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

            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY

   TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE

                              (Unabridged)

                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES

                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY

                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.



                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                                 JANUARY
                                1666-1667


January 1st.  Lay long, being a bitter, cold, frosty day, the frost being
now grown old, and the Thames covered with ice.  Up, and to the office,
where all the morning busy.  At noon to the 'Change a little, where Mr.
James Houblon and I walked a good while speaking of our ill condition in
not being able to set out a fleet (we doubt) this year, and the certain
ill effect that must bring, which is lamentable.  Home to dinner, where
the best powdered goose that ever I eat.  Then to the office again, and
to Sir W. Batten's to examine the Commission going down to Portsmouth to
examine witnesses about our prizes, of which God give a good issue! and
then to the office again, where late, and so home, my eyes sore.  To
supper and to bed.



2nd.  Up, I, and walked to White Hall to attend the Duke of York, as
usual.  My wife up, and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frost-bite
themselves.  I find the Court full of great apprehensions of the French,
who have certainly shipped landsmen, great numbers, at Brest; and most of
our people here guess his design for Ireland.  We have orders to send all
the ships we can possible to the Downes.  God have mercy on us! for we
can send forth no ships without men, nor will men go without money,
every day bringing us news of new mutinies among the seamen; so that our
condition is like to be very miserable.  Thence to Westminster Hall, and
there met all the Houblons, who do laugh at this discourse of the French,
and say they are verily of opinion it is nothing but to send to their
plantation in the West Indys, and that we at Court do blow up a design of
invading us, only to make the Parliament make more haste in the money
matters, and perhaps it may be so, but I do not believe we have any such
plot in our heads.  After them, I, with several people, among others
Mr. George Montagu, whom I have not seen long, he mighty kind.  He tells
me all is like to go ill, the King displeasing the House of Commons by
evading their Bill for examining Accounts, and putting it into a
Commission, though therein he hath left out Coventry and I and named all
the rest the Parliament named, and all country Lords, not one Courtier:
this do not please them.  He tells me he finds the enmity almost over for
my Lord Sandwich, and that now all is upon the Vice-Chamberlain, who
bears up well and stands upon his vindication, which he seems to like
well, and the others do construe well also.  Thence up to the Painted
Chamber, and there heard a conference between the House of Lords and
Commons about the Wine Patent; which I was exceeding glad to be at,
because of my hearing exceeding good discourses, but especially from the
Commons; among others, Mr. Swinfen, and a young man, one Sir Thomas
Meres:  and do outdo the Lords infinitely.  So down to the Hall and to
the Rose Taverne, while Doll Lane come to me, and we did 'biber a good
deal de vino, et je did give elle twelve soldis para comprare elle some
gans' for a new anno's gift .  .  .  .  Thence to the Hall again, and
with Sir W. Pen by coach to the Temple, and there 'light and eat a bit at
an ordinary by, and then alone to the King's House, and there saw "The
Custome of the Country," the second time of its being acted, wherein
Knipp does the Widow well; but, of all the plays that ever I did see, the
worst-having neither plot, language, nor anything in the earth that is
acceptable; only Knipp sings a little song admirably.  But fully the
worst play that ever I saw or I believe shall see.  So away home, much
displeased for the loss of so much time, and disobliging my wife by being
there without her.  So, by link, walked home, it being mighty cold but
dry, yet bad walking because very slippery with the frost and treading.
Home and to my chamber to set down my journal, and then to thinking upon
establishing my vows against the next year, and so to supper and to bed.



3rd.  Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At noon by
invitation to dinner to Sir W. Pen's, where my Lord Bruncker, Sir W.
Batten, and his lady, myself, and wife, Sir J. Minnes, and Mr. Turner and
his wife.  Indifferent merry, to which I contributed the most, but a mean
dinner, and in a mean manner.  In the evening a little to the office, and
then to them, where I found them at cards, myself very ill with a cold
(the frost continuing hard), so eat but little at supper, but very merry,
and late home to bed, not much pleased with the manner of our
entertainment, though to myself more civil than to any.  This day, I
hear, hath been a conference between the two Houses about the Bill for
examining Accounts, wherein the House of Lords their proceedings in
petitioning the King for doing it by Commission is, in great heat, voted
by the Commons, after the conference, unparliamentary.  The issue
whereof, God knows.



4th.  Up, and seeing things put in order for a dinner at my house to-day,
I to the office awhile, and about noon home, and there saw all things in
good order.  Anon comes our company; my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Pen, his
lady, and Pegg, and her servant, Mr. Lowther, my Lady Batten (Sir W.
Batten being forced to dine at Sir K. Ford's, being invited), Mr. Turner
and his wife.  Here I had good room for ten, and no more would my table
have held well, had Sir J. Minnes, who was fallen lame, and his sister,
and niece, and Sir W. Batten come, which was a great content to me to be
without them.  I did make them all gaze to see themselves served so nobly
in plate, and a neat dinner, indeed, though but of seven dishes.  Mighty
merry I was and made them all, and they mightily pleased.  My Lord
Bruncker went away after dinner to the ticket-office, the rest staid,
only my Lady Batten home, her ague-fit coming on her at table.  The rest
merry, and to cards, and then to sing and talk, and at night to sup, and
then to cards; and, last of all, to have a flaggon of ale and apples,
drunk out of a wood cupp,

     [A mazer or drinking-bowl turned out of some kind of wood, by
     preference of maple, and especially the spotted or speckled variety
     called "bird's-eye maple" (see W. H. St. John Hope's paper, "On the
     English Mediaeval Drinking-bowls called Mazers," "Archaeologia,"
     vol.  50, pp. 129,93).]

as a Christmas draught, made all merry; and they full of admiration at my
plate, particularly my flaggons (which, indeed, are noble), and so late
home, all with great mirth and satisfaction to them, as I thought, and to
myself to see all I have and do so much outdo for neatness and plenty
anything done by any of them.  They gone, I to bed, much pleased, and do
observe Mr. Lowther to be a pretty gentleman, and, I think, too good for
Peg; and, by the way, Peg Pen seems mightily to be kind to me, and I
believe by her father's advice, who is also himself so; but I believe not
a little troubled to see my plenty, and was much troubled to hear the
song I sung, "The New Droll"--it touching him home.  So to bed.



5th.  At the office all the morning, thinking at noon to have been taken
home, and my wife (according to appointment yesterday), by my Lord
Bruncker, to dinner and then to a play, but he had forgot it, at which I
was glad, being glad of avoyding the occasion of inviting him again, and
being forced to invite his doxy, Mrs. Williams.  So home, and took a
small snap of victuals, and away, with my wife, to the Duke's house, and
there saw "Mustapha," a most excellent play for words and design as ever
I did see.  I had seen it before but forgot it, so it was wholly new to
me, which is the pleasure of my not committing these things to my memory.
Home, and a little to the office, and then to bed, where I lay with much
pain in my head most of the night, and very unquiet, partly by my
drinking before I went out too great a draught of sack, and partly my
eyes being still very sore.



6th (Lord's day).  Up pretty well in the morning, and then to church,
where a dull doctor, a stranger, made a dull sermon.  Then home, and
Betty Michell and her husband come by invitation to dine with us, and,
she I find the same as ever (which I was afraid of the contrary) .  .  .
Here come also Mr. Howe to dine with me, and we had a good dinner and
good merry discourse with much pleasure, I enjoying myself mightily to
have friends at my table.  After dinner young Michell and I, it being an
excellent frosty day to walk, did walk out, he showing me the baker's
house in Pudding Lane, where the late great fire begun; and thence all
along Thames Street, where I did view several places, and so up by London
Wall, by Blackfriars, to Ludgate; and thence to Bridewell, which I find
to have been heretofore an extraordinary good house, and a fine coming to
it, before the house by the bridge was built; and so to look about St.
Bride's church and my father's house, and so walked home, and there
supped together, and then Michell and Betty home, and I to my closet,
there to read and agree upon my vows for next year, and so to bed and
slept mighty well.



7th.  Lay long in bed.  Then up and to the office, where busy all the
morning.  At noon (my wife being gone to Westminster) I with my Lord
Bruncker by coach as far as the Temple, in the way he telling me that my
Lady Denham is at last dead.  Some suspect her poisoned, but it will be
best known when her body is opened, which will be to-day, she dying
yesterday morning.  The Duke of York is troubled for her; but hath
declared he will never have another public mistress again; which I shall
be glad of, and would the King would do the like.  He tells me how the
Parliament is grown so jealous of the King's being unfayre to them in the
business of the Bill for examining Accounts, Irish Bill, and the business
of the Papists, that they will not pass the business for money till they
see themselves secure that those Bills will pass; which they do observe
the Court to keep off till all the Bills come together, that the King may
accept what he pleases, and what he pleases to reject, which will undo
all our business and the kingdom too.  He tells me how Mr. Henry Howard,
of Norfolke, hath given our Royal Society all his grandfather's library:
which noble gift they value at L1000; and gives them accommodation to
meet in at his house, Arundell House, they being now disturbed at Gresham
College.  Thence 'lighting at the Temple to the ordinary hard by and eat
a bit of meat, and then by coach to fetch my wife from her brother's, and
thence to the Duke's house, and saw "Macbeth," which, though I saw it
lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially
in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a strange
perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable.  So
home, it being the last play now I am to see till a fortnight hence, I
being from the last night entered into my vowes for the year coming on.
Here I met with the good newes of Hogg's bringing in two prizes more to
Plymouth, which if they prove but any part of them, I hope, at least, we
shall be no losers by them.  So home from the office, to write over fair
my vowes for this year, and then to supper, and to bed.  In great peace
of mind having now done it, and brought myself into order again and a
resolution of keeping it, and having entered my journall to this night,
so to bed, my eyes failing me with writing.



8th.  Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  At noon home
to dinner, where my uncle Thomas with me to receive his quarterage.  He
tells me his son Thomas is set up in Smithfield, where he hath a shop--
I suppose, a booth.  Presently after dinner to the office, and there set
close to my business and did a great deal before night, and am resolved
to stand to it, having been a truant too long.  At night to Sir W.
Batten's to consider some things about our prizes, and then to other
talk, and among other things he tells me that he hears for certain that
Sir W. Coventry hath resigned to the King his place of Commissioner of
the Navy, the thing he bath often told me that he had a mind to do, but I
am surprised to think that he hath done it, and am full of thoughts all
this evening after I heard it what may be the consequences of it to me.
So home and to supper, and then saw the catalogue of my books, which my
brother had wrote out, now perfectly alphabeticall, and so to bed.  Sir
Richard Ford did this evening at Sir W. Batten's tell us that upon
opening the body of my Lady Denham it is said that they found a vessel
about her matrix which had never been broke by her husband, that caused
all pains in her body.  Which if true is excellent invention to clear
both the Duchesse from poison or the Duke from lying with her.



9th.  Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen in a hackney-coach to
White Hall, the way being most horribly bad upon the breaking up of the
frost, so as not to be passed almost.  There did our usual [business]
with the Duke of York, and here I do hear, by my Lord Bruncker, that for
certain Sir W. Coventry hath resigned his place of Commissioner; which I
believe he hath done upon good grounds of security to himself, from all
the blame which must attend our office this next year; but I fear the
King will suffer by it.  Thence to Westminster Hall, and there to the
conference of the Houses about the word "Nuisance,"

     [In the "Bill against importing Cattle from Ireland and other parts
     beyond the Seas," the Lords proposed to insert "Detriment and
     Mischief" in place of "Nuisance," but the Commons stood to their
     word, and gained their way.  The Lords finally consented that
     "Nuisance" should stand in the Bill.]

which the Commons would have, and the Lords will not, in the Irish Bill.
The Commons do it professedly to prevent the King's dispensing with it;
which Sir Robert Howard and others did expressly repeat often: viz., "the
King nor any King ever could do any thing which was hurtful to their
people."  Now the Lords did argue, that it was an ill precedent, and that
which will ever hereafter be used as a way of preventing the King's
dispensation with acts; and therefore rather advise to pass the Bill
without that word, and let it go, accompanied with a petition, to the
King, that he will not dispense with it; this being a more civil way to
the King.  They answered well, that this do imply that the King should
pass their Bill, and yet with design to dispense with it; which is to
suppose the King guilty of abusing them.  And more, they produce
precedents for it; namely, that against new buildings and about leather,
wherein the word "Nuisance" is used to the purpose: and further, that
they do not rob the King of any right he ever had, for he never had a
power to do hurt to his people, nor would exercise it; and therefore
there is no danger, in the passing this Bill, of imposing on his
prerogative; and concluded, that they think they ought to do this, so as
the people may really have the benefit of it when it is passed, for never
any people could expect so reasonably to be indulged something from a
King, they having already given him so much money, and are likely to give
more.  Thus they broke up, both adhering to their opinions; but the
Commons seemed much more full of judgment and reason than the Lords.
Then the Commons made their Report to the Lords of their vote, that their
Lordships' proceedings in the Bill for examining Accounts were
unparliamentary; they having, while a Bill was sent up to them from the
Commons about the business, petitioned his Majesty that he would do the
same thing by his Commission.  They did give their reasons: viz., that it
had no precedent; that the King ought not to be informed of anything
passing in the Houses till it comes to a Bill; that it will wholly break
off all correspondence between the two Houses, and in the issue wholly
infringe the very use and being of Parliaments.  Having left their
arguments with the Lords they all broke up, and I by coach to the
ordinary by the Temple, and there dined alone on a rabbit, and read a
book I brought home from Mrs. Michell's, of the proceedings of the
Parliament in the 3rd and 4th year of the late King, a very good book for
speeches and for arguments of law.  Thence to Faythorne, and bought a
head or two; one of them my Lord of Ormond's, the best I ever saw, and
then to Arundell House, where first the Royall Society meet, by the
favour of Mr. Harry Howard, who was there, and has given us his
grandfather's library, a noble gift, and a noble favour and undertaking
it is for him to make his house the seat for this college.  Here was an
experiment shown about improving the use of powder for creating of force
in winding up of springs and other uses of great worth.  And here was a
great meeting of worthy noble persons; but my Lord Bruncker, who
pretended to make a congratulatory speech upon their coming hither, and
in thanks to Mr. Howard, do it in the worst manner in the world, being
the worst speaker, so as I do wonder at his parts and the unhappiness of
his speaking.  Thence home by coach and to the office, and then home to
supper, Mercer and her sister there, and to cards, and then to bed.  Mr.
Cowling did this day in the House-lobby tell me of the many complaints
among people against Mr. Townsend in the Wardrobe, and advises me to
think of my Lord Sandwich's concernment there under his care.  He did
also tell me upon my demanding it, that he do believe there are some
things on foot for a peace between France and us, but that we shall be
foiled in it.



10th.  Up, and at the office all the morning.  At noon home and, there
being business to do in the afternoon, took my Lord Bruncker home with
me, who dined with me.  His discourse and mine about the bad performances
of the Controller's and Surveyor's places by the hands they are now in,
and the shame to the service and loss the King suffers by it.  Then after
dinner to the office, where we and some of the chief of the Trinity House
met to examine the occasion of the loss of The Prince Royall,  the master
and mates being examined, which I took and keep, and so broke up, and I
to my letters by the post, and so home and to supper with my mind at
pretty good ease, being entered upon minding my business, and so to bed.
This noon Mrs. Burroughs come to me about business, whom I did baiser .
.  .  .



11th.  Up, being troubled at my being found abed a-days by all sorts of
people, I having got a trick of sitting up later than I need, never
supping, or very seldom, before 12 at night.  Then to the office, there
busy all the morning, and among other things comes Sir W. Warren and
walked with me awhile, whose discourse I love, he being a very wise man
and full of good counsel, and his own practices for wisdom much to be
observed, and among other things he tells me how he is fallen in with my
Lord Bruncker, who has promised him most particular inward friendship and
yet not to appear at the board to do so, and he tells me how my Lord
Bruncker should take notice of the two flaggons he saw at my house at
dinner, at my late feast, and merrily, yet I know enviously, said, I
could not come honestly by them.  This I am glad to hear, though vexed to
see his ignoble soul, but I shall beware of him, and yet it is fit he
should see I am no mean fellow, but can live in the world, and have
something.  At noon home to dinner, and then to the office with my people
and very busy, and did dispatch to my great satisfaction abundance of
business, and do resolve, by the grace of God, to stick to it till I have
cleared my heart of most things wherein I am in arrear in public and
private matters.  At night, home to supper and to bed.  This day ill news
of my father's being very ill of his old grief the rupture, which
troubles me.



12th.  Up, still lying long in bed; then to the office, where sat very
long.  Then home to dinner, and so to the office again, mighty busy, and
did to the joy of my soul dispatch much business, which do make my heart
light, and will enable me to recover all the ground I have lost (if I
have by my late minding my pleasures lost any) and assert myself.  So
home to supper, and then to read a little in Moore's "Antidote against
Atheisme,"  a pretty book, and so to bed.



13th (Lord's day).  Up, and to church, where young Lowther come to church
with Sir W. Pen and his Lady and daughter, and my wife tells me that
either they are married or the match is quite perfected, which I am apt
to believe, because all the peoples' eyes in the church were much fixed
upon them.  At noon sent for Mercer, who dined with us, and very merry,
and so I, after dinner, walked to the Old Swan, thinking to have got a
boat to White Hall, but could not, nor was there anybody at home at
Michell's, where I thought to have sat with her .  .  .  .  So home, to
church, a dull sermon, and then home at my chamber all the evening.  So
to supper and to bed.



14th.  Up, and to the office, where busy getting beforehand with my
business as fast as I can.  At noon home to dinner, and presently
afterward at my office again.  I understand my father is pretty well
again, blessed be God! and would have my Br[other] John comedown to him
for a little while.  Busy till night, pleasing myself mightily to see
what a deal of business goes off of a man's hands when he stays by it,
and then, at night, before it was late (yet much business done) home to
supper, discourse with my wife, and to bed.  Sir W. Batten tells me the
Lords do agree at last with the Commons about the word "Nuisance" in the
Irish Bill, and do desire a good correspondence between the two Houses;
and that the King do intend to prorogue them the last of this month.



15th.  Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning.  Here my Lord
Bruncker would have made me promise to go with him to a play this
afternoon, where Knipp acts Mrs. Weaver's great part in "The Indian
Emperour," and he says is coming on to be a great actor.  But I am so
fell to my business, that I, though against my inclination, will not go.
At noon, dined with my wife and were pleasant, and then to the office,
where I got Mrs. Burroughs 'sola cum ego, and did toucher ses mamailles'
.  .  .  .  She gone, I to my business and did much, and among other
things to-night we were all mightily troubled how to prevent the sale of
a great deal of hemp, and timber-deals, and other good goods to-morrow at
the candle by the Prize Office, where it will be sold for little, and we
shall be found to want the same goods and buy at extraordinary prices,
and perhaps the very same goods now sold, which is a most horrid evil and
a shame.  At night home to supper and to bed with my mind mighty light to
see the fruits of my diligence in having my business go off my hand so
merrily.



16th.  Up, and by coach to White Hall, and there to the Duke of York as
usual.  Here Sir W. Coventry come to me aside in the Duke's chamber, to
tell that he had not answered part of a late letter of mine, because
'littera scripta manet'.  About his leaving the office, he tells me, [it
is] because he finds that his business at Court will not permit him to
attend it; and then he confesses that he seldom of late could come from
it with satisfaction, and therefore would not take the King's money for
nothing.  I professed my sorrow for it, and prayed the continuance of his
favour; which he promised.  I do believe he hath [done] like a very wise
man in reference to himself; but I doubt it will prove ill for the King,
and for the office.  Prince Rupert, I hear to-day, is very ill; yesterday
given over, but better to-day.  This day, before the Duke of York, the
business of the Muster-Masters was reported, and Balty found the best of
the whole number, so as the Duke enquired who he was, and whether he was
a stranger by his two names, both strange, and offered that he and one
more, who hath done next best, should have not only their owne, but part
of the others' salary, but that I having said he was my brother-in-law,
he did stop, but they two are ordered their pay, which I am glad of, and
some of the rest will lose their pay, and others be laid by the heels.
I was very glad of this being ended so well.  I did also, this morning,
move in a business wherein Mr. Hater hath concerned me, about getting a
ship, laden with salt from France, permitted to unload, coming in after
the King's declaration was out, which I have hopes by some dexterity to
get done.  Then with the Duke of York to the King, to receive his
commands for stopping the sale this day of some prize-goods at the Prize-
Office, goods fit for the Navy; and received the King's commands, and
carried them to the Lords' House, to my Lord Ashly, who was angry much
thereat, and I am sorry it fell to me to carry the order, but I cannot
help it.  So, against his will, he signed a note I writ to the
Commissioners of Prizes, which I carried and delivered to Kingdone, at
their new office in Aldersgate Streete.  Thence a little to the Exchange,
where it was hot that the Prince was dead, but I did rectify it.  So home
to dinner, and found Balty, told him the good news, and then after dinner
away, I presently to White Hall, and did give the Duke of York a memorial
of the salt business, against the Council, and did wait all the Council
for answer, walking a good while with Sir Stephen Fox, who, among other
things, told me his whole mystery in the business of the interest he pays
as Treasurer for the Army.  They give him 12d. per pound quite through
the Army, with condition to be paid weekly.  This he undertakes upon his
own private credit, and to be paid by the King at the end of every four
months.  If the King pay him not at the end of the four months, then, for
all the time he stays longer, my Lord Treasurer, by agreement, allows him
eight per cent. per annum for the forbearance.  So that, in fine, he hath
about twelve per cent. from the King and the Army, for fifteen or sixteen
months' interest; out of which he gains soundly, his expense being about
L130,000 per annum; and hath no trouble in it, compared, as I told him,
to the trouble I must have to bring in an account of interest.  I was,
however, glad of being thus enlightened, and so away to the other council
door, and there got in and hear a piece of a cause, heard before the
King, about a ship deserted by her fellows (who were bound mutually to
defend each other), in their way to Virginy, and taken by the enemy, but
it was but meanly pleaded.  Then all withdrew, and by and by the Council
rose, and I spoke with the Duke of York, and he told me my business was
done, which I found accordingly in Sir Edward Walker's books.  And so
away, mightily satisfied, to Arundell House, and there heard a little
good discourse, and so home, and there to Sir W. Batten, where I heard
the examinations in two of our prizes, which do make but little for us,
so that I do begin to doubt their proving prize, which troubled me.  So
home to supper with my wife, and after supper my wife told me how she had
moved to W. Hewer the business of my sister for a wife to him, which he
received with mighty acknowledgements, as she says, above anything; but
says he hath no intention to alter his condition: so that I am in some
measure sorry she ever moved it; but I hope he will think it only come
from her.  So after supper a little to the office, to enter my journall,
and then home to bed.  Talk there is of a letter to come from Holland,
desiring a place of treaty; but I do doubt it.  This day I observe still,
in many places, the smoking remains of the late fire: the ways mighty bad
and dirty.  This night Sir R. Ford told me how this day, at Christ Church
Hospital, they have given a living over L200 per annum to Mr. Sanchy, my
old acquaintance, which I wonder at, he commending him mightily; but am
glad of it.  He tells me, too, how the famous Stillingfleete was a
Bluecoat boy.  The children at this day are provided for in the country
by the House, which I am glad also to hear.



17th.  Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting.  At noon
home to dinner, and then to the office busy also till very late, my heart
joyed with the effects of my following my business, by easing my head of
cares, and so home to supper and to bed.



18th.  Up, and most of the morning finishing my entry of my journall
during the late fire out of loose papers into this book, which did please
me mightily when done, I, writing till my eyes were almost blind
therewith to make an end of it.  Then all the rest of the morning, and,
after a mouthful of dinner, all the afternoon in my closet till night,
sorting all my papers, which have lain unsorted for all the time we were
at Greenwich during the plague, which did please me also, I drawing on to
put my office into a good posture, though much is behind.  This morning
come Captain. Cocke to me, and tells me that the King comes to the House
this day to pass the poll Bill and the Irish Bill; he tells me too that,
though the Faction is very froward in the House, yet all will end well
there.  But he says that one had got a Bill ready to present in the House
against Sir W. Coventry, for selling of places, and says he is certain of
it, and how he was withheld from doing it.  He says, that the Vice-
chamberlaine is now one of the greatest men in England again, and was he
that did prevail with the King to let the Irish Bill go with the word
"Nuisance."  He told me, that Sir G. Carteret's declaration of giving
double to any man that will prove that any of his people have demanded or
taken any thing for forwarding the payment of the wages of any man (of
which he sent us a copy yesterday, which we approved of) is set up, among
other places, upon the House of Lords' door.  I do not know how wisely
this is done.  This morning, also, there come to the office a letter from
the Duke of York, commanding our payment of no wages to any of the
muster-masters of the fleete the last year, but only two, my brother
Balty, taking notice that he had taken pains therein, and one Ward, who,
though he had not taken so much as the other, yet had done more than the
rest.  This I was exceeding glad of for my own sake and his.  At night I,
by appointment, home, where W. Batelier and his sister Mary, and the two
Mercers, to play at cards and sup, and did cut our great cake lately
given us by Russell: a very good one.  Here very merry late.  Sir W. Pen
told me this night how the King did make them a very sharp speech in the
House of Lords to-day, saying that he did expect to have had more Bills;

     [On this day "An Act for raising Money by a Poll and otherwise
     towards the maintenance of the present War," and "An Act prohibiting
     the Importation of Cattle from Ireland and other parts beyond the
     Sea, and Fish taken by Foreigners," were passed.  The king.
     complained of the insufficient supply, and said, "'Tis high time for
     you to make good your promises, and 'tis high time for you to be in
     the country" ("Journals of the House of Lords," vol  xii., p. 81).]

that he purposes to prorogue them on Monday come se'nnight; that whereas
they have unjustly conceived some jealousys of his making a peace, he
declares he knows of no such thing or treaty: and so left them.  But with
so little effect, that as soon as he come into the House, Sir W. Coventry
moved, that now the King hath declared his intention of proroguing them,
it would be loss of time to go on with the thing they were upon, when
they were called to the King, which was the calling over the defaults of
Members appearing in the House; for that, before any person could now
come or be brought to town, the House would be up.  Yet the Faction did
desire to delay time, and contend so as to come to a division of the
House; where, however, it was carried, by a few voices, that the debate
should be laid by.  But this shews that they are not pleased, or that
they have not any awe over them from the King's displeasure.  The company
being gone, to bed.



19th.  Up, and at the office all the morning.  Sir W. Batten tells me to
my wonder that at his coming to my Lord Ashly, yesterday morning, to tell
him what prize-goods he would have saved for the Navy, and not sold,
according to the King's order on the 17th, he fell quite out with him in
high terms; and he says, too, that they did go on to the sale yesterday,
even of the very hempe, and other things, at which I am astonished, and
will never wonder at the ruine of the King's affairs, if this be
suffered.  At noon dined, and Mr. Pierce come to see me, he newly come
from keeping his Christmas in the country.  So to the office, where very
busy, but with great pleasure till late at night, and then home to supper
and to bed.



20th (Lord's day).  Up betimes and down to the Old Swan, there called on
Michell and his wife, which in her night linen appeared as pretty almost
as ever to my thinking I saw woman.  Here I drank some burnt brandy.
They shewed me their house, which, poor people, they have built, and is
very pretty.  I invited them to dine with me, and so away to White Hall
to Sir W. Coventry, with whom I have not been alone a good while, and
very kind he is, and tells me how the business is now ordered by order of
council for my Lord Bruncker to assist Sir J. Minnes in all matters of
accounts relating to the Treasurer, and Sir W. Pen in all matters
relating to the victuallers' and pursers' accounts, which I am very glad
of, and the more for that I think it will not do me any hurt at all.
Other discourse, much especially about the heat the House was in
yesterday about the ill management of the Navy, which I was sorry to
hear; though I think they were well answered, both by Sir G. Carteret
and [Sir] W. Coventry, as he informs me the substance of their speeches.
Having done with him, home mightily satisfied with my being with him,
and coming home I to church, and there, beyond expectation, find our
seat, and all the church crammed, by twice as many people as used to be:
and to my great joy find Mr. Frampton in the pulpit; so to my great joy
I hear him preach, and I think the best sermon, for goodness and oratory,
without affectation or study, that ever I heard in my life.  The truth
is, he preaches the most like an apostle that ever I heard man; and it
was much the best time that ever I spent in my life at church.  His text,
Ecclesiastes xi., verse 8th--the words, "But if a man live many years,
and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for
they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity."  He done, I home, and
there Michell and his wife, and we dined and mighty merry, I mightily
taken more and more with her.  After dinner I with my brother away by
water to White Hall, and there walked in the Parke, and a little to my
Lord Chancellor's, where the King and Cabinet met, and there met Mr.
Brisband, with whom good discourse, to White Hall towards night, and
there he did lend me "The Third Advice to a Paynter," a bitter satyre
upon the service of the Duke of Albemarle the last year.  I took it home
with me, and will copy it, having the former, being also mightily pleased
with it.  So after reading it, I to Sir W. Pen to discourse a little with
him about the business of our prizes, and so home to supper and to bed.



21st.  Up betimes, and with, Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, [Sir] R. Ford,
by coach to the Swede's Resident's in the Piatza, to discourse with him
about two of our prizes, wherein he puts in his concernment as for his
countrymen.  We had no satisfaction, nor did give him any, but I find him
a cunning fellow.  He lives in one of the great houses there, but ill-
furnished; and come to us out of bed in his furred mittens and furred
cap.  Thence to Exeter House to the Doctors Commons, and there with our
Proctors to Dr. Walker, who was not very well, but, however, did hear our
matters, and after a dull seeming hearing of them read, did discourse
most understandingly of them, as well as ever I heard man, telling us all
our grounds of pretence to the prize would do no good, and made it appear
but thus, and thus, it may be, but yet did give us but little reason to
expect it would prove, which troubled us, but I was mightily taken to
hear his manner of discourse.  Thence with them to Westminster Hall, they
setting me down at White Hall, where I missed of finding Sir G. Carteret,
up to the Lords' House, and there come mighty seasonably to hear the
Solicitor about my Lord Buckingham's pretence to the title of Lord Rosse.
Mr. Atturny Montagu is also a good man, and so is old Sir P. Ball; but
the Solicitor and Scroggs after him are excellent men.  Here spoke with
my Lord Bellasses about getting some money for Tangier, which he doubts
we shall not be able to do out of the Poll Bill, it being so strictly
tied for the Navy.  He tells me the Lords have passed the Bill for the
accounts with some little amendments.  So down to the Hall, and thence
with our company to Exeter House, and then did the business I have said
before, we doing nothing the first time of going, it being too early.
At home find Lovett, to whom I did give my Lady Castlemayne's head to do.
He is talking of going into Spayne to get money by his art, but I doubt
he will do no good, he being a man of an unsettled head.  Thence by water
down to Deptford, the first time I have been by water a great while, and
there did some little business and walked home, and there come into my
company three drunken seamen, but one especially, who told me such
stories, calling me Captain, as made me mighty merry, and they would leap
and skip, and kiss what mayds they met all the way.  I did at first give
them money to drink, lest they should know who I was, and so become
troublesome to me.  Parted at Redriffe, and there home and to the office,
where did much business, and then to Sir W. Batten's, where [Sir] W. Pen,
[Sir] R. Ford, and I to hear a proposition [Sir] R. Ford was to acquaint
us with from the Swedes Embassador, in manner of saying, that for money
he might be got to our side and relinquish the trouble he may give us.
Sir W. Pen did make a long simple declaration of his resolution to give
nothing to deceive any poor man of what was his right by law, but ended
in doing whatever any body else would, and we did commission Sir R. Ford
to give promise of not beyond L350 to him and his Secretary, in case they
did not oppose us in the Phoenix (the net profits of which, as [Sir] R.
Ford cast up before us, the Admiral's tenths, and ship's thirds, and
other charges all cleared, will amount to L3,000) and that we did gain
her.  [Sir] R. Ford did pray for a curse upon his family, if he was privy
to anything more than he told us (which I believe he is a knave in), yet
we all concluded him the most fit man for it and very honest, and so left
it wholly to him to manage as he pleased.  Thence to the office a little
while longer, and so home, where W. Hewer's mother was, and Mrs. Turner,
our neighbour, and supped with us.  His mother a well-favoured old little
woman, and a good woman, I believe.  After we had supped, and merry, we
parted late, Mrs. Turner having staid behind to talk a little about her
lodgings, which now my Lord Bruncker upon Sir W. Coventry's surrendering
do claim, but I cannot think he will come to live in them so as to need
to put them out.  She gone, we to bed all.  This night, at supper, comes
from Sir W. Coventry the Order of Councill for my Lord Bruncker to do all
the Comptroller's part relating to the Treasurer's accounts, and Sir W.
Pen, all relating to the Victualler's, and Sir J. Minnes to do the rest.
This, I hope, will do much better for the King than now, and, I think,
will give neither of them ground to over-top me, as I feared they would;
which pleases me mightily.  This evening, Mr. Wren and Captain Cocke
called upon me at the office, and there told me how the House was in
better temper to-day, and hath passed the Bill for the remainder of the
money, but not to be passed finally till they have done some other things
which they will have passed with it; wherein they are very open, what
their meaning is, which was but doubted before, for they do in all
respects doubt the King's pleasing them.



22nd.  Up, and there come to me Darnell the fiddler, one of the Duke's
house, and brought me a set of lessons, all three parts, I heard them
play to the Duke of York after Christmas at his lodgings, and bid him get
me them.  I did give him a crowne for them, and did enquire after the
musique of the "Siege of Rhodes," which, he tells me, he can get me,
which I am mighty glad of.  So to the office, where among other things I
read the Councill's order about my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Pen to be
assistants to the Comptroller, which quietly went down with Sir J.
Minnes, poor man, seeming a little as if he would be thought to have
desired it, but yet apparently to his discontent; and, I fear, as the
order runs, it will hardly do much good.  At noon to dinner, and there
comes a letter from Mrs. Pierce, telling me she will come and dine with
us on Thursday next, with some of the players, Knipp, &c., which I was
glad of, but my wife vexed, which vexed me; but I seemed merry, but know
not how to order the matter, whether they shall come or no.  After dinner
to the office, and there late doing much business, and so home to supper,
and to bed.



23rd.  Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there
to the Duke of York, and did our usual business.  Having done there, I to
St. James's, to see the organ Mrs. Turner told me of the other night, of
my late Lord Aubigney's; and I took my Lord Bruncker with me, he being
acquainted with my present Lord Almoner, Mr. Howard, brother to the Duke
of Norfolke; so he and I thither and did see the organ, but I do not like
it, it being but a bauble, with a virginal! joining to it: so I shall not
meddle with it.  Here we sat and talked with him a good while, and he
seems a good-natured gentleman: here I observed the deske which he hath,
[made] to remove, and is fastened to one of the armes of his chayre.  I
do also observe the counterfeit windows there was, in the form of doors
with looking-glasses instead of windows, which makes the room seem both
bigger and lighter, I think; and I have some thoughts to have the like in
one of my rooms.  He discoursed much of the goodness of the musique in
Rome, but could not tell me how long musique had been in any perfection
in that church, which I would be glad to know.  He speaks much of the
great buildings that this Pope,

     [Fabio Chigi, of Siena, succeeded Innocent X. in 1655 as Alexander
     VII.  He died May, 1667, and was succeeded by Clement IX.]

whom, in mirth to us, he calls Antichrist, hath done in his time.  Having
done with the discourse, we away, and my Lord and I walking into the Park
back again, I did observe the new buildings: and my Lord, seeing I had a
desire to see them, they being the place for the priests and fryers, he
took me back to my Lord Almoner; and he took us quite through the whole
house and chapel, and the new monastery, showing me most excellent pieces
in wax-worke: a crucifix given by a Pope to Mary Queen of Scotts, where a
piece of the Cross is;

     [Pieces of "the Cross" were formerly held in such veneration, and
     were so common, that it has been often said enough existed to build
     a ship.  Most readers will remember the distinction which Sir W.
     Scott represents Louis XI. (with great appreciation of that
     monarch's character), as drawing between an oath taken on a false
     piece and one taken on a piece of the true cross.  Sir Thomas More,
     a very devout believer in relics, says ("Works," p. 119), that
     Luther wished, in a sermon of his, that he had in his hand all the
     pieces of the Holy Cross; and said that if he so had, he would throw
     them there as never sun should shine on them:--and for what
     worshipful reason would the wretch do such villainy to the cross of
     Christ?  Because, as he saith, that there is so much gold now
     bestowed about the garnishing of the pieces of the Cross, that there
     is none left for poore folke.  Is not this a high reason?  As though
     all the gold that is now bestowed about the pieces of the Holy Cross
     would not have failed to have been given to poor men, if they had
     not been bestowed about the garnishing of the Cross! and as though
     there were nothing lost, but what is bestowed about Christ's Cross!"
     "Wolsey, says Cavendish, on his fall, gave to Norris, who brought
     him a ring of gold as a token of good will from Henry, "a little
     chaine of gold, made like a bottle chain, with a cross of gold,
     wherein was a piece of the Holy Cross, which he continually wore
     about his neck, next his body; and said, furthermore, 'Master
     Norris, I assure you, when I was in prosperity, although it seem but
     small in value, yet I would not gladly have departed with the same
     for a thousand pounds.'" Life, ed.  1852, p. 167.  Evelyn mentions,
     "Diary," November 17th, 1664, that he saw in one of the chapels in
     St. Peter's a crucifix with a piece of the true cross in it.
     Amongst the jewels of Mary Queen of Scots was a cross of gold, which
     had been pledged to Hume of Blackadder for L1000 (Chalmers's "Life,"
     vol. i., p. 31 ).--B.]

two bits set in the manner of a cross in the foot of the crucifix:
several fine pictures, but especially very good prints of holy pictures.
I saw the dortoire--[dormitory]--and the cells of the priests, and we
went into one; a very pretty little room, very clean, hung with pictures,
set with books.  The Priest was in his cell, with his hair clothes to his
skin, bare-legged, with a sandal! only on, and his little bed without
sheets, and no feather bed; but yet, I thought, soft enough.  His cord
about his middle; but in so good company, living with ease, I thought it
a very good life.  A pretty library they have.  And I was in the
refectoire, where every man his napkin, knife, cup of earth,

     [The translators expect that we will know what was likely to them a
     commmon term.  Probably 'terra cotta'.  D.W.]

and basin of the same; and a place for one to sit and read while the rest
are at meals.  And into the kitchen I went, where a good neck of mutton
at the fire, and other victuals boiling.  I do not think they fared very
hard.  Their windows all looking into a fine garden and the Park; and
mighty pretty rooms all.  I wished myself one of the Capuchins.  Having
seen what we could here, and all with mighty pleasure, so away with the
Almoner in his coach, talking merrily about the difference in our
religions, to White Hall, and there we left him.  I in my Lord Bruncker's
coach, he carried me to the Savoy, and there we parted.  I to the Castle
Tavern, where was and did come all our company, Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W.
Pen, [Sir] R. Ford, and our Counsel Sir Ellis Layton, Walt Walker, Dr.
Budd, Mr. Holder, and several others, and here we had a bad dinner of our
preparing, and did discourse something of our business of our prizes,
which was the work of the day.  I staid till dinner was over, and there
being no use of me I away after dinner without taking leave, and to the
New Exchange, there to take up my wife and Mercer, and to Temple Bar to
the Ordinary, and had a dish of meat for them, they having not dined, and
thence to the King's house, and there saw "The Numerous Lieutenant," a
silly play, I think; only the Spirit in it that grows very tall, and then
sinks again to nothing, having two heads breeding upon one, and then
Knipp's singing, did please us.  Here, in a box above, we spied Mrs.
Pierce; and, going out, they called us, and so we staid for them; and
Knipp took us all in, and brought to us Nelly; a most pretty woman, who
acted the great part of Coelia to-day very fine, and did it pretty well:
I kissed her, and so did my wife; and a mighty pretty soul she is.  We
also saw Mrs. Halls which is my little Roman-nose black girl, that is
mighty pretty: she is usually called Betty.  Knipp made us stay in a box
and see the dancing preparatory to to-morrow for "The Goblins," a play of
Suckling's, not acted these twenty-five years; which was pretty; and so
away thence, pleased with this sight also, and specially kissing of Nell.
We away, Mr. Pierce and I, on foot to his house, the women by coach.  In
our way we find the Guards of horse in the street, and hear the occasion
to be news that the seamen are in a mutiny, which put me into a great
fright; so away with my wife and Mercer home preparing against to-morrow
night to have Mrs. Pierce and Knipp and a great deal more company to
dance; and, when I come home, hear of no disturbance there of the seamen,
but that one of them, being arrested to-day, others do go and rescue him.
So to the office a little, and then home to supper, and to my chamber
awhile, and then to bed.



24th.  Up, and to the office, full of thoughts how to order the business
of our merry meeting to-night.  So to the office, where busy all the
morning.  [While we were sitting in the morning at the office, we were
frighted with news of fire at Sir W. Batten's by a chimney taking fire,
and it put me into much fear and trouble, but with a great many hands and
pains it was soon stopped.]  At noon home to dinner, and presently to the
office to despatch my business, and also we sat all the afternoon to
examine the loss of The Bredagh, which was done by as plain negligence as
ever ship was.  We being rose, I entering my letters and getting the
office swept and a good fire made and abundance of candles lighted, I
home, where most of my company come of this end of the town-Mercer and
her sister, Mr. Batelier and Pembleton (my Lady Pen, and Pegg, and Mr.
Lowther, but did not stay long, and I believe it was by Sir W. Pen's
order; for they had a great mind to have staid), and also Captain Rolt.
And, anon, at about seven or eight o'clock, comes Mr. Harris, of the
Duke's playhouse, and brings Mrs. Pierce with him, and also one dressed
like a country-mayde with a straw hat on; which, at first, I could not
tell who it was, though I expected Knipp: but it was she coming off the
stage just as she acted this day in "The Goblins;" a merry jade.  Now my
house is full, and four fiddlers that play well.  Harris I first took to
my closet; and I find him a very curious and understanding person in all
pictures and other things, and a man of fine conversation; and so is
Rolt.  So away with all my company down to the office, and there fell to
dancing, and continued at it an hour or two, there coming Mrs. Anne
Jones, a merchant's daughter hard by, who dances well, and all in mighty
good humour, and danced with great pleasure; and then sung and then
danced, and then sung many things of three voices--both Harris and Rolt
singing their parts excellently.  Among other things, Harris sung his
Irish song--the strangest in itself, and the prettiest sung by him, that
ever I heard.  Then to supper in the office, a cold, good supper, and
wondrous merry.  Here was Mrs. Turner also, but the poor woman sad about
her lodgings, and Mrs. Markham: after supper to dancing again and
singing, and so continued till almost three in the morning, and then,
with extraordinary pleasure, broke up only towards morning, Knipp fell a
little ill, and so my wife home with her to put her to bed, and we
continued dancing and singing; and, among other things, our Mercer
unexpectedly did happen to sing an Italian song I know not, of which they
two sung the other two parts to, that did almost ravish me, and made me
in love with her more than ever with her singing.  As late as it was, yet
Rolt and Harris would go home to-night, and walked it, though I had a bed
for them; and it proved dark, and a misly night, and very windy.  The
company being all gone to their homes, I up with Mrs. Pierce to Knipp,
who was in bed; and we waked her, and there I handled her breasts and did
'baiser la', and sing a song, lying by her on the bed, and then left my
wife to see Mrs. Pierce in bed to her, in our best chamber, and so to bed
myself, my mind mightily satisfied with all this evening's work, and
thinking it to be one of the merriest enjoyment I must look for in the
world, and did content myself therefore with the thoughts of it, and so
to bed; only the musique did not please me, they not being contented with
less than 30s.



25th.  Lay pretty long, then to the office, where Lord Bruncker and Sir
J. Minnes and I did meet, and sat private all the morning about dividing
the Controller's work according to the late order of Council, between
them two and Sir W. Pen, and it troubled me to see the poor honest man,
Sir J. Minnes, troubled at it, and yet the King's work cannot be done
without it.  It was at last friendlily ended, and so up and home to
dinner with my wife.  This afternoon I saw the Poll Bill, now printed;
wherein I do fear I shall be very deeply concerned, being to be taxed for
all my offices, and then for my money that I have, and my title, as well
as my head.  It is a very great tax; but yet I do think it is so
perplexed, it will hardly ever be collected duly.  The late invention of
Sir G. Downing's is continued of bringing all the money into the
Exchequer; and Sir G. Carteret's three pence is turned for all the money
of this act into but a penny per pound, which I am sorry for.  After
dinner to the office again, where Lord Bruncker, [Sir] W. Batten, and
[Sir] W. Pen and I met to talk again about the Controller's office, and
there [Sir] W. Pen would have a piece of the great office cut out to make
an office for him, which I opposed to the making him very angry, but I
think I shall carry it against him, and then I care not.  So a little
troubled at this fray, I away by coach with my wife, and left her at the
New Exchange, and I to my Lord Chancellor's, and then back, taking up my
wife to my Lord Bellasses, and there spoke with Mr. Moone, who tells me
that the peace between us and Spayne is, as he hears, concluded on, which
I should be glad of, and so home, and after a little at my office, home
to finish my journall for yesterday and to-day, and then a little supper
and to bed.  This day the House hath passed the Bill for the Assessment,
which I am glad of; and also our little Bill, for giving any one of us in
the office the power of justice of peace, is done as I would have it.



26th.  Up, and at the office.  Sat all the morning, where among other
things I did the first unkind [thing] that ever I did design to Sir W.
Warren, but I did it now to some purpose, to make him sensible how little
any man's friendship shall avail him if he wants money.  I perceive he do
nowadays court much my Lord Bruncker's favour, who never did any man much
courtesy at the board, nor ever will be able, at least so much as myself.
Besides, my Lord would do him a kindness in concurrence with me, but he
would have the danger of the thing to be done lie upon me, if there be
any danger in it (in drawing up a letter to Sir W. Warren's advantage),
which I do not like, nor will endure.  I was, I confess, very angry, and
will venture the loss of Sir W. Warren's kindnesses rather than he shall
have any man's friendship in greater esteem than mine.  At noon home to
dinner, and after dinner to the office again, and there all the
afternoon, and at night poor Mrs. Turner come and walked in the garden
for my advice about her husband and her relating to my Lord Bruncker's
late proceedings with them.  I do give her the best I can, but yet can
lay aside some ends of my own in what advice I do give her.  So she being
gone I to make an end of my letters, and so home to supper and to bed,
Balty lodging here with my brother, he being newly returned from
mustering in the river.



27th (Lord's day).  Up betimes, and leaving my wife to go by coach to
hear Mr. Frampton preach, which I had a mighty desire she should, I down
to the Old Swan, and there to Michell and staid while he and she dressed
themselves, and here had a 'baiser' or two of her, whom I love mightily;
and then took them in a sculler (being by some means or other
disappointed of my own boat) to White Hall, and so with them to
Westminster, Sir W. Coventry, Bruncker and I all the morning together
discoursing of the office business, and glad of the Controller's business
being likely to be put into better order than formerly, and did discourse
of many good things, but especially of having something done to bringing
the Surveyor's matters into order also.  Thence I up to the King's
closet, and there heard a good Anthem, and discoursed with several people
here about business, among others with Lord Bellasses, and so from one to
another after sermon till the King had almost dined, and then home with
Sir G. Carteret and dined with him, being mightily ashamed of my not
having seen my Lady Jemimah so long, and my wife not at all yet since she
come, but she shall soon do it.  I thence to Sir Philip Warwicke, by
appointment, to meet Lord Bellasses, and up to his chamber, but find him
unwilling to discourse of business on Sundays; so did not enlarge, but
took leave, and went down and sat in a low room, reading Erasmus "de
scribendis epistolis," a very good book, especially one letter of advice
to a courtier most true and good, which made me once resolve to tear out
the two leaves that it was writ in, but I forebore it.  By and by comes
Lord Bellasses, and then he and I up again to Sir P. Warwicke and had
much discourse of our Tangier business, but no hopes of getting any
money.  Thence I through the garden into the Park, and there met with
Roger Pepys, and he and I to walk in the Pell Mell.  I find by him that
the House of Parliament continues full of ill humours, and he seems to
dislike those that are troublesome more than needs, and do say how, in
their late Poll Bill, which cost so much time, the yeomanry, and indeed
two-thirds of the nation, are left out to be taxed, that there is not
effectual provision enough made for collecting of the money; and then,
that after a man his goods are distrained and sold, and the overplus
returned, I am to have ten days to make my complaints of being over-rated
if there be cause, when my goods are sold, and that is too late.  These
things they are resolved to look into again, and mend them before they
rise, which they expect at furthest on Thursday next.  Here we met with
Mr. May, and he and we to talk of several things, of building, and such
like matters; and so walked to White Hall, and there I skewed my cozen
Roger the Duchesse of York sitting in state, while her own mother stands
by her; he had a desire, and I shewed him my Lady Castlemayne, whom he
approves to be very handsome, and wonders that she cannot be as good
within as she is fair without.  Her little black boy came by him; and, a
dog being in his way, the little boy called to the dog: "Pox of this
dog!"--"Now," says he, blessing himself, "would I whip this child till
the blood come, if it were my child!"  and I believe he would.  But he do
by no means like the liberty of the Court, and did come with expectation
of finding them playing at cards to-night, though Sunday; for such
stories he is told, but how true I know not.

     [There is little reason to doubt that it was such as Evelyn
     describes it at a later time.  "I can never forget the inexpressible
     luxury and prophaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it
     were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which
     this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King sitting and toying
     with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarin, &c.  A French
     boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty
     of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset
     round a large table, a bank of at least L2,000 in gold before them;
     upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with
     astonishment.  Six days after was all in the dust."--Diary,
     February, 1685.--B.]

After walking up and down the Court with him, it being now dark and past
six at night, I walked to the Swan in the Palace yard and there with much
ado did get a waterman, and so I sent for the Michells, and they come,
and their father Howlett and his wife with them, and there we drank, and
so into the boat, poor Betty's head aching.  We home by water, a fine
moonshine and warm night, it having been also a very summer's day for
warmth.  I did get her hand to me under my cloak .  .  .  .  So there we
parted at their house, and he walked almost home with me, and then I home
and to supper, and to read a little and to bed.  My wife tells me Mr.
Frampton is gone to sea, and so she lost her labour to-day in thinking to
hear him preach, which I am sorry for.



28th.  Up, and down to the Old Swan, and there drank at Michell's and saw
Betty, and so took boat and to the Temple, and thence to my tailor's and
other places about business in my way to Westminster, where I spent the
morning at the Lords' House door, to hear the conference between the two
Houses about my Lord Mordaunt, of which there was great expectation, many
hundreds of people coming to hear it.  But, when they come, the Lords did
insist upon my Lord Mordaunt's having leave to sit upon a stool uncovered
within their burr, and that he should have counsel, which the Commons
would not suffer, but desired leave to report their Lordships' resolution
to the House of Commons; and so parted for this day, which troubled me,
I having by this means lost the whole day.  Here I hear from Mr. Hayes
that Prince Rupert is very bad still, and so bad, that he do now yield to
be trepanned.  It seems, as Dr. Clerke also tells me, it is a clap of the
pox which he got about twelve years ago, and hath eaten to his head and
come through his scull, so his scull must be opened, and there is great
fear of him.  Much work I find there is to do in the two Houses in a
little time, and much difference there is between the two Houses in many
things to be reconciled; as in the Bill for examining our accounts; Lord
Mordaunt's Bill for building the City, and several others.  A little
before noon I went to the Swan and eat a bit of meat, thinking I should
have had occasion to have stayed long at the house, but I did not, but so
home by coach, calling at Broad Street and taking the goldsmith home with
me, and paid him L15 15s. for my silver standish.  He tells me gold holds
up its price still, and did desire me to let him have what old 20s.
pieces I have, and he would give me 3s. 2d.  change for each.  He gone,
I to the office, where business all the afternoon, and at night comes Mr.
Gawden at my desire to me, and to-morrow I shall pay him some money, and
shall see what present he will make me, the hopes of which do make me to
part with my money out of my chest, which I should not otherwise do, but
lest this alteration in the Controller's office should occasion my losing
my concernment in the Victualling, and so he have no more need of me.
He gone, I to the office again, having come thence home with him to talk,
and so after a little more business I to supper.  I then sent for Mercer,
and began to teach her "It is decreed," which will please me well, and so
after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair
short, which is grown too long upon my crown of my head, I to bed.  I met
this day in Westminster Hall Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen, and the
latter since our falling out the other day do look mighty reservedly upon
me, and still he shall do so for me, for I will be hanged before I seek
to him, unless I see I need it.



29th.  Up to the office all the morning, where Sir W. Pen and I look much
askewe one upon another, though afterward business made us speak friendly
enough, but yet we hate one another.  At noon home to dinner, and then to
the office, where all the afternoon expecting Mr. Gawden to come for some
money I am to pay him, but he comes not, which makes me think he is
considering whether it be necessary to make the present he hath promised,
it being possible this alteration in the Controller's duty may make my
place in the Victualling unnecessary, so that I am a little troubled at
it.  Busy till late at night at the office, and Sir W. Batten come to me,
and tells me that there is newes upon the Exchange to-day, that my Lord
Sandwich's coach and the French Embassador's at Madrid, meeting and
contending for the way, they shot my Lord's postilion and another man
dead; and that we have killed 25 of theirs, and that my Lord is well.
How true this is I cannot tell, there being no newes of it at all at
Court, as I am told late by one come thence, so that I hope it is not so.
By and by comes Mrs. Turner to me, to make her complaint of her sad usage
she receives from my Lord Bruncker, that he thinks much she hath not
already got another house, though he himself hath employed her night and
day ever since his first mention of the matter, to make part of her house
ready for him, as he ordered, and promised she should stay till she had
fitted herself; by which and what discourse I do remember he had of the
business before Sir W. Coventry on Sunday last I perceive he is a rotten-
hearted, false man as any else I know, even as Sir W. Pen himself, and,
therefore, I must beware of him accordingly, and I hope I shall.  I did
pity the woman with all my heart, and gave her the best council I could;
and so, falling to other discourse, I made her laugh and merry, as sad as
she came to me; so that I perceive no passion in a woman can be lasting
long; and so parted and I home, and there teaching my girle Barker part
of my song "It is decreed," which she will sing prettily, and so after
supper to bed.



30th.  Fast-day for the King's death.  I all the morning at my chamber
making up my month's accounts, which I did before dinner to my thorough
content, and find myself but a small gainer this month, having no manner
of profits, but just my salary, but, blessed be God! that I am able to
save out of that, living as I do.  So to dinner, then to my chamber all
the afternoon, and in the evening my wife and I and Mercer and Barker to
little Michell's, walked, with some neats' tongues and cake and wine, and
there sat with the little couple with great pleasure, and talked and eat
and drank, and saw their little house, which is very pretty; and I much
pleased therewith, and so walked home, about eight at night, it being a
little moonshine and fair weather, and so into the garden, and, with
Mercer, sang till my wife put me in mind of its being a fast day; and so
I was sorry for it, and stopped, and home to cards awhile, and had
opportunity 'para baiser' Mercer several times, and so to bed.



31st.  Up, and to the office, where we met and sat all the morning.  At
noon home to dinner, and by and by Mr. Osborne comes from Mr. Gawden, and
takes money and notes for L4000, and leaves me acknowledgment for L4000
and odd; implying as if D. Gawden would give the L800 between Povy and
myself, but how he will divide it I know-not, till I speak with him, so
that my content is not yet full in the business.  In the evening stept
out to Sir Robert Viner's to get the money ready upon my notes to
D. Gawden, and there hear that Mr. Temple is very ill.  I met on the
'Change with Captain Cocke, who tells me that he hears new certainty of
the business of Madrid, how our Embassador and the French met, and says
that two or three of my Lord's men, and twenty one of the French men are
killed, but nothing at Court of it. He fears the next year's service
through the badness of our counsels at White Hall, but that if they were
wise, and the King would mind his business, he might do what he would
yet.  The Parliament is not yet up, being finishing some bills.  So home
and to the office, and late home to supper, and to talk with my wife,
with pleasure, and to bed.  I met this evening at Sir R. Viner's our Mr.
Turner, who I find in a melancholy condition about his being removed out
of his house, but I find him so silly and so false that I dare not tell
how to trust any advice to him, and therefore did speak only generally to
him, but I doubt his condition is very miserable, and do pity his family.
Thus the month ends: myself in very good health and content of mind in my
family.  All our heads full in the office at this dividing of the
Comptroller's duty, so that I am in some doubt how it may prove to
intrench upon my benefits, but it cannot be much.  The Parliament, upon
breaking up, having given the King money with much ado, and great heats,
and neither side pleased, neither King nor them.  The imperfection of the
Poll Bill, which must be mended before they rise, there being several
horrible oversights to the prejudice of the King, is a certain sign of
the care anybody hath of the King's business.  Prince Rupert very ill,
and to be trepanned on Saturday next.  Nobody knows who commands the
fleete next year, or, indeed, whether we shall have a fleete or no.
Great preparations in Holland and France, and the French have lately
taken Antego

     [Antigua, one of the West India Islands (Leeward Islands),
     discovered by Columbus in 1493, who is said to have named it after a
     church at Seville called Santa Maria la Antigua.  It was first
     settled by a few English families in 1632, and in 1663 another
     settlement was made under Lord Willoughby, to whom the entire island
     was granted by Charles II.  In 1666 it was invaded by a French
     force, which laid waste all the settlement.  It was reconquered by
     the English, and formally restored to them by the treaty of Breda.]

from us, which vexes us.  I am in a little care through my at last
putting a great deal of money out of my hands again into the King's upon
tallies for Tangier, but the interest which I wholly lost while in my
trunk is a temptation while things look safe, as they do in some measure
for six months, I think, and I would venture but little longer.




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Baker's house in Pudding Lane, where the late great fire begun
Bill against importing Cattle from Ireland
But my wife vexed, which vexed me
Clap of the pox which he got about twelve years ago
Come to us out of bed in his furred mittens and furred cap
Court full of great apprehensions of the French
Declared he will never have another public mistress again
Desk fastened to one of the armes of his chayre
Do outdo the Lords infinitely (debates in the Commons)
Enough existed to build a ship (Pieces of the true Cross)
Enviously, said, I could not come honestly by them
Erasmus "de scribendis epistolis"
For I will be hanged before I seek to him, unless I see I need
Gold holds up its price still
Have not any awe over them from the King's displeasure (Commons)
He will do no good, he being a man of an unsettled head
I did get her hand to me under my cloak
I perceive no passion in a woman can be lasting long
Mazer or drinking-bowl turned out of some kind of wood
Mirrors which makes the room seem both bigger and lighter
Outdo for neatness and plenty anything done by any of them
Poll Bill
Saying, that for money he might be got to our side
Sermon without affectation or study
Some ends of my own in what advice I do give her
The pleasure of my not committing these things to my memory
Very great tax; but yet I do think it is so perplexed
Where a piece of the Cross is
Whip this child till the blood come, if it were my child!
Whom, in mirth to us, he calls Antichrist
Wonders that she cannot be as good within as she is fair without
Yet let him remember the days of darkness




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