulties  will  follow  in  pleasing  of  one  another 
in  the  dividing  of  it,  and  in  becoming  bound  person- 
ally to  pay  the  rent  of  200/.  per  annum,  that  I  do 
beUeve  it  will  yet  scarce  come  to  pass.  The  season 
very  sickly  every  where  of  strange  and  fatal  fevers. 

September  ist  (Lord's  day).  Last  night  being  very 
rainy  [the  rain]  broke  into  my  house,  the  gutter  being 
stopped,  and  spoiled  all  my  ceilings  almost.  At  church 
in  the  morning.  After  dinner  to  Sir  W.  Batten's, 
where  I  found  Sir  W.  Pen,  and  we  were  very  merry 
with  Sir  W.  Pen  about  the  loss  of  his  tankard,  though 
all  be  but  a  cheate,  and  he  do  not  yet  understand  it ; 
but  the  tankard  was  stole  by  Sir  W.  Batten,  and  the 
letter,  as  from  the  thiefe,  wrote  by  me,  which  makes 
very  good  sport.  Captain  Holmes  and  I  by  coach  to 
White  Hall ;  in  our  way,  I  found  him  by  discourse,  to 
be  a  great  friend  of  my  Lord's,  and  he  told  me  there 
was  many  did  seek  to  remove  him  ;  but  they  were  old 
seamen,  such  as  Sir  J.  Minnes »  (but  he  would  name 


*  John  Mennes,  or  Minnes,  bom  at  Sandwich  in  1598,  educated  at  Corpus 
Christi  College,  Oxford,  became  afterwards  a  great  traveller  and  noted  sea- 
man: he  held  a  place  in  the  Navy  Office  during  the  reigns  of  the  two  elder 
Stuarts,  and  was  knighted  at  Dover,  in  1641,  by  Charles  I.  Adhering  to  the 
royal  cause,  he  was,  after  the  Restoration,  appointed  Governor  of  Dover 
Castle,  and  commanded  the  "  Henry,"  as  a  Vice- Admiral,  in  the  fleet  that 
brought  Catherine  of  Braganza    to  Engjand.     Subsequently  he  was  made 


I08  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

no  more,  though  he  do  beheve  Sir  W.  Batten  is  one 
of  them  that  do  envy  him) ,  but  he  says  he  knows  that 
the  King  do  so  love  him,  and  the  Duke  of  York  too, 
that  there  is  no  fear  of  him.  He  seems  to  be  very 
well  acquainted  with  the  King's  mind,  and  with  all  the 
several  factions  at  Court,  and  spoke  all  with  so  much 
franknesse,  that  I  do  take  him  to  be  my  Lord's  good 
friend,  and  one  able  to  do  him  great  service,  being  a 
cunning  fellow,  and  one  (by  his  own  confession  to 
me)  that  can  put  on  two  several  faces,  and  look  his 
enemies  in  the  face  v/ith  as  much  love  as  his  friends. 
But,  good  God  !  what  an  age  is  this,  and  what  a  world 
is  this  !  that  a  man  cannot  live  without  playing  the 
knave  and  dissimulation. 

2nd.  To  Westminster  Hall  with  Captain  Ferrers, 
where  we  met  with  Mr.  Pickering,  and  so  all  of  us 
to  the  Rhenish  wine  house,  where  the  master  of  the 
house  is  laying  out  some  money  in  making  a  cellar 
with  an  arch  in  his  yard,  which  is  very  convenient  for 
him,  and  so  Mr.  Pickering  and  I  to  Westminster  Hall 
again,  and  there  walked  an  houre  or  two  talking,  and 
though  he  be  a  fool,  yet  he  keeps  much  company, 
and  will  tell  all  he  sees  or  hears,  and  so  a  man  may 
understand  what  the  common  talk  of  the  town  is,  and 
I  find  by  him  that  there  are  endeavours  to  get  my 


Comptroller  of  the  Navy,  which  office  he  retained  till  his  death,  in  1670-1. 
He  is  buried  in  the  church  of  St.  Clave,  Hart  Street,  where,  in  the  south 
aisle,  part  of  a  monument  to  his  memory  is  still  to  be  seen.  Wood  describes 
him  as  an  honest  and  stout  man,  generous  and  religious,  well  skilled  in  physic 
and  chymistry,  and  the  author  of  "  Musarura  Delici«,"  and  other  poems. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  IO9 

Lord  out  of  play  at  sea,  which  I  beheve  Mr.  Coventry 
and  the  Duke  do  think  will  make  them  more  absolute  ; 
but  I  hope,  for  all  this,  they  will  not  be  able  to  do  it. 
He  tells  me  plainly  of  the  vices  of  the  Court.  From 
him  by  water  to  the  bridge,  and  thence  to  the  Mitre, 
where  I  met  my  uncle  and  aunt  Wight,  and  so  I  staid 
with  them,  very  merry,  and  so  home,  where  my  wife 
has  been  busy  all  day  making  of  pies,  and  had  been 
abroad  and  bought  things  for  herself,  and  tells  me 
that  she  met  at  the  Change  with  my  young  ladies  of 
the  Wardrobe,  and  there  helped  them  to  buy  things, 
and  also  with  Mr.  Somersett,  who  did  give  her  a 
bracelet  of  rings,  which  did  a  little  trouble  me,  though 
I  know  there  is  no  hurt  yet  in  it,  but  only  for  fear  of 
further  acquaintance.  So  to  bed.  This  night  I  sent 
another  letter  to  Sir  W.  Pen  to  offer  him  the  return 
of  his  tankard  upon  his  leaving  of  305-.  at  a  place 
where  it  should  be  brought.  The  issue  of  which  I 
am  to  expect. 

3rd.  This  day  some  of  us  Commissioners  went 
down  to  Deptford  to  pay  off  some  ships,  but  I  could 
not  go.  Dined  at  home,  and  then  with  my  wife  to 
the  Wardrobe,  where  my  Lady's  child  was  christened 
(my  Lord  Crew  and  his  Lady,  and  my  Lady  Montagu, 
my  Lord's  mother-in-law,  were  the  witnesses),  and 
named  Katherine  ^  (the  Queen  elect's  name)  ;  but  to 


^  Lady  Catherine  Montagu,  youngest  daughter  of  Lord  Sandwich,  mar- 
ried, first,  Nicholas  Bacon,  eldest  son  and  heir  of  Sir  Nicholas  Bacon,  K.B., 
of  Shrubland  Hall,  co.  Suffolk;  and,  secondly,  the  Rev,  Balthazar  Gardeman. 
She  died  January  15,  1757,  aet.  96  years,  4  months.  — M.  I. 


no  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

my  and  all  our  trouble,  the  Parson  of  the  parish 
christened  her,  and  did  not  sign  the  child  with  the 
sign  of  the  cross.  After  that  was  done,  we  had  a  very 
fine  banquet,  the  best  I  ever  was  at,  and  so  we  by  and 
by  broke  up,  and  my  wife  and  I  to  my  mother,  who  I 
took  a  liberty  to  advise  about  her  getting  things  ready 
to  go  this  week  into  the  country  to  my  father,  and  she 
(being  become  now-a-days  very  simple)  took  it  very 
ill,  and  we  had  a  great  deal  of  noise  and  wrangling 
about  it.     So  home  by  coach. 

4th.  In  the  morning  to  the  Privy  Scale.  Then  my 
wife  came  to  me  to  Whitehall,  and  we  went  and 
walked  a  good  while  in  St.  James's  Parke  to  see  the 
brave  alterations,  and  so  to  Wilkinson's,  the  Cook's, 
to  dinner,  where  we  had  oysters,  the  first  I  have  eat 
this  year,  and  were  pretty  good. 

5th.  To  the  Privy  Scale  this  morning  about  busi- 
ness, in  my  way  taking  leave  of  my  mother,  who  goes 
to  Brampton  to-day.  But  doing  my  business  at  the 
Privy  Scale  pretty  soon,  I  took  boat  and  went  to  my 
uncle  Fenner's,  and  there  I  found  my  mother  and 
my  wife  and  Pall  (of  whom  I  had  this  morning  at  my 
own  house  taken  leave,  and  given  her  20s.  and  good 
counsel  how  to  carry  herself  to  my  father  and  moth- 
er), and  so  I  took  them  and  put  them  into  the 
waggon,  and  saw  them  going  presently.  To  my  uncle 
Fenner's  to  dinner,  in  the  way  meeting  a  French  foot- 
man ^  with  feathers,  who  was  in  quest  of  my  wife,  and 

*  Apparently  a  servant  of  Mr.  Somerset's. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  Ill 

spoke  with  her  privately,  but  I  could  not  tell  what  it 
was,  only  my  wife  promised  to  go  to  some  place  to- 
morrow morning,  which  do  trouble  my  mind  how  to 
know  whither  it  was.  My  wife  and  I  to  the  fayre,  and 
I  showed  her  the  Italians  dancing  the  ropes,  and  the 
women  that  do  strange  tumbling  tricks. 

6th.  This  morning  my  uncle  Fenner  by  appoint- 
ment came  and  drank  his  morning  draft  with  me,  my 
wife  holding  her  resolution  to  go  this  morning  as  she 
resolved  yesterday,  and  though  there  could  not  be 
much  hurt  in  it,  yet  my  own  jealousy  put  a  hundred 
things  into  my  mind,  which  did  much  trouble  me  all 
day.  To  dinner  all  alone,  and  thence  my  mind  being 
for  my  wife's  going  abroad  much  troubled  and  unfit 
for  business,  I  went  to  the  Theatre,  and  saw  "  Elder 
Brother"  ill  acted;  that  done,  meeting  here  with  Sir 
G.  Askew,  Sir  Theophilus  Jones,'  and  another  Knight, 
with  Sir  W.  Pen,  we  to  the  Ship  taveme,  and  there 
staid  and  were  merry  till  late  at  night,  and  so  got  a 
coach,  and  Sir  Wm.  and  I  home,  where  my  wife  had 
been  long  come  home,  but  I  seemed  very  angry,  as 
indeed  I  am,  and  did  not  all  night  show  her  any  coun- 
tenance, and  so  slept  and  rose  discontented. 

7th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning.  At  noon  Mr. 
Moore  dined  with  me,  and  so  I  having  appointed  the 
young  ladies  ^  at  the  Wardrobe  to  go  with  them  to  a 
play  to-day,  my  wife  and  I  took  them  to  the  theatre, 

^  Sir  Theophilus  Jones  had  represented  the  county  of  Dublin  in  Parlia- 
ment, and  served  as  a  colonel  in  the  Commonwealth  army. 
2  Lord  Sandwich's  family  of  daughters. 


112  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS, 

where  we  seated  ourselves  close  by  the  King,  and 
Duke  of  York,  and  Madame  Palmer,  which  was  great 
content ;  and,  indeed,  I  can  never  enough  admire  her 
beauty.  And  here  was  "  Bartholomew  Fa5n:e,"  *  with 
the  puppet-showe,  acted  to-day,  which  had  not  been 
these  forty  years  (it  being  so  satyricall  against  Puritan- 
ism, they  durst  not  till  now,  which  is  strange  they 
should  already  dare  to  do  it,  and  the  King  do  counte- 
nance it),  but  I  do  never  a  whit  like  it  the  better  for 
the  puppets,  but  rather  the  worse.  Thence  home 
with  the  ladies,  it  being  by  reason  of  our  staying  a 
great  while  for  the  King's  coming,  and  the  length  of 
the  play,  near  nine  o'clock  before  it  was  done. 

8th  (Lord's  day).  To  church,  dined  at  home,  and 
so  to  church  again  with  my  wife  in  the  afternoon,  and 
coming  home  again  found  our  new  mayde  Doll  asleep, 
that  she  could  not  hear  to  let  us  in,  so  that  we  were 
fain  to  send  the  boy  in  at  a  window  to  open  the  door 
to  us.  So  up  to  my  chamber  all  alone,  and  troubled 
in  mind  to  think  how  much  of  late  I  have  addicted 
myself  to  expense  and  pleasure,  that  now  I  can  hard- 
ly reclaime  myself.  I  pray  God  give  me  grace  to 
begin  now  to  look  after  my  business,  but  it  always 
was,  and  I  fear  will  ever  be,  my  foible  that  after  I  am 
once  got  behindhand  with  business,  I  am  hard  to  set 
to  it  again  to  recover  it.  In  the  evening  I  begun  to 
look  over  my  accounts,  and  upon  the  whole  I  do  find 
myself,  by  what  I  can  yet  see,  worth  near  600/.,  for 

I  A  Comedy,  by  Ben  Jonson  ;  first  acted  in  1614. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  I13 

which  God  be  blessed,  which  put  me  into  great  com- 
fort.    So  to  supper  and  to  bed. 

9th.  To  the  Privy  Scale  in  the  morning,  but  my 
Lord  did  not  come,  so  I  went  with  Captain  Morrice 
at  his  desire  into  the  King's  Privy  Kitchen  to  Mr. 
Sayres,  the  Master  Cooke,  and  there  we  had  a  good 
slice  of  beef  or  two  to  our  breakfast,  and  from  thence 
he  took  us  into  the  wine  cellar  where,  by  my  troth, 
we  were  very  merry,  and  I  drank  so  much  wine  that 
I  was  not  fit  for  business,  and  therefore  at  noon  I  went 
and  walked  in  Westminster  Hall  a  while,  and  thence 
to  Salisbury  Court  play  house,  where  was  acted  the 
first  time  "  'Tis  pity  Shee's  a  W — e,"  ^  a  simple  play 
and  ill  acted,  only  it  was  my  fortune  to  sit  by  a  most 
pretty  and  most  ingenious  lady,  which  pleased  me 
much.  To  the  Dolphin  to  drink  the  2ps.  that  we  got 
the  other  day  of  Sir  W.  Pen  about  his  tankard.  Here 
was  Sir  R.  Slingsby,  Holmes,  Captn.  Allen,  Mr.  Turner, 
his  wife  and  daughter,  my  Lady  Batten,  and  Mrs. 
Martha,  &c.,  and  an  excellent  company  of  fiddlers ; 
so  we  exceeding  merry  till  late ;  and  then  we  begun 
to  tell  Sir  W.  Pen  the  business,  but  he  had  been  drink- 
ing to-day,  and  so  is  almost  gone,  that  we  could  not 
make  him  understand  it,  which  caused  us  more  sport. 

loth.  At  the  office  all  the  morn,  dined  at  home, 
and  so  to  the  Wardrobe  to  see  my  Lady,  and  after 
supper  with  the  young  ladies,  bought  a  linke  and  car- 
ried it  myself  till  I  met  one  that  would  light  me  home 

*  A  tragedy,  by  John  Forde, 


114  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

for  the  linke.     So  he  hght  me  home  with  his  own,  and 
then  I  did  give  him  mine. 

nth.  To  Dr.  Williams,  who  did  carry  me  into  his 
garden,  where  he  hath  abundance  of  grapes ;  and  he 
did  show  me  how  a  dog  that  he  hath  do  kill  all  the 
cats  that  come  thither  to  kill  his  pigeons,  and  do 
afterwards  bury  them ;  and  do  it  with  so  much  care 
that  they  shall  be  quite  covered ;  that  if  but  the  tip 
of  the  tail  hangs  out  he  will  take  up  the  cat  again,  and 
dig  the  hole  deeper.  Which  is  very  strange  ;  and  he 
tells  me  that  he  do  believe  that  he  hath  killed  above 
loo  cats.  Home  to  my  house  to  dinner,  where  I 
found  my  wife's  brother.  Baity,'  as  fine  as  hands  could 
make  him,  and  his  servant,  a  Frenchman,  to  wait  on 
him,  and  come  to  have  my  wife  to  visit  a  young  lady 
which  he  is  a  servant  to,  and  have  hope  to  trepan 
and  get  for  his  wife.  I  did  give  way  for  my  wife  to 
go  with  him.  Walking  through  Lincoln's  Inn  Fields 
observed  at  the  Opera  a  new  play,  "Twelfth  Night," 
was  acted  there,  and  the  King  there  j  so  I,  against  my 
own  mind  and  resolution,  could  not  forbear  to  go  in, 
which  did  make  the  play  seem  a  burthen  to  me,  and 
I  took  no  pleasure  at  all  in  it ;  and  so  after  it  was 
done  went  home  with  my  mind  troubled  for  my  going 
thither,  after  my  swearing  to  my  wife  that  I  would 
never  go  to  a  play  without  her.  So  that  what  with 
this  and  things  going  so  crosse  to  me  as  to  matters  of 
my  uncle's  estate,  makes  me  very  much  troubled  in 

1  Balthazar  St.  Michel. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  II5 

my  mind,  and  so  to  bed.  My  wife  was  with  her 
brother  to  see  his  mistress  to-day,  and  says  she  is 
young,  rich,  and  handsome,  but  not  likely  for  him  to 
get. 

12th.  To  my  Lady's  to  dinner  at  the  Wardrobe; 
and  in  my  way  upon  the  Thames,  I  saw  the  King's 
new  pleasure-boat  that  is  come  now  for  the  King  to 
take  pleasure  in  above  bridge ;  and  also  two  Gun- 
daloes '  that  are  lately  brought,  which  are  very  rich 
and  fine.  To  Tom  Trice ;  by  and  by  in  comes  my 
uncle  Thomas,  and  as  he  was  always  a  close  cunning 
fellow,  so  he  carries  himself  to  me,  and  says  nothing 
of  what  his  endeavours  are,  though  to  my  trouble  I 
know  that  he  is  about  recovering  of  Gravely,  but 
neither  I  nor  he  began  any  discourse  of  the  business. 
From  thence  to  Dr.  Williams  (at  the  little  blind  ale- 
house in  Shoe  Lane,  at  the  Gridiron,  a  place  I  am 
ashamed  to  be  seen  to  go  into),  and  there  with  some 
bland  counsel  of  his  we  discuss  our  matters,  but  I 
find  men  of  so  different  minds  that  by  my  troth  I 
know  not  what  to  trust  to.  It  being  late  I  took  leave, 
and  by  linke  home  and  called  at  Sir  W.  Batten's,  and 
there  hear  that  Sir  W.  Pen  do  take  our  jest  of  the 
tankard  very  ill,  which  I  am  sorry  for. 

13th.   This    morning   I  was  sent  for  by  my  uncle 


^  "  Two  long  boats  that  were  made  in  Venice,  called  gondolas,  were  by 
the  Duke  of  Venice  (Dominico  Contareni),  presented  to  His  Majesty;  and 
the  attending  watermen,  being  four,  were  in  very  rich  clothes,  crimson  satin; 
very  big  were  their  breeches  and  doublets ;  they  wore  also  very  large  shirts 
of  the  same  satin,  very  richly  laced."  —  Rugge's  Diurnal. 


Il6  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

Fenner  to  come  and  advise  about  the  buriall  of  my 
aunt/  the  butcher,  who  died  yesterday;  and  from 
thence  to  the  Anchor,  by  Doctor's  Commons,  and 
there  Dr.  Wilhams  and  I  did  write  a  letter  for  my 
purpose  to  Mr.  Sedgewicke,  of  Cambridge,  about 
Gravely  business,  and  after  that  I  left  him  and  went 
to  the  Wardrobe,  where  I  found  my  wife,  and  thence 
she  and  I  to  the  water  to  spend  the  afternoon  in 
pleasure ;  and  so  we  went  to  old  George's,  and  there 
eat  as  much  as  we  would  of  a  hot  shoulder  of  mutton, 
and  so  to  boat  again  and  home. 

14th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning,  at  noon  to  the 
Change,  and  then  home  again.  To  dinner,  where  my 
uncle  Fenner  by  appointment  came  and  dined  with 
me,  thinking  to  go  together  to  my  aunt  Kite's  that  is 
dead ;  but  before  we  had  dined  comes  Sir  R.  Slingsby 
and  his  lady,  and  a  great  deal  of  company,  to  take  my 
wife  and  I  out  by  barge  to  shew  them  the  King's  and 
Duke's  yachts,  and  we  had  great  pleasure,  seeing  all 
four  yachts,  viz.,  these  two  and  the  two  Dutch  ones. 
And  so  home  again,  and  after  writing  letters  by  post, 
to  bed. 

15th  (Lord's  day).  To  my  aunt  Kite's  in  the  morn- 
ing to  help  my  uncle  Fenner  to  put  things  in  order 
against  anon  for  the  buriall,  and  at  noon  home  again ; 
and  after  dinner  to  church,  my  wife  and  I,  and  after 
sermon  with  my  wife  to  the  buriall  of  my  aunt  Kite, 
where  besides  us  and  my  uncle  Fenner's  family,  there 

I  Mrs.  Kite. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  11/ 

was  none  of  any  quality,  but  poor  rascally  people. 
So  we  went  to  church  with  the  corps,  and  there  had 
service  read  at  the  grave,  and  back  again  with  Pegg 
Kite,  who  will  be,  I  doubt,  a  troublesome  carrion '  to 
us  executors ;  but  if  she  will  not  be  ruled,  I  shall 
fling  up  my  executorship. 

1 6th.  This  morning  I  was  busy  at  home  to  take  in 
my  part  of  our  freight  of  Coles,  which  Sir  G.  Carteret, 
Sir  R.  Slingsby,  and  myself  sent  for,  which  is  lo 
Chaldron,  8  of  which  I  took  in,  and  with  the  other  to 
repay  Sir  W.  Pen  what  I  borrowed  of  him  a  little 
while  ago.  So  that  from  this  day  I  should  see  how 
long  lo  chaldron  of  coals  will  serve  my  house,  if  it 
please  the  Lord  to  let  me  live  to  see  them  burned. 
Word  was  brought  me  from  my  brother's  that  there  is 
a  fellow  come  from  my  father  out  of  the  country, 
which  I  believed,  but  I  afterwards  found  that  it  was  a 
rogue  that  did  use  to  play  such  tricks  to  get  money 
of  people,  but  he  got  none  of  me.  Home,  and  there 
found  letters  from  my  father  informing  me  of  the 
Court,2  and  that  I  must  come  down  and  meet  him  at 
Impington,  which  I  presently  resolved  to  do,  and 

1 7th.  The  next  morning  got  up,  telling  my  wife  of 
my  journey,  and  she  with  a  few  words  got  me  to  hire 
her  a  horse  to  go  along  with  me.  So  I  went  to  my 
Lady's  and  elsewhere  to  take  leave,  and  of  Mr.  Town- 


*  A  fling  at  the  butcher's  trade. 

2  The  manorial  Court  of  Graveley,  in  Huntingdonshire,  to  which  Imping- 
tan  owed  suit  or  service,  and  under  which  the  Pepys's  copyhold  estates  were 
held.     See  July  8,  1661,  ante. 


Il8  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

send  did  borrow  a  very  fine  side-saddle  for  my  wife ; 
and  so  after  all  things  were  ready,  she  and  I  took 
coach  to  the  end  of  the  towne  towards  Kingsland,  and 
there  got  upon  my  horse  and  she  upon  her  pretty 
mare  that  I  hired  for  her,  and  she  rides  very  well. 
By  the  mare  at  one  time  falling  she  got  a  fall,  but  no 
harm ;  so  we  got  to  Ware,  and  there  supped,  and  to 
bed  very  merry  and  pleasant. 

17th.  The  next  morning  up  early  and  begun  our 
march ;  the  way  about  Puckridge  very  bad,  and  my 
wife,  in  the  very  last  dirty  place  of  all,  got  a  fall,  but 
no  hurt,  though  some  dirt.  At  last  she  begun,  poor 
wretch,  to  be  tired,  and  I  to  be  angry  at  it,  but  I  was 
to  blame ;  for  she  is  a  very  good  companion  as  long 
as  she  is  well.  In  the  afternoon  we  got  to  Cambridge, 
where  I  left  my  wife  at  my  cozen  Angler's  while  I 
went  to  Christ's  College,  and  there  found  my  brother 
in  his  chamber,  and  talked  with  him ;  and  so  to  the 
barber's,  and  then  to  my  wife  again,  and  remounted 
for  Impington,  where  my  uncle  received  me  and  my 
wife  very  kindly. 

19th.  Up  early,  and  my  father  and  I  alone  in  the 
garden,  and  there  talked  about  our  business,  and  then 
we  all  horsed  away  to  Cambridge,  where  my  father 
and  I,  having  left  my  wife  at  the  Beare  with  my 
brother,  went  to  Mr.  Sedgewicke,  the  steward  of 
Gravely,  and  there  talked  with  him,  but  could  get 
little  hopes  from  anything  that  he  would  tell  us ;  but 
at  last  I  did  give  him  a  fee,  and  then  he  was  free  to 
tell  me  what  I  asked,  which  was  something,  though 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  II9 

not  much  comfort.  From  thence  to  our  horses,  and 
with  my  wife  went  and  rode  through  Sturbridge  fayre, 
but  the  fayre  was  almost  done.  So  we  did  not  hght 
there  at  all,  but  went  back  to  Cambridge,  and  there 
at  the  Beare  had  some  herrings,  we  and  my  brother, 
and  after  dinner  set  out  for  Brampton,  where  we  come 
in  very  good  time. 

20th.  Will  Stankes  and  I  set  out  in  the  morning 
betimes  for  Gravely,  where  to  an  alehouse  and  drank, 
and  then,  going  towards  the  Court  House,  met  my 
uncle  Thomas  and  his  son  Thomas,  with  Bradly,  the 
rogue  that  had  betrayed  us,  and  one  Young,  a  cunning 
fellow,  who  guides  them.  There  passed  no  unkind 
words  at  all  between  us,  but  I  seemed  fair  and  went  to 
drink  with  them.  I  said  little  till  by  and  by  that  we 
come  to  the  Court,  which  was  a  simple  meeting  of  a 
company  of  country  rogues,  with  the  Steward,  and 
two  Fellows  of  Jesus  College,  that  are  lords  of  the 
towne  where  the  jury  were  swome ;  and  I  producing 
no  surrender,  though  I  told  them  I  was  sure  there  is 
and  must  be  one  somewhere,  they  found  my  uncle 
Thomas  heire  at  law,^  as  he  is,  and  so  my  uncle  was 
admitted,  and  his  son  also,  in  reversion.  The  uncle 
paid  a  year  and  a  half  for  his  fine,  and  the  son  half  a 
year,  in  all  48/.,  besides  about  3/.  fees ;  so  that  I  do 
believe  the  charges  of  his  journeys,  and  what  he  gives 
those  two  rogues,  and  other  expenses  herein,  cannot 
be  less  than  70/.,  which  will  be  a  sad  thing  for  them 

»  To  Robert  Pepys,  of  Brampton. 


120  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

if  a  surrender  be  found.  After  all  was  done,  I  openly 
wished  them  joy  in  it,  and  so  rode  to  Offord  with 
them  and  there  parted  fairly  without  any  words.  So 
with  Stankes  home  and  supped,  and  after  telling  my 
father  how  things  went,  I  went  to  bed  with  my  mind 
in  good  temper,  because  I  see  the  matter  and  manner 
of  the  Court  and  the  bottom  of  my  business,  wherein 
I  was  before  and  should  always  have  been  ignorant. 

2 1  St.  After  dinner  (there  coming  this  morning  my 
aunt  Hanes  and  her  son  from  London,  that  is  to  live 
with  my  father)  I  rode  to  Huntingdon,  and  so  to 
Hinchingbroke,  where  Mr.  Barnwell  shewed  me  the 
condition  of  the  house,  which  is  yet  very  backward, 
and  I  fear  will  be  very  dark  in  the  cloyster  when  it 
is  done. 

22nd  (Lord's  day).  To  church,  where  we  had  com- 
mon prayer,  and  a  dull  sermon  by  one  Mr.  Case,  who 
yet  I  heard  sing  very  well.  So  to  dinner,  and  busy 
with  my  father  about  his  accounts. 

23rd.  Up,  and  sad  to  hear  my  father  and  mother 
wrangle  as  they  used  to  do  in  London,  of  which  I  took 
notice  to  both,  and  told  them  that  I  should  give  over 
care  for  anything  unless  they  would  spend  what  they 
have  with  more  love  and  quiet.  So  we  took  horse 
and  got  early  to  Baldwick,^  where  there  was  a  fayre, 
and  we  put  in  and  eat  a  mouthfull  of  porke,  which 
they  made  us  pay  14^.  for,  which  vexed  us  much. 
And  so  away  to  Stevenage,  and  staid  till  a  showre  was 

I  Baldock.     (M.  B.) 


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over,  and  so  rode  easily  to  Welling,  where  we  supped 
well,  and  had  two  beds  in  the  room  and  so  lay  single, 
and  still  remember  it  that  of  all  the  nights  that  ever  I 
slept  in  my  life  I  never  did  pass  a  night  with  more 
epicurism  of  sleep ;  there  being  now  and  then  a  noise 
of  people  stirring  that  waked  me,  and  then  I  was  a 
little  weary,  that  what  between  waking  and  then  sleep- 
ing again,  one  after  another,  I  never  had  so  much 
content  in  all  my  life,  and  so  my  wife  says  it  was 
with  her, 

24th.  We  rose,  and  set  forth,  but  found  a  most  sad 
alteration  in  the  roade  by  reason  of  last  night's  rains, 
they  being  now  all  dirty  and  washy,  though  not  deep. 
So  we  rode  easily  through,  and  only  drinking  at  Hollo- 
way,  at  the  sign  of  a  woman  with  cakes  in  one  hand 
and  a  pot  of  ale  in  the  other, ^  which  did  give  good 
occasion  of  mirth,  resembling  her  to  the  mayde  that 
served  us,  we  got  home  very  timely  and  well,  and 
finding  there  all  well,  and  letters  from  sea,  that  speak 
of  my  Lord's  being  well,  and  his  action,  though  not 
considerable  of  any  side,  at  Argier.^ 

25  th.  By  coach  with  Sir  W.  Pen  to  Covent  Garden. 
By  the  way,  upon  my  desire,  he  told  me  that  I  need 
not  fear  any  reflection  upon  my  Lord  for  their  ill  suc- 
cesse  at  Argier,  for  more  could  not  be  done  than  was 
done.  I  went  to  my  Cozen,  Thos.  Pepys,  there,  and 
talked  with  him  a  good  while  about  our  country 
business,  and  so  we  parted ;  and  then  meeting  Sir  R. 

1  Probably  the  original  of  the  well-known  Mother  Red-Cap. 
*  These  actions  at  Algiers  have  been  engraved. 


122  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

Slingsby  in  St.  Martin's  Lane,  he  and  I  in  his  coach 
through  the  Mewes,  which  is  the  way  that  now  all 
coaches  are  forced  to  go,  because  of  a  stop  at  Charing 
Cross,  by  reason  of  a  drayne  there  to  clear  the  streets. 
To  my  Lord  Crew's  and  dined  with  him,  where  I  was 
used  with  all  imaginable  kindness  both  from  him  and 
her.  And  I  see  that  he  is  afraid  that  my  Lord's 
reputacon  will  a  little  suffer  in  common  talk  by  this 
late  successe ;  but  there  is  no  help  for  it  now.  The 
Queene  of  England  (as  she  is  now  owned  and  called) 
I  hear  doth  keep  open  Court,  and  distinct  at  Lisbone. 
Hence,  much  against  my  nature  and  will,  yet  such  is 
the  power  of  the  Devil  over  me  I  could  not  refuse  it, 
to  the  Theatre,  and  saw  "  The  Merry  Wives  of  Wind- 
sor," ill  done. 

26th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning,  so  dined  at 
home,  and  then  abroad  with  my  wife  by  coach  to  the 
Theatre  to  shew  her  "  King  and  no  King,"  it  being 
very  well  done. 

2  7th.  At  noon,  met  my  wife  at  the  Wardrobe  ;  and 
there  dined,  where  we  found  Captain  Country  ^  (my 
little  Captain  that  I  loved,  who  carried  me  to  the 
Sound),  come  with  some  grapes  and  millons  from  my 
Lord  at  Lisbone.  The  first  that  ever  I  saw ;  but  the 
grapes  are  rare  things.  In  the  afternoon  comes  Mr. 
Edwd.  Montagu  (by  appointment  this  morning)  to 
talk  with  my  Lady  and  me  about  the  provisions  fit  to 
be  bought,  and  sent  to  my  Lord  along  with  him.    And 

I  Richard  Country,  Captain  of  the  "  Hind,"  in  the  fleet  at  Scheveling. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  1 23 

told  us,  that  we  need  not  trouble  ourselves  how  to  buy 
them,  for  the  King  would  pay  for  all,  and  that  he 
would  take  care  to  get  them  :  which  put  my  Lady  and 
me  into  a  great  deal  of  ease  of  mind.  Here  we  staid 
and  supped  too,  and,  after  my  wife  had  put  up  some 
of  the  grapes  in  a  basket  for  to  be  sent  to  the  King, 
we  took  coach  and  home,  where  we  found  a  hampire 
of  millons  sent  to  me  also. 

28th.  At  the  office  in  the  morning,  dined  at  home, 
and  then  Sir  W.  Pen  and  his  daughter  and  I  and  my 
wife  to  the  Theatre,  and  there  saw  "  Father's  owne 
Son,"  I  a  very  good  play,  and  the  first  time  I  ever  saw 
it,  and  so  at  night  to  my  house,  and  there  sat  and 
talked  and  drank  and  merrily  broke  up,  and  to  bed. 

29th  (Lord's  day).  To  church  in  the  morning,  and 
so  to  dinner,  and  Sir  W.  Pen  and  daughter,  and  Mrs. 
Poole,  his  kinswoman,  came  by  appointment  to  dinner 
with  us,  and  a  good  dinner  we  had  for  them,  and  were 
very  merry,  and  so  to  church  again,  and  then  to  Sir  W. 
Pen's  and  there  supped,  where  his  brother,  a  traveller, 
and  one  that  speaks  Spanish  very  well,  and  a  merry 
man,  supped  with  us,  and  what  at  dinner  and  supper 
I  drink  I  know  not  how,  of  my  own  accord,  so  much 
wine,  that  I  was  even  almost  foxed,  and  my  head  aked 
all  night ;  so  home  and  to  bed,  without  prayers,  which 
I  never  did  yet,  since  I  came  to  the  house,  of  a  Sun- 
day night :  I  being  now  so  out  of  order  that  I  durst 

^  The  only  mention  of  this  play  occurs  in  an  enumeration  of  plays  be- 
longing to  Will.  Beeston,  as  Governor  of  the  Cockpit,  in  Drury  Lane.  The 
list  is  dated  loth  Aug.  1639.  —See  Collier's  Annals  of  the  Stage,  ii.  92. 


124  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEP  VS. 

not  read  prayers,  for  fear  of  being  perceived  by  my 
servants  in  what  case  I  was. 

30th.  This  morning  up  by  moone-shine,  at  5  o'clock, 
to  White  Hall,  to  meet  Mr.  Moore  at  the  Privy  Seale, 
and  there  I  heard  of  a  fray  between  the  two  Embassa- 
dors of  Spaine  ^  and  France  ;  ^  and  that,  this  day,  being 
the  day  of  the  entrance  of  an  Embassador  from  Swe- 
den,3  they  intended  to  fight  for  the  precedence.^  Our 
King,  I  heard,  ordered  that  no  Englishman  should 
meddle  in  the  business,5  but  let  them  do  what  they 
would.  And  to  that  end  all  the  soldiers  in  the  towne 
were  in  arms  all  the  day  long,  and  some  of  the  train- 
bands in  the  City;  and  a  great  bustle  through  the 

1  The  Baron  de  VattevUle. 

2  Godfrey,  Count  D'Estrades,  Marshal  of  France,  and  Viceroy  of 
America.  He  proved  himself,  upon  many  occasions,  an  able  diplomatist,  and 
particularly  at  the  conferences  of  Nimeguen  when  acting  as  ambassador  in 
1673.  Ob.  1686,  set.  suse  79.  Vide  his  Letters  to  Louis  XIV.  in  the 
Appendix. 

3  The  Count  Brah^. 

4  This  had  been  a  frequent  source  of  contention,  and  many  absurd  inci- 
dents had  occurred.  In  1618,  Caspar  Dauvet,  Comte  des  Marets,  Ambassa- 
dor to  James  I.,  left  our  Court  in  dissatisfaction  upon  a  point  of  precedence 
claimed  by  him  over  Gondomar,  which  was  not  allowed  by  James,  The 
question  now  came  to  a  crisis,  and  was  settled.  See  Evelyn's  account,  drawn 
up  by  Royal  command,  printed  at  the  end  of  his  "  Diary." 

5  The  Comte  de  Brienne  insinuates,  in  his  "  Memoirs,"  that  Charles  pur- 
posely abstained  from  interfering,  in  the  belief  that  it  was  for  his  interest  to 
let  France  and  Spain  quarrel,  in  order  to  further  his  own  designs  in  the  match 
with  Portugal.  Louis  certainly  held  that  opinion  ;  and  he  afterwards  in- 
structed d'Estrades  to  solicit  from  the  English  Court  the  punishment  of  those 
Londoners  who  had  insulted  his  Ambassador,  and  to  demand  the  dismissal 
of  De  Batteville.  Either  no  Londoner  had  interfered,  or  Louis's  demand 
had  not  in  England  the  same  force  as  in  Spain;  for  no  one  was  punished. 
The  latter  part  of  his  request  it  was  clearly  not  for  Charles  to  entertain,  much 
less  enforce. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  1 25 

City  all  the  day.  Then  we  took  coach  (which  was 
the  business  I  come  for)  to  Chelsy,  to  my  Lord  Privy 
Seale,  and  there  got  him  to  seal  the  business.  Here  I 
saw  by  day-light  two  very  fine  pictures  in  the  gallery, 
that  a  little  while  ago  I  saw  by  night  \  and  did  also  go 
all  over  the  house,  and  found  it  to  be  the  prettiest 
contrived,  house  that  ever  I  saw  in  my  life.  So  back 
again ;  and  at  White  Hall  light,  and  saw  the  soldiers 
and  people  running  up  and  down  the  streets.  So  I 
went  to  the  Spanish  Embassador's  and  the  French, 
and  there  saw  great  preparations  on  both  sides ;  but 
the  French  made  the  most  noise  and  vaunted  most, 
but  the  other  made  no  stir  almost  at  all ;  so  that  I 
was  afraid  the  other  would  have  had  too  great  a 
conquest  over  them.  Then  to  the  Wardrobe,  and 
dined  there,  and  then  abroad  and  in  Cheapside  hear 
that  the  Spanish  hath  got  the  best  of  it,  and  killed 
three  of  the  French  coach-horses  and  several  men, 
and  is  gone  through  the  City  next  to  our  King's 
coach ;  at  which,  it  is  strange  to  see  how  all  the  City 
did  rejoice.  And  indeed  we  do  naturally  all  love  the 
Spanish,  and  hate  the  French.  But  I,  as  I  am  in  all 
things  curious,  presently  got  to  the  water-side,  and 
there  took  oares  to  Westminster  Palace,  thinking  to 
have  seen  them  come  in  thither  with  all  the  coaches, 
but  they  being  come  and  returned,  I  ran  after  them 
with  my  boy  after  me  through  all  the  dirt  and  the 
streets  full  of  people ;  till  at  last,  at  the  Mewes,  I  saw 
the  Spanish  coach  go,  with  fifty  drawn  swords  at  least 
to  guard  it,  and  our  soldiers  shouting  for  joy.     And 


126  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

SO  I  followed  the  coach,  and  then  met  it  at  York 
House/  where  the  embassador  lies ;  and  there  it  went 
in  with  great  state.  So  then  I  went  to  the  French 
house,  where  I  observe  still,  that  there  is  no  men  in 
the  world  of  a  more  insolent  spirit  where  they  do 
well,  nor  before  they  begin  a  matter,  and  more  abject 
if  they  do  miscarry,  than  these  people  are ;  for  they 
all  look  like  dead  men,  and  not  a  word  among  them, 
but  shake  their  heads.  The  truth  is,  the  Spaniards 
were  not  only  observed  to  fight  most  desperately,  but 
also  they  did  outwitt  them ;  first  in  lining  their  own 
hamesse  with  chains  of  iron  that  they  could  not  be 
cut,  then  in  setting  their  coach  in  the  most  advan- 
tageous place,  and  to  appoint  men  to  guard  every  one 
of  their  horses,  and  others  for  to  guard  the  coach, 
and  others  the  coachmen.  And,  above  all,  in  setting 
upon  the  French  horses  and  killing  them,  for  by  that 
means  the  French  were  not  able  to  stir.  There  were 
several  men  slain  of  the  French,  and  one  or  two  of  the 
Spaniards,  and  one  Englishman  by  a  bullet.^  Which 
is  very  observable,  the  French  were  at  least  four  to 
one  in  number,^  and  had  near  loo  case  of  pistols 
among   them,   and  the  Spaniards    had  not  one    gun 


^  See  note,  May  19,  1661. 

2  This  fray  was  the  occasion  of  a  good  joke  at  the  French  Court,  thus 
related  in  the  "  Menagiana,"  vol.  ii.  p.  336:  — "  Lors  qu'on  demandoit,  '  Que 
fait  Batteville  en  Angleterre? '  on  re^onioii,'  II  bat  UEstrade.'  "  This  ex- 
pression, as  is  well  known,  means  "  battre  la  campagne  avec  de  la  cavalerie 
pour  avoir  des  nouvelles  des  ennemis."  —  Chambaud's  Dictionary. 

3  The  French  accounts  swell  the  number  of  the  Spanish  Ambassador's 
attendants  to  2,000;  200  would,  perhaps,  be  the  truth. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  12/ 

among  them ;  which  is  for  their  honour  for  ever,  and 
the  others'  disgrace.  So,  having  been  very  much 
daubed  with  dirt,  I  got  a  coach,  and  home ;  where  I 
vexed  my  wife  in  telHng  of  her  this  story,  and  pleading 
for  the  Spaniards  against  the  French.  So  ends  this 
month ;  myself  and  family  in  good  condition  of  health, 
but  my  head  full  of  my  Lord's  and  my  own  and  the 
office  business ;  where  we  are  now  very  busy  about 
sending  forces  to  Tangier,  and  the  fleet  to  my  Lord 
of  Sandwich,  who  is  now  at  Lisbone  to  bring  over 
the  Queene,  who  do  now  keep  a  Court  as  Queene  of 
England.  The  business  of  Argier  hath  of  late  troubled 
me,  because  my  Lord  hath  not  done  what  he  went 
for,  though  he  did  as  much  as  any  man  in  the  world 
could  have  done.  The  want  of  money  puts  all  things, 
and  above  all,  the  Navy,  out  of  order ;  and  yet  I  do 
not  see  that  the  King  takes  care  to  bring  in  any 
money,  but  thinks  of  new  designs  to  lay  out  money. 

October  ist.  This  morning  my  wife  and  I  lay  long 
in  bed,  and  among  other  things  fell  into  talk  of 
musique,  and  desired  that  I  would  let  her  learn  to 
sing,  which  I  did  consider,  and  promised  her  she 
should.  So  before  I  rose,  word  was  brought  me  that 
my  singing  master,  Mr.  Goodgroome,  was  come  to 
teach  me ;  and  so  she  rose  and  this  morning  began 
to  learn  also.     To  the  office,  where  busy  all  day. 

2nd.  All  this  morning  at  Pegg  Kite's  with  my  uncle 
Feimer,  appraising  her  goods  that  her  mother  has  left ; 
but  the  slut  is  like  to  prove  so  troublesome  that  I  am 
out  of  heart  with  troubling  myself  in  her  business. 


128  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  FEPYS. 

We  went  to  the  Theatre,  but  coming  late,  and  sitting 
in  an  ill  place,  I  never  had  so  little  pleasure  in  a  play- 
in  my  life,  yet  it  was  the  first  time  that  I  ever  saw  it, 
"  Victoria  Corombona."  '     Methinks  a  very  poor  play. 

3rd.  Called  at  Sir  W.  Batten's,  where  his  son  and 
his  wife  were,  who  had  yesterday  been  at  the  play 
where  we  were,  and  it  was  good  sport  to  hear  how  she 
talked  of  it  with  admiration  like  a  fool. 

4th.  By  coach  to  White  Hall  with  Sir  W.  Pen.  So 
to  Mr.  Montagu,  where  his  man,  Mons.  Eschar,  makes 
a  great  complaint  against  the  English,  that  they  did 
help  the  Spaniards  against  the  French  the  other  day ; 
and  that  their  Embassador  do  demand  justice  of  our 
King,2  and  that  he  do  resolve  to  be  gone  for  France 


1  "  The  White  Devil  ;  or,  the  Life  and  Death  of  Vittoria  Corombona,  the 
famous  Venetian  Courtesan,"  by  John  Webster. 

2  The  courier  sent  by  d'Estrades  to  Paris,  with  the  news  of  his  discomfit- 
ure, arrived  at  the  hotel  of  the  Comte  de  Brienne  (Louis-Henri  de  Lomenie, 
who  had  succeeded  his  father,  Henri-Auguste,  as  Secretary  of  State)  at 
eleven  at  night.  Brienne  instantly  repaired  to  the  King,  then  at  supper  with 
the  Queen-Mother,  his  own  Queen,  and  his  brother,  Philippe  of  Anjou  (Mon- 
sieur) ;  and,  requesting  Louis  to  appear  composed  before  the  numerous  spec- 
tators, he  told  him  that  the  Spanish  Ambassador's  people  had  cut  the  traces 
of  his  Ambassador's  coach,  killed  two  coachmen,  and  cut  the  horses'  bridles  ; 
and  that  the  Spanish  Ambassador's  coach  had  taken  precedence  of  that  of 
d'Estrades,  whose  own  son  had  also  been  wounded  in  the  affray.  In  spite 
of  the  caution  which  he  had  received,  Louis  rose  up  in  such  agitation,  as 
nearly  to  overturn  the  table  ;  seized  Brienne  by  the  arm,  led  him  into  the 
Queen-Mother's  chamber,  and  bade  him  read  d'Estrades'  despatch.  The 
Queen-Mother  followed  in  haste.  "What  is  the  matter?"  said  she. —"It 
is,"  replied  the  King,  "  an  attempt  to  embroil  the  King  of  Spain  and  myself." 
The  Queen-Mother  begged  him  to  return  to  the  company.  "  I  have  supped, 
Madame,"  said  he,  raising  his  voice.  "  I  will  be  righted  in  this  affair,  or  I 
will  declare  war  against  the  King  of  Spain  ;  and  I  will  force  him  to  yield  pre- 
cedence to  my  Ambassadors  in  every  Court  in  Europe."  —  "  Oh,  my  son  !  " 


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the  next  week ;  which  I,  and  all  that  I  met  ^vith,  are 
very  glad  of.  I  found  my  wife  vexed  at  her  people 
for  grumbling  to  eat  Suffolk  cheese/  which  I  also  am 
vexed  at. 

5  th.   At  the  office  all  the  morning,  then  dined  at 


replied  the  Queen-lMother,  "break  not  a  peace  which  has  cost  me  so  dear; 
and  remember,  that  the  King  of  Spain  is  my  brother."  —  "Leave  me, 
Madame,"  rejoined  Louis,  "  to  hear  d'Estrades'  despatch.  Return  to  the 
table,  and  let  some  fruit  only  be  prepared  for  me."  Anne  of  Austria  having 
retired,  Louis  listened  to  the  despatch,  and  instantly  gave  his  commands  to 
Brienne;  which  were,  in  substance,  to  order  the  Conde  de  Fuensaldagna,  the 
Spanish  Ambassador,  to  quit  France  instantly,  and  to  forbid  the  Marques  de 
las  Fuentes,  his  intended  successor,  to  set  foot  on  the  French  territory;  to 
recall  his  Commissioners  on  the  boundary  question,  as  well  as  the  Archbishop 
of  Embrun,  his  Ambassador  at  Madrid;  to  demand  from  the  King  of  Spain 
an  apology  proportionable  to  the  offence ;  that  De  Eatteville  should  be  pun- 
ished in  person ;  and  that  in  all  the  Courts  of  Europe  the  Spanish  Ambassa- 
dor should  give  place  to  the  French;  and,  on  the  refusal  of  any  part  of  his 
demands,  to  declare  war.  Louis  gained  all  and  every  point.  After  much 
paper  war,  and  many  protocols,  Spain  gave  way.  The  Baron  de  Batteville 
was  recalled;  the  Marques  de  las  Fuentes  was  sent  Ambassador  Extraordi- 
nary to  Paris,  to  tender  apologies;  and  on  March  24,  1662,  in  the  presence  of 
twenty-seven  Ambassadors  and  Envoys  from  various  Courts  of  Europe,  the 
Marques  de  las  Fuentes  declared  to  Louis  XIV.  that  the  King,  his  master,  had 
sent  orders  to  all  his  Ambassadors  and  Ministers  to  abstain  from  all  rivalry 
with  those  of  Louis.  Louis,  turning  to  the  foreign  ministers,  desired  them  to 
communicate  this  declaration  to  their  masters.  The  Dutch  Ambassador  dryly 
remarked,  that  he  had  heard  of  Embassies  to  tender  obedience  to  the  Pope, 
but  that  he  had  never  before  known  of  such  from  one  prince  to  another.  An 
amusing  volume  might  be  written  on  the  absurd  punctilios  of  the  Ambassadors 
of  the  seventeenth  century.  A  medal  was  struck  by  the  French  to  commemo- 
rate this  great  event. 

I  This  prejudice  extended  to  the  days  of  Pope,  whose  country  mouse 
entertained  his  courtly  guest  with 

"  Cheese  such  as  men  in  Sicffolk  make. 
But  wished  it  Stilton  for  his  sake." 

Imitations  of  Horace,  Sat.  vi.  b.  2nd. 

See  also  Shadwell's  "  Works,"  vol.  iv.  p.  350, 


I30  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS. 

home,  and  so  all  the  afternoon  putting  up  my  Lord's 
model  of  the  Royal  James,  which  I  borrowed  of  him 
long  ago  to  hang  in  my  room.  And  at  night  Sir  W. 
Pen  and  I  aloiie  to  the  Dolphin,  and  there  eat  some 
bloat-herrings  and  drank  good  sack. 

6th  (Lord's  day).  To  church  in  the  morning;  Mr. 
Mills  preached,  who,  I  expect,  should  take  in  snuffe » 
that  my  wife  did  not  come  to  his  child's  christening 
the  other  day.  The  winter  coming  on,  many  of  the 
parish  ladies  are  come  home  and  appear  at  church 
again ;  among  others,  the  three  sisters  of  the  Thorn- 
bury's,  very  fine,  and  the  most  zealous  people  that 
ever  I  saw  in  my  life,  even  to  admiration,  if  it  were 
true  zeal.  There  was  also  my  pretty  black  girle,  Mrs. 
Dekins,  and  Mrs.  Margaret  Pen,  this  day  come  to 
church  in  a  new  flowered  satin  suit  that  my  wife 
helped  to  buy  her  the  other  day.  So  home  to  dinner, 
and  to  church  in  the  afternoon  to  St.  Gregory's,  by 
Paul's,  where  I  heard  a  good  sermon  of  Dr.  Buck's,^ 
one  I  never  heard  before,  a  very  able  man.  So  home, 
and  in  the  evening  I  went  to  my  Valentine,  her  father 
and  mother  being  out  of  town,  to  fetch  her  to  supper 
to  my  house,  and  then  came  Sir  W.  Pen  and  we  were 
merry,  and  so  broke  up  and  to  bed. 

*  Snuff',  anger. 

"  Who  therewith  angry,  when  it  next  came  there. 
Took  it  in  snuff." 

Shakespeare,  i  Henry  IV.  act  i.  sc.  3.     (M.  B.) 
2  James  Buck,  afterwards  preacher  at  the  Temple,  a  man  of  great  learn- 
ing, and  rector  of  St.  James's,  Gatlickhithe,  from  i65i  till  his  death,  at  an 
advanced  age,  in  1685. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  13I 

7th.  About  business  all  day,  troubled  in  my  mind 
till  I  can  hear  from  Brampton,  how  things  go  on  at 
Sturtlow,  at  the  Court, ^  which  I  was  cleared  in  at  night 
by  a  letter,  which  tells  me  that  my  cozen  Tom  was 
there  to  be  admitted,  in  his  father's  name,  as  heire-at- 
law,  but  that  he  was  opposed,  and  I  was  admitted  by 
proxy,  which  put  me  out  of  great  trouble  of  mind. 

8th.  After  office  done,  went  and  eat  some  Colches- 
ter oysters  with  Sir  W.  Batten  at  his  house,  and  there, 
with  some  company,  dined  and  staid  there  talking  all 
the  afternoon ;  and  late  after  dinner  took  Mrs.  Martha 
out  by  coach,  and  carried  her  to  the  Theatre  in  a 
frohque,  to  my  great  expense,  and  there  shewed  her 
part  of  the  "  Beggar's  Bush,"  without  much  pleasure, 
and  so  home  again. 

9th.  This  morning  went  out  about  my  affairs, 
among  others  to  put  my  Theorbo  out  to  be  mended, 
and  then  at  noon  home  again,  thinking  to  go  with  Sir 
VViUiams  both  to  dinner  by  invitation  to  Sir  W.  Rider's,^ 
but  at  home  I  found  Mrs.  Pierce,  la  belle,  and  Madam 
Clifford,  with  whom  I  was  forced  to  stay,  and  made 
them  the  most  welcome  I  could ;  and  I  was  (God 
knows)  very  well  pleased  with  their  beautiful  com- 
pany, and  after  dinner  took  them  to  the  Theatre,  an4 
shewed  them  "  The  Chances ;  "  and  so  saw  them  both 
at  home  and  back  to  the  Fleece  taveme,  in  Covent 
Garden,  where  Luellin  and  Blurton,  and  my  old  friend 
Frank  Bagge,  was  to  meet  me,  and  there  staid  till  late 

^  See  Sept.  i6,  1661,  at/te. 

*  At  Bethnal  Green  ;  mentioned  June  26,  1663. 


132  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

very  merry.  Frank  Bagge  tells  me  a  story  of  Mrs. 
Pepys  that  lived  with  my  Lady  Harvy/  Mr.  Montagu's 
sister,  a  good  woman ;  that  she  had  been  very  ill,  and 
often  asked  for  me  ;  that  she  is  in  good  condition,  and 
that  nobody  could  get  her  to  make  her  will ;  and  that 
now  she  is  well  she  desires  to  have  a  chamber  at  my 
house.  Now  I  do  not  know  whether  this  is  a  trick  of 
Bagge's,  or  a  good  will  of  her's  to  do  something  for 
me ;  but  I  will  not  trust  her,  but  told  him  I  should  be 
glad  to  see  her,  and  that  I  would  be  sure  to  do  all 
that  I  could  to  provide  a  place  for  her. 

loth.  At  the  office  all  the  morning;  dined  at 
home,  and  after  dinner  Sir  W.  Pen  and  my  wife  and  I 
to  the  Theatre,  where  the  King  came  to-day,  and 
there  was  "The  Traytor"^  most  admirably  acted ;  and 
a  most  excellent  play  it  is.  So  home,  and  intended  to 
be  merry,  it  being  [the  anniversary  of]  my  sixth  wed- 
ding ;  but  by  a  late  bruise  I  am  in  so  much  pain  that 
I  eat  my  supper  and  in  pain  to  bed,  yet  my  wife  and  I 
pretty  merry. 

nth.   All  day  in  bed. 

1 2th.  In  bed  the  greatest  part  of  this  day  also.  I 
received  a  letter  this  day  from  my  father,  that  Sir  R. 
Bernard  do  a  little  fear  that  my  uncle  has  not  ob- 
served exactly  the  custom  of  Brampton  in  his  will 
about  his  lands  there,  which  puts  me  to  a  great  trouble 
in  mind. 

13th  (Lord's  day).    Did  not  stir  out  all  day,  but 

^  She  was  the  wife  of  Sir  Daniel  Harvey. 
2  A  tragedy,  by  James  Shirley. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  1 33 

rose  and  dined  below,  and  this  day  left  off  half  skirts 
and  put  on  a  wastecoate,  and  my  false  taby  wastecoate 
with  gold  lace ;  and  in  the  evening  there  came  Sir  W. 
Batten  to  see  me,  and  sat  and  supped  very  kindly  with 
me,  and  so  to  prayers  and  to  bed. 

14th.  This  morning  I  ventured  by  water  abroad  to 
Westminster.  So  to  the  Wardrobe,  and  there  dined 
with  my  Lady.  To  Mr.  Pim's,  my  Lord's  taylour's, 
and  there  he  went  out  with  us  to  the  Fountaine 
taveme,  and  it  being  the  Duke  of  York's  birthday,  we 
drank  the  more  to  his  health.  Thence  home  by  linke 
and  found  a  good  answer  from  my  father  that  Sir  R. 
Bernard  do  clear  all  things  as  to  us  and  our  title  to 
Brampton,  which  puts  my  heart  in  great  ease  and 
quiet. 

15th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning,  and  in  the 
afternoon  to  Paul's  Churchyard  to  a  blind  place, 
where  Mrs.  Goldsborough  was  to  meet  me  to  treat 
about  the  difference  which  remains  between  my  uncle 
and  her.  But,  Lord  !  to  hear  how  she  talks  and  how 
she  rails  against  my  uncle  would  make  one  mad.  But 
I  seemed  not  to  be  troubled  at  it. 

1 6th.  This  morning  came  several  mayds  to  my  wife 
to  be  hired,  and  at  last  she  pitched  upon  one  Nell, 
whose  mother,  an  old  woman,  came  along  with  her, 
but  would  not  be  hired  under  half  a  year,  which  I 
am  pleased  at  their  drollnesse.  This  day  dined  by 
appointment  with  me,  Dr.  Thos.  Pepys  and  my  Coz  : 
Snow,  and  my  brother  Tom,  upon  a  fin  of  ling  and 
some  sounds,  neither  of  which  did  I  ever  know  before, 


134  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

but  most  excellent  meat  they  are  both,  that  in  all  my 
life  I  never  eat  the  like  fish. 

17th.  Captain  Cock,  a  merchant  I  had  not  long 
known,  took  me  to  the  Sun  taverne  and  gave  me  a 
glass  of  sack,  and  being  a  man  of  great  observation 
and  repute,  did  tell  me  that  he  was  confident  that  the 
Parliament,  when  it  comes  the  next  month  to  sit  again, 
would  bring  trouble  with  it,  and  enquire  how  the  King 
had  disposed  of  offices  and  money,  before  they  will 
raise  more ;  which,  I  fear,  will  bring  all  things  to  ruin 
again.  Thence  to  the  Cook's  and  there  dined  with 
Captain  Lambert  and  his  father-in-law,  and  had  much 
talk  of  Portugall ;  from  whence  he  is  lately  come,  and 
he  tells  me  it  is  a  very  poor  dirty  place  ;  I  mean  the 
City  and  Court  of  Lisbone ;  that  the  KLing  is  a  very 
rude  and  simple  fellow;  and,  for  reviling  of  some- 
body a  little  while  ago,  had  been  killed,  had  he  not 
told  them  that  he  was  their  king.  That  there  are 
there  no  glass  windows,  nor  will  they  have  any ;  which 
makes  sport  among  our  merchants  there  to  talk  of  an 
English  factor  that,  being  newly  come  thither,  writ 
into  England  that  glasse  would  be  a  good  commodity 
to  send  thither,  &c.  That  the  King  has  his  meat  sent 
up  by  a  dozen  of  lazy  guards  and  in  pipkins,  some- 
times, to  his  own  table ;  and  sometimes  nothing  but 
fruits,  and,  now  and  then,  half  a  hen.  And  now  that 
the  Infanta  is  become  our  Queene,  she  is  come  to 
have  a  whole  hen  or  goose  to  her  table. 

1 8th.  To  White  Hall,  to  Mr.  Montagu's,  where  I 
met  with  Mr.  Pierce,  the  purser,  to  advise  about  the 


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things  to  be  sent  to  my  Lord  for  the  Queene's  pro- 
vision; now  there  is  all  haste  made,  for  the  fleete's 
going.  I  met  with  complaints  at  home  that  my  wife 
left  no  victuals  for  them  all  this  day. 

19th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning,  and  at  noon 
Mr.  Coventry,  who  sat  with  us  all  the  morning,  and  Sir 
G.  Carteret,  Sir  W.Pen,  and  myself,  by  coach  to 
Captain  Marshe's,  at  Limehouse,  to  a  house  that  hath 
been  their  ancestors'  for  this  250  years,  close  by  the 
lime-house  which  gives  the  name  to  the  place.  Here 
they  have  a  designe  to  get  the  King  to  hire  a  docke 
for  the  herring  busses,  which  is  now  the  great  designe 
on  foot,  to  lie  up  in.  We  had  a  very  good  and  hand- 
some dinner,  and  excellent  wine.  I  not  being  neat 
in  clothes,  which  I  find  a  great  fault  in  me,  could  not 
be  so  merry  as  otherwise,  and  at  all  times  I  am  and 
can  be,  when  I  am  in  good  habitt,  which  makes  me 
remember  my  father  Osborne's  ^  rule  for  a  gentleman 
to  spare  in  all  things  rather  than  in  that. 

20th  (Lord's  day).  Much  offended  in  mind  at  a 
proud  trick  my  man  Will  hath  got,  to  keep  his  hat  on 
in  the  house,  but  I  will  not  speak  of  it  to  him  to-day ; 
but  I  fear  I  shall  be  troubled  with  his  pride  and  lazi- 
nesse,  though  in  other  things  he  is  good  enough.  To 
church  in  the  afternoon,  where  a  sleepy  Presbyter 
preached,  and  then  to  Sir  W.  Batten,  who  is  to  go  to 
Portsmouth  to-morrow  to  wait  upon  the  Duke  of  York, 
who  goes  to  take  possession  and  to  set  in  order  the 
garrison  there. 

^  Osborne's  "  Advice  10  a  Son."    See  January  27th,  1663-4.     (.M.  B.) 


136  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

2 1  St.  Early  with  Mr.  Moore  by  coach  to  Chelsy,  to 
my  Lord  Privy  Scale's,  but  have  missed  of  coming 
time  enough ;  and  having  taken  up  Mr.  Pargiter,  the 
goldsmith,  who  is  the  man  of  the  world  that  I  do 
most  know  and  believe  to  be  a  cheating  rogue,  we 
drank  our  morning  draft  there  together  of  cake  and 
ale,  and  did  make  good  sport  of  his  losing  so  much 
by  the  King's  coming  in,  he  having  bought  much  of 
Crowne  lands,  of  which,  God  forgive  me  !  I  am  very 
glad.  At  Whitehall,  at  the  Privy  Scale,  did  with  Sir 
W.  Pen  take  advice  about  passing  of  things  of  his 
there  that  concern  his  matters  of  Ireland.  Thence 
to  the  Wardrobe  and  dined,  and  so  against  my  judg- 
ment and  conscience  (which  God  forgive,  for  my  very 
heart  knows  that  I  offend  God  in  breaking  my  vows 
herein)  to  the  Opera,  which  is  now  newly  begun  to 
act  again,  after  some  alteracion  of  their  scene,  which 
do  make  it  very  much  worse ;  but  the  play,  "  Love 
and  Honour,"  ^  being  the  first  time  of  their  acting  it, 
is  a  very  good  plot,  and  well  done. 

22nd.  At  the  office  all  the  morning,  where  we  had 
a  deputation  from  the  Duke  in  his  absence,  he  being 
gone  to  Portsmouth,  for  us  to  have  the  whole  disposal 
and  ordering  of  the  Fleet.  In  the  afternoon  about  busi- 
ness up  and  down,  and  at  nigh  to  visit  Sir  R.  Slingsby, 
who  is  fallen  sick  of  this  new  disease,  an  ague  and  fever. 

23rd.  To  Whitehall,  and  there,  to  drink  our  morn- 
ing, Sir  W.  Pen  and  I  to  a  friend's  lodging,  and  at 

*  A  tragi-comedy,  by  Sir  W.  Davenant,  first  acted  at  the  Black  Friars. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  1 3/ 

noon  he  and  I  dined  together  alone  at  the  Legg  in 
King  Street,  and  so  by  coach  to  Chelsy  to  my  Lord 
Privy  Scale's,  and  so  back  to  the  Opera,  and  there  I 
saw  again  "  Love  and  Honour,"  and  a  very  good  play 
it  is.  This  day  all  our  office  is  invited  against  Tues- 
day next,  my  Lord  Mayor's  day,  to  dinner  with  him 
at  Guildhall. 

24th.  At  the  office  all  morning,  at  noon  Luellin 
dined  with  me.  Went  to  see  Sir  R.  Slingsby,  who 
continues  ill,  and  this  day  has  not  spoke  at  all,  which 
makes  them  all  afeard  of  him. 

25  th.  To  Whitehall,  and  so  to  dinner  at  the  Ward- 
robe, where  my  wife  met  me,  and  there  we  met  with  a 
venison  pasty,  and  my  Lady  was  very  merry  and  hand- 
some, methought.  After  dinner  my  wife  and  I  to  the 
Opera,  and  there  saw  again  "  Love  and  Honour,"  a 
play  so  good  that  it  has  been  acted  but  three  times 
and  I  have  seen  them  all,  and  all  in  this  week ;  which 
is  too  much,  and  more  than  I  will  do  again  a  good 
while.  This  day  I  did  give  my  man  Will  a  sound 
lesson  about  his  forbearing  to  give  us  the  respect  due 
to  a  master  and  mistress. 

26th.  This  morning  Sir  W.  Pen  and  I  should  have 
gone  out  of  town  with  my  Lady  Batten,  to  have  met 
Sir  William  coming  back  from  Portsmouth,  at  Kings- 
ton, but  could  not,  by  reason  that  my  Lord  of  Peter- 
borough ^  (who  is  to  go  Governor  of  Tangier  2)  came 

^  Henry,  second  Earl  of  Peterborough,  a  Privy  Councillor,  and  in  1685 
made  Groom  of  the  Stole.     He  was  also  K.G.,  and  died  1697. 

2  This  place,  so  often  mentioned  by  Mr.  Pepys,  was  first  given  up  to  the 


138  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

this  morning,  with  Sir  G.  Carteret,  to  advise  with  us 
about  completing  of  the  affairs  and  preparacions  for 
that  place.  So  at  the  office  all  the  morning,  and  in 
the  afternoon  Sir  W.  Pen,  my  wife  and  I  to  the 
Theatre,  and  there  saw  "  The  Country  Captaine,"  the 
first  time  it  hath  been  acted  this  twenty-five  years,  a 
play  of  my  Lord  Newcastle's,  but  so  silly  a  play  as  in 
all  my  life  I  never  saw,  and  the  first  that  ever  I  was 
weary  of  in  my  life.  News  was  brought  that  Sir  R. 
Slingsby,  our  Comptroller  (who  hath  this  day  been 
sick  a  week) ,  is  dead  ;  which  put  me  into  so  great  a 
trouble  of  mind,  that  all  the  night  I  could  not  sleep, 
he  being  a  man  that  loved  me,  and  had  many  qualitys 
that  made  me  to  love  him  above  all  the  officers  and 
commissioners  in  the  Navy. 

27th  (Lord's  day).  At  church  in  the  morning; 
where  in  pew  both  Sir  Williams  ^  and  I  had  much  talk 
about   the  death    of  Sir  Robert,  which  troubles    me 


English  Fleet  under  Lord  Sandwich,  by  the  Portuguese,  Jan.  30,  1662 ;  and 
Lord  Peterborough  left  Governor,  with  a  garrison.  The  greatest  pains  were 
afterwards  taken  to  preserve  the  fortress,  and  a  fine  Mole  was  constructed,  at 
a  vast  expense,  to  improve  the  harbour.  At  length,  after  immense  sums  of 
money  had  been  wasted  there,  the  House  of  Commons  expressed  a  dislike  to 
the  management  of  the  garrison  (which  they  suspected  to  be  a  nursery  for  a 
Popish  army) ,  and  seemed  disinclined  to  maintain  it  any  longer.  The  King, 
consequently,  in  1683,  sent  Lord  Dartmouth  to  bring  home  the  troops,  and 
destroy  the  works;  which  he  performed  most  effectually,  and  Tangier  fell  into 
the  hands  of  the  Moors,  its  importance  having  ceased  with  the  demolition 
of  the  Mole.  Many  curious  views  of  Tangier  were  taken  by  Hollar,  during 
its  occupation  by  the  English;  and  his  drawings  are  preserved  iu  the  British 
Museum.  Some  have  been  engraved  by  himself;  but  the  impressions  are  of 
considerable  rarity. 

^  Sir  \V.  Pen  and  Sir  W,  Batten,  so  styled /aw/w. 


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much;  and  them  in  appearance,  though  I  do  not 
believe  it ;  because  I  know  that  he  was  a  cheque  to 
their  engrossing  the  whole  trade  of  the  Navy-office. 
Home  to  dinner,  and  in  the  afternoon  to  church 
again,  my  wife  with  me,  whose  mourning  is  now  grown 
so  old  that  I  am  ashamed  to  go  to  church  with  her. 

28th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning,  and  dined  at 
home,  and  so  to  Paul's  Churchyard  to  Hunt's,  and 
there  found  my  Theorbo  ^  done,  which  pleases  me 
very  well,  and  costs  me  26i-.  to  the  altering.  But  now 
he  tells  me  it  is  as  good  a  lute  as  any  is  in  England, 
and  is  worth  well  10/.  Hither  I  sent  for  Captain 
Ferrers  to  me,  who  comes  with  a  friend  of  his,  and 
they  and  I  to  the  Theatre,  and  there  saw  "Argalus 
and  Parthenia,"  where  a  woman  acted  Parthenia,  and 
came  afterwards  on  the  stage  in  men's  clothes,  and 
had  the  best  legs  that  ever  I  saw,  and  I  was  very  well 
pleased  with  it.  Thence  to  the  Ringo  alehouse,  and 
thither  sent  for  a  belt- maker,  and  bought  of  him  a 
handsome  belt  for  second  mourning,  which  cost  me 
24i".,  and  is  very  neat. 

29th.   This  day  I  put  on  my  half  cloth  black  stock- 


^  There  is  a  humorous  comparison  of  the  long  waists  of  ladies,  which  came 
into  fashion  about  1621,  with  the  theorbo,  by  Bishop  Corbet: 

"  She  was  barr'd  up  in  whale-bones,  that  did  leese 
None  of  the  whale's  length,  for  they  reached  her  knees; 
Off  with  her  head,  and  then  she  hath  a  middle 
As  her  waste  stands,  just  like  the  new  found  fiddle. 
The  favourite  Theorbo,  truth  to  tell  ye. 
Whose  neck  and  throat  are  deeper  than  the  belly." 

Corbet,  Iter  Boreale.     (M.  B.) 


140  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

ings  and  my  new  coate  of  the  fashion,  which  pleases 
me  well,  and  with  my  beaver  ^  I  was  (after  office  was 
done)  ready  to  go  to  my  Lord  Mayor's  feast,  as  we 
are  all  invited ;  but  the  Sir  Williams  were  both  loth 
to  go,  because  of  the  crowd,  and  so  none  of  us  went, 
and  I  staid  and  dined  with  them,  and  so  home,  and 
in  the  evening,  by  consent,  we  met  at  the  Dolphin, 
where  other  company  came  to  us,  and  should  have 
been  merry,  but  their  wine  was  so  naught,  and  all 
other  things  out  of  order,  that  we  were  not  so,  but 
staid  long  at  night,  and  so  home  and  to  bed.  My 
mind  not  pleased  with  the  spending  of  this  day, 
because  I  had  proposed  a  great  deal  of  pleasure  to 
myself  this  day  at  Guildhall.  This  Lord  Mayor,  it 
seems,  brings  up  again  the  custom  of  Lord  Mayors 
going  the  day  of  their  installment  to  Paul's,  and  walk- 
ing round  about  the  Crosse,  and  offering  something  at 
the  altar. 

30th.  All  the  morning  at  the  office.  At  noon 
played  on  my  Theorbo,  and  much  pleased  therewith  ; 
it  is  now  altered  with  a  new  neck.  In  the  afternoon 
Captain  Lambert  called  me  out  by  appointment,  and 
we  walked  together  to  Deptford,  and  there  in  his  ship, 
the  Norwich,  I  got  him  to  shew  me  every  hole  and 
corner  of  the  ship,  much  to  my  information,  and  the 


»  Doubtless  the  same  mentioned  June  27,  1661.  It  was  a  "  ckapeau  de 
poil"  a  mark  of  some  distinction  in  those  days,  and  which  gave  name  to 
Rubens's  famous  picture,  now  in  Sir  Robert  Peel's  collection,  of  a  lady  in  a 
beaver  hat,  or  "  chapeau  de  poil."  This  having  been  corrupted  into 
*'  chapeau  de paille"  has  led  to  much  ignorant  conjecture. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  I4I 

purpose  of  my  going.  So  home  again,  and  at  Sir  W. 
Batten's  heard  how  he  had  been  already  at  Sir  R. 
SUngsby's,  as  we  were  all  invited,  and  I  intended  this 
night  to  go,  and  there  he  finds  all  things  out  of  order, 
and  no  such  thing  done  to-night,  but  pretending  that 
the  corps  stinks,  they  will  bury  it  to-night  privately, 
and  so  will  unbespeak  all  their  guests,  and  there  shall 
be  no  funerall,  which  I  am  sorry  for,  that  there  should 
be  nothing  done  for  the  honour  of  Sir  Robert,  but  I 
fear  he  hath  left  his  family  in  great  distraction.  Sir 
Henry  Vane,  Lambert,  and  others,  are  lately  sent  sud- 
denly away  from  the  Tower,  prisoners  to  Scilly ;  but 
I  do  not  think  there  is  any  plot  as  is  said,  but  only  a 
pretence ;  as  there  was  once  pretended  often  against 
the  Cavaliers. 

31st.  With  my  mind  full  of  trouble,  to  my  uncle 
Fenner's,  when  at  the  alehouse  I  found  him  drinking 
and  very  jolly  and  youthsome,  and  as  one  that  I 
beHeve  will  in  a  little  time  get  a  wife. 

November  ist.  I  went  this  morning  with  Sir  W. 
Pen  by  coach  to  Westminster,  and  from  thence  with 
him  to  the  3  Tun  Taveme,  at  Charing  Cross,  and 
there  sent  for  up  the  maister  of  the  house's  dinner, 
and  dined  very  well  upon  it,  and  so  went  away  to  the 
Theatre,  to  "  The  Joviall  Crew,"  and  from  hence  to 
my  house,  and  were  very  merry  till  late,  having 
sent  for  his  son,  Mr.  William  Pen,»  lately  come  from 
Oxford. 

*  The  celebrated  Quaker,  and  P'ounder  of  Pennsylvania. 


142  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

2d.  At  the  office  all  the  morning ;  where  Sir  John 
Minnes,  our  new  comptroller,  was  fetched  by  Sir  Wm. 
Pen  and  myself  from  Sir  Wm.  Batten's,  and  led  to  his 
place  in  the  office.  The  first  time  that  he  had  come 
hither,  and  he  seems  a  good  fair  condition  man,  and 
one  that  I  am  glad  hath  the  office.  After  the  office 
done,  I  to  the  Wardrobe,  and  there  dined,  and  in  the 
afternoon  had  an  hour  or  two's  talk  with  my  Lady  with 
great  pleasure.  This  night  my  boy  Wayneman,  as  I 
was  in  my  chamber,  I  overheard  him  let  off  some 
gunpowder,  and  hearing  my  wife  chide  him  below 
for  it,  and  a  noise  made,  I  call  him  up,  and  find  that 
it  was  powder  that  he  had  put  in  his  pocket,  and  a 
match  carelessly  with  it,  thinking  that  it  was  out,  and 
so  the  match  did  give  fire  to  the  powder,  and  had 
burnt  his  side  and  his  hand  that  he  put  into  his 
pocket  to  put  out  the  fire.  But  upon  examination, 
and  finding  him  in  a  lie  about  the  time  and  place 
that  he  bought  it,  I  did  extremely  beat  him,  and 
though  it  did  trouble  me  to  do  it,  yet  I  thought  it 
necessary  to  do  it, 

3rd  (Lord's  day) .  This  day  I  stirred  not  out,  but 
took  physique,  and  all  the  day  I  did  read  in  Fuller's 
Holy  Warr,  and  did  Xxy  to  make  a  song  in  the  praise 
of  a  liberall  genius  (as  I  take  my  own  to  be)  to  all 
studies  and  pleasures,  but  it  not  proving  to  my  mind 
I  did  reject  it.  At  night  my  wife  and  I  had  a  good 
supper  by  ourselves  of  a  pullet  hashed,  which  pleased 
me  much  to  see  my  condition  come  to  allow  ourselves 
a  dish  like  that. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  I43 

4th.  In  the  morning  by  coach  with  Sir  W.  Pen  to 
Whitehall,  and  then  to  the  Mitre  (Mr.  Rawlinson's), 
where  Mr.  Pierce,  the  Purser,  had  got  us  a  most  brave 
chine  of  beef,  and  a  dish  of  marrowbones.  Then 
called  my  wife  at  my  brother's,  where  I  left  her,  and 
to  the  Opera,  where  we  saw  "The  Bondman,"  which 
of  old  we  both  did  so  doate  on,  and  do  still ;  though 
to  both  our  thinking  not  so  well  acted  here  (having 
too  great  expectations),  as  formerly  at  Salisbury- court. 
But  for  Betterton '  he  is  called  by  us  both  the  best 
actor  in  the  world. 

5th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning.  At  noon  comes 
my  brother  Tom  and  Armiger  to  dine  with  me,  and 
then  to  the  Dolphin,  where  Armiger  and  I  and  Captain 
Cocke  sat  late  and  drank  much,  seeing  the  boys  in 
the  streets  flying  their  crackers,  this  day  being  kept 
all  the  day  very  strictly  in  the  City.  At  last  broke 
up,  and  called  at  my  Lady  Batten's,  and  would  have 
gone  to  cards,  but  Sir  W.  Pen  was  so  fuddled  that  we 
could  not  try  him  to  play,  and  therefore  we  parted, 
and  I  home  and  to  bed. 

6th.  Going  forth  this  morning  I  met  Mr.  Davenport 
and  a  friend  of  his,  and  did  give  them  their  morning 


^  Thomas  Betterton,  the  celebrated  actor,  born  in  1635,  was  the  son  of  an 
under  cook  to  Charles  I.,  and  first  appeared  on  the  stage  at  the  Cockpit  in 
Drury  Lane,  in  1659.  After  the  Restoration,  two  distinct  theatres  were  es- 
tablished by  Royal  Authority;  one  in  Drury  Lane,  called  the  King's 
Company,  under  a  patent  granted  to  Killigrew:  the  other  in  Lincoln's  Inn 
Fields,  styled  the  Duke's  Troop,  the  patentee  of  which  was  Sir  W.  Davenant, 
who  engaged  Mr.  Betterton  in  1662.  Mr.  B.  died  in  1710,  and  was  buried  in 
the  cloisters  of  Westminster  Abbey. 


144  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

draft  in  good  wine,  and  anchovies,  and  pickled  oysters, 
and  at  noon  being  invited  by  a  note  from  Luellin,  I 
went  and  had  a  good  dish  or  two  of  marrowbones  and 
another  of  neats'  tongues  to  dinner,  and  so  I  went  home 
and  sat  late  with  pleasure  at  my  lute,  and  so  to  bed. 

yth.  This  morning  came  one  Mr.  Hill  to  teach  me 
to  play  on  the  Theorbo,  but  I  do  not  hke  his  play  nor 
singing,  and  so  I  found  a  way  to  put  him  off.  So  to 
the  office.  I  met  with  letters  at  home  from  my  Lord 
from  Lisbone,  which  speak  of  his  being  well ;  and  he 
tells  me  he  had  seen  at  the  court  there,  the  day  before 
he  wrote  this  letter,  the  Juego  de  Toro.^  Peg  Kite 
now  hath  declared  she  will  have  the  beggarly  rogue 
the  weaver,  and  so  we  are  resolved  neither  to  meddle 
nor  make  with  her. 

8th.  This  morning  up  early,  and  to  my  Lord  Chan- 
cellor's with  a  letter  to  him  from  my  Lord,  and  did 
speak  with  him ;  and  he  did  ask  me  whether  I  was 
son  to  Mr.  Talbot  Pepys  ^  or  no  (with  whom  he  was 
once  acquainted  in  the  Court  of  Requests) ,  and  spoke 
to  me  with  great  respect.  Thence  to  Westminster 
Hall  (it  being  Terme  time)  and  there  met  with  Com- 
missioner Pett,  and  so  at  noon  he  and  I  by  appoint- 
ment to  the  Sun  in  New  Fish  Street,  where  Sir  J. 
Minnes,  Sir  W.  Batten,  and  we  all  were  to  dine,  and 
by  discourse  I  found  Sir  J.  Minnes  a  fine  gentleman 
and  a  very  good  scholler. 

9th.   At  the  office  all  the  morning.     After  dinner  I 

*  A  bull-fight.     See  May  24,  1662. 

*  Of  Impington,  great  uncle  to  our  author. 


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to  the  Wardrobe,  and  there  staid  talking  with  my  Lady- 
all  the  afternoon  till  late  at  night.  Among  other 
things  my  Lady  did  mightily  urge  me  to  lay  out  money 
upon  my  wife,  which  I  perceived  was  a  little  more 
earnest  than  ordinary,  and  so  I  seemed  to  be  pleased 
with  it,  and  do  resolve  to  bestow  a  lace  upon  her. 

loth  (Lord's  day).  At  our  own  church  in  the 
morning,  where  Mr.  Mills  preached.  In  the  after- 
noon went  and  sat  with  Mr.  Turner  in  his  pew  at  St. 
Gregory's,  where  I  hear  our  Queene  Katherine,  the 
first  time  by  name  as  such,  publickly  prayed  for,'  and 
heard  Dr.  Buck^  upon  "  Woe  unto  thee,  Corazin,"  &c., 
where  he  started  a  difficulty,  which  he  left  to  another 
time  to  answer,  about  why  God  should  give  means  of 
grace  to  those  people  which  he  knew  would  not 
receive  them,  and  deny  to  others  which  he  himself 
confesses,  if  they  had  had  them,  would  have  received 
them,  and  they  would  have  been  effectual  too.  I  would 
I  could  hear  him  explain  this,  when  he  do  come  to  it. 

nth.  To  the  Wardrobe  to  dinner,  and  there  by 
appointment  met  my  wife,  who  had  by  my  direction 
brought  some  laces  for  my  Lady  to  choose  one  for 
her.  After  dinner  Captain  Ferrers  and  I  went  to- 
gether, and  he  carried  me  the  first  time  that  ever  I 
saw  any  gaming  house,  to  one,  entering  into  Lincoln's- 
Inn- Fields,  at  the  end  of  Bell  Yard,  where  strange  the 


*  The  King's  letter  to  the  council  for  this  purpose  was  read  on  Nov.  19. 

2  Probably  John  Buck,  D.D.,  who  was  Vicar  of  Stradbrook,  Suffolk,  and 
published,  in  1660,  a  Thanksgiving  Sermon,  preached  at  St.  Paul's.  —  Watt's 
Bibl.  Britan. 


146  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS. 

folly  of  men  to  lay  and  lose  so  much  money,  and  very 
glad  I  was  to  see  the  manner  of  a  gamester's  life, 
which  I  see  is  very  miserable,  and  poor,  and  unmanly. 
And  thence  he  took  me  to  a  dancing  schoole  in  Fleet 
Streete,  where  we  saw  a  company  of  pretty  girles  dance, 
but  I  do  not  in  myself  like  to  have  young  girles  ex- 
posed to  so  much  vanity.  So  to  the  Wardrobe,  where 
I  found  my  Lady  had  agreed  upon  a  lace  for  my  wife 
of  6/.,  which  I  seemed  much  glad  of  that  it  was  no 
more,  though  in  my  mind  I  think  it  too  much,  and  I 
pray  God  keep  me  so  to  order  myself  and  my  wife's 
expenses  that  no  inconvenience  in  purse  or  honour 
follow  this  my  prodigality.     So  by  coach  home. 

1 2th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning.  My  wife  and 
I  to  "Bartholomew  Fayre,"  with  puppets  which  I 
had  seen  once  before,  and  the  play  without  puppets 
often,  but  though  I  love  the  play  as  much  as  ever  I 
did,  yet  I  do  not  like  the  puppets  at  all,  but  think  it 
to  be  a  lessening  to  it.  Thence  to  the  Greyhound  in 
Fleet  Streete,  and  there  drank  some  raspberry  sack 
and  eat  some  sasages,  and  so  home  very  merry.  This 
day  Holmes  come  to  town ;  and  we  do  expect  hourly 
to  hear  what  usage  he  hath  from  the  Duke  and  the 
King  about  this  late  business  of  letting  the  Swedish 
Embassador '  go  by  him  without  striking  his  flag .2 

1  The  Count  Brah^. 

2  And  that,  too,  in  the  river  Thames  itself.  The  right  of  obliging  ships 
of  all  nations  to  lower  topsails  and  strike  their  flag  to  the  English,  whilst  in 
the  British  seas,  and  even  on  the  French  coasts,  had,  up  to  this  time,  been 
rigidly  enforced.  When  Sully  was  sent  by  Henry  IV.,  in  1603,  to  congratu- 
late James  I.  on  his  accession,  and  in  a  ship  commanded  by  a  Vice-Admiral 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  1 47 

13th.  By  appointment,  we  all  went  this  morning  to 
wait  upon  the  Duke  of  York,  which  we  did  in  his 
chamber,  as  he  was  dressing  himself  in  his  riding 
suit  to  go  this  day  by  sea  to  the  Downes.  He  is  in 
mourning  for  his  wife's  grandmother,^  which  is  thought 
a  great  piece  of  fondness.^     After  we  had  given  him 

of  France,  he  was  fired  upon  by  the  English  Admiral  Mansel,  for  daring  to 
hoist  the  flag  of  France  in  the  presence  of  that  of  England,  although  within 
sight  of  Calais.  The  French  flag  was  lowered,  and  all  Sully's  remonstrances 
could  obtain  no  redress  for  the  alleged  injury.  According  to  Rugge,  Holmes 
had  insisted  upon  the  Swede's  lowering  his  flag,  and  had  even  fired  a  shot  to 
enforce  the  observance  of  the  usual  tribute  of  respect,  but  the  Ambassador 
sent  his  secretary  and  another  gentleman  on  board  the  English  frigate,  to 
assure  the  captain,  upon  the  word  and  honour  of  an  Ambassador,  that  the 
King,  by  a  verbal  order,  had  given  him  leave  and  a  dispensation  in  that  par- 
ticular, and  upon  this  false  representation  he  was  allowed  to  proceed  on  his 
voyage  without  further  question.  This  want  of  caution,  and  disobedience  of 
orders,  fell  heavily  on  Holmes,  who  was  imprisoned  for  two  months,  and  not 
reappointed  to  the  same  ship.  Brahe  afterwards  made  a  proper  submission  for 
the  fault  he  had  committed,  at  his  own  Court.  His  conduct  reminds  us  of  Sir 
Henry  Wotton's  definition  of  an  ambassador — that  he  is  an  honest  man 
sent  to  lie  abroad  for  the  good  of  his  country.  A  pun  upon  the  term  lieger- 
Ambassador. 

^  Edward  Hyde,  first  Earl  of  Clarendon,  was  twice  married.  His  first 
wife  was  the  daughter  of  Sir  George  Ayliffe,  of  Foxley,  in  the  county  of 
Wilts.  He  married  her  in  1628,  when  he  was  only  twenty  years  old,  and  she 
died  of  the  small-pox  six  months  afterwards,  before  any  child  was  born.  In 
1632  he  married  Frances,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  and  Lady  Ailesbury,  by 
whom  he  had  four  sons  and  two  daughters.  Anne,  the  eldest  daughter, 
became,  as  is  well  known,  the  wife  of  the  Duke  of  York,  and  the  mother  of 
Queen  Mary  and  Queen  Anne.  The  whole  story  of  her  grandmother  being 
a  "  tub-woman,"  or  "beer-carrier,"  is  altogether  fabulous.  See  Notes  and 
Queries,  vol.  vii.  p.  211.     (M.  B.) 

2  Fondness,  foolishness. 

"  He  that  is  young  thinketh  the  olde  man  fond/  and  the  olde  knoweth  the 
young  man  to  be  a  foole."  —  Eiiph.  a?id  his  Eng.  p.  9. 

"  Fondness  it  were  for  any,  being  free, 
To  covet  fetter  >,  tho'  they  golden  be." 

Spens.  Sonnet,  37.     (M.  B.) 


148  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

our  letter  relating  the  bad  condition  of  the  Navy  for 
want  of  money,  he  referred  it  to  his  coming  back  and 
so  parted.  Thence  on  foot  to  my  Lord  Crew's  ;  here 
I  was  well  received  by  my  Lord  and  Sir  Thomas ; 
with  whom  I  had  great  talk :  and  he  tells  me  in  good 
earnest  that  he  do  believe  the  Parhament  (which 
comes  to  sit  again  the  next  week),  will  be  trouble- 
some to  the  Court  and  Clergy,  which  God  forbid  ! 
But  they  see  things  carried  so  by  my  Lord  Chancellor 
and  some  others,  that  get  money  themselves,  that  they 
will  not  endure  it.  From  thence  to  the  Theatre,  and 
there  saw  "  Father's  own  Son  "  again,  and  so  it  rain- 
ing very  hard  I  went  home  by  coach,  with  my  mind 
very  heavy  for  this  my  expensefull  life,  which  will 
undo  me,  I  fear  after  all  my  hopes,  if  I  do  not  take 
up,  for  now  I  am  coming  to  lay  out  a  great  deal  of 
money  in  clothes  for  my  wife,  I  must  forbear  other 
expenses.  To  bed,  and  this  night  began  to  lie  in  the 
little  green  chamber,  where  the  mayds  lie,  but  we 
could  not  a  great  while  get  Nell  to  lie  there,  because 
I  lie  there  and  my  wife,  but  at  last,  when  she  saw 
she  must  lie  there  or  sit  up,  she,  with  much  ado,  came 
to  bed. 

14th  At  the  office  all  the  morning.  At  noon  to  a 
dinner  of  young  Mr.  Bernard's  for  myself,  Mr.  Phillips, 
Davenport,  Weaver,  &c.,  where  we  had  a  most  excel- 
lent dinner,  but  a  pie  of  such  pleasant  variety  of  good 
things,  as  in  all  my  life  I  never  tasted.  Hence  to  the 
Temple  to  Mr.  Turner  about  drawing  up  my  bill  in 
Chancery  against  T.  Trice,  and  so  to  Salisbury  Court, 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  1 49 

where  Mrs.  Turner  is  come  to  towne,  but  very  ill  still 
of  an  ague. 

15  th.  At  home  all  the  morning,  and  at  noon  with 
my  wife  to  the  Wardrobe  to  dinner,  and  there  did 
shew  herself  to  my  Lady  in  the  handkercher  that  she 
bought  the  lace  for  the  other  day,  and  indeed  it  is 
very  handsome.  So  to  my  Lord  Privy  Seale,  and  then 
to  the  Opera,  where  I  met  my  wife  and  Captain 
Ferrers  and  Madamoiselle  Le  Blanc,  and  there  did 
see  the  second  part  of  "The  Siege  of  Rhodes"  very 
well  done ;  and  so  by  coach  set  her  home,  and  the 
coach  driving  down  the  hill  through  Thames  Street, 
which  I  think  never  any  coach  did  before  from  that 
place  to  the  bridge-foot,  but  going  up  Fish  Street 
Hill  his  horses  were  so  tired,  that  they  could  not  be 
got  to  go  up  the  hill,  though  all  the  street  boys  and 
men  did  beat  and  whip  them.  At  last  I  was  fain  to 
send  my  boy  for  a  linke,  and  so  'light  out  of  the 
coach  till  we  got  to  another  at  the  comer  of  Fen- 
church  Street,  and  so  home. 

17th  (Lord's  day).  To  our  own  church,  and  at 
noon,  by  invitation,  Sir  W.  Pen  dined  with  me,  and 
I  took  Mrs.  Hester,  my  Lady  Batten's  kinswoman,  to 
dinner  from  church  with  me,  and  we  were  very  merry. 
So  to  church  again,  and  heard  a  simple  fellow  upon 
the  praise  of  Church  musique,  and  exclaiming  against 
men's  wearing  their  hats  on  in  the  church,  but  I  slept 
part  of  the  sermon,  till  latter  prayer  and  blessing  and 
all  was  done  without  waking,  which  I  never  did  in  my 
life. 


I50  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

1 8th.  At  St.  Paul's,  where  I  saw  the  quiristers  in 
their  surpHces  going  to  prayers,  and  a  few  idle  poor 
people  and  boys  to  hear  them,  which  is  the  first  time 
I  have  seen  them,  and  am  sorry  to  see  things  done  so 
out  of  order.  Here  I  dined  and  had  a  good  dinner. 
There  was  a  young  Parson  at  the  table  that  had  got 
himself  drunk  before  dinner,  which  troubled  me  to 
see.  After  dinner  for  my  wife,  and  brought  her  to  the 
Theatre  to  see  "  Philaster,"  '  which  I  never  saw  be- 
fore, but  I  found  it  far  short  of  my  expectations. 

19th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning.  Mr.  Hunt 
dined  with  us,  and  after  dinner  took  coach  as  far  as 
my  cozen  Scott's,  and  my  wife  and  I  staid  there  at 
the  christening  of  my  cozen's  boy,  where  my  cozen 
Samuel  Pepys,  of  Ireland,  and  I  were  godfathers,  and 
I  did  name  the  child  Samuel.  There  was  a  company 
of  pretty  women  there  in  the  chamber,  but  we  staid 
not,  but  went  with  the  minister  into  another  room  and 
eat  and  drank,  my  she-cozen,  Stradwick,  being  god- 
mother. It  cost  me  20J-.  between  the  midwife  and 
the  two  nurses  to-day. 

20th.  To  Westminster  Hall  by  water  in  the  morn- 
ing, where  I  saw  the  King  going  in  his  barge  to  the 
Parliament  House ;  this  being  the  first  day  of  their 
meeting  again.  And  the  Bishops,  I  hear,  do  take 
their  places  in  the  Lords'  House  this  day.  I  walked 
longe  in  the  Hall,  but  hear  nothing  of  newes,  but 
what  Ned  Pickering  tells  me,  which  I  am  troubled  at, 

^  "  Philaster ;  or.  Love  lies  a  bleeding,"  a  tragedy,  by  Beaumont  and 
Fletcher. 


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that  Sir  J.  Minnes  should  send  word  to  the  King,  that 
if  he  did  not  remove  all  my  Lord  Sandwich's  captains 
out  of  this  fleet,  he  believed  the  King  would  not  be 
master  of  the  fleet  at  its  coming  again :  and  so  do 
endeavour  to  bring  disgrace  upon  my  Lord.  But  I 
hope  all  that  will  not  do,  for  the  King  loves  him. 
Hence  by  water  to  the  Wardrobe,  and  dined  with  my 
Lady,  my  Lady  Wright  "■  being  there  too,  whom  I  find 
to  be  a  witty  but  very  conceited  woman  and  proud. 
I  home,  and  went  seriously  to  look  over  my  papers 
touching  T.  Trice,  and  I  think  I  have  found  some  that 
will  go  near  to  do  me  more  good  in  this  difference  of 
ours  than  all  I  have  before.  So  to  bed  with  my  mind 
cheery  upon  it,  and  lay  long  reading  "  Hobbs  his  Lib- 
erty and  Necessity,"  and  a  little  but  very  shrewd  piece. 
2 1  St.  Mr.  Moore  comes  and  dined  with  me,  and 
we  had  a  good  surloyne  of  rost  beefe,  the  first  that 
ever  I  had  of  my  own  buying  since  I  kept  house ; 
after  dinner  went  with  Mr.  Moore  to  Graye's  Inn  to 
his  chamber,  and  there  he  shewed  me  his  old  Cam- 
den's "  Britannica,"  which  I  intend  to  buy  of  him, 
and  so  took  it  away  with  me,  and  left  it  at  St.  Paul's 
Churchyard  to  be  bound,  and  so  home  and  to  the 
office  all  the  afternoon;  it  being  the  first  afternoon 
that  we  have  sat,  which  we  are  now  to  do  always,  so 
long  as  the  Parliament  sits,  who  this  day  have  voted 
the  King  i20,ooo/.2  to  be  raised  to  pay  his  debts. 

^  See  March  27,  1660,  ante.     Lady  Wright  lived  till  1708. 
2  A  mistake.    According  to  the  journals,  ;^i, 200,000.     And  see  Diary, 
29th  February,  1663-4.     (M.  B.) 


152  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

22nd.  Within  all  the  morning,  and  at  noon  with  my 
wife,  by  appointment  to  dinner  at  the  Dolphin,  where 
Sir  W.  Batten,  and  his  lady  and  daughter  Matt,^  and 
Captain  Cocke  and  his  lady,  a  German  lady,  but  a 
very  great  beauty,  and  we  dined  together,  at  the 
spending  of  some  wagers  won  and  lost  between  him 
and  I ;  and  there  we  had  the  best  musique  and  very 
good  songs,  and  were  very  merry  and  danced,  but  I 
was  most  of  all  taken  with  Madam  Cocke  and  her 
little  boy,  which  in  mirth  his  father  had  given  to  me. 
But  after  all  our  mirth  comes  a  reckoning  of  4/., 
besides  40i-.  to  the  musicians,  which  did  trouble  us, 
but  it  must  be  paid,  and  so  I  took  leave  and  left  them 
there  about  eight  at  night. 

23rd.  To  Westminster  with  my  wife,  and  thence  to 
Cheapside  to  one  Savill,2  a  painter,  who  I  intend  shall 
do  my  picture  and  my  wife's.  Thence  I  to  dinner  at 
the  Wardrobe,  and  so  home  to  the  office,  and  there 
all  the  afternoon  till  night.  This  day  I  have  a  chine 
of  beef  sent  home,  which  I  bespoke  to  send,  and  did 
send  it  as  a  present  to  my  uncle  Wight. 

24th  (Lord's  day).  Up  early,  and  by  appointment 
to  St.  Clement  Danes  ^  to  church,  and  there  to  meet 
Captain  Cocke,  who  had  often  commended  Mr.  Al- 
sopp,  their  minister,  to  me,  who  is  indeed  an  able 
man,  but  as  all  things  else  did  not  come  up  to  my 


«  Martha  Batten. 

2  No  notice  of  this  artist  has  been  discovered. 

3  So  called,  because  Harold,  the  Danish  king,  and  others  of  his  country- 
men, were  there  buried. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  1 53 

expectations.  His  text  was  that  all  good  and  perfect 
gifts  are  from  above.  To  the  Wardrobe  and  there 
dined.  Thence  homewards,  and  meeting  Mr.  Yong, 
the  upholster,  he  and  I  to  the  Mitre,  and  with  Mr. 
Rawlinson  sat  and  drank  a  quart  of  sack. 

25  th.  To  Westminster  Hall  in  the  morning  with 
Captain  Lambert,  and  there  he  did  at  the  Dog  give 
me  and  some  other  friends  of  his,  his  foy,'  he  being 
to  set  sail  to-day  toward  the  Streights.  Here  we  had 
oysters  and  good  wine.  Having  this  morning  met  in 
the  Hall  with  Mr.  Sanchy,  we  appointed  to  meet  at 
the  play  this  afternoon.  At  noon,  at  the  rising  of  the 
House,  I  met  with  Sir  W.  Pen  and  Major  General 
Massy,  who  I  find  by  discourse  to  be  a  very  ingenious 
man,  and  among  other  things  a  great  master  in  the 
secresys  of  powder  and  fireworks,  and  another  knight 
to  dinner,  at  the  Swan,  in  the  Palace  yard,  and  our 
meat  brought  from  the  Legg;  and  after  dinner  Sir 
W.  Pen  and  I  to  the  Theatre,  and  there  saw  "The 
Country  Captain,"  a  dull  play,  and  that  being  done,  I 
left  him  with  his  Torys  ^  and  went  to  the  Opera,  and 
saw  the  last  act  of  "The  Bondman,"  and  there  found 


^  Foy.     See  note,  20th  March,  1660.     (M.  B.) 

2  Torys.     "  Whig  and  Tory.     Whenever  these   terms  were   first   intro- 
duced, and  whatever  might  be  their  original  meaning,  it  is  certain  in  the  reign 
of  Charles  II.  they  carried  the  political  signification,  which  they  have  retained 
to  our  time."    Thus  in  Dryden's  Epilogue  to  the  Duke  of  Guise,  1682  : 
"  *  Damned  neuters,  in  their  middle  way  of  steering. 
Are  neither  fish  nor  flesh,  nor  good  red  herring; 
Not  Whigs  nor  Tories  they,'  &c." 

Times,  Things  not  Generally  Known.     (M.  B.) 


154  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

Mr.  Sanchy  and  Mrs.  Mary  Archer,  sister  to  the  fair 
Betty,  whom  I  did  admire  at  Cambridge,  and  thence 
took  them  to  the  Fleece  ^  in  Covent  Garden ;  but  Mr. 
Sanchy  could  not  by  any  argument  get  his  lady  to 
trust  herself  with  him  into  the  taveme,  which  he  was 
much  troubled  at,  and  so  we  returned  immediately 
into  the  city  by  coach,  and  then  set  her  at  her  uncle's 
in  the  Old  Jewry. 

27th.  This  morning  our  mayde  Dorothy  and  my 
wife  parted,  which  though  she  be  a  wench  for  her 
tongue  not  to  be  borne  with,  yet  I  was  loth  to  part 
with  her,  but  I  took  my  leave  kindly  of  her  and  went 
out  to  Savill's,  the  painter,  and  there  sat  the  first  time 
for  my  face  with  him ;  thence  to  dinner  with  my 
Lady ;  and  so  after  an  hour  or  two's  talk  in  divinity 
with  my  Lady,  Captain  Ferrers  and  Mr.  Moore  and  I 
to  the  Theatre,  and  there  saw  "  Hamlett "  very  well 
done. 

28th.  Letters  from  my  Lord  Sandwich,  from  Tan- 
gier ;  2  where  he  continues  still,  and  hath  done  some 
execution  upon  the  Turks,  and  retaken  an  Englishman 
from  them,  of  one  Mr.  Parker's,^  a  merchant  in 
Marke-lane.     To  the  Chancellor's,  and  there  met  with 


^  See  the  account  of  this  tavern,  Dec.  i,  1660,  ante. 

2  Lord  Sandwich's  Journal  has  been  printed  by  Kennett.  See  note  to 
Feb.  20,  1661-62, 

3  The  Ironmongers*  Company  possess  in  trust  an  enormous  sum,  left  by 
Thomas  Batton,  for  the  redemption  of  Christian  slaves  in  Barbary.  Since 
Lord  Exmouth's  expedition  no  claims  have  arisen  upon  the  fund,  which  is 
now  administered  for  other  purposes,  under  the  direction  of  the  Court  of 
Chancery. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  1 55 

Mr.  Dugdale,  and  with  him  and  one  Mr.  Simons,  I 
think  that  belongs  to  my  Lord  Hatton/  and  Mr.  Kipps 
and  others,  to  the  Fountaine  taverne.  When  I  came 
home  I  found  our  new  mayde  Sarah,  who  is  a  tall  and 
a  very  well  favoured  wench,  and  one  that  I  think  will 
please  us. 

29th.  I  lay  long  in  bed,  till  Sir  Williams  both  sent 
me  word  that  we  were  to  wait  upon  the  Duke  of 
York  to-day ;  and  that  they  would  have  me  to  meet 
them  at  Westminster  Hall,  at  noon  :  so  I  rose  and 
went  thither;  and  there  I  understand  that  they  are 
gone  to  Mr.  Coventry's  lodgings,  in  the  Old  Palace 
Yard,  to  dinner  (the  first  time  I  knew  he  had  any) :  2 
and  there  I  met  them  two  and  Sir  G.  Carteret,  and 
had  a  very  fine  dinner,  and  good  welcome,  and  dis- 
course ;  and  so,  by  water,  after  dinner  to  White  Hall 
to  the  Duke,  who  met  us  in  his  closet ;  and  there  he 
did  discourse  to  us  the  business  of  Holmes,^  and  did 
desire  of  us  to  know  what  hath  been  the  common 
practice  about  making  of  forrayne  ships  to  strike  sail 
to  us,  which  they  did  all  do  as  much  as  they  could ; 
but  I  could  say  nothing  to  it,  which  I  was  sorry  for. 
So  indeed  I  was  forced  to  study  a  lie,  and  so  after  we 
were  gone  from  the  Duke,  I  told  Mr.  Coventry  that  I 
had  heard  Mr.  Selden  often  say,  that  he  could  prove 
that  in  Henry  the  yth's  time,  he  did  give  commission 
to  his  captains  to  make  the  King  of  Denmark's  ships 

*  Christopher,  first  Lord  Hatton.     Ob.  1670. 

2  This  may  be  dinner  or  lodgings. 

3  See  i2th  Nov.  1661,  ante. 


156  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

to  Strike  to  him  ^  in  the  Baltique.  From  thence  Sir 
W.  Pen  and  I  to  the  Theatre,  but  it  was  so  full  that 
we  could  hardly  get  any  room,  so  he  went  up  to  one 
of  the  boxes,  and  I  into  the  18^.  places,  and  there 
saw  "  Love  at  first  sight,"  a  play  of  Mr.  Killigrew's, 
and  the  first  time  that  it  hath  been  acted  since  before 
the  troubles,  and  great  expectation  there  was,  but  I 
found  the  play  to  be  a  poor  thing,  and  so  I  perceive 
every  body  else  do.  So  home,  calling  at  Paul's 
Churchyard  for  a  "  Mare  Clausum,"  2  having  it  in  my 
mind  to  write  a  little  matter,  what  I  can  gather,  about 
the  business  of  striking  sayle,  and  present  it  to  the 
Duke,  which  I  now  think  will  be  a  good  way  to  make 
myself  known. 

30th.  In  the  morning  to  the  Temple,  and  so  to  the 
Wardrobe  to  dinner.  The  Parliament  has  sat  a  pretty 
while.  The  old  condemned  judges  of  the  late  King 
have  been  brought  before  the  Parliament,  and  like  to 
be  hanged.  I  am  deep  in  Chancery  against  Tom 
Trice,  God  give  a  good  issue  ;  and  myself  under  great 


^  The  tables  were  in  vain  attempted  to  be  turned  in  May,  1670,  when 
Arthur  Capel,  the  first  Earl  of  Essex,  sent  as  Ambassador  Extraordinary  to 
Denmark  in  a  ship  of  war,  was  thrice  fired  upon  with  shot  by  Major-General 
Holke,  who  commanded  the  Castle  of  Cronenburg,  which  Essex  had  neglected 
or  refused  to  salute.  Charles  did  not  submit  tamely  to  this  insult.  Essex 
was  ordered  to  obtain  the  fullest  reparation,  and  he  did  so  promptly.  On  the 
19th  of  the  same  month,  Sir  John  Trevor,  Secretary  of  State,  acknowledged 
the  good  success  which  Lord  Essex  had  had  "  about  the  flagg.  His  Majesty 
received  your  letter  with  great  satisfaction,  which  came  seasonably  to  be  de- 
clared here  before  the  French  Court.  The  satisfaction  you  have  obtained  is 
absolute,  and  a  full  renounce  to  all  that  pretence  on  their  part." 

2  By  Selden.     (M.  B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  1 57 

trouble  for  my  late  great  expending  of  money  vainly, 
which  God  stop  for  the  future.  This  is  the  last  day 
for  the  old  State's  coyne  to  pass  in  common  pay- 
ments, but  they  say  it  is  to  pass  in  publique  payments 
to  the  King  three  months  still. 

December  ist  (Lord's  day).  In  the  morning  at 
church  and  heard  Mr.  Mills.  At  noon  dined  and  with 
me  by  appointment  Mr.  Sanchy,  who  should  have 
brought  his  mistress,  Mrs.  Mary  Archer,  of  Cambridge, 
but  she  could  not  come,  but  we  had  a  good  dinner 
for  him.  We  this  day  cut  a  brave  collar  of  brawne 
from  Winchcombe  which  proves  very  good,  and  also 
opened  the  glass  of  girkins  which  Captain  Cocke  did 
give  my  wife  the  other  day,  which  are  rare  things. 
There  hath  lately  been  great  clapping  up  of  some  old 
statesmen,  such  as  Ireton,  Moyer,^  and  others,  and 
they  say,  upon  a  great  plot,  but  I  believe  no  such 
thing ;  but  it  is  but  justice  that  they  should  be  served 
as  they  served  the  poor  Cavaliers ;  and  I  beheve  it 
will  oftentimes  be  so  as  long  as  I  live,  whether  there 
be  cause  or  no. 

2nd.  Called  on  by  Mr.  Sanchy  and  his  mistress,  and 
with  them  by  coach  to  the  Opera,  to  see  "  The  Mad 
Lover,"  2  but  not  much  pleased  with  the  play.  That 
done  home  all  to  my  house,  where  they  staid  and 
supped  and  were  merry,  and  at  last  late  bid  good 
night,  and  so  we  to  bed. 

3rd.   To  the  Paynter's  3  and  sat  and  had  more  of 

*  Samuel  Moyer,  one  of  the  Council  of  State,  1653. 

2  By  John  Fletcher.  3  Savill.     See  23rd  Nov.  1661. 


158  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

my  picture  done ;  but  it  do  not  please  me,  for  I  fear 
it  will  not  be  like  me.  At  noon  thence  to  the  Ward- 
robe, where  my  Lady  Wright  was  at  dinner,  and  all 
our  talk  about  the  great  happiness  that  my  Lady 
Wright  says  there  is  in  being  in  the  fashion  and  in 
variety  of  fashions,  in  scorn  of  others  that  are  not  so, 
as  citizens*  wives  and  country  gentlewomen,  which 
though  it  did  displease  me  enough,  yet  I  said  nothing 
to  it.  Thence  by  water  to  the  office  through  bridge, 
being  carried  by  him  in  oares  that  the  other  day 
rowed  in  a  scull  faster  than  my  oares  to  the  Towre, 
and  I  did  give  him  dd.  At  the  office  all  the  after- 
noon, and  at  night  home  to  read  in  ''  Mare  Clausum  " 
till  bed-time. 

4th.  To  Whitehall  with  both  Sir  Williams,  thence 
by  water,  where  I  saw  a  man  lie  dead  upon  West- 
minster Stairs  that  had  been  drowned  yesterday,  to 
the  Temple. 

5  th.  This  morning  I  went  early  to  the  Paynter's 
and  there  sat  for  my  picture  the  fourth  time,  but  it  do 
not  yet  please  me,  which  do  much  trouble  me.  Thence 
to  the  Treasury  office,  and  there  we  sat  to  pay  off  the 
St.  George.  By  and  by  came  Sir  W.  Pen,  and  he  and 
I  went  and  dined  at  my  house,  and  had  two  mince 
pies  sent  thither  by  our  order  from  the  messenger 
Slater,  that  had  dressed  some  victuals  for  us,  and  so 
we  were  very  merry. 

6th.  To  White  Hall,  where,  at  Sir  G.  Carteret's, 
Sir  Williams  both  and  I  dined  very  pleasantly;  and 
after  dinner,  by  appointment,  came  the  Governors  of 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  1 59 

the  East  India  Company,  to  sign  and  seal  the  con- 
tract' between  us  (in  the  King's  name)  and  them. 
And  that  done,  we  all  went  to  the  King's  closet,  and 
there  spoke  with  the  King  and  the  Duke  of  York,  who 
promise  to  be  very  careful  of  the  India  trade  to  the 
utmost. 

7th.  This  morning  comes  Captain  Ferrers  and  the 
German,  Emanuel  Luffe,  who  goes  as  one  of  my 
Lord's  footmen,  though  he  deserves  a  much  better 
preferment,  to  take  their  leave  of  me,  and  here  I  got 
the  German  to  play  upon  my  theorbo.  He  plays 
bravely.  I  did  give  them  a  mince  pie  and  a  collar 
of  brawn  and  some  wine  for  their  breakfast,  and  were 
very  merry.  At  last  we  all  parted,  but  within  a  quar- 
ter of  an  hour  after  they  were  gone,  and  my  wife  and 
I  were  talking  about  buying  of  a  fine  scallop  which 
is  brought  her  this  morning  by  a  woman  to  be  sold, 
which  is  to  cost  her  45 j-.,  in  comes  the  German  back 
again,  all  in  a  goare  of  blood,  which  I  wondered  at, 
and  tells  me  that  he  is  afeard  that  the  Captain  is 
killed  by  the  watermen  at  Towre  Stayres ;  so  I  pres- 
ently 2  went  thither,  and  found  that  upon  some  rude 
pressing  of  the  watermen  to  ply  the  Captain,  he  struck 
one  of  them  with  his  cane,3  which  they  would  not 
take,  but  struck  him  again,  and  then  the  German  drew 

^  The  important  charter  had  been  granted  to  the  Company  in  the  April 
previous.  Bombay,  just  acquired,  as  part  of  Queen  Katherine's  dowry,  was 
not  made  over  to  the  Company  by  Charles  until  1668, 

2  Immediately.     (M.  B.) 

3  See  a  similar  outrage,  committed  by  Captain  Ferrers,  12th  Sept.  1662. 
Swords  were  usually  worn  by  footmen.     See  4th  May,  \662,J>ost. 


l60  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

his  sword  and  ran  at  one  of  them,  but  they  were  both 
soundly  beaten.  The  Captain  is,  however,  got  to  the 
hoy  that  carries  him  and  the  pages  to  the  Do^vnes, 
and  I  went  into  the  alehouse  at  the  Stayres  and  got 
them  to  deliver  the  Captain's  feathers,  which  one  from 
the  Captain  was  come  to  demand,  and  went  home 
again,  and  there  found  my  wife  dressing  of  the  Ger- 
man's head,  and  so  did  [give]  him  a  cravett  for  his 
neck,  and  a  crowne  in  his  purse,  and  sent  him  away 
again.  To  Whitehall,  and  eat  a  bit  of  meat  at  Wilkin- 
son's, and  then  to  the  Privy  Scale,  and  sealed  there ; 
and,  among  other  things  that  passed,  there  was  a 
patent  for  Roger  Palmer  (Madam  Palmer's  husband) 
to  be  Earle  of  Castlemaine  ^  and  Baron  of  Limbricke 
in  Ireland ;  but  the  honour  is  tied  up  to  the  males  got 
of  the  body  of  this  wife,  the  Lady  Barbary  :  the  reason 
whereof  every  body  knows.  That  done,  by  water  to 
the  office,  where  I  found  Sir  W.  Pen,  and  with  him 
Captain  Holmes,  who  had  wrote  his  case,  and  gives 
me  a  copy,  as  he  hath  many  among  his  friends,  and 
presented  the  same  to  the  King  and  Council.  Which 
I  shall  make  use  of  in  my  attempt  of  writing  some- 
thing concerning  the  business  of  striking  sail,  which  I 
am  now  about.^     But  he  do  cry  out  against  Sir  John 


1  Ob.  July,  1705. 

2  Pepys  seems  not  to  have  been  aware  at  the  time  that  Sir  John  Bur- 
roughs, Keeper  of  the  Records,  tetnp.  Car.  I.,  had  written  a  Treatise  on  the 
Sovereignty  of  the  British  Seas,  copies  of  which,  both  in  Latin  and  EngUsh, 
are  common,  and  one  of  which  is  in  the  Pepysian  Library ;  neither  had  he 
discovered  that  William  Ryley,  the  Herald,  Deputy  Keeper  of  the  Records, 
whom  he  knew  personally,  had  also  written  on  the  subject,  and  had  made 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  l6l 

Minnes,  as  the  veriest  knave  and  rogue  and  coward  in 
the  world. 

8th  (Lord's  day).  To  dinner  at  the  Wardrobe, 
and  after  a  great  deal  of  good  discourse  with  my  Lady, 
among  other  things  of  the  great  christening  yesterday 
at  Mr.  Rumbell's,  and  courtiers  and  pomp  that  was 
there,  which  I  wonder  at,  I  went  away  up  and  dowTi 
into  all  the  churches  almost  between  that  place  and 
my  house,  and  so  home. 

9th.  At  noon  to  dinner  at  the  Wardrobe ;  where 
my  Lady  Wright  was,  who  did  talk  much  upon  the 
worth  and  the  desert  of  gallantry ;  and  that  there  was 
none  fit  to  be  courtiers,  but  such  as  have  been  abroad 
and  know  fashions.  Which  I  endeavoured  to  oppose  ; 
and  was  troubled  to  hear  her  talk  so,  though  she  be 
a  very  wise  and  discreet  lady  in  other  things.  From 
thence  Mr.  Moore  and  I  to  the  Temple  about  my  law 
business  with  my  cozen  Turner,  and  there  we  read  over 
T.  Trice's  answer  to  my  bill  and  advised  thereupon. 
So  by  coach  home,  and  to  supper,  and  to  bed,  having 
staid  up  till  12  at  night  writing  letters  to  my  Lord 
Sandwich  and  all  my  friends  with  him  at  sea,  to  send 
to-morrow  by  Mons.  Eschar. 

loth.  To  Whitehall,  so  to  dinner  to  my  Lord 
Crew's  by  coach,  and  in  my  way  had  a  stop  of  above 
an  houre   and  a  half,  which  is  a  great  trouble  this 


extracts  from  the  Records.  Ryley's  collections  appear  to  have  belonged  to 
James  II.,  and  were  probably  made  for  him  at  this  time.  The  Duke  of 
Newcastle    afterwards    possessed   them,   and   they  are  now  in  the  British 

Museum. 


l62  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

Parliament  time,  but  it  cannot  be  helped.  However 
I  got  thither  before  my  Lord  come  from  the  House, 
and  so  dined  with  him. 

nth.  I  went  out,  and  in  my  way  met  with  Mr. 
Howell  the  Turner,  who  invited  me  to  dine  this  day 
at  Mr.  Rawlinson's  with  some  friends  of  his,  officers 
of  the  Towre,  at  a  venison  pasty,  which  I  promised 
him,  and  so  I  went  to  the  Old  Bayly,  and  there  staid 
and  drank  with  him,  who  told  me  the  whole  story  how 
Pegg  Kite  has  married  herself  to  a  weaver,  an  ugly 
fellow,  to  her  undoing.  From  thence  home  and  put 
on  my  velvet  coat,  and  so  to  the  Mitre  to  dinner,  but 
going  up  into  the  room  I  found  at  least  1 2  or  more 
persons,  and  knew  not  the  face  of  any  of  them,  so  I 
went  down  again  and  walked  to  the  Exchequer,  and 
up  and  down,  and  was  very  hungry,  and  from  thence 
home,  and  my  wife  was  gone  out  by  coach  to  Clerken- 
well,  to  see  Mrs.  Margaret  Pen,  who  is  at  schoole 
there.  So  I  went  to  see  Sir  W.  Pen,  and  he  and  I  after 
some  talk  took  a  coach  and  went  to  Moorfields,  and 
there  into  an  alehouse  and  I  drank  some  ale  and  eat 
some  bread  and  cheese,  and  so  being  very  merry  we 
went  home  again. 

1 2  th.  To  the  Wardrobe  and  dined  with  my  Lady, 
where  her  brother,  Mr.  John  Crew,  dined  also,  and  a 
strange  gentlewoman  dined  at  the  table  as  a  servant 
of  my  Lady's  ;  but  I  knew  her  not,  and  so  I  am  afeard 
that  poor  Madamoiselle  ^  was  gone,  but  I  since  under- 

^  See  Nov.  15,  1661,  arde. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  1 63 

Stand  that  she  is  come  as  housekeeper  to  my  Lady, 
and  is  a  married  woman. 

13th.  Dined  at  home  and  then  with  my  wife  to 
the  Paynter's,'  and  there  she  sat  the  first  time  to  be 
drawn  while  I  all  the  while  stood  looking  on  a 
pretty  lady's  picture,  whose  face  did  please  me  ex- 
tremely. At  last,  he  having  done,  I  found  that  the 
dead  colour  of  my  wife  is  good,  above  what  I  ex- 
pected, which  pleased  me  exceedingly.  So  home 
and  to  the  office  about  some  special  business,  where 
Sir  Williams  both. 

15th  (Lord's  day).  To  church  in  the  morning 
where  our  young  Reader  begun  the  first  day  to  read. 
Sir  W.  Pen  dined  with  me  and  we  were  merry.  Again 
to  church  and  so  home,  and  all  alone  read  till  bedtime, 
and  so  to  prayers  and  to  bed.  I  have  been  troubled 
this  day  about  a  difference  between  my  wife  and  her 
mayde  Nell,  who  is  a  simple  slut,  and  I  am  afeard  we 
shall  find  her  a  cross-grained  wench.  I  am  now  full 
of  study  about  writing  something  about  our  making  of 
strangers  strike  to  us  at  sea ;  and  so  am  altogether 
reading  Selden  and  Grotius,  and  such  other  authors 
to  that  purpose. 

1 6th.  Up  by  five  o'clock  this  morning  by  candle- 
light, and  so  by  coach  to  Chelsy  to  my  Lord  Privy 
Scale,  and  so  back  to  Westminster  Hall,  and  thence 
to  my  Lord  Sandwich's  lodgings,  where  I  met  my  wife, 
and  got  a  joint  of  meat  thither  from  the  Cook's,  and 

I  Savill's. 


1 64  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

after  dinner  to  the  Opera,  where  there  was  a  new  play 
("Cutter  of  Coleman  Street ")/ made  in  the  year 
1658,  with  reflections  much  upon  the  late  times;  and 
it  being  the  first  time  the  pay  was  doubled,  and  so  to 
save  money,  my  wife  and  I  went  up  into  the  gallery, 
and  there  sat  and  saw  very  well  \  and  a  very  good  play 
it  is.     It  seems  of  Cowly's  making. 

1 7th.  Up  and  to  the  Paynter's  to  see  how  he  went 
forward  in  our  picture.  So  back  again  to  dinner  at 
home,  and  then  was  sent  for  to  the  Privy  Seale,  whith- 
er I  was  forced  to  go  and  stay  so  long  and  late  that  I 
was  much  vexed.  At  last  we  got  all  done,  and  then 
made  haste  to  the  office,  where  they  were  sat,  and  there 
we  sat  late,  and  so  home  to  supper  and  to  Selden, 
"  Mare  Clausum,"  and  so  to  bed. 

1 8th.  At  the  office  upon  business  extraordinary  all 
the  morning,  then  to  my  Lady  Sandwich's  to  dinner, 
and  then  to  see  Mrs.  Turner,  who  begins  to  be  better, 
and  so  back  to  my  Ladies,  where  much  made  of,  and 
so  home  to  my  study  till  bed-time. 

19th.  This  morning  my  wife  and  I  to  the  Paynt- 
er's and  there  she  sat  till  noon,  I  all  the  while  looking 
over  a  variety  of  prints.  After  the  Paynter  had  done 
I  did  like  the  picture  pretty  well,  and  my  wife  and  I 
went  home  by  coach,  but  in  the  way  I  took  occasion 
to  fall  out  with  my  wife  very  highly  about  her  ribbands 
being  ill  matched  and  of  two  colours,  and  to  very  high 

^  Cutter,  in  old  English,  means  a  swagger  :  hence  the  title  of  the  play. 
It  was  originally  called  "  The  Guardian,"  when  acted  before  royalty  a 
Cambridge. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  1 65 

words,  so  that,  like  a  passionate  fool,  I  did  call  her  a 
bad  name,  for  which  I  was  afterwards  sorry.  Then  I 
to  the  Dolphin,  where  Sir  W.  Warren  did  give  us  all  a 
good  dinner,  and  that  being  done,  to  the  office,  and 
there  sat  late,  and  so  home. 

20th.  To  the  Wardrobe  to  dinner,  and  then  met 
with  Mr.  Swan  (my  old  acquaintance),  and  we  to  a 
taverne,  where  we  had  enoughof  his  old  simple  reli- 
gious talk,  and  he  is  still  a  coxcomb  in  these  things 
as  he  ever  was,  and  tells  me  he  is  setting  out  a  book 
called  the  unlawfiill  use  of  lawfull  things ;  but  a  very 
simple  fellow  he  is,  and  so  I  leave  him. 

2ist.  To  White  Hall  to  the  Privy  Scale,  where  my 
Lord  Privy  Scale  did  tell  us  he  could  scale  no  more 
this  month,  for  that  he  goes  thirty  miles  out  of  towne 
to  keep  his  Christmas.  At  which  I  was  glad,  but  only 
afeard  lest  any  thing  of  the  King's  should  force  us  to 
to  after  him  to  get  a  scale  in  the  country.  Taken  by 
some  Exchequer  men  to  the  Dogg,  where,  being  St. 
Thomas's  day,  by  custome  they  have  a  general  meet- 
ing at  dinner.  There  I  was  and  all  very  merry,  and 
there  I  spoke  to  Mr.  Falconberge  to  look  whether  he 
could  out  of  Domesday  Book,^  give  me  any  thing 
concerning  the  sea,  and  the  dominion  thereof;  which 
he  says  he  will  look  after.  So  by  coach  home  to  the 
office,  where  I  was  vexed  to  see  Sir  Williams  both 
seem  to  think  so  much  that  I  should  be  a  little  out  of 
the   way,  saying  that  without  their  Register  they  were 

*  What  idea  could  Pepys  have  formed  of  Doomsday  Book  ? 


1 66  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

not  a  Committee,  which  I  took  in  some  dudgeon,  and 
see  clearly  that  I  must  keep  myself  at  a  little  dis- 
tance with  them  and  not  crouch,  or  else  I  shall  never 
keep  myself  up  even  with  them. 

22nd.  To  church  in  the  morning,  where  the  Reader 
made  a  boyish  young  sermon.  Home  to  dinner,  and 
there  I  took  occasion,  from  the  blacknesse  of  the  meat 
as  it  came  out  of  the  pot,  to  fall  out  with  my  wife  and 
my  mayde  for  their  sluttery,  and  went  up  to  read  in 
Mr.  Selden  till  church  time,  and  then  my  wife  and  I 
to  church,  and  there  in  the  pew,  with  the  rest  of  the 
company,  was  Captain  Holmes,  in  his  gold-laced  suit, 
at  which  I  was  troubled. 

23rd.  Early  up  and  by  coach  (before  daylight)  to 
the  Wardrobe,  and  so  to  Chelsy  to  my  Lord  Privy 
Seale,  and  there  sealed  some  things.  So  back  again 
to  Westminster,  and  from  thence  by  water  to  the 
Treasury  Office,  where  I  found  Sir  W.  Pen  paying  off 
the  Sophia  and  Griffen,  and  there  I  staid  with  him 
till  noon,  and  having  sent  for  some  collar  of  beef  and 
a  mince  pie,  we  eat  and  drank,  and  so  I  left  him  and 
took  coach,  and  lighting  at  my  bookseller's  in  Paul's 
Churchyard,  I  met  with  Mr.  Crumlum  and  the  second 
master  of  Paul's  School,  and  thence  I  took  them  to 
the  Starr,  and  there  we  sat  and  talked,  and  I  had 
great  pleasure  in  their  company,  and  very  glad  I  was 
of  meeting  him  so  accidentally,  I  having  omitted  too 
long  to  go  to  see  him.  Here  in  discourse  of  books 
I  did  offer  to  give  the  schoole  what  books  he  would 
choose  of  5/.     So  we  parted. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  1 6/ 

25th.  In  the  morning  to  church,  where  at  the  door 
of  our  pew  I  was  fain  to  stay,  because  that  the  sexton 
had  not  opened  the  door.  A  good  sermon  of  Mr. 
Mills.  Dined  at  home  all  alone,  and  taking  occasion 
from  some  fault  in  the  meat  to  complain  of  my 
mayd's  sluttery,  my  wife  and  I  fell  out,  and  I  up 
to  my  chamber  in  a  discontent.  After  dinner  my 
wife  comes  up  to  me  and  all  friends  again,  and  she 
and  I  to  walk  upon  the  leads,  and  there  Sir  W.  Pen 
called  us,  and  we  went  to  his  house  and  supped  with 
him. 

26th.  This  morning  Sir  W.  Pen  and  I  to  the 
Treasury  office,  and  there  we  paid  off  the  Amity  and 
another  ship,  and  so  home,  and  after  dinner  Sir  Wil- 
liam came  to  me,  and  he  and  his  son  and  daughter, 
and  I  and  my  wife,  by  coach  to  Moorfields  to  walk ; 
but  it  was  most  foule  weather,  and  so  we  went  into 
an  alehouse  and  there  eat  some  cakes  and  ale,  and 
a  washeall-bowle  ^  woman  and  girle  came  to  us  and 
sung  to  us.  And  after  all  was  done  I  called  my  boy 
(Wayneman)  to  us  to  eat  some  cake  that  was  left,  and 
the  woman  of  the  house  told  us  that  he  had  called 
for  two  cakes  and  a  pot  of  ale  for  himself,  at  which  I 
was  angry,  and  am  resolved  to  correct  him  for  it. 
So  home,  and  Sir  W.  Pen  and  his  son  and  daughter 


^  Wassel  or  wassail,  from  two  Saxon  words,  meaning  "  be  in  health,"  or 
water  of  health,"  which  was  the  form  of  drinking  a  health. 

"  The  King  doth  wake  to-night,  and  takes  his  rouse, 
Keeps  wassel." 

Shakespeare,  Hamlet,  act  i.  sc.  4.     (M.  B.) 


1 68  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

to  supper  to  me  to  a  good  turkey,  and  were  merry  at 
cards,  and  so  to  bed. 

27th.  In  the  morning  to  my  Bookseller's  to  bespeak 
a  Stephens'  Thesaurus,  for  which  I  offer  4/.,  to  give  to 
Paul's  School,  and  from  thence  to  Paul's  Church ;  and 
there  I  heard  Dr.  Gunning  preach  a  good  sermon 
upon  the  day  (being  St.  John's  day),  and  did  hear 
him  tell  a  story,  which  he  did  persuade  us  to  believe  to 
be  true,  that  St.  John  and  the  Virgin  Mary  did  appear 
to  Gregory,  a  Bishopp,  at  his  prayer  to  be  confirmed 
in  the  faith,  which  I  did  wonder  to  hear  from  him. 

28th.  At  home  all  the  morning;  and  in  the  after- 
noon all  of  us  at  the  office,  upon  a  letter  from  the 
Duke  for  the  making  up  of  a  speedy  estimate  of  all 
the  debts  of  the  Navy,  which  is  put  into  good  for- 
wardness. I  home  and  Sir  W.  Pen  to  my  house, 
who  with  his  children  staid  playing  cards  late,  and 
so  to  bed. 

29th  (Lord's  day).  To  the  Abbey,  and  there  meet- 
ing with  Mr.  Hooper,  he  took  me  in  among  the  quire, 
and  there  I  staid  with  them  their  service.  So  to  the 
Wardrobe  and  supped,  and  staid  very  long  talking 
with  my  Lady,  who  seems  to  doat  every  day  more  and 
more  upon  us. 

30th.  With  my  wife  and  Sir  W.  Pen  to  see  our 
pictures,  which  do  not  much  displease  us,  and  so  back 
again,  and  I  staid  at  the  Mitre,  whither  I  had  invited 
all  my  old  acquaintance  of  the  Exchequer  to  a  good 
chine  of  beef,  which  with  three  barrels  of  oysters  and 
three  pullets,  and  plenty  of  wine  and  mirth,  was  our 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  1 69 

dinner,  and  there  was  about  twelve  of  us,  and  here  I 
made  a  foohsh  promise  to  give  them  one  this  day 
twelvemonth,  and  so  for  ever  while  I  live,  but  I  do 
not  intend  it.  So  home  to  Sir  W.  Pen,  who  with  his 
children  and  my  wife  has  been  at  a  play  to-day  and 
saw  "D'Ambois,"  ^  which  I  never  saw.  Here  we  staid 
late  at  supper  and  playing  at  cards,  and  so  home  and 
to  bed. 

31st.  My  wife  and  I  this  morning  to  the  Paynter's, 
and  there  she  sat  the  last  time,  and  I  stood  by  and 
did  tell  him  some  little  things  to  do,  that  now  her 
picture  I  think  will  please  me.  very  well ;  and  after 
her,  her  little  black  dogg  sat  in  her  lap,  and  was 
drawn,  which  made  us  very  merry ;  so  home  to  din- 
ner. To  the  office ;  and  there  late  finishing  our 
estimate  of  the  debts  of  the  Navy  to  this  day ;  and 
it  come  to  near  374,000/.  So  home,  and  after  supper, 
and  my  barber  had  trimmed  me,  I  sat  down  to  end 
my  journell  for  this  year,  and  my  condition  at  this 
time,  by  God's  blessing,  is  thus :  my  health  is  very 
good,  and  so  my  wife's  in  all  respects  :  my  servants, 
W.  Hewer,  Sarah,  Nell,  and  Wayneman  :  my  house  at 
the  Navy  Office.  I  suppose  myself  to  be  worth  about 
500/.  clear  in  the  world,  and  my  goods  of  my  house 
my  owne,  and  what  is  coming  to  me  from  Brampton, 
when  my  father  dies,  which  God  defer.  But,  by  my 
uncle's  death,  the  whole  care  and  trouble  of  all,  and 
settling  of  all  lies  upon  me,  which  is  very  great,  be- 

^  A  tragedy,  by  George  Chapman. 


I/O  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

cause  of  law-suits,  especially  that  with  T.  Trice,  about 
the  interest  of  200/.,  which  will,  I  hope,  be  ended 
soon.  My  chiefest  thought  is  now  to  get  a  good  wife 
for  Tom,  there  being  one  offered  by  the  Joyces,  a 
cozen  of  theirs,  worth  200/.  in  ready  money.  I  am 
also  upon  writing  a  httle  treatise  to  present  to  the 
Duke,  about  our  privilege  in  the  seas,  as  to  other 
nations  striking  their  flags  to  us.  But  my  greatest 
trouble  is,  that  I  have  for  this  last  half  year  been  a 
very  great  spendthrift  in  all  manner  of  respects,  that 
I  am  afeard  to  cast  up  my  accounts,  though  I  hope  I 
am  worth  what  I  say  above.  But  I  will  cast  them  up 
very  shortly.  I  have  newly  taken  a  solemn  oath  about 
abstaining  from  plays  and  wine,  which  I  am  resolved 
to  keep  according  to  the  letter  of  the  oath  which  I 
keep  by  me.  The  fleet  hath  been  ready  to  sail  for 
Portugall,  but  hath  lacked  wind  this  fortnight,  and  by 
that  means  my  Lord  is  forced  to  keep  at  sea  all  this 
winter,  till  he  brings  home  the  Queene,  which  is  the 
expectation  of  all  now,  and  the  greatest  matter  of 
publique  talk. 

[1661-62.]  January  ist.  Waking  this  morning  out 
of  my  sleep  on  a  sudden,  I  did  with  my  elbow  hit  my 
wife  a  great  blow  over  her  face  and  nose,  which  waked 
her  with  pain,  at  which  I  was  sorry,  and  to  sleep 
again.  Up  and  went  forth  with  Sir  W.  Pen  by  coach 
towards  Westminster,  and  in  my  way  seeing  that  the 
"  Spanish  Curate  "  ^  was  acted  to-day,  I  light  and  let 

*  By  John  Fletcher.    Pepys  saw  it  at  the  Duke's  Theatre. 


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him  go  alone,  and  I  home  again  and  sent  to  young 
Mr.  Pen  ^  and  his  sister  to  go  anon  with  my  wife  and 
I  to  the  Theatre.  That  done,  Mr.  W.  Pen  came  to 
me  and  he  and  I  walked  out,  and  to  the  Stacioner's, 
and  looked  over  some  pictures  and  maps  for  my 
house,  and  so  home  again  to  dinner,  and  by  and  by 
came  the  two  young  Pens,  and  after  we  had  eat  a 
barrel  of  oysters  we  went  by  coach  to  the  play,  and 
there  saw  it  well  acted,  and  a  good  play  it  is,  only 
Diego  the  Sexton  did  overdo  his  part  too  much. 
From  thence  home,  and  they  sat  with  us  till  late  at 
night  at  cards  very  merry,  but  the  jest  was  Mr.  W. 
Pen  had  left  his  sword  in  the  coach,  and  so  my  boy 
and  he  run  out  after  the  coach,  and  by  very  great 
chance  did  at  the  Exchange  meet  with  the  coach  and 
got  his  sword  again.     So  to  bed. 

2nd.  An  invitation  sent  us  before  we  were  upp 
from  my  Lady  Sandwich's,  to  come  and  dine  with 
her :  so  at  the  office  all  the  morning,  and  at  noon 
thither  to  dinner,  where  there  was  a  good  and  great 
dinner,  and  the  company,  Mr.  William  Montagu  and 
his  Lady,  but  she  seemed  so  far  from  the  beauty  that 
I  expected  her  from  my  Lady's  talk  to  be,  that  it  put 
me  into  an  ill  humour  all  the  day,  to  find  my  expecta- 
tion so  lost.  I  went  forth,  by  appointment,  to  meet 
with  Mr.  Grant,  who  promised  to  bring  me  acquainted 
with  Cooper,^  the  great  limner  in  little,  but  they  de- 
ceived me,  and  so  I  went  home,  and  there  sat  at  my 

2  The  well-known  Quaker.     (M.  B.) 

3  Samuel  Cooper,  the  celebrated  miniature  painter.     Ob.  1672. 


1/2  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

lute  and  singing  till  almost  twelve  at  night,  and  so  to 
bed.  Sir  Richd.  Fanshaw  is  come  suddenly  from 
Portugall,  but  nobody  knows  what  his  business  is. 

3rd.  To  Faithorne's/  and  there  bought  some  pic- 
tures of  him ;  and  while  I  was  there,  comes  by  the 
King's  life-guard,  he  being  gone  to  Lincoln's  Inne  this 
afternoon  to  see  the  Revells  there ;  there  being,  ac- 
cording to  an  old  custome,  a  prince  and  all  his  nobles, 
and  other  matters  of  sport  and  charge.  So  home, 
and  up  to  my  chamber  to  look  over  my  papers  and 
other  things,  my  mind  being  much  troubled  for  these 
four  or  five  days  because  of  my  present  great  expense, 
and  will  be  so  till  I  cast  up  and  see  how  my  estate 
stands,  and  that  I  am  loth  to  do  for  fear  I  have  spent 
too  much,  and  delay  it  the  rather  that  I  may  pay  for 
my  pictures  and  my  wife's,  and  the  book  that  I  am 
buying  for  Paul's  Schoole  before  I  do  cast  up  my 
accompts. 

4th.  At  home  most  of  the  morning  hanging  up 
pictures,  and  seeing  how  my  pewter  sconces  that  I 
have  bought  will  become  my  stayres  and  entry.  With 
Mr.  Chetwin,  who  had  a  dog  challenged  of  him  by 
another  man  that  said  it  was  his,  but  Mr.  Chetwin 
called  the  dog,  and  the  dog  at  last  would  follow  him, 
and  not  his  old  master.  To  Wilkinson's  to  dinner, 
where  we  had  some  rost  beefe  and  a  mutton  pie,  and 
a  mince-pie,  but  none  of  them  pleased  me.  After 
dinner  by  coach  my  wife  and  I  home,  and  I  to  the 

^  William  Falthornc,  the  well-known  engraver.     Ob.  1691. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  1 73 

office,  and  there  till  late,  and  then  I  and  my  wife  to 
Sir  W.  Pen's  to  cards  and  supper,  and  were  merry,  and 
much  correspondence  there  has  been  between  our  two 
families  this  Christmas. 

5th  (Lord's  day).  My  wife  not  well.  I  to  church, 
and  so  home  to  dinner,  and  dined  alone  upon  some 
marrow  bones,  and  had  a  fine  piece  of  rost  beefe,  but 
being  alone  I  eat  none.  So  after  dinner  comes  in  my 
brother  Tom,  and  he  tells  me  how  he  hath  seen  the 
father  and  mother  of  the  girle  which  my  cozen  Joyces 
would  have  him  to  have  for  a  wife,  and  they  are  much 
for  it,  but  we  are  in  a  great  quandary  what  to  do 
therein,  200/.  being  but  a  little  money ;  and  I  hope, 
if  he  continues  as  he  begins,  he  may  look  out  for  one 
with  more.  To  church,  and  before  sermon  there  was 
a  long  psalm,  and  half  another  sung  out  while  the 
Sexton  gathered  what  the  church  would  give  him  for 
this  last  year.  I  gave  him  3^.,  and  have  the  last  week 
given  the  Gierke  2s. ^  which  I  set  down  that  I  may 
know  what  to  do  the  next  year,  if  it  please  the  Lord 
that  I  hve  so  long ;  but  the  jest  was,  the  Clerk  begins 
the  25  th  psalm,  which  hath  a  proper  tune  to  it,  and 
then  the  11 6th,  which  cannot  be  sung  with  that  tune, 
which  seemed  very  ridiculous.  After  church  to  Sir 
W.  Batten's,  where  on  purpose  I  have  not  been  this 
fortnight,  and  I  am  resolved  to  keep  myself  more  re- 
served to  avoyd  the  contempt  which  otherwise  I  must 
fall  into. 

6th  (Twelfth  day) .  This  morning  I  sent  my  lute  to 
the  Paynter's,  and  there  I  staid  with  him  all  the  morn- 


1/4  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

ing  to  see  him  paint  the  neck  of  my  lute  in  my  pic- 
tures, which  I  was  not  pleased  with  after  it  was  done. 
Thence  to  dinner  to  Sir  W.  Pen's,  it  being  a  solemn 
feast  day  with  him,  his  wedding  day,'  and  we  had, 
besides  a  good  chine  of  beef  and  other  good  cheer, 
eighteen  mince  pies  in  a  dish,  the  number  of  the  years 
that  he  hath  been  married,^  where  Sir  W.  Batten  and 
his  Lady  and  daughter  was,  and  Colonel  Treswell  and 
Major  Holmes,  who  I  perceive  would  fain  get  to  be 
free  and  friends  with  my  wife,  but  I  shall  prevent  it, 
and  she  herself  hath  also  a  defyance  against  him. 
After  dinner  they  set  in  to  drinking,  so  that  I  would 
stay  no  longer,  but  went  away  home,  and  anon  I  went 
again  after  the  company  was  gone,  and  sat  and  played 
at  cards  with  Sir  W.  Pen  and  his  children,  and  so  after 
supper  home. 

7th.  To  the  office.  In  the  afternoon  and  at  night 
to  Sir  W.  Pen's,  there  supped  and  played  at  cards 
with  them  and  were  merry,  the  children  being  to  go 
all  away  to  schoole  again  to-morrow. 

8th.  To  Westminster  Hall  upon  several  businesses. 
To  dinner  with  my  Lady,  and  so  home,  and  so  up  to 
my  study  and  read  the  t\vo  treaties  before  Mr.  Selden's 
"Mare  Clausum."  This  night  come  about  100/.  from 
Brampton  by  carrier  to  me,  in  holsters  from  my  father, 
which  made  me  laugh. 

9th.   At  the  office  all  the  morning  private  with  Sir 

*  Lady  Penn  was  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Jasper,  of  Rotterdam. 
—  Life  of  Penn,  ii.  572. 

2  The  same  custom  is  noticed,  Feb.  3,  1661-62. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  1/5 

G.  Carteret,  Sir  W.  Batten,  and  Sir  W.  Pen,  about 
drawing  up  an  answer  to  several  demands  of  my  Lord 
Treasurer,  and  late  at  it  till  2  o'clock.  Then  to  din- 
ner, and  so  to  the  office  again  and  sat  till  late.  This 
morning  we  agreed  upon  some  things  to  answer  to  the 
Duke  about  the  practice  of  striking  of  the  flags,  which 
will  now  put  me  upon  finishing  my  resolution  of  writ- 
ing something  upon  the  subject. 

loth.  To  White  Hall,  and  there  spoke  with  Sir 
Paul  Neale  ^  about  a  mathematical  request  of  my 
Lord's  to  him,  which  I  did  deliver  to  him,  and  he 
promised  to  employ  somebody  to  answer  it,  something 
about  observation  of  the  moone  and  stars,  but  what  I 
did  not  mind.  An  injuncon  is  granted  in  Chancery 
against  T.  Trice,  at  which  I  was  very  glad,  being  be- 
fore in  some  trouble  for  it.  To  Westminster,  by 
appointment,  to  meet  my  wife  at  Mrs.  Hunt's  to  gos- 
sip with  her,  which  we  did  alone,  and  were  very 
merry,  and  did  give  her  a  cup  and  spoon  for  my  wife's 
god-child. 

nth.  To  the  Exchange,  and  there  all  the  news  is 
of  the  French  and  Dutch  joyning  against  us ;  but  I 
do  not  think  it  yet  true.  In  the  afternoon  to  Sir  W. 
Batten's,  where  in  discourse  I  heard  the  custome  of 
the  election  of  the  Duke  of  Genoa,^  who  for  two 
years  is  every  day  attended  in  the  greatest  state,  and 


»  Sir  Paul  Neile,  of  White  Waltham,  Berks,  son  of  Neile,  Archbishop  of 
York,  an  active  member  of  the  Royal  Society. 

2  Readers  will  find  a  good  account  of  the  origin  of  the  Ducal  Government 
of  Genoa  in  Hallara's  "  Middle  Ages,"  vol.  i.,  p.  468. 


1/6  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

four  or  five  hundred  men  always  waiting  upon  him  as 
a  king ;  and  when  the  two  years  are  out,  and  another 
is  chose,  a  messenger  is  sent  to  him,  who  stands  at  the 
bottom  of  the  stairs,  and  he  at  the  top,  and  says,  "  V^- 
Illustrissima  Serenita  sta  finita,  et  puede  andar  en 
casa."  —  "  Your  serenity  is  now  ended ;  and  now  you 
may  be  going  home  :  "  and  so  claps  on  his  hat.  And 
the  old  Duke  (having  by  custom  sent  his  goods  home 
before),  walks  away,  it  may  be  but  with  one  man  at 
his  heels ;  and  the  new  one  brought  immediately  in 
his  room,  in  the  greatest  state  in  the  world.  Another 
account  was  told  us,  how  in  the  Dukedom  of  Ragusa, 
in  the  Adriatique  (a  State  that  is  little,  but  more 
ancient,  they  say,  than  Venice,  and  is  called  the 
mother  of  Venice,  and  the  Turkes  He  round  about  it), 
that  they  change  all  the  officers  of  their  guard,  for 
fear  of  conspiracy,  every  twenty-four  hours,  so  that 
nobody  knows  who  shall  be  captain  of  the  guard  to- 
night ;  but  two  men  come  to  a  man,  and  lay  hold  of 
him  as  a  prisoner,  and  carry  him  to  the  place ;  and 
there  he  hath  the  keys  of  the  garrison  given  him,  and 
he  presently  issues  his  orders  for  that  night's  watch : 
and  so  always  from  night  to  night.  Sir  Wm.  Rider 
told  the  first  of  his  own  knowledge ;  and  both  he  and 
Sir  W.  Batten  confirm  the  last. 

1 2th  (Lord's  day).  To  church.  At  noon  Sir  W. 
Pen  and  my  good  friend  Deane  Fuller,  by  appoint- 
ment, dined  with  me  very  merry  and  handsomely. 

13th.  All  the  morning  at  home,  and  Mr.  Berken- 
shaw  (whom  I  have  not  seen  a  great  while,  came  to 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  1 77 

see  me),  who  staid  with  me  a  great  while  talking 
of  musique,  and  I  am  resolved  to  begin  to  leame  of 
him  to  compose,  and  to  begin  to-morrow,  he  giving 
of  me  so  great  hopes  that  I  shall  soon  do  it.  Before 
twelve  o'clock  comes,  by  appointment,  Mr.  Peter  and 
the  Deane,^  and  Collonel  Honiwood,  brothers,  to  dine 
with  me  ;  but  so  soon  that  I  was  troubled  at  it.  But, 
however,  I  entertained  them  with  talk  and  oysters  till 
one  o'clock,  and  then  we  sat  down  to  dinner,  and  so 
we  dined  very  merry,  at  least  I  seemed  so,  but  the 
dinner  does  not  please  me,  and  less  the  Deane  and 
Collonel,  whom  I  found  to  be  pitiful  sorry  gentlemen, 
though  good-natured,  but  Mr.  Peter  above  them  both, 
who  after  did  show  us  the  experiment  (which  I  had 
heard  talke  of)  of  the  chymicall  glasses,^  which  break 


^  These  three  brothers  were  the  sons  of  Robert  Honywood,  of  Charing, 
Kent,  who  had  purchased  the  estate  of  Mark's  Hall,  in  Essex;  and  whose 
mother,  Mary  Attwaters,  after  forty-four  years  of  widowhood,  died  at  ninety- 
three,  having  lived  to  see  three  hundred  and  sixty-seven  of  her  own  lawful 
descendants.  Colonel  Honywood  and  Peter  seem,  from  subsequent  notices 
in  the  Diary,  to  have  been  both  knighted:  but  we  find  no  particulars  of  their 
history.  Michael  Honywood,  D.D.,  was  rector  of  Kegworth,  co.  Leicester, 
and  seeking  refuge  at  Utrecht  during  the  Rebellion,  was,  on  his  return,  made 
Dean  of  Lincoln,  and  died  in  1681,  aged  85,  having  been  generally  considered 
a  learned  and  holy  man.  The  widow  of  Dean  Honywood  left  his  library  to 
the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Lincoln.  Many  early  printed  books  of  great  rarity 
contained  in  this  collection  were  dispersed  under  the  auspices  of  Dean  Gor- 
don in  1817,  and  replaced  by  the  purchase  of  modern  works  comparatively 
of  no  value.  See  Botfield's  "  Account  of  our  Cathedral  Libraries."  In  the 
"Topographer  and  Genealogist,"  No.  V.,  there  is  a  printed  account  of 
"  Mary  Honywood  and  her  posterity,"  taken  from  a  MS.  of  Peter  Le  Neve's, 
in  the  Landsdowne  Collection,  in  the  British  Museum. 

2  They  are  formed  by  dropping  melted  glass  into  water.  These  drops  are 
still  called  after  Prince  Rupert,  who  brought  them  out  of  Germany,  where 
they  were  named  "  Lacrymae  Batavicae."    They  consist  of  glass  drops  with 


178  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

all  to  dust  by  breaking  off  a  little  small  end ;  which  is 
a  great  mystery  to  me.  They  being  gone,  my  aunt 
Wight  and  my  wife  to  cards,  she  teaching  of  us  how 
to  play  at  gleeke,^  which  is  a  pretty  game  ;  but  I  have 
not  my  head  so  free  as  to  be  troubled  with  it. 

14th.  All  the  morning  at  home,  Mr.  Berkenshaw^ 
by  appointment  yesterday  coming  to  me,  and  begun 
composition  of  musique.  After  dinner  in  the  afternoon 
to  the  office.  This  day  my  brave  vellum  covers  to  keep 
pictures  in,  come  in,  which  pleases  me  very  much. 

15th.  This  morning  Mr.  Berkenshaw  came  again, 
and  after  he  had  examined  me  and  taught  me  some- 
thing in  my  work,  he  and  I  went  to  breakfast  in  my 
chamber  upon  a  collar  of  brawne,  and  after  we  had 
eaten,  asked  me  whether  we  had  not  committed  a 
fault  in  eating  to-day ;  telling  me  that  it  is  a  fast  day 
ordered  by  the  Parliament,^  to  pray  for  more  seasonable 

long  and  slender  tails,  which  burst  to  pieces  on  the  breaking  off  those  tails 
in  any  part.    The  invention  is  thus  alluded  to  in  "  Hudibras:  "  — 
"  Honour  is  like  that  glassy  bubble 
That  finds  philosophers  such  trouble, 
Whose  least  part  cracked,  the  whole  does  fly. 
And  wits  are  cracked  to  find  out  why." 

Part  II.,  canto  11.,  line  385. 
^  A  game  at  cards,  played  by  three  persons  with  forty-four  cards,  each 
hand  having  twelve,  and  eight  being  left  for  the  stock.     It  was  reckoned  a 
very  genteel  game  in  Ben  Jonson's  time. 

"  Nor  play  with  costarmongers  at  mumchance,  tray-trip. 
But  keep  the  gallant'st  company  and  the  best  games, 
Gleek  and  primero."  Alchemist,  act  v.  so.  4. 

See  Nares'  "  Glossary."     (M.  B.) 

2  Pepys's  music-master. 

3  On  the  8th,  a  Proclamation  was  issued  for  a  general  fast  to  be  observed 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS,  1 79 

weather;  it  having  hitherto  been  summer  weather, 
that  it  is,  both  as  to  warmth  and  every  other  thing, 
just  as  if  it  were  the  middle  of  May  or  June,  which 
do  threaten  a  plague  (as  all  men  think)  to  follow,  for 
so  it  was  almost  the  last  winter ;  and  the  whole  year 
after  hath  been  a  very  sickly  time  to  this  day.^ 

1 6th.  Towards  Cheapside ;  and  in  Paul's  Church- 
yard saw  the  funeral  of  my  Lord  Comwallis,^  late 
Steward  3  of  the  King's  House,  a  bold  profane  talking 
man,  go  by,  and  thence  I  to  the  Paynter's,  and  there 
paid  him  6/.  for  the  tv\'0  pictures,  and  ^ds.  for  the 
two  frames.  Stokes  told  us,  that  notwithstanding  the 
country  of  Gambo  ^  is  so  unhealthy,  yet  the  people  of 
the  place  live  very  long,  so  as  the  present  king  there 
is  150  years  old,  which  they  count  by  rains  :  because 
every  year  it  rains  continually  four  months  together. 
He  also  told  us,  that  the  kings  there  have  above  100 
wives  a-piece,  and  offered  him  the  choice  of  any  of 
his  wives,  and  so  he  did  Captain  Holmes. 

17th.  To  Westminster  with  Mr.  Moore,  and  there 
I  met  with  Lany,  the  Frenchman,  who  told  me  that 

in  London  and  Westminster  on  the  15th,  and  in  the  rest  of  England  on  the 
22nd,  with  prayers  on  occasion  of  "  the  present  unseasonableness  of  the 
weather."  William  Lucy,  Bishop  of  St,  David's,  preached  before  the  House 
of  Lords.  Dr.  Samuel  Bolton  and  Dr.  Bruno  Ryves  preached  at  St. 
Margaret's,  before  the  House  of  Commons. 

1  The  old  proverb  says  truly,  that  "  a  green  yule  maketh  a  fat  kirk-yard." 
Apples  were  growing  at  this  time. 

2  See  ante,  April  23,  1661,  note. 

3  This  should  be  Treasurer, 

4  Gambia,  on  the  western  coast  of  Africa,  then  recently  possessed  by  the 
English.  Its  unhealthy  character  is  still,  alas!  well  proved  by  our  cruisers 
against  the  slave  trade. 


l8o  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS, 

he  had  a  letter  from  France  last  night,  that  tells  him 
that  my  Lord  Hinchingbroke  is  dead,  and  that  he 
did  die  yesterday  was  se'nnight,  which  do  surprise 
me  exceedingly  (though  we  know  that  he  hath  been 
sick  these  two  months),  so  I  hardly  ever  was  in  my 
life  j  but  being  fearfull  that  my  Lady  should  come  to 
hear  it  too  suddenly,  he  and  I  went  up  to  my  Lord 
Crew's,  and  there  I  dined  with  him,  and  after  dinner 
we  told  him,  and  the  whole  family  is  much  disturbed 
by  it :  so  we  consulted  what  to  do  to  tell  my  Lady  of 
it ;  and  at  last  we  thought  of  my  going  first  to  Mr. 
George  Montagu's  to  hear  whether  he  had  any  news 
of  it,  which  I  did,  and  there  found  all  his  house  in 
great  heavinesse  for  the  death  of  his  son,  Mr.  George 
Montagu,  who  did  go  with  our  young  gentlemen  into 
France,  and  that  they  hear  nothing  at  all  of  our  young 
Lord ;  so  believing  that  thence  comes  the  mistake,  I 
returned  to  my  Lord  Crew  (in  my  way  in  the  Piazza 
seeing  a  house  on  fire,  and  all  the  streets  full  of  peo- 
ple to  quench  it),  and  told  them  of  it,  which  they 
are  much  glad  of,  and  conclude,  and  so  I  hope,  that 
my  Lord  is  well ;  and  so  I  went  to  my  Lady  Sand- 
wich, and  told  her  all,  and  after  much  talk  I  parted 
thence  with  my  wife,  who  had  been  there  all  the  day, 
and  so  home  to  my  musique,  and  then  to  bed. 

1 8th.  Comes  Mr.  Moore  to  give  me  an  account 
how   Mr.    Montagu  ^   was    gone    away   of  a    sudden 

I  Edward  Montagu,  noticed  20th  April,  i56o,  dying  unmarried,  s.  p.,  his 
brother  Ralph  succeeded,  as  third  Lord  Montagu  of  Boughton,  and  was  cre- 
ated an  Earl  in  1689,  and  in  1705  Duke  of  Montagu.     He  was  Ambassador  to 


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with  the  fleet,  in  such  haste  that  he  hath  left  behind 
some  servants,  and  many  things  of  consequence  ;  and 
among  others,  my  Lord's  commission  for  Embassador. 
Whereupon  he  and  I  took  coach,  and  to  White  Hall 
to  my  Lord's  lodgings,  to  have  spoke  with  Mr.  Ralph 
Montagu, I  his  brother  (and  here  we  staid  talking  with 
Sarah  and  the  old  man)  ;  but  by  and  by  hearing  that 
he  was  in  Covent  Garden,  we  went  thither  :  and  at  my 
Lady  Harvy's,  his  sister,  I  spoke  with  him,  and  he 
tells  me  that  the  commission  is  not  left  behind. 

19th  (Lord's  day).  To  church  in  the  morning, 
where  Mr.  Mills  preached  upon  Christ's  being  offered 
up  for  our  sins,  and  there  proving  the  equity  with 
what  justice  God  would  lay  our  sins  upon  his  Son,  he 
did  make  such  a  sermon  (among  other  things  pleading, 
from  God's  universal  sovereignty  over  all  his  creatures, 
the  power  he  has  of  commanding  what  he  would  of 
his  Son  by  the  same  rule  as  that  he  might  have  made 
us  all,  and  the  whole  world  from  the  beginning  to 
have  been  in  hell,  arguing  from  the  power  the  potter 
has  over  his  clay),  that  I  could  have  wished  he  had 
let  it  alone ;  and  speaking  again,  the  Father  is  now  so 
satisfied  by  our  security  for  our  debt,  that  we  might 


France  from  1668  to  1672:  and  some  of  his  letters  were  used  for  the  impeach- 
ment of  the  Earl  of  Danby,  afterwards  Duke  of  Leeds.  He  died  in  1709. 
His  sister  Elizabeth  had  married  Sir  Daniel  Harvey,  who  was  knighted 
by  Charles  H.  at  his  first  landing,  and  was  sent,  in  1668,  Ambassador  to 
Constantinople. 

I  Ralph,  eldest  son  of  Edward,  second  Baron  Montagu,  of  Boughton; 
created  Duke  of  Montagu,  and  died  1709.  His  sister  Elizabeth  had  married 
Sir  D.  Harvey,  Knt.,  Ambassador  to  Constantinople. 


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say  at  the  last  day  as  many  of  us  as  have  interest  in 
Christ's  death :  Lord,  we  owe  thee  nothing,  our  debt 
is  paid  thee  to  the  full ;  which  methinks  were  very 
bold  words.  Home  to  dinner,  and  then  my  wife  and 
I  on  foot  to  see  Mrs.  Turner,  who  continues  still  sick, 
and  thence  into  the  Old  Bayly  by  appointment  to 
speak  with  Mrs.  Norbury,  who  hes  (it  falls  out)  next 
door  to  my  uncle  Fenner's ;  but  as  God  would  have 
it,  we  having  no  desire  to  be  seen  by  his  people,  he 
having  lately  married  a  midwife  that  is  old  and  ugly, 
and  that  hath  already  brought  home  to  him  a  daughter 
•xnd  three  children,  we  were  let  in  at  a  back  doore. 
And  here  she  offered  me  the  refusall  of  some  lands 
of  her's  at  Brampton,  if  I  have  a  mind  to  buy,  which 
I  answered  her  I  was  not  at  present  provided  to  do. 
Thence  to  my  uncle  Wight's,  and  there  we  supped 
and  were  merry,  though  my  uncle  hath  lately  lost  200 
or  300  at  sea,  and  I  am  troubled  to  hear  that  the 
Turkes  do  take  more  and  more  of  our  ships  in  the 
Straights,  and  that  our  merchants  here  in  London  do 
daily  break,  and  are  still  likely  to  do  so.  So  home 
and  to  prayers,  and  to  bed. 

20th.  This  morning  Sir  Wm.  Batten  and  Pen  and 
I  did  begin  the  examining  the  Treasurer's  accounts, 
and  we  were  all  at  it  till  noon,  and  then  to  dinner,  he 
providing  a  fine  dinner  for  us,  and  we  eat  it  at  Sir  W. 
Batten's,  where  we  were  very  merry.  Mr.  Morrice, 
the  wine  cooper,  this  day  did  divide  the  two  butts, 
which  we  four  did  send  for,  of  sherry  from  Cales,  and 
mine  was  put  into  a  hogshead,  and  the  vessel  filled 


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up  with  four  gallons  of  Malaga  wine,  but  what  it  will 
stand  us  in  I  know  not :  but  it  is  the  first  great  quan- 
tity of  wine  that  I  ever  bought. 

2 1  St.  To  the  finishing  of  the  Treasurer's  accounts 
this  morning,  and  then  to  dinner  again,  and  were 
merry  as  yesterday,  and  so  home,  and  then  to  the 
office  till  night,  and  then  home  to  write  letters,  and 
to  practise  my  composition  of  musique,  and  then  to 
bed.  We  have  heard  nothing  yet  how  far  the  fleet 
hath  got  toward  Portugall,  but  thcwind  being  changed 
again,  we  fear  they  are  stopped,  and  may  be  beat 
back  again  to  the  coast  of  Ireland. 

2 2d.  After  musique-practice,  to  White  Hall,  and 
thence  to  Westminster,  in  my  way  calling  at  Mr. 
George  Montagu's,^  to  condole  on  the  loss  of  his  son, 
who  was  a  fine  gentleman,  and  it  is  no  doubt  a  great 
discomfort  to  our  two  young  gentlemen,  his  compan- 
ions in  France.  After  this  discourse  he  told  me, 
among  other  news,  the  great  jealousys  that  are  now 
in  the  Parliament  House.  The  Lord  Chancellor,  it 
seems,  taking  occasion  from  this  late  plot  to  raise 
fears  in  the  people,  did  project  the  raising  of  an  army 
forthwith,  besides  the  constant  militia,  thinking  to 
make  the  Duke  of  York  General  thereof.  But  the 
House  did,  in  very  open  termes,  say,  they  were  grown 
too  wise  to  be  fooled  again  into  another  army ;  and 
said  they  had  found  how  that  man  that  hath  the  com- 

Jt  Henry  Montagu,  first  Earl  of  Manchester,  had  numerous  issue  by  his 
first  lady;  but  George,  here  mentioned,  was  the  eldest  son  of  Margaret 
Crouch,  the  Earl's  third  wife.     See  also  7th  March,  1660,  ante. 


1 84  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

mand  of  an  army  is  not  beholden  to  any  body  to 
make  him  King.  There  are  factions  (private  ones  at 
Court)  about  Madam  Palmer;  but  what  it  is  about 
I  know  not.  But  it  is  something  about  the  King's 
favour  to  her  now  that  the  Queene  is  coming.  He 
told  me,  too,  what  sport  the  King  and  Court  do  make 
at  Mr.  Edward  Montagu's  leaving  his  things  behind 
him.  But  the  Chancellor  (taking  it  a  little  more 
seriously)  did  openly  say  to  my  Lord  Chamberlaine, 
that  had  it  been  such  a  gallant  as  my  Lord  Mande- 
ville  ^  his  son,  it  might  have  been  taken  as  a  frolique ; 
but  for  him  that  would  be  thought  a  grave  coxcombe, 
it  was  very  strange.  Thence  to  the  Hall,  where  I 
heard  the  House  had  ordered  all  the  King's  murder- 
ers, that  remain,  to  be  executed,  but  Fleetwood  ^  and 
Downes. 

23rd.  All  the  morning  with  Mr.  Berkenshaw,  and 
in  the  afternoon  by  coach  by  invitacon  to  my  uncle 
Fenner's,  where  I  found  his  new  wife,  a  pitiful,  old, 
ugly,  ill-bred  woman  in  a  hatt,  a  midwife.  Here  were 
many  of  his,  and  as  many  of  her  relations,  sorry, 
mean  people ;  and  after-  choosing  our  gloves,  we  all 
went  over  to  the  Three  Crane  Taveme,^  and  though 


^  Lord  Mandeville  was  a  Gentleman  of  the  Bedchamber  to  Charles  II. 
He  became  Earl  of  Manchester  on  his  father's  death,  and  died  at  Paris  in 
1682. 

2  Charles,  son  of  Sir  Wm.  Fleetwood,  Knt.,  General  and  Commander  in 
Chief  to  the  Protector  Richard,  whose  sister,  Bridget,  widow  of  Ireton,  he 
had  married.  After  the  King's  return  he  lived  in  contemptible  obscurity,  and 
died  circa  1689. 

3  In  Upper  Thames  Street. 


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the  best  room  in  the  house,  in  such  a  narrow  dogg- 
hole  we  were  crammed,  and  I  beheve  we  were  near 
forty,  that  it  made  me  loathe  my  company  and  vict- 
uals; and  a  sorry  poor  dinner  it  was  too.  After 
dinner,  I  took  aside  the  two  Joyces,  and  took  occasion 
to  thank  them  for  their  kind  thoughts  for  a  wife  for 
Tom :  but  that  considering  the  possibility  there  is 
of  my  having  no  child,  and  what  then  I  shall  be  able 
to  leave  him,  I  do  think  he  may  expect  in  that 
respect  a  wife  with  more  money,  and  so  desired  them 
to  think  no  more  of  it. 

24th.  This  morning  came  my  cozen  Thos.  Pepys 
the  Executor,  to  speak  with  me,  and  I  had  much  talke 
with  him  both  about  matters  of  money  which  my 
Lord  Sandwich  has  of  his  and  I  am  bond  for,  as  also 
of  my  uncle  Thomas,  who  I  hear  by  him  do  stand 
upon  very  high  terms.  Thence  to  the  Wardrobe, 
where  very  merry  with  my  Lady,  and  after  dinner  I 
sent  for  the  pictures  ^  thither,  and  mine  is  well  liked ; 
but  she  is  much  offended  with  my  wife's,  and  I  am  of 
her  opinion,  that  it  do  much  wrong  her;  but  I  will 
have  it  altered.  So  home,  in  my  way  calling  at  Pope's 
Head  alley,  and  there  bought  me  a  pair  of  scissars 
and  a  brasse  square.  So  home  and  to  my  study  and 
to  bed. 

25  th.  At  home  and  the  office  all  the  morning. 
Walking  in  the  garden  ^  to  give  the  gardener  direc- 

1  Painted  by  SaviU, 

2  "  I  remember  your  honour  very  well,  when  you  newly  came  out  of 
France,  and  wore  pantaloon  breeches;   at  which  time  your   late  honoured 


1 86  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

tions  what  to  do  this  year  (for  I  intend  to  have  the 
garden  handsome),  Sir  W.  Pen  came  to  me,  and  did 
break  a  business  to  me  about  removing  his  son  from 
Oxford  to  Cambridge  to  some  private  college.  I 
proposed  Magdalen,  but  cannot  name  a  tutor  at  pres- 
ent ;  but  I  shall  think  and  write  about  it.  Thence 
with  him  to  the  Trinity-house  to  dinner ;  where  Sir 
Richard  Brown,'  one  of  the  clerkes  of  the  Council, 
and  who  is  much  concerned  against  Sir  N.  Crisp's 
project  of  making  a  great  sasse  3  in  the  King's  lands 
about  Deptford,  to  be  a  wett-dock  to  hold  200  sail  of 
ships.  But  the  ground,  it  seems,  was  long  since  given 
by  the  King  to  Sir  Richard.  After  the  Trinity-house 
men  had  done  their  business,  the  master.  Sir  William 
Rider,  came  to  bid  us  welcome ;  and  so  to  dinner, 
where  good  cheere  and  discourse,  but  I  eat  a  little 
too  much  beef.     Thence  to  supper  with  my  wife  to 


father  [Sir  W.  Penn]  dwelt  in  the  Navy  Office,  in  that  apartment  the  Lord 
Viscount  Brouncker  dwelt  in  afterwards,  which  was  on  the  north  part  of  the 
Navy  Office  garden."  —  P.  Gibson  of  Penn  ye  Quaker,  Life  of  Penn,  ii. 
616. 

^  He  had  been  gentleman  of  the  Privy  Chamber  to  Charles  I.,  and  Resi- 
dent in  France  for  that  monarch.  He  was  created  a  Baronet  ist  September, 
1649,  and  died  loth  February,  1683.  Much  is  said  of  him  in  the  "  Diary"  of 
John  Evelyn,  who  married  his  only  child  and  heir;  and  thus  became  pos- 
sessor of  Sayes  Court.  Part  of  Deptford  Dockyard  is  still  held  under  the 
Evelyn  family.  The  plans,  on  a  large  scale,  of  Sayes  Court,  and  Deptford 
Dockyard,  executed  by  Joel  Gascoyne,  in  1692,  probably  for  Evelyn  himself, 
are  in  the  British  Museum,  together  with  plans  of  the  dockyard  as  it  existed 
in  1688,  1698,  and  1774,  respectively;  and  also  other  plans  of  the  docks  made 
for  the  Evelyns. 

2  "  Sasse,  a  sluice,  or  lock,  used  in  water-works."  —  Bailey's  Dictionary. 
This  project  is  mentioned  by  Evelyn,  and  Lysons's  "  Environs,"  vol.  iv. 
p.  392. 


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Sir  W.  Pen's.  WTiile  we  were  at  supper  comes  Mr. 
Moore  with  letters  from  my  Lord  Sandwich,  speaking 
of  his  lying  still  at  Tangier,  looking  for  the  fleet; 
which,  we  hope,  is  now  in  a  good  way  thither. 

26th  (Lord's  day).  To  church  in  the  morning,  and 
then  home  to  dinner  alone  with  my  wife,  and  so  both 
to  church  in  the  afternoon.  It  having  been  a  very 
fine  clear  frosty  day  —  God  send  us  more  of  them  !  — 
for  the  warm  weather  all  this  winter  makes  us  fear 
a  sickly  summer.  But  thanks  be  to  God,  since  my 
leaving  drinking  of  wine,  I  do  find  myself  much 
better  and  do  mind  my  business  better,  and  do  spend 
less  money,  and  less  time  lost  in  idle  company, 

27th.  This  morning,  both  Sir  Williams  and  I  by 
barge  to  Deptford-yard  to  give  orders  in  businesses 
there  ;  and  called  on  several  ships,  also  to  give  orders, 
and  so  to  Woolwich,  and  there  dined  at  Mr.  Falconer's 
of  victuals  we  carried  ourselves,  and  one  Mr.  Dekins, 
the  father  of  my  Morena,^  of  whom  we  have  lately 
bought  some  hempe.  That  being  done  we  went 
home  again.  This  morning,  going  to  take  water 
upon  Tower-hill,  we  met  with  three  sleddes  standing 
there  to  carry  my  Lord  Monson^  and  Sir  H.  Mild- 


*  This  settles  the  disputed  point  who  Morena  was  and  who  her  father  was 
In  the  Portuguese  language  "  morena  "  signifies  "  brunette."  See  Diary,  6th 
October,  1661  :  "  There  was  also  my  pretty  black  girle,  Mrs.  Dekins,"  &c. 
(M.  B.) 

2  William,  second  son  of  Sir  Thomas  Monson,  Bart. ;  created  by  Charles 
I.  Viscount  Castlemaine  of  the  kingdom  of  Ireland  ;  notwithstanding  which, 
he  was  instrumental  in  his  Majesty's  death  ;  and  in  1661,  being  degraded  of 
his  honours,  was    sentenced,  with   Sir   Henry  Mildmay,   and  Mr.   Robert 


1 88  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

may  ^  and  another,^  to  the  gallows  and  back  again, 
with  ropes  about  their  necks ;  which  is  to  be  repeated 
every  year,  this  being  the  day  of  their  sentencing  the 
King. 

28th.  This  morning  with  my  wife  to  the  Paynter's, 
where  we  staid  very  late  to  have  her  picture  mended, 
which  at  last  is  come  to  be  very  like  her,  and  I  think 
well  done  ;  but  the  Paynter,  though  a  very  honest  man, 
I  found  to  be  very  silly  as  to  matter  of  skill  in  shad- 
ows, for  we  were  long  in  discourse,  till  I  was  almost 
angry  to  hear  him  talk  so  simply. 

29th.  To  Westminster,  and  at  the  Parliament  doore 
spoke  with  Mr.  Coventry  about  business,  and  so  to  the 
Wardrobe  to  dinner,  and  so  home,  where  I  found  Mrs. 


Wallop,  to  be  drawn  on  sledges,  with  ropes  round  their  necks,  to  Tyburn,  and 
back  to  the  Tower,  there  to  remain  prisoners  for  life.  None  of  their  names 
were  subscribed  to  the  King's  sentence.  An  account  of  this  ceremony  was 
printed  at  the  time,  entided  "  The  Traytor's  Pilgrimage  from  the  Tower  to 
Tyburn,  being  a  true  relation  of  the  drawing  of  William  Lord  Mounson, 
Sir  Henry  Mildmay,  and  'Squire  Wallop  .  .  .  with  the  manner  of  the 
proceedings  at  Tyburn,  in  order  to  the  degrading  and  divesting  of  them  of 
their  former  tides  of  honour,  and  their  declaratory  speeches  to  both  the  right 
worshipful  Sherifis  of  London  and  Middlesex."  The  late  Lord  Monson  and 
the  present  Lord  Sondes  are  descended  from  the  eldest  son  of  Sir  Thomas 
Monson,  Viscount  Monson  left  one  son  by  his  second  wife,  Alston  Monson, 
who  died  s.  p.  in  1674.  —  Collins's  Peerage. 

1  Sir  H.  Mildmay  had  enjoyed  the  confidence  of  Charles  I.,  who  made 
him  Master  of  the  Jewels  ;  but  he  sat  a  few  days  as  one  of  the  King's 
Judges.  He  died  at  Antwerp.  His  estate  of  Wansted  was  confiscated,  and 
was  given  to  Sir  Robert  Brookes  ;  and  by  him,  or  his  heirs,  or  creditors, 
alienated  in  1667  to  Sir  Josiah  Childe,  ancestor  of  the  Earl  Tylney.  See  May 
14,  1665.  It  is  now  Lord  Mornington's,  in  right  of  his  first  wife.  Sir  Henry 
Mildmay's  other  estates  were  saved  by  being  settled  on  his  marriage. 

2  Robert  Wallop,  the  direct  ancestor  of  the  present  Earl  of  Portsmouth. 
He  died  in  the  Tower,  November  16,  1667. 


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Pen  and  Mrs.  Rooth  and  Smith,  who  played  at  cards 
with  my  wife,  and  I  did  give  them  a  barrel  of  oysters, 
and  had  a  pullet  to  supper  for  them,  and  when  it  was 
ready  to  come  to  table,  the  foolish  girle  had  not  the 
manners  to  stay  and  sup  with  me,  but  went  away, 
which  did  vex  me  cruelly.  So  I  saw  her  home,  and 
then  to  supper,  and  so  to  musique  practice,  and  to  bed. 

30th.  Fast-day  for  the  murthering  of  the  late  King. 
I  went  to  church,  and  Mr.  Mills  made  a  good  sermon 
upon  David's  words,  "  Who  can  lay  his  hands  upon 
the  Lord's  Anoynted  and  be  guiltlesse?"  So  home 
and  to  dinner,  and  employed  all  the  afternoon  in  my 
chamber,  setting  things  and  papers  to  rights,  which 
pleased  me  very  well,  and  I  think  I  shall  begin  to  take 
pleasure  in  being  at  home  and  minding  my  business. 
I  pray  God  I  may,  for  I  finde  a  great  need  thereof. 
At  night  to  supper  and  to  bed. 

31st.  All  the  morning,  after  musique  practice,  in 
my  cellar,  ordering  some  alteracons  therein,  being 
much  pleased  with  my  new  doore  into  the  back  yard. 
So  to  dinner,  and  all  the  afternoon  thinking  upon 
business. 

February  ist.  This  morning  with  Commissioner 
Pett  to  the  office ;  and  he  staid  there  writing,  while 
I  and  Sir  W.  Pen  walked  in  the  garden  talking  about 
his  business  of  putting  his  son  to  Cambridge ;  and  to 
that  end  I  intend  to  write  to-night  to  Dr.  Fairebroth- 
er,  to  give  me  an  account  of  Mr.  Burton  ^  of  Magda- 

I  Hezekiah  Burton,  S.T.B.  1661. 


IQO  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

len.  Thence  with  Mr.  Pett  to  the  Paynter's ;  and  he 
Hkes  our  pictures  very  well,  and  so  do  I.  Thence  he 
and  I  to  the  Countesse  of  Sandwich,  to  lead  him  to 
her  to  kiss  her  hands  :  and  dined  with  her,  and  told 
her  the  news  (which  Sir  W.  Pen  told  me  to-day) 
that  expresse  is  come  from  my  Lord  with  letters,  that 
by  a  great  storm  and  tempest  the  mole  of  Argier^ 
is  broken  down,  and  many  of  their  ships  sunk  into 
the  mole.  So  that  God  Almighty  hath  now  ended 
that  unlucky  business  for  us ;  which  is  very  good 
news. 

2nd  (Lord's  day).  To  church  in  the  morning,  and 
then  home  and  dined  with  my  wife,  and  so  both  of  us 
to  church  again,  where  we  had  an  Oxford  man  give 
us  a  most  impertinent  sermon  upon  "  Cast  your  bread 
upon  the  waters,"  &c. 

3rd.  After  musique  practice  I  went  to  the  office, 
and  there  with  the  two  Sir  Williams  all  the  morning 
about  business,  and  at  noon  I  dined  with  Sir  W.  Bat- 
ten with  many  friends  more,  it  being  his  wedding-day, 
and  among  other  froliques,  it  being  their  third  year, 
they  had  three  pyes,  whereof  the  middlemost  was 
made  of  an  ovall  form,  in  an  ovall  hole  within  the 
other  two,  which  made  much  mirth,  and  was  called 
the  middle  piece ;  and  above  all  the  rest,  we  had  great 
striving  to  steal  a  spooneful  out  of  it ;  and  I  remem- 
ber Mrs.  Mills,  the  minister's  wife,  did  steal  one  for 
me  and  did  give  it  me ;  and  to  end  all,  Mrs.  Shipp- 

»  /.  e.  Algiers.     (M.  B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS,  IQI 

man  did  fill  the  pye  full  of  white  wine,  it  holding  at 
least  a  pint  and  a  half,  and  did  drink  it  off  for  a  health 
to  Sir  William  and  my  Lady,  it  being  the  greatest  draft 
that  ever  I  did  see  a  woman  drink  in  my  life.  I  went 
along  with  my  lady  and  the  rest  of  the  gentlewomen 
to  INIajor  Holmes's,  and  there  we  had  a  fine  supper, 
among  others,  excellent  lobsters,  which  I  never  eat  at 
this  time  of  the  year  before.  The  Major  hath  good 
lodgings  at  the  Trinity  House.  At  last  home,  and, 
being  in  my  chamber,  we  do  hear  great  noise  of  mirth 
at  Sir  William  Batten's,  tearing  the  ribbands '  from  my 
Lady  and  him. 

4th.  To  Westminster  Hall,  where  it  was  full  terme. 
Here  all  the  morning,  and  at  noon  to  my  Lord  Crew's, 
where  one  Mr.  Templer^  (an  ingenious  man  and  a 
person  of  honour  he  seems  to  be)  dined ;  and,  dis- 
coursing of  the  nature  of  serpents,  he  told  us  some 
that  in  the  waste  places  of  Lancashire  do  grow  to  a 
great  bigness,  and  that  do  feed  upon  larkes,  which 
they  take  thus  :  —  They  observe  when  the  larke  is 
soared  to  the  highest,  and  do  crawl  till  they  come  to 
be  just  underneath  them ;  and  there  they  place  them- 
selves with  their  mouths  uppermost,  and  there,  as  is 
conceived,  they  do  eject  poyson  up  to  the  bird ;  for 
the  bird  do  suddenly  come  down  again  in  its  course 
of  a  circle,  and  falls  directly  into  the  mouth  of  the 
serpent ;  which  is  very  strange.    He  is  a  great  traveller ; 

^  As  if  they  were  a  newly-married  couple.  See  26th  January,  1660-1,  and 
8th  February,  1662-3.     (M.  B.) 

2  Probably  Benjamin  Templer,  rector  of  Ashby,  in  Northamptonshire. 


192  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

and  speaking  of  the  tarantula,  he  says  that  all  the 
harvest  long  (about  which  times  they  are  most  busy) 
there  are  fidlers  go  up  and  down  the  fields  every 
where,  in  expectation  of  being  hired  by  those  that  are 
stung.  This  afternoon,  going  into  the  office,  one  met 
me  and  did  serve  a  subpoena  upon  me  for  one  Field, 
whom  we  did  commit  to  prison '  the  other  day  for 
some  ill  words  he  did  give  the  office.  The  Uke  he 
had  for  others,  but  we  shall  scoure  him  for  it. 

5th.  Early  at  the  office.  Sir  G.  Carteret,  the  two 
Sir  Williams  and  myself  all  alone  reading  of  the 
Duke's  institutions  for  the  settlement  of  our  office, 
whereof  we  read  as  much  as  concerns  our  own  duties, 
and  left  the  other  officers  for  another  time.  At  noon 
Sir  W.  Pen  dined  with  me,  and  after  dinner  he  and  I 
and  my  wife  to  the  Theatre,  and  there  saw  "  Rule  a 
Wife  and  have  a  Wife  "  ^  very  well  done.  And  here 
also  T  did  look  long  upon  my  Lady  Castlemaine,  who, 
notwithstanding  her  late  sickness,  continues  a  great 
beauty. 

6th.  At  my  musique  practice,  and  so  into  my  cellar 
to  my  workmen,  and  I  am  very  much  pleased  with 
my  alteracon  there.  About  noon  comes  my  uncle 
Thomas  to  me  to  ask  for  his  annuity,  and  I  did  tell 
him  my  mind  freely.  We  had  some  high  words,  but 
I  was  willing  to  end  all  in  peace,  and  so  I  made  him 
dine  with  me,  and  I  have  hopes  to  work  my  end  upon 
him.     After  dinner  the  barber  trimmed  me,  and  so 

1  Which  afterwards  caused  Pepys  much  trouble. 

2  A  Comedy,  by  J.  Fletcher. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  1 93 

to  the  office,  where  I  do  begin  to  be  exact  in  my 
duty  there  and  exacting  my  privileges,  and  shall  con- 
tinue to  do  so. 

7th.  By  water  to  Westminster  with  Commissioner 
Pett  (landing  my  wife  at  Black  Friars)  where  I  hear 
the  prisoners  in  the  Tower  that  are  to  die  are  come  to 
the  Parliament-house  this  morning.  To  the  Wardrobe 
to  dinner  with  my  Lady ;  where  a  civitt  cat,  parrot, 
apes,  and  many  other  things  are  come  from  my  Lord 
by  Captain  Hill,  who  dined  with  my  Lady  with  us 
to-day.  Thence  to  the  Paynter's,  and  am  well  pleased 
with  our  pictures.  By  and  by,  hearing  that  Mr.  Turner 
was  much  troubled  at  what  I  do  in  the  office,  and  do 
give  ill  words  to  Sir  W.  Pen  and  others  of  me,  I  am 
much  troubled  in  my  mind,  and  so  went  to  bed ;  not 
that  I  fear  him  at  all,  but  the  natural  aptnesse  I  have 
to  be  troubled  at  any  thing  that  crosses  me. 

8th.  All  the  morning  in  the  cellar  with  the  colliers, 
removing  the  coles  out  of  the  old  cole  hole  into  the 
new  one,  which  cost  me  Zs.  the  doing ;  but  now  the 
cellar  is  done  and  made  clean,  it  do  please  me  ex- 
ceedingly. I  pray  God  keep  me  from  setting  my 
mind  too  much  upon  it.  So  to  the  office,  and  thence 
to  talk  with  Sir  W.  Pen,  walking  in  the  dark  in  the 
garden  some  turns,  he  telling  me  of  the  ill  manage- 
ment of  our  office. 

9th  (Lord's  day).  I  took  physique  this  day,  and 
was  all  day  in  my  chamber,  talking  with  my  wife  about 
her  laying  out  of  ;£20,  which  I  had  long  since  prom- 
ised her  to  lay  out  in  clothes  against  Easter  for  herself, 


194  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

and  composing  some  ayres,  God  forgive  me !  At 
night  to  prayers  and  to  bed. 

loth.  Musique  practice  a  good  while,  then  to 
Paul's  Church-yard,  and  there  I  met  with  Dr.  Fuller's 
"  England's  Worthys,"  the  first  time  that  I  ever  saw 
it;  and  so  I  sat  down  reading  in  it;  being  much 
troubled  that  (though  he  had  some  discourse  with  me 
about  my  family  and  armes)  he  says  nothing  at  all, 
nor  mentions  us  either  in  Cambridgeshire  or  Nor- 
folke.  But  I  believe,  indeed,  our  family  were  never 
considerable. 

nth.  Dined  at  home;  at  the  office  in  the  after- 
noon. So  home  to  musique,  my  mind  being  full  of  our 
alteracons  in  the  garden.  At  night  begun  to  compose 
songs,  and  begin  with  "  Gaze  not  on  Swans."  ^ 

1 2  th.  This  morning,  till  four  in  the  afternoon,  I 
spent  abroad,  doing  of  many  and  considerable  busi- 
nesses, so  home  with  my  mind  ver)^  highly  contented 
with  my  day's  work,  wishing  I  could  do  so  every  day. 
This  night  I  had  half  a  loo  poore  Jack  sent  me  by 
Mr.  Adis. 

13th.  Mr.  Blackbume  do  tell  me  plain  of  the  cor- 
ruption of  all  our  Treasurer's  officers,  and  that  they 
hardly  pay  any  money  under  ten  per  cent. ;  and  that 
the  other  day,  for  a  mere  assignation  of  200/.  to  some 
counties,  they  took  15/.,  which  is  very  strange.  Last 
night  died  the  Queene  of  Bohemia.^ 

I  The  poetry  of  the  song,  "  Gaze  not  on  Swans,"  is  by  H.  Noel,  and  sec 
to  music  by  H.  Lawes,  in  his  "  Ayres  and  Dialogues,"  1653. 

-  At  Leicester  House,  on  the  north  side  of  the  present  Leicester  Square, 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  1 95 

14th  (Valentine's  day).  I  did  this  day  purposely 
shun  to  be  seen  at  Sir  W.  Batten's,  because  I  would 
not  have  his  daughter  to  be  my  Valentine,  as  she  was 
the  last  year,  there  being  no  great  friendship  between 
us  now,  as  formerly.  This  morning  in  comes  W. 
Bowyer,  who  was  my  wife's  Valentine,  she  having,  at 
which  I  made  good  sport  to  myself,  held  her  hands 
all  the  morning,  that  she  might  not  see  the  paynters 
that  were  at  work  in  gilding  my  chimney-piece  and 
pictures  in  my  dining-room.  By  and  by  she  and  I 
by  coach  with  him  to  Westminster.  I  walked  in  the 
Hall,  and  there  among  others  met  with  Serj*-  Pierce, 
and  I  took  him  aside  to  drink  a  cup  of  ale,  and  he 
told  the  basest  thing  of  Mr.  Montagu's  and  his  man 
Eschar's  going  away  in  debt,  that  I  am  troubled  and 
ashamed,  but  glad  to  be  informed  of.  He  thinks  he 
has  left  1,000/.  for  my  Lord  to  pay,  and  that  he  has 
not  laid  out  3,000/.  out  of  the  5,000/.  for  my  Lord's 
use,  and  is  not  able  to  make  an  account  of  any  of  the 
money. 

15  th.  With  the  two  Sir  Williams  to  the  Trinity- 
house  ;  ^  and  there  in  their  society  had  the  business 
debated  of  Sir  Nicholas  Crisp's  sasse  at  Deptford. 
After  dinner  I  was  sworn  a  Younger  Brother ;  Sir  W. 
Rider  being  Deputy- Master  for  my  Lord  of  Sandwich ; 
and  after  I  was  sworn,  all  the  Elder  Brothers  shake  me 


to  which  she  had  removed  only  five  days  previously  from  Drury  House,  in 
Drury  Lane,  the  residence  of  Lord  Cravec,  to  whom  it  has  been  asserted  that 
she  was  married, 
'  In  Water  Lane. 


196  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

by  the  hand :  it  is  their  custom,  it  seems.  No  news 
yet  of  our  fleet  gone  to  Tangier,  which  we  now  begin 
to  think  long, 

1 6th  (Lord's  day).  To  church  this  morning,  and  so 
home  and  to  dinner.  In  the  afternoon  I  walked  to 
St.  Bride's  to  church,  to  hear  Dr.  Jacomb  preach  upon 
the  recovery,  and  at  the  request  of  Mrs.  Turner,  who 
came  abroad  this  day,  the  first  time  since  her  long 
sickness.  He  preached  upon  David's  words,  "  I  shall 
not  die,  but  live,  and  declare  the  works  of  the  Lord," 
and  made  a  pretty  good  sermon,  though  not  extraordi- 
nary. After  sermon  I  led  her  home,  and  sat  with  her, 
and  there  was  the  Dr.  got  before ;  but  strange  what  a 
command  he  hath  got  over  Mrs.  Turner,  who  was  so 
carefuU  to  get  him  what  he  would,  after  his  preaching, 
to  drink,  and  he,  with  a  cunning  gravity,  knows  how 
to  command,  and  had  it,  and  among  other  things  told 
us  that  he  heard  more  of  the  Common  Prayer  this 
afternoon  (while  he  stood  in  the  vestry,  before  he 
went  up  into  the  pulpitt)  than  he  had  heard  this 
twenty  years.  Thence  to  my  uncle  Wight  and  supped, 
and  so  home,  not  being  very  well.  So  to  prayer  sand 
to  bed,  and  there  had  a  good  draft  of  mulled  ale 
brought  me. 

17th.  This  morning,  both  Sir  Williams,  myself,  and 
Captain  Cocke  and  Captain  Tinker  of  the  Convertine,' 
which  we  are  going  to  look  upon  (being  intended  to 
go  with  these  ships  fitting  for  the  East  Indys),  down 

I  A  fourth-rate,  of  48  guns;  in  1665  it  was  commanded  by  Captain  John 
Pearce. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  1 97 

to  Deptford  ;  and  thence,  after  being  on  shipboard,  to 
Woohvich,  and  there  eat  something.  The  Sir  Wil- 
liams being  unwilHng  to  eat  flesh,  Captain  Cocke  and 
I  had  a  breast  of  veale  roasted.'  And  here  I  drank 
wine  upon  necessity,  being  ill  for  want  of  it,  and  I 
find  reason  to  fear  that  by  my  too  sudden  leaving  off 
wine,  I  do  contract  many  evils  upon  myself.  Going 
and  coming  we  played  at  gleeke,^  and  I  won  gs.  6d. 
clear,  the  most  that  ever  I  won  in  my  life.  I  pray 
God  it  may  not  tempt  me  to  play  again. 

1 8th.  Having  agreed  with  Sir  Wm.  Pen  and  my 
wife  to  meet  them  at  the  Opera,  and  finding  by  my 
walking  in  the  streets,  which  were  every  where  full  of 
brick-battes  and  tyles  flung  down  by  the  extraordinary 
winde  the  last  night  3  (such  as  hath  not  been  in  mem- 
or)^  before,  unless  at  the  death  of  the  late  Protector), 
that  it  was  dangerous  to  go  out  of  doors ;  and  hearing 


^  Eat  flesh  in  Lent,  of  which  the  observance,  intermitted  for  nineteen  years, 
was  now  reviving.  We  have  seen  that  Pepys,  as  yet,  had  not  cast  off  all  show 
of  Puritanism.  "  In  this  month  the  Fishmongers'  Company  petitioned  the 
King  that  Lent  might  be  kept,  because  they  had  provided  abundance  of  fish 
for  this  season,  and  their  prayer  was  granted."  —  Rugge. 

2  See  13th  January,  1661-2.     (M.  B.) 

3  "  A  dreadful  storm  of  wind  happened  one  night  in  February,  anno 
1661-2,  which,  though  general,  at  least  all  over  England,  yet  was  remarkable 
at  Oxford  in  these  two  respects:  —  i.  That  though  it  forced  the  stones  inwards 
into  the  cavity  of  Allhallows'  spire,  yet  it  overthrew  it  not.  And  2.  That  in 
the  morning,  when  there  was  some  abatement  of  its  fury,  it  was  yet  so  violent, 
that  it  laved  water  out  of  the  river  Cherwell,  and  cast  it  quite  over  the  bridge 
at  Magdalen  College,  above  the  surface  of  the  water,  near  twenty  foot  high: 
which  passage,  with  advantage  of  holding  by  the  College  wall,  I  had  then 
curiosity  to  go  to  see  myself,  which  otherwise  perhaps  I  should  have  as  hardly 
credited,  as  some  other  persons  now  may  do."  —  Plot's  Natural  History 
of  Oxfordshire,  p.  5. 


198  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

how  several  persons  had  been  killed  to-day  by  the 
fall  of  things  in  the  streets,  and  that  the  pageant  in 
Fleet-streete  is  most  of  it  blown  down,  and  hath 
broke  down  part  of  several  houses,  among  others  Dick 
Brigden's  ;  and  that  one  Lady  Sanderson,'  a  person  of 
quality  in  Covent  Garden,  was  killed  by  the  fall  of  the 
house,  in  her  bed,  last  night ;  I  sent  my  boy  home  to 
foibid  them  to  go  forth.  But  he  bringing  me  word 
that  they  are  gone,  I  went  thither  and  there  saw 
"The  Law  against  Lovers,'* ^  a  good  play  and  well 
performed,  especially  the  Httle  girl's  (whom  I  never 
saw  act  before)  dancing  and  singing;  and  were  it 
not  for  her,  the  losse  of  Roxalana^  would  spoil  the 
house. 

19th.  Musique  practice :  thence  to  the  Trinity 
House  to  conclude  upon  our  report  of  Sir  N.  Crisp's 
project  who  came  to  us  to  answer  objections,  but  we 
did  give  him  no  eare,  but  are  resolved  to  stand  to  our 
report ;  though  I  could  wish  we  had  shewn  him  more 


^  This  was  not  the  mother  of  the  maids. 

2  A  tragi-comedy  by  Sir  William  Davenant;  taken  from  "  Measure  for 
Measure,"  and  "  Much  Ado  about  Nothing." 

3  This  actress,  so  called  from  the  character  she  played  in  the  "  Siege  of 
Rhodes,"  was  Elizabeth  Davenport.  Evelyn  saw  her  on  the  gth  Jan.  1661-2, 
she  being  soon  after  taken  to  be  "  My  Lord  Oxford's  Miss;  "  but  she  relumed 
to  the  stage  within  a  year.  See  May  20th,  post.  She  was  induced  to  marry 
the  Earl  of  Oxford,  after  indignantly  refusing  to  become  his  mistress,  and 
discovered,  when  too  late,  that  the  nuptial  ceremony  had  been  performed  by 
the  Earl's  trumpeter,  in  the  habit  of  a  priest.  For  more  of  her  history',  see 
"  Memoires  de  Grammont."  Ashmole  records  the  birth  of  the  Earl  of  Oxford's 
son,  by  Roxalana,  17th  April,  1664,  which  shows  that  the  liaiso7i  continued 
after  her  return  to  the  stage.  {Cat.  p.  205.)  The  child  was  called  Aubrey 
Vere.  —  Ward's  Diary,  p.  131. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  1 99 

justice  and  had  heard  him.  Thence  to  the  Wardrobe 
and  dined  with  my  Lady. 

20th.  Letters  from  Tangier  from  my  Lord,  telUng 
me  how,  upon  a  great  defete  given  to  the  Portuguese 
there  by  the  Moors,  he  had  put  in  300  men  into  the 
to\vne,  and  so  he  is  in  possession,^  of  which  we  are 
very  glad,  because  now  the  Spaniard's  designs  of  hin- 
dering our  getting  the  place  are  frustrated.  I  went 
wdth  the  letter  inclosed  to  my  Lord  Chancellor  to  the 
House  of  Lords,  and  did  give  it  him  in  the  House. 
Went  by  promise  to  Mr.  Savill's,  and  there  sat  the 
first  time  for  my  picture  in  little,  which  pleaseth  me 
well. 

2 1  St.   All  the  morning  putting  things  in  my  house 

^  "Sunday,  Jan.  12.  This  morning,  the  Portuguese,  140  horse  in  Tan- 
gier, made  a  salley  into  the  country  for  booty,  whereof  they  had  possessed 
about  400  cattle,  30  camels,  and  some  horses,  and  35  women  and  girls,  and 
being  six  miles  distant  from  Tangier,  were  intercepted  by  100  Moors  with  har- 
quebusses,  who  in  the  first  charge  killed  the  Aidill  with  a  shot  in  the  head, 
whereupon  the  rest  of  the  Portuguese  ran,  and  in  the  pursuit  51  were  slain, 
whereof  were  11  of  the  knights,  besides  the  Aidill.  The  horses  of  the  51 
were  also  taken  by  the  Moors,  and  all  the  booty  relieved. 

"  Tuesday,  Jan.  14.  This  morning,  Mr.  Mules  came  to  me  from  the 
Governor,  for  the  assistance  of  some  of  our  men  into  the  castle. 

"  Thursday,  Jan.  16.  About  80  men  out  of  my  own  ship,  and  the  Prin- 
cess, went  into  Tangier,  into  the  lower  castle,  about  four  of  the  clock  in  the 
afternoon. 

"  Friday,  Jan.  17.  In  the  morning,  by  eight  o'clock,  the  Martyn  came  in 
from  Cales  {Cadiz)  with  provisions,  and  about  ten  a  clock  I  sent  Sir  Richard 
Stayner,  with  120  men,  besides  officers,  to  the  assistance  of  the  Governor, 
into  Tangier."  —  Lord  Sandwich's  Journal,  in  Kennett's  "  Register." 

On  the  23rd  Lord  Sandwich  put  one  hundred  more  men  into  Tangier; 
on  the  29th  and  30th,  Lord  Peterborough  and  his  garrison  arrived  from  Eng- 
land, and  received  possession  from  the  Portuguese;  and,  on  the  31st,  Sir 
Richard  Stayner  and  the  seamen  re-embarked  on  board  Lord  Sandwich's 
fleet. 


200  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

in  order,  and  packing  up  glass  to  send  into  the  country 
to  my  father,  and  books  to  my  brother  John,  and  then 
to  my  Lord  Crew's  to  dinner. 

22nd.  At  the  office  busy  all  the  morning,  and 
thence  to  dinner  to  my  Lady  Sand\\dch's,  and  thence 
with  Mr.  Moore  to  our  Attorney,  Wellpoole's,  and 
there  found  that  Godfry  has  basely  taken  out  a  judg- 
ment against  us  for  the  40/.,  for  which  I  am  vexed. 
So  home,  and  hither  came  Mr.  Savill  with  the  pictures, 
and  we  hung  them  up  in  our  dining-room.  It  comes 
now  to  appear  very  handsome  with  all  my  pictures. 
This  evening  I  wrote  letters  to  my  father;  among 
other  things  acquainting  him  with  the  unhappy  acci- 
dent which  hath  happened  lately  to  my  Lord  of 
Dorset's  two  oldest  sons,  who,  with  two  Belasses  and 
one  Squire  Wentvvorth,  were  lately  apprehended  for 
killing  and  robbing  of  a  tanner  about  Newington  on 
Wednesday  last,  and  are  all  now  in  Newgate.  I  am 
much  troubled  for  it,  and  for  the  grief  and  disgrace 
it  brings  to  their  familys  and  friends.^ 

23rd   (Lord's    day).    My   cold   being   increased,  I 

*  The  following  account  of  this  transaction  is  abridged  from  the  "  Mer- 
curius  Publicus"  of  the  day:  "  Charles  Lord  Biickhurst,  Edward  Sackville, 
Esq.,  his  brother;  Sir  Henry  Belasyse,  K.B.,  eldest  son  of  Lord  Belasyse; 
John  Belasyse,  brother  to  Lord  Faulconberg ;  and  Thomas  Wentworth,  Esq., 
only  son  of  Sir  G.  Wentworth,  whilst  in  pursuit  of  thieves  near  Waltham 
Cross,  mortally  wounded  an  innocent  tanner  named  Hoppy,  whom  they  had 
endeavoured  to  secure,  suspecting  him  to  have  been  one  of  the  robbers;  and 
as  they  took  away  the  money  found  on  his  person,  under  the  idea  that  it  was 
stolen  property,  they  were  soon  after  apprehended  on  the  charges  of  robbery 
and  murder;  but  the  Grand  Jury  found  a  bill  for  manslaughter  only."  By  a 
subsequent  allusion  in  the  Diary  to  their  trial,  it  seems  probable  that  a  ver- 
dict of  acquittal  was  pronounced. 


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staid  at  home  all  day,  pleasing  myself  with  my  dining- 
room,  now  graced  with  pictures,  and  reading  of  Dr. 
Fuller's  "  Worthys."  So  I  spent  the  day,  and  at  night 
comes  Sir  W.  Pen  and  supped  and  talked  with  me. 
This  day  by  God's  mercy  I  am  29  years  of  age,  and 
in  very  good  health,  and  like  to  live  and  get  an  estate  ; 
and  if  I  have  a  heart  to  be  contented,  I  think  I  may 
reckon  myself  as  happy  a  man  as  any  is  in  the  world, 
for  which  God  be  praised.     So  to  prayers  and  to  bed. 

24th.  Long  with  Mr.  Berkenshaw  in  the  morning 
at  my  musique  practice,  finishing  my  song  of  "  Gaze 
not  on  Swans,"  in  two  parts,  which  pleases  me  well, 
and  I  did  give  him  5/.  for  this  month  or  five  weeks 
that  he  hath  taught  me,  which  is  a  great  deal  of 
money  and  troubled  me  to  part  with  it.  Thence  to 
the  Paynter's,  and  set  again  for  my  picture  in  little, 
and  thence  over  the  water  to  Southwarke  to  Mr. 
Berkenshaw's  house,  and  there  sat  with  him  all  the 
afternoon,  he  showing  me  his  great  card  of  the  body 
of  musique,  which  he  cries  up  for  a  rare  thing,  and 
I  do  beheve  it  cost  much  pains,  but  is  not  so  useful 
as  he  would  have  it.  Then  we  sat  down  and  set 
"Nulla,  nulla  sit  formido,"  and  he  has  set  it  very 
finely.  So  home  and  to  supper,  and  then  called  Will 
up,  and  chid  him  before  my  wife  for  refusing  to  go  to 
church  with  the  mayds  yesterday,  and  telling  his  mis- 
tress that  he  would  not  be  made  a  slave  of,  which 
vexes  me.     So  to  bed. 

25th.  Great  talk  of  the  effects  of  this  late  great 
wind;   and  I  heard  one  say  that  he  had  five   great 


202  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS, 

trees  standing  together  blown  down ;  and,  beginning 
to  lop  them,  one  of  them,  as  soon  as  the  lops  were 
cut  off,  did,  by  the  weight  of  the  root,  rise  again  and 
fasten.  We  have  letters  from  the  forest  of  Deane, 
that  above  looo  oakes  and  as  many  beeches  are  blown 
down  in  one  walke  there.  And  letters  from  my  father 
tell  me  of  20/.  hurt  done  to  us  at  Brampton.  This 
day  in  the  news-booke  I  find  that  my  Lord  Buck- 
hurst  ^  and  his  fellows  have  printed  their  case  as  they 
did  give  it  in  upon  examination  to  a  Justice  of  Peace, 
wherein  they  make  themselves  a  very  good  tale  that 
they  were  in  pursuit  of  thieves,  and  that  they  took 
this  man  for  one  of  them,  and  so  killed  him  ;  and  that 
he  himself  confessed  it  was  the  first  time  of  his  rob- 
bing ;  and  that  he  did  pay  dearly  for  it,  for  he  was  a 
dead  man.  But  I  doubt  things  will  be  proved  other- 
wise, as  they  say. 

26th.  Mr.  Berkenshaw  with  me  all  the  morning 
composing  of  musique  to  "  This  cursed  jealousy  what 
is  it  ? "  After  dinner  I  went  to  my  Bookseller's  and 
other  places  to  pay  my  debts,  I  being  resolved  to  cast 
up  my  accounts  within  a  day  or  two  for  I  fear  I  have 
run  out  too  far. 

27th.  This  morning  came  Mr.  Berkenshaw  to  me 
and  in  our  discourse  I,  finding  that  he  cries  up  his 
rules  for  most  perfect  (though  I  do  grant  them  to  be 
very  good,  and  the  best  I  believe  that  ever  yet  were 

I  Charles  Lord  Buckhurst,  eldest  son  of  Richard,  fifth  Earl  of  Dorset; 
created  Earl  of  Middlesex  soon  after  his  uncle's  death,  in  1675,  and  succeeded 
his  father  in  1677.     Ob.  1705-6. 


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made),  and  that  I  could  not  persuade  him  to  grant 
wherein  they  were  somewhat  lame,  we  fell  to  angry- 
words,  so  that  in  a  pet  he  flung  out  of  my  chamber 
and  I  never  stopped  him,  having  intended  to  put  him 
off  to-day,  whether  this  had  happened  or  no,  because 
I  think  I  have  all  the  rules  that  he  hath  to  give. 

28th.  The  boy  failing  to  call  us  up  as  I  commanded, 
I  was  angr}^,  and  resolved  to  whip  him  for  that  and 
many  other  faults,  to-day.  Early  with  Sir  W.  Pen  by 
coach  to  Whitehall,  to  the  Duke  of  York's  chamber, 
and  there  I  presented  him  from  my  Lord  a  fine  map 
of  Tangier,  done  by  one  Captain  Beckman,r  a  Swede, 
that  is  with  my  Lord.  We  staid  looking  it  over  a 
great  while  with  the  Duke  after  he  was  ready.  Home, 
and  to  be  as  good  as  my  word,  I  bade  Will  get  me  a 
rod,  and  he  and  I  called  the  boy  up  to  one  of  the 
upper  rooms  of  the  Comptroller's  house  towards  the 
garden,  and  there  I  reckoned  all  his  faults,  and 
whipped  him  soundly,  but  the  rods  were  so  small  that 
I  fear  they  did  not  much  hurt  to  him,  but  only  to  my 
arm,  which  I  am  already,  within  a  quarter  of  an  houre, 
not  able  to  stir  almost. 

March  ist.  This  morning  I  paid  Sir  W.  Batten  40/., 
which  I  have  owed  him  this  half  year.  Then  to  the 
office  all  the  morning,  so  dined  at  home,  and  after 
dinner  my  wife  and  I  by  coach,  first  to  see  my  little 


*  Afterwards  Sir  Martin  Beckman,  many  of  whose  plans  are  in  the  British 
Museum.  He  became  chief  engineer,  and  was  knighted  20th  March,  1685, 
The  Map  of  Tangier  here  mentioned  is  in  the  Collection  of  George  III.  at  the 
British  Museum. 


204  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

picture  that  is  a  drawing,  and  thence  to  the  Opera, 
and  there  saw  "Romeo  and  JuHet,"  '  the  first  time  it 
was  ever  acted;  but  it  is  a  play  of  itself  the  worst 
that  ever  I  heard  in  my  life,  and  the  worst  acted  that 
ever  I  saw  these  people  do,  and  I  am  resolved  to  go 
no  more  to  see  the  first  time  of  acting,  for  they  were 
all  of  them  out  more  or  less.  I  do  find  that  I  am 
500/.  beforehand  in  the  world,  which  I  was  afraid  I 
was  not,  but  I  find  that  I  had  spent  above  250/.  this 
last  half  year,  which  troubles  me  much,  but  by  God's 
blessing  I  am  resolved  to  take  up,  having  furnished 
myself  with  all  things  for  a  great  while,  and  to-morrow 
to  think  upon  some  rules  and  obligations  upon  myself 
to  walk  by. 

2nd  (Lord's  day).  With  my  mind  much  eased 
talking  long  in  bed  with  my  wife  about  our  frugall  life 
for  the  time  to  come,  proposing  to  her  what  I  could 
and  would  do  if  I  were  worth  2,000/.,  that  is,  be  a 
knight,  and  keep  my  coach,^  which  pleased  her,  and 
so  I  do  hope  we  shall  hereafter  live  to  save  something, 
for  I  am  resolved  to  keep  myself  by  rules  from  ex- 
penses. To  church  in  the  morning :  none  in  the  pew 
but  myself.  So  home  to  dinner,  and  after  dinner 
came  Sir  William  and  talked  with  me  till  church  time, 
and  then  to  church. 

3rd.    I  do  find  a  great   deal   more   of  content   in 


^  Betterton  played  Romeo,  and  his  wife  Juliet. 

2  This  reminds  me  of  a  story  of  my  father's,  when  he  was  of  Merton 
College,  and  heard  Bowen  the  porter  wish  that  he  had  ;^ioo  a  year,  to  enable 
him  to  keep  a  couple  of  hunters  and  a  pack  of  foxhounds. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   FEPYS.  20$ 

these  few  days,  that  I  do  spend  well  about  my  busi- 
ness, than  in  all  the  pleasure  of  a  whole  week,  besides 
the  trouble  which  I  remember  I  always  have  after  that 
for  the  expense  of  my  money.  I  am  told  that  this 
day  the  Parliament  hath  voted  2s.  per  annum  for 
every  chimney  in  England,  as  a  constant  revenue  for 
ever  to  the  Crowne. 

4th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning,  dined  at  home 
at  noon,  and  then  to  the  office  again  in  the  afternoon. 
By  and  by  Sir  W.  Pen  and  I  and  my  wife  in  his  coach 
to  Moore  Fields,  where  we  walked  a  great  while, 
though  it  was  no  fair  weather  and  cold  ;  and  after  our 
walk  we  went  to  the  Pope's  Head,»  and  eat  cakes  and 
other  fine  things. 

5th.  To  the  pewterer's,  to  buy  a  poore's-box  to  put 
my  forfeits  in,  upon  breach  of  my  late  vows.  So  to 
the  Wardrobe  and  dined,  and  thence  home  and  to  my 
office,  and  there  sat  looking  over  my  papers  of  my 
voyage,  when  we  fetched  over  the  King,  and  tore  so 
many  of  these  that  were  worth  nothing,  as  filled  my 
closet  as  high  as  my  knees. 

6th.  Up  early,  my  mind  full  of  business,  then  to 
the  office,  where  the  t^vo  Sir  Williams  and  I  spent  the 
morning  passing  the  victualler's  accounts,  the  first  I 
have  had  to  do  withal;  after  dinner  to  the  office 
back  again  till  night,  we  having  been  these  four  or 
five  days  very  full  of  business,  and  I  thank  God  I  am 
well  pleased  with  it,  and  hope  I  shall  continue  of  that 

^  In  Cornhill,  where  Pope's  Head  Alley  still  exists.     See  June  20,  1662. 


206  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

temper,  which  God  grant.  This  night  my  new  came- 
lott  riding  coate  to  my  coloured  cloth  suit  came  home. 
More  news  to-day  of  our  losses  at  Brampton  by  the 
late  storm. 

7th.  Early  to  White  Hall  to  the  chappell,  where  by 
Mr.  Blagrave's  ^  means  I  got  into  his  pew,  and  heard 
Dr.  Creeton,2  the  great  Scotchman,  and  chaplain  in 
ordinary  to  the  King,  preach  before  the  King,  and 
Duke  and  Duchesse,  upon  the  words  of  Micah  :  — 
"  Roule  yourselves  in  dust."  He  made  a  most  learned 
sermon  upon  the  words ;  but,  in  his  application,  the 
most  comical  man  that  ever  I  heard  in  my  life.  Just 
such  a  man  as  Hugh  Peters ;  saying  that  it  had  been 
better  for  the  poor  Cavalier  never  to  have  come  with 
the  King  into  England  again ;  for  he  that  hath  the 
impudence  to  deny  obedience  to  the  lawful  magis- 
trate, and  to  swear  to  the  oath  of  allegiance,  &c.,  was 
better  treated  now-a-days  in  Newgate,  than  a  poor 
Royalist,  that  hath  suffered  all  his  life  for  the  King,  is 
at  White  Hall  among  his  friends. 

8th.  By  coach  with  both  Sir  Williams  to  West- 
minster; this  being  a  great  day  there  in  the  House 
to  pass  the  business  for  chimney-money,  which  was 


*  See  Dec.  9,  1660,  ante;  and  Sept.  11,  1664,  post. 

2  Dr.  Robert  Creighton,  originally  of  Trinity  College,  Oxford;  but  who 
afterwards,  from  1627  to  1639,  was  Greek  Professor  and  Public  Orator  at 
Cambridge.  When  Pepys  heard  him,  Creighton  was  Dean  of  Wells.  In  1670 
he  was  consecrated  Bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells.  He  died  in  1672.  His  son, 
of  the  same  name,  was  Greek  Professor  of  Cambridge  from  1662  to  1666,  and 
died  in  1678.  Sir  J.  Hawkins  says  that  Dr.  Creighton  (the  son)  died  at 
Wells  in  1736,  set.  97.    The  father  and  son  have  been  sometimes  confounded. 


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done.  In  the  Hall  I  met  with  Serjeant  Pierce ;  and 
he  and  I  to  drink  a  cup  of  ale  at  the  Swan,  and  there 
he  told  me  how  my  Lady  Monk^  hath  disposed  of 
all  the  places  which  Mr.  Edwd.  Montagu  hoped  to 
have  had,  as  he  was  Master  of  the  Horse  to  the 
Queene ;  which  I  am  afraid  will  undo  him,  because 
he  depended  much  upon  the  profit  of  what  he  should 
make  by  these  places.  He  told  me,  also,  many  more 
scurvy  stories  of  him  and  his  brother  Ralph,^  which 
troubles  me  to  hear  of  persons  of  honour  as  they  are. 
Sir  W.  Pen  and  I  to  the  office,  whither  afterward  came 
Sir  G.  Carteret ;  and  we  sent  for  Sir  Thos.  Allen,  one 
of  the  Aldermen  of  the  City,3  about  the  business  of 
one  Colonel  Appesly,  whom  we  had  taken  counterfeit- 
ing of  bills  with  all  our  hands  and  the  officers  of 
the  yards,  so  well  counterfeited  that  I  should  never 
have  mistrusted  them.  We  staid  about  this  business 
at  the  office  till  ten  at  night,  and  at  last  did  send  him 
with  a  constable  to  the  Counter;  and  did  give  war- 
rants for  the  seizing  of  a  complice  of  his,  one  Blinkin- 
sopp. 

9th  (Lord's  day).  Church  in  the  morning:  dined 
at  home,  then  to  Church  again  and  heard  Mr.  Naylor, 
whom  I  knew  formerly  of  Keye's  College,  make  a 
most  eloquent  sermon.  Thence  to  Sir  W.  Batten's  to 
see  how  he  did,  then  to  walk  an  houre  with  Sir  W. 


*  She  is  called  in  the  State  Poems  "  the  Monkey  Duchess."    The  Duke 
was  Master  of  the  Horse  to  the  King. 

2  Afterwards  Duke  of  Montagu. 

3  Probably  Sheriff  of  London,  1654.    See  April  12,  1661,  ante. 


208  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

Pen  in  the  garden :  then  he  in  to  supper  with  me  at 
my  house,  and  so  to  prayers  and  to  bed. 

loth.  At  the  office  doing  business  all  the  morning, 
in  the  afternoon  met  Sir  W.  Pen  at  the  Treasury 
Office,  and  there  paid  off  the  Guift,  where  late  at 
night.  Home  and  to  bed,  to-morrow  being  washing 
day. 

nth.  At  the  office  all  the  morning,  and  all  the 
afternoon  rumaging  of  papers  in  my  chamber,  and 
tearing  some  and  sorting  others  till  late  at  night. 

1 2th.  This  morning  we  had  news  from  Mr.  Cov- 
entry, that  Sir  G.  Downing  ^  (like  a  perfidious  rogue, 
though  the  action  is  good  and  of  service  to  the  King,^ 
yet  he  cannot  with  a  good  conscience  do  it)  hath 
taken  Okey,^  Corbet,  and  Barkestead  at  Delfe,  in 
Holland,  and  sent  them  home  in  the  Blackmore.  Sir 
W.  Pen,  talking  to  me  this  afternoon  of  what  a  strange 
thing  it  is  for  Downing  to  do  this,  he  told  me  of  a 
speech  he  made  to  the  Lords  States  of  Holland, 
telling  them  to  their  faces  that  he  observed  that  he 
was  not  received  with  the  respect  and  observance 
now,  that  he  was  when  he  came  from  the  traitor 
and  rebell  Cromwell :  ^  by  whom,  I  am  sure,  he  hath 

1  According  to  Hume,  Downing  had  once  been  Chaplain  to  Okey's 
regiment. 

2  ["  And  hail  the  treason  though  we  hate  the  traitor."]  On  the  21st, 
Charles  returned  his  formal  thanks  to  the  States  for  their  assistance  in  the 
matter. 

^  John  Okey,  Miles  Corbet,  and  John  Barkstead,  three  of  the  regicides; 
executed  April  19th  following. 

4  The  President  Henault  mentions  a  similar  speech  made  by  Lockhart,  in 
France.      "  Un   Ecossois,   nomme   Lockart,   ambassadeur    d'Angleterre    en 


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got  all  he  hath  m  the  world,  —  and  they  know  it 
too.' 

13th.  All  day,  either  at  the  office  or  at  home,  busy 
about  business  till  late  at  night.  Having  lately  fol- 
lowed my  business  much,  I  find  great  pleasure  in  it, 
and  a  growing  content. 

14th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning.  Home  to 
dinner.  In  the  afternoon  came  the  German  Dr. 
Kuffler,  to  discourse  with  us  about  his  engine  to  blow 
up  ships.  We  doubted  not  the  matter  of  fact,  it  being 
tried  in  Cromwell's  time,  but  the  safety  of  carrying 
them  in  ships ;  but  he  do  tell  us,  that  when  he  comes 
to  tell  the  King  his  secret  (for  none  but  the  Kings, 
successively,  and  their  heirs  must  know  it),  it  will 
appear  to  be  of  no  danger  at  all.  We  concluded 
nothing ;  but  shall  discourse  with  the  Duke  of  York 

France,  sous  Cromwell,  dont  il  avail  ^pons^  la  niece,  et  qui  le  fut  aussi  depuis, 
sous  Charles  II.,  disoit  qu'il  n'^toit  pas  considere  en  France,  en  qualite 
d'ambassadeur  du  roi,  comme  il  I'avoit  ete  du  terns  de  Cromwel;  cela  devoit 
etre  parcequ'il  y  avoit  bien  de  la  difference  entre  celui  qui  obligea  la  France  a 
prendre  Dunkerque  pour  la  lui  remettre,  et  celui  qui  revendit  cette  place  a  la 
France  quand  il  fut  remonte  sur  le  trone."  Henault's  pithy  remark  expresses 
the  truth.  Nothing  shows  the  degradation  of  Charles  in  a  more  striking  light 
than  this  coincidence  of  opinion  in  two  ambassadors.  One  might  almost  sup- 
pose, if  the  thing  were  possible,  that  Renault  had  seen  Pepys's  "  Diary." 
The  first  edition  of  Henault  does  not  contain  this  passage. 

I  Charles,  when  residing  at  Brussels,  went  to  the  Hague  at  night  to  pay 
a  secret  visit  to  his  sister,  the  Princess  of  Orange.  After  his  arrival,  "  an  old 
reverend-like  man,  with  a  long  grey  beard  and  ordinary  grey  clothes," 
entered  the  inn  and  begged  for  a  private  interview.  He  then  fell  on  his  knees, 
and  pulling  off  his  disguise,  discovered  himself  to  be  Mr.  Downing,  then 
ambassador  from  Cromwell  to  the  States-General.  He  informed  Charles  that 
the  Dutch  had  guaranteed  to  the  English  Commonwealth  to  deliver  him  into 
their  hands  should  he  ever  set  foot  in  their  territory.  This  warning  probably 
saved  Charles's  liberty.     (M.  B.) 


2IO  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

to-morrow  about  it.  I  found  that  Sarah  the  mayde 
had  been  very  ill  all  day,  and  my  wife  fears  that  she 
will  have  an  ague,  which  I  am  much  troubled  for. 
Thence  to  my  lute,  upon  which  I  have  not  played  a 
week  or  two,  and  trying  over  the  two  songs  of  "  Nulla, 
nulla,"  &c.,  and  "  Gaze  not  on  Swans,"  which  Mr. 
Birkenshaw  set  for  me  a  little  while  ago,  I  find  them 
most  incomparable  songs  as  he  has  set  them,  of  which 
I  am  not  a  little  proud,  because  I  am  sure  none  in  the 
world  has  them  but  myself,  not  so  much  as  he  himself 
that  set  them.     So  to  bed. 

15  th.  With  Sir  G.  Carteret  and  both  the  Sir  Wil- 
liams at  Whitehall  to  wait  on  the  Duke  in  his  chamber, 
which  we  did  about  getting  money  for  the  Navy  and 
other  things.  So  back  again  to  the  office  all  the 
morning.  Thence  to  the  Exchange  to  hire  a  ship  for 
the  Maderas,  but  could  get  none.  Troubled  at  my 
mayde 's  being  ill. 

1 6th  (Lord's  day).  This  morning,  till  churches 
were  done,  I  spent  going  from  one  church  to  another 
and  hearing  a  bit  here  and  a  bit  there.  So  to  the 
Wardrobe  to  dinner  with  the  young  Ladies,  and  so 
walked  to  White  Hall ;  and  an  houre  or  two  in  the 
Parke,  which  is  now  very  pleasant.  Here  the  King 
and  Duke  came  to  see  their  fowle  play.  The  Duke 
took  very  civil  notice  of  me.  So  walked  home,  call- 
ing at  Tom's,  giving  him  my  resolution  about  my 
boy's  livery.  Here  I  spent  an  houre  walking  in  the 
garden  with  Sir  W.  Pen,  and  then  my  wife  and  I 
thither  to  supper,  where  his  son  William  is  at  home 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS.  211 

not  well.  But  all  things,  I  fear,  do  not  go  well  with 
them  ;  they  look  discontentedly,  but  I  know  not  what 
ails  them. 

1 7  th.  Last  night  the  Blackmore  pinke  brought  the 
three  prisoners,  Barkestead,  Okey,  and  Corbet,  to 
the  Tower,  being  taken  at  Delfe  in  Holland ;  where, 
the  Captain  tells  me,  the  Dutch  were  a  good  while 
before  they  could  be  persuaded  to  let  them  go,  they 
being  taken  prisoners  in  their  land.  But  Sir  G.  Down- 
ing would  not  be  answered  so  :  though  all  the  world 
takes  notice  of  him  for  a  most  ungrateful  villaine  for 
his  pains. 

1 8th.  All  the  morning  at  the  office  with  Sir  W. 
Pen.  After  dinner  to  the  office  again,  where  Sir  G. 
Carteret  and  we  staid  awhile,  and  then  Sir  W.  Pen 
and  I  on  board  some  of  the  ships  now  fitting  for  East 
Indys  and  Portugall,  to  see  in  what  forwardness  they 
are.  That  which  troubles  me  is  that  my  Father  has 
now  got  an  ague  that  I  fear  may  endanger  his  life. 

19th.  All  the  morning  and  afternoon  at  my  office. 
This  noon  came  a  letter  from  T.  Pepys,  the  turner,  in 
answer  to  one  of  mine  the  other  day  to  him,  wherein 
I  did  cheque  him  for  not  coming  to  me,  as  he  had 
promised,  with  his  and  his  father's  resolucion  about 
the  difference  between  us.  But  he  writes  to  me  in 
the  very  same  slighting  terms  that  I  did  to  him,  with- 
out the  least  respect  at  all,  but  word  for  word  as  I  did 
him,  which  argues  a  high  and  noble  spirit  in  him, 
though  it  troubles  me  a  little  that  he  should  make  no 
more  of  my  anger,  yet  I  cannot  blame  him  for  doing 


212  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

SO,  he  being  the  elder  brother's  son,  and  not  depend- 
ing upon  me  at  all.^ 

20th.  At  my  office  all  the  morning,  at  noon  to  the 
Exchange,  and  so  home  to  dinner,  and  then  all  the 
afternoon  at  the  office  till  late  at  night,  and  so  home 
and  to  bed,  my  mind  in  good  ease  when  I  mind  busi- 
ness, which  methinks  should  be  a  good  argument  to 
me  never  to  do  otherwise. 

2 1  St.  I  went  to  see  Sarah  and  my  Lord's  lodgings, 
which  are  now  all  in  dirt,  to  be  repaired  against  my 
Lord's  coming  from  sea  with  the  Queene.  Thence  to 
Westminster  Hall ;  and  there  walked  up  and  down 
and  heard  the  great  difference  that  hath  been  between 
my  Lord  Chancellor  and  my  Lord  of  Bristol,  about  a 
proviso  that  my  Lord  Chancellor  would  have  brought 
into  the  Bill  for  Conformity,  that  it  shall  be  in  the 
power  of  the  King,  when  he  sees  fit,  to  dispense  with 
the  Act  of  Conformity ;  and  though  it  be  carried  in 
the  House  of  Lords,  yet  it  is  believed  it  will  hardly 
pass  in  the  Commons.^ 

22nd.  At  the  office  all  the  morning.  At  noon  Sir 
Williams  both  and  I  by  water  down  to  the  Lewes, 
Captain  Dekins,  his  ship,  a  merchantman,  where  we 
met  the  owners.  Sir  John  Lewes  3  and  Alderman 
Lewes,  and  several  other  great  merchants ;  among 
others  one  Jefferys,  a  merry  man,  and  he  and  I  called 


1  This  elucidates  in  some  degree  the  Pepys  pedigree. 

2  It  passed  the  House  of  Lords  on  the  glh  April. 

3  He  had  been  knighted  at  the  Hague,  and  afterwards  was  created  a 
baronet. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  213 

brothers,  and  he  made  all  the  mirth  in  the  company. 
We  had  a  very  fine  dinner,  and  all  our  wives'  healths, 
with  seven  or  nine  guns  apiece  ;  and  exceeding  merry 
we  were,  and  so  home  by  barge  again. 

23rd  (Lord's  day).  This  morning  was  brought  me 
ray  boye's  fine  livery,  which  is  very  handsome,  and  I 
do  think  to  keep  to  black  and  gold  lace  upon  gray, 
being  the  colour  of  my  arms,  for  ever.  To  White 
Hall,  and  there  met  with  Captn.  Isham,  this  day  come 
from  Lisbone,  with  letters  from  the  Queene  to  the 
King.  And  he  did  give  me  letters  which  speak  that 
our  fleet  is  all  at  Lisbone ;  and  that  the  Queene  do 
not  intend  to  embarque  sooner  than  to-morrow  come 
fortnight. 

24th.  Early  Sir  G.  Carteret,  both  Sir  Williams  and 
I  on  board  the  Experiment,  to  dispatch  her  away,  she 
being  to  carry  things  to  the  Maderas  with  the  East 
Indy  fleet.  Having  put  things  in  good  order  I  home. 
By  and  by  comes  La  Belle  Pierce  ^  to  see  my  wife, 
and  to  bring  her  a  pair  of  peruques  of  hair,  as  the 
fashion  now  is  for  ladies  to  wear;  which  are  pretty, 
and  are  of  my  wife's  own  hair,  or  else  I  should  not 
endure  them.  After  a  good  whiles  stay,  I  went  to 
see  if  any  play  was  acted,  and  I  found  none  upon  the 
post,  it  being  Passion  week.  So  home  again,  and 
took  water  with  them  towards  Westminster ;  but  as  we 
put  ofl"  with  the  boat  Griffin  came  after  me  to  tell  me 
that  Sir  G.  Carteret  and  the  rest  were  at  the  office,  so 

I  Wife  of  Surgeon  Pierce. 


214  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

I  intended  to  see  them  through  the  bridge  and  come 
back  again,  but  the  tide  being  against  us,  when  we 
were  ahnost  through  we  were  carried  back  again  with 
much  danger,  and  Mrs.  Pierce  was  much  afeard  and 
frightened.  So  I  carried  them  to  the  other  side  and 
walked  to  the  Beare,  and  sent  them  away,  and  so  back 
again  myself  to  the  office,  and  then  went  to  West- 
minster Hall,  and  there  bought  Mr.  Grant's  book  of 
observations  upon  the  weekly  bills  of  mortality,^  which 
appear  to  me  upon  first  sight  to  be  very  pretty. 

26th.  Up  early.  This  being,  by  God's  great  bless- 
ing, the  fourth  solemne  day  of  my  cutting  for  the 
stone  this  day  four  years,  and  am  by  God's  mercy  in 
very  good  health,  and  like  to  do  well,  the  Lord's 
name  be  praised  for  it.  At  noon  come  my  good 
guests,  Madame  Turner,  The.,  and  Cozen  Norton, 
and  a  gentleman,  one  Mr.  Lewin  of  the  King's  Life- 
Guard  ;  by  the  same  token  he  told  us  of  one  of  his 
fellows  killed  this  morning  in  a  duel.  I  had  a  pretty 
dinner  for  them,  viz.,  a  brace  of  stewed  carps,  six 
roasted  chickens,  and  a  jowle  of  salmon,  hot,  for  the 
first  course ;  a  tanzy  ^  and  two  neats'  tongues,  and 
cheese  the  second ;  and  were  very  merry  all  the  after- 

'  Burnet  remarks,  "  Own  Time,"  vol.  i.,  p.  401,  edit.  1823,  that  "  Sir  Wil- 
liam Petty  published  his  Observations  on  the  Bills  of  Mortality,  in  the  name 
of  one  Grant,  a  papist."  This  is  confirmed  by  Evelyn,  *'  Diary,"  March  22, 
1675- 

2  Tansy  {tanacetum),  a.  herb  from  which  puddings  were  made.  Hence 
any  pudding  of  the  kind.  Selden  ("Table  Talk")  says:  "Our  tansies  at 
Easter  have  reference  to  the  bitter  herbs."  See  in  Wordsworth's  "  University 
Lite  in  the  Eighteenth  Century"  recipes  for  "an  apple  tansey,"  "a  bean 
tansey,"  and  "  a  gooseberry  tansey."     (M.  B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  21 5 

noon,  talking  and  singing  and  piping  upon  the  flageo- 
lette.  We  had  a  man-cook  to  dress  dinner  to-day, 
and  sent  for  Jane  to  help  us,  and  my  wife  and  she 
agreed  at  3/.  a  year  (she  would  not  serve  under)  till 
both  could  be  better  provided,  and  so  she  stays  with 
us. 

27th.  Early  Sir  G.  Carteret,  both  Sir  Williams  and 
I  by  coach  to  Deptford,  taking  a  codd  and  some 
prawnes  in  Fish  Street  with  us.  We  settled  to  pay  the 
Guernsey,  a  small  ship,  but  come  to  a  great  deal  of 
money,  it  having  been  unpaid  ever  since  before  the 
King  came  in,  by  which  means  not  only  the  King  pays 
wages  while  the  ship  has  lain  still,  but  the  poor  men 
have  most  of  them  been  forced  to  borrow  all  the 
money  due  for  their  wages  before  they  receive  it,  and 
that  at  a  dear  rate,  God  knows,  so  that  many  of  them 
had  very  httle  to  receive  at  the  table,  which  grieved 
me  to  see  it.     To  dinner,  very  merry. 

28th  (Good  Friday).  At  home  all  the  morning. 
At  my  office  all  the  afternoon. 

29th.  To  my  Lady,  and  staid  two  hours  talking 
with  her  about  her  family  business  with  great  content 
and  confidence  in  me.  Home,  where  my  people  are 
getting  the  house  clean  against  to-morrow. 

30th  (Easter  day).  Having  my  old  black  suit  new 
furbished,  I  was  pretty  neat  in  clothes  to-day,  and  my 
boy,  his  old  suit  new  trimmed,  very  handsome.  To 
church  in  the  morning,  and  so  home,  leaving  the  two 
Sir  Williams  to  take  the  Sacrament,  which  I  blame 
myself  that  I  have  hitherto  neglected  all  my  life,  but 


2l6  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

once  or  twice  at  Cambridge. »  Dined  with  my  wife,  a 
good  shoulder  of  veal  well  dressed  by  Jane,  which 
pleased  us  much.  My  wife  and  I  to  church  in  the 
afternoon,  and  seated  ourselves,  she  below  me,  and  by 
that  means  the  precedence  of  the  pew,  which  my  Lady 
Batten  and  her  daughter  takes,  is  confounded;  and 
after  sermon  she  and  I  did  stay  behind  them  in  the 
pew,  and  went  out  by  ourselves  a  good  while  after 
them,  which  we  judge  a  very  fine  project  hereafter  to 
avoyd  contention.  So  my  wife  and  I  to  walk  an  houre 
or  two  on  the  leads,  which  begins  to  be  very  pleasant, 
the  garden  being  in  good  condition.  So  to  supper, 
which  is  also  well  served  in.  We  had  a  lobster  to 
supper,  with  a  crabb  Pegg  Pen  sent  my  wife  this  after- 
noon, the  reason  of  which  we  cannot  think ;  but  some- 
thing there  is  of  plot  or  design  in  it,  for  we  have  a 
little  while  carried  ourselves  pretty  strange  to  them. 

31st.  This  morning  Mr.  Coventry  and  all  our  com- 
pany met  at  the  office  about  some  business  of  the 
victualling.  I  to  my  Lord  Crew's  to  dinner,  where 
used  with  much  respect,  and  talking  with  him  about 
my  Lord's  debts,  and  whether  we  should  make  use  of 
an  offer  of  Sir  G.  Carteret's  to  lend  my  Lady  4  or 
500/.,  he  told  me  by  no  means,  we  must  not  oblige 
my  Lord  to  him,  and  by  the  by  he  made  a  question 
whether  it  was  not  my  Lord's  interest  a  Httle  to  appear 
to  the  King  in  debt,  and  for  people  to  clamor  against 
him  as  well  as  others  for  their  money,  that  by  that 

^  This  is  not  in  exact  accordance  with  the  certificate  of  Dr.  Milles,  in  the 
Memoirs  of  Pepys,  at  the  beginning  of  Vol.  I. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  21/ 

means  the  King  and  the  world  may  see  that  he  do  lay 
out  for  the  King's  honour  upon  his  own  main  stock. 
Thence  to  Sir  Thomas  Crew's  lodgings.  He  hath  been 
ill,  and  continues  so,  under  fits  of  apoplexy.  Among 
other  things,  he  and  I  did  discourse  much  of  Mr. 
Montagu's  base  doings,  and  the  dishonour  that  he  will 
do  my  Lord,  as  well  as  cheating  him  of  2  or  3,000/., 
which  is  too  true.  Thence  to  the  play,  where  coming 
late,  and  meeting  with  Sir  W.  Pen,  who  had  got  room 
for  my  wife  and  his  daughter  in  the  pit,  he  and  I  into 
one  of  the  boxes,  and  there  we  sat  and  heard  "  The 
Little  Thiefe,"  '  a  pretty  play  and  well  done. 

April  I  St.  At  noon  my  wife  and  I  to  the  Wardrobe 
and  dined.  Here  was  Mr.  Harbord,  son  to  Sir  Charles 
Harbord,  that  lately  came  with  letters  from  my  Lord 
Sandwich  to  the  King.  He  and  I  and  the  two  young 
ladies  and  my  wife  to  the  playhouse,  the  opera,  and 
saw  "The  Mayde  in  the  Mill,"  a  pretty  good  play; 
and  that  being  done,  in  their  coach  I  took  them  to 
Islington,  and  then,  after  a  walk  in  the  fields,  I  took 
them  to  the  great  cheese-cake  house  and  entertained 
them,  and  so  home  ;  and  after  an  houre's  stay  with  my 
Lady,  their  coach  carried  us  home,  and  so  weary  to  bed. 

2nd.  Mr.  Moore  came  to  me,  and  he  and  I  walked 
to  the  Spittle  ^  an  houre  or  two  before  my  Lord  Mayor 
and  the  blewe-coate  boys  come,  which  at  last  they 
did,  and  a  fine  sight  of  charity  it  is  indeed.     We  got 

J  By  John  Fletcher. 

2  Christ's  Hospital,  where  the  'Spital  Sermons  are  still  preached  aimually, 
on  Easter  Monday  and  Tuesday. 


2l8  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

places  and  staid  to  hear  a  sermon;  but,  it  being  a 
Presbyterian  one,  it  was  so  long,  that  after  above  an 
houre  of  it  we  went  away,  and  I  home  and  dined  ;  and 
then  my  wife  and  I  by  water  to  the  opera,  and  there  saw 
''  The  Bondman  "  most  excellently  acted  ;  and  though 
we  had  seen  it  so  often,  yet  I  never  liked  it  better 
than  to-day,  lanthe  acting  Clerora's  part  very  well  now 
Roxalana '  is  gone.  We  are  resolved  to  see  no  more 
plays  till  Whitsuntide,  we  having  been  three  days  to- 
gether. Met  Mr.  Sanchy,  Smithes,  Gale,  and  Edlin  at 
the  play,  but  having  no  great  mind  to  spend  money, 
I  left  them  there. 

4th.  By  barge  Sir  George,  Sir  Williams  both  and  I 
to  Deptford,  and  there  fell  to  pay  off  the  Drake  and 
Hampshire,  then  to  dinner.  Then  to  pay  the  rest  of 
the  Hampshire  and  the  Paradox,  and  were  at  it  till 
9  at  night,  and  so  by  night  home  by  barge  safe.  I  was 
much  troubled  to-day  to  see  a  dead  man  lie  floating 
upon  the  waters,  and  had  done  (they  say)  these  four 
days,  and  nobody  takes  him  up  to  bury  him,  which  is 
very  barbarous. 

5  th.  At  the  office  till  almost  noon,  and  then  broke 
up.  Then  came  Sir  G.  Cartaret,  and  he  and  I  walked 
together  alone  in  the  garden,  taking  notice  of  some 
faults  in  the  office,  particularly  of  Sir  W.  Batten's,  and 
he  seemed  to  be  much  pleased  with  me,  and  I  hope 
will  be  the  ground  of  a  future  interest  of  mine  in  him, 
which  I  shall  be  glad  of. 

I  See  20th  May,  1662,  post. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  219 

6th  (Lord's  day).  By  water  to  White  Hall,  to  Sir 
G.  Carteret,  to  give  him  an  account  of  the  backward- 
nesse  of  the  ships  we  have  hired  to  Portugall :  at 
which  he  is  much  troubled.  Thence  to  the  Chappell, 
and  there,  though  crowded,  heard  a  very  honest  ser- 
mon before  the  King  by  a  Canon  of  Christ  Church, 
upon  these  words,  "  Having  a  form  of  godlinesse,  but 
denying,"  &c.  Among  other  things,  he  did  much  in- 
sist upon  the  sin  of  adultery :  which  methought  might 
touch  the  King,  and  the  more  because  he  forced  it 
into  his  sermon,  methinks,  besides  his  text.  So  up 
and  saw  the  King  at  dinner ;  and  thence  with  Sir  G. 
Carteret  to  his  lodgings  to  dinner,  with  him  and  his 
lady.  All  their  discourse,  which  was  very  much,  was 
upon  their  sufferings  and  services  for  the  King.  Yet 
not  wdthout  some  trouble,  to  see  that  some  that  had 
been  much  bound  to  them,  do  now  neglect  them; 
and  others  again  most  civil  that  have  received  least 
from  them  :  and  I  do  believe  that  he  hath  been  a  good 
servant  to  the  King.  Thence  to  walk  in  the  Parke, 
where  the  King  and  Duke  did  walk  round  the  Park. 
After  I  was  tired  I  went  and  took  boat  to  Milford 
stairs,  and  so  to  Graye's  Inn  walks,  the  first  time  I 
have  been  there  this  year,  and  it  is  very  pleasant  and 
full  of  good  company.  When  tired  I  walked  to  the 
Wardrobe,  and  there  staid  a  little  with  my  Lady,  and 
so  home  and  to  bed. 

7th.  By  water  to  Whitehall  and  thence  to  Westmin- 
ster, and  staid  at  the  Parliament-doore  long  to  speak 
with  Mr.  Coventry,  which  vexed  me.     Thence  to  the 


220  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS. 

Lords'  House,  and  stood  within  the  House,  while  the 
Bishops  and  Lords  did  stay  till  the  Chancellor's  com- 
ing, and  then  we  were  put  out,  and  they  to  prayers. 
There  comes  a  Bishop  ;  and  while  he  was  rigging  him- 
self, he  bid  his  man  listen  at  the  door,  whereabout  in 
the  prayers  they  were ;  but  the  man  told  him  some- 
thing, but  could  not  tell  whereabouts  it  was  in  the 
prayers,  nor  the  Bishop  neither,  but  laughed  at  the 
conceit ;  so  went  in :  but,  God  forgive  me  !  I  did  tell 
it  by  and  by  to  people,  and  did  say  that  the  man  said 
that  they  were  about  something  of  saving  their  souls, 
but  could  not  tell  whereabouts  in  the  prayers  that  was. 
I  sent  in  a  note  to  my  Lord  Privy  Seale,'  and  he  came 
out  to  me ;  and  I  desired  he  would  make  another 
deputy  for  me,  because  of  my  great  business  of  the 
Navy  this  month ;  but  he  told  me  he  could  not  do  it 
without  the  King's  consent,  which  vexed  me.  Thence 
by  water  and  to  Tom's,  and  there  with  my  wife  took 
coach  and  to  the  old  Exchange,  where  having  bought 
six  large  Holland  bands,  I  sent  her  home,  and  myself 
to  Mr.  Rawlinson's  to  dinner,  but  was  troubled  in  my 
head  after  the  little  wine  I  drank,  and  so  home  to  my 
office,  and  there  did  promise  to  drink  no  more  wine 
*  but  one  glass  a  meal  till  Whitsuntide  next  upon  any 
score.  The  great  talk  is,  that  the  Spaniards  and  the 
Hollanders  do  intend  to  set  upon  the  Portuguese  by 
sea,  at  Lisbone,  as  soon  as  our  fleet  is  come  away ; 
and   by  that  means  our  fleet  is  not  likely  to  come 

*  Lord  Say  and  Sele,  who  died  seven  days  afterwards. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS.  221 

yet  these  two  months  or  three ;  which  I  hope  is  not 
true. 

8th.  Up  very  early  and  to  my  office,  and  there 
continued  till  noon.  So  to  dinner,  and  in  comes  uncle 
Fenner  and  the  two  Joyces.  I  sent  for  a  barrel  of 
oysters  and  a  breast  of  veal  roasted,  and  were  very 
merry;  but  I  cannot  doA\Ti  with  their  dull  company 
and  impertinent.     After  dinner  to  the  office  again. 

9th.  Sir  George  Carteret,  Sir  Williams  both  and 
myself  all  the  morning  at  the  office  passing  the  Vic- 
tualler's accounts,  and  at  noon  to  dinner  at  the  Dol- 
phin, where  a  good  chine  of  beefe  and  other  good 
cheer.  At  dinner  Sir  George  '  showed  me  an  account 
in  French  of  the  great  famine,  which  is  to  the  greatest 
extremit}'  in  some  part  of  France  at  this  day ;  which 
is  very  strange  .^ 

loth.  Yesterday  came  Col.  Talbot  3  vnth.  letters 
from  Portugall,  that  the  Queene  is  resolved  to  em- 
barque  for  England  this  week.  Thence  to  the  office 
all  the  afternoon.  My  Lord  Windsor  ^  came  to  us  to 
discourse  of  his  affairs,  and  to  take  his  leave  of  us ;  he 


1  Carteret. 

2  On  the  5th  of  June  following  Louis,  notwithstanding  the  scarcity,  gave 
that  splendid  carousal  in  the  court  before  the  Tuileries,  from  which  the  place 
has  ever  since  taken  its  name. 

3  Richard  Talbot,  who  figures  conspicuously  in  Grammont's  "  Memoires." 
He  married,  first,  Catherine  Boynton,  and  secondly,  Frances  Jennings,  eldest 
sister  of  Sarah  Duchess  of  Marlborough.  Talbot  was  created  Earl  of  Tyrcon- 
nel  by  James  II.,  and  made  Lord-Lieutenant  of  Ireland,  and  elevated  by  him 
to  the  Dukedom  of  Tyrconnel  after  his  abdication. 

4  Thomas  Baron  Windsor,  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Worcestershire  advanced 
to  the  Earldom  of  Plymouth,  1682.    Ob.  1687. 


222  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

being  to  go  Governor  of  Jamaica  with  this  fleet  that  is 
now  going. 

nth.  Up  early  to  my  lute  and  song,  then  about  six 
o'clock  with  Sir  W.  Pen  by  water  to  Deptford ;  and 
among  the  ships  now  going  to  Portugall  with  men  and 
horse,  to  see  them  dispatched.  So  to  Greenwich ; 
and  had  a  fine  pleasant  walk  to  Woolwich,  having 
in  our  company  Captn.  Minnes,  whom  I  was  much 
pleased  to  hear  talk.  Among  other  things,  he  and  the 
other  Captains  that  were  with  us  tell  me  that  negros 
drowned  look  white  and  lose  their  blackness,  which  I 
never  heard  before.'  At  Woolwich,  up  and  down  to 
do  the  same  business ;  and  so  back  to  Greenwich  by 
water.  Sir  William  and  I  walked  into  the  Parke,  where 
the  King  hath  planted  trees  and  made  steps  in  the  hill 
up  to  the  Castle,  which  is  very  magnificent.  So  up 
and  down  the  house,  which  is  now  repay  ring  in  the 
Queen's  lodgings.  So  to  dinner  at  the  Globe,  and 
were  merry,  and  so  home,  and  I  in  the  evening  to  the 
Exchange,  and  so  home  and  walked  with  my  wife  on 
the  leads  late,  and  so  the  barber  came  to  me,  and  so 
to  bed  very  weary  which  I  seldom  am. 

1 2th.   At  the  office  all  the  morning,  where,  among 

^  In  the  Ethiopian,  the  black  colour  does  not  reside  in  the  cutis,  or  true 
skin,  but  in  a  texture  superficial  to  and  between  it  and  the  cuticle.  This  tex- 
ture, the  rete  mucosum,  in  which  the  dark  pigment  is  situate,  may  be  readily 
dissected  off,  along  with  the  cuticle,  from  the  true  skin,  which  is  then  exposed, 
and  is  of  a  -whitish  colour.  When  the  body  of  a  negro  has  long  been  im- 
mersed in  water,  such  a  dissection  is,  as  it  were,  performed  by  the  putrefactive 
process;  and  the  surface  of  the  body  being  thus  deprived  of  its  two  outer 
investments,  does  really  look  white.  —  Ex  inform.  Alexander  Melville 
M'Whinnick,  F.R.C.P, 


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Other  things,  being  provoked  by  some  impertinence 
of  Sir  W.  Batten's,  I  called  him  unreasonable  man,  at 
which  he  was  very  angr)^  and  so  was  I,  but  I  think  we 
shall  not  much  fall  out  about  it.  After  dinner  wrote 
letters  at  my  office,  and  one  to  Mr.  Coventry  about 
business,  and  at  the  close  did  excuse  my  not  wait- 
ing on  him  myself  so  often  as  others  do  for  want  of 
leisure. 

13th  (Lord's  day).  In  the  morning  to  Paul's, 
where  I  heard  a  pretty  good  sermon,  and  thence  to 
dinner  with  my  Lady  at  the  Wardrobe ;  and  after 
much  talk  with  her  after  dinner,  I  went  to  the  Temple 
to  Church,  and  there  heard  another :  by  the  same 
token  a  boy,  being  asleep,  fell  down  a  high  seat  to  the 
ground,  ready  to  break  his  neck,  but  got  no  hurt. 
Thence  to  Graye's  Inn  walkes  ;  and  there  met  Mr. 
Pickering.  His  discourse  most  about  the  pride  of  the 
Duchesse  of  York ;  and  how  all  the  ladies  envy  my 
Lady  Castlemaine.  He  intends  to  go  to  Portsmouth 
to  meet  the  Queene  this  week ;  which  is  now  the 
discourse  and  expectation  of  the  towne.  So  home, 
and  no  sooner  come  but  Sir  W.  Warren  comes  to  me 
to  bring  me  a  paper  of  Field's  (with  whom  we  have 
lately  had  a  great  deale  of  trouble  at  the  office),  being 
a  bitter  petition  to  the  King  against  our  office  for  not 
doing  justice  upon  his  complaint  to  us  of  embezzle- 
ment of  the  King's  stores  by  one  Turpin.  I  took  Sir 
William  to  Sir  W.  Pen's  (who  was  newly  come  from 
Walthamstowe),  and  there  we  read  it  and  discoursed, 
but  we  do  not  much  fear  it,  the  King  referring  it  to 


224  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

the  Duke  of  York.  So  we  drank  a  glass  or  two  of 
wine,  and  so  home. 

14th.  Being  weary  last  night  I  lay  very  long  in  bed 
to-day,  talking  with  my  wife,  and  persuaded  her  to  go 
to  Brampton,  and  take  Sarah  with  her,  next  week,  to 
cure  her  ague  by  change  of  ayre,  and  we  agreed  all 
things  therein.  We  rose,  and  at  noon  dined,  and  then 
we  to  the  PajTiter's,  and  there  sat  the  last  time  for  my 
little  picture,  which  I  hope  will  please  me.  Then  to 
Paternoster  Rowe  to  buy  things  for  my  wife  against 
her  going.  So  home  and  walked  upon  the  leads  with 
my  wife,  and  whether  she  suspected  anything  or  no 
I  know  not,  but  she  is  quite  oif  of  her  going  to  Bramp- 
ton, which  something  troubles  me,  and  yet  all  my 
design  was  that  I  might  the  freer  go  to  Portsmouth 
when  the  rest  go  to  pay  off  the  yards  there,  which  will 
be  very  shortly.     But  I  will  get  off  if  I  can. 

15  th.  With  my  wife,  by  coach,  to  the  New  Ex- 
change,' to  buy  her  some  things  ;  where  we  saw  some 
new-fashion  pettycoats  of  sarcenett,  with  a  black  broad 
lace  printed  round  the  bottom  and  before,  very  hand- 
some, and  my  wife  had  a  mind  to  one  of  them,  but  we 
did  not  then  buy  one. 


^  "  To  the  north  of  Durham  Place,"  says  Pennant,  "  stood  the  New  Ex- 
change, which  was  built  under  the  auspices  of  our  monarch  in  1608,  out  of 
the  rubbish  of  the  old  stables  of  Durham  House.  It  was  built  somewhat  on 
the  model  of  the  Royal  Exchange,  with  cellars  beneath,  a  walk  above,  and 
rows  of  shops  over  that,  filled  chiefly  with  milliners,  sempstresses,  and  the 
like.     This  was  a  fashionable  place  of  resort." 

"  He  has  a  lodging  in  the  Strand  ...  to  watch  when  ladies  are  gone  to 
the  china  houses,  or  to  the  Exchange ,  that  he  may  meet  them  by  chance  and 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  22 5 

17th.  To  Mr.  Holliard's  in  the  morning,  thinking 
to  be  let  blood,  but  he  was  gone  out.  So  to  White 
Hall,  thinking  to  have  had  a  Scale  at  Privy  Seale,  but 
my  Lord  did  not  come.  Sir  W.  Batten  in  the  evening 
sent  for  me  to  tell  me  that  he  had  this  day  spoke  to  the 
Duke  about  raising  our  houses,  and  he  hath  given  us 
leave  to  do  it,  at  which,  being  glad,  I  went  home  merry. 

1 8th.  This  morning  sending  the  boy  down  into  the 
cellar  for  some  beer  I  followed  him  with  a  cane,  and 
did  there  beat  him  for  his  staying  of  arrands  and  other 
faults,  and  his  sister  came  to  me  down  and  begged 
for  him.  So  I  forebore,  and  afterwards,  in  my  wife's 
chamber,  did  there  talk  to  Jane  how  much  I  did  love 
the  boy  for  her  sake,  and  how  much  it  do  concern 
to  correct  the  boy  for  his  faults,  or  else  he  would  be 
undone.  So  at  last  she  was  well  pleased.  This  morn- 
ing Sir  G.  Carteret,  Sir  W.  Batten  and  I  met  at  the 
office,  and  did  conclude  of  our  going  to  Portsmouth 
next  week,  in  which  my  mind  is  at  a  great  loss  what 
to  do  with  my  wife,  for  I  cannot  persuade  her  to  go  to 
Brampton,  and  I  am  loth  to  leave  her  at  home. 

19th.  This  morning,  before  we  sat,  I  went  to  Aid- 
gate  ;  and  at  the  corner  shop,^  a  draj^er's,  I  stood, 
and  did  see  Barkestead,  Okey,  and  Corbet,  drawne 
towards  the  gallows  at  Tibume ;  and  there  they  were 
hanged  and  quartered.  They  all  looked  very  cheer- 
ful ;  but  I  hear  they  all  die  defending  what  they  did 

give  them  presents,  some  two  or  three  hundred  pounds  worth  of  toys,  to  be 
laughed  at."  —  Ben  Jonsom,  The  Silent  Woman,  act  i.  sc.  i.     (M.  B.) 
^  Now  actually  Moses  and  Son's. 


226  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

to  the  King  to  be  just;  which  is  very  strange.  In 
the  evening  did  get  a  bever,  an  old  one,  but  a  very 
good  one,  of  Sir  W.  Batten,  for  which  I  must  give  him 
something ;  but  I  am  very  well  pleased  with  it. 

20th  (Lord's  day).  My  intention  being  to  go  this 
morning  to  ^Vl■lite  Hall  to  hear  South,'  my  Lord  Chan- 
cellor's chaplain,  the  famious  preacher  and  oratour  of 
Oxford,  (who  the  last  Lord's  day  did  sink  down  in  the 
pulpit  before  the  King,  and  could  not  proceed,)  it  did 
rain,  and  the  wind  against  me,  that  I  could  by  no 
means  get  a  boat  or  coach  to  carry  me ;  and  so  I 
staid  at  Paul's,  where  the  Judges  did  all  meet,  and 
heard  a  sermon,  it  being  the  first  Sunday  of  the 
terme  ;  but  they  had  a  very  poor  sermon.  So  to  my 
Lady's  and  dined,  and  so  to  White  Hall  to  Sir  G.  Car- 
teret, and  so  to  the  Chappell,  where  I  challenged  my 
pew  as  Gierke  of  the  Privy  Scale  and  had  it,  and  then 
walked  home  with  Mr.  Blagrave  to  his  old  house  in 
the  Fishyard,  and  there  he  had  a  pretty  kinswoman 
that  sings,  and  we  did  sing  some  holy  things,  and 
afterwards  others  came  in  and  so  I  left  them,  and  by 
water  through  the  bridge  (which  did  trouble  me) 
home,  and  so  to  bed. 

I  This  was  the  learned  Robert  South,  then  public  orator  at  Oxford,  and 
afterwards  D.D.,  and  prebendary  of  Westminster,  and  canon  of  Christchurch. 
The  story,  as  copied  from  a  contemporary  tract,  called  "  Annus  Mirabilis 
Secundus,"  is  given  with  full  details  in  Wood's  "  Athense,"  and  Kennett's 
"  Register."  It  is  by  no  means  devoid  of  interest;  but,  having  been  so  often 
printed,  need  not  be  here  repeated.  We  may  observe,  however,  that  South 
had  experienced  a  similar  qualm  whilst  preaching  at  Oxford  a  few  months 
before ;  but  these  seizures  produced  no  bad  consequences,  as  he  lived  to  be 
eighty-three. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  22/ 

2 1  St.  This  morning  I  attempted  to  persuade  my 
wife  to  go  to  Brampton  this  week,  but  she  would  not, 
and  seeing  that  I  could  keep  it  no  longer  from  her, 
I  told  her  that  I  was  resolved  to  go  to  Portsmouth 
to-morrow.  At  noon  dined  with  my  Lord  Crew ;  and 
after  dinner  went  up  to  Sir  Thos.  Crew's  chamber, 
who  is  still  ill.  He  tells  me  how  my  Lady  Duchesse 
of  Richmond '  and  Castlemaine  had  a  falHng  out  the 
other  day ;  and  she  calls  the  latter  Jane  Shore,  and 
did  hope  to  see  her  come  to  the  same  end  that 
she  did.  Coming  downi  again  to  my  Lord,  he  told 
me  that  news  was  come  that  the  Queene  is  land- 
ed ;  at  which  I  took  leave,  and  by  coach  hurried  to 
White  Hall,  the  bells  ringing  in  several  places ;  but 
I  found  there  no  such  matter,  nor  anything  like  it. 
Home,  and  there  I  found  my  Lady  Jemimah,  and 
Anne,  and  Madamoiselle  come  to  see  my  wife,  whom 
I  left,  and  to  talk  with  Joyce  about  a  project  I  have 
of  his  and  my  joining,  to  get  some  money  for  my 
brother  Tom  and  his  kinswoman  to  help  forward  with 
her  portion  if  they  should  marry.  I  mean  in  buying 
of  tallow  of  him  at  a  low  rate  for  the  King,  and  Tom 
should  have  the  profit ;  but  he  tells  me  the  profit  will 
be  considerable,  at  which  I  was  troubled,  but  I  have 
agreed  with  him  to  ser\^e  some  in  my  absence. 


I  Mary,  daughter  to  George  Villiers,  first  Duke  of  Buckingham,  wife  of 
James,  fourth  Duke  of  Lennox,  and  third  Duke  of  Richmond,  who  left  her  a 
widow  secondly  in  1655.  She  had  previously  married  Charles  Lord  Herbert; 
and  she  took  for  her  third  husband,  Thomas  Howard,  brother  of  the  Earl  of 
Carlisle,  who  fought  the  duel  with  Jcrmyn.     See  August  \(j,post. 


228  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS, 

22nd.  After  taking  leave  of  my  wife,  which  we 
could  hardly  do  kindly,  because  of  her  mind  to  go 
along  with  me,  Sir  W.  Pen  and  I  took  coach  and  so 
over  the  bridge  to  Lambeth,  W.  Bodham  and  Tom 
He  wet  going  as  clerkes  to  Sir  W.  Pen,  and  my  Will 
for  me.  Here  we  got  a  dish  of  buttered  eggs,  and 
there  staid  till  Sir  G.  Carteret  came  to  us  from  White 
Hall,  who  brought  Dr.  Gierke  with  him,  at  which  I 
was  very  glad,  and  so  we  set  out,  and  I  was  very  much 
pleased  with  his  company,  and  were  very  merry  all 
the  way.  We  came  to  Gilford  and  there  passed  our 
time  in  the  garden,  cutting  off  sparagus  for  supper, 
the  best  that  ever  I  eat  in  my  life  but  in  the  house 
last  year.  Supped  well,  and  the  Doctor  and  I  to 
bed  together,  calling  cozens  from  his  name  and  my 
office.^ 

23d.  Up  early,  and  to  Petersfield,  and  there  dined 
well ;  and  thence  got  a  countryman  to  guide  us  by 
Havant,  to  avoid  going  through  the  Forest;  bat  he 
carried  us  much  out  of  the  way,  and  upon  our  com- 
ing we  sent  away  an  express  to  Sir  W.  Batten  to  stop 
his  coming,  which  I  did  project  to  make  good  my 
oathe,  that  my  wife  should  come  if  any  of  our  wives 
came,  which  my  Lady  Batten  did  intend  to  do  with 
her  husband.  The  Doctor  and  I  lay  together  at 
Wiard's,  the  chyrurgeons,  in  Portsmouth,  his  wife  a 
very  pretty  woman.  We  lay  very  well  and  merrily ; 
in  the  morning,  concluding  him  to  be  of  the  eldest 

»  Clerk  of  the  Acts. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  229 

blood  and  house  of  the  Clerkes,  because  that  all  the 
fleas  came  to  him  and  not  to  me. 

24th.  Up  and  to  Sir  G.  Carteret's  lodgings  at  Mrs. 
Stephens's,  where  we  keep  our  table  all  the  time  we 
are  here.  Thence  all  of  us  to  the  Payhouse ;  but  the 
books  not  being  ready,  we  went  to  church  to  the 
lecture,  where  there  was  my  Lord  Ormond'  and  Man- 
chester,2  and  much  London  company,  though  not  so 
much  as  I  expected.  Here  we  had  a  very  good  ser- 
mon upon  this  text :  ''  In  love  serving  one  another  ;  " 
which  pleased  me  very  well.  No  news  of  the  Queene 
at  all.  So  to  dinner;  and  then  to  the  Pay  all  the 
afternoon.  Then  W.  Pen  and  I  walked  to  the  King's 
Yard,  and  there  lay  at  Mr.  Tippets's,^  where  exceeding 
well  treated. 

25  th.  All  the  morning  at  Portsmouth,  at  the  Pay, 
and  then  to  dinner,  and  again  to  the  Pay;  and  at 
night  got  the  Doctor  to  go  lie  with  me,  and  much 
pleased  with  his  company ;  but  I  was  much  troubled 
in  my  eyes,  by  reason  of  the  healths  I  have  this  day 
been  forced  to  drink. 

26th.  Sir  George  4  and  I,  and  his  clerk  Mr.  Stephens, 
and  Mr.  Holt  our  guide,  over  to  Gosport;  and  so 
rode  to  Southampton.  In  our  way,  besides  my  Lord 
Southampton's  s  parks  and  lands,  which  in  one  viewe 

*  The  Duke  of  Ormond.  as  Lord  High  Steward. 

2  As  Lord  Chamberlain. 

3  Afterwards  knighted  as  Sir  John  Tippets. 

4  Sir  George  Carteret,  who  was  M.  P.  for  Portsmouth  and  Vice-Chamber- 
lain to  the  King. 

5  Tichfield  House,  erected  by  Sir  Thomas  Wriothesley,  on  the  site  of  an 


230  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

we  csDuld  see  6000/.  per  annum,  we  observed  a  little 
church-yard,  where  the  graves  are  accustomed  to  be 
all  sowed  with  sage.  At  Southampton  we  went  to  the 
Mayor's  and  there  dined,  and  had  sturgeon  of  their 
own  catching  the  last  week,  which  do  not  happen  in 
twenty  years,  and  it  was  well  ordered.  They  brought 
us  also  some  caveare,  which  I  attempted  to  order,  but 
all  to  no  purpose,  for  they  had  neither  given  it  salt 
enough,  nor  are  the  seedes  of  the  roe  broke,  but  are 
all  in  berryes.  The  towne  is  one  most  gallant  street, 
and  is  walled  round  with  stone,  &c.,  and  Bevis's  pic- 
ture upon  one  of  the  gates ;  many  old  walls  of  re- 
ligious houses,  and  the  keye,  well  worth  seeing.  After 
dinner  to  horse  again,  being  in  nothing  troubled  but 
the  badness  of  my  hat,  which  I  borrowed  to  save  my 
beaver. 

27th  (Sunday).  Sir  W.  Pen  got  trimmed  before 
me,  and  so  took  the  coach  to  Portsmouth  to  wait  on 
my  Lord  Steward  to  church,  and  sent  the  coach  for 
me  back  again.  So  I  rode  to  church,  and  met  my 
Lord  Chamberlaine  upon  the  walls  of  the  garrison, 
who  owned  and  spoke  to  me.  I  followed  him  in  the 
crowde  of  gallants  through  the  Queene's  lodgings  to 
chappell;   the  rooms  being  all  rarely  furnished,  and 


Abbey  of  Premonstratenses,  granted  to  him  with  their  estates,  29th  Henry 
VIII.  Upon  the  death  of  his  descendant,  Thomas,  Earl  of  Southampton, 
and  Lord  Treasurer,  without  issue  male,  the  house  and  manor  were  allotted 
to  his  eldest  daughter  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Edmund,  first  Earl  of  Gainsborough; 
and  their  only  son  dying  s.  p.  in.,  the  property  devolved  to  his  sister 
Elizabeth,  married  to  Henry,  Duke  of  Portland,  whose  grandson,  the  third 
Duke,  alienated  it  to  Mr.  Delme. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  23 1 

escaped  hardly  being  set  on  fire  yesterday.  At  chap- 
pell  we  had  a  most  excellent  and  eloquent  sermon. 
By  coach  to  the  Yard,  and  then  on  board  the  Swallow 
in  the  dock  hear  our  navy  chaplain  preach  a  sad  ser- 
mon, full  of  nonsense  and  false  Latin ;  but  prayed  for 
the  Right  Honourable  the  principall  officers.  Visited 
the  Mayor,  Mr.  Timbrell,  our  anchor-smith,  who 
showed  us  the  present  they  have  for  the  Queene ; 
which  is  a  salt-sellar  of  silver,  the  walls  christall,  with 
four  eagles  and  four  greyhounds  standing  up  at  the 
top  to  bear  up  a  dish ;  which  indeed  is  one  of  the 
neatest  pieces  of  plate  that  ever  I  saw,  and  the  case 
is  very  pretty  also.^  This  evening  came  a  merchant- 
man in  the  harbour,  which  we  hired  at  London  to 
carry  horses  to  Portugall ;  but  Lord  !  what  running 
there  was  to  the  seaside  to  hear  what  news,  thinking 
it  had  come  from  the  Queene. 

28th.  The  Doctor  and  I  begun  philosophy  discourse 
exceeding  pleasant.  He  offers  to  bring  me  into  the 
college  of  virtuosoes  ^  and  my  Lord  Brouncker's  ac- 
quaintance, and  show  me  some  anatomy,  which  makes 
me  very  glad ;  and  I  shall  endeavour  it,  when  I  come 
to  London.  Sir  W.  Pen  much  troubled  upon  letters 
came  last  night.  Showed  me  one  of  Dr.  Owen's  3  to 
his  son,'*  whereby  it  appears  his  son  is  much  perverted 

^  A  salt-cellar  answering  this  description  is  preserved  at  the  Tower. 

2  The  Royal  Society, 

3  John  Owen,  D.D.,  a  learned  Nonconformist  divine,  and  a  voluminous 
theological  writer,  made  Dean  of  Christ  Church  in  1653,  by  the  Parliament, 
and  ejected  in  1659-60.     He  died  at  Ealing  in  1683. 

4  The  celebrated  Quaker. 


232  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

in  his  opinion  by  him ;  which  I  now  perceive  is  one 
thing  that  hath  put  Sir  WilHam  so  long  off  the  hooks. 

29th.  At  the  pay  all  the  morning,  and  so  to  dinner ; 
and  then  to  it  again  in  the  afternoon,  and  after  our 
work  was  done,  Sir  G.  Carteret,  Sir  W.  Pen  and  I 
walked  forth,  and  I  spied  Mrs.  Pierce  and  another 
lady  passing  by.  So  I  left  them  and  went  to  the 
ladies,  and  walked  with  them  up  and  down,  and  took 
them  to  Mrs.  Stephens,  and  there  gave  them  wine  and 
sweetmeats,  and  were  very  merry ;  and  then  comes 
the  Doctor,  and  we  carried  them  by  coach  to  their 
lodging,  which  was  very  poor,  but  the  best  they  could 
get,  and  such  as  made  much  mirth  among  us.  So  I 
appointed  one  to  watch  when  the  gates  of  the  towne 
were  ready  to  be  shut,  and  to  give  us  notice ;  and  so 
the  Doctor  and  I  staid  with  them  playing  and  laugh- 
ing, and  at  last  were  forced  to  bid  good  night  for  fear 
of  being  locked  into  the  towne  all  night.  So  we 
walked  to  the  yarde,  designing  how  to  prevent  our 
going  to  London  to-morrow,  that  we  might  be  merry 
with  these  ladies,  which  I  did.  So  to  supper  and 
merrily  to  bed. 

30th.  This  morning  Sir  G.  Carteret  came  down  to 
the  yarde,  and  there  we  mustered  over  all  the  men 
and  determined  of  some  regulations  in  the  yarde,  and 
then  to  dinner,  all  the  officers  of  the  yarde  with  us, 
and  after  dinner  walk  to  Portsmouth,  there  to  pay  off 
the  Successe,  which  we  did  pretty  early,  and  so  I  took 
leave  of  Sir  W.  Pen,  he  desiring  to  know  whither  I 
went,  but  I  would  not  tell  him,     I  went  to  the  ladies, 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  233 

and  there  took  them  and  walked  to  the  Mayor's  to 
show  them  the  present,  and  then  to  the  Docke,  where 
Mr.  Tippets  made  much  of  them,  and  thence  back 
again,  the  Doctor  being  come  to  us  to  their  lodgings, 
whither  came  our  supper  by  my  appointment,  and 
we  very  merry,  playing  at  cards  and  laughing  very 
merry  till  12  o'clock  at  night,  and  so  having  staid 
so  long  (which  we  had  resolved  to  stay  till  they 
bade  us  be  gone),  which  yet  they  did  not  do  but  by 
consent,  we  bade  them  good  night,  and  so  past  the 
guards,  and  went  to  the  Doctor's  lodgings,  and  there 
lay  with  him,  our  discourse  being  much  about  the 
quality  of  the  lady  with  Mrs.  Pierce,  she  being  some- 
what old  and  handsome,  and  painted  and  fine,  and 
had  a  very  handsome  mayde  with  her.  This  after- 
noon after  dinner  comes  Mr.  Stephenson,  one  of  the 
burgesses  of  the  towne,  to  tell  me  that  the  Mayor 
and  burgesses  did  desire  my  acceptance  of  a  burgess- 
ship,  and  were  ready  at  the  Mayor's  to  make  me  one. 
So  I  went,  and  there  they  were  all  ready,  and  did 
with  much  civility  give  me  my  oathe,  and  after  the 
oathe,  did  by  custom  shake  me  all  by  the  hand.  So 
I  took  them  to  a  taverne  and  made  them  drink,  and 
paying  the  reckoning,  went  away.  It  cost  me  a  piece 
in  gold  to  the  Town  Gierke,  and  lOi-.  to  the  Bayliffes, 
and  spent  ds. 

May  I  St.  Sir  G.  Garteret,  Sir  W.  Pen,  and  myself, 
with  our  clerks,  set  out  this  morning  from  Portsmouth 
very  early,  and  got  by  noon  to  Petersfield  ;  several  offi- 
cers of  the  Yarde  accompanying  us  so  far.     Here  we 


234  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

dined  and  were  merry.  At  dinner  comes  my  Lord 
Carlingford  ^  from  London,  going  to  Portsmouth  :  tells 
us  that  the  Duchesse  of  York  is  brought  to  bed  of  a 
girle,2  at  which  I  find  nobody  pleased  ;  and  that  Prince 
Rupert  and  the  Duke  of  Buckingham  are  swome  of  the 
Privy  Councell.  He  himself  made  a  dish  with  egges 
of  the  butter  of  the  Sparagus,  which  is  very  fine  meat, 
which  I  will  practise  hereafter.  To  horse  again,  and 
got  to  Gilford,  where  after  supper  I  to  bed,  having 
this  day  been  offended  by  Sir  W.  Pen's  foolish  talk, 
and  I  offending  him  with  my  answers.  Among  others 
he  in  discourse  complaining  of  want  of  confidence, 
did  ask  me  to  lend  him  a  grain  or  two,  which  I  told 
him  I  thought  he  was  better  stored  with  than  myself, 
before  Sir  George.  So  that  I  see  I  must  keep  a 
greater  distance  than  I  have  done.  To  bed  all  alone, 
and  my  Will  in  the  truckle  bed.^ 

2nd.  Early  to  coach  again  and  to  Kingston,  where 
we  baited  a  little  and  got  early  to  London,  and  I  found 
all  well  at  home.  I  to  Dr.  Gierke's  lady,  and  gave  her 
her  letter  and  token.     She  is  a  very  fine  woman,  and 

^  Theobald  second  Viscount  Taafe,  created  Earl  of  Carlingford,  co.  Louth, 
1661-2. 

2  Mary,  afterwards  Queen  of  England. 

3  According  to  the  original  Statutes  of  Corpus  Christi  Coll.  Oxon,  a  Schol- 
ar slept  in  a  truckle  bed  below  each  Fellow.  Called  also  "  a  trindle  bed." 
Compare  Hall's  description  of  an  obsequious  tutor : 

"  He  lieth  in  a  truckle  bed 
While  his  young  master  lieth  o'er  his  head." 

Satires,  ii.  6,  5. 

The  bed  was  drawn  in  the  daytime  under  the  high  bed  of  the  tutor.  See 
Wordsworth's  "  University  Life  in  the  Eighteenth  Century."     (M.  B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  235 

what  \\dth  her  person  and  the  number  of  fine  ladies 
that  were  with  her,  I  was  much  out  of  countenance, 
and  could  hardly  carry  myself  like  a  man  among  them  ; 
but  however,  I  staid  till  my  courage  was  up  again,  and 
talked  to  them,  and  viewed  her  house,  which  is  most 
pleasant,  and  so  drank  and  good  night. 

3rd.  Sir  W.  Pen  and  I  by  coach  to  St.  James's,  and 
there  to  the  Duke's  Chamber,  who  had  been  a-hunt- 
ing  this  morning  and  is  come  back  again.  To  dinner 
to  my  Lady  Sandwich,  and  Sir  Thomas  Crew's  children 
coming  thither,  I  took  them  and  all  my  Ladys  to  the 
Tower  and  showed  them  the  lions  ^  and  all  that  was 
to  be  shown.  Sir  Thomas  Crew's  children  being  as 
pretty  and  the  best  behaved  that  ever  I  saw  of  their 
age.  Thence,  at  the  goldsmith's,  took  my  picture  in 
little,  which  is  now  done,  home  with  me,  and  pleases 
me  exceedingly  and  my  wife. 

4th.  Mr.  Holliard  came  to  me  and  let  me  blood, 
about  sixteen  ounces,  I  being  exceedingly  full  of 
blood  and  very  good.  I  begun  to  be  sick ;  but  lying 
upon  my  back  I  was  presently  well  again,  and  did  give 
him  5J-.  for  his  pains.  After  dinner,  my  arm  tied  up 
with  a  black  ribbon,  I  walked  with  my  wife  to  my 
brother  Tom's ;  our  boy  waiting  on  us  with  his  sword,^ 
which  this  day  he  begins  to  wear,  to  outdo  Sir  W.  Pen's 
boy,  who  this  day,  and  Sir  W.  Batten's  too,  begin  to 
wear  new  livery ;  but  I  do  take  mine  to  be  the  neatest 
of  them  all.     I  led  my  wife  to  Mrs.  Turner's  pew,  and 

1  Hence  the  phrases  "  to  lionize,"  "  to  see  the  lions."     (M.  B.) 

2  See  7th  Dec.  1661,  attte. 


236  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

the  church  being  full,  it  being  to  hear  a  Doctor  who 
is  to  preach  a  probacon  sermon,  I  went  out  to  the 
Temple  and  there  walked,  and  so  when  church  was 
done  my  wife  and  I  walked  to  Grayes  Inne,  to  observe 
fashions  of  the  ladies,  because  of  my  wife's  making 
some  clothes. 

5  th.  My  arme  not  being  well,  I  staid  within  all  the 
morning.  My  wife  gone  to  buy  some  things  for  her- 
self, and  a  gowne  for  me  to  dress  myself  in. 

6th.  This  morning  I  got  my  seat  set  up  on  the 
leads,  which  pleases  me  well. 

7th.  Walked  to  Westminster ;  where  I  understand 
the  news  that  Mr.  Montagu  is  this  last  night  come  to 
the  King  with  news,  that  he  left  the  Queene  and  fleete 
in  the  Bay  of  Biscay,  coming  this  wayward ;  and  that 
he  believes  she  is  now  at  the  Isle  of  Scilly.  So  at 
noon  to  my  Lord  Crew's  and  there  dined,  and  after 
dinner  Sir  Thos.  Crew  and  I  talked  together,  and 
among  other  instances  of  the  simple  hght  discourse 
that  sometimes  is  in  the  Parliament  House,  he  told 
me  how  in  the  late  business  of  Chymny  money,  when 
all  occupiers  were  to  pay,  it  was  questioned  whether 
women  were  under  that  name  to  pay,  and  somebody 
rose  and  said  that  they  were  not  occupiers,  but  occu- 
pied. Thence  to  Paul's  Church  Yard ;  where  seeing 
my  Ladys  Sandwich  and  Carteret,  and  my  wife  (who 
this  day  made  a  visit  the  first  time  to  my  Lady  Car- 
teret'), come  by  coach,  and  going  to  Hide  Parke,  I 

1  Elizabeth,  who  married  her  cousin,  Sir  George  Carteret,  was  the  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  Philip  Carteret. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  23/ 

was  resolved  to  follow  them ;  and  so  went  to  Mrs. 
Turner's :  and  thence  found  her  out  at  the  Theatre, 
where  I  saw  the  last  act  of  the  "  Knight  of  the  Burn- 
ing Pestle,"  ^  which  pleased  me  not  at  all.  And  so 
after  the  play  done,  she  and  The.  Turner  and  Mrs. 
Lucin  2  and  I,  in  her  coach  to  the  Parke ;  and  there 
found  them  out,  and  spoke  to  them  ;  and  observed 
many  fine  ladies,  and  staid  till  all  were  gone  almost. 

8th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning  doing  business 
alonC;  and  returned  home,  and  was  overtaken  by  Sir 
G.  Carteret  in  his  coach.  He  told  me  that  the  Queene 
and  the  fleet  were  in  Mount's  Bay  on  Monday  last ; 
and  that  the  Queene  endures  her  sickness  pretty  well. 
He  also  told  me  how  Sir  John  Lawson  hath  done  some 
execution  upon  the  Turkes  in  the  Straight,  of  which 
I  am  glad,  and  told  the  news  the  first  on  the  Exchange, 
and  was  much  followed  by  merchants  to  tell  it.  Sir 
G.  Carteret,  among  other  discourse,  tells  me  that  it  is 
Mr.  Coventry  that  is  to  come  to  us  as  a  Commissioner 
of  the  Nav}^ ;  at  which  he  is  much  vexed,  and  cries 
out  upon  Sir  W.  Pen,  and  threatens  him  highly.  And 
looking  upon  his  lodgings,  which  are  now  enlarging, 
he  in  passion  cried,  "  Guarda  mi  spada ;  3  for,  by  God, 
I  may  chance  to  keep  him  in  Ireland,  when  he  is 
there  :  "  for  Sir  W.  Pen  is  going  thither  with  my  Lord 
Lieutenant.  But  it  is  my  design  to  keep  much  in  with 
Sir  George  ;  and  I  think  I  have  begun  very  well  towards 
it. 

'  A  Comedy  by  Beaumont  and  Fletcher. 
2  Query,  Lukyn.  3  Sic,  orig. 


238  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

9th.  Up  and  to  my  office,  and  so  to  dinner  at  home, 
and  then  to  Westminster.  Thence  to  Mr.  de  Cretz, 
and  there  saw  some  good  pieces  that  he  hath  copyed 
of  the  King's  pieces,  some  of  Raphael  and  Michael 
Angelo  ;  and  I  have  borrowed  an  Elizabeth  of  his  copy- 
ing to  hang  up  in  my  house.  Thence  with  Salisbury, 
who  I  met  there,  into  Covent  Garden  to  an  alehouse, 
to  see  a  picture  that  hangs  there,  which  is  offered  for 
20J-.,  and  I  offered  fourteen  —  but  it  is  worth  much 
more  money  —  but  did  not  buy  it,  I  having  no  mind 
to  break  my  oathe.  Thence  to  see  an  Italian  puppet 
play,  that  is  within  the  rayles  there,  which  is  very 
pretty,  the  best  that  ever  I  saw,  and  great  resort  of 
gallants.  So  to  the  Temple  and  by  water  home,  and 
so  walk  upon  the  leades,  and  in  the  dark  there  played 
upon  my  flageolette,  and  so  to  supper  and  to  bed. 
The  Duke  of  York  went  last  night  to  Portsmouth ;  so 
that  I  believe  the  Queene  is  near. 

loth.  At  noon  to  the  Wardrobe  ;  there  dined.  My 
Lady  told  me  how  my  Lady  Castlemaine  do  speak  of 
going  to  lie  in  at  Hampton  Court ;  which  she  and  all 
our  ladies  are  much  troubled  at,  because  of  the  King's 
being  forced  to  show  her  countenance  in  the  sight  of 
the  Queene  when  she  comes.  In  the  evening  Sir  G. 
Carteret  and  I  did  hire  a  ship  for  Tangier,  and  other 
things  together ;  and  I  find  that  he  do  single  me  out 
to  join  with  me  apart  from  the  rest,  which  I  am  much 
glad  of. 

nth  (Lord's  day).  To  our  church  in  the  morning, 
where,  our  Minister  being  out  of  towne,  a  dull,  flat 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  239 

Presbiter  preached.  Dined  at  home,  and  my  wife'? 
brother  with  us,  we  having  a  good  dish  of  stewed  beefe 
of  Jane's  own  dressing,  which  was  well  done,  and  a 
piece  of  sturgeon  of  a  barrel  sent  me  by  Captain 
Cocke.  In  the  afternoon  to  White  Hall ;  and  there 
walked  an  houre  or  two  in  the  Parke,  where  I  saw  the 
King  now  out  of  mourning, ^  in  a  suit  laced  with  gold 
and  silver,  which  it  was  said  was  out  of  fashion.  Thence 
to  the  Wardrobe  ;  and  there  consulted  with  the  ladies 
about  our  going  to  Hampton  Court  to-morrow. 

12th.  Mr.  Townsend  called  us  up  by  four  o'clock; 
and  by  five  the  three  ladies,  my  wife  and  I,  and  Mr. 
Townsend,  his  son  and  daughter,  were  got  to  the 
barge  and  set  out.  We  walked  from  Mortlake  to 
Richmond,  and  so  to  boat  again.  And  from  Tedding- 
ton  to  Hampton  Court  Mr.  Townsend  and  I  walked 
again.  And  then  met  the  ladies,  and  were  showed 
the  w^hole  house  by  Mr.  Marriott ;  ^  which  is  indeed 
nobly  furnished,  particularly  the  Queene's  bed,  given 
her  by  the  States  of  Holland ;  a  looking-glasse  sent 
by  the  Queene-mother  from  France,  hanging  in  the 
Queene's  chamber,  and  many  brave  pictures.  And  so 
to  barge  again;  and  got  home  about  eight  at  night 
very  well.  So  my  wife  and  I  took  leave  of  my  Ladies, 
and  home  by  a  hackney-coach,  the  easiest  that  ever  I 
met  with. 

14th.  Dined  at  the  Wardrobe ;  and  after  dinner, 
sat  talking  an  hour  or  two  alone  with  my  Lady.     She 

*  For  his  aunt,  the  Queen  of  Bohemia.  2  The  Housekeeper. 


240  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

is  afeard  that  my  Lady  Castlemaine  will  keep  still 
with  the  King,  and  I  am  afeard  she  will  not,  for  I  love 
her  well.  Thence  to  my  brother's,  and  finding  him 
in  a  lie  about  the  lining  of  my  new  morning  gowne, 
saying  that  it  was  the  same  with  the  outside,  I  was 
very  angry  with  him  and  parted  so.  So  home  after 
an  hour  stay  at  Paul's  Churchyard,  and  there  came 
Mr.  Morelock  of  Chatham,  and  brought  me  a  stately 
cake,  and  I  perceive  he  has  done  the  same  to  the  rest, 
of  which  I  was  glad  ;  so  to  bed. 

15th.  To  Westminster;  and  at  the  Privy  Seale  I 
saw  Mr.  Coventry's  seal  for  his  being  Commissioner 
with  us  at  which  I  know  not  yet  whether  to  be  glad  or 
otherwise.  At  night,  all  the  bells  of  the  towne  rung, 
and  bonfires  made  for  the  joy  of  the  Queene's  arrival, 
who  landed  at  Portsmouth  last  night. ^  But  I  do  not 
see  much  thorough  joy,  but  only  an  indifferent  one, 
in  the  hearts  of  people,  who  are  much  discontented  at 
the  pride  and  luxury  of  the  Court,  and  running  in 
debt. 

17th.  To  the  Wardrobe  to  dinner,  where  dined 
Mrs.  Sanderson,^  the  mother  of  the  mayds,  and  after 
dinner  my  Lady  and  she  and  I  on  foot  to  Pater  Nos- 
ter  Rowe  to  buy  a  petticoat  against  the  Queene's  com- 
ing for  my  Lady,  of  plain  satin,  and  other  things  ;  and 
being  come  back  again,  we  there  met  Mr.  Nathaniel 
Crew  at  the  Wardrobe  with  a  young  gentleman,  a 

^  Rugge,  in  his  "  Diurnal,"  tells  us  that  the  Queen  attired  herself  in  the 
English  fashion  soon  after  he  landed. 
*  See  May  10,  1660,  ante. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS.  24 1 

friend  and  fellow  student  of  his,  and  of  a  good  family, 
Mr.  Knightly,  and  known  to  the  Crews,  of  whom  my 
Lady  privately  told  me  she  hath  some  thoughts  of  a 
match  for  my  Lady  Jemimah.  I  hke  the  person  very 
well,  and  he  hath  2,000/.  per  annum.  Thence  to  the 
office,  and  thence  I  walked  to  my  brother  Tom's  to 
see  a  velvet  cloake,  which  I  buy  of  Mr.  Moore.  It 
will  cost  me  8/.  loj-. ;  he  bought  it  for  6/.  10s.,  but  it 
is  worth  my  money. 

1 8th  (Whitsunday).  By  water  to  White  Hall,  and 
there  to  chappell  in  my  pew  belonging  to  me  as  Gierke 
of  the  Privy  Scale  ;  and  there  I  heard  a  most  excellent 
sermon  of  Dr.  Hacket,'  Bishop  of  Lichfield  and  Co- 
ventry, upon  these  words :  "  He  that  drinketh  this 
water  shall  never  thirst."  We  had  an  excellent  an- 
them, sung  by  Captain  Cooke  and  another,  and  brave 
musique.  And  then  the  King  came  down  and  offered, 
and  took  the  sacrament  upon  his  knees ;  a  sight  very 
v/ell  worth  seeing.  Hence  with  Sir  G.  Carteret  to  his 
lodging  to  dinner  with  his  Lady  and  one  Mr.  Brevin, 
a  French  Divine,  we  were  very  merry,  and  good  dis- 
course after  dinner,  and  so  to  chappell  again ;  and 
there  had  another  good  anthem  of  Captain  Cooke's. 
Thence  to  the  Councell-chamber ;  where  the  King 
and  Councell  sat  till  almost  eleven  o'clock  at  night, 
and  I  forced  to  walk  up  and  down  the  gallerys  till 
that  time  of  night.  They  were  reading  all  the  bills 
over  that  are  to  pass  to-morrow  at  the  House,^  before 

1  John  Hacket,  elected  Bishop  of  that  see  1661.     Ob.  1670. 

2  To  ears  accustomed  to  the  official  words  of  speeches  from  the  throne  at 


242  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

the  King's  going  out  of  towne  and  proroguing  the 
House.  At  last  the  Councell  risen,  and  Sir  G.  Carte- 
ret telling  me  what  the  Councell  hath  ordered  about 
the  ships  designed  to  carry  horse  from  Ireland  to 
Portugall,  which  is  now  altered.  I  got  a  coach  and 
so  home,  sending  the  boat  away  without  me.  At 
home  I  found  my  wife  discontented  at  my  being 
abroad,  but  I  pleased  her.  She  was  in  her  new  suit 
of  black  sarcenet  and  yellow  petticoate  very  pretty. 
So  to  bed. 

T9th.  Long  in  bed,  sometimes  scolding  with  my 
wife,  and  then  pleased  again,  and  at  last  up,  and  put 
on  my  riding  cloth  suit,  and  a  camelott  coat  new, 
which  pleases  me  well  enough.  To  the  Temple,  so 
home,  the  shops  being  but  some  shut  and  some  open. 
I  hear  that  the  House  of  Commons  do  think  much 
that  they  should  be  forced  to  huddle  over  business 
this  morning  against  the  afternoon,  for  the  King  to 


the  present  day,  the  familiar  tone  of  the  following  extracts  from  Charles's 
speech  to  the  Commons,  on  the  ist  of  March,  will  be  amusing:  —  "I  will  con- 
clude with  putting  you  in  mind  of  the  season  of  the  year,  and  the  convenience 
of  your  being  in  the  country,  in  many  respects  for  the  good  and  welfare  of  it; 
for  you  will  find  much  tares  have  been  sowed  there  in  your  absence.  The  arrival 
of  my  wife,  who  I  expect  some  time  this  month,  and  the  necessity  of  my  own 
being  out  of  town  to  meet  her,  and  to  stay  some  time  before  she  comes  hither, 
makes  it  very  necessary  that  the  Parliament  be  adjourned  before  Easter,  to 
meet  again  in  the  winter.  .  .  .  The  mention  of  my  wife's  arrival  puts  me  in 
mind  to  desire  you  to  put  that  compliment  upon  her,  that  her  entrance  into 
the  town  may  be  with  more  decency  than  the  ways  will  now  suffer  it  to  be; 
and,  to  that  purpose,  I  pray  you  would  quickly  pass  such  laws  as  are  before 
you,  in  order  to  the  amending  those  ways,  and  that  she  may  not  find  White- 
hall surrounded  with  water."  Such  a  bill  passed  the  Commons  on  the  24th 
June.  —  From  Charles's  Speech,  ist  March,  1662. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEP  VS.  243 

pass  their  Acts,  that  he  may  go  out  of  towne.  But  he, 
I  hear  since,  was  forced  to  stay  till  almost  nine  o'clock 
at  night  before  he  could  have  done,  and  then  he 
prorogued  them;  and  so  to  Gilford,  and  lay  there. 
Home,  and  Mr.  Hunt  dined  with  me,  and  were  merry. 
After  dinner  Sir  W.  Pen  and  his  daughter,  and  I  and 
my  wife  by  coach  to  the  theatre,  and  there  in  a  box 
saw  "The  Little  Thiefe "  well  done.  Thence  to 
Moorefields,  and  walked  and  eat  some  cheesecake  and 
gammon  of  bacon,  but  when  I  was  come  home  I  was 
sick.  So  my  wife  walking  and  singing  upon  the  leades 
till  ver>'  late,  it  being  pleasant  and  moonshine,  and  so 
to  bed. 

20th.  Sir  W.  Pen  and  I  did  a  little  business  at  the 
office,  and  so,  home  again.  Then  comes  Dean  Ful- 
ler ;  ^  and  I  am  most  pleased  with  his  company  and 
goodness.  At  last  parted,  and  my  wife  and  I  by 
coach  to  the  opera,  and  there  saw  the  2nd  part  of 
"The  Siege  of  Rhodes,"  but  it  is  not  so  well  done  as 
when  Roxalana  was  there,  who,  it  is  said,  is  now  owned 
by  my  Lord  of  Oxford.^  Thence  to  Tower-wharfe,  and 
there  took  boat,  and  we  all  walked  to  Halfeway  House, 
and  there  eat  and  drank,  and  were  pleasant,  and  so 
finally  home  again  in  the  evening,  and  so  good  night, 
this  being  a  very  pleasant  life  that  we  now  lead,  and 
have  long  done ;  the  Lord  be  blessed,  and  make  us 
thankful.     But,  though  I  am  much  against  too  much 

1  Dean  of  St.  Patrick's. 

2  For  an  account  of  her  pretended  marriage  with  the  Earl  of  Oxford,  see 
Grammont,  '*  Memoirs."     (M.  B.) 


244  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

spending,  yet  I  do  think  it  best  to  enjoy  some  degree 
of  pleasure  now  that  we  have  health,  money,  and  op- 
portunity, rather  than  to  leave  pleasures  to  old  age  or 
poverty,  when  we  cannot  have  them  so  properly. 

2ist.  My  wife  and  I  to  my  Lord's  lodgings,  where 
she  and  I  staid  walking  in  White  Hall  garden.  And 
in  the  Privy-garden  saw  the  finest  smocks  and  linnen 
petticoats  of  my  Lady  Castlemaine's,  laced  with  rich 
lace  at  the  bottom,  that  ever  I  saw ;  and  did  me  good 
to  look  upon  them.  So  to  Wilkinson's,  she  and  I  and 
Sarah,  where  I  had  a  good  quarter  of  lamb  and  a  salat. 
Here  Sarah '  told  me  how  the  King  dined  at  my  Lady 
Castlemaine's,  and  supped,  every  day  and  night  the 
last  week ;  and  that  the  night  that  the  bonfires  were 
made  for  joy  of  the  Queene's  arrivall,  the  King  was 
there ;  but  there  was  no  fire  at  her  door,  though  at  all 
the  rest  of  the  doors  almost  in  the  street ;  which  was 
much  observed :  and  that  the  King  and  she  did  send 
for  a  pair  of  scales  and  weighed  one  another;  and 
she,  being  with  child,^  was  said  to  be  heaviest.  But 
she  is  now  a  most  disconsolate  creature,  and  comes 
not  out  of  doors,  since  the  King's  going.  But  we  went 
to  the  theatre  to  "The  French  Dancing  Master," 3  and 
there  with  much  pleasure  gazed  upon  her  (Lady  Cas- 
tlemaine)  ;   but  it  troubles  us  to  see  her  look  deject- 

^  Lord  Sandwich's  housekeeper. 

2  The  Duke  of  Southampton,  Lady  Castlemaine's  son  by  the  King,  was 
born  in  May,  1662. 

3  "  The  French  Dancing  Master,"  acted  by  Killigrew's  company,  nth 
March,  1 661 -2.  See  Sir  Henry  Herbert's  Register  of  Plays  performed  at  the 
Restoration,  in  Malone's  "  Shakespeare,"  by  Boswell,  vol.  iii.  p.  27s. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  245 

edly  and  slighted  by  people  already.  The  play  pleased 
us  very  well ;  but  Lacy's  ^  part,  the  Dancing  Master, 
the  best  in  the  world. 

2  2d.  This  morning  comes  an  order  from  the  Sec- 
retary of  State,  Nicholas,  for  me  to  let  one  Mr.  Lee,  a 
Councellor,  view  what  papers  I  have  relating  to  pas- 
sages of  the  late  times,  wherein  Sir  H.  Vane's  hand  is 
employed,  in  order  to  the  drawing  up  his  charge ; 
which  I  did.  At  noon  he,  with  Sir  W.  Pen  and  his 
daughter,  dined  with  me,  and  he  to  his  work  again, 
and  we  by  coach  to  the  theatre  and  saw  "  Love  in 
a  Maze."  ^  The  play  hath  little  in  it  but  Lacy's  part 
of  a  country  fellow,  which  he  did  to  admiration.  So 
home,  and  supped  with  Sir  W.  Pen.  This  night  we 
had  each  of  us  a  letter  from  Captain  Teddiman  from 
the  Streights,  of  a  peace  made  upon  good  terms,  by 
Sir  J.  Lawson,  with  the  Argier  men,3  which  is  most 
excellent  news.  He  hath  also  sent  each  of  us  some 
anchovies,  olives,  and  muscatt ;  but  I  know  not  yet 
what  that  is,  and  am  ashamed  to  ask.  After  supper 
home,  and  to  bed,  resolving  to  make  up  this  week  in 


1  No  wonder  that  Lacy  performed  his  part  so  well,  as  he  had  been  brought 
up  a  dancing-master.  He  afterwards  procured  a  Lieutenant's  commission  in 
the  army,  which  he  soon  quitted  for  the  stage,  and  was  the  author  of  four 
plays.     Ob.  1681,  and  buried  in  the  churchyard  of  St.  Martin-in-the-Fields. 

2  "Love  in  a  Maze"  is  the  second  title  of  Shirley's  play  of  "The 
Changes." 

3  The  articles  of  peace  between  Charles  IL  and  Algiers,  concluded  30th 
August,  1664,  by  Admiral  Thomas  Allen,  according  to  instructions  from  the 
Duke  of  York,  being  the  same  articles  concluded  by  Sir  John  Lawson,  23rd 
April,  1662,  and  confirmed  loth  November  following.  They  are  reprinted  in 
Somers's  "  Tracts,"  vol.  vi.,  p.  554,  Sir  W.  Scott's  edition. 


246  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

seeing  plays  and  pleasure,  and  so  fall  to  business  next 
week  again  for  a  great  while. 

23rd.  At  the  office  good  part  of  the  morning,  and 
then  about  noon  with  my  wife  on  foot  to  the  Ward- 
robe. I  staid  below  in  the  parler  reading  of  the 
King's  and  Chancellor's  late  speeches  at  the  prorogu- 
ing of  the  Houses  of  Parliament.  And  while  I  was 
reading,  news  was  brought  me  that  my  Lord  Sand- 
wich is  come  and  gone  up  to  my  Lady,  which  put  me 
into  great  suspense  of  joy,  so  I  went  lip  waiting  my 
Lord's  coming  out  of  my  Lady's  chamber,  which  by 
and  by  he  did,  and  looks  very  well,  and  my  soul  is 
glad  to  see  him.  He  very  merry,  and  hath  left  the 
King  and  Queene  at  Portsmouth,  and  is  come  up  to 
stay  here  till  next  Wednesday,  and  then  to  meet  the 
King  and  Queene  at  Hampton  Court.  So  to  dinner ; 
and  my  Lord  mighty  merry;  among  other  things, 
saying  that  the  Queene  is  a  very  agreeable  lady,  and 
paints  still.  After  dinner  I  showed  him  my  letter 
from  Teddiman  about  the  news  from  Argier,  which 
pleases  him  exceedingly;  and  he  writ  one  to  the 
Duke  of  York  about  it,  and  sent  it  express.^  There 
coming  much  company  after  dinner  to  my  Lord,  my 
wife  and  I  slunk  away  to  the  opera,  where  we  saw 
"  Witt  in  a  Constable,"  ^  the  first  time  that  it  is  acted ; 


^  "  I  came  to  the  Wardrobe  in  London  to  my  family,  where  I  met  a  letter 
from  Captain  Teddiman  to  Mr.  Samuel  Pepys,  showing  the  news  of  Sir  John 
Lawson's  having  made  peace  with  Algiers,  they  agreeing  not  to  search  our 
ships."  —  Lord  Sandwich's  Journal,  23rd  May. 

*  A  Comedy,  by  Henry  Glapthome . 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  247 

but  SO  silly  a  play  I  never  saw  I  think  in  my  life. 
After  it  was  done,  my  wife  and  I  to  the  puppet  play 
in  Covent  Garden,  which  I  saw  the  other  day,  and 
indeed  it  is  very  pleasant.  Here  among  the  fidlers 
I  first  saw  a  dulcimere  played  on  with  sticks  knock- 
ing of  the  strings,  and  is  very  pretty. » 

24th.  To  the  Wardrobe,  and  there  again  spoke 
with  my  Lord,  and  saw  W.  Howe,  who  is  grown  a 
very  pretty  and  is  a  sober  fellow.  Thence  abroad 
with  Mr.  Creed,  of  whom  I  informed  myself  of  all  I 
had  a  mind  to  know.  Among  other  things,  the  great 
difficulty  my  Lord  hath  been  in  all  this  summer  for 
lack  of  good  and  full  orders  from  the  King;  and  I 
doubt  our  Lords  of  the  Councell  do  not  mind  things 
as  the  late  powers  did,  but  their  pleasures  or  profit 
more.  That  the  Juego  de  Toros^  is  a  simple  sport, 
yet  the  greatest  in  Spaine.  That  the  Queene  hath 
given  no  rewards  to  any  of  the  captains  or  officers, 
but  only  to  my  Lord  Sandwich ;  and  that  was  a  bag 
of  gold,  which  was  no  honourable  present,  of  about 
1,400/.  sterling.  How  recluse  the  Queene  hath  ever 
been,  and  all  the  voyage  never  come  upon  the  deck, 
nor  put  her  head  out  of  her  cabin ;  but  did  love  my 
Lord's  musique,  and  would  send  for  it  down  to  the 
state-room,  and  she  sit  in  her  cabin  \vithin  hearing 
of  it.  That  my  Lord  was  forced  to  have  some  clash- 
ing with  the  Council  of  Portugall  about  payment  of 


^  For  a  description  of  the  different   musical   instruments   mentioned  by 
Pepys,  see  Burney's  and  Hawkins's  "  Histories  of  Music." 

2  Juego  de  Toros.    Bull-fights.     See  7th  Nov.  1661.     (M.  B.) 


248  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

the  portion,  before  he  could  get  it ;  which  was,  be- 
sides Tangier  and  a  free  trade  in  the  Indys,  two  mil- 
Hons  of  crownes,  half  now,  and  the  other  half  in 
twelve  months.  But  they  have  brought  but  little 
money ;  but  the  rest  in  sugars  and  other  commoditys, 
and  bills  of  exchange.  That  the  King  of  Portugall 
is  a  very  foole  almost,  and  his  mother  do  all,  and  he 
is  a  very  poor  Prince.  After  a  morning  draft  at  the 
Star  in  Cheapside,  I  took  him  to  the  Exchange,  thence 
home,  but  my  wife  having  dined,  I  took  him  to  Fish 
Street,  and  there  we  had  a  couple  of  lobsters,  and 
dined  upon  them,  and  much  discourse. 

25th  (Lord's  day).  To  trimming  myself,  which  I 
have  this  week  done  every  morning,  with  a  pumice 
stone,  which  I  learnt  of  Mr.  Marsh,  when  I  was  last 
at  Portsmouth ;  and  I  find  it  very  easy,  speedy,  and 
cleanly,  and  shall  continue  the  practice  of  it.  To 
church,  and  heard  a  good  sermon  of  Mr.  Woodcocke's 
at  our  church ;  only  in  his  latter  prayer  for  a  woman 
in  childbed,  he  prayed  that  God  would  deliver  her 
from  the  hereditary  curse  of  childe-bearing,  which 
seemed  a  pretty  strange  expression.  Dined  at  home, 
and  Mr.  Creed  with  me.  This  day  I  had  the  first 
dish  of  pease  I  have  had  this  year.  After  discourse 
he  and  I  abroad,  and  walked  up  and  down,  and  looked 
into  many  churches,  among  others  Mr.  Baxter's  at 
Blackfryers.  Then  to  the  Wardrobe  and  out  with 
Captn.  Ferrers  to  Charing  Cross ;  and  there  at  the 
Triumph  taverne  he  showed  me  some  Portugall  ladys, 
which  are  come  to  towne  before  the  Queene.     They 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  249 

are  not  handsome,  and  their  farthingales  a  strange 
dress.  Many  ladies  and  persons  of  quality  come  to 
see  them.  I  find  nothing  in  them  that  is  pleasing; 
and  I  see  they  have  learnt  to  kiss  and  look  freely  up 
and  down  already,  and  I  do  beheve  will  soon  forget 
the  recluse  practice  of  their  own  country.  They  com- 
plain much  for  lack  of  good  water  to  drink.  The 
King's  guards  and  some  City  companies  do  walk  up 
and  downe  the  towne  these  five  or  six  days ;  which 
makes  me  think,  and  they  do  say,  there  are  some  plots 
in  laying.     God  keep  us. 

26th.  Up  by  four  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  fell 
to  the  preparing  of  some  accounts  for  my  Lord  of 
Sandwich.  By  and  by,  by  appointment  comes  Mr. 
Moore,  and,  by  what  appears  to  us  at  present,  we 
found  that  my  Lord  is  above  7,000/.  in  debt,  and  that 
he  hath  money  coming  into  him  that  will  clear  all, 
and  so  we  think  him  clear,  but  very  little  money  in 
his  purse.  So  to  my  Lord's,  and  after  he  was  ready, 
we  spent  an  hour  with  him,  giving  him  an  account 
thereof;  and  he  having  some  6,000/.  in  his  hands, 
remaining  of  the  King's,  he  is  resolved  to  make  use 
of  that,  and  get  off  of  it  as  well  as  he  can,  which  I 
like  well  of,  for  else  I  fear  he  will  scarce  get  before- 
hand again  a  great  while.  Thence  home,  and  to  the 
Trinity  House ;  where  the  Brethren  (who  have  been 
at  Deptford  choosing  a  new  Maister ;  which  is  Sir  J. 
Minnes,  notwithstanding  Sir  W.  Batten  did  contend 
highly  for  it :  at  which  I  am  not  a  little  pleased,  be- 
cause of  his  proud  lady)  about  three  o'clock   came 


250  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

hither,  and  so  to  dinner.  I  seated  myself  close  by 
Mr.  Prin,  who,  in  discourse  with  me,  fell  upon  what 
records  he  hath  of  the  lust  and  wicked  lives  of  the 
nuns  heretofore  in  England,  and  showed  me  out  of 
his  pocket  one  wherein  thirty  nuns  for  their  lust  were 
ejected  of  their  house,  being  not  fit  to  live  there,  and 
by  the  Pope's  command  to  be  put,  however,  into  other 
nunnerys.  I  could  not  stay  to  end  dinner  with  them, 
but  rose,  and  privately  went  out,  and  by  water  to  my 
brother's,  and  thence  to  take  my  wife  to  the  Redd 
Bull,'  where  we  saw  Dr.  Faustus,^  but  so  wretchedly 
and  poorly  done,  that  we  were  sick  of  it,  and  the 
worse  because  by  a  former  resolution  it  is  to  be  the 
last  play  we  are  to  see  till  Michaelmas.  Thence 
homewards  by  coach,  through  Moorefields,  where  we 
stood  awhile,  and  saw  the  wrestling.  At  home,  got 
my  lute  upon  the  leades,  and  there  played,  and  so  to 
bed. 

27th.  To  my  Lord  this  morning,  and  thence  to  my 
brother's,  where  I  found  my  father,  poor  man,  come, 
which  I  was  glad  to  see.  He  tells  me  his  alterations 
of  the  house  and  garden  at  Brampton,  which  please 
me  well. 

28th.  Up  and  down  in  several  places  about  busi- 
ness with  Mr.  Creed,  home  about  noon,  and  by  and 
by  comes  my  father  by  appointment  to  dine  with  me, 
which  we  did  very  merrily,  I  desiring  to  make  him 
as  merry  as  I  can,  while  the  poor  man  is  in  towne. 

»  In  St.  John's  Street,  Clerkenwell.     (M.  B.) 

2  "  Dr.  Faustus,"  a  tragical  history,  by  Christopher  Marlowe. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  2$  I 

After  dinner  comes  my  uncle  Wight  and  sat  awhile, 
and  thence  we  three  to  the  Mum  House  at  Leaden- 
hall. 

29th.  At  home  all  the  morning.  At  noon  to  the 
Wardrobe,  and  dined  with  my  Lady,  and  after  dinner 
staid  long  talking  with  her;  then  homeward,  and  in 
Lumbard  Streete  was  called  out  of  a  window  by 
Alderman  Backwell,  where  I  went,  and  saluted  his 
lady,  a  very  pretty  woman.  Here  was  Mr.  Creed, 
and  it  seems  they  have  been  under  some  disorder  in 
feare  of  a  fire  at  the  next  door,  and  had  been  remov- 
ing their  goods,  but  the  fire  was  over  before  I  came. 
Thence  home,  and  with  my  wife  and  the  two  mayds, 
and  the  boy,  took  boat  and  to  Foxhall,i  where  I  had 
not  been  a  great  while.  To  the  old  Spring  Garden, 
and  there  walked  long,  and  the  wenches  gathered 
pinks.  Here  we  staid,  and  seeing  that  we  could  not 
have  anything  to  eate,  but  very  dear,  and  with  long 
stay,  we  went  forth  again  ^vithout  any  notice  taken  of 
us,  and  so  we  might  have  done  if  we  had  had  any- 
thing.    Thence  to  the  new  one,  where  I  never  was 

^  A  manor  in  Surrey,  properly  Fulke's  Hall,  and  so  called  from  Fulke  de 
Breaute,  the  celebrated  mercenary  follower  of  King  John.  Afterwards  called 
Vauxhall  or  Foxhall.  The  gardens  were  formed  about  1661,  and  originally 
the  "  New  Spring  Gardens,"  to  distinguish  them  from  the  "  Old  Spring  Gar- 
den "  at  Vauxhall,  and  the  "  Old  Spring  Gardens  "  at  Charing  Cross.  See 
Evelyn's  "Diary,"  2nd  July,  1661.  Balthazar  Monconys,  who  visited  Eng- 
land early  in  the  reign  of  Charles  II.,  describes  the  gardens  as  then  much 
frequented,  and  having  grass,  and  sand  walks,  and  squares  of  roses,  beans, 
and  asparagus,  divided  by  gooseberry  hedges.  Sir  Samuel  Morland,  in  1675, 
obtained  a  lease  of  the  place.  King  Charles  had  made  Morland  his  Master 
of  Mechanics,  and  here  he  built  a  fine  room,  the  inside  all  of  looking-glass 
and  fountains,  very  pleasant  to  behold.     (M.  B.) 


252  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

before,  which  much  exceeds  the  other ;  and  nere  we 
also  walked,  and  the  boy  crept  through  the  hedge  and 
gathered  abundance  of  roses,  and,  after  a  long  walk, 
passed  out  of  doors  as  we  did  in  the  other  place,  and 
here  we  had  cakes  and  powdered  beef  ^  and  ale,  and 
so  home  again  by  water  with  much  pleasure.  This 
day,  being  the  king's  birth-day,  was  very  solemnly 
observed ;  and  the  more,  for  that  the  Queene  this  day 
comes  to  Hampton  Court.  In  the  evening,  bonfires 
were  made,  but  nothing  to  the  great  number  that  was 
heretofore  at  the  burning  of  the  Rump. 

30th.  This  morning  I  made  up  my  accounts,  and 
find  myself  de  claro  worth  about  530/.,  and  no  more, 
so  little  have  I  increased  it  since  my  last  reckoning ; 
but  I  confess  I  have  laid  out  much  money  in  clothes. 
Upon  a  suddaine  motion  I  took  my  wife,  and  Sarah 
and  Will  by  water,  with  some  victuals  with  us,  as  low 
as  Gravesend,  intending  to  have  gone  into  Hope  to 
the  Royal  James,  to  have  seen  the  ship  and  Mr.  Shep- 
ley,  but  meeting  Mr.  Shepley  in  a  hoy,  bringing  up 
my  Lord's  things,  she  and  I  went  on  board,  and  sailed 
up  with  them  as  far  as  half-way  tree,  very  glad  to  see 
Mr.  Shepley.  Here  we  saw  a  httle  Turke  and  a 
negroe,  which  are  intended  for  pages  to  the  two 
young  ladies.  Many  birds  and  other  pretty  noveltys 
there  was,  but  I  was  afeard  of  being  louzy,  and  so 
took  boat  again,  and  got  to  London  before  them,  all 
the  way,  coming  and  going,  reading  in  the  "Wall- 

J  Powdered  beef,  i.e.,  salted  beef.     (M.  B.) 


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flower  "  I  with  great  pleasure.  So  home,  and  thence 
to  the  Wardrobe,  where  Mr.  Shepley  was  come  with 
the  things.  Here  I  staid  talking  with  my  Lady,  who 
is  preparing  to  go  to-morrow  to  Hampton  Court.  So 
home,  and  at  ten  o'clock  at  night  Mr.  Shepley  came 
to  sup  with  me.  So  we  had  a  dish  of  mackerell  and 
pease,  and  so  he  bid  us  good  night,  going  to  lie  on 
board  the  hoy. 

31st.  Lay  long  in  bed,  and  so  up  to  make  up  my 
Joumall  for  these  two  or  three  days  past.  Then  came 
Anthony  Joyce,  who  duns  me  for  money  for  the  tallow 
which  he  ser\^ed  in  lately  by  my  desire,  which  vexes 
me.  By  and  by  to  White  Hall,  and  so  home,  and 
had  Sarah  to  comb  my  head  clean,  which  I  found  so 
foul  with  powdering  and  other  troubles,  that  I  am 
resolved  to  try  how  I  can  keep  my  head  dry  without 
powder ;  and  I  did  also  in  a  suddaine  fit  cut  off  all 
my  beard,  which  I  had  been  a  great  while  bringing 
up,  only  that  I  may  with  my  pumice-stone  do  my 
whole  face,  as  I  now  do  my  chin,  and  to  save  time, 
which  I  find  a  very  easy  way  and  gentile.  So  she 
also  washed  my  feet  in  a  bath  of  herbes,  and  so  to 
bed.  The  Queene  is  brought  a  few  days  since  to 
Hampton  Court ;  and  all  people  say  of  her  to  be  a 
very  fine  and  handsome  lady,  and  very  discreet ;  and 
that  the  King  is  pleased  enough  with  her :  which,  I 
fear,  will  put  Madam  Castlemaine's  nose  out  of  joynt. 

*  A  very  singular  book  by  Dr.  Thomas  Baj'ly  — "  Herba  Parietis ;" 
or,  the  Wall-flower,  as  it  grew  out  of  the  Stone  Chamber  belonging  to  New- 
gate.   Lond.  1650.    Folio. 


254  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

The  Court  is  wholly  now  at  Hampton.  A  peace  with 
Argier  '  is  lately  made  ;  which  is  also  good  news.  My 
Lord  Sandwich  is  lately  come  with  the  Queene  from 
sea,  very  well  and  in  good  repute.  The  Act  for  Uni- 
formity is  lately  printed,  which,  it  is  thought,  will 
make  mad  work  among  the  Presbyterian  ministers. 
People  of  all  sides  are  very  much  discontented ;  some 
thinking  themselves  used,  contrary  to  promise,  too 
hardly ;  and  the  other,  that  they  are  not  rewarded  so 
much  as  they  expected  by  the  King.  God  keep  us  all. 
I  have  by  a  late  oathe  obliged  myself  from  wine  and 
playes,  of  which  I  find  good  effect. 

June  ist  (Lord's  day).  At  church  in  the  morning. 
A  stranger  made  a  very  good  sermon.  Dined  at 
home,  and  Mr.  Spong  came  to  see  me ;  so  he  and  I 
sat  down  a  little  to  sing  some  French  psalms.  To 
church  again,  where  a  Presbyter  made  a  sad  and  long 
sermon,  which  vexed  me. 

2nd.  Up  early  about  business  and  then  to  the 
Wardrobe,  and  spoke  to  my  Lord  about  the  exchange 
of  the  crusados  ^  into  sterling  money,  and  other  mat- 
ters. This  day  my  wife  put  on  her  slasht  wastecoate, 
which  is  very  pretty. 

3rd.   Up  by  four  o'clock  and  to  my  business  in  my 

1  Algiers.     (M.  B.) 

2  Crusado,  a  Portuguese  coin.  It  is  named  from  a  cross  which  it  bears 
on  one  side,  the  arms  of  Portugal  being  on  the  other.  It  varied  in  value  at 
different  periods  from  2j.  3^.  to  4^. 

"  Believe  me,  I  had  rather  lost  my  purse 
Full  of  cruzados." 

Shakespeare,  Othello,  act  iii.  sc.  4.     (M.  B.) 


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chamber,  to  even  accounts  with  my  Lord  and  myself, 
and  very  fain  I  would  become  master  of  1,000/.,  but 
I  have  not  above  530/.  toward  it  yet.  At  the  office 
all  the  morning,  and  Mr.  Coventry  brought  his  patent 
and  took  his  place  with  us  this  morning.  Upon  our 
making  a  contract,  I  went,  as  I  use  to  do,  to  draw 
the  heads  thereof,  but  Sir  W.  Pen  most  basely  told 
me  that  the  Comptroller  is  to  do  it,  and  so  begun  to 
employ  Mr.  Turner  about  it,  at  which  I  was  much 
vexed,  and  begun  to  dispute ;  and  what  with  the 
letter  of  the  Duke's  orders,  and  Mr.  Barlow's  letter, 
and  the  practice  of  our  predecessors,  which  Sir  G. 
Carteret  knew  best  when  he  was  Comptroller,  it  was 
ruled  for  me.  What  Sir  J.  Minnes  will  do  when  he 
comes  I  knowe  not,  but  Sir  W.  Pen  did  it  like  a  base 
raskall,  and  so  I  shall  remember  him  while  I  live. 
After  office  done,  I  went  down  to  the  Towre  Wharfe, 
where  Mr.  Creed  and  Shepley  was  ready  with  three 
chests  of  the  crusados,  being  about  6,000/.,  ready  to 
bring  to  shore  to  my  house,  which  they  did,  and  put 
it  in  my  further  cellar,  and  Mr.  Shepley  took  the  key. 
I  to  my  father  and  Dr.  Williams  and  Tom  Trice,  by 
appointment,  in  the-  Old  Bayly,  to  Short's,  the  ale- 
house, but  could  come  to  no  terms  with  T.  Trice. 
Thence  to  the  Wardrobe,  where  I  found  my  Lady 
come  from  Hampton  Court,  where  the  Queene  hath 
used  her  very  civilly ;  and  my  Lady  tells  me  is  a  most 
pretty  woman,  at  which  I  am  glad.  Yesterday  (Sir 
R.  Ford  told  me)  the  Aldermen  of  the  City  did 
attend  her  in  their  habits,  and  did  present  her  with  a 


256  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

gold  cupp  and  1,000/.  in  gold  therein.  But,  he  told 
me,  that  they  are  so  poor  in  their  Chamber,  that 
they  were  fain  to  call  two  or  three  Aldermen  to  raise 
fines  to  make  up  this  sum,  among  which  was  Sir  W. 
Warren.  Home  and  to  bed,  my  mind  troubled  about 
Sir  W.  Pen,  his  playing  the  rogue  with  me  to-day,  as 
also  about  the  charge  of  money  that  is  in  my  house, 
which  I  had  forgot ;  but  I  made  the  mayds  to  rise 
and  light  a  candle,  and  set  it  in  the  dining-room,  to 
scare  away  thieves,  and  so  to  sleep. 

4th.  Up  early,  and  Mr.  Moore  comes  to  me  and 
tells  me  that  Mr.  Barnwell  is  dead,  which  troubles  me 
something,  and  the  more  for  that  I  believe  we  shall 
lose  Mr.  Shepley's  company.  By  and  by  Sir  W.  Batten 
and  I  by  water  to  Woolwich ;  and  there  saw  an  experi- 
ment made  of  Sir  R.  Ford's  Holland's  yame  (about 
which  we  have  lately  had  so  much  stir ;  and  I  have 
much  concerned  myself  for  our  rope-maker,  Mr. 
Hughes,  who  represented  it  as  bad),  and  we  found  it 
to  be  very  bad,  and  broke  sooner  than,  upon  a  fair 
triall,  five  threads  of  that  against  four  of  Riga  yame ; 
and  also  that  some  of  it  had  old  stuffe  that  had  been 
tarred,  covered  over  with  new  hempe,  which  is  such  a 
cheat  as  hath  not  been  heard  of.  I  was  glad  of  this 
discovery,  because  I  would  not  have  the  King's  work- 
men discouraged  (as  Sir  W.  Batten  do  most  basely 
do)  from  representing  the  faults  of  merchants'  goods, 
when  there  is  any.  To  my  Lord's,  who  I  find  resolved 
to  buy  Brampton  Manor  of  Sir  Peter  Ball,  at  which  I 
am  glad.     Thence  to  White  Hall,  and  showed  Sir  G. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  25/ 

Carteret  the  cheat,  and  so  to  the  Wardrobe,  and  there 
staid  and  supped  with  my  Lady. 

5  th.  To  the  office,  where  they  were  just  sat  down, 
and  I  showed  them  yesterday's  discovery,  and  have 
got  Sir  R.  Ford  to  be  my  enemy  by  it ;  but  I  care  not, 
for  it  is  my  duty,  and  so  did  get  his  bill  stopped  for 
the  present.  To  dinner,  and  found  Dr.  Thos.  Pepys 
at  my  house  ;  but  I  was  called  from  dinner  by  a  note 
from  Mr.  Moore  to  Alderman  Backwell's,  to  see  some 
thousands  of  my  Lord's  crusados  weighed,  and  we 
find  that  3,000  come  to  about  530/.  or  40  generally. 
In  the  evening  with  Mr.  Moore  to  Backwell's  with 
another  1,200  crusados  and  saw  them  weighed,  and 
so  home  and  to  bed. 

6th.  At  my  office  all  alone  all  the  morning,  and  the 
smith  being  with  me  about  other  things,  did  open  a 
chest  that  hath  stood  ever  since  I  came  to  the  office, 
in  my  office,  and  there  we  found  a  modell  of  a  fine 
ship,  which  I  long  to  know  whether  it  be  the  King's 
or  Mr.  Turner's.  At  noon  to  the  Wardrobe.  Thence 
to  my  brother  Tom's,  where  we  found  a  letter  from 
Pall  that  my  mother  is  dangerously  ill  in  fear  of  death, 
which  troubles  my  father  and  me  much,  but  I  hope  it 
is  otherwise,  the  letter  being  four  days  old  since  it  was 
writ. 

7th.  To  the  office,  where  all  the  morning,  and  I 
find  Mr.  Coventry  is  resolved  to  do  much  good,  and 
to  enquire  into  all  the  miscarriages  of  the  office.  At 
noon  with  him  and  Sir  W.  Batten  to  dinner  at  Trinity 
House  j  where,  among  others,  Sir  J.  Robinson,  Lieu- 


25  8  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS. 

tenant  of  the  Tower,  was,  who  says  that  yesterday  Sir 
H.  Vane  had  a  full  hearing  at  the  King's  Bench,  and 
is  found  guilty ;  and  that  he  did  never  hear  any  man 
argue  more  simply  than  he  in  all  his  life,  and  so  others 
say.  Sent  for  to  Sir  G.  Carteret's,  and  there  talked 
with  him  a  good  while.  I  perceive,  as  he  told  me, 
were  it  not  that  Mr.  Coventry  had  already  feathered 
his  nest  in  selling  of  places,  he  do  like  him  very  well, 
and  hopes  great  good  from  him.  But  he  complains  so 
of  lack  of  money,  that  my  heart  is  very  sad,  under  the 
apprehension  of  the  fall  of  the  office. 

8th  (Lord's  day).  To  church,  and  there  I  found 
Mr.  Mills  come  home  out  of  the  country  again,  and 
preached  but  a  lazy  sermon.  Home  and  dined  with 
my  ^vife,  and  so  to  church  again  with  her.  Thence 
walked  to  my  Lady's,  and  there  supped  with  her,  and 
merry,  among  other  things,  with  the  parrott  which  my 
Lord  hath  brought  from  the  sea,  which  speaks  very 
well,  and  cries  Pall  so  pleasantly,  that  made  my  Lord 
give  it  my  Lady  Paulina ;  but  my  Lady,  her  mother, 
do  not  like  it.  Home,  and  observe  my  man  Will  to 
walk  with  his  cloak  flung  over  his  shoulder,  hke  a 
Ruffian,  which,  whether  it  was  that  he  might  not  be 
seen  to  walk  along  with  the  footboy,  I  know  not,  but  I 
was  vexed  at  it ;  and  coming  home,  and  after  prayers, 
I  did  ask  him  where  he  learned  that  immodest  garbe, 
and  he  answered  me  that  it  was  not  immodest,  or  some 
such  slight  answer,  at  which  I  did  give  him  two  boxes 
on  the  eares,  which  I  never  did  before,  and  so  was 
after  a  little  troubled  at  it. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS,  259 

9th.  Early  up  and  at  the  office  with  Mr.  Hater, 
making  my  alphabet  of  contracts,  upon  the  dispatch 
of  which  I  am  now  very  intent,  for  that  I  am  resolved 
to  enquire  into  the  price  of  commodities.  Dined  at 
home,  and  after  dinner  to  Greatorex's,  and  with  him 
and  another  stranger  to  the  Taveme,  but  I  drank  no 
wine.  He  recommended  Bond,  of  our  end  of  the 
towne,  to  teach  me  to  measure  timber,  and  some 
other  things  that  I  would  learn,  in  order  to  my 
office. 

loth.  At  the  office  all  the  morning,  much  business ; 
and  great  hopes  of  bringing  things,  by  Mr.  Coventry's 
means,  to  a  good  condition  in  the  office.  Dined  at 
home,  to  the  office  again  in  the  afternoon,  but  not 
meeting,  as  was  intended,  I  went  to  my  brother's  and 
bookseller's,  and  other  places  about  business,  and  paid 
off  all  for  books  to  this  day,  and  do  not  intend  to  buy 
any  more  of  any  kind  a  good  while,  though  I  had  a 
great  mind  to  have  bought  the  King's  works,  as  they 
are  new  printed  in  folio,  and  present  it  to  my  Lord ; 
but  I  think  it  will  be  best  to  save  the  money.  So 
home  and  to  bed. 

nth.  At  the  office  all  the  morning,  Sir  W.  Batten, 
Sir  W.  Pen,  and  I  about  the  Victualler's  accounts. 
Then  home  to  dinner  and  to  the  office  again  all  the 
afternoon,  Mr.  Hater  and  I  writing  over  my  Alphabet 
faire,  in  which  I  took  great  pleasure  to  rule  the  hnes 
and  to  have  the  capitall  words  \vrote  with  red  ink.  So 
home  and  to  supper.  This  evening  Savill  the  Paynter 
came  and  did  varnish  over  my  wife's  picture  and  mine, 


260  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

and  I  paid  him  for  my  little  picture  3/.,  and  so  am 
clear  with  him. 

1 2th.  This  morning  I  tried  on  my  riding  cloth  suit 
with  close  knees,  the  first  that  ever  I  had ;  and  I  think 
they  will  be  very  convenient,  if  not  too  hot  to  wear 
any  other  open  knees  after  them.  At  the  office  all 
the  morning.  Among  many  other  businesses,  I  did 
get  a  vote  signed  by  all,  concerning  my  issuing  of 
warrants,  which  they  did  not  smell  the  use  I  intend 
to  make  of  it ;  but  it  is  to  plead  for  my  clerks  to  have 
their  right  of  giving  out  all  warrants,  at  which  I  am 
not  a  little  pleased.  But  great  difference  happened 
between  Sir  G.  Carteret  and  Mr.  Coventry,  about  pass- 
ing the  Victualler's  account,  and  whether  Sir  George 
is  to  pay  the  Victualler  his  money,  or  the  Exchequer ; 
Sir  George  claiming  it  to  be  his  place  to  save  his  three- 
pences. It  ended  in  anger,  and  I  believe  will  come 
to  be  a  question  before  the  King  and  Council.  I  did 
what  I  could  to  keep  myself  unconcerned  in  it,  having 
some  things  of  my  own  to  do  before  I  would  appear 
high  in  anything.  Thence  to  dinner,  by  Mr.  Gauden's 
invitation,  to  the  Dolphin,  where  a  good  dinner ;  but 
what  is  to  myself  a  great  wonder,  that  with  ease  I  past 
the  whole  dinner  without  drinking  a  drop  of  wine. 
After  dinner  to  the  office,  my  head  full  of  business, 
and  so  home,  and  it  being  the  longest  "■  day  in  the 
year,  I  made  all  my  people  go  to  bed  by  daylight. 
But  after  I  was  a-bed  and  asleep,  a  note  came  from 


^  According  to   the  "old  style:"   the  "new  style"  did  not  begin  till 
1752.     (M.B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  26 1 

my  brother  Tom  to  tell  me  that  my  cozen  Anne 
Pepys,  of  Worcestershire,  her  husband  is  dead,  and 
she  married  again,  and  her  second  husband  '  in  town, 
and  intends  to  come  and  see  me  to-morrow. 

13th.  Up  by  4  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  read 
Cicero's  Second  Oration  against  Catiline,  which  pleased 
me  exceedingly ;  and  more  I  discern  therein  than  ever 
I  thought  was  to  be  found  in  him ;  but  I  perceive  it 
was  my  ignorance,  and  that  he  is  as  good  a  writer  as 
ever  I  read  in  my  life.  By  and  by  to  Sir  G.  Carteret's, 
to  talk  with  him  about  yesterday's  difference  at  the 
office ;  and  offered  my  service  to  look  into  my  old 
books  or  papers  that  I  have,  that  may  make  for  him. 
He  was  well  pleased  therewith,  and  did  much  inveigh 
against  Mr.  Coventry;  telling  me  how  he  had  done 
him  service  in  the  Parliament,  when  Prin  had  drawn 
up  things  against  him  for  taking  of  money  for  places ; 
that  he  did  at  his  desire,  and  upon  his  letters,  keep 
him  off  from  doing  it.  And  many  other  things  he  told 
me,  as  how  the  King  was  beholden  to  him,  and  in 
what  a  miserable  condition  his  family  would  be,  if  he 
should  die  before  he  hath  cleared  his  accounts.  Upon 
the  whole,  I  do  find  that  he  do  much  esteem  of  me, 
and  is  my  friend.  Thence  to  my  Lady's,  and  there 
dined  with  her,  and  after  dinner  some  musique,  and 
so  home  to  my  business,  and  in  the  evening  my  wife 
and  I,  and  Sarah  and  the  boy,  a  most  pleasant  walk  to 
Halfway  house,  and  so  home  and  to  bed. 

I  Mr.  Fisher.     See  15th  June.     (M.  B.) 


262  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

14th.  Up  by  four  o'clock  in  the  morning  and  upon 
business  at  my  office.  Then  we  sat  down  to  business, 
and  about  1 1  o'clock,  having  a  room  got  ready  for  us, 
we  all  went  out  to  the  Tower-hill ;  and  there,  over 
against  the  scaffold,  made  on  purpose  this  day,  saw 
Sir  Henry  Vane  '  brought.  A  very  great  press  of  peo- 
ple. He  made  a  long  speech,  many  times  interrupted 
by  the  Sheriffe  and  others  there ;  and  they  would  have 
taken  his  paper  out  of  his  hand,  but  he  would  not  let 
it  go.  But  they  caused  all  the  books  of  those  that 
writ 2  after  him  to  be  given  the  Sheriffe;  and  the 
trumpets  were  brought  under  the  scaffold  that  he 
might  not  be  heard.  Then  he  prayed,  and  so  fitted 
himself,  and  received  the  blow ;  but  the  scaffold  was 
so  crowded  that  we  could  not  see  it  done.  But  Bore- 
man,3  who  had  been  upon  the  scaffold,  came  to  us  and 
told  us,  that  first  he  began  to  speak  of  the  irregular 
proceeding  against  him ;  that  he  was,  against  Magna 
Charta,  denied  to  have  his  exceptions  against  the  in- 
dictment allowed ;  and  that  there  he  was  stopped  by 
the  Sheriffe.     Then  he  drew  out  his  paper  of  notes. 


1  Sir  Henry  Vane  was  born  1612.  Though  he  disapproved  of  the  violence 
offered  to  the  King's  person,  he  accepted  afterwards  of  a  seat  at  the  Council- 
board.  At  the  Restoration,  though  both  Houses  voted  for  an  act  of  indemnity 
in  his  favour,  his  conduct  to  Strafford,  and  the  perseverance  with  which  he 
had  supported  the  republican  cause,  were  not  forgotten,  and  therefore  he  was 
arraigned  and  condemned  on  pretence  of  having  compassed  the  late  King's 
death.  He  is  represented  by  Clarendon  as  a  man  of  deep  dissimulation,  of 
quick  conception,  and  great  understanding,  but  Burnet  speaks  of  him  as  a 
fearful  man,  whose  head  was  darkened  in  his  notions  of  religion.    (M.  B.) 

2  i.e.,  the  reporters. 

3  Sir  William  Boreman,  Clerk  to  the  Board  of  Green  Cloth. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  263 

and  begun  to  tell  them  first  his  life  ;  that  he  was  bom 
a  gentleman,  that  he  was  bred  up  and  had  the  quality 
of  a  gentleman,  and  to  make  him  in  the  opinion  of 
the  world  more  a  gentleman,  he  had  been,  till  he  was 
seventeen  years  old,  a  good  fellow,  but  then  it  pleased 
God  to  lay  a  foundation  of  grace  in  his  heart,  by  which 
he  was  persuaded,  against  his  worldly  interest,  to  leave 
all  preferment  and  go  abroad,  where  he  might  serve 
God  with  more  freedom.  Then  he  was  called  home, 
and  made  a  member  of  the  Long  Parliament ;  where 
he  never  did,  to  this  day,  any  thing  against  his  con- 
science, but  all  for  the  glory  of  God.  Here  he  would 
have  given  them  an  account  of  the  proceedings  of 
the  Long  Parliament,  but  they  so  often  interrupted 
him,  that  at  last  he  was  forced  to  give  over :  and  so 
fell  into  prayer  for  England  in  generall,  then  for  the 
churches  in  England,  and  then  for  the  City  of  Lon- 
don :  and  so  fitted  himself  for  the  block,  and  received 
the  blow.  He  had  a  blister,  or  issue,  upon  his  neck, 
which  he  desired  them  not  hurt :  he  changed  not  his 
colour  or  speech  to  the  last,  but  died  justifying  him- 
self and  the  cause  he  had  stood  for ;  and  spoke  very 
confidently  of  his  being  presently  at  the  right  hand  of 
Christ ;  and  in  all  things  appeared  the  most  resolved 
man  that  ever  died  in  that  manner,  and  showed  more 
of  heate  than  cowardize,  but  yet  with  all  humility  and 
gravity.  One  asked  him  why  he  did  not  pray  for  the 
King.  He  answered,  "Nay,"  says  he,  "you  shall  see 
I  can  pray  for  the  King :  I  pray  God  bless  him  ! " 
The  King  had  given  his  body  to  his  friends;   and, 


264  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

therefore,  he  told  them  that  he  hoped  they  would  be 
civil  to  his  body  when  dead ;  and  desired  they  would 
let  him  die  like  a  gentleman  and  a  Christian,  and  not 
crowded  and  pressed  as  he  was.  So  to  the  office  a 
little,  and  so  to  the  Trinity-house  all  of  us  to  dinner ; 
and  then  to  the  office  again  all  the  afternoon  till  night. 
This  day,  I  hear,  my  Lord  Peterborough  is  come  un- 
expected from  Tangier,  to  give  the  King  an  account 
of  the  place,  which,  we  fear,  is  in  none  of  the  best 
condition.  We  had  also  certain  news  to-day  that  the 
Spaniard  is  before  Lisbone  with  thirteen  sayle ;  six 
Dutch,  and  the  rest  his  own  ships ;  which  will,  I  fear, 
be  ill  for  Portugall.  I  writ  a  letter  of  all  this  day's 
proceedings  to  my  Lord,  at  Hinchingbroke,  who,  I 
hear,  is  very  well  pleased  with  the  work  there. 

15th  (Lord's  day).  To  church  in  the  morning  and 
home  to  dinner,  where  come  my  brother  Tom  and  Mr. 
Fisher,  my  cozen.  Nan  Pepy's  second  husband,  who, 
I  perceive,  is  a  very  good-humoured  man,  an  old  cava- 
lier, I  made  as  much  of  him  as  I  could,  and  were 
merry,  and  am  glad  she  hath  light  of  so  good  a  man. 
They  gone,  to  church  again ;  but  my  wife  not  being 
dressed  as  I  would  have  her,  I  was  angry,  and  she, 
when  she  was  out  of  doors  in  her  way  to  church, 
returned  home  again  vexed.  But  I  to  church,  Mr. 
Mills,  an  ordinary  sermon.  So  home,  and  found  my 
wife  and  Sarah  gone  to  a  neighbour  church,  at  which 
I  was  not  much  displeased.  By  and  by  she  comes 
again,  and,  after  a  word  or  two,  good  friends.  So  to 
walk  upon  the  leades,  and  to  supper,  and  to  bed. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  265 

1 6th.  Up  before  four  o'clock,  and  after  some  busi- 
ness took  Will  forth,  and  he  and  I  walked  through  St. 
Catharine's  and  RatcHffe  (I  think  it  is)  by  the  water- 
side above  a  mile  before  we  could  get  a  boat,  and  so 
over  the  water  in  a  scull  (which  I  have  not  done  a 
great  while),  and  walked  finally  to  Deptford,  where  I 
saw  in  what  forwardness  the  work  is  for  Sir  W.  Batten's 
house  and  mine,  and  it  is  almost  ready.  I  also,  with 
Mr.  Davis,  did  view  my  cozen  Joyce's  tallow,  and  com- 
pared it  with  the  Irish  tallow  we  bought  lately,  and 
found  ours  much  more  white,  but  as  soft  as  it ;  now  what 
is  the  fault,  or  whether  it  be  or  no  a  fault,  I  know  not. 
So  walked  home  again  as  far  as  over  against  the  Towre, 
and  so  over  and  home.  Then  by  water  with  my  wife  to 
the  Wardrobe,  and  dined  there  ;  and  in  the  afternoon 
with  all  the  children  by  water  to  Greenwich,  where  I 
showed  them  the  King's  yacht,  the  house,  and  the 
parke,  all  very  pleasant ;  and  so  to  the  taverne,  and  had 
the  musique  of  the  house,  and  so  merrily  home  again. 

1 7th.  To  the  office,  and  at  Sir  W.  Batten's,  where 
we  all  met  by  chance  and  talked,  and  they  drank  wine  ; 
but  I  forebore  all  their  healths.  Sir  John  Minnes,  I 
perceive,  is  most  excellent  company. 

1 8th.  Up  early ;  and  after  reading  a  little  in  Cicero, 
to  my  office.  To  my  Lord  Crew's  and  dined  with 
him ;  where  I  hear  the  courage  of  Sir  H.  Vane  at  his 
death  is  talked  on  every  where  as  a  miracle.  I  walked 
to  Lilly's, I  the  painter's,  where  we  saw  among  other 

*  Peter  Lely,  the  celebrated  painter,  afterwards  knighted.     Ob.  1680. 


266  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

rare  things,  the  Duchesse  of  York,  her  whole  body, 
sitting  in  state  in  a  chair,  in  white  sattin,  and  another 
of  the  King,  that  is  not  finished ;  most  rare  things. 
I  did  give  the  fellow  something  that  showed  them  us, 
and  promised  to  come  some  other  time,  and  he  would 
show  me  Lady  Castlemaine's,  which  I  could  not  then 
see,  it  being  locked  up  !  Thence  to  Wright's,*  the 
painter's :  but.  Lord  !  the  difference  that  is  between 
their  two  works.  After  some  merry  discourse  in  the 
kitchen  with  my  wife  and  mayds  as  I  now-a-days  often 
do,  I  being  well  pleased  with  both  my  mayds,  to  bed. 
19th.  Up  by  five  o'clock,  and  while  my  man  Will 
was  getting  himself  ready  to  come  up  to  me  I  took 
and  played  upon  my  lute  a  little.  We  sat  long  to-day, 
and  had  a  great  private  business  before  us  about  con- 
tracting with  Sir  W.  Rider,  Mr.  Cutler,  and  Captain 
Cocke,  for  500  ton  of  hempe,  which  we  went  through, 
and  I  am  to  draw  up  the  conditions.  Home  to 
dinner,  and  then  with  the  last  chest  of  crusados  to 
Alderman  Backwell's,  by  the  same  token  his  lady 
going  to  take  coach  stood  in  the  shop,  and  having  a 
gilded  glassfull  of  perfumed  comfits  given  her  by  Don 
Duarte  de  Silva,  the  Portugall  merchant,  that  is  come 
over  with  the  Queene,  I  did  offer  at  a  taste,  and  so 
she  poured  some  out  into  my  hand,  and,  though  good, 
yet  pleased  me  the  better  coming  from  a  pretty  lady. 
So  home  and  at  the  office  preparing  papers  and 
things,  and  indeed  my  head  has  not  been  so  full  of 

J  Michael  Wright,  a  native  of  Scotland,  and  portrait-painter  of  some 
note,  settled  in  London. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  26/ 

business  a  great  while,  and  with  so  much  pleasure,  for 
I  begin  to  see  the  pleasure  it  gives.  God  give  me 
health.     So  to  bed. 

20th.  Up  by  four  or  five  o'clock,  and  to  the  office, 
and  there  drew  up  the  agreement  between  the  King 
and  Sir  John  Winter '  about  the  Forrest  of  Deane ; 
and  having  done  it,  he  came  himself  (I  did  not  know 
him  to  be  the  Queene's  Secretary  before,  but  observed 
him  to  be  a  man  of  fine  parts)  ;  and  we  read  it,  and 
both  Hked  it  well.  That  done,  I  turned  to  the  Forrest 
of  Deane,  in  Speede's  Mapps,  and  there  he  showed 
me  how  it  lies ;  and  the  Lea-bayly,^  with  the  great 
charge  of  carrying  it  to  Lydny,  and  many  other  things 
worth  my  knowing ;  and  I  do  perceive  that  I  am  very 
short  in  my  business  by  not  knowing  many  times  the 
geographical  part  of  my  business. 

I  went  to  the  Exchange,  and  I  hear  that  the  mer- 
chants have  a  great  fear  of  a  breach  with  the  Spaniard  ; 
for  they  think  he  will  not  brook  our  having  Tangier, 
Dunkirke,  and  Jamaica ;  and  our  merchants  begin  to 
draw  home  their  estates  as  fast  as  they  can.  Then 
to  Pope's  Head  Ally,  and  there  bought  me  a  pair  of 
tweezers,  cost  me  145-.,  the  first  thing  like  a  bawble 
I  have  bought  a  good  while,  but  I  do  it  with  some 
trouble  of  mind,  though  my  conscience  tells  me  that 
I  do  it  with  an  apprehension  of  service  in  my  office 
to  have  a  book  to  write  memorandums  in,  and  a  pair 
of  compasses  in  it ;  but  I  confess  myself  the  willinger 

1  Secretary  and  Chancellor  to  the  Queen  Dowager. 

2  A  hamlet  in  the  parish  of  Newland,  Gloucestershire. 


268  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

to  do  it  because  I  perceive  by  my  accounts  that  I 
shall  be  better  by  30/.  than  I  expected  to  be.  In  the 
evening,  my  wife  and  I  and  Jane  over  the  water  to 
the  Halfway-house,  a  pretty,  pleasant  walk,  but  the 
wind  high. 

2 1  St.  Up  about  four  o'clock,  and  to  the  office  to 
prepare  things  for  our  meeting  to-day.  By  and  by 
we  met  and  at  noon,  Sir  W.  Pen  and  I  to  the  Trinity 
House ;  where  was  a  feast  made  by  the  Wardens. 
Great  good  cheer,  and  much  but  ordinary  company. 
The  Lieutenant  of  the  Tower,  upon  my  demanding 
how  Sir  H.  Vane  died,  told  me  that  he  died  in  a 
passion ;  but  all  confess  with  so  much  courage  as 
never  man  died.  So  home,  and  there  found  Mr. 
Creed,  who  staid  talking  with  my  wife  and  me  an 
houre  or  two,  and  I  put  on  my  riding  cloth  suit,  only 
for  him  to  see  how  it  is,  and  I  think  it  will  do  very 
well.  He  being  gone,  and  I  hearing  from  my  wife 
and  the  mayds  complaints  made  of  the  boy,  I  called 
him  up,  and  with  my  whip  did  whip  him  till  I  was  not 
able  to  stir,  and  yet  I  could  not  make  him  confess 
any  of  the  lies  that  they  tax  him  with.  At  last,  not 
willing  to  let  him  go  away  a  conqueror,  I  took  him  in 
task  again,  and  pulled  off  his  frock  to  his  shirt,  and 
whipped  him  till  he  did  confess  that  he  did  drink  the 
whey,  which  he  had  denied,  and  pulled  a  pinke,  and 
above  all  did  lay  the  candlesticke  upon  the  ground  in 
his  chamber,  which  he  had  denied  this  quarter  of  a 
year.  I  confess  it  is  one  of  the  greatest  wonders  that 
ever  I  met  with  that  such  a  little  boy  as  he  could 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS.  269 

possibly  be  able  to  suffer  half  so  much  as  he  did  to 
maintain  a  lie.  I  think  I  must  be  forced  to  put  him 
away.     So  to  bed,  with  my  arm  very  weary. 

22nd  (Lord's  day).  This  day  I  first  put  on  my 
slasht  doublet,  which  I  like  very  well.  To  the  Ward- 
robe. By  and  by  my  Lord  came  from  church,  and  I 
dined,  with  some  others,  with  him,  he  very  merry,  and 
after  dinner  took  me  aside  and  talked  of  state  and 
other  matters.  So  home.  My  wife  and  I  to  walk  in 
the  garden,  where  all  our  talk  was  against  Sir  W.  Pen, 
against  whom  I  have  lately  had  cause  to  be  much 
prejudiced.  By  and  by  he  and  his  daughter  came 
out  to  walke,  so  we  took  no  notice  of  them  a  great 
while,  at  last  in  going  home  spoke  a  word  or  two,  and 
so  good  night,  and  to  bed.  This  day  I  am  told  of  a 
Portugall  lady,  at  Hampton  Court,  that  hath  dropped 
a  child  already  since  the  Queene's  coming,  but  the 
King  would  not  have  them  searched  whose  it  is  ;  and 
so  it  is  not  commonly  known  yet.  Coming  home  to- 
night, I  met  with  Will.  Swan,  who  do  talk  as  high  for 
the  Fanatiques  as  ever  he  did  in  his  life ;  and  do  pity 
my  Lord  Sandwich  and  me  that  we  should  be  given 
up  to  the  wickedness  of  the  world ;  and  that  a  fall 
is  coming  upon  us  all ;  for  he  finds  that  he  and  his 
company  are  the  true  spirit  of  the  nation,  and  the 
greater  part  of  the  nation  too,  who  will  have  liberty 
of  conscience  in  spite  of  this  "Act  of  Uniformity," 
or  they  will  die  ;  and  if  they  may  not  preach  abroad, 
they  will  preach  in  their  own  houses.  He  told  me 
that  certainly  Sir  H.  Vane  must  be  gone  to  Heaven, 


2/0  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

for  he  died  as  much  a  mart)T  and  saint  as  ever  man 
did ;  and  that  the  King  hath  lost  more  by  that  man's 
death,  than  he  will  get  again  a  good  while.  At  all 
which  I  know  not  what  to  think ;  but,  I  confess,  I  do 
think  that  the  Bishops  will  never  be  able  to  carry  it 
so  high  as  they  do. 

23rd.  Up  early  this  morning,  and  to  my  office,  and 
there  hard  at  work  all  the  morning.  Meeting  with 
Frank  Moore,  my  Lord  Lambeth's  man  formerly,  we, 
and  two  or  three  friends  of  his  did  go  to  a  taveme, 
and  there  they  drank,  but  I  nothing  but  small  beer. 
In  the  next  room  one  was  playing  very  finely  of  the 
dulcimer,  which  well  played  I  like  well,  but  one  of 
our  own  company,  a  talking  fellow,  did  in  discourse 
say  much  of  this  Act  against  Seamen,  for  their  being 
brought  to  account ;  and  that  it  was  made  on  purpose 
for  my  Lord  Sandwich,  who  was  in  debt  100,000/.  and 
hath  been  forced  to  have  pardon  oftentimes  from 
Oliver  for  the  same  :  at  which  I  was  vexed  at  him, 
but  thought  it  not  worth  my  trouble  to  oppose  what 
he  said,  but  took  leave  and  went  home,  and  after  a 
little  dinner  to  my  office  again,  and  in  the  evening  Sir 
W.  Warren  came  to  me  about  business,  and  that  being 
done,  discoursing  of  deales,  I  did  offer  to  go  along 
with  him  among  his  deale  ships,  which  we  did  to  half 
a  score,  where  he  showed  me  the  difference  between 
Dram,  Swinsound,  Christiania,  and  others,  and  told 
me  many  pleasant  notions  concerning  their  manner 
of  cutting  and  sawing  them  by  watermills,  and  the 
reason  how  deales  become  dearer  and  cheaper,  among 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  2/1 

Others,  when  the  snow  is  not  so  great  as  to  fill  up  the 
vallies  that  they  may  pass  from  hill  to  hill  over  the 
snow,  then  it  is  dear  carriage.  From  on  board  he  took 
me  to  his  yarde,  where  vast  and  many  places  of  deales, 
sparrs,  and  bulks,  &c.,  the  difference  between  which  I 
never  knew  before,  and  indeed  am  very  proud  of  this 
evening's  work.  He  had  me  into  his  house,  which 
is  most  pretty  and  neat  and  well  furnished.  After  a 
glass,  not  of  wine,  for  I  would  not  be  tempted  to  drink 
any,  but  a  glass  of  mum,  I  well  home  by  water,  but  it 
being  late  was  forced  to  land  at  the  Custom  House, 
and  so  home  and  to  bed,  and  after  I  was  a-bed,  letters 
came  from  the  Duke  for  the  fitting  out  of  four  ships 
forthwith  from  Portsmouth  (I  know  not  yet  for  what) 
so  I  was  forced  to  make  Will  get  them  wrote,  and 
signed  them  in  bed  and  sent  them  away  by  express. 

24th  (Midsummer  day).  Up  early  and  to  my  office, 
putting  things  in  order  against  we  sit.  There  came  to 
me  my  cozen  Harry  Alcocke,  whom  I  much  respect, 
to  desire  (by  a  letter  from  my  father  to  me,  where  he 
had  been  some  days)  my  helpe  for  him  to  some  place. 
I  proposed  the  sea  to  him,  and  I  think  he  will  take  it, 
and  I  hope  do  well.  Sat  all  the  morning,  and  I  bless 
God  I  find  that  by  my  diligence  of  late  and  still,  I  do 
get  ground  in  the  office  every  day.  At  noon  to  the 
Change,  where  I  begin  to  be  known  also,  and  so  home 
to  dinner,  and  then  to  the  office  all  the  afternoon  dis- 
patching business.  At  night  news  is  brought  me  that 
Field  I  the  rogue  hath  this  day  cast  me  at  Guildhall 

^  See  Feb.  4,  1661-2,  ante. 


2/2  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

in  30/.  for  his  imprisonment,  to  which  I  signed  his 
commitment  with  the  rest  of  the  officers ;  but  they 
having  been  parUament-men,  he  do  begin  the  law  with 
me ;  but  threatens  more,  but  I  hope  the  Duke  of  York 
will  bear  me  out.  At  night  home,  and  Mr.  Spong  came 
to  me,  and  so  he  and  I  sat  singing  upon  the  leades  till 
almost  ten  at  night,  and  so  he  went  away  (a  pretty, 
harmless,  and  ingenious  man),  and  I  to  bed,  in  a  very 
great  content  of  mind,  which  I  hope  by  my  care  still 
in  my  business  will  continue  to  me. 

25  th.  Up  by  four  o'clock,  and  put  my  accounts 
with  my  Lord  into  a  very  good  order,  and  so  to  my 
office,  and  then  to  the  Wardrobe,  and  into  Thames 
Street,  beyond  the  Bridge,  and  there  enquired  among 
the  shops  the  price  of  tarre  and  oyle,  and  do  find 
great  content  in  it,  and  hope  to  save  the  King  money 
by  this  practice. 

26th.  To  the  office,  and  there  all  the  morning  sit- 
ting till  noon,  and  then  took  Commissioner  Pett  home 
to  dinner  with  me.  He  being  gone,  comes  Mr.  Nich- 
olson,^ my  old  fellow- student  at  Magdalen,  and  we 
played  three  or  four  things  upon  the  violin  and  basse, 
and  so  parted,  and  I  to  my  office  till  night. 

27th.  To  my  Lord,  who  rose  as  soon  as  he  heard 
I  was  there ;  and  in  his  night-gowne  and  shirt  stood 
talking  with  me  alone  two  hours,  I  believe,  concerning 
his  greatest  matters  of  state  and  interest.  —  Among 
other  things,  that  his  greatest  design  is,  first,  to  get 

*  Thomas  Nicholson,  A.M.,  1672. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  2/3 

clear  of  all  debts  to  the  King  for  the  Embassy  money, 
and  then  a  pardon.  Then,  to  get  his  land  settled ; 
and  then  to  discourse  and  advise  what  is  best  for  him, 
whether  to  keep  his  sea  employment  longer  or  no. 
For  he  do  discern  that  the  Duke  would  be  willing  to 
have  him  out,  and  that  by  Coventry's  means.  And 
here  he  told  me,  how  the  terms  at  Argier '  were  wholly 
his;  and  that  he  did  plainly  tell  Lawson  and  agree 
with  him,  that  he  would  have  the  honour  of  them,  if 
they  should  ever  be  agreed  to ;  and  that  accordingly 
they  did  come  over  hither  entitled,  "Articles  con- 
cluded on  by  Sir  J.  Lawson,  according  to  instructions 
received  from  His  Royal  Highness  James  Duke  of 
York,  &c.  and  from  His  Excellency  the  Earle  of  Sand- 
wich." (Which  however  was  more  than  needed ;  but 
Lawson  tells  my  Lord  in  his  letter,  that  it  was  not  he, 
but  the  Council  of  Warr  that  would  have  "  His  Royal 
Highness  "  put  into  the  title,  though  he  did  not  con- 
tribute one  word  to  it.)  But  the  Duke  of  York  did 
yesterday  propose  them  to  the  Council,  to  be  printed 
with  this  title  ;  "Concluded  on  by  Sir  J.  Lawson,  Knt." 
and  my  Lord  quite  left  out.  Here  I  find  my  Lord 
very  politique ;  for  he  tells  me,  that  he  discerns  they 
design  to  set  up  Lawson  as  much  as  they  can :  and 
that  he  do  counterplot  them  by  setting  him  up  higher 
still;  by  which  they  will  find  themselves  spoiled  of 
their  design,  and  at  last  grow  jealous  of  Lawson.  This 
he  told  me  with  much  pleasure ;  and  that  several  of 

I  Algiers.     (M.  B.) 


274  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

the  Duke's  servants,  by  name  my  Lord  Barkeley,  Mr. 
Talbot,  and  others,  had  complained  to  my  Lord,  of 
Coventry,  and  would  have  him  out.  My  Lord  do 
acknowledge  that  his  greatest  obstacle  is  Coventry. 
He  did  seem  to  hint  such  a  question  as  this  :  "  Hith- 
erto I  have  been  supported  by  the  King  and  Chan- 
cellor against  the  Duke ;  but  what  if  it  should  come 
about,  that  it  should  be  the  Duke  and  Chancellor 
against  the  King  \  "  which,  though  he  said  it  in  these 
plain  words,  yet  I  could  not  fully  understand  it ;  but 
may  more  hereafter.  My  Lord  did  also  tell  me,  that 
the  Duke  himself  at  Portsmouth  did  thank  my  Lord  for 
all  his  pains  and  care  ;  and  that  he  perceived  it  must  be 
the  old  Captains  that  must  do  the  business ;  and  that 
the  new  ones  would  spoil  all.  And  that  my  Lord  did 
very  discreetly  tell  the  Duke  (though  quite  against  his 
judgement  and  inclination),  that,  however,  the  King's 
new  captaines  ought  to  be  borne  with  a  little  and 
encouraged.  By  which  he  will  oblige  that  party,  and 
prevent,  as  much  as  may  be,  their  envy ;  but  he  says 
that  certainly  things  will  go  to  rack  if  ever  the  old 
captains  should  be  wholly  out,  and  the  new  ones  only 
command.  Then  we  fell  to  talk  of  Sir  J.  Minnes,  of 
whom  my  Lord  hath  a  very  slight  opinion,  and  that 
at  first  he  did  come  to  my  Lord  very  displeased  and 
sullen,  and  had  studied  and  turned  over  all  his  books 
to  see  whether  it  had  ever  been  that  two  flags  should 
ride  together  in  the  main-top,  but  could  not  find  it, 
nay,  he  did  call  his  captains  on  board  to  consult  them. 
So  when  he  came  by  my  Lord's  side,  he  took  down  his 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  2/5 

flag,  and  all  the  day  did  not  hoist  it  again,  but  next 
day  my  Lord  did  tell  him  that  it  was  not  so  fit  to  ride 
without  a  flag,  and  therefore  told  him  that  he  should 
wear  it  in  the  fore-top,  for  it  seems  my  Lord  saw  his 
instructions,  which  were  that  he  should  not  wear  his 
flag  in  the  maintop  in  the  presence  of  the  Duke  or 
my  Lord.  But  that  after  that  my  Lord  did  caresse 
him,  and  he  do  believe  him  as  much  his  friend  as 
his  interest  will  let  him ;  and  so  I  parted,  and  to  my 
office,  where  I  met  Sir  W.  Pen,^  and  he  desired  a 
tume  with  me  in  the  garden,  where  he  told  me  the 
day  now  was  fixed  for  his  going  into  Ireland  ;  and  that 
whereas  I  had  mentioned  some  service  he  could  do 
a  friend  of  mine  there,  Saml.  Pepys,^  he  told  me  he 
would  most  readily  do  what  I  would  command  him, 
and  then  told  me  we  must  needs  eat  a  dish  of  meat 
together  before  he  went,  and  so  invited  me  and  my 
wife  on  Sunday  next.  To  all  which  I  did  give  a  cold 
consent,  for  my  heart  cannot  love  or  have  a  good  opin- 
ion of  him  since  his  last  playing  the  knave  with  me, 
but  he  took  no  notice  of  our  difference  at  all,  nor  I 
to  him,  and  so  parted,  and  I  by  water  to  Deptford, 
where  I  found  Sir  W.  Batten  alone  paying  off  the  yarde 
three  quarters  pay.  Thence  to  dinner  where  too  great 
a  one  was  prepared,  at  which  I  was  very  much  troubled, 
and  wished  I  had  not  been  there.  After  dinner  comes 
Sir  J.  Minnes  and  some  captains  with  him,  who  had 
been  at  a  Councill  of  Warr  to-day,  who  teU  us  they 

^  Penn  was  Governor  of  Kinsale. 

2  Mentioned  elsewhere  as  "  My  cousin  in  Ireland." 


2/6  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS, 

have  acquitted  Captain  Hall,  who  was  accused  of 
cowardice  in  letting  of  old  Winter,  the  Argier  pyrate, 
go  away  from  him  with  a  prize  or  two ;  and  also  Cap- 
tain Diamond  of  the  murder  laid  to  him  of  a  man 
that  he  had  struck,  but  he  lived  many  months  after, 
till  being  drunk,  he  fell  into  the  hold,  and  there  broke 
his  jawe  and  died.  To  the  pay  again,  where  I  left 
them,  and  walked  to  Redriffe,  and  so  home. 

28th.  Up  to  my  Lord's  and  my  own  accounts,  and 
so  to  the  office,  and  there  again  all  the  afternoon  till 
night,  and  so  home.  This  day  a  genteel  woman  came 
to  me,  claiming  kindred  of  me,  as  she  had  once  done 
before,  and  borrowed  lOi-.  of  me  promising  to  repay 
it  at  night,  but  I  hear  nothing  of  her.  I  shall  trust 
her  no  more.  Great  talk  there  is  of  a  fear  of  a  war 
with  the  Dutch ;  and  we  have  order  to  pitch  upon 
twenty  ships  to  be  forthwith  set  out ;  but  I  hope  it  is 
but  a  scare-crow  to  the  world,  to  let  them  see  that 
we  can  be  ready  for  them ;  though,  God  knows  !  the 
King  is  not  able  to  set  out  five  ships  at  this  present 
without  great  difficulty,  we  neither  having  money, 
credit,  nor  stores.  My  mind  is  now  in  a  wonderful 
condition  of  quiet  and  content,  more  than  ever  in  all 
my  life,  since  my  minding  the  business  of  my  office, 
which  I  have  done  most  constantly ;  and  I  find  it  to 
be  the  very  effect  of  my  late  oathes  against  wine  and 
play,  which,  if  God  please,  I  will  keep  constant  in, 
for  now  my  business  is  a  delight  to  me,  and  brings  me 
great  credit,  and  my  purse  encreases  too. 

29th  (Lord's  day).   Up  by  four  o'clock,  and  to  the 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   FEPYS.  2// 

settling  of  my  own  accounts,  and  I  do  find  upon  my 
monthly  ballance  that  I  am  worth  650/.,  the  greatest 
sum  that  ev^er  I  was  yet  master  of.  I  pray  God  give 
me  a  thankfull  spirit,  and  care  to  improve  and  en- 
crease  it.  To  church  with  my  wife,  who  this  day  put 
on  her  green  petticoate  of  flowTed  satin,  with  fine 
white  and  gimp  lace  of  her  own  putting  on,  which  is 
very  pretty.  Home  with  Sir  W,  Pen  to  dinner  by 
appointment,  and  to  church  again  in  the  afternoon, 
and  then  home,  and  in  the  evening  to  supper  again 
to  Sir  W.  Pen.  Whatever  the  matter  is,  he  do  much 
fawne  upon  me,  and  I  perceive  would  not  fall  out  with 
me,  and  his  daughter  mighty  officious  to  my  wife,  but 
I  shall  never  be  deceived  again  by  him,  but  do  hate 
him  and  his  traitorous  tricks  with  all  my  heart.  It 
was  an  invitation  in  order  to  his  taking  leave  of  us 
to-day,  he  being  to  go  for  Ireland  in  a  few  days. 

30th.  Up  betimes,  and  to  my  office  where  I  fell 
upon  boring  holes  for  me  to  see  from  my  closet  into 
the  great  office,  without  going  forth,  wherein  I  please 
myself  much.  So  settled  to  business,  and  at  noon 
with  my  wife  to  the  Wardrobe,  and  there  dined,  and 
staid  talking  all  the  afternoon  with  my  Lord,  and 
about  four  o'clock  took  coach  with  my  wife  and  Lady, 
and  went  toward  my  house,  calling  at  my  Lady  Car- 
teret's, who  was  within  by  chance,  and  so  we  sat  with 
her  a  httle.  Among  other  things  told  my  Lady  how 
my  Lady  Fanshaw^  is  fallen  out  with    her  only  for 

*  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Harrison,  of  Balls,  in   Hertfordshire,  wife 


2/8  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

speaking  in  behalf  of  the  French,  which  my  Lady 
wonders  at,  they  having  been  formerly  like  sisters, 
but  we  see  there  is  no  true  lasting  friendship  in  the 
world.  Thence  to  my  house,  where  I  took  great  pride 
to  lead  her  through  the  Court  by  the  hand,  she  being 
very  fine,  and  her  page  carrying  up  her  train.  She 
staid  a  little  at  my  house,  and  then  walked  through 
the  garden,  and  took  water,  and  went  first  on  board 
the  King's  pleasure  boat,  which  pleased  her  much. 
Then  to  Greenwich  Parke ;  and  with  much  ado  she 
was  able  to  walk  up  to  the  top  of  the  hill,  and  so  down 
again,  and  took  boat,  and  so  through  bridge  to  Black- 
fryers,  and  home,  she  being  much  pleased  with  the 
ramble  in  every  particular  of  it.  So  we  supped  with 
her,  and  then  walked  home,  and  to  bed. 

Observations. 

This  I  take  to  be  as  bad  a  juncture  as  ever  I  ob- 
served. The  King  and  his  new  Queene  minding 
their  pleasures  at  Hampton  Court.  All  people  dis- 
contented ;  some  that  the  King  do  not  gratify  them 
enough ;  and  the  others,  Fanatiques  of  all  sorts,  that 
the  King  do  take  away  their  liberty  of  conscience ; 
ana  the  height  of  the  Bishops,  who  I  fear  will  ruin 
all  again.  They  do  much  cry  up  the  manner  of  Sir 
H.  Vane's  death,  and  he  deserves  it.  They  clamour 
against  the  chimney-money,  and  the  people  say,  they 
will  not  pay  it  without  force.     And  in  the  mean  time, 

of  Sir  Richard  Fanshawe;  see  29th  June,  1669.  She  wrote  "  Memoirs "  of 
her  life,  which  have  been  published,  and  are  extremely  interesting. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  279 

like  to  have  war  abroad;  and  Portugall  to  assist, 
when  we  have  not  money  to  pay  for  any  ordinary 
layings-out  at  home.  Myself  all  in  dirt  about  build- 
ing of  my  house  and  Sir  W.  Batten's  a  story  higher. 
Into  a  good  way,  fallen  on  minding  my  business  and 
saving  money,  which  God  encrease ;  and  I  do  take 
great  delight  in  it,  and  see  the  benefit  of  it.  In  a 
longing  mind  of  going  to  see  Brampton,  but  cannot 
get  three  days  time,  do  what  I  can.  In  very  good 
health,  my  wife  and  myself. 

July  I  St.  To  the  office,  and  there  we  sat  till  past 
noon,  and  then  Captain  Cuttance  and  I  by  water  to 
Deptford,  where  the  Royal  James  (in  which  my  Lord 
went  out  the  last  voyage,  though  he  came  back  in  the 
Charles)  was  paying  off  by  Sir  W.  Batten  and  Sir  W. 
Pen.  So  to  dinner,  and  from  thence  I  sent  to  my 
Lord  to  know  whether  she  should  be  a  first  rate,  as 
the  men  would  have  her,  or  a  second.  He  answered 
that  we  should  forbear  paying  the  officers  and  such 
whose  pay  differed  upon  the  rate  of  the  ship,  till  he 
could  speak  with  his  Royal  Highness.  To  the  pay 
again  after  dinner,  and  seeing  of  Cooper,  the  mate  of 
the  ship,  whom  I  knew  in  the  Charles,  I  spoke  to  him 
about  teaching  the  mathematiques,  and  do  £^ease 
myself  in  my  thoughts  of  learning  of  him,  and  bade 
him  come  to  me  in  a  day  or  tvvo.  Towards  evening 
I  left  them,  and  to  Redriffe  by  land,  Mr.  Cowly,  the 
Clerk  of  the  Cheque,  with  me,  discoursing  concerning 
the  abuses  of  the  yarde,  in  which  he  did  give  me 
much  light.     So  by  water  home,  and   after  half  an 


28o  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

houre  sitting  talking  with  my  wife,  who  was  afeard  I 
did  intend  to  go  with  my  Lord  to  fetch  the  Queene 
mother  over,  in  which  I  did  clear  her  doubts,  I  went 
to  bed  by  daylight,  in  order  to  my  rising  early 
to-morrow. 

2nd.  Up  while  the  chimes  went  four,  and  to  put 
down  my  journal,  and  so  to  my  office,  to  read  over 
such  instructions  as  concern  the  officers  of  the  Yard ; 
for  I  am  much  upon  seeing  into  the  miscarriages  there. 
By  and  by,  by  appointment,  comes  Commissioner 
Pett ;  and  then  a  messenger  from  Mr.  Coventry,  who 
sits  in  his  boat  expecting  us,  and  so  we  down  to  him 
at  the  Tower,  and  there  took  water  all,  and  to  Dept- 
ford  (he  in  our  passage  taking  notice  how  much  dif- 
ference there  is  between  the  old  Captains  for  obedience 
and  order,  and  the  King's  new  Captains,  which  I  am 
very  glad  to  hear  him  confess)  ;  and  there  we  went 
into  the  Store-house,  and  viewed  first  the  provisions 
there,  and  then  his  books,  but  Mr.  Davis  himself  was 
not  there,  he  having  a  kinswoman  in  the  house  dead, 
for  which,  when  by  and  by  I  saw  him,  he  do  trouble 
himself  most  ridiculously,  as  if  there  was  never  another 
woman  in  the  world ;  in  which  so  much  lazinesse,  as 
also  in  the  Clerkes  of  the  Cheque  and  Survey  (which 
after  one  another  we  did  examine),  as  that  I  do  not 
perceive  that  there  is  one-third  of  their  duties  per- 
formed ;  but  I  perceive,  to  my  great  content,  Mr. 
Coventry  will  have  things  reformed.  So  Mr.  Coventry 
to  London,  and  Pett  and  I  to  the  Pay,  and  so  to 
dinner,  and  to  the  Pay  againe,  where  I   did  reheve 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS,  28 1 

several  of  my  Lord  Sandwich's  people,  but  was  sorry 
to  see  them  so  peremptory,  and  at  every  word  would 
complain  to  my  Lord,  as  if  they  shall  have  such  a 
command  over  my  Lord.  In  the  evening  I  went  forth 
and  took  a  walk  with  Mr.  Davis,  and  told  him  what 
had  passed  at  his  office  to-day,  and  did  give  him  my 
advice,  and  so  with  the  rest  by  barge  home  and  to 
bed. 

3rd.  Up  by  four  o'clock  and  to  my  office  till  8 
o'clock,  writing  over  two  copies  of  our  contract  with 
Sir  W.  Rider,  &c.,  for  500  Ton  of  hempe,  which, 
because  it  is  a  secret,  I  have  the  trouble  of  writing 
over  as  well  as  dramng.  Then  home  to  dress  myself, 
and  so  to  the  office,  where  another  fray  between  Sir 
R.  Ford  and  myself  about  his  yame,  wherein  I  find 
the  board  to  yield  on  my  side,  and  was  glad  thereof, 
though  troubled  that  the  office  should  fall  upon  me 
of  disobliging  Sir  Richard.  At  noon  we  all  by  invi- 
tation dined  at  the  Dolphin  with  the  Officers  of  the 
Ordnance ;    where  Sir  W.  Compton,^    Mr.    O'Neale,^ 

^  See  May  6,  1660,  and  note. 

2  The  best  account  of  this  person  is  given  in  his  monumental  inscription,  in 
Boughton-Malherbe  Church:  — "  Here  lies  the  body  of  Mr.  Daniel  O'Neale, 
who  descended  from  that  greate,  honourable,  and  antient  family  of  the 
O'Neales,  in  Ireland,  to  whom  he  added  new  luster  by  his  owne  merit,  being 
rewarded  for  his  courage  and  loyalty  in  the  civil  warrs,  under  King  Charles 
the  First  and  Charles  the  Second,  wth  the  ofifices  of  Postmaster  General  of 
England,  Scotland,  and  Ireland,  Master  of  the  Powder,  and  Groome  of  His 
Majtyes  Bedchamber.  He  was  married  to  the  right  honourable  Katherine 
Countesse  of  Chesterfeild,  who  erected  him  this  monument,  as  one  of  the  last 
markes  of  her  kindnesse,  to  show  her  affection  longer  than  her  weak  breath 
would  serve  to  express  it.  He  died  a.d.  1663,  aged  60."  In  the  "  Letters 
of  Philip,  Second  Earl  of  Chesterfield,"  p.  6,  it  is  stated  that  he  died  on  the 


282  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

and  other  great  persons,  were.  After  dinner,  was 
brought  to  Sir  W.  Compton  a  gun  to  discharge  seven 
times ;  ^  the  best  of  all  devices  that  ever  I  saw,  and 
very  serviceable,  and  not  a  bawble ;  for  it  is  much 
approved  of,  and  many  thereof  made.  Thence  to  my 
office  all  the  afternoon  as  long  as  I  could  see.  In  the 
evening  came  Mr.  Lewis  to  me,  and  very  ingeniously 
did  enquire  whether  I  ever  did  look  into  the  business 
of  the  Chest  at  Chatham  ;  2  and  after  my  readiness  to 
be  informed  did  appear  to  him,  he  did  produce  a 
paper,  wherein  he  stated  the  government  of  the  Chest 
to  me ;  and  upon  the  whole  did  tell  me  how  it  hath 
ever  been  abused,  and  to  this  day  is ;  and  what  a 
meritorious  act  it  would  be  to  look  after  it ;  which  I 
am  resolved  to  do,  if  God  bless  me ;  and  do  thank 
him  very  much  for  it.  So  home,  and  after  a  turn  or 
two  upon  the  leades  with  my  wife,  who  has  lately  had 
but  little  of  my  company,  since  I  begun  to  follow  my 
business,  but  is  contented  therewith  since  she  sees 
how  I  spend  my  time,  and  so  to  bed. 

4th.  Up  by  five  o'clock,  and  after  my  journall  put 
in  order,  to  my  office  about  my  business,  which  I 
am  resolved  to  follow,  for  every  day  I  see  what  ground 
I  get  by  it.     By  and  by  comes  Mr.  Cooper,  mate  of 


9th  of  April,  1667;  but  the  date  of  the  year  should  be  1663.  The  "Great 
O'Neale  "  whose  death  Pepys  records  as  having  occurred  on  the  24th  October, 
1664,  many  months  later,  could  not  be  the  same  person  if  the  dates  are 
correct. 

1  See  note  March  4,  1668-4.     (M.  B.) 

2  See  Pepys's  own  accoimt  of  the  institution  of  the  Chest,  Nov.  13,  1662, 
fast. 


D7ARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEP  VS.  283 

the  Royall  Charles,  of  whom  I  intend  to  learn  mathe- 
matiques,  and  do  begin  with  him  to-day,  he  being  a 
very  able  man,  and  no  great  matter,  I  suppose,  will 
content  him.  After  an  houi-e's  being  with  him  at 
arithmetique,  (my  first  attempt  being  to  learn  the 
multipUcation-table)  ;  then  we  parted  till  to-morrow. 
And  so  to  my  business  at  my  office  again  till  noon, 
about  which  time  Sir  W.  Warren  did  come  to  me 
about  business,  and  did  begin  to  instruct  me  in  the 
nature  of  fine  timber  and  deales,  telling  me  the  nature 
of  every  sort ;  and  from  that  we  fell  to  discourse  of 
Sir  W.  Batten's  corruption  and  the  people  that  he 
employs,  and  from  one  discourse  to  another  of  the 
kind.  I  was  much  pleased  with  his  company,  and  so 
staid  talking  with  him  all  alone  at  my  office  till  4  in 
the  afternoon,  without  eating  or  drinking  all  day,  and 
then  parted,  and  I  home  to  eat  a  bit,  and  so  back 
again  to  my  office ;  and  toward  the  evening  came  Mr. 
Shepley,  who  is  to  go  out  of  town  to-morrow,  and  so 
he  and  I  with  much  ado  settled  his  accounts  with  my 
Lord,  which,  though  they  be  true  and  honest,  yet  so 
obscure,  that  it  vexes  me  to  see  in  what  manner  they 
are  kept.  He  being  gone,  and  leave  taken  of  him  as 
of  a  man  likely  not  to  come  to  London  again  a  great 
while,  I  eat  a  bit  of  bread  and  butter,  and  so  to  bed. 
This  day  I  sent  my  brother  Tom,  at  his  request,  my 
father's  old  Bass  Viall  which  he  and  I  have  kept  so 
long,  but  I  fear  Tom  will  do  little  good  at  it. 

5  th.   To  my  office  all  the  morning,  and   at  noon 
had  Sir  W.  Pen,  who  I  hate  with  all  my  heart  for  his 


284  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

base  treacherous  tricks,  but  yet  I  think  it  not  pohcy 
to  declare  it  yet,  and  his  son  WiUiam,  to  my  house 
to  dinner,  where  was  also  Mr.  Creed  and  my  cozen 
Harry  Alcocke.  I  having  some  venison  given  me  a 
day  or  two  ago,  and  so  I  had  a  shoulder  roasted, 
another  baked,  and  the  umbles  ^  baked  in  a  pie,  and 
all  very  well  done.  We  were  merry  as  I  could  be  in 
that  company,  and  the  more  because  I  would  not  seem 
otherwise  to  Sir  W.  Pen,  he  being  within  a  day  or  two 
to  go  for  Ireland.  After  dinner  he  and  his  son  went 
away,  and  Mr.  Creed  would,  with  all  his  rhetorique, 
have  persuaded  me  to  have  gone  to  a  play ;  and  in 
good  earnest  I  find  my  nature  desirous  to  have  gone, 
notwithstanding  my  promise  and  my  business,  to  which 
I  have  lately  kept  myself  so  close,  but  I  did  refuse  it, 
and  I  hope  shall  ever  do  so,  and  above  all  things 
it  is  considerable  that  my  mind  was  never  in  my  Hfe 
in  so  good  a  condition  of  quiet  as  it  has  been  since  I 
have  followed  my  business  and  seen  myself  to  get 
greater  and  greater  fitness  in  my  employment,  and 
honour  every  day  more  than  other.  So  at  my  office 
all  the  afternoon,  and  then  my  mathematiques  at 
night  with  Mr.  Cooper,  and  so  to  supper  and  to  bed. 

6th  (Lord's  day).  Settled  my  accounts  with  my 
wife  for  housekeeping,  and  do  see  that  my  kitchen, 

J'  Umbles.  Part  of  the  inside  of  a  deer  —  the  liver,  kidneys,  &c.  "  The 
keeper  hath  the  skin,  head,  umbles,  chine  and  shoulders."  —  Holinshead, 
i.  204. 

"  The  old  cookery  books  give  receipts  for  making  umble  pies.  Hence  the 
phrase  '  making  persons  eat  umble  pie,'  meaning  to  humble  them."  —  Nares' 
Glossary.    (M.  B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   FEPYS.  285 

besides  wine,  fire,  candle,  sope,  and  many  other  things, 
comes  to  about  30j-.  a  week,  or  a  little  over.  To 
church,  where  Mr.  Mills  made  a  lazy  sermon.  My 
wife  and  I  to  church  again  in  the  afternoon,  and  that 
done  I  walked  to  the  Wardrobe  and  to  supper  with  my 
Lady  (Sandwich)  ;  who  tells  me,  with  much  trouble, 
that  my  Lady  Castlemaine  is  still  as  great  \vith  the 
King,  and  that  the  King  comes  as  often  to  her  as  ever 
he  did.  Jack  Cole,  my  old  friend,  found  me  out  at 
the  Wardrobe ;  and,  among  other  things,  he  told  me 
that  certainly  most  of  the  chief  ministers  of  London 
would  fling  up  their  livings ;  and  that,  soon  or  late, 
the  issue  thereof  would  be  sad  to  the  King  and  Court. 

7th.  Up  and  to  my  office  early,  and  there  all  the 
morning  alone,  and  after  dinner  to  my  office  again, 
and  by  and  by  comes  Mr.  Cooper,  so  he  and  I  to  our 
mathematiques. 

8th.  To  the  Wardrobe  ;  where  alone  with  my  Lord 
above  an  hour ;  and  he  do  seem  still  to  have  his 
old  confidence  in  me ;  and  tells  me  to  boot,  that  Mr. 
Coventry  hath  spoke  of  me  to  him  to  great  advantage  ; 
wherein  I  am  much  pleased.  By  and  by  comes  in 
Mr.  Coventry  to  visit  my  Lord ;  and  so  my  Lord  and 
he  and  I  walked  together  in  the  great  chamber  a  good 
while ;  and  I  found  him  a  most  ingenuous  man  and 
good  company. 

9th.  Up  by  four  o'clock,  and  at  my  multiplicacion- 
table  hard,  which  is  all  the  trouble  I  meet  withal  in  my 
arithmetique.  Sir  W.  Pen  came  to  my  office  to  take 
his  leave  of  me,  and  desiring  a  turn  in  the  garden,  did 


286  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS, 

commit  the  care  of  his  building  to  me/  and  offered 
all  his  services  to  me  in  all  matters  of  mine.  I  did, 
God  forgive  me  !  promise  him  all  my  service  and  love, 
though  the  rogue  knows  he  deserves  none  from 
me,  nor  do  I  intend  to  show  him  any ;  but  as  he  dis- 
sembles with  me,  so  must  I  with  him.  Then  to  my 
business  till  night,  and  then  came  Mr.  Mills,  the  min- 
ister, to  see  me,  which  he  hath  but  rarely  done  to  me, 
though  every  day  almost  to  others  of  us  \  but  he  is  a 
cunning  fellow,  and  knows  where  the  good  victuals  is, 
and  the  good  drink,  at  Sir  W.  Batten's.  However, 
I  used  him  civilly,  though  I  love  him  as  I  do  the  rest 
of  his  coat. 

loth.  Up  by  four  o'clock,  and  before  I  went  to  the 
office  I  practised  my  arithmetique,  and  then,  when  my 
wife  was  up,  did  call  her  and  Sarah,  and  did  make  up 
a  difference  between  them,  for  she  is  so  good  a  ser- 
vant as  I  am  loth  to  part  with  her.  So  to  the  office 
all  the  morning,  where  very  much  business,  but  it  vexes 
me  to  see  so  much  disorder  at  our  table,  that,  every 
man  minding  a  several  business,  we  dispatch  nothing. 

nth.  Up  by  four  o'clock,  and  hard  at  my  multi- 
plicacion-table,  which  I  am  now  almost  master  of,  and 
so  made  me  ready  and  to  my  office,  and  then  a  mes- 
senger from  Mr.  Coventry,  who  stays  in  his  boat  at 
the  Tower  for  us.  So  we  to  him,  and  down  to  Dept-* 
ford  first,  and  there  viewed  some  deales  lately  served 
in  at  a  low  price,  which  our  officers,  like  knaves,  would 

*  They  had  been  allowed  to  raise  their  houses. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  28/ 

untruly  value  in  their  worth,  but  we  found  them  good. 
Then  to  Woolwich,  and  viewed  well  all  the  houses  and 
stores  there,  which  lie  in  very  great  confusion  for  want 
of  storehouses.  Then  to  the  Ropeyarde,  and  there 
viewed  the  hempe,  wherein  we  found  great  corruption. 
So  by  water  back  again.  About  five  in  the  afternoon 
to  Whitehall,  and  so  to  St.  James's ;  and  at  Mr.  Cov- 
entry's chamber,  which  is  very  neat  and  fine,  we  had 
a  pretty  neat  dinner,  and  after  dinner  fell  to  discourse 
of  business  and  regulation,  and  do  think  of  many 
things  that  will  put  matters  into  better  order,  and  upon 
the  whole  my  heart  rejoices  to  see  Mr.  Coventry  so 
ingenious,  and  able,  and  studious  to  do  good,  and  with 
much  frankness  and  respect  to  Mr.  Pett  and  myself 
particularly. 

1 2th.  Up  by  five  o'clock,  and  put  things  in  order 
to  be  laid  up,  against  my  workmen  come  on  Monday 
to  take  down  the  top  of  my  house.  At  night  with 
Cooper  at  arithmetique. 

13th  (Lord's  day).  To  Deptford,  on  purpose  to 
sign  and  seale  a  couple  of  warrants,  as  justice  of  peace 
in  Kent,  against  one  Annis,  who  is  to  be  tried  next 
Tuesday,  at  Maidstone  assizes,  for  stealing  some  lead 
out  of  Woolwich  Yarde.  Come  home  I  found  a  rab- 
bit at  the  fire,  and  so  supped  well,  and  so  to  my  jour- 
nall  and  to  my  bed. 

14th.  Up  by  4  o'clock  and  to  my  arithmetique,  and 
so  to  my  office  till  8,  then  to  Thames  Street  along  with 
old  Mr.  Green,  among  the  tarr-men,  and  did  instruct 
myself  in  the  nature  and  prices  of  tarr,  but  could  not 


288  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS, 

get  Stockholm  for  the  use  of  the  office  under  lo/.  15^-. 
per  last,  which  is  a  great  price.  So  home,  and  at 
noon  Dr.  T.  Pepys  to  dinner,  where  by  chance  comes 
Mr.  Pierce,  the  chymrgeon,  and  then  Mr.  Battersby, 
the  minister,  and  then  Mr.  Dun,  and  it  happened,  that 
I  had  a  haunch  of  venison  boiled,  and  so  they  were 
very  wellcome  and  merry ;  but  my  simple  Dr.  do  talk 
so  like  a  fool  that  I  am  weary  of  him. 

15th.  Up  by  4  o'clock  and  to  my  office,  and  there 
busy  till  sitting  time.  So  at  the  office  and  broke  up 
late.  In  the  evening  comes  Mr.  Cooper,  and  I  took 
him  by  water  on  purpose  to  tell  me  things  belonging 
to  ships,  which  was  time  well  spent.  About  bedtime 
it  fell  a-raining,  and  the  house  being  all  open  at  top,  it 
vexed  me ;  but  there  was  no  help  for  it. 

1 6th.  In  the  morning  I  found  all  my  ceilings  spoiled 
with  raine  last  night,  so  that  I  fear  they  must  be  all 
new  whited  when  the  work  is  done.  To  my  office, 
and  by  and  by  came  Mr.  Moore  to  me,  and  so  I  went 
home  and  consulted  about  drawing  up  a  fair  state  of 
all  my  Lord's  accounts,  which  being  settled,  he  went 
away.  At  noon  to  my  Lord's  with  it,  but  found  him 
at  dinner,  and  some  great  company  with  him,  Mr. 
Edward  Montagu  and  his  brother,  and  Mr.  Coventry, 
and  after  dinner  he  went  out  with  them,  and  so  I  lost 
my  labour ;  but  dined  with  Mr.  Moore  and  the  people 
below,  who  after  dinner  fell  to  talk  of  Portugall  rings, 
and  Captain  Ferrers  offered  five  or  six  to  sell,  and  I 
seeming  to  like  a  ring  made  of  a  coco-nutt  with  a  stone 
done  in  it,  he  did  offer  and  would  give  it  me.     This 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  289 

day  I  was  told  that  my  Lady  Castlemaine  (being  quite 
fallen  out  with  her  husband)  did  yesterday  go  away 
from  him,  with  all  her  plate,  jewels,  and  other  best 
things  ;  and  is  gone  to  Richmond  to  a  brother  of  her's  ; 
which,  I  am  apt  to  think,  was  a  design  to  get  out  of 
towne,  that  the  King  might  come  at  her  the  better. 

1 7th.  To  my  office,  and  by  and  by  to  our  sitting ; 
where  much  business.  Mr.  Coventry  took  his  leave, 
being  to  go  with  the  Duke  over  for  the  Queene- 
Mother. 

1 8th.  Up  very  early,  and  got  a-top  of  my  house, 
seeing  the  design  of  my  work,  and  like  it  well,  and  it 
comes  into  my  head  to  have  my  dining-room  wains- 
coated,  which  will  be  very  pretty.  By-and-by  by 
water  to  Deptford,  to  put  several  things  in  order,  being 
myself  now  only  left  in  towne,  so  to  the  office  till  night, 
and  then  comes  Cooper  for  my  mathematiques,  but, 
in  good  earnest,  my  head  is  so  full  of  business  that  I 
cannot  understand  it  as  otherwise  I  should  do. 

19th.  In  the  afternoon  I  went  upon  the  river  to 
look  after  some  tarr  I  am  sending  down  and  some 
coles ;  it  raining  hard  upon  the  water,  I  put  ashore 
and  sheltered  myself,  while  the  King  came  by  in  his 
barge,  going  down  towards  the  Downes  to  meet  the 
Queene  :  the  Duke  being  gone  yesterday.  But  me- 
thought  it  lessened  my  esteem  of  a  king,  that  he  should 
not  be  able  to  command  the  rain. 

20th  (Lord's  day).  My  wife  and  I  lay  talking  long 
in  bed,  and  at  last  she  is  come  to  be  willing  to  stay 
two  months  in  the  country.     To  dinner,  we  had  a  calf's 


20.0  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

head  and  bacon  at  my  chamber  at  Sir  W.  Pen's,  and 
there  I  and  my  wife  concluded  to  have  her  go  and  her 
two  mayds  and  the  boy,  and  so  there  shall  be  none 
but  Will  and  I  left  at  home.  At  night  to  my  office, 
and  there  put  down  this  day's  passages  in  my  journall, 
and  read  my  oathes,  as  I  am  obliged  every  Lord's 
day. 

2 1  St.  Up  early.  I  did  take  boat  and  down  to 
Green^^^ch,  to  Captain  Cocke's,  who  hath  a  most 
pleasant  seat,  and  neat.  Here  I  drank  wine,  and  eat 
some  fruit  off  the  trees ;  and  he  showed  a  great  rarity, 
which  was  two  or  three  of  a  great  number  of  silver 
dishes  and  plates,  which  he  bought  of  an  embassador 
that  did  lack  money,  in  the  edge  or  rim  of  which  was 
placed  silver  and  gold  medalls,  very  ancient,  and  I 
believe  wrought,  which,  if  they  be,  they  are  the  greatest 
rarity  that  ever  I  saw  in  my  life,  and  I  will  show  Mr. 
Crumlum  them.  Thence  to  Woolwich  to  the  Rope- 
yard  ;  and  there  looked  over  several  sorts  of  hempe, 
and  did  fall  upon  my  great  survey  of  seeing  the  work- 
ing and  experiments  of  the  strength  and  the  charge  in 
tlie  dressing  of  every  sort ;  and  I  do  think  have  brought 
it  to  so  great  a  certainty,  as  I  have  done  the  King 
great  service  in  it :  and  do  purpose  to  get  it  ready 
against  the  Duke's  coming  to  towne  to  present  to  him. 
Thence  to  the  docke,  where  we  walked  in  Mr.  Shel- 
den's  garden,  eating  more  fruit,  and  drinking,  and  eat- 
ing figs,  which  were  very  good,  and  talking  while  the 
Loyal  James  was  bringing  towards  the  docke,  and  then 
we  went  out  and  saw  the  manner  and  trouble  of  dock- 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  29 1 

ing  such  a  ship,  which  yet  they  could  not  do,  but  only 
brought  her  head  into  the  Docke,  and  so  shored  her 
up  till  next  tide.  But,  good  God  !  what  a  deal  of 
company  was  there  from  both  yards  to  helpe  to  do  it, 
when  half  the  company  would  have  done  it  as  well. 
But  I  see  it  is  impossible  for  the  King  to  have  things 
done  as  cheap  as  other  men. 

2 2d.  I  had  letters  from  the  Downes  from  Mr.  Cov- 
entry ;  who  tells  me  of  the  foul  weather  they  had  last 
Sunday,  that  drove  them  back  from  near  Bologne, 
whither  they  were  going  for  the  Queene,  back  again 
to  the  Do^vnes,  with  the  loss  of  their  cables,  sayles,  and 
masts ;  but  are  all  safe,  only  my  Lord  Sandwich,  who 
went  before  with  the  yachts ;  they  know  not  what  is 
become  of  him,  which  do  trouble  me  much;  but  I 
hope  he  got  ashore  before  the  storm  begim;  which 
God  grant !  All  day  at  the  office,  only  at  home  at 
dinner,  where  I  was  highly  angry  with  my  wife  for  her 
keys  being  out  of  the  way,  but  they  were  found  at  last, 
and  so  friends  again. 

23rd.  This  morning  angry  a  little,  and  my  house 
being  so  much  out  of  order  makes  me  a  little  pettish. 
I  went  to  the  office,  and  there  dispatched  business  by 
myself,  and  so  again  in  the  afternoon ;  being  a  little 
vexed  that  my  brother  Tom,  by  his  neglect,  do  fail 
to  get  a  coach  for  my  wife  and  mayde  this  week,  by 
w^hich  she  will  not  be  at  Brampton  Feast,  to  meet  my 
Lady  at  my  father's.  Much  disturbed,  by  reason  of 
the  talk  up  and  downe  the  towne,  that  my  Lord  Sand- 
wich is  lost ;  but  I  trust  in  God  the  contrary. 


292  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

24th.  I  hear,  to  my  great  content,  that  my  Lord 
Sandwich  is  safe  landed  in  France. 

25  th.  At  the  office  all  the  morning,  reading  Mr. 
Holland's  ^  discourse  of  the  navy,  lent  me  by  Mr. 
Turner,  and  am  much  pleased  with  them,  they  hitting 
the  very  diseases  of  the  Navy,  which  we  are  troubled 
with  now-a-days. 

26th.  I  had  a  letter  from  Mr.  Creed,  who  hath 
escaped  narrowly  in  the  King's  yacht,  and  got  safe  to 
the  Downes  after  the  late  storm ;  and  he  says  that 
there  the  King  do  tell  him,  that  he  is  sure  my  Lord  is 
landed  in  CaUis  safe,  of  which  being  glad,  I  sent  news 
thereof  to  my  Lord  Crew,  and  by  the  post  to  my  Lady 
into  the  country.  This  afternoon  I  went  to  Westmin- 
ster; and  there  hear  that  the  King  and  Queene  in- 
tend to  come  to  White  Hall  from  Hampton  Court 
next  week,  for  all  winter.  Thence  to  Mrs.  Sarah,^  and 
there  looked  over  my  Lord's  lodgings,  which  are  very 
pretty ;  and  White  Hall  garden  and  the  Bowling-ally 
(where  lords  and  ladies  are  now  at  bowles),  in  brave 
condition.  Mrs.  Sarah  told  me  how  the  falling  out 
between  my  Lady  Castlemaine  and  her  Lord  was  about 
christening  of  the  child  ^  lately,  which  he  would  have, 
and  had  done  by  a  priest :  and,  some  days  after,  she 
had  it  again  christened  by  a  minister ;  the  King,  and 


^  John  Holland,  whose  work  is  in  the  British  Museum. 

2  Lord  Sandwich's  housekeeper. 

3  The  first  son  whom  Lady  Castlemaine  bore  to  Charles  II.  was  Charles 
Fitzroy,  born  in  June,  1662,  and  afterwards  created  Duke  of  Southamp- 
ton. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS.  293 

Lord  of  Oxford,'  and  Duchesse  of  Suffolk,^  being  wit- 
nesses :  and  christened  with  a  proviso,  that  it  had  not 
already  been  christened.  Since  that  she  left  her  Lord, 
carrying  away  every  thing  in  the  house ;  so  much  as 
every  dish,  and  cloth,  and  servant  but  the  porter.  He 
is  gone  discontented  into  France,  they  say,  to  enter  a 
monastery ;  and  now  she  is  coming  back  again  to  her 
house  in  King-streete.  But  I  hear  that  the  Queene 
did  prick  her  out  of  the  hst  presented  her  by  the  King ; 
desiring  that  she  might  have  that  favour  done  her,  or 
that  he  would  send  her  from  whence  she  come  :  and 
that  the  King  was  angry  and  the  Queene  discontented 
a  whole  day  and  night  upon  it ;  but  that  the  King  hath 
promised  to  have  nothing  to  do  with  her  hereafter. 
But  I  cannot  beheve  that  the  King  can  fling  her  off  so, 
he  loving  her  too  well :  and  so  I  writ  this  night  to  my 
Lady  to  be  my  opinion  :  she  calling  her  my  lady,  and 
the  lady  I  admire.  Here  I  find  that  my  Lord  hath 
lost  the  garden  to  his  lodgings,  and  that  it  is  turning 
into  a  tennis-court. 

27th  (Lord's  day).  I  to  walk  in  the  Parke,  which 
is  now  every  day  more  and  more  pleasant,  by  the  new 
works  upon  it.  Here  meeting  with  Laud  Crispe,  I 
took  him  to  the  further  end,  and  sat  under  a  tree  in  a 
comer,  and  there  sung  some  songs. 

1  Aubrey  de  Vere,  twentieth  and  last  Earl  of  Oxford.     Ob.  1702-3,  s,  p. 

2  There  was  no  Duchess  of  Suffolk  at  this  time ;  the  lady  meant  must  have 
been  Barbara,  eldest  daughter  of  Sir  Edward  Villiers,  widow  of  Richard 
Wenman,  eldest  son  of  Philip,  third  Viscount  Wenman,  an  Irish  peer,  and 
second  wife  of  James  Howard,  third  Earl  of  Suffolk.  She  was  Mistress  of 
the  Robes  to  the  Queeii,  who  might  well  feel  annoyed  at  her  own  servant 


294  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS. 

28th.  Up  early,  and  by  six  o'clock,  after  my  wife 
was  ready,  I  walked  with  her  to  the  George,  at  Hol- 
bome  Conduit,'  where  the  coach  stood  ready  to  carry 
her  and  her  mayde  to  Bugden :  so  I  took  a  troubled 
though  willing  good-bye,  because  of  the  bad  condition 
of  my  house  to  have  a  family  in  it.  Walked  to  the 
water-side,  and  there  took  boat  for  the  Tower ;  hear- 
ing that  the  Queene-Mother  is  come  this  morning 
already  as  high  as  Woolwich :  and  that  my  Lord 
Sandwich  was  with  her ;  at  which  my  heart  was  glad. 
So  home  all  alone  to  dinner,  and  then  to  the  office, 
and  in  the  evening  Cooper  comes,  and  he  being  gone, 
to  my  chamber  a  little  troubled  and  melancholy,  to  my 
lute,  and  so  to  bed.  Will  lying  there  at  my  feet. 

29th.  Early  up,  and  brought  all  my  money,  which  is 
near  300/.,  out  of  my  house  into  this  chamber ;  and 
so  to  the  office,  and  there  we  sat  all  the  morning,  Sir 
George  Carteret  and  Mr.  Coventry  being  come  from 
sea.  This  morning  among  other  things  I  broached 
the  business  of  our  being  abused  about  flags,  which  I 
know  doth  trouble  Sir  W.  Batten,  but  I  care  not.  To 
the  office  again,  and  in  the  evening  walked  to  Dept- 
ford  (Cooper  with  me  talking  of  mathematiques),  to 

being  selected  for  the  office  of  sponsor  to  the  King's  base-born  son.  Lady 
Castlemaine  was  niece  to  Lady  Suffolk,  who  perhaps  had  been  her  godmother, 
as  they  both  bore  the  same  christian  name. 

'  "  The  Fleet  (the  river  so  called  from  its  rapid  current)  next  directed  its 
course  past  Bagnigge  Weils,  &c.,  and  Saffron  Hill  and  so  to  the  bottom  of 
Holborn.  Here  it  received  the  water  of  the  Old  Bourne  (whence  the  name 
Holbom),  which  rose  near  Middle  Row,  and  the  channel  of  which  forms  the 
sewer  of  Holborn  Hill  to  this  day."  —  Avmer,  Introduction  to  the  ChrO' 
tuques  de  London,  p.  xii.     Camden  Society,  1844.     (i\L  B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS.  295 

send  a  fellow  to  prison  for  cutting  of  buoy  ropes,  and 
to  see  the  difference  between  the  flags  sent  in  now- 
a-days,  and  I  find  the  old  ones,  which  were  much 
cheaper,  to  be  wholly  as  good.  So  I  took  one  of  a 
sort  with  me,  and  Mr.  Wayth  accompanying  of  me 
a  good  way,  talking  of  the  faults  of  the  Navy,  I  walked 
to  Redriffe  back,  and  so  home  by  water. 

30th.  Up  early,  and  to  my  office,  where  Cooper 
came  to  me  and  begim  his  lecture  upon  the  body  of  a 
ship,  which  my  having  of  a  modell  in  the  office  is  of 
great  use  to  me,  and  very  pleasant  and  useful  it  is. 
By  water  to  White  Hall,  and  there  waited  upon  my 
Lord  Sandwich  ;  and  joyed  him,  at  his  lodgings,  of  his 
safe  coming  home  after  all  his  danger,  which  he  con- 
fesses to  be  very  great.  And  his  people  do  tell  me 
how  bravely  my  Lord  did  carry  himself,  while  my  Lord 
Crofts '  did  cry ;  and  I  perceive  it  is  all  the  town  talk 
how  poorly  he  carried  himself.  But  the  best  was  of 
one  Mr.  Rawlins,^  a  courtier,  that  was  with  my  Lord ; 
and  in  the  greatest  danger  cried,  "  My  Lord,  I  won't 
give  you  three-pence  for  your  place  now."  But  all 
ends  in  the  honour  of  the  pleasure-boats ;  which,  had 
they  not  been  very  good  boats,  they  could  never  have 
endured  the  sea  as  they  did.  Thence  with  Captain 
Fletcher,  of  the  Gage,  to  Woolwich,  expecting  to  find 


1  William  Crofts,  created  Baron  Crofts  of  Saxham  in  Suffolk,  1658,  and 
died  s.  p.  1677. 

2  Giles  Rawlings  occurs  in  an  old  household  book  of  James  Duke  of  York, 
at  Audley  End,  as  Gentleman  of  the  Privy  Purse  to  his  Royal  Highness,  with 
a  salary  of  ;^4oo  per  annum.     See  19th  August, /^j/. 


296  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

Sir  W.  Batten  there  upon  his  survey,  but  he  is  not 
come,  and  so  we  got  a  dish  of  steaks  at  the  White 
Hart,  while  his  clarkes  and  others  were  feasting  of  it 
in  the  best  room  of  the  house,  and  after  dinner  play- 
ing at  shuffleboard,'  and  when  at  last  they  heard  I  was 
there,  they  went  about  their  survey.  But  God  help  the 
King  !  what  surveys  shall  be  taken  after  this  manner  ! 
I  after  dinner  about  my  business  to  the  Rope-yard, 
and  there  staid  till  night,  repeating  several  trialls  of 
the  strength,  wayte,  waste,  and  other  things  of  hempe, 
by  which  I  have  furnished  myself  enough  to  finish  my 
intended  business  of  stating  the  goodness  of  all  sorts 
of  hempe.  At  night  home  by  boat  with  Sir  W. 
Warren. 

31st.  At  noon  Mr.  Coventry  and  I  by  his  coach  to 
the  Exchange  together ;  and  in  Lumbard-streete  met 
Captain  Browne  of  the  Rosebush :  at  which  he  was 
cruel  angry;  and  did  threaten  to  go  to-day  to  the 
Duke  at  Hampton  Court,  and  get  him  turned  out 


»  Shuffleboard,  called  also  "  shovel-board,  shove-board,  shove-groat."  A 
game  which  consisted  in  pushing  or  shaking  pieces  of  money  on  a  board  to 
reach  certain  marks.  The  board  had  lines  or  divisions,  according  to  the  value 
of  which  the  player  counted  his  game.  It  was  played  at  one  time  with  silver 
groats,  and  thence  had  its  name;  afterwards  with  a  smooth  shilling,  but  still 
retaining  its  name  of  shove-groat. 

"  Quoit  him  down,  Bardolph,  like  a  shove-groat  shilling." 

Shakespeare,  2  Henry  IV.,  act  ii.  sc.  4. 

"  Seven  groats  in  mill-sixpences,  and  two  Edward  shovel-boards,  that  cost 
me  two  shillings  and  twopence  apiece." 

Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,  act  i.  sc.  1 . 

Edward  the  Sixth's  shillings  were  then  for  the  most  part  used  at  shove- 
board.    (M.  B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   FEPYS.  297 

because  he  was  not  sailed.  So  took  boat  to  Billings- 
gate, and  went  down  on  board  the  Rosebush  at  Wool- 
wich, and  found  all  things  out  of  order,  but  after 
frightening  the  officers  there,  we  left  them  to  make 
more  haste,  and  so  on  shore  to  the  yarde,  and  did  the 
same  to  the  officers  of  the  yarde,  that  the  ship  is  not 
dispatched.  Here  we  found  Sir  W.  Batten  going 
about  his  survey,  but  so  poorly  and  unlike  a  survey 
of  the  Navy,  that  I  am  ashamed  of  it,  and  so  is  Mr. 
Coventry.  So  home  late,  and  it  being  the  last  day  of 
the  month,  I  did  make  up  my  accounts  before  I  went 
to  bed,  and  found  myself  worth  about  650/.,  for  which 
the  Lord  God  be  praised,  and  so  to  bed.  I  drank 
but  two  glasses  of  wine  this  day,  and  yet  it  makes  my 
head  ake  all  night,  and  indisposed  me  all  the  next  day, 
of  which  I  am  glad.  I  am  now  in  towne  only  with 
my  man  Will  and  Jane,  and  because  my  house  is  in 
building,  I  do  He  at  Sir  W.  Pen's  house,  he  being  gone 
to  Ireland.  My  wife,  her  mayde,  and  boy  gone  to 
Brampton.  I  am  very  well  entered  into  the  business 
and  esteem  of  the  office,  and  do  ply  it  close,  and  find 
benefit  by  it. 

August  I  St.  Up,  my  head  akeing,  and  to  my  office, 
where  Cooper  read  me  another  lecture  upon  my  mod- 
ell  very  pleasant.  So  to  my  business  all  the  morning, 
which  increases  by  people  coming  now  to  me  to  the 
office. 

2nd.  Up  early,  and  got  me  ready  in  my  riding 
clothes,  and  took  boat  with  Will,  and  down  to  Green- 
wich, where  Captain  Cocke  not  being  at  home  I  was 


298  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS. 

vexed,  and  went  to  walk  in  the  Park  till  he  came 
thither  to  me  :  and  Will's  forgetting  to  bring  my  boots 
in  the  boat  did  also  vex  me,  for  I  was  forced  to  send 
the  boat  back  againe  for  them.  I  to  Captain  Cocke's 
along  with  him  to  dinner,  where  I  find  his  lady  still 
pretty,  but  not  so  good  a  humour  as  I  thought  she  was. 
We  had  a  plain,  good  dinner,  and  I  see  they  do  live 
very  frugally.  I  eat  among  other  fruit  much  mulber- 
rys,  a  thing  I  have  not  eat  of  these  many  years,  since 
I  used  to  be  at  Ashted,i  at  my  cozen  Pepys's.  After 
dinner  we  to  boat,  and  had  a  pleasant  passage  down 
to  Gravesend,  but  it  was  nine  o'clock  before  we  got 
thither,  so  that  we  were  in  great  doubt  what  to  do, 
whether  to  stay  there  or  no ;  and  the  rather  because 
I  was  afeard  to  ride,  because  of  my  paine  ;  but  at  the 
Swan,  finding  Mr.  Hempson  and  Lieutenant  Carteret 
of  the  Foresight  come  to  meet  me,  I  borrowed  Mr. 
Hempson's  horse,  and  he  took  another,  and  so  we 
rode  to  Rochester  in  the  dark.  So  after  a  glass  of 
wine,  we  to  our  barge,  that  was  ready  for  me,  to  the 
Hill-house,  where  we  soon  went  to  bed,  before  we 
slept  I  telling,  upon  discourse  with  Captain  Cocke,  the 
manner  of  my  being  cut  of  the  stone,  which  pleased 
him  much.     So  to  sleep. 

3rd  (Lord's  day).  Up  early,  and  with  Captain 
Cocke  to  the  dock-yard,  a  fine  walk,  and  fine  weather. 
Where  we  walked  till  Commissioner  Pett  came  to  us, 
and  took  us  to  his  house,  and  showed  us  his  garden 

*  A  village  near  Epsom. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   FEFYS.  299 

and  fine  things,  and  did  give  us  a  fine  breakfast  of 
bread  and  butter,  and  sweetmeats  and  other  things 
with  great  choice,  and  strong  drinks,  with  which  I 
could  not  avoyde  making  my  head  ake,  though  I 
drank  but  httle.  Thence  by  and  by  to  church,  by 
coach,  with  the  Commissioner,  and  had  a  dull  ser- 
mon. A  full  church,  and  some  pretty  women  in  it ; 
among  others,  Beck  Allen,  who  was  a  bride-mayde  to 
a  new  married  couple  that  cam.e  to  church  to-day, 
and,  which  was  pretty  strange,  sat  in  a  pew  hung 
with  mourning  for  a  mother  of  the  bride's,  which 
methinks  should  have  been  taken  down.  After  dinner 
to  church  again,  where  quite  weary,  and  so  with  the 
Commissioner  to  his  house,  and  had  a  syllabub,  and 
saw  his  closet,  which  came  short  of  what  I  expected, 
but  there  were  fine  modells  of  ships  in  it  indeed, 
whose  worth  I  could  not  judge  of.  So  to  supper, 
and  so  Captain  Cocke  and  I  to  bed.  Among  other 
stories  he  told  me  how  despicable  a  thing  it  is  to  be 
a  hangman  in  Poland,  although  it  be  a  place  of  credit. 
And  that,  in  his  time,  there  was  some  repairs  to  be 
made  of  the  gallows  there,  which  was  very  fine  of 
stone ;  but  nobody  could  be  got  to  mend  it  till  the 
Burgo-master,  or  Mayor  of  the  towne,  with  all  the 
companies  of  those  trades  which  were  necessary  to 
be  used  about  those  repairs,  did  go  in  their  habits 
with  flags,  in  solem^n  procession  to  the  place,  and 
there  the  Burgo-master  did  give  the  first  blow  with 
the  hammer  upon  the  wooden  work  ;  and  the  rest  of 
the  Masters  of  the  Com.panys  upon  the  w^crks  belong- 


3CX)  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

ing  to  their  trades;  that  so  workmen  might  not  be 
ashamed  to  be  employed  upon  doing  of  the  gallows' 
works. 

4th.  Up  by  four  o'clock  in  the  morning  and 
walked  to  the  Docke,  where  Commissioner  Pett  and 
I  took  barge  and  went  to  the  guardships  and  mus- 
tered them,  finding  them  but  badly  manned.  Thence 
to  the  Charles,  and  were  troubled  to  see  her  kept  so 
neglectedly ;  thence  to  Upnor  Castle,  and  there  went 
up  to  the  top,  where  there  is  a  fine  prospect,  but  of 
very  small  force ;  so  to  the  yarde,  and  there  mustered 
the  whole  ordinary,  where  great  disorder  by  multitude 
of  servants  and  old  decrepid  men,  which  must  be 
remedied.  So  took  barge  at  the  docke  and  to  Roch- 
ester, and  there  took  coach  about  8  at  night  and  to 
Gravesend,  where  it  was  very  dark  before  we  got 
thither  to  the  Swan ;  and  there,  meeting  with  Don- 
caster,  an  old  waterman  of  mine  above  bridge,  we 
eat  a  short  supper,  being  very  merry  with  the  drolling, 
drunken  coachman  that  brought  us,  and  so  took 
water.  It  being  very  dark,  and  the  wind  rising,  and 
our  waterman  unacquainted  with  this  part  of  the 
river,  so  that  we  presently  cast  upon  the  Essex  shoare, 
but  got  off  again,  and  so,  as  well  as  we  could,  went 
on,  but  I  in  such  feare  that  I  could  not  sleep  till 
we  came  to  Erith,  and  there  it  begun  to  be  calme, 
and  the  stars  to  shine,  and  so  I  began  to  take  heart 
again,  and  the  rest  too,  and  so  made  shift  to  slumber 
a  little.  Above  Woolwich  we  lost  our  way,  and  went 
back  to  Blackwall,  and  up  and  down,  being  guided 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  3OI 

by  nothing  but  the  barking  of  a  dog,  which  we  had 
observed  in  passing  by  Blackwall,  and  so, 

5th.  Got  right  again  with  much  ado,  after  two  or 
three  circles  and  so  on,  and  at  Greenwich  set  in  Cap- 
tain Cocke,  and  I  set  forward,  haiUng  to  all  the  King's 
ships  at  Deptford,  but  could  not  wake  any  man :  so 
that  we  could  have  done  what  we  would  with  their 
ships.  At  last  waked  one  man;  but  it  was  a  mer- 
chant ship,  the  Royall  Catharine  :  so  to  the  Tower- 
docke  and  home,  where  the  girle  sat  up  for  me. 
It  was  about  three  o'clock,  and  putting  Mr.  Boddam 
out  of  my  bed,  went  to  bed,  and  lay  till  nine  o'clock, 
and  so  the  office,  where  we  sat  all  the  morning, 
Dined  alone  at  home,  and  was  glad  my  house  is 
begun  tiling. 

6th.  By  water  to  ^Vhite  Hall ;  and  so  to  St.  James's  ; 
but  there  found  Mr.  Coventry  gone  to  Hampton 
Court.  So  to  my  Lord's ;  and  he  is  also  gone  :  this 
being  a  great  day  at  the  Council  about  some  business 
before  the  King.  Here  Mr.  Pierce,  the  chyrurgeon, 
told  me  how  Mr.  Edward  Montagu  hath  lately  had  a 
duell  with  Mr.  Cholmely,'  that  is  first  gentleman-usher 


^  Hugh  Cholmeley,  afterwards  the  third  baronet  of  that  name;  he  was 
the  second  son  of  Sir  Hugh  Cholmeley,  of  Whitby  (governor  of  Scarborough 
for  Charles  I.),  whose  autobiography  has  been  printed.  This  Hugh  suc- 
ceedec^  his  nephew  of  the  same  name,  who  died  a  minor  in  June,  1665,  after 
which  date  Pepys  speaks  of  him  by  his  title.  In  February,  1666,  he  married 
Lady  Anne  Compton,  eldest  daughter  of  Spencer,  Earl  of  Northampton. 
He  was  afterwards,  for  some  years,  governor  of  Tangier,  of  which  he  pub- 
lished an  account.  He  died  gth  January,  1688.  He  was  descended  from  a 
younger  branch  of  that  great  family  of  Egertons  and  Cholmondeleys,  of  all 
of  whom  Sir  Philip  M.  Grey  Egerton  is  the  head. 


302  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS. 

to  the  Queene,  and  was  a  messenger  from  the  King 
to  her  in  Portugall,  and  is  a  fine  gentleman ;  but  had 
received  many  affronts  from  Mr.  Montagu,  and  some 
unkindness  from  my  Lord,  upon  his  score  (for  which 
I  am  sorry) .  He  proved  too  hard  for  Montagu,  and 
drove  him  so  far  backward  that  he  fell  into  a  ditch, 
and  dropt  his  sword,  but  with  honour  would  take  no 
advantage  over  him ;  but  did  give  him  his  life  :  and 
the  world  says  Mr.  Montagu  did  carry  himself  very 
poorly  in  the  business,  and  hath  lost  his  honour  for 
ever  with  all  people  in  it,  of  which  I  am  very  glad, 
in  hopes  that  it  will  humble  him.  I  hear  also  that 
he  hath  sent  to  my  Lord  to  borrow  400/.,  giving  his 
brother  Harvey's '  security  for  it,  and  that  my  Lord 
will  lend  it  him,  for  which  I  am  sorry.  This  after- 
noon Mr.  Waith  was  with  me,  and  did  tell  me  much 
concerning  the  Chest,  which  I  am  resolved  to  look 
into ;  and  I  perceive  he  is  sensible  of  Sir  W.  Batten's 
carriage  ;  and  is  pleased  to  see  any  thing  work  against 
him. 

7th.  Up  by  four  o'clock  and  to  my  office,  and  by 
and  by  Mr.  Cooper  comes  and  to  our  modell,  which 
pleases  me  more  and  more.  This  morning  I  got  un- 
expectedly the  Reserve  for  Mr.  Cooper  to  be  maister 
of,  which  was  only  by  taking  an  opportune  time  to 
motion  it,  which  is  one  good  effect  of  my  being  con- 
stant at  the  office,  that  nothing  passes  without  me ; 
and  I  have  the  choice  of  my  own  time  to  propose 

^  Sir  D.  Harvey  married  Mr.  Montagu's  sister.  See  October  loth,  1661. 
(M.  B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  303 

anything  I  would  have.  Dined  at  home,  and  to  the 
office  again,  it  being  become  a  pleasure  to  me  now- 
a-days  to  follow  my  business,  and  the  greatest  part 
may  be  imputed  to  my  drinking  no  wine,  and  going 
to  no  plays. 

8th.  Up  by  four  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  at  five 
by  water  to  Woolwich,  there  to  see  the  manner  of 
tarring,  and  all  the  morning  looking  to  see  the  several 
proceedings  in  making  of  cordage,  and  other  things 
relating  to  that  sort  of  works,  much  to  my  satisfaction. 
At  noon  came  Mr.  Coventry  on  purpose  from  Hamp- 
ton Court  to  see  the  same,  and  dined  with  Mr. 
Falconer,  and  after  dinner  to  several  experiments  of 
Hempe.  Thence  we  walked  talking  very  good  dis- 
course all  the  way  to  Greenwich,  and  I  do  find  most 
excellent  discourse  from  him.  Among  other  things, 
his  rule  of  suspecting  every  man  that  proposes  any 
thing  to  him  to  be  a  knave ;  or,  at  least,  to  have  some 
ends  of  his  owti  in  it.  Being  led  thereto  by  the 
story  of  Sir  John  Millicent,^  that  would  have  had  a 
patent  from  King  James  for  every  man  to  have  had 
leave  to  have  given  him  a  shilling ;  and  that  he  might 
take  it  of  every  man  that  had  a  mind  to  give  it,  and 
being  answered  that  that  was  a  fair  thing,  but  what 
needed  he  a  patent  for  it,  and  what  he  would  do  to 
them  that  would  not  give  him.  He  answered,  he 
would  not  force  them ;  but  that  they  should  come  to 
the  Council  of  State,  to  give  a  reason  why  they  would 

*  He  is  dcsciibed  in  the  Baronetages  as  of  Bar  ham,  in  Cambridgeshire. 


304  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

not.  Another  rule  is  a  proverb  that  he  hath  been 
taught,  which  is  that  a  man  that  cannot  sit  still  in  his 
chamber  (the  reason  of  which  I  did  not  understand 
him),  and  he  that  cannot  say  no  (that  is,  that  is  of  so 
good  a  nature  that  he  cannot  deny  any  thing,  or  cross 
another  in  doing  any  thing),  is  not  fit  for  business. 
The  last  of  which  is  a  very  great  fault  of  mine,  which 
I  must  amend.  Thence  by  boat;  I  being  hot,  he 
put  the  skirt  of  his  cloake  about  me ;  and  it  being 
rough,  he  told  me  the  passage  of  a  Frenchman  through 
London  Bridge,  ^  where,  when  he  saw  the  great  fall, 
he  begun  to  cross  himself  and  say  his  prayers  in  the 
greatest  fear  in  the  world,  and  soon  as  he  was  over, 
he  swore  "  Morbleu  !  c'est  le  plus  grand  plaisir  du 
monde,"  being  the  most  like  a  French  humour  in  the 
world.  To  Deptford,  and  there  surprised  the  Yarde, 
and  called  them  to  a  muster,  and  discovered  many 
abuses,  which  we  shall  be  able  to  understand  hereafter 
and  amend.  Thence  walked  to  Redriffe,  and  so  to 
London  Bridge,  where  I  parted  with  him,  and  walked 
home  and  did  a  little  business,  and  to  supper  and  to 
bed. 


I  When  the  first  editions  of  this  "  Diary  "  were  printed  no  note  was  re- 
quired here.  Before  the  erection  of  the  present  London  Bridge,  the  fall  of 
water  at  the  ebb  tide  was  great,  and  to  pass  at  that  time  was  called  "  Shoot- 
ing the  bridge."  It  was  very  hazardous  for  small  boats.  The  ancient  mode, 
even  in  Henry  VIII. 's  time,  of  going  to  the  Tower  and  Greenwich,  was  to 
land  at  the  Three  Cranes,  in  Upper  Thames  Street,  suffer  the  barges  to  shoot 
the  bridge,  and  to  enter  them  again  at  Billingsgate.  See  Cavendish's  "  WoU 
sey,"  p.  40,  edit.  1852;  Life  of  the  Duke  of  Somerset  in  Fox's  "  Acts,"  vol. 
vi.  p.  293;  "Life  of  Bp.  Hall,"  in  Wordsworth's  "Eccl.  Biog.,"  iv.  318, 
edit.  1853. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  305 

9th.  Up  by  four  o'clock  or  a  little  after,  and  to  my 
office,  whither  by  and  by  comes  Cooper,  and  did  a 
good  morning's  work  upon  the  rigging.  By  and  by 
comes  Mr.  Coventry,  and  he  and  I  alone  sat  at  the 
office  all  the  morning  upon  business.  And  so  to 
dinner  to  Trinity  House,  and  thence  by  his  coach 
towards  White  Hall ;  but  there  being  a  stop  at  the 
Savoy,'  we  light  and  took  water,  and  my  Lord  Sand- 
wich being  out  of  towne,  we  parted  there,  all  the  way 
having  good  discourse,  and  in  short  I  find  him  the 
most  ingenuous  person  I  ever  found  in  my  life,  and 
am  happy  in  his  acquaintance  and  my  interest  in  him. 
Home  by  water,  and  did  business  at  my  office.  Writ- 
ing to  my  brother  John  to  dissuade  him  from  being 
Moderator  of  his  year,  which  I  hear  is  proffered  him, 
of  which  I  am  very  glad.  By  and  by  comes  Cooper, 
and  he  and  I  by  candlelight  at  my  modell,  being 
willing  to  learn  as  much  of  him  as  is  possible  before 
he  goes. 

loth  (Lord's  day).  Being  to  dine  at  my  brother's, 
I  walked  to  St.  Dunstan's,  the  church  being  now  fin- 
ished ;  and  here  I  heard  Dr.  Bates,^  who  made  a  most 
eloquent  sermon ;  and  I  am  sorry  I  have  hitherto  had 
so  low  an  opinion  of  the  man,  for  I  have  not  heard  a 
neater  sermon  a  great  while,  and  more  to  my  content. 
So  to  Tom's,  where  Dr.  Fairebrother,  newly  come 
from  Cambridge,  met  me,  and  Dr.  Thomas  Pepys. 

^  The  Savoy  Palace  in  the  Strand,  a  considerable  part  of  which  existed  so 
lately  as  1816. 

2  Dr.  Bates,  a  celebrated  Nonconformist  divine. 


306  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

I  framed  myself  as  pleasant  as  I  could,  but  my  mind 
was  another  way.  Hither  came  my  uncle  Fenner, 
hearing  that  I  was  here.  He  told  me  the  new  service- 
booke  I  (which  is  now  lately  come  forth)  was  laid 
upon  their  deske  at  St.  Sepulchre's  for  Mr.  Gouge* 
to  read ;  but  he  laid  it  aside,  and  would  not  meddle 
with  it :  and  I  perceive  the  Presbyters  do  all  prepare 
to  give  over  all  against  Bartholomewtide.  Mr.  Her- 
ring, being  lately  turned  out  at  St.  Bride's,  did  read 
the  psalme  to  the  people  while  they  sung  at  Dr. 
Bates's,  which  methought  is  a  strange  tum.3  After 
dinner  to  St.  Bride's,  and  there  heard  one  Carpenter, 
an  old  man,  who,  they  say,  hath  been  a  Jesuite  priest, 
and  is  come  over  to  us ;  but  he  preaches  very  well. 
So  home,  and  hear  that  Mr.  Calamy  hath  taken  his 
farewell  this  day  of  his  people,  and  that  others  will 
do  so  the  next  Sunday.  Mr.  Turner,-*  the  draper,  I 
hear,  is  knighted,  made  Alderman,  and  pricked  for 
Sheriffe,  with  Sir  Thomas  Bluddel,5  for  the  next  year, 
by  the  King,  and  so  are  called  with  great  honour  the 
King's  Sheriffes. 

^  The  Common  Prayer  Book  now  in  use.  One  of  the  sealed  books, 
appointed  by  the  Act  of  Uniformity,  is  still  preserved  in  the  Tower  of 
London. 

2  Thomas  Gouge,  an  eminent  Presbyterian  minister,  who  had  the  church 
of  St.  Sepulchre  during  the  Commonwealth,  and  abandoned  it  on  the  Act  of 
Uniformity  coming  into  force.  There  is  an  account  of  him  in  Calamy's 
"  Lives  of  the  Ejected  Ministers,"  8vo,  1713. 

3  A  practice  still  obtains  amongst  the  Dissenters  of  reading  the  psalm  or 
hymn  to  be  sung,  two  lines  at  a  time. 

4  Sir  William  Turner,  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  1669. 

5  A  mistake  for  Bludworth,  who  had  been  Colonel  of  the  Orange  Regi. 
ment  of  the  trained  bands,  and  Lord  Mayor  in  1666. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  FEFYS.  307 

nth.  All  the  morning  at  the  office.  Dean  Fuller 
came  to  see  me,  and  so  to  the  Dolphin  taveme, 
where  I  spent  6d.  on  him,  but  drank  but  one  glass 
of  wine,  and  so  parted.  He  tells  me  that  his  niece, 
that  sings  so  well,  whom  I  have  long  longed  to  see, 
is  married  to  one  Mr.  Boys,  a  wholesayle  man  at  the 
Three  Crowns  in  Cheapside.  I  to  the  office  again, 
whither  Cooper  came  and  read  his  last  lecture  to  me 
upon  my  modell,  and  so  bid  me  good  bye,  he  being  to 
go  to-morrow  to  Chatham  to  take  charge  of  the  ship  I 
have  got  him.  So  to  my  business  till  9  at  night,  and 
so  to  supper  and  to  bed,  my  mind  a  Httle  at  ease 
because  my  house  is  now  quite  tiled. 

1 2th.  Up  early  at  my  office,  and  I  find  all  people 
beginning  to  come  to  me.  Among  others  Mr.  Deane, 
the  Assistant  of  Woolwich,  who  I  find  will  discover 
to  me  the  whole  abuse  that  his  Majesty  suffers  in  the 
measuring  of  timber,  of  which  I  shall  be  glad.  By 
and  by  we  sat,  and  among  other  things  Sir  W.  Batten 
and  I  had  a  difference  about  his  clerk's  making  a 
warrant  for  a  Maister,  which  I  would  not  suffer,  but 
got  another  signed,  which  he  desires  may  be  referred 
to  a  full  board,  and  I  am  willing  to  it. 

13th.  Up  early,  and  to  my  office.  By  and  by  we 
met  on  purpose  to  enquire  into  the  business  of  the 
flag-makers,  where  I  am  the  person  that  do  chiefly 
manage  the  business  against  them  on  the  King's  part ; 
and  I  do  find  it  the  greatest  cheat  that  I  have  yet 
found  ;  they  having  eightpence  per  yard  allowed  them 
by  pretence  of  a  contract,  where  no  such  thing  ap- 


3C8  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

pears ;  and  it  is  threepence  more  than  was  formerly 
paid,  and  than  I  now  offer  the  Board  to  have  them 
done.  To  Lambeth ;  and  there  saw  the  Httle  pleas- 
ure-boat in  building  by  the  King,  my  Lord  Brunkard,^ 
and  the  virtuosoes  of  the  towne,  according  to  new 
lines,  which  Mr.  Pett  cries  up  mightily,  but  how  it 
will  prove  we  shall  soon  see.  So  by  water  home, 
and  busy  at  my  study  late,  drawing  a  letter  to  the 
yards  of  reprehension  and  direction  for  the  board  to 
sign,  in  which  I  took  great  pains.  So  home  and 
to  bed. 

14th.  Commissioner  Pett  and  I  being  invited,  went 
by  Sir  John  Winter's  coach  sent  for  us,  to  the  Miter, 
in  Fanchurch-street,  to  a  venison-pasty;  where  I 
found  him  a  very  worthy  man ;  and  good  discourse. 
Most  of  which  was  concerning  the  Forest  of  Deane, 
and  the  timber  there,  and  iron-workes  with  their  great 
antiquity,  and  the  vast  heaps  of  cinders  which  they 
find,  and  are  now  of  great  value,  being  necessary  for 
the  making  of  iron  at  this  day;  and  without  which 
they  cannot  work :  with  the  age  of  many  trees  there 
left  at  a  great  fall  in  Edward  the  Third's  time,  by  the 
name  of  forbid-trees,  which  at  this  day  are  called 
vorbid  trees. 

15  th.    Up  very  early,  and  up  about  seeing  how  my 

I  William,  second  Lord  Brouncker,  Viscount  of  Castle  Lyons;  created 
M.D.  in  1642,  at  Oxford:  Keeper  of  the  Great  Seal  to  the  Queen;  a  Com- 
missioner of  the  Admiralty ;  and  Master  of  St.  Catherine's  Hospital.  He 
was  a  man  of  considerable  talents,  and  some  years  President  of  the  Royal 
Society.  Ob.  1684,  aged  64,  There  is  a  fine  portrait  of  him  by  Lely,  at 
Lord  Lyttleton's,  at  Hagley.     St&post,  24th  March,  1667. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS.  309 

work  proceeds,  and  am  pretty  well  pleased  therewith ; 
especially  my  wife's  closet  will  be  very  pretty.  At 
noon  to  the  Change,  and  there  hear  of  some  Quakers 
that  are  seized  on,  that  would  have  blown  up  the 
prison  in  Southwarke  where  they  are  put.  So  to  the 
Swan,  in  Old  Fish  Streete,  where  Mr.  Brigden  and  his 
father-in-law,  Blackbury,  of  whom  we  had  bought 
timber  in  the  office,  but  have  not  dealt  well  with  us, 
did  make  me  a  fine  dinner  only  to  myself;  and  after 
dinner  comes  in  a  jugler,  which  shewed  us  very  pretty 
tricks.  I  seemed  very  pleasant,  but  am  no  friend  to 
the  man's  dealings  with  us  in  the  office.  I  went 
to  Paul's  Church  Yard  to  my  bookseller's ;  and  there 
I  hear  that  next  Sunday  will  be  the  last  of  a  great 
many  Presbyterian  ministers  in  towne,  who,  I  hear, 
wall  give  up  all.  I  pray  God  the  issue  may  be  good, 
for  the  discontent  is  great.  My  mind  well  pleased 
with  a  letter  that  I  found  at  home  from  Mr.  Coventry, 
expressing  his  satisfaction  in  a  letter  I  writ  last  night, 
and  sent  him  this  morning,  to  be  corrected  by  him  in 
order  to  its  sending  down  to  all  the  Yards  as  a  charge 
to  them. 

17th  (Lord's  day).  Up  very  early,  this  being  the 
last  Sunday  that  the  Presbyterians  are  to  preach,  unless 
they  read  the  new  Common  Prayer  and  renounce  the 
Covenant,  and  so  I  had  a  mind  to  hear  Dr.  Bates's 
farewell  sermon ;  and  so  walked  to  St.  Dunstan's, 
where,  it  not  being  seven  o'clock  yet,  the  doors  were 
not  open ;  and  so  I  went  and  walked  an  hour  in  the 
Temple-garden,  reading  my  vows,  which  it  is  a  great 


3IO  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

content  to  me  to  see  how  I  am  a  changed  man  in  all 
respects  for  the  better,  since  I  took  them,  which  the 
God  of  Heaven  continue  to  me,  and  make  me  thank- 
ful for.  At  eight  o'clock  I  went,  and  crowded  in  at 
a  back  door  among  others,  the  church  being  half-full 
almost  before  any  doors  were  open  publicly ;  which  is 
the  first  time  that  I  have  done  so  these  many  years 
since  I  used  to  go  with  my  father  and  mother,  and  so 
got  into  the  gallery,  beside  the  pulpit,  and  heard  very 

well.     His  text  was,  "  Now  the  God  of  Peace ;  " 

the  last  Hebrews,  and  the  20th  verse  :  he  making  a 
very  good  sermon,  and  very  little  reflections  in  it  to 
any  thing  of  the  times.  Besides  the  sermon,  I  was 
very  well  pleased  with  the  sight  of  a  fine  lady  that  I 
have  often  seen  walk  in  Graye's  Inn  Walks,  and  it  was 
my  chance  to  meet  her  again  at  the  door  going  out, 
and  very  pretty  and  sprightly  she  is.  So  to  Madam 
Turner's,  and  dined  with  her.  She  had  heard  Parson 
Herring  take  his  leave ;  tho'  he,  by  reading  so  much 
of  the  Common  Prayer  as  he  did,  hath  cast  himself 
out  of  the  good  opinion  of  both  sides.  After  dinner 
to  St.  Dunstan's  again ;  and  the  church  quite  crowded 
before  I  came,  which  was  just  at  one  o'clock ;  but  I 
got  into  the  gallery  again,  but  stood  in  a  crowd.  He  ' 
pursued  his  text  again  very  well ;  and  only  at  the  con- 
clusion told  us,  after  this  manner  :  "  I  do  beUeve  that 
many  of  you  do  expect  that  I  should  say  something 
to  you  in  reference  to  the  time,  this  being  the  last 

»  Dr.  Bates. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  3II 

time  that  possibly  I  may  appear  here.  You  know  it  is 
not  my  manner  to  speak  any  thing  in  the  pulpit  that 
is  extraneous  to  my  text  and  business  ;  yet  this  I  shall 
say,  that  it  is  not  my  opinion,  fashion,  or  humour  that 
keeps  me  from  complying  with  what  is  required  of 
us  ;  but  something  which,  after  much  prayer,  discourse, 
and  study  yet  remains  unsatisfied,  and  commands  me 
herein.  Wherefore,  if  it  is  my  unhappinesse  not  to 
receive  such  an  illuminacion  as  should  direct  me  to  do 
otherwise,  I  know  no  reason  why  men  should  not  par- 
don me  in  this  world,  and  am  confident  that  God  will 
pardon  me  for  it  in  the  next."  And  so  he  concluded. 
Parson  Herring  read  a  psalme  and  chapters  before  ser- 
mon ;  and  one  was  the  chapter  in  the  Acts,  where  the 
story  of  Ananias  and  Sapphira  is.  And  after  he  had 
done,  says  he,  "This  is  just  the  case  of  England  at 
present.  God  he  bids  us  to  preach,  and  men  bid  us 
rot  to  preach ;  and  if  we  do,  we  are  to  be  imprisoned 
and  further  punished.  All  that  I  can  say  to  it  is,  that 
I  beg  your  prayers,  and  the  prayer  of  all  good  Chris- 
tians, for  us."  This  was  all  the  exposition  he  made 
of  the  chapter  in  these  very  words,  and  no  more.  I 
was  much  pleased  with  Dr.  Bates's  manner  of  bringing 
in  the  Lord's  Prayer  after  his  owne  ;  thus,  "  In  whose 
comprehensive  words  we  sum  up  all  our  imperfect 
desires  ;  saying,  *  Our  Father,'  "  &c.  I  hear  most  of 
the  Presbyters  took  their  leaves  to-day,  and  that  the 
City  is  much  dissatisfied  with  it.  I  pray  God  keep 
peace  among  us,  and  make  the  Bishops  careful  of 
bringing  in  good  men  in  their  rooms,  or  else  all  will 


312  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

fly  a-pieces ;  for  bad  ones  will  not  go  down  with  the 
City. 

1 8th.  Up  very  early,  and  up  upon  my  house  to  see 
how  work  goes  on,  which  do  please  me  very  well.  So 
about  seven  o'clock  took  horse  and  rode  to  Bowe,  and 
there  staid  at  the  King's  Head,  and  eat  a  breakfast  of 
eggs  till  Mr.  Deane  ^  of  Woolwich  came,  and  he  and 
I  rid  into  Waltham  Forest,  and  there  we  saw  many 
trees  of  the  King's  a-hewing ;  and  he  showed  me  the 
whole  mystery  of  off  square,^  wherein  the  King  is 


^  Anthony  Deane,  afterwards  knighted  and  M.  P.  for  Harwich;  a  Com- 
missioner  of  the  Navy,  1672. 

2  Off-square  is  evidently  a  mistake,  in  the  shorthand  MS.,  for  half- 
square,  which  is  explained  by  the  following  extract  from  W.  Leybourn's 
"  Complete  Surveyor,"  3rd  edit.,  London,  1674,  folio:  — 

"  Before  I  proceed,  I  must  needs  detect  one  grand  and  too  common  an 
error;  for  most  artificers,  when  they  meet  with  squared  timber,  whose  breadth 
and  depth  are  unequal,  they  usually  add  the  breadth  and  depth  together,  and 
take  the  half  for  a  mean  square,  and  so  proceed.  This,  indeed,  though  it  be 
always  an  error,  yet  it  is  not  so  great  when  the  difference  of  the  breadth  and 
depth  is  not  much;  but,  if  the  difference  be  great,  the  error  is  very  obnoxious 
either  to  buyer  or  seller,     I  will  instance  in  one  example :  — 

"  Let  a  piece  of  timber  be  2  foot  24  parts  broad,  and  i  foot  30  parts  deep, 
and  26  foot  long:  how  many  foot  are  contained  therein? 

"  First  for  the  true  way:  — 

"  I,  As  I  is  to  2*24  parts,  the  breadth,  so  is  1*30  parts,  the  depth,  to  3*92 
parts,  the  content  at  the  end. 

"  2.  As  I  is  to  2*92,  so  is  26,  the  length,  to  56"07,  the  content,  which  is 
56  foot  and  about  an  inch. 

•'  Now  for  the  customary  false  way :  — 

The  breadth  of  the  piece  is 2*24 

The  depth  thereof  is 1*30 

Their  sum  is 3"54 

The  half  sum  is i"77 

And  this  1-77  parts  they  take  for  the  true  square,  which  is  egregiously  false; 
for  now  come  to  the  line  of  numbers,  and  say :  — 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  313 

abused  in  the  timber  that  he  buys,  which  I  shall  with 
much  pleasure  be  able  to  correct.  After  we  had  been 
a  good  while  in  the  wood,  we  rode  to  Illford,  and  there, 
while  dinner  was  getting  ready,  he  and  I  practised 
measuring  of  the  tables  and  other  things  till  I  did 
understand  measure  of  timber  and  board  very  well. 
So  to  dinner  and  by  and  by,  being  sent  for,  comes 
Mr.  Cooper,  our  officer  in  the  Forest,  and  did  give 
me  an  account  of  things  there,  and  how  the  country 
is  backward  to  come  in  with  their  carts.  While  I  am 
here.  Sir  W.  Batten  passed  by  in  his  coach,  homewards 
from  Colchester,  where  he  had  been  seeing  his  son-in- 
law,  Lemon,  that  lies  a-dying,  but  I  would  take  no 
notice  of  him,  but  let  him  go.  By  and  by  I  rode  to 
Barking,  and  there  saw  the  place  where  they  ship  this 
timber  for  Woolwich  ;  and  so  Deane  and  I  home  again, 
and  parted  at  Bowe,  and  I  home  just  before  a  great 
showTe  of  rayne,  as  God  would  have  it.     I  find  Deane 

"  I.  As  I  is  to  i'77  parts,  so  is  1*77  parts  to  3'i3  parts. 

"  2.  As  I  is  to  3"  13  parts,  so  is  26,  the  length,  to  81  "45  parts,  that  is  to  81 
foot  and  almost  half  a  foot,  whereas,  by  the  true  way,  it  contains  but  56  foot 
and  '07  parts.  The  difference  in  this  piece  being  25  foot  and  above  one-third 
part  of  a  foot,  which  is  above  half  a  load  of  timber,  and  timber  being  at  50J. 
or  ;^3  per  load,  here  is  25J.  or  30J.  lost  by  the  buyer,  and  gained  by  the  seller; 
a  considerable  fallacy  to  buy  one  load,  and  pay  for  above  a  load  and  a  half. 
But  if  people  will  be  deceived,  let  them  be  deceived." 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  Pepys  carried  out  his  intention  of  putting  an  end  to 
the  nefarious  practice  of  cheating  the  King  in  the  purchase  of  timber.  He 
speaks  of  it  in  good  faith,  and  his  term,  mystery,  simply  implies  his  ignorance 
of  the  art  of  measuring.  With  regard  to  Sir  William  Warren,  the  case  was 
probably  different:  he  made  large  presents  to  Pepys,  and  confesses  that  he 
perjured  himself  before  the  Committee  of  the  House  of  Commons  in  conceal- 
ing the  fact.  Frauds  in  the  supply  of  timber  for  the  use  of  the  Navy  have 
been  common  subjects  of  complaint  at  a  much  later  period. 


314  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

a  pretty  able  man,  and  able  to  do  the  King  service ; 
but,  I  think,  more  out  of  envy  to  the  rest  of  the  officers 
of  the  yarde,  of  whom  he  complains  much,  than  true 
love,  more  than  others,  to  the  service.  He  would  fain 
seem  a  modest  man,  and  yet  will  commend  his  own 
work  and  skill,  and  vie  with  other  persons,  especially 
the  Petts,  but  I  let  him  alone  to  hear  all  he  will  say. 

19th.  Up  betimes  and  to  see  how  my  work  goes 
on.  Then  Mr.  Creed  came  to  me,  and  he  and  I 
walked  an  houre  or  two  till  8  o'clock  in  the  garden. 
Among  other  things  he  tells  me  that  my  Lord  has  put 
me  into  Commission  with  himself  and  many  noble- 
men and  others  for  Tangier,  which,  if  it  be,  is  not  only 
great  honour,  but  may  be  of  profit  too,  and  I  am  very 
glad  of  it.  By  and  by  to  sit  at  the  office ;  and  Mr. 
Coventry  did  tell  us  of  the  duell  between  Mr.  Jermyn,^ 
nephew  to  my  Lord  St.  Alban's,  and  Colonel  Giles 
Rawlins,2  the  latter  of  whom  is  killed,  and  the  first 
mortally  wounded,  as  it  is  thought.  They  fought 
against  Captain  Thomas  Howard,^  my  Lord  Carlisle's 

^  He  became  Baron  Jermyn  on  the  death  of  his  uncle,  the  Earl  of  St. 
Alban's,  1683;  and  died  unmarried,  1703. 

2  See  July  30,  1662,  atite. 

3  "  Aug.  18,  1662.  Capt.  Thomas  Howard,  the  Earl  of  Carlisle's  brother, 
and  the  Lord  Dillon's  son,  a  Colonel,  met  with  Mr.  Giles  Rawlings,  privy 
purse  to  the  D.  of  York,  and  Mr.  Jermyn,  the  Earl  of  St.  Albans's  nephew. 
.  .  .  There  had  been  a  slight  quarrel  betwixt  them,  and  as  they,  Rawlings 
and  Jermyn,  came  from  tennis,  these  two  drew  at  them,  and  then  Col.  Dillon 
killed  this  Mr.  Rawlings  dead  upon  the  spot.  Mr.  Jermyn  was  left  for  dead. 
This  Capt.  Howard  was  unfortunate  since  the  return  of  his  Majy,  in  killing 
a  horse-courser  man  in  St.  Giles.  Mr.  Rawlings  was  much  lamented;  he 
lived  in  a  very  handsome  state,  six  horses  in  his  coach,  three  footmen,  &c. 
Oct.  Capt.  Thomas  Howard,  and  Lord  Dillon's  son,  both  of  them  fled  about 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  315 

brother,  and  another  unknown ;  ^  who,  they  say,  had 
armor  on  that  they  could  not  be  hurt,  so  that  one  of 
their  swords  went  up  to  the  hilt  against  it.  They  had 
horses  ready,  and  are  fled.  But  what  is  most  strange, 
Howard  sent  one  challenge,  but  they  could  not  meet, 
and  then  another,  and  did  meet  yesterday  at  the  old 
Pall  Mall  at  St.  James's,  and  he  would  not  to  the  last 
tell  Jermyn  what  the  quarrel  2  was  ;  nor  do  any  body 
know.  The  Court  is  much  concerned  in  this  fray,  and 
I  am  glad  of  it ;  hoping  that  it  will  cause  some  good 
laws  against  it.  After  sitting,  Sir  G.  Carteret  did  tell 
me  how  he  had  spoke  of  me  to  my  Lord  Chancellor, 
and  that  if  my  Lord  Sandwich  would  ask  my  Lord 
Chancellor,  he  should  know  what  he  had  said  of  me 
to  him  to  my  advantage,  of  which  I  am  very  glad,  and 
do  not  doubt  that  all  things  will  grow  better  and  better 


the  killing  of  Mr.  Giles  Rawlings;  but  after  a  quarter  of  a  year  they  came 
into  England,  and  were  acquitted  by  law."  —  Rugge's  Diurnal.  Capt. 
Howard  afterwards  married  the  Duchess  of  Richmond. 

'  Lord  Dillon's  son,  apparently  Charles,  eldest  son  of  James,  fourth  Vis- 
count Dillon.  He  had  served  abroad,  and  died,  unmarried,  before  his  father. 
It  may  have  been  from  feelings  caused  by  this  duel  that  one  of  his  younger 
brothers,  Rupert,  whilst  Page  of  Honour  to  Charles  H.,  "being  from  his 
address  and  figure  considered  an  object  of  envy,  was  set  upon,"  says  the 
pedigree,  "  by  the  other  pages,  and  slain  in  the  Palace  Yard."  —  Lodge,  iv. 
189. 

2  Hamilton  gives  the  following  account  of  the  duel,  which  arose  from 
rivalry  between  Howard  and  Jermyn  about  Lady  Shrewsbury:  — "Jermyn 
prit  pour  second,  Giles  Rawlings,  homme  de  bonne  fortune,  et  gros  joueur. 
Howard  se  servit  de  Dillon,  adroit  et  brave,  fort  honnete  homme,  et  par  mal- 
heur  intime  ami  de  Rawlings.  Dans  ce  combat,  la  fortune  ne  fut  point  pour 
les  favoris  de  I'amour.  Le  pauvre  Rawlings  y  fut  tud  tout  roide,  et  Jermyn, 
perce  de  trois  coups  d'dp^e,  fut  port^  chez  son  oncle,  avec  fort  peu  de  signes 
de  vie."  —  Mim.  de  Grammont. 


3l6  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

every  day  for  me.  Dined  at  home  alone,  then  to  my 
office,  and  there  till  late  at  night  doing  business,  and 
so  home,  eat  a  bit,  and  to  bed. 

20th.  To  my  Lord  Sandwich,  whom  I  found  in  bed. 
Among  other  talk,  he  do  tell  me  that  he  hath  put  me 
into  commission  with  a  great  many  great  persons  in 
the  business  of  Tangier,  which  is  a  very  great  honour 
to  me,  and  may  be  of  good  concernment  to  me.  By 
and  by  comes  in  Mr.  Coventry  to  us,  whom  my  Lord 
tells  that  he  is  also  put  into  the  commission,  and  that 
I  am  there,  of  which  he  said  he  was  glad ;  and  did 
tell  my  Lord  that  I  was  indeed  the  life  of  this  office, 
and  much  more  to  my  commendation  beyond  meas- 
ure. And  that,  whereas  before  he  did  bear  me  respect 
for  his  sake,  he  do  do  it  now  much  more  for  my 
own ;  which  is  a  great  blessing  to  me.  Sir  G.  Carte- 
ret having  told  me  what  he  did  yesterday  concerning 
his  speaking  to  my  Lord  Chancellor  about  me.  So 
that  on  all  hands,  by  God's  blessing,  I  find  myself  a 
very  rising  man.  By  and  by  comes  my  Lord  Peter- 
borough in,  with  whom  we  talked  a  good  while,  and 
he  is  going  to-morrow  toward  Tangier  again.  I  per- 
ceive there  is  yet  good  hopes  of  peace  with  Guyland,* 
which  is  of  great  concernment  to  Tangier.  Meeting 
Mr.  Townsend,  he  would  needs  take  me  to  Fleete 
Streete,  to  one  Mr.  Barwell,  squire  sadler  to  the  King, 
and  there  we  and  several  other  Wardrobe-men  dined. 
We  had  a  venison  pasty,  and  other  good  plain  and 

*  A  Moorish  usurper,  who  had  put  himself  at  the  head  of  an  army  for  the 
purpose  of  attacking  Tangier. 


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handsome  dishes ;  the  mistress  of  the  house  a  pretty, 
well-carriaged  woman,  and  a  fine  hand  she  hath ;  and 
her  mayde  a  pretty  brown  lass.  But  I  do  find  my 
nature  ready  to  run  back  to  my  old  course  of  drinking 
wine  and  staying  from  my  business,  and  yet,  thank 
God,  I  was  not  fully  contented  with  it,  but  did  stay  at 
little  ease,  and  after  dinner  hastened  home  by  water, 
and  so  to  my  office  till  late  at  night. 

2 1  St.  Up  early,  and  to  my  office.  At  noon,  though 
I  was  invited  to  my  uncle  Fenner's  to  dinner  to  a 
haunch  of  venison  I  sent  him  yesterday,  yet  I  did  not 
go,  but  chose  to  go  to  Mr.  Rawlinson's,  where  my 
uncle  Wight  and  my  aunt,  and  some  neighbour  couples 
were  at  a  very  good  venison  pasty.  Hither  came, 
after  we  were  set  down,  a  most  pretty  young  lady 
(only  her  hands  were  not  white  nor  handsome),  which 
pleased  me  well,  and  I  found  her  to  be  sister  to  Mrs. 
Anne  Wight.  We  were  good  company,  and  had  a 
very  pretty  dinner.  But  though  I  drank  no  wine  to- 
day, yet  how  easily  was  I  of  my  own  accord  stirred 
up  to  desire  my  aunt  and  this  pretty  lady  (for  it  was 
for  her  that  I  did  it)  to  carry  them  to  Greenwich 
and  see  the  pleasure  boats.  But  my  aunt  would  not 
go,  of  which  since  I  am  much  glad. 

22nd.  About  three  o'clock  this  morning  I  waked 
with  the  noise  of  the  rayne,  having  never  in  my  Hfe 
heard  a  more  violent  shower ;  and  then  the  catt  was 
lockt  in  the  chamber,  and  kept  a  great  mewing,  and 
leapt  upon  the  bed,  which  made  me  I  could  not  sleep 
a  great  while.     Then  to  sleep,  and  about  five  o'clock 


3l8  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

rose,  and  up  to  my  office,  and  about  8  o'clock  went 
down  to  Deptford,  and  there  with  Mr.  Davis  did  look 
over  most  of  his  stores ;  by  the  same  token  in  the 
great  storehouse,  while  Captain  Badily  was  talking  to 
us,  one  from  a  trap-door  above  let  fall  unawares  a 
coyle  of  cable,  that  it  was  10,000  to  one  it  had  not 
broke  Captain  Badily's  neck,  it  came  so  near  him,  but 
did  him  no  hurt.  I  went  on  with  looking  and  inform- 
ing myself  of  the  stores  with  great  delight,  and  having 
done  there,  I  took  boat  home  again  and  dined.  Then 
by  water  to  Westminster  Hall,  and  there  I  hear  that 
old  Mr.  Hales '  did  lately  die  suddenly  in  an  hour's 
time.  Here  I  met  with  Will  Bowyer,  and  had  a 
promise  from  him  of  a  place  to  stand  to-morrow  at  his 
house  to  see  the  show.  Thence  to  my  Lord's,  and 
thither  sent  for  Mr.  Creed,  and  then  to  his  lodgings  at 
Clerke's,  the  confectioner's,  where  he  did  give  me  a 
little  banquet,  and  I  had  liked  to  have  begged  a  par- 
rot for  my  wife,  but  he  hath  put  me  in  a  way  to  get  a 
better  from  Steventon,  at  Portsmouth. 

23d.  Mr.  Coventry  and  I  did  walk  together  a  great 
while  in  the  Garden,  where  he  did  tell  me  his  mind 
about  Sir  G.  Carteret's  having  so  much  the  command 
of  the  money,  which  must  be  removed.  And  indeed 
it  is  the  bane  of  all  our  business.  He  observed  to  me 
also  how  Sir  W.  Batten  begins  to  struggle  and  to  look 
after  his  business.  I  also  put  him  upon  getting  an 
order  from  the  Duke  for  our  inquiries  into  the  Chest, 

*  John  Hales  of  Eton. 


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which  he  will  see  done.  So  we  parted,  and  Mr.  Creed 
by  appointment  being  come,  he  and  I  went  out  to- 
gether, and  at  an  ordinary'  in  Lumbard  Streete  dined 
together,  and  so  walked  down  to  the  Styll  Yard,  and 
so  all  along  Thames-street,  but  could  not  get  a  boat : 
I  offered  eight  shillings  for  a  boat  to  attend  me  this 
afternoon,  and  they  would  not,  it  being  the  day  of  the 
Queene's  coming  to  town  from  Hampton  Court.  So 
we  fairly  walked  it  to  White  Hall,  and  through  my 
Lord's  lodgings  we  got  into  White  Hall  garden,  and 
so  to  the  Bowling-greene,  and  up  to  the  top  of  the 
new  Banqueting  House  there,  over  the  Thames,  which 
was  a  most  pleasant  place  as  any  I  could  have  got ; 
and  all  the  show  consisted  chiefly  in  the  number  of 
boats  and  barges ;  and  two  pageants,  one  of  a  King, 
and  another  of  a  Queene,  with  her  Maydes  of  Honour 
sitting  at  her  feet  very  prettily ;  and  they  tell  me  the 
Queene  is  Sir  Richard  Ford's  daughter.  Anon  came 
the  King  and  Queene  in  a  barge  under  a  canopy  with 
10,000  barges  and  boats,  I  think,  for  we  could  see  no 
water  for  them,  nor  discern  the  King  nor  Queene. 
And  so  they  landed  at  White  Hall  Bridge,  and  the 
great  guns  on  the  other  side  went  off.  But  that  which 
pleased  me  best  was,  that  my  Lady  Castlemaine  stood 
over  against  us  upon  a  piece  of  White  Hall,  where  I 
glutted  myself  with  looking  on  her.  But  methought 
it  was  strange  to  see  her  Lord  and  her  upon  the  same 
place  walking  up  and  down  without  taking  notice  one 
of  another,  only  at  first  entry  he  put  off  his  hat,  and 
she  made  him  a  very  civil  salute,  but  afterwards  took 


320  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

no  notice  one  of  another ;  but  both  of  them  now  and 
then  would  take  their  child,  which  the  nurse  held  in 
her  armes,  and  dandle  it.  One  thing  more;  there 
happened  a  scaffold  below  to  fall,  and  we  feared  some 
hurt,  but  there  was  none,  but  she  of  all  the  great  ladies 
only  nm  down  among  the  common  rabble  to  see  what 
hurt  was  done,  and  did  take  care  of  a  child  that  re- 
ceived some  little  hurt,  which  methought  was  so  noble. 
Anon  there  came  one  there  booted  and  spurred  that 
she  talked  long  with.  And  by  and  by,  she  being  in  her 
haire,  she  put  on  his  hat,  which  was  but  an  ordinary 
one,  to  keep  the  wind  off.  But  methinks  it  became 
her  mightily,  as  every  thing  else  do.  The  show  being 
over,  I  went  away,  not  weary  with  looking  on  her,  and 
to  my  Lord's  lodgings,  where  my  brother  Tom  and 
Dr.  Thomas  Pepys  were  to  speak  with  me.  So  I 
walked  with  them  in  the  garden,  and  was  very  angry 
with  them  both  for  their  going  out  of  towne  without 
my  knowledge ;  but  they  told  me  the  business,  which 
was  to  see  a  gentlewoman  for  a  wife  for  Tom,  of  Mr. 
Cooke's  providing,  worth  500/.,  of  good  education,  her 
name  Hobell,  and  lives  near  Banbury,  demands  40/. 
per  annum  joynter.  Tom  likes  her,  and,  they  say,  had 
a  very  good  reception,  and  that  Cooke  hath  been  very 
serviceable  therein,  and  that  she  is  committed  to  old 
Mr.  Young,  of  the  Wardrobe's,  tuition.  After  I  had 
told  them  my  mind  about  their  folly  in  going  so  unad- 
visedly, I  then  begun  to  inquire  after  the  business,  and 
so  did  give  no  answer  as  to  my  opinion  till  I  have 
looked  farther  into  it  by  Mr.  Young.     By  and  by,  as 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  32 1 

we  were  walking  in  my  Lord's  walk,  comes  my  Lord, 
and  he  and  I  had  half  an  hour's  private  discourse 
about  the  discontent  of  the  times,  which  we  concluded 
would  not  come  to  anything  of  difference,  though  the 
Presbyters  would  be  glad  enough  of  it ;  but  we  do  not 
think  rehgion  will  so  soon  cause  another  war.  Then 
to  his  owne  business.  He  asked  my  advice  there, 
whether  he  should  go  on  to  purchase  more  land  and 
to  borrow  money  to  pay  for  it,  which  he  is  willing  to 
do,  because  such  a  bargaine  as  that  of  Mr.  Buggins's, 
of  Stukely,  will  not  be  every  day  to  be  had,  and  Bramp- 
ton is  now  perfectly  granted  him  by  the  King  —  I 
mean  the  reversion  of  it  —  after  the  Queene's  death; 
and,  in  the  meantime,  he  buys  it  of  Sir  Peter  Ball  his 
present  right.  Then  we  fell  to  talk  of  Navy  business, 
and  he  concludes,  as  I  do,  that  he  needs  not  put  him- 
self upon  any  more  voyages  abroad  to  spend  money, 
unless  a  war  comes ;  and  that  by  keeping  his  family 
awhile  in  the  country,  he  shall  be  able  to  gather  money. 
Here  we  broke  off,  and  I  bid  him  good  night,  and  so 
with  much  ado,  the  streets  being  at  nine  o'clock  at 
night  crammed  with  people  going  home  to  the  city, 
for  all  the  borders  of  the  river  had  been  full  of  people, 
as  the  King  had  come,  to  a  miracle  got  to  the  Palace 
Yard,  and  there  took  boat,  and  so  to  the  Old  Swan, 
and  so  walked  home,  and  to  bed  very  weary. 

24th  (Lord's  day).  Slept  till  7  o'clock,  which  I 
have  not  a  great  while,  but  it  was  my  weariness  last 
night  that  caused  it.  So  rose  and  to  my  office  till 
church  time,  writing  down  my  yesterday's  observations, 


322  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

and  so  to  church,  where  I  all  alone,  and  found  Will 
Griffin  and  Thomas  Hewett  got  into  the  pew  next  to 
our  backs,  where  our  mayds  sit,  but  when  I  came,  they 
went  out ;  so  fonvard  some  people  are  to  outrun  them- 
selves. Here  we  had  a  lazy,  dull  sermon.  So  home 
to  dinner,  where  my  brother  Tom  came  to  me,  talking 
about  his  late  journey  and  his  mistress,  and  for  what 
he  tells  me  it  is  like  to  do  well.  He  being  gone,  I  to 
church  again,  where  Mr.  Mills,  making  a  sermon  upon 
confession,  he  did  endeavour  to  pull  down  auricular 
confession,  but  did  set  it  up  by  his  bad  arguments 
against  it,  and  advising  people  to  come  to  him  to  con- 
fess their  sins  when  they  had  any  weight  upon  their 
consciences,  as  much  as  is  possible,  which  did  vex  me 
to  hear.  So  home,  and  walked  to  my  uncle  Wight's, 
the  truth  is,  in  hopes  to  have  seen  and  been  acquainted 
with  the  pretty  lady  that  came  along  with  them  to 
dinner  the  other  day  to  Mr.  Rawlinson,  but  she  is 
gone  away.  But  here  I  staid  supper,  and  much  com- 
pany there  was  ;  among  others.  Dr.  Burnett,'  Mr.  Cole 
the  lawyer,  Mr.  Rawlinson,  and  Mr.  Sutton,  a  brother 
of  my  aunt's,  that  I  never  saw  before.  Among  other 
things  they  tell  me  that  there  hath  been  a  disturbance 
in  a  church  in  Friday  Street;  a  great  many  young 
people  knotting  together  and  crying  out  "  Porridge  "  ^ 

1  A  physician,  residing  in  Fenchurch  Street,  who  died  of  the  plague.  See 
postea,  August  25,  1665. 

2  Porridge  was  the  nickname  given  by  the  Dissenters  to  the  Book  of  Com- 
mon Prayer.  In  the  "City  Heiress,"  Sir  Anthony  says  to  Sir  Timothy, 
"  You  came  from  church  too."  Sir  Timothy  replies,  "  Ah !  need  must  when 
the  devil  drives.     I  go  to  save  my  bacon,  as  they  say,  once  a  month;  and 


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often  and  seditiously  in  the  church,  and  they  took  the 
Common  Prayer  Book,  they  say,  away ;  and,  some  say, 
did  tear  it ;  but  it  is  a  thing  which  appears  to  me  very 
ominous.     I  pray  God  avert  it. 

25  th.  Up  early,  and  away  by  water  to  Woohvich 
(calling  in  my  way  in  Hamcreeke,  where  I  have  never 
been  before,  and  there  found  two  of  the  King's  ships 
lie  there  without  any  living  creature  aboard,  which 
troubled  me,  every  thing  being  stole  away  that  can 
be),  where  I  staid  seeing  a  cable  of  14  inches  laid,  in 
which  there  was  good  variety.  Then  to  Mr.  Falconer's, 
and  there  eat  a  bit  of  roast  meat  off  of  the  spit,  and 
so  away  to  the  yarde,  and  there  among  other  things 
mustered  the  yarde,  and  did  things  that  I  perceive 
people  do  begin  to  value  me,  and  that  I  shall  be  able 
to  be  of  command  in  all  matters,  which  God  be  praised 
for.  Then  to  Mr.  Pett's,  and  to  Deptford,  and  so 
home,  where  by  appointment  I  found  Mr.  Coventry, 
Sir  W.  Batten,  and  Mr.  Waith  met  at  Sir  W.  Batten's, 
and  thither  I  met,  and  so  agreed  upon  a  way  of  answer- 
ing my  Lord  Treasurer's  letter.  Here  I  found  Mr. 
Coventry  had  got  a  letter  from  the  Duke,  sent  us  for 
looking  into  the  business  of  the  Chest,  of  which  I  am 
glad.  So  home  and  to  bed,  my  mind,  God  be  praised, 
full  of  business,  but  great  quiet. 

that,  too,  after  the  porridge  is  served  up."  —  Quoted  by  Genest,  in  "  Hist, 
of  the  Stage,"  vol.  i.  p.  36.  The  meaning  of  this  word  is  fully  explained  in 
a  rare  contemporary  tract,  called  "  A  Vindication  of  the  Book  of  Common 
Prayer  against  the  contumelious  slanders  of  the  Fanatic  Party,  terming  it 
Porridge."  An  extract  from  this  pamphlet  will  be  found  in  a  note  to  Sir 
Walter  Scott's  "  Woodstock,"  vol.  i.  p.  22,  edit.  1834. 


324  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS, 

27th.  Dined  with  Sir  W.  Batten,  his  Lady  being  in 
the  country.  Among  other  stories,  he  told  us  of  the 
Mayor  of  Bristoll's  reading  a  pass  with  the  bottom  up- 
wards ;  and  a  barber  that  could  not  read,  that  flung 
a  letter  in  the  kennel  when  one  came  to  desire  him  to 
read  the  superscription,  saying,  "  Do  you  think  I  stand 
here  to  read  letters?"  This  afternoon  Mrs.  Hunt 
came  to  see  me,  and  I  did  give  her  a  Muske  Millon. 
To-day  my  hogshead  of  sherry  I  have  sold  to  Sir  W. 
Batten,  and  am  glad  of  my  money  instead  of  wine. 

29th.  Up  betimes  and  among  my  workmen,  finding 
my  presence  to  carry  on  the  work  both  to  my  mind 
and  with  more  haste.  At  night,  the  workmen  being 
gone,  I  went  to  my  office,  and  among  other  businesses 
did  begin  to-night  with  Mr.  Lewes  to  look  into  the 
nature  of  a  purser's  account,  and  the  business  of  vict- 
ualling, in  which  there  is  great  variety ;  but  I  find  I 
shall  understand  it,  and  be  able  to  do  service  there 
also.  So  being  weary  and  chilly,  being  in  some  fear 
of  an  ague,  I  went  home  and  to  bed. 

30th.  At  noon  I  had  news  that  Sir  W.  Pen  would 
be  in  towne  from  Ireland,  which  I  much  wonder  at, 
and  it  troubled  me  exceedingly  what  to  do  for  a  lodg- 
ing, and  more  what  to  do  with  my  goods,  that  are  all 
in  his  house  ;  but  at  last  I  resolved  to  let  them  lie 
there  till  Monday,  and  got  a  lodging  upon  Tower  Hill. 

31st  (Lord's  day).  Waked  early,  but  being  in  a 
strange  house,  did  not  rise  till  7  o'clock  almost,  and 
so  rose  and  read  over  my  oathes,  and  to  my  office, 
and  thence  to  church.     News  is  brought  me  that  Sir 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  325 

W.  Pen  is  come.  Made  my  monthly  accounts,  and 
find  myself  worth  in  money  about  ^'^(iL  iqj-.  2^^.,  for 
which  God  be  praised ;  and  indeed  greatly  I  hope  to 
thank  Almighty  God,  who  do  most  manifestly  bless 
me  in  my  endeavours  to  do  the  duties  of  my  office,  I 
now  saving  money,  and  my  expenses  being  little.  My 
wife  is  still  in  the  country ;  my  house  ail  in  dirt ;  but 
my  work  in  a  good  forwardness,  and  will  be  much 
to  my  mind  at  last.  In  the  afternoon  to  church,  and 
there  heard  a  simple  sermon  upon  David's  words, 
"  BJessed  is  the  man  that  walketh  not  in  the  way  of 
the  ungodly,"  &c.,  and  the  best  of  his  sermon  was  the 
degrees  of  walking,  standing,  and  sitting,  showing  how 
by  steps  and  degrees  sinners  do  grow  in  wickedness. 
So  to  Mr.  Rawlinson's,  and  there  supped  with  him. 
Our  discourse  of  the  discontents  that  are  abroad, 
among,  and  by  reason  of  the  Presbyters.  Some  were 
clapped  up  to-day,  and  strict  watch  is  kept  in  the  City 
by  the  train-bands,  and  letters  of  a  plot  are  taken. 
God  preserve  us,  for  all  these  things  bode  very  ill. 

September  ist.  With  Sir  W.  Batten  and  Sir  W.  Pen 
by  coach  to  St.  James's,  this  being  the  first  day  of  our 
meeting  there  by  the  Duke's  order;  but  when  we 
come,  we  found  him  going  out  by  coach  with  his  Duch- 
esse,  and  he  told  us  he  was  to  go  abroad  with  the 
Queene  to-day  (to  Durdan's,  it  seems,  to  dine  with 
my  Lord  Barkeley,^  where  I  have  been  very  merry 
when  I  was  a  little  boy)  ;  so  we  went  and  staid  a  little 

*  Lord  Berkeley's  seat  near  Epsom. 


326  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

at  Mr.  Coventry's  chamber,  and  I  to  my  Lord  Sand- 
wich's, who  is  gone  to  wait  upon  the  King  and  Queene 
to-day.  And  so  Mr.  Paget  being  there,  Will  Howe 
and  I  and  he  played  over  some  things  of  Locke's  that 
we  used  to  play  at  sea,  that  pleased  us  three  well,  it 
being  the  first  musique  I  have  heard  a  great  while,  so 
much  has  my  business  of  late  taken  me  off  from  all 
my  former  delights.  So  to  my  office,  but  missing  my 
key,  which  I  had  in  my  hand  just  now,  makes  me  very 
angry  and  out  of  order,  it  being  a  thing  that  I  hate  in 
others,  and  more  in  myself,  to  be  careless  of  keys,  I 
thinking  another  not  fit  to  be  trusted  that  leaves  a  key 
behind  their  hole.  One  thing  more  vexes  me  :  my 
wife  writes  me  from  the  country  that  her  boy  plays  the 
rogue  there,  and  she  is  weary  of  him,  and  complains 
also  of  her  mayde  Sarah,  of  which  I  am  also  very  sorry. 
Being  thus  out  of  temper,  I  could  do  little  at  my  office, 
but  went  home  and  eat  a  bit,  and  so  to  my  lodging 
and  to  bed. 

2nd.  To  my  office,  and  we  met  all  the  morning, 
and  then  dined  at  Sir  W.  Batten's  with  Sir  W.  Pen, 
and  so  to  my  office  again  all  the  afternoon,  and  in 
the  evening  wrote  a  letter  to  Mr.  Cooke,  in  the  coun- 
try, in  behalf  of  my  brother  Tom,  to  his  mistress,  it 
being  the  first  of  my  appearing  in  it,  and  if  she  be  as 
Tom  sets  her  out,  it  may  be  well  for  him. 

3rd.  To  my  office,  and  about  8  o'clock  I  went  over 
to  Redriffe,  and  walked  to  Deptford,  where  I  found 
Mr.  Coventry  and  Sir  W.  Pen.  Here  we  staid  till 
noon,  and  by  that  time  paid  off  the  Breda,  and  then 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  32/ 

to  dinner  at  the  taveme,  where  I  have  obtained  that 
our  commons  is  not  so  large  as  they  used  to  be,  which 
I  am  glad  to  see.  After  dinner  by  water  to  the  office, 
and  there  we  met  and  sold  the  Weymouth,  Successe, 
and  Fellowship  hulkes,  where  pleasant  to  see  how 
backward  men  are  at  first  to  bid ;  and  yet  when  the 
candle  is  going  out,  how  they  bawl  and  dispute  after- 
wards who  bid  the  most  first.  And  here  I  observed 
one  man  cunninger  than  the  rest  that  was  sure  to  bid 
the  last  man,  and  to  carry  it ;  and  inquiring  the  rea- 
son, he  told  me  that  just  as  the  flame  goes  out  the 
smoke  descends,  which  is  a  thing  I  never  observed 
before,  and  by  that  he  do  know  the  instant  when  to 
bid  last,  which  is  very  pretty.  In  our  discourse  in  the 
boat  Mr.  Coventry  told  us  how  the  Fanatiques  and 
the  Presbyters,  that  did  intend  to  rise  about  this  time, 
did  choose  this  day  as  the  most  auspicious  to  them 
in  their  endeavours  against  monarchy :  it  being  fatal 
twice  to  the  King,  and  the  day  of  Oliver's  death.^ 
But,  blessed  be  God  !  all  is  likely  to  be  quiet,  I  hope. 
Dr.  Fairbrother  tells  me,  what  I  heard  confirmed  since, 
that  it  was  fully  resolved  by  the  King's  new  Council 
that  an  indulgence  should  be  granted  the  Presbyters ; 
but  upon  the  Bishop  of  London's  speech  ^  (who  is 
now  one  of  the  most  powerful  men  in  England  with 

1  Cromwell  had  considered  the  3rd  of  September  as  the  most  fortunate 
day  of  his  life,  on  account  of  his  victories  at  Dunbar  and  Worcester.  It  was 
also  remarkable  for  the  great  storm  that  occurred  at  the  time  of  his  death ; 
and  as  being  the  day  on  which  the  Fire  of  London,  in  1666,  burnt  with  the 
greatest  fury. 

2  Gilbert  Sheldon. 


328  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

the  King) ,  their  minds  were  wholly  turned.  And  it 
is  said  that  my  Lord  Albemarle  did  oppose  him  most ; 
but  that  I  do  believe  is  only  in  appearance.  He  told 
me  also  that  most  of  the  Presbyters  now  begin  to  wish 
they  had  complied,  now  they  see  that  no  Indulgence 
will  be  granted  them,  which  they  hoped  for ;  and  that 
the  Bishop  of  London  hath  taken  good  care  that 
places  are  supplied  with  very  good  and  able  men, 
which  is  the  only  thing  that  will  keep  all  quiet.  I 
took  him  in  the  taveme  at  Puddle  docke,  but  neither 
he  nor  I  drank  any  of  the  wine  we  called  for,  but  left 
it,  and  so  after  discourse  parted,  and  so  by  water  to 
White  Hall  to  my  Lord's  lodgings,  where  he  being  to 
go  to  Hinchingbroke  to-morrow  morning,  I  staid  and 
fiddled  with  Will.  Howe  some  new  tunes  very  pleasant, 
and  then  my  Lord  came  in  and  I  had  some  kind  talk 
with  him,  and  then  to  bed  with  Mr.  Moore  there. 

4th.  By  water  betimes  to  the  Tower  and  so  home, 
where  I  shifted  myself,  being  to  dine  abroad,  and  so 
being  also  trimmed,  which  is  a  thing  I  have  very 
seldom  done  of  late,  we  met  and  sat  all  the  morn- 
ing, and  at  noon  we  all  to  the  Trinity  House,  where 
we  treated,  very  dearly,  I  believe,  the  officers  of  the 
Ordnance  ;  where  was  Sir  W.  Compton  and  the  Lieu- 
tenant of  the  Tower.  We  had  much  and  good 
musique  which  was  my  best  entertainment.  Sir  Wm. 
Compton  I  heard  talk  with  great  pleasure  of  the  dif- 
ference between  the  fleet  now  and  in  Queene  Eliza- 
beth's days ;  where,  in  ^%,  she  had  but  36  sail  great 
and  small,  in  the  world ;  and  ten  rounds  of  powder 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  329 

was  their  allowance  at  that  time  against  the  Spaniard. ^ 
After  Sir  W.  Compton  and  Mr.  Coventry,  and  some 
of  the  best  of  the  rest  were  gone,  I  grew  weary  of 
staying  with  Sir  Williams  both,  and  the  more  for  that 
my  Lady  Batten  and  her  crew,  at  least  half  a  score, 
came  into  the  room,  and  I  believe  we  shall  pay  size 
for  it ;  but  'tis  very  pleasant  to  see  her  in  her  haire 
under  her  hood,  and  how  by  little  and  little  she  would 
fain  be  a  gallant ;  but.  Lord  !  the  company  she  keeps 
about  her  are  like  herself,  that  she  may  be  known  by 
them  what  she  is. 

5  th.  Up  by  break  of  day,  and  by  water  to  Wool- 
wich :  in  my  way  saw  the  yacht  lately  built  by  our 
virtuosoes  (my  Lord  Brunkard  and  others,  with  the 
help  of  Commissioner  Pett  also)  set  out  from  Green- 
wich with  the  little  Dutch  bezan,  to  try  for  mastery ; 
and  before  they  got  to  Woolwich  the  Dutch  beat  them 
half-a-mile  (and  I  hear  this  afternoon,  that,  in  coming 
home,  it  got  above  three  miles)  ;  which  all  our  people 
are  glad  of.  Here  I  staid  and  mustered  the  yarde 
and  looked  into  the  storehouses,  and  so  walked  all 
alone  to  Greenwich,  and  thence  by  water  to  Deptford, 
and  there  examined  some  stores.  So  walked  to  Red- 
riffe  and  took  boat,  and  so  to  Mr.  Bland's,  the  mer- 
chant, by  invitation ;  where  I  found  all  the  officers  of 
the  Customs,  very  grave  fine  gentlemen,  and  I  am 
very  glad  to  know  them  j   viz.  —  Sir  Job  Haivy,  Sir 


J  See  Bruce's  "  Reports,"  in  1798,  on  the  measures  adopted  against  the 
invasion  of  England  in  1588,  printed  for  the  use  of  the  Privy  Council. 


330  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

John  WoLstenholme/  Sir  John  Jacob,^  Sir  Nicholas 
Crisp,  Sir  John  Harrison,3  and  Sir  John  Shaw :  ^  very 
good  company.  And  among  other  pretty  discourse, 
some  was  of  Sir  Jerom  Bowes,  Embassador  from 
Queene  Ehzabeth  to  the  Emperor  of  Russia ;  s  who, 
because  some  of  the  noblemen  there  would  go  up  the 
stairs  to  the  Emperor  before  him,  he  would  not  go  up 
till  the  Emperor  had  ordered  those  two  men  to  be 
dragged  downstairs,  with  their  heads  knocking  upon 
every  stair  till  they  were  killed.  And  when  he  was 
come  up,  they  demanded  his  sword  of  him  before  he 
entered  the  room.  He  told  them,  if  they  would  have 
his  sword,  they  should  have  his  boots  too.  And  so 
caused  his  boots  to  be  pulled  off,  and  his  night-gown 
and  night-cap  and  slippers  to  Le  sent  for ;  and  made 
the  Emperor  stay  till  he  couid  go  in  his  night-dress, 
since  he  might  not  go  as  a  soldier.  And  lastly,  when 
the  Emperor  in  contempt,  to  show  his  command  of 
his  subjects,  did  command  one  to  leap  from  the  wm- 
dow  down  and  broke  his  neck  in  the   sight  of  our 

^  Sir  John  Wolstenholme;  created  a  Baronet,  1664.  An  intimate  friend 
of  Lord  Clarendon's;  and  collector  outward  for  the  Port  of  London.  Ob. 
1679. 

2  Sir  John  Jacob  of  Bromley,  Middlesex;  created  a  Baronet,  1664,  for  his 
loyalty  and  zeal  for  the  Royal  Family.     Ob.  1665-6. 

3  Of  Balls,  Herts. 

4  Sir  John  Shaw  was  created  a  Baronet  in  1665,  for  his  services  in  lending 
the  King  large  sums  of  money  during  his  exile.     Ob.  1679-80. 

5  In  1583:  the  object  of  his  mission  being  to  persuade  the  Muscovite  to 
a  peace  with  John,  King  of  Sweden.  He  was  also  employed  to  confirm  the 
trade  of  the  English  with  Russia;  and,  having  incurred  some  personal  danger, 
was  received  with  favour  on  his  return  by  the  Queen.  He  died  in  1616. 
There  is  a  portrait  of  him  in  Lord  Suffolk's  collection  at  Charlton, 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  33 1 

Embassador,  he  replied  that  his  mistress  did  set  more 
by,  and  did  make  better  use  of  the  necks  of  her  sub- 
jects :  but  said  that,  to  show  what  her  subjects  would 
do  for  her,  he  would,  and  did,  fling  down  his  gantlett 
before  the  Emperor;  and  challenged  all  the  nobility 
there  to  take  it  up,  in  defence  of  the  Emperor  against 
his  Queene  :  for  which,  at  this  very  day,  the  name  of 
Sir  Jerom  Bowes  is  famous  and  honoured  there.  I 
this  day  heard  that  Mr.  Martin  Noell  ^  is  knighted  by 
the  King,  which  I  much  wonder  at;  but  yet  he  is 
certainly  a  very  useful  man. 

6th.  Lay  long,  that  is,  till  6  and  past  before  I  rose, 
so  up  and  to  my  office.  Sir  John  Minnes,  both  Sir 
Williams  and  I  to  the  Trinity  House,  where  we  had 
at  dinner  a  couple  of  venison  pasties,  of  which  I  eat 
but  little,  being  almost  cloyed,  having  been  at  five 
pasties  in  three  days. 

7th.  To  White  Hall  Chappell,  where  I  heard  a  good 
sermon  of  the  Deane  of  Ely's,^  upon  returning  to  the 
old  ways,  and  a  most  excellent  anthem,  with  sympho- 
nys  between,  sung  by  Captain  Cooke.     Home  with 


^  The  Council  of  State  sitting  at  Whitehall,  says  Lilly  ("  Life,"  p.  124), 
had  no  knowledge  of  what  was  passing  out  of  doors,  until  Sir  Martin  Noel, 
a  discreet  citizen,  came  about  nine  at  night,  and  informed  them  thereof.  From 
this  notice,  Noel  has  been  considered  as  the  original  of  the  messenger  who 
brings  the  news  of  the  burning  of  the  Rumps,  so  admirably  related  in  "  Hudi- 
bras,"  part  iii.  canto  ii,  1.  1497.  We  know  nothing  further  about  Sir  Martin, 
except  that  he  was  a  scrivener,  and  that  Pepys  records  his  death  of  the  plague, 
in  1665.     His  son,  of  the  same  name,  was  knighted  in  November,  1665. 

2  Francis  Wilford,  D.D.,  Master  of  Corpus  Christi  College,  Cambridge, 
made  Dean  of  Ely,  20th  May,  1662.  He  died  in  July,  1667,  being  then  Vice- 
Chancellor,  and  was  buried  in  the  chapel  of  his  college. 


332  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

Mr.  Fox  and  his  lady ;  and  there  dined  with  them. 
Most  of  our  discourse  was  what  ministers  are  flung 
out  that  will  not  conform :  and  the  care  of  the  Bishop 
of  London  that  we  are  here  supplied  with  very  good 
men.  Meeting  Mr.  Pierce,  the  chyrurgeon,  he  took 
me  into  Somersett  House ;  and  there  carried  me  into 
the  Queene- Mother's  presence-chamber,  where  she  was 
with  our  own  Queene  sitting  on  her  left  hand  (whom 
I  did  never  see  before)  ;  and  though  she  be  not  very 
charming,  yet  she  hath  a  good,  modest,  and  innocent 
look,  which  is  pleasing.  Here  I  also  saw  Madam 
Castlemaine,  and,  which  pleased  me  most,  Mr.  Crofts,^ 
the  King's  bastard,  a  most  pretty  sparke  of  about  15 
years  old,  who,  I  perceive,  do  hang  much  upon  my 
Lady  Castlemaine,  and  is  always  with  her;  and,  I 
hear,  the  Queenes  both  of  them  are  mighty  kind  to 
him.  By  and  by  in  comes  the  King,  and  anon  the 
Duke  and  his  Duchesse  ;  so  that,  they  being  all  to- 
gether, was  such  a  sight  as  I  never  could  almost  have 
happened  to  see  with  so  much  ease  and  leisure. 
They  staid  till  it  was  dark,  and  then  went  away ;  the 
King  and  his  Queene,  and  my  Lady  Castlemaine  and 
young  Crofts,  in  one  coach  and  the  rest  in  other 
»  coaches.  Here  were  great  stores  of  great  ladies,  but 
very  few  handsome.  The  King  and  Queene  were  very 
merry ;  and  he  would  have  made  the  Queene-Mother 
believe  that  his  Queene  was  with  child,  and  said  that 

^  James,  son  of  Charles  II.  by  Mrs.  Lucy  Waters;  who  bore  the  name  of 
Crofts  till  he  was  created  Duke  of  Monmouth  in  1662,  previously  to  his  mar- 
riage with  Lady  Anne  Scot,  daughter  to  Francis,  Earl  of  Buccleuch. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  333 

she  said  so.  And  the  young  Queene  answered,  "You 
lye ; "  which  was  the  first  EngUsh  word  that  I  ever 
heard  her  say  :  which  made  the  King  good  sport ;  and 
he  would  have  taught  her  to  say  in  English,  "  Confess 
and  be  hanged."  The  company  being  gone  I  walked 
home  with  great  content  as  I  can  be  in  for  seeing  the 
greatest  rarity,  and  yet  a  little  troubled  that  I  should 
see  them  before  my  wife's  coming  home,  I  having 
made  a  promise  that  I  would  not,  nor  did  I  do  it 
industriously  and  by  design,  but  by  chance  only. 

8th.  With  Mr.  Coventry  to  the  Duke;  who,  after 
he  was  out  of  his  bed,  did  send  for  us  in ;  and,  when 
he  was  quite  ready,  took  us  into  his  closet,  and  there 
told  us  that  he  do  intend  to  renew  the  old  custom 
for  the  Admirals  to  have  their  principal  officers  to 
meet  them  once  a-week,  to  give  them  an  account 
what  they  have  done  that  week ;  which  I  am  glad  of : 
and  so  the  rest  did  tell  his  Royal  Highness  that  I 
could  do  it  best  for  the  time  past.  And  so  I  pro- 
duced my  short  notes,  and  did  give  him  an  account 
of  all  that  we  have  of  late  done  ;  and  proposed  to  him 
several  things  for  his  commands,  which  he  did  give  us, 
and  so  dismissed  us. 

9th.  At  my  office  betimes,  and  at  noon  Mr.  Cov- 
entry, Sir  J.  Minnes,  Mr.  Pett  and  myself  by  water  to 
Deptford.  At  the  pay  of  a  ship,  and  dined  together 
on  a  haunch  of  good  venison  boiled,  and  after  dinner 
returned  again  to  the  office,  and  there  met  several 
tradesmen  by  our  appointment  to  know  of  them  their 
lowest  rates  that  they  will  take  for  their  several  pro- 


334  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

visions,  for  I  do  resolve  to  know  that,  and  to  buy  no 
dearer,  that  so  when  we  know  the  lowest  rate,  it  shall 
be  the  Treasurer's  fault,  and  not  ours,  that  we  pay 
dearer.  This  afternoon  Sir  John  Minnes  showed  us 
how  I  have  blinded  all  his  lights,  and  stopped  up  his 
garden  doore,  which  do  vex  me  so  much  that  I  could 
not  sleep  for  the  thoughts  of  my  losing  the  privilege 
of  the  leades  and  other  things  which  in  themselves 
are  small  and  not  worth  half  the  trouble.  The  more 
fool  am  I,  and  I  must  labour  against  it  for  shame, 
especially  I  that  use  to  preach  up   Epictetus's  rule 

of   TO.   €<^     T^/XtV   Kttl  TO,  OVK  i(fi     y]fXlV. 

loth.  Up  and  to  my  house,  and  there  contrived  a 
way  how  Sir  John  Minnes  shall  come  into  the  leades, 
and  yet  I  save  part  of  the  closet  I  hoped  for,  which, 
if  it  will  not  please  him,  I  am  a  madman  to  be  trou- 
bled at  it.  To  my  office,  and  so  to  my  brother's.  I 
did  take  occasion  to  talk  seriously  alone  with  Marga- 
ret,' who  I  find  a  very  discreet,  good  woman,  and  tells 
me,  upon  my  demand,  that  her  master  is  a  very  good 
husband,2  and  minds  his  business  well,  but  his  fault  is 
that  he  has  not  command  over  his  two  men,  but  they 


1  His  brother's  servant.     (M.  B.) 

2  That  is,  very  frugal,  or  a  good  manager.     So  husbandry,  "  frugaUty." 

"  There's  husbandry  in  heaven: 
Their  candles  are  all  out." 

Shakespeare,  Macbeth,  act  ii.  sc.  i. 
Or  "  management: " 

"  I  commit  into  your  hands 
The  husbandry  and  manage  of  my  house." 

Merchant  of  Vetiice,  act  iii.  sc.  4.     (M.  B.) 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  335 

do  what  they  hst,  and  care  not  for  his  commands,  and 
especially  on  Sundays  they  go  whither  they  please, 
and  not  to  church,  which  vexes  me  mightily,  and  I 
am  resolved  to  schoole  him  soundly  for  it,  it  being 
so  much  unlike  my  father,  that  I  cannot  endure  it  in 
myself  or  him. 

nth.  To  my  office,  whither  my  brother  Tom, 
whom  I  chid  sufficiendy  for  yesterday's  work.  This 
night  Tom  came  to  show  me  a  civil  letter  sent  him 
from  his  mistress.  I  am  pleased  well  enough  with  the 
business. 

1 2th.  At  my  office  all  the  morning,  Mr.  Lewis 
teaching  me  to  understand  the  method  of  making  up 
Purser's  accounts,  which  is  very  needful  for  me  and 
very  hard.  This  day,  by  letters  from  my  father,  I  hear 
that  Captain  Ferrers,  who  is  with  my  Lord  in  the 
country,  was  at  Brampton  (with  Mr.  Creed)  to  see 
him ;  and  that  a  day  or  two  ago,  being  provoked  to 
strike  one  of  my  Lord's  footmen,  the  footman  drew 
his  sword,  and  hath  almost  cut  the  fingers  of  one 
of  his  hands  off ;  which  I  am  sorry  for :  but  this 
is  the  vanity  of  being  apt  to  command  and  strike. 

13th.  We  sat  all  the  morning,  and  met  again  in 
the  afternoon  to  set  accounts  even  between  the  King 
and  the  masters  of  ships  hired  to  carry  provisions  to 
lisbon. 

14th  (Lord's  day).  By  water  to  White  Hall,  by  the 
way  hearing  that  the  Bishop  of  London  had  given  a 
very  strict  order  against  boats  going  on  Sundays,  and 
as   I  came  back  again,  we  were   examined    by  the 


336  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

masters  of  the  company  in  another  boat ;  but  I  told 
them  who  I  was.  To  White  Hall  chapel,  where  ser- 
mon almost  done,  and  I  heard  Captain  Cooke's  new 
musique.  This  the  first  day  of  having  vialls  and 
other  instruments  to  play  a  symphony  between  every 
verse  of  the  anthem ;  but  the  musique  more  full  than 
it  was  the  last  Sunday,  and  very  fine  it  is.  But  yet  I 
could  discern  Captain  Cooke  to  overdo  his  part  at 
singing,  which  I  never  did  before.  Thence  up  into 
the  Queene's  presence,  and  there  saw  the  Queene 
again  as  I  did  last  Sunday,  and  some  fine  ladies  with 
her;  but,  my  troth,  not  many.  Thence  to  Sir  G. 
Carteret's,  and  find  him  to  have  sprained  his  foot 
and  is  lame,  but  yet  hath  been  at  chappell,  and  my 
Lady  much  troubled  for  one  of  her  daughters  that  is 
sick.  I  dined  with  them,  and  a  very  pretty  lady, 
their  kinswoman,  with  them.  My  joy  is,  that  I 
think  I  have  good  hold  on  Sir  George  and  Mr. 
Coventry. 

15th.  By  water  with  Sir  Wm.  Pen  to  White  Hall; 
and,  with  much  ado,  was  fain  to  walk  over  the  piles 
through  the  bridge,  while  Sir  W.  Batten  and  Sir  J. 
Minnes  were  aground  against  the  bridge,  and  could 
not  in  a  great  while  get  through.  At  White  Hall 
we  hear  that  the  Duke  of  York  is  gone  a-hunting  to- 
day ;  and  so  we  returned :  they  going  to  the  Duke 
of  Albemarle's,  where  I  left  them  (after  I  had  ob- 
served a  very  good  picture  or  two  there) . 

1 6th.  My  wife  writes  me  from  the  country  that  she 
is  not  pleased  there  with  my  father  nor  mother,  nor 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  337 

any  of  her  servants,  and  that  my  boy  is  turned  a  very 
rogue.  I  have  30/.  to  pay  to  the  cavaUers  :  then  a 
doubt  about  my  being  forced  to  leave  all  my  business 
here,  when  I  am  called  to  the  court  at  Brampton ; 
and  lastly,  my  law  businesses,  which  vex  me  to  my 
heart  what  I  shall  be  able  to  do  next  terme,  which  is 
near  at  hand. 

17th.  At  my  office  all  the  morning,  and  at  noon 
to  the  Exchange,  where  meeting  Mr.  Moore  and  Mr. 
Stucky,  of  the  Wardrobe,  we  to  an  ordinary  to  dinner, 
and  after  dinner  Mr.  Moore  and  I  to  Paul's  school,  to 
wait  upon  Mr.  Crumlum,  who  we  take  very  luckily, 
where  there  was  also  an  old  fellow  student  of  Mr. 
Crumlum's,  one  Mr.  Newell,  of  whom  he  made  so 
much,  and  of  me,  that  the  truth  is  he  with  kindness 
did  drink  more  than  I  believe  he  used  to  do,  and  did 
begin  to  be  a  little  impertinent,  that  though  I  honour 
the  man,  and  he  do  declare  abundance  of  learning 
and  worth,  yet  I  confess  my  opinion  is  much  lessened 
of  him,  and  therefore  let  it  be  a  caution  to  myself  not 
to  love  drink,  since  it  has  such  an  effect  upon  others 
of  greater  worth  in  my  own  esteem. 

1 8th.  At  noon  Sir  G.  Carteret,  Mr.  Coventry,  and  I 
by  invitation  to  dinner  to  Sheriff  Majoiell's,^  the  great 


I  Alderman  Francis  Meynell  was  a  goldsmith  and  banker  in  London,  and 
then  one  of  the  Sheriffs.  He  was  the  third  son  of  Godfrey  Meynell,  of  Will- 
ington,  in  Derbyshire,  and  died  in  1666;  his  father  was  buried  at  Langley, 
in  that  county,  where  their  descendants  still  possess  property.  Hugo  Charles 
Ingram  Meynell,  of  Hoare  Cross,  Staffordshire,  and  Temple  Newsome  near 
Leeds,  is  the  present  representative  of  the  family.  Sir  W.  Dugdale,  in  his 
"Diary,"  mentions   his  having  defaced   the  achievements  which  had  been 


338  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

money-man ;  he,  Alderman  Backewell,  and  much  no- 
ble and  brave  company,  with  the  privilege  of  their 
rare  discourse,  which  is  great  content  to  me  above  all 
other  things  in  the  world.  And  after  a  great  dinner 
and  much  discourse,  we  took  leave.  Among  other 
discourses,  speaking  concerning  the  great  charity  used 
in  Catholique  countrys,  Mr.  Ashburnham  did  tell  us, 
that  this  last  year,  there  being  great  want  of  come  in 
Paris,  and  so  a  collection  made  for  the  poor,  there 
was  two  pearles  brought  in,  nobody  knew  from  whom 
(till  the  Queene,  seeing  them,  knew  whose  they  were, 
but  did  not  discover  it),  which  were  sold  for  200,000 
crownes. 

19th.  Up  betimes  and  to  my  office,  and  at  9 
o'clock  I  went  alone  to  Deptford,  and  there  went  on 
where  they  left  last  night  to  pay  Woolwich  yarde. 
After  dinner  to  pay  again,  and  so  till  ^  at  night,  my 
great  trouble  being  that  I  was  forced  to  begin  an  ill 
practice  of  bringing  down  the  wages  of  servants,  for 
which  people  did  curse  me,  which  I  do  not  love.  At 
night,  after  I  had  eaten  a  cold  pullet,  I  walked  by 
brave  moonshine,  with  three  or  four  armed  men  to 
guard  me  to  Redriffe,  it  being  now  a  joy  to  my  heart 
to  think  of  the  condition  that  I  am  now  in,  that  peo- 
ple should  of  themselves  provide  this  for  me,  unspoke 


hung  up  at  Bradley,  in  Derbyshire,  where  the  Alderman  was  interred;  not, 
as  it  would  seem,  from  any  doubt  as  to  that  gentleman  being  entitled  to  bear 
arms,  but  because  a  London  painter  had  been  employed  to  blazon  the  shield, 
who  had  not  obtained  the  sanction  of  the  Heralds'  Office,  and  thereby  excited 
their  jealousy,  at  a  moment  when  their  occupation  was  on  the  decline. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  339 

to.  I  hear  this  walk  is  dangerous  to  walk  alone  by 
night,  and  much  robbery  committed  here. 

20th.  To-night  my  barber  sent  me  his  man  to  trim 
me,  who  did  live  in  King  Streete  in  Westminster 
lately,  and  tells  me  that  three  or  four  that  I  knew  in 
that  streete,  tradesmen,  are  lately  fallen  mad,  and 
some  of  them  dead,  and  the  others  continue  mad. 
They  live  all  within  a  door  or  two  one  of  another. 

2ist  (Lord's  day).  Got  up  betimes  and  walked  to 
St.  James's,  and  there  to  Mr.  Coventry,  and  sat  an 
hour  with  him,  talking  of  business  of  the  office  with 
great  pleasure,  and  I  do  perceive  he  do  speake  his 
whole  mind  to  me.  Thence  to  the  Parke,  where  by 
appointment  I  met  my  brother  Tom  and  Mr.  Cooke, 
and  there  spoke  about  Tom's  business,  and  to  good 
satisfaction.  The  Queene  coming  by  in  her  coach, 
going  to  her  chappell  at  St.  James's  (the  first  time  it 
hath  been  ready  for  her),  I  crowded  after  her,  and  I 
got  up  to  the  room  where  her  closet  is ;  and  there 
stood  and  saw  the  fine  altar,  ornaments,  and  the  fry- 
ers in  their  habits,  and  the  priests  come  in  with  their 
fine  copes  and  many  other  very  fine  things.  I  heard 
their  musique  too ;  which  may  be  good,  but  it  did 
not  appear  so  to  me,  neither  as  to  their  manner  of 
singing,  nor  was  it  good  concord  to  my  ears,  whatever 
the  matter  was.  The  Queene  very  devout :  but  what 
pleased  me  best  was  to  see  my  dear  Lady  Castle- 
maine,  who,  tho'  a  Protestant,  did  wait  upon  the 
Queene  to  chappell.  By  and  by,  after  masse  was 
done,  a  fryer  with  his  cowl  did  rise  up  and  preach 


340  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS. 

a  sermon  in  Portuguese ;  which  I  not  understanding, 
did  go  away,  and  to  the  King's  chappell,  but  that 
was  done ;  and  so  up  to  the  Queene's  presence- 
chamber,  where  she  and  the  King  was  expected  to 
dine  :  but  she  staying  at  St.  James's,  they  v/ere  forced 
to  remove  the  things  to  the  King's  presence  ;  and  there 
he  dined  alone,  and  I  with  Mr.  Fox  very  finely ;  but  I 
see  I  must  not  make  too  much  of  that  liberty  for  my 
honour  sake  only,  not  but  that  I  am  very  well  received. 

22nd.  Up  betimes  among  my  workmen,  hastening 
to  get  things  ready  against  my  wife's  coming,  and 
so  with  Sir  J.  M.,  Sir  W.  B.,  and  Sir  W.  P.,  by  coach 
to  St.  James's,  and  there  with  the  Duke.  I  did  give 
him  an  account  of  all  things  past  of  late.  Thence  I 
walked  to  Greatorex's,  and  there  with  him  did  over- 
look many  pretty  things,  new  inventions,  and  have 
bespoke  a  weather  glasse  of  him.  Thence  to  my 
Lord  Crew's,  and  dined  with  the  servants,  he  having 
dined ;  and  so,  after  dinner,  up  to  him,  and  sat  an 
hour  talking  with  him  of  publique,  and  my  Lord's 
private  businesses,  with  much  content. 

23rd.  Sir  G.  Carteret  told  me  how  in  most  caba- 
retts  in  France  they  have  writ  upon  the  walls  in  fair 
letters  to  be  read,  "  Dieu  te  regarde,"  as  a  good  les- 
son to  be  in  every  man's  mind,  and  have  also,  as  in 
Holland,  their  poor's  box;  in  both  which  places  at 
the  making  all  contracts  and  bargains  they  give  so 
much,  which  they  call  God's  penny.' 

I  Pepys  himself  gives  an  account  of  this  custom:  see  May  18,  1660, 
ante. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS.  34 1 

24th.  To  my  Lord  Crew's,  and  there  dined  alone 
with  him,  and  among  other  things  he  do  advise  me 
by  all  means  to  keep  my  Lord  Sandwich  from  pro- 
ceeding too  far  in  the  business  of  Tangier.  First, 
for  that  he  is  confident  the  King  will  not  be  able  to 
find  money  for  the  building  the  Mole ;  and  next,  for 
that  it  is  to  be  done  as  we  propose  it  by  the  reducing 
of  the  garrison ;  and  then  either  my  Lord  must  op- 
pose the  Duke  of  York,  who  will  have  the  Irish  regi- 
ment under  the  command  of  Fitzgerald  continued, 
or  else  my  Lord  Peterborough,  who  is  concerned  to 
have  the  English  continued,  and  he,  it  seems,  is  gone 
back  again  merely  upon  my  Lord  Sandwich's  encour- 
agement. Thence  to  Mr.  Wotton,  the  shoemaker's, 
and  there  bought  a  pair  of  boots,  cost  me  ^os.,  and 
he  told  me  how  Bird  ^  hath  lately  broke  his  leg, 
while  he  was  fencing  in  "  Aglaura,"^  upon  the  stage, 
and  that  the  new  theatre  of  all  will  be  ready  against 
terme.  So  by  water  home  and  to  my  workmen,  and 
so  at  night  till  late  at  my  office,  inditing  a  letter  from 
Tom  to  his  mistress  upon  his  sending  her  a  watch  for 
a  token,  and  so  home  and  to  supper,  and  to  my 
lodgings  and  to  bed.  It  is  my  content  that  by  sev- 
eral hands  to-day  I  hear  that  I  have  the  name  of 
good-natured  man  among  the  poor  people  that  come 
to  the  office. 

25  th.  This  evening  I  sat  awhile  at  Sir  W.  Batten's 
with  Sir  J.  Minnes,  where  I  did  hear  how  the  woman, 

*  A  mistake  for  Burt.     See  Oct.  11,  1660. 

*  A  tragi-comedy,  by  Sir  John  Suckling. 


342  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

formerly  nurse  to  Mrs.  Lemon  (Sir  W.  Batten's  daugh- 
ter), her  child  was  torn  to  pieces  by  two  doggs  at 
Walthamstow  this  week,  and  is  dead,  which  is  very 
strange. 

27th.  Up  betimes.  We  sat  all  the  morning,  and  in 
the  afternoon  I  got  many  jobbs  done  to  my  mind,  and 
my  wife's  chamber  put  into  a  good  readiness  against 
her  coming,  which  she  did  at  night,  for  Will  did,  by 
my  leave  to  go,  meet  her  upon  the  road,  and  at  night 
did  bring  me  word  she  was  come  to  my  brother's,  by 
my  order.  So  I  went  thither  to  her.  Being  come,  I 
found  her  and  her  mayde  and  dogg  very  well,  and  her- 
self grown  a  little  fatter  than  she  was.  I  was  very  well 
pleased  to  see  her,  only  I  do  perceive  that  there  has 
been  falling  out  between  my  mother  and  she,  and  a 
little  between  my  father  and  she ;  but  I  hope  all  is 
well  again,  and  I  perceive  she  likes  Brampton  House 
and  seat  better  than  ever  I  did  myself,  and  tells  me 
how  my  Lord  hath  drawn  a  plot  of  some  alteracions 
to  be  made  there,  and  hath  brought  it  up,  which  I  saw 
and  like  well.  I  perceive  my  Lord  and  Lady  have 
been  very  kind  to  her. 

28th  (Lord's  day).  Waked  early,  and  fell  talking 
one  with  another  with  great  pleasure  of  my  house  at 
Brampton  and  that  here,  and  other  matters.  She  tells 
me  what  a  rogue  my  boy  is,  and  strange  things  he  has 
been  found  guilty  of,  which  vexes  me,  but  most  of  all 
the  unquiett  life  that  my  mother  makes  my  father  and 
herself  lead  through  her  want  of  reason.  At  last  I 
rose,  and  with  Tom,  to  the  French  Church  zX  the 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  343 

Savoy,  where  I  never  was  before  —  a  pretty  place  it  is 
—  and  there  they  have  the  Common  Prayer  Book  read 
in  French,  and,  which  I  never  saw  before,  the  minister 
do  preach  with  his  hat  off,  I  suppose  in  further  con- 
formity with  our  Church. 

29th  (Michaehnas  day).  This  day  my  oaths  for 
drinking  of  wine  and  going  to  plays  are  out,  and  so  I 
do  resolve  to  take  a  liberty  to-day,  and  then  to  fall  to 
them  again.  Up  and  by  coach  to  White  Hall,  in  my 
way  taking  up  Mr.  Moore,  and  walked  with  him,  talk- 
ing a  good  while  about  business,  in  St.  James's,  and 
there  left  him,  and  to  Mr.  Coventry's,  and  so  with  him 
and  Sir  W.  Pen  up  to  the  Duke,  where  the  King  came 
also  and  staid  till  the  Duke  was  ready.  It  being  Col- 
lar-day, we  had  no  time  to  talk  with  him  about  any 
business.  So  we  parted,  and  I  to  Tom's,  and  there 
taking  up  my  wife,  mayde,  dogg,  and  him,  did  carry 
them  home,  where  my  wife  is  much  pleased  with  my 
house,  and  so  am  I  fully.  I  sent  for  some  dinner  and 
there  dined,  Mrs.  Margaret  Pen  being  by,  to  whom  I 
had  spoke  to  go  along  with  us  to  a  play  this  after- 
noon, and  then  to  the  King's  Theatre,  where  we  saw 
"  Midsummer's  Night's  Dream,"  which  I  had  never 
seen  before,  nor  shall  ever  again,  for  it  is  the  most 
insipid  ridiculous  play  that  ever  I  saw  in  my  life.  I 
saw,  I  confess,  some  good  dancing  and  some  hand- 
some women,  which  was  all  my  pleasure.  Thence  set 
my  wife  down  at  Madam  Turner's,  and  having  deliv- 
ered Pegg  Pen  to  her  father  safe,  went  home,  where 
I  find  Mr.  Deane,  of  Woolwich,  hath  sent  me  the 


344  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS, 

modell  he  had  promised  me ;  but  it  so  far  exceeds 
my  expectations,  that  I  am  sorry  ahnost  he  should 
make  such  a  present  to  no  greater  a  person;  but  I 
am  exceeding  glad  of  it,  and  shall  study  to  do  him  a 
courtesy  for  it. 

30th.  I  to  my  house  to  look  over  my  workmen ; 
but  good  God  !  how  I  do  find  myself  by  yesterday's 
liberty  hard  to  be  brought  to  follow  business  again, 
but  however,  I  must  do  it,  considering  the  great  sweet 
and  pleasure  and  content  of  mind  that  I  have  had 
since  I  did  leave  drink  and  plays,  and  other  pleasures, 
and  followed  my  business.  So  to  my  office,  where  we 
sat  till  noon,  and  then  I  to  dinner  with  Sir  W.  Pen, 
and  while  we  were  at  it  came  my  wife  to  the  office, 
and  so  I  sent  for  her  up,  and  after  dinner  we  took 
coach  and  to  the  Duke's  playhouse,  where  we  saw 
"  The  Duchess  of  Malfy  "  ^  well  performed,  but  Better- 
ton  and  lanthe  to  admiration.  Strange  to  see  how 
easily  my  mind  do  revert  to  its  former  practice  of  lov- 
ing plays  and  wine  ;  but  this  night  I  have  again  bound 
myself  to  Christmas  next,  in  which  I  desire  God  to 
bless  me  and  preserve  me,  for  under  God  I  find  it 
to  be  the  best  course  that  ever  I  could  take  to  bring 
myself  to  mind  my  business.  I  have  also  made  up  this 
evening  my  monthly  ballance,  and  find  that,  notwith- 
standing the  loss  of  30/.  to  be  paid  to  the  loyall  and 
necessitous  cavaliers  by  act  of  Parliament,  yet  I  am 
worth  about  680/.,  for  which  the  Lord  God  be  praised. 

»  A  Tragedy,  by  John  Webster. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEP  VS.  345 

My  condition  at  present  is  this  :  —  I  have  long  been 
building,  and  my  house  to  my  great  content  is  now 
almost  done.  My  Lord  Sandwich  has  lately  been  in 
the  country,  and  very  civil  to  my  wife,  and  hath  him- 
self spent  some  pains  in  drawing  a  plot  of  some  altera- 
cions  in  our  house  there,  which  I  shall  follow  as  I  get 
money.  As  for  the  office,  my  late  industry  hath  been 
such,  as  I  am  become  as  high  in  reputacion  as  any 
man  there,  and  good  hold  I  have  of  Mr.  Coventry  and 
Sir  G.  Carteret,  which  I  am  resolved,  and  it  is  neces- 
sary for  me,  to  maintain  by  all  fair  means.  Things 
are  all  quiett,  but  the  King  poor,  and  no  hopes  almost 
of  his  being  otherwise,  by  which  things  will  go  to  rack, 
especially  in  the  Navy.  The  late  outing  of  the  Pres- 
byterian clergy  by  their  not  renouncing  the  Covenant 
as  the  Act  of  Parliament  commands,  is  the  greatest 
piece  of  state  now  in  discourse.  But  for  ought  I  see 
they  are  gone  out  very  peaceably,  and  the  people  not 
so  much  concerned  therein  as  was  expected.  My 
brother  Tom  is  gone  out  of  towne  this  day,  to  make 
a  second  journey  to  his  mistress  at  Banbury,  of  which 
I  have  good  expectacions,  and  pray  God  to  bless  him 
therein.  My  mind,  I  hope,  is  settled  to  follow  my 
business  again,  for  I  find  that  two  days'  neglect  of 
business  do  give  more  discontent  in  mind  than  ten 
times  the  pleasure  thereof  can  repair  again,  be  it  what 
it  will. 

October  2nd.  Up  and  to  the  office,  where  we  sat 
till  noon,  and  then  to  dinner,  and  Mr.  Moore  came 
and  dined  with  me,  and  after  dinner  to  look  over  my 


346  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

Brampton  papers,  which  was  a  most  necessary  work, 
though  it  is  not  so  much  to  my  content  as  I  could 
wish.  I  fear  that  it  must  be  as  it  can,  and  not  as  I 
would.  At  night,  hearing  that  there  was  a  play  at  the 
Cockpit  (and  my  Lord  Sandwich,  who  came  to  town 
last  night,  at  it),  I  do  go  thither,  and  by  very  great 
fortune  did  follow  four  or  five  gentlemen  who  were 
carried  to  a  little  private  door  in  a  wall,  and  so  crept 
through  a  narrow  place  and  came  into  one  of  the 
boxes  next  the  King's,  but  so  as  I  could  not  see  the 
King  or  Queene,  but  many  of  the  fine  ladies,  who  yet 
are  not  really  so  handsome  generally  as  I  used  to  take 
them  to  be,  but  that  they  are  finely  dressed.  Then 
we  saw  "The  Cardinall,"  ^  a  tragedy  I  had  never  seen 
before,  nor  is  there  any  great  matter  in  it.  The  com- 
pany that  came  in  with  me  into  the  box,  were  all 
Frenchmen  that  could  speak  no  English,  but  Lord  ! 
what  sport  they  made  to  ask  a  pretty  lady  that  they 
got  among  them  that  understood  both  French  and 
English  to  make  her  tell  them  what  the  actors  said. 

3rd.  At  my  brother's  and  Paul's  Churchyard,  but 
bought  nothing  because  of  my  oathe,  though  I  had  a 
great  mind  to  it.  At  my  office,  and  with  my  workmen 
till  noon,  and  then  dined  with  my  wife  upon  herrings, 
the  first  I  have  eat  this  year.  In  the  evening  comes 
Captain  Ferrers.  He  brought  me  a  letter  from  my 
father,  that  appoints  the  day  for  the  Court  at  Bramp- 
ton to  be  the  13th  of  this  month;  but  I  perceive  he 

^  A  tragi-comedy  by  James  Shirley. 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  34/ 

has  kept  the  letter  in  his  pocket  these  three  days,  so 
that  if  the  day  had  been  sooner,  I  might  have  been 
spilt.  So  that  it  is  a  great  folly  to  send  letters  of  busi- 
ness by  any  friend  that  require  haste.  This  night  late 
I  had  notice  that  Dekins,  the  merchant,  is  dead  this 
afternoon  suddenly,  for  grief  that  his  daughter,  my 
Morena,^  who  has  long  been  ill,  is  given  over  by  the 
Doctors.     For  both  which  I  am  very  sorry. 

4th.  To  my  office.  Among  other  things  examining 
the  particulars  of  the  miscarriage  of  the  Satisfaction, 
sunk  the  other  day  on  the  Dutch  coast  through  the 
negligence  of  the  pilott. 

5th  (Lord's  day).  I  to  church;  and  this  day  the 
parson  has  got  one  to  read  with  a  surplice  on.  I 
suppose  himself  will  take  it  up  hereafter,  for  a  cunning 
fellow  he  is  as  any  of  his  coate.  Dined  with  my  wife, 
and  then  to  talk  chiefly  about  her  learning  to  dance 
against  her  going  next  year  into  the  country,  which  I 
am  willing  she  shall  do.  Then  to  church  to  a  tedious 
sermon. 

6th.  Sir  W.  Pen  and  I  early  to  St.  James's  by  water, 
where  Mr.  Coventry,  finding  the  Duke  in  bed,  and  not 
very  well,  we  did  not  stay,  but  to  White  Hall,  and 
there  took  boat  and  down  to  Woolwich.  In  our  way 
Mr.  Coventry  telling  us  how  of  late  upon  enquiry  into 
the  miscarriages  of  the  Duke's  family,  Mr.  Biggs,  his 
steward,  is  found  very  faulty,  and  is  turned  out  of  his 
employment.     Then  we    fell   to   reading   of  a   book 

»  See  note,  Jan.  27,  1661-^2.     (M.  B.) 


348  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS. 

which  I  saw  the  other  day  at  my  Lord  Sandwich's, 
intended  for  the  late  King,  finely  bound  up,  a  treatise 
concerning  the  benefit  the  Hollanders  make  of  our 
fishing,  but  whereas  I  expected  great  matters  from  it, 
I  find  it  a  very  impertinent  [book],  and  though  some 
things  good,  yet  so  full  of  tautologies,  that  we  were 
weary  of  it.  At  Woolwich  we  mustered  the  yarde,  and 
then  to  the  Hart  to  dinner,  and  then  to  the  Rope- 
yard;  thence  to  Deptford  and  wakened  the  officers 
there;  so  walked  to  Redriffe,  and  thence  to  White 
Hall  with  Mr.  Coventry,  and  so  to  my  Lord  Sand- 
wich's lodgings,  but  my  Lord  was  not  within,  being  at 
a  ball  this  night  with  the  King  at  my  Lady  Castle- 
maine's  at  next  door.  Home,  and  there  weary  went 
to  supper,  and  then  to  my  office  to  set  down  my  jour- 
nall  of  this  day,  and  so  home  and  to  bed. 

7th.  To  my  Lord's,  and  there  I  left  money  for 
Captain  Ferrers  to  buy  me  two  bands.  So  towards 
the  New  Exchange,  and  there  while  my  wife  was  buy- 
ing things  I  walked  up  and  down  with  Dr.  Williams, 
talking  about  my  law  businesses. 

8th.  Up  and  by  water  to  my  Lord  Sandwich's,  and 
among  other  things  to  my  extraordinary  joy,  he  did 
tell  me  how  much  I  was  beholding  to  the  Duke  of 
York,  who  did  yesterday  of  his  own  accord  tell  him 
that  he  did  thank  him  for  one  person  brought  into  the 
Navy,  naming  myself,  and  much  more  to  my  commen- 
dation, which  is  the  greatest  comfort  and  encourage- 
ment that  ever  I  had  in  my  life,  and  do  owe  it  all  to 
Mr.  Coventry's  goodness  and  ingenuity.     I  was  glad 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  349 

above  measure  of  this.  Thence  to  Mr.  Moore,  who, 
I  hope,  is  better  than  he  was,  and  so  home  and  dined, 
and  all  the  afternoon  busy  at  my  office,  and  at  night 
by  coach  to  my  Lord's  again,  but  he  is  at  White  Hall 
with  the  King,  before  whom  the  puppet  plays  I  saw 
this  summer  in  Covent-garden  are  acted  this  night. 
Hither  this  night  my  scallop,'  bought  and  got  made 
by  Captain  Ferrers'  lady,  is  sent,  and  I  brought  it 
home,  a  very  neat  one.  It  cost  me  about  3/.,  and  3/. 
more  I  have  given  him  to  buy  me  another.  I  do  find 
myself  much  bound  to  go  handsome,  which  I  shall  do 
in  linen,  and  so  the  other  things  may  be  all  the  plainer. 
Here  I  staid  playing  some  new  tunes  to  parts  with 
W.  Howe,  and,  my  Lord  not  coming  home,  I  came 
home  late  on  foot,  my  boy  carrying  a  linke,  and  so  eat 
a  bit  and  to  bed,  my  head  full  of  ordering  of  busi- 
nesses against  my  journey  to-morrow,  that  there  may 
be  nothing  done  to  my  \vrong  in  my  absence. 

9th.  Up  early  about  my  business  to  get  me  ready 
for  my  journey.  But  first  to  the  office  ;  where  we  sat 
all  the  morning ;  and  I  bid  them  adieu  for  a  week, 
having  the  Duke's  leave  got  me  by  Mr.  Coventry.  To 
whom  I  did  give  thanks  for  my  newes  yesterday  of 
the  Duke's  words  to  my  Lord  Sandwich  concerning 
me,  which  he  took  well ;  and  do  tell  me  so  freely  his 
love  and  value  of  me,  that  my  mind  is  now  in  as  great 
a  state  of  quiett  as  to  my  interest  in  the  office,  as  I 

^  A  lace  band.  See  October  12th.  The  word  scallop  was  used  till  re- 
cently for  a  part  of  a  lady's  dress  embroidered  and  cut  to  resemble  a  scallop 
shell.     (M.  B.) 


350  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS. 

could  ever  wish  to  be.  Between  one  and  two  o'clock 
got  on  horseback  at  our  back  gate,  with  my  man  Will 
with  me,  both  well-mounted  on  two  grey  horses.  We 
got  to  Ware  before  night ;  and  so  I  resolved  to  ride 
on  to  Puckeridge,  which  we  did,  though  the  way  was 
bad,  and  the  evening  dark  before  we  got  thither,  by 
help  of  company  riding  before  us ;  and  among  others, 
a  gentleman  that  took  up  at  the  same  inn,  the  Falcon, 
with  me,  his  name  Mr.  Brian,  with  whom  I  supped, 
and  was  very  good  company,  and  a  scholar.  He  tells 
me,  that  it  is  beheved  the  Queene  is  with  child,  for 
that  the  coaches  are  ordered  to  ride  very  easily  through 
the  streets. 

loth.  Up,  and  between  eight  and  nine  mounted 
again ;  but  my  feet  so  swelled  with  yesterday's  pain, 
that  I  could  not  get  on  my  boots,  which  vexed  me  to 
the  blood,  but  was  forced  to  pay  ^s.  for  a  pair  of  old 
shoes  of  my  landlord's,  and  so  rid  in  shoes  to  Cam- 
bridge ;  the  way  so  good  that  I  got  very  well  thither, 
and  set  up  at  the  Beare  :  and  there  being  spied  in  the 
streete  passing  through  the  towne  my  cozen  Angier 
came  to  me,  and  I  must  needs  to  his  house;  and 
there  found  Dr.  Fairbrother,  with  a  good  dinner,  a 
barrel  of  good  oysters,  a  couple  of  lobsters,  and  wine. 
But,  above  all,  telling  me  that  this  day  there  is  a  Con- 
gregation for  the  choice  of  some  officers  in  the  Uni- 
versity, he  after  dinner  gets  me  a  gowne,  cap,  and 
hoode,  and  carries  me  to  the  Schooles,  where  Mr. 
Pepper,  my  brother's  tutor,  and  this  day  chosen  Proc- 
tor, did  appoint  a  M.  A.  to  lead  me  into  the  Regent 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS.  35 1 

House,  where  I  sat  with  them,  and  did  vote  by  sub- 
scribing papers  thus  :  "  Ego  Samuel  Pepys  ehgo  Ma- 
gistrum  Bernardum  Skelton,^  (and  which  was  more 
strange,  my  old  schoolfellow  and  acquaintance,  and 
who  afterwards  did  take  notice  of  me,  and  we  spoke 
together),  alterum  e  taxatoribus  hujus  Academic  in 
annum  sequentem."  The  like  I  did  for  one  Briggs, 
for  the  other  Taxor,  and  for  other  officers,  as  the  Vice- 
Proctor  (Mr.  Covell),  for  Mr.  Pepper,  and  which  was 
the  gentleman  that  did  carry  me  into  the  Regent 
House.  This  being  done,  and  the  Congregation  dis- 
solved by  the  Vice-Chancellor,  I  did  with  much  con- 
tent return  to  my  Cozen  Angler's.  Thence  to  Trinity 
Hall  with  Dr.  John  Pepys,  who  tells  me  that  his  brother 
Roger  has  gone  out  of  towne  to  keep  a  Court ;  and  so 
I  was  forced  to  go  to  Impington,  to  take  such  advice 
as  my  old  uncle  and  his  son  Claxton  could  give  me. 
By  and  by  after  supper  comes  in,  unlooked  for,  my 
cozen  Roger,  with  whom  I  discoursed  largely,  and  in 
short  he  gives  me  good  counsel,  but  tells  me  plainly 
that  it  is  my  best  way  to  study  a  composition  with  my 
uncle  Thomas,  for  that  law  will  not  helpe  us,  and  that 
it  is  but  a  folly  to  flatter  ourselves,  with  which  though 
much  to  my  trouble,  yet  I  was  well  satisfied,  because 
it  told  me  what  I  am  to  trust  to,  and  so  to  bed. 

nth.  Up  betimes,  and  after  a  little  breakfast,  and 
a  very  poor  one,  like  our  supper,  and  such  as  I  cannot 
feed   on,  because   of  my  she-cozen   Claxton's   gouty 

'  Afterwards  agent  in  Holland  for  James  II.,  who  made  use  of  him  to 
inveigle  over  to  England  the  Duke  of  Monmouth. 


352  DIARY  OF  SAMUEL  PEPYS, 

hands  ;  and  after  Roger  had  carried  me  up  and  down 
his  house  and  orchards,  to  show  me  them,  I  mounted, 
and  rode  to  Huntingdon,  and  so  to  Brampton ;  where 
I  found  my  father  and  two  brothers,  my  mother  and 
sister.  I  walked  up  and  down  the  house  and  garden, 
and  find  my  father's  akeracions  very  handsome.  So  to 
dinner,  where  there  being  nothing  but  a  poor  breast 
of  mutton,  and  that  ill-dressed,  I  was  much  displeased, 
there  being  Mr.  Cooke  there,  who  I  invited  to  come 
over  with  my  brother  thither,  and  for  whom  I  was 
concerned  to  make  much  of.  I  told  my  father  and 
mother  of  it,  and  so  had  it  very  well  mended  for  the 
time  after,  as  long  as  I  staid,  though  I  am  very  glad 
to  see  them  live  so  frugally.  But  now  to  my  business. 
I  found  my  uncle  Thomas  come  into  the  country,  and 
do  give  out  great  words,  and  forewarns  all  our  people 
of  paying  us  rent,  and  gives  out  that  he  will  invalidate 
the  Will,  it  being  but  conditional,  we  paying  debts  and 
legacies,  which  we  have  not  done,  but  I  hope  we  shall 
yet  go  through  well  enough.  I  settled  to  look  over 
papers,  and  then  rode  to  Hinchingbroke  (Will  with 
me),  and  there  to  my  Lady's  chamber,  but,  it  being 
night,  staid  not  long,  but  drank  a  cup  of  ale  below, 
and  so  home  again,  and  to  supper,  and  to  bed. 

1 2th  (Lord's  day).  Made  myself  fine  with  Captain 
Ferrers'  lace  band,  being  lothe  to  wear  my  own  new 
scallop,  it  is  so  fine ;  and,  after  the  barber  had  done 
with  us,  to  church,  where  I  saw  most  of  the  gentry 
of  the  parish ;  among  others,  Mrs.  Hanbury,  a  proper 
lady,  and  Mr.  Bernard  and  his  Lady,  with  her  father, 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  353 

my  late  Lord  St.  John/  who  looks  now  like  a  very 
plain  grave  man.  Mr.  Wells  preached  a  pretty  good 
sermon,  and  they  say  he  is  pretty  well  in  his  witts 
again.  So  home  to  dinner,  and  then  to  Church  again. 
So  to  supper,  but  my  mind  is  so  full  of  business  that 
I  am  no  company  at  all,  and  then  their  drink  do  not 
please  me,  till  I  did  send  to  Goody  Stanks  for  some 
of  her's  which  is  very  small  and  fresh,  \vith  a  little 
taste  of  wormewood,  which  ever  after  did  please  me 
very  well.  So  after  supper  to  bed,  getting  my  brother 
John  to  go  up  with  me  for  discourse  sake,  while  I  was 
making  unready.^ 

13th.  Up  to  Hinchingbroke,  and  there  with  Mr. 
Shepley,  did  look  over  all  the  house,  and  I  do,  I 
confess,  like  well  of  the  alteracions,  and  do  like  the 
staircase,  but  there  being  nothing  to  make  the  outside 
more  regular  and  moderne,  I  am  not  satisfied  with  it, 
but  do  think  it  to  be  too  much  to  be  laid  out  upon 
it.  Thence  he  to  St.  Ives  Market,  and  I  to  Sir  Robert 
Bernard's  for  council,  having  a  letter  from  my  Lord 


^  Oliver  St.  John,  one  of  Cromwell's  Lords,  and  Chief  Justice;  and  there- 
fore, after  the  Restoration,  properly  called  "  My  late  Lord."  His  third 
daughter,  Elizabeth,  by  his  second  wife,  daughter  of  Henry  Cromwell  of 
Upwood,  Esq.,  uncle  to  the  Protector,  married  Mr.  John  Bernard,  who  became 
a  Baronet  on  the  death  of  his  father,  Sir  Robert,  in  i666,  and  was  M.P.  for 
Huntingdon.    Ob.  1689. 

2  That  is,  "  undressing."  So  of  the  French  lords  leaping  over  the  walls 
in  their  shirts: 

"  Alenc.  How  now,  my  lords!  what  all  unready  so? 
Bast.  JJjiready  !  ay,  and  glad  we  'scaped  so  well." 

Shakespeare,  i  Henry  VI.,  act  ii.  sc  i. 
See  Ben  Jonson, "  Bartholomew  Fair,"  act  1.  sc.  i.     (M.  B.) 


354  DFARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEP  VS. 

Sandwich  to  that  end.  He  do  promise  to  put  off  my 
uncle's  admittance,  if  he  can  fairly,  and  upon  the  whole 
do  make  my  case  appear  better  to  me  than  my  cozen 
Roger  did.  Thence  home,  and  with  my  father  took 
a  melancholy  walk  to  Portholme,  seeing  the  country- 
mayds  milking  their  cowes  there,  they  being  there  now 
at  grasse,  and  to  see  with  what  mirth  they  come  all 
home  together  in  pomp  with  their  milke,  and  some- 
times they  have  musique  go  before  them.  So  back 
home  again. 

14th.  Up,  and  did  digest  into  a  method  all  I  could 
say  in  our  defence,  in  case  there  should  be  occasion, 
for  I  hear  he  will  have  counsel  to  plead  for  him  in 
the  Court,  and  so  about  nine  o'clock  to  the  court  at 
the  Lordshipp  where  the  jury  was  called ;  and  there 
being  vacancies,  they  would  have  had  my  father,  in 
respect  to  him,  to  have  been  one  of  the  Homage,  but 
he  thought  fit  to  refuse  it,  he  not  knowing  enough  the 
customs  of  the  towne.  They  being  swome  and  the 
charge  given  them,  they  fell  to  our  business,  finding 
the  heire-at-law  to  be  my  uncle  Thomas ;  but  Sir 
Robert  did  tell  them  that  he  had  seen  how  the  estate 
was  devised  to  my  father  by  my  uncle's  will,  accord- 
ing to  the  custom  of  the  manour,  proposing  some 
difficulty  about  the  half-acre  of  land  which  is  given 
the  heire-at-law  according  to  custome,  which  did  put 
me  into  great  fear  lest  it  might  not  be  in  my  uncle's 
possession  at  his  death.  But  the  steward,  as  he  prom- 
ised me,  did  find  pretensions  very  kindly  and  readily 
to  put  off  their  admittance,  by  wliich  I  find  they  are 


DIARY  OF  SAMUEL   PEPYS.  355 

much  defeated,  and  if  ever,  I  hope,  will  now  listen 
to  a  treaty  and  agreement  with  us,  at  our  meeting  at 
London.  So  they  took  their  leaves  of  the  steward 
and  Court,  and  went  away.  So  my  father  and  I  home 
with  great  content  to  dinner;  my  mind  now  as  full 
against  the  afternoon  business,  which  we  sat  upon 
after  dinner  at  the  court,  and  did  sue  out  a  recovery, 
and  cut  off  the  intayle ;  and  my  brothers  there,  to 
join  therein.  And  my  father  and  I  admitted  to  all  the 
lands ;  he  for  life,  and  I  for  myself  and  my  heirs  in 
'reversion.  I  did  with  most  compleat  joy  of  mind  go 
from  the  Court  with  my  father  home,  and  in  a  quarter 
of  an  houre  did  get  on  horseback,  with  my  brother 
Tom,  Cooke,  and  Will,  all  mounted,  and  without  eat- 
ing or  drinking,  take  leave  of  my  father,  mother,  Pall, 
to  whom  I  did  give  lOi-.,  but  have  showTi  no  kindness 
since  I  came,  for  I  find  her  so  very  ill-natured  that  I 
cannot  love  her,  and  she  so  cruel  a  hypocrite  that  she 
can  cry  when  she  pleases,  and  John  and  I  away,  call- 
ing in  at  Hinchingbroke,  and  taking  leave  in  three 
words  of  my  Lady,  and  the  young  ladies ;  and  so  by 
moonlight  most  bravely  all  the  way  to  Cambridge, 
with  great  pleasure,  whither  we  came  at  about  nine 
o'clock,  and  took  up  at  the  Beare. 


LIST  OF   PRI^XIPAL  MISTAKES  IN  FORMER 


PAGE 

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12       . 

4 

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curious 

a 

enviotis. 

32   . 

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wine 

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mwn. 

33     • 

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wand   . 

« 

piond. 

36     . 

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it 

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50     • 

4 

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an  hour 

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a  turn. 

57    • 

•     23 

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merry 

ft 

mere. 

68     . 

•     27 

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presently 

it 

pleasantly. 

77     • 

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my  aunt   . 

it 

two  77 1  en. 

78     . 

.     18 

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past  home     . 

i( 

Porthol>}ie, 

93     • 

•     19 

(( 

now 

« 

7)iore. 

105     . 

I 

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but       . 

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77ia7t. 

125     • 

12 

<( 

ranted      . 

(( 

vaunted. 

132     . 

2 

" 

Hardy 

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Harvy. 

132     . 

4 

" 

high 

<( 

good. 

136     . 

3 

« 

Paynter 

« 

Pargiter. 

139     . 

.     18 

a 

King's      . 

(( 

Ringo. 

152     . 

.     12 

i( 

4^-  of  . 

(( 

40'-  to. 

153     • 

.     16 

« 

surveys    . 

(( 

secresys. 

153     • 

.     21 

(( 

Songs  . 

" 

Torys. 

154     . 

.     22 

" 

one  M"^-  Parker 

it 

of  one  M^-  Parker'' s. 

160     . 

.     22 

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have  made     . 

ti 

sJiall  7nake. 

167     . 

-     19 

(( 

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it 

washeall-bowle. 

170     . 

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it 

Portsmouth 

ft 

Portugall. 

170     . 

•     24 

it 

neck 

it 

nose. 

173     . 

.     18 

. 

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List  of  Principal  Mistakes  in  Former  Editions  (Contimied), 


..    19 

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read  sent. 

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day 

u 

do. 

..     24 

<( 

upon 

« 

tip  to. 

••     15 

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and 

(( 

bade. 

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speed 

« 

spend. 

I 

" 

Surgeon 

" 

Serjeant. 

..     10 

« 

prepared 

ii 

repaired. 

. .     10 

<( 

that       '. 

a 

but. 

. .     12 

(( 

King's  peace   . 

a 

King  pays. 

. .     19 

" 

Lord    . 

a 

Lady. 

••     23 

« 

Mistress 

a 

Master. 

I 

(( 

full  of        . 

« 

fall  to. 

..     19 

" 

well 

" 

still 

••      7 

« 

for  ever 

« 

however. 

..     15 

« 

ships 

(( 

shops. 

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« 

several 

li 

these. 

..     27 

« 

Lady  (Carteret) 

« 

Lady,  i.  e.  Sandwich. 

••      3 

<( 

hither  . 

« 

mother. 

..     28 

« 

performed 

(( 

reformed. 

. .     14 

(( 

and  basins   . 

it 

or  rim. 

••     23 

« 

some 

a 

great. 

..       8 

« 

snugly 

a 

frugally. 

••     19 

« 

things 

<( 

stories. 

I 

(( 

King  of  Portugall. 

(( 

King  to  Jier  in  Portu- 
gall. 

..       4 

« 

Lady        . 

« 

Lord. 

..     26 

« 

mention 

(( 

motion. 

..     26 

« 

assured  . 

« 

answered. 

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He  (M"--  Falconer) 

il 

he,  i.  e.  M^-  Coventry. 

••       5 

<< 

George  . 

il 

Gouge. 

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11 

Tylt     . 

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Styll. 

..     20 

a 

1,000 

11 

10,000. 

..     19 

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abettors 

u 

letters. 

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it 

made 

a 

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. .     22 

u 

crosses 

it 

copes. 

•     17 

ii 

dancing 

ti 

Fencing. 

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