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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.
DECEMBER
1668
December 1st. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning, and at
noon with my people to dinner, and so to the office, very busy till
night, and then home and made my boy read to me Wilkins's Reall
Character, which do please me mightily, and so after supper to bed with
great pleasure and content with my wife. This day I hear of poor Mr.
Clerke, the solicitor, being dead, of a cold, after being not above two
days ill, which troubles me mightily, poor man!
2nd. Up, and at the office all the morning upon some accounts of Sir D.
Gawden, and at noon abroad with W. Hewer, thinking to have found Mr. Wren
at Captain Cox's, to have spoke something to him about doing a favour for
Will's uncle Steventon, but missed him. And so back home and abroad with
my wife, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach, which do make
my heart rejoice, and praise God, and pray him to bless it to me and
continue it. So she and I to the King's playhouse, and there sat to
avoid seeing Knepp in a box above where Mrs. Williams happened to be, and
there saw "The Usurper;" a pretty good play, in all but what is designed
to resemble Cromwell and Hugh Peters, which is mighty silly. The play
done, we to White Hall; where my wife staid while I up to the Duchesse's
and Queen's side, to speak with the Duke of York: and here saw all the
ladies, and heard the silly discourse of the King, with his people about
him, telling a story of my Lord Rochester's having of his clothes stole,
while he was with a wench; and his gold all gone, but his clothes found
afterwards stuffed into a feather bed by the wench that stole them. I
spoke with the Duke of York, just as he was set down to supper with the
King, about our sending of victuals to Sir Thomas Allen's fleet hence to
Cales [Cadiz] to meet him. And so back to my wife in my coach, and so
with great content and joy home, where I made my boy to make an end of
the Reall Character, which I begun a great while ago, and do please me
infinitely, and indeed is a most worthy labour, and I think mighty easy,
though my eyes make me unable to attempt any thing in it. To-day I hear
that Mr. Ackworth's cause went for him at Guildhall, against his
accusers, which I am well enough pleased with.
3rd. Up betimes, and by water with W. Hewer to White Hall, and there to
Mr. Wren, who gives me but small hopes of the favour I hoped for Mr.
Steventon, Will's uncle, of having leave, being upon the point of death,
to surrender his place, which do trouble me, but I will do what I can.
So back again to the Office, Sir Jer. Smith with me; who is a silly,
prating, talking man; but he tells me what he hears, that Holmes and
Spragg now rule all with the Duke of Buckingham, as to seabusiness, and
will be great men: but he do prophesy what will be the fruit of it; so I
do. So to the Office, where we sat all the morning; and at noon home to
dinner, and then abroad again, with my wife, to the Duke of York's
playhouse, and saw "The Unfortunate Lovers;" a mean play, I think, but
some parts very good, and excellently acted. We sat under the boxes, and
saw the fine ladies; among others, my Lady Kerneguy, a who is most
devilishly painted. And so home, it being mighty pleasure to go alone
with my poor wife, in a coach of our own, to a play, and makes us appear
mighty great, I think, in the world; at least, greater than ever I could,
or my friends for me, have once expected; or, I think, than ever any of
my family ever yet lived, in my memory, but my cozen Pepys in Salisbury
Court. So to the office, and thence home to supper and to bed.
4th. Up, and with W. Hewer by water to White Hall, and there did wait as
usual upon the Duke of York, where, upon discoursing something touching
the Ticket-Office, which by letter the Board did give the Duke of York
their advice, to be put upon Lord Brouncker, Sir J. Minnes did foolishly
rise up and complain of the Office, and his being made nothing of; and
this before Sir Thomas Littleton, who would be glad of this difference
among us, which did trouble me mightily; and therefore I did forbear to
say what I otherwise would have thought fit for me to say on this
occasion, upon so impertinent a speech as this doting fool made--but,
I say, I let it alone, and contented myself that it went as I advised,
as to the Duke of York's judgment, in the thing disputed. And so thence
away, my coach meeting me there and carrying me to several places to do
little jobs, which is a mighty convenience, and so home, where by
invitation I find my aunt Wight, who looked over all our house, and is
mighty pleased with it, and indeed it is now mighty handsome, and rich in
furniture. By and by comes my uncle, and then to dinner, where a venison
pasty and very merry, and after dinner I carried my wife and her to
Smithfield, where they sit in the coach, while Mr. Pickering, who meets
me there, and I, and W. Hewer, and a friend of his, a jockey, did go
about to see several pairs of horses, for my coach; but it was late, and
we agreed on none, but left it to another time: but here I do see
instances of a piece of craft and cunning that I never dreamed of,
concerning the buying and choosing of horses. So Mr. Pickering, to whom
I am much beholden for his kindness herein, and I parted; and I with my
people home, where I left them, and I to the office, to meet about some
business of Sir W. Warren's accounts, where I vexed to see how ill all
the Comptroller's business is likely to go on, so long as ever Sir J.
Minnes lives; and so troubled I was, that I thought it a good occasion
for me to give my thoughts of it in writing, and therefore wrote a letter
at the Board, by the help of a tube, to Lord Brouncker, and did give it
him, which I kept a copy of, and it may be of use to me hereafter to
shew, in this matter. This being done, I home to my aunt, who supped
with us, and my uncle also: and a good-humoured woman she is, so that I
think we shall keep her acquaintance; but mighty proud she is of her
wedding-ring, being lately set with diamonds; cost her about L12: and I
did commend it mightily to her, but do not think it very suitable for one
of our quality. After supper they home, and we to bed.
5th. Up, after a little talk with my wife, which troubled me, she being
ever since our late difference mighty watchful of sleep and dreams, and
will not be persuaded but I do dream of Deb., and do tell me that I speak
in my dreams and that this night I did cry, Huzzy, and it must be she,
and now and then I start otherwise than I used to do, she says, which I
know not, for I do not know that I dream of her more than usual, though I
cannot deny that my thoughts waking do run now and then against my will
and judgment upon her, for that only is wanting to undo me, being now in
every other thing as to my mind most happy, and may still be so but for
my own fault, if I be catched loving any body but my wife again. So up
and to the office, and at noon to dinner, and thence to office, where
late, mighty busy, and despatching much business, settling papers in my
own office, and so home to supper, and to bed. No news stirring, but
that my Lord of Ormond is likely to go to Ireland again, which do shew
that the Duke of Buckingham do not rule all so absolutely; and that,
however, we shall speedily have more changes in the Navy: and it is
certain that the Nonconformists do now preach openly in houses, in many
places, and among others the house that was heretofore Sir G. Carteret's,
in Leadenhall Streete, and have ready access to the King. And now the
great dispute is, whether this Parliament or another; and my great
design, if I continue in the Navy, is to get myself to be a Parliament-
man.
6th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church; which pleases me
mightily, I being full of fear that she would never go to church again,
after she had declared to me that she was a Roman Catholique. But though
I do verily think she fears God, and is truly and sincerely righteous,
yet I do see she is not so strictly so a Catholique as not to go to
church with me, which pleases me mightily. Here Mills made a lazy
sermon, upon Moses's meeknesse, and so home, and my wife and I alone to
dinner, and then she to read a little book concerning speech in general,
a translation late out of French; a most excellent piece as ever I read,
proving a soul in man, and all the ways and secrets by which nature
teaches speech in man, which do please me most infinitely to read. By
and by my wife to church, and I to my Office to complete my Journall for
the last three days, and so home to my chamber to settle some papers, and
so to spend the evening with my wife and W. Hewer talking over the
business of the Office, and particularly my own Office, how I will make
it, and it will become, in a little time, an Office of ease, and not
slavery, as it hath for so many years been. So to supper, and to bed.
7th. Up by candlelight, the first time I have done so this winter, but I
had lost my labour so often to visit Sir W. Coventry, and not visited him
so long, that I was resolved to get time enough, and so up, and with W.
Hewer, it being the first frosty day we have had this winter, did walk
it very well to W. Coventry's, and there alone with him an hour talking
of the Navy, which he pities, but says he hath no more mind to be found
meddling with the Navy, lest it should do it hurt, as well as him, to be
found to meddle with it. So to talk of general things: and telling him
that, with all these doings, he, I thanked God, stood yet; he told me,
Yes, but that he thought his continuing in, did arise from his enemies my
Lord of Buckingham and Arlington's seeing that he cared so little if he
was out; and he do protest to me that he is as weary of the Treasury, as
ever he was of the Navy. He tells me that he do believe that their heat
is over almost, as to the Navy, there being now none left of the old
stock but my Lord Brouncker, J. Minnes, who is ready to leave the world,
and myself. But he tells me that he do foresee very great wants and
great disorders by reason thereof; insomuch, as he is represented to
the King by his enemies as a melancholy man, and one that is still
prophesying ill events, so as the King called him Visionaire, which being
told him, he said he answered the party, that, whatever he foresaw, he
was not afeard as to himself of any thing, nor particularly of my Lord
Arlington, so much as the Duke of Buckingham hath been, nor of the Duke
of Buckingham, so much as my Lord Arlington at this time is. But he
tells me that he hath been always looked upon as a melancholy man;
whereas, others that would please the King do make him believe that all
is safe: and so he hath heard my Lord Chancellor openly say to the King,
that he was now a glorious prince, and in a glorious condition, because
of some one accident that hath happened, or some one rub that hath been
removed; "when," says W. Coventry, "they reckoned their one good meal,
without considering that there was nothing left in the cup board for
to-morrow." After this and other discourse of this kind, I away, and
walked to my Lord Sandwich's, and walked with him to White Hall, and took
a quarter of an hour's walk in the garden with him, which I had not done
for so much time with him since his coming into England; and talking of
his own condition, and particularly of the world's talk of his going to
Tangier. I find, if his conditions can be made profitable and safe as
to money, he would go, but not else; but, however, will seem not averse
to it, because of facilitating his other accounts now depending, which he
finds hard to get through, but yet hath some hopes, the King, he says,
speaking very kindly to him. Thence to a Committee of Tangier, and so
with W. Hewer to Westminster to Sir R. Longs office, and so to the
Temple, but did nothing, the Auditor not being within, and so home to
dinner, and after dinner out again with my wife to the Temple, and up and
down to do a little business, and back again, and so to my office, and
did a little business, and so home, and W. Hewer with me, to read and
talk, and so to supper, and then to bed in mighty good humour. This
afternoon, passing through Queen's Street, I saw pass by our coach on
foot Deb., which, God forgive me, did put me into some new thoughts of
her, and for her, but durst not shew them, and I think my wife did not
see her, but I did get my thoughts free of her soon as I could.
8th. Up, and Sir H. Cholmly betimes with me, about some accounts and
moneys due to him: and he gone, I to the Office, where sat all the
morning; and here, among other things, breaks out the storm W. Hewer and
I have long expected from the Surveyor,--[Colonel Middleton.]-- about
W. Hewer's conspiring to get a contract, to the burdening of the stores
with kerseys and cottons, of which he hath often complained, and lately
more than ever; and now he did it by a most scandalous letter to the
Board, reflecting on my Office: and, by discourse, it fell to such high
words between him and me, as can hardly ever be forgot; I declaring I
would believe W. Hewer as soon as him, and laying the fault, if there be
any, upon himself; he, on the other hand, vilifying of my word and
W. Hewer's, calling him knave, and that if he were his clerk, he should
lose his ears. At last, I closed the business for this morning with
making the thing ridiculous, as it is, and he swearing that the King
should have right in it, or he would lose his place. The Office was
cleared of all but ourselves and W. Hewer; but, however, the world did
by the beginning see what it meant, and it will, I believe, come to high
terms between us, which I am sorry for, to have any blemish laid upon
me or mine, at this time, though never so unduly, for fear of giving
occasion to my real discredit: and therefore I was not only all the rest
of the morning vexed, but so went home to dinner, where my wife tells me
of my Lord Orrery's new play "Tryphon," at the Duke of York's house,
which, however, I would see, and therefore put a bit of meat in our
mouths, and went thither; where, with much ado, at half-past one, we got
into a blind hole in the 18d. place, above stairs, where we could not
hear well, but the house infinite full, but the prologue most silly, and
the play, though admirable, yet no pleasure almost in it, because just
the very same design, and words, and sense, and plot, as every one of his
plays have, any one of which alone would be held admirable, whereas so
many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another; and this, I
perceive, is the sense of every body else, as well as myself, who
therefore showed but little pleasure in it. So home, mighty hot, and my
mind mightily out of order, so as I could not eat any supper, or sleep
almost all night, though I spent till twelve at night with W. Hewer to
consider of our business: and we find it not only most free from any
blame of our side, but so horrid scandalous on the other, to make so
groundless a complaint, and one so shameful to him, that it could not but
let me see that there is no need of my being troubled; but such is the
weakness of my nature, that I could not help it, which vexes me, showing
me how unable I am to live with difficulties.
9th. Up, and to the Office, but did little there, my mind being still
uneasy, though more and more satisfied that there is no occasion for it;
but abroad with my wife to the Temple, where I met with Auditor Wood's
clerk, and did some business with him, and so to see Mr. Spong, and found
him out by Southampton Market, and there carried my wife, and up to his
chamber, a bye place, but with a good prospect of the fields; and there I
had most infinite pleasure, not only with his ingenuity in general, but
in particular with his shewing me the use of the Parallelogram, by which
he drew in a quarter of an hour before me, in little, from a great,
a most neat map of England--that is, all the outlines, which gives me
infinite pleasure, and foresight of pleasure, I shall have with it; and
therefore desire to have that which I have bespoke, made. Many other
pretty things he showed us, and did give me a glass bubble, to try the
strength of liquors with.
[This seems to refer to the first form of the Hon. Robert Boyle's
hydrometer, which he described in a paper in the "Philosophical
Transactions" for June, 1675, under the title of a "New Essay
instrument." In this paper the author refers to a glass instrument
exhibited many years before by himself, "consisting of a bubble
furnished with a long and slender stem, which was to be put into
several liquors to compare and estimate their specific gravity."
Boyle describes this glass bubble in a paper in "Philosophical
Transactions," vol. iv., No. 50, p. 1001, 1669, entitled, "The
Weights of Water in Water with ordinary Balances and Weights."]
This done, and having spent 6d. in ale in the coach, at the door of the
Bull Inn, with the innocent master of the house, a Yorkshireman, for his
letting us go through his house, we away to Hercules Pillars, and there
eat a bit of meat: and so, with all speed, back to the Duke of York's
house, where mighty full again; but we come time enough to have a good
place in the pit, and did hear this new play again, where, though I
better understood it than before, yet my sense of it and pleasure was
just the same as yesterday, and no more, nor any body else's about us.
So took our coach and home, having now little pleasure to look about me
to see the fine faces, for fear of displeasing my wife, whom I take great
comfort now, more than ever, in pleasing; and it is a real joy to me.
So home, and to my Office, where spent an hour or two; and so home to
my wife, to supper and talk, and so to bed.
10th. Up, and to the Office, where busy all the morning: Middleton not
there, so no words or looks of him. At noon, home to dinner; and so to
the Office, and there all the afternoon busy; and at night W. Hewer home
with me; and we think we have got matter enough to make Middleton appear
a coxcomb. But it troubled me to have Sir W. Warren meet me at night,
going out of the Office home, and tell me that Middleton do intend to
complain to the Duke of York: but, upon consideration of the business,
I did go to bed, satisfied that it was best for me that he should; and
so my trouble was over, and to bed, and slept well.
11th. Up, and with W. Hewer by water to Somerset House; and there I to
my Lord Brouncker, before he went forth to the Duke of York, and there
told him my confidence that I should make Middleton appear a fool, and
that it was, I thought, best for me to complain of the wrong he hath
done; but brought it about, that my Lord desired me I would forbear, and
promised that he would prevent Middleton till I had given in my answer to
the Board, which I desired: and so away to White Hall, and there did our
usual attendance and no word spoke before the Duke of York by Middleton
at all; at which I was glad to my heart, because by this means I have
time to draw up my answer to my mind. So with W. Hewer by coach to
Smithfield, but met not Mr. Dickering, he being not come, and so he
[Will] and I to a cook's shop, in Aldersgate Street; and dined well for
19 1/2 d., upon roast beef, pleasing ourselves with the infinite strength
we have to prove Middleton a coxcomb; and so, having dined, we back to
Smithfield, and there met Dickering, and up and down all the afternoon
about horses, and did see the knaveries and tricks of jockeys. Here I
met W. Joyce, who troubled me with his impertinencies a great while, and
the like Mr. Knepp, who, it seems, is a kind of a jockey, and would fain
have been doing something for me, but I avoided him, and the more for
fear of being troubled thereby with his wife, whom I desire but dare not
see, for my vow to my wife. At last went away and did nothing, only
concluded upon giving L50 for a fine pair of black horses we saw this day
se'nnight; and so set Mr. Dickering down near his house, whom I am much
beholden to, for his care herein, and he hath admirable skill,
I perceive, in this business, and so home, and spent the evening
talking and merry, my mind at good ease, and so to bed.
12th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home to
dinner, and so the like mighty busy, late, all the afternoon, that I
might be ready to go to the drawing up of my answer to Middleton
to-morrow, and therefore home to supper and to bed. I hear this day that
there is fallen down a new house, not quite finished, in Lumbard Street,
and that there have been several so, they making use of bad mortar and
bricks; but no hurt yet, as God hath ordered it. This day was brought
home my pair of black coach-horses, the first I ever was master of.
They cost me L50, and are a fine pair.
13th (Lord's day). Up, and with W. Hewer to the Office, where all the
morning, and then home to a little dinner, and presently to it again all
alone till twelve at night, drawing up my answer to Middleton, which I
think I shall do to very good purpose--at least, I satisfy myself
therein; and so to bed, weary with walking in my Office dictating to
him [Hewer]. In the night my wife very ill, vomited, but was well
again by and by.
14th. Up, and by water to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, where,
among other things, a silly account of a falling out between Norwood, at
Tangier, and Mr. Bland, the mayor, who is fled to Cales [Cadiz]. His
complaint is ill-worded, and the other's defence the most ridiculous that
ever I saw; and so everybody else that was there, thought it; but never
did I see so great an instance of the use of grammar, and knowledge how
to tell a man's tale as this day, Bland having spoiled his business by
ill-telling it, who had work to have made himself notorious by his
mastering Norwood, his enemy, if he had known how to have used it.
Thence calling Smith, the Auditor's clerk at the Temple, I by the
Exchange home, and there looked over my Tangier accounts with him, and so
to dinner, and then set him down again by a hackney, my coachman being
this day about breaking of my horses to the coach, they having never yet
drawn. Left my wife at Unthank's, and I to the Treasury, where we waited
on the Lords Commissioners about Sir D. Gawden's matters, and so took her
up again at night, and home to the office, and so home with W. Hewer,
and to talk about our quarrel with Middleton, and so to supper and to
bed. This day I hear, and am glad, that the King hath prorogued the
Parliament to October next; and, among other reasons, it will give me
time to go to France, I hope.
15th. Up, and to the Office, where sat all the morning, and the new
Treasurers there; and, for my life, I cannot keep Sir J. Minnes and
others of the Board from shewing our weakness, to the dishonour of the
Board, though I am not concerned but it do vex me to the heart to have it
before these people, that would be glad to find out all our weaknesses.
At noon Mrs. Mary Batelier with us, and so, after dinner, I with W. Hewer
all the afternoon till night beginning to draw up our answer to
Middleton, and it proves troublesome, because I have so much in my head
at a time to say, but I must go through with it. So at night to supper
and to bed.
16th. I did the like all day long, only a little at dinner, and so to
work again, and were at it till 2 in the morning, and so W. Hewer, who
was with me all day, home to his lodging, and I to bed, after we had
finished it.
17th. Up, and set my man Gibson and Mr. Fists to work to write it over
fair, while I all the morning at the office sitting. At noon home to
them, and all the afternoon looking over them and examining with W.
Hewer, and so about to at night I to bed, leaving them to finish the
writing it fair, which they did by sitting up most of the night, and so
home to bed.
18th. All the morning at the office about Sir W. Warren's accounts, my
mind full of my business, having before we met gone to Lord Brouncker,
and got him to read over my paper, who owns most absolute content in it,
and the advantage I have in it, and the folly of the Surveyor. At noon
home to dinner; and then again to the office a while, and so by hackney
coach to Brooke House, and there spoke with Colonel Thomson, I by order
carrying them [the Commissioners of Accounts] our Contract-books, from
the beginning to the end of the late war. I found him finding of errors
in a ship's book, where he shewed me many, which must end in the ruin, I
doubt, of the Controller, who found them not out in the pay of the ship,
or the whole Office. But I took little notice of them to concern myself
in them, but so leaving my books I home to the Office, where the office
met, and after some other business done, fell to mine, which the Surveyor
begun to be a little brisk at the beginning; but when I come to the point
to touch him, which I had all the advantages in the world to do, he
become as calm as a lamb, and owned, as the whole Board did, their
satisfaction, and cried excuse: and so all made friends; and their
acknowledgment put into writing, and delivered into Sir J. Minnes's hand,
to be kept there for the use of the Board, or me, when I shall call for
it; they desiring it might be so, that I might not make use of it to the
prejudice of the Surveyor, whom I had an advantage over, by his
extraordinary folly in this matter. But, besides this, I have no small
advantage got by this business, as I have put several things into my
letter which I should otherwise have wanted an opportunity of saying,
which pleases me mightily. So Middleton desiring to be friends,
I forgave him; and all mighty quiet, and fell to talk of other stories,
and there staid, all of us, till nine or ten at night, more than ever we
did in our lives before, together. And so home, where I have a new fight
to fight with my wife, who is under new trouble by some news she hath
heard of Deb.'s being mighty fine, and gives out that she has a friend
that gives her money, and this my wife believes to be me, and, poor
wretch! I cannot blame her, and therefore she run into mighty extremes;
but I did pacify all, and were mighty good friends, and to bed, and I
hope it will be our last struggle from this business, for I am resolved
never to give any new occasion, and great peace I find in my mind by it.
So to supper, she and I to bed.
19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon, eating
very little dinner, my wife and I by hackney to the King's playhouse, and
there, the pit being full, satin a box above, and saw "Catiline's
Conspiracy," yesterday being the first day: a play of much good sense and
words to read, but that do appear the worst upon the stage, I mean, the
least diverting, that ever I saw any, though most fine in clothes; and a
fine scene of the Senate, and of a fight, that ever I saw in my life.
But the play is only to be read, and therefore home, with no pleasure at
all, but only in sitting next to Betty Hall, that did belong to this
house, and was Sir Philip Howard's mistress; a mighty pretty wench,
though my wife will not think so; and I dare neither commend, nor be seen
to look upon her, or any other now, for fear of offending her. So, our
own coach coming for us, home, and to end letters, and so home, my wife
to read to me out of "The Siege of Rhodes," and so to supper, and to bed.
20th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, and then home, and
there found W. Joyce come to dine with me, as troublesome a talking
coxcombe as ever he was, and yet once in a year I like him well enough.
In the afternoon my wife and W. Hewer and I to White Hall, where they set
me down and staid till I had been with the Duke of York, with the rest of
us of the Office, and did a little business, and then the Duke of York in
good humour did fall to tell us many fine stories of the wars in
Flanders, and how the Spaniards are the [best] disciplined foot in the
world; will refuse no extraordinary service if commanded, but scorn to be
paid for it, as in other countries, though at the same time they will beg
in the streets: not a soldier will carry you a cloak-bag for money for
the world, though he will beg a penny, and will do the thing, if
commanded by his Commander. That, in the citadel of Antwerp, a soldier
hath not a liberty of begging till he hath served three years. They will
cry out against their King and Commanders and Generals, none like them in
the world, and yet will not hear a stranger say a word of them but he
will cut his throat. That, upon a time, some of the Commanders of their
army exclaiming against their Generals, and particularly the Marquis de
Caranen, the Confessor of the Marquis coming by and hearing them, he
stops and gravely tells them that the three great trades of the world
are, the lawyers, who govern the world; the churchmen, who enjoy the
world; and a sort of fools whom they call souldiers, who make it their
work to defend the world. He told us, too, that Turenne being now become
a Catholique, he is likely to get over the head of Colbert, their
interests being contrary; the latter to promote trade
[This reminds us of the famous reply, 'Laissez nous affaire', made
to Colbert by the French merchants, whose interests he thought to
promote by laws and regulations.--B.]
and the sea, which, says the Duke of York, is that that we have most
cause to fear; and Turenne to employ the King and his forces by land,
to encrease his conquests. Thence to the coach to my wife, and so home,
and there with W. Hewer to my office and to do some business, and so set
down my Journall for four or five days, and then home to supper and read
a little, and to bed. W. Hewer tells me to-day that he hears that the
King of France hath declared in print, that he do intend this next summer
to forbid his Commanders to strike--[Strike topsails]--to us, but that
both we and the Dutch shall strike to him; and that he hath made his
captains swear it already, that they will observe it: which is a great
thing if he do it, as I know nothing to hinder him.
21st. My own coach carrying me and my boy Tom, who goes with me in the
room of W. Hewer, who could not, and I dare not go alone, to the Temple,
and there set me down, the first time my fine horses ever carried me, and
I am mighty proud of them, and there took a hackney and to White Hall,
where a Committee of Tangier, but little to do, and so away home, calling
at the Exchange and buying several little things, and so home, and there
dined with my wife and people and then she, and W. Hewer, and I by
appointment out with our coach, but the old horses, not daring yet to use
the others too much, but only to enter them, and to the Temple, there to
call Talbot Pepys, and took him up, and first went into Holborne, and
there saw the woman that is to be seen with a beard. She is a little
plain woman, a Dane: her name, Ursula Dyan; about forty years old; her
voice like a little girl's; with a beard as much as any man I ever saw,
black almost, and grizly; they offered to shew my wife further
satisfaction if she desired it, refusing it to men that desired it there,
but there is no doubt but by her voice she is a woman; it begun to grow
at about seven years old, and was shaved not above seven months ago,
and is now so big as any man's almost that ever I saw; I say, bushy and
thick. It was a strange sight to me, I confess, and what pleased me
mightily. Thence to the Duke's playhouse, and saw "Macbeth." The King
and Court there; and we sat just under them and my Lady Castlemayne,
and close to the woman that comes into the pit, a kind of a loose gossip,
that pretends to be like her, and is so, something. And my wife, by my
troth, appeared, I think, as pretty as any of them; I never thought so
much before; and so did Talbot and W. Hewer, as they said, I heard, to
one another. The King and Duke of York minded me, and smiled upon me,
at the handsome woman near me but it vexed me to see Moll Davis, in the
box over the King's and my Lady Castlemayne's head, look down upon the
King, and he up to her; and so did my Lady Castlemayne once, to see who
it was; but when she saw her, she looked like fire; which troubled me.
The play done, took leave of Talbot, who goes into the country this
Christmas, and so we home, and there I to work at the office late,
and so home to supper and to bed.
22nd. At the office all the morning, and at noon to the 'Change,
thinking to meet with Langford about my father's house in Fleet Streete,
but I come too late, and so home to dinner, and all the afternoon at the
office busy, and at night home to supper and talk, and with mighty
content with my wife, and so to bed.
23rd. Met at the Office all the morning, and at noon to the 'Change, and
there met with Langford and Mr. Franke, the landlord of my father's house
in Fleet Streete, and are come to an arbitration what my father shall
give him to be freed of his lease and building the house again. Walked
up and down the 'Change, and among others discoursed with Sir John
Bankes, who thinks this prorogation will please all but the Parliament
itself, which will, if ever they meet, be vexed at Buckingham, who yet
governs all. He says the Nonconformists are glad of it, and, he
believes, will get the upperhand in a little time, for the King must
trust to them or nobody; and he thinks the King will be forced to it.
He says that Sir D. Gawden is mightily troubled at Pen's being put upon
him, by the Duke of York, and that he believes he will get clear of it,
which, though it will trouble me to have Pen still at the Office, yet I
shall think D. Gawden do well in it, and what I would advise him to,
because I love him. So home to dinner, and then with my wife alone
abroad, with our new horses, the beautifullest almost that ever I saw,
and the first time they ever carried her, and me but once; but we are
mighty proud of them. To her tailor's, and so to the 'Change, and laid
out three or four pounds in lace, for her and me; and so home, and there
I up to my Lord Brouncker, at his lodgings, and sat with him an hour,
on purpose to talk over the wretched state of this Office at present,
according to the present hands it is made up of; wherein he do fully
concur with me, and that it is our part not only to prepare for defending
it and ourselves, against the consequences of it, but to take the best
ways we can, to make it known to the Duke of York; for, till Sir
J. Minnes be removed, and a sufficient man brought into W. Pen's place,
when he is gone, it is impossible for this Office ever to support itself.
So home, and to supper and to bed.
24th. A cold day. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning alone at
the Office, nobody meeting, being the eve of Christmas. At noon home to
dinner, and then to the Office busy, all the afternoon, and at night home
to supper, and it being now very cold, and in hopes of a frost, I begin
this night to put on a waistcoat, it being the first winter in my whole
memory that ever I staid till this day before I did so. So to bed in
mighty good humour with my wife, but sad, in one thing, and that is for
my poor eyes.
25th (Christmas-day). Up, and continued on my waistcoat, the first day
this winter, and I to church, where Alderman Backewell, coming in late,
I beckoned to his lady to come up to us, who did, with another lady;
and after sermon, I led her down through the church to her husband and
coach, a noble, fine woman, and a good one, and one my wife shall be
acquainted with. So home, and to dinner alone with my wife, who, poor
wretch! sat undressed all day, till ten at night, altering and lacing of
a noble petticoat: while I by her, making the boy read to me the Life of
Julius Caesar, and Des Cartes' book of Musick
["Musicae Compendium." By Rene Des Cartes, Amsterdam, 1617;
rendered into English, London, 1653, 4to. The translator, whose
name did not appear on the title, was William, Viscount Brouncker,
Pepys's colleague, who proved his knowledge of music by the
performance.]
--the latter of which I understand not, nor think he did well that writ
it, though a most learned man. Then, after supper, I made the boy play
upon his lute, which I have not done twice before since he come to me;
and so, my mind in mighty content, we to bed.
26th. Lay long with pleasure, prating with my wife, and then up, and I
a little to the Office, and my head busy setting some papers and accounts
to rights, which being long neglected because of my eyes will take me up
much time and care to do, but it must be done. So home at noon to
dinner, and then abroad with my wife to a play, at the Duke of York's
house, the house full of ordinary citizens. The play was "Women
Pleased," which we had never seen before; and, though but indifferent,
yet there is a good design for a good play. So home, and there to talk,
and my wife to read to me, and so to bed.
27th (Lord's day). Walked to White Hall and there saw the King at
chapel; but staid not to hear anything, but went to walk in the Park,
with W. Hewer, who was with me; and there, among others, met with Sir
G. Downing, and walked with him an hour, talking of business, and how the
late war was managed, there being nobody to take care of it, and telling
how, when he was in Holland, what he offered the King to do, if he might
have power, and they would give him power, and then, upon the least word,
perhaps of a woman, to the King, he was contradicted again, and
particularly to the loss of all that we lost in Guinny. He told me that
he had so good spies, that he hath had the keys taken out of De Witt's
[The celebrated John de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland, who,
a few years afterwards, was massacred, with his brother Cornelius,
by the Dutch mob, enraged at their opposition to the elevation of
William of Orange to the Stadtholdership, when the States were
overrun by the French army, and the Dutch fleets beaten at sea by
the English. The murder of the De Witts forms one of the main
incidents of Alexandre Dumas's "Black Tulip."]
pocket when he was a-bed, and his closet opened, and papers brought to
him, and left in his hands for an hour, and carried back and laid in the
place again, and keys put into his pocket again. He says that he hath
always had their most private debates, that have been but between two or
three of the chief of them, brought to him in an hour after, and an hour
after that, hath sent word thereof to the King, but nobody here regarded
them. But he tells me the sad news, that he is out of all expectations
that ever the debts of the Navy will be paid, if the Parliament do not
enable the King to do it by money; all they can hope for to do out of the
King's revenue being but to keep our wheels a-going on present services,
and, if they can, to cut off the growing interest: which is a sad story,
and grieves me to the heart. So home, my coach coming for me, and there
find Balty and Mr. How, who dined with me; and there my wife and I fell
out a little about the foulness of the linen of the table, but were
friends presently, but she cried, poor heart! which I was troubled for,
though I did not give her one hard word. Dinner done, she to church,
and W. How and I all the afternoon talking together about my Lord
Sandwich's suffering his business of the prizes to be managed by Sir R.
Cuttance, who is so deep in the business, more than my Lord knows of,
and such a loggerhead, and under such prejudice, that he will, we doubt,
do my Lord much wrong. In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me
and talk, and spent the evening with much pleasure, and so to supper and
to bed.
28th. Up, called up by drums and trumpets; these things and boxes [??]
having cost me much money this Christmas already, and will do more. My
wife down by water to see her mother, and I with W. Hewer all day
together in my closet making some advance in the settling of my accounts,
which have been so long unevened that it troubles me how to set them
right, having not the use of my eyes to help me. My wife at night home,
and tells me how much her mother prays for me and is troubled for my
eyes; and I am glad to have friendship with them, and believe they are
truly glad to see their daughter come to live so well as she do. So
spent the night in talking, and so to supper and to bed.
29th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, and at noon to dinner, and
there, by a pleasant mistake, find my uncle and aunt Wight, and three
more of their company, come to dine with me to-day, thinking that they
had been invited, which they were not; but yet we did give them a pretty
good dinner, and mighty merry at the mistake. They sat most of the
afternoon with us, and then parted, and my wife and I out, thinking to
have gone to a play, but it was too far begun, and so to the 'Change, and
there she and I bought several things, and so home, with much pleasure
talking, and then to reading, and so to supper and to bed.
30th. Up, and vexed a little to be forced to pay 40s. for a glass of my
coach, which was broke the other day, nobody knows how, within the door,
while it was down; but I do doubt that I did break it myself with my
knees. After dinner, my wife and I to the Duke's playhouse, and there
did see King Harry the Eighth; and was mightily pleased, better than I
ever expected, with the history and shows of it. We happened to sit by
Mr. Andrews, our neighbour, and his wife, who talked so fondly to his
little boy. Thence my wife and I to the 'Change; but, in going, our
neere horse did fling himself, kicking of the coachbox over the pole; and
a great deal of trouble it was to get him right again, and we forced to
'light, and in great fear of spoiling the horse, but there was no hurt.
So to the 'Change, and then home, and there spent the evening talking,
and so to supper and to bed.
31st. Up, and at the Office all the morning. At noon Capt. Ferrers and
Mr. Sheres
[Henry Sheres accompanied Lord Sandwich in his embassy to Spain, and
returned to England in September, 1667, bearing letters from the
ambassador (see September 8th, 22nd, 27th). He was an officer in
the Ordnance, and served under Lord Dartmouth at the demolition of
the Mole at Tangier in 1683. He was knighted about 1684. He
translated Polybius (2 vols. 8vo., 1693), and also some of the
"Dialogues" of Lucian, included in the translation published in 1711
(3 vols. 8vo.). Pepys bequeathed him a ring, and he died about
1713.]
come to me to dinner, who did, and pretty pleased with their talk of
Spayne; but my wife did not come down, I suppose because she would not,
Captain Ferrers being there, to oblige me by it. They gone, after
dinner, I to the office, and then in the evening home, being the last day
of the year, to endeavour to pay all bills and servants' wages, &c.,
which I did almost to L5 that I know that I owe in the world, but to the
publique; and so with great pleasure to supper and to bed, and, blessed
be God! the year ends, after some late very great sorrow with my wife by
my folly, yet ends, I say, with great mutual peace and content, and
likely to last so by my care, who am resolved to enjoy the sweet of it,
which I now possess, by never giving her like cause of trouble. My
greatest trouble is now from the backwardness of my accounts, which I
have not seen the bottom of now near these two years, so that I know not
in what condition I am in the world, but by the grace of God, as far as
my eyes will give me leave, I will do it.
ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:
Craft and cunning concerning the buying and choosing of horses
Did see the knaveries and tricks of jockeys
Hath not a liberty of begging till he hath served three years
He told me that he had so good spies
Laissez nous affaire--Colbert
Nonconformists do now preach openly in houses
Offered to shew my wife further satisfaction if she desired
Seeing that he cared so little if he was out
Tell me that I speak in my dreams
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by Samuel Pepys, Unabridged, transcribed by Bright, edited by Wheatley