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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.
NOVEMBER
1668
November 1st (Lord's day). Up, and with W. Hewer at my chamber all this
morning, going further in my great business for the Duke of York, and so
at noon to dinner, and then W. Hewer to write fair what he had writ, and
my wife to read to me all the afternoon, till anon Mr. Gibson come, and
he and I to perfect it to my full mind, and so to supper and to bed, my
mind yet at disquiet that I cannot be informed how poor Deb. stands with
her mistress, but I fear she will put her away, and the truth is, though
it be much against my mind and to my trouble, yet I think that it will be
fit that she should be gone, for my wife's peace and mine, for she cannot
but be offended at the sight of her, my wife having conceived this
jealousy of me with reason, and therefore for that, and other reasons of
expense, it will be best for me to let her go, but I shall love and pity
her. This noon Mr. Povy sent his coach for my wife and I to see, which
we like mightily, and will endeavour to have him get us just such
another.
2nd. Up, and a cold morning, by water through bridge without a cloak,
and there to Mr. Wren at his chamber at White Hall, the first time of his
coming thither this year, the Duchess coming thither tonight, and there
he and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn up
about the several answers of the officers of this Office to the Duke of
York's reflections, and did debate a little what advice to give the Duke
of York when he comes to town upon it. Here come in Lord Anglesy, and I
perceive he makes nothing of this order for his suspension, resolving to
contend and to bring it to the Council on Wednesday when the King is come
to town to-morrow, and Mr. Wren do join with him mightily in it, and do
look upon the Duke of York as concerned more in it than he. So to visit
Creed at his chamber, but his wife not come thither yet, nor do he tell
me where she is, though she be in town, at Stepney, at Atkins's. So to
Mr. Povy's to talk about a coach, but there I find my Lord Sandwich, and
Peterborough, and Hinchingbroke, Charles Harbord, and Sidney Montagu;
and there I was stopped, and dined mighty nobly at a good table, with one
little dish at a time upon it, but mighty merry. I was glad to see it:
but sorry, methought, to see my Lord have so little reason to be merry,
and yet glad, for his sake, to have him cheerful. After dinner up, and
looked up and down the house, and so to the cellar; and thence I slipt
away, without taking leave, and so to a few places about business, and
among others to my bookseller's in Duck Lane, and so home, where the
house still full of dirt by painters and others, and will not be clean a
good while. So to read and talk with my wife till by and by called to
the office about Sir W. Warren's business, where we met a little, and
then home to supper and to bed. This day I went, by Mr. Povy's
direction, to a coachmaker near him, for a coach just like his, but it
was sold this very morning.
3rd. Up, and all the morning at the Office. At noon to dinner, and then
to the Office, and there busy till 12 at night, without much pain to my
eyes, but I did not use them to read or write, and so did hold out very
well. So home, and there to supper, and I observed my wife to eye my
eyes whether I did ever look upon Deb., which I could not but do now and
then (and to my grief did see the poor wretch look on me and see me look
on her, and then let drop a tear or two, which do make my heart relent at
this minute that I am writing this with great trouble of mind, for she is
indeed my sacrifice, poor girle); and my wife did tell me in bed by the
by of my looking on other people, and that the only way is to put things
out of sight, and this I know she means by Deb., for she tells me that
her Aunt was here on Monday, and she did tell her of her desire of
parting with Deb., but in such kind terms on both sides that my wife is
mightily taken with her. I see it will be, and it is but necessary, and
therefore, though it cannot but grieve me, yet I must bring my mind to
give way to it. We had a great deal of do this day at the Office about
Clutterbucke,--[See note to February 4th, 1663-64]--I declaring my
dissent against the whole Board's proceedings, and I believe I shall go
near to shew W. Pen a very knave in it, whatever I find my Lord
Brouncker.
4th. Up, and by coach to White Hall; and there I find the King and Duke
of York come the last night, and every body's mouth full of my Lord
Anglesey's suspension being sealed; which it was, it seems, yesterday;
so that he is prevented in his remedy at the Council; and, it seems, the
two new Treasurers did kiss the King's hand this morning, brought in by
my Lord Arlington. They walked up and down together the Court this day,
and several people joyed them; but I avoided it, that I might not be seen
to look either way. This day also I hear that my Lord Ormond is to be
declared in Council no more Deputy Governor of Ireland, his commission
being expired: and the King is prevailed with to take it out of his
hands; which people do mightily admire, saying that he is the greatest
subject of any prince in Christendome, and hath more acres of land than
any, and hath done more for his Prince than ever any yet did. But all
will not do; he must down, it seems, the Duke of Buckingham carrying all
before him. But that, that troubles me most is, that they begin to talk
that the Duke of York's regiment is ordered to be disbanded; and more,
that undoubtedly his Admiralty will follow: which do shake me mightily,
and I fear will have ill consequences in the nation, for these counsels
are very mad. The Duke of York do, by all men's report, carry himself
wonderfull submissive to the King, in the most humble manner in the
world; but yet, it seems, nothing must be spared that tends to, the
keeping out of the Chancellor; and that is the reason of all this. The
great discourse now is, that the Parliament shall be dissolved and
another called, which shall give the King the Deane and Chapter lands;
and that will put him out of debt. And it is said that Buckingham do
knownly meet daily with Wildman and other Commonwealth-men; and that when
he is with them, he makes the King believe that he is with his wenches;
and something looks like the Parliament's being dissolved, by Harry
Brouncker's being now come back, and appears this day the first day at
White Hall; but hath not been yet with the King, but is secure that he
shall be well received, I hear. God bless us, when such men as he shall
be restored! But that, that pleases me most is, that several do tell me
that Pen is to be removed; and others, that he hath resigned his place;
and particularly Spragg tells me for certain that he hath resigned it,
and is become a partner with Gawden in the Victualling: in which I think
he hath done a very cunning thing; but I am sure I am glad of it; and it
will be well for the King to have him out of this Office. Thence by
coach, doing several errands, home and there to dinner, and then to the
Office, where all the afternoon till late at night, and so home. Deb.
hath been abroad to-day with her friends, poor girle, I believe toward
the getting of a place. This day a boy is sent me out of the country
from Impington by my cozen Roger Pepys' getting, whom I visited this
morning at his chamber in the Strand and carried him to Westminster Hall,
where I took a turn or two with him and Sir John Talbot, who talks mighty
high for my Lord of Ormond: and I perceive this family of the Talbots
hath been raised by my Lord. When I come home to-night I find Deb. not
come home, and do doubt whether she be not quite gone or no, but my wife
is silent to me in it, and I to her, but fell to other discourse, and
indeed am well satisfied that my house will never be at peace between my
wife and I unless I let her go, though it grieves me to the heart. My
wife and I spent much time this evening talking of our being put out of
the Office, and my going to live at Deptford at her brother's, till I can
clear my accounts, and rid my hands of the town, which will take me a
year or more, and I do think it will be best for me to do so, in order to
our living cheap, and out of sight.
5th. Up, and Willet come home in the morning, and, God forgive me!
I could not conceal my content thereat by smiling, and my wife observed
it, but I said nothing, nor she, but away to the office. Presently up by
water to White Hall, and there all of us to wait on the Duke of York,
which we did, having little to do, and then I up and down the house, till
by and by the Duke of York, who had bid me stay, did come to his closet
again, and there did call in me and Mr. Wren; and there my paper, that I
have lately taken pains to draw up, was read, and the Duke of York
pleased therewith; and we did all along conclude upon answers to my mind
for the Board, and that that, if put in execution, will do the King's
business. But I do now more and more perceive the Duke of York's
trouble, and that he do lie under great weight of mind from the Duke of
Buckingham's carrying things against him; and particularly when I advised
that he would use his interest that a seaman might come into the room of
W. Pen, who is now declared to be gone from us to that of the
Victualling, and did shew how the Office would now be left without one
seaman in it, but the Surveyour and the Controller, who is so old as to
be able to do nothing, he told me plainly that I knew his mind well
enough as to seamen, but that it must be as others will. And Wren did
tell it me as a secret, that when the Duke of York did first tell the
King about Sir W. Pen's leaving of the place, and that when the Duke of
York did move the King that either Captain Cox or Sir Jer. Smith might
succeed him, the King did tell him that that was a matter fit to be
considered of, and would not agree to either presently; and so the Duke
of York could not prevail for either, nor knows who it shall be. The
Duke of York did tell me himself, that if he had not carried it privately
when first he mentioned Pen's leaving his place to the King, it had not
been done; for the Duke of Buckingham and those of his party do cry out
upon it, as a strange thing to trust such a thing into the hands of one
that stands accused in Parliament: and that they have so far prevailed
upon the King that he would not have him named in Council, but only take
his name to the Board; but I think he said that only D. Gawden's name
shall go in the patent; at least, at the time when Sir Richard Browne
asked the King the names of D. Gawden's security, the King told him it
was not yet necessary for him to declare them. And by and by, when the
Duke of York and we had done, and Wren brought into the closet Captain
Cox and James Temple About business of the Guiney Company, and talking
something of the Duke of Buckingham's concernment therein, and says the
Duke of York, "I will give the Devil his due, as they say the Duke of
Buckingham hath paid in his money to the Company," or something of that
kind, wherein he would do right to him. The Duke of York told me how
these people do begin to cast dirt upon the business that passed the
Council lately, touching Supernumeraries, as passed by virtue of his
authority there, there being not liberty for any man to withstand what
the Duke of York advises there; which, he told me, they bring only as an
argument to insinuate the putting of the Admiralty into Commission, which
by all men's discourse is now designed, and I perceive the same by him.
This being done, and going from him, I up and down the house to hear
news: and there every body's mouth full of changes; and, among others,
the Duke of York's regiment of Guards, that was raised during the late
war at sea, is to be disbanded: and also, that this day the King do
intend to declare that the Duke of Ormond is no more Deputy of Ireland,
but that he will put it into Commission. This day our new Treasurers did
kiss the King's hand, who complimented them, as they say, very highly,
that he had for a long time been abused in his Treasurer, and that he was
now safe in their hands. I saw them walk up and down the Court together
all this morning; the first time I ever saw Osborne, who is a comely
gentleman. This day I was told that my Lord Anglesey did deliver a
petition on Wednesday in Council to the King, laying open, that whereas
he had heard that his Majesty had made such a disposal of his place,
which he had formerly granted him for life upon a valuable consideration,
and that, without any thing laid to his charge, and during a Parliament's
sessions, he prayed that his Majesty would be pleased to let his case be
heard before the Council and the judges of the land, who were his proper
counsel in all matters of right: to which, I am told, the King, after my
Lord's being withdrawn, concluded upon his giving him an answer some few
days hence; and so he was called in, and told so, and so it ended.
Having heard all this I took coach and to Mr. Povy's, where I hear he is
gone to the Swedes Resident in Covent Garden, where he is to dine. I
went thither, but he is not come yet, so I to White Hall to look for him,
and up and down walking there I met with Sir Robert Holmes, who asking
news I told him of Sir W. Pen's going from us, who ketched at it so as
that my heart misgives me that he will have a mind to it, which made me
heartily sorry for my words, but he invited me and would have me go to
dine with him at the Treasurer's, Sir Thomas Clifford, where I did go and
eat some oysters; which while we were at, in comes my Lord Keeper and
much company; and so I thought it best to withdraw. And so away, and to
the Swedes Agent's, and there met Mr. Povy; where the Agent would have me
stay and dine, there being only them, and Joseph Williamson, and Sir
Thomas Clayton; but what he is I know not. Here much extraordinary noble
discourse of foreign princes, and particularly the greatness of the King
of France, and of his being fallen into the right way of making the
kingdom great, which [none] of his ancestors ever did before. I was
mightily pleased with this company and their discourse, so as to have
been seldom so much in all my life, and so after dinner up into his upper
room, and there did see a piece of perspective, but much inferior to Mr.
Povy's. Thence with Mr. Povy spent all the afternoon going up and down
among the coachmakers in Cow Lane, and did see several, and at last did
pitch upon a little chariott, whose body was framed, but not covered, at
the widow's, that made Mr. Lowther's fine coach; and we are mightily
pleased with it, it being light, and will be very genteel and sober: to
be covered with leather, and yet will hold four. Being much satisfied
with this, I carried him to White Hall; and so by coach home, where give
my wife a good account of my day's work, and so to the office, and there
late, and so to bed.
6th. Up, and presently my wife up with me, which she professedly now do
every day to dress me, that I may not see Willet, and do eye me, whether
I cast my eye upon her, or no; and do keep me from going into the room
where she is among the upholsters at work in our blue chamber. So abroad
to White Hall by water, and so on for all this day as I have by mistake
set down in the fifth day after this mark.
[In the margin here is the following: "Look back one leaf
for my mistake."]
In the room of which I should have said that I was at the office all the
morning, and so to dinner, my wife with me, but so as I durst not look
upon the girle, though, God knows, notwithstanding all my protestations
I could not keep my mind from desiring it. After dinner to the office
again, and there did some business, and then by coach to see Roger Pepys
at his lodgings, next door to Arundell House, a barber's; and there I did
see a book, which my Lord Sandwich hath promised one to me of,
"A Description of the Escuriall in Spain;" which I have a great desire to
have, though I took it for a finer book when he promised it me. With him
to see my cozen Turner and The., and there sat and talked, they being
newly come out of the country; and here pretty merry, and with The. to
shew her a coach at Mr. Povy's man's, she being in want of one, and so
back again with her, and then home by coach, with my mind troubled and
finding no content, my wife being still troubled, nor can be at peace
while the girle is there, which I am troubled at on the other side.
We past the evening together, and then to bed and slept ill, she being
troubled and troubling me in the night with talk and complaints upon the
old business. This is the day's work of the 5th, though it stands under
the 6th, my mind being now so troubled that it is no wonder that I fall
into this mistake more than ever I did in my life before.
7th. Up, and at the office all the morning, and so to it again after
dinner, and there busy late, choosing to employ myself rather than go
home to trouble with my wife, whom, however, I am forced to comply with,
and indeed I do pity her as having cause enough for her grief. So to
bed, and there slept ill because of my wife. This afternoon I did go out
towards Sir D. Gawden's, thinking to have bespoke a place for my coach
and horses, when I have them, at the Victualling Office; but find the way
so bad and long that I returned, and looked up and down for places
elsewhere, in an inne, which I hope to get with more convenience than
there.
8th (Lord's day). Up, and at my chamber all the morning, setting papers
to rights, with my boy; and so to dinner at noon. The girle with us, but
my wife troubled thereat to see her, and do tell me so, which troubles
me, for I love the girle. At my chamber again to work all the afternoon
till night, when Pelling comes, who wonders to find my wife so dull and
melancholy, but God knows she hath too much cause. However, as pleasant
as we can, we supped together, and so made the boy read to me, the poor
girle not appearing at supper, but hid herself in her chamber. So that
I could wish in that respect that she was out of the house, for our peace
is broke to all of us while she is here, and so to bed, where my wife
mighty unquiet all night, so as my bed is become burdensome to me.
9th. Up, and I did by a little note which I flung to Deb. advise her
that I did continue to deny that ever I kissed her, and so she might
govern herself. The truth is that I did adventure upon God's pardoning
me this lie, knowing how heavy a thing it would be for me to the ruin of
the poor girle, and next knowing that if my wife should know all it were
impossible ever for her to be at peace with me again, and so our whole
lives would be uncomfortable. The girl read, and as I bid her returned
me the note, flinging it to me in passing by. And so I abroad by [coach]
to White Hall, and there to the Duke of York to wait on him, who told me
that Sir W. Pen had been with him this morning, to ask whether it would
be fit for him to sit at the Office now, because of his resolution to be
gone, and to become concerned in the Victualling. The Duke of York
answered, "Yes, till his contract was signed:" Thence I to Lord
Sandwich's, and there to see him; but was made to stay so long, as his
best friends are, and when I come to him so little pleasure, his head
being full of his own business, I think, that I have no pleasure [to] go
to him. Thence to White Hall with him, to the Committee of Tangier; a
day appointed for him to give an account of Tangier, and what he did, and
found there, which, though he had admirable matter for it, and his doings
there were good, and would have afforded a noble account, yet he did it
with a mind so low and mean, and delivered in so poor a manner, that it
appeared nothing at all, nor any body seemed to value it; whereas, he
might have shewn himself to have merited extraordinary thanks, and been
held to have done a very great service: whereas now, all that cost the
King hath been at for his journey through Spain thither, seems to be
almost lost. After we were up, Creed and I walked together, and did talk
a good while of the weak report my Lord made, and were troubled for it;
I fearing that either his mind and judgment are depressed, or that he do
it out of his great neglect, and so my fear that he do all the rest of
his affairs accordingly. So I staid about the Court a little while, and
then to look for a dinner, and had it at Hercules-Pillars, very late, all
alone, costing me 10d. And so to the Excise Office, thinking to meet Sir
Stephen Fox and the Cofferer, but the former was gone, and the latter I
met going out, but nothing done, and so I to my bookseller's, and also to
Crow's, and there saw a piece of my bed, and I find it will please us
mightily. So home, and there find my wife troubled, and I sat with her
talking, and so to bed, and there very unquiet all night.
10th. Up, and my wife still every day as ill as she is all night, will
rise to see me out doors, telling me plainly that she dares not let me
see the girle, and so I out to the office, where all the morning, and so
home to dinner, where I found my wife mightily troubled again, more than
ever, and she tells me that it is from her examining the girle and
getting a confession now from her of all . . . . which do mightily
trouble me, as not being able to foresee the consequences of it, as to
our future peace together. So my wife would not go down to dinner, but I
would dine in her chamber with her, and there after mollifying her as
much as I could we were pretty quiet and eat, and by and by comes Mr.
Hollier, and dines there by himself after we had dined, and he being
gone, we to talk again, and she to be troubled, reproaching me with my
unkindness and perjury, I having denied my ever kissing her. As also
with all her old kindnesses to me, and my ill-using of her from the
beginning, and the many temptations she hath refused out of faithfulness
to me, whereof several she was particular in, and especially from my Lord
Sandwich, by the sollicitation of Captain Ferrers, and then afterward the
courtship of my Lord Hinchingbrooke, even to the trouble of his lady.
All which I did acknowledge and was troubled for, and wept, and at last
pretty good friends again, and so I to my office, and there late, and so
home to supper with her, and so to bed, where after half-an-hour's
slumber she wakes me and cries out that she should never sleep more,
and so kept raving till past midnight, that made me cry and weep heartily
all the while for her, and troubled for what she reproached me with as
before, and at last with new vows, and particularly that I would myself
bid the girle be gone, and shew my dislike to her, which I will endeavour
to perform, but with much trouble, and so this appeasing her, we to sleep
as well as we could till morning.
11th. Up, and my wife with me as before, and so to the Office, where, by
a speciall desire, the new Treasurers come, and there did shew their
Patent, and the Great Seal for the suspension of my Lord Anglesey: and
here did sit and discourse of the business of the Office: and brought Mr.
Hutchinson with them, who, I hear, is to be their Paymaster, in the room
of Mr. Waith. For it seems they do turn out every servant that belongs
to the present Treasurer: and so for Fenn, do bring in Mr. Littleton, Sir
Thomas's brother, and oust all the rest. But Mr. Hutchinson do already
see that his work now will be another kind of thing than before, as to
the trouble of it. They gone, and, indeed, they appear, both of them,
very intelligent men, I home to dinner, and there with my people dined,
and so to my wife, who would not dine with [me] that she might not have
the girle come in sight, and there sat and talked a while with her and
pretty quiet, I giving no occasion of offence, and so to the office [and
then by coach to my cozen Roger Pepys, who did, at my last being with him
this day se'nnight, move me as to the supplying him with L500 this term,
and L500 the next, for two years, upon a mortgage, he having that sum to
pay, a debt left him by his father, which I did agree to, trusting to
his honesty and ability, and am resolved to do it for him, that I may not
have all I have lie in the King's hands. Having promised him this I
returned home again, where to the office], and there having done, I home
and to supper and to bed, where, after lying a little while, my wife
starts up, and with expressions of affright and madness, as one frantick,
would rise, and I would not let her, but burst out in tears myself,
and so continued almost half the night, the moon shining so that it was
light, and after much sorrow and reproaches and little ravings (though I
am apt to think they were counterfeit from her), and my promise again to
discharge the girle myself, all was quiet again, and so to sleep.
12th. Up, and she with me as heretofore, and so I to the Office, where
all the morning, and at noon to dinner, and Mr. Wayth, who, being at my
office about business, I took him with me to talk and understand his
matters, who is in mighty trouble from the Committee of Accounts about
his contracting with this Office for sayle-cloth, but no hurt can be laid
at his door in it, but upon us for doing it, if any, though we did it by
the Duke of York's approval, and by him I understand that the new
Treasurers do intend to bring in all new Instruments, and so having dined
we parted, and I to my wife and to sit with her a little, and then called
her and Willet to my chamber, and there did, with tears in my eyes, which
I could not help, discharge her and advise her to be gone as soon as she
could, and never to see me, or let me see her more while she was in the
house, which she took with tears too, but I believe understands me to be
her friend, and I am apt to believe by what my wife hath of late told me
is a cunning girle, if not a slut. Thence, parting kindly with my wife,
I away by coach to my cozen Roger, according as by mistake (which the
trouble of my mind for some days has occasioned, in this and another case
a day or two before) is set down in yesterday's notes, and so back again,
and with Mr. Gibson late at my chamber making an end of my draught of a
letter for the Duke of York, in answer to the answers of this Office,
which I have now done to my mind, so as, if the Duke likes it, will, I
think, put an end to a great deal of the faults of this Office, as well
as my trouble for them. So to bed, and did lie now a little better than
formerly, but with little, and yet with some trouble.
13th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to White Hall, where to the Duke
of York, and there did our usual business; and thence I to the
Commissioners of the Treasury, where I staid, and heard an excellent case
argued between my Lord Gerard and the Town of Newcastle, about a piece of
ground which that Lord hath got a grant of, under the Exchequer Seal,
which they were endeavouring to get of the King under the Great Seal.
I liked mightily the Counsel for the town, Shaftow, their Recorder, and
Mr. Offly. But I was troubled, and so were the Lords, to hear my Lord
fly out against their great pretence of merit from the King, for their
sufferings and loyalty; telling them that they might thank him for that
repute which they have for their loyalty, for that it was he that forced
them to be so, against their wills, when he was there: and, moreover, did
offer a paper to the Lords to read from the Town, sent in 1648; but the
Lords would not read it; but I believe it was something about bringing
the King to trial, or some such thing, in that year. Thence I to the
Three Tuns Tavern, by Charing Cross, and there dined with W. Pen, Sir
J. Minnes, and Commissioner Middleton; and as merry as my mind could be,
that hath so much trouble upon it at home. And thence to White Hall,
and there staid in Mr. Wren's chamber with him, reading over my draught
of a letter, which Mr. Gibson then attended me with; and there he did
like all, but doubted whether it would be necessary for the Duke to write
in so sharp a style to the Office, as I had drawn it in; which I yield to
him, to consider the present posture of the times and the Duke of York
and whether it were not better to err on that hand than the other. He
told me that he did not think it was necessary for the Duke of York to do
so, and that it would not suit so well with his nature nor greatness;
which last, perhaps, is true, but then do too truly shew the effects of
having Princes in places, where order and discipline should be. I left
it to him to do as the Duke of York pleases; and so fell to other talk,
and with great freedom, of public things; and he told me, upon my several
inquiries to that purpose, that he did believe it was not yet resolved
whether the Parliament should ever meet more or no, the three great
rulers of things now standing thus:--The Duke of Buckingham is
absolutely against their meeting, as moved thereto by his people that he
advises with, the people of the late times, who do never expect to have
any thing done by this Parliament for their religion, and who do propose
that, by the sale of the Church-lands, they shall be able to put the King
out of debt: my Lord Keeper is utterly against putting away this and
choosing another Parliament, lest they prove worse than this, and will
make all the King's friends, and the King himself, in a desperate
condition: my Lord Arlington know not which is best for him, being to
seek whether this or the next will use him worst. He tells me that he
believes that it is intended to call this Parliament, and try them with a
sum of money; and, if they do not like it, then to send them going, and
call another, who will, at the ruin of the Church perhaps, please the
King with what he will for a time. And he tells me, therefore, that he
do believe that this policy will be endeavoured by the Church and their
friends--to seem to promise the King money, when it shall be propounded,
but make the King and these great men buy it dear, before they have it.
He tells me that he is really persuaded that the design of the Duke of
Buckingham is, by bringing the state into such a condition as, if the
King do die without issue, it shall, upon his death, break into pieces
again; and so put by the Duke of York, who they have disobliged, they
know, to that degree, as to despair of his pardon. He tells me that
there is no way to rule the King but by brisknesse, which the Duke of
Buckingham hath above all men; and that the Duke of York having it not,
his best way is what he practices, that is to say, a good temper, which
will support him till the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Arlington fall out,
which cannot be long first, the former knowing that the latter did, in
the time of the Chancellor, endeavour with the Chancellor to hang him at
that time, when he was proclaimed against. And here, by the by, he told
me that the Duke of Buckingham did, by his friends, treat with my Lord
Chancellor, by the mediation of Matt. Wren and Matt. Clifford, to fall
in with my Lord Chancellor; which, he tells me, he did advise my Lord
Chancellor to accept of, as that, that with his own interest and the Duke
of York's, would undoubtedly have assured all to him and his family; but
that my Lord Chancellor was a man not to be advised, thinking himself too
high to be counselled: and so all is come to nothing; for by that means
the Duke of Buckingham became desperate, and was forced to fall in with
Arlington, to his [the Chancellor's] ruin. Thence I home, and there to
talk, with great pleasure all the evening, with my wife, who tells me
that Deb, has been abroad to-day, and is come home and says she has got a
place to go to, so as she will be gone tomorrow morning. This troubled
me, and the truth is, I have a good mind to have the maidenhead of this
girl, which I should not doubt to have if je could get time para be con
her. But she will be gone and I not know whither. Before we went to bed
my wife told me she would not have me to see her or give her her wages,
and so I did give my wife L10 for her year and half a quarter's wages,
which she went into her chamber and paid her, and so to bed, and there,
blessed be God! we did sleep well and with peace, which I had not done in
now almost twenty nights together. This afternoon I went to my
coachmaker and Crow's, and there saw things go on to my great content.
This morning, at the Treasury-chamber, I did meet Jack Fenn, and there he
did shew me my Lord Anglesey's petition and the King's answer: the former
good and stout, as I before did hear it: but the latter short and weak,
saying that he was not, by what the King had done, hindered from taking
the benefit of his laws, and that the reason he had to suspect his
mismanagement of his money in Ireland, did make him think it unfit to
trust him with his Treasury in England, till he was satisfied in the
former.
14th. Up, and had a mighty mind to have seen or given her a little
money, to which purpose I wrapt up 40s. in paper, thinking to have given
her a little money, but my wife rose presently, and would not let me be
out of her sight, and went down before me into the kitchen, and come up
and told me that she was in the kitchen, and therefore would have me go
round the other way; which she repeating and I vexed at it, answered her
a little angrily, upon which she instantly flew out into a rage, calling
me dog and rogue, and that I had a rotten heart; all which, knowing that
I deserved it, I bore with, and word being brought presently up that she
was gone away by coach with her things, my wife was friends, and so all
quiet, and I to the Office, with my heart sad, and find that I cannot
forget the girl, and vexed I know not where to look for her. And more
troubled to see how my wife is by this means likely for ever to have her
hand over me, that I shall for ever be a slave to her--that is to say,
only in matters of pleasure, but in other things she will make [it] her
business, I know, to please me and to keep me right to her, which I will
labour to be indeed, for she deserves it of me, though it will be I fear
a little time before I shall be able to wear Deb, out of my mind. At the
Office all the morning, and merry at noon, at dinner; and after dinner to
the Office, where all the afternoon, doing much business, late. My mind
being free of all troubles, I thank God, but only for my thoughts of this
girl, which hang after her. And so at night home to supper, and then did
sleep with great content with my wife. I must here remember that I have
lain with my moher as a husband more times since this falling out than in
I believe twelve months before. And with more pleasure to her than I
think in all the time of our marriage before.
15th (Lord's day). Up, and after long lying with pleasure talking with
my wife, and then up to look up and down our house, which will when our
upholster hath done be mighty fine, and so to my chamber, and there did
do several things among my papers, and so to the office to write down my
journal for 6 or 7 days, my mind having been so troubled as never to get
the time to do it before, as may appear a little by the mistakes I have
made in this book within these few days. At noon comes Mr. Shepley to
dine with me and W. Howe, and there dined and pretty merry, and so after
dinner W. Howe to tell me what hath happened between him and the
Commissioners of late, who are hot again, more than ever, about my Lord
Sandwich's business of prizes, which I am troubled for, and the more
because of the great security and neglect with which, I think, my Lord do
look upon this matter, that may yet, for aught I know, undo him. They
gone, and Balty being come from the Downs, not very well, is come this
day to see us, I to talk with him, and with some pleasure, hoping that he
will make a good man. I in the evening to my Office again, to make an
end of my journall, and so home to my chamber with W. Hewer to settle
some papers, and so to supper and to bed, with my mind pretty quiet, and
less troubled about Deb. than I was, though yet I am troubled, I must
confess, and would be glad to find her out, though I fear it would be my
ruin. This evening there come to sit with us Mr. Pelling, who wondered
to see my wife and I so dumpish, but yet it went off only as my wife's
not being well, and, poor wretch, she hath no cause to be well, God
knows.
16th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there at the robe chamber at a
Committee for Tangier, where some of us--my Lord Sandwich, Sir W.
Coventry, and myself, with another or two--met to debate the business of
the Mole, and there drew up reasons for the King's taking of it into his
own hands, and managing of it upon accounts with Sir H. Cholmley. This
being done I away to Holborne, about Whetstone's Park, where I never was
in my life before, where I understand by my wife's discourse that Deb. is
gone, which do trouble me mightily that the poor girle should be in a
desperate condition forced to go thereabouts, and there not hearing of
any such man as Allbon, with whom my wife said she now was, I to the
Strand, and there by sending Drumbleby's boy, my flageolet maker, to
Eagle Court, where my wife also by discourse lately let fall that he did
lately live, I find that this Dr. Allbon is a kind of poor broken fellow
that dare not shew his head nor be known where he is gone, but to
Lincoln's Inn Fields I went to Mr. Povy's, but missed him, and so hearing
only that this Allbon is gone to Fleet Street, I did only call at
Martin's, my bookseller's, and there bought "Cassandra," and some other
French books for my wife's closet, and so home, having eat nothing but
two pennyworths of oysters, opened for me by a woman in the Strand, while
the boy went to and again to inform me about this man, and therefore home
and to dinner, and so all the afternoon at the office, and there late
busy, and so home to supper, and pretty pleasant with my wife to bed,
rested pretty well.
17th. Up, and to the Office all the morning, where the new Treasurers
come, their second time, and before they sat down, did discourse with the
Board, and particularly my Lord Brouncker, about their place, which they
challenge, as having been heretofore due, and given to their predecessor;
which, at last, my Lord did own hath been given him only out of courtesy
to his quality, and that he did not take it as a right at the Board: so
they, for the present, sat down, and did give him the place, but, I
think, with an intent to have the Duke of York's directions about it.
My wife and maids busy now, to make clean the house above stairs, the
upholsters having done there, in her closet and the blue room, and they
are mighty pretty. At my office all the afternoon and at night busy, and
so home to my wife, and pretty pleasant, and at mighty ease in my mind,
being in hopes to find Deb., and without trouble or the knowledge of my
wife. So to supper at night and to bed.
18th. Lay long in bed talking with my wife, she being unwilling to have
me go abroad, saying and declaring herself jealous of my going out for
fear of my going to Deb., which I do deny, for which God forgive me, for
I was no sooner out about noon but I did go by coach directly to Somerset
House, and there enquired among the porters there for Dr. Allbun, and the
first I spoke with told me he knew him, and that he was newly gone into
Lincoln's Inn Fields, but whither he could not tell me, but that one of
his fellows not then in the way did carry a chest of drawers thither with
him, and that when he comes he would ask him. This put me into some
hopes, and I to White Hall, and thence to Mr. Povy's, but he at dinner,
and therefore I away and walked up and down the Strand between the two
turnstiles, hoping to see her out of a window, and then employed a
porter, one Osberton, to find out this Doctor's lodgings thereabouts, who
by appointment comes to me to Hercules pillars, where I dined alone, but
tells me that he cannot find out any such, but will enquire further.
Thence back to White Hall to the Treasury a while, and thence to the
Strand, and towards night did meet with the porter that carried the chest
of drawers with this Doctor, but he would not tell me where he lived,
being his good master, he told me, but if I would have a message to him
he would deliver it. At last I told him my business was not with him,
but a little gentlewoman, one Mrs. Willet, that is with him, and sent him
to see how she did from her friend in London, and no other token. He
goes while I walk in Somerset House, walk there in the Court; at last he
comes back and tells me she is well, and that I may see her if I will,
but no more. So I could not be commanded by my reason, but I must go
this very night, and so by coach, it being now dark, I to her, close by
my tailor's, and she come into the coach to me, and je did baiser her .
. . . I did nevertheless give her the best council I could, to have a
care of her honour, and to fear God, and suffer no man para avoir to do
con her as je have done, which she promised. Je did give her 20s. and
directions para laisser sealed in paper at any time the name of the place
of her being at Herringman's, my bookseller in the 'Change, by which I
might go para her, and so bid her good night with much content to my
mind, and resolution to look after her no more till I heard from her.
And so home, and there told my wife a fair tale, God knows, how I spent
the whole day, with which the poor wretch was satisfied, or at least
seemed so, and so to supper and to bed, she having been mighty busy all
day in getting of her house in order against to-morrow to hang up our new
hangings and furnishing our best chamber.
19th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, with my heart full of joy
to think in what a safe condition all my matters now stand between my
wife and Deb, and me, and at noon running up stairs to see the
upholsters, who are at work upon hanging my best room, and setting up my
new bed, I find my wife sitting sad in the dining room; which enquiring
into the reason of, she begun to call me all the false, rotten-hearted
rogues in the world, letting me understand that I was with Deb.
yesterday, which, thinking it impossible for her ever to understand,
I did a while deny, but at last did, for the ease of my mind and hers,
and for ever to discharge my heart of this wicked business, I did confess
all, and above stairs in our bed chamber there I did endure the sorrow
of her threats and vows and curses all the afternoon, and, what was
worse, she swore by all that was good that she would slit the nose of
this girle, and be gone herself this very night from me, and did there
demand 3 or L400 of me to buy my peace, that she might be gone without
making any noise, or else protested that she would make all the world
know of it. So with most perfect confusion of face and heart, and sorrow
and shame, in the greatest agony in the world I did pass this afternoon,
fearing that it will never have an end; but at last I did call for W.
Hewer, who I was forced to make privy now to all, and the poor fellow did
cry like a child, [and] obtained what I could not, that she would be
pacified upon condition that I would give it under my hand never to see
or speak with Deb, while I live, as I did before with Pierce and Knepp,
and which I did also, God knows, promise for Deb. too, but I have the
confidence to deny it to the perjury of myself. So, before it was late,
there was, beyond my hopes as well as desert, a durable peace; and so to
supper, and pretty kind words, and to bed, and there je did hazer con
eile to her content, and so with some rest spent the night in bed, being
most absolutely resolved, if ever I can master this bout, never to give
her occasion while I live of more trouble of this or any other kind,
there being no curse in the world so great as this of the differences
between myself and her, and therefore I do, by the grace of God, promise
never to offend her more, and did this night begin to pray to God upon my
knees alone in my chamber, which God knows I cannot yet do heartily; but
I hope God will give me the grace more and more every day to fear Him,
and to be true to my poor wife. This night the upholsters did finish the
hanging of my best chamber, but my sorrow and trouble is so great about
this business, that it puts me out of all joy in looking upon it or
minding how it was.
20th. This morning up, with mighty kind words between my poor wife and
I; and so to White Hall by water, W. Hewer with me, who is to go with me
every where, until my wife be in condition to go out along with me
herself; for she do plainly declare that she dares not trust me out
alone, and therefore made it a piece of our league that I should alway
take somebody with me, or her herself, which I am mighty willing to,
being, by the grace of God, resolved never to do her wrong more. We
landed at the Temple, and there I bid him call at my cozen Roger Pepys's
lodgings, and I staid in the street for him, and so took water again at
the Strand stairs; and so to White Hall, in my way I telling him plainly
and truly my resolutions, if I can get over this evil, never to give new
occasion for it. He is, I think, so honest and true a servant to us
both, and one that loves us, that I was not much troubled at his being
privy to all this, but rejoiced in my heart that I had him to assist in
the making us friends, which he did truly and heartily, and with good
success, for I did get him to go to Deb. to tell her that I had told my
wife all of my being with her the other night, that so if my wife should
send she might not make the business worse by denying it. While I was at
White Hall with the Duke of York, doing our ordinary business with him,
here being also the first time the new Treasurers. W. Hewer did go to
her and come back again, and so I took him into St. James's Park, and
there he did tell me he had been with her, and found what I said about
my manner of being with her true, and had given her advice as I desired.
I did there enter into more talk about my wife and myself, and he did
give me great assurance of several particular cases to which my wife had
from time to time made him privy of her loyalty and truth to me after
many and great temptations, and I believe them truly. I did also
discourse the unfitness of my leaving of my employment now in many
respects to go into the country, as my wife desires, but that I would
labour to fit myself for it, which he thoroughly understands, and do
agree with me in it; and so, hoping to get over this trouble, we about
our business to Westminster Hall to meet Roger Pepys, which I did, and
did there discourse of the business of lending him L500 to answer some
occasions of his, which I believe to be safe enough, and so took leave
of him and away by coach home, calling on my coachmaker by the way,
where I like my little coach mightily. But when I come home, hoping for
a further degree of peace and quiet, I find my wife upon her bed in a
horrible rage afresh, calling me all the bitter names, and, rising, did
fall to revile me in the bitterest manner in the world, and could not
refrain to strike me and pull my hair, which I resolved to bear with, and
had good reason to bear it. So I by silence and weeping did prevail with
her a little to be quiet, and she would not eat her dinner without me;
but yet by and by into a raging fit she fell again, worse than before,
that she would slit the girl's nose, and at last W. Hewer come in and
come up, who did allay her fury, I flinging myself, in a sad desperate
condition, upon the bed in the blue room, and there lay while they spoke
together; and at last it come to this, that if I would call Deb. whore
under my hand and write to her that I hated her, and would never see her
more, she would believe me and trust in me, which I did agree to, only as
to the name of whore I would have excused, and therefore wrote to her
sparing that word, which my wife thereupon tore it, and would not be
satisfied till, W. Hewer winking upon me, I did write so with the name of
a whore as that I did fear she might too probably have been prevailed
upon to have been a whore by her carriage to me, and therefore as such I
did resolve never to see her more. This pleased my wife, and she gives
it W. Hewer to carry to her with a sharp message from her. So from that
minute my wife begun to be kind to me, and we to kiss and be friends,
and so continued all the evening, and fell to talk of other matters,
with great comfort, and after supper to bed. This evening comes Mr.
Billup to me, to read over Mr. Wren's alterations of my draught of a
letter for the Duke of York to sign, to the Board; which I like mighty
well, they being not considerable, only in mollifying some hard terms,
which I had thought fit to put in. From this to other discourse; and do
find that the Duke of York and his master, Mr. Wren, do look upon this
service of mine as a very seasonable service to the Duke of York, as that
which he will have to shew to his enemies in his own justification, of
his care of the King's business; and I am sure I am heartily glad of it,
both for the King's sake and the Duke of York's, and my own also; for, if
I continue, my work, by this means, will be the less, and my share in the
blame also. He being gone, I to my wife again, and so spent the evening
with very great joy, and the night also with good sleep and rest, my wife
only troubled in her rest, but less than usual, for which the God of
Heaven be praised. I did this night promise to my wife never to go to
bed without calling upon God upon my knees by prayer, and I begun this
night, and hope I shall never forget to do the like all my life; for I do
find that it is much the best for my soul and body to live pleasing to
God and my poor wife, and will ease me of much care as well as much
expense.
21st. Up, with great joy to my wife and me, and to the office, where W.
Hewer did most honestly bring me back the part of my letter to Deb.
wherein I called her whore, assuring me that he did not shew it her, and
that he did only give her to understand that wherein I did declare my
desire never to see her, and did give her the best Christian counsel he
could, which was mighty well done of him. But by the grace of God,
though I love the poor girl and wish her well, as having gone too far
toward the undoing her, yet I will never enquire after or think of her
more, my peace being certainly to do right to my wife. At the Office all
the morning; and after dinner abroad with W. Hewer to my Lord Ashly's,
where my Lord Barkeley and Sir Thomas Ingram met upon Mr. Povy's account,
where I was in great pain about that part of his account wherein I am
concerned, above L150, I think; and Creed hath declared himself
dissatisfied with it, so far as to desire to cut his "Examinatur" out of
the paper, as the only condition in which he would be silent in it. This
Povy had the wit to yield to; and so when it come to be inquired into,
I did avouch the truth of the account as to that particular, of my own
knowledge, and so it went over as a thing good and just--as, indeed, in
the bottom of it, it is; though in strictness, perhaps, it would not so
well be understood. This Committee rising, I, with my mind much
satisfied herein, away by coach home, setting Creed into Southampton
Buildings, and so home; and there ended my letters, and then home to my
wife, where I find my house clean now, from top to bottom, so as I have
not seen it many a day, and to the full satisfaction of my mind, that I
am now at peace, as to my poor wife, as to the dirtiness of my house, and
as to seeing an end, in a great measure, to my present great
disbursements upon my house, and coach and horses.
22nd (Lord's day). My wife and I lay long, with mighty content; and so
rose, and she spent the whole day making herself clean, after four or
five weeks being in continued dirt; and I knocking up nails, and making
little settlements in my house, till noon, and then eat a bit of meat in
the kitchen, I all alone. And so to the Office, to set down my journall,
for some days leaving it imperfect, the matter being mighty grievous to
me, and my mind, from the nature of it; and so in, to solace myself with
my wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy; and so,
after supper, to bed. This day my boy's livery is come home, the first I
ever had, of greene, lined with red; and it likes me well enough.
23rd. Up, and called upon by W. Howe, who went, with W. Hewer with me,
by water, to the Temple; his business was to have my advice about a place
he is going to buy--the Clerk of the Patent's place, which I understand
not, and so could say little to him, but fell to other talk, and setting
him in at the Temple, we to White Hall, and there I to visit Lord
Sandwich, who is now so reserved, or moped rather, I think, with his own
business, that he bids welcome to no man, I think, to his satisfaction.
However, I bear with it, being willing to give him as little trouble as I
can, and to receive as little from him, wishing only that I had my money
in my purse, that I have lent him; but, however, I shew no discontent at
all. So to White Hall, where a Committee of Tangier expected, but none
met. I met with Mr. Povy, who I discoursed with about publick business,
who tells me that this discourse which I told him of, of the Duke of
Monmouth being made Prince of Wales, hath nothing in it; though he thinks
there are all the endeavours used in the world to overthrow the Duke of
York. He would not have me doubt of my safety in the Navy, which I am
doubtful of from the reports of a general removal; but he will endeavour
to inform me, what he can gather from my Lord Arlington. That he do
think that the Duke of Buckingham hath a mind rather to overthrow all the
kingdom, and bring in a Commonwealth, wherein he may think to be General
of their Army, or to make himself King, which, he believes, he may be led
to, by some advice he hath had with conjurors, which he do affect.
Thence with W. Hewer, who goes up and down with me like a jaylour, but
yet with great love and to my great good liking, it being my desire above
all things to please my wife therein. I took up my wife and boy at
Unthank's, and from there to Hercules Pillars, and there dined, and
thence to our upholster's, about some things more to buy, and so to see
our coach, and so to the looking-glass man's, by the New Exchange, and so
to buy a picture for our blue chamber chimney, and so home; and there I
made my boy to read to me most of the night, to get through the Life of
the Archbishop of Canterbury. At supper comes Mary Batelier, and with us
all the evening, prettily talking, and very innocent company she is; and
she gone, we with much content to bed, and to sleep, with mighty rest all
night.
24th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner,
where Mr. Gentleman, the cook, and an old woman, his third or fourth
wife, come and dined with us, to enquire about a ticket of his son's,
that is dead; and after dinner, I with Mr. Hosier to my closet, to
discourse of the business of balancing Storekeeper's accounts, which he
hath taken great pains in reducing to a method, to my great satisfaction;
and I shall be glad both for the King's sake and his, that the thing may
be put in practice, and will do my part to promote it. That done, he
gone, I to the Office, where busy till night; and then with comfort to
sit with my wife, and get her to read to me, and so to supper, and to
bed, with my mind at mighty ease.
25th. Up, and by coach with W. Hewer to see W. Coventry; but he gone
out, I to White Hall, and there waited on Lord Sandwich, which I have
little encouragement to do, because of the difficulty of seeing him, and
the little he hath to say to me when I do see him, or to any body else,
but his own idle people about him, Sir Charles Harbord, &c. Thence
walked with him to White Hall, where to the Duke of York; and there the
Duke, and Wren, and I, by appointment in his closet, to read over our
letter to the Office, which he heard, and signed it, and it is to my
mind, Mr. Wren having made it somewhat sweeter to the Board, and yet with
all the advice fully, that I did draw it up with. He [the Duke] said
little more to us now, his head being full of other business; but I do
see that he do continue to put a value upon my advice; and so Mr. Wren
and I to his chamber, and there talked: and he seems to hope that these
people, the Duke of Buckingham and Arlington, will run themselves off of
their legs; they being forced to be always putting the King upon one idle
thing or other, against the easiness of his nature, which he will never
be able to bear, nor they to keep him to, and so will lose themselves.
And, for instance of their little progress, he tells me that my Lord of
Ormond is like yet to carry it, and to continue in his command in
Ireland; at least, they cannot get the better of him yet. But he tells
me that the Keeper is wrought upon, as they say, to give his opinion for
the dissolving of the Parliament, which, he thinks, will undo him in the
eyes of the people. He do not seem to own the hearing or fearing of any
thing to be done in the Admiralty, to the lessening of the Duke of York,
though he hears how the town talk's full of it. Thence I by coach home,
and there find my cozen Roger come to dine with me, and to seal his
mortgage for the L500 I lend him; but he and I first walked to the
'Change, there to look for my uncle Wight, and get him to dinner with us.
So home, buying a barrel of oysters at my old oyster-woman's, in Gracious
Street, but over the way to where she kept her shop before. So home, and
there merry at dinner; and the money not being ready, I carried Roger
Pepys to Holborn Conduit, and there left him going to Stradwick's, whom
we avoided to see, because of our long absence, and my wife and I to the
Duke of York's house, to see "The Duchesse of Malfy," a sorry play, and
sat with little pleasure, for fear of my wife's seeing me look about, and
so I was uneasy all the while, though I desire and resolve never to give
her trouble of that kind more. So home, and there busy at the Office a
while, and then home, where my wife to read to me, and so to supper, and
to bed. This evening, to my great content, I got Sir Richard Ford to
give me leave to set my coach in his yard.
26th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, where I was to have
delivered the Duke of York's letter of advice to the Board, in answer to
our several answers to his great letter; but Lord Brouncker not being
there, and doubtful to deliver it before the new Treasurers, I forbore it
to next sitting. So home at noon to dinner, where I find Mr. Pierce and
his wife but I was forced to shew very little pleasure in her being there
because of my vow to my wife; and therefore was glad of a very bad
occasion for my being really troubled, which is, at W. Hewer's losing of
a tally of L1000, which I sent him this day to receive of the
Commissioners of Excise. So that though I hope at the worst I shall be
able to get another, yet I made use of this to get away as soon as I had
dined, and therefore out with him to the Excise Office to make a stop of
its payment, and so away to the coachmaker's and several other places,
and so away home, and there to my business at the office, and thence
home, and there my wife to read to me, and W. Hewer to set some matters
of accounts right at my chamber, to bed.
27th. Up, and with W. Hewer to see W. Coventry again, but missed him
again, by coming too late, the man of [all] the world that I am resolved
to preserve an interest in. Thence to White Hall, and there at our usual
waiting on the Duke of York; and that being done, I away to the
Exchequer, to give a stop, and take some advice about my lost tally,
wherein I shall have some remedy, with trouble, and so home, and there
find Mr. Povy, by appointment, to dine with me; where a pretty good
dinner, but for want of thought in my wife it was but slovenly dressed
up; however, much pleasant discourse with him, and some serious; and he
tells me that he would, by all means, have me get to be a Parliament-man
the next Parliament, which he believes there will be one, which I do
resolve of. By and by comes my cozen Roger, and dines with us; and,
after dinner, did seal his mortgage, wherein I do wholly rely on his
honesty, not having so much as read over what he hath given me for it,
nor minded it, but do trust to his integrity therein. They all gone, I
to the office and there a while, and then home to ease my eyes and make
my wife read to me.
28th. Up, and all the morning at the Office, where, while I was sitting,
one comes and tells me that my coach is come. So I was forced to go out,
and to Sir Richard Ford's, where I spoke to him, and he is very willing
to have it brought in, and stand there; and so I ordered it, to my great
content, it being mighty pretty, only the horses do not please me, and,
therefore, resolve to have better. At noon home to dinner, and so to the
office again all the afternoon, and did a great deal of business, and so
home to supper and to bed, with my mind at pretty good ease, having this
day presented to the Board the Duke of York's letter, which, I perceive,
troubled Sir W. Pen, he declaring himself meant in that part, that
concerned excuse by sickness; but I do not care, but am mightily glad
that it is done, and now I shall begin to be at pretty good ease in the
Office. This morning, to my great content, W. Hewer tells me that a
porter is come, who found my tally in Holborne, and brings it him, for
which he gives him 20s.
29th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed with pleasure with my wife, with whom
I have now a great deal of content, and my mind is in other things also
mightily more at ease, and I do mind my business better than ever and am
more at peace, and trust in God I shall ever be so, though I cannot yet
get my mind off from thinking now and then of Deb., but I do ever since
my promise a while since to my wife pray to God by myself in my chamber
every night, and will endeavour to get my wife to do the like with me ere
long, but am in much fear of what she lately frighted me with about her
being a Catholique; and I dare not, therefore, move her to go to church,
for fear she should deny me; but this morning, of her own accord, she
spoke of going to church the next Sunday, which pleases me mightily.
This morning my coachman's clothes come home; and I like the livery
mightily, and so I all the morning at my chamber, and dined with my wife,
and got her to read to me in the afternoon, till Sir W. Warren, by
appointment, comes to me, who spent two hours, or three, with me, about
his accounts of Gottenburgh, which are so confounded, that I doubt they
will hardly ever pass without my doing something, which he desires of me,
and which, partly from fear, and partly from unwillingness to wrong the
King, and partly from its being of no profit to me, I am backward to give
way to, though the poor man do indeed deserve to be rid of this trouble,
that he hath lain so long under, from the negligence of this Board. We
afterwards fell to other talk, and he tells me, as soon as he saw my
coach yesterday, he wished that the owner might not contract envy by it;
but I told him it was now manifestly for my profit to keep a coach, and
that, after employments like mine for eight years, it were hard if I
could not be justly thought to be able to do that.
[Though our journalist prided himself not a little upon becoming
possessed of a carriage, the acquisition was regarded with envy and
jealousy by his enemies, as will appear by the following extract
from the scurrilous pamphlet, "A Hue and Cry after P. and H. and
Plain Truth (or a Private Discourse between P. and H.)," in which
Pepys and Hewer are severely handled: "There is one thing more you
must be mightily sorry for with all speed. Your presumption in your
coach, in which you daily ride, as if you had been son and heir to
the great Emperor Neptune, or as if you had been infallibly to have
succeeded him in his government of the Ocean, all which was
presumption in the highest degree. First, you had upon the fore
part of your chariot, tempestuous waves and wrecks of ships; on your
left hand, forts and great guns, and ships a-fighting; on your right
hand was a fair harbour and galleys riding, with their flags and
pennants spread, kindly saluting each other, just like P[epys] and
H[ewer]. Behind it were high curled waves and ships a-sinking, and
here and there an appearance of some bits of land."]
He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read, and made an end of
the Life of Archbishop Laud, which is worth reading, as informing a man
plainly in the posture of the Church, and how the things of it were
managed with the same self-interest and design that every other thing is,
and have succeeded accordingly. So to bed.
30th. Up betimes, and with W. Hewer, who is my guard, to White Hall, to
a Committee of Tangier, where the business of Mr. Lanyon
[John Lanyon, agent of the Navy Commissioners at Plymouth. The
cause of complaint appears to have been connected with his contract
for Tangier. In 1668 a charge was made against Lanyon and Thomas
Yeabsley that they had defrauded the king in the freighting of the
ship "Tiger" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1668-69, p. 138).]
took up all the morning; and where, poor man! he did manage his business
with so much folly, and ill fortune to boot, that the Board, before his
coming in, inclining, of their own accord, to lay his cause aside, and
leave it to the law, but he pressed that we would hear it, and it ended
to the making him appear a very knave, as well as it did to me a fool
also, which I was sorry for. Thence by water, Mr. Povy, Creed, and I, to
Arundell House, and there I did see them choosing their Council, it being
St. Andrew's-day; and I had his Cross
[The cross of St. Andrew, like that of St. Patrick, is a saltire.
The two, combined with the red cross of St. George, form the Union
flag.]
set on my hat, as the rest had, and cost me 2s., and so leaving them I
away by coach home to dinner, and my wife, after dinner, went the first
time abroad to take the maidenhead of her coach, calling on Roger Pepys,
and visiting Mrs. Creed, and my cozen Turner, while I at home all the
afternoon and evening, very busy and doing much work, to my great
content. Home at night, and there comes Mrs. Turner and Betty to see us,
and supped with us, and I shewed them a cold civility for fear of
troubling my wife, and after supper, they being gone, we to bed. Thus
ended this month, with very good content, that hath been the most sad to
my heart and the most expenseful to my purse on things of pleasure,
having furnished my wife's closet and the best chamber, and a coach and
horses, that ever I yet knew in the world: and do put me into the
greatest condition of outward state that ever I was in, or hoped ever to
be, or desired: and this at a time when we do daily expect great changes
in this Office: and by all reports we must, all of us, turn out. But my
eyes are come to that condition that I am not able to work: and therefore
that, and my wife's desire, make me have no manner of trouble in my
thoughts about it. So God do his will in it!
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Calling me dog and rogue, and that I had a rotten heart
Have me get to be a Parliament-man the next Parliament
I have a good mind to have the maidenhead of this girl
Resolve never to give her trouble of that kind more
Should alway take somebody with me, or her herself
There being no curse in the world so great as this
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