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 THE DEABY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
 
 THE DIARY 
 
 OF 
 
 SAMUEL PEPTS 
 
 With selections from his correspondence, and an 
 introduction to each 'volume 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 SAMUEL PEPYS was born on the 23rd of February, 
 1633, the son of a tailor. He went to school for 
 a little while at Huntingdon, then at St. Paul's, in 
 London, and from St. Paul's School went, as a sizar, 
 to Trinity College, Cambridge, becoming not long 
 afterwards a pensioner at Magdalene. He ob- 
 tained at College a scholarship, and also a public 
 rebuke for indulgence in wine. At the age of 
 twenty-two, Samuel Pepys married a beautiful 
 girl of fifteen, the daughter of a poor Huguenot 
 refugee. 
 
 There was an old family relation between Samuel 
 Pepys and Sir Edward Montagu, afterwards Earl 
 of Sandwich ; Montagu's mother having married 
 Pepys's grandfather. Sir Edward Montagu, there- 
 
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 6 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 fore, gave the young husband employment in liis 
 household. Montagu, eight years older than Pepys, 
 was a sailor who, under the Commonwealth, had 
 served with Blake in the Mediterranean, and had 
 commanded a fleet in the North Sea. It was he 
 also who at the Restoration brought Charles the 
 Second to England. He was still serving the 
 Commonwealth when he befriended Pepys, and 
 obtained for him employment as a clerk in the 
 Army Pay Office. 
 
 This was Samuel Pepys's position, and his home, 
 in Axe Yard, Westminster, was but a poor one, 
 when he began, in January, 1 6GO, to keep in cipher 
 his delightful Diary, which is of equal interest as a 
 frank revelation of his personal weaknesses (not by 
 any means intended for the public eye), and as a 
 register of many details that, however trivial and 
 amusing, are of great historical and literary value. 
 In March, 1660, Pepys's friend Montagu made him 
 Secretary to the Generals at sea. In June, Montagu
 
 INTRODUCTION. 7 
 
 secured for him the office of Clerk of tAe Acts 
 of the Navy. He had to pay to his predecessor an 
 annuity of nearly the whole of the original salary, 
 but the original salary was trebled. Pepys had 
 secured the goodwill of the King's brother, the 
 Duke of York. In July he became Clerk of the 
 Privy Seal, with substantial fees, and proceeded to 
 his degree of M.A. at Cambridge. Two months 
 later he was a Justice of the Peace, and had estab- 
 lished himself in a house in Seething Lane. Other 
 offices were entrusted to him. He prospered by 
 the goodwill of the Duke of York, and of Edward 
 Montagu, who had become after the Restoration 
 Earl of Sandwich ; and in his public life he secured 
 good offices by deserving them, for, with all his 
 whims and weaknesses, Pepys was a man who did 
 his work. The Duke of York cared really about 
 the Navy, and found in Pepys a faithful and 
 efficient servant. 
 
 In March, 1665, Pepys was made Treasurer to
 
 8 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 the Tangier Commission, and had the contract for 
 victualling the garrison. In the plague year, 1665, 
 Pepys was the only man in the Navy Office who 
 stayed in London by his work, and did duty for 
 other men, besides his own. In the next year, 
 during the Fire of London, he was full of serviceable 
 energy. Weakness of sight caused Pepys to cease 
 keeping his Diary on the 31st May, 1669. It 
 extends, therefore, over a little more than nine 
 years; begun when he was about twenty-seven 
 years old, and finished when his age was thirty- 
 six. But he lived on to the age of seventy. 
 
 Within a year after the discontinuance of 
 Pepys's Diary his wife died. Two years later, 
 in 1672, he was made Secretary to the Admiralty. 
 In 1673 he first entered Parliament. As a 
 favourite of James he fell into trouble now and 
 then, through accusations by the Protestants, and 
 he -was sent to the Tower as a Papist in 1679, 
 accused of secret correspondence with France. In
 
 INTRODUCTION, 9 
 
 spite of all endeavours to sustain the accusations 
 they broke down, and he was released in February, 
 1680. In 1684 Samuel Pepys was elected Presi- 
 dent of the Royal Society. At the Revolution 
 Pepys lost his offices ; and he had lost much of 
 his acquired wealth when he died, on the 26th of 
 May, 1703, and was buried by his wife's side in 
 St. Olave's, Crutched Friars. He left his books 
 and papers to Magdalene College, Cambridga 
 
 H. M
 
 PEEFACE TO THE OEIGINAL 
 EDITION. 
 
 IN submitting the following pages to the public, I feel 
 that it is incumbent upon me to explain by what 
 circumstances the materials from which the work lias 
 been compiled were placed at my disposal. The 
 original Diary, comprehending six volumes, closely 
 written in shorthand by Mr. Pepys himself, belonged 
 to the valuable collection of books and prints, be- 
 queathed by him to Magdalene College, Cambridge, 
 and had remained there unexamiucd, till the appoint- 
 ment of my brother, the present Master, under whose 
 auspices the MS. was deciphered by Mr. Joliu Smith, 
 with a view to its publication. 
 
 My brother's time, however, being too much en- 
 grossed by more important duties to admit of his 
 editing the work, the task of preparing it for the press 
 was undertaken by me at his request. 
 
 The Diary commences January 1st, 1659-60, and after 
 being regularly kept for ten years, it is brought to a 
 sudden conclusion, owing to the weak stale of Mr. 
 Pepys's eyes, which precluded him from continuing or
 
 12 PBEFACE XO THE ORIGINAL EDITION. 
 
 resuming the occupation. As he was in the habit of 
 recording the most trifling occurrences of his life, it 
 became absolutely necessary to curtail the MS. 
 materially, and in many instances to condense the 
 matter ; but the greatest care has been taken to pre- 
 serve the original meaning, without making a single 
 addition, excepting where from the shorthand being de- 
 fective, some alteration appeared absolutely necessary. 
 It may be objected by those who are not aware how 
 little is known from authentic sources of the history of 
 the stage about the period of the Restoration, that the 
 notices of theatrical performances occur too frequently ; 
 but as many of the incidents recorded connected with 
 this subject are not to be met with elsewhere, I 
 thought myself justified in retaining them, at the risk 
 of fatiguing those readers who have no taste for the 
 concerns of the Drama. The general details may also, 
 in some instances, even in their abridged form, be 
 considered as too minute ; nor is it an easy task, in an 
 undertaking of this sort, to please everybody's taste : 
 my principal study in making the selection, however, 
 has been to omit nothing of public interest; and to 
 introduce, at the same time, a great variety of other 
 topics, less important, perhaps, but tending in some 
 degree to illustrate the manners and habits of the age. 
 In justice to Mr. Pepys's literary reputation, the 
 reader is forewarned that he is not to expect to find in 
 the Diary accuracy of style or finished composition.
 
 PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION. 13 
 
 He should rather consider the work as a collechon of 
 reminiscences hastily thrown together at the end of 
 each succeeding day, for the exclusive perusal of the 
 author. 
 
 The Journal contains the most unquestionable 
 evidences of veracity ; and, as the writer made no 
 scruple of committing his most secret thoughts to 
 paper, encouraged no doubt by the confidence which he 
 derived from the use of shorthand, perhaps there never 
 was a publication more implicitly to be relied upon 
 for the authenticity of its statements and the exactness 
 with which every fact is detailed. Upon this point, I 
 can venture to speak with the less hesitation, having, 
 in preparing the sheets for the press, had occasion to 
 compare many parts of the Diary with different 
 accounts of the same transactions recorded elsewhere ; 
 and in no instance could I detect any material error or 
 wilful misrepresentation. 
 
 In justice to the Reverend John Smith (with whom 
 I am not personally acquainted), it may be added that 
 he appears to have performed the task allotted to him, 
 of deciphering the shorthand Diary, with diligence 
 and fidelity, and to have spared neither time nor 
 trouble in the undertaking. 
 
 The best account of Mr. Pepys occurs in the supple- 
 ment to "Collier's Historical Dictionary," published 
 soon after his death, and written, as I have reason to 
 believe, by his relative Roger Gale. Some particular?!
 
 14 PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION. 
 
 may also be obtained from Knight's " Life of Dean 
 Colet ; " Chalmers's " Biographical Dictionary ; " 
 Cole's MSS. iu the British Museum ; the MSS. in the 
 Bodleian and Pepysian Libraries, and the " Cockerell 
 
 Papers." 
 
 BRAYBROOKE. 
 
 Audlty End, May 14, 1825.
 
 PEPYS'S DIARY. 
 
 1660-1661. 
 
 1659-60. BLESSED bo God, at the end of the last 
 year I was in very good health, without any sense of 
 my old pain, but upon taking of cold. I lived in Axe 
 Yard, having my wife and servant Jane, and no other 
 in family than us three. 
 
 The condition of the State was thus : viz., the Rump, 
 after being disturbed by my Lord Lambert, was 
 lately returned to sit again. The officers of the Army 
 all forced to yield. Lawson lies still in the river, and 
 Mpnk is with his army in Scotland. Only my Lord 
 Lambert is not yet come into the Parliament, nor is it 
 expected that he will without being forced to it. The 
 new Common Council of the City do speak very high ; 
 and had sent to Monk, their sword-bearer, to acquaint 
 him with their desires for a free and full Parliament, 
 which is at present the desires, and the hopes, and the 
 expectations of all. Twenty-two of the old secluded 
 members liaviug been at tlie House-door the l.i*t week 
 to demand entrance, but it was denied them; un<l it is 
 believed that neither they nor the people will be 
 satisfied till the House be filled. My own private
 
 16 PEPYS's D1ABY. [January, 
 
 condition very handsome, and esteemed rich, but 
 indeed very poor ; besides my goods of my house, and 
 my office, which at present is somewhat certain. Mr. 
 Downing master of my office. 
 
 Jan. 1 (Lord's day). This morning (we living lately 
 in the garret) I rose, put on my suit with great 
 skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes bu\ 
 them. "Went to Mr. Gunning's chapel at Exeter 
 House, where he made a very good sermon upon these 
 words: "That in the fulness of time God sent His 
 Son, made of a woman," &c. ; showing, that, by 
 "made under the law," is meant the circumcision, 
 which is solemnised this day. Dined at home in the 
 garret, where my wife dressed the remains of a turkey, 
 and in the doing of it she burned her hand. I stayed 
 at home the whole afternoon, looking over my 
 accounts ; then went with my wife to my father's, and 
 in going observed the great posts which the City work- 
 men set up at the Conduit in Fleet Street. 
 
 2nd. Walked a great while in Westminster Hall, 
 where I heard that Lambert was coming up to London ; 
 that my Lord Fairfax was in the head of the Irish 
 brigade, but it was not certain what he would declare 
 for. The House was to-day upon finishing the act for 
 the Council of State, which they did; and for the 
 indemnity to the soldiers ; and were to sit again there- 
 upon in the afternoon. Great talk that many places 
 had declared for a free Parliament ; and it is believed
 
 1660.] PEPYS'S DIARY. 17 
 
 that they will be forced to fill up the House with the 
 old members. From the Hall I called at home, and so 
 went to Mr. Crowe's (my wife she was to go to her 
 father's), and Mr. Moore and I and another gentle- 
 man went out and drank a cup of ale together in the 
 new market, and there I ate some bread and cheese for 
 my dinner. 
 
 3rd. To Whitehall, where I understood that the 
 Parliament had passed the act for indemnity for the 
 soldiers and officers that would come in, in so many 
 days, and that my Lord Lambert should have benefit 
 of the said act. They had also voted that all vacancies 
 in the House, by the death of any of the old members, 
 should be filled up ; but those that are living shall not 
 be called in. 
 
 4th. Strange the difference of men's talk ! Some say 
 that Lambert must of necessity yield up ; others, that 
 he is very strong, and that the Fifth Monarchy-men 
 will stick to him, if he declares for a free Parliament. 
 Chillington was sent yesterday to him with the vote of 
 pardon and indemnity from the Parliament. Went and 
 walked in the Hall, where I heard that the Parliament 
 spent this day in fasting and prayer ; and in the after- 
 noon came letters from the North, that brought certain 
 news that my Lord Lambert his forces were all forsak- 
 ing him, and that he was left with only fifty horse, and 
 that he did now declare for the Parliament himself ; and 
 that my Lord Fairfax did also rest satisfied, and had laid
 
 18 PEPYS'S DIAAY. [January, 
 
 down his arms, and that what he had done was only 
 to secure the country against my Lord Lambert, his 
 raising of money, and free quarter. 
 
 5th. I dined with Mr. Shepley, at my Lord's lodgings, 
 upon his turkey-pie. And so to my office again ; where 
 the Excise money was brought, and some of it told to 
 soldiers till it was dark. Then I went home, after 
 writing to my Lord the news that the Parliament had 
 this night voted that the members that were discharged 
 from sitting in the years 1648 and 1649 were duly 
 discharged; and that there should be writs issued 
 presently for the calling of others in their places, and 
 that Monk and Fairfax were commanded up to town, 
 and that the Prince's lodgings were to be provided for 
 Monk at Whitehall. Mr. Fage and I did discourse 
 concerning public business : and he told me it is true 
 the City had not time enough to do much, but they had 
 resolved to shake off the soldiers ; and that unless there 
 be a free Parliament chosen, he did believe there are 
 half the Common Council will not levy any money by 
 order of this Parliament. 
 
 6th. This morning Mr. Shepley and I did eat our 
 breakfast at Mrs. Harper's (my brother John being 
 with me), upon a cold turkey-pie and a goose. 
 
 9th. I rose eaiiy this morning, and looked over and 
 corrected my* brother John's speech, which he is to 
 make the next opposition. I met with W. Simons, 
 Muddimnu, and Jack Price, and weut with them to
 
 1660.1 PEPYS'S DIARY. 19 
 
 Harper's, and stayed till two of the clock in /he after- 
 noon. I found Muddiman a good scholar, an arch 
 rogue ; and owns that though he writes new hooks for 
 the Parliament, yet he did declare that he did it only 
 to get money; and did talk very basely of many of 
 them. Among other things, W. Simons told me how 
 his uncle Scobell was on Saturday last called to the 
 bar, for entering in the journal of the House, for the 
 year 1653, these words : " This day his Excellence the 
 Lord G. Cromwell dissolved this House ; " which 
 words the Parliament voted a forgery, and demanded 
 of him how they came to be entered. He said that 
 they were his own handwriting, and that he did it by 
 rights of his office and the practice of his predecessor ; 
 and that the intent of the practice was to let posterity 
 know how such and such a Parliament was dissolved, 
 whether by the command of the King, or by their own 
 neglect, as the last House of Lords was ; and that to 
 this end he had said and writ that it was dissolved by 
 his Excellence the Lord G. ; and that for the word 
 dissolved he never at the time did hear of any other 
 term ; and desired pardon if he would not dare to make 
 a word himself what it was six years after, before they 
 came themselves to call it an interruption ; that they 
 were so little satisfied with this answer, that they did 
 choose a committee to report to the House whether this 
 crime of Mr. ScobelTs did come within the act of 
 indemnity or no. Thence into the Hall, where I heard
 
 20 PEPYS'S DIARY. [January, 
 
 for certain that Monk was coming to London, and that 
 Bradshaw's lodgings were preparing for him. I heard 
 Sir H. Yane was this day voted out of the House, and 
 to sit no more there ; and that he would retire himself 
 to his house at Baby, as also all the rest of the nine 
 officers that had their commissions formerly taken away 
 from them, were commanded to their furthest houses 
 from London during the pleasure of the Parliament. 
 
 10th. To the Coffee-house, where were a great 
 confluence of gentlemen, viz., Mr. Harrington, Poultny, 
 chairman, Gold, Dr. Petty, &c., where admirable dis- 
 course till 9 at night. Thence with Doling to Mother 
 Lam's, who told me how this day Scott was made 
 Intelligencer, and that the rest of the members that 
 were objected against last night were to be heard this 
 day se'nnight. 
 
 13th. Coming in the morning to my office, I met 
 with Mr. Fage and took him to the Swan. He told me 
 how he, Haselrigge, and Morley the last night began 
 at my Lord Mayor's to exclaim against the City of 
 London, saying that they had forfeited their charter. 
 And how the Chamberlain of the City did take them 
 down, letting them know how much they were formerly 
 beholding to the City, &c. He also told me that Monk's 
 letter that came by the sword-bearer was a cunning 
 piece, and that which they did not much trust to; 
 but they were resolved to make no more applications 
 to the Parliament, nor to pay any money, unless the
 
 1660.] PEPYS'8 DIARY. 21 
 
 secluded members be brought in, or a fra Parliament 
 chosen. 
 
 16th. In the morning I went up to Mr. Crewe's, who 
 did talk to me concerning things of State, and expressed 
 his mind how just it was that the secluded members 
 should come to sit again. From thence to my office, 
 where nothing to do; but Mr. Downing came and 
 found me all alone ; and did mention to me his going 
 back into Holland, and did ask me whether I would go 
 or no, but gave me little encouragement, but bid me 
 consider of it ; and asked me whether I did not think 
 that Mr. Hawley could perform the work of my office 
 alone. I confess I was at a great loss, all the day after, 
 to bethink myself how to carry this business. I stayed 
 up till the bell-man came by with his bell just under 
 my window as I was writing of this very line, and cried, 
 "Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy 
 morning." 
 
 17th. In our way to Kensington we understood how 
 that my Lord Chesterfield had killed another gentleman 
 about half an hour before, and was fled. I went to the 
 Coffee Club and heard very good discourse ; it was in 
 answer to Mr. Harrington's answer, who said that the 
 state of the Roman government was not a settled 
 government, and so it was no wonder that the balance 
 of prosperity was in one hand, and the command in 
 another, it being therefore always in a posture of war ; 
 but it was carried by ballot that it was a steady govern-
 
 22 PEPYS'S DIAEY. [January, 
 
 ment, though it is true by the voices it had been carried 
 before that it was an unsteady government; ao to- 
 morrow it is to be proved by the opponents that the 
 balance lay in one hand, and the government in another. 
 Thence I went to Westminster, and met Shaw and 
 Washington, who told me how this day Sydenham was 
 voted out of the House for sitting any more this 
 Parliament, and that Salloway was voted out likewise 
 and sent to the Tower, during the pleasure of the 
 House. At Harper's Jack Price told me, among other 
 things, how much the Protector is altered, though he 
 would seem to bear out his trouble very well, yet he is 
 scarce able to talk sense with a man ; and how he will 
 say that, " Who should a man trust, if he may not trust 
 to a brother and an uncle?" and "how much those 
 men have to answer before God Almighty for theii 
 playing the knave with him as they did." He told me 
 also that there was 100,000 offered, and would have 
 been taken, for his restitution, had not tlio Parliament 
 come in as they did again ; and that he do believe that 
 the Protector will live to give a testimony of his 
 valour and revenge yet before he dies, and that the 
 Protector will say so himself sometimes. 
 
 18th. All the world is at a loss to think what Monk 
 will do : the City saying that he will be for them, and 
 the Parliament saying he will be for them. 
 
 19th. This morning I was sent for to Mr. Downing, 
 and at his bedside he told me that he had a kindness
 
 1660.] PEPYS'S 1IAEY. 23 
 
 for me, and that he thought that he had done me one ; 
 and that was, that he had got me to be one of the 
 Clerks of the Council ; at which I was a little stumbled, 
 and could not tell what to do, whether to thank him or 
 no; but by-and-by I did, but not very heartily, for I 
 feared that his doing of it was only to ease himself of 
 the salary which he gives me. Mr. Moore and I went 
 to the French ordinary, where Mr. Downing this day 
 feasted Sir Arth. Haselrigge, and a great many moro 
 of the Parliament, and did stay to put him in mind of 
 me. Here he gave me a note to go and invite some 
 other members to dinner to-morrow. So I went to 
 Whitehall, and did stay at Marsh's with Simons, 
 Luellin, and all the rest of the Clerks of the Council, 
 who I hear are all turned out, only the two Leighs, and 
 they do all tell me that my name was mentioned last 
 night, but that nothing was done in it. 
 
 20th. In the morning I met Lord Widdrington in the 
 street, going to seal the patents for the Judges to-day, 
 and so could not come to dinner. This day three 
 citizens of London went to meet Monk from the 
 Common Council. Received my 25 due by bill for 
 my trooper's pay. At the Mitre, in Fleet Street, in 
 our way calling on Mr. Fage, who told me how the 
 City have some hopes of Monk. This day Lenthall 
 took his chair again, and the House resolved a declara- 
 tion to be brought in on Mour\ay to satisfy the world 
 what they intend to do.
 
 24 PEPYS'S DIABY. [January, 
 
 22nd. To church in the afternoon to Mr. Herring, 
 where a lazy poor sermon. This day I began to put on 
 buckles to my shoes. 
 
 23rd. This day the Parliament sat late, and resolved 
 of the declaration to be printed for the people's satis- 
 faction, promising them a great many good things. 
 
 24th. Came Mr. Southerne, clerk to Mr. Blackburne, 
 and with him Lambert, lieutenant of my Lord's ship, 
 and brought with them the declaration that came out 
 to-day from the Parliament, wherein they declare for 
 law and gospel, and for tithes; but I do not find 
 people apt to believe them. This day the Parliament 
 gave orders that the late Committee of Safety should 
 come before them this day se'nnight, and all their 
 papers, and their model of Government that they had 
 made, to be brought in with them. 
 
 25th. Coming home heard that in Cheapside there 
 had been but a little before a gibbet set up, and the 
 picture of Huson hung upon it in the middle of the 
 street. I called at Paul's Churchyard, where I bought 
 Buxtorf 's Hebrew Grammar, and read a declaration of 
 the gentlemen of Northampton which came out this 
 afternoon. 
 
 26th. Called for some papers at Whitehall for 
 Mr. Downing, one of which was an order of the 
 Council for 1,800 per annum, to be paid monthly, and 
 the other two orders to the Commissioners of Customs 
 to let his goods pass free. Home from my office to my
 
 16601 1 PEPYS'S DIARY. 25 
 
 Lord's lodgings, where my wife had got ready a rery 
 fine dinner viz., a dish of marrow-bones; a leg of 
 mutton ; a loin of veal ; a dish of fowl, three pullets, 
 and a dozen of larks all in a dish ; a great tart, a neat's 
 tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns and 
 cheese. My company was my father, my uncle Fenner, 
 his two sons, Mr. Pierce, and all their wives, and my 
 brother Tom. The news this day is a letter that speaks 
 absolutely Monk's concurrence with this Parliament, 
 and nothing else, which yet I hardly believe. 
 
 28th. I went to Mr. Downing, who told me that he 
 was resolved to be gone for Holland this morning. Sc 
 I to my office again, and dispatch my business therr , 
 and came with Mr. Hawley to Mr. Downing's lodgings, 
 and took Mr. Squib from Whitehall in a coach thither 
 with me, and there we waited in his chamber a great 
 while, till he came in ; and in the meantime sent all his 
 things to the barge that lays at Charing Cross stairs. 
 Then came he in, and took a very civil leave of me, 
 beyond my expectations, for I was afraid that he would 
 have told me something of removing me from my 
 office; but he did not, but that he would do me any 
 service that lay in his power. So I went down and 
 sent a porter to my house for my best fur cap, but he 
 coming too late with it I did not present it to him ; and 
 so I returned and went to Heaven, where Luellin and 
 I dined. 
 
 29th. In the morning I went to Mr. Gunning's,
 
 26 PEPYS'S DIABY. [January, 
 
 where he made an excellent sermon uptn the 2nd of 
 the Galatians, about the difference that fell between 
 St. Paul and St. Peter, whereby he did prove, that, 
 contrary to the doctrine of the Roman Church, St. 
 Paul did never own any dependence, or that he was 
 inferior to St. Peter, but that they were equal, only 
 one a particular charge of preaching to the Jews, and 
 the other to the Gentiles. 
 
 30th. This morning, before I was up, T fell a-singing 
 of my song, " Great, good and just," &c. and put my- 
 self thereby in mind that this was the fatal day, now 
 ten years since, his Majesty died. There seems now 
 to be a general cease of talk, it being taken for granted 
 that Monk do resolve to stand to the Parliament, and 
 nothing else. 
 
 81st. After dinner to Westminster Hall, where all 
 we clerks had orders to wait upon the Committee, at 
 the Star-chamber that is to try Colonel Jones, and to 
 give an account what money we had paid him ; but the 
 Committee did not sit to-day. Called in at Harper's 
 with Mr. Pulford, servant to Mr. "Waterhouse, who 
 tells me, that whereas my Lord Meetwood should have 
 answered to the Parliament to-day, ho wrote a letter 
 and desired a little more time, he being a great way 
 out of town. And how that he is quite ashamed of 
 himself, and confesses how he had deserved this, for 
 his baseness to his brother. And that he is like to pay 
 part of the money, paid out of the Exchequer during
 
 Feb., 1660.] PEPYS'S DIABY. 27 
 
 the Committee of Safety, out of his own purse again, 
 which I am glad on. I could find nothing in Mr. 
 Downing's letter, which Hawley brought me concern- 
 ing my office ; but I could discern that Hawley had a 
 mind that I would get to be Clerk of the Council, I 
 suppose that he might have the greater salary : but I 
 think it not safe yet to change this for a public employ- 
 ment. 
 
 February 1. Took Gammer East, and James the 
 porter, a soldier, to my Lord's lodgings, who told me 
 how they were drawn into the field to-day, and that 
 they were ordered to march away to-morrow to make 
 room for General Monk; but they did shout their 
 Colonel Fitch and the rest of the officers out of the 
 field, and swore they would not go without their money, 
 and if they would not give it them, they would go 
 whero they might have it, and that was the City. So 
 the Colonel went to the Parliament, and commanded 
 what money could be got, to be got against to-morrow 
 for them, and all the rest of the soldiers in town, who 
 in all places made a mutiny this day, and do agree 
 together. 
 
 2nd. To my office, where I found all the officers of 
 the regiments in town, waiting to receive money that 
 their soldiers might go out of town, and what was in 
 the Exchequer they had. Harper, Luellin, and I went 
 to the Temple to Mr. Calthrop's chamber, and from 
 thence had his man by water to London Bridge to Mr.
 
 28 PEPYS'S DIAET. [February, 
 
 Calthrop, a grocer, and received 60 for my Lord. In 
 our way we talked with our waterman, White, who 
 told us how the watermen had lately been abused by 
 some that had a desire to get in to be watermen to the 
 State, and had lately presented an address of nine or 
 ten thousand hands to stand by this Parliament, when 
 it was only told them that it was a petition against 
 hackney coaches ; and that to-day they had put out 
 another to undeceive the world and to clear themselves. 
 After I had received the money we went homewards, 
 but over against Somerset House, hearing the noise of 
 guns, we landed and found the Strand full of soldiers. 
 So I took my money aud went to Mrs. Johnson, my 
 Lord's sempstress, and giving her my money to lay up, 
 Doling and I went up-stairs to a window, and looked 
 out, and saw the foot face the horse and beat them back, 
 and stood bawling and calling in the street for a free 
 Parliament and money. By-and-by a drum was heard 
 to beat a march coming towards them, and they got all 
 ready again and faced them, and they proved to be of 
 the same mind with them ; and so' they made a great 
 deal of joy to see one another. After all this I went 
 home on foot to lay up my money, and change my 
 stockings and shoes. I this day left off niy great skirt 
 suit, and put on my white suit with silver lace coat, 
 and went over to Harper's, where I met with W. 
 Simons, Doling, Luellin, and three merchants, one of 
 which had occasion to use a porter, so they sent for one
 
 1M0.1 PEPYS'S DIABY. 29 
 
 and James the soldier came, who told us how they had 
 been all day and night upon their guard at St. James's, 
 and that through the whole town they did resolve to 
 stand to what they had began, and that to-morrow he 
 did believe they would go into the City, and be 
 received there. After this we went to a sport called 
 selling of a horse for a dish of eggs and herrings, and 
 sat talking there till almost twelve at night. 
 
 3rd. Drank my morning draught at Harper's, and was 
 told there that the soldiers were all quiet upon promise 
 of pay. Thence to St. James's Park, back to White- 
 nail, where in a guard-chamber I saw about thirty or 
 forty 'prentices of the City, who were taken at twelve 
 o'clock last night and brought prisoners hither. 
 Thence to my office, where I paid a little more money 
 to some of the soldiers under Lieut.-Col. Miller (who 
 held out the Tower against the Parliament after it was 
 taken away from Fitch by the Committee of Safety, 
 and yet he continued in his office). About noon Mrs. 
 Turner came to speak with me and Joyce, and I took 
 them and shewed them the manner of the Houses sitting, 
 the doorkeeper very civilly opening the door for us. 
 We went walking all over Whitehall, whither General 
 Monk was newly come, and we saw all his forces 
 march by in very good plight and stout officers. After 
 dinner I went to hear news, but only found that the 
 Parliament House was most of them with Monk at 
 Whitehall, and that in his passing through the town
 
 30 PEPYS'S DIARY. t /Vruary, 
 
 he had many calls to him for a free Parliament, biit 
 little other welcome. I saw in the Palace Yard how 
 unwilling some of the old soldiers were yet to go out 
 of town without their money, and swore if they had it 
 not in three days, as they were promised, they would 
 do them more mischief in the country than if they had 
 staid here ; and that is very likely, the country being 
 all discontented. The town and guards are already 
 full of Monk's soldiers. 
 
 4th. All the news to-day is, that the Parliament this 
 morning voted the House to be made up four hundred 
 forthwith. 
 
 6th. To Westminster, where we found the soldiers 
 all set in the Palace Yard, to make way for General 
 Monk to come to the House. I stood upon the steps 
 and saw Mouk go by, he making observance to the 
 judges as he went along. 
 
 7th. To the Hall, where in the Palace I saw Monk's 
 soldiers abuse Billing and all the Quakers, that were at 
 a meeting-place there, and indeed the soldiers did use 
 them very roughly, and were to blame. This day Mr. 
 Crewe told me that my Lord St. John is for a free 
 Parliament, and that he is very great with Monk, who 
 hath now the absolute command and power to do any- 
 thing that he hath a mind to do. 
 
 9th. Before I wai out of my bed, I heard the soldiers 
 very busy in the morning, getting their horses ready 
 when they lay at Hilton's, but I knew not then their
 
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 meaning in so doing. In the Hall I understand how 
 Monk is this morning gone into London with his army ; 
 and Mr. Fage told me that he does believe that Monk 
 is gone to secure some of the Common Council of the 
 City, who were very high yesterday there, and did vote 
 that they would not pay any taxes till the House was 
 filled up. I went to my office, where I wrote to my 
 Lord after I had been at the Upper Bench, where Sir 
 Robert Pye this morning came to desire his discharge 
 from the Tower ; but it could not be granted. I called 
 at Mr. Harper's, who told me how Monk had this day 
 clapt up many of the Common Council, and that the 
 Parliament had voted that he should pull down their 
 gates and portcullisses, their posts and their chains, 
 which he do intend to do, and do lie in the City all 
 night. 
 
 To Westminster Hall, where I heard an action very 
 finely pleaded between my Lord Dorset and some other 
 noble persons, his lady and other ladies of quality 
 being there, and it was about 330 per annum, that 
 was to be paid to a poor Spittal, which was given by 
 some of his predecessors, and given on his side. 
 
 10th. Mr. Fage told me what Monk had done in the 
 City, how he had pulled down the most part of the 
 gates and chains that they could break down, and that 
 he was now gone back to Whitehall. The City look 
 mighty blank, and cannot tell what in the world to 
 do; the Parliament having this day ordered that the
 
 32 PEPYS'S DIARY. [February, 
 
 Common Council sit no more, but that new ones be 
 chosen according to what qualifications they shall give 
 them. 
 
 llth. I heard the news of a letter from Monk, who 
 was now gone into the City again, and did resolve to 
 stand for the sudden filling up of the House, and ii 
 was very strange how the countenance of men in the 
 Hall was all changed with joy in half an hour's time. 
 So I went up to the lobby, where I saw the Speaker 
 reading of the letter ; and after it was read, Sir A. 
 Haselrigge came out very angry, and Billiug standing 
 at the door, took him by the arm, and cried, " Thou 
 man, will thy beast carry thee no longer p thou must 
 fall!" We took coach for the City to Guildhall, 
 where the Hall was full of people expecting Monk and 
 Lord Mayor to come thither, and all very joyful. Met 
 Monk coming out of the chamber where he had been 
 with the Mayor and Aldermen, but such a shout I 
 never heard in all my life, crying out, " God bless 
 your Excellence." Here I met with Mr. Lock, and 
 took him to an ale-house : when we were come together, 
 lie told us the substance of the letter that went from 
 Monk to the Parliament; wherein after complaints 
 that he and his officers were put upon such offices 
 against the City as they could not do with any content 
 or honour, it states, that there are many members now 
 in the House that were of the late tyrannical Com- 
 mittee of Safety. That Lambert and Yane are now in
 
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 town, contrary to the vote of Parliament. That many 
 in the House do press for new oaths to be put upon 
 men ; whereas we have more cause to be sorry for the 
 many oaths that we have already taken and broken. 
 That the late petition of the fanatic people presented 
 by Barebone, for the imposing of an oath upon all 
 sorts of people, was received by the House with 
 thanks. That therefore he did desire that all writs for 
 filling up of the House be issued by Friday next, and 
 that in the meantime, he would retire into the City 
 and only leave them guards for the security of the 
 House and Council. The occasion of this was the 
 order that he had last night, to go into the City and 
 disarm them, and take away their charter; whereby 
 he and his officers said that the House had a mind to 
 put them upon things that should make them odious ; 
 and so it would be in their power to do what they 
 would with them. We were told that the Parliament 
 had sent Scott and Robinson to Monk this afternoon, 
 but he would not hear them ; and that the Mayor and 
 Aldermen had offered their own houses for himself and 
 his officers, and that his soldiers would lack for nothing. 
 And indeed I saw many people give the soldiers drink 
 and money, and all along the streets cried, " God bless 
 them ! " and extraordinary good words. Hence we 
 went to a merchant's house hard by, where I saw Sir 
 Nich. Crisp, and so we went to the Star Tavern Monk 
 being then at Benson's. In Cheapside there was a 
 B 33
 
 34 PEPYS'S DTARY. [February, 
 
 great many bonfires, and Bow bells and all the bells 
 in all the churches as we went home were a-ringing. 
 Hence we went homewards, it being about ten at Light. 
 But the common joy was everywhere to be seen ! 
 The number of bonfires, there being fourteen between 
 St. Dunstan's and Temple Bar, and at Strand Bridge 
 I could at one time tell thirty-one fires. In King 
 Street seven or eight; and all along burning, and 
 roasting, and drinking for rumps ; there being rumps 
 tied upon sticks and carried up and down. The 
 butchers at the May Pole in the Strand rang a peal 
 with their knives when they were going to sacrifice 
 their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning 
 of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another 
 basting of it. Indeed it was past imagination, both 
 the greatness and the suddenness of it. At one end 
 of the street you would think there was a whole lane 
 on fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the 
 further side. 
 
 12th. In the morning, it being Lord's day, to White- 
 hall, where Dr. Hones preached ; but I stayed not to 
 hear, but walking in the court, I heard that Sir Arthur 
 Haselrigge was newly gone into the City to Monk, and 
 that Monk's wife removed from Whitehall last night. 
 After dinner I heard that Monk had been at Paul's in 
 the morning, and the people had shouted much at his 
 coming out of the church. In the afternoon ho was at 
 a church iu Broad Street, whereabout he do lodge. To
 
 1660.] PEPYS'S DIABY. 35 
 
 my father's, where Charles Glascocke was overjoyed to 
 see how things are now ; who told me the boys had last 
 night broke Barebone's windows. 
 
 13th. This day Monk was invited to Whitehall to 
 dinner by my Lords ; not seeming willing, he would 
 not come. I went to Mr. Fage from my father's, who 
 had been this afternoon with Monk, who did promise 
 to live and die with the City, and for the honour of the 
 City ; and indeed the City is very open-handed to the 
 soldiers, that they are most of them drunk all day, and 
 had money given them. 
 
 14th. To Westminster Hall, there being many new 
 remonstrances and declarations from many counties to 
 Monk and the City, and one coining from the North 
 from Sir Thomas Fairfax. I heard that the Parliament 
 had now changed the oath so much talked of to a 
 promise ; and that among other qualifications for the 
 members that are to be chosen, one is, that no man, nor 
 the son of any man, that hath been in arms during the 
 life of the father, shall be capable of being chosen to 
 sit in Parliament. This day, by an order of the House, 
 Sir H. Vane was sent out of town to his house in 
 Lincolnshire. 
 
 15th. No news to-day, but all quiet to see what the 
 Parliament will do about the issuing of the writs 
 to-morrow for the filling up of the House, according 
 to Monk's desire. 
 
 17th. To Westminster Hall, where I heard that some
 
 36 PEPYS'S DIARY. /[February, 
 
 of the members of the House was gone to meet with 
 some of the secluded members and General Monk in 
 the City. Hence to Whitehall, thinking to hear 
 more news, where I met with Mr. Hunt, who told me 
 how Monk had sent for all his goods that he had here 
 into the City ; and yet again he told me, that some of the 
 members of the Honse had this day laid in firing into 
 their lodgings at "Whitehall for a good while, so that we 
 are at a great stand to think what will become of things, 
 whether Monk will stand to the Parliament or no. 
 
 18th. This day two soldiers were hanged in the 
 Strand for their late mutiny at Somerset House. 
 
 19th (Lord's day). To Mr. Gunning's, and heard 
 an excellent sermon. Here I met with Mr. Moore, and 
 went home with him to dinner, where he told me the 
 discourse that happened between the secluded members 
 and the members of the Honse before Monk last 
 Friday. How the secluded said that they did not 
 intend by coming in to express revenge upon these 
 men, but only to meet and dissolve themselves, and 
 only to issue writs for a free Parliament. He told 
 me how Haselrigge was afraid to have the candle 
 carried before him, for fear that the people seeing him 
 would do him hurt ; and that he was afraid to appear 
 in the City. That there is great likelihood that the 
 secluded members will come in, and so Mr. Crewe and 
 my Lord are likely to be great men, at which I was 
 very glad. After dinner there was many secluded
 
 1660.1 PEPTS'S DIABT. 87 
 
 members come in to Mr. Crowe, which, it being the 
 Lord's day, did make Mr. Moore believe that there was 
 something extraordinary in the business. 
 
 20th. I went forth to Westminster Hall, where I 
 met with Chetwind, Simons, and Gregory. They told 
 me how the Speaker Lenthall do refuse to sign the 
 writs for choice of new members in the place of the 
 excluded ; and by that means the writs could not go out 
 to-day. In the evening Simons and I to the Coffee- 
 house, where I heard Mr. Harrington and my Lord of 
 Dorset and another Lord talking of getting another 
 place at the Cockpit, and they did believe it would 
 come to something. 
 
 21st. In the morning I saw many soldiers going 
 towards "Westminster Hall, to admit the secluded 
 members again. So I to Westminster Hall, and in 
 Chancery I saw about twenty of them who had been at 
 Whitehall with General Monk, who came thither this 
 morning, and made a speech to them, and recommended 
 to them a Commonwealth, and against Charles Stuart. 
 They came to the House and went in one after another, 
 and at last the Speaker came. But it is very strange 
 that this could be carried so private, that the other 
 members of the House heard nothing of all this till 
 they found them in the House, insomuch that the 
 soldiers that stood there to let in the secluded members, 
 they took for siich as they had ordered to stand there 
 to hinder their coming in. Mr. Prin came with an old
 
 38 PEPYS'S DIABY. [February, 
 
 basket-hilt sword on, and a great many shouts upon 
 his going into the Hall. They sat till noon, and at 
 their coming out Mr. Crewe saw me, and bid me come 
 to his house and dine with him, which I did ; and he 
 very joyful told me that the House had made General 
 Monk General of all the Forces in England, Scotland, 
 and Ireland ; and that upon Monk's desire, for the 
 service that Lawson had lately done in pulling down 
 the Committee of Safety, he had the command of the sea 
 for the time being. He advised me to send for my 
 Lord forthwith, and told me that there is no question 
 that, if he will, he may now be employed again ; and 
 that the House do intend to do nothing more than to 
 issue writs, and to settle a foundation for a free Parlia- 
 ment. After dinner I back to Westminster Hall with 
 him in his coach. Here I met with Mr. Lock, and 
 Pursell, Master of Music, and went with them to the 
 Coffee-house, into a room next the water, by ourselves, 
 where we spent an hour or two, till Captain Taylor 
 came and told us that the House had voted the gates 
 of the City to be made up again, and the members of 
 the City that are in prison to be set at liberty ; and 
 that Sir G. Booth's case be brought into the House 
 to-morrow. Here we had variety of brave Italian and 
 Spanish songs, and a canon for eight voices, which 
 Mr. Lock had lately made on these words : " Domine 
 salvum f ac E/egem." Here out of the window it was a 
 most pleasant sight to see the City from one end to
 
 1660.] PEPYS'S DIAJLY. 39 
 
 the other with a glory about it, so high was the light of 
 the bonfires, and so thick round the City, and the bells 
 rang everywhere. 
 
 22nd. "Walking in the Hall, I saw Major- General 
 Brown, who had a long time been banished by the 
 Bump, but now with his beard overgrown, he comes 
 abroad and sat in the House. To Whitehall, where I 
 met with Will Simons and Mr. Mabbot at Marsh's, 
 who told me how the House had this day voted that 
 the gates of the City should be set up at the cost of 
 the State. And that Major- General Brown's being 
 proclaimed a traitor be made void, and several other 
 things of that nature. I observed this day how 
 abominably Barebone's windows are broke again last 
 night. 
 
 23rd. Thursday, my birthday, now twenty-seven 
 years. To Westminster Hall, where, after the House 
 rose, I met with Mr. Crewe, who told me that my Lord 
 was chosen by seventy-three voices, to be one of the 
 Council^ of State. Mr. Pierpoint had the most, one 
 hundred and one, and himself the next, one hundred. 
 
 24th. I rose very early, and taking horse at Scotland 
 Yard, at Mr. Garthwayt's stable, I rode to Mr. 
 Pierce's. We both mounted, and so set forth about 
 seven of the clock. At Puckridge we baited, the way 
 exceeding bad from Ware thither. Then up again, and 
 as far as Foulmer, within six miles of Cambridge, my 
 mare being almost tired. Here we lay at the Chequer.
 
 40 PEPYS'S DIARY. [February, 
 
 I lay with Mr. Pierce, who we left here the next 
 morning upon his going to Hinchingbroke to speak 
 with my Lord before his going to London, and we two 
 came to Cambridge by eight o'clock in the morning. 
 I wont to Magdalene College to Mr. Hill, with whom 
 I found Mr. Zanchy, Burton, and Hollins, and took 
 leave on promise to sup with them. To the Three 
 Tuns, where we drank pretty hard and many healths 
 to the King, &c. ; then we broke up, and I and Mr. 
 Zanchy went to Magdalene College, where a very 
 handsome supper at Mr. Hill's chambers, I suppose 
 upon a club among them, where I could find that there 
 was nothing at all left of the old preciseness in their 
 discourse, specially on Saturday nights. And Mr. 
 Zanchy told me that there was no such thing nowa- 
 days among them at any time. 
 
 26th. Found Mr. Pierce at our inn, who told us he 
 had lost his journey, for my Lord was gone from 
 Hinehingbroke to London on Thursday last, at which 
 I was a little put to a stand. 
 
 27th. Up by four o'clock. Mr. Blayton and I took 
 horse and straight to Saffron Walden, where at the 
 White Hart we set up our horses, and took the master 
 of the house to show us Audly End House, who took 
 us on foot through the park, and so to the house, where 
 the housekeeper showed us all the house, in which the 
 stateliness of the ceilings, chimney-pieces, and form of 
 the whole was exceedingly worth seeing. H( took us
 
 1660.] PEPYS'S DIABY. 41 
 
 into the cellar, where we drank most admirable drink, 
 a health to the King. Here I played on my flageolet, 
 there being an excellent echo. He showed us excellent 
 pictures; two especially, those of the four Evangelists 
 and Henry VIII. In our going, my landlord carried 
 us through a very old hospital or alinshouse, where 
 forty poor people were maintained a very old founda- 
 tion ; and over the chimney-piece was an inscription 
 in brass : " Orate pro anima Thomse Bird," &c. They 
 brought mo a draught of their drink in a brown bowl, 
 tipped with silver, which I drank off, and at the bottom 
 was a picture of the Virgin with the child in her arms, 
 done in silver. So we took leave, the road pretty 
 good, but the weather rainy to Epping. 
 
 28th. Up in the morning. Then to London through 
 the forest, where we found the way good, but only in 
 one path, which we kept as if we had rode through a 
 kennel all the way. We found the shops all shut, and 
 the militia of the red regiment in arms at the old 
 Exchange, among whom I found and spoke to Nich. 
 Osborne, who told me that it was a thanksgiving day 
 through the City for the return of the Parliament. 
 At Paul's I light, Mr. Blayton holding my horse, 
 where I found Dr. Reynolds in the pulpit, and 
 General Monk there, who was to have a great enter- 
 tainment at Grocers' Hall. 
 
 29th. To my office. Mr. Moore told me how my 
 Lord is chosen General at Sea by the Council, and that
 
 42 PEPYS'S DIABY. [March, 
 
 it is thought that Monk will be joined with him 
 therein. This day my Lord came to the House, the first 
 time since he came to town ; but he had been at the 
 Council before. 
 
 March 1. I went to Mr. Crowe's, whither Mr. 
 Thomas was newly come to town, being sent with Sir 
 H. Telverton, my old schoolfellow at Paul's School, 
 to bring the thanks of the county to General Monk 
 for the return of the Parliament. 
 
 2nd. I went early to my Lord at Mr. Crewe's, where 
 I spoke to him. Here were a great many come to see 
 him, as Secretary Thurloe, who is now by the Parlia- 
 ment chosen again Secretary of State. To West- 
 minster Hall, where I saw Sir G. Booth at liberty. 
 This day I hear the City militia is put into good 
 posture, and it is thought that Monk will not be able 
 to do any great matter against them now, if he had 
 a mind. I understand that my Lord Lambert did 
 yesterday send a letter to the Council, and that to- 
 night he is to come and appear to the Council in 
 person. Sir Arthur Haselrigge do not yet appear in 
 the House. Great is the talk of a single person, and 
 that it would now be Charles, George, or Richard 
 again ; for the last of which my Lord St. John is said 
 to speak high. Great also is the dispute now in the 
 House, in whose name the writs shall run for the next 
 Parliament ; and it is said that Mr. Prin, in open 
 House, said, " In King Charles's."
 
 16601] PEPYS'S DIABY. 43 
 
 3rd. To Westminster Hall, where I found that my 
 Lord was last night voted one of the Generals at Sea, 
 and Monk the other. I met my Lord in the Hall, who 
 bid me come to him at noon. After dinner I to War- 
 wick House in Holhorn, to my Lord, where he dined 
 with my Lord of Manchester, Sir Dudley North, my 
 Lord Fiennes, and my Lord Barkley. I stayed in the 
 great hall, talking with some gentlemen there, till they 
 all came out. Then I, by coach with my Lord, to Mr. 
 Crewe's, in our way talking of public things. He 
 told me he feared there was new design hatching, as if 
 Monk had a mind to get into the saddle. Returning, 
 met with Mr. Gifford, who told me, as I hear from 
 many, that things are in a very doubtful posture, some 
 of the Parliament being willing to keep the power 
 in their hands. After I had left him, I met with 
 Tom Harper; he talked huge high that my Lord 
 Protector would coiue in place again, which indeed 
 is much discoursed of again, though I do not see it 
 possible. 
 
 4th (Lord's day). To Mr. Gunning's, an excellent 
 sermon upon charity. 
 
 5th. To Westminster by water, only seeing Mr. 
 Pinky at his own house, where he showed me how he 
 had always kept the lion and unicorn, in the back of 
 his chimney, bright, in expectation of the King's 
 coming again. At home I found Mr. Hunt, who told 
 me how the Parliament had voted that the Covenant
 
 44 PEPYS'S DTARY. [March, 
 
 be printed and hung in churches again. Great hopes 
 of the King's coming again. 
 
 6th. Shrove Tuesday. I called Mr. Shepley, and we 
 both went up to my Lord's lodgings, at Mr. Crowe's, 
 where he bid us to go home again and get a fire against 
 an hour after; which we did at Whitehall, whither he 
 came, and after talking with him about our going to 
 sea, he called me by myself into the garden, where he 
 asked me how things were with me. Ho bid me look 
 out now at this turn some good place, and he would 
 use all his own, and all the interest of his friends that 
 he had in England, to do me good, and asked me 
 whether I could, without too much inconvenience, go 
 to sea as his secretary, and bid me think of it. He 
 also began to talk of things of State, and told me that 
 he should want one in that capacity at sea, that he 
 might trust in, and therefore he would have me to go. 
 He told me also that ho did believe the King would 
 come in, and did discourse with me about it, and about 
 the affection of the people and City, at which I was 
 full glad. Wrote by the post, by my Lord's command, 
 for I. Goods to come up presently. For my Lord 
 intends to go forth with goods to the Swiftsure till 
 the Nazeby be ready. This day I hear that the Lords 
 do intend to sit, a great store of them are now in town, 
 and I see in the Hall to-day. Overton at Hull do 
 stand out, but can, it is thought, do nothing; and 
 Lawson, it is said, is gone with some ships thither, but
 
 1660.] PEPYS'S DTARY. 45 
 
 all that is nothing. My Lord told me, that there was 
 great endeavours to bring in the Protector again ; but 
 he told me, too, that he did believe it would not last 
 long if he were brought in, no, nor the King neither 
 (though he seems to think that he will come in), unless 
 he carry himself very soberly and well. Everybody 
 now drink the King's health without any fear, whereas 
 before it was very private that a man dare do it. 
 Monk this day is feasted at Mercers' Hall, and is in- 
 vited one after another, to all the twelve halls in 
 London. Many think that he is honest yet, and some 
 or more think him to be a fool that would raise him- 
 self, but think that he will undo himself by endea- 
 vouring it. 
 
 7th. Ash Wednesday. Going homeward, my Lord 
 overtook me in his coach, and called me in, and so I 
 went with him to St. James's, and G. Montagu being 
 gone to "Whitehall, we walked over the Park thither, 
 all the way he discoursing of the times, and of the 
 change of things since the last year, and wondering 
 how he could bear with so great disappointment as he 
 did. He did give me the best advice that he could 
 what was best for me, whether to stay or go with him, 
 and offered all the ways that could be, how he might 
 do me good, with the greatest liberty and love. This 
 day, according to order, Sir Arthur appeared at the 
 House ; what was done I know not, but there was all 
 the Bumpers almost come to the House to-day. My
 
 46 PEPYS'S DIABY. [March, 
 
 Lord did seem to wonder much why Lambert was so 
 willing to be put into the Tower, and thinks he had 
 some design in it ; but I think that he is so poor that 
 he cannot use his liberty for debts, if he were at 
 liberty, and so it is as good, and better for him to be 
 there than anywhere else. 
 
 8th. To Westminster Hall, where there was a general 
 damp over men's minds and faces upon some of the 
 officers of the army being about making a remon- 
 strance upon Charles Stuart or any single person ; 
 but at noon it was told that the G-eneral had put a 
 stop to it, so all was well again. Here I met with 
 Jasper, who was to bring me to my Lord at the lobby ; 
 whither sending a note to my Lord, he comes out to me 
 and gives me directions to look after getting some 
 money for him from the Admiralty, seeing that things 
 are so unsafe, that he would not lay out a farthing for 
 the State, till he had received some money of theirs. 
 This afternoon, some of the officers of the army, and 
 some of the Parliament, had a conference at Whitehall 
 to make all right again, but I know not what is done. 
 At the Dog Tavern, in comes Mr. Wade and Mr. Sterry, 
 secretary to the plenipotentiary in Denmark, who 
 brought the news of the death of the King of Sweden 
 at Gottenburg the 3rd of last month. 
 
 9th. To my Lord at his lodging, and came to West- 
 minster with him in the coach ; and Mr. Dudley and 
 he in the Painted Chamber walked a good while ; and
 
 1660.J PEPTS 8 WIABY. 47 
 
 I telling him that I was willing and ready to go with 
 him to sea, he agreed that I should, and advised me 
 what to write to Mr. Downing about it. This day it 
 was resolved that the writs do go out in the name of 
 the Keepers of the Liberty, and I hear that it is re- 
 solved privately that a treaty be offered with the King ; 
 and that Monk did check his soldiers highly for what 
 they did yesterday. 
 
 13th. At my Lord's lodgings, who told me that I 
 was to be secretary, and Crewe deputy treasurer to the 
 Fleet. This day the Parliament voted all that had 
 been done by the former Bump against the House of 
 Lords be void, and to-night that the writs go out with- 
 out any qualification. Things seem very doubtful 
 what will be the end of all ; for the Parliament seems 
 to be strong for the King while the soldiers do all talk 
 against. 
 
 14th. To my Lord's, where infinity of applications to 
 him and to me. To my great trouble, my Lord gives 
 me all the papers that was given to him, to put in 
 order, and to give him an account of them. I went 
 hence to St. James's to speak with Mr. Clerke, Monk's 
 secretary, about getting some soldiers removed out of 
 Huntington to Oundle, which my Lord told me ho did 
 to do a courtesy to the town, that he might have the 
 greater interest in them, in the choice of the next Par* 
 1 iament; not that he intends to be chosen himself, but 
 that he might have Mr. G. Montagu and my Lord
 
 48 PEPYS'S DIAfcY. [March, 
 
 Mandevill chose there in spite of the Bernards. ] 
 did promise to give my wife all that I have in the 
 world, but my books, iu case I should die at sea. After 
 supper I went to Westminster Hall, and the Parlia- 
 ment sat till ton at night, thinking and being expected 
 to dissolve themselves to-day, but they did not. Great 
 talk to-night that the discontented officers did think 
 this night to make a stir, but prevented. 
 
 16th. To Westminster Hall, where I heard how the 
 Parliament had this day dissolved themselves, and did 
 pass very cheerfully through the Hall, and the Speaker 
 without his mace. The whole Hall was joyful thereat, 
 as well as themselves, and now they begin to talk 
 loud of the King. To-night I am told, that yesterday, 
 about five o'clock in the afternoon, one came with a 
 ladder to the Great Exchange, and wiped with a brush 
 the inscription that was on King Charles, and that 
 there was a great bonfire made in the Exchange, 
 and people called out " God bless King Charles 
 the Second ! " 
 
 19th. Early to my Lord, where infinity of business 
 to do, which makes my head full; and, indeed, for 
 these two or three days, I have not been without n 
 great many cares. After that to the Admiralty, where 
 a good while with Mr Blackburne, who told me that it 
 was much to be feared that the King would come in, 
 for all good men and good tilings were now discouraged. 
 Thence to Wilkinson's, where Mr. Shepley and I
 
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 dined ; and while we were at dinner, my Lord Monk's 
 life-guard came by with the Serjeant-at-Arms before 
 them, with two Proclamations, that all Cavaliers do 
 depart the town : but the other that all officers that 
 were lately disbanded should do the same. The last of 
 which, Mr. R. Creed, I remember, said, that he looked 
 upon it as if they had said that all God's people 
 should depart the town. All the discourse nowaday 
 is, that the King will come again, and for all I see, 
 it is the wishes of all ; and all do believe that it will 
 be so. 
 
 21st. To my Lord's, but the wind very high against 
 us ; here I did very much business, and then to my 
 Lord Widdrington's from my Lord, with his desire 
 that he might have the disposal of the writs of the 
 Cinque Ports. My Lord was- very civil to me, and 
 called for wine, and wrote a long letter in answer. 
 
 22nd. To Westminster, and received my warrant of 
 Mr. Blackburne to be secretary to the two Generals 
 of the Fleet. 
 
 23rd. My Lord, Captain Isham, Mr. Thomas, John 
 Crewe, W. Howe, and I to the Tower, where the barges 
 stayed for us ; my Lord and the Captain in one, and 
 W. Howe and I, &c., in the other,' to the Long Reach, 
 where the Swiftsure lay at anchor (in our way we saw 
 the great breach which the late high water had made, 
 to the loss of many 1,000 to the people about Lime- 
 house). Soon as my Lord on board, the guns went off
 
 50 PEPYS'S DIARY. [Murch, 
 
 bravely from the ships. And a little while after comes 
 the Yice- Admiral Lasvson, and seemed very respectful 
 to my Lord, and so did the rest of the commanders of 
 the frigates that were thereabouts. We were late 
 writing of orders, for the getting of ships ready, &c. ; 
 and also making of others to all the seaports be- 
 tween Hastings and Yarmouth, to stop all dangerous 
 persons that are going or coming between Flanders 
 and there. 
 
 24th. At work hard all the day writing letters to 
 the Council, &c. 
 
 25th. About two o'clock in the morning letters 
 came from London by our coxon, so they waked me, 
 but I bid him stay till morning, which he did, and then 
 I rose and carried them into my Lord, who read them 
 a-bed. Among the rest, there was the writ and mandate 
 for him to dispose to the Cinque Ports for choice of 
 Parliament men. There was also one for me from Mr. 
 Blackburne, who with his own hand superscribes it to 
 S. P., Esq., of which God knows I was not a little 
 proud. I wrote a letter to the clerk of Dover Castle 
 to come to my Lord about the issuing of those writs. 
 
 26th. This day it is two years since it pleased God 
 that I was cut for the stone at Mrs. Turner's in Salis- 
 bury Court. And did resolve while I live to keep it a 
 festival, as I did the last year at my house, and for over 
 to have Mrs. Turner and her company with me. But 
 now it pleased God that I am prevented to do it opanly ;
 
 1660.] PEPYS'8 DIAB5T. 51 
 
 only within my soul I can and do rejoice, and bless 
 God, being at this time, blessed be His holy name, in as 
 good health as ever I was in my life. This morning I 
 rose early, and went about making of an establish- 
 ment of the whole fleet, and a list of all the ships, with 
 the number of men and guns. About an hour after 
 that, we had a meeting of the principal commanders 
 and seamen, to proportion out the number of these 
 things. All the afternoon very many orders were 
 made, till I was very weary. 
 
 27th. This morning the wind came about, and we 
 fell into the Hope. I sat the first time with my Lord 
 at table since my coming to sea. All the afternoon 
 exceeding busy in writing of letters and orders. In 
 the afternoon Sir Harry Wright came on board of us 
 about his business of being chosen a Parliament man. 
 My Lord brought him to see my cabin, when I was 
 hard a-writing. At night supped with my Lord too, 
 with the captain. 
 
 28th. This morning and the whole day busy. At 
 night there was a gentleman very well bred, his name 
 was Banes, going for Flushing, who spoke French and 
 Latin very well, brought by direction from Captain 
 Clerke hither, as a prisoner, because he called out of 
 the vessel that he went in, " Where is your King ? we 
 have done our business, Vive le Roi ! " He confessed 
 himself a Cavalier in his heart, and that he and his 
 whole family had fought for the King ; but that he wan
 
 52 PEPYS'S DIARY. [March, 
 
 then drunk, having been taking his leave at Graves- 
 cud the night bofore, and so could not remember what 
 it was that he said; but in his words and carriage 
 showed much of a gentleman. My Lord had a great 
 kindness for him, but did not think it safe to re- 
 lease him. But a while after, he sent a letter down to 
 my Lord, vhich my Lord did like very well, and did 
 advise with me that the gentleman was to be released. 
 So I went up and sat and talked with him in Latin and 
 French ; and about eleven at night he took boat again, 
 and so God bless him. This day we had news of the 
 election at Huntingdon for Bernard and Pedley, at 
 which my Lord was much troubled for his friend's 
 missing of it. 
 
 29th. We lie still a little below Gravesend. At 
 night Mr. Shepley returned from London, and told us 
 of several elections for the next Parliament. That the 
 King's effigies was new making to be set up in the 
 Exchange again. This evening was a great whispering 
 that some of the Yice-Admiral's captains were dis- 
 satisfied, and did intend to fight themselves, to oppose 
 the General. But it was soon hushed, and the Vice- 
 Admiral did wholly deny any such thing, and protested 
 to stand by the General. 
 
 30th. This day, while my Lord and we were at dinner, 
 the Nazebij came in sight towards us, and at last came 
 to anchor close by us. My Lord and many others went 
 on board of her, where everything was out of order.
 
 April, 1660.] PEPYS's DIAHV. 63 
 
 and a new chimney made for my Lord in his bed- 
 chamber, which he was much pleased with. My Lord 
 in his discourse, discovered a great deal of love to this 
 ship. 
 
 April I (Lord's day). Mr. Ibbot preached very well. 
 After dinner my Lord did give me a private list of all 
 the ships that were to be set out this summer, wherein 
 I do discover that he hath made it his care to put by as 
 much of the Anabaptists as he can. By reason of my 
 Lord and my being busy to send away the packet by 
 Mr. Cooke of the Nazeby, it was four o'clock before we 
 could begin sermon again. This day Captain. Guy 
 came on board from Dunkirk, who tells me that the 
 King will come in, and that the soldiers at Dunkirk do 
 drink the King's health in the streets. 
 
 2nd. Up very early, and to get all my things and 
 my boy's packed up. Great concourse of commanders 
 here this morning to take leave of my Lord upon his 
 going into the Nazeby. This morning comes Mr. Ed. 
 Pickering. He tells me that the King will come in, 
 but that Monk did resolve to have the doing of it 
 himself, or else to hinder it. 
 
 3rd. There came many merchants to get convoy to 
 the Baltic, which a course was taken for. They dined 
 with my Lord, and one of them, by name Alderman 
 Wood, talked much to my Lord of the hopes that he had 
 now to be settled (under the King, he meant) ; but my 
 Lord took no notice of it. This day came the lieutenant
 
 54 PEPYS'S DIARY. [April, 
 
 of the Swiftsure (who was sent by my Lord to Hastings, 
 one of the Cinque Ports, to have got Mr. Edward 
 Montagu to have been one of their burgesses, but could 
 not, for they were all promised before). 
 
 4th. This morning came Colonel Thomson with the 
 wooden leg, and G. Pen, and dined with my Lord and 
 Mr. Blackburne, who told me that it was certain now 
 that the King must of necessity coine in, and that one 
 of the Council told him there is something doing in 
 order to a treaty already among them. And it was 
 strange to hear how Mr. Blackburue did already begin 
 to commend him for a sober man, and how quiet ho 
 would be under his government, &c. The commis- 
 sioners came to-day, only to consult about a further re- 
 duccment of the fleet? and to pay them as fast as they 
 can. At night, my Lord rosolved to send the captain 
 of our ship to Weymouth, and promote his being 
 chosen there, which he did put himself into readiness to 
 do the next morning. 
 
 9th. This afternoon I first saw France and Calais, 
 with which I was much pleased, though it was at a 
 distance. 
 
 llth. A gentleman came from my Lord of Man- 
 chester to my Lord for a pass for Mr. Boyle, which was 
 made him. All the news from London is that things 
 go on further towards a King. That the Skinner's 
 Company the other day at their entertaining General 
 Monk had took down the Parliament arms iii their
 
 1600.J PEPTS'S DIABT. 55 
 
 Hall, and set up the King's. My Lord and I had a 
 great deal of discourse about the several captains of 
 the fleet, and his interest among them, and had his 
 mind clear to bring in the King. He confessed to me 
 that he was not sure of his own captain, to be true to 
 him, and that he did not like Captain Stokes. 
 
 14th. This day I was informed that my Lord Lam- 
 bert is got out of the Tower, and there is 100 proffered 
 to whoever shall bring him forth to the Council of 
 State. My Lord is chosen at Weymouth this morn- 
 ing ; my Lord had his freedom brought him by Captain 
 Tiddiman of the port of Dover, by which he is capable 
 of being elected for them. This day I heard that the 
 army had in general declared to stand by what the 
 next Parliament shall do. 
 
 15th (Lord's day). To sermon, and then to dinner, 
 where my Lord told us that the University of Cam- 
 bridge had a mind to choose him for their burgess, 
 which he pleased himself with, to think that they do 
 look upon him as a thriving man, and said so openly 
 at table. At dinner-time Mr. Cooke came back from 
 London with a packet which caused my Lord to be full 
 of thoughts all day, and at night he bid me privately 
 to get two commissions ready, one for Captain Robert 
 Blake to be captain of the Worcester, in the room of 
 Captain Dekings, an Anabaptist, and one that had 
 witnessed a great deal of discontent with the present 
 proceedings. The other for Captain Coppiii to come
 
 56 PEPYS'S DIARY. [April, 
 
 out of that into the Newbury in the room of Blake, 
 whereby I perceive that General Monk do resolve to 
 make a thorough change to make way for the King. 
 From London I hear that since Lambert got out of 
 the Tower, the fanatics had held ftp their heads high, 
 but I hope all that will come to nothing. 
 
 17th. All the morning getting ready commissions 
 for the Yice- Admiral and the Rear- Admiral, wherein 
 my Lord was very careful to express the utmost of his 
 own power, commanding them to obey what orders 
 they should receive from the -Parliament, &c., or both 
 or either of the generals. My Lord told me clearly his 
 thoughts that the King would carry it, and that he did 
 not think himself very happy that he was now at 
 sea, as well for his own sake, as that he thought he 
 might do his country some service in keeping things 
 quiet. 
 
 18th. Mr. Cooke returned from London, bringing 
 me this news, that the Cavaliers are something unwise 
 to talk so high on the other side as they do. That the 
 Lords do meet every day at my Lord of Manchester's, 
 and resolve to sit the first day of the Parliament. 
 Tliat it is evident now that the General and the Council 
 do resolve to make way for the King's coming. And 
 it is clear that either the fanatics must now be un- 
 done, or the gentry and citizens throughout England, 
 and clergy must fall, in spite of their militia and 
 army, which is not at all possible, I think.
 
 1660.J PEPYS'S DIAET. 57 
 
 19th. At dinner news brought us that my Lord was 
 chosen at Dover. 
 
 20th. This evening came Mr. Boyle on board, for 
 whom I wrote an order for a ship to transport him to 
 Flushing. He supped with my Lord, my Lord using 
 him as a person of honour. Mr. Sheploy told me that 
 he heard for certain at Dover that Mr. Edward 
 Montagu did go beyond sea when he was here first the 
 other day, and I am apt to believe that he went to 
 speak with the King. This day one told me how that 
 at the election at Cambridge for knights of the shire, 
 Wendby and Thornton, by declaring to stand for the 
 Parliament and a King, and the settlement of the 
 Church, did carry it against all expectation against 
 Sir Dudley North and Sir Thomas Willis. 
 
 21st. This day dined Sir John Boys and some other 
 gentlemen, formerly great Cavaliers, and among the 
 rest one Mr. Norwood, for whom my Lord give a 
 convoy to carry him to the Brill, but he is certainly 
 going to the King. For my Lord commanded me that 
 T should not enter his name in my book. My Lord do 
 show them and that soi't of people great civility. All 
 their discourse and others are of the Kiag's coming, 
 and we begin to speak of it very freely. And heard 
 how in many churches in London, and upon many 
 signs there, and upon merchant's ships in the river, 
 they had set up the King's arms. This night there 
 came one with a letter from Mr. Edw. Montagu to
 
 58 PEPYS'S DIABT. [April, 
 
 my Lord, with command to deliver it to his own hands. 
 I do believe that he do carry some close business on for 
 the King. This day I had a large letter from Mr. 
 Moore, giving me an account of the present dispute 
 at London that is like to be at the beginning of the 
 Parliament, about the House of Lords, who do resolve 
 to sit with the Commons, as not thinking themselves 
 dissolved yet. Which, whether it be granted or no, or 
 whether they will sit or no, it will bring a great many 
 inconveniences. His letter I keep, it being a very we! 1 
 written one. 
 
 22nd. Several Londoners, strangers, friends of the 
 captains, dined here, who, among other tilings, told us 
 how the King's arms are every day set up in houses 
 and churches, particularly in Allhallows Church in 
 Thames Street, John Simpson's church, which being 
 privately done was a great eyesore to his people when 
 they came to church and saw it. Also they told us 
 for certain that the King's statue is making by the 
 Mercers' Company (who are bound to do it) to "set up 
 in the Exchange. 
 
 23rd. In the evening, for the first time, extraordinary 
 good sport among the seamen, after my Lord had done 
 playing at nine-pins. 
 
 24th. We were on board the London, which hath a 
 state-room much bigger than the Nazeby, but not so 
 rich. After that, with the captain on board our own 
 ship, where we were saluted with the news of Lain-
 
 1660.] PEPYS'S DIARY. 59 
 
 bert's being taken, -which news was brought to London 
 on Sunday last. He was taken in Northamptonshire 
 by Colonel Ingoldsby, in the head of a party, by 
 which means their whole design is broke, and things 
 now very open and safe. And every man begins to be 
 merry and full of hopes. 
 
 25th. Dined to-day with Captain Clerke on board 
 the Speaker (a very brave ship), where was the Vice- 
 Admiral, Rear- Admiral, and many other commanders. 
 After dinner home, not a little contented to see how I 
 am treated, and with what respect made a fellow to the 
 best commander in the Fleet. 
 
 26th. This day come Mr. Donne back from London, 
 who brought letters with him that signify the meeting 
 of the Parliament yesterday. And in the afternoon 
 by other letters I hear that about twelve of the Lords 
 met and had chosen my Lord of Manchester Speaker 
 of the House of Lords (the young Lords that never sat 
 yet do forbear to sit for the present) ; and Sir Har- 
 bottle Grimstone, Speaker for the House of Commons, 
 which, after a little debate, was granted. Dr. 
 Reynolds preached before the Commons before they 
 sat. My Lord told me how Sir H. Telverton (for- 
 merly my schoolfellow) was chosen in the first 
 place for Northamptonshire, and Mr. Crewe in the 
 second. And told me how he did believe that the 
 Cavaliers have now the upper hand clear of the 
 Presbyterians.
 
 60 PEPTS'S DIARY. [April, 
 
 27th. After dinner came on board Sir Thomas 
 Hatton and Sir R. Maleverer, going for Flushing ; 
 but all the world know that they go where the rest of 
 the many gentlemen go that every day flock to the 
 King at Breda. They supped here, and my Lord treated 
 them as he do the rest that go thither, with a great 
 deal of civility. "While we were at supper a packet 
 came, whereifl much news from several friends. The 
 chief is that, that I had from Mr. Moore, viz., that he 
 fears the Cavaliers in the House will be so high, that 
 the other will be forced to leave the House, and fall in 
 with General Monk, and so offer things to the King so 
 high on the Presbyterian account that he may refuse, 
 and so they will endeavour some more mischief ; but 
 when I told my Lord it, he shook his head, and told me 
 that the Presbyterians are deceived, for the General is 
 certainly for the King's interest, and so they will not 
 be able to prevail that way with him. After supper 
 the two knights went on board the Grantham that is 
 to convey them to Flushing. I am informed that the 
 Exchequer is now so low, that there is not 20 there to 
 give the messenger that brought the news of Lambert's 
 being taken ; which story is very strange that he 
 should lose his reputation of being a man of courage 
 now at one blow, for that he was not able to fight one 
 stroke, but desired of Colonel Ingoldsby several times 
 to let him escape. Late reading my letters, my mind 
 being much troubled to think that, after all our hopes,
 
 1660.] PEPTS'8 DIASY. 61 
 
 we should have any cause to fear any more disappoint- 
 ments therein. 
 
 29th. After sermon in the morning Mr. Cooke came 
 from London with a packet, bringing news how all the 
 young Lords that were not in arms against the Parlia- 
 ment do now sit. That a letter is come from the 
 King to the House, which is locked up by the Council 
 till next Thursday, that it may be read in the open 
 House when they meet again, they having adjourned 
 till then to keep a fast to-morrow. And so the 
 contents is not yet known. 13,000 of the 20,000 
 given to General Monk is paid out of the Exchequer, 
 he giving 12 among the teller's clerks of Exchequer. 
 My Lord called me into the great cabin below, where 
 he told me that the Presbyterians are quite mastered 
 by the Cavaliers, and that he fears Mr. Crewe did go 
 a little too far the other day in keeping out the young 
 Lords from sitting. That he do expect that the King 
 should be brought over suddenly, without staying to 
 make any terms at all, saying that the Presbyterians 
 did intend to have brought him in with such conditions 
 as if he had been in chains. But he shook his 
 shoulders when he told me how Monk had betrayed 
 him, for it was he that did put them upon standing to 
 put out the Lords and other members that come not 
 within the qualifications, which he did not like, but 
 however he had done his business, though it be with 
 some kind of baseness. After dinner I walked a
 
 62 PEPYS'S DIARY. [May, 
 
 great while upon the deck with the chirurgeon and 
 purser, and other officers of the ship, aud they all pray 
 for the King's coming, which I pray God send. 
 
 May 1. To-day I hear they were very merry at 
 Deale, setting up the King's flags upon one of their 
 maypoles, aud drinking his health upon their knees in 
 the streets, and firing the guns, which the soldiers of 
 the castle threatened, but durst not oppose. 
 
 2nd. Mr. Dunne from London, with letters that 
 tell us the welcome news of the Parliament's rotes 
 yesterday, which will be remembered for the happiest 
 May-day that hath been many a year to England. 
 The King's letter was read in the House, wherein he 
 submits himself and all things to them, as to an Act of 
 Oblivion to nil, unless they shall please to except any, 
 as to the confirming of the sales of the King's aud 
 Church lands, if they see good. The House, upon 
 reading the letter, ordered 50,000 to be forthwith 
 provided to send to his Majesty for his present supply ; 
 and a committee chosen to return an answer of thanks 
 to his Majesty for his gracious letter ; and that the 
 letter be kept among the records of the Parliament ; 
 and in all this not so much as one No. So that Luke 
 Robinson himself stood up and made a recantation of 
 what he had done, and promises to be a loyal subject 
 to his prince for the time to come. The City of 
 London have put out a declaration, wherein they do 
 disclaim their owning any other government but that
 
 1660.] PEPYS'S DIABT. 63 
 
 of a King, Lords, and Commons. Thanks was given 
 by the House to Sir John Greenville, one of the Bed- 
 chamber to the King, who brought the letter, and they 
 continued bare all the time it was reading. Upon 
 notice from the Lords to the Commons, of their desire 
 that the Commons would join with them in their vote 
 for King, Lords, and Commons ; the Commons did 
 concur, and voted that all books whatever that are out 
 against the Government of King, Lords, and Commons 
 should be brought into the House and burned. Great 
 joy all yesterday at London, and at night more bonfires 
 than ever, and ringing of bells, and drinking of the 
 King's health upon their knees in the streets, which 
 methinks is a little too much. But everybody seems 
 to be very joyful in the business, insomuch that our 
 sea-commanders now begin to say so too, which a week 
 ago they would not do. And our seamen, as many as 
 had money or credit for drink, did do nothing else 
 this evening. This day come Mr. North (Sir Dudley 
 North's son) on board, to spend a little time here, 
 which my Lord was a little troubled at, but he seems 
 to be a fine gentleman, and at night did play his part 
 exceeding well at first sight. 
 
 3rd. This morning my Lord showed me the King's 
 declaration, and his letter to the two generals, to be 
 communicated to the fleet. The contents of the letter 
 are his offer of grace to all that will come in within 
 forty days, only excepting them that the Parliament
 
 64 PEPYS'S DIARY. [May, 
 
 shall hereafter except. That the sales of lauds during 
 these troubles, and all other things, shall be left to the 
 Parliament, by which he will stand. The letter dated at 
 Breda, April -^j, 1660, in the twelfth year of his reign. 
 Upon the receipt of it this morning by an express, Mr. 
 Philips, one of the messengers of the Council from 
 General Monk, my Lord summoned a council of war, 
 and in the meantime did dictate to me how he would 
 have the vote ordered which he would have pass this 
 council. Which done, the commanders all came on 
 board, and the council sat in the coach (the first 
 council of war that had been in my time), where I read 
 the letter and declaration; and while they were dis- 
 coursing upon it, I seemed to draw up a vote, which 
 being offered, they passed. Not one man seemed to 
 say no to it, though I am confident many in their 
 hearts were against it. After this was done, I went 
 up to the quarter-deck with my Lord and the com- 
 manders, and there read both the papers and the vote ; 
 which done, and demanding their opinion, the seamen 
 did all of them cry out, " God bless King Charles ! " 
 with the greatest joy imaginable. That being done, Sir 
 B. Stayner, who had invited us yesterday, took all the 
 commanders and myself on board with him to dinner, 
 which not being ready, I went with Captain Hayward 
 to the Plymouth and Essex, and did what I had to do 
 and returned, where very merry at dinner. After 
 dinner, to the rest of the ships quite through the
 
 1660.] PEPYS'8 DIAIiY. 65 
 
 fleet ; whjch was a very brave sight to visit all the 
 ships, and to be received with the respect and honour 
 that I was on board them all, and much more to see 
 the great joy that I brought to all men, not one 
 through the whole fleet showing the least dislike of 
 the business. In the evening, as I was going on board 
 the Vice-Admiral, the General began to fire his guns, 
 which lie did all that he had in the ship, and so did all 
 the rest of the commanders, which was very gallant, 
 and to hear the bullets go hissing over our heads as we 
 were in the boat. This done, and finished my procla- 
 mation, I returned to the Nazeby, where my Lord was 
 much pleased to hear how all the fleet took it in a 
 transport of joy, showed me a private letter of the 
 King's to him, and another from the Duke of York, in 
 such familiar style as their common friend, with all 
 kindness imaginable. And I found by the letters, and 
 so my Lord told me too, that there had been many 
 letters passed between them for a great while, and I 
 perceive unknown to Monk. And among the rest that 
 had carried these letters, Sir John Boys is one, and 
 Mr. Norwood, which had a ship to carry him over the 
 other day, when my Lord would not have me put down 
 his name in the book. The King speaks of his being 
 courted to come to the Hague, but to desire my Lord's 
 advice where to come to take ship. And the Duke 
 offers to learn the seaman's trade of him, in such 
 familiar words as if Jack Cole and I had written them, 
 c 33
 
 66 PEPTS'S DIARY. [May, 
 
 This was very strange to me, that my Lord should 
 carry all things so wisely and prudently as he does, 
 and I was over-joyful to see him in so good condition, 
 and he did not a little please himself to tell me how 
 he had provided for himself so great a hold on the 
 King. 
 
 After this to supper, and then to writing of letters 
 till twelve at night, and so up again at three in the 
 morning. My Lord seemed to put great confidence in 
 me, and would take my advice in many things. I per- 
 ceive his being willing to do all the honour in the 
 world to Monk, and to let him have all the honour of 
 doing the business, though he will many times express 
 his thoughts of him to be but a thick-skulled fool ; so 
 that I do believe there is some agreement more than 
 ordinary between the King and my Lord to let Monk 
 carry on the business, for it is he that can do the 
 business, or at least that can hinder it, if he be not 
 flattered and observed. This, my Lord will hint him- 
 self sometimes. My Lord, I perceive by the King's 
 letter, had written to him about his father, Crewe, and 
 the King did speak well of him ; but my Lord tells 
 me, that he is afraid that he hath too much concerned 
 himself with the Presbyterians against the House of 
 Lords, which will do him a great discourtesy. 
 
 4th. I wrote this morning many letters, and to all 
 the copies of the vote of the council of war I put my 
 name, that if it should come in print my name may be
 
 1680.] PEPYS'8 DIABT. 67 
 
 to ii I sent a copy of the vote to Doling, eiiclosed in 
 this letter : 
 
 " SIR, He that can fancy a fleet (like ours) in her 
 pride, with pendants loose, guns roaring, caps flying, 
 and the loud " Vive le Roy's," echoed from one ship's 
 company to another, he, and he only, can apprehend the 
 joy this enclosed vote was received with, or the blessing 
 he thought himself possessed of that bore it, and is 
 " Tour humble servant." 
 
 About nine o'clock I got all my letters done, and 
 sent them by the messenger that come yesterday. This 
 moruiiig come Captain Isham on board with a gentle- 
 man going to the King, by whom very cunningly, my 
 Lord tells me, he intends to send an account of this 
 day's and yesterday's actions here, notwithstanding he 
 had written to the Parliament to have leave of them 
 to send the King the answer of the fleet. Since my 
 writing of the last paragraph, my Lord called me to 
 him to read his letter to the King, to see whether I 
 could find any slips in it or no. And as much of the 
 letter as I can remember, is thus : 
 
 " May it please your Most Excellent Majesty," and 
 so begins. 
 
 That he yesterday received from General Monk his 
 Majesty's letter and direction ; and that General Monk 
 had desired him to write to the Parliament to have 
 leave to send the vote of the seamen before he did
 
 68 PEPYS'S PTABY. [May, 
 
 send it to Mm, which he had done by writing to both 
 Speakers ; but for his private satisfaction he had sent 
 it thus privately (and so the copy of the proceedings 
 yesterday was sent him), and that this came by a 
 gentleman that came this day on board, intending to 
 wait upon his Majesty, that he is my Lord's country- 
 man, and one whose friends have suffered much on his 
 Majesty's behalf. That my Lords Pembroke and 
 Salisbury are put out of the House of Lords. That 
 my Lord is very joyful that other countries do pay him 
 the civility and respect due to him, and that he do 
 much rejoice to see that the King do receive none of 
 their assistance (or some such words), from them, he 
 having strength enough in the love and loyalty of his 
 own subjects to support him. That his Majesty had 
 chosen the best place, Scheveling, for his embarking, 
 and that there is nothing in the world of which he is 
 more ambitious, than to have the honour of attending 
 his Majesty, which he hoped would be speedy. That 
 he had commanded the vessel to attend at Helversluce 
 till this gentleman returns, that so if his Majesty do 
 not think it fit to command the fleet himself, yet that 
 he may be there to receive his commands and bring 
 them to his Lordship. He ends his letter that he is 
 confounded with the thoughts of the high expressions 
 of love to him in the King's letter, and concludes, 
 
 " Tour most loyal, dutiful, faithful and obedient 
 subject and servant, " E. M."
 
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 After supper at the table in the coach, iny Lord 
 talking concerning the uncertainty of the places of the 
 Exchequer to them that had them now, he did at last 
 think of an office which do belong to him in case the 
 King do restore every man to his place that ever had 
 been patent, which is to be one of the Clerks of the 
 Signet, which will be a fine employment for one of his 
 sons. 
 
 In the afternoon come a minister on board, one Mr. 
 Sharpe, who is going to the King, who tells me that 
 commissioners are chosen both of the Lords and 
 Commons, to go to the King, and that Dr. Clarges is 
 going to him from the army, and that he will be here 
 to-morrow. My letters at night tell me that the 
 House did deliver their letter to Sir John Greenville, 
 in answer to the King's sending, and that they give 
 him 500 for his pains, to buy him a jewel, and that 
 besides the 50,000 ordered to bo borrowed of the 
 City for the present use of the King, the twelve 
 companies of the City do give every one of them to his 
 Majesty as a present, 1,000. 
 
 5th. All the morning very busy writing letters to 
 London, and a packet to Mr. Downing, to acquaint 
 him with what had been done lately in the fleet. And 
 this I did by my Lord's command, who, I thank him, 
 did of himself think of doing it, to do me a kindness, 
 for he wrote a letter himself to liim, thanking him for 
 his kindness to me. This evening come Dr. Clarges
 
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 to Deal, going to the King, where the townspeople 
 strewed the streets with herbs against his coming, for 
 joy of his going. Never was there so general a con- 
 tent as there is now. I cannot but remember that our 
 parson did, in his prayer to-night, pray for the long 
 life and happiness of our King and dread Sovereign, 
 that may last as long as the sun and moon endureth. 
 
 6th. It fell very well to-day : a stranger preached 
 here for Mr. Ibbot, one Mr. Stanley, who prayed for 
 King Charles by the Grace of God, &c., which gave 
 great contentment to the gentlemen that were on 
 board here, and they said they would talk of it when 
 they come to Breda, as not having it done yet in 
 London so publicly. After they were gone from on 
 board, my Lord wrote a letter to the King, and give it 
 me to carry privately to Sir William Compton, on 
 board the Assistance, which I did, aud after a health 
 to his Majesty on board there, I left tjiein under sail 
 for Breda. 
 
 7th. My Lord went this morning about the flag-ships 
 in a boat, to see what alterations there must be, as to 
 the arms and flags. He did give me orders, also, to 
 write for silk flags and scarlet waistclothes ; for a rich 
 barge ; for a noise of trumpets, and a set of fiddlers. 
 Yery great deal of company come to-day, among others 
 Mr. Bellasses, Sir Thomas Lenthropp, Sir Henry 
 Chichley, Colonel Philip Honiwood, and Captain Titus, 
 the last of whom my Lord showed all our cabins, and
 
 1660.] PEPYS'8 DIAET. 71 
 
 I suppose he is to take notice what room there will be 
 for the King's entertainment. 
 
 8th. My letters to-day tell me how it was intended 
 that the King should be proclaimed to-day in London, 
 with a great deal of pomp. I had also news who they 
 are that are chosen of the Lords and Commons to 
 attend the King. And also the whole story of what 
 we did the other day in the fleet, at reading of the 
 King's declaration, and my name at the bottom of it. 
 
 9th. Up very early, writing a letter to the King, as 
 from the two Generals of the fleet, in answer to his 
 letter to them, wherein my Lord do give most humble 
 thanks for his gracious letter and declaration; and 
 promises all duty and obedience to him. This letter 
 was carried this morning to Sir Peter Killigrew, who 
 come hither this morning early to bring an order from 
 the Lords' House to my Lord, giving him power to 
 write an answer to the King. This morning my Lord 
 St. John and other persons of honour were here to see 
 my Lord, and so away to Flushing. As we were 
 sitting down to dinner, in comes Noble with a letter 
 from the House of Lords to my Lord, to desire him to 
 provide ships to transport the Commissioners to the 
 King, which are expected here this week. He brought 
 us certain news that the King was proclaimed yester- 
 day with great pomp, and brought down one of the 
 Proclamations, with great joy to us all ; for which 
 God be praised. This morning come Mr. Saunderson,
 
 72 PEPTS'S DIARY. [May, 
 
 that wrote the story of the King, hither, who is going 
 over to the King. 
 
 10th. At night, while my Lord was at supper, in 
 comes my Lord Lauderdale and Sir John Greenville, 
 who supped here, and so went away. After they were 
 gone, my Lord called me into his cabin, and told me 
 how he was commanded, to set sail presently for the 
 King, and was very glad thereof. I got him after- 
 wards to sign things in bed. 
 
 llth. This morning we began to pull down all the 
 State's arms in the fleet, having first sent to Dover for 
 painters and others to come to set up the King's. 
 There dined here my Lord Crafford and my Lord 
 Cavendish, and other Scotchmen whom I afterwards 
 ordered to be received on board the Plymouth, and to 
 go along with us. After dinner we set sail from the 
 Downs. In the afternoon overtook us three or four 
 gentlemen : two of the Berties, and one Mr. Dormerhay, 
 a Scotch gentleman, who, telling my Lord that they 
 heard the Commissioners were come out of London to- 
 day, my Lord dropt anchor over against Dover Castle 
 (which give us about thirty guns in passing), and upon 
 a high debate with the Vice and Bear- Admiral whether 
 it were safe to go and not stay for the Commissioners, 
 he did resolve to send Sir R. Stayner to Dover, to 
 inquire of my Lord Winchelsea whether or no they 
 are come out of London, and then to resolve to-morrow 
 morning of going or not. Which was done.
 
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 12th. My Lord give me many orders to make for 
 direction for the ships that are left in the Downs, 
 giving them the greatest charge in the world to bring 
 no passengers with them, when they come after us to 
 Scheveliug Bay, excepting Mr. Edward Montagu, Mr. 
 Thomas Crowe, and Sir H. Wright. Sir R. Stayner 
 told my Lord, that my Loi'd Winchelsea understands 
 by letters, that the Commissioners are only to come to 
 Dover to attend the coming over of the King. So my 
 Lord did give order for weighing anchor, which we 
 did, and sailed all day. 
 
 13th. To the quarter-deck, at which the tailors and 
 painters were at work, cutting out some pieces of yellow 
 cloth in the fashion of a crown and C.R., and put it 
 upon a fine sheet, and that into the flag instead of the 
 State's arms, which after dinner was finished and set 
 up. This morning Sir J. Boys and Capt. Isham met 
 us in the Nonsuch, the first of whom, after a word or 
 two with my Lord, wenj; forward, the other stayed. I 
 heard by them how Mr. Downing had never made any 
 address to the King, and for that was hated exceed- 
 ingly by the Court, and that he was in a Dutch ship 
 which sailed by us, then going to England with dis- 
 grace. Also how Mr. Morland was knighted by the 
 King this week, and that the King did give the reason 
 of it openly, that it was for his giving him intelligence 
 all the time he was clerk to Secretary Thurloe. In the 
 afternoon a council of war, only to acquaint them that
 
 74 PEPYS'S DIARY. 
 
 the harp must be taken out of all their flags, it being 
 very offensive to the King. Late at night we wrote 
 letters to the King of the news of our coming, and 
 Mr. Edward Pickering carried them. Capt. Isham 
 went on shore, nobody showing of him any respect ; so 
 the old man very fairly took leave of my Lord, and my 
 Lord very coldly bid him " God be with you," which 
 was very strange, but that I hear that he keeps a 
 great deal of prating and talking on shore, on board, 
 at the King's Courts, what command he had with my 
 Lord, &c. 
 
 14th. In the morning the Hague was clearly to be 
 seen by us. My Lord went up in his nightgown into 
 the cuddy, to see how to dispose thereof for himself 
 and us that belong to him, to give order for our 
 removal to-day. Some nasty Dutchmen came on board 
 to proffer their boats to carry things from us on shore, 
 &c., to get money by us. Before noon some gentlemen 
 came on board from the shore to kiss my Lord's hands. 
 And by-and-by Mr. North and Dr. Clerke went to kiss 
 the Queen of Bohemia's hands, from my Lord, with 
 twelve attendants from on board to wait on them, 
 among which I sent my boy, who, like myself, is with 
 child to see any strange thing. After noon they came 
 back again after having kissed the Queen of Bohemia's 
 hand, and were sent again by my Lord to do the same 
 to the Prince of Orange. So I got the captain to ask 
 leave for me to go, which my Lord did give, aud I,
 
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 taking my boy and Judge-Advocate with me, went 
 in company with them. The weather bad ; we were 
 sadly washed when we come near the shore, it boiug 
 very hard to land there. The shore is so, all the 
 country between that and the Hague, all sand. The 
 Hague is a most neat place in all respects. The houses 
 so neat in all places and things as is possible. Here 
 we walked up and down a great while, the town being 
 now very full of Englishmen, for that the Londoners 
 were come on shore to-day. But going to see the 
 Prince, he was gone forth with his governor, and so wo 
 walked up and down the town and court to see the 
 place ; and by the help of a stranger, an Englishman, 
 we saw a great many places, and were made to under- 
 stand many things, as the intention of maypoles, which 
 we saw there standing at every great man's door, of 
 different greatness according to the quality of the 
 person. About ten at night the Prince comes home, 
 and we found an easy admission. His attendance 
 very inconsiderable as for a prince ; but yet handsome, 
 and his tutor a fine man, and himself a very pretty 
 boy. 
 
 15th. Coming on board we found all the Com- 
 missioners of the House of Lords at dinner with my 
 Lord, who after dinner went away for shore. Mr. Mor- 
 land, now Sir Samuel, was here on board, but I do not 
 find that my Lord or anybody did give him any re- 
 spect, he being looked upon by him and all men as a
 
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 knave. Among others he betrayed Sir Rich. Willis 
 that married Dr. F. Jones's daughter, who had paid 
 him 1,000 at one time by the Protector's and Secretary 
 Thurloe's order, for intelligence that he sent concern- 
 ing the King. In the afternoon my Lord called ma 
 on purpose to show me his fine clothes which are now 
 come hither, and indeed are very rich as gold and 
 silver can make them, only his sword he and I do not 
 like. In the afternoon my Lord and I walked together 
 in the coach two hours, talking together upon all sorts 
 of discourse : as religion, wherein he is, I perceive, 
 wholly sceptical, saying, that indeed the Protestants as 
 to the Church of Home are wholly fanatics : he likes 
 uniformity and form of prayer. About State-business, 
 among other things he told me that his conversion to 
 the King's cause (for I was saying that I wondered 
 from what time the King could look upon him to be- 
 come friend), commenced from his being in the Sound, 
 when he found what usage he was likely to have 
 from a Commonwealth. My Lord, the captain, and I 
 supped in my Lord's chamber, where I did perceive 
 that he did begin to show me much more respect 
 than ever ho did yet. After supper, my Lord sent 
 for me, intending to have me play at cards with 
 him, but I not knowing cribbage, we fell into dis- 
 course of many things, and the ship rolled so much 
 that I was not able to stand, and so he bid me go to 
 bed.
 
 1660.] PEPYS'S DIABY. 77 
 
 16th. Come in some with visits, among the rest 
 one from Admiral Opdam, who spoke Latin well, 
 but not French or English, who my Lord made me to 
 entertain. Commissioner Pett was now come to take 
 care to get all things ready for the King on board. 
 My Lord in his best suit, this the first day, in expec- 
 tation to wait upon the King. But Mr. Edw. Pickering 
 coming from the King brought word that the King 
 would not put my Lord to the trouble of coming to 
 him, but that he would come to the shore to look upon 
 the fleet to-day, which we expected, and had our guns 
 ready to fire, and our scarlet waistclothes out and 
 silk pendants, but he did not come. This evening came 
 Mr. John Pickering on board, like an ass, with his 
 feathers and new suit that he had made at the Hague. 
 My Lord, very angry for him staying on shore, bidding 
 me a little before to send for him, telling me that he 
 was afraid that for his father's sake he might have 
 some mischief done him, unless he used the General's 
 name. This afternoon M. Edw. Pickering told me in 
 what a sad, poor condition for clothes and money the 
 King was, and all his attendants, when he came to 
 him first from my Lord, their clothes not being worth 
 forty shillings the best of them. And how overjoyed 
 the King was when Sir J. Greenville brought him 
 some money; so joyful, that he called the Princess 
 Royal and Duke of York to look upon it as it lay in 
 the portmanteau before it was taken out. My Lord
 
 78 PEPYS'S DIABTC. [May, 
 
 told me, too, that the Duke of York is made High 
 Admiral of England. 
 
 17th. Dr. Olerke came to me to tell me that he 
 heard this morning, by some Dutch that are come on 
 board already to see the ships, that there was a Portu- 
 guese taken yesterday, at the Hague, that had a de- 
 sign to kill the King. But this 1 heard afterwards 
 was only the mistake upon one being observed to wall 
 with his sword naked, he having lost his scabbard 
 Before dinner Mr. Edw. Pickering and I, W. Howe, 
 Pirn, and my boy, to Scheveling, where we took coach, 
 and so to the Hague, where walking, intending to find 
 oue that might show us the King incognito, I met 
 with Captain Whittington (that had formerly brought 
 a letter to my Lord from the Mayor of London), and he 
 did promise me to do it, but first we went and dined. 
 At dinner in came Dr. Cade, a merry mad parson of 
 the King's. And they two got the child and me (the 
 others not being able to crowd in) to see the King, 
 who kissed the child very affectionately. Then we 
 kissed his, and the Duke of York's, and the Princess 
 Royal's hands. The King seems to be a very sober 
 man ; and a very splendid Court he hath in the 
 number of persons of quality that are about him ; 
 English very rich in habit. iF^om the King to the 
 Lord Chancellor, who did lie bed-rid of the gout : he 
 spoke very merrily to the child and me. After that, 
 going to see the Queen of Bohemia, I met Dr. Fuller,
 
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 whom I sent to a tavern with Mr. Edw. Pickering, 
 while I and the rest went to see the Queen, who used 
 us very respectfully: her hand we all kissed. She 
 seems a very debonaire, but a plain lady. In a coach 
 we went to see a house of the Princess Dowager's in a 
 park about a mile from the Hague, where there is one 
 of the most beautiful rooms for pictures in the whole 
 \vorld. She had here one picture upon the top, with 
 these words, dedicating it to the memory of her hus- 
 band : Incomparabili marito, inconsolabilis vidua. 
 
 18tb. Very early up, and, hearing that the Duke of 
 York, our Lord High Admiral, would go on board to- 
 day, Mr. Pickering and I took waggon for Scheveling. 
 But the wind being so very high that no boats could 
 get off from shore, we returned to the Hague (hav- 
 ing breakfasted with a gentleman of the Duke's and 
 Commissioner Pett, sent on purpose to give notice to 
 my Lord of his coming). We got a boy of the town to 
 go along with us, and he showed us the church where 
 Van Trump lies entombed, with a very fine monument. 
 His epitaph is concluded thus : Tandem, Bella 
 Anglico tantum non victor, certe invictus, vivere et 
 vincere desiit. There is a sea-fight cut in marble, 
 with the smoke, the best expressed that ever I saw in 
 my life. From them- ' > the great church, that stands 
 in a fine great inarkoK-place, over against the Stadt- 
 house, and there I saw a stately tomb of the old Prince 
 of Orange, of marble and brass ; wherein among other
 
 80 PEPYS'S DIAKY. [May, 
 
 rarities there are the angels with their trumpets ex- 
 pressed as it were crying. Here were very fine organs 
 in both of the churches. It is a most sweet town, with 
 bridges, and a river in every street. We met with 
 Commissioner Pett going down to the water-side 
 with Major Harly, who is going upon a dispatch into 
 England. 
 
 19th. Up early and went to Scheveling, where I 
 found no getting on board, though the Duke of York 
 sent every day to see whether he could do it or no. 
 By waggon to Lausdune, where the 365 children were 
 born. We saw the hill where they say the house stood 
 wherein the children were born. The basins wherein 
 the male and female children were baptised do stand 
 over a large table that hangs upon a wall, with the 
 whole story of the thing in Dutch and Latin, begin- 
 ning, " Margarita Herman Comitissa," &c. The thing 
 was done about 200 years ago. 
 
 20th. Commissioner Pctt at last came to our lodging, 
 and caused the boats to go off ; so some in one boat 
 and some in another we all bid adieu to the shore. 
 But through the badness of weather we were in great 
 danger, and a great while before we could get to the 
 ship. This hath not been known four days together 
 such weather this time of year, a great while. Indeed, 
 our fleet was thought to be in great danger, but we 
 found all well. 
 
 21st. The weather foul all this day also. After
 
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 dinner, about writing one thing or other all day, and 
 setting my papers in order, hearing by letters that 
 came hither in my absence, that the Parliament had 
 ordered all persons to be secured, in order to a trial, 
 that did sit as judges in the late King's death, and all 
 the officers attending the Court. Sir John Lenthall 
 moving in the House, that all that had borne arms 
 against the King should be exempted from pardon, he 
 was called to the bar of the House, and after a se\ere re- 
 proof he was degraded his knighthood. At Court I find 
 that all things grow high. The old clergy talk as being 
 sure of their lands again, and laugh at the Presbytery ; 
 and it is believed that the sales of the King's and Bishops' 
 lands will never be confirmed by Parliament, there 
 being nothing now in any man's power to hinder them 
 and the King from doing what they had a mind, but 
 everybody willing to submit to anything. We expect 
 every day to have the King and Duke on board as soon 
 as it is fair. My Lord does nothing now, but offers 
 all things to the pleasure of the Duke as Lord High 
 Admiral. So that I am at a loss what to do. 
 
 22nd. News brought that the two Dukes are coming 
 on board, which, by-and-by, they did, in a Dutch boat, 
 the Duke of York in yellow trimmings, the Duke of 
 Gloucester in grey and red. My Lord went in a boat 
 to meet them, the captain, myself, and others standing 
 at the entering port. So soon as they were entered we 
 shot the guns off round the fleet. After that they
 
 82 PEPYS'S DIARY. [May, 
 
 went to view the ship all over, and were most ex- 
 ceedingly pleased with it. They seem to be very 
 fine gentlemen. After that done, upon the quarter- 
 deck table, under the awuing, the Duke of York aud 
 my Lord, Mr. Coventry, and I, spent an hour at 
 allotting to every ship their service, in their return to 
 England; which being done, they went to dinner, 
 where the table was very full ; the two Dukes at the 
 upper end, my Lord Opdam next on one side, and my 
 Lord on the other. Two guns given to every man 
 while he was drinking the King's health, and so like- 
 wise to the Duke's health. I took down Monsieur 
 d'Esquier to the great cabin below, and dined with 
 him in state along with only one or two friends of his. 
 All dinner the harper belonging to Captain Sparling, 
 played to the Dukes. After dinner, the Dukes and 
 my Lord to sea, the Vice and Rear- Admirals and I in 
 a boat after them. After that done, they made to the 
 shore in the Dutch boat that brought them, and I got 
 into the boat with them ; but the shore was full of 
 people to expect their coming. When we came near the 
 shore, my Lord left them and come into his own boat, 
 and Pen and I with him ; my Lord being very well 
 pleased with this day's work. By the time we came 
 on board again, news is sent us that the King is on 
 shore ; so my Lord fired all his guns round twice, and 
 all the fleet after him. The gun over against my 
 cabin I fired myself to the King, which was the first
 
 PEPYS'S DIA&Y. 83 
 
 time that he had been saluted by his own ships since 
 this change ; but holding my head too much over the 
 gun, I had almost spoiled my right eye. Nothing in 
 the world but giving of guns almost all this day. In 
 the evening we began to remove cabins; I to the 
 carpenter's cabin, and Dr. Clerke with me. Many of 
 the King's servants came on board to-night; and so 
 many Dutch of all sorts came to see the ship till it was 
 quite dark, that we could not pass by one another, 
 which was a great trouble to us all. This afternoon 
 Mr. Downing (who was knighted yesterday by the 
 King) was here on board, and had a ship for his pas- 
 sage into England, with his lady and servants. By 
 the same token he called me to him when I was going 
 to write the order, to tell me that I must write him 
 Sir G. Downing. My Lord lay in the roundhouse 
 to-night. This evening I was late writing a French 
 letter by my Lord's order to Monsieur Wragh, Am- 
 bassador de Deumarke Ji la Haye, which my Lord 
 signed in bed. 
 
 23rd. In the morning come infinity of people on 
 board from the King to go along with him. My Lord. 
 Mr. Crewe, and others go on shore to meet the King as 
 he comes off from shore, where Sir R. Stayner, bring- 
 ing his Majesty into the boat, I hear that his Majesty 
 did with a great deal of affection kiss my Lord upon 
 his first meeting. The King, with the two Dukes and 
 Queen of Bohemia, Princess Royal, and Prince of
 
 84 PEPYS'S DLA.BY. [May, 
 
 Orange, come on board, where I in their coming in 
 kissed the King's, Queen's, and Princess's hands, having 
 done the other before. Infinite shooting off of the guns, 
 and that in a disorder on purpose, which was better than 
 if it had been otherwise. All day nothing but Lords 
 and persons of honour on board, that we were exceed- 
 ing full. Dined in a great deal of state, the Royal 
 company by themselves in the coach, which was a 
 blessed sight to see. After dinner the King and Duke 
 altered the name of some of the ships, viz., the Nazeby, 
 into Charles; the Richard, James; the Speaker, Mary ; 
 the Duribar (which was not in company with us), the 
 Henry ; Winsly, Happy Return ; Wakefield, Rich- 
 mond ; Lambert, the Henrietta ; Cheriton, the Speed- 
 well; Bradford, the Success. That done, the Queen, 
 Princess Royal, and Prince of Orange took leave of 
 the King, and the Duke of Tork went on board the 
 London, and the Duke of Gloucester the Swiftsure. 
 Which done, we weighed anchor, and with a fresh gale 
 and most happy weather we set sail for England. All 
 the afternoon the King walked here and there, up and 
 down (quite contrary to what I thought him to have 
 been) very active and stirring. Upon the quarter-deck 
 ho fell into discourse of his escape from "Worcester, 
 where it made me ready to weep to hear the stories 
 that he told of his difficulties that he had passed 
 through, as his travelling four days and three nights 
 on foot, every step up to his knees in dirt, with nothing
 
 1660.] PEPYS'S DIABY. 85 
 
 but a green coat and a pair of country breeches on, and 
 a pair of country shoes that made him so sore all over 
 his feet that he could scarce stir. Yet he was forced 
 to run away from a miller and other company, that 
 took them for rogues. His sitting at table at one 
 place, where the master of the house that had not seen 
 him in eight years, did know him, but kept it private ; 
 when at the same table there was one that had been of 
 his own regiment at Worcester, could not know him, 
 but made him drink the King's health, and said that 
 the King was at least four fingers higher than he. 
 At another place he was by some servants of the house 
 made to drink, that they might know that he was not 
 a Roundhead, which they swore he was. In another 
 place at his inn, the master of the house, as the King 
 was standing with his hands upon the back of a chair 
 by the fireside, kneeled down and kissed his hand, 
 prirately, saying, that he would not ask him who he 
 was, but bid God bless him whither he was going. 
 Then the difficulties in getting a boat to get into 
 France, where he was fain to plot with the master 
 thereof to keep his design from the foreman and a boy 
 (which was all the ship's company), and so get to 
 Fecamp in France. At Rouen he looked so poorly, 
 that the people went into the rooms before he went 
 away to see whether he had not stole something or other. 
 In the evening I went up to my Lord to write letters 
 for England, which we sent away, with word of onr
 
 86 PEPYS'S DIABT. [May, 
 
 coming, by Mr. Edw. Pickering. The King supped 
 alone in the coach ; after that I got a dish, and we 
 four supped in my cabin, as at noon. About bed-time 
 my Lord Bartlett (who I had offered my service to 
 before) seiit for me to get him a bed, who with much 
 ado I did get to bed to my Lord Middlesex in the 
 great cabin below, but I was truly troubled before I 
 could dispose of him, and quit myself of him. So to 
 my cabin again, where the company still was, and were 
 talking more of the King's difficulties : as how ho was 
 fain to eat a piece of bread and cheese out of a poor 
 body's pocket; how, at a Catholic house, he was fain 
 to lie in the priest's hole a good while in the house for 
 his privacy. After that our company broke up. We 
 have the Lords Commissioners on board us, and many 
 others. Under sail all night, and most glorious 
 weather. 
 
 24th. Up, and made myself as fine as I could, with 
 the linen stockings on and wide canons that I bought 
 the other day at Hague. Extraordinary press of noble 
 company, and great mirth all the day. There dined 
 with me in my cabin (that is, the carpenter's) Dr. 
 Earle, and Mr. Hollis, the King's Chaplains, Dr. Scar- 
 borough, Dr. Quarterman, and Dr. Clerke, Physicians, 
 Mr. Daray, and Mr. Fox (both very fine gentlemen), 
 the King's servants, where we have brave discourse. 
 Walking upon the decks, where persons of honour all 
 the afternoon, among others, Thomas Killigrew (a
 
 1660. J PEPYS'S DIABY. 87 
 
 merry droll, bat a gentleman of great esteem with the 
 King), who told us many merry stories. At supper 
 the three doctors of physic again at my cabin ; where 
 I put Dr. Scarborough in mind of what I heard him 
 say, that children do, in every day's experience, look 
 several ways with both their eyes, till custom teaches 
 them otherwise. And that we do now see but with 
 one eye, our eyes looking in parallel lines. After this 
 discourse I was called to write a pass for my Lord 
 Mandeville to take up horses to London, which I 
 wrote in the King's name, and carried it to him to 
 sign, which was the first and only one that ever he 
 signed in the ship Charles. To bed, coming in sight 
 of land a little before night. 
 
 25th. By the morning we were come close to the 
 land, and everybody made ready to get on shore. The 
 King and the two Dukes did eat their breakfast before 
 they went, and there being set some ship's diet, they 
 ate of nothing else but pease and pork, and boiled beef. 
 Dr. Clerke, who ate with me, told me how the King had 
 given 50 to Mr. Shepley for my Lord's servants, and 
 500 among the officers and common men of the ship. 
 I spoke to the Duke of York about business, who 
 called me Pepys by name, and upon my desire did 
 promise me his future favour. Great expectation of 
 the King's making some knights, but there was none. 
 About noon (though the brigantine that Beale made 
 was there ready to carry him), yet he would go in my
 
 88 PEPYS'S DIARY. [May, 
 
 Lord's barge with the two Dukes. Our captain steered, 
 and my Lord went along bare with him. I went, and 
 Mr. Mansell, and one of the King's footmen, and a dog 
 that the King loved, in a boat by ourselves, and so got 
 on shore when the King did, who was received by 
 General Monk with all imaginable love and respect at 
 his entrance upon the land of Dover. Infinite the 
 crowd of people and the horsemen, citizens, and noble- 
 men of all sorts. The Mayor of the town came and 
 gave him his white staff, the badge of his place, which 
 the King did give him again. The Mayor also pre- 
 sented him from the town a very rich Bible, which he 
 took, and said it was the thing that he loved above all 
 things in the world. A canopy was provided for him 
 to stand under, which he did, and talked a while with 
 General Monk and others, and so into a stately coach 
 there set for him, and so away through the town 
 towards Canterbury, without making any stay at 
 Dover. The shouting and joy expressed by all is past 
 imagination. Seeing that my Lord did not stir out of 
 his barge, I got into a boat and so into his barge. My 
 Lord almost transported with joy that he had done all 
 this without any the least blur or obstruction in the 
 world, that could give offence to any, and with the 
 great honour he thought it would be to him. Being 
 overtook by the brigantine, my Lord and we went out 
 of our barge into it, and so went on board with Sir 
 W. Batten and the Yice and Bear- Admirals. At mght
 
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 I supped with the captain, who told me what the King 
 had given us. My Lord returned late, and at his 
 coming did give me order to cause the mark to be 
 gilded, and a crown and C. B. to be made at the head 
 of the coach table, where the King to-day with his own 
 hand did mark his height, which accordingly I caused 
 the painter to do, and is now done as is to be seen. 
 
 26th. My Lord dined with the Vice-Admiral to-day, 
 (who is as officious, poor man ! as any spaniel can be ; 
 but I believe all to no purpose, for I believe he will not 
 hold his place), so I dined commander at the coach 
 table to-day, and all the officers of the ship with me, 
 and Mr. White of Dover. After a game or two at 
 nine-pins, to work all the afternoon, making above 
 twenty orders. In the evening my Lord having been 
 ashore, the first time that he hath been ashore since he 
 came out of the Hope (having resolved not to go till 
 he had brought his Majesty into England), returned on 
 board with a great deal of pleasure. The captain told 
 me that my Lord had appointed me 30 out of the 1,000 
 ducats which the King had given to the ship. 
 
 27th (Lord's day). Called up by John Goods to see 
 the Garter and Herald's coat, which lay in the coach, 
 brought by Sir Edward Walker, King at Arms, this 
 morning, for my Lord. My Lord had summoned all the 
 commanders on board him to see the ceremony, which 
 was thus : Sir Edward, putting on his coat, and having 
 laid the George and Garter, and the King's letter to
 
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 my Lord, upon a crimson cushion (in the coach, all the 
 commanders standing by), makes three congees to him, 
 holding the cushion in his arms. Then laying it down 
 with the things upon it upon a chair, he takes the 
 letter and delivers it to my Lord, which my Lord breaks 
 open and gives him to read. It was directed to our 
 trusty and well-beloved Sir Edward Montagu, Knight, 
 one of our Generals at sea, and our companion elect of 
 our noble Order j>l the Garter. The contents of the 
 letter is to show that the Kings of England have for 
 many years made use of this honour, as a special mark 
 of favour to persons of good extraction and valour 
 (and that many emperors, kings, and princes of other 
 countries have borne this honour), and that whereas my 
 Lord is of a noble family, and hath now done the King 
 such service by sea, at this time, as he hath done, he 
 do send him Ihis George and Garter to wear as 
 knight of the order, with a dispensation for the other 
 ceremonies of the habit of the order, and other tilings, 
 till hereafter, when it can be done. So the herald, 
 putting the ribbon about his neck, and the Garter on 
 his left leg, he sainted him with joy as Knight of the 
 Garter. And after that was done he took his leave of 
 my Lord, and so to shore again to the King at Canter- 
 bury, where he yesterday gave the like honour to 
 General Monk, who are the only two for many years 
 that have had the Garter given them before they had 
 honours of earldom, or the like, excepting only the
 
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 Duke of Buckingham, who was only Sir George 
 Villiers when he was made Knight of the Garter. 
 
 29th. Abroad to shoi-e with my Lord (which he 
 offered me of himself, saying that I had a great deal 
 of work to do this month, which was very true). On 
 shore we took horses, my Lord and Mr. Edward, Mr. 
 Hetly and I, and three or four servants, and had a 
 great deal of pleasure in riding. At last we came 
 upon a very high cliff by the sea-side, and rode under 
 it, we having laid great wagers, I and Dr. Mathews, 
 that it was not so high as Paul's ; my Lord and Mr. 
 Hetly, that it was. But we riding under it, my Lord 
 made a pretty good measure of it with two sticks, and 
 found it to be not thirty-five yards high, and Paul's 
 is reckoned to be about ninety. From thence toward 
 the barge again, and in our way found the people of 
 Deal going to make a bonfire for joy of the day, it 
 being the King's birthday, and had some guns which 
 they did fire at my Lord's coming by. For which I 
 did give twenty shillings among them to drink. 
 While we were on the top of the cliff, we saw and 
 heard our guns in the fleet go off for the same joy. 
 And it being a pretty fair day, we could see above 
 twenty miles into France. Being returned on board, 
 my Lord called for Mr. Shepley's book of Paul's, by 
 which we were confirmed in our wager. This day, it 
 is thought, the King do enter the City of London. 
 
 30th. All this morning making up my accounts, in
 
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 which I counted that I had made myself now worth 
 about 80, at which my heart was glad, and blessed 
 God. 
 
 June 1. At night Mr. Cook comes from London with 
 letters, leaving all things there very gallant and joyful ; 
 and brought us word that the Parliament had ordered 
 the 29th of May, the King's birthday, to be for ever 
 kept as a day of thanksgiving for our redemption from 
 tyranny, and the King's return to his Government, he 
 entering London that day. 
 
 2nd. Being with my Lord in the morning about 
 business in his cabin, I took occasion to give him thanks 
 for his love to me in the share that he had given me of 
 his Majesty's money, and the Duke's. Ho told me he 
 hoped to do me a more lasting kindness, if all things 
 stand as they are now between him and the King, but, 
 says he, " "We must have a little patience and we will 
 rise together ; in the meantime I will do yet all the 
 good jobs I can." Which was great content for me to 
 hear from my Lord. All the morning with the Cap- 
 tain, computing how much the thirty ships that como 
 with the King from Scheveling their pay comes to for 
 a month (because the King promised to give them all 
 a month's pay), and it comes to 6,538, and the 
 Charles particularly 777. I wish we had the money. 
 
 3rd. Captain Holland is come to get an order for the 
 setting out of his ship, and to renew his commission. 
 He tells me how every man goes to the Lord Mayor l-j
 
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 set down their names, as such as do accept of his 
 Majesty's pardon, and showed me a certificate under 
 the Lord Mayor's hand that he had done so. 
 
 At sermon in the morning; after dinner into my 
 cabin, to cast my accounts up, and find myself to be 
 worth near 100, for which I bless Almighty God, it 
 being more than I hoped for so soon, being, I believe, 
 not clearly worth 25 when I came to sea besides my 
 house and goods. 
 
 4th. This morning the King's Proclamation against 
 drinking, swearing, and debauchery, was read to our 
 ships' companies in the fleet, and indeed it gives great 
 satisfaction to all. 
 
 6th. In the morning I had letters come, that told me, 
 among other things, that my Lord's place of Clerk of 
 _the__Signet was fallen to him, which he did most 
 lovingly tell me that I should execute, in case he could 
 not get a better employment for me at the end of the 
 year ; because he thought that the Duke of York 
 would command all, but he hoped that the Duke would 
 not remove me but to my advantage. 
 
 My letters tell me that Mr. Calamy had preached 
 before the King in a surplice (this I heard afterwards 
 to be false) ; that my Lord, Gen. Monk, and three 
 more Lords, are made Commissioners for the Treasury ; 
 that my Lord had some great place conferred on him, 
 and they say Master of the Wardrobe ; and the two 
 Dukes do haunt the Park much, and that they were at
 
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 a play, Madam Epicene, the other day ; that Sir Ant. 
 Cooper, Mr. Hollis, and Mr. Annesly, late Presidents 
 of the Council of State, are made Privy Councillors 
 to the King. 
 
 7th. After dinner come Mr. John Wright and Mr. 
 Moore, with the sight of whom my heart was very 
 glad. They brought an order for my Lord's coming 
 up to London, which my Lord resolved to do to-morrow. 
 All the afternoon getting my things in order to set 
 forth to-morrow. At night walked up and down with 
 Mr. Moore, who did give me an account of all things 
 at London. Among others, how the Presbyterians 
 would be angry if they durst, but they will not be able 
 to do anything. 
 
 8th. Out early, took horses at Deal. 
 
 9th. To White Hall with my Lord and Mr. Edwd. 
 Montagu. Found the King in the Park. There 
 walked. Gallantly great. 
 
 llth. With my Lord to Dorset House to the 
 Chancellor. 
 
 13th. By water with my Lord in a boat to West- 
 minster, and to the Admiralty, now in a new place. 
 
 15th. My Lord told me how the King has given him 
 the place of the great Wardrobe. 
 
 16th. To my Lord, and so to White Hall with him 
 about the Clerk of the Privy Seal's place, which he is 
 to have. Then to the Admiralty, where I wrote some 
 letters. Here Coll. Thompson told me, as a great
 
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 secret, that the Nazeby was on fire when the King was 
 there, but that is not known ; when God knows it is 
 quite false. 
 
 17th (Lord's day). To Mr. Messinn's; a good 
 sermon. This day the organs did begin to play at 
 White Hall before the King. After dinner to Mr. 
 Messinn's again, and so in the garden, and heard 
 ChippelTs father preach, that was Page to the Pro- 
 tector. 
 
 18th. To my Lord's, where much business. "With 
 him to the Parliament House, where he did intend to 
 have made his appearance to-day, but he met Mr. 
 Crewe upon the stairs, and would not go in. He went 
 to Mrs. Brown's, and stayed till wjord was brought 
 him what was done in the House. This day they made 
 an nd of the twenty men to be excepted from pardon 
 to their estates. By barge to Stepney with my Lord, 
 where at Trinity House we had great entertainment. 
 With my Lord there went Sir W. Pen, Sir H. Wright, 
 Hetly, Pierce, Creed, Hill, I, and other servants. Back 
 again to the Admiralty, and so to my Lord's lodgings, 
 where he told me that he did look after the place 
 of the Clerk of the Acts for me. 
 
 19th. Much business at my Lord's. This morning 
 my Lord went into the House of Commons, and there 
 had the thanks of the House, in the name of the Par- 
 liament and Commons of Englaud, for his late service 
 to his King and Country. A motion was made for a
 
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 reward for him, but it was quashed by Mr. Annesly, 
 who, above most men, is engaged to my Lord's and 
 Mr. Crewe's favours. My Lord went at night with 
 the King to Baynard's Castle to supper, and I 
 home. 
 
 20th. With my Lord (who lay long in bed this day, 
 because he came home late from supper with the King) 
 to the Parliament House, and, after that, with him 
 to General Monk's, where he dined at the Cockpit. 
 Thence to the Admiralty, and despatched away Mr. 
 Cooke to sea; whose business was a letter from my 
 Lord about Mr. G-. Montague to be chosen as a Parlia- 
 ment-man in my Lord's room at Dover, and another to 
 the Vice- Admiral to give my Lord a constant account 
 of all things in the fleet, merely that he may thereby 
 keep up his power there; another letter to Captain 
 Cuttance to send the barge that brought the King on 
 shore to Hinchingbroke by Lynn. 
 
 21st. To my Lord, much business. With him to 
 the Council Chamber, where he was sworn ; and the 
 charge of his being admitted Privy Counsellor is 56. 
 To Whitehall, where the King being gone abroad, my 
 Lord and I walked a great while discoursing of the 
 simplicity of the Protector, in his losing all that his 
 father had left him. My Lord told me that the last 
 words that he parted with the Protector with (when he 
 went to the Sound) were, that he should rejoice more 
 to see him in his grave at his return home, than that
 
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 he should give way to such things as were then in 
 hatching, and afterwards did ruin him ; and that the 
 Protector said, that whatever G. Montagu, my Lord 
 Broghill, Jones, and the Secretary, would have him to 
 do, he would do it, be it what it would. 
 
 22nd. To my Lord, where much business. With 
 him to Whitehall, where the Duke of York not being 
 up, we walked a good while in the Shield Gallery. 
 Mr. Hill (who for these two or three days hath con- 
 stantly attended my- Lord) told me of an offer of 500 
 for a baronet's dignity, which I told my Lord of in 
 the balcony of this gallery, and he said he would think 
 of it. My dear friend, Mr. Fuller of Twickenham, 
 and I, dined alone at the Sun Tavern, where he told 
 me how he had the grant of being Dean of St. 
 Patrick's, in Ireland, and I told> him my condition, and 
 both rejoiced ono for another. Thence to my Lord's 
 and had the great coach to Brigham's, who told me 
 how my Lady Monk deals with him and others for 
 their places, asking him 500, though he was formerly 
 the King's coach-maker, and sworn to it. 
 
 23rd. To my Lord's lodgings, where Tom Guy come 
 to me, and there stayed to see the King touch people 
 for the King's evil. But he did not come at all, it 
 rained so, and the poor people were forced to stand all 
 the morning in the rain in the garden. Afterward 
 he touched them in the banqueting-house. With 
 my Lord to my Lord Frezendorfe's, where he dined 
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 to-day. He told me that he had obtained a promise 
 of the Clerk of the Acts place for me, at which I 
 was glad. 
 
 25th. With my Lord at Whitehall all the morning. 
 I spoke with Mr. Coventry about my business, who 
 promised me all the assistance I could expect. Dined 
 with young Mr. Powell, lately come from the Sound, 
 being amused at our great charges here, and Mr. 
 Southerne, now clerk to Mr. Coventry, at the Leg 
 in King Street. Thence to the Admiralty, where I 
 met Mr. Turner, of the Navy Office, who did look 
 after the place of Clerk of the Acts. He was very 
 civil to me, and I to him, and shall be so. There come 
 a letter from my Lady Monk to my Lord about it this 
 evening, but he refused to come to her, but meeting in 
 Whitehall with Sir Thomas Clarges, her brother, 
 my Lord returned answer, that he could not desist in 
 my business ; and that he believed that General Monk 
 would take it ill if my Lord should name the officers 
 in his army ; and therefore he desired to have the 
 naming of one officer in the fleet. With my Lord by 
 coach to Mr. Crewe's, and very merry by the way, dis- 
 coursing of the late changes and his good fortune. 
 Thence home, and then with my wife to Dorset House, 
 to deliver a list of the names of the justices of peace for 
 Huntingdonshire. 
 
 26th. My Lord dined at his lodgings all alone to-day. 
 I went to Secretary Nicholas to carry him my Lord's
 
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 resolutions about his title, which he had chosen, and 
 that is Portsmouth. 
 
 To Backewell, the goldsmith's, and there we chose 
 a 100 worth of plate for my Lord to give Secretary 
 Nicholas. 
 
 27th. With my Lord to the Duke, where he spoke 
 to Mr. Coventry to despatch my business of the Acts, 
 in which place everybody gives me joy, as if I were in 
 it, which God send. 
 
 28th. To Sir Gr. Downing, the first visit I have 
 made him since he come. He is so stingy a fellow I 
 care not to see him ; I quite cleared myself of his office, 
 and did give him liberty to take anybody in. After 
 all this to my Lord, who lay a-bed till eleven o'clock, 
 it being almost five before he went to bed, they supped 
 so late last night with the King. This morning I saw 
 poor Bishop Wren going to chapel, it being a thanks- 
 giving day for the King's return. 
 
 29th. Up and to Whitehall, where I got my warrant 
 from the Duke to be Clerk of the Acts. Also I got 
 my Lord's warrant from the Secretary for his honour 
 of Earl of Portsmouth, and Viscount Montagu of 
 Hinchingbroke. So to my Lord, to give him an ac- 
 count of what I had done. Then to Sir Geffery 
 Palmer, who told me that my Lord must have some 
 good Latinist to make the preamble to his Patent, 
 which must express his late service in the best terms 
 that he can, and he told me in what high flaunting
 
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 terms Sir J. Greenville had caused his to be done, 
 which he do not like ; but that Sir Richard Fanshawe 
 had done General Monk's very well. Then to White- 
 hall, where I was told by Mr. Hutcliinsou at the 
 Admiralty, that Mr. Barlow, my predecessor Clerk of 
 the Acts, is yet alive, and coming up to town to look 
 after his place, which made my heart sad a little. At 
 night told my Lord thereof, and he bade me get pos- 
 session of my Patent, and ho would do all that could 
 be done to keep him out. This night my Lord and I 
 looked over the list of the Captains, and marked some 
 that my Lord had a mind to put out. 
 
 30th. By times to Sir R. Fanshawe to draw up the 
 preamble to my Lord's patent. So to my Lord, and 
 with him to Whitehall, where I saw a great many fine 
 antique heads of marble, that my Lord Northumber- 
 land had given the King. To Whitehall with Mr. 
 Moore, where I met with a letter from Mr. Turner, 
 offering me 150 to be joined with me in my patent, 
 and to advise me how to improve the advantage of my 
 place, and to keep off Barlow. This day come Will, 
 my boy, to me, the maid continuing lame. 
 
 July 1. This morning come home my fine camlett 
 cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost 
 me much money, and I pray God to make me able to 
 pay for it. In the afternoon to the Abbey, where a 
 good sermon by a stranger, but no Common Prayer 
 yet.
 
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 2nd. All the afternoon with my Lord, going up and 
 down the town. At seven at night he went home, and 
 there the principal officers of the navy, among the rest 
 myself was reckoned one. We had order to meet to- 
 morrow, to draw up such an order of the Council as 
 would put us into action before our patents were 
 passed; at which my heart was glad. At night 
 supped with my Lord, he and I together, in a great 
 dining-room alone by ourselves. 
 
 3rd. The Officers and Commissioners of the navy 
 met at Sir G. Carteret's chamber, and agreed upon 
 orders for the Council to supersede the old ones, and 
 empower us to act. Dined with Mr. Stephens, the 
 Treasurer of the Navy, and Mr. Turner, to whom I 
 offered 50 out of my own purse for one year, and the 
 benefit of a clerk's allowance beside, which he thanked 
 me for; but I find he hath some design yet in his head, 
 which I could not think of. In the afternoon my 
 heart was quite pulled down, by being told that Mr. 
 Barlow was to inquire to-day for Mr. Coventry ; but 
 at night I met with my Lord, who told me that I need 
 not fear, for he would get me the place against the 
 world. And when I come to W. Howe, he told mo 
 that Dr. Petty had been with my Lord, and did tell 
 him that Barlow was a sickly man, and did not intend 
 to execute the place himself, which put me in great 
 comfort again. 
 
 4th. To Mr. Backewell's, the goldsmith, where 1 took
 
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 my Lord's 100 in plate for Mr. Secretary Nicholas, 
 and my own piece of plate, being a state dish and cup 
 in chased work for Mr. Coventry, cost me above 19. 
 Carried these and the money by coach to my Lord's at 
 Whitehall, and from thence carried Nicholas's plate to 
 his house and left it there, intending to speak witu 
 him anon. So to my Lord's, and walking all the 
 afternoon in "Whitehall Court, in expectation of what 
 shall be done in the Council as to our business. It 
 was strange to see how all the people flocked together 
 bare, to see the King looking out of the council 
 window. At night my Lord told me how my orders 
 that I drew last night about giving us power to act 
 are granted by the council. At which I was very glad. 
 5th. This morning my brother Tom brought me my 
 jackanapes coat with silver buttons. It rained this 
 morning, which makes us fear that the glory of this 
 day will be lost ; the King and Parliament being 
 to be entertained by the City to-day with great pomp. 
 Mr. Hater was with me to-day, and I agreed with him 
 to be my clerk. Being at "Whitehall, I saw the King, 
 the Dukes, and all their attendants, go forth in the rain 
 to the City, and it spoiled many a fine suit of clothes. 
 I was forced to walk all the morning in Whitehall, not 
 knowing how to get out because of the rain. Met with 
 Mr. Cooling, my Lord Chamberlain's secretary, who 
 took me to dinner among the gentlemen waiters, and 
 after dinner into the wine-cellar. He told me how he
 
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 had a project for all us secretaries to join together, 
 and get money by bringing all business into our hands. 
 Thence to the Admiralty, where Mr. Blackburne and 
 I (it beginning to hold up) went and walked an hour 
 or two in the park, he giving of me light in many 
 things in my way in this office that I go about. And 
 in the evening I got my presents of plate carried to 
 Mr. Coventry's. At my Lord's at night comes Dr. 
 Petty to me, to tell me that Barlow was come to town, 
 and other things, which put me into a despair, and T 
 went to bed very sad. 
 
 6th. In the afternoon my Lord and I, and Mr. 
 Coventry and Sir G. Carteret, went and took possession 
 of the Navy Office, whereby my mind was a little 
 cheered, but my hopes not great. From thence Sir G. 
 Carteret and I to the Treasurer's Office, where he set 
 some things in order. 
 
 8th (Lord's day). To Whitehall chapel, where I 
 got in with ease by going before the Lord Chancellor 
 with Mr. Kipps. Here I heard very good music, the first 
 time that ever I remember to have heard the organs 
 and singing-men in surplices in my life. The Bishop of 
 Chichester preached before the King, and made a great 
 flattering sermon, which I did not like that the clergy 
 should meddle with matters of state. Dined with Mr. 
 Luellin and Salisbury at a cook's shop. Home, and 
 stayed all the afternoon with my wife till after sermon. 
 There till Mr. Fairebrother come to call us ont to my
 
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 father's to supper. He told me how he had perfectly 
 procured me to be made Master in Arts by proxy, 
 which did somewhat please me, though I remember 
 my cousin Roger Pepys was the other day persuading 
 me from it. 
 
 9th. To the Navy Office, where in the afternoon we 
 met and sat, and there I begun to sign bills in the 
 Office the first time. 
 
 10th. This day I put on my new silk suit, the first 
 that ever I wore in my life. Home and called my 
 wife, and took her to Clodin's to a great wedding of 
 Nan Hartlib to Mynheer Roder, which was kept at 
 Goring House with very great state, cost, and noble com- 
 pany. But among all the beauties there, my wife was 
 thought the greatest. And finding my Lord in White- 
 hall garden, I got him to go to the Secretary's, which 
 lie did, and desired the despatch of his and my bills to 
 be signed by the King. His bill is to be Earl of 
 Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbroke, and baron of St. 
 Neot's. Home, with my mind pretty quiet : not re- 
 turning as I said I would, to see the bride put to bed. 
 
 llth. With Sir W. Pen by water to the Navy Office, 
 where we met and despatched business. And that 
 being done, we went all to dinner to the Dolphin, upon 
 Major Brown's invitation. After that to the office 
 again, where I was vexed, and so was Commissioner 
 Pett, to see a busy fellow come to look out the best 
 lodgings for my Lord Barkley, and the combining
 
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 between him and Sir TV. Pen ; and, indeed, was troubled 
 much at it. 
 
 12th. Up early and by coach to Whitehall with 
 Commissioner Pett, where, after we had talked with 
 my Lord, I went to the Privy Seal and got my bill 
 perfected there, and at the Signet, and then to the 
 Honse of Lords, and met with Mr. Kipps, Avho directed 
 me to Mr. Beale to get my patent engrossed ; but he 
 not having time to get it done in Chancery- hand, I was 
 forced to run all up and do\vn Chancery Lane, and 
 the Six Clerks' Office, but could find noue that could 
 write the hand, that were at leisure. And so in de- 
 spair went to the Admiralty, where we met the first 
 time there, my Lord Montagu, my Lord Barkley, Mr. 
 Coventry, and all the rest of the principal officers and 
 commissioners, except only the controller, who is not 
 yet chosen. 
 
 13th. Up early, the first day that I put on my black 
 camlet coat with silver buttons. To Mr. Spong, 
 whom I found in his night-gown writing of my patent. 
 It being done, we carried it to Worcester House, to 
 the Chancellor, where Mr. Kipps got me the Chancel- 
 lor's receipt to my bill ; and so carried it to Mr. Beale 
 for a docket ; but he was very angry, and unwilling 
 to do it, because he said it was ill writ (because I had 
 got it writ by another hand, and cot by him) ; but by 
 much importunity I got Mr. Spong to go to his office 
 and make an end of my patent ; and in the meantime
 
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 Mr. Beale to be preparing my docket, which being 
 .done, I did give him two pieces, after which it was 
 strange how civil and tractable he was to me. Met 
 with Mr. Spong, who still would be giving me counsel 
 of getting my patent out, for fear of another change, 
 and my Lord Montagu's f alL After that to Worcester 
 House, where by Mr. Kipps' means, and my pressing 
 in General Montagu's name to the Chancellor, I did, 
 beyond all expectation, get my seal passed ; and while 
 it was doing in one room, I was forced to keep Sir G. 
 Carteret (who by chance met me there, ignorant of my 
 business) in talk. I to my Lord's, where I despatched 
 an order for a ship to fetch Sir R. Honywood home. 
 Late writing letters ; and great doings of music at the 
 next house, which was Whally's ; the King and Dukes 
 there with Madame Palmer, a pretty woman that they 
 had a fancy to. Here at the old door that did go into 
 his lodgings, my Lord, I, and W. Howe, did stand 
 listening a great while to the music. 
 
 14th. Comes in Mr. Pagan Fisher, the poet, and 
 promises me what he had long ago done, a book in 
 praise of the King of France, with my arms, and a 
 dedication to me very handsome. 
 
 15th. My wife and I mightily pleased with our new 
 house that we hope to have. My patent has cost me a 
 great deal of money ; about 40. In the afternoon to 
 Henry the Seventh's Chapel, where I heard a sermon. 
 
 17th. This morning (as indeed all the mornings
 
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 nowadays) much business at my Lord's. There come 
 to my house before I went out Mr. Barlow, an old con- 
 sumptive man, and fair conditioned. After much talk, 
 I did grant him what he asked, viz. 50 per annum, if 
 my salary be not increased, and 100 per annum in 
 case it be 350, at which he was very well pleased to 
 be paid as I received my money, and not otherwise ; so 
 I brought him to my Lord's, and he and I did agree 
 together. 
 
 18th. This morning we met at the office : I dined at 
 my house in Seething Lane. 
 
 19th. We did talk of our old discourse when we did 
 use to talk of the King, in the time of the Rump, 
 privately ; after that to the Admiralty Office, in 
 Whitehall, where I stayed and writ my late observations 
 for these four days last past. Great talk of the differ- 
 ence between the Episcopal and Presbyterian clergy, 
 but I believe it will come to nothing. 
 
 22nd. After dinner to Whitehall, where I find my 
 Lord at home, and walked in the garden with him, he 
 showing me all respect. I left him and went to walk 
 in the inward Park, but could not got in ; one man was 
 basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on 
 his back, through the water. Home, and at night had 
 a chapter read ; and I read prayers out of the Common 
 Prayer Book, the first time that ever I read prayers in 
 this house. So to bed. 
 
 23rd. After dinner to my Lord, who took me to
 
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 Secretary Nicholas; and before him and Secretary 
 Morris, my Lord and I upon our knees together took 
 our oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy ; and the Oath 
 of the Privy Seal, of which I was much glad, thougli 
 I am not likely to get anything by it at present ; but I 
 do desire it, for fear of a turn-out of our office. 
 
 24th. To Whitehall, where I did acquaint Mr. 
 Watkins with my being sworn into the Privy Seal, at 
 which he was much troubled, but did offer me a kins- 
 man of his to be my clerk. In the afternoon I spent 
 much time in walking in Whitehall Court with Mr. 
 Bickerstaffe, who was very glad of my Lord's being 
 sworn, because of his business with his brother Baron, 
 which is referred to my Lord Chancellor, and to be 
 ended to-morrow. Baron had got a grant beyond sea, 
 to come in before the reversionary of the Privy Seal. 
 
 25th. I got my certificate of my Lord's and I being 
 sworn. This morning my Lord took leave of the 
 House of Commons, and had the thanks of the House 
 for his great service to his country. 
 
 26th. Early to Whitehall, thinking to have a meet- 
 ing of my Lord and the principal officers, but my Lord 
 could not, it being the day that he was to go and bo 
 admitted in the House of Lords, his patent being done, 
 which he presented upon his knees to the Speaker ; and 
 so it was read in the House, and he took his place. T. 
 Doling carried me to St. James's Fair, and there moet 
 ing with W. Symons and his wife, and Luellin, and
 
 PEPYS'S DIABY. 109 
 
 D. Scobell's wife and cousin, we went to Wood's at tho 
 Pell Mell (our old house for clubbing), and there we 
 spent till ten at night. 
 
 28th. A boy. brought me a letter from Poet Fisher, 
 who tells me that he is upon a panegyric of the King, 
 and desired to borrow a piece of me ; and I sent him 
 half a piece. To Westminster, and there met Mr. 
 Henson, who had formerly had the brave clock that 
 went with bullets (which is now taken away from him 
 by the King, it being his goods). 
 
 29th. With my Lord to Whitehall Chapel, where I 
 heard a cold sermon of the Bishop of Salisbury's, 
 Duppa's, and the ceremonies did not please me, they 
 do so overdo them. My Lord went to dinner at 
 Kensington with my Lord Camden. 
 
 30th. This afternoon I got my 50, due to me for 
 my first quarter's salary as Secretary to my Lord, paid 
 to Tho. Hater for me, which he received and brought 
 home to me, of which I felt glad. The sword-bearer 
 of London (Mr. Man) came to ask for us, with whom 
 we sat late, discoursing about the worth of my office of 
 Clerk of the Acts, which he hath a mind to buy, and 
 I asked four years' purchase. 
 
 31st. To Whitehall, where my Lord and the principal 
 officers met, and had a great discourse about raising of 
 money for the Navy, which is in very sad condition, 
 and money must be raised for it. I back to the 
 Admiralty, and there was doing things in order to the
 
 110 PEPYS'8 DIAET. 
 
 calculating of the debts of the Navy, and other business, 
 all the afternoon. At night I went to the Privy Seal, 
 where I found Mr. Crofts and Mathews making up all 
 their things to leave the office to-morrow to those that 
 come to wait the next month. 
 
 August 1. In the afternoon at the office, where we 
 had many things to sign : and I went to the Council 
 Chamber, and there got my Lord to sign the first bill, 
 and the rest all myself ; but received no money to-day. 
 
 2nd. To Westminster by water with Sir W. Batten, 
 and Sir W. Pen (our servants in another boat), to the 
 Admiralty ; and from thence I went to my Lord's to 
 fetch him thither, where we stayed in the morning 
 about ordering of money for the victuallers, and 
 advising how to get a sum of money to carry on the 
 business of the Navy. From thence W. Hewer and I 
 to the office of Privy Seal, where I stayed all the 
 afternoon, and received about 40 for yesterday and 
 to-day, at which my heart rejoiced for God's blessing 
 to me, to give me this advantage by chance, there 
 being of this 40 about 10 due to me for this day's 
 work. So great is the present profit of this office, 
 above what it was in the King's time ; there being the 
 last month about 300 bills, whereas in the late King's 
 time it was much to have 40. I went and cast up the 
 expense that I laid out upon my former house (because 
 there are so many that are desirous of it, and I am, in 
 my mind, loth to let it go out of my hands, for fear of
 
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 a turn). I find my layings-out to come to about 20 
 which with my fine will come to about 22 to him that 
 shall hire my house of me. 
 
 4th. To Whitehall, where I found my Lord gone 
 with the King by water to dine at the Tower with Sir 
 J. Robinson, Lieutenant. I found my Lady Jemimah 
 at my Lord's, with whom I stayed and dined, all alone ; 
 after dinner to the Privy Seal Office, where I did 
 business. So to a Committee of Parliament (Sir Hen. 
 Finch, Chairman), to give them an answer to an order 
 of theirs, " that we could not give them any account of 
 the Accounts of the Navy in the years 36, 37, 38, 39, 
 40, as they desire. 
 
 6th. This night Mr. Man offered me 1,000 for 
 my office of Clerk of the Acts, which made my mouth 
 water ; but yet I dare not take it till I speak with my 
 Lord to have his consent. 
 
 7th. Mr. Moore and myself dined at my Lord's 
 with Mr. Shepley. While I was at dinner, in come 
 Sam. Hartlibb and his brother-in-law, now knighted 
 by the King, to request my promise of a ship for 
 them to Holland, which I had promised to get for 
 them. After dinner to the Privy Seal all the after- 
 noon. At night, meeting Sam. Hartlibb, he took me 
 by coach to Kensington, to my Lord of Holland's ; I 
 stayed in the coach while he went in about his 
 business. 
 
 9th. With Judge Advocate Fowler, Mr. Creed, and
 
 112 FEPYS'S DIAEY. [August, 
 
 Mr. Shepley to the Rhenish Wine-house, and Captain 
 Hayward of the Plymouth, who is now ordered to 
 carry my Lord Winchelsea, Ambassador to Constan- 
 tinople. We were very merry, and Judge Advocate 
 did give Captain Hayward his Oath of Allegiance and 
 Supremacy. 
 
 10th. With Mr. Moore and Creed to Hyde Park by 
 coach, and saw a fine foot-race three times round the 
 park, between an Irishman and Crow, that was once 
 my Lord Claypoole's footman. By the way, I cannot 
 forgot that my Lord Claypoole did the other day 
 make inquiry of Mrs. Hunt, concerning my house in 
 Axe-yard, and did set her on work to get it of me for 
 him, which methinks is a very great change. But 
 blessed be God for my good chance of the Privy 
 Seal, where I get every day, I believe, about 3. This 
 place my Lord did give me by chance, neither he nor I 
 thinking it to be of the worth that he and I find it to bo. 
 
 12th (Lord's day). To my Lord, and with him to 
 Whitehall Chapel, where Mr. Calamy preached, and 
 made a good sermon upon these words, " To whom 
 much is given, of him much is required." Ho was 
 very officious with his three reverences to the King. 
 as others do. After sermon a brave anthem of Captain 
 Cooko's, which he himself sung, and the King was 
 well pleased with it. My Lord dined at my Lord 
 Chamberlain's. 
 
 14th. To the Privy Seal, and thence to my Lord's,
 
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 where Mr. Pin the tailor and I agreed upon making 
 me a velvet coat. From thence to the Privy Seal 
 again, where Sir Samuel Morland come with a 
 Baronet's grant to pass, which the King had given him 
 to make money of. Here we stayed with him a great 
 while ; and he told me the whole manner of his 
 serving the King in the time of the Protector ; and 
 how Thurloe's bad usage made him to do it ; how 
 he discovered Sir R. Willis, and how he had sunk his 
 fortune for the King ; and that now the King had 
 given him a pension of 500 per annum out of the 
 Post Office for life, and the benefit of two Baronets ; 
 all which do make me begin to think that he is not so 
 much a fool as I took him to be. I did make even 
 with Mr. Fairebrother for my degree of Master of 
 Arts, which cost me about 9 16s. 
 
 15th. To the office, and after dinner by water to 
 Whitehall, where I found the King gone this morn- 
 ing by five of the clock to see a Dutch pleasure-boat 
 below bridge, where he dines, and my Lord with him. 
 The King do tire all his people that are about him 
 with early rising since he come. 
 
 18th. Captain Ferrers took me and Creed to the 
 Cockpitt play, the first that I have had time to see 
 since my coming from sea, " The Loyal Subject," 
 where one Kinaston, a boy, acted the Duke's sister, 
 but made the loveliest lady that ever I saw in my 
 life.
 
 114 PEPYS'S DIA&Y. [August, 
 
 20th. This afternoon at the Privy Seal, where 
 reckoning with Mr. Moore, he had got 100 for me 
 together, which I was glad of, guessing that the profit 
 of this month would come to 100. "With W. Hewer 
 by coach to Worcester House, where I light, 
 sending him home with the 100 that I received 
 to-day. Here I stayed, and saw my Lord Chancellor 
 come into his Great Hall, where wonderful hQW much 
 company there was to expect him. Before he would 
 begin any business, he took my papers of the state of 
 the debts of the Fleet, and there viewed them before 
 all the people, and did give me his advice privately 
 how to order things, to get as much money as we can 
 of the Parliament. 
 
 21st. I met Mr. Crewe and dined with him, where 
 there dined one Mr. Hickeman, an Oxford man, who 
 spoke very much against the height of the now 
 old clergy, for putting out many of the religious 
 fellows of colleges, and inveighing against them for 
 their being drunk. It being post-night, I wrote to 
 my Lord to give him notice that all things are well ; 
 that General Monk is made Lieutenant of Ireland, 
 which my Lord Roberts (made Deputy) do not like of, 
 to be Deputy to any man but the King himself. 
 
 22nd. In the House, after the Committee was up, I 
 met with Mr. G. Montagu, and joyed him in his 
 entrance (this being his 3rd day) for Dover. Here he 
 made me sit all alone in the house, none but he and I,
 
 1660.] PEPYS'S DIABY. 115 
 
 half an hour, discoursing how there was like to be 
 many factions at Court between Marquis Ormond, 
 General Monk, and the Lord Roberts, about the 
 business of Ireland ; as there is already between the 
 two Houses about the Act of Indemnity ; and in the 
 House of Commons, between the Episcopalian and 
 Presbyterian men. 
 
 23rd. By water to Doctors' Commons to Dr. 
 Walker, to give him my Lord's papers to view over, 
 concerning his being empowered to be Vice- Admiral 
 under the Duke of York. Thence by water to 
 Whitehall, to the Parliament House, where I spoke 
 with Colonel Birch, and so to the Admiralty chamber, 
 where we and Mr. Coventry had a meeting about 
 several businesses. Amongst others, it was moved 
 that Phineas Pett (kinsman to the commissioner), of 
 Chatham, should be suspended his employment till he 
 had answered some articles put in against him, as 
 that he should formerly say that the King was a 
 bastard and his mother a strumpet. 
 
 25th. This night W. Hewer brought me home from 
 Mr. Pirn's my velvet coat and cap, the first that ever I 
 had. 
 
 28th. Colonel Scroope is this day excepted out of the 
 Act of Indemnity, which has been now long in coming 
 out, but it is expected to-morrow. I carried hom 80 
 from Privy Seal by coach. 
 
 30th. To Whitehall, where I met with the Act of
 
 116 PEPYS'S DAIRY. [September, 
 
 Indemnity (so long talked of, and hoped for), with the 
 Act of Rate for Pole-money, and for judicial pro- 
 ceedings. This the first day that ever I saw my wife 
 wear black patches since we were married. 
 
 September 1. All this afternoon sending express to 
 the fleet, to order things against my Lord's coming ; 
 and taking direction of my Lord about some rich 
 furniture to take along with him for the Princess. 
 And talking after this, I hear by Mr. Townsend that 
 there is the greatest preparation against the Prince do 
 Ligne's coming over from the King of Spain that 
 ever was in England for their Ambassador. 
 
 3rd. Up and to Mr. , the goldsmith, and there, 
 
 with much ado, got him to put a gold ring to the jewel 
 which the King of Sweden did give my Lord : out of 
 which my Lord had now taken the King's picture, and 
 intends to make a George of it. About noon, my 
 Lord, having taken leave of the King in the Shield 
 Gallery (where I saw with what kindness the King 
 did hug my Lord at his parting), I wont over witli 
 him and saw him in his coach at Lambeth, and there 
 took leave of him, he going to the Downes. 
 
 5th. Great news nowaday of the Duke d'Anjou's 
 desire to marry the Princess Henrietta. Hugh Peters 
 is said to be taken. The Duke of Gloucester is ill, 
 and it is said it will prove the small-pox. 
 
 13th. This day the Duke of Gloucester died of the 
 email-pox, by the great negligence of the doctors.
 
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 15th. To Westminster, where I mot with Dr. Castles, 
 who chid me for some error in our Privy-Seal 
 business ; among the rest, for letting the fees of the 
 six judges pass unpaid, which I know not what to 
 .say to till I speak to Mr. Moore. I was much troubled 
 for fear of being forced to pay the money myself. 
 Called at my father's going home, and bespoke mourn- 
 ing for myself, for the death of the Duke of Glou- 
 cester. 
 
 16th. My Lord of Oxford is also dead of the small- 
 pox; in whom his family dies, after 600 years having 
 that honour in their family and name. To the Park, 
 where I saw how far they bad proceeded in the Pell 
 Mell and in making a river through the Park, which 
 I had never seen before since it was begun. Thence 
 to Whitehall garden, where I saw the King in purple 
 mourning for his brother. 
 
 18th. This day I heard that the Duke of York, upon 
 the news of the death of his brother yesterday, came 
 hither by post last night. 
 
 To the Miter Tavern in Wood Street (a house of the 
 greatest note in London), where I met W. Symons, 
 and D. Scobell, and their wives, Mr. Samford Luellin, 
 Chetwind, one Mr. Vivion, and Mr. White, formerly 
 chaplain to the Lady Protectress (and still so, and 
 one they say that is likely to get my Lady JTrancesse 
 for his wife). Here some of us fell to handicap, a 
 sport that I never knew before.
 
 118 PEPYS'S DIARY. [September, 
 
 20tb. To Major Hart's lodgings in Cannon Street, 
 who used me very kindly with wine and good dis- 
 course, particularly upon the ill method which Col. 
 Birch and the Committee use in defending of the army 
 and the navy ; promising the Parliament to save them 
 a great deal of money, when we judge that it will cost 
 the King more than if they had nothing to do with it, 
 by reason of their delays and scrupulous inquiries into 
 the account of both. 
 
 21st. Upon the water saw the corpse of the Duke of 
 Gloucester brought down to Somerset House stairs, 
 to go by water to "Westminster, to be buried. 
 
 22nd. I bought a pair of short black stockings to 
 wear over a pair of silk ones for mourning ; and I mot 
 with The. Turner and Joyce, buying of things to go 
 into mourning too for the Duke, which is now the 
 mode of all the ladies in town. This day Mr. Edw. 
 Pickering is come from my Lord, and says that he 
 left him well in Holland, and that he will be here 
 within three or four days. 
 
 23rd. This afternoon, the King having news of the 
 Princess being come to Margate, he and the Duke of 
 Tork went down thither in barges to her. 
 
 24th. I arose from table and went to the Temple 
 church, where I had appointed Sir W. Batten to meet 
 him ; and there at Sir Heneage Finch Solicitor 
 General's chambers, before him and Sir W. Wilde, 
 Recorder of London (whom we sent for from his
 
 Oct., 1660.1 PEPYS'S DIABY. 119 
 
 chamber) we were sworn justices of peace for 
 Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Southampton; with 
 which honour I did find myself mightily pleased, 
 though I am wholly ignorant in the duties of a justice 
 of peace. 
 
 28th. I did send for a cup of tea (a China drink), of 
 which I never had drauk before, and went away (the 
 King and the Princess coming up the river this after- 
 noon as we were at our pay). My Lord told me how 
 the ship that brought the Princess and him (the 
 Tredagh) did knock six times upon the Kentish Knock, 
 which put them in great fear for the ship ; but got off 
 well. He told me also how the King had knighted 
 Vice-admiral Lawson and Sir Richard Stayner. 
 
 29th. This day or yesterday, I hear, Prince Rupert 
 is come to court ; but welcome to nobody. 
 
 October 2. At Will's I met with Mr. Spicer, and 
 with him to the Abbey to see them at vespers. There 
 I found but a thin congregation. 
 
 3rd. To my Lord's, who sent a great iron chest to 
 Whitehall : and I saw it carried into the King's closet, 
 where I saw most incomparable pictures. Among the 
 rest a book open upon a desk which I durst have sworn 
 was a real book. Back again to my Lord, and dined 
 all alone with him, who did treat me with a great deal 
 of respect; and after dinner did discourse an hour 
 with me, saying that he believed that he might have 
 anything that he would ask of the King. This day I
 
 120 PEPYS'S DIA.UY. [October, 
 
 heard the Duke speak of a great design that he and 
 my Lord of Pembroke have, and a great many others, 
 of sending a venture to some parts of Africa to dig for 
 gold ore there. They intend to admit as many as will 
 venture their money, and so make themselves a com- 
 pany. 250 is the lowest share for every man. But 
 I do not find that my Lord do much like it. 
 
 4th. I and Lieut. Lambert to Westminster Abbey, 
 where we saw Dr. Frewen translated to the Arch- 
 bishopric of York. Here I saw the Bishops of 
 Winchester, Bangor, Rochester, Batli and Wells, and 
 Salisbury, all in their habits, in King Henry Seventh's 
 chapel. But, Lord ! at their going out, how people 
 did most of them look upon them as strange creatures, 
 and few with any kind of love or respect. 
 
 6th. Col. Slingsby and I at the office getting a catch 
 ready for the Prince de Ligne to carry his things 
 away to-day, who is now going home again. I was to 
 give my Lord an account of the stations and victuals 
 of the fleet, in order to the choosing of a fleet fit for 
 him to take to sea, to bring over the Queen. 
 
 7th (Lord's day). To Whitehall on foot, calling at 
 my father's to change my long black cloak for a short 
 one (long cloaks being now quite out) ; but he being 
 gone to church, I could not get one. I heard Dr. Spur- 
 stow preach before the King a poor dry sermon ; but a 
 very good anthem of Captn. Cooke's afterwards. To 
 my Lord's, and dined with him; he all dinner-timo
 
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 talking Freucli to me. and telling me the story how 
 the Duke of York hath got my Lord Chancellor's 
 daughter with child, and that she do lay it to him, and 
 that for certain he did promise her marriage, and had 
 signed it with his blood, but that he by stealth had 
 got the paper out of her cabinet. And that the King 
 would have him to marry her, but that he will not. So 
 that the thing is very bad for the Duke, and them all ; 
 but my Lord do make light of it, as a thing that he 
 believes is not a new thing for the Duke to do abroad. 
 After dinner to the Abbey, where I heard them read 
 the church-service, but very ridiculously. A poor 
 cold sermon of Dr. Lamb's, one of the prebends, in 
 his habit, come afterwards, and so all ended. 
 
 9th. This morning Sir W. Batten with Col. Birch 
 to Deptford to pay off two ships. Sir W. Pen and 1 
 stayed to do business, and afterward together to White- 
 hall, where I went to my Lord, and saw in his chamber 
 his pietnro, very well done ; and I am with child till I 
 get it copied out, which I hope to do when he is gone 
 to sea. 
 
 10th. At night comes Mr. Moore and tells me how 
 Sir Hards. Waller (who only pleads guilty), Scott, 
 Coke, Peters, Harrison, etc., were this day arraigned at 
 the bar of the Sessions House, there being upon the 
 bench the Lord Mayor, General Monk, my Lord of 
 Sandwich, etc. ; such a bench of noblemen a* had not 
 been ever seen in England. They all seemed to be
 
 122 PEPYS'S DIARY. [October, 
 
 dismayed, and will all be condemned without question. 
 In Sir Orlando Bridgman's charge, he did wholly rip 
 up the unjustness of the war against the King from 
 the beginning, and so it much reflects upon all the 
 Long Parliament, though the King had pardoned 
 them, yet they must hereby confess that the King do 
 look upon them as traitors. To-morrow they are to 
 plead what they have to say. 
 
 llth. To walk in St. James's Park, where we ob- 
 served the several engines at work to draw up water, 
 with which sight I was very much pleased. Above all 
 the rest, I liked that which Mr. Greatorex brought, 
 which do carry up the water with a groat deal of ease. 
 Here, in the Park, we met with Mr. Salisbury, who 
 took Mr. Creed and me to the Cockpit to see " The 
 Moore of Yenice," which was well done. Burt acted 
 the Moore; by the same token, a very pretty lady 
 that sat by me, called out, to see Desdemona smo- 
 thered. 
 
 13th. I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major- 
 General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered ; which 
 was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man 
 could do in that condition. He was presently cut 
 down, and his head and heart shown to the people, at 
 which there was great shouts of joy. It is said that 
 he said that he was sure to come shortly at the right 
 hand of Christ to judge them that now had judged 
 him ; and that his wife do expect his coming again.
 
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 Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at 
 Whitehall, and to, see the first blood shed in revenge for 
 the King at Charing Cross. 
 
 14th. To Whitehall chapel, where one Dr. Crofts 
 made an indifferent sermon, and after it an anthem, ill 
 sung, which made the King laugh. Here I first did 
 see the Princess Royal since she came into England. 
 Here I also observed how the Duke of Tork and Mrs. 
 Palmer did talk to one another very wantonly through 
 the hangings that parts the King's closet and the closet 
 where the ladies sit. 
 
 15th. This morning Mr. Carew was hanged and 
 quartered at Charing Cross; but his quarters, by 
 a great favour, are not to be hanged up. 
 
 16th. Being come home, Will, told me that my Lord 
 had a mind to speak with me to-night ; so I returned 
 by water, and, coming there, it was only to inquire how 
 the ships were provided with victuals that are to go 
 with him to fetch over the Queen, which I gave him a 
 good account of. He seemed to be in a melancholy 
 humour, which, I was told by W. Howe, was for that 
 he had lately lost a great deal of money at cards, which 
 he fears he do too much addict himself to nowadays. 
 
 18th. This morning, it being expected that Colonel 
 Hacker and Axtel should die, I went to Newgate, but 
 found they were reprieved till to-morrow. 
 
 19th. This morning my dining-room was finished 
 with green serge hanging and gilt leather, which is
 
 124 PEPYS'S DIAEY. [October, 
 
 very handsome. This morning Hacker aud Axtell 
 were hanged and quartered, as the rest are. This night 
 I sat np late to make up iny accounts ready against to- 
 morrow for iny Lord. 
 
 20th. I dined with my Lord and Lady ; he was very 
 merry, and did talk very high how he would have a 
 Frencli cook, and a master of his horse, and his lady 
 and child to wear black patches; which methought 
 was strange, but he is become a perfect courtier ; and, 
 among other things, my Lady saying that she could 
 get a good merchant for her daughter Jem., he 
 answered that he would rather see her with a pedlar's 
 pack at her back, so she married a gentleman, than she 
 should marry a citizen. This afternoon, going through 
 London, and calling at Crowe's the upholsterer's in 
 Saint Bartholomew's, I saw limbs of some of our new 
 traitors set upon Aldersgate, which was a sad sight to 
 see ; and a bloody week this and the last have been, 
 there being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered. 
 
 21st. George Vines carried me up to the top of his 
 turret, where there is Cooke's head set up for a traitor, 
 and Harrison's set up on the other side of Westminster 
 Hall. Here I could see them plainly, as also a very 
 fair prospect about London. 
 
 22nd. All preparing for my Lord's going to sea to 
 fetch the Queen to-morrow. At night my Lord come 
 home, with whom I stayed long, and talked of many 
 tilings. He told me there hath been a meeting before
 
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 the King and my Lord Chancellor, of some Episcopa- 
 lian and Presbyterian divines ; but what had passed 
 he could not tell me. 
 
 23rd. About eight o'clock my Lord went ; and going 
 through the garden, Mr. William Montagu told him of 
 an estate of land lately come into the King's hands, 
 that he had a mind my Lord should beg. To which 
 end my Lord writ a letter presently to my Lord 
 Chancellor to do it for him, which (after leave taken of 
 my Lord at Whitehall bridge) I did carry to Warwick 
 House to him ; and had a fair promise of him, that he 
 would do it tliis day for my Lord. In my way thither 
 I met the Lord Chancellor and all the Judges riding 
 on horseback and going to Westminster Hall, it being 
 the first day of the term. 
 
 24th. Mr. Moore tells me, among other things, that 
 the Duke of Tork is now sorry for his amour with my 
 Lord Chancellor's daughter, who is now brought to bed 
 of a boy. To Mr. Lilly's, where not finding Mr. Spong, 
 I went to Mr. Greatorex, where I met him, and where I 
 bought of him a drawing pen ; and he did show me 
 the manner of the lamp-glasses, which carry the light 
 a great way, good to read in bed by, and I intend to 
 have one of them. So to Mr. Lilly's with Mr. Spong, 
 where well received, there being a club to-night among 
 his friends. Among the rest Esquire Aslunole, who I 
 found was a very ingenious gentleman. With him we 
 two sang afterwards in Mr. Lilly's study. That done,
 
 126 PEPYS'S DIARY. [October, 
 
 we all parted; and I home by coach, taking Mr. 
 Hooker with me, who did tell me a great many 
 fooleries which may be done by nativities, and 
 blaming Mr. Lilly for writing to please his friends 
 and to keep in with the times (as he did formerly to 
 his own dishonour), and not according to the rules of 
 art, by which he could not well err as he had done. 
 
 26th. By Westminster to Whitehall, where I saw 
 the Duke de Soissons go from his audience with a very 
 great deal of state; his own coach all red velvet 
 covered with gold lace, and drawn by six barbs, and 
 attended by twenty pages very rich in clothes. To 
 Westminster Hall, and bought, among other books, one 
 of the Life of our Queen, which I read at home to my 
 wife ; but it was so sillily writ, that we did nothing but 
 laugh at it : among other things it is dedicated to that 
 paragon of virtue and beauty the Duchess of Albe- 
 marle. Great talk as if the Duke of Tork do now own 
 the marriage between him and the Chancellor's 
 daughter. To Westminster Abbey, where witli much 
 difficulty, going round to the cloisters, I got in ; this 
 day being a great day for the consecrating of five 
 bishops, which was done after sermon ; but I could 
 not get into Henry the Seventh's chapel. After dinner 
 to Whitehall chapel; my Lady and my Lady 
 Jemimah and I up to the King's closet (who is now 
 gone to meet the Queen). So meeting with one Mr. 
 Hill, that did know my lady, he did take us into the
 
 Nov., 1660.] PEPYS'S DIARY. 127 
 
 King's closet, and there we Hid stay all service- 
 time. 
 
 29th. I up early, it being my Lord Mayor's day (Sir 
 Richd. Browne), and neglecting my office, I went to 
 the Wardrobe, where I met my Lady Sandwich and all 
 the children ; and after drinking of some strange and 
 incomparable good claret of Mr. Remball's, he and Mr. 
 Townsend did take ns, and set the young Lords at one 
 Mr. Neville's, a draper in Paul's Church-yard ; and my 
 Lady and my Lady Pickering and I to one Mr. 
 Isaacson's, a linen-draper at the Key in Cheapside ; 
 where there was a company of fine ladies, and we were 
 very civilly treated, and had a very good place to see 
 the pageants, which were many, and I believe good, for 
 such kind of things, but in themselves but poor and 
 absurd. 
 
 30th. I went to the Cockpit all alone, and there saw 
 a very fine play called " The Tamer Tamed ; " very well 
 acted. I hear nothing yet of my Lord, whether he be 
 gone for the Queen from the Downs or no ; but I be- 
 lieve he is, and that he is now upon coming back again 
 
 November 1. This morning Sir "W. Pen and I were 
 mounted early, and had very merry discourse all the 
 way, he being very good company. We come to Sir 
 W. Batten's, where he lives like a prince, and we were 
 made very welcome. Among other things he showed 
 me my Lady's closet, wherein was great store of 
 rarities ; as also a chair, which he calls King Harry's
 
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 chair, where he thaf sits down is catchcd with two 
 irons, tbat come round about him, which makes good 
 sport. Here dined with us two or three more country 
 gentlemen; among the rest Mr. Christmas, my old 
 school-fellow, with whom I had much talk. He did 
 remember that I was a great Roundhead when I was a 
 boy, and I was much afraid that he would have remem- 
 bered the words that I said the day the King was 
 beheaded (that, were I to preach upon him, my text 
 should be " The memory of the wicked shall rot") ; 
 but I found afterwards that he did go away from 
 school before that time. 
 
 2nd. To Whitehall, where I saw the boats coming 
 very thick to Lambeth, and all the stairs to be full of 
 people. I was told the Queen was a-coming ; so I got 
 a sculler for sixpence to carry me thither and back 
 again, but I could not get to see the Queen ; so come 
 back, and to my Lord's, where he was come : and I 
 supped with him, he being very merry, telling me 
 stories of the country mayors, how they entertained the 
 King all the way as he come along ; and how the 
 country gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be 
 kissed by the King, not taking his hand to kiss as they 
 should do. I took leave of my Lord and Lady, and so 
 took coach at Whitehall and carried Mr. Childe as 
 far as the Strand, aiid myself got as far as Ludgate by 
 all the bonfires, but with a great deal of trouble ; and 
 there the coachman desired that I would release him,
 
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 for he durst not go further for the fires. In Paul's 
 Church-yard I called at Kirton's, and there they had 
 got a Mass book for me, which I bought, and cost me 
 twelve shillings ; and, when 1 come home, sat up late 
 and read in it with great pleasure to my wife, to hear 
 that she was long acquainted with it. I observed this 
 night very few bonfires in the City, not above three in 
 all London, for the Queen's coming ; whereby I guess 
 that (as I believed before) her coming do please but 
 very few. 
 
 3rd. Saturday. In the afternoon to Whitehall, 
 where my Lord and Lady were gone to kiss the Queen's 
 hand. 
 
 4th (Lord's day). In the morn to our own church, where 
 Mr. Mills did begin to nibble at the Common Prayer, 
 by saying, " Glory be to the Father, etc." after he had 
 read the two psalms : but the people had been so little 
 used to it, that they could not tell what to answer. 
 This declaration of the King's do give the Presbyterians 
 some satisfaction, and a pretence to read the Common 
 Prayer, which they would not do before because of 
 their former preaching against it. After dinner to 
 Westminster, where I went to my Lord's, and, having 
 spoken with him, I went to the Abbey, where the first 
 time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral. My 
 wife seemed rery pretty to-day, it being the first time 
 I had given her leave to wear a black patch. 
 
 5th. At the office at night, to make up an account of 
 33
 
 130 PEPYS'S DIARY [November, 
 
 what the debts of nineteen of the twenty-five ships that 
 should have been paid off, is increased since the ad- 
 journment of the Parliament, they being to sit again 
 to-morrow. This 5th day of November is observed ex- 
 ceeding well in the City ; and at night great bonfires 
 and fireworks. 
 
 6th. Mr. Chetwind told me that he did fear that 
 this late business of the Duke of York's would prove 
 fatal to my Lord Chancellor. To our office, where we 
 met all, for the sale of two ships by an inch of candle 
 (the first time that ever I saw any of this kind), where 
 I observed how they do invite one another, and at last 
 how they all do cry, and we have much to do to tell 
 who did cry last. The ships were the Indian, sold for 
 1,300, and the Half -moon, sold for 830. 
 
 7th. Went by water to my Lord, where I dined with 
 him, and he in a very merry humour (present Mr. 
 Borfett and Childe) at dinner : he, in discourse of the 
 great opinion of the virtue gratitude (which he did 
 account the greatest thing in the world to him, and had, 
 therefore, in his mind been of ten troubled in the late times 
 how to answer his gratitude to the King, who raised 
 his father), did say it was that did bring him to his 
 obedience to the King ; and did also bless himself with 
 his good fortune, in comparison to what it was when I 
 was with him in the Sound, when he durst not own 
 his correspondence with the King ; which is a thing 
 that I never did hear of to this day before ; and I do
 
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 from this raise an opinion of him, to be one of the most 
 secret men in the world, which I was not so convinced 
 of before. After dinner he bid all go out of the room, 
 and did tell me how the King had promised him 
 4,000 per annum for ever, and had already given him a 
 bill under his hand (which he showed me) for 4,000, 
 that Mr. Fox is to pay him. My Lord did advise with 
 me how to get this received, and to put out 3,000 into 
 safe hands at use, and the other he will make use for 
 his present occasion. This he did advise with me 
 about with great secrecy. After this he called for the 
 fiddles and books, and we two and W. Howe, and 
 Mr. Childe, did sing and play some psalms of Will. 
 Lawes, and some songs; and so I went away. Notwith- 
 standing this was the first day of the King's proclama- 
 tion against hackney-coaches coming into the streets 
 to stand to be hired, yet I got one to carry me home. 
 
 10th. The Comptroller and I to the coffee-house, 
 where he showed me the state of his case ; how the 
 King did owe him above 6,000. But I do not see 
 great likelihood for them to be paid, since they begin 
 already in Parliament to dispute the paying off the 
 just sea-debts, which were already promised to bo 
 paid, and will be the undoing of thousands if they be 
 not paid. 
 
 15th. My Lord did this day show me the King's 
 picture which was done in Flanders, that the King did 
 promise my Lord before he ever saw him, and that we
 
 132 PEPYS'S DIARY. [November, 
 
 did expect to have had at sea before the King come to 
 us ; but it come but to-day, and indeed it is the most 
 pleasant and the most like him that ever I saw picture 
 in my life. To Sir W. Batten's to dinner, he having 
 a couple of servants married to-day ; and so there was 
 a great number of merchants, and others of good 
 quality on purpose after dinner to make an offering, 
 which, when dinner was done, we did, and I did give 
 ten shillings and no more, though I believe most of 
 the rest did give more, and did believe that I did so too. 
 
 19th. I went with the Treasurer in his coach to 
 Whitehall, and in our way, in discourse, do find him a 
 very good-natured man ; and, talking of those men 
 who now stand condemned for murdering the King, 
 he says that he believes that, if the law would give 
 leave, the King is a man of so great compassion that 
 he would wholly acquit them. 
 
 20th. Mr. Shepley and I to the new play-house near 
 Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (which was formerly Gibbon's 
 tennis-court), where the play of " Beggar's Bush " 
 was newly begun ; and so we went in and saw it well 
 acted : and here I saw the first time one Moone, who is 
 said to be the best actor in the world, lately come over 
 with the King, and indeed it is the finest play-house, I 
 believe, that over was in England. This morning I 
 found my Lord in bed late, he having been with the 
 King, Queen, and Princess, at the Cockpit all night, 
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 play, where the King did put A great affront upon 
 Singleton's music, he bidding them stop, and made the 
 French music play, which, my Lord says, do much 
 outdo all ours. 
 
 22nd. This morning come the carpenters to make me 
 a door at the other side of my house, going into the 
 entry. To Mr. Fox's, where we found Mrs. Fox 
 within, and an alderman of London paying 1,000 or 
 1,400 in gold upon the table for the King. Mr. Fox 
 come in presently and did receive us with a great deal 
 of respect ; and then did take my wife and I to the 
 Queen's presence-chamber, where he got my wife 
 placed behind the Queen's chair, and the two 
 Princesses come to dinner. The Queen a very little 
 plain old woman, and nothing more in her presence in 
 any respect nor garb than any ordinary woman. The 
 Princess of Orange I had often seen before. The 
 Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below 
 my expectation : and her dressing of herself with her 
 hair frizzed short up to her ears, did make her seem so 
 much the less to me. But my wife standing near her 
 with two or three black patches on, and well dressed, 
 did seem to me much handsomer than she. 
 
 To Whitehall at about nine at night, and there, 
 with Laud, the page that went with me, we could not 
 got out of Henry the Eighth's gallery into the further 
 part of the boarded gallery, where my Lord was walk- 
 ing with my Lord Ormond j and we had a key of Sir
 
 134 PEPYS'S DIABY. [November, 
 
 S. Morland's, but all would not do ; till at last, by 
 knocking, Mr. Harrison the door-keeper did open us 
 the door, and, after some talk with ray Lord about 
 getting a catch to carry my Lord St. Albans' goods to 
 France, I parted and went home on foot. 
 
 25th. I had a letter brought me from my Lord to 
 get a ship ready to carry the Queen's things over to 
 France, she being to go within five or six days. 
 
 27th. To Westminster Hall, and in King Street 
 there being a great stop of coaches, there was a falling 
 out between a drayman and my Lord Chesterfield's 
 coachman, and one of his footmen killed. Mr. Moore 
 told me how the House had this day voted the King to 
 have all the Excise for ever. This day I do also hear 
 that the Queen's going to France is stopped, which do 
 like me well, because then the King will be in town 
 the next month, which is my month again at the Privy 
 Seal. 
 
 30th. Sir Gr. Carteret did give us an account how 
 Mr. Holland do intend to prevail with the Parliament 
 to try his project of discharging the seamen all at 
 present by ticket, and so promise interest to all men 
 that will lend money upon them at eight per cent., for 
 so long as they are unpaid ; whereby he do think to 
 take away the growing debt, which do now lie upon 
 the kingdom for lack of present money to discharge 
 the seamen. 
 
 December 4. This day the Parliament voted that
 
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 the bodies of Oliver, Ireton, Bradshaw, etc, should 
 be taken up out of their graves in the Abbey, and 
 drawn to the gallows, and there hanged and buried 
 under it : which (methinks) do trouble me that a 
 man of so great courage as he was, should have that 
 dishonour, though otherwise he might deserve it 
 enough. 
 
 9th. I went to the Duke. And first calling upon 
 Mr. Coventry at his chamber, I went to the Duke's 
 bedside, who had sat up late last night, and lay long 
 this morning. This being done, I went to chapel, and 
 sat in Mr. Blagrave's pew, and there did sing my part 
 along with another before the King, and with much 
 ease. 
 
 10th. It is expected that the Duke will marry the 
 Lord Chancellor's daughter at last ; which is likely to 
 be the ruin of Mr. Davis and my Lord Barkley, who 
 have carried themselves so high against the Chancellor ; 
 Sir Chas. Barkley swearing that he and others had 
 intrigued with her often, which all believe to be a lie. 
 
 16th. In the afternoon I went to Whitehall, where I 
 was surprised with the news of a plot against the 
 King's person and my Lord Monk's ; and that since 
 last night there were about forty taken up on 
 suspicion ; and, amongst others, it was my lot to meet 
 with Simon l>eale, the trumpeter, who took me and 
 Tom Doling into the Guard in Scotland Yard, and 
 showed us Major-General Overton. Here I heard him
 
 136 PEPYS'8 DIARY. [December, 
 
 deny that he is guilty of any such things : but that 
 whereas it is said that he is found to have brought 
 many arms to town, he says it is only to sell them, as 
 he will prove by oath. 
 
 21st. They told me that this is St. Thomas's, and 
 that by an old custom, this day the Exchequer men had 
 formerly, and do intend this uight to have a supper ; 
 which if I could I promised to come to, but did not. 
 To my Lady's, and dined with her : she told me how 
 dangerously ill the Princess Royal is : and that this 
 morning she was said to be dead. But she hears that 
 she hath married herself to young Jermyn, which is 
 worse than the Duke of York's marrying the Chan- 
 cellor's daughter, which is now publicly owned. 
 
 26th. To "Whitehall by water, and dined with my 
 Lady Sandwich, who at table did tell me how much 
 fault was laid upon Dr. Frazer and the rest of the 
 doctors, for the death of the Princess. My Lord did 
 dine this day with Sir Henry Wright, in order to his 
 going to sea with the Queen. 
 
 31st. In Paul's Church-yard I bought the play of 
 " Ht n:-y the Fourth," and so went to the new theatre 
 and saw it acted ; but my expectation being too .great, 
 it did not please me, as otherwise I believe it would : 
 and my having a book, I believe, did spoil it a little. 
 That being done I went to my Lord's, where I found 
 him private at cards with my Lord Lauderdale and 
 nome persons of honour.
 
 Jan., 1661. J PEPYS'S DIABY. 137 
 
 1660-61. At the end of the last and the beginning 
 of this year, I do live in one of the houses belonging 
 to the Navy Office, as one of the principal officers, and 
 have done now about half-a-year : my family being, 
 myself, my wife, Jane, Will. Hewer, and Wayneman, 
 my girl's brother. Myself in constant good health, 
 and in a most handsome and thriving condition. 
 Blessed be Almighty God for it. As to things of 
 State. The King settled, and loved of all. The 
 Duke of Tork matched to my Lord Chancellor's 
 daughter, which do not please many. The Queen 
 upon her return to France with the Princess Henrietta. 
 The Princess of Orange, lately dead, and we into new 
 mourning for her. We have been lately frighted with 
 a great plot, and many taken up on it, and the fright 
 not quite over. The Parliament, which had done all 
 this great good to the King, beginning to grow 
 factious, the King did dissolve it December 29th last, 
 and another likely to be chosen speedily. 
 
 1660-61. January 1. Mr. Moore and I went to Mr. 
 Pierce's ; in our way seeing the Duke of York bring 
 his Lady to-day to wait upon the Queen, the first time 
 that ever she did since that business ; and the Queen 
 is said to receive her now with much respect and love. 
 
 2nd. My Lord did give me many commands in his 
 business. As to write to my uncle that Mr. BarnewelTs 
 papers should be locked up, in case he should die, 
 he being now suspected to be very ill. Also about
 
 138 PEPYS'S DIARY. [January, 
 
 consulting with Mr. W. Montagu for the settling of the 
 4,000 a-year that the King had promised my Lord. 
 As also about getting Mr. George Montagu to be 
 chosen at Huntingdon this next Parliament, etc. That 
 done, he to Whitehall stairs with much company, and I 
 with him; where we took water for Lambeth, and 
 there coach for Portsmouth. The Queen's things were 
 all in Whitehall court ready to be sent away, and her 
 Majesty ready to be gone an hour after to Hampton 
 Court to-night, and so to be at Portsmouth on Satur- 
 day next. This day I left Sir W. Batten and Capt. 
 Rider my chine of beef for to serve to-morrow at 
 Trinity House, the Duke of Albemarle being to be 
 there, and all the rest of the Brethren, it being a great 
 day for the reading over of their new Charter, which 
 the King hath newly given them. 
 
 3rd. To the theatre, where was acted "Beggars' 
 Bush," it being very well done : and here the first 
 time that ever I saw women come upon the stage. 
 
 4th. I had been early this morning at Whitehall, at 
 the Jewel Office, to choose a piece of gilt plate for my 
 Lord, in return of his offering to the King (which it 
 seems is usual at this time of year, and an earl gives 
 twenty pieces in gold in a purse to the King). I 
 chose a gilt tankard, weighing thirty-one ounces and a 
 half, and he is allowed thirty ; so I paid twelve shil- 
 lings for the ounce and a half over what he is to have : 
 but strange it was for me to see what a company of
 
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 small fees I was called upon by a great many to pay 
 there, which I perceive is the manner that courtiers do 
 get their estates. 
 
 7th. This morning, news was brought to me to my 
 bedside, that there had been a great stir in the City 
 this night by the Fanatics, who had been up and 
 killed six or seven men, but all are fled. My Lord 
 Mayor and the whole City had been in arms, above 
 40,000. Tom and I and my wife to the theatre, and 
 there saw " The Silent Woman." Among other things 
 here, Kinaston the boy had the good turn to appear in 
 three shapes : first as a poor woman in ordinary clothes, 
 to please Morose ; then in fine clothes, as a gallant ; 
 and in them was clearly the prettiest woman in the 
 whole house : and lastly as a man ; and then likewise 
 did appear the handsomest man in the house. In our 
 way home, we were in many places strictly examined, 
 more than in the worst of times, there being great fears 
 of the Fanatics rising again : for the present I do not 
 hear that any of them are taken. 
 
 8th. Some talk to-day of a head of Fanatics that do 
 appear about, but I do not believe it. However, my 
 Lord Mayor, Sir Rich. Browne, hath carried himself 
 honourably, and hath caused one of their meeting- 
 houses in London to be pulled down. 
 
 9th. Waked in tfie morning about six o'clock, by 
 people running up and down in Mr. Davis's house, talk- 
 ing that the Fanatics were up in arms in the City.
 
 140 PEPYS'S DIARY. [January, 
 
 And so I rose and went forth ; where in the street 1 
 found everybody in arms at the doors. So I returned 
 and got my sword and pistol, which, however, I had no 
 powder to charge ; and went to the door, where I 
 found Sir R. Ford, and with him I walked up and 
 down as far as the Exchange, and there I left him. In 
 our way, the streets full of train-bands, and great stir. 
 What mischief these rogues have done ! and I think 
 near a dozen had been killed this morning on both 
 sides. The shops shut and all things in trouble. 
 
 10th. After dinner Will, comes to tell me that he 
 had presented my piece of plate to Mr. Coventry, who 
 takes it very kindly, and sends me a very kind letter, 
 and the plate back again, of which my heart is very 
 glad. Mr. Davis told us the particular examinations of 
 these Fanatics that are taken, and in short it is this : 
 these Fanatics that have routed all the train-bands 
 that they met with, put the King's life-guards to the 
 run, killed about twenty men, broke through the City 
 gates twice, and all this in the day-time, when all the 
 City was in arms are not in all above thirty-one. 
 Whereas we did believe them (because they were seen 
 up and down in every place almost in the City, and had 
 been in Highgate two or three days, and in several 
 other places) to be at least 500. A thing that never 
 was heard of, that so few men should dare and do so 
 much mischief. Their word was, " The King Jesus, 
 and their heads upon the gates." Few of them would
 
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 receive any quarter, but such as were taken by force 
 and kept alive ; expecting Jesus to come hero and 
 reign in the world presently, and will not believe yet. 
 The King this day come to town. 
 
 llth (Office day). This day comes news, by letters 
 from Portsmouth, that the Princess Henrietta is fallen 
 sick of the measles on board the London, after the 
 Queen and she was under sail. And so was forced to 
 come back again into Portsmouth harbour; and in 
 their way, by negligence of the pilot, run upon the 
 Horse sand. The Queen and she continue aboard, and 
 do not intend to come on shore till she sees what will 
 become of the young Princess. This news do make 
 people think something indeed, that three of the Royal 
 Family should fall sick of the same disease, one after 
 another. This morning likewise, we had order to see 
 guards set in all the King's yards ; and so Sir Wm. 
 Batten goes to Chatham, Colonel Slingsby and I to 
 Deptford and Woolwich. Portsmouth being a gar- 
 rison, needs none. 
 
 12th. We fell to choosing four captains to command 
 the guards, and choosing the place where to keep them, 
 and other things in order thereunto. Never till now 
 did I see the great authority of my place, all the cap- 
 tains of the fleet coming cap in hand to us. 
 
 13th. After sermon to Deptford again ; where, at the 
 Commissioner's and the Globe, we stayed long. But 
 no sooner in bod but we had *n alarm, and so we rose:
 
 142 PEPYS'tS DIABT. [January, 
 
 and the Comptroller comes into the yard to us 
 and seamen of all the ships present repair to us, and 
 there we armed with every one a handspike, with 
 which they were as fierce as could be. At last we 
 hear that it was five or six men that did ride through 
 the guard in the town, without stopping to the guard 
 that was there ; and, some say, shot at them. But all 
 being quiet there, we caused the seamen to go on board 
 again. 
 
 15th. This day I hear the Princess is recovered 
 again. The King hath been this afternoon at Deptf ord, 
 to see the yacht that Commissioner Pett is building, 
 which will be very pretty ; as also that his brother at 
 Woolwich is making. 
 
 19th. To the Comptroller's, and with him by coach 
 to Whitehall ; in our way meeting Venner and Pritchard 
 upon a sledge, who with two more Fifth Monarchy 
 men were hanged to-day, and the two first drawn and 
 quartered. 
 
 21st. It is strange what weather we have had all this 
 winter ; no cold at all ; but the ways are dusty, and the 
 flies fly up and down, and the rose-bushes are full of 
 leaves, such a time of the year as was never known in 
 this world before here. This day many more of the 
 Fifth Monarchy men were hanged. 
 
 22nd. I met with Dr. Thos. Fuller. He tells me of 
 his last and great book that is coming out : that is, the 
 History of all the Families in England ; and could tell
 
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 me more of my own than I knew myself. And also to 
 what perfection he hath now brought the art of 
 memory; that he did lately to four eminently great 
 scholars dictate together in Latin, upon different 
 subjects of their proposing, faster than they were able 
 to write, till they were tired ; and that the best way of 
 beginning a sentence, if a man should be out and forget 
 bis last sentence (which he never was), that then his 
 last refuge is to begin with an Utcunque. 
 
 27th (Lord's day). Before I rose, letters come to 
 me from Portsmouth, telling me that the Princess is 
 now well, and my Lord Sandwich set sail with the 
 Queen and her yesterday from thence to France. This 
 day the parson read a proclamation at church, for the 
 keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of January, a 
 fast for the murder of the late King. 
 
 30th (Fast day). The first time that this day hath 
 been yet observed : and Mr. Mills made a most excel- 
 lent sermon upon, "Lord, forgive us our former 
 iniquities ; " speaking excellently of the justice of God 
 in punishing men for the sins of their ancestors. To 
 my Lady Batten's ; where my wife and she are lately 
 come back again from being abroad, and seeing of 
 Cromwell, Ireton, aiid Bradshaw hanged and buried at 
 Tyburn. 
 
 31st. To the theatre, and there sat in the pit among 
 the company of fine ladies, etc. ; and the honse was 
 exceeding full, to see " Argalus and Parthenia," the
 
 144 PEPYS'S DIARY. ("February, 
 
 first time that it hath been acted : and indeed it is 
 good, though wronged by my over great expectations, 
 as all things else are. 
 
 Feb. 2. Home ; where I found the parson and his 
 wife gone. And by-and-bye the rest of the company 
 very well pleased, and I too ; it being the last dinner I 
 intend to make a great while. 
 
 3rd (Lord's day). This day I first begun to go 
 forth in my coat and sword, as the manner now among 
 gentlemen is. To Whitehall ; where I stayed to hear 
 the trumpets and kettle-drums, and then the other 
 drums, which are much cried up, though I think it 
 dull, vulgar music. So to Mr. Fox's uubid ; where 
 I had a good dinner and special company. Among 
 other discourse, I observed one story, how my Lord of 
 Northwich, at a public audience before the King of 
 France, made the Duke of Anjou cry, by making ugly 
 faces as he was stepping to the King, but undiscovered. 
 And how Sir Philip Warwick's lady did wonder to 
 have Mr. Daray send for several dozen bottles of 
 Rhenish wine to her house, not knowing that the wine 
 was his. Thence to my Lord's ; where I am told how 
 Sir Thomas Crew's Pedro, with two of his countrymen 
 more, did last night kill one soldier of four that 
 quarrelled with them in the street, about ten o'clock. 
 The other two are taken ; but he is now hid at my 
 Lord's till night, that he do intend to make his escape 
 away.
 
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 5th. Into the Hall ; and there saw my Lord Treasurer 
 (who was sworn to-day at the Exchequer, with a great 
 company of Lords and persons of honour to attend him) 
 go up to the Treasury Offices, and take possession 
 thereof ; and also saw the heads of Cromwell, Bradshaw, 
 and Ireton, set up at the farther end of the Hall. 
 
 7th. To Westminster Hall. And after a walk to my 
 Lord's ; where, while I and my Lady were in her 
 chamber in talk, in comes my Lord from sea, to our 
 great wonder. He had dined at Havre de Grace on 
 Monday last, and come to the Downs tho next day, and 
 lay at Canterbury that night ; aud so to Dartford, and 
 thence this morning to Whitehall. Among others, 
 Mr. Creed and Captn. Ferrers tell mo the stories of my 
 Lord Duke of Buckingham's and my Lord's falling 
 out at Havre de Grace, at cards ; they two and my 
 Lord St. Albans playing. The duke did, to my Lord's 
 dishonour, often say that he did in his conscience know 
 the contrary to what he then said, about the difference 
 at cards ; and so did take up the money that he should 
 have lost to my Lord. Which my Lord resenting, said 
 nothing then, but that he doubted not but there were 
 ways enough to get his money of him. So they parted 
 that night ; and my Lord sent Sir R. Stayner the next 
 morning to the duke, to know whether he did remem- 
 ber what he said last night, and whether he would own 
 it with his sword aud a second ; which he said he would, 
 and so both sides agreed. But my Lord St. Albans,
 
 146 PEPYS'S DIABT. | February, 
 
 and the Queen, and Ambassador Montagu, did way-lay 
 them at their lodgings till the difference was made up, 
 to my Lord's honour ; who hath got great reputation 
 thereby. 
 
 8th. Captain Cuttle, and Curtis, and Mootham, and 
 I, went to the Fleece Tavern to drink, and there we 
 spent till four o'clock, telling stories of Algiers, and 
 the manner of life of slaves there. And truly Captain 
 Mootham and Mr. Dawes (who have been both slaves 
 there) did make me fully acquainted with their condi- 
 tion there, as how they eat nothing but bread and 
 water. At their redemption they pay so much for the 
 water they drink at the public fountains during their 
 being slaves. How they are beat upon the soles of 
 their feet ajid bellies at the liberty of their padron ; 
 how they are all, at night, called into their master's 
 bagnard, and there they lie ; how the poorest men do 
 love their slaves best ; how some rogues do live well if 
 they do invent to bring their masters in so much a 
 week by their industry or theft, and then they are put 
 to no other work at all. And theft there is counted no 
 great crime at all. 
 
 12th. By coach to the theatre, and there saw " The 
 Scornful Lady," now done by a woman, which makes 
 the play appear much better than ever it did to me. 
 
 14th. The talk of the town now is, who the King is 
 like .to have for his Queen, and whether Lent shall be 
 kept with the strictness of the King's proclamation,
 
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 which is thought cannot be, because of the poor, who 
 cannot buy fish. And also the great preparation for 
 the King's crowning is now much thought upon and 
 talked of. 
 
 18th. It is much talked that the King is already 
 married to the niece of the Prince de Ligne, and that 
 he hath two sons already by her, which I am sorry to 
 hear ; but yet am gladder that it shoiild be so, than 
 that the Duke of Tork and his family should come to 
 the crown, he being a professed friend to the Catholics. 
 Met with Sir G. Carteret, who afterwards, with the 
 Duke of York, my Lord Sandwich, and others, went 
 into a private room to consult, and we were a little 
 troubled that we were not called in with the rest ; but 
 I do believe it was upon something very private. We 
 stayed walking in the gallery, where we met with Mr. 
 Slingsby, who showed me the stamps of the King's 
 new coin, which is strange to see how good they are in 
 the stamp and bad in the money, for lack of skill to 
 make them. But he says Blondeau will shortly come 
 over, and then we shall have it better, and the best in 
 the world. He tells me he is sure that the King is 
 not yet married, as it is said, nor that it is known who 
 he will have. 
 
 22nd. My wife to Sir W. Batten's, and there sat 
 awhile ; he having yesterday sent my wife half a dozen 
 pair of gloves, and a pair of silk stockings and garters 
 for her valentines.
 
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 23rd. This my birthday, twenty-eight years. Mr. 
 Hartlett told me how my Lord Chancellor had lately 
 got the Duke of York, and Duchess, and her woman, 
 my Lord Ossory, and a doctor, to make oath before 
 most of the judges of the kingdom, concerning all the 
 circumstances of their marriage. And in fine, it is 
 confessed that they were not fully married till about a 
 month or two before she was brought to bed ; but that 
 they were contracted long before, and time enough for 
 the child to be legitimate. But I do not hear that it 
 was put to the judges to determine whether it was so 
 or no. To the play-house, and there saw " The 
 Changeling," the first time it hath been acted these 
 twenty years, and it takes exceedingly. Besides, I see 
 the gallants do begin to be tired with the vanity and 
 pride of the theatre actors, who are indeed grown very 
 proud and rich. I also met with the Comptroller, who 
 told me how it was easy for us all, the principal officers, 
 and proper for us, to labour to get into the next 
 Parliament ; and would have me to ask the Duke's 
 letter, but I shall not endeavour it. This is now 
 twenty-eight years that I am born, and blessed be 
 God, in a state of full content, and a great hope to be 
 a happy man in all respects, both to myself and 
 friends. 
 
 27th. I called for a dish of fish, which we had for 
 dinner, this being the first day of Lent ; and I do in- 
 tend to try whether I can keep it or no.
 
 March. 1661. PEPYS'S DIARY. 14 
 
 28th. Notwithstanding my resolution, yet for want 
 of other victuals, I did eat flesh this Lent, but am re- 
 solved to eat as little as I can. This month ends with 
 two great secrets under dispute but yet known to very 
 few ; first, who the King will marry ? and what the 
 meaning of this fleet is which we are now sheathing to 
 set out for the southward ? Most think against 
 Algier against the Turk, or to the East Indies against 
 Hie Dutch, who, we hear, are setting out a great fleet 
 thither. 
 
 March 1. After dinner, Mr. Shepley and I in private 
 talking about my Lord's intentions to go speedily into 
 the country, but to what end we know not. We fear 
 he is to go to sea with his fleet now preparing ; but we 
 wish that he could get his 4,000 per annum settled 
 lief ore he do go. To Whitefriars, and saw the " Bond- 
 man " acted ; an excellent play and well done. But 
 above all that ever I saw, Beterton do the Bondman 
 the best. 
 
 2nd. After dinner I went to the theatre, where I 
 found so few people (which is strange, and the reason 
 I do not know), that I went out again and so to Salis- 
 bury Court, where the house as full as could be ; and 
 it seems it was a new play, "The Queen's Mask," 
 wherein tboro are some good humours, among others 
 a good jeer to (lie old story of the Siege of Troy, 
 making it to be a common country tale; bnt above 
 all, it was strange to see BO little a boy as that
 
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 was to act Cupid, which is one of the greatest parts 
 in it. 
 
 4th. My Lord went this morning on his journey to 
 Hinchingbroke, Mr. Parker with him; the chief 
 business being to look over and determine how, and in 
 what manner, his great work of building shall be done. 
 Before his going he did give me some jewels to keep 
 for him, viz., that that the King of Sweden did give 
 him, with the King's own picture in it, most excel- 
 lently done ; and a brave George, all of diamonds. 
 
 8th. All the morning at the office. At noon Sir W. 
 Batten, Col. Slingsby, and I by coach to the Tower, 
 to Sir John Robinson's, to dinner ; where great good 
 cheer. High company ; among others the Duchess of 
 Albemarle, who is ever a plain, homely dowdy. After 
 dinner, to drink all the afternoon. Towards night the 
 Duchess and ladies went away. Then we set to it 
 again till it was very late. And at last come in Sir 
 William Wale, almost fuddled ; and because I was 
 set between him and another, only to keep them from 
 talking and spoiling the company (as we did to others), 
 he fell out with the Lieutenant of the Tower ; but with 
 much ado we made him understand his error, and then 
 all quiet. 
 
 9th. To my Lord's, where we found him lately come 
 from Hinchingbroke. I stayed and 'dined with him. 
 He took me aside, and asked me what the world spoke 
 of the King's marriage. Which I answering as one
 
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 that knew nothing, he inquired no further of me. But 
 I do perceive by it that there is something in it that 
 is ready to come out that the world knows not of 
 yet. 
 
 llth. After dinner I went to the theatre, and there 
 saw " Love's Mistress " done by them, which I do not 
 like in some things as well as their acting in Salisbury 
 Court. 
 
 15th. This day my wife and Pall went to see my 
 Lady Kingston, her brother's lady. 
 
 18th. This day an ambassador from Florence was 
 brought into the town in state. Yesterday was said to 
 be the day that the Princess Henrietta was to marry 
 the Duke d'Anjou in France. This day I found in 
 the news-book that Roger Pepys is chosen at Cam- 
 bridge for the town, the first place that we hear of to 
 have made their choice yet. 
 
 20th. To Whitehall to Mr. Coventry, where I did 
 some business with him, and so with Sir. W. Pen (who 
 I found with Mr. Coventry teaching of him the map 
 to understand Jamaica). The great talk of the town 
 is the strange election that the City of London made 
 yesterday for Parliament-men ; viz., Fowke, Love, 
 
 Jones, and , men that, so far from being 
 
 episcopal, are thought to be Anabaptists ; and chosen 
 with a great deal of zeal, in spite of the other party 
 who thought themselves so strong, calling out in the 
 Hall, " No Bishops ! no Lord Bishops ! " It do make
 
 152 PEPYS'S DIAET. [March, 
 
 people to fear it may come to wone, by being an 
 example to the country to do the same. And indeed 
 the bishops are so high, that very few do love them. 
 
 23rd. To the Red Bull (where I had not been since 
 plays come up again) up to the tiring-room, where 
 strange the confusion and disorder that there is among 
 them in fitting themselves, especially here, where the 
 clothes are very poor, and the actors but common 
 fellows. At last into the pit, where I think there was 
 not above ten more than myself, and not one hundred 
 in the whole house. And the play, which is called 
 " All's lost by Lust," poorly done ; and with so much 
 disorder, among others, in the music-room, the boy 
 that was to sing a song, not singing it right, his 
 master fell about his ears, and beat him so, that it put 
 the whole house in an uproar. Met my uncle Wight, 
 and with him, Lieut.-Col. Baron, who told us how 
 Crofton, the great Presbyterian minister that had 
 preached so highly against bishops, is clapped up this 
 day in the Tower. Which do please some, and displease 
 others exceedingly. 
 
 April 2. To St. James's Park, where I saw the Duke 
 . of York playing at Pelemele, the first time that I ever 
 saw the sport. Then to the Dolphin to Sir W. Batten, 
 and Pen, and other company ; among others, Mr. 
 Delabar ; where strange " how these men who at 
 other times are all wise men, do now, in their drink, 
 betwit and reproach one another with their former
 
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 conditions, anJ their actions as in public concerns, 
 till I was ashamed to see it. 
 
 3rd. I hear that the Dutch have sent the King a 
 great present of money, which we think will stop the 
 match with Portugal ; and judge this to be the reason 
 that our so great haste in sending the two ships to the 
 East Indies is also stayed. 
 
 7th. To Whitehall, and there I met with Dr. Fuller 
 of Twickenham, newly come from Ireland; and took 
 him to my Lord's, where he and I dined ; and he did 
 give my Lord and me a good account of the condition 
 of Ireland, and how it come to pass, through the join- 
 ing of the Fanatics and the Presbyterians, that the 
 latter and the former are in their declaration put to- 
 gether under the names of Fanatics. 
 
 9th. At the sale of old stores at Chatham ; and 
 among other things sold there was all the State's 
 arms, which Sir W. Batten bought ; intending to set 
 up some of the images in his garden, and the rest to 
 burn on the Coronation night. 
 
 10th. T.hen to Rochester, and there saw the cathe- 
 dral, which is now fitting for use, and the organ then 
 a-tuning. Then away thence, observing the great 
 doors of the church, as they say, covered with the skins 
 of the Danes. 
 
 13th. Met my Lord with the Duke ; and after a little 
 talk with him, I went to the banquet-house, and there 
 saw the King heal, the first time that ever I saw him
 
 154 PEPYS'S DIABY. [April, 
 
 do it ; which he did with great gravity, and it seemed 
 to me to be an ugly office and a simple one. 
 
 20th. Conies my boy to tell me that khe Duke of 
 York had sent for all the principal officers, etc., to come 
 to him to-day. So I went by water to Mr. Coventry's, 
 and there stayed and talked a good while with him till 
 all the rest come. We went up and saw the Duke dress 
 himself, and in his night habit he is a very plain man. 
 Then he sent us to his closet, where we saw among 
 other things two very fine chests, covered with gold 
 and Indian varnish, given him by the East India Com- 
 pany of Holland. The Duke comes ; and after he had 
 told us that the fleet was designed for Algier (which 
 was kept from us till now), we did advise about many 
 things as to the fitting of the fleet, and so went away 
 to Whitehall; and in the banqueting-house saw the 
 King create my Lord Chancellor and several others, 
 earls, and Mr. Crewe and several others, barons : the 
 first being led up by heralds and five old earls to the 
 King, and there the patent is read, and the King puts 
 on his vest, and sword, and coronet, and gives him the 
 patent. And then he kisseth the King's hand, and 
 rises and stands covered before the King. And the 
 same for each baron, only he is led up by three of the 
 old barons. And they are girt with swords before 
 they go to the King. To the Cockpit ; and there, by 
 the favour of one Mr. Bowman, he and I got in, and 
 there saw the King and Duke of York and his
 
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 Duchess (which is a plain woman, and like her mother, 
 my Lady Chancellor). And so saw " The Humoursome 
 Lieutenant " acted before the King, but not very well 
 done. But my pleasure was great to see the manner 
 of it, and so many great beauties, but above all Mrs. 
 Palmer, with whom the King do discover a great deal 
 of familiarity. 
 
 21st. Dined with Dr. Thomas Pepys and Dr. Fayre- 
 brother : and all our talk about to-morrow's show, and 
 our trouble that it is like to be a wet day. All the 
 way is so thronged with people to see the triumphal 
 arches, that I could hardly pass for them. 
 
 22nd. The King's going from the Tower to White- 
 hall. Up early and made myself as fine as I could, 
 and put on my velvet coat, the first day that I put it 
 on, though made half a year ago. And being ready, 
 Sir W. Batten, my Lady, and his two daughters and 
 his son and wife, and Sir W. Pen and his son and I, 
 went to Mr. Young's the flag-maker, in Cornhill ; and 
 there we had a good room to ourselves, with wine and 
 good cake, and saw the show very well. In which it is 
 impossible to relate the glory of this day, expressed in 
 the clothes of them that rid, and their horses and 
 horse's clothes. Among others, my Lord Sandwich's 
 embroidery and diamonds were not ordinary among 
 them. The Knights of the Bath was a brave sight of 
 itself ; and their Esquires, among which Mr. Armiger 
 was an Esquire to one of the Knights. Remarkable
 
 156 PEPYS'S DIABY. [April, 
 
 were the two men that represent the two Dukes of 
 Normandy and Aquitane. The Bishops come next 
 after Barons, which is the higher place ; which makes 
 me think that the next Parliament they will be called 
 to the House of Lords. My Lord Monk rode bare after 
 the King, and led in his hand a spare horse, as being 
 Master of the Horse. The King, in a most rich em- 
 broidered suit and cloak, looked most noble. Wadlow, 
 the vintner, at the Devil, in Fleet Street, did lead a 
 fine company of soldiers, all young comely men, in 
 white doublets. There followed the Vice- Chamberlain, 
 Sir G-. Carteret, a company of men all like Turks ; but 
 I know not yet what they are for. The streets all 
 gravelled, and the houses hung with carpets before 
 them, made brave show, and the ladies out of the 
 windows. So glorious was the show with gold and 
 silver, that we were not able to look at it, our eyes at 
 last being so much overcome. Both the King and the 
 Duke of York took notice of us, as they saw us at the 
 window. In the evening, by water to Whitehall to 
 my Lord's, and there I spoke with my Lord. He 
 talked with me about his suit, which was made in 
 France, and cost him 200, and very rich it is with 
 embroidery. 
 
 CORONATION DAT. 
 
 23rd. About four I rose and got to the Abbey, where 
 I followed Sir J. Denham, the Surveyor, with some 
 company that he was leading in. And with much ado,
 
 1661.1 PEPYS'S DIABT. 157 
 
 by the favour of Mr. Cooper, his man, did get up into 
 a great scaffold across the uorth end of the Abbey, 
 where with a great deal of patience I sat from past four 
 till eleven before the King come in. And a great 
 pleasure it was to see the Abbey raised in the middle, all 
 covered with red, and & throne (that is a chair) and 
 foot-stool on the top of it ; and all the officers of all 
 kinds, so much as the very fiddlers, in red vests. At 
 last comes in the Dean and Prebends of Westminster, 
 with the Bishops (many of them in cloth-of-gold copes), 
 and after them the Nobility, all in their Parliament 
 robes, which was a most magnificent sight. Then the 
 Duke and the King with a sceptre (carried by my Lord 
 Sandwich) and sword and wand before him, and the 
 crown too. The King in his robes, bare-headed, which 
 was very fine. And' after all had placed themselves, 
 there was a sermon and the service ; and then in the 
 Choir at the high altar, the King passed through all 
 the ceremonies of the Coronation, which to my great 
 grief I and most in the Abbey could not see. The 
 crown being put upon his head, a great shout begun, 
 and he come forth to the throne, and there passed 
 through more ceremonies : as taking the oath, and 
 having things read to him by the Bishop ; and his 
 Lords (who put on their caps as soon as the King put 
 on his crown) and bishops come, and kneeled before 
 lam. And three times the King at Arms went to the 
 three open places on the scaffold, and proclaimed, that
 
 158 PEPYS'S DIABY. [April, 
 
 if any one could show any reason why Charles Stewart 
 should not be King of England, that now he should 
 come and speak. And a General Pardon also was 
 read by the Lord Chancellor, and medals flung up and 
 down by my Lord Cornwallis, of silver, but I could 
 not come by any. But so great a noise that I could 
 make but little of the music ; and indeed, it was lost to 
 everybody. I went out a little while before the King 
 had done all his ceremonies, and went round the Abbey 
 to Westminster Hall, all the way within rails, and 
 10,000 people with the ground covered with blue cloth ; 
 and scaffolds all the way. Into the Hall I got, where 
 it was very fine with hangings and scaffolds one upon 
 another full of brave ladies ; and my wife in one little 
 one, on the right hand. Here I stayed Avalking up and 
 down, and at last upon one of the side stalls I stood and 
 saw the King come in with all the persons (but the 
 soliders) that were yesterday in the cavalcade; and a most 
 pleasant sight it was to see them in their several robes. 
 And the King come in with his crown on, and his 
 sceptre in his hand, under a canopy borne up by six 
 silver staves, carried by Barons of the Cinque Ports, 
 and little bells at every end. And after a long time, 
 he got up to the farther end, and all set themselves 
 iown at their several tables ; and that was also a brave 
 sight : and the King's first course carried up by the 
 Knights of the Bath. And many fine ceremonies 
 there was of the herald's leading up people before
 
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 him, and bowing ; and my Lord of Albemarle's going 
 to the kitchen and eating a bit of the first dish that was 
 to go to the King's table. But, above all, was these 
 three Lords, Northumberland, and Suffolk, and the 
 Duke of Ormond, coming before the courses" on horse- 
 back, and staying so all dinner-time, and at last 
 bringing up (Dymock) the King's champion, all in 
 armour on horseback, with his spear and target 
 carried before him. And a herald proclaims, " That if 
 any dare deny Charles Stewart to be lawful King of 
 England, here was a champion that would fight with 
 him;" and with these words, the champion flings 
 down his gauntlet, and all this he do three times in hia 
 going up towards the King's table. To which when he 
 is come, the King drinks to him, and then sends him 
 the cup, which is of gold, and he drinks it off, and then 
 rides back again with the cup in his hand. I went 
 from table to table to see the bishops and all others at 
 their dinner, and was infinitely pleased with it. And 
 at the Lord's table, I met with William Howe, and he 
 spoke to my Lord for me, and he did give him 
 four rabbits and a pullet, and so Mr. Creed and I got 
 Mr. Minshell to give us some bread, and so we at a 
 stall eat it, as everybody else did what they could get. 
 I took a great deal of pleasure to go up and down, and 
 look upon the ladies, and to hear the music of all sorts, 
 but above all, the twenty-four violins. About six at 
 night they had dined, and I went up to my wife. And
 
 160 PEPYS'S DIABY. [April, 
 
 strange it is to think, that these two days have held up 
 fair till now that all is done, and the King gone out of 
 the Hall ; and then it fell a-raiuing and thundering 
 and lightening as I have not seen it do for some years ; 
 which people did take great notice of ; God's blessing 
 of the work of these two days, which is a foolery to 
 take too much notice of such things. I observed little 
 disorder in all this, only the King's footmen had got 
 hold of the canopy, and would keep if from the Barons 
 of the Cinque Ports, which they endeavoured to force 
 from them again, but could not do it till my Lord 
 Duke of Albemarle caused it to be put into Sir R. 
 Pye's hand till to-morrow to be decided. At Mr. 
 Bowyer's ; a great deal of company, some I knew, 
 others I did not. Here we stayed upon the leads and 
 below till it was late, expecting to see the fireworks, 
 but they were not performed to-night : only the City 
 had a light like a glory round about it with bonfires. 
 At last I went to King Street, and there sent Crock- 
 ford to my father's and my house, to tell them I could 
 not come home to-night, because of the dirt, and a 
 coach could not bo had. And so I took my wife and 
 Mrs. Frankleyn (who I proffered the civility of 
 lying with my wife at Mrs. Hunt's to-night) to Axe 
 Yard, in which at the farther end (hero were three 
 great bonfires, and a great many great gallants, men 
 and women ; and they laid hold of us, and would have us 
 drink the King's health upon our knees, kneeling upon
 
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 a faggot, which we all did, they drinking to us one 
 after another : which we thought a strange frolic ; but 
 these gallants continued there a great while, and I 
 wondered to see how the ladies did tipple. At last I 
 sent my wife and her bedfellow to bed, and Mr. Hunt 
 and I went in with Mr. Thornbury (who did give the 
 company all their wine, he being yeoman of the wine- 
 cellar to the King) ; and there, with his wife and two 
 of his sisters, and some gallant sparks that were there, 
 we drank the King's health, and nothing else, till one 
 of the gentlemen fell down stark drunk, and there lay ; 
 and I went to my Lord's pretty well. Thus did the 
 day end with joy everywhere ; and blessed be God, I 
 have not heard of any mischance to anybody through 
 it all, but only to Serjt. G-lynne, whose horse fell upon 
 him yesterday, and is like to kill him, which people do 
 please themselves to see how just God is to punish the 
 rogue at such a time as this : he being now one of the 
 King's Serjeants, and rode in the cavalcade with May- 
 nard, to whom people wish the same fortune. There 
 was also this night in King Street, a woman had her 
 eye put out by a boy's flinging a firebrand into the 
 coach. Now, after all this, I can say that, besides the 
 pleasure of the sight of these glorious things, I may 
 now shut my eyes against any other objects, nor for 
 the future trouble myself to see things of state and show 
 as being sure never to see the like again in this world. 
 24th. At night, set myself to write down these 
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 162 PEPYS'S DIARY. [May, 
 
 three days' diary, and while I am about it, I hear the 
 noise of the chambers, and other things of the fire- 
 works, which are now playing upon the Thames before 
 the King ; and I wish myself with them, being sorry 
 not to see them. 
 
 30th. This morning my wife, and I, and Mr. Creed 
 took coach, and in Fish Street took up Mr. Hater, and 
 his wife, who through her mask seemed at first to be 
 an old woman, but afterwards I found her to be a very 
 pretty, modest black woman. We got a small .bait at 
 Leatherhead, and so to G-odlyman, where we lay all 
 night. I am sorry that I am not at London, to be at 
 Hyde Park to-morrow, among the great gallants and 
 ladies, which will be very fine. 
 
 May 1. Up early, and bated at Petersfield, in the 
 room which the King lay in lately at his being there. 
 Here very merry, and played with our wives at bowls. 
 Then we set forth again, and so to Portsmouth, seem- 
 ing to me to be a very pleasant and strong place ; and 
 we lay at the Red Lion, where Haselrigge and Scott 
 and Walton did hold their council, when they were 
 here, against Lambert and the Committee of Safety. 
 
 2nd. To see the room where the Duke of Buckingham 
 was killed by Felton. 
 
 6th. I hear to-night that the Duke of York's son is 
 this day dead, which I believe will please everybody ; 
 and I hear that the Duke and his Lady themselves are 
 not much troubled at it.
 
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 12th. At the Savoy heard Dr. Fuller preach upon 
 David's words, " I will wait with patience all the days 
 of my appointed time until my change comes," but 
 methorg'it it was a poor, dry sermon ; and I am afraid 
 my former high esteem of his preaching was more out 
 of opinion than judgment. Met with Mr. Creed, with 
 whom I went and walked in Gray's Inn Walks, and 
 from thence to Islington, and there ate and drank at 
 the house my father and we were wont of old to go to, 
 and after that walked homeward, and parted in Smith- 
 field; and so I home, much wondering to see how 
 things are altered with Mr. Creed, who, twelve months 
 ago, might have been got to hang himself almost as 
 soon as go to a drinking- house on a Sunday. 
 
 18th. I went to Westminster, where it was very 
 pleasant to see the Hall in the condition it is 
 now, with the Judges on the benches at the further 
 end of it, which I had not seen all this term till 
 now. 
 
 19th (Lord's day). I walked in the morning to- 
 wards Westminster, and, seeing many people at. York 
 House, I went down and found them at mass, it being 
 the Spanish ambassador's.; and so I got into one of 
 the galleries, and there heard two masses done, I 
 think, not in so much state as I have seen them here- 
 tofore. After that into the garden, and walked an 
 hour or two, but found it not so fine a place as I always 
 took it for by the outside. Captain Ferrers, and Mr.
 
 164 PEPYS'S DIARY. [May, 
 
 Howe, and myself, to Mr. Wilkinson's at the Crown ; 
 then to my Lord's, where we went and sat talking and 
 laughing in the drawing-room a great while. All our 
 talk upon their going to sea this voyage, which Captain 
 Ferrers is in some doubt whether he shall do or no, but 
 swears that he would go, if he were sure never to come 
 back again ; and I, giving him some hopes, he grew so 
 mad with joy that he fell a- dancing and leaping like a 
 madman. Now it fell out that the balcony windows 
 were open, and he went to the rail and made an offer 
 to leap over, and asked what if he should leap over 
 there. I told him I would give him 40 if he did not 
 go to sea. With that thought I shut the doors, and 
 W. Howe hindered him all we could ; yet he opened 
 them again, and, with a vault, leaps down into the 
 garden the greatest and most desperate frolic that 
 ever I saw in my life. I run to see what was become 
 of him, and we found him crawled upon his knees, but 
 could not rise, so we went down into the garden and 
 dragged him to a bench, where he looked like a dead 
 man, but could not stir ; and, though he had broken 
 nothing, yet his pain in his back was such as he could 
 not endure. With this, my Lord (who was in the 
 little new room) come to us in amaze, and bid us carry 
 him up, which, by our strength we did, and so laid 
 him in East's bedroom, by the door, where he lay in 
 great pain. We sent for a doctor and surgeon, but 
 none to be found, till by-and-by, by chance, comes in
 
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 Dr. Clerke, who is afraid of him. So we went for a 
 lodging for him. 
 
 21st. Up early, and, with Sir B. Slingsby (and 
 Major Waters, the deaf gentleman, his friend for 
 company's sake), to the Victualling Office (the first 
 time that I ever knew where it was), and there stayed 
 while he read a commission for inquiry into some of 
 the King's lands and houses thereabouts, that are given 
 his brother. And then we took boat to Woolwich, 
 where we stayed and gave order for the fitting out of 
 some more ships presently. And then to Deptford, 
 where we did the same ; and so took barge again, and 
 were overtaken by the King in his barge, he having 
 been down the river with his yacht this day for 
 pleasure to try it ; and, as I hear, Commissioner Pett's 
 do prove better than the Dutch one, and that that his 
 brother built. While we were upon the water, one of 
 the greatest showers of rain fell that ever I saw. The 
 Comptroller and I landed with our barge at the 
 Temple, and from thence I went to my father's, and 
 there did give order about some clothes to be made. 
 
 23rd. In my black silk suit (the first day I have put 
 it on this year) to my Lord Mayor's by coach, with a 
 great deal of honourable company, and great enter- 
 tainment. At table I had very good discourse with 
 Mr. Ashmole, wherein he did assure me that frogs and 
 many insects do often fall from the sky, ready formed. 
 Dr. Bates's singularity in not rising up nor drinking
 
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 the King's nor other healths at the table was very much 
 observed. From thence we all took coach, and to our 
 office, and there sat till it was late ; and so I home and 
 to bed by day-light. This day was kept a holy-day 
 through the town ; and it pleased me to see the little 
 boys walk up and down in procession with their broom- 
 staffs in their hands, as I had myself long ago done. 
 
 26th. Sir W. Batten told me how Mr. Prin (among 
 the two or three that did refuse to-day to receive the 
 sacrament upon their knees) was offered, by a mistake, 
 the drink afterwards, which he did receive, being 
 denied the drink by Dr. Gunning, unless he wotdd 
 take it on his knees ; and after that by another the 
 bread was brought him, and he did take it sitting, 
 which is thought very preposterous. 
 
 28th. With Mr. Shepley to the Exchange about 
 business, and there, by Mr. Rawlinson's favour, got 
 into a balcony over against the Exchange ; and there 
 saw the hangman burn, by vote of Parliament, two 
 old acts, the one for constituting us a Commonwealth, 
 and the other I have forgot. 
 
 29th (King's birth-day). Rose early, and put six 
 spoons and a porringer of silver in my pocket to give 
 away to-day. Sir W. Pen and I took coach, and (the 
 weather and way being foul) went to "Walthamstow ; 
 and being come there heard Mr. Radcliffe, my former 
 schoolfellow at Paul's (who is yet a merry boy), preach 
 upon " Nay, let him take all, since my Lord the King
 
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 is returned," &e. He read all, and his sermon very 
 simple. Back to dinner at Sir William Batten's ; and 
 then, after a walk in the fine gardens, we went to Mrs. 
 Browne's, where Sir W. Pen and I were godfathers, 
 and Mrs. Jordan and Shipman godmothers to her boy. 
 And there, before and after the christening, we were 
 with the woman above in her chamber ; but whether 
 we carried ourselves well or ill, I know not ; but I was 
 directed by young Mrs. Batten. One passage of a lady 
 that ate wafers with her dog did a little displease me. 
 I did give the midwife ]0s., and the nurse 5s., and the 
 maid of the house 2s. But for as much I expected to 
 give the name to the child, but did not (it being called 
 John), I f orebore then to give my- plate. 
 
 30th. This day, I hear, the Parliament have ordered 
 a bill to be brought in for restoring the Bishops to tho 
 House of Lords ; which they had not done so soon but 
 to spite Mr. Prin, who is every day so bitter against 
 them in his discourse in the House. 
 
 31st. Great talk now how the Parliament intend to 
 make a collection of free gifts to the King through the 
 kingdom ; but I think it will not come to much. 
 
 June 4. To my Lord Crewe's to dinner, and had very 
 good discourse about having of young noblemen and 
 gentlemen to think of going to sea, as being as honour- 
 able service as the land war. And among other things 
 ho told us how, in Queen Elizabeth's time, one young 
 nobleman would wait with a trencher at the back of
 
 168 PEPYS'S DIAEY. 
 
 another till he come to age himself. And witnessed 
 in my young Lord of Kent, that then was, who waited 
 upon my Lord Bedford at table, when a letter came to 
 my Lord Bedford that the Earldom of Kent was fallen 
 to his servant the young Lord : and so he rose from 
 table, and made him sit down in his place, and took a 
 lower for himself, for so he was by place to sit. 
 
 9th. To Whitehall, and there met with Dean Fuller, 
 and walked a great while with him ; among other 
 things discoursed of the liberty the Bishop (by name 
 he of Galloway) takes to admit into orders anybody 
 that will ; among others Roundtree, a simple mechanic 
 that was a person formerly of the fleet. He told me 
 he would complain of it. 
 
 10th. Early to my Lord's, who privately told me 
 how the King had made him ambassador in the bring- 
 ing over the Queen. That he is to go to Algier, &c., 
 to settle the business, and to put the fleet in order 
 there ; and so to come back to Lisbon with three ships, 
 and there to meet the fleet that is to follow him. He 
 sent for me, to tell me that he do intrust me with the 
 seeing of all things done in his absence as to this great 
 preparation, as I shall receive orders from my Lord 
 Chancellor and Mr. Edward Montagu. At all which 
 my heart is above measure glad; for my Lord's 
 honour, and some profit to myself, I hope. By and by, 
 out with Mr. Shepley, Walden, Parliament man for 
 Huntingdon, Holt, Mackworth, and Alderman Back'
 
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 well, to a Louse hard by, to drink Lambeth ale. So I 
 back to the Wardrobe, aiid there found my Lord going 
 to Trinity House, this being the solemn day of choosing 
 Master, and my Lord is chosen. 
 
 llth. At the office this morning, Sir G. Carteret 
 with us ; and we agreed upon a letter to the Duke of 
 York, to tell him the sad condition of this office for 
 want of money ; how men are not able to serve us more 
 without some money ; and that now the credit of the 
 office is brought so low, that none will sell us anything 
 without our personal security given for the same. 
 
 12th. Wednesday, a day kept between a fast and a 
 feast, the Bishops not being ready enough to keep the 
 fast for foul weather before fair weather come ; and so 
 they were forced to keep it between both. Then to 
 Whitehall, where I met my Lord, who told me he must 
 have 300 laid out in cloth, to give in Barbary, as pre- 
 sents among the Turks. 
 
 27th. This day Mr. Holden sent me a bever, which 
 cost me 4 5s. 
 
 28th. Went to Moorfields, and there walked, and 
 stood and saw the wrestling, which I never saw so 
 much of before, between the north and west country- 
 men. 
 
 29th. Mr. Chetwind fell commending of " Hooker's 
 Ecclesiastical Polity," as the best book, and the only 
 one that made him a Christian, which puts me upon 
 the buying of it, which I will do shortly.
 
 170 PEPYS'S DIARY. [July, 
 
 30fch (Lord's day). To church, where we observe the 
 trade of briefs is come now tip to so constant a course 
 every Sunday, that we resolve to give no more to 
 them. This day the Portuguese Ambassador came 
 to Whitehall to take leave of the King; he being 
 now going to end all with the Queen, and to send 
 her over. 
 
 July 2. Went to Sir William Davenant's Opera; 
 this being the fourth day that it hath begun, and the 
 first that I have seen it. To-day was acted the second 
 part of " The Siege of Rhodes." We stayed a very 
 great while for the King and Queen of Bohemia. And 
 by the breaking of a board over our heads, we had a great 
 deal of dust fell into the ladies' necks and the men's 
 hair, which made good sport. The King being come, 
 the scene opened ; which indeed is very fine and mag- 
 nificent, and well acted, all but the Eunuch, who was 
 so much out that he was hissed off the stage. 
 
 3rd. Dined with my Lady, who is in some mourn- 
 ing for her brother, Mr. Saml. Crewe, who died yester- 
 day of the spotted fever. 
 
 4th. I went to the theatre, and there I saw " Clara- 
 cilia " (the first time I ever saw it), well acted. But 
 strange to see this house, that used to be so thronged, 
 now empty since the Opera began ; and so will con- 
 tinue for a while, I believe. 
 
 6th. Waked this morning with news, brought me 
 by a messenger on purpose, that my Uncle Robert is
 
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 dead ; so I set out on horseback, and got well by nine 
 o'clock to Brampton, where I found my father well. 
 My uncle's corpse in a coffin standing upon joint-stools 
 in the chimney in the hall ; but it began to smell, and 
 so I caused it to be set forth in the yard all night, and 
 watched by my aunt. 
 
 7th (Lord's day). In the morning my father and I 
 read the will ; where though he gives me nothing at 
 present till my father's death, or at least very little, 
 yet I am glad to see that he hath done so well for us 
 all, and well to the rest of his kindred. After that done 
 we went about getting things, as ribbands and gloves, 
 ready for the burial. Which in the afternoon was 
 done ; where it being Sunday, all people far and near 
 come in ; and in the greatest disorder that ever I saw, 
 we made shift to serve them with what we had of wine 
 and other things ; and then to carry him to the church, 
 where Mr. Taylor buried him, and Mr. Turner preached 
 a funeral sermon. 
 
 14th. To Hinchingbroke, which is now all in dirt, 
 because of my Lord's building, which will make it very 
 magnificent. Back to Brampton. 
 
 15th. Up by three o'clock this morning, and rode to 
 Cambridge to King's College chapel, where I found 
 the scholars in their surplices at the service with the 
 organs, which is a strange sight to what it used in my 
 time to be here. Rode to Inipington, where I found 
 my old uncle sitting all alone, like a man out of the
 
 172 PEPYS'S DTARY. [July, 
 
 world : he can hardly see ; but all things else he does 
 pretty livelily. 
 
 22nd. I come to Hatfield before twelve o'clock, and 
 walked all alone to the Vineyard, which is now a very 
 beautiful place again ; and coming back I met with 
 Mr. Looker, my Lord's gardener (a friend of Mr. 
 Eglin's), who showed me the house, the chapel with 
 brave pictures, and, above all, the gardens, such as I 
 never saw in all my life ; nor so good flowers, nor so 
 great gooseberries, as big as nutmegs. To horse again, 
 and with much ado got to London. 
 
 26th. Mr. Hill of Cambridge tells me, that yesterday 
 put a change to the whole state of England as to the 
 Church ; for the King now would be forced to favour 
 Presbytery, or that the City would leave him : but I 
 heed not what he says, though upon enquiry I do find 
 that things in the Parliament are in a great disorder. 
 
 27th. To "Westminster Hall, where it was expected 
 that the Parliament was to have been adjourned for 
 two or three mouths, but something hinders it for a 
 day or two. In the lobby I spoke with Mr. George 
 Montagu, and advised about a ship to carry my Lord 
 Hinchingbroke and the rest of the young gentlemen 
 to France, and they have resolved of going in a hired 
 vessel from Rye, and not in a man-of-war. He told 
 me in discourse, that my Lord Chancellor is much 
 envied, and that many great men, such as the Duke of 
 Buckingham and my Lord of Bristol, do endeavour to
 
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 undermine him, and that he believes it will not be 
 done ; for that the King (though he loves him not in 
 the way of a companion, as he do these young gallants 
 that can answer him in his pleasures), yet cannot be 
 without him, for his policy and service. 
 
 30th. After my singing-master had done with me 
 this morning, I went to Whitehall and "Westminster 
 Hall, where I found the King expected to come and 
 adjourn the Parliament. I found the two Houses at a 
 great difference, about the Lords challenging their 
 privileges not to have their houses searched, which 
 makes them deny to pass the House of Commons' Bill 
 for searching for pamphlets and seditious books. 
 Thence by water to the Wardrobe (meeting the King 
 upon the water going in his barge to adjourn the 
 House) where I dined with my Lady. 
 
 August 2nd. I made myself ready to get a-horseback 
 for Cambridge. 
 
 3rd. At Cambridge Mr. Pechell, Sanchy, and others 
 tell me how high the old doctors are in the University 
 over those they found there, though a great deal better 
 scholars than themselves ; for which I am very sorry, 
 and, above all, Dr. Gunning. At night I took horse, 
 and rode with Roger Pepys and big two brothers to 
 Impington. 
 
 4th. To church, and had a good plain sermon. At our 
 coming in the country -people all rose with so much 
 reverence; and when the parson begins, he begins,
 
 174 PEPYS'S DIABY. [August, 
 
 "Right worshipful and dearly beloved" to us. To 
 church again, and, after supper, to talk about public 
 matters, wherein Roger Pepys told me how basely 
 things had been carried in Parliament by the young 
 men, that did labour to oppose all things that were 
 moved by serious men. That they are the most 
 profane swearing fellows that ever he heard in his 
 life, which makes him think that they will spoil all, 
 and bring things into a war again if they can. 
 
 6th. Took horse for London, and with much ado, the 
 ways being very bad, got to Baldwick. I 'find that 
 both here and everywhere else that I come, the 
 Quakers do still continue, and rather grow than lessen. 
 
 9th. I to "Whitehall, where, after four o'clock, comes 
 my Lord Privy Seal; and so we went up to his 
 chamber over the gate at Whitehall, where he asked 
 me what deputation I had from my Lord. I told him 
 none ; but that I am sworn my Lord's deputy by both 
 of the Secretaries, which did satisfy him. So he caused 
 Mr. Moore to read over all the bills, and all ended 
 very well. 
 
 llth. To Gray's-Inn walks, and there stayed a good 
 while ; where I met with Ned Pickering, who told 
 me what a great match of hunting of a stag the King 
 had yesterday ; and how the King tired all their horses, 
 and come home with not above two or three able to 
 keep pace with him. 
 
 14th. This morning Sir W. Batten, and Sir W.
 
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 Pen and I, waited upon the Dukt of York in his 
 chamber, to give him an account o the condition of 
 the Navy for lack of money, and how our own very 
 bills are offered upon the Exchange, to be sold at 20 in 
 the 100 loss. He is much troubled at it, and will 
 speak to the King and Council of it this morning. 
 
 15th. To the Opera, which begins again to-day with 
 "The Witts," never acted yet with scenes; and the 
 King and Duke and Duchess were there (who dined 
 to-day with Sir H. Finch, reader at the Temple, in 
 great state) : and indeed it is a most excellent play, 
 and admirable scenes. 
 
 16th. At the office all the morning, though little to 
 do; because all our clerks are gone to the burial of 
 Tom "Whitton, one of the Comptroller's clerks, a very 
 ingenious, and a likely young man to live, as any in 
 the Office. But it is such a sickly time both in the 
 City and country everywhere (of a sort of fever), that 
 never was heard of almost, unless it was in a plague- 
 time. Among others, the famous Tom Fuller is dead 
 of it; and Dr. Nichols, Dean of Paul's; and my 
 Lord General Monk is very dangerously ilL 
 
 17th. At the Privy Seal, where we had a seal this 
 morning. Then met with Ned Pickering, and walked 
 with him into St. James's Park (where I had not been 
 a great while), and there found great and very noble 
 alterations. And, in our discourse, he was very for- 
 ward to complain and to speak loud of the lewdnesa
 
 176 PEPYS'S DIABY. [August, 
 
 and beggary of the Court, which I am sorry to hear, 
 and which I am afraid will bring all to ruin again. I 
 to the Opera, and saw " The Witts " again, which Hike 
 exceedingly. The Queen of Bohemia was here, brought 
 by my Lord Craven. 
 
 18th. To Whitehall, and there hear that my Lord 
 General Monk continues very ill ; and then to walk in 
 St. James's Park, and saw a great variety of fowl 
 which I never saw before. At night fell to read in 
 " Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity," which Mr. Moore did 
 give me last Wednesday very handsomely bound ; and 
 which I shall read with great pains and love for his 
 sake. 
 
 19th. I am sent for to the Privy Seal, and there I 
 found a thing of my Lord Chancellor's to be sealed this 
 afternoon, and so I am forced to go to Worcester House, 
 where several Lords are met in Council this afternoon. 
 And while I am waiting there, in comes the King in a 
 plain common riding suit and velvet cap, in which he 
 seemed a very ordinary man to one that had not known 
 him. 
 
 27th. My wife and I to the theatre, and there saw 
 " The Jovial Crew," where the King, Duke and Duchess 
 and Madame Palmer, were ; and my wife, to her great 
 content, had a full sight of them all the while. 
 
 31st. At Court things are in very ill condition, there 
 being so much emulation, poverty, and the vices of 
 drinking, swearing, and loose amours, that I know
 
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 not what will be the end of it, but conf asion. And the 
 clergy so high, that all the people that I meet with do 
 protest against their practice. In short, I see no content 
 or satisfaction anywhere in any one sort of people. 
 The Benevolence proves so little, and an occasion of 
 so much discontent everywhere that it had better had it 
 never been set up. I think to subscribe twenty pound. 
 We are at our office quiet, only for lack of money all 
 things go to rack. Our very bills offered to be sold 
 upon the Exchange at ten per cent. loss. We are upon 
 getting Sir R. Ford's house added to our office. But 
 I see so many difficulties will follow in pleasing of 
 one another in the dividing of it, and in becoming 
 bound personally to pay the rent of 200 per annum, 
 that I do believe it will yet scarce come to pass. The 
 season very sickly everywhere of strange and fatal 
 fevers. 
 
 September 1. Capt. Holmes and I by coach to White- 
 hall ; in our way, I found him by discourse, to be a great 
 friend of my Lord's, and he told me there was a many 
 did seek to remove him ; but they were old seamen, such 
 as Sir J. Miimes (but he would name no more, though 
 he do believe Sir W. Batten is one of them that do envy 
 him), but he says he knows that the King do so love 
 him, and the Duke of York too, that there is no fear of 
 him. He seems to be very well acquainted with the 
 King's mind, and with all the several factions at Court, 
 and spoke all with so much frankness, that I do take
 
 178 PEPYSS DIARY. [September, 
 
 him to be my Lord's good frieud, and one able to do 
 him great service, being a cunning fellow, and one (by 
 his own confession to me) that can put on two several 
 faces, and look his enemies in the face with as much 
 love as his friends. But, good God ! what an age is 
 this, and what a world is this ! that a man cannot live 
 without playing the knave and dissimulation. 
 
 2nd. I find that there are endeavours to get my 
 Lord out of play at sea, which I believe Mr. Coventry 
 and the Duke do think will make them more absolute ; 
 but I hope for all this, they will not be able to do it. 
 
 3rd. Dined at home, and then with my wife to the 
 Wardrobe, where my Lady's child was christened (my 
 Lord Crewe and his Lady, and my Lady Montagu, my 
 Lord's mother-in-law, were the witnesses), and named 
 Kathcrine (the Queen elect's name) ; but to my and all 
 our trouble, the Parson of the parish christened her, 
 and did not sign the child with the sign of the cross. 
 After that was done, we had a very fine banquet. 
 
 7th. Having appointed the young ladies at the 
 "Wardrobe to go with them to the play to-day, my 
 wife and I took them to the theatre, where we seated 
 ourselves close by the King, and Duke of York, 
 and Madame Palmer, which was great content; and, 
 indeed, I can never enough admire her beauty. And 
 here was " Bartholomew Fayre," with the puppet- 
 show, acted to-day, which had not been these forty 
 years (it being so satirical against Puritanism, they
 
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 durst not till now, which is strange they should already 
 dare to do it, and the King do countenance it), but I 
 do never a whit like it the better for the puppets, but 
 rather the worse. Thence home with the ladies, it 
 being by reason of our staying a great while for the 
 King's coming, and the length of the play, near nine 
 o'clock before it was done. 
 
 llth. To Dr. Williams, who did carry me into his 
 garden, where he hath abundance of grapes : and he 
 did show me how a dog that he hath do kill all the cats 
 that come hither to kill his pigeons, and do afterwards 
 bury them ; and do it with so much care that they shall 
 be quite covered ; that if the tip of the tail hangs out he 
 will take up the cat again, and dig the hole deeper. 
 Which is very strange ; and he tells me, that he do 
 believe that he hath killed above a hundred cats. 
 
 12th. To my Lady's to dinner at the Wardrobe ; and 
 in my way upon the Thames, I saw the King's new 
 pleasure boat that is come now for the King to take 
 pleasure in above bridge ; and also two Gundaloes that 
 are lately brought, which are very rich and fine. 
 
 24th. Letters from sea, that speak of my Lord's 
 being well ; and his action, though not considerable of 
 any side, at Argier. 
 
 25th. Sir W. Pen told me that I need not fear any 
 reflection upon my Lord for their ill success at Argier, 
 for more could not be done. To my Lord Crewe's, and 
 dined with him, where I was used with all imaginable
 
 180 PEPYS'S DIARY. [September, 
 
 kindness both from him and her. And I see that he is 
 afraid my Lord's reputation will a little suffer in 
 common talk by this late success ; but there is no help 
 for it now. The Queen of England (as she is now 
 owned and called) I hear doth keep open Court, and 
 distinct, at Lisbon. 
 
 27th. At noon, met my wife at the Wardrobe ; and 
 there dined, where we found Capt. Country (my little 
 Captain that I loved, who carried me to the Sound), 
 with some grapes nd melons from my Lord at Lisbon : 
 the first that ever I saw ; but the grapes are rare 
 things. In the afternoon comes Mr. Edwd. Montagu 
 (by appointment this morning) to talk with my Lady 
 and me about the provisions fit to be bought, and sent 
 to my Lord along with him. And told us, that we 
 need not trouble ourselves how to buy them, for the 
 King would pay for all, and that he would take care to 
 get them : which put my Lady and me into a great 
 deal of ease of mind. Here we stayed and supped too, 
 and, after my wife had put up some of the grapes in a 
 basket for to be sent to the King, we took coach and 
 home, where we found a hamper of melons sent to me 
 also. 
 
 30th. This morning up by moon-shine, at 5 o'clock 
 to Whitehall, to meet Mr. Moore at the Privy Seal, 
 and there I heard of a fray between the two ambassadors 
 of Spain and France ; and that, this day, being the day 
 of the entrance of an Ambassador from Sweden, they
 
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 intended to fight for the precedence. Our King, I 
 heard, ordered that no Englishman should meddle in 
 the business, but let them do what they would. And 
 to that end all the soldiers in the town were in arms all 
 the day long, and some of the train-bands in the City ; 
 and a great bustle through the city all the day. Then 
 we took coach (which was the business I come for) to 
 Chelsea, to my Lord Privy Seal, and there got him to 
 seal the business. Here I saw by daylight two very 
 fine pictures in the gallery, that a little while ago I saw 
 by night ; and did also go all over the house, and found 
 it to be the prettiest contrived house that I ever saw in 
 my life. So back again ; and at Whitehall light, and 
 saw the soldiers and people running up and down the 
 streets. So I went to the Spanish Ambassador's and 
 the French, and there saw great preparations on both 
 sides ; but the French made the most noise and ranted 
 most, but the other made no stir almost at all ; so that 
 I was afraid the other would have too great a conquest 
 over them. Then to the Wardrobe, and dined there, 
 and then abroad and in Cheapside hear that the Spanish 
 hath got the best of it, and killed three of the French 
 coach-horses and several men, and is gone through the 
 City next to our King's coach ; at which, it is strange 
 to see how all the City did rejoice. And indeed we do 
 naturally all love the Spanish, and hate the French. 
 But I, as I am in all things curious, presently got to 
 the water-side, and there took oars to Westminster
 
 182 PEPYS'S DIARY. [September, 
 
 Palace, and run after them through all the dirt and the 
 streets full of people : till at last, at the Mews, I saw 
 the Spanish coach go, with fifty drawn swords at least 
 to guard it, and our soldiers shouting for joy. And so 
 I followed the coach, and then met it at Tork House, 
 where the ambassador lies ; and there it went in with 
 great state. So then I went to the French house, where 
 I observe still, that there is no men in the world of a 
 more insolent spirit where they do well, nor before they 
 begin a matter, and more abject if they do miscarry, 
 than these people are ; for they all look like dead men, 
 and not a word among them, but shake their heads. 
 The truth is, the Spaniards were not only observed to 
 fight most desperately, but also they did outwit them ; 
 first in lining their own harness with chains of iron that 
 they could not be cut, then in setting their coach in the 
 most advantageous place, and to appoint men to guard 
 every one of their horses, and others for to guard the 
 coach, and others the coachman. And, above all, in 
 setting upon the French horses and killing them, for 
 by that means the French were not able to stir. There 
 were several men slain of the French, and one or two 
 of the Spaniards and one Englishman, by a buUet. 
 "Which is very observable, the French were at least 
 four to one in number, and had near 100 case of pistols 
 among them, and the Spaniards had not one gun among 
 them ; which is for their honour for ever, and the 
 others' disgrace. So, having been very much daubed
 
 Oct., 1661. j PEPYS'S DIABY. 183 
 
 with dirt, I got a coach, and home ; where I vexed my 
 wife in telling of her this story, and pleading for the 
 Spaniards against the French. So ends this month ; 
 myself and family in good condition of health, but my 
 head full of my Lord's and my own and the office 
 business ; where we are now very busy about sending 
 forces to Tangier, and the fleet of my Lord of Sandwich, 
 who is now at Lisbon to bring over the Queen. The 
 business of Argier hath of late troubled me, because 
 my Lord hath not done what he went for, though he 
 did as much as any man in the world could have done. 
 The want of money puts all things, and above all, the 
 Navy, out of order ; and yet I do not see that the 
 King takes care to bring in any money, but thinks of 
 new designs to lay out money. 
 
 October 4. By coach to "Whitehall with Sir. W. Pen. 
 So to Mr. Montagu, where his man, Mons. Eschar, 
 makes a great complaint against the English, that they 
 did help the Spaniards against the French the other 
 day ; and that their Ambassador do demand justice of 
 our King, and that he do resolve to bo gone for France 
 the next week ; which I, and all that I met with, are 
 glad of. 
 
 17th. Captain Cock, a man of great observation and 
 repute, did tell me, that he was confident that the 
 Parliament, when it comes the next month to sit again, 
 would bring trouble with it, and enquire how the King 
 had disposed of offices and money, before they will
 
 184 PEPTS'S DIARY. [October, 
 
 raise more ; which, I fear, will bring all things to ruin 
 again. Dined with Captain Lambert and his father-in- 
 law, and had much talk of Portugal, from whence he 
 is lately come, and he tells me it is a very poor dirty 
 place I mean the city and court of Lisbon that the 
 King is a very rude and simple fellow, and, for reviling 
 of somebody a little while ago, had been killed, had 
 he not told them that he was their king. That there 
 are no glass windows, nor will they have any ; which 
 makes sport among our merchants there to talk of an 
 English factor that, being newly come thither, wrote 
 into England that glass would be a good commodity 
 to send thither, &c. That the King has his meat sent 
 up by a dozen of lazy guards, and in pipkins sometimes, 
 to his own table, and sometimes nothing but fruits, 
 and now and then half a hen; and that now the Infanta 
 is become our Queen, she is come to have a whole hen 
 or goose to her table. 
 
 18th. To Whitehall, to Mr. Montagu's, where I met 
 with Mr. Pierce the purser, to advise about the things 
 to be sent to my Lord for the Queen's provision ; now 
 there is all haste made, for the fleet's going. 
 
 20th. To Sir W. Batten, who is to go to Ports- 
 mouth to-morrow to wait upon the Duke of York, who 
 goes to take possession and to set in order the garrison 
 there. 
 
 26th. This morning Sir W. Pen and I should have 
 gone out of town with my Lady Batten, to have met
 
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 Sir William coining back from Portsmouth, at 
 Kingston, bnt could not, by reason tliat my Lord of 
 Peterborough (who is to go Governor of Tangier) come 
 this morning, with Sir Gr. Carteret, to advise with us 
 about completing of the affairs and preparations for 
 that place. News was brought that Sir R. Slingsby, 
 our Comptroller (who hath this day been sick a week), 
 is dead, which put me into so great a trouble of mind 
 that all the night I could not sleep, he being a man 
 that loved me, and had many qualities that made me 
 to love him above all the officers and commissioners 
 in the Navy. 
 
 27th (Lord's day). At church in the morning, 
 where in pew both Sir Williams and I had much talk 
 about the death of Sir Robert, which troubles me 
 much, and them in appearance, though I do not believe 
 it, because I know that he was a check to their en- 
 grossing the whole trade of the Navy Office. 
 
 29th. This day I put on my half cloth black 
 stockings and my new coat of the fashion, which 
 pleases me well, and with my beaver I was (after 
 office was done) ready to go to my Lord Mayor's 
 feast, as we are all invited; but the Sir Williams 
 were both loth to go, because of the crowd, and so 
 none of us went. This Lord Mayor, it seems, brings 
 up again the custom of Lord Mayors going the day of 
 their instalment to Paul's, and walking round about 
 the Gross, and offering something at the altar.
 
 186 PEPYS'S DIABY. [November, 
 
 30th. Sir Henry Vane, Lambert and others, are 
 lately sent suddenly away from the Tower, prisoners 
 to Scilly ; but. I do not think there is any plot as is 
 said, but only a pretence, as there was once pretended 
 often against the Cavaliers. 
 
 November 1. Sir Wm. sent for his son Mr. Wm. Pen 
 lately come from Oxford. 
 
 2nd. At the office all the morning, where Sir John 
 Minnes, our new comptroller, was fetched by Sir. Wm. 
 Pen and myself from Sir Wm. Batten's, and led to his 
 place in the office : the first time that he had come 
 thither, and he seems in a good fair condition, and one 
 that I am glad hath the office. 
 
 4th. With my wife to the Opera, where we saw 
 " The Bondman," which of old we both did so doat 
 on, and do still ; though to both our thinking not so 
 well acted here (having too great expectations), as 
 formerly at Salisbury Court. But for Betterton, he is 
 called by us both the best actor in the world. 
 
 8th. This morning up early, and to my Lord 
 Chancellor's with a letter to him from my Lord, and 
 did speak with him ; and he did ask me whether I was 
 son to Mr. Talbot Pepys or no (with whom he was once 
 acquainted in the Court of Requests), and spoke to me 
 with great respect. 
 
 10th. At St. Gregory's where I hear our Queen 
 Katherine, the first time by name, publicly prayed for. 
 
 12th. This day Holmes come to town, and we do
 
 166LJ PEPYS'S DIAKT. 187 
 
 expect hourly to hear what usage he hath from the 
 Duke and the King about his late business of letting 
 the Swedish ambassador go by him without striking 
 his flag. 
 
 13th. By appointment, we all went this morning to 
 wait upon the Duke of York, which we did in his 
 chamber, as he was dressing himself in his riding 
 suit to go this day by sea to the Downs. He is in 
 mourning for his wife's grandmother, which is thought 
 a great piece of fondness. After we had given him 
 our letter relating the bad condition of the Navy for 
 want of money, he referred it to his coming back and 
 so parted. Thence on foot to my Lord Crewe's ; here 
 I was well received by my Lord and Sir Thomas, with 
 whom I had great talk, and he tells me in good earnest 
 that he do believe the Parliament (which comes to sit 
 again the next week), will be troublesome to the Court 
 and clergy, which God forbid ! But they see things 
 carried so by my Lord Chancellor and some others, 
 that get money themselves, that they will not endure 
 it. 
 
 17th. To church ; and heard a simple fellow upon 
 the praise of Church music, and exclaiming against 
 men's wearing their hats on in the church. 
 
 20th. To Westminster Hall by water in the morning, 
 where I saw the King going in his barge to the 
 Parliament House ; this being the first day of their 
 meeting again. And the Bishops, 1 hear, do take
 
 188 PEPYS'S D1ABT. [Nrember, 
 
 their places in the Lords' House this day. I walked 
 long in the Hall, but hear nothing of news, but what 
 Ned Pickering tells me, which I am troubled at, that 
 Sir J. Minnes should send word to the King, that if 
 he did not remove all my Lord Sandwich's captains 
 out of this fleet, he believed the King would not be 
 master of the fleet at its coming again : and so do 
 endeavour to bring disgrac upon my Lord. But I 
 hope all that will not do, for the King loves him. 
 
 21st. At the office all the afternoon ; it being the 
 first afternoon that we have sat, which we are now to 
 do always, so long as the Parliament sits, who this 
 day have voted the King 120,000 to be raised to pay 
 his debts. 
 
 28th. Letters from my Lord Sandwich, from 
 Tangier; where he continues still, and hath done 
 some execution upon the Turks, and retaken an 
 Englishman from them, one Mr. Parker, a merchant 
 in Mark Lane. 
 
 29th. I lay long in bed, till Sir Williams both sent 
 me word that we were to wait upon the Duke of 
 York to-day ; and that they would have me to meet 
 them at Westminster Hall at noon : so I rose and 
 went thither ; and there I understand that they are 
 gone to Mr. Coventry's lodgings, in the Old Palace 
 Yard, to dinner (the first time that I knew he had any) ; 
 and there I met them, and Sir G. Carteret, and had a 
 very fine dinner and good welcome, and discourse:
 
 Dec., 1661.] PEPYS'S DIABY. 189 
 
 and so, by water after dinner to Whitehall to the 
 Duke, who met us in his closet, and there did dis- 
 course upon the business of Holmes, and did desire of 
 us to know what hath been the common practice about 
 making of foreign ships to strike sail to us, which they 
 did all do as much as they could; but I could say 
 nothing to it, which I was sorry for. After we were 
 gone from the Duke, I told Mr. Coventry that I had 
 heard Mr. Selden often say, that he could prove that 
 in Henry the Seventh's time, he did give commission 
 to his captains to make the King of Denmark's ships 
 to strike to him in the Baltic. 
 
 30th. This is the last day for the old State's coin to 
 pass in common payments, but they say it is to pass in 
 public payments to the King three months still. 
 
 December 1. There hath lately been great clapping 
 up of some old statesmen, such as Ireton, Moyer, and 
 others, and they say, upon a great plot, but I believe 
 no such thing ; but it is but justice that they should 
 be served as they served the poor Cavaliers ; and I 
 believe it will oftentimes be so as long as they live, 
 whether there be cause or no. 
 
 6th. To Whitehall, where, at Sir Gr. Carteret's, Sir 
 Williams both and I dined very pleasantly ; and after 
 dinner, by appointment, came the Governors of the 
 East India Company, to sign and seal the contract 
 between us (in the King's name) and them. And, 
 that done, we all went to the King's closet, and there
 
 190 PEPYS'S DIARY. [December, 
 
 spoke with the King and the Duke of York, who 
 promise to be very careful of the India trade to the 
 utmost. 
 
 7th. To the Privy Seal, and sealed there ; and, 
 among other things that passed, there was a patent 
 for Roger Palmer (Madam Palmer's husband) to be 
 Earl of Castlemaine and Baron of Limbricke in Ire- 
 s' land ; but the honour is tied up to the males got of the 
 i body of this wife, the Lady Barbary: the reason 
 whereof everybody knows. That done, by water to 
 the office, where I found Sir W. Pen, and with him 
 \ Capt. Holmes, who had wrote his case, and gives me 
 a copy, as he hath many among his friends, and pre- 
 sented the same to the King and Council. Which I 
 have made use of in my attempt of writing something 
 concerning the business of striking sail, which I am 
 now about. But he do cry out against Sir John 
 Minnes, as the veriest knave and rogue and coward in 
 the world. 
 
 9th. At noon to dinner at the Wardrobe ; where my 
 Lady Wright was, who did talk much upon the worth 
 and the desert of gallantry ; and that there was none 
 fit to be courtiers, but such as have been abroad and 
 know fashions. Which I endeavoured to oppose, and 
 was troubled to hear her talk so, though she be a very 
 wise and discreet lady in other things. 
 
 15th. I am now full of study about writing some- 
 thing about our making of strangers strike to us at
 
 1661/1 PEPYS'S DIARY. 191 
 
 sea ; and so am altogether reading Selden and Grotius, 
 and such other authors to that purpose. 
 
 16th. After dinner to the opera, where there was a 
 new play (Cutter of Coleman Street), made in the year 
 1658, with reflections much upon the late times ; and 
 it being the first time, the pay was doubled, and so to 
 save money, my wife and I went into the gallery, and 
 there sat and saw very well ; and a very good play it 
 is. It seems of Cowley's making. 
 
 21st. To Whitehall to the Privy Seal, as my Lord 
 Privy Seal did tell me he could seal no more this 
 month, for he goes thirty miles out of town to keep his 
 Christmas. At which I was glad, but only afraid lest 
 anything of the King's should force us to go after him 
 to get a seal in the country. I spoke to Mr. Falcon- 
 berge to look whether he could, out of Domesday 
 Book, give me anything concerning the sea, and the 
 dominion thereof ; which he says he will look after. 
 
 27th. In the morning to my bookseller's to bespeak a 
 Stephens' Thesaurus, for which I offer 4, to give to 
 Paul's School, and from thence to Paul's Church ; and 
 there I did hear Dr. Gunning preach a good sermon 
 upon the day (being St. John's day), and did hear him 
 tell a story, which he did persuade us to believe to be 
 true, that St. John and the Virgin Mary did appear to 
 Gregory, a Bishop, at his prayer to be confirmed in 
 the faith, which I did wonder to hear from him. 
 
 28th. At home all the morning ; and in the afternoon
 
 192 PEPYS'S DIABY. [December, 1661. 
 
 all of us at the office, upon a letter from the Duke for 
 the making up of a speedy estimate of all the debts of 
 the Navy, which is put into good forwardness. 
 
 31st. To the office; and there late finishing our 
 estimate of the debts of the Navy to this day ; and it 
 come to near 374,000. I suppose myself to be worth 
 about 500 clear in the world, and my goods of my house 
 my own, and what is coming to me from Brampton, 
 when my father dies, which God defer. But, by my 
 uncle's death, the whole care and trouble, and settling 
 of all lies upon me, which is very great, because of 
 law-suits, especially that with T. Frice, about the 
 interest of 200. I am upon writing a little treatise to 
 present to the Duke, about our privilege in the seas, as 
 to other nations striking their flags to us.
 
 THE DIAEY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 
 
 16621663.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 THE reign of Charles the Secoud from the beginning 
 of the year 1662 to the end of September 1663 is 
 brought back to us in the part of Pepys's Diary which 
 this volume contains. There is just a note of the 
 birth (" at which I find nobody pleased ") of a girl, 
 who after the Revolution reigned as Queen Mary, the 
 wife of William in. There is all the stir that be- 
 longed to the coming to England of Charles the 
 Second's Queen, Catherine of Portugal, with over- 
 estimate of the value of Tangier as part of her dowry, 
 and ignorance of the future value of Bombay. There 
 is evidence enough of the nature of the heartless and 
 low-minded sensualist to whom Catherine came. There 
 are not wanting direct and indirect regrets from Pepys 
 at the King's turning from grave counsellors to yield to 
 the influence of dissolute comrades. There is the begin- 
 ning of the treacherous practice that secured the fall of 
 Clarendon. There is the execution of Sir Henry Vane, 
 at which Pepys was present, and in which the feeling of 
 Pepys was clearly on the side of the brave spirit that 
 then spoke its last on earth, while drums and trumpets 
 were sounded to drown its voice. Also there is that 
 Sunday in the London churches when two thousand 
 ministers, driven out of the Church of England by the 
 Act of Uniformity, were throughout England speaking 
 for the last time to their congregations, and the rent 
 was mado in the Church that many a good Christian
 
 6 INTEODTJCTION. 
 
 would now give his life to repair, by re-establishing 
 the unity of spirit among all who look to one book 
 for their rule of faith, and leaving freedom for inevit- 
 able differences of opinion to each group of allied wor- 
 shippers. 
 
 While Samuel Pepys followed the times, he followed 
 them with more than common honesty ; and if he had 
 failings of his own, he had more good sense than he is 
 usually credited with, and a wholesome sense of right. 
 It may be that this volume and its predecessor make 
 him seem the graver for omission of various little 
 passages about himself, while leaving whatever illus- 
 trates a larger history than that of his own household. 
 These omissions were not de'signed, but are due to an 
 error not discovered till too late for remedy. In future, 
 whenever Mr. Pepys looks in on the readers of this 
 Library, which he will do two or three times in a year 
 till his whole budget of talk is exhausted, he will have 
 fullest liberty to talk about himself. 
 
 Here let it be said, in answer to many questions and 
 many offers of abridgments, that the volumes of this 
 National Library are meant to contain complete works, 
 as their authors wrote them. Their uniformity of size 
 is obtained by adjustment of types, not by excision of 
 matter. From a collection of separate narratives, like 
 "Hakluyt's Yoyages," or detached fragments of 
 opinion and anecdote like Luther's " Table Talk," 
 selections can of course be made, but they are made 
 only with the condition that each narrative is truly 
 given, and that even detached passages be complete in 
 themselves, and have no sentences omitted. "Where 
 change of convention would cause, in the modern 
 reader, serious objection to a word or phrase, it is
 
 TNTEODUCTION. 7 
 
 altered ; but that is not often necessary. In the case of 
 Samuel Pepys, Lord Braybrooke omitted from his 
 edition much personal self-revelation. Some of this 
 has been added by a later editor, Mr. Mynors Bright, 
 and opinions may differ as to the kind and amount of 
 information about the private affairs of Mr. Pepys 
 himself that should go with his notes upon the world 
 about him. I think the more the better. Why not 
 record, as should be here recorded, on Sunday the first 
 of March, 1663, " All to bed without prayers, it being 
 washing day to-morrow ; " and that on the 8th of 
 September, when he dined at home with his wife, " it 
 being washing day, we had a good pie baked of a leg 
 of mutton ; and then to Moxon's, and there bought a 
 pair of globes, cost me 3 10s, with which I am well 
 pleased." The globes were to assist the studies by which 
 Pepys was always bettering his qualification for the 
 service of the public, as Clerk of the Acts in the Navy 
 Office. He had received a liberal school and University 
 education, which had made him a reasonably good 
 Latin scholar. But when he saw how the country was 
 cheated in the Government service, one of his desires 
 was to learn to measure timber himself, and in his 
 Diary for the 18th of Augnst, 1662, he tells us (page 56) 
 how for this reason he practised measuring the tables 
 while he was waiting for dinner at Ilf ord. He had en- 
 gaged Mr. Cooper, mate of the Royal Charles, to teach 
 him mathematics. " After an hour's being with him at 
 arithmetic, my first attempt being to learn the multi- 
 plication table ; then we parted till to-morrow." 
 
 Again, when we observe the domestic frugality that 
 went with the characteristic little extravagances in 
 dress for himself and his wife ; the counting up of his
 
 8 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 goods from time to time with accurate detail, as lie 
 rose in the world by honest devotion to the duty of his 
 office, with profligate and careless men around him, and 
 the slow accumulation of his gains in June, 1663 he 
 reckoned himself worth 700, against 530 in May, 
 1662 we are very far from laughing at Samuel Pepys. 
 At a time when he is finding 50,000 unaccounted for 
 in Navy money, which can only have gone into the 
 pockets of chiefs in his office, after noting that he has 
 made a contract of 3,000 for masts, he adds, " But, 
 good God, to see what a man might do were I a 
 knave ! " 
 
 Of course it is easy to laugh at the little weaknesses 
 for pretty clothes and pretty women, and the little 
 weaknesses of judgment, one of which finds pleasant 
 confession, when he tells (page 100) how he sold 
 " Hudibras " for eighteen-pence, after paying two and 
 sixpence for it, because he was ashamed of the book 
 and thought it silly, but bought it again (page 111) 
 when the general applause made him distrust his first 
 opinion. I note even with some satisfaction the trivial 
 detail of the inward struggles that caused Mr. Pepys 
 to leave off the dirty artificial dressing of his natural 
 hair and wear a border or a periwig : " I have no 
 stomach for it, but that the pains of keeping my hair 
 clean is so great." In a rash mood, although after re- 
 flection, he cut off the beard which it had cost him 
 some years to grow ; but he found pleasure in shaving 
 and polishing his face and head with a pumice 
 stone, a device he learnt of Mr. March when he was at 
 Portsmouth. " I find it," he says, " very easy, speedy, 
 and cleanly, and shall continue the practice of it." 
 
 H. M.
 
 DIARY. 
 
 January 2, 1661-62. I went forth, by appointment, 
 to meet with Mr. Grant, who promised to bring me 
 acquainted with Cooper, the great liruner in little. 
 Sir Richd. Faushaw is come suddenly from Portugal, 
 and nobody knows what his business is about. 
 
 To Faithorne's, and there bought some pictures of 
 him ; and while I was there, comes by the King's life- 
 guard, he being gone to Lincoln's Inn this afternoon 
 to see the revels there ; there being, according to an old 
 custom, a prince and all his nobles, and other matters 
 of sport and charge. 
 
 llth. To the Exchange, and there all the news is of 
 the French and Dutch joining against us ; but I do 
 not think it yet true. In the afternoon, to Sir W. 
 Batten's, where in discourse I heard the custom of the 
 election of the Duke of Genoa, who for two years is 
 every day attended in the greatest state, and four or 
 five hundred men always waiting upon him as a king ; 
 and when the two years are out, and another is chosen, 
 a messenger is sent to him, who stands at the bottom 
 of the stairs, and he at the top, and says, "V*- IHustris- 
 sirna Serenita sta fiuita, et puede andar en casa."
 
 10 PEPTS'S DIABT. [January 
 
 '* Tour serenity is now ended ; and now yon may be 
 going home ; " and so claps on his hat. And the old 
 Duke (having by custom sent his goods home before) 
 walks away, it may be but with one man at his heels ; 
 and the new one brought immediately in his room, in 
 the greatest state in the world. Another account 
 was told us, how in the Dukedom of E/agusa, in the 
 Adriatic, a State that is little, but more ancient, they 
 say, than Venice, and is called the mother of Yenice, 
 and the Turks lie round about it, that they change all 
 the officers of their guard, for fear of conspiracy, every 
 twenty-four hours, so that nobody knows who shall be 
 captain of the guard to-night ; but two men come to a 
 man, and lay hold of him as a prisoner, and carry him 
 to the place ; and there he hath the keys of the garri- 
 son given him, and he presently issues his orders for 
 that night's watch ; and so always from night to night. 
 Sir Wm. Rider told the first of his own knowledge ; 
 and both he and Sir W. Batten confirm the last. 
 
 13th. Before twelve o'clock comes, by appointment, 
 Mr. Peter and the Dean, and Colonel Honiwood, 
 brothers, to dine with me ; but so soon that I was 
 troubled at it. Mr. Peter did show us the experiment 
 (which I had heard talk of) of the chemical glasses, 
 which break all to dust by breaking off a little small 
 end ; which is a great mystery to me. 
 
 15th. Mr. Berkenshaw asked me whether we had 
 not committed a fault in eating to-day ; telling me 
 that it is a fast day ordered by the Parliament, to pray
 
 1662.1 PEPYS'S DIABY. 11 
 
 for more seasonable weather ; it having hitherto been 
 summer weather, that it is, both as to warmth and 
 every other thing, just as if it were the middle of May 
 or June, which do threaten a plague (as all men think) 
 to follow, for so it was almost the last winter; and 
 the whole year after hath been a very sickly time to 
 this day. 
 
 16th. Towards Cheapside; and in Paul's Church- 
 yard saw the 'funeral of my Lord Cornwallis, late 
 Steward of the King's House, go by. Stoakes told us, 
 that notwithstanding the country of Gambo is so un- 
 healthy, yet the people of the place live very long, so 
 as the present King there is 150 years old, which they 
 count by rains : because every year it rains continually 
 four months together. He also told us that the Kings 
 there have above 100 wives apiece. 
 
 18th. Comes Mr. Moore to give me an account how 
 Mr. Montagu was gone away of a sudden with the 
 fleet, in such haste that ha hath left behind some 
 servants, and many things of consequence ; and among 
 others, my Lord's commission for Ambassador. Where- 
 upon he and I took coach, and to Whitehall to my 
 Lord's lodgings, to have spoken with Mr. Ralph Mon- 
 tagu, his brother (and here we stayed talking with 
 Sarah and the old man) ; but by-and-by hearing that 
 he was in Covent Garden, we went thither : and at my 
 Lady Harvy's his sister, I spoke with him, and he tells 
 me that the Commission is not left behind. 
 
 22nd. After music practice, to Whitehall, and thence
 
 12 PEPYS'S DIARY. [January, 
 
 to Westminster, in my way calling at Mr. George 
 Montagu's, to condole on the loss of his son, who was 
 a fine gentleman. After this discourse he told me, 
 among other news, the great jealousies that are now in 
 the Parliament House. The Lord Chancellor, it seems, 
 taking occasion from this late plot to raise fears in the 
 people, did project the raising of an army forthwith, 
 besides the constant militia, thinking to make the 
 Duke of York General thereof. But the House did 
 in very open terms say they were grown too wise to be 
 fooled again into another army; and said they had 
 found how that man that hath the command of an 
 army is not beholden to anybody to make him King. 
 There are factions, private ones at Court, about Madam 
 Palmer ; but what it is about I know not. But it is 
 something about the King's favour to her now that the 
 Queen is coming. He told me, too, what sport the 
 King ^and Court do make at Mr. Edwd. Montagu's 
 leaving his things behind him. But the Chancellor 
 (taking it a little more seriously) did openly say to my 
 Lord Chamberlain, that had it been such a gallant as 
 my Lord Mandeville his son, it might have been taken 
 as a frolic : but for him that would be thought a grave 
 coxcomb, it was very strange. Thence to the Hall, 
 where I heard the House had ordered all the King's 
 murderers that remain to be executed, but Fleetwood 
 and Downes. 
 
 25th. At home and the office all the morning. 
 Walking in the garden to give the gardener directions
 
 1662.] PEPYS'S DIABY. . 13 
 
 what to do this year (for I intend to have the garden 
 handsome), Sir W. Pen came to me, and did break a 
 business to me about removing his son from Oxford to 
 Cambridge to some private college. I proposed Mag- 
 dalene, but cannot name a tutor at present ; but I shall 
 think and write about it. Thence with him to the 
 Trinity House to dinner ; where Sir Richd. Brown, one 
 of the clerks of the Council, and who is much con- 
 cerned against Sir N. Crisp's project of making a 
 great sasse in the King's lauds about Deptford, to be a 
 wet-dock to hold 200 sail of ships. But the ground, 
 it seems, was long since given by the King to Sir 
 Richard. After the Trinity House men had done their 
 business, the master, Sir Wm. Rider, came to bid us 
 welcome ; and so to dinner. Comes Mr. Moore with 
 letters from my Lord Sandwich, speaking of his lying 
 still at Tangier, looking for the fleet ; which, we hope, 
 is now in a good way thither. 
 
 27th. This morning, both Sir Williams and I by 
 barge to Deptford Yard to give orders in business 
 there ; and called on several ships, also to give orders. 
 G-oing to take water upon Tower Hill, we met with 
 three sledges standing there to carry my Lord Monson 
 and Sir H. Mildmay and another, to the gallows and 
 back again, with ropes about their necks ; which is to 
 be repeated every year, this being the day of their 
 sentencing the King. 
 
 February 1. This morning with Commissioner Pett to 
 the office; and he stayed there writing, while I and
 
 14 . PEPYS'S DIABY. [February, 
 
 Sir W. Pen walked in the garden talking about his 
 business of putting his son to Cambridge ; and to that 
 end I intend to write to-night to Dr. Fairebrother, to 
 give me an account of Mr. Burton of Magdalene. 
 Thence with Mr. Pett to the painter's; and he likes 
 our pictures very well, and so do I. Thence he and I 
 to the Countess of Sandwich, to lead him to her to kiss 
 her hands : and dined with her, and told her the news 
 (which Sir W. Pen told me to do) that express is come 
 from my Lord with letters, that by a great storm and 
 tempest the mole of Argier is broken down, and many 
 of their ships sunk into the mole. So that God 
 Almighty hath now ended that unlucky business for 
 us ; which is very good news. 
 
 4th. To "Westminster Hall, where it was full term. 
 Here all the morning, and at noon to my Lord Crowe's, 
 where one Mr. Templer (an ingenious man and a per- 
 son of honour he seems to be) dined ; and, discoursing 
 of the nature of serpents, he told us some in the waste 
 places of Lancashire do grow to a great bigness, and 
 do feed upon larks, which they take thus : They ob- 
 serve when the lark is soared to the highest, and do 
 crawl till they come to be just underneath them ; and 
 there they place themselves with their mouth upper- 
 most, and there, as is conceived, they do eject poison 
 upon the bird ; for the bird do suddenly come down 
 again in its course of a circle, and falls directly into 
 the mouth of the serpent, which is very strange. He 
 is a great traveller ; and, speaking of the tarantula, he
 
 1662.] PEPYS'S DIARY. 15 
 
 says that all the harvest long (about which times they 
 are most busy) there are fiddlers go up and down the 
 fields everywhere, in expectation of being hired by 
 those that are stung. This afternoon, going into the 
 office, one met me and did serve a subpoena upon me 
 for one Field, whom we did commit to prison the other 
 day for some ill words he did give the office. The 
 like he had for others, but we shall secure him for it. 
 
 5th. To the playhouse, and there saw Rule a Wife 
 and have a Wife very well done. And here also I 
 did look long upon my Lady Castlemaine, who, notwith- 
 standing her sickness, continues a great beauty. 
 
 7th. I hear the prisoners in the Tower that are to 
 die are come to the Parliament House this morning. 
 To the Wardrobe to dinner with my Lady ; where a 
 civet cat, parrot, apes, and many other things are come 
 from my Lord by Captain Hill, who dined with my 
 Lady with us to-day. Thence to the painter's, and am 
 well pleased with our pictures. 
 
 10th. To Paul's Churchyard, and there I met with 
 Dr. Fuller's " England's Worthies," the first time that 
 I ever saw it ; and so I sat down reading in it ; being 
 much troubled that (though he had some discourse with 
 me about my family and arms) he says nothing at all, 
 nor mentions us either in Cambridgeshire or Norfolk. 
 But I believe, indeed, our family were never consider- 
 able. 
 
 13th. Mr. Blackburne do tell me plain of the corrup- 
 tion of all our Treasurer's officers, and that they
 
 16 PEPYS'S DIABY. [February, 
 
 hardly pay any money under 10 per cent. ; and that 
 the other day, for a mere assignation of 200 to some 
 counties, they took 15, which is very strange. Last 
 night died the Queen of Bohemia. 
 
 15th. With the two Sir Williams to the Trinity 
 House; and there in their society had the business 
 debated of Sir Nicholas Crisp's .sasse [sluice or lock] 
 at Deptford. After dinner I was sworn a Younger 
 Brother; Sir W. Rider being Deputy- Master for my 
 Lord of Sandwich; and after I was sworn, all the Elder 
 Brothers shake me by the hand ; it is their custom, it 
 seems. No news yet of our fleet gone to Tangier, 
 which we now begin to think long. 
 
 17th. This morning, both Sir Williams, myself, and 
 Captn. Cock, and Captn. Tinker of the Covertine, 
 which we are going to look upon (being intended with 
 these ships fitting for the East Indies), down to Dept- 
 ford ; and thence, after being on shipboard, to Wool- 
 wich, and there ate something. The Sir Williams 
 being unwilling to eat flesh, Captn. Cock and I had a 
 breast of Teal roasted. 
 
 18th. Having agreed with Sir William Pen to meet 
 him at the Opera, and finding, by my walking in the 
 streets, which were everywhere full of brickbats and 
 tiles flung down by the extraordinary wind the last 
 night (such as hath not been in memory before, unless at 
 the death of the late Protector), that it was dangerous 
 to go out of doors ; and hearing how several persons 
 had been killed to-day by the fall of things in the
 
 1662.] PEPYS'S DIAEY. 17 
 
 streets, and that the pageant in Fleet Street is most 
 of it blown down, and hath broken down part of several 
 houses, among others, Dick Brigden's, and that one 
 Lady Sanderson, a person of quality in Covent Garden, 
 was killed by the fall of the house, in her bed, last 
 night, I sent my boy to forbid him to go forth. But he 
 bringing me word that he is gone, I went thither and 
 saw The Law against Lovers, a good play, and well 
 performed, especially the little girl's (whom I never 
 saw act before) dancing and singing ; and were it not 
 for her, the loss of Roxalana would spoil the house. 
 
 20th. Letters from Tangier from my Lord, telling 
 me how, upon a great defeat given to the Portuguese 
 there by the Moors, he had put in 300 men into the 
 town, and so he is in possession, of which we are 
 very glad, because now the Spaniards' designs of 
 hindering our getting the place are frustrated. I 
 went with the letter enclosed to my Lord Chancellor 
 to the House of Lords, and did give it him in the 
 House. Went by promise to Mr. Savill's, and there 
 sat the first time for my picture in little, which pleaseth 
 me well. * 
 
 22nd. This evening I wrote letters to my father; 
 among other things, acquainted him with the unhappy 
 accident which hath happened lately to my Lord of 
 Dorset's two oldest sons, who, with two Belasses and 
 one Squire Wentworth, were lately apprehended for 
 killing and robbing of a tanner about Newington on 
 Wednesday last, and are all now in Newgate. I am
 
 18 PEPYS'S DIARY. [March, 
 
 much troubled for it, and for the grief and disgrace it 
 brings to their families and friends. 
 
 23rd. This day by God's mercy I am twenty-nine 
 years of age, and in very good health, and like to 
 live and get an estate ; and if I have a heart to be con- 
 tented, I think I may reckon myself as happy a man 
 as any in the world, for which God be praised. So to 
 prayers and to bed. 
 
 25th. Great talk of the effects of this late great 
 wind; and I heard one say that he had five great 
 trees standing together blown down ; and, beginning 
 to lop them, one of them, as soon as the lops were cut 
 off, did, by the weight of the root, rise again and 
 fasten. "We have letters from the Forest of Dean, 
 that above 1,000 oaks and as many beeches are blown 
 down in one walk there. And letters from my father 
 tell me of 20 hurt done to us at Brampton. This 
 day in the news- book I find that my Lord Buckhurst 
 and his fellows have printed their case as they did 
 give it in upon examination to a Justice of Peace, 
 wherein they make themselves a very good tale that 
 they were in pursuit of thieves, and thaPthey took 
 this man for one of them, and so killed him ; and that 
 he himself confessed it was the first time of his 
 robbing ; and that he did pay dearly for it, for he was 
 a dead man. But I doubt things will be proved other- 
 wise than they say. 
 
 March 1. To the Opera, and there saw Romeo 
 and Juliet the first time it was ever acted. I am
 
 1662.] PEPTS'S DIABY. 19 
 
 resolved to go no more to see the first time of acting, 
 for they were all of them out more or less. 
 
 3rd. I am told that this day the Parliament hath voted 
 2s. per annum for every chimney in England, as a 
 constant revenue for ever to the Crown. 
 
 7th. Early to Whitehall to the chapel, where by 
 Mr. Blagrave's means I got into his pew, and heard 
 Dr. Creeton, the great Scotchman, and chaplain in 
 ordinary to the King, preach before the King, and 
 Duke and Duchess, upon the words of Micah : 
 " Roll yourselves in dust." He made a most learned 
 sermon upon the words ; but in his application, the 
 most comical man that ever I heard in my life. Just 
 such a man as Hugh Peters ; saying that it had been 
 better for the poor Cavalier never to have come with 
 the King into England again; for he that hath the 
 impudence to deny obedience to the lawful magistrate, 
 and to swear to the oath of allegiance &c., was better 
 treated nowadays in Newgate than a poor Royalist 
 that hath suffered all his life for the King is at 
 Whitehall among his friends. 
 
 8th. By coach with both Sir Williams to West- 
 minster, this being a great day there in the House to 
 pass the business for chimney-money, which was done. 
 In the Hall I met with Surgeon Pierce : and he told 
 me how my Lady Monk hath disposed of all the places 
 which Mr. Edwd. Montagu hoped to have had, as 
 he was Master of the Horse to the Queen ; which I 
 am afraid will undo him, because he depended much
 
 20 tEPYS's DIARY. 
 
 upon the profit of what he should make by these 
 places. He told me, also, many more scurvy stories 
 of him and his brother Ralph, which troubles me to 
 hear of persons of honour as they are. Sir W. Pen 
 and I to the office, whither afterward came Sir G-. 
 Carteret ; and we sent for Sir Thos. Allen, one of the 
 Aldermen of the City, about the business of one 
 Colonel Appesly, whom we had taken counterfeiting 
 of bills with all our hands and the officers of the 
 yards, so well that I should never have mistrusted 
 them. We stayed about this business at the office till 
 ten at night, and at last did send him with a constable 
 to the Counter ; and did give warrants for the seizing 
 of a complice of his, one Blenkinsopp. 
 
 12th. This morning we had news from Mr. Coventry, 
 that Sir G. Downing (like a perfidious rogue, though 
 the action is good and of service to the King, yet he 
 cannot with a good conscience do it) hath taken Okey, 
 Corbet, and Barkestead at Delfe, in Holland, and 
 sent them home in the BlacJcmore. Sir W. Pen, 
 talking to me this afternoon of what a strange thing 
 it is for Downing to do this, he told me of a speech 
 he made to the Lords States of Holland, telling them 
 to their faces that he observed that he was not 
 received with the respect and observance now, that he 
 was when he came from the traitor and rebel Crom- 
 well, by whom, I am sure, he hath got all he hath 
 in the world and they know it too. 
 
 14th. Home to dinner. In the afternoon came the
 
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 German Dr. Knuffler, to discourse with us about his 
 engine to blow up ships. We doubted not the matter 
 of fact, it being tried in Cromwell's time, but the 
 safety of carrying them in ships ; but he do tell us 
 that when he comes to tell the King his secret (for 
 none but the Kings, successively, and their heirs, 
 must know it), it will appear to be of no danger at 
 all. We concluded nothing : but shall discourse with 
 the Duke of York to-morrow about it. 
 
 16th. Walked to Whitehall ; and an hour or two in 
 the Park, which is now very pleasant. Here the 
 King and Duke came to see their fowl play. The 
 Duke took very civil notice of me. 
 
 17th. Last night the BlacTemore pink brought the 
 three prisoners, Barkestead, Okey, and Corbet to the 
 Tower, being taken at Delf e, in Holland ; where, the 
 Captain tells me, the Dutch were a good while before 
 they could be persuaded to let them go, they being 
 taken prisoners in their land. But Sir G. Downing 
 would not be answered so ; though all the world takes 
 notice of him for a most ungrateful villain for his 
 pains. 
 
 21st. To Westminster Hall; and there walked up 
 and down and heard the great difference that hath 
 been between my Lord Chancellor and my Lord of 
 Bristol, about a proviso that my Lord Chancellor 
 would have brought into the Bill for Conformity, that it- 
 shall be in the power of the King, when he sees fit, to 
 dispense with the Act of Conformity ; and though it be
 
 22 PEPYS'S DIARY. [April, 
 
 carried in the House of Lords, yet it is believed it will 
 hardly pass in the Commons. 
 
 23rd. To Whitehall, and there met with Captn. 
 Isham, this day come from Lisbon, with letters from 
 the Queen to the King. And he did give me letters 
 which speak that our fleet is all at Lisbon ; and that 
 the Queen do not intend to embark sooner than to- 
 morrow come fortnight. 
 
 24th. By-and-by comes La Belle Pierce to see my 
 wife, and to bring her a pair of peruques of hair, as 
 the fashion now is for ladies to wear, which are pretty, 
 and are of my wife's own hair, or else I should not 
 endure them. 
 
 April 6 (Lord's Day). By water to Whitehall to 
 Sir G-. Carteret, to give him an account of the back- 
 wardness of the ships we have hired to Portugal, 
 at which he is much troubled. Thence to the Chapel, 
 and there, though crowded, heard a very honest ser- 
 mon before the King by a Canon of Christ Church, 
 upon these words, " Having a form of godliness, but 
 denying," &c. Among other things, he did much 
 insist upon the sin of adultery: which methought 
 might touch the King, and the more because he forced 
 it into his sermon, besides his text. So up and saw 
 the King at dinner ; and thence with Sir Gr. Carteret 
 to his lodgings to dinner with him and his lady. All 
 their discourse, which was very much, was upon their 
 sufferings and services for the King. Yet not without 
 some trouble, to see that some that had been much
 
 1662.1 PEPYS'S DIABY. 23 
 
 bound to them do now neglect them; and others 
 again most civil that have received least from them : 
 and I do believe that he hath been a good servant to 
 the King. Thence to the Park, where the King and 
 Duke did walk. 
 
 7th. To the Lords' House, and stood within the 
 House, while the Bishops and Lords did stay till the 
 Chancellor's coming, and then we were put out. I 
 sent in a note to my Lord Privy Seal, and he came 
 out to me; and I desired he would make another 
 deputy for me, because of my great business of the 
 Navy this month ; but he told me he could not do it 
 without the King's consent, which vexed me. The 
 great talk is, that the Spaniards and the Hollanders 
 do intend to set upon the Portuguese by sea, at Lisbon, 
 as soon as our fleet is come away ; and by that 
 means our fleet is not likely to come yet these two 
 months or three, which I hope is not true. 
 
 9th. Sir George showed me an account in French 
 of the great famine, which is to the greatest extremity 
 in some part of France at this day ; which is very 
 strange. 
 
 10th. Yesterday came Col. Talbot with letters from 
 Portugal, that the Queen is resolved to embark for 
 England this week. Thence to the office all the after- 
 noon. My Lord Windsor came to us to discourse of 
 Ms affairs, and to take his leave of us ; he being to 
 go as Governor of Jamaica with this fleet that is now 
 going.
 
 24 PEPYS'S DIARY. [April, 
 
 llth. With Sir W. Pen by water to Deptf ord : and 
 among the ships now going to Portugal with men and 
 horse, to see them despatched. So to Greenwich; 
 and had a fine pleasant walk to "Woolwich, having in 
 our company Captn. Minnes, whom I was much 
 pleased to hear talk. Among other things, he and the 
 captains that were with us told me that negroes 
 drowned look white and lose their blackness, which I 
 never heard before. At Woolwich up and down to do 
 the same business, and so back to Greenwich by 
 water. Sir William and I walked into the Park, 
 where the King hath planted trees and made steps in 
 the hill up to the Castle, which is very magnificent. 
 So up and down the house, which is now repairing in 
 the Queen's lodgings. 
 
 13th. To Gray's Inn walks, and there met Mr. Picker- 
 ing. His discourse most about the pride of the 
 Duchess of York; and how all the ladies envy my 
 Lady Castlemaine. He intends to go to Portsmouth 
 to meet the Queen this week ; which is now the dis- 
 course and expectation of the town. 
 
 15th. With my wife, by coach, to the New Exchange 
 to buy her some things ; where we saw come new- 
 fashioned petticoats of sarcenet, with a black broad lace 
 printed round the bottom and before, very handsome, 
 and my wife had a mind to one of them. 
 
 19th. This morning, before we sat, I went to Aldgate ; 
 and at the corner shop, a draper's, I stood, and did see 
 Barkestead, Okey, and Corbet drawn towards the
 
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 gallows at Tyburn, and there they were hanged and 
 quartered. They all looked very cheerful; but I 'hear 
 they all die defending what they did to the King to bo 
 just ; which is very strange. 
 
 20th. (Lord's Day). My intention being to go this 
 morning to Whitehall to hear South, my Lord Chan- 
 cellor's chaplain, the famous preacher and orator of 
 Oxford (who the last Lord's Day did sink down in the 
 pulpit before the King and could not proceed), it did 
 rain, and the wind against me, that I could by no 
 means get a boat or coach to carry me ; and so I stayed at 
 Paul's, where the Judges did all meet, and heard a 
 sermon, it being the first Sunday of the term ; but they 
 had a very poor sermon. 
 
 21st. At noon dined with my Lord Crewe ; and after 
 dinner went up to Sir Thomas Crowe's chamber, who 
 is still ill. He tells me how my Lady Duchess of 
 Richmond and Castlemaine had a falling out the other 
 day ; and she calls the latter Jane Shore, and did hope 
 to see her come to the same end. Coming down again 
 to my Lord, he told me that news was come that the 
 Queen is landed ; at which I took leave, and by coach 
 hurried to Whitehall, the bells ringing in several 
 places; but I found there no such matter, nor any- 
 thing like it. 
 
 22nd. We come to Guildford. 
 
 23rd. Up early, and to Petersfield ; and thence got 
 a countryman to guide us by Havant, to avoid going 
 through the forest ; but he carried us much out of the
 
 26 PEPYS'S DIABY. J April. 
 
 way. I lay at Wiard's, the chirurgeon's, in Ports- 
 mouth. 
 
 24th. All of us to the pay-house ; but the books not 
 being ready, we went to church to the lecture, where 
 there was my Lord Ormond and Manchester, and much 
 London company, though not so much as I expected. 
 Here we had a very good sermon upon this text : " In 
 love serving one another," which pleased me very 
 well. No news of the Queen at all. So to dinner, 
 and then to the pay all the afternoon. Then W. Pen 
 and I walked to the King's Tard. 
 
 26th. Sir George and I, and his clerk, Mr. Stevens, 
 and Mr. Holt our guide, over to Gosport ; and so rode 
 to Southampton. In our way, besides my Lord South- 
 ampton's parks and lands, in which in one view we could 
 see 6,000 per annum, we observed a little church- 
 yard, where the graves are accustomed to be all 
 sowed with sage. At Southampton. The town is one 
 most gallant street, and is walled round with stone, &c., 
 and Bevis's picture upon one of the gates : many old 
 walls of religious houses, and the quay well worth 
 seeing. 
 
 27th. I rode to church, and met my Lord Chamber- 
 lain upon the walls of the garrison, who owned and 
 spoke to me. I followed him in the crowd of gallants 
 through the Queen's lodgings to chapel ; the rooms 
 being all rarely furnished, and escaped hardly being 
 set on fire yesterday. At chapel we had a most excel- 
 lent and eloquent sermon. By coach to the Tard, and
 
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 then on board the Swallow in the dock, where our navy 
 chaplain preached a sad sermon, full of nonsense and 
 false Latin ; but prayed for the Bight Honourable the 
 principal officers. Yisited the Mayor, Mr. Timbrell, 
 our anchor-smith, who showed us the present they have 
 for the Queen, which is a saltcellar of silver, the walls 
 crystal, with four eagles and four greyhounds standing 
 up at the top to bear up a dish ; which indeed is one of 
 the neatest pieces of plate that ever I saw, and the 
 case is very pretty also. This evening came a mer- 
 chantman in the harbour, which we hired at London to 
 carry horses to Portugal ; but, Lord ! what running 
 there was to the seaside to hear what news, thinking 
 it had come from the Queen. 
 
 May 1. Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Pen, and myself, 
 with our clerks, set out this morning from Ports- 
 mouth very early, and got by noon to Petersfield; 
 several officers of the Yard accompanying us so far. 
 At dinner comes my Lord Carlingford from London, 
 going to Portsmouth : tells us that the Duchess of 
 York is brought to bed of a girl, at which I find nobody 
 pleased ; and that Prince Rupert and the Duke of 
 Buckingham are sworn of the Privy Council. 
 
 7th. Walked to "Westminster ; where I understand 
 the news that Mr. Montagu is last night come to the 
 King with news, that he left the Queen and fleet in 
 the Bay of Biscay, coming this wayward ; and that he 
 believes she is now at the Isle of Scilly. Thence to 
 Paul's Church Yard ; where seeing my Ladys Sandwich
 
 28 PEPYS'S DIARY. [May, 
 
 and Carteret, and my wife (who this day made a 
 visit the first time to my Lady Carteret), come by 
 coach, and going to Hyde Park, I was resolved to 
 follow them ; and so went to Mrs. Turner's : and 
 thence at the Theatre, where I saw the last act of the 
 Knight of the Burning Pestle (which pleased me 
 not at all). And so after the play done, she and Theo. 
 Turner and Mrs. Lucin and I, in her coach to the Park; 
 and there found them out and spoke to them ; and ob- 
 served many fine ladies, and stayed till all were gone 
 almost. 
 
 8th. Sir G. Carteret told me, that the Queen and the 
 fleet were in Mount's Bay on Monday last ; and that 
 the Queen endures her sickness pretty well. He also 
 told me how Sir John Lawson hath done some execution 
 upon the Turks in the Strait, of which I was glad, aud 
 told the news the first on the Exchange, and was much 
 followed by merchants to tell it. Sir G. Carteret, 
 among other discourse, tells me that it is Mr. Coventry 
 that is to come to us as a Commissioner of the Navy ; 
 at which he is much vexed, and cries out upon Sir W. 
 Pen, and threatens him highly. And looking upon his 
 lodgings, which are now enlarging, he in a passion 
 cried, " Guarda mi spada ; for, by God, I may 
 chance to keep him in Ireland, when he is there : " 
 for Sir W. Pen is going thither with my Lord 
 Lieutenant. But it is my design to keep much in 
 with Sir George ; and I think I have begun very well 
 towaids it.
 
 1662.] PEPYS'S DIABT. 29 
 
 9th. The Duke of York went last night to Ports- 
 mouth ; so that I believe the Queen is near. 
 
 10th. At noon to the Wardrobe ; there dined. My 
 Lady told me how my Lady Castlemaine do speak of 
 going to lie in at Hampton Court, which she and all our 
 ladies are much troubled at, because of the King's 
 being forced to show her countenance in the sight of 
 the Queen when she comes. In the evening Sir G. 
 Carteret and I did hire a ship for Tangier, and other 
 things together ; and I find that he do single me out to 
 join with me apart from the rest, which I am much 
 glad of. 
 
 llth. In the afternoon to Whitehall ; and there 
 walked an hour or two in the Park, where I saw the 
 King now out of mourning, in a suit laced with gold 
 and silver, which it is said was out of fashion. Thence 
 to the Wardrobe ; and there consulted with the ladies 
 about going to Hampton Court to-morrow. 
 
 12th. Mr. Townsend called us np by four o'clock ; 
 and by five the three ladies, my wife and I, and Mr. 
 Townsend, his son and daughter, were got to the barge 
 and set out. We walked from Mortlake to Richmond, 
 and so to boat again. And from Teddington to 
 Hampton Court Mr. Townsend and I walked again ; 
 and then met the ladies, and were shown the whole 
 house by Mr. Marriott ; which is indeed nobly furnished, 
 particularly the Queen's bed, given her by the States 
 of Holland ; a looking-glass sent by the Queen-mother 
 from France, hanging in the Queen's chamber, and
 
 30 PEPYS'S DIARY. [May, 
 
 many brave pictures. And so to barge again; and 
 got home about eight at night very well. 
 
 14th. Dined at the "Wardrobe ; and after dinner sat 
 talking an hour or two alone with my Lady. She is 
 afraid that my Lady Castlemaine will keep still with 
 the King. 
 
 15th. To Westminster ; and at the Privy Seal I saw 
 Mr. Coventry's seal for his being Commissioner with 
 us. At night, all the bells of the town rung, and bon- 
 fires made for the joy of the Queen's arrival, who 
 landed at Portsmouth last night. But I do not see 
 much true joy, but only an indifferent one, in the 
 hearts of the people, who are much discontented at 
 the pride and luxury of the Court, and running in 
 debt. 
 
 18th. (Whitsunday.) By water to Whitehall, and 
 there to chapel in my pew belonging to me as Clerk of 
 the Privy Seal ; and there I heard a most excellent 
 sermon of Dr. Hacket, Bishop of Lichfield and Coven- 
 try, upon these words : " He that drinketh this water 
 shall never thirst." We had an excellent anthem, sung 
 by Captn. Cooke and another, and brave music. And 
 then the King came down and offered, and took the 
 sacrament upon his knees ; a sight very well worth see- 
 ing. After dinner to chapel again ; and there had 
 another good anthem of Captn. Cooke's. Thence to 
 the Council-chamber ; where the King and Council sat 
 till almost eleven o'clock at night, and I forced to walk 
 up and down the galleries till that time of night. They
 
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 were reading all the bills over that are to pass to- 
 morrow at the House, before the King's going out of 
 town and proroguing the House. At last, the Council 
 risen, Sir G. Carteret told me what the Council hath 
 ordered about the ships designed to carry horse from 
 Ireland to Portugal, which is now altered. 
 
 19th. I hear that the House of Commons do think 
 much that they should be forced to huddle over business 
 this morning against afternoon for the King to pass 
 their Acts, that he may go out of town. But he, I hear 
 since, was forced to stay till almost nine o'clock at 
 night before he could have done, and then prorogued 
 them ; and so to Guildford, and lay there. 
 
 20th. Sir W. Pen and I did a little business at the 
 office, and so home again. Then comes Dean Fuller ; 
 and I am most pleased with his company and good- 
 ness. 
 
 21st. My wife and I to my Lord's lodging ; where 
 she and I stayed walking in Whitehall garden. And 
 in the privy-garden saw the finest smocks and linen 
 petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich 
 lace at the bottom, that ever I saw : and did me good to 
 look at them. Sarah told me how the King dined at 
 my Lady Castlemaine's, and supped every day and 
 night the last week ; and that the night that the bon- 
 fires were made for joy of the Queen's arrival the 
 King was there ; but there was no fire at her door, 
 though at all the rest of the doors almost in the street ; 
 which was much observed : and that the King and she
 
 32 PEPTS'S DIABY. [Mi>.j, 
 
 did send for a pair of scales and weighed one another ; 
 and she, being with child, was said to be the heaviest. 
 Bnt she is now a most disconsolate creature, and comes 
 not out of doors, since the King's going. 
 
 22nd. This morning comes an order from the Secre- 
 tary of State Nicholas, for me to let one Mr. Lee, a 
 councillor, view what papers I have relating to passages 
 of the late times, wherein Sir H. Yane's hand is em- 
 ployed, in order to the drawing up his charge ; which I 
 did. 
 
 23rd. To the Wardrobe, reading of the King's and 
 Chancellor's late speeches at the proroguing of the 
 Houses of Parliament. And while I was reading, news 
 was brought me that my Lord Sandwich is come and 
 gone up to my Lady's chamber ; which by-and-by he 
 did, and looks very well. He very merry, and hath 
 left the King and Queen at Portsmouth, and is come 
 up to stay here till next Wednesday, and then to meet 
 the King and Queen at Hampton Court. So to dinner ; 
 and my Lord mighty merry ; among other things, 
 saying that the Queen is a very agreeable lady, and 
 paints well. After dinner I showed him my letter 
 from Tedditnan about the news from Argier, which 
 pleases him exceedingly; and he wrote one to the 
 Duke of York about it, and sent it express. 
 
 24th. Abroad with Mr. Creed, of whom I informed 
 myself of all I had a mind to know. Among other 
 things, the great difficulty my Lord hath been in all 
 this summer for lack of good and full orders from the
 
 PEPYS'S DIABT. 33 
 
 King : and I doubt our Lords of the Council do not 
 mind things as the late powers did, but their pleasure 
 or profit more. That the Bull Feasts are a simple sport, 
 yet the greatest in Spain. That the Queen hath given 
 no rewards to any of the captains or officers, but only 
 to my Lord Sandwich ; and that was a bag of gold, 
 which was no honorable present, of about 1,400 
 sterling. How recluse the Queen hath ever been, and 
 all the voyage never come upon the deck, nor put her 
 head out of her cabin ; but did love my Lord's music, 
 and would send for it down to the state-room, and she 
 sit in her cabin within hearing of it. But my Lord 
 was forced to have some clashing with the Council of 
 Portugal about payment of the portion, before he could 
 get it ; which was, besides Tangier and free trade in 
 the Indies, two millions of crowns, half now, and the 
 other half in twelve months. But they have brought 
 but little money ; but the rest in sugars and other com- 
 modities, and bills of exchange. That the King of 
 Portugal is a very fool almost, and his mother do all, 
 and he is a very poor Prince. 
 
 25th. To church, and heard a good sermon of Mr. 
 Woodcocke's at our church : only in his latter prayer 
 for a woman in childbed, he prayed that God would 
 deliver her from the hereditary curse of child-bearing, 
 which seemed a pretty strange expression. Out with 
 Captain Ferrers to Charing Cross ; and there at the 
 Triumph tavern he showed me some Portugal ladies, 
 which are come to town before the Queen. They are 
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 34 PEPYS'S DIARY. [May, 
 
 not handsome, and their farthingales a strange dress. 
 Many ladies and persons of quality come to see them. 
 I find nothing in them that is pleasing ; and I see they 
 have learnt to kiss and look freely up and down already, 
 and I do believe will soon forget the recluse practice of 
 their own country. They complain much for lack of 
 good water to drink. The King's guards and some 
 City companies do walk up and down the town these 
 five or six days ; which makes me think, and they do 
 say, there are some plots in laying. 
 
 26th. To the Trinity House ; where the Brethren 
 have been at Deptf ord choosing a new Master ; which 
 is Sir J. Minnes, notwithstanding Sir W. Batten did 
 contend highly for it ; at which I am not a little pleased 
 because of his proud lady. 
 
 29th. This day, being the King's birthday, was very 
 solemnly observed ; and the more, for that the Queen 
 this day comes to Hampton Court. In the evening 
 bonfires were made, but nothing to the great number 
 that was heretofore at the burning of the Bump. 
 
 31st. The Queen is brought a few days since to 
 Hampton Court : and all people say of her to be a 
 very fine and handsome lady, and very discreet ; and 
 that the King is pleased enough with her : which, I 
 fear, will put Madam Castlemaine's nose out of joint. 
 The court is wholly now at Hampton. A peace with 
 Argier is lately made ; which is also good news. My 
 Lord Sandwich is lately come with the Queen from 
 sea, very well and in good repute. The Act for
 
 1662.J PEPYS'S DIABY. 35 
 
 Uniformity is lately printed, which, it is thought, will 
 make mad work among the Presbyterian ministers. 
 People of all sides are very much discontented; some 
 thinking themselves used, contrary to promise, too 
 hardly ; and the other, that they are not rewarded so 
 much as they expected by the King. 
 
 June 3. At the office, and Mr. Coventry brought bis 
 patent and took his place with us this morning. To 
 the Wardrobe, where I found my lady come from 
 Hampton Court, where the queen hath used her very 
 civilly; and my lady tells me is a most pretty woman. 
 Yesterday (Sir R. Ford told me) the Aldermen of the 
 City did attend her in their habits, and did present her 
 with a gold cup and 1,000 in gold therein. But, he 
 told mo, that they are so poor in their Chamber, that 
 they were fain to call two or three Aldermen to raise 
 fines to make up this sum. 
 
 4th. Povy and Sir W. Batten and I by water to 
 Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir 
 B. Ford's Holland's yarn (about which we have lately 
 had so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself 
 for our rope-maker, Mr. Hughes, who represented it so 
 bad), and we found it to be very bad, and broke sooner 
 than, upon a fair trial, five threads of that against four 
 of Riga yarn ; and also that some of it had old stuff 
 that had been tarred, covered over with new hemp, 
 which is such a cheat as hath not been heard of. 
 
 7th. To the office. I find Mr. Coventry is resolved 
 to do much good, and to inquire into all the miscarriages
 
 36 PEPYS'S DIABY. [June, 
 
 of the office. At noon with him and Sir "W. Batten to 
 dinner at Trinity House ; where, among others, Sir J. 
 Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower, was, who says that 
 yesterday Sir H. Vane had a full hearing at the King's 
 Bench, and is found guilty ; and that he did never hear 
 any man argue more simply than he in all his life, and 
 so others say. Sent for to Sir G. Carteret's. I perceive 
 as he told me, were it not that Mr. Coventry had already 
 feathered his nest in selling of places, he do like him 
 very well, and hopes great good from him. But he 
 complains so of lack of money, that my heart is very 
 sad under the apprehension of the fall of the office. 
 
 10th. All the morning much business; and great 
 hopes of bringing things, by Mr. Coventry's means, to 
 a good condition in the office. 
 
 12th. I tried on my riding cloth suit with close knees, 
 the first that ever I had ; and I think they will be very 
 convenient. At the office all the morning. Among 
 other businesses, I did get a vote signed by all, con- 
 cerning my issuing of warrants, which they did not 
 smell the use I intend to make of it ; but it is to plead 
 for my clerks to have their right of giving out all the 
 warrants. A great difference happened between Sir 
 G. Carteret and Mr. Coventry, about passing the 
 Victualler's account, and whether Sir George is to pay 
 the Victualler his money, or the Exchequer ; Sir George 
 claiming it to be his place to save his three-pences. It 
 ended in anger, and I believe will come to be a question 
 before the King and Council.
 
 1662.] PEPYS'S DIABY. 37 
 
 13th. Tip by 4 o'clock in the morning, and read 
 Cicero's Second Oration against Catiline, which pleased 
 me exceedingly : and more I discern therein than ever 
 I thought was to be found in him ; but I perceive it 
 was my ignorance, and that he is as good a writer as 
 ever I read in my life. By and by to Sir G. Carteret's, 
 to talk with him about yesterday's difference at the 
 office ; and offered my service to look into my old 
 books or papers that I have, that may make for him. 
 He was well pleased therewith, and did much inveigh 
 against Mr. Coventry ; telling me how he had done 
 him service in the Parliament, when Prin had drawn 
 up things against him for taking of money for places ; 
 that he did at his desire, and upon his letters, keep him 
 off from doing it. And many other things he told me, 
 as how the King was beholden to him, and in what a 
 miserable condition his family would be, if he should 
 die before he hath cleared his accounts. Upon the 
 whole, I do find that he do much esteem of me, and is 
 my friend, and I may make good use of him. 
 
 14th. About 11 o'clock, having a room got ready for 
 us, we all went out to the Tower Hill ; and there, over 
 against the scaffold, made on purpose this day, saw Sir 
 Henry Yane brought. A very great press of people. 
 He made a long speech, many times interrupted by the 
 Sheriff and others there ; and they would have taken 
 his paper out of his hand, but he would not let it go. 
 But they caused all the books of those that wrote after 
 him to be given the Sheriff ; and the trumpets were
 
 38 PEPYS'S DIARY. [June, 
 
 brought under the scaffold that he might not be heard. 
 Then he prayed, and so fitted himself, and received the 
 blow ; but the scaffold was so crowded that we could 
 not see it done. But Boreman, who had been upon the 
 scaffold, told us, that first he began to speak of the 
 irregular proceeding against him ; that he was, against 
 Magna Charta, denied to have his exceptions against 
 the indictment allowed ; and that there he was stopped 
 by the Sheriff . Then he drew out his paper of notes, 
 and begun to tell them first his life ; that he was born a 
 gentleman ; he had been, till he was seventeen years 
 old, a good fellow, but then it pleased God to lay a 
 foundation of grace in his heart, by which he was per- 
 suaded, against his worldly interest, to leave all prefer- 
 ment and go abroad, where he might serve God with 
 more freedom. Then he was called home, and made a 
 member of the Long Parliament ; where he never did, 
 to this day, anything against his conscience, but all for 
 the glory of God. Here he would have given them an 
 account of the proceedings of the Long Parliament, but 
 they so often interrupted him, that at last he was forced 
 to give over : and so fell into prayer for England in 
 general, then for the churches in England, and then 
 for the City of London : and so fitted himself for the 
 block, and received the blow. He had a blister, or 
 issue, upon his neck, which he desired them not to hurt ; 
 he changed not his colour or speech to the last, but 
 died justifying himself and the cause he had stood for; 
 and spoke very confidently of his being presently at the
 
 1662.] PKPTS'S DIABY. 39 
 
 right hand of Christ ; and in all things appeared the 
 most resolved man that ever died in that manner, and 
 showed more of heat than cowardice but yet with all 
 humility and gravity. One asked him why he did not 
 pray for the King. He answered, " Tou shall see I 
 can pray for the King, I pray God bless him ! " The 
 King had given his body to his friends ; and, therefore, 
 he told them that he hoped they would be civil to his 
 body when dead ; and desired they would let him die 
 like a gentleman and a Christian, and not crowded and 
 pressed as he was. So to the office a little, and to the 
 Trinity House, and there all of us to dinner ; and to 
 the office again all the afternoon till night. This day, 
 I hear, my Lord Peterborough is come unexpected from 
 Tangier, to give the King an account of the place, 
 which, we fear, is in none of the best condition. We 
 had also certain news to-day that the Spaniard is before 
 Lisbon with thirteen sail ; six Dutch, and the rest his 
 own ships ; which will, I fear, be ill for Portugal. I 
 wrote a letter of all this day's proceedings to my Lord, 
 at Hinchingbroke. 
 
 18th. Up early : and after reading a little in Cicero, 
 to my office. To my Lord Crewe's and dined with 
 him ; where I hear the courage of Sir H. Yane at his 
 death is talked on everywhere as a miracle. I walked 
 to Lilly's, the painter's, where I saw, among other rare 
 things, the Duchess of York, her whole body, sitting 
 in state in a chair, in white satin, and another of the 
 King's, that i not finished ; most rare things. I did
 
 40 PEPYS'S DIABT. fjune, 
 
 give the fellow something that showed them us, and 
 promised to come some other time, and he would show 
 me Lady Castlemaine's, which I could not then see, it 
 being locked up ! Thence to Wright's, the painter's : 
 but, Lord ! the difference that is between their two 
 works. 
 
 20th. Drew up the agreement between the King and 
 Sir John Winter, about the Forest of Dean ; and 
 having done it, he come himself (I did not know him 
 to be the Queen's Secretary before, but observed him 
 to be a man of fine parts) ; and we read it, and both 
 liked it well. That done, I turned to the Forest of 
 Dean, in Speed's Maps, and there he showed me how it 
 lies ; and the Lea-baily, with the great charge of carry- 
 ing it to Lydny, and many other things worth my 
 knowing ; and I do perceive that I am very short in 
 my business by not knowing many times the geographi- 
 cal part of my business. 
 
 I went to the Exchange, and I hear that the 
 merchants have a great fear of a breach with the 
 Spaniard ; for they think he will not brook our having 
 Tangier, Dunkirke, and Jamaica ; and our merchants 
 begin to draw home their estates as fast as they can. 
 
 21st. At noon Sir W. Pen and I to the Trinity 
 House, where was a feast made by the wardens. Great 
 good cheer, and much but ordinary company. The 
 Lieutenant of the Tower, upon my demanding how Sir 
 H. Vane died, told me that he died in a passion ; but 
 all confess with so much courage as never man did.
 
 1662.] FEPYS'S DIABT. 41 
 
 22nd. This day I am told of a Portugal lady, at 
 Hampton Conrt, that hath dropped a child already 
 since the Queen's coming, and the King would not 
 have them searched whose it is, and so it is not 
 commonly known yet. Coming home to-night I met 
 with Will Swan, who do talk as high for the fanatics 
 as ever he did in his life, and do pity my Lord 
 Sandwich and me that we should be given up to the 
 wickedness of the world, and that a fall is coming 
 upon us all ; for he finds that he and his company are 
 the true spirit of the nation, and the greater part of 
 the nation too, who will hare liberty of conscience in 
 spite of this " Act of Uniformity," or they will die, 
 and if they may not preach abroad, they will preach in 
 their own houses. He told me that certainly Sir H. 
 Yane must be gone to heaven, for he died as much a 
 martyr and saint as ever man did, and that the King 
 hath lost more by that man's death than he will get 
 again a good while. At all which I know not what to 
 think ; but, I confess, I do think that the bishops will 
 never be able to carry it so high as they do. Meeting 
 with Frank Moore, iny Lord Lambeth's man formerly, 
 we, and two or three friends of his, did go to a tavern ; 
 but one of our company, a talking fellow, did in dis- 
 course say much of this Act against seamen, for their 
 being brought to account, and that it was made on 
 purpose for my Lord Sandwich, who was in debt 
 100,000, and hath been forced to have pardon often- 
 times from Oliver for the same, at which I was vexed.
 
 42 PEPYS'S DIARY. [June, 
 
 24th. At night news is brought me that Field the 
 rogue hath this day cast me at Guildhall in 30 for 
 his imprisonment, to which I signed his commitment 
 with the rest of the officers ; but they having been 
 parliament men, he do begin the law with me, but 
 threatens more. 
 
 26th. Mr. Nicholson, my old fellow-student at Mag- 
 dalene come, and we played three or four things upon 
 the violin and bass. 
 
 27th. To my Lord, who rose as soon as he heard I 
 was there, and in his night-gown and shirt stood 
 talking with me alone two hours I believe, concerning 
 his greatest matters of state and interest. Among 
 other things, that his greatest design is, first, to get 
 clear of all debts to the King for the Embassy money, 
 and then a pardon. Then to get his land settled, and 
 then to discourse and advise what is best for him, 
 whether to keep his sea employment longer or no ; for 
 he do discern that the Duke would be willing to have 
 him out, and that by Coventry's means. And here he 
 told me how the terms at Argier were wholly his, and 
 that he did plainly tell Lawson and agree with him, 
 that he would have the honour of them if they should 
 ever be agreed to ; and that accordingly they did come 
 over hither entitled, "Articles concluded on by Sir J. 
 Lawson, according to instructions received from His 
 Royal Highness James, Duke of Tork, &c., and from 
 His Excellency the Earl of Sandwich." ("Which, how- 
 ever, was more than needed; but Lawson tells my
 
 1662.1 PEPYS'S DIABT. 43 
 
 Lord in his letter, that it was not he, but the Council 
 of War, that would have " His Royal Highness " put 
 into the title, though he did not contribute one word to 
 it.) But the Duke of York did yesterday propose them 
 to the Council to be printed with this title : " Con- 
 cluded on by Sir J. Lawson, Knt." and my Lord quite 
 left out. Here I find my Lord very politic, for he tells 
 me that he discerns they design to set up Lawson as 
 much as they can, and that he do counterplot them by 
 setting him up higher still, by which they will find 
 themselves spoiled of their design, and at last grow 
 jealous of Lawson. This he told me with much 
 pleasure, and that several of the Duke's servants, by 
 name my Lord Barkeley, Mr. Talbot, and others, had 
 complained to my Lord, of Coventry, and would have 
 him out. My Lord do acknowledge that his greatest 
 obstacle is Coventry. He did seem to hint such a 
 question as this : " Hitherto I have been supported by 
 the King and Chancellor against the Duke, but what if 
 it should come about that it should be the Duke and 
 Chancellor against the King," which, though he said 
 it in several plain words, yet I could not fully under- 
 stand it, but may more hereafter. My Lord did also 
 tell me, that the Duke himself at Portsmouth did 
 thank my Lord for all his pains and care ; and that he 
 perceived it must be the old captains that must do the 
 business, and that the new ones would spoil all. And 
 that my Lord did very discreetly tell the Duke (though 
 quite against his judgment and inclination) that, how-
 
 44 PEPYS'S DIABY. IJune, 
 
 ever, the King's new captains ought to be borne with 
 a little and encouraged. By which he will oblige that 
 party, and prevent, as much as may be, their envy ; but 
 he says certainly things will go to rack if ever the old 
 captains should be wholly out and the new ones only 
 command. 
 
 I met Sir W. Pen. He told me the day now was 
 fixed for his going into Ireland, and that whereas I had 
 mentioned some service he could do a friend of mine 
 there, Samuel Pepys, he told me he would most readily 
 do what I would command him. 
 
 28th. Great talk there is of a fear of a war with the 
 Dutch, and we have order to pitch upon twenty ships 
 to be forthwith set out ; but I hope it is but a scare- 
 crow to the world, to let them see that we can be ready 
 for them ; though, God knows ! the King is not able 
 to set out five ships at this present, without great 
 difficulty, we neither having money, credit, nor stores. 
 
 30th. Told my Lady (Carteret) how my Lady Fan- 
 shaw is fallen out with her only for speaking in behalf 
 of the French, which my Lady wonders at, they having 
 been formerly like sisters. Thence to my house, where 
 I took great pride to lead her through the Court by the 
 hand, she being very fine, and her page carrying up her 
 train. 
 
 OBSERVATIONS. 
 
 This I take to be as bad a juncture as ever I ob- 
 served. The King and his new Queen minding their 
 pleasures at Hampton Court. All people discontented ;
 
 1662.1 PEPTS'S DIABT. 45 
 
 some that the King do not gratify them enough, and 
 the others, fanatics of all sorts, that the King do take 
 away their liberty of conscience ; and the height of the 
 bishops, who I fear will ruin all again. They do much 
 cry up the manner of Sir H. Yane's death, and he de- 
 serves it. Much clamour against the chimney money, 
 and the people say they will not pay it without force. 
 And in the meantime like to have war abroad, and 
 Portugal to assist when we have not money to pay for 
 any ordinary layings-out at home. 
 
 July 2. Up while the chimes went four, and so put 
 down my journal. So to my office to read over such 
 instructions as concern the officers of the Yard, for I 
 am much upon seeing into the miscarriages there. By 
 and by, by appointment, comes Commissioner Pett, 
 and then a messenger from Mr. Coventry, who sits in 
 his boat expecting us. So we down to him at the 
 Tower, and there took water all and to Deptf ord (he in 
 our passage taking notice how much difference there is 
 between the old captains for obedience and order, and 
 the King's new captains, which I am very glad to hear 
 him confess), and there we went into the store-house, 
 and viewed first the provisions there, and then his 
 books (but Mr. Davis himself was not there), and I do 
 not perceive that there is one-third of their duties per- 
 formed; but I perceive, to my great content, Mr. 
 Coventry will have things performed. In the evening 
 come Mr. Lewis to me, and very ingeniously did 
 inquire whether I ever did look into the business of the
 
 46 PEPYS'S DTABY. [July, 
 
 Chest at Chatham, and after my readiness to be in- 
 formed did appear to him, he did produce a paper 
 wherein he stated the goTernment of the Chest to me 
 and upon the whole did tell me how it hath ever been 
 abused, and to this day is, and what a meritorious act 
 it would be to look after it, which I am resolved to do 
 if G-od bless me, and do thank him very much for it. 
 
 3rd. Dined with the Officers of the Ordnance, where 
 Sir W. Compton, Mr. O'Neale, and other great persons 
 were. After dinner was brought to Sir W. Compton 
 a gun to discharge seven times, the best of all devices 
 that ever I saw, and very serviceable and not a bauble, 
 for it is much approved of and many thereof made. 
 
 6th. To supper with my Lady (Sandwich), who tells 
 me with much trouble that my Lady Castlemaine is 
 still as great with the King, and that the King comes 
 as often to her as ever he did. Jack Cole, my old 
 friend, found me out at the Wardrobe, and among 
 other things he told me that certainly most of the chief 
 ministers of London would fling up their livings, and 
 that, soon or late, the issue thereof would be sad to the 
 King and Court. 
 
 8th. To the Wardrobe, where, all alone with my 
 Lord above an hour ; and he do seem still to have his 
 old confidence in me, and tells me to boot that Mr. 
 Coventry hath spoke of me to him to great advantage, 
 wherein I am much pleased. By-and-by comes in 
 Mr. Coventry to visit my Lord, and so my Lord and 
 he and I walked together in the great chamber a good
 
 1662.J PEPYS'S DIABY. 47 
 
 while, and I found him a most ingenuous man and good 
 company. 
 
 16th. This day I was told that my Lady Castlemaine 
 (being quite fallen out with her husband) did yesterday 
 go away from him, with all her plate, jewels, and other 
 best things, and is gone to Richmond to a brother of 
 hers, which I am apt to think was a design to get out 
 of town, that the King might come at her the better. 
 
 17th. To my office, and by-and-by to our sitting, 
 where much business. Mr. Coventry took his leave, 
 being to go with the Duke over for the Queen-Mother. 
 
 19th. In the afternoon I went upon the river. It 
 raining hard upon the water, I put ashore and sheltered 
 myself, while the King come by in his barge, going 
 down towards the Downs to meet the Queen, the Duke 
 being gone yesterday. But methought it lessened 
 my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to 
 command the rain. 
 
 21st. To Woolwich to the rope yard, and there looked 
 over several sorts of hemp, and did fall upon my great 
 survey of seeing the working and experiments of the 
 strength and the charge in the dressing of every sort ; 
 and I do think have brought it to so great a certainty, 
 as I have done the King some service in it, and do 
 purpose to get it ready against the Duke's coming to 
 town, to present to him. I see it is impossible for the 
 King to have things done as cheap as other men. 
 
 22ud. I had letters from the Downs from Mr. 
 Coventry, who tells me of the foul weather they had
 
 48 PEPYS'S DIARY. [July 
 
 last Sunday, that drove them back from near Bologne, 
 whither they were going for the Queen, back again to 
 the Downs, with the loss of their cables, sails, and 
 masts, but are all safe, only my Lord Sandwich, who 
 went before with the yacht, they know not what is be- 
 come of him, which do trouble me much ; but I hope 
 he got ashore before the storm began, which God 
 grant ! 
 
 23rd. Much disturbed, by reason of the talk up and 
 down the town, that my Lord Sandwich is lost ; but I 
 trust in God the contrary. 
 
 24th. I hear, to my great content, that my Lord 
 Sandwich is safe landed in France. 
 
 26th. I had a letter from Mr. Creed, who hath 
 escaped narrowly in the King's yacht, and got safe to 
 the Downs after the late storm, and he says that there 
 the King do tell him that he is sure my Lord is landed 
 in Calais safe. This afternoon I went to "Westminster, 
 and there hear that the King and Queen intend to come 
 to Whitehall from Hampton Court next week, for all 
 winter. Thence to Mrs. Sarah, and there looked over 
 my Lord's lodgings, which are very pretty, and White- 
 hall garden and the bowling-alley (where lords and 
 ladies are now at bowls), in brave condition. Mrs. 
 Sarah told me how the falling out between my Lady 
 Castlemaine and her Lord was about christening of 
 the child lately, which he would have, and had done by 
 a priest, and some days after, she had it again 
 christened by a minister, the King, and Lord of
 
 1662.] PEPY8*8 DIARY. 49 
 
 Oxford, and Duchess of Suffolk being witnesses ; and 
 christened with a proviso that it had not already been 
 christened. Since that she left her Lord, carrying 
 away everything in the house ; so much as every dish, 
 and cloth, and servant, but the porter. He is gone 
 discontented into France, they say, to enter a monas- 
 tery, and now she is coming back again to her house in 
 King Street. But I hear that the Queen did prick her 
 out of the list presented her by the King, desiring that 
 she might have that favour done her, or that he would 
 send her from whence she come ; and that the King was 
 angry and the Queen discontented a whole day and 
 night upon it, but that the King hath promised to have 
 nothing to do with her hereafter. But I cannot believe 
 that the King can fling her off so, he. loving her too 
 well ; and so I wrote this night to my Lady to be my 
 opinion ; she calling her my lady, and the lady I admire. 
 Here I find that my Lord hath lost the garden to his 
 lodgings, and that it is turning into a tennis court. 
 
 27th. I to walk in the Park, which is now every day 
 more and more pleasant, by the new works upon it. 
 
 28th. Walked to the water-side, and there took boat 
 for the Tower ; hearing that the Queen-Mother is come 
 this morning already as high as Woolwich : and that 
 my Lord Sandwich was with her ; at which my heart 
 was glad. 
 
 30th. By water to Whitehall, and there waited upon 
 my Lord Sandwich ; and joyed him, at his lodgings, 
 of his safe coming home after all his danger, which he
 
 50 PEPYS'S DIABY. fAugust, 
 
 confesses to be very great. And his people do tell me 
 how bravely my Lord did carry himself, while my Lord 
 Crofts did cry ; and I perceive all the town talk how 
 poorly he carried himself. But the best was one of 
 Mr. Rawlins a courtier, that was 'with my Lord ; and 
 in the greatest danger cried, " My Lord, I won't give 
 you three-pence for your place now." But all ends in 
 the honour of the pleasure-boats ; which, had they not 
 been very good boats, they could never have endured 
 the sea as they did. 
 
 31st. At noon Mr. Coventry and I by his coach to 
 the Exchange together ; and in Lombard Street met 
 Captn. Browne of the Rosebush, at which he was cruel 
 angry ; and did threaten to go to-day to the Duke at 
 Hampton Coujt, and get him turned out because he 
 was not sailed. 
 
 August 3. This day Commissioner Pett told me how 
 despicable a thing it is to be a hangman in Poland, 
 although it be a place of credit. And that, in his 
 time there was some repairs to be made of the gallows 
 there, which was very fine of stone ; but nobody could 
 be got to mend it till the Burgomaster, or Mayor of 
 the town, with all the companies of those trades which 
 were necessary to be used about those repairs, did go 
 in their habits with flags, in solemn procession to the 
 place, and there the Burgomaster did give the first 
 blow with the hammer upon the wooden work ; and the 
 rest of the Masters of the Companies upon the works 
 belonging to their trades ; that so workmen might not
 
 1662.] PEPYS's DIAfcY. 51 
 
 be ashamed to be employed upon doing of the gallows 
 works. 
 
 6th. By water to Whitehall ; and so to St. James's ; 
 but there found Mr. Coventry gone to Hampton Court. 
 So to my Lord's ; and he is also gone. This being a 
 great day at the Council about some business before the 
 King. Here Mr. Pierce the surgeon, told me how Mr. 
 Edward Montagu hath lately had a duel with Mr. 
 Cholmely, that is first gentleman-usher to the Queen, 
 and was a messenger to her from the King of Por- 
 tugal, and is a fine gentleman ; but had received many 
 affronts from Mr. Montagu, and some unkindness from 
 my Lord, upon his score (for which I am sorry). He 
 proved too hard for Montagu, and drove him so far 
 backward that he fell into a ditch, and dropped his 
 sword, but with honour would take no advantage over 
 him ; but did give him his life. And the world says 
 Mr. Montagu did carry himself very poorly in the 
 business, and hath lost his honour for ever with all 
 people in it. This afternoon Mr. Waith was with me, 
 and did tell me much concerning the Chest, which I am 
 resolved to look into ; and I perceive he is sensible of 
 Sir W. Batten's carriage ; and is pleased to see any- 
 thing work against him. 
 
 8th. Dined with Mr. Falconer; thence we walked 
 talking all the way to Greenwich, and I do find ex- 
 cellent discourse from him. Among other things, his 
 rule of suspecting every man that proposes anything 
 to him to be a knave, or at least, to have some ends of
 
 52 PEPYS'S DIABY. [August, 
 
 his own in it. Being led thereto by the story of Sir 
 John Millicent, that would have had a patent from 
 King James for every man to have had leave to have 
 given him a shilling; and that he might take it of 
 every man that had a mind to give it ; and what he 
 would do to them that would not give him. He an- 
 swered, he would not force them ; but that they should 
 come to the Council of State, to give a reason why 
 they would not. Another rule is a proverb that he 
 hath been taught, which is that a man that cannot sit 
 still in his chamber (the reason of which I did not 
 understand), and he that cannot say no (that is, that is 
 of so good a nature that he cannot deny anything, or 
 cross another in doing anything), is not fit for business. 
 The last of which is a very great fault of mine, which 
 I must amend in. 
 
 9th. Mr. Coventry and I alone sat at the office all 
 the morning upon business. And so to dinner to 
 Trinity House, and thence by his coach towards 
 "Whitehall ; but there being a stop at the Savoy, we 
 light and took water, and my Lord Sandwich being 
 out of town, we parted there. 
 
 10th. I walked to St. Dunstan's, the church being 
 now finished ; and here I heard Dr. Bates, who made 
 a most eloquent sermon ; and I am sorry I have hitherto 
 had so low an opinion of the man, for I have not heard 
 a neater sermon a great while, and more to my content. 
 My uncle Fenner told me the new service book (which 
 is now lately come forth) was laid upon their desk at
 
 1662.] PEPYS'S DIABT. 53 
 
 St. Sepulchre's for Mr. George to read ; but he laid it 
 aside, and would not meddle with it ; and I perceive 
 the Presbyters do all prepare to give over all against 
 Bartholomewtide. Mr. Herring, being lately turned 
 out at St. Bride's, did read the psalm to the people 
 while they sung at Dr. Bates's, which methought is a 
 strange turn. After dinner to St. Bride's, and there 
 heard one Carpenter, an old man, who they say hath 
 been a Jesuit priest, and is come over to us ; but he 
 preached very well. Mr. Calamy hath taken his fare- 
 well this day of his people, and others will do so the 
 next Sunday. Mr. Turner the draper, I hear is 
 knighted, made Alderman, and pricked for Sheriff, 
 with Sir Thomas Bludworth, for the next year, by the 
 King, and so are called with great honour the King's 
 Sheriffs. 
 
 13th. Up early, and to my office. By-and-by we 
 met on purpose to inquire into the business of flag- 
 makers, where I am the person that do chiefly manage 
 the business against them on the King's part ; and I do 
 find it the greatest cheat that I have yet found, they 
 having eightpence per yard allowed them by pretence 
 of a contract, where no such thing appears ; and it is 
 threepence more than was formerly paid, and than I 
 now offer the board to have them done. To Lambeth, 
 and there saw the little pleasure-boat in building by 
 the King, my Lord Brunkard, and the virtuosoes of the 
 town, according to new lines, which Mr. Pett cries up 
 mightily, but how it will prove we shall soon see.
 
 54 PEPYS'S DTABY. [August, 
 
 14th. Commissioner Pett and I being invited, went by 
 Sir John Winter's coach sent for us, to the Mitre, in 
 Fenchurch Street, to a venison-pasty, where I found 
 him a very worthy man, and good discourse. Most of 
 which was concerning the Forest of Dean, and the 
 timber there, and iron works with their great antiquity, 
 and the vast heaps of cinders which they find, and are 
 now of great value, being necessary for the making of 
 iron at this day, and without which they cannot work ; 
 with the age of many trees there left at a great fall in 
 Edward the Third's time, by the name of forbid-trees, 
 which at this day, are called vorbid trees. 
 
 15th. I went to Paul's Church Yard to my book- 
 seller's, and there I hear that next Sunday will be the 
 last of a great many Presbyterian ministers in town, 
 who I hear, will give up all. I pray God the issue 
 may be good, for the discontent is great. My mind 
 well pleased with a letter that I found at home from 
 Mr. Coventry, expressing his satisfaction in a letter I 
 wrote last night and sent him this morning to be cor- 
 rected by him in order to its sending down to all the 
 Yards as a charge to them. 
 
 17th. This being the last Sunday that the Presby- 
 terians are to preach unless they read the New Common 
 Prayer and renounce the Covenant, I had a mind to 
 hear Dr. Bates's farewell sermon ; and walked to St. 
 Dunstan's, where, it not being seven o'clock yet, the 
 doors were not open ; and so I walked an hour in the 
 Temple Garden. At eight o'clock I went and crowded
 
 1662.] PEPYS'S DIABY. 55 
 
 in at a back door among others, the church being half- 
 full almost before any doors were open publicly ; and 
 so got into the gallery, beside the pulpit, and heard 
 
 very well. His text was, " Now the God of Peace ," 
 
 the last Hebrews, and the 20th verse; he making a very 
 good sermon, and very little reflections in it to any- 
 thing of the times. To Madam Turner's, and dined 
 with her. She had heard Parson Herring take his 
 leave, though he, by reading so much of the Common 
 Prayer as he did, hath cast himself out of the good 
 opinion of both sides. After dinner to St. Dunstan's 
 again; and the church quite crowded before I come, 
 which was just at one o'clock; but I got into the 
 gallery again, but stood in a crowd. He pursued his 
 text again very well, and only at the conclusion told us, 
 after this manner : " I do believe that many of you do 
 expect that I should say something to you in reference 
 to the time, this being the last time that possibly I 
 may appear here. You know it is not my manner 
 to speak anything in the pulpit that is extraneous to 
 my text and business ; yet this I shall say, that it is 
 not my opinion, fashion or humour, that keeps me from 
 complying with what is required of us ; but something 
 after much prayer, discourse, and study, yet remains 
 unsatisfied, and commands me herein. Wherefore, if 
 it is my unhappiness not to receive such an illumination 
 as should direct me to do otherwise, I know no reason 
 why men should not pardon me in this world, as I am 
 confident God will pardon me for it in the next." And
 
 56 PEPYS'S DIAB1. (.August, 
 
 so he concluded. Parson Herring read a psalm and 
 chapters before sermon ; and one was the chapter in 
 the Acts, where the story of Ananias and Sapphira is. 
 And after he had done, says he, " This is just the case 
 of England at present. God He bids us to preach, and 
 men bid us not to preach ; and if we do, we are to be 
 imprisoned and further punished. All that I can say 
 to it is, that I beg your prayers, and the prayers of all 
 good Christians, for us." This was all the exposition 
 he made of the chapter in these very words, and no 
 more. I was much pleased with Bates's manner of 
 bringing in the Lord's Prayer after his own ; thus, "In 
 whose comprehensive words we sum up all our im- 
 perfect desires, saying, ' Our Father,' " etc. I hear 
 most of the Presbyters took their leaves to-day, and 
 that the City is much dissatisfied with it. I pray God 
 keep peace among men in their rooms, or else all will 
 fly a-pieces ; for bad ones will not go down with the 
 City. 
 
 18th. Mr. Deane of Woolwich and I rode into Walt- 
 ham Forest, and there we saw many trees of the King's 
 a-hewing ; and he showed me the whole mystery of off 
 square, wherein the King is abused in the timber that 
 he buys, which I shall with much pleasure be able to 
 correct. We rode to Illf ord, and there, while dinner 
 was getting ready, he and I practised measuring of 
 the tables and other things till I did understand 
 measure of timber and board very well. 
 
 19th. At the office ; and Mr. Coventry did tell us
 
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 of the duel between Mr. Jermyn, nephew to my Lord 
 St. Alban's, and Colonel Giles Rawlins, the latter of 
 whom is killed, and the first mortally wounded, as 
 it is thought. They fought against Captain Thomas 
 Howard, my Lord Carlisle's brother, and another 
 unknown ; who, they say, had armour on that they could 
 not be hurt, so that one of their swords went up to 
 the hilt against it. They had horses ready, and are 
 fled. But what is most strange, Howard sent one 
 challenge before, but they could not meet till yester- 
 day at the old Pall Mall at St. James's, and he would 
 not to the last tell Jermyn what the quarrel was ; nor 
 do anybody know. The Court is much concerned in 
 this fray, and I am glad of it ; hoping that it will 
 cause some good laws against it. After sitting, Sir G. 
 Carteret did tell me how he had spoke of me to my 
 Lord Chancellor, and that if my Lord Sandwich would 
 ask my Lord Chancellor, he should know what he had 
 said of me to him to my advantage. 
 
 20th. To my Lord Sandwich, whom I found in bed. 
 Among other talk he do tell me that he hath put me 
 into commission with a great many great persons in 
 the business of Tangier, which is a very great honour 
 to me, and may be of good concernment to me. By- 
 and-by comes in Mr. Coventry to us, whom my Lord 
 tells that he is also put into the commission, and that 
 I am there, of which he said he was glad ; and did tell 
 my Lord that I was indeed the life of this office, and 
 much more to my commendation beyond measure.
 
 68 PEPYS'S DIARY. [August, 
 
 And that, whereas before he did bear me respect for his 
 sake, so he do it now much more for my own ; which 
 is a great blessing to me. Sir G. Carteret having told 
 me what he did yesterday concerning his speaking to 
 my Lord Chancellor about me. So that on all hands, 
 by God's blessing, I find myself a very rising man. 
 By-and-by comes my Lord Peterborough in, with 
 whom we talked a good while, and he is going to- 
 morrow toward Tangier again. I perceive there is yet 
 good hopes of peace with Guyland, which is of great 
 concernment to Tangier. 
 
 23rd. Mr. Coventry and I did walk together a great 
 while in the Garden, where he did tell me his mind 
 about Sir G. Carteret's having so much the command 
 of the money, which must be removed. And indeed it 
 is the bane of all our business. He observed to me 
 also, how Sir W. Batten begins to struggle and to 
 look after his business. I also put him upon getting 
 an order from the Duke for our inquiries into the 
 Chest, which he will see done. 
 
 Mr. Creed and I walked down to the Tylt Tard, 
 and so all along Thames Street, but could not get a 
 boat ; I offered eight shillings for. a boat to attend me 
 this afternoon, and they would not, it being the day 
 of the Queen's coming to town from Hampton Court. 
 So we fairly walked it to Whitehall, and through my 
 Lord's lodgings we got into Whitehall garden, and so 
 to the Bowling-green, and up to the top of the new 
 Banqueting House there, over the Thames, which
 
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 was a most pleasant place as any I could have got ; 
 and all the show consisted chiefly in the number of 
 boats and barges ; and two pageants, one of a King, 
 and another of a Queen, with her Maids of Honour 
 sitting at her feet very prettily ; and they tell me the 
 Queen is Sir Richard Ford's daughter. Anon come 
 the King and Queen in a barge under a canopy with 
 1000 barges and boats I know, for we could see no 
 water for them, nor discern the King nor Queen. 
 And so they landed at Whitehall Bridge, and the 
 great guns on the other side went off. But that 
 which pleased me best was, that my Lady Castlemaine 
 stood over against us upon a piece of Whitehall. But 
 methought it was strange to see her Lord and her 
 upon the same place walking up and down without 
 taking notice one of another, only at first entry he 
 put off his hat, and she made him a very civil salute, 
 but afterwards took no notice one of another; but 
 both of them now and then would take their child, 
 which the nurse held in her arms, and dandle it. One 
 thing more ; there happened a scaffold below to fall, 
 and we feared some hurt, but there was none, but she 
 of all the great ladies only run down among the 
 common rabble to see what hurt was done, and did 
 take care of a child that received some little hurt, 
 which methought was so noble. Anon there come one 
 there booted and spurred that she talked along with. 
 And by-and-by, she being in her hair, she put on his 
 hat, which was but an ordinary one, to keep the wind
 
 60 PEPYS'S DIABT [September, 
 
 off. But it became her mightily, as every thing else 
 do. 
 
 24th. Walked to my uncle Wight's : here I staid 
 supper, and much company there was ; among others, 
 Dr. Burnett, Mr. Cole the lawyer, Mr. Rawlinson, and 
 Mr. Sutton. Among other things they tell me that 
 there hath been a disturbance in a church in Friday- 
 street ; a great many young people knotting together 
 and crying out "Porridge," often and seditiously in 
 the Church, and they took the Common Prayer Book, 
 they say, away ; and, some say, did tear it ; but it is a 
 thing which appears to me very ominous. I pray God 
 avert it. 
 
 3lst. To Mr. Bawlinson's, and there supped with 
 him. Our discourse of the discontents that are 
 abroad, among, and by reason of the Presbyters. 
 Some were clapped up to-day, and strict watch is 
 kept in the City by the train-bands, and abettors of 
 a plot are taken. God preserve us, for all these 
 things bode very ill. 
 
 September 1. With Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen 
 by coach to St. James's, this being the first day of 
 our meeting there by the Duke's order ; but when we 
 come, we found him going out by coach with his 
 Duchess, and he told us he was to go abroad with the 
 Queen to-day (to Durdan's, it seems, to dine with my 
 Lord Barkeley, where I have been very merry whn I 
 was a little boy ) ; so we went and staid a little 
 at Mr. Coventry's chamber, and I to my Lord
 
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 Sandwich's, who is gone to wait upon the King and 
 Queen to-day. 
 
 Sept. 3. Mr. Coventry told ns how the Fanatics 
 and Presbyters, that did intend to rise about this time, 
 did choose this day as the most auspicious to them in 
 their endeavours against monarchy : it being fatal 
 twice to the King, and the day of Oliver's death. 
 But, blessed be God ! all is likely to be quiet I hope. 
 Dr. Fairbrother tells me, what I heard confirmed 
 since, that it was fully resolved by the King's new 
 Council that an indulgence should be granted the 
 Presbyters ; but upon the Bishop of London's speech 
 (who is now one of the most powerful men in England 
 with the King), their minds were wholly turned. And 
 it is said that my Lord Albemarle did oppose him 
 most; but that I do believe is only an appearance. 
 He told me also that most of the Presbyters now 
 begin to wish they had complied, now they see that 
 no indulgence will be granted them, which they hoped 
 for ; and that the Bishop of London hath taken good 
 care that places are supplied with very good and able 
 men, which is the only thing that will keep all quiet. 
 
 4th. At noon to the Trinity House, where we 
 treated, very dearly I believe, the officers of the 
 Ordnance; where was Sir "W. Compton and the 
 Lieutenant of the Tower. We had much and good 
 music. Sir Wm. Compton I heard talk with great 
 pleasure of the difference between the fleet now and in 
 Queen Elizabeth's days ; where in 88, she had but
 
 62 PEPYS'8 DIARY. [September, 
 
 36 sail great and small, in the world ; and ten rounds 
 of powder was their allowance at that time against the 
 Spaniard. 
 
 5th. By water to Woolwich: in my way saw the 
 yacht lately built by our virtuosoes (my Lord Brank- 
 ard and others, with the help of Commissioner Pett, 
 also), set out from Greenwich with the little Dutch 
 bezan, to try for mastery ; and before they got to 
 "Woolwich the Dutch beat them half-a-mile (and I 
 hear this afternoon, that, in coming home, it got above 
 three miles ) ; which all our people are glad of. To Mr. 
 Eland's, the merchant, by invitation ; where I found 
 all the officers of the Customs, very grave, fine gentle- 
 men, and I am very glad to know them ; viz. Sir 
 Job Harvy, Sir John Wolstenholme, Sir John Jacob, 
 Sir Nicholas Crisp, Sir John Harrison, and Sir John 
 Shaw : very good company. And among other dis- 
 course, some was of Sir Jerome Bowes, Embassador 
 from Queen Elizabeth to the Emperor of Russia ; 
 who, because some of the noblemen there would go 
 up-stairs to the Emperor before him, he would not go 
 up till the Emperor had ordered those two men to be 
 dragged down-stairs with their heads knocking upon 
 every stair till they were killed. And when he was 
 come up, they demanded his sword of him before he 
 entered the room. He told them, if they would have 
 his sword, they should have his boots too. And so 
 caused his boots to be pulled off, and his night-gown 
 and night-cap and slippers to be sent for ; and made
 
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 the Emperor stay till he could go in his night-dress, 
 since he might not go as a soldier. And lastly, when 
 the Emperor in contempt, to show his command of his 
 subjects, did command one to leap from the window 
 down and broke his neck in the sight of our Ambas- 
 sador, he replied that his mistress did set more by, 
 and did make better use of the necks of her subjects : 
 but said, that, to show what her subjects would do 
 for her he would, and did fling down his gauntlet 
 before the Einperor ; and challenged all the nobility 
 there to take it up in defence of the Emperor against 
 his Queen ; for which, at this very day the name of 
 Sir Jerome Bowes is famous and honoured there. I 
 this day heard that Mr. Martin Noell is knighted by 
 the King, which I much wonder at; but yet he is 
 certainly a very useful man. 
 
 7th. Home with Mr. Fox and his lady; and there 
 dined with them. Most of our discourse was what 
 ministers are flung out that will not conform : and the 
 care of the Bishop of London that we are here sup- 
 plied with very good men. Meeting Mr. Pierce the 
 surgeon, he took me into Somerset House ; and 
 there carried me into the Queen-Mother's presence- 
 chamber, where she was with our own Queen sitting 
 on her left hand (whom I did never see before ) ; and 
 though she be not very charming, yet she hath a good, 
 modest, and innocent look, which is pleasing. Here 
 I also saw Madam Castlemaine, and, which pleased me 
 most, Mr. Crofts, the King's bastard, a most pretty
 
 64 PEPYS'S DIARY. [September, 
 
 spark of about 15 years old, who, I perceive, do hang 
 much upon my Lady Castlemaine, and is always with 
 her : and, I hear, the Queens both are mighty kind to 
 him. By-and-by in comes the King, and anon the 
 Duke and his Duchess ; so that, they being all to- 
 gether, was such a sight as I never could almost have 
 happened to see with so much ease and leisure. They 
 staid till it was dark, and then went away ; the King 
 and his Queen, and my Lady Castlemaine and young 
 Crofts in one coach, and the rest in other coaches. 
 Here were great stores of great ladies, but very few 
 handsome. The King and Queen were very merry ; 
 and he would have made the Queen-Mother believe 
 that his Queen was with child, aiid said that she said so. 
 And the young Queen answered, " You lie ; " which 
 was the first English word that I ever heard her say ; 
 which made the King good sport ; and he would have 
 made her say in English, " Confess and be hanged." 
 
 8th. With Mr. Coventry to the Duke ; who, after he 
 was out of his bed, did send for us in ; and, when he 
 was quite ready, took us into his closet, and there told 
 us that he do intend to renew the old custom for the 
 Admirals to have their principal officers to meet them 
 once a-week, to give them an account what they have 
 done that week; which 1 am glad of: and so the 
 rest did tell His Royal Highness that I could do it 
 best for the time past. And so I produced my short 
 notes, and did give him an account of all that we have 
 of late done ; and proposed to him several things for
 
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 his commands, which he did give us, and so dismissed 
 us. 
 
 12th. This day, by letters from iny father, I hear 
 that Captain Ferrers, who is with uiy Lord in the 
 country, was at Brampton (with Mr. Creed), to see 
 him : and that a day or two ago, being provoked to 
 strike one of my Lord's footmen, the footman drew 
 his sword, and hath almost cut the fingers of one 
 of his hands off; which I am very sorry for; but 
 this is the vanity of being apt to command and 
 strike. 
 
 14th. To Whitehall chapel, where sermon almost 
 done, and I heard Captain Cooke's new music. This the 
 first day of having viols and other instruments to play 
 a symphony between every verse of the anthems ; but 
 the music more full than it was the last Sunday, and 
 very fine it is. But yet I could discern Captain Cooke 
 to overdo his part at singing, which I never did before. 
 Thence np into the Queen's presence, and there saw 
 the Queen again as I did last Sunday, and some fine 
 ladies with her ; but, my troth, not many. Thence to 
 Sir G. Carteret's. 
 
 15th. By water with Sir Wm. Pen to Whitehall ; 
 and, with much ado, was fain to walk over the piles 
 through the bridge, while Sir W. Batten and Sir J. 
 Minnes were aground against the bridge, and could 
 not in a great while get through. At Whitehall we 
 hear that the Duke of York is gone a hunting to-day ; 
 and so we returned : they going to the Duke of Albe- 
 c41
 
 66 PEPYS'S DIARY. [September, 
 
 marle's, where I left them (after I had observed a very 
 good picture or two there). 
 
 18th. At noon Sir G-. Carteret, Mr. Coventry, and I 
 by invitation to dinner to Sheriff Maynell's, the great 
 money-man ; he, Alderman Backewell, and much noble 
 and brave company, with the privilege of their rare 
 discourse, which is great content to me above all other 
 things in the world. And after a great dinner and 
 much discourse, we took leave. Among other discourses, 
 speaking concerning the great charity used in Catholic 
 countries, Mr. Ashburnham did tell us, that this last 
 year, there being great want of corn in Paris, and so a 
 collection made for the poor, there were two pearls 
 brought in nobody knew from whom (till the Queen, 
 seeing them, knew whose they were, but did not dis- 
 cover it), which were sold for 200,000 crowns. 
 
 21st (Lord's day). To the Park. The Queen coming 
 by in her coach, going to her chapel at St. James's (the 
 first time it hath been ready for her, I crowded after 
 her, and I got up to the room where her closet is ; and 
 there stood and saw the fine altar, ornaments, and the 
 friars in their habits, and the priests come in with their 
 fine crosses and many other fine things. I heard their 
 music too ; which may be good, but it did not appear 
 so to me, neither as to their manner of singing, nor 
 was it good concord to my ears, whatever the matter 
 was. The Queen very devout : but what pleased me 
 best was to see my dear Lady Castlemaine, who, though 
 a Protestant, did wait upon the Queen to chapel. By-
 
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 and-by, after mass was done, a friar with his cowl did 
 rise up and preach a sermon in Portuguese ; which I 
 not understanding, did go away, and to the King's 
 chapel, but that was done ; and so up to the Queen's 
 presence-chamber, where she and the King was expected 
 to dine : but she staying at St. James's, they were 
 forced to remove the things to the King's presence ; 
 and there he dined alone. 
 
 23rd. Sir G-. Carteret told me how in most cabarets 
 in France they have written upon the walls in fair 
 letters to be read " Dieu te regarde," as a good lesson 
 to be in every man's mind, and have also in Holland 
 their poor's box ; in both which places at the making 
 all contracts and bargains they give so much, which 
 they call God's penny. 
 
 24th. To my Lord Crewe's, and there dined alone 
 with him, and among other things, he do advise me by 
 all means to keep my Lord Sandwich from proceeding 
 too far in the business of Tangier. First, for that he 
 is confident the King will not be able to find money 
 for the building the Mole ; and next, for that it is to be 
 done as we propose it by the reducing of the garrison ; 
 and then either my Lord must oppose the Duke of 
 York, who will have the Irish regiment under the 
 command of Fitzgerald continued, or else my Lord 
 Peterborough, who is concerned to have the English 
 continued, but he, it seems, is gone back again merely 
 upon my Lord Sandwich's encouragement. 
 
 28th (Lord's day). To the French Church at the
 
 68 PEPYS'S DIABY. [September, 
 
 Savoy, and there they have the Common Prayer Book 
 read in French, and, which I never saw before, the 
 minister do preach with his hat off, I suppose in further 
 conformity with our Church. 
 
 29th. To Mr. Coventry's, and so with him and Sir 
 "W. Pen up to the Duke, where the King came also and 
 stayed till the Duke was ready. It being Collar-day, 
 we had no time to talk with him about any business. 
 To the King's Theatre, where we saw " Midsummer's 
 Night's Dream," which I had never seen before, nor 
 shall ever again, for it is the most insipid, ridiculous 
 play that ever I saw in my life. 
 
 30th. My condition at present is this ; I have long 
 been building, and my house to my great content is 
 now almost done. My Lord Sandwich has lately been 
 in the country, and very civil to my wife, and hath 
 himself spent some pains in drawing a plot of some 
 alterations in our house there, which I shall follow as I 
 get money. As for the office, my late industry hath 
 been such, as I am become as high in reputation as any 
 man there, and good hold I have of Mr. Coventry and 
 Sir G. Carteret, which I am resolved, and it is necessary 
 for me, to maintain by all fair means. Things are all 
 quiet. The late outing of the Presbyterian clergy by 
 their not renouncing the Covenant as the Act of Parlia- 
 ment commands, is the greatest piece of state now in 
 discourse. But for ought I see they are gone out very 
 peaceably, and the people not so much concerned there- 
 in as was expected.
 
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 October 2. At night hearing that there was a play 
 at the Cockpit (and my Lord Sandwich, who came to 
 town last night, at it), I do go thither, and by very- 
 great fortune did follow four or five gentlemen who 
 were carried to a little private door in a wall, and so 
 crept through a narrow place and came into one of the 
 boxes next the King's, but so as I could not see the 
 King or Queen, but many of the fine ladies, who yet 
 are not really so handsome generally as I used to take 
 them to be, but that they are finely dressed. Then we 
 saw '' The Cardinal," a tragedy I had never seen before, 
 nor is there any great matter in it. The company that 
 came in with me into the box, were all Frenchmen that 
 could speak no English, but Lord! what sport they 
 made to ask a pretty lady that they got among them 
 that understood both French and English to make her 
 tell them what the actors said. 
 
 5th. I to church ; and this day the parson has got 
 one to read with a surplice on. I suppose himself will 
 take it up hereafter, for a cunning fellow he is as any 
 of his coat. 
 
 6th. To Whitehall with Mr. Coventry, and so to my 
 Lord Sandwich's lodgings, but my Lord not within, 
 being at a ball this night with the King at my Lady 
 Castlemaine's at next door. 
 
 8th. To my Lord Sandwich's, and among other things 
 to my extraordinary joy, he did tell me how much I was 
 beholding to the Duke of York, who did yesterday of 
 his own accord tell him that he did thank him for one
 
 70 PEPYS'S DIARY. [October, 
 
 person brought into the Navy, naming myself, and 
 much more to my commendation, which is the greatest 
 comfort and encouragement that ever I had in my life, 
 and do owe it all to Mr. Coventry's goodness and in- 
 genuity. At night by coach to my Lord's again, but 
 he is at Whitehall with the King, before whom the 
 puppet plays I saw this summer in Covent Garden are 
 acted this night. 
 
 9th. To the office ; and I bid them adieu for a week, 
 having the Duke's leave got me by Mr. Coventry. To 
 whom I did give thanks for my news yesterday of the 
 Duke's words to my Lord Sandwich concerning me, 
 which he took well ; and do tell me so freely his love 
 and value of me, that my mind is now in as great a 
 state of quiet as to my interest in the office, as I could 
 ever wish to be. Between one and two o'clock got on 
 horseback at our back gate, with my man Will with 
 me, both well mounted on two grey horses. We got to 
 Ware before night; and so I resolved to ride on to 
 Puckeridge, which we did, though the way was bad, 
 and the evening dark before we got thither, by help of 
 company riding before us; among others, a gentleman 
 that took up at the same inn, his name Mr. Brian, with 
 whom I supped, and was very good company, and a 
 scholar. He tells me that it is believed the Queen is 
 with child, for that the coaches are ordered to ride very 
 easily through the streets. 
 
 10th. Up, and between eight and nine mounted again, 
 and so rode to Cambridge ; the way so good that I got
 
 1662.J PEPYS'S DIARY. 71 
 
 very well thither, and set up at the Bear ; and there 
 my cousin Angier camo to me, and I must needs to 
 his house; and there found Dr. Fairbrother, with a 
 good dinner. But, above all, he telling me that this 
 day there is a Congregation for the choice of some 
 officers in the University, he after dinner gets me a 
 gown, cap, and hood, and carries me to the Schools, 
 where Mr. Pepper, my brother's tutor, and this day 
 chosen Proctor, did appoint a M.A. to lead me into the 
 Regent House, where I sat with them, and did vote by 
 subscribing papers thus : "Ego Samuel Pepys eligo 
 Magistrum Bernardum Skelton (and which was more 
 strange, my old schoolfellow and acquaintance, and 
 who afterwards did take notice of me, and we spoke 
 together), alterurn e taxatoribus hujus Academise in 
 annum sequentem." The like I did for one Briggs, 
 for the other Taxor, and for other officers, as the Vice- 
 Proctor (Mr. Covell), for Mr. Pepper, and which was 
 the gentleman that did carry me into the Regent 
 House. 
 
 llth. To Brainpton ; where I found my father and 
 two brothers, my mother and sister. 
 
 12th. To church ; where I saw, among others, Mrs. 
 Hanbury, a proper lady, and Mr. Bernard and his 
 lady, with her father, my late Lord St. John, who 
 looks now like a very plain, grave man. 
 
 13th. To the Court, and did sue out a recovery, and 
 cut off the entail ; and my brothers there, to join there- 
 in. And my father and I admitted to all the lands ;
 
 72 PEPYS'S DIARY. [October, 
 
 he for life, and I for myself and my heirs in reversion. 
 I did with most complete joy of mind go from the 
 Court with my father home, and away, calling in at 
 Hinchingbroke, and taking leave in three words of my 
 Lady, and the young ladies ; and so by moonlight to 
 Cambridge, whither we came at about nine o'clock, and 
 took up at the Bear. 
 
 15th. Showed Mr. Cooke King's College Chapel, 
 Trinity College, and St. John's College Library; and 
 that being done, to our inn again; where I met Dr. 
 Fairbrother. He told us how the room we were in 
 was the room where Cromwell and his associated 
 officers did begin to plot and act their mischiefs in these 
 counties. Took leave of all, and begun our journey 
 about nine o'clock, the roads being everywhere but 
 bad; but finding our horses in good case, we even 
 made shift to reach London, though both of us very 
 weary. Found all things well, there happening nothing 
 since our going to my discontent in the least degree ; 
 which do also please me, that I cannot but bless God 
 for my journey, observing a whole course of success 
 from the beginning to the end of it. 
 
 16th. I hear Sir H. Bennet is made Secretary of State 
 in Sir Edward Nicholas's stead; not known whether 
 by consent or not. 
 
 17th. To Creed's chamber, and there sat a good 
 while and drank chocolate. Here I am told how things 
 go at Court ; that the young men get uppermost, and 
 the old serious Lords are out of favour ; that Sir H.
 
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 Bennet, being brought into Sir Edward Nicholas's 
 place, Sir Charles Barkley is made Privy Purse; a 
 most vicious person, and one whom Mr. Pierce, tne 
 surgeon, did tell me that he offered his wife 300 per 
 annum to be his mistress. He also told me, that none 
 in Court hath more the King's ear now than Sir 
 Charles Barkley, and Sir H. Bennet, and my Lady 
 Castlemaine, whose interest now is as great as ever : 
 and that Mrs. Haslerigge, the great beauty, is now 
 brought to bed, and lays it to the King or the Duke of 
 York. He tells me also, that my Lord St. Albans is 
 like to be Lord Treasurer ; all which things do trouble 
 me much. 
 
 19th (Lord's-day). Put on my first new lace-band; 
 and so neat it is, that I am resolved my great expense 
 shall be lace-bands, and it will set off anything else the 
 more. I am sorry to hear that the news of the selling 
 of Dunkirk is taken so generally ill, as I find it is 
 among the merchants ; and other things, as removal of 
 officers at Court, good for worse ; and all things else 
 made much worse in their report among people than 
 they are. And this night, I know not upon what 
 ground, the gates of the City ordered to be all shut, 
 and double guards everywhere. Indeed I do find 
 everybody's spirit very full of trouble : and the things 
 of the Court and Council very ill taken ; so as to be 
 apt to appear in bad colours, if there should ever be a 
 beginning of trouble, which God forbid ! 
 
 20th. In Sir J. Minnes's coach with him and Sir
 
 74 PEPYS'S DIARY. [October, 
 
 W. Batten to Whitehall, where now the Duke is come 
 again to lodge : and to Mr. Coventry's little new 
 chamber there. And by-and-by up to the Duke, who 
 was making himself ready ; and there young Killigrew 
 did so commend The Villain, a new play made by Tom 
 Porter, and acted only on Saturday at the Duke's 
 house, as if there never had been any such play come 
 upon the stage. The same yesterday was told me by 
 Captain Ferrers, and this morning afterwards by Dr. 
 Clarke, who saw it. After I had done with the Duke, 
 with Commissioner Pett to Mr. Lilly's, the great 
 painter, who came forth to us, but believing that I 
 came to bespeak a picture, he prevented it by telling 
 us that he should not be at leisure these three weeks, 
 which, methinks, is a rare thing. And then to see in 
 what pomp his table was laid for himself to go to 
 dinner ; and here, among other pictures, saw the so 
 much desired by me picture of my Lady Castlemaine, 
 which is a most blessed picture, and one that I must 
 have a copy of. From thence I took my wife by 
 coach to the Duke's house, and there was the house 
 full of company ; but whether it was in overexpecting 
 or what, I know not, but I was never less pleased with 
 a play in my life. Though there was good singing 
 and dancing, yet no fancy in the play. 
 
 21st. By water with Mr. Smith to Mr. Lechmore., 
 the counsellor at the Temple, about Field's business ; 
 and he tells me plainly that there being a verdict 
 against me, there is no help for it, but it must proceed
 
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 to judgment. It is 30 damage to me for my joining 
 with others in committing Field to prison, as being not 
 Justices of the Peace in the City, though in Middlesex, 
 which troubled me, and I hope the King will make it 
 good to ns. 
 
 24th. Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, tells me how ill 
 things go at Court : that the King do show no coun- 
 tenance to any that belong to the Queen ; nor, above 
 all, to such English as she brought over with her, or 
 hath here since, for fear they should tell her how he 
 carries himself to Mrs. Palmer ; insomuch that though 
 he has a promise, and is sure of being made her 
 surgeon, he is at a loss what to do in it, whether 
 to take it or no, since the King's mind is so altered 
 and favour to all her dependents, whom she is fain to 
 let go back into Portugal (though she brought them 
 from their friends against their wills with promise of 
 preferment) without doing anything for them. That 
 her own physician did tell him within these three days 
 that the Queen do know how the King orders things, 
 and how he carries himself to my Lady Castlemaine 
 and others, as well as anybody ; but though she hath 
 spirit enough, yet seeing that she do no good by taking 
 notice of it, for the present she forbears it in policy ; 
 of which I am very glad. But I do pray God keep us 
 in peace, for this with other things, do give great dis- 
 content to all people. 
 
 26th (Lord's day). Put on my new scallop, which is 
 very fine. To church, and there saw the first time
 
 76 PEPTS'S DIARY. [October, 
 
 Mr. Mills in a surplice ; but it seemed absurd for him 
 to pull it over his ears in 'the reading-pew, after he 
 had done, before all the church, to go up to the pulpit 
 to preach without it. All this day soldiers going up 
 and down the town, there being an alarm, and many 
 Quakers and other clapped up ; but I believe without 
 any reason, only they say in Dorsetshire there hath 
 been some rising discovered. 
 
 27th. To my Lord Sandwich, who now-a-days calls 
 me into his chamber, and alone did discourse with me 
 about the jealousy that the Court have of people's 
 rising ; wherein he do much dislike my Lord Monk's 
 being so eager against a company of poor wretches, 
 dragging them up and down the street; but would 
 have him rather take some of the greatest ringleaders 
 of them, and punish them ; whereas this do but tell the 
 world the King's fears and doubts. For Dunkirk, he 
 wonders any wise people should be so troubled thereat, 
 and scorns all their talk against it, for that he sees it 
 was not Dunkirk, but the other places, that did and 
 would annoy us, though we had that, as much as if we 
 had it not. He also took notice of the new Ministers 
 of State, Sir H. Bennet and Sir Charles Barkeley, 
 their bringing in, and the high game that my Lady 
 Castlemaine plays at Court. Afterwards he told me of 
 poor Mr. Spong, that being with other people examined 
 before the King and Council (they being laid up as 
 suspected persons ; and it seems Spong is so far 
 thought guilty as that they intend to pitch upon him
 
 PEPYS'S DIARY. 77 
 
 to put to the rack or some other torture), he do take 
 knowledge of my Lord Sandwich, and said that he 
 was well known to Mr. Pepys. But my Lord knows, 
 and I told him, that it was only in matter of music 
 and pipes, but that I thought him to be a very innocent 
 fellow ; and, indeed, I am very sorry for him. After 
 my Lord and I had done in private we went out, and 
 with Captain Cuttance and Bunn did look over their 
 draught of a bridge for Tangier, which will be 
 brought by my desire to our office by them to-morrow. 
 To Westminster Hall, and there walked long with 
 Creed. He showed me our commission, wherein the 
 Duke of York, Prince Rupert, Duke of Albemarle, 
 Lord Peterborough, Lord Sandwich, Sir G-. Carteret, 
 Sir William Compton, Mr. Coventry, Sir R. Ford, 
 Sir William Rider, Mr. Cholmley, Mr. Povy, myself, 
 and Captain Cuttance, in this order are joined for the 
 carrying on the service of Tangier. He told me what 
 great faction there is at Court, and, above all, what is 
 whispered, that young Crofts is lawful son to the 
 King, the King being married to his mother. How 
 true this is God knows, but I believe the Duke of 
 York will not be fooled in this of three crowns. 
 Thence to Whitehall, and walked long in the gardens, 
 till (as they are commanded to all strange persons) one 
 came to tell us, we not being known, and being 
 observed to walk there four or five hours (which was 
 not true, unless they count my walking there in the 
 morning), he was commanded to ask who we were,
 
 78 PEPYS'S DIARY. [October, 
 
 which, being told, he excused his question and was 
 satisfied. These things speak great fear and jealousies. 
 
 29th. Sir G-. Carteret, who had been at the examining 
 most of the late people that are clapped up, do say 
 that he do not think that there hath been any great 
 plotting among them, though they have a good will to 
 it ; and their condition is so poor, and silly, and low, 
 that they do not fear them at all. 
 
 30th. To my Lord Sandwich, who was up in his 
 chamber and all alone, and did acquaint me with his 
 business, which 'was that our old acquaintance, Mr. 
 Wade (in Axe Yard) hath discovered to him 7,000 
 hid in the Tower, of which he was to have two for 
 discovery, my Lord himself two, and the King the 
 other three, when it was found : and that the King's 
 warrant runs for me on my Lord's part, and one Mr. 
 Lee for Sir Harry Bennet to demand leave of the 
 Lieutenant of the Tower for to make search. After he 
 had told me the whole business I took leave, and at 
 noon comes Mr. Wade wth my Lord's letter. So we 
 consulted for me to go first to Sir H. Bennet, who is 
 now with many of the Privy Councillors at the 
 Tower, examining of their late prisoners, to advise 
 with him when to begin. So I went, and the guard at 
 the Tower Gate, making me leave my sword at the 
 gate, I was forced to stay so long in the ale-house 
 close by, till my boy run home for my cloak, that my 
 Lord Mayor that now is, Sir John Robinson, Lieu- 
 tenant of the Tower, with all his company, was gone
 
 1662.J PEPYS'S DIARY. 79 
 
 with their coaches to his house in Minchin Lane. So 
 my cloak being come I walked thither, and there, by 
 Sir G-. Carteret's means, did presently speak with Sir 
 H. Bennet, who did give mo the King's warrant for 
 the paying of 2,000 to my Lord, and other two to 
 the discoverers. After a little discourse dinner came 
 in, and I dined with them. There was my Lord 
 Mayor, my Lord Landerdale, Mr. Secretary Morris, 
 to whom Sir H. Bennet would give the upper hand ; 
 Sir Wm. Compton, Sir G. Carteret, and myself, and 
 some other company, and a brave dinner. After 
 dinner Sir H. Bennet did call aside the Lord Mayor 
 and me, and did break the business to him, who did not, 
 nor durst appear the least averse to it, but did promise 
 all assistance forthwith to set upon it. So Mr. Lee 
 and I to our office, and there walked till Mr. "Wade and 
 one Evett his guide did come, and W. Griffin, and a 
 porter with his pick-axes, &c. : and so they walked 
 along with us to the Tower, and Sir H. Bennet and my 
 Lord Mayor did give us full power to fall to work. 
 So our guide demands a candle, and down into the 
 cellars he goes, inquiring whether they were the same 
 that Baxter always had. He went into several little 
 cellars, and then went out-a-doors to view, and to the 
 Cole Harbour, but none did answer so well to the 
 marks which was given him to find it by as one arched 
 vault, where, after a great deal of counsel whether to 
 set upon it now, or delay for better and more full 
 advice, to digging we went till almost eight o'clock at
 
 80 PEPYS'S DIASY. [October, 
 
 night, but could find nothing. Bnt, however, our 
 guides did not at all seem discouraged, for that they 
 being confident that the money is there they look for, 
 but having never been in the cellars, they could not be 
 positive to the place, and therefore will inform them- 
 selves more fully now they have been there, of the 
 party that do advise them. So locking the door after 
 us, we left here to-night, and up to the Deputy 
 Governor (My Lord Mayor and Sir H. Bennet, with 
 the rest of the company being gone an hour before), 
 and he do undertake to keep the key of the cellars, 
 that none shall go down without his privity. But, 
 Lord ! to see what a young simple fantastic coxcomb 
 is made Deputy Governor would make me mad ; and 
 how he called out for his night-gown of silk, only to 
 make a show to us : and yet for half an hour I did 
 not think he was the Deputy Governor, and so spoke 
 not to him about the business, but waited for another 
 man ; but at last I broke our business to him, and he 
 promising his care, we parted. And Mr. Lee and I 
 by coach to Whitehall, where I did give my Lord 
 Sandwich a full account of our proceedings, and some 
 encouragement to hope for something hereafter. This 
 morning, walking with Mr. Coventry in the garden, 
 he did tell me how Sir G. Carteret had carried the 
 business of the Victuallers' money to be paid by him- 
 self, contrary to old practice, at which he is angry I 
 perceive, but I believe means no hurt, but that things 
 may be done as they ought. He expects Sir George
 
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 should not bespatter him privately, in revenge, not 
 openly. Against which he prepares to bedaub him, 
 and swears he will do it from the beginning, from 
 Jersey to this day. And as to his own taking of too 
 large fees or rewards for places that he had sold, 
 he will prove that he was directed to it by Sir George 
 himself among others. And yet he did not deny Sir 
 G-. Carteret his due, in saying that he is a man that do 
 take the most pains, and gives himself the most to do 
 business of any about the Court, without any desire of 
 pleasure or divertisements, which is very true. But 
 which pleased me mightily, he said in these words, 
 that he was resolved, whatever it cost him, to make an 
 experiment, and see whether it was possible for a man 
 to keep himself up in Court by dealing plainly and 
 walking uprightly. In the doing whereof, if his 
 ground do slip from under him, he will be contented, 
 but he is resolved to try, and never to baulk taking 
 notice of anything that is to the King's prejudice, let 
 it fall where it will, which is a most brave resolution. 
 He was very free with me, and by my troth I do see 
 more real worth in him than in most men that I do 
 know. I would not forget two passages of Sir J. 
 Minnes's at yesterday's dinner. The one, that to the 
 question how it comes to pass that there are no boars 
 seen in London, but many sows and pigs, it was 
 answered, that the constable gets them a-nights. 
 The other, Thos. Killigrew's way of getting to see 
 plays when he was a boy. He would go to the Bed
 
 82 EPYS*S DIAEY. f 
 
 Bull, and when the man cried to the boys, "Who 
 will go and be a devil, and he shall see the play for 
 nothing ? " then would he go in, and be a devil upon 
 the stage, and so get to see plays. 
 
 31st. I thank G-od I have no crosses, but only much 
 business to trouble my mind with. In all other things 
 as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole 
 world seems to smile upon me, and if my house were 
 done that I could diligently follow my business, I 
 would not doubt to do God, and the King, and myself 
 good service. And all I do impute almost wholly to 
 my late temperance, since my making of my vows 
 against wine and plays, which keeps me most happily 
 and contentfully to my biasiness, which God continue ! 
 Public matters are full of discontent, what with the 
 sale of Dunkirk, and my Lady Castlemaine and her 
 faction at Court; though I know not what they 
 would have more than to debauch the King, whom 
 God preserve from it ! And then great plots are 
 talked to be discovered, and all the prisons in town 
 full of ordinary people, taken from their meeting- 
 places last Sunday. But for certain some plots there 
 hath been, though not brought to a head. 
 
 November 1. To my office, to meet Mr. Lee again, 
 from Sir H. Bennet. And he and I, with Wade, and 
 his intelligencer and labourers, to the Tower cellars, to 
 make one trial more ; where we stayed two or three 
 hours and dug a great deal all under the arches, as it 
 was now most confidently directed, and so seriously,
 
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 and upon pretended good grounds, that I myself did 
 truly expect to speed ; but we missed of all, and so we 
 went away the second time like fools. And to our 
 office ; and I by appointment to the Dolphin Tavern," 
 to meet Wade and the other, Capt. Evett, who now do 
 tell me plainly that he that do put him upon this is 
 one that had it from Barkestead's own mouth, and was 
 advised with by him, just before the King's coming in, 
 how to get it out, and had all the signs told him how 
 and where it lay, and had always been the great confi- 
 dant of Barkestead, even to the trusting him with 
 his life and all he had. So that he did much con- 
 vince me that there is good ground for what he goes 
 about. But I fear it may be that he did find some 
 conveyance of it away, without the help of this man, 
 before he died. But he is resolved to go to the party 
 once more, and then to determine what we shall do 
 further. 
 
 3rd. To Whitehall, to the Duke's, but found him 
 gone a-hunting. Thence to my Lord Sandwich, from 
 whom I receive every day more and more signs of his 
 confidence and esteem of me. Here I met with Pierce 
 the surgeon, who tells me that my Lady Castle- 
 maine is with child ; but though it be the King's, yet 
 her Lord being still in town, and sometimes seeing of 
 her, it will be laid to him. He tells me also how the 
 Duke of York is smitten in love with my Lady 
 Chesterfield (a virtuous lady, daughter to my Lord of 
 Onnond), and so much that the Duchess of York hath
 
 84 PEPYS'S DIABY. [November, 
 
 complained to the King and her father about it, and 
 my Lady Chesterfield is gone into the country for it. 
 At all which I am sorry ; but it is the effect of idleness, 
 and having nothing else to employ their great spirits 
 upon. At night to my office, and did business ; and 
 there come to me Mr. Wade and Evett, who have been 
 again with their prime intelligencer, a woman, I per- 
 ceive ; and though we have missed twice, yet they bring 
 such an account of the probability of the truth of the 
 thing, though we are not certain of the place, that we 
 shall set upon it once more, and I am willing and hope- 
 ful in it. So we resolved to set upon it again on Wed- 
 nesday morning ; and the woman herself will be there 
 in a disguise, and confirm us in the place. 
 
 4th. This morning we had news by letters that Sir 
 Richard Stayner is dead at sea in the Mary, which is 
 now come into Portsmouth from Lisbon ; which we are 
 sorry for, he being a very stout seaman. 
 
 7th. Being by appointment called upon by Mr. Lee, 
 he and I to the Tower, to make our third attempt upon 
 the cellar. And now privately the woman, Barke- 
 stead's great confident, is brought, who do positively 
 say that this is the place which he did say the money 
 was hid in, and where he and she did put up the 
 7,000 in butter firkins ; and the very, day that he 
 went out of England did say that neither he nor his 
 would be the better for that money, and therefore 
 wishing that she and hers might. And so left us, and 
 we full of hope did resolve to dig all over the cellar,
 
 1662.] FEPYS'S DIAfiY. 85 
 
 which by seven o'clock at night we performed. At 
 noon we sent for a dinner, and upon the head of a 
 barrel dined very merrily, and to work again. But at 
 last we saw we were mistaken ; and after digging the 
 cellar quite through, and removing the barrels from 
 one side to the other, we were forced to pay our 
 porters, and give over our expectations, though I do 
 believe there must be money hid somewhere by him, 
 or eke he did delude this woman in hopes to oblige 
 her to further serving him, which I am apt to be- 
 lieve. 
 
 9th (Lord's day). Walked to my brother's, where 
 my wife is, calling at many churches, and then to the 
 Temple, hearing a bit there too, and observing that in 
 the streets and churches the Sunday is kept in appear- 
 ance as well as I have known it at any time. 
 
 10th. A little to the office, and so with Sir J. Minnes, 
 Sir W. Batten, and myself by coach to Whitehall, to 
 the Duke, who, after he was ready, did take us into 
 his closet. Thither come my Lord General Monk, and 
 did privately talk with the Duke about having the life- 
 guards pass through the City to-day only for show and 
 to fright people, for I perceive there are great fears 
 abroad ; for all which I am troubled and full of doubt 
 that things will not go well. He being gone, we fell 
 to business of the navy. Among other things, how to 
 pay off this fleet that is now come from Portugal ; the 
 King of Portugal sending them home, he having no 
 more use for them, which we wonder at, that his
 
 86 PEPYS'S DIARY. [November, 
 
 condition should be so soon altered. And our landmen 
 also are coming back, being almost starved in that poor 
 country. To my Lord Crewe's, and dined with him 
 and his brother, I know not his name. Where very 
 good discourse. Among others, of France's intention to 
 make a patriarch of his own, independent from the Pope, 
 by which he will be able to cope with the Spaniard in 
 all councils, which hitherto he has never done. My 
 Lord Crewe told us how he heard my Lord of Holland 
 say, that being Ambassador about the match with the 
 Queen-Mother that now is, the King of France insisted 
 upon a dispensation from the Pope, which my Lord 
 Holland making a question of, as he was commanded 
 to yield to nothing to the prejudice of our religion, 
 says the King of France, " You need not fear that, for 
 if the Pope will not dispense with the match, my 
 Bishop of Paris shall." By-and-by come in the great 
 Mr. Swinfen, the Parliament-man, who, among other 
 discourse of the rise and fall of families, told us of 
 Bishop Bridgeman (father of Sir Orlando), who lately 
 hath bought a seat anciently of the Levers, and then 
 the Ashtons ; and so he hath in his great hall window 
 (having repaired and beautified the house) caused four 
 great places to be left for coats of arms. In one he 
 hath put the Levers, with this motto, "O'liin." In 
 another the Ashtons, with this, " Heri." In the next 
 his own, with this, " Hodie." In the fourth nothing 
 but this motto, " Cras nescio cujus." The town, I 
 hear, is full of discontents, and all know of the King's
 
 1662.] PEPYS'S DIABT. 87 
 
 new bastard by Mrs. Haslerigge, and as far as I can 
 hear will never be contented with Episcopacy, they 
 are so crnelly set for Presbytery, and the Bishops 
 carry themselves so high that they are never likely to 
 gain anything upon them. To the Dolphin Tavern 
 near home, by appointment, and there met with Wade 
 and Evett, and have resolved to make a new attempt 
 upon another discovery, in which God give us better 
 fortune than in the other, but I have great confidence 
 that there is no cheat in these people, but that they go 
 upon good grounds, though they have been mistaken in 
 the place of the first. 
 
 13th. To my office, and there this afternoon we had 
 our first meeting upon our commission of inspecting 
 the Chest. Sir Francis Clerke, Mr. Heath, Attorney 
 of the Duchy, Mr. Prinn, Sir W. Rider, Captain Cooke, 
 and myself. Our first work was to read over the 
 Institution, which is a decree in Chancery in the year 
 1617, upon an inquisition made at Rochester about 
 that time into the revenues of the Chest, which had 
 then, from the year 1588 or 1590, by the advice of the 
 Lord High Admiral and principal officers then being, 
 by consent of the seamen, been settled, paying sixpence 
 per month, according to their wages then, which was 
 then but 10s., which is now 24s. 
 
 17th. To the Duke's to-day, but he is gone a-hunting. 
 At Whitehall by appointment, Mr. Creed carried my 
 wife and I to the Cockpit, and we had excellent places, 
 and saw the King, Queen, Duke of Monmouth, his
 
 88 PEPYS'S DIARY. [November, 
 
 son, and my Lady Castlemaine, and all the fine ladies ; 
 and " The Scornful Lady," well performed. They had 
 done by eleven o'clock, and it being fine moonshine, we 
 took coach and home. 
 
 18th. Late at my office, drawing up a letter to my 
 Lord Treasurer, which we have been long about. 
 
 20th. After dinner to the Temple, to Mr. Thurland ; 
 and thence to my Lord Chief Baron, Sir Edward 
 Hale's, and take Mr. Thurland to his chamber, where 
 he told us that Field will have the better of us ; and 
 that we must study to make up the business as well as 
 we can, which do much vex and trouble us ; but I am 
 glad the Duke is concerned in it. 
 
 21st. This day come the King's pleasure-boats 
 from Calais, with the Dunkirk money, being 400,000 
 pistolles. 
 
 22nd. This day Mr. Moore told me that for certain 
 the Queen-Mother is married to my Lord St. Albans, 
 and he is like to be made Lord Treasurer. News that 
 Sir J. Lawson hath made up a peace now with Tunis 
 and Tripoli, as well as Argiers, by which he will come 
 home very highly honoured. 
 
 23rd. I hear to-day old rich Audley is lately dead, 
 and left a very great estate, and made a great many 
 poor families rich, not all to one. Among others, one 
 Davis, my old schoolfellow at Paul's, and since a book- 
 seller in Paul's Church Yard ; and it seems do forgive 
 one man 6,000 which he had wronged him of, but 
 names not his name ; but it is well known to be the
 
 1662.] PEPYS'S DIABY. 89 
 
 scrivener in Fleet Street, at whose house he lodged. 
 There is also this week dead a poulterer, in Gracious 
 Street, which was thought rich, but not so rich, that 
 hath left 800 per annum, taken in other men's names, 
 and 400,000 Jacobs in gold. 
 
 24th. Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and I, going 
 forth toward Whitehall, we hear that the King and 
 Duke are come this morning to the Tower to see the 
 Dunkirk money. So we by coach to them, and there 
 went up and down all the magazines with them ; but 
 methought it was but poor discourse and frothy that 
 the King's companions (young Killigrew among the 
 rest) had with him. We saw none of the money, but 
 Mr. Slingsby did show the King, and I did see, the 
 stamps of the new money that is now to be made by 
 Blondeau's fashion, which are very neat and like the 
 King. Thence the King to Woolwich, though a very 
 cold day ; and the Duke to Whitehall, commanding us 
 to come after him ; and in his closet, my Lord Sand- 
 wich being there, did discourse with us about getting 
 some of this money to pay off the Fleets, and other 
 matters. 
 
 25th. Great talk among people how some of the 
 fanatics do say that the end of the world is at hand, 
 and that next Tuesday is to be the day. Against 
 which, whenever it shall be, good God fit us all. 
 
 27th. At my waking, I found the tops of the houses 
 covered with snow, which is a rare sight, which I have 
 not seen these three years. To the office, where we
 
 90 PEPYS'S DIABY. [November, 
 
 sat till noon ; when we all went to the next house upon 
 Tower Hill, to see the coming by of the Russian Ambas- 
 sador, for whose reception all the City trained-bands do 
 attend in the streets, and the King's lifeguards, and 
 most of the wealthy citizens in their black velvet coats 
 and gold chains (which remain of their gallantry at 
 the King's coming in), but they stayed so long that we 
 went down again to dinner. And after I had dined I 
 walked to the Conduit in the Quarrefowr, at the end 
 of Gracious Street and Cornhill ; and there (the spouts 
 thereof running very near me upon all the people that 
 were under it) I saw them pretty well go by. I could 
 not see the Ambassador in his coach ; but his attendants 
 in their habits and fur caps very handsome, comely 
 men, and most of them with hawks upon their fists to 
 present to the King. But Lord ! to see the absurd 
 nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing 
 and jeering at everything that looks strange. 
 
 28th. A very hard frost ; which is news to us after 
 having none almost these three years. By ten o'clock 
 to Ironmongers' Hall, to the funeral of Sir Richard 
 Stayner. Here we were, all the officers of the Navy-, 
 and my Lord Sandwich, who did discourse with us 
 about the fishery, telling us of his Majesty's resolution 
 to give 200 to every man that will set out a Busse 
 [herring boat] ; and advising about the effects of this 
 encouragement which will be a very great matter 
 certainly. Here we had good rings. 
 
 29th. To the office; and this morning come Sir
 
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 G. Carteret to us (being the first time since his coming 
 from France) : he tells us, that the silver which is re- 
 ceived from Dunkirk did weigh 120,000 weight. To 
 my Lord's, where my Lord and Mr. Coventry, Sir 
 Wm. Darcy, one Mr. Parham (a very knowing and 
 well-spoken man in this business), with several others, 
 did meet about stating the business of the fishery, and 
 the manner of the King's giving of this 200 to every 
 man that shall set out a new-made English Busse by 
 the middle of June next. In which business we had 
 many fine, pretty discourses ; and I did here see the 
 great pleasure to be had in discoursing of public 
 matters with men that are particularly acquainted with 
 this or that business. Having come to some issue, 
 wherein a motion of mine was well received, about 
 sending these invitations from the King to all the 
 fishing-ports in general, with limiting so many Busses 
 to this, and that port, before we know the readiness 
 of subscribers, we parted. 
 
 30th. Public matters in an ill condition of discontent 
 against the height and vanity of the Court, and their 
 bad payments : but that which troubles most, is the 
 clergy, which will never content the City, which is not 
 to be reconciled to bishops : but more the pity that 
 differences must still be. Dunkirk newly sold, and 
 the money brought over: of which we hope to get 
 some to pay the Navy : which by Sir J. Lawson's 
 having despatched the business in the Straits, by making 
 peace with Argier, Tunis, and Tripoli (and so his fleet
 
 92 PEPYS'S DIAEY. [December, 
 
 will also shortly come homo), will now every day grow 
 less, and so the King's charge be abated ; which God 
 send ! 
 
 December 1. To my Lord Sandwich's, to Mr. Moore ; 
 and then over the Park (where I first in my life, it 
 being a great frost, did see people sliding with 
 their skates, which is a very pretty art), to Mr. 
 Coventry's chamber to St. James's, where we all met 
 to a venison pasty, Major Norwood being with us, 
 whom they did play upon for his surrendering of 
 Dunkirk. Here we stayed till three or four o'clock ; 
 and so to the Council Chamber, where there met the 
 Duke of York, Prince Rupert, Duke of Albemarle, my 
 Lord Sandwich, Sir Wm. Compton, Mr Coventry, Sir 
 J. Minnes, Sir R. Ford, Sir W. Rider, myself, and 
 Captain Cuttance, as Commissioners for Tangier. And . 
 after our Commission was read by Mr. Creed, who I 
 perceive is to be our Secretary, we did fall to discourse 
 of matters : as, first, the supplying them forthwith 
 with victuals ; then reducing it to make way for the 
 money, which upon their reduction is to go to the 
 building of the Mole ; and so to other matters, ordered 
 as against next meeting. 
 
 3rd. To Deptford, and so by water with Mr. Pett 
 home again, all the way reading his Chest accounts, 
 in which I did see things which did not please me ; as 
 his allowing himself 300 for one year's looking to the 
 business of the Chest, and 150 per annum for the rest 
 of the years. But I found no fault to him himself, but
 
 1662.] PEPYS'S DIABT. 93 
 
 shall when they come to be read at the Board. "We 
 walked to the Temple, in our way seeing one of the 
 Russian Ambassador's coaches go along, with his 
 footmen not in livery, but their country habits ; one 
 of one colour and another of another which was very 
 strange. 
 
 5th. I walked towards Guildhall, being summoned 
 by the Commissioners for the Lieutenancy ; but they 
 sat not this morning. So meeting in my way W. Swan, 
 I took him to a house thereabouts, he telling me much 
 of his fanatic stories as if he were a great zealot, 
 when I know him to be a very rogue. But I do it for 
 discourse, and to see how things stand with him and 
 his party ; who I perceive have great expectation that 
 God will not bless the Court nor Church, as it is now 
 settled, but they must be purified. The worst news he 
 tells me, is that Mr. Chetwind is dead, my old and 
 most ingenious acquaintance. To the Duke's, where 
 the Committee for Tangier met : and here we sat down 
 all with him at a table, and had much discourse about 
 the business. 
 
 13th. We sat, Mr. Coventry and I (Sir G. Carteret 
 being gone), and among other things, Field and Strip 
 did come, and received the 41 given him by the 
 judgment against me and Harry Kem ; and we did 
 also sign bonds in 500 to stand to the award of Mr. 
 Porter and Smith for the rest : which, however, I did 
 not sign to till I got Mr. Coventry to go up with me to 
 Sir W. Pen ; and he did promise me before him to
 
 94 PEPYS'S DIARY. [December, 
 
 bear his share in what should be awarded, and both 
 concluded that Sir W. Batten would do no less. 
 
 15th. To the Duke, and followed him into the Park, 
 where, though the ice was broken and dangerous, yet 
 he would go slide upon his skates, which I did not like, 
 but he slides very well. So back to his closet, whither 
 my Lord Sandwich comes, and there Mr. Coventry, 
 and we three had long discourse together about the 
 matters of the Navy : and, indeed, I find myself more 
 and more obliged to Mr. Coventry, who studies to do 
 me all the right he can in everything to the Duke. 
 Thence walked a good while up and down the galleries ; 
 and among others, met with Dr. Clarke, who in discourse 
 tells me, that Sir Charles Barkeley's greatness is only 
 his being pimp to the King, and to my Lady Oastle- 
 maine. And yet for all this, that the King is very 
 kind to the Queen ; who, he says, is one of the best 
 women in the world. Strange how the King is be- 
 witched to this pretty Castlemaine. I walked up and 
 down the galleries, spending my time upon the pictures, 
 till the Duke and the Committee for Tangier met (the 
 Duke not staying with us), where the only matter was to 
 discourse with my Lord Rutherford, who is this day 
 made Governor of Tangier, for I know not what reasons ; 
 and my Lord of Peterborough to be called home : which, 
 though it is said it is done with kindness, I am sorry to 
 see a Catholic Governor sent to command there, where 
 all the rest of the officers almost are such already. But 
 God knows what the reason is ! and all may see how
 
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 slippery places all courtiers stand in. Thence home, 
 in my way calling npon Sir John Berkenheade, to 
 speak abont my assessment of 42 to the loyal sufferers, 
 which, I perceive, I cannot help ; but he tells me I 
 have been abused by Sir R. Ford. Thence called at 
 the Major-General's, Sir R. Browne, about my being 
 assessed arms to the militia ; but he was abroad. 
 
 16th. To dinner, thinking to have had Mr. Coventry, 
 but he could not go with me ; and so I took Captain 
 Murford. Of whom I do hear what the world says of 
 me ; that all do conclude Mr. Coventry and Pett and 
 me to be of a knot ; and that we do now carry all 
 things before us : and much more in particular of me, 
 and my studiousness, &c., to my great content. To 
 Whitehall to Secretary Bennet's, and agreed with Mr. 
 Lee to set upon our new adventure at the Tower to- 
 morrow. 
 
 17th. This morning come Mr. Lee, "Wade, and Evett, 
 intending to have gone upon our new design to the 
 Tower ; but it raining, and the work being to be done in 
 open garden, we put it off to Friday next. 
 
 19th. Up and by appointment with Mr. Lee, "Wade, 
 Evett, and workmen to the Tower, and with the Lieu- 
 tenant's leave set them to work in the garden, in the 
 corner against the main-guard, a most unlikely place. 
 It being cold, Mr. Lee and I did sit all the day till 
 three o'clock by the fire in the Governor's house ; I 
 reading a play of Fletcher's, being "A Wife for a 
 Month," wherein no great wit or language. We went
 
 96 PEPYS'S DIABY. [December, 
 
 to them at work, and having wrought below the bottom 
 of the foundation of the wall, I bid them give over 
 and so all our hopes ended. 
 
 20th. To the office, and thence with Mr. Coventry 
 in his coach to St. James's, with great content and 
 pride to see him treat me so friendly ; and dined with 
 him, and so to Whitehall together ; where we met 
 upon the Tangier Commission, and discoursed many 
 things thereon : but little will be done before my Lord 
 Rutherford comes there, as to the fortification and 
 Mole. That done, my Lord Sandwich and I walked 
 together a good while in the matted gallery, he ac- 
 quainting me with his late inquiries into the Ward- 
 robe business to his content ; and tells me how things 
 stand. And that the first year was worth about 3,000 
 to him, and the next about as much : so that at this 
 day, if he were paid, it would be worth about 7,000 
 to him. 
 
 21st. To Whitehall, and there to chapel, and from 
 thence upstairs, and up and down the house and 
 galleries on the King's and Queen's side, and so 
 through the garden to my Lord's lodgings, where there 
 was Mr. Gibbons, Madge, Mallard, and Pagett; and 
 by-and-by comes in my Lord Sandwich, and so we had 
 great store of good music. By-and-by comes in my 
 simple Lord Chandois, who (my Lord Sandwich being 
 gone out to Court) began to sing psalms, but so dully 
 that I was weary of it. 
 
 22nd. I 'walked to Mr. Coventry's chamber, where I
 
 PEPTS'S DIABT. 97 
 
 found him gone out into the Park with the Duke, so I 
 shifted myself into a riding-habit, and followed him 
 through Whitehall, and in the Park Mr. Coventry's 
 people having a horse ready for me (so fine a one that 
 I was almost afraid to get upon him, but I did, and 
 found myself more feared than hurt), and followed the 
 Duke, who with some of his people (among others Mr. 
 Coventry) was riding out. And with them to Hyde 
 Park : where Mr. Coventry asking leave of the Duke, 
 he bids us go to Woolwich. So he and I to the water- 
 side, and our horses coming by the ferry, we by oars over 
 to Lambeth, and from thence, with brave discourse by 
 the way, rode to Woolwich, where we put in practice 
 my new way of the Call-book, which will be of great 
 use. 
 
 23rd. Dr. Pierce tells me that my Lady Castle- 
 maine's interest at Court increases, and is more and 
 greater than the Queen's ; that she hath brought in 
 Sir H. Bennet and Sir Charles Barkeley; but that 
 the Queen is a most good lady, and takes all with 
 the greatest meekness that may be He tells me, also, 
 that Mr. Edward Montagu is quite broke at Court with 
 his repute and purse ; and that he lately was engaged 
 in a quarrel against my Lord Chesterfield; but that 
 the King did cause it to be taken up. He tells me, 
 too, that the King is much concerned in the Chan- 
 cellor's sickness, and that the Chancellor is as great, 
 he thinks, as ever with the King. He also tells me 
 what the world says of me, " that Mr. Coventry and I 
 D 41
 
 98 PBPYS'S DTARY. [December, 
 
 do all the business of the office almost : " at which I am 
 highly proud. 
 
 24th. To my bookseller's, and paid at another shop 
 4 10s. for Stephens's Thesaurus Graecae Linguae, 
 given to Paul's School. To my Lord Crete's, and 
 dined alone with him. I understand there are great 
 factions at Court, and something he said that did 
 imply a difference like to be between the King and the 
 Duke, in case the Queen should not be with child. I 
 understand, about this bastard. He says, also, that 
 some great man will be aimed at when Parliament 
 comes to sit again : I understand, the Chancellor ; and 
 that there is a bill will be brought in, that none that 
 have been in arms for the Parliament shall be capable 
 of office ; and that the Court are weary of my Lord 
 Albemarle and Chamberlin. He wishes that my Lord 
 Sandwich had some good occasion to be abroad this 
 summer which is coming on, and that my Lord 
 Hinchingbroke were well married, and Sydney had 
 some place at Court. He pities the poor ministers that 
 are put out, to whom, he says, the King is beholden 
 for his coming in, and that if any such thing had been 
 foreseen he had never come in. At my bookseller's 
 in Paul's Churchyard, who takes it ill my letter last 
 night to Mr. Povy, wherein I accuse him of the neglect 
 of the Tangier boats, in which I must confess I did not 
 do altogether like a friend ; but however it was truth 
 and I ntust own it to be so, though I fall wholly out 
 with him for it.
 
 1662.] PEPYS'S DIABT. 99 
 
 25th (Christmas Day). Had a pleasant walk to 
 Whitehall, where I intended to have received the 
 communion with the family, but I came a little too 
 late. So I walked up into the house and spent my 
 time looking over pictures, particularly the ships in 
 King Henry the Eighth's Yoyage to Boulogne ; mark- 
 ing the great difference between those built then and 
 now. By-and-by down to the chapel again, where 
 Bishop Morley preached upon the song of the Angels, 
 " Glory to God on high, on earth peace, and good 
 will towards men." Methought he made but a poor 
 sermon, but long, and reprehending the common jollity 
 of the Court for the true joy that shall and ought to 
 be on these days. Particularised concerning their 
 excess in plays and gaming, saying that he whose 
 office it is to keep the gamesters in order and within 
 bounds, serves but for a second rather in a duel, mean- 
 ing the groom-porter. Upon which it was worth 
 observing how far they are come from taking the re- 
 prehensions of a bishop seriously, that they all laugh 
 in the chapel when he reflected on their ill actions and 
 courses. He did much press us to joy in these public 
 days of joy, and to hospitality. But one that stood by 
 whispered in my ear that the Bishop do not spend one 
 groat to the poor himself. The sermon done, a good 
 anthem followed with viols, and the King came down 
 to receive the Sacrament. 
 
 26th. To the Wardrobe. Hither come Mr. Battersby ; 
 and we falling into discourse of a new book of drol-
 
 100 PEPTS'S DIABT. - [December, 
 
 lery in use, called Hudibras, I would needs go find 
 it out, and met with it at the Temple : cost me 2s. 6d. 
 But when I come to read it, it is so silly an abuse of 
 the Presbyter Knight going to the wars, that I am 
 ashamed of it ; and by-and-by meeting at Mr Town- 
 send's at dinner, I sold it to him for 18d. 
 
 27th. "With my wife to the Duke's Theatre, and saw 
 the second part of "Rhodes," done with the new 
 Roxalana ; which do it rather better in all respects for 
 person, voice, and judgment, than the first Roxalana. 
 
 29th. To Westminster Hall, where I stayed reading 
 at Mrs. Mitchell's shop. She told me what I heard 
 not of before, the strange burning of Mr. De Laun, a 
 merchant's house in Lothbury, and his lady (Sir 
 Thomas Allen's daughter) and her whole family ; not 
 one thing, dog nor cat, escaping ; nor any of the neigh- 
 bours almost hearing of it till the house was quite 
 down and burnt. How this should come to pass, God 
 knows, but a most strange thing it is ! Hither come 
 Jack Spicer, and talked of Exchequer matters, and 
 how the Lord Treasurer hath now ordered all moneys 
 to be brought into the Exchequer, and hath settled 
 the King's revenues, and given to every general ex- 
 pense proper assignments ; to the Navy 200,000 and 
 odd. He also told me of the great, vast trade of the 
 goldsmiths in supplying the King with money at dear 
 rates. Thence to Whitehall, and got up to the top 
 galleries in the Banqueting House to see the audience 
 of the Russian Ambassador ; which took place after our
 
 1662.1 PEPTS'S DIAET. 101 
 
 long waiting and fear of the falling of the gallery (it 
 being so full and part of it being parted from the rest, 
 for nobody to come up merely from the weakness 
 thereof), and very handsome it was. After they had 
 come in, I went down and got through the crowd 
 almost as high as the King and the Ambassadors, 
 where I saw all the presents, being rich furs, hawks, 
 carpets, cloths of tissue, and sea-horse teeth. The 
 King took two or three hawks upon his fist, having 
 a glove on wrought with gold, given him for the pur- 
 pose. The son of one of the Ambassadors was in the 
 richest suit for pearl and tissue that ever I did see, or 
 shall, I believe. After they and all the company had 
 kissed the King's hand, then the three Ambassadors 
 and the son, and no more, did kiss the Queen's. One 
 thing more I did observe, that the chief Ambassador 
 did carry up his master's letters in state before him on 
 high ; and as soon as he had delivered them, he 
 did fall down to the ground and lay there a great 
 while. After all was done, the company broke up; 
 and I spent a little while walking up and down the 
 gallery seeing the ladies, the two Queens, and the 
 Duke of Moninouth with his little mistress, which is 
 very little, and like my brother-in-law's wife. 
 
 30th. Visited Mrs. Ferrer, and stayed talking with 
 her a good while, there being a little, proud, ugly 
 talking lady there, that was much crying up the 
 Queen-Mother's Court at Somerset House above our 
 own Queen's ; there being before her no allowance of
 
 102 PEPYS'S DIARY. (.December, 
 
 laughing and the mirth that is at the other's ; and 
 indeed it is observed that the greatest Court now-a- 
 days is there. Thence to Whitehall, where I carried 
 my wife to see the queen in her presence chamber ; and 
 the maids of honour and the young Duke of Monmouth 
 playing at cards. Some of them, and but a few, 
 were very pretty; though all well dressed in velvet 
 gowns. 
 
 31st. Mr. Povy and I to Whitehall ; he taking me 
 thither on purpose to carry me into the ball this night 
 before the King. He brought me first to the Duke's 
 chamber, where I saw him and the Duchess at supper ; 
 and thence into the room where the ball was to be, 
 crammed with fine ladies, the greatest of the Court. 
 By-and-by comes the King and Queen, the Duke and 
 Duchess, and all the great ones : and after seating 
 themselves, the King takes out the Duchess of York ; 
 and the Duke, the Duchess of Buckingham ; the Duke of 
 Monmouth, my Lady Castlemaine ; and so other lords 
 other ladies : and they danced the Brantle. After that 
 the King led a lady a single Coranto ; and then the rest 
 of the lords, one after another, other ladies : very noble 
 it was, and great pleasure to see. Then to country 
 dances; the King leading the first, which he called 
 for ; which was, says he, " Cuckolds all awry," the 
 old dance of England. Of the ladies that danced, the 
 Duke of Momnouth's mistress, and my Lady Castle- 
 maine, and a daughter of Sir Harry de Yicke's, were 
 the best. The manner was, when the King danre, all
 
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 the ladies in the room, and the Qneen herself, stand 
 up : and indeed he dances rarely, and mnch better than 
 the Duke of York. Having stayed here as long as I 
 thought fit to my infinite content, it being the greatest 
 pleasure I could wish now to see at Court, I went 
 home, leaving them dancing. 
 
 Thus ends this year with great mirth to me and my 
 wife. Our condition being thus : we are at present 
 spending a night or two at my Lord's lodgings at 
 Whitehall. Our home at the Navy-office, which is and 
 hath a pretty while been in good condition, finished and 
 made very convenient. By my last year's diligence in 
 my office, blessed be God ! I am come to a good degree 
 of knowledge therein ; and am acknowledged so by all 
 the world, even the Duke himself, to whom I have a 
 good access : and by that, and by my being Commis- 
 sioner for Tangier, he takes much notice of me ; and I 
 doubt not but, by the continuance of the same endea- 
 vours, I shall in a little time come to be a man much 
 taken notice of in the world, especially being come to 
 so great an esteem with Mr. Coventry. Public matters 
 stand thus : The King is bringing, as is said, his 
 family, and Navy, and all other his charges, to a less 
 expense. In the meantime, himself following his plea- 
 sures more than with good advice he would do; at 
 least to be seen to all the world to do so. His dalliance 
 with my Lady Castlemaine being public, every day, to 
 his great reproach ; and his favouring of none at Court 
 so much as those that are the confidants of his pleasure,
 
 104 PEPYS'S DIARY. [December, 
 
 as Sir H. Bennet and Sir Charles Barkeley ; which, 
 good God put it into his heart to mend, before he 
 makes himself too much contemned by his people for 
 it ! The Duke of Monmouth is in so great splendour 
 at Court and so dandled by the King, that some doubt 
 that if the King should have no child by the Queen 
 (which there is yet no appearance of ), whether he would 
 not be acknowledged for a lawful son ; and that there 
 will be a difference follow between the Duke of York 
 and him ; which God prevent ! My Lord Chancellor 
 is threatened by people to be questioned, the next sit- 
 ting of the Parliament, by some spirits that do not 
 love to see him so great : but certainly he is a good 
 servant to the King. The Queen-Mother is said to 
 keep too great a Court now ; and her being married 
 to my Lord St. Alban's is commonly talked of; 
 and that they had a daughter between them in France, 
 how true, God knows. The Bishops are high, and go 
 on without any diffidence in pressing uniformity ; and 
 the Presbyters seem silent in it, and either conform 
 or lay down, though without doubt they expect a 
 turn, and would be glad these endeavours of the other 
 fanatics would take effect; there having been a plot 
 lately found, for which four have been publicly tried at 
 the Old Bailey and hanged. My Lord Sandwich is still 
 in good esteem, and now keeping his Christmas in the 
 country ; and I in good esteem, I think, as any man 
 can be with him. In fine, for the good condition of 
 myself, wife, family, and estate, in the great degree
 
 1662.] PEPYS'S DIABY. 105 
 
 that it is, and for the public state of the nation, so 
 quiet as it is, the Lord God be praised ! 
 
 1662-3. January 1. Among other discourse, Mrs. 
 Sarah tells us how the King sups at least four times 
 every week with my Lady Castlemaine ; and most often 
 stays till the morning with her and goes home through 
 the garden all alone privately, and that so as the very 
 sentries take notice of it and speak of it. She tells me 
 that about a month ago, she quickened at my Lord 
 Gerard's at dinner, and cried out that she was undone ; 
 and all the lords and men were fain to quit the room, 
 and women called to help her. 
 
 5th. To the Duke, who himself told me that Sir J. 
 Lawson was cojne home to Portsmouth from the 
 the Straits with great renown among all men, and, I 
 perceive, mightily esteemed at Court by all. The 
 Duke did not stay long in his chamber ; but to the 
 King's chamber, whither by-and-by the Russian Ambas- 
 sadors come ; who it seems have a custom that they 
 will not come to have any treaty with our or any King's 
 Commissioners, but they will themselves see at the time 
 the face of the King himself, be it forty days one after 
 another ; and so they did to-day only go in and see the 
 King ; and so out again to the council-chamber. To 
 the Duke's closet, where Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, 
 Sir "W. Batten, Mr. Coventry, and myself attended him 
 about the business of the Navy ; and after much dis- 
 course and pleasant talk he went away. To the Cock- 
 pit, where we saw, " Claracilla," a poor play done by
 
 106 PEPYS'S DIABY. [January, 
 
 the King's house ; but neither the King nor Queen 
 were there, but only the Duke and Duchess. El- 
 borough (my old schoolfellow at Paul's) do tell me, and 
 so do others, that Dr. Calamy is this day sent to New- 
 gate for preaching, Sunday was se'nuight, without leave, 
 though he did it only to supply the place ; otherwise 
 the people must have gone away without ever a sermon, 
 they being disappointed of a minister : but the Bishop 
 of London will not take that as an excuse. Dined at 
 home ; and there being the famous new play acted the 
 first time to-day, which is called " The Adventures of 
 Five Hours," at the Duke's house, being, they say, made 
 or translated by Colonel Tuke, I did long to see it ; and 
 so we went ; and though early, were forced to sit al- 
 most out of sight, at the end of one of the lower forms, 
 so full was the house. And the play, in one word, is 
 the best, for the variety and the most excellent continu- 
 ance of the plot to the very end, that ever I saw, or 
 think ever shall. 
 
 12th. I found my Lord within, and he and I went 
 out through the garden towards the Duke's chamber, to 
 sit upon the Tangier matters ; but a lady called to my 
 Lord out of my Lady Castlemaine's lodgings, telling 
 him that the King was there and would speak with him. 
 My Lord could not tell me what to say at the Com- 
 mittee to excuse his absence, but that he was with the 
 King ; nor would suffer me to go into the privy garden 
 (which is now a through -passage and common), but bid 
 me to go through some other way, which I did ; so that I
 
 1663.] PEPYS'S D1ABT. 107 
 
 see he is a servant of the King's pleasures too, as well 
 as business. 
 
 19th. Singled out Mr. Coventry into the matted gal- 
 lery, and there I told him the complaints I meet every 
 day about our Treasurer's or his people's paying no 
 money, but at the goldsmith's shops, where they are 
 forced to pay fifteen or sometimes twenty per cent, for 
 their money, which is a most horrid shame, and that 
 which must not be suffered. Nor is it likely that the 
 Treasurer (at least his people) will suffer Maynell the 
 goldsmith to go away with 10,000 per annum, as he 
 do now get, by making people pay after this manner 
 for their money. 
 
 To my Lord Chancellor's, where the King was to 
 meet my Lord Treasurer and many great men, to settle 
 the revenue of Tangier. I stayed talking awhile there, 
 but the King not coming, I walked to my brother's. 
 This day, by Dr. Clarke I was told the occasion of my 
 Lord Chesterfield's going and taking his lady (my 
 Lord Ormond's daughter) from Court. It seems he 
 not only hath been long jealous of the Duke of York, 
 but did find them two talking together, though 
 there were others in the room, and the lady by all 
 opinions a most good, virtuous woman. He the next 
 day (of which the Duke was warned by somebody that 
 saw the passion my Lord Chesterfield was in the night 
 before), went and told the Duke how much he did 
 apprehend himself wronged, in his picking out his lady 
 of the whole Court to be the subject of his dishonour ;
 
 108 PEPYS'S DIABY. [January, 
 
 which the Duke did answer with great calmness, not 
 seeming to understand the reason of complaint, and 
 that was all that passed : but my Lord did presently 
 pack his lady into the country in Derbyshire, near the 
 Peak ; which is become a proverb at Court, to send a 
 man's wife to the Peak when she vexes him. 
 
 23rd. Mr. Grant and I to a coffee-house, where Sir 
 J. Cutler was; and he did fully make out that the 
 trade of England is as great as ever it was, only in 
 more hands ; and that of all trades there is a greater 
 number than ever there was, by reason of men's taking 
 more 'prentices. His discourse was well worth hearing. 
 I bought " Audley's Way to be Rich," a serious pam- 
 phlet, and some good things worth my minding. 
 
 25th. I understand the King of France is upon con- 
 sulting his divines upon the old question, What the 
 power of the Pope is? and do intend to make war 
 against him, unless he do right him for the wrong his 
 Ambassador received; and banish the Cardinal Imperial, 
 by which I understand is not meant the Cardinal be- 
 longing or chosen by the Emperor, but the name of his 
 family is Imperiali. To my lord, and I stayed talking with 
 him an hour alone in his chamber, about sundry public 
 and private matters. Among others he wonders what 
 the project should be of the Duke's going down to 
 Portsmouth again now with his lady, at this time of 
 the year : it being no way, we think, to increase his 
 popularity, which is not great ; nor yet safe to do it, 
 for that reason if it would have any such effect. Capt.
 
 1663.] PEPYS'S DIABY. 109 
 
 Ferrers tells me of my Lady Oastlemaine and Sir 
 Charles Barkeley being the great favourites at Court, 
 and growing every day more and more so ; and that 
 upon a late dispute between my Lord Chesterfield, that 
 is the Queen's Lord Chamberlain, and Mr. Edward 
 Montagu, her Master of the Horse, who should have 
 the precedence in taking the Queen's upper hand 
 abroad out of the house, which Mr. Montagu challenges, 
 it was given to my Lord Chesterfield. So that I per- 
 ceive he goes down the wind in honour as well as every 
 thing else, every day. 
 
 26th. I met with Monsieur Raby who is lately come 
 from France. I had a great deal of very good discourse 
 with him, concerning the difference between the French 
 and the Pope, and the occasion, which he told me 
 very particularly, and to my great content ; and of 
 most of the chief affairs of France, which I did inquire: 
 and that the King is a most excellent Prince, doing all 
 business himself ; and that it is true he hath a mistress, 
 Mademoiselle LaValliere, one of the Princess Henriette's 
 women, that he courts for his pleasure every other day, 
 but not so as to make him neglect his public affairs. He 
 tells me how the King do carry himself nobly to the 
 relations of the dead Cardinal, and will not suffer one 
 pasquil to come forth against him ; and that he acts 
 by what directions he received from him before his 
 death. 
 
 30th. My manuscript is brought home handsomely 
 bound, to my full content ; and now I think I have a
 
 110 PEPYS'S DIAEY. [January, 
 
 better collection in reference to the Navy, and shall 
 have by the time I have filled it, than any of my prede- 
 cessors. 
 
 February 1. This day Creed and I walking in Wliite- 
 hall, did see the King coming privately from my Lady 
 Castlemaine's, which is a poor thing for a Prince to 
 do ; and so I expressed my sense of it to Creed in terms 
 which I should not have done, but that I believe he is 
 trusty in that point. 
 
 2nd. With Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten to the 
 Duke ; and after discourse as usual with him in his 
 closet, I went to my Lord's : the King and the Duke 
 being gone to chapel, it being a collar day, Candlemas 
 Day ; where I stayed with him until towards noon, there 
 being Jonas Moore talking about some mathematical 
 businesses. With Mr. Coventry down to his chamber, 
 where he did tell me how he do make himself an in- 
 terest by doing business truly and justly, though he 
 thwarts others greater than himself, not striving to make 
 himself friends by addresses ; and by this he thinks 
 and observes he do live as contentedly (now he finds 
 himself secured from fear of want), and, take one time 
 with another, as void of fears or cares, or more, than 
 they that (as his own terms were) have quicker pleasures 
 and sharper agonies than he. 
 
 4th. To Paul's School, it being opposition-day there. 
 I heard some of their speeches, and they were just as 
 schoolboys' used to be, of the seven liberal sciences ; 
 but I think not so good as ours were in our time.
 
 1663.] PEPYS'8 DIABT. Ill 
 
 Thence to Bow Church, to the Court of Arches, where 
 a judge sits, and his proctors about him in their habits, 
 and their pleadings all in Latin. Here I was sworn 
 to give a true answer to my uncle's libels. And back 
 again to Paul's School, and went up to see the head 
 forms posed in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Dr. Wil- 
 kins and Outram were examiners. 
 
 6th. To Lincoln's Inn Fields, and it being too soon 
 to go to dinner, I walked up and down, and looked 
 upon the outside of the new theatre building in Covent 
 Garden, which will be very fine. And so to a book- 
 sellers in the Strand, and there bought Hudibras again, 
 it being certainly some ill humour to be so against that 
 which all the world cries up to be the example of wit, 
 for which I am resolved once more to read him and see 
 whether I can find it or no. 
 
 7th. To Whitehall to chapel, where there preached 
 little Dr. Duport, of Cambridge, upon Josiah's words : 
 " But I and my house we will serve the Lord." Thence 
 with Mr. Creed to the King's Head ordinary. After 
 dinner Sir Thomas Willis and another stranger, and 
 Creed, and I fell a talking, they of the errors and cor- 
 ruption of the Navy, and great expense thereof, not 
 knowing who I was, which at last I did undertake to 
 confute and disabuse them, and they took it very well, 
 and I hope it was to good purpose they being Parlia- 
 ment men. Creed and I, and Captain Ferrers to the 
 Park, and there walked finely, seeing people slide, we 
 talking all the while, and Captain Ferrers telling me
 
 112 PEPYS'S DIAET. [January, 
 
 among other Court passages, how about a month ago, 
 at a ball at Court, a child was dropped by one of the 
 ladies in dancing, but nobody knew who, it being taken 
 up by somebody in their handkerchief. The next 
 morning all the Ladies of Honour appeared early at 
 Court for their vindication, so that nobody could tell 
 whose this mischance should be. But it seems Mrs. 
 Wells fell sick that afternoon, and hath disappeared 
 ever since, so that it is concluded it was her. The 
 little Duke of Monmouth, it seems, is ordered to take 
 place of all Dukes, and so do follow Prince Rupert 
 now, before the Duke of Buckingham or any else. 
 
 13th. To my office, where late upon business, Mr. 
 Bland sitting with me, talking of my Lord Windsor's 
 being come home from Jamaica unlocked for, which 
 makes us think that these young Lords are not fit to 
 do any service abroad, though it is said that he could 
 not have his health there, but hath razed a fort of the 
 King of Spain upon Cuba, which is considerable, or 
 said to be so, for his honour. ( 
 
 16th. To Westminster Hall, and there find great 
 expectation what the Parliament will do, when they 
 come two days hence to sit again, in matters of 
 religion. The great question is whether the Presbyters 
 will be contented to let the Papists have the same 
 liberty of conscience with them or no, or rather be 
 denied it themselves, and the Papists I hear, are very 
 busy in designing how to make the Presbyters consent 
 to take their liberty, and to let them have the same
 
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 with them, which some are apt to think they will. It 
 seems a priest was taken in his vests officiating some- 
 where in Holborn the other day, and was committed 
 by Secretary Morris, according to law, and they say 
 the Bishop of London did give him thanks for it. 
 
 17th. To my Lord Sandwich, whom I found at cards 
 with Pickering, but he made an end soon, and so all 
 alone he told me he had a great secret to tell me, snch 
 as no flesh knew but himself, nor ought, which was 
 this : that yesterday morning Eschar, Mr. Edward 
 Montagu's man, did come to him from his master with 
 some of the clerks of the Exchequer, for my Lord to 
 sign to their books for the Embassy money ; which my 
 Lord very civilly desired not to do till he had spoke 
 with his master himself. In the afternoon, my Lord 
 and my Lady Wright being at cards in his chamber, 
 in comes Mr. Montagu, and desiring to speak with 
 my Lord at the window in his chamber, he began to 
 charge my Lord with the greatest ingratitude in the 
 world ; that he that had received his earldom, garter, 
 4,000 per annum, and whatever he has in the world 
 from him, should now study him all the dishonour that 
 he could ; and so fell to tell my Lord that if he should 
 speak all that he knew of him, he could do so and so. 
 In a word, he did rip up all that could be said that was 
 unworthy, and in the basest terms they could be spoken 
 in. To which my Lord answered with great temper, 
 justifying himself, but endeavouring to lessen his heat, 
 which was a strange temper in him, knowing that he
 
 114 PEPYS's DJABY. 
 
 did owe all lie hath in the world to my Lord, and that 
 he is now all that he is by his means and favour. But 
 my Lord did forbear to increase the quarrel, knowing 
 that it would be to no good purpose for the world to 
 see a difference in the family, but did allay them so as 
 that he fell to weeping. And after much talk (among 
 other things Mr. Montagu telling him that there was 
 a fellow in the town, naming me, that had done ill 
 offices, and that if he knew it to be so, he would have 
 him cudgeled) my Lord did promise him that, if upon 
 account he saw that there were not many tradesmen 
 unpaid, he would sign the books, but if there was he 
 could not bear with taking too great a debt upon him. 
 So this day he sent him an account and a letter 
 assuring him there was not above 200 unpaid, and so 
 my Lord did sign to the Exchequer books. Upon the 
 whole, I understand fully what a rogue he is, and how 
 my Lord do think and will think of him for the future, 
 telling me that thus he has served his father my Lord 
 Manchester and his whole family, and now himself ; 
 and, which is worst, that he hath abused, and in 
 speeches every day do abuse my Lord Chancellor 
 whose favour he hath lost, and hath no friend but Sir 
 H. Bennet, and that (I knowing the rise of his friend- 
 ship) only from the likeness of their pleasures, and ac- 
 quaintance, and concernments they have in the same 
 matters of lust and baseness, for which, God forgive 
 them ! But he do flatter himself, from promises of Sir 
 H. Bennet, that he shall have a pension of 2,000 per
 
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 annum, and be made an earl. My Lord told me he 
 expected a challenge from him, but told me there was 
 no great fear of him, for there was no man lies under 
 such an imputation as he do in the business of Mr. 
 Cholmley, who, though a simple, sorry fellow, do brave 
 him and struts before him with the Queen, to the 
 sport and observation of the whole Court. Mr. 
 Pickering tells me the story is very true of a child 
 being dropped at the ball at Court, and that the King 
 had it in his closet a week after, and did dissect it, and 
 making great sport of it said, that in his opinion, it 
 must have been a month and three hours old, and that, 
 whatever others think, he hath the greatest loss (it 
 being a boy, as he says) that hath lost a subject by the 
 business. He tells me too, that Sir H. Bennet is a 
 Catholic, and how all the Court almost is changed to 
 the worst since his coming in, they being afraid of 
 him. And that the Queen- Mother's court is now the 
 greatest of all, and that our own Queen hath little or 
 no company come to her, which I know also to be very- 
 true, and am sorry to see it. 
 
 February 18. Mr. Hater and I alone at the office, 
 finishing our account of the extra charge of the Navy, 
 not properly belonging to the Navy, since the King's 
 coming in to Christmas last; and all extra things being 
 abated, I find that the true charge of the Navy to that 
 time hath been after the rate of 374,743 a year. I 
 made an end by eleven o'clock at night. This day the 
 Parliament met again, after their long prorogation, but
 
 116 PEPYS'S DIABY. L^ebruary, 
 
 I know not anything what they have done, being within 
 doors all day. 
 
 19th. This day I read the King's speech to the 
 Parliament yesterday, which is very short and not 
 very obliging, but only telling them his desire to have 
 a power of indulging tender consciences, and that he 
 will yield to have any mixture in the uniformity of the 
 Church's discipline, and says the same for the Papists, 
 but declares against their ever being admitted to have 
 any offices or places of trust in the kingdom, but God 
 knows, too many have. 
 
 21st. To the office, where Sir J. Minnes (most of the 
 rest being at the Parliament House), all the morning 
 answering petitions and other business. Towards 
 noon there comes a man as if upon ordinary business, 
 and shows me a writ from the Exchequer, called a 
 Commission of Rebellion, and tells me that I am his 
 prisoner in Field's business; which methought did 
 strike me to the heart, to think that we could not sit in 
 the middle of the King's business. I told him how 
 and where we were employed, and bid him have a care, 
 and perceiving that we were busy he said he would, 
 and did withdraw for an hour, in which time Sir J. 
 Minnes took coach and to Court to see what he could 
 do from thence, and our solicitor against .Field come by 
 chance and told me that he would go and satisfy the 
 fees of the Court, and would end the business. So he 
 went away about that, and I stayed in my closet, till 
 by-and-by the man and four more of his fellows came
 
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 to know what I would do, and I told them to stay till 
 I heard from the King or my Lord Chief Baron, to 
 both whom I had now sent. With that they consulted, 
 and told me that if I would promise to stay in the 
 house, they would go and refresh themselves, and come 
 again and know what answer I had ; so they away and 
 I home to dinner. Before I had dined the bailiffs 
 came back again with the constable, and at the office 
 knock for me, but found me not there ; and I hearing 
 in what manner they were come, did forbear letting 
 them know where I was, so they stood knocking and 
 inquiring for me. By-and-by at my parlour window 
 comes Sir W. Batten's mungo, to tell me that his 
 master and lady would have me come to their house 
 through Sir J. Minnes's lodgings, which I could not 
 do, but however, by ladders, did get over the pale be- 
 tween our yards and their house, where I found them 
 (as they have reason) to be much concerned for me, 
 my lady especially. The fellows stayed in the yard 
 swearing with one or two constables, and some time we 
 locked them into the yard, and by-and-by let them out 
 again, and so kept them all the afternoon, not letting 
 them see me or know where I was. One time I went 
 up to the top of Sir W. Batten's house, and out of one 
 of their windows spoke to my wife out of one of ours, 
 which methought, though I did it in mirth, yet I was 
 sad to think what a sad thing it would be for me to 
 be really in that condition. By-and-by comes Sir J. 
 Minnes, who (like himself and all that he does) tells us
 
 118 PEPTS'S BIAET. [February, 
 
 that lie can do no good, but that my Lord Chancellor 
 wonders that we did not cause the seamen to fall about 
 their ears, which we wished we could have done with- 
 out our being seen in it; and Captain Grove being 
 there, he did give them some affront, and would have 
 got some seamen to have drubbed them but he had not 
 time, nor did we think it fit to have done it, they 
 having executed their commission; but there was 
 occasion given that he did draw upon one of them, who 
 did complain that Grove had pricked him in the breast, 
 but no hurt done, but I see that Grove would have 
 done our business to them if we had bid him. By-and- 
 by comes Mr. Clerke, our solicitor, who brings us a 
 release from our adverse attorney, we paying the fees 
 of the commission, which comes to five marks, and the 
 charges of these fellows, which are called the com- 
 missioners but are the most rake-shamed rogues that 
 ever I saw in my life, so he showed them this release, 
 and they seemed satisfied and went away with him to 
 their attorney to be paid by him. But before they 
 went Sir W. Batten and my lady did begin to taunt 
 them, but the rogues answered them as high as them- 
 selves, and swore they would come again, and called 
 me rogue and rebel, and they would bring the sheriff 
 and untile his house before he should harbour a rebel 
 in his house,iind that they would be here again shortly. 
 Well, at last they went away, and I by advice took 
 occasion to go abroad, and walked through the street 
 to show myself among the neighbours, that they might
 
 1663.J PEPYS'S DIABY. 119 
 
 not think worse than the business is. I home to Sir 
 W. Batten's again, where Sir J. Lawson, Captain 
 Allen, Spragge, and several others, and all our dis- 
 course about the disgrace done to our office to be liable 
 to this trouble, which we must get removed. Hither 
 comes Mr. Clerke by-and-by, and tells me that he hath 
 paid the fees of the Court for the commission ; but the 
 men are not contented with under 5 for their charges, 
 which he will not give them, and therefore advises me 
 not to stir abroad till Monday that he comes or sends 
 to me again, whereby I shall not be able to go to 
 Whitehall to the Duke of York as I ought. Here I 
 stayed vexing, and yet pleased to see everybody for me, 
 and so home, where my people are mightily surprised 
 to see this business, but it troubles me not very much, 
 it being nothing touching my particular person or 
 estate. Sir W. Batten tells me that little is done yet 
 in the Parliament House, but only this day it was 
 moved and ordered that all the members of the House 
 do subscribe to the renouncing of the Covenant, which 
 it is thought will try some of them. There is also a 
 bill brought in for the wearing of nothing but cloth or 
 stuffs of our own manufacture, and is likely to be 
 passed. Among other talk this morning, my lady 
 did speak concerning Commissioner Pett's calling 
 the present King bastard, and other high words 
 heretofore, and Sir W. Batten did tell us that he 
 did give the Duke and Mr. Coventry an account 
 of that and other like matters in writing under
 
 120 PEPTS'S DIABT. [February, 
 
 oath, of which I was ashamed, and for which I was 
 sorry. 
 
 22nd (Lord's-day). Went not out all the morning ; 
 but after dinner to Sir "W. Batten's and Sir W. Pen's, 
 where discoursing much of yesterday's trouble and 
 scandal ; but that which troubled me most was Sir J. 
 Minnes coming from Court at night, and instead of 
 bringing great comfort from thence (but I expected no 
 better from him), he tells me that the Duke and Mr. 
 Coventry make no great matter of it. 
 
 23rd. Up by times, and not daring to go by land, 
 did (Griffin going along with me for fear) slip to 
 Whitehall by water ; where to Mr. Coventry, and, as 
 we used to do to the Duke ; the other of my fellows 
 being come. But we did nothing of our business, the 
 Duke being sent for to the King, that he could not 
 stay to speak with us. This morning come my Lord 
 Windsor to kiss the Duke's hand, being returned from 
 Jamaica. He tells the Duke that from such a degree 
 of latitude going thither he began to be sick, and was 
 never well till his coming so far back again, and then 
 presently begun to be well. He told the Duke of their 
 taking the fort of St. Jago, upon Cuba, with his men ; 
 but upon the whole I believe, that he did matters like 
 a young lord, and was weary of being upon service out 
 of his own country, where he might have pleasure. 
 For methought it was a shame to see him this very 
 afternoon, being the first day of his coming to town, to 
 be at a playhouse. To my Lord Sandwich : it was a
 
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 great trouble to me (and I had great apprehensions of 
 it) that my Lord desired me to go to "Westminster 
 Hall, to the Parliament House door about business, 
 and to Sir Wm. Wheeler, which I told him I would, 
 but durst not go for fear of being taken by these 
 rogues ; but was forced to go to Whitehall and take 
 boat, and so hind below the Tower at the Iron Gate, 
 and so the back way over Little Tower Hill, and with 
 my cloak over my face, took one of the watermen along 
 with me, and stayed behind our garden wall, while he 
 went to see whether anybody stood within the Mer- 
 chants' Gate. But there was nobody, and so I got 
 safe into the garden, and coming to open my office 
 door, something behind it fell in the opening, which 
 made me start. So that God knows in what a sad con- 
 dition I should be if I were truly in debt ; and there- 
 fore ought to bless God that I have no such real reason, 
 and to endeavour to keep myself, by my good deport- 
 ment and good husbandry, out of any such condition. 
 At home I find, by a note that Mr. Clerke in my 
 absence hath left here, that I am free, and that he hath 
 stopped all matters in Court ; and I was very glad of 
 it. We took coach and to Court, and there saw The 
 Wild Gallant, performed by the King's house, but it 
 was ill acted. The King did not seem pleased at all, 
 the whole play, nor anybody else. My Lady Castle, 
 maine was all worth seeing to-night, and little Steward. 
 Mrs. Wells do appear at Court again, and looks well ; 
 so that it may be, the late report of laying the dropped
 
 122 PEPYS'S DIAEY. [February, 
 
 child to her was not true. This day I was told that 
 my Lady Castlemaine hath all the King's Christmas 
 presents made him by the peers given to her, which is 
 a most abominable thing ; and that at the great ball 
 she was much richer in jewels than the Queen and 
 Duchess put both together. 
 
 24th. Among other things, my Lord (Sandwich) tells 
 me, that he hears the Commons will not agree to the 
 King's late declaration, nor will yield that the Papists 
 have any ground given them to raise themselves up 
 again in England, which I perceive by my Lord was 
 expected at Court-. 
 
 25th. The Commons in Parliament I hear, are very 
 high to stand to the Act of Uniformity, and will not 
 indulge the Papists (which is endeavoured by the 
 Court Party), nor the Presbyters. 
 
 26th. Sir W. Batten and I by water to the Parlia- 
 ment House ; he went in, and I walked up and down 
 the Hall. All the news is the great odds yesterday 
 in the votes between them that are for the Indulgence 
 to the Papists and Presbyters, and those that are 
 against it, which did carry it by 200 against 30. And 
 pretty it is to consider how the King would appear to 
 be a stiff Protestant and son of the Church ; and yet 
 willing to give a liberty to these people, because of his 
 promise at Breda. And yet all the world do believe 
 that the King would not have the liberty given them 
 at all. 
 
 27th. About 11 o'clock, Commissioner Pett and I
 
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 walked to Surgeon's Hall (we being all invited thither, 
 and promised to dine there), where we were led into 
 the Theatre; and by-and-by comes the reader, Dr. 
 Tearne, with the Master and Company, in a very hand- 
 some manner, and all being settled he began his 
 lecture ; and his discourse being ended, we had a fine 
 dinner and good learned company, many Doctors of 
 Physic, and we used with extraordinary great respect. 
 Among other observables we drunk the King's health 
 out of a gilt cup given by King Henry VIII. to this 
 Company, with bells hanging at it, which every man is 
 to ring by shaking after lie hath drunk up the whole 
 cup. There is also a very excellent piece of the King, 
 done by Holbein, stands up in the Hall, with the 
 officers of the company kneeling to him to receive their 
 Charter. Dr. Scarborough took some of his friends, 
 and I went with them, to see the body of a lusty fellow, 
 a seaman, that was hanged for a robbery. It seems one 
 Dillon, of a great family, was, after much endeavours 
 to have saved him, hanged with a silken halter this 
 Sessions (of his own preparing), not for honour only, 
 but it being soft and sleek it do slip close and kills, 
 that is, strangles presently ; whereas, a stiff one do not 
 come so close, together, and so the party may live the 
 longer before killed. But all the Doctors at table con- 
 clude, that there is no pain at all in hanging, for that 
 it do stop the circulation of the blood ; and so stops all 
 sense and motion in an instant. To Sir W. Batten's 
 to speak upon some business, where I found Sir J.
 
 124 PEPYS'S DIABT. (February, 
 
 Minnes pretty well fuddled I thought; he took me 
 aside to tell me how being at my Lord Chancellor's 
 to-day, my Lord told him that there was a Great Seal 
 passing for Sir W. Pen, through the impossibility of 
 the Comptroller's duty to be performed by one man, 
 to be as it were joint comptroller with him, at which he 
 is stark mad, and swears he will give up his place. 
 For my part, I do hope, when all is done that my 
 following my business will keep me secure against all 
 their envys. But to see how the old man did strut and 
 swear that he understands all his duty as easily as 
 crack a nut, and easier, he told my Lord Chancellor, 
 for his teeth are gone ; and that he understands it as 
 well as any man in England ; and that he will never 
 leave to record that he should be said to be unable to 
 do his duty alone ; though God knows he cannot do it 
 more than a child. 
 
 28th. The House have this noon been with the King 
 to give him their reasons for refusing to grant any 
 indulgence to Presbyters or Papists, which he, with 
 great content and seeming pleasure, took saying, that 
 he doubted not but he and they should agree in all 
 things, though there may seem a difference in judg- 
 ments, he having written and declared for an Indul- 
 gence : and that he did believe never prince was 
 happier in a House of Commons, than he was in them. 
 At the Privy Seal I did see the docket by which Sir 
 W. Pen is made the Comptroller's assistant, as Sir J. 
 Minues told me hist night.
 
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 March 3. This afternoon Roger Pepys tells me, that 
 for certain the King is for all this very highly incensed 
 at the Parliament's late opposing the indulgence ; 
 which I am sorry for, and fear it will breed great 
 discontent. 
 
 5th. To the Lobby, and spoke with my cousin 
 Roger, who is going to Cambridge to-morrow. In the 
 Hall I do hear that the Catholics are in great hopes 
 for all this, and do set hard upon the King to get 
 Indulgence. Matters, I hear, are all naught 
 in Ireland, and the people, that is the Papists, do 
 cry out against the Commissioners sent by the King ; 
 so that they say the English interest will be lost 
 there. 
 
 6th. This day it seems the House of Commons have 
 been very high against the Papists, being incensed by 
 the stir which they make for their having an Indul- 
 gence ; which, without doubt is a great folly in them 
 to be so hot upon at this time, when they see how 
 averse already the House have showed themselves from 
 it. This evening Mr. Povy tells me that my Lord 
 Sandwich is this day so ill that he is much afraid of 
 him, which puts me to great pain, not more for my own 
 sake than for his poor family's. 
 
 7th. Creed told me how for some words of my Lady 
 Gerard's against my Lady Castlemaine to the Queen, 
 the King did the other day apprehend her in going out 
 to dance with her at a ball, when she desired it as the 
 ladies do, and is since forbid attending the Queen by
 
 126 PEPYS'8 DIAEY. [March, 
 
 the King, which is much talked of, my Lord her hus- 
 band being a great favourite. 
 
 8th (Lord's-day). To Whitehall to-day; I heard 
 Dr. King, Bishop of Chichester, make a good and 
 eloquent sermon upon these words, " They that sow in 
 tears, shall reap in joy." Whence (the chapel in Lent 
 being hung with black, and no anthem after sermon, 
 as at other times) to my Lord Sandwich at Sir W. 
 Wheeler's. I found him out of order, thinking him- 
 self to be in a fit of ague, After dinner up to my 
 Lord, there being Mr. Rumball. My Lord, among 
 other discourse, did tell me of his great difficulties 
 passed in the business of the Sound, and of his receiving 
 letters from the King there, but his sending them by 
 Whetstone was a great folly ; and the story how my 
 Lord being at dinner with Sydney, one of his fellow 
 plenipotentiaries and his mortal enemy, did see Whet- 
 stone, and put off his hat three times to him, and the 
 fellow would not be known, which my Lord imputed 
 to his coxcombly humour (of which he was full) and 
 bid Sydney take notice of him too, when at the very 
 time he had letters in his pocket from the King, as it 
 proved afterwards. And Sydney afterwards did find 
 it out at Copenhagen, the Dutch Commissioners telling 
 him how my Lord Sandwich had desired one of their 
 ships to carry back Whetstone to Lubeck, he being 
 come from Flanders from the King. But I cannot 
 but remember my Lord's equanimity in all these 
 affairs with admiration.
 
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 9th. About noon Sir J. Robinson, Lord Mayor, 
 desiring way through the garden from the Tower, 
 called in at the office and there invited me (and Sir "W. 
 Pen, who happened to be in the way) to dinner, and we 
 did go. And there had a great Lent dinner of fish, 
 little flesh. There dined with us to-day Mr. Slingsby 
 of the Mint, who showed us all the new pieces both 
 gold and silver (examples of them all) that were made 
 for the King, by Bloudeau's way ; and compared them 
 with those made for Oliver. The pictures of the 
 latter made by Symons, and of the King by one Rotyr, 
 a German I think, that dined with us also. He extols 
 those of Rotyr above the others ; and, indeed, I think 
 they are the better, because the sweeter of the two ; 
 but, upon my word, those of the Protector are more 
 like, in my mind, than the King's, but both very well 
 worth seeing. The Crowns of Cromwell are now sold 
 it seems, for 25s. and 30s. a-piece. 
 
 16th. To the Duke, where we met of course, and 
 talked of our Navy matters. Then to the Commission 
 of Tangier, and there had my Lord Peterborough's Com- 
 mission read over ; and Mr. Secretary Beunet did make 
 his queries upon it, in order to the drawing one for my 
 Lord Rutherford more regularly, that being a very 
 extravagant thing. Here long discoursing upon my 
 Lord Rutherford's despatch, and so broke up. Mr. 
 Coventry and I discoursed how the Treasurer doth 
 intend to come to pay in course, which is the thing of 
 the world that will do the King the greatest service in
 
 128 PEPYS'S DIABT. [TVtarch, 
 
 the Navy, and which joys my heart to hear of. He 
 tells me of the business of Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W. 
 Pen ; which, he said, was chiefly to make Mr. Pett's 
 being joined with Sir "W. Batten to go down the better. 
 And how he well sees that neither one nor the other 
 can do their duties without help. 
 
 17th. To St. Margaret's Hill in Southwark, where 
 the Judge of the Admiralty come, and the rest of the 
 Doctors of the Civil Law, and some other Commis- 
 sioners, whose Commission of Oyer and Terminer 
 was read, and then the charge, given by Dr. Exton, 
 which methought was somewhat dull, though he would 
 seem to intend it to be very rhetorical, saying that 
 Justice had two wings, one of which spread itself over 
 the land, and the other over the water, which was this 
 Admiralty Court. I perceive that this Court is yet 
 but in its infancy (as to its rising again), and their 
 design and consultation was, I could overhear them, 
 how to proceed with the most solemnity and spend 
 time, there being only two businesses to do, which of 
 themselves could not spend much time. Sir W. Batten 
 and I to my Lord Mayor's, where we found my Lord 
 with Colonel Strangeways and Sir Richard Floyd, 
 Parliament men, in the cellar drinking, where we sat 
 with them, and then up ; and by and by come in Sir 
 Richard Ford. We had many discourses, but from all 
 of them I do find Sir R. Ford a very able man of his 
 brains and tongue, and a scholar. But my Lord Mayor 
 a talking, bragging, buffleheaded fellow, that would be
 
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 thought to have led all the City in the great business 
 of bringing in the King, and that nobody understood 
 his plot, and the dark lanthorn he walked by ; but led 
 them and ploughed with them as oxen and asses (his 
 own words) to do what he had a mind : when in every 
 discourse I observe him to be as very a coxcomb as I 
 could have thought had been in the City. But he is 
 resolved to do great matters in pulling down the shops 
 quite through the City, as he hath done in many places, 
 and will make a thorough passage quite through the 
 City, through Canning Street, which indeed will be 
 very fine. And then his precept, which he, in vain- 
 glory, said he had drawn up himself, and hath printed 
 it, against coachmen and carmen affronting of the 
 gentry in the street ; it is drawn so like a fool, and 
 some faults were openly found in it, that I believe he 
 will have so much wit as not to proceed upon it though 
 it be printed. Here we stayed talking till eleven at 
 night, Sir B. Ford breaking to my Lord our business 
 of our patent to be Justices of the Peace in the City, 
 which he stuck at mightily ; but, however, Sir K. Ford 
 knows him to be a fool, and so in his discourse he 
 made him appear, and cajoled him into a consent to it : 
 but so as I believe when he comes to his right mind to- 
 morrow he will be of another opinion ; and though Sir 
 R. Ford moved it very weightily and neatly, yet I had 
 rather it had been spared now. But to see how he 
 rants, and pretends to sway all the City in the Court 
 of Aldermen, and says plainly that they cannot do, nor 
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 130 PEPYS'S DIABY. [March, 
 
 will he suffer them to do, anything but what he 
 pleases ; nor is there any officer of the City but of his 
 putting in ; nor any man that could have kept the 
 City for the King thus well and long but him. And 
 if the country can be preserved, he will undertake that 
 the City shall not dare to stir again. When I am con- 
 fident there is no man almost in the City cares for 
 him, nor hath he brains to outwit any ordinary trades- 
 man. 
 
 20th. Meeting with Mr. Kirton's kinsman in Paul's 
 Churchyard, he and I to a coffee-house, where I hear 
 how there had like to have been a surprisal of Dublin 
 by some discontented Protestants, and other things of 
 like nature ; and it seems the Commissioners have 
 carried themselves so high for the Papists that the 
 others will not endure it. Hewlett and some others 
 are taken and clapped up ; and they say the King hath 
 sent over to dissolve the Parliament there, who went 
 very high against the Commissioners. Pray God send 
 all well ! 
 
 21st. By appointment our full board met, and Sir 
 Philip "Warwick and Sir Robert Long come from my 
 Lord Treasurer to speak with us about the state of the 
 debts of the Navy, and how to settle it, so as to begin 
 upon the new foundation of 200,000 per annum, 
 which the King is now resolved not to exceed. 
 
 22nd (Lord's day). "Wrote out our bill for the Par- 
 liament about our being made Justices of Peace in the 
 City. So to church, where a dull formal fellow that
 
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 prayed for the Right Hon. John Lord Barkeley, Lord 
 President of ConnaughL &c. To my Lord Sandwich, 
 and with him talking a good while ; I find the Court 
 would have this indulgence go on, but the Parliament 
 are against it. Matters in Ireland are full of discon- 
 tent. 
 
 29th. After dinner in comes Mr. Moore, and sat and 
 talked with us a good while; among other things, 
 telling me that neither my Lord nor he are under ap- 
 prehensions of the late discourse in the House of Com- 
 mons concerning resumption of Crown lands. 
 
 April L I went to the Temple to my cousin Roger 
 Pepys, to see and talk with him a little, who tells me 
 that, with much ado, the Parliament do agree to throw 
 down Popery ; but he says it is with so much spito 
 and passion, and an endeavour of bringing all Non- 
 conformists into the same condition, that he is afraid 
 matters will not yet go so well as he could wish. 
 
 2nd. Sir W. Pen told me that this day the King 
 hath sent to the House his concurrence wholly with 
 them against the Popish priests, Jesuits, &.C., which 
 gives great content, and I am glad of it. 
 
 3rd. To the Tangier Committee, where we find 
 ourselves at a great stand ; the establishment being 
 but 7,000 per annum, and the forces to be kept in the 
 town at the least estimate that my Lord Rutherford 
 can be got to bring is 5,300. The charge of this 
 year's work of the Mole will be 13,000 ; besides 
 1,000 a year to my Lord Peterborough as a pension,
 
 132 PEPTS'S DIABY. [April, 
 
 and the fortifications and contingencies, which puts us 
 to a great stand. I find at Court that there is some 
 bad news from Ireland of an insurrection of the Catho- 
 lics there, which puts them into an alarm. I hear also 
 in the City that for certain there is an embargo upon 
 all our ships in Spain, upon this action of my Lord 
 Windsor's at Cuba, which signifies little or nothing, 
 but only he hath a mind to say that he hath done some- 
 thing before he comes back again. 
 
 4th. After dinner to Hyde Park ; at the park was 
 the King, and in another coach ray Lady Castlemaine, 
 they greeting one another at every turn. 
 
 8th. By water to Whitehall, to chapel, where 
 preached Dr. Pierce, the famous man that preached 
 the sermon, so much cried up, before the King against 
 the Papists. His matter was the Devil tempting our 
 Saviour, being carried into the Wilderness by the 
 Spirit. And he hath as much of natural eloquence as 
 most men that ever I heard in my life, mixed with so 
 much learning. After sermon I went up and saw the 
 ceremony of the Bishop of Peterborough's paying 
 homage upon the knee to the King, while Sir H. 
 Bennet, Secretary, read the King's grant of the 
 Bishopric of Lincoln, to which he is translated. His 
 name is Dr. Lany. Here I also saw the Duke of Mon- 
 mouth, with his Order of the Garter, the first time I 
 ever saw it. I hear that the University of Cambridge 
 did treat him a little while since with all the honour 
 possible, with a comedy at Trinity College, and
 
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 banquet ; and made him Master of Arts there. All 
 which, they say, the King took very well. Dr. 
 Baynbow, Master of Magdalene, being now Vice- 
 Chancellor. 
 
 12th (Lord's day). Coming home to-night a drunken 
 boy was carrying by our constable to our new pair of 
 stocks to handsel them. 
 
 14th. Sir G. Carteret tells me to-night that he per- 
 ceives the Parliament is likely to make a great 
 bustle before they will give the King any money ; will 
 call all things in question ; and, above all, the expenses 
 of the Navy ; and do inquire into the King's expenses 
 everywhere, and into the truth of the report of people 
 being forced to sell their bills at 15 per cent, loss in 
 the Navy ; and, lastly, that they are in a very angry 
 pettish mood at present, and not likely to be better. 
 
 17th. It being Good Friday, our dinner was only 
 sugar-sops and fish ; the only time that we have had a 
 Lenten dinner all this Lent. To Paul's Churchyard, 
 to cause the title of my English " Mare Clausum " to 
 be changed, and the new title dedicated to the King, 
 to be put to it, because I am ashamed to have the other 
 seen dedicated to the Commonwealth. 
 
 20th. With Sir G. Carteret and Sir John Minnes to 
 my Lord Treasurer's, thinking to have spoken about 
 getting money for paying the Yards ; but we found 
 him with some ladies at cards, and so, it being a bad 
 time to speak, we parted. This day the little Duke of 
 Monmouth was married at Whitehall, in the King's
 
 134 PEPYS'S DIARY. [April, 
 
 chamber ; and to-night is a great supper and dancing 
 at his lodgings, near Charing- Cross. I observed his 
 coat at the tail of his coach : he gives the arms of 
 England, Scotland, and France, quartered upon some 
 other fields, but what it is that speaks his being a bas- 
 tard I know not. 
 
 25th. I did hear that the Queen is much grieved of 
 late at the King's neglecting her, he having not supped 
 once with her this quarter of a year, and almost every 
 night with my Lady Castlemaine : who hath been with 
 him this St. George's feast at Windsor, and come 
 home with him last night ; and, which is more, they 
 say is removed as to her bed from her own home to 
 a chamber in Whitehall, next to the King's own, which 
 I am sorry to hear, though I love her much. 
 
 27th. By water to Whitehall ; but found the Duke 
 of York gone to St. James's for this summer; and 
 thence with Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Pen up to the 
 Duke's closet. And a good while with him about 
 Navy business ; and so I to Whitehall, and there a long 
 while with my Lord Sandwich discoursing about his 
 debt to the Navy, wherein he hath given me some 
 things to resolve him in. 
 
 The Queen (which I did not know) it seems was at 
 Windsor at the late St. George's feast there ; and the 
 Duke of Monmouth dancing with her with his hat in 
 his hand, the King came in and kissed him, and made 
 him put on his hat, which everybody took notice of. 
 
 28th. To Chelsea, where we found my Lord all
 
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 alone with one joint of meat at dinner, and mightily 
 extolling the manner of his retirement, and the good- 
 ness of his diet : the mistress of the house hath all 
 things most excellently dressed ; among others her 
 cakes admirable, and so good that my Lord's words 
 were, they were fit to present to my Lady Castlemaine. 
 From ordinary discourse my Lord fell to talk of other 
 matters to me, of which chiefly the second part of the 
 fray, which he told me a little while since of, between 
 Mr. Edward Montagu and himself ; that he hath for- 
 borne coming to him almost two months, and do speak 
 not only slightly of my Lord everywhere, but hath 
 complained to my Lord Chancellor of him, and arro- 
 gated all that ever my Lord hath done to be only by 
 his direction and persuasion. Whether he hath done 
 the like to the King or no, my Lord knows not ; but 
 my Lord hath been with the King since, and finds all 
 things fair ; and my Lord Chancellor hath told him of 
 it, but he so much contemns Mr. Montagu, as my Lord 
 knows himself very secure against anything the fool 
 can do ; and notwithstanding all this, so noble is his 
 nature, that ho professes himself ready to show kind- 
 ness and pity to Mr. Montagu on any occasion. My 
 Lord told mo of his presenting Sir H. Bennet with a 
 gold cup of 100, which he refuses, with a compliment ; 
 but my Lord would have been glad he had taken it, 
 that he might have had some obligations upon him 
 which he thinks possible the other may refuse to 
 prevent it ; not that he hath any reason to doubt his
 
 136 PEPYS'S DIAKY. [April, 
 
 kindness. But I perceive great differences there are 
 at Court ; and Sir H. Bennet, and my Lord Bristol, 
 and their faction, are likely to carry all things before 
 them (which my Lord's judgment is will not be for the 
 best), and particularly against the Chancellor, who, he 
 tells me, is irrecoverably lost : but, however, that he 
 do so not actually join in anything against the Chan- 
 cellor, whom he do own to be a most sure friend, and 
 to have been his greatest ; and therefore will not 
 openly act in either, but passively carry himself even. 
 The Queen, my Lord tells me, he thinks he hath in- 
 curred some displeasure with, for his kindness to his 
 neighbour my Lady Castlemaine. My Lord tells me 
 he hath no reason to fall for her sake, whose wit, 
 management, nor interest, is not likely to hold up any 
 man, and therefore he thinks it not his obligation to 
 stand for her against his own interest. The Duke and 
 Mr. Coventry my Lord sees he is very well with, and 
 fears not but they will show themselves his very good 
 friends, specially at this time, he being able to serve 
 them, and they needing him, which he did not tell me 
 wherein. Talking of the business of Tangier, he tells 
 me that my Lord Teviott is gone away without the 
 least respect paid to him, nor indeed to any man, but 
 without his commission; and, if it be true what he 
 says, having laid out seven or eight thousand pounds 
 in commodities for the place : and besides having not 
 only disobliged ail the Commissioners for Tangier, but 
 also Sir Charles Barkeley the other day, who spoke in
 
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 behalf of Colonel Fitz-Gerald, that having been 
 Deputy- Governor there already, he ought to have 
 expected and had the Governorship upon the death or 
 removal of the former Governor. And whereas it is 
 said that he and his men are Irish, which is indeed the 
 main thing that hath moved the King and Council to 
 put in Teviott to prevent the Irish having too great 
 and the whole command there under Fitz- Gerald ; he 
 further said that there was never an Englishman fit to 
 command Tangier; my Lord Teviott answered yes, 
 there were many more fit than himself or Fitz-Gerald 
 either. So that Fitz-Gerald being so great with the 
 Duke of Tork, and being already made Deputy- 
 Governor, independent of my Lord Teviott, and he 
 being also left here behind him for a while, my Lord 
 Sandwich do think that, putting all these things 
 together, the few friends he hath left, and the ill 
 posture of his affairs, my Lord Teviott is not a man of 
 the conduct and management that either people take 
 him to be, or is fit for the command of the place. And 
 here, speaking of the Duke of York and Sir Charles 
 Barkeley, my Lord tells me that he do very much 
 admire the good management, and discretion, and 
 nobleness of the Duke, that however he may be led by 
 him or Mr. Coventry singly in private, yet he did not 
 observe that in public matters, but he did give as ready 
 hearing and as good acceptance to any reasons offered 
 by any other man against the opinions of them, as he 
 did to them, and would concur in the prosecution of it.
 
 138 PEPYS'S DIAEY. [May, 
 
 Then we come to discourse upon his own sea-accompts, 
 and come to a resolution how to proceed in them : 
 wherein, though I offered him a way of evading the 
 greatest part of his debt honestly, by making himself 
 debtor to the Parliament before the King's time, which 
 he might justly do, yet he resolved to go openly and 
 nakedly in it, and put himself to the kindness of the 
 King and Duke, which humour, I must confess, and so 
 did tell him (with which he was not a little pleased) 
 had thriven very well with him, being known to be a 
 man of candid and open dealing, without any private 
 tricks or hidden designs as other men commonly have 
 in what they do. From that we had discourse of Sir 
 G. Carteret, and of many others ; and upon the whole 
 I do find that it is a troublesome thing for a man of 
 any condition at Court to carry himself even, and 
 without contracting envy or enviers ; and that 
 much discretion and dissimulation is necessary to 
 do it. 
 
 May 4 To St. James's; where Mr. Coventry, Sir 
 W. Pen and I stayed for the Duke's coming in, but 
 not coming, we walked to Whitehall ; and meeting the 
 King, we followed him into the Park, where Mr. 
 Coventry and he talking of building a new yacht out 
 of his private purse, ho having some contrivance of 
 his own. The talk being done, we fell off to White- 
 hall, leaving the King in the Park ; and going back, 
 met the Duke going towards St. James's to meet us. 
 So he turned back again, and to his closet at White-
 
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 hall; and there, my Lord Sandwich present, we did 
 our weekly errand, and so broke up; and I to the 
 garden with my Lord Sandwich (after we had sat an 
 hour at the Tangier Committee ) ; and after talking 
 largely of his own businesses, we began to talk how 
 matters are at court ; and though he did not flatly tell 
 me any such thing, yet I do suspect that all is not 
 kind between the King and the Duke, and that the 
 King's fondness to the little Duke do occasion it ; and 
 it may be that there is some fear of his being made 
 heir to the Crown. But this my Lord did not tell 
 me, but is my guess only ; and that my Lord Chancel- 
 lor is without doubt falling past hopes. 
 
 5th. With Sir J. Miiines, he telling many old stories 
 of the Navy, and of the state of the Navy, at the 
 beginning of the late troubles, and I am troubled at 
 my heart to think, and shall hereafter cease to wonder, 
 at the bad success of the King's cause when such 
 a knave as he (if it be true what he says) had the 
 whole management of the fleet, and the design of 
 putting out of my Lord Warwick, and carrying the 
 fleet to the King, wherein he failed most fatally to 
 the King's ruin. 
 
 6th. To the Exchange with Creed, where we met Sir 
 J. Minues, who tells us, in great heat, that the Par- 
 liament will make mad work: that they will render 
 all men incapable of any military or civil employment 
 that have borne arms in the late troubles against the 
 King, excepting some persons ; which, if it be so, as I
 
 140 PEPYS'S DIARY. [May 
 
 hope it is not, will give great cause of discontent, 
 and I doubt will have but bad effects. 
 
 Sir Thomas Crewe this day tells me that the Queen, 
 hearing that there was 40,000 per anmim brought 
 into her account among the other expenses of the 
 Crown before the Committee of Parliament, she took 
 order to let them know that she hath yet for the pay- 
 ment of her whole family received but 4,000, which 
 is a notable act of spirit, and I believe is true. 
 
 7th. To my Lord Crewe's, and there dined with him. 
 He tells me of the order the House of Commons have 
 made for the drawing an Act for the rendering none 
 capable of preferment or employment in the State, but 
 who have been loyal and constant to the King and 
 Church; which will be fatal to a great many, and 
 makes me doubt lest I myself, with all my innocence 
 during the late times, should be brought in, being em- 
 ployed in the Exchequer; but, I hope, God will provide 
 for me. 
 
 10th. Put on a black cloth suit, with white linings 
 under all, as the fashion is to wear, to appear under 
 the breeches. I walked to St. James's, and was there 
 at mass, and was forced in the crowd to kneel down : 
 and mass being done, to the King's Head ordinary, 
 where many Parliament men ; and most of their talk 
 was about the news from Scotland, that the Bishop of 
 Galloway was besieged in his house by some women, 
 and had like to have been outraged, but I know not 
 how he was secured ; which is bad news, and looks as
 
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 it did in the beginning of the late troubles. From 
 thence they talked of rebellion ; and I perceive they 
 make it their great maxim to be sure to master the 
 City of London, whatever comes of it or from it. 
 
 llth. With Sir W. Pen to St. James's, where we 
 attended the Duke of York : and, among other things, 
 Sir G. Carteret and I had a great dispute about the 
 different value of the pieces of eight rated by Mr. 
 Creed at 4s. and 5d., and by Pitts at 4s. and 9d., 
 which was the greatest husbandry to the King ? he 
 proposing that the greatest sum was ; which is as 
 ridiculous a piece of ignorance as could be imagined. 
 However, it is to be argued at the Board, and reported 
 to the Duke next week ; which I shall do with advan- 
 tage, I hope. I went homeward, after a little dis- 
 course with Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who tells me that 
 my Lady Castlemaine hath now got lodgings near the 
 King's chamber at Court ; and that the other day Dr. 
 Clarke and he did dissect two bodies, a man and a 
 woman, before the King, with which the King was 
 highly pleased. 
 
 14th. Met Mr. Moore ; and with him to an ale-house 
 in Holborn; where in discourse he told me that he 
 fears the King will be tempted to endeavour the 
 setting the Crown upon the little Duke, which may 
 cause troubles; which God forbid, unless it be his 
 due ! He told me my Lord do begin to settle to busi- 
 ness again ; and that the King did send for him the 
 other day to my Lady Castlemaine's, to play at cards,
 
 142 P-EPYS'S DIABT. [May, 
 
 where he lost 50 ; for which I am sorry, though he 
 says my Lord was pleased at it, and said he would be 
 glad at any time to lose 50 for the King to send for 
 him to play, which I do not so well like. 
 
 15th. I walked in the Park, discoursing with the 
 keeper of the Pell Mell, who was sweeping of it ; who 
 told me of what the earth is mixed that do floor the 
 Mall, and that over all there is cockle-shells powdered, 
 and spread to keep it fast ; which, however, in dry 
 weather, turns to dust and deads the ball. Thence to 
 Mr. Coventry ; and sitting by his bedside he did tell 
 me that he did send for me to discourse upon my Lord 
 Sandwich's allowances for his several pays, and what his 
 thoughts are concerning his demands ; which he could 
 not take the freedom to do face to face, it being not so 
 proper as by me : and did give me a most friendly and 
 ingenuous account of all ; telling me how unsafe at 
 this juncture, while every man's, and his actions par- 
 ticularly, are descanted upon, it is either for him to put 
 the Duke upon doing, or my Lord himself to desire 
 anything extraordinary, 'specially the King having 
 been so bountiful already ; which the world takes 
 notice of even to some repiuings. All which he 
 did desire me to discourse to my Lord of ; which I 
 have undertaken to do. At noon by coach to my Lord 
 Crewe's, hearing that my Lord Sandwich dined there ; 
 where I told him what had passed between Mr. 
 Coventry and myself ; with which he was contented, 
 though I could perceive not very well pleased. And
 
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 I do believe that my Lord do find some other things 
 go against his mind in the House ; for in the motion 
 made the other day in the House by my Lord Bruce, 
 that none be capable of employment but such as have 
 been loyal and constant to the King and Church, that 
 the General and my Lord were mentioned to be 
 excepted ; and my Lord Bruce did come since to my 
 Lord, to clear himself that he meant nothing to his 
 prejudice, nor could it have any such effect if he did 
 mean it. After discourse with my Lord, to dinner 
 with him; there dining there my Lord Montagu of 
 Boughton, Mr. William Montagu his brother, the 
 Queen's Solicitor, &c., and a fine dinner. Their talk 
 about a ridiculous falling-out two days ago at my Lord 
 of Oxford's house, at an entertainment of his, there 
 being there my Lord of Albemarle, Lynsey, two of the 
 Porters, my Lord Bellasses, and others, where there 
 were high words, and some blows, and pulling off of 
 periwigs ; till my Lord Monk took away some of their 
 swords, and sent for some soldiers to guard the house 
 till the fray was ended. . To such a degree of madness 
 the nobility of this age is come ! After dinner I went 
 up to Sir Thomas Crewe, who lies there not very well 
 in his head, being troubled with vapours and fits of 
 dizziness ; and there I sat talking with him all the 
 afternoon upon the unhappy posture of things at this 
 time ; that the King do mind nothing but pleasures, 
 and hates the very sight or thoughts of business. If 
 any of the sober counsellors give him good advice,
 
 144 PEPYS'S DIAJBY. |_May, 
 
 and move him in anything that is to his good and 
 honour, the other part, which are his counsellors of 
 pleasure, take him when he is with my Lady Castle- 
 maine, and in a humour of delight, and then persuade 
 him that he ought not to hear or listen to the advice 
 of those old dotards or counsellors that were here- 
 tofore his enemies : when, God knows ! it is they that 
 nowadays do most study his honour. It seems the present 
 favourites now are my Lord Bristol, Duke of Bucking- 
 ham, Sir H. Bennet, my Lord Ashley, and Sir Charles 
 Barkeley; who, among them, have cast my Lord 
 Chancellor upon his back, past ever getting up again ; 
 there being now little for him to do, and he waits at 
 Court attending to speak to the King as others do : 
 which I pray God may prove of good effects, for it 
 is feared it will be the same with my Lord Treasurer 
 shortly. But strange to hear how my Lord Ashley, 
 by my Lord Bristol's means (he being brought over 
 to the Catholic party against the Bishops, whom he 
 hates to the death, and publicly rails against them ; 
 not that he is become a Catholic, but merely opposes 
 the Bishops ; and yet, for aught I hear, the Bishop of 
 London keeps as great with the King as ever), is got 
 into favour, so much that, being a man of great 
 business and yet of pleasure, and drolling, too, he, it 
 is thought, will be made Lord Treasurer upon the 
 death or removal of the good old man. My Lord 
 Albemarle, I hear, do bear through and bustle among 
 them, and will not be removed from the King's good
 
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 opinion and favour, though none of the Cabinet ; but 
 yet he is envied enough. It is made very doubtful 
 whether the King do not intend the making of the 
 Duke of Monmouth legitimate ; but surely the Com- 
 mons of England will never do it, nor the Duke of 
 York suffer it, whose Lady, I am told, is very trouble- 
 some to him by her jealousy. No caie is observed to 
 be taken of the main chance, either for maintaining of 
 trade or opposing of factions, which, God knows, are 
 ready to break out, if any of them (which God forbid! ) 
 should dare to begin ; the King and every man about 
 him minding so much their pleasures or profits. My 
 Lord Hinchinbroke, I am told, hath had a mis- 
 chance to kill his boy, by his birding-piece going off 
 as he was a fowling. The gun was charged with small 
 shot, and hit the boy in the face and about the temples, 
 and he lived four days. In Scotland, it seems, for all 
 the newsbooks tell us every week that they are all so 
 quiet, and everything in the Church settled, the old 
 woman had liked to have killed, the other day, the 
 Bishop of Galloway, and not half the Churches of the 
 whole kingdom conform. Strange were the effects of 
 the late thunder and lightning about a week since at 
 Northampton, coming with great rain, which caused 
 extraordinary floods in a few hours, bearing away 
 bridges, drowning horses, men, and cattle. Two men 
 passing over a bridge on horseback, the arches before 
 and behind them were borne away, and that left which 
 they were upon : but, however, one of the horses fell
 
 146 PEPTS'S DIARY. [May, 
 
 OTer, and was drowned. Stacks of faggots carried as 
 high as a steeple, and other dreadful things ; which 
 Sir Thomas Crewe showed me letters to him about 
 from Mr. Freemantle and others, that it is very true. 
 The Portugals have choused us, it seems, in the Island 
 of Bombay, in the East Indies; for after a great 
 charge of our fleets being sent thither with full com- 
 mission from the Kiiig of Portugal to receive it, the 
 Governor by some pretence or other will not deliver it 
 to Sir Abraham Shipman, sent from the King, nor to 
 my Lord of Marlborough ; which the King takes 
 highly ill, and I fear our Queen will fare the worse for 
 it. The Dutch decay there exceedingly, it being 
 believed that their people will revolt from them there 
 and they forced to give up their trade. Sir Thomas 
 showed me his picture and Sir Anthony Vandyke's in 
 crayon in little, done exceedingly well. 
 
 18th. I walked to Whitehall, and into the Park, 
 seeing the Queen and maids of honour passing through 
 the house going to the Park. But above all, Mrs. 
 Stuart is a fine woman, and they say now a common 
 mistress to the King, as my Lady Castlemaine is; 
 which is a great pity. 
 
 19th. With Sir John Minnes to the Tower; and by 
 Mr. Slingsby and Mr. Howard, Controller of the 
 Mint, we were shown the method of making this new 
 money. That being done, the Controller would have 
 us dine with him and his company, the King giving 
 them a dinner every day. And very merry and good
 
 166S.] PEPYS'S DIARY. 147 
 
 discourse upon the business we have been upon. 
 They now coin between 16,000 and 24,000 in a 
 week. At dinner they did discourse very finely to us 
 of the probability that there is a vast deal of money 
 hid in the land from this, that in King Charles's time 
 there was near ten millions of money coined, besides 
 what was then in being of King James's and Queen 
 Elizabeth's, of which there is a good deal at this day 
 in being. Next that there was but 750,000 coined of 
 the Harp and Cross money, and of this there was 
 500,000 brought in upon its being called in. And 
 from very good arguments they find that there cannot 
 be less of it in Ireland and Scotland than 100,000 ; so 
 that there is but 150,000 missing ; and of that, 
 suppose that there should be not above 50,000 still 
 remaining, either melted down, hid, or lost, or hoarded 
 up in England, there will then be but 100,000 left to 
 be thought to have been transported. Now, if 
 750,000 in twelve years' time lost but 100,000 in 
 danger of being transported, then 10,000,000 in 
 thirty-five years' time will have lost but 3,888,880 
 and odd pounds ; and as there is 650,000 remaining 
 after twelve years' time in England, so after thirty- 
 five years' time, which was within this two years, 
 there ought in proportion to have resting 6,111,120 
 or thereabouts, besides King James's and Queen 
 Elizabeth's money. Now, that most of this must be 
 hid is evident, as they reckon, because of the dearth of 
 money immediately upon the calling-in of the State's
 
 148 PEPYS'S DIARY. [May, 
 
 money, which was 500,000 that come in, and then 
 there was not any money to be had in this City, 
 which they say to their own observation and know- 
 ledge was so. And therefore, though I can say 
 nothing in it myself, I do not dispute it. 
 
 23rd. To Whitehall ; where, in the Matted Gallery, 
 Mr. Coventry was, who told us how the Parliament 
 have required of Sir G. Carteret and him an account 
 what money shall be necessary to be settled upon the 
 Navy for the ordinary charge, which they intend to 
 report 200,000 per annum. And how to allot this 
 we met this afternoon, and took their papers for our 
 perusal, and so parted. 
 
 24th. Meeting Mr. Lewis Phillips of Brampton, he 
 and afterwards others tell me that news come last 
 night to Court, that the King of France is sick of the 
 spotted fever, and that they are struck in again ; and 
 this afternoon my Lord Mandeville is gone from the 
 King to make him a visit, which will be great news, 
 and of great import through Europe. By-and-by in 
 comes my Lord Sandwich ; he told me this day a vote 
 hath passed that the King's grants of land to my 
 Lord Monk and him should be made good; which 
 pleases him very much. He also tells me that things 
 do not go right in the House with Mr. Coventry ; I 
 suppose he means in the business of selling places ; 
 but I am sorry for it. 
 
 27th. With Pett to my Lord Ashley, Chancellor of 
 the Exchequer; where we met the auditors about
 
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 settling the business of the accounts of persons to 
 whom money is due before the King's time in the 
 Navy, and the clearing of their imprests for what 
 little of their debts they have received. I find my 
 Lord, as he is reported, a very ready, quiet, and 
 diligent person. Roger Pepys tells me that the 
 King hath sent to the Parliament to hasten to make 
 an end by midsummer, because of his going into the 
 country ; so they have set upon four bills to dispatch ; 
 the first of which is, he says, too devilish a severe act 
 against conventicles ; so beyond all moderation that he 
 is afraid it will ruin all : telling me that it is matter of 
 the greatest grief to him in the world, that he should 
 be put upon this trust of being a Parliament man, 
 because he says nothing is done, that he can see, 
 out of any truth and sincerity, but mere envy and 
 design. Then into the Great Garden up to the 
 Banqueting House ; and there by my Lord's glass we 
 drew in the species very pretty. Afterwards to nine- 
 pins, Creed and I playing against my Lord and Cooke. 
 
 28th. By water to the Royal Theatre ; but that was 
 so full they told us we could have no room. And so 
 to the Duke's house; and there saw Hamlet done, 
 giving us fresh reason never to think enough of 
 Betterton. Who should we see come upon the stage 
 but Gosnell, my wife's maid, but neither spoke, danced, 
 nor sung, which I was sorry for. 
 
 29th. This day is kept strictly as a holiday, being 
 the King's Coronation. Creed and I abroad, and
 
 150 PEPYS'S DIARY. [May, 
 
 called at several churches ; and it is a wonder to see, 
 and by that to guess the ill-temper of the City, at this 
 time, either to religion in general or to the King, that 
 in some churches there was hardly ten people, and 
 those poor people. To the Duke's house, and there 
 saw The Slighted Maid, wherein Gosnell acted 
 Pyramena, a great part, and did it very well. Then 
 with Creed to see the German Princess, at the Gate- 
 house, at Westminster. 
 
 31st. This month the greatest news is, the height 
 and heat that the Parliament is in, in inquiring into 
 the revenue, which displeases the Court, and their 
 backwardness to give the King any money. Their 
 inquiring into the selling of places do trouble a great 
 many ; among the chief, my Lord Chancellor (against 
 whom particularly it is carried), and Mr. Coventry; 
 for which I am sorry. The King of France was given 
 out to be poisoned and dead, but it proves to be the 
 measles ; and he is well, or likely to be soon well, 
 again. I find myself growing in the esteem and 
 credit that I have in the office, and I hope falling to 
 my business again will confirm me in it. 
 
 June 1. The Duke having been a-hunting to-day, 
 and so lately come home and gone to bed, we could 
 not see him, and we walked away. And I with Sir 
 J. Miunes to the Strand Maypole ; and there light 
 out of his coach, and walked to the New Theatre, 
 which, since the King's players are gone to the 
 Royal one, is this day begun to be employed by the
 
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 fencers to play prizes at. And here I come and saw 
 the first prize I ever saw in my life, and it was 
 between one Mathews, who did beat at all weapons, 
 and one Westwicke, who was soundly cut several 
 times both in the head and legs, that he was all over 
 blood, and other deadly blows they did give and take 
 in very good earnest, till Westwicke was in a sad 
 pickle. They fought at eight weapons, three bouts at 
 each weapon. This being upon a private quarrel, 
 they did it in good earnest ; and I felt one of the 
 swords, and found it to be very little, if at all, blunter 
 on the edge than the common swords are. Strange to 
 see what a deal of money is flung to them both upon 
 the stage between every bout. This day I hear at 
 Court of the great plot which was lately discovered in 
 Ireland, made among the Presbyters and others, 
 designing to cry up the Covenant, and to secure 
 Dublin Castle and other places ; and they have de- 
 bauched a good part of the army there, promising 
 them ready money. Some of the Parliament there, 
 they say, are guilty, and some withdrawn upon it; 
 several persons taken, and among others a son of 
 Scott's, that was executed here for the King's murder. 
 What reason the King hath, I know not ; but it seems 
 he is doubtful of Scotland, and this afternoon, when I 
 was there, the council was called extraordinary, and 
 they were opening the letters this last post's coming 
 and going between Scotland and us and other places. 
 The King of France is well again.
 
 152 PEPYS'S DIABT. fjune, 
 
 2nd. To St. James's, to Mr. Coventry, where I had 
 an hour's private talk with him concerning his own 
 condition, at present being under the censure of the 
 House, being concerned with others in the Bill 
 for selling of offices. He tells me, that though he 
 thinks himself to suffer much in his fame hereby, yet 
 he values nothing more of evil to hang over him ; for 
 . that it is against no statute, as is pretended, nor more 
 than what his predecessors time out of mind have 
 taken ; and that so soon as he found himself to be in an 
 error, he did desire to have his fees set, which was 
 done, and since that time he hath not taken a token 
 more. He undertakes to prove that he did never take 
 a token of any captain to get him employed in his life 
 beforehand, or demanded anything ; and for the other 
 accusation, that the Cavaliers are not employed, he 
 looked over the list of them now in the service, and 
 of the twenty-seven that are employed, thirteen have 
 been heretofore always under the King ; two neutrals, 
 and the other twelve men of great courage, and such 
 as had either the King's particular commands, or great 
 recommendation to put them in, and none by himself. 
 Besides that, he sees it is not the King's nor Duke's 
 opinion that the whole party of the late officers should 
 be rendered desperate. And lastly, he confesses that 
 the more of the Cavaliers are put in, the less of 
 discipline hath followed in the fleet ; and that, when- 
 ever there comes occasion, it must be the old ones 
 that must do any good. He tells me that he cannot
 
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 guess whom all this should come from ; but he suspects 
 Sir G. Carteret, as I also do, at least that he is pleased 
 with it. But he tells me that he will bring Sir G. 
 Carteret to be the first adviser and instructor of him 
 what is to make his place of benefit to him ; telling 
 him that Smith did make his place worth 5,000, and 
 he believed 7,000 to him the first year; besides 
 something else greater than all this, which he forbore 
 to tell me. It seems one Sir Thomas Tomkins of the 
 House, that makes many mad motions, did bring it 
 into the House, saying that a letter was left at his 
 lodgings, subscribed by one Benson (which is a 
 feigned name, for there is no such in the Navy), 
 telling how many places in the Navy have been sold. 
 And by another letter, left in the same manner since, 
 nobody appearing, he writes him that there is one 
 Hughes and another Butler (both rogues, that have for 
 their roguery been turned out of their places), that 
 will swear that Mr. Coventry did sell their places and 
 other things. I offered him my service, and will with 
 all my heart serve him : but he tells me he do not 
 think it convenient to meddle, or to any purpose. To 
 Westminster Hall, where I hear more of the plot 
 from Ireland ; which it seems hath been hatching, and 
 known to the Lord Lieutenant a great while, and kept 
 close till within three days that it should have taken 
 effect. 
 
 4th. In the Hall a good while ; where I heard that 
 this day the Archbishop of Canterbury, Juxon, a man
 
 154 PEPYS'S DIARY. [June, 
 
 well spoken of by all for a good man, is dead ; and the 
 Bishop of London is to have his seat. The match 
 between Sir J. Cutts and my Lady Jemimah, he says, 
 is likely to go on ; for which I am glad. In the Hall 
 to-day Dr. Pierce tells me that the Queen begins to 
 be brisk, and play like other ladies, and is quite 
 another woman from what she was. It may be, it 
 may make the King like her the better, and for- 
 sake his two mistresses, my Lady Castlemaine and 
 Stewart. 
 
 6th. To York House, where the Russian Ambassador 
 do lie ; and there I saw his people go up and down 
 lousing themselves : they are all in a great hurry, 
 being to be gone the beginning of next week. But 
 that that pleased me best, was the remains of the 
 noble soul of the late Duke of Buckingham appearing 
 in his house, in every place, in the door-cases and the 
 windows. Sir John Hebden, the Russia Resident, did 
 tell me how he is vexed to see things at Court ordered 
 as they are by nobody that attends to business, but 
 every man himself or his pleasures. He cries up my 
 Lord Ashley to be almost the only man that he sees to 
 look after business ; and with the ease and mastery, 
 that he wonders at him. He cries out against the 
 King's dealing so much with goldsmiths, and suffering 
 himself to have his purse kept and commanded by them. 
 He tells me also with what exact care and order the 
 States of Holland's stores are kept in their Yards, and 
 every thing managed there by their builders with
 
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 such husbandry as is not imaginable; which I will 
 endeavour to understand further. 
 
 7th. Mrs. Turner, who is often at Court, do tell me 
 to-day that for certain the Queen hath much changed 
 her humour, and is become very pleasant and sociable 
 as any ; and they say is with child, or believed to be so. 
 After church to Sir W. Batten's ; where my Lady 
 Batten inveighed mightily against the German 
 Princess, and I as high in the defence of her wit and 
 spirit, and glad that she is cleared at the Sessions. 
 
 12th. To the Royal Theatre ; and there saw The 
 Committee, a merry but indifferent play, only Lacey's 
 part, an Irish footman, is beyond imagination. Here 1 
 saw my Lord Falconbridge, and his Lady, my Lady 
 Mary Cromwell, who looks as well as I have known 
 her, and well clad : but when the House began to fill 
 she put on her vizard, and so kept it on all the play ; 
 which of late is become a great fashion among the 
 ladies, which hides their whole face. So to the Ex- 
 change, to buy things with my wife ; among others, a 
 vizard for herself, 
 
 13th. To the Royal Theatre ; and in our way saw my 
 Lady Castlemaine, who, I fear, is not so handsome as 
 I have taken her for, and now she begins to decay some- 
 thing. This is my wife's opinion also. Yesterday, 
 upon conference with the King in the Banqueting 
 House, the Parliament did agree with much ado, it 
 being carried but by forty -two voices, that they would 
 supply him with a sum of money : but what and how is
 
 156 PEPYS'S DIABY. [June, 
 
 not yet known, but expected to be done with great 
 disputes the next week. But if done at all, it is well. 
 
 15th. To the Trinity House ; where, among others, I 
 found my Lords Sandwich and Craven, and my cousin 
 Roger Pepys, and Sir "Wm. Wheeler. Both at and 
 after dinner we had great discourses of the nature and 
 power of spirits, and whether they can animate dead 
 bodies ; in all which, as of the general appearance of 
 spirits, my Lord Sandwich is very sceptical. He says 
 the greatest warrants that ever he had to believe any, 
 is the present appearing of the Devil in Wiltshire, 
 much of late talked of, who beats a drum up and down. 
 There are books of it, and, they say, very true ; but my 
 Lord observes, that though he do answer to any tune 
 that you will play to him upon another drum, yet one 
 time he tried to play and could not ; which makes him 
 suspect the whole ; and I think it is a good argument. 
 
 16th. Dined with Sir W. Batten ; who tells me that 
 the House have voted the supply, intended for the 
 King, shall be by subsidy. 
 
 17th. This day I met with Pierce the surgeon; who 
 tells me that the King has made peace between Mr. 
 Edward Montagu and his father Lord Montagu, and 
 that all is well again ; at which, for the family's sake, 
 I am glad, but do not think it will hold long. 
 
 19th. To Lambeth, expecting to have seen the Arch- 
 bishop lie in state ; but it seems he is not laid out yet. 
 At the Privy Seal Office examined the books, and found 
 the grant of increase of salary to the principal officers
 
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 in the year 1639, 300 among the Controller, Surveyor, 
 and Clerk to the Ships. Met Captain Ferrers; who 
 tells us that the King of France is well again, and that 
 he saw him train his Guards, all brave men, at Paris ; 
 and that when he goes to his mistress, Madame La 
 Valliere, a pretty little woman, now with child by him, 
 he goes publicly, and his trumpets and kettledrums 
 with him ; and yet he says that, for all this, the Queen 
 do not know of it, for that nobody dares to tell her ; 
 but that I dare not believe. 
 
 22nd. To Westminster, where all along I find the 
 shops evening with the sides of the houses, even in the 
 broadest streets, which will make the City very much 
 better than it was. It seems the House do consent to 
 send to the King to desire that he would be graciously 
 pleased to let them know who it was that did inform 
 him of what words Sir Richard Temple should say, 
 which were to this purpose : " That if the King would 
 side with him, or be guided by him and his party, that 
 he should not lack money," but without knowing who 
 told it, they do not think fit to call him to any account 
 for it. The Duke being gone a hunting, by-and-by 
 came in and shifted himself, he having in his hunting 
 led his horse through a river up to his breast, and came 
 so home; and being ready we had a long discourse 
 with him. 
 
 23rd. To the office, and after an hour or two by 
 water to the Temple, to my cousin Roger, who, I per- 
 ceive, is a deadly high man in the Parliament business,
 
 158 PEPTS'S DIARY. [June, 
 
 and against tlie Court, showing me how they have com- 
 puted that the King hath spent, at least hath received, 
 above four millions of money since he come in ; and in 
 Sir J. Winter's case, in which I spoke to him, he is so 
 high tliat he says he deserves to be hanged. To the 
 'Change ; and by-and-by comes the King and the Queen 
 by in great state, and the streets full of people. I 
 
 stood in Mr. 's balcony. They dine all at my 
 
 Lord Mayor's, but what ho do for victuals or room for 
 them I know not, 
 
 24th. To St. James's, and there an hour's private 
 discourse with Mr. Coventry, he speaking of Sir G. 
 Carteret slightly, and diminishing of his services for 
 the King in Jersey ; that he was well rewarded, and 
 had good lands and rents, and other profits from the 
 King, all the time he was there, and that it was always 
 his humour to have things done his way. He brought 
 an example how he would not let the Castle there be 
 victualled for more than a month, that so he might keep 
 it at his beck, though the people of the town did offer 
 to supply it more often themselves. Another tiling he 
 told me, how the Duke of Tork did give Sir Gr. 
 Carteret and the Island his profit as Admiral, and 
 other things, toward the building of a pier there. But 
 it was never laid out, nor like to be. So it falling out 
 that a lady being brought to bed, the Duke was to be 
 desired to be one of the godfathers ; and it being 
 objected that that would not bo proper, there being no 
 peer of the land to be joined with him, the lady replied,
 
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 " Why, let him choose ; and if he will not be a god- 
 father without a peer, then let him even slay till he 
 hath made a pier of his own." He tells me, too, 
 that he hath lately been observed to tack about at Court, 
 and to endeavour to strike in with the persons that are 
 against the Chancellor ; but this he says of him, that 
 he do not say nor do anything to the prejudice of the 
 Chancellor. But he told me that the Chancellor was 
 rising again, and that of late Sir G. Carteret's business 
 and employment hath not been so full as it used to be 
 while the Chancellor stood up. From that we discoursed 
 of the evil of putting out men of experience in business 
 as the Chancellor, and of the condition of the King's 
 party at present, who, as the Papists, though otherwise 
 fine persons, yet being by law kept for these fourscore 
 years out of employment, they are now wholly uncapable 
 of business; and so the Cavaliers for twenty years, 
 who, says he, for the most part have either given them- 
 selves over to look after country and family business, 
 and those the best of them, and the rest to debauchery, 
 &c. ; and that was it that hath made him higli against 
 the late Bill brought into the House for the making all 
 men incapable of employment that had served against 
 the King. People, says he, in the sea-service, it is 
 impossible to do anything without them, there being 
 not more than three men of the whole King's side that 
 are fit to command almost ; and these were Captain 
 Allen, Smith, and Beech; and it may be Holmes, and 
 TJtber, and Batts might do something.
 
 160 PEPYS'S DIAET. [June, 
 
 25th. Sir G. Carteret did tell us that upon Tuesday 
 last, being with my Lord Treasurer, he showed him a 
 letter from Portugal speaking of the advance of the 
 Spaniards into their country, and yet that the Portu- 
 guese were never more courageous than now ; for by 
 an old prophecy sent thither some years though not 
 many since from the French King, it is foretold that 
 the Spaniards should come into their country, and in 
 such a valley they should be all killed, and then their 
 country should be wholly delivered from the Spaniards. 
 This was on Tuesday last, and yesterday come the very 
 first news that in this valley they had thus routed and 
 killed the Spaniards. 
 
 26th. The House is upon the King's answer to their 
 message about Temple, which is, that my Lord of 
 Bristol did tell him that Temple did say those words, 
 so the House are resolved upon sending some of their 
 members to him to know the truth, and to demand 
 satisfaction if it be not true. Sir "W. Batten, Sir J. 
 Minnes, my Lady Batten, and I, by coach to Bednall 
 Green to Sir W. Rider's to dinner. A fine merry 
 walk with the ladies alone after dinner in the garden ; 
 the greatest quantity of strawberries I ever saw, and 
 good. This very house was built by the blind beggar 
 of Bednall Green, so much talked of and sung in 
 ballads, but they say it was only some of the out-houses 
 of it. At table, discoursing of thunder and lightning, 
 Sir W. Rider did tell a story of his own knowledge,
 
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 that a Genoese galley in Leghorn Roads was struck by 
 thunder, so as the mast was broke a pieces, and the 
 shackle upon one of the slaves was melted clear off his 
 leg without hurting his leg. Sir William went on 
 board the vessel, and would have contributed towards 
 the release of the slave whom heaven had thus set free, 
 but he could not compass it, and so he was brought to 
 his fetters again. 
 
 29th. Up and down the streets is cried mightily the 
 great victory got by the Portugals against the Spani- 
 ards, where 10,000 skin, 3,000 or 4,000 taken prisoners, 
 with all the artillery, baggage, money, &c., and Don 
 John of Austria forced to flee with a man or two with 
 him. 
 
 30th. Public matters are in an ill condition : Parlia- 
 ment sitting and raising four subsidies for the King, 
 which is but a little, considering his wants ; and yet 
 that parted withal with great hardness. They being 
 offended to see so much money go, and no debts of the 
 public's paid, but all swallowed by a luxurious Court ; 
 which the King it is believed and hoped will retrench 
 in a little time, when he comes to see the utmost of the 
 revenue which shall be settled on him; he expecting 
 to have his 1,200,000 made good to him, which is not 
 yet done by above 150,000 as he himself reports to the 
 House. The charge of the Navy intended to be 
 limited to 200,000 per annum, the ordinary charge of 
 it, and that to be settled upon the Customs. The
 
 162 PEPTS'S DIARY. [July, 
 
 King gets greatly taken up with Madam Castle- 
 maiiie and Mrs. Stewart, which Heaven put au 
 end to ! 
 
 July 1. Being in the Parliament lobby, I there saw 
 my Lord of Bristol come to the Commons House to 
 give his answer to their question, about some words he 
 should tell the King that were spoke by Sir Richard 
 Temple. A chair was set at the bar of the House for 
 him, which he used but little, but made an harangue 
 of half an hour bareheaded, the House covered. His 
 speech being done, he came out into a little room till 
 the House had concluded of an answer to his speech ; 
 which they staying long upon, I went away. And by- 
 and-by out comes Sir W. Batten ; and he told me that his 
 Lordship had made a long and a comedian-like speech, 
 and delivered with such action as was not becoming 
 his Lordship. He confesses he did tell the King such 
 a thing of Sir Richard Temple, but that upon his 
 honour the words were not spoken by Sir Richard, 
 he having taken a liberty of enlarging to the King 
 upon the discourse which had been between Sir 
 Richard and himself lately ; and so took upon himself 
 the whole blame, and desired their pardon, it being 
 not to do any wrong to their fellow member, but out of 
 zeal to the King. He told them, among many other 
 things, that as to religion he was a Roman Catholic, 
 but such a one as thought no man to have right to the 
 Crown of England but the Prince that hath it ; and
 
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 such a one as, if the King should desire counsel as to 
 his own, he would not advise him to another religion 
 than the old true reformed religion of this kingdom as 
 it now stands ; and concluded with a submission *to 
 what the House shall do with him, saying that what- 
 ever they shall do " thanks be to God, this head, this 
 heart, and this sword (pointing to them all), will find 
 me a being in any place in Europe." The House hath 
 hereupon voted clearly Sir Richard Temple to be free 
 from the imputation of saying those words ; but when 
 Sir William Batten came out, had not concluded what 
 to say to my Lord, it being argued that to own any 
 satisfaction as to my Lord from his speech, would be 
 to lay some fault upon the King for the message he 
 should upon no better accounts send to the impeaching 
 of one of their members. "Walking out, I hear that 
 the House of Lords are offended that my Lord Digby 
 should come to this House and make a speech there 
 without leave first asked of the House of Lords. I 
 hear also of another difficulty now upon him ; that my 
 Lord of Sunderland (whom I do not know) was so near 
 to the marriage of his daughter, as that the wedding 
 clothes were made, and portion and everything agreed 
 on and ready ; and the other day he goes away nobody 
 yet knows whither, sending her the next morning a 
 release of his right or claim to her, and advice to his 
 friends not to inquire into the reason of this doing, for 
 he hath enough for it ; and that he gives them liberty
 
 164 PEPfS'S DIABY. [July, 
 
 to say and think what they will of him, so they do not 
 demand the reason of his leaving her, being resolved 
 never to have her. To Sir "W. Batten, to the Trinity 
 Hfrose ; and after dinner we fell a-talking, Mr. Batten 
 telling us of a late trial of Sir Charles Sedley, the other 
 day, before my Lord Chief Justice Foster and the whole 
 bench, for his debauchery a little while since at Oxford 
 Kate's. It seems my Lord and the rest of the Judges 
 did all of them round give him a most high reproof ; 
 my Lord Chief Justice saying, that it was for him, 
 and such wicked wretches as he was, that God's anger 
 and judgments hung over us, calling him sirrah many 
 times. It seems they have bound him to his good 
 behaviour (there being no law against him for it) in 
 5,000. It being told that my Lord Buckhurst was 
 there, my Lord asked whether it was that Buckhurst 
 that was lately tried for robbery ; and when answered 
 Yes, he asked whether he had so soon forgot his 
 deliverance at that time, and that it would have 
 more become him to have been at his prayers, begging 
 God's forgiveness, than now running into such courses 
 again. This day I hear at dinner that Don John of 
 Austria, since his flight out of Portugal, is dead of his 
 wounds ; so there is a great man gone, and a great 
 dispute like to be indeed for the crown of Spain, if the 
 King should have died before him. My cousin Roger 
 told us the whole passage of my Lord Digby to-day, 
 much as I have said here above ; only that he did say
 
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 that he would draw his sword against the Pope himself, 
 if he should offer any thing against His Majesty, and 
 the good of these nations ; and that he never was the 
 man that did either look for a Cardinal's cap for himself, 
 or anybody else, meaning Abbot Montagu: and the 
 House upon the whole did vote Sir Richard Temple 
 innocent ; and that my Lord Digby hath cleared the 
 honour of His Majesty, and Sir Richard Temple's, and 
 given perfect satisfaction of his own respects to the 
 House. 
 
 2nd. "Walking in the garden this evening with Sir 
 G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes, Sir G. Carteret told us 
 with great content how like a stage-player my Lord 
 Digby spoke yesterday, pointing to his head as my 
 Lord did, and saying, " First, for his head," says Sir 
 G. Carteret, " I know when a calf's head would have 
 done better by half : for his heart and his sword, I have 
 nothing to say to them." He told us that for certain 
 his head cost the late King his, for it was he that 
 broke off the treaty at Uxbridge. He told us also how 
 great a man he was raised from a private gentleman in 
 France by Monsieur Grandmont, and afterwards by 
 the Cardinal, who raised him to be a Lieutenant-general, 
 and then higher ; and entrusted by the Cardinal 
 when he was banished out of France with great 
 matters, and recommended by him to the Queen as a 
 man to be trusted and ruled by : yet when he came to 
 have some power over the Queen, he began to dissuade
 
 166 PEPYS'S DIABT. [July, 
 
 her from her opinion of the Cardinal ; which she said 
 nothing to till the Cardinal was returned, and then she 
 told him of it; who told my Lord Digby, "Et bien, 
 Monsieur, vous estes un fort bon amy done : " but pre- 
 sently put him out of all ; and then from a certainty 
 of coming in two or three years' time to be Mareschal 
 of France, (to which all strangers, even Protestants, 
 and those as often as French themselves, are capable of 
 coming, though it be one of the greatest places in 
 France), he was driven to go out of France into Flan- 
 ders ; but there was not trusted, nor received any kind- 
 ness from the Prince of Conde, as one to whom also he 
 had been false, as he had been to the Cardinal and 
 Grandmont. In fine, he told us that he is a man of ex- 
 cellent parts, but of no great faith nor judgment, and 
 one very easy to get up to great height of preferment, 
 but never able to hold it. 
 
 3rd. Mr. Moore tells me great news that my Lady 
 Castlemaine is fallen from Court, and this morning 
 retired. He gives me no account of the reason, but 
 that it is so : for which I am sorry ; and yet if the 
 King do it to leave off not only her but all other 
 mistresses, I should be heartily glad of it, that he may 
 fall to look after business. I hear my Lord Digby is 
 condemned at Court for his speech, and that my Lord 
 Chancellor grows great again. With Mr. Creed over 
 the water to Lambeth ; but could not see the Archbi- 
 shop's hearse : so over the fields to Southwark. I spent
 
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 half an hour in St. Mary Overy's Church, where are 
 fine monuments of great antiquity. 
 
 4th. Sir Allen Apsley showed the Duke the Lisbon 
 Gazette in Spanish, where the late victory is set down 
 particularly, and to the great honour of the English 
 beyond measure. They have since taken back Evora, 
 which was lost to the Spaniards, the English making 
 the assault, and lost not more than three men. Here I 
 learnt that the English foot are highly esteemed all 
 over the world, but the horse not so much, which yet 
 we count among ourselves the best : but they abroad have 
 had no great knowledge of our horse, it seems. To the 
 King's Head ordinary ; and a pretty gentleman in our 
 company, who confirms my Lady Castlemaine's being 
 gone from Court, but knows not the reason ; he told us 
 of one wipe the Queen a little while ago did give her, 
 when she came in and found the Queen under the 
 dresser's hands, and had been so long : '' I wonder 
 your Majesty," says she, " can have the patience to sit 
 so long a-dressing ? " " I have so much reason to use 
 patience," says the Queen, " that I can very well bear 
 with it." He thinks it may be the Queen hath com- 
 manded her to retire, though that is not likely. Thence 
 with Creed to hire a coach to carry us to Hyde Park, 
 to-day there being a general muster of the King's 
 Guards, horse and foot : but they demand so high, that 
 I, spying Mr. Cutler the merchant, did take notice of 
 him, and he going into his coach, and telling me that
 
 168 PEPYS'S DIAET. [July, 
 
 he was going to the muster, I asked and went along with 
 him ; where a goodly sight to see so many fine horses 
 and officers, and the King, Duke, and others come by 
 a-horseback, and the two Queens in the Queen-Mother's 
 coach, (my Lady Castlemaine not being there). And 
 after long being there, I light, and walked to the place 
 where the King, Duke, &c. did stand to see the horse 
 and foot march by and discharge their guns, to show a 
 French Marquis (for whom this muster was caused) 
 the goodness of our firemen ; which indeed was very 
 good, though not without a slip now and then : and 
 one broadside close to our coach we had going out of 
 the Park, even to the nearness as to be ready to burn 
 our hairs. Tet methought all these gay men are not 
 the soldiers that must do the King's business, it being 
 such as these that lost the old King all he had, and 
 were beat by the most ordinary fellows that could be. 
 Thence with much ado out of the Park, and through St. 
 James's down the waterside over to Lambeth, to see 
 the Archbishop's corpse (who is to be carried away to 
 Oxford on Monday), but came too late. This day in the 
 Duke's chamber there being a Roman story in the 
 hangings, and upon the standard written these four 
 letters S. P. Q. R., Sir Gr. Carteret came to me to 
 know what the meaning of those four letters were; 
 which ignorance is not to be borne in a Privy Councillor, 
 methinks, what a schoolboy should be whipped for not 
 knowing.
 
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 6th. At my office all the morning, writing out a list 
 of the King's ships in my Navy collections with great 
 pleasure. 
 
 7th. In Mr. Pett's garden I eat some of the first 
 cherries I have eat this year, off the tree where the King 
 himself had been gathering some this morning. Deane 
 tells me what Mr. Pett did to-day, that my Lord Bristol 
 told the King that he will impeach the Chancellor of 
 High Treason : but I find that my Lord Bristol hath 
 undone himself already in everybody's opinion, and 
 now he endeavours to raise dust to put out other men's 
 eyes, as well as his own ; but I hope it will not take, in 
 consideration merely that it is hard for a Prince to 
 spare an experienced old officer, be he never so corrupt ; 
 though I hope this man is not so, as some report him to 
 be. He tells me that Don John is yet alive, and not 
 killed, as was said, in the great victory against the 
 Spaniards in Portugal of late. 
 
 9th. Sir W. Pen tells me my Lady Castlemaine \va a 
 at Court, for all this talk this week ; bat it seems the 
 King is stranger than ordinary to her. 
 
 10th. I met Pierce the chirurgeon, who tells me that 
 for certain the King is grown colder to my Lady 
 Castlemaine than ordinary, and that he believes he 
 begins to love the Queen, and do make much of her, 
 more than he used to do. Mr. Coventry tells me that 
 my Lord Bristol hath this day impeached my Lord 
 Chancellor in the House of Lords, of high treason.
 
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 The chief of the articles are these : 1st That he should 
 be the occasion of the peace made with Holland lately 
 upon such disadvantageous terms, and that he was 
 bribed to it. 2nd. That Dunkirk was also sold by 
 his advice chiefly, so much to the damage of England. 
 3rd. That he had 6,000 given him for the drawing up 
 or promoting of the Irish declaration lately, concerning 
 the division of the lands there. 4th. He did carry on 
 the design of the Portugal match, so much to the pre- 
 judice of the Crown of England, notwithstanding that 
 he knew the Queen is not capable of bearing children. 
 5th. That the Duke's marrying of his daughter was a 
 practice of his, thereby to raise his family, and that it 
 was done by indiscreet courses. 6th. As to the 
 breaking off of the match with Parma, in which he 
 was employed at the very time when the match with 
 Portugal was made up here, which he took as a great 
 slur to him, and so it was, and that indeed, is the chief 
 occasion of all this feud. 7th. That he hath en- 
 deavoured to bring in Popery, and wrote to the Pope 
 for a cap for a subject of the King of England's (my 
 Lord Aubigny), and some say that he lays it to the 
 Chancellor that a good Protestant secretary (Sir 
 Edward Nicholas), was laid aside, and a Papist, Sir 
 H. Bennet, put in his room ; which is very strange, 
 when the last of these two is his own creature, and such 
 an enemy accounted to the Chancellor, that they never 
 did nor do agree, and all the world did judge the
 
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 Chancellor to be falling from the time that Sir H. 
 Bennet was brought in. Besides my Lord Bristol 
 being a Catholic himself, all this is very strange. 
 These are the main of the articles. Upon which my 
 Lord Chancellor desired the noble Lord that bronght 
 in these articles would sign to them with his hand; 
 which my Lord Bristol did presently. Then the 
 House did order that the Judges should, against 
 Monday next, bring in their opinion, whether these 
 articles are treason or no p and next they would know 
 whether they were brought in regularly or no, without 
 leave of the Lord's House P 
 
 llth. By barge to St. Mary's Creek, where Com- 
 missioner Pett (doubtful of the growing greatness of 
 Portsmouth by the finding of those creeks there), do 
 design a wet dock at no great charge, and yet no little 
 one ; he thinks towards 10,000. And the place, in- 
 deed, is likely to be a very fit place, when the King 
 hath money to do it with. 
 
 13th. I walked to the Temple, and there, from my 
 cousin Roger, hear that the Judges have this day 
 brought in their answer to the Lords, that the articles 
 against my Lord Chancellor are not treason ; and to- 
 morrow they are to bring in their arguments to the 
 House for the same. This day also the King did send 
 by my Lord Chamberlain to the Lords, to tell them 
 from him, that the most of the articles against my Lord 
 Chancellor he himself knows to be false. I met the
 
 172 PEPYS'8 DIARY. [July, 
 
 Queen-Mother walking in the Pell Mell, led by my 
 Lord St. Alban's. And finding many coaches at the 
 Gate, I found upon inquiry that the Duchess is brought 
 to bed of a boy; and hearing that the King and Queen 
 are rode abroad with the Ladies of Honour to the Park, 
 and seeing a great crowd of gallants staying here to 
 see their return, I also stayed walking up and down. 
 By-and-by the King and Queen, who looked in this 
 dress (a white laced waistcoat, and a crimson short 
 petticoat, and her hair dressed a, la negligence) mighty 
 pretty, and the King rode hand in hand with her. 
 Here was also* my Lady Castlcmaine rode among the 
 rest of the ladies, but the King took, methought, no 
 notice of her ; nor when she light did anybody press 
 (as she seemed to expect, and stayed for it) to take her 
 down, but was taken down by her own gentlemen. 
 She looked mighty out of humour, and had a yellow 
 plume in her hat (which all took notice of), and yet is 
 very handsome, but very melancholy ; nor did anybody 
 speak to her, or she so much as smile or speak to any- 
 body. I followed them up into Whitehall, and into 
 the Queen's presence, where all the ladies walked, 
 talking and fiddling with their hats and feathers, and 
 changing and trying one another's by one another's 
 heads, and laughing. But it was the finest sight to 
 me, considering their great beauties and dress, that 
 ever I did see in all my life. But, above all, Mrs. 
 Stewart in this dress, with her hat cocked and a red
 
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 plume, with her sweet eye, little Roman nose, and ex- 
 cellent taille, is now the greatest beauty I ever saw, I 
 think, in my life, and if ever woman can, do exceed my 
 Lady Castlemaine, at least in this dress ; nor do I 
 wonder if the King changes, which I verily believe 
 is the reason of his coldness to my Lady Castlemaine. 
 
 14th. This day I hear the Judges, according to 
 order yesterday, did bring into the Lord's House their 
 reasons of their judgments in the business between my 
 Lord Bristol and the Chancellor, and the Lords do 
 concur with the Judges that the articles are not 
 treason, nor regularly brought into the 'House, and so 
 voted that a committee should be chosen to examine 
 them, but nothing to be done therein till the next 
 sitting of this Parliament (which is likely to be ad- 
 journed in a day or two), and in the mean time the two 
 Lords to remain without prejudice done to either of 
 them. 
 
 15th. Captain Grove came and dined with me. He 
 told me of discourse very much to my honour, both as 
 to my care and ability, happening at the Duke of 
 Albemarle's table the other day, both from the Duke 
 and the Duchess themselves, and how I paid so much 
 a year to him whose place it was of right, and that Mr. 
 Coventry did report this of me. 
 
 21st. This day the Parliament kept a fast for the 
 present unseasonable weather. 
 
 22nd. To my Lord Crew's. My Lord not being
 
 174 PJSPYS'S DIABT. .[July, 
 
 come home, I met and stayed below with Captain 
 Ferrers, who was come to wait upon my Lady 
 Jemimah to St James's, she being one of the four 
 ladies that hold up the mantle at the christening this 
 afternoon of the Duke's child (a boy). In discourse of 
 the ladies at Court, Captn. Ferrers tells me that my 
 Lady Castlemaine is now as great again as ever she 
 was ; and that her going away was only a fit of her 
 own upon some slighting words of the King, so that 
 she called for her coach at a quarter of an hour's 
 warning, and went to Richmond; and the King the 
 next morning, under pretence of going a hunting, went 
 to see her and make friends, and never was a hunting 
 at all. After which she came back to Court, and com- 
 mands the King as much as ever, and hath and doth 
 what she will. No longer ago than last night, there 
 was a private entertainment made for the King and 
 Queen at the Duke of Buckingham's, and she was not 
 invited: but being at my Lady Suffolk's, her aunt's 
 (where my Lady Jemimah and Lord Sandwich dined), 
 yesterday she was heard to say, "Well, much good 
 may it do them, and for all that, I will be as merry 
 as they ; " and so she went home, and caused a great 
 supper to be prepared. And after the King had been 
 with the Queen at Wallingf ord House, he came to my 
 Lady Castlemaine's, and was there all night, and my 
 Lord Sandwich with him. He tells me he believes that, 
 as soon as the King can get a husband for Mrs. Stewart,
 
 1663.J PEPYS'S D1ABT. 175 
 
 however, my Lady Castlemaine's nose "will be out of 
 joint ; for that she comes to be in great esteem, and is 
 more handsome than she. "Wotton tells me the reason of 
 Harris's going from Sir Wm. Davenant's honse is, that 
 he grew very proud and demanded 20 for himself extra- 
 ordinary more than Betterton or anybody else, upon every 
 new play, and 10 upon every revive, which with other 
 things Sir W. Davenant would not give him, and so he 
 swore he would never act there more, in expectation of 
 being received in the other house ; but the King will 
 not suffer it, upon Sir W. Davenant's desire that he 
 would not, for then he might shut up house, and that 
 is true. He tells me that his going is at present a 
 great loss to the House, and that he fears he hath a 
 stipend from the other House privately. He tells me 
 that the fellow grew very proud of late, the King and 
 everybody else crying him up so high, and that above 
 Betterton he being a more ayery man, as he is indeed. 
 But yet Betterton he says, they all say do act some 
 parts that none but himself can do. I hear that the 
 Moors have made some attacks upon the outworks of 
 Tangier ; but my Lord Teviott, with the loss of about 
 200 men, did beat them off and kill many of them. 
 To-morrow the King and Queen for certain go down 
 to Tunbridge. But the King comes back again 
 against Monday to raise the Parliament. 
 
 25th. Having intended this day to go to Banstead 
 Downs to see a famous race, I sent Will to get him*
 
 176 PEPYS'S DIARY. [July, 
 
 self ready to go with me : but I hear it is put off, 
 because the Lords do sit in Parliament to-day. After 
 some debate, Creed and I resolved to go to Clapham, 
 to Mr. Gauden's. When I came there, the first thing 
 was to show me his house, which is almost built. I 
 find it very regular and finely contrived, and the gar- 
 dens and offices about it as convenient and as full of 
 good variety as ever I saw in my life. It is true he 
 hath been censured for laying out so much money ; 
 but he tells me that he built it for his brother, who is 
 since dead (the Bishop), who when he should come to 
 be Bishop of Winchester, which he was promised (to 
 which bishopric at present there is no house), he did 
 intend to dwell here. By-and-by to dinner, and in 
 comes Mr. Creed ; I saluted his lady and the young 
 ladies, and his sister, the Bishop's widow ; who was, it 
 seems, Sir W. Russel's daughter, the Treasurer of the 
 Navy ; who I find to be very well bred, and a woman 
 of excellent discourse. Towards the evening we bade 
 them adieu, and took horse ; beingresolvedthat instead of 
 the race which fails us, we would go to Epsom. When 
 we came there we could hear of no lodgings, the town 
 so full ; but which was better, I went towards Ashted, 
 and there we got a lodging in a little hole we could 
 not stand upright in. While supper was getting I 
 walked up and down behind my cousin Pepys's house 
 that was, which I find comes little short of what I took 
 it to be when I was a little boy.
 
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 26th (Lord's day). Up and to the "Wells, where a 
 great store of citizens, which was the greatest part of 
 the company, though there were some others of better 
 quality. Thence I walked to Mr. Minnes's house, and 
 thence to Durdan's and walked within the court-yard 
 and to the bowling green, where I have seen so much 
 mirth in my time ; but now no family in it (my Lord 
 Barkeley, whose it is, being with his family at London). 
 Then rode through Epsom, the whole town over, seeing 
 the various companies that were there walking ; which 
 was very pleasant to see how they are there without 
 knowing what to do, but only in the morning to drink 
 waters. But Lord ! to see how many I met there of 
 citizens, that I could not have thought to have seen 
 there ; that they had ever had it in their heads or 
 purses to go down thither. We went through Non- 
 such Park to the house, and there viewed as much as 
 we could of the outside, and looked through the great 
 gates, and found a noble court ; and altogether believe 
 it to have been a very noble house, and a delicate park 
 about it, where just now there was a doe killed for the 
 King to carry up to court. 
 
 27th. We rode hard home, and set up our horses at 
 Fox Hall, and I by water (observing the King's barge 
 attending his going to the House this day) home, it 
 being about one o'clock. By water to Westminster, 
 and there come most luckily to the Lords' House, as 
 the House of Commons were going into the Lords'
 
 178 PEPYS'S DIARY. [July, 
 
 House, and there I crowded in along with the Speaker, 
 and got to stand close behind him, where he made his 
 speech to the King (who sat with his crown on and 
 robes, and so all the Lords in their robes, a fine sight), 
 wherein he told his Majesty what they have done this 
 Parliament, and now offered for his royal consent. The 
 greatest matters were a bill for the Lord's day (which 
 it seems the Lords have lost, and so cannot be passed, 
 at which the Commons are displeased). The bills 
 against Conventicles and Papists (but it seems the 
 Lords have not passed them), and giving his majesty 
 four entire subsidies ; which last, with about twenty 
 smaller Acts, were passed with this form. The Clerk 
 of the House reads the title of the bill, and then looks 
 at the end and there finds (writ by the King, I suppose) 
 " Le Roy le veult," and that he reads. And to others 
 he reads, " Soit fait comme vous desirez." And to the 
 Subsidies, as well that for the Commons, I mean the 
 laity, as for the Clergy, the King writes, " Le E/oy 
 remerciant les Seigneurs et Prelats et accepte leur 
 benevolence." The Speaker's speech was far from 
 any oratory, but was as plain (though good matter) as 
 anything could be, and void of elocution. After the 
 bills passed, the King sitting on his throne, with his 
 speech writ in a paper, which he held in his lap, and 
 scarce looked off of it all the time he made his speech 
 to them, giving them thanks for their subsidies, of 
 which, had he not need, he would not have asked or
 
 1663.J PEPYS'S DIABY. 179 
 
 received them ; and that need, not from any extrava- 
 gances of his, he was sure, in anything, but the dis- 
 orders of the times compelling him to be at greater 
 charge than he hoped for the future, by their care in 
 their country, he should be ; and that for his family 
 expenses and others, he would labour however to re- 
 trench in many things convenient, and would have all 
 others to do so too. He desired that nothing of old 
 faults should be remembered, or severity for the same 
 used to any in the country, it being his desire to have 
 all forgot as well as forgiven. But, however, to use 
 all care in suppressing any tumults, &c., assuring them 
 that the restless spirits of his and their adversaries 
 have great expectations of something to be done this 
 summer. And promised that though the Acts about 
 Conventicles and Papists were not ripe for passing 
 this Session, yet he would take care himself that 
 neither of them should in this interval be encouraged 
 to the endangering of the peace ; and that at their next 
 meeting he would himself prepare two bills for them 
 concerning them. So he concluded, that for the better 
 proceeding of justice he did think fit to make this a 
 Session, and to prorogue them to the 16th of March 
 next. His speech was very plain, nothing at all of 
 spirit in it, nor spoke with any ; but rather on the con- 
 trary imperfectly, repeating many times his words, 
 though he read all : which I am sorry to see, it having 
 not been hard for him to have got all the speech with*
 
 180 PEPYS'S DIARY. [July, 
 
 out book. So they all went away, the King out of the 
 House at the upper end, he being by-and-by to go to 
 Tunbridge to the Queen ; and I in the Painted 
 Chamber spoke with my Lord Sandwich while he was 
 putting off his robes, who tells me he will now hasten 
 down into the country. By water to Whitehall, and 
 walked over the Park to St. James's, but missed Mr. 
 Coventry ; and so out again, and there the Duke was 
 coming along the Pell Mell. It being a little darkish 
 I stayed not to take notice of him, but went directly 
 back again. And in our walk over the Park, one of 
 the Duke's footmen came running behind us, and came 
 looking just in our faces to see who we were, and went 
 back again. What his meaning is I know not, but was 
 fearful that I might not go far enough with my hat off. 
 
 29th. To Deptford, reading by the way a most 
 ridiculous play, a new one, called The Politician 
 Cheated. 
 
 30th. To Woolwich, and there come Sir G. Carteret, 
 and then by water back to Deptford, where we dined 
 with him at his house. I find his little daughter 
 Betty, that was in hanging sleeves but a month or 
 two ago, and is a very little young child, married, and 
 to whom, but to young Scott, son to Madam Catharine 
 Scott, that was so long in law, and at whose trial I 
 was with her husband; he pleading that it was unlaw- 
 fully got and would not own it, but it seems a little 
 before his death ho did own the child, and hath left
 
 1663.] PEPTS'S DIARY. 181 
 
 him his estate, not long since. So Sir G. Carteret 
 hath struck np of a sudden a match with him for his 
 little daughter. He hath about 2,000 per annum, and 
 it seems Sir G-. C. hath by this means over-reached Sir 
 H. Bonnet, who did endeavour to get this gentleman 
 for a sister of his. By this means Sir G. Carteret 
 hath married two daughters this year both very well. 
 The town talk this day is of nothing but the great 
 foot-race run this day on Banstead Downs, between 
 Lee, the Duke of Richmond's footman, and a tyler, a 
 famous runner. And Lee hath beat him, though the 
 King and Duke of York and all men almost did bet 
 three or four to one upon the tyler's head. 
 
 31st. To the Exchange, where I met Dr. Pierce, 
 who tells me of his good luck to get to be groom of the 
 Privy-Chamber to the Queen, and without my Lord 
 Sandwich's help, but only by his good fortune, meeting 
 a man that hath let him have his right for a small 
 matter, about 60 for which he can every day have 
 400. But he tells me my Lord hath lost much 
 honour in standing so long and so much for that 
 coxcomb Pickering, and at last not carrying it for 
 him ; but hath his name struck out by the King and 
 Queen themselves after he had been in ever since the 
 Queen's coming. But he tells me he believes that 
 either Sir H. Bennet, my Lady Castlemaine, or Sir 
 Charles Barkeley had received some money for the 
 place, and so the King could not disappoint them, but
 
 182 PEPYS'S DIABT. 
 
 was forced to put out this fool rather than a better 
 man. And I am sorry to hear what he tells me that 
 Sir Charles Barkeley hath still such power over the 
 King, as to be able to fetch him from the Council- 
 table to my Lady Castlemaine when he pleases. He 
 tells me also, as a friend, the great injury that he 
 thinks I do myself by being so severe in the Yards, and 
 contracting the ill-will of the whole Navy for those 
 offices, singly upon myself. Now I discharge a good 
 conscience therein, and I tell him that no man can 
 (nor do he say any say it), charge me with doing 
 wrong; but rather do as many good offices as any 
 man. They think, he says, that I have a mind to get 
 a good name with the King and Duke, who, he tells 
 me, do not consider any such thing ; but I shall have 
 as good thanks to let all alone, and do as the rest. 
 But I believe the contrary ; and yet I told him I never 
 go to the Duke alone, as others do, to talk of my own 
 services. However, I will make use of his counsel, 
 and take some course to prevent having the single 
 ill-will of the office. Mr. Grant showed me letters of 
 Sir William Petty's, wherein he says, that his vessel, 
 which he hath built upon two keels (a model whereof, 
 built for the King, he showed me), hath this month 
 won a wager of 50 in sailing between Dublin and 
 Holyhead with the packet-boat, the best ship or 
 vessel the King hath there, and he offers to lay with 
 any vessel in the world. It is about thirty ton in
 
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 burden, and carries thirty men, with good accommoda- 
 tion (as much more as any ship of her burden), and so 
 any vessel of this figure shall carry more men, with 
 better accommodation by half, than any other ship. 
 This carries also ten guns, of about five tons weight. 
 In their coming back from Holy head they started 
 together, and this vessel came to Dublin by five at 
 night, and the packet-boat not before eight the next 
 morning, and when they came they did believe that 
 this vessel had been drowned, or at least behind, not 
 thinking she could have lived in that sea. Strange 
 things are told of this vessel, and he concludes his 
 letter with this position, " I only affirm that the per- 
 fection of sailing lies in my principle, find it out who 
 can." 
 
 August 8. I with Mr. Coventry down to the water- 
 side, talking, wherein I see so much goodness and 
 endeavours of doing the King service, that I do more 
 and more admire him. 
 
 9th. To church, and heard Mr. Mills (who is lately 
 returned out of the country, and it seems was fetched 
 in by many of the parishioners, with great state) 
 preach upon the authority of the ministers, upon these 
 words, " We are, therefore, ambassadors of Christ." 
 Wherein, among other high expressions, he said, that 
 such a learned man used to say, that if a minister of 
 the word and an angel should meet him together, he 
 would salute the minister first, which methought was
 
 184 PEPYS'S 1>IAT. [August, 
 
 a little too high. This day I began to make use of 
 the silver pen (Mr. Coventry did give me) in writing 
 of this sermon, taking only the heads of it in Latin, 
 which I shall, I think, continue to do. 
 
 10th. To the Committee of Tangier, where my Lord 
 Sandwich, my Lord Peterborough (whom I have not 
 seen before since his coming back), Sir W. Compton, 
 and Mr. Povy. Our discourse about supplying my 
 Lord Teviott with money, wherein I am sorry to see, 
 though they do not care for him, yet they are willing 
 to let him for civility and compliment only have 
 money also without expecting any account of it ; and 
 he being such a cunning fellow as he is, the King is 
 like to pay dear for our courtier's ceremony. Thence 
 by coach with my Lords Peterborough and Sandwich 
 to my Lord Peterborough's house ; and there, after an 
 hour's Ipoking over some fine books of the Italian 
 buildings, with fine cuts, and also my Lord Peter- 
 borough's bows and arrows, of which he is a great 
 lover, we sat down to dinner, my Lady coming down 
 to dinner also, and there being Mr. Williamson, that 
 belongs to Sir H. Bennet, whom I find a pretty 
 understanding and accomplished man, but a little 
 conceited. Yesterday, I am told, that Sir J. Lenthall 
 in Southwark did apprehend about one hundred 
 Quakers, and other such people, and hath sent some of 
 them to the gaol at Kingston, it being now the time 
 of the Assizes. Dr. Pierce tells me the Queen is
 
 1663.] PEPYS'S DIABY. 185 
 
 grown a Yery debonnaire lady ; but my Lady Castle- 
 maine, who rales the King in matters of state, and does 
 what she lists with him, he believes is now falling 
 qnite out of favour. After the Queen is come back 
 she goes to the Bath, and so to Oxford, where great 
 entertainments are making for her. This day I am 
 told that my Lord Bristol hath warrants issued out 
 against him, to have carried him to the Tower, but he 
 is fled away or hid himself. So much the Chancellor 
 hath got the better of him. 
 
 13th. Met with Mr. Hoole, my old acquaintance of 
 Magdalene, and walked with him an hour in the Park, 
 discoursing chiefly of Sir Samuel Morland, whose lady 
 is gone into France. It seems he buys ground and a 
 farm in that country, and lays out money upon build- 
 ing, and God knows what, so that most of the money 
 he sold his pension of 500 per flnTinm for to Sir 
 Arthur Slingsby is believed is gone. It seems he hath 
 very great promises from the King, and Hoole has 
 seen some of the King's letters, under his own hand, 
 to Morland, promising him great things (and among 
 others, the order of the Garter, as Sir Samuel says) ; 
 but his lady thought it below her to ask anything at 
 the King's first coming, believing the King would do 
 it of himself, when as Hoole do really think if he had 
 asked to be Secretary of State at the King's first 
 coming, he might have had it. And the other day at 
 her going into France, she did speak largely to the
 
 186 PEPTS'S DIARY. [August, 
 
 King herself, how her husband hath failed of what his 
 Majesty had promised, and she was sure intended him ; 
 and the King did promise still, as he is a King and a 
 gentleman, to be as good as his word in a little time, to 
 a tittle : but I never believe it. 
 
 21st. Meeting with Mr. Creed, he told me how my 
 Lord Teviott hath received another attack from Guy- 
 land at Tangier with 10,000 men, and at last, as is said, 
 is come, after a personal treaty with him, to a good 
 understanding and peace with him. 
 
 23rd. To church, and so home to my wife ; and 
 with her read " Iter Boreale," a poem, made first at 
 the King's coming home ; but I never read it before, 
 and now like it pretty well, but not so as it was 
 cried up. 
 
 , 24th. At my Lord Sandwich's, where I was a good 
 while alone with my Lord ; and I perceive he confides 
 in me and loves me as he uses to do, and tells me his 
 condition, which is now very well; all I fear is 
 that he will not live within compass. There come to 
 him this morning his prints of the river Tagus and the 
 city of Lisbon, which he measured with his own hand, 
 and printed by command of the King. My Lord 
 pleases himself with it, but methinks it ought to have 
 been better done than by Jobing. Besides I put him 
 upon having some took off upon white satin, which 
 he ordered presently. I offered my Lord my accounts, 
 and did give him up his old bond for 500 and took a
 
 1663.] PEPYS'S DIABY. 187 
 
 new one of him for 700, which I am, by lending him 
 more money, to make up ; and am glad of it. 
 
 25th. This noon going to the Exchange, I met a fine 
 fellow with trumpets before him in Leadenhall Street, 
 and upon inquiry I find that he is the clerk of the City 
 Market ; and three or four men carried each of them an 
 arrow of a pound weight in their hands. It seems this 
 Lord Mayor begins again an old custom, that upon the 
 three first days of Bartholomew Pair, the first, there is 
 a match of wrestling, which was done, and the Lord 
 Mayor there and the Aldermen in Moorfields yester- 
 day; second day, shooting; and to-morrow hunting. 
 And this officer of course is to perform this ceremony 
 of riding through the city, I think to proclaim or chal- 
 lenge any to shoot. It seems the people of the fair cry 
 out upon it as a great hindrance to them. 
 
 26th. To Whitehall, where the Court full of 
 waggons and horses, the King and Court going this 
 day out towards the Bath. Pleased to see Captn. 
 Hickes come to me with a list of all the officers of 
 Deptford Yard, wherein he, being a high old Cavalier, 
 do give me an account of every one of them to their 
 reproach in all respects, and discovers many of their 
 knaveries ; and tells me, and so I thank God I hear 
 everywhere, that my name is up for a good husband to 
 the King, and a good man, for which I bless God ; 
 and that he did this by particular direction of Mr. 
 Coventry.
 
 188 PEPYS'S DIABY. [September, 
 
 28th. Cold all night and this morning, and a very 
 great frost they say abroad, which is much, having had 
 no summer at all almost. 
 
 September 2. To dinner with my Lord Mayor and 
 the Aldermen, and a very great dinner and most excel- 
 lent venison, but it almost made me sick by not daring 
 to drink wine. After dinner into a withdrawing- 
 room ; and there we talked, among other things, of the 
 Lord Mayor's sword. They tell me this sword is at 
 least a hundred or two hundred years old ; and another 
 that he hath, which is called the Black Sword, which 
 the Lord Mayor weaz-s when he mourns, but properly 
 is their Lenten sword to wear upon Good Friday and 
 other Lent days, is older than that. Mr. Lewellin, 
 lately conie from Ireland, tells me how the English 
 interest falls mightily there, the Irish party being too 
 great, so that most of the old rebels are found innocent, 
 and their lands, which were forfeited and bought or 
 given to the English, are restored to them; which 
 gives great discontent there among the English. 
 Going through the City, my Lord Mayor told me how 
 the pillar set up by Exeter House is only to show 
 where the pipes of water run to the City ; and observed 
 that this City is as well watered as any city in the 
 world, and that the bringing of water to the City hath 
 cost it first and hist above 300,000 ; but by the new 
 building, and the building of St. James's by my Lord 
 St. Albans, which is now about (and which the City
 
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 stomach I perceive highly, but dare not oppose it), 
 were it now to be done, it would not be done for a 
 million of money. 
 
 4th. To "Westminster Hall, and there bought the first 
 news books of L'Estrange's writing, he beginning this 
 week ; and makes, methinks, but a simple beginning. 
 This day I read a Proclamation for calling in and 
 commanding everybody to apprehend my Lord Bristol. 
 
 5th. I did inform myself well in things relating to 
 the East Indies; both of the country, and the dis- 
 appointment the King met with the last voyage, by the 
 knavery of the Portugal Viceroy, and the inconsider- 
 ableness of the place of Bombay, if we had had it. But 
 above all things it seems strange to me that matters 
 should not be understood before they went out ; and 
 also that such a thing as this, which was expected to be 
 one of the best parts of the Queen's portion, should not 
 be better understood ; it being, if we had it, but a poor 
 place, and not really so as was described to our King 
 in the draught of it, but a poor little island ; whereas 
 they made the King and Lord Chancellor, and other 
 learned men about the King, believe that that, and 
 other islands which are near it, were all one piece : 
 and so the draught was drawn and presented to the 
 King, and believed by the King, and expected to 
 prove so when our men come thither ; but it is quite 
 otherwise. 
 
 12th. Up betimes, and by water to Whitehall ; and
 
 190 PEPYS'S DIABT. [September, 
 
 thence to Sir Philip Warwick, and there had half an 
 hour's private discourse with him : and did giro him 
 some good satisfaction in our Navy matters, and he 
 also me, as to the money paid and due to the Navy ; 
 so as he makes me assured by particulars, that Sir G-. 
 Carteret is paid within 80,000, every farthing that 
 we to this day, nay to Michaelmas day next, have 
 demanded ; and that, I am sure, is above 50,000 more 
 than truly our expenses have been, whatever is become 
 of the money. Home with great content that I have 
 thus begun an acquaintance with him, who is a great 
 man, and a man of as much business as any man 
 in England; which I will endeavour to deserve and 
 keep. 
 
 22nd. This day the King and Queen are to come to 
 Oxford. I hear my Lady Oastlemaine is for certain 
 gone to Oxford to meet him, having lain within here 
 at home this week or two, supposed to have miscarried ; 
 but for certain is as great in favour as heretofore ; at 
 least Mrs. Sarah at my Lord's, who hears all from 
 their own family, do say so. Every day brings news 
 of the Turk's advance into Germany, to the awakening 
 of all the Christian Princes thereabouts, and possessing 
 himself of Hungary. 
 
 24th. I went forth by water to Sir Philip Warwick's, 
 where I was with him a pretty while ; and in dis- 
 course he tells me, and made it appear to me that 
 the King cannot be in debt to the Navy at this time
 
 1663.] PEPYS'S DIABT. 191 
 
 5,000 : and it is my opinion that Sir Gk Carteret do 
 owe the King money, and yet the whole Navy debt 
 paid. Thence I parted, being doubtful of myself that 
 I have not spoke with the gravity and weight that I 
 ought to do in so great a business. But I rather hope 
 it is my doubtfulness of myself, and the haste which he 
 was in, some very great personages waiting for him 
 without, while he was with me, that made him willing 
 to be gone. 
 
 28th. To Whitehall, where Sir J. Minnes and I did 
 spend an hour in the Gallery, looking upon the 
 pictures, in which he hath some judgment. And by- 
 and-by the Commissioners for Tangier met : and there 
 my Lord Teviott, together with Captain Cuttance, 
 Captain Evans, and Jonas Moore, sent to that purpose, 
 did bring us a brave draught of the mole to be built 
 there ; and report that it is likely to be the most con- 
 siderable place the King of England hath in the 
 world ; and so I am apt to think it will After dis- 
 course of this, and of supplying the garrison with 
 some more horse, we rose ; and Sir J. Minnes and I 
 home again, finding the street about our house full, 
 Sir R. Ford beginning his shrievalty to-day : and, 
 what with his, and our houses being new painted, the 
 street begins to look a good deal better than it 
 did, and more graceful. News that the King comes 
 to town for certain on Thursday next from his great 
 progress.
 
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 29th. Coine Mr. Sympson to set up my wife's chim- 
 ney-piece in her closet, which pleases me. 
 
 30th. In the afternoon by water to "Whitehall, to the 
 Tangier Committee; where my Lord Teviott; which 
 grieves me to see that his accounts being to be 
 examined by us, there are none of the great men at the 
 Board that in compliment will except against any- 
 thing in them, and so none of the little persons dare 
 do it : so the King is abused. Blessed be God, I do 
 find myself 760 creditor, notwithstanding that for 
 clothes for myself and wife, and laying out her closet, 
 I have spent this month 47. To-morrow the King, 
 Queen, Duke and his Lady, and the whole court comes 
 to town from their progress. All the common talk for 
 news is, the Turk his advance in Hungary.
 
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