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Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1661/62

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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.

                              MARCH & APRIL
                                1661-1662


March 1st.  This morning I paid Sir W. Batten L40, which I have owed him
this half year, having borrowed it of him.  Then to the office all the
morning, so dined at home, and after dinner comes my uncle Thomas, with
whom I had some high words of difference, but ended quietly, though I
fear I shall do no good by fair means upon him.  Thence my wife and I by
coach, first to see my little picture that is a drawing, and thence to
the Opera, and there saw "Romeo and Juliet," 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.  Thence home, and after supper and wrote by the post, I
settled to what I had long intended, to cast up my accounts with myself,
and after much pains to do it and great fear, I do find that I am 1500 in
money beforehand in the world, which I was afraid I was not, but I find
that I had spent above L250 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.  So with my mind eased of a great
deal of trouble, though with no great content to find myself above L100
worse now than I was half a year ago, I went to bed.



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 L2,000, that is, be a knight, and keep
my coach, which pleased her,

     [Lord Braybrooke wrote, "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 L100 a-year, to enable him to keep a couple of hunters and a
     pack of foxhounds."]

and so I do hope we shall hereafter live to save something, for I am
resolved to keep myself by rules from expenses.  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,
where at our going out I was at a loss by Sir W. Pen's putting me upon it
whether to take my wife or Mrs. Martha (who alone was there), and I began
to take my wife, but he jogged me, and so I took Martha, and led her down
before him and my wife.  So set her at home, and Sir William and my wife
and I to walk in the garden, and anon hearing that Sir G. Carteret had
sent to see whether we were at home or no, Sir William and I went to his
house, where we waited a good while, they being at prayers, and by and by
we went up to him; there the business was about hastening the East India
ships, about which we are to meet to-morrow in the afternoon.  So home to
my house, and Sir William supped with me, and so to bed.



3rd.  All the morning at home about business with my brother Tom, and
then with Mr. Moore, and then I set to make some strict rules for my
future practice in my expenses, which I did bind myself in the presence
of God by oath to observe upon penalty therein set down, and I do not
doubt but hereafter to give a good account of my time and to grow rich,
for I do find a great deal more of content in these few days, that I do
spend well about my business, 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.  Dined at home, and then up to my chamber again
about business, and so to the office about despatching of the East India
ships, where we staid till 8 at night, and then after I had been at Sir
W. Pen's awhile discoursing with him and Mr. Kenard the joiner about the
new building in his house, I went home, where I found a vessel of oysters
sent me from Chatham, so I fell to eat some and then to supper, and so
after the barber had done to bed.  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 Crown.

     [Although fumage or smoke money was as old as the Conquest, the
     first parliamentary levy of hearth or chimney money was by statute
     13 and 14 Car. II., c. 10, which gave the king an hereditary revenue
     of two shillings annually upon every hearth in all houses paying
     church or poor rate.  This act was repealed by statute I William and
     Mary, c. 10, it being declared in the preamble as "not only a great
     oppression to the poorer sort, but a badge of slavery upon the whole
     people, exposing every man's house to be entered into and searched
     at pleasure by persons unknown to him."]



4th.  At the office all the morning, dined at home at noon, and then to
the office again in the afternoon to put things in order there, my mind
being very busy in settling the office to ourselves, I having now got
distinct offices for the other two.  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, and so home, and I up to my
chamber to read and write, and so to bed.



5th.  In the morning to the Painter's about my little picture.  Thence to
Tom's about business, and so 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.
I staid doing this till 10 at night, and so home and to bed.



6th.  Up early, my mind full of business, then to the office, where the
two Sir Williams and I spent the morning passing the victualler's
accounts, the first I have had to do withal.  Then home, where my Uncle
Thomas (by promise and his son Tom) were come to give me his answer
whether he would have me go to law or arbitracon with him, but he is
unprovided to answer me, and desires two days more.  I left them to dine
with my wife, and myself to Mr. Gauden and the two knights at dinner at
the Dolphin, and thence 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 temper,
which God grant.  So after a little being at Sir W. Batten's with Sir G.
Carteret talking, I went home, and so to my chamber, and then to bed, my
mind somewhat troubled about Brampton affairs.  This night my new
camelott riding coat 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, the great Scotchman, preach
before the King, and Duke and Duchess, 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 magistrate, 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.  He discoursed much against a
man's lying with his wife in Lent, saying that he might be as incontinent
during that time with his own wife as at another time in another man's
bed.  Thence with Mr. Moore to Whitehall and walked a little, and so to
the Wardrobe to dinner, and so home to the office about business till
late at night by myself, and so home and to bed.



8th.  By coach with both Sir Williams to Westminster; this being a great
day there in the House to pass the business for chimney-money, which was
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 Queen; 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.  About one o'clock with both Sir Williams and another, one Sir Rich.
Branes, to the Trinity House, but came after they had dined, so we had
something got ready for us.  Here Sir W. Batten was taken with a fit of
coughing that lasted a great while and made him very ill, and so he went
home sick upon it.  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, about the business of one Colonel Appesley, whom we
had taken counterfeiting 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
warrants for the seizing of a complice of his, one Blinkinsopp.  So home
and wrote to my father, and so to bed.



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 hour with Sir W. Pen in the garden: then he in to supper
with me at my house, and so to prayers and to bed.



10th.  At the office doing business all the morning, and my wife being
gone to buy some things in the city I dined with Sir W. Batten, and in
the afternoon met Sir W. Pen at the Treasury Office, and there paid off
the Guift, where late at night, and so called in and eat a bit at Sir W.
Batten's again, and so home and to bed, to-morrow being washing day.



11th.  At the office all the morning, and all the afternoon rummaging of
papers in my chamber, and tearing some and sorting others till late at
night, and so to bed, my wife being not well all this day.  This
afternoon Mrs. Turner and The. came to see me, her mother not having been
abroad many a day before, but now is pretty well again and has made me
one of the first visits.



12th.  At the office from morning till night putting of papers in order,
that so I may have my office in an orderly condition.  I took much pains
in sorting and folding of papers.  Dined at home, and there came Mrs.
Goldsborough about her old business, but I did give her a short answer
and sent away.  This morning we had news from Mr. Coventry, that Sir G.
Downing (like a perfidious rogue, though the action is good and of
service to the King,

     [("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.--B.]

yet he cannot with any 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
got all he hath in the world,--and they know it too.

     [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.]



13th.  All day, either at the office or at home, busy about business till
late at night, I having lately followed my business much, I find great
pleasure in it, and a growing content.



14th.  At the office all the morning.  At noon Sir W. Pen and I making a
bargain with the workmen about his house, at which I did see things not
so well contracted for as I would have, and I was vexed and made him so
too to see me so critical in the agreement.  Home to dinner.  In the
afternoon came the German Dr. Kuffler,

     [This is the secret of Cornelius van Drebbel (1572-1634), which is
     referred to again by Pepys on November 11th, 1663.  Johannes
     Siberius Kuffler was originally a dyer at Leyden, who married
     Drebbel's daughter. In the "Calendar of State Papers, Domestic,"
     1661-62 (p. 327), is the following entry: "Request of Johannes
     Siberius Kuffler and Jacob Drebble for a trial of their father
     Cornelius Drebble's secret of sinking or destroying ships in a
     moment; and if it succeed, for a reward of L10,000. The secret was
     left them by will, to preserve for the English crown before any
     other state."  Cornelius van Drebbel settled in London, where he
     died. James I.  took some interest in him, and is said to have
     interfered when he was in prison in Austria and in danger of
     execution.]

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 to-morrow about it.
In the afternoon, after we had done with him, I went to speak with my
uncle Wight and found my aunt to have been ill a good while of a
miscarriage, I staid and talked with her a good while.  Thence home,
where I found that Sarah the maid 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.
Berkenshaw 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.



15th.  With Sir G. Carteret and both the Sir Williams 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.  Then home to dinner, and Sir G. Carteret and I all the afternoon
by ourselves upon business in the office till late at night.  So to write
letters and home to bed. Troubled at my maid's being ill.



16th (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 then into my Lady's
chamber and talked with her a good while, and so walked to White Hall, an
hour or two in the Park, which is now very pleasant.  Here the King and
Duke came to see their fowl play.  The Duke took very civil notice of me.
So walked home, calling at Tom's, giving him my resolution about my boy's
livery.  Here I spent an hour walking in the garden with Sir W. Pen, and
then my wife and I thither to supper, where his son William is at home
not well.  But all things, I fear, do not go well with them; they look
discontentedly, but I know not what ails them. Drinking of cold small
beer here I fell ill, and was forced to go out and vomit, and so was well
again and went home by and by to bed.  Fearing that Sarah would continue
ill, wife and I removed this night to our matted chamber and lay there.



17th.  All the morning at the office by myself about setting things in
order there, and so at noon to the Exchange to see and be seen, and so
home to dinner and then to the office again till night, and then home and
after supper and reading a while to bed.  Last night the Blackmore pink

     [A "pink" was a form of vessel now obsolete, and had a very narrow
     stern. The "Blackmoor" was a sixth-rate of twelve guns, built at
     Chatham by Captain Tayler in 1656.]

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. Downing would not be
answered so: though all the world takes notice of him for a most
ungrateful villain for his pains.



18th.  All the morning at the office with Sir W. Pen.  Dined at home, and
Luellin and Blurton with me.  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, and so back home again, and I write to my father by
the post about Brampton Court, which is now coming on.  But that which
troubles me is that my Father has now got an ague that I fear may
endanger his life.  So to bed.



19th.  All the morning and afternoon at my office putting things in
order, and in the evening I do begin to digest my uncle the Captain's
papers into one book, which I call my Brampton book, for the clearer
understanding things how they are with us.  So home and supper and to
bed.  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, without 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 so, he being the elder brother's son, and not
depending 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 business, which
methinks should be a good argument to me never to do otherwise.



21st.  With Sir W. Batten by water to Whitehall, and he to Westminster.
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 Queen.  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.  Here I met with Chetwind, Parry, and several others, and
went to a little house behind the Lords' house to drink some wormwood
ale, which doubtless was a bawdy house, the mistress of the house having
the look and dress: Here we staid till noon and then parted, I by water
to the Wardrobe to meet my wife, but my Lady and they had dined, and so I
dined with the servants, and then up to my Lady, and there staid and
talked a good while, and then parted and walked into Cheapside, and there
saw my little picture, for which I am to sit again the next week.  So
home, and staid late writing at my office, and so home and to bed,
troubled that now my boy is also fallen sick of an ague we fear.



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 and Alderman Lewes, and several other
great merchants; among others one Jefferys, a merry man that is a
fumbler, and he and I called 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, and I vexed to find Griffin leave the office door open, and
had a design to have carried away the screw or the carpet in revenge to
him, but at last I would not, but sent for him and chid him, and so to
supper and to bed, having drank a great deal of wine.



23rd (Lord's day).  This morning was brought me my boy'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 church in the
morning, and so home with Sir W. Batten, and there eat some boiled great
oysters, and so home, and while I was at dinner with my wife I was sick,
and was forced to vomit up my oysters again, and then I was well.  By and
by a coach came to call me by my appointment, and so my wife and I
carried to Westminster to Mrs. Hunt's, and I to Whitehall, Worcester
House, and to my Lord Treasurer's to have found Sir G. Carteret, but
missed in all these places.  So back to White Hall, and there met with
Captn. Isham, this day come from Lisbon, with letters from the Queen to
the King.  And he did give me letters which speak that our fleet is all
at Lisbon;

     [One of these letters was probably from John Creed.  Mr. S. J.
     Davey, of 47, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, in 1889 had in his
     possession nine long letters from Creed to Pepys.  In the first of
     these, dated from Lisbon, March, 1662, Creed wrote: "My Lord
     Embassador doth all he can to hasten the Queen's Majestie's
     embarquement, there being reasons enough against suffering any
     unnecessary delay."  There appear to have been considerable delays
     in the arrangements for the following declaration of Charles II.
     was dated June 22nd, 1661: "Charles R.  Whereas his Maj. is resolved
     to declare, under his Royall hand and seale, the most illustrious
     Lady Infanta of Portugall to be his lawfull wife, before the Treaty
     shall be signed by the King of Portugall; which is to be done only
     for the better expediting the marriage, without sending to Rome for
     a dispensation, which the laws of Portugall would require if the
     said most Illustrious Infanta were to be betrothed in that
     Kingdome," &c.]

and that the Queen do not intend to embarque sooner than tomorrow come
fortnight.  So having sent for my wife, she and I to my Lady Sandwich,
and after a short visit away home.  She home, and I to Sir G. Carteret's
about business, and so home too, and Sarah having her fit we went to bed.



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
Madeiras with the East Indy fleet.  Here (Sir W. Pen going to Deptford to
send more hands) we staid till noon talking, and eating and drinking a
good ham of English bacon, and having put things in very good order home,
where I found Jane, my old maid, come out of the country, and I have a
mind to have her again.  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 off with the boat Griffin came after me to tell me that Sir G.
Carteret and the rest were at the office, so I intended to see them
through the bridge and come back again, but the tide being against us,
when we were almost 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, but finding nobody there I went again to the Old
Swan, and thence by water to the New Exchange, and there found them, and
thence by coach carried my wife to Bowes to buy something, and while they
were there went to Westminster 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.  So back again and took my wife, calling
at my brother Tom's, whom I found full of work, which I am glad of, and
thence at the New Exchange and so home, and I to Sir W. Batten's, and
supped there out of pure hunger and to save getting anything ready at
home, which is a thing I do not nor shall not use to do.  So home and to
bed.



26th.  Up early.  This being, by God's great blessing, the fourth solemn
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.  To the office and Sir G. Carteret's all the morning
about business.  At noon come my good guests, Madame Turner, The., and
Cozen Norton, and a gentleman, one Mr. Lewin of the King's LifeGuard; 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 jowl of salmon, hot, for the first course; a
tanzy

     [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 Life in the Eighteenth Century" recipes for "an apple
     tansey," "a bean tansey," and "a gooseberry tansey."--M. B.]

and two neats' tongues, and cheese the second; and were very merry all
the afternoon, talking and singing and piping upon the flageolette.  In
the evening they went with great pleasure away, and I with great content
and my wife walked half an hour in the garden, and so home to supper and
to bed.  We had a man-cook to dress dinner to-day, and sent for Jane to
help us, and my wife and she agreed at L3 a year (she would not serve
under) till both could be better provided, and so she stays with us, and
I hope we shall do well if poor Sarah were but rid of her ague.



27th.  Early Sir G. Carteret, both Sir Williams and I by coach to
Deptford, it being very windy and rainy weather, 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
little to receive at the table, which grieved me to see it.  To dinner,
very merry.  Then Sir George to London, and we again to the pay, and that
done by coach home again and to the office, doing some business, and so
home and to bed.



28th (Good Friday).  At home all the morning, and dined with my wife, a
good dinner.  At my office all the afternoon.  At night to my chamber to
read and sing, and so to supper and to bed.



29th.  At the office all the morning.  Then to the Wardrobe, and there
coming late dined with the people below.  Then up to my Lady, and staid
two hours talking with her about her family business with great content
and confidence in me.  So calling at several places I went home, where my
people are getting the house clean against to-morrow.  I to the office
and wrote several letters by post, and so home and to bed.



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 once or twice at Cambridge.

     [This does not accord with the certificate which Dr. Mines wrote in
     1681, where he says that Pepys was a constant communicant.  See Life
     of Pepys in vol. i.]

Dined with my wife, a good shoulder of veal well dressed by Jane, and
handsomely served to table, which pleased us much, and made us hope that
she will serve our turn well enough.  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
hour 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
afternoon, the reason of which we cannot think; but something there is of
plot or design in it, for we have a little while carried ourselves pretty
strange to them. After supper to bed.



31st.  This morning Mr. Coventry and all our company met at the office
about some business of the victualling, which being dispatched we parted.
I to my Lord Crew's to dinner (in my way calling upon my brother Tom,
with whom I staid a good while and talked, and find him a man like to do
well, which contents me much), 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 L500, 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 little to appear to the
King in debt, and for people to clamor against him as well as others for
their money, that by that means the King and the world may see that he do
lay out for the King's honour upon his own main stock, which many he
tells me do, that in fine if there be occasion he and I will be bound for
it. 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 L3,000, 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.  Thence home, and walked in the garden with
them, and then to the house to supper and sat late talking, and so to
bed.






                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                                  APRIL
                                  1662


April 1st.  Within all the morning and at the office.  At noon my wife
and I (having paid our maid Nell her whole wages, who has been with me
half a year, and now goes away for altogether) to the Wardrobe, where my
Lady and company had almost dined.  We sat down and dined.  Here was Mr.
Herbert, son to Sir Charles Herbert, that lately came with letters from
my Lord Sandwich to the King.  After some discourse we remembered one
another to have been together at the tavern when Mr. Fanshaw took his
leave of me at his going to Portugall with Sir Richard.  After dinner 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.  In the middle of
the play my Lady Paulina, who had taken physique this morning, had need
to go forth, and so I took the poor lady out and carried her to the
Grange, and there sent the maid of the house into a room to her, and she
did what she had a mind to, and so back again to the 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 hour'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 hour or
two before my Lord Mayor and the blewcoat boys come, which at last they
did, and a fine sight of charity it is indeed.  We got places and staid
to hear a sermon; but, it being a Presbyterian one, it was so long, that
after above an hour 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, Ianthe acting Cleora's part very well now Roxalana
is gone.  We are resolved to see no more plays till Whitsuntide, we
having been three days together.  Met Mr. Sanchy, Smithes; Gale, and
Edlin at the play, but having no great mind to spend money, I left them
there.  And so home and to supper, and then dispatch business, and so to
bed.



3rd.  At home and at the office all day.  At night to bed.



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, Sir George to
his lady at his house, and Sir Wm. Pen to Woolwich, and Sir W. Batten and
I to the tavern, where much company came to us and our dinner, and
somewhat short by reason of their taking part away with them.  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, and took Tom Hater with some
that the clerks had to carry home along with us in the barge, the rest
staying behind to pay tickets, but came home after us that night.  So
being come home, to bed.  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.



5th.  At the office till almost noon, and then broke up.  Then came Sir
G. Carteret, 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.  Then with my
wife abroad, she to the Wardrobe and there dined, and I to the Exchange
and so to the Wardrobe, but they had dined.  After dinner my wife and the
two ladies to see my aunt Wight, and thence met me at home.  From thence
(after Sir W. Batten and I had viewed our houses with a workman in order
to the raising of our roofs higher to enlarge our houses) I went with
them by coach first to Moorfields and there walked, and thence to
Islington and had a fine walk in the fields there, and so, after eating
and drinking, home with them, and so by water with my wife home, and
after supper to bed.



6th (Lord's day).  By water to White Hall, to Sir G. Carteret, to give
him an account of the backwardness 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 sermon before the King by a
Canon of Christ Church, upon these words, "Having a form of godliness,
but denying," &c.  Among other things, did much insist 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, where I saluted her, and was well received
as a stranger by her; she seems a good lady, and all their discourse,
which was very much, was upon their sufferings and services for the King.
Yet not without 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 Park, 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 by water from Paul's Wharf (where my boat staid for me), home and
supped with my wife with Sir W. Pen, and so home and to bed.



7th.  By water to Whitehall and thence to Westminster, and staid at the
Parliament-door long to speak with Mr. Coventry, which vexed me.  Thence
to the Lords' House, and stood within the House, while the Bishops and
Lords did stay till the Chancellor's coming, and then we were put out,
and they to prayers. There comes a Bishop; and while he was rigging
himself, he bid his man listen at the door, whereabout in the prayers
they were but the man told him something, 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 Seal, 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.  So to Dr. Castle's, and
there did get a promise from his clerk that his master should officiate
for me to-morrow.  Thence by water 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 found out my uncle Wight and Mr.
Rawlinson, and with them went to the tatter's house to dinner, and there
had a good dinner of cold meat and good wine, 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.  Mrs. Bowyer and her daughters being at my house I
forbore to go to them, having business and my head disturbed, but staid
at my office till night, and then to walk upon the leads with my wife,
and so to my chamber and thence to bed.  The great talk is, that the
Spaniards and the Hollanders do intend to set upon the Portuguese by sea,
at Lisbon, as soon as our fleet is come away; and by that means our fleet
is not likely to come 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 down with their dull company and impertinent.  After dinner to
the office again.  So at night by coach to Whitehall, and Mr. Coventry
not being there I brought my business of the office to him, it being
almost dark, and so came away and took up my wife.  By the way home and
on Ludgate Hill there being a stop I bought two cakes, and they were our
supper at home.



9th.  Sir George Carteret, Sir Williams both and myself all the morning
at the office passing the Victualler's accounts, and at noon to dinner at
the Dolphin, where a good chine of beef and other good cheer.  At dinner
Sir George showed me an account in French of the great famine, which is
to the greatest extremity in some part of France at this day, which is
very strange.

     [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.--B.]

So to the Exchange, Mrs. Turner (who I found sick in bed), and several
other places about business, and so home.  Supper and to bed.



10th.  To Westminster with the two Sir Williams by water, and did several
businesses, and so to the Wardrobe with Mr. Moore to dinner.  Yesterday
came Col. Talbot with letters from Portugall, that the Queen is resolved
to embarque 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 being to go Governor of Jamaica with this
fleet that is now going.  Late at the office.  Home with my mind full of
business.  So to bed.



11th.  Up early to my lute and a 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, with whom
I was much pleased to hear him talk in fine language, but pretty well for
all that. 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, and there while something is dressing for
our dinner, Sir William and I walked into the Park, 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 repayring in the
Queen's lodgings.  So to dinner at the Globe, and Captain Lambert of the
Duke's pleasure boat came to us and dined with us, and were merry, and so
home, and I in the evening to the Exchange, and spoke with uncle Wight,
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.



12th.  At the office all the morning, where, among other things, being
provoked by some impertinence of Sir W. Batten's, I called him
unreasonable man, at which he was very angry and so was I, but I think we
shall not much fall out about it.  After dinner to several places about
business, and so home and wrote letters at my office, and one to Mr.
Coventry about business, and at the close did excuse my not waiting on
him myself so often as others do for want of leisure.  So home and to
bed.



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 and walked with him two
hours till 8 o'clock till I was quite weary.  His discourse most about
the pride of the Duchess of York; and how all the ladies envy my Lady
Castlemaine.  He intends to go to Portsmouth to meet the Queen this week;
which is now the discourse and expectation of the town.  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 deal 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 embezzlement of the King's stores by
one Turpin.  I took Sir William to Sir W. Pen's (who was newly come from
Walthamstow), and there we read it and discoursed, but we do not much
fear it, the King referring it to the Duke of York.  So we drank a glass
or two of wine, and so home and I to bed, my wife being in bed already.



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 Paynter's, and
there sat the last time for my little picture, which I hope will please
me.  Then to Paternoster Row 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 off of her going to Brampton,
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.  So to supper and to
bed.



15th.  At the office all the morning.  Dined at home.  Again at the
office in the afternoon to despatch letters and so home, and with my
wife, by coach, to the New Exchange, 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 handsome, and my wife had a mind to one
of them, but we did not then buy one.  But thence to Mr. Bowyer's,
thinking to have spoke to them for our Sarah to go to Huntsmore for a
while to get away her ague, but we had not opportunity to do it, and so
home and to bed.



16th.  Up early and took my physique; it wrought all the morning well.
At noon dined, and all the afternoon, Mr. Hater to that end coming to me,
he and I did go about my abstracting all the contracts made in the office
since we came into it.  So at night to bed.



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 Seal at Privy
Seal, but my Lord did not come, and so I walked back home and staid
within all the afternoon, there being no office kept to-day, but in the
evening Sir W. Batten 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, and after supper to bed.



18th.  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
awards [?? D.W.] 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 morning 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.  All the afternoon in several places to put things in
order for my going.  At night home and to bed.



19th.  This morning, before we sat, I went to Aldgate; and at the corner
shop, a draper's, I stood, and did see Barkestead, Okey, and Corbet,
drawn towards the gallows at Tiburne; and there they were hanged and
quartered.  They all looked very cheerful; but I hear they all die
defending what they did to the King to be just; which is very strange.
So to the office and then home to dinner, and Captain David Lambert came
to take his leave of me, he being to go back to Tangier there to lie.
Then abroad about business, and 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.  So after writing by the
post to bed.



20th (Lord's day).  My intention being to go this morning to White Hall
to hear South, my Lord Chancellor's chaplain, the famous 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 term; but they had a very poor sermon.
So to my Lady's and dined, and so to White Hall to Sir G. Carteret, and
so to the Chappell, where I challenged my pew as Clerk of the Privy Seal
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.



21st: This morning I attempted to persuade my wife in bed to go to
Brampton this week, but she would not, which troubles me, and seeing that
I could keep it no longer from her, I told her that I was resolved to go
to Portsmouth to-morrow.  Sir W. Batten goes to Chatham to-day, and will
be back again to come for Portsmouth after us on Thursday next.  I went
to Westminster and several places about business.  Then 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 Duchess of Richmond and
Castlemaine had a falling 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 down again to my Lord, he told me that news was come that the
Queen is landed; 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.  So I went by appointment to Anthony
Joyce's, where I sat with his wife and Matt.  Joyce an hour or two, and
so her husband not being at home, away I went and in Cheapside spied him
and took him into the coach.  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 joyning, 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 serve some in my absence.  He went away, and then came Mr.
Moore and sat late with me talking about business, and so went away and I
to bed.



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 Hewet going as clerks 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. Clerke 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.
.  .  .   [What was censored here? D.W.]  We came to Gilford and there
passed our time in the garden, cutting of 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;
but he carried us much out of the way, and upon our coming we sent away
an express to Sir W. Batten to stop his coming, which I did project to
make good my oath, 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 chyrurgeon's, in Portsmouth, his wife a very
pretty woman.  We lay very well and merrily; in the morning, concluding
him to be of the eldest 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
Pay-house; but the books not being ready, we went to church to the
lecture, where there was my Lord Ormond and Manchester, and much London
company, though not so much as I expected.  Here we had a very good
sermon upon this text: "In love serving one another;" which pleased me
very well. No news of the Queen 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.



25th.  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' 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' parks and lands, which in one view we could see
L6,000 per annum, we observed a little church-yard, where the graves are
accustomed to be all sowed with sage.

     [Gough says, "It is the custom at this day all over Wales to strew
     the graves, both within and without the church, with green herbs,
     branches of box, flowers, rushes, and flags, for one year, after
     which such as can afford it lay down a stone."--Brand's Popular
     Antiquities, edited W. C. Hazlitt, vol. ii., p. 218.]

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 picture upon one of the gates; many old walls of
religious houses, and the key, 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.  Home by night and wrote letters to London,
and so with Sir W. Pen to the Dock to bed.



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 Chamberlain upon
the walls of the garrison, who owned and spoke to me.  I followed him in
the crowd of gallants through the Queen's lodgings to chappell; the rooms
being all rarely furnished, and escaped hardly being set on fire
yesterday.  At chappell we had a most excellent and eloquent sermon. And
here I spoke and saluted Mrs. Pierce, but being in haste could not learn
of her where her lodgings are, which vexes me.  Thence took Ned Pickering
to dinner with us, and the two Marshes, father and Son, dined with us,
and very merry.  After dinner Sir W. Batten and I, the Doctor, and Ned
Pickering by coach to the Yard, and there on board the Swallow in the
dock hear our navy chaplain preach a sad sermon, full of nonsense and
false Latin; but prayed for the Right Honourable the principal officers.

     [Principal officers of the navy, of which body Pepys was one as
     Clerk of the Acts.]

After sermon took him to Mr. Tippets's to drink a glass of wine, and so
at 4 back again by coach to Portsmouth, and then visited the Mayor, Mr.
Timbrell, our anchor-smith, who showed us the present they have for the
Queen; 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.

     [A salt-cellar answering this description is preserved at the
     Tower.]

This evening came a merchantman 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 Queen.  In the
evening Sir George, Sir W. Pen and I walked round the walls, and thence
we two with the Doctor to the yard, and so to supper and to bed.



28th.  The Doctor and I begun philosophy discourse exceeding pleasant.
He offers to bring me into the college of virtuosoes--[The Royal
Society.]--and my Lord Brouncker's acquaintance, and to 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

     [John Owen, D.D., a learned Nonconformist divine, and a voluminous
     theological writer, born 1616, made Dean of Christ Church in 1653 by
     the Parliament, and ejected in 1659-60.  He died at Ealing in 1683.]

to his son,--[William Penn, the celebrated Quaker.]--whereby it appears
his son is much perverted in his opinion by him; which I now perceive is
one thing that hath put Sir William so long off the hooks.  By coach to
the Pay-house, and so to work again, and then to dinner, and to it again,
and so in the evening to the yard, and supper and bed.



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 town were ready to be shut, and to give us
notice; and so the Doctor and I staid with them playing and laughing, and
at last were forced to bid good night for fear of being locked into the
town all night.  So we walked to the yard, designing how to prevent our
going to London tomorrow, 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 yard, and there we
mustered over all the men and determined of some regulations in the yard,
and then to dinner, all the officers of the yard with us, and after
dinner walk to Portsmouth, there to pay off the Success, 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, and
there took them and walked to the Mayor's to show them the present, and
then to the Dock, 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 somewhat old and handsome, and painted and fine, and had a very
handsome maid with her, which we take to be the marks of a bawd.  But
Mrs. Pierce says she is a stranger to her and met by chance in the coach,
and pretends to be a dresser.  Her name is Eastwood.  So to sleep in a
bad bed about one o'clock in the morning.  This afternoon after dinner
comes Mr. Stephenson, one of the burgesses of the town, 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 oath, and after the
oath, did by custom shake me all by the hand.  So I took them to a tavern
and made them drink, and paying the reckoning, went away.  They having
first in the tavern made Mr. Waith also a burgess, he coming in while we
were drinking.  It cost me a piece in gold to the Town Clerk, and 10s.
to the Bayliffes, and spent 6s.




ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:

After taking leave of my wife, which we could hardly do kindly
Agreed at L3 a year (she would not serve under)
All the fleas came to him and not to me
Badge of slavery upon the whole people (taxes)
Did much insist upon the sin of adultery
Discoursed much against a man's lying with his wife in Lent
Fearing that Sarah would continue ill, wife and I removed
Parliament hath voted 2s. per annum for every chimney in England
Peruques of hair, as the fashion now is for ladies to wear
Raising of our roofs higher to enlarge our houses
See a dead man lie floating upon the waters
Sermon; but, it being a Presbyterian one, it was so long
To Mr. Holliard's in the morning, thinking to be let blood
Up early and took my physique; it wrought all the morning well
Whether he would have me go to law or arbitracon with him
Whether she suspected anything or no I know not




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