pats ee] Sr ete f. DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FRIENDS OF DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY GIFT OF Jane Summerell IN MEMORY OF Mrs. Hope S. Chamberlain WILLIAM IIL From a scarce French engraving by Desrochers, after: the painting by Vander Werff. DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL PEPYS, F. R. S. Secretary to the ‘Admimity in the Reign of Charles II and James II THE DIARY DECIPHERED BY REV. J. SMITH, A. M. From the original Shorthand MS. LIFE AND NOTES BY RICHARD, LORD BRAYBROOKE VOLUME IV ILLUSTRATED BIGELOW, BROWN AND CO., INC. NEW YORK 1920 . fi ie, i y AN aay Amant: 4 td t t | SAMUEL PEPYS CONTENTS Diary, FRoM 1668 To May 31, 1669.......... CORRESPONDENCE. ....0.-- ss ceeeeeeeeeeeee IAPPENDIXE iets onli cele ee[ele Ouce ee ann ec eee PINDER oa ois bale la Abate ecicielstnie iets aie wtenieietats elevate DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS i} 1668. UGUST Ist. My wife, and Deb., and I to the King’s house again, coming too late yesterday to hear the pro- logue, and do like the play better now than before; and, indeed, there is a great deal of true wit in it, more than in the common sort of plays. 2d. (Lord’s day.) Up and at home all the morning, hang- ing and removing of some pictures, in my study and house. After dinner, I and Tom, my boy, by water up to Putney, and there heard a sermon, and many fine people in the church. Thence walked to Barne Elmes, and there, and going and coming, did make the boy read to me several things, being now-a-days unable to read myself anything, for above two lines together, but my eyes grow weary. 3d. Meeting Dr. Gibbons, carried him to the Sun taverne, in King Street, and there made him, and some friends of his, drink; among others, Captain Silas Taylor. 4th. At my Lord Arlington’s, where, by Creed’s being out of town, I have the trouble given me of drawing up answers to the complaints of the Turks of Algiers, and so I have all the papers put into my hand. 5th. To the Duke of York’s playhouse, and there saw “The Guardian ;” formerly the same, I find, that was called “ Cutter of Coleman Street ;” a silly play. And thence to Westminster Hall, where I met Fitzgerald;* and with him 1See 24th Sept., 1662; and 29th April, 1663. VOL. IV. B 2 DIARY OF [7th August, to a taverne, to consider of the instructions for Sir Thomas Allen, against his going to Algiers; he and I being designed to go down to Portsmouth by the Council’s order, to-mor- row morning. So I away home, and there bespeak a coach; and so home and to bed. 6th. Waked betimes, and my wit, @ at an hour’s warning, is resolved to go with me, which pleases me, her readiness. But, before ready, comes a letter from Fitzgerald, that he is seized upon last night by an order of the General’s by a file of musqueteers, and kept prisoner in his chamber. The Duke of York did tell me of it to-day: it is about a quarrel between him and Witham, and they fear a challenge: so I to him, and sent my wife by the coach round to Lambeth. I lost my labour going to his lodgings, and he in bed: and, staying a great while for him, I at last grew impatient, and would stay no longer; but to St. James’s to Mr. Wren, to bid him “God be with you;” and so over the water to Fox Hall; and there my wife and Deb. took me up, and we away to Gilford, losing our way for three or four miles, about Cobham. At Gilford we dined; and I showed them the hospitall there of Bishop Abbot’s,* and his tomb in the church, which, and the rest of the tombs there, are kept mighty clean and neat, with curtains before them. So to coach again, and got to Liphook, late over the Hindhead, having an old man, a guide, in the coach with us; but got thither with great fear of being out of our way, it being ten at night. Here good, honest people; and after supper, to bed. 7th. To coach, and with a guide to Petersfield, where I find Sir Thomas Allen and Mr. Tippets* come; the first about the business, the latter only in respect to me; as also Fitzgerald, who came post all last night, and newly arrived here. We four sat down presently to our business, and in an hour despatched all our talk; and did inform Sir Thomas Allen well in it, who I perceive, in serious matters is a serious man: and tells me he wishes all we are told be true, in our defence; for he finds by all, that the Turks have, to this day, been very civil to our morehant aa everywhere ; *George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. Ob, 1633. * John Tippet, a Surveyor of the Navy: afterwards knighted, 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS _ 3 and, if they would have broke with us, they never had such an opportunity over our rich merchantmen, as lately, coming out of the Streights. Then to dinner, and pretty merry: and here was Mr. Martin, the purser, who dined with us and wrote some things for us. And so took coach again back; Fitzgerald with us, whom I was pleased with all the day, with his discourse of his observations abroad, as being a great soldier and of long standing abroad; and knows all things and persons abroad very well— I mean, the great soldiers of France, and Spain, and Germany; and talks very well. Came at night to Gilford, where the Red Lyon so full of people, and a wedding, that the master of the house did get us a lodging over the way, at a private house, his landlord’s, mighty neat and fine; and there supped: and so to bed. 8th. Met uncle Wight, whom I sent to last night, and Mr. Wight coming to see us, and I walked with them back to see my aunt at Katherine Hill, and there walked up up and down the hill and places about: but a dull place, but good ayre, and the house dull. But here I saw my aunt, after many days not seeing her—I think, a year or two; and she walked with me to see my wife. And here, at the Red Lyon, we all dined together, and pretty merry, and then parted: and we home to Fox Hall, where Fitz- gerald and I ’light, and by water to White Hall, where the Duke of York being abroad, I by coach and met my wife. I hear that Colbert, the French Ambassador, is come, and hath been at Court incognito. When he hath his audience, I know not. 9th. (Lord’s day.) Waited on the Duke of York: and both by him and several of the Privy Council, beyond ex- pectation, I find that my going to Sir Thomas Allen was looked upon as a thing necessary: and I have got some ad- vantage by it, among them. To visit Lord Brouncker, and back to White Hall, where I saw the Queen and ladies; and so, with Mr. Slingsby, to Mrs. Williams’s, thinking to dine with Lord Brouncker there, but did not, having promised my wife to come home, though here I met Knipp, to my great content. So home; and, after dinner, I took my wife *Charles Colbert, Marquis de Croissy, brother of Jean Baptiste Col- bert, the great Minister. BQ 4 DIARY OF [llth August, and Deb. round by Hackney, and up and down to take the ayre; and then home, and made visits to Mrs. Turner, and Mrs. Mercer, and Sir W. Pen, who is come from Epsom not well, and Sir J. Minnes, who is not well neither. And so home to supper, and to set my books a little right, and then to bed. 10th. To my Lord Arlington’s house, the first time since he came thither, at Goring House, a very fine, noble place; and there he received me in sight of several Lords with great respect. I did give him an account of my journey; and, here, while I waited for him a little, my Lord Orrery took notice of me, and begun discourse of hangings, and of the improvement of shipping: I not thinking that he knew me, but did then discover it, with a mighty compliment of my abilities and ingenuity, which I am mighty proud of; and he do speak most excellently. To Cooper’s, where I spent all the afternoon with my wife and girl, seeig him make an end of her picture, which he did to my great con- tent, though not so great as, I confess, I expected, being not satisfied in the greatness of the resemblance, nor in the blue garment: but it is most certainly a most rare piece of work, as to the painting.* He hath 30/1. for his work—and the chrystal, and case, and gold case comes to 81. 3s. 4d.; and which I sent him this night, that I might be out of his debt. Home to supper, and my wife to read a ridi- culous book I bought to-day of the History of the Taylors’ Company.’ 11th. The Parliament met long enough to adjourne to the 10th of November next. At the Office all the afternoon till night, being mightily pleased with a trial I have made of the use of a tube-spectacall of paper, tried with my right *This miniature of Mrs. Pepys cannot be traced. * The title of this book was, “The Honour of the Merchant Taylors. Wherein is set forth the noble acts, valliant deeds, and heroick per- formances of Merchant Taylors in former ages; their honourable loves and knightly adventures, their combating of foreign enemies and glorious successes in honour of the English nation; together with their pious acts and large benevolences, their building of publick structures, especially that of Blackwell Hall, to be a market-place for the selling of woollen cloaths: Written by William Winstanley. Lond. 1668.” 8vo. With the head of Sir Ralph Blackwell, with a gold chain: arms of London on the right, and of the Merchant Taylors on the left. 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 5 eye. This day I hear that, to the great joy of the Noncon- formists, the time is out of the Act against them, so that they may meet: and they have declared that they will have a morning lecture’ up again, which is pretty strange; and they are connived at by the King every where, I hear, in - the City and country. This afternoon my wife and Mercer, and Deb., went with Pelling to see the gypsies at Lam- beth,” and have their fortunes told; but what they did I did not enquire. 12th. Captain Cocke tells me that he hears for certain the Duke of York will lose authority of an Admiral, and be governed by a Committee: and all our Office changed; only they are in dispute whether I shall continue or no, which puts new thoughts in me, but I know not whether to be glad or sorry. Home to dinner, where Pelling dines with us, and brings some patridges, which are very good meat; and, after dinner, I, and wife, and Mercer, and Deb., to the Duke of York’s house, and saw ‘“* Macbeth,” to our great content, and then home, where the women went to the making of my tubes.* Then comes Mrs. Turner and her husband to advise about their son, the Chaplain, who is turned out of his ship, a sorrow for them, which I am troubled for, and do give them the best advice I can. 13th. W. Howe dined with me, who tells me for certain that Creed is like to speed in his match with Mrs. Betty Pickering. Here dined with me also Mr. Hollier, who is mighty vain in his pretence to talk Latin. 14th. At home I find Symson, putting up my new chimney-piece,* in our great chamber, which is very fine, but will cost a great deal of money, but it is not flung away. I with Mr. Wren, by invitation, to Sir Stephen Fox’s to dinner, where the Cofferer® and Sir Edward Savage;° where many good stories of the antiquity and The morning lectures at Cripplegate were of great celebrity among the Puritans. Many of them were published, forming six volumes in Ato, closely printed. The form of lecture, it is believed, still exists. Most probably at Norwood, in the Parish of Lambeth, a place, much later, famous as the resort of gipsies. * The paper tubes for his eyes: see 3lst July, ante. *See 24th July, ante. 5 William Ashburnham. ®*He was probably of the family of Savage, seated at Frodsham, in Cheshire; and had been attached to the Royal cause. According to 6 DIARY OF [17th August, estates of many families at this day in Cheshire, and that part of the kingdom, more than what is on this side near London. My Lady [Fox] dining with us; a very good lady, and a family governed so nobly and neatly as do me good to see it. Thence the Cofferer, Sir Stephen, and I to the Commissioners of the Treasury about business: and so I up to the Duke of York, who enquired for what I had pro- mised him, about my observations of the miscarriages of our Office; and I told him he should have it next week, being glad he called for it; for I find he is concerned to do something, and to secure himself thereby, I believe: for the world is labouring to eclipse him, I doubt; I mean, the factious part of the Parliament. The Office met this after- noon as usual, and waited on him; where, among other things, he talked a great while of his intentions of going to Dover soon, to be sworn as Lord Warden,* which is a matter of great ceremony and state. Spent the evening talking with my wife and piping, and pleased with our chimney- piece. 15th. After dinner with my wife, Mercer, and Deb., to the King’s playhouse, and there saw ‘“* Love’s Mistresse ” revived, the thing pretty good, but full of variety of diver- tisement. 16th. (Lord’s day.) All the morning at the Office with W. Hewer, there drawing up my Report to the Duke of York, as I have promised, about the faults of this Office. 17th. To Hampstead, to speak with the Attorney-gene- ral,” whom we met in the fields, by his old route and house; and after a little talk about our business of Ackeworth, went and saw the Lord Wotton’s*® house* and garden, which is Kennet, (Chronicle, p. 869,) he married the widow of Sir Richard Smith, one of the King’s privy-council. *Of the Cinque Ports. ?Sir Geoffry Palmer, Bart. He died at his house at Hampstead, Ist May, 1670, . 8’Poliander de Kirkhoven, Lord of Hemfleet, in Holland, married Katherine, widow of Henry Lord Stanhope, eldest son of Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, who died vitd patris. She was one of the four daughters and co-heirs of Thomas Lord Wotton; and her son, Charles Henry Kirkhoven, here mentioned, was created Lord Wotton, of Wotton, in Kent, in 1650, by reason of his descent, and Earl of Bellomont, in Ireland, in 1670. He died without issue in 1682. “Belsyze House, in the parish of Hampstead, was for many years 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS ri wonderfull fine: too good for the house, the gardens are, being, indeed, the most noble that ever I saw, and brave orange and lemon trees. Thence to Mr. Chichly’s’ by invitation, and there dined with Sir John, his father not coming home. And while at dinner comes by the French Ambassador Colbert’s mules, the first I ever saw, with their -sumpter-clothes mighty rich, and his coaches, he being to have his entry to-day: but his things, though rich, are not new; supposed to be the same his brother? had the other day, at the treaty at Aix-la-Chapelle, in Flanders. Thence to the Duke of York’s house, and there saw “ Cupid’s Revenge,’”*® under the new name of “Love Despised,” that hath something very good in it, though I like not the whole body of it. This day the first time acted here. 18th. Alone to the Park: but there were few coaches; among the few, there were our two great beauties, my Lady Castlemaine and Richmond: the first time I saw the latter since she had the smallpox. I had much pleasure to see them, but I thought they were strange one to another. 19th. This week my people wash, over the water, and so I little company at home. Being busy above, a great cry I hear, and go down; and what should it be but Jane, in a fit of direct raving, which lasted half-an-hour. It was beyond four or five of our strength, to keep her down; and, when all come to all, a fit of jealousy about Tom, with whom she is in love. So at night, I, and my wife, and W. Hewer called them to us, and there I did examine all the thing, and them, in league. She in love, and he hath got her to promise him to marry, and he is now cold in it, so that I must rid my hands of them, which troubles me. the residence of the Wood family, as lessees, under the Dean and Chap- ter of Westminster, in whom the property is still vested. When Pepys visited the place, it was the chief seat of Charles Henry Kirkhoven, Lord Wotton, above-mentioned. That mansion, long since pulled down, had become, in 1720, a house of public entertainment, and was much in vogue, and continued open as late as 1745. See Lysons’s En- virons, and Park’s History of Hampstead. ; 1In Great Queen Street. 7A mistake of Pepys’s. Colbert de Croissy, then in England, had himself been the French Plenipotentiary at Aix-la-Chapelle, *By Beaumont and Fletcher, 8 DIARY OF [22d August, 20th. To work till past twelve at night, that I might get my great letter to the Duke of York ready against to-mer- row, which I shall do, to my great content. Qist. Up betimes, and with my people again to work, and finished all before noon: and then I by water to White Hall, and there did tell the Duke of York that I had done; and he hath desired me to come to him at Sunday next in the afternoon, to read the letter over, by which I have more time to consider and correct it. To St. James’s; and by and by comes Monsieur Colbert, the French Am- bassador, to make his first visit to the Duke of York, and then to the Duchess: and I saw it: a silly piece of ceremony, he saying only a few formal words. A comely man, and in a black suit and cloak of silk, which is a strange fashion, now it hath been so long left off. This day I did first see the Duke of York’s room of pictures of some Maids of Honour, done by Lilly: good, but not like. Thence to Reeves’s, and bought a reading-glass, and so to my bookseller’s again, there to buy a Book of Martyrs,” which I did agree for; and so away home, and there busy very late at the correcting my great letter to the Duke of York, and so to bed. 22d. Pretty well at ease, my great letter being now finished to my full content; and I thank God I have oppor- tunity of doing it, though I know it will set the Office and me by the ears for ever. This morning Captain Cocke comes, and tells me that he is now assured that it is true, what he told me the other day, that our whole Office will be turned out, only me, which, whether he says true or not, I know not, nor am much concerned, though I should be better contented to have it thus than otherwise. To the ’Change, and thence home, and took London-bridge in my way; walking down Fish Street and Gracious Street, to see how very fine a descent they have now made down the hill, that it is become very easy and pleasant. Going through Leaden-Hall, it being market-day, I did see a woman catched, that had stole a shoulder of mutton off of a *The set of portraits known as “King Charles’s Beauties,” formerly in Windsor Castle, but now at Hampton Court. ? The Book of Martyrs was Fox’s Acts and Monuments. 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 9 butcher’s stall, and carrying it wrapt up in a cloth, in a . basket. The jade was surprised, and did not deny it, and the woman so silly, as to let her go that took it, only taking the meat. 23d. (Lord’s day.) To church, and heard a good sermon of Mr. Gifford’s at our church, upon “Seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven and its righteousness, and all things shall be added to you.” A very excellent and persuasive, good and moral sermon. He showed, like a wise man, that righteousness is a surer moral way of being rich, than sin and villany. After dinner to the Office, Mr. Gibson and I, to examine my letter to the Duke of York, which, to my great joy, I did very well by my paper tube, without pain to my eyes. And I do mightily like what I have therein done; and did, according to the Duke of York’s order, make haste to St. James’s, and about four o’clock got thither: and there the Duke of York was ready, ex- pecting me, and did hear it all over with extraordinary content; and did give me many and hearty thanks, and in words the most expressive tell me his sense of my good endeavours, and that he would have a care of me on all occasions; and did, with much inwardness,’ tell me what was doing, suitable almost to what Captain Cocke tells me, of designs to make alterations in the Navy; and is most open to me in them, and with utmost confidence desires my further advice on all occasions: and he resolves to have my letter transcribed, and sent forthwith to the office. So, with as much satisfaction as I could possibly, or did hope for, and obligation on the Duke of York’s side professed to me, I away into the Park, and there met Mr. Pierce and his wife and sister and brother, and a little boy, and with them to Mulberry Garden, and spent 18s. on them, and there left them, she being again with child, and by it, the least pretty that ever I saw her. And so I away, and got a coach, and home, and there with my wife and W. Hewer, talking all the evening, my mind running on the business of the Office, to see what more I can do to the rendering myself acceptable and useful to all, and to the King. We to supper, and to bed. 24th. My wife is upon hanging the long chamber, where *4, @., intimacy. 10 DIARY OF [26th August, the girl lies, with the sad stuff’ that was in the best chamber, in order to the hanging that with tapestry. 25th. Up, and by water to St. James’s; and there, with Mr. Wren, did discourse about my great letter, which the Duke of York hath given him; and he hath set it to be trans- cribed by Billings, his man, whom, as he tells me, he can most confide in for secresy, and is much pleased with it, and earnest to have it be; and he and I are like to be much together in the considering how to reform the Office, and that by the Duke of York’s command. Thence I, mightily pleased with this success, away to the Office, where all the morning, my head full of this business. And it is pretty how Lord Brouncker this day did tell me how he hears that a design is on foot to remove us out of the Office: and pro- poses that we two do agree to draw up a form of a new con- stitution of the Office, there to provide remedies for the evils we are now under, that so we may be beforehand with the world, which I agreed to, saying nothing of my design; and, the truth is, he is the best man of them all, and I would be glad, next myself, to save him; for, as he deserves best, so I doubt he needs his place most. ‘ 26th. In my way to the Old Swan,” finding a great many people gathered together in Cannon Street about a man that was working in the ruins, and the ground did sink under him, and he sunk in, and was forced to be dug out again, but without hurt. It is strange to say with what speed® the people employed do pull down Paul’s steeple, and with what ease: it is said that it, and the choir are to be taken down this year, and another church begun in the room thereof, the next. Home by coach with Sir D. Gauden, who, by the way, tells me how the City do go on im several things toward the building of the public places, which I am glad to hear; and gives hope that in a few years it will be a glorious place; but we met with several stops and troubles in the way in the streets, so as makes it bad to travel in the dark now through the City. So I to Mr. Batelier’s by appointment, where I find my wife, and Deb., and Mercer; 1+Stuff of a sad colour. 7In Upper Thames Street. *'The stones fell so fast, that Pepys felt a sensation like sea-sickness! see 14th Sept., 1668, post. 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 11 Mrs. Pierce and her husband, son, and daughter; and Knipp and Harris, and W. Batelier, and his sister Mary, and cozen Gumbleton, a good-humoured, fat young gentleman, son to the Jeweller, that dances well; and here danced all night long, with a noble supper; and about two in the morning the table spread again for a noble breakfast beyond all moderation, that put me out of countenance, so much and so good. Mrs. Pierce and her people went home betimes, she being big with child; but Knipp and the rest staid till almost three in the morning, and then broke up. 27th. Knipp home with us, and I to bed, and rose about six, mightily pleased with last night’s mirth. To St. James’s, and there, with Mr. Wren, did correct his copy of my letter, which the Duke of York hath signed in my very words, without alteration of a syllable." And so pleased there- with, I to my Lord Brouncker, who I find within, but hath business, and so comes not to the Office to-day. And so I by water to the Office, where we sat all the morning; and, just as the Board rises, comes the Duke of York’s letter, which I knowing, and the Board not being full, and desir- ing rather to have the Duke of York deliver it himself to us, I suppressed it for this day, my heart beginning to falsify in this business, as being doubtful of the trouble it may give me by provoking them; but, however, I am resolved to go through it, and it is too late to help it now. At noon to dinner to Captain Cocke’s, where I met with Mr. Wren; my going being to tell him what I have done, which he likes, and to confer with Cocke about our Office; who tells me that he is confident the design of removing our Officers do hold, but that he is sure that I am safe enough. So away home, and there met at Sir Richard Ford’s, with the Duke of York’s Commissioners about our Prizes, with whom we shall have some trouble, before we make an end with them. I with my wife, and W. Batelier, and Deb.; 7A copy of this letter is in the British Museum, Harl. MS., 6003: see 24th July, ante, and 29th Aug., post. In the Pepysian Collection are the following:—An Inquisition, by his Royal Highness the Duke of York when Lord High Admiral of England, into the Management of the Navy, 1668, with his regulations thereof, fol. Also Mr. Pepys’s Bee fa: of the same upon an Inquisition thereunto by Parliament, , fo. 12 DIARY OF [28th August, carried them to Bartholomew Fayre, where we saw the dancing of the ropes and nothing else, it being late. 28th. To White Hall, where the Duke of York did call me aside, and told me that he must speak with me in the afternoon, and with Mr. Wren, for that now he hath got the paper from my Lord Keeper’ about the exceptions taken against the management of the Navy; and so we are to debate upon answering them. At noon I home with Sir W. Coventry to his house; and there dined with him, and talked freely with him; and did acquaint him with what I have done, which he is well pleased with, and glad of: and do tell me that there are endeavours on foot to bring the Navy into new, but, he fears, worse hands. The Duke of York fell to work with us, the Committee being gone, in the Council-chamber; and there, with his own hand, did give us his long letter, telling us that he had received several from us, and now did give us one from him, taking notice of our several doubts and failures, and desired answer to it, as he therein desired; this pleased me well; and so fell to other business, and then parted. And the Duke of York, and Wren, and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York’s closet in White Hall; and there read over this paper of my Lord Keeper’s, wherein are laid down the faults of the Navy, so silly, and the remedies so ridiculous, or else the same that are now already provided, that we thought it not to need any answer, the Duke of York being able himself to do it: that so it makes us admire the confi- dence of these men to offer a thing so silly, in a business of such moment. But it is a most perfect instance of the complexion of the times! and so the Duke of York said himself, who, I perceive, is mightily concerned in it, and do, again and again, recommend it to Mr. Wren and me together, to consider upon remedies fit to provide for him to propound for the King, before the rest of the world, and particularly the Commissioners of Accounts, who are men of understanding and order, to find our faults, and offer remedies of their own, which I am glad of, and will en- deavour to do something in it. So parted, and with much difficulty, by candle-light, walked over the Matted Gallery, ‘Sir Orlando Bridgman. 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 13 as it is now with the mats and boards all taken up, so that we walked over the rafters. But strange to see how hard matter the plaister of Paris is, that is there taken up, as hard as stone! And pity to see Holben’s work in the ceiling blotted on, and only whited over! My wife this day with Hales, to sit for her hand to be mended, in her picture. 29th. Up, and all the morning at the Office, where the Duke of York’s long letter was read, to their great trouble, and their suspecting me to have been the writer of it. And at noon comes, by appointment, Harris to dine with me: and after dinner he and I to Chyrurgeons’-hall, where they are building it new, very fine; and there to see their theatre, which stood all the fire, and, which was our business, their great picture of Holben’s,’ thinking to have bought it, by the help of Mr. Pierce, for a little money: I did think to give 200/. for it, it being said to be worth 1000I.; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and is not a pleasant, though a good picture. Thence carried Harris to his play- house, where, though four o’clock, so few people there at * The Impertinents,” as I went out; and do believe they did not act, though there was my Lord Arlington and his com- pany there. So I out, and met my wife in a coach, and stopped her going thither to meet me; and took her, and Mercer, and Deb., to Bartholomew Fair, and there did see a ridiculous, obscene little stage-play, called “ Marry An- drey ;”” a foolish thing, but seen by every body: and so to Jacob Hall’s* dancing of the ropes; a thing worth seeing, and mightily followed. Writing to my father to-night not 1The picture here mentioned still adorns ‘the Court Room at Barber Surgeons’ Hall, in Monkwell Street. It represents Henry VIII. in the act of delivering their charter to the Barber Surgeons’ and Surgeons’ Com- panies, which were united in the 32d year of that King: it contains eight- een figures. The painting is considered to be one of Holbein’s best works, and is in good preservation, though it may have been damaged by the Great Fire, when the Hall suffered so much as to require repair. We are not told whether the Company named any price, even if our Journalist had been inclined to the speculation. A fine print from the picture was made by B. Baron, in 1736, and it has again been engraved for Knight’s London, which contains a very interesting account of Barber Surgeons’ Hall: the names of the persons represented by Holbein will also be found in the Gentleman's Magazine, for April, 1789. ?Merry Andrew. ®See 7th April, 1668, ante. 14 DIARY OF [20th August, to unfurnish our house in the country for my sister, who is going to her own house, because I think I may have occasion myself to come thither; and so I do, by our being put out of the Office, which do not at all trouble me to think of. 30th. (Lord’s day.) Walked to St. James’s and Pell Mell, and read over, with Sir W. Coventry, my long letter to the Duke of York, and which the Duke of York hath, from mine, wrote to the Board, wherein he is mightily pleased, and I perceive do put great value upon me, and did talk very openly on all matters of State, and how some people have got the bit into their mouths, meaning the Duke of Buckingham and his party, and would likely run away with all. But what pleased me mightily was to hear the good character he did give of my Lord Falmouth for his gene- rosity, good-nature, desire of public good, and low thoughts of his own wisdom; his employing his interest in the King to do good offices to all people, without any other fault than the freedom he do learn in France of thinking himself ob- liged to serve his King in his pleasures: and was Sir W. Coventry’s particular friend: and Sir W. Coventry do tell me very odde circumstances about the fatality of his death,* which are very strange.” Thence to White Hall to chapel, and heard the anthem, and did dine with the Duke of Albe- marle in a dirty manner as ever. All the afternoon, I sauntered up and down the house and Park. And there was a Committee for Tangier met, wherein Lord Middleton would, I think, have found fault with me for want of coles: but I slighted it, and he made nothing of it, but was thought to be drunk; and I see that he hath a mind to find fault with me and Creed, neither of us having yet applied ourselves to him about anything: but do talk of his profits and perquisites taken from him, and garrison reduced, and that it must be increased, and such things, as, I fear, he will be just such another as my Lord Tiviott and the rest, to ruin that place. So I to the Park, and there walk an hour or two; and in the King’s garden, and saw the Queen and 1See 3d June, 1665, ante. ?The particulars of this prediction are recorded in a MS. in the Pepysian Collection, but the reference to it is unfortunately mislaid. ¥ ee Se a ee 1668) SAMUEL PEPYS 15 ladies walk; and I did steal some apples off the trees;* and here did see my Lady Richmond, who is of a noble person as ever I did see, but her face worse than it was consider- ably by the smallpox: her sister* is also very handsome. _ Coming into the Park, and the door kept strictly, I had ity of handing in the Kittle, pretty, squinting girl _ of the Duke of York’s house, but did not make acquaint- _ ance with her; but let her go, and a little girl that was _ with her, to walk by themselves. So to White Hall in the ’ evening, to the Queen’s side, and there met the Duke of ' York; and he did tell me and Sir W. Coventry, who was - with me, how the Lord Anglesey did take notice of our . reading his long and sharp letter to the Board; but that it ' was the better, at least he said so. The Duke of York, | I perceive is earnest in it, and will have good effects of it; | telling Sir W. Coventry that it was a letter that might have ' come from the Commissioners of Accounts, but it was | better it should come first from him. I met Lord Brouncker, ' who, I perceive, and the rest, do smell that it comes from _ me, but dare not find fault with it; and I am glad of it, it _ bemg my glory and defence that I did occasion and write " it. So by water home; and did spend the evening with | W. Hewer, telling him how we are all like to be turned _ out, Lord Brouncker telling me this evening that the Duke ' of Buckmgham did, with a few hours, say that he had | enough to turn us all out; which I am not sorry for at all, _ for I know the world will judge me to go for company; : and my eyes are such as I am not able to do the busi- _ ness of my Office as I used, and would desire to do, while I am in it. $list. To Hercules Pillars,* and there dined all alone, _ while I sent my shoe to have the heel fastened at Wotton’s. _ To the Duke of York’s playhouse, and saw “ Hamlet,” | which we have not seen this year before, or more; and _ mightily pleased with it; but, above all, with Betterton, the * Apple Tree Yard, in York Street, St. James’s Square, still preserves the names of the fruit trees formerly growing there. Sophia Stuart, married to Henry Bulkeley, fourth son of Thomas, ) first Viscount Bulkeley, and Master of the Household to Charles II.— Collins’s Peerage, vol. viii., p. 16, ed. 1912. *In Fleet Street: see llth October, 1660, anée. 0 ea Ana iiee best part, I believe, that ever man acted. Thence to the Fayre, and saw “ Polichinelle,’” and so home. This night lay the first night in Deb.’s chamber, which is now hung with that, that hung our great chamber, and is now a very handsome room. This day Mrs. Batelier did give my wife a mighty pretty spaniel [Flora], which she values mightily, and is pretty; but, as a new comer, I cannot be fond of her. September Ist. To Bartholomew Fair, and there saw several sights; among others, the mare that tells money,” and many things to admiration; and, among others, come to me, when she was bid to go to him of the company that most loved a pretty wench in a corner. And this did cost me 12d. to the horse, which I had flung him before, and did give me occasion to kiss a mighty belle fille that was exceed- ing plain, but fort belle. . 2d. Fast-day for the burning of London, strictly ob- served. 3d. To my bookseller’s, for ‘‘ Hobbs’s Leviathan,” which is now mightily called for; and what was heretofore sold for 8s. I now give 24s. for, at the second hand, and is sold for 30s., it being a book the Bishops will not let be printed again. 4th. At the Office all the morning; and at noon my wife, and Deb., and Mercer, and W. Hewer and I to the Fair, and there, at the old house, did eat a pig, and was pretty merry, but saw no sights, my wife having a mind to see the play “ Bartholomew-Fair,” with puppets. And it is an ex- cellent play; the more I see it, the more I love the wit of it; only the business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow stale, and of no use, they being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest. And here Knipp come to us, and sat with us, and thence took coach in two coaches, and *This is not the first learned horse of which we read. Shakspeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, act i., sc. 2, mentions “ the dancing horse,” which as may well be supposed has led to much comment. All that can be found on the subject in general, and on Bank’s bay horse in particular, is given in Reed’s Shakespeare, 1813, vol. vii., pp. 24, 26. ? Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes, of Malmesbury, published in 1651. It was reprinted in 1680, with its old date. All Hobbes’s works have been printed in 1839, under the editorial care of Sir William Moles- worth. —— essen ea ta aaa i ae 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 17 losing one another, my wife, and Knipp, and I to Hercules Pillars, and there supped, and I did take from her mouth the words and notes.of her song of “the Larke,” which pleases me mightily. And so set her at home, and away we home, where our company come before us. This night Knipp tells us that there is a Spanish woman lately come over, that pretends to sing as well as Mrs. Knight; both of whom I must endeavour to hear. 5th. To Mr. Hales’s new house, where, I find, he hath finished my wife’s hand, which is better than the other; and here I find Harris’s picture,’ done in his habit of “ Henry the Fifth;”? mighty like a player, but I do not think the picture near so good as any yet he hath made for me: how- ever, it is pretty well. 6th. (Lord’s day.) Up betimes, and got myself ready to go by water, and about nine o’clock took boat with Henry Russell to Gravesend, coming thither about one, where, at the Ship, I dined; and thither come to me Mr. Hosier, whom I went to speak with, about several businesses of work that he is doing, and I would have him do, of writing work, for me. And I did go with him to his lodging, and there did see his wife, a pretty tolerable woman, and do find him upon an extraordinary good work of designing a method of keeping our Storekeeper’s Accounts, in the Navy. Here I should have met with Mr. Wilson, but he is sick, and could not come from Chatham to me. So having done with Hosier, I took boat again the beginning of the flood, and come home by nine at night, with much pleasure, it being a fine day. Going down I spent reading of the ** Five Sermons of Five Several Styles,”’® worth compar- 1See ante, 22d July, 1663. ?In Lord Orrery’s play. *By Abraham Wright, Fellow of St. John’s Coll., Oxford, after- wards Vicar of Oakham, who died in 1690. The title is, “ Five Ser- mons, in Five several Styles, or Waies of Preaching. First, in Bp. Andrews his way: before the late King upon the first day of Lent. Second, in Bp. Hall’s way; before the clergie at the author’s own ordination in Christ Church, Oxford. Third, in Dr. Maine’s and Mr. Cartwright’s way; before the University at St. Marie’s, Oxford. Fourth, in the Presbyterian way; before the Citie, at St. Paul’s, Lon- don. Fifth, in the Independent way; never preached.... Printed for Edw. Archer, 1656.” Wood says, “The chief end in printing these sermons, was, first, to show the difference between the University and VOL. Iv. c 18 DIARY OF [9th Rept. | ing one with another; but I do think, when all is done, that, contrary to the design of the book, the Presbyterian style and the Independent are the best of the five sermons to be preached; and this I do, by the best of my present judgment, think. My boy was with me, and read to me all day, and we sang a while together, and so home to supper a little, and so to bed. 7th. With my Lord Brouncker (who was this day in an unusual manner merry, I believe with drink), J. Minnes, and W. Pen to Bartholomew-Fair; and there saw the dancing mare again, which, to-day, I find to act much worse than the other day, she forgetting many things which her master beat her for, and was mightily vexed; and then the dancing of the ropes, and also the little stage-play, which is very ridiculous. 8th. Up; and by water to White Hall, and to St. James’s, there to talk a little with Mr. Wren about the private business we are upon, in the Office, where he tells me he finds that they all suspect me to be the author of the great letter,’ which I value not, being satisfied that it is the best thing I could ever do for myself; and so, after some discourse of this kind more, I back to the Office, and there all the morning; and after dinner, to it again, all the after- noon, and very late, and then home to supper, where met W. Batelier and Betty Turner, and, after some talk with them, and supper, we to bed. This day, I received so earnest an invitation again from Roger Pepys, to come to Sturbridge-Fair [at Cambridge], that I resolved to let my wife go, which she shall do the next week. 9th. To the Duke of Richmond’s lodgings by his desire, by letter, yesterday. I find him at his lodgings in the little building in the bowling-green, at White Hall, that was be- gun to be built by Captain Rolt.? They are fine rooms. I City breeding up of preachers, and to let the people know that any one that hath been bred a scholar is able to preach any way to the capacity and content of an auditory. And, secondly, that none can do this, but they only that have such education: yet, notwithstanding, ordinary capacities are more taken with cloak and laymen’s preaching than that of the gown.” See from 21st to 27th August, 1668, ante. 4See 11th Dec., 1667, ante. 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS ae did hope to see his lady; but she, I hear, is in the country. His business was about his yacht, and he seems a mighty good-natured man, and did presently write me a warrant for a doe from Cobham, when the season comes, buck sea- son being past. I shall make much of this acquaintance, that I may live to see his lady near. Thence to Westmin- ster, to Sir R. Long’s Office:* and, going, met Mr. George Montagu, who talked and complimented me mightily; and long discourse I had with him, who, for news, tells me for certain that Trevor do come to be Secretary at Michaelmas, and that Morrice goes out, and he believes, without any compensation. He tells me that now Buckingham do rule all; and the other day, in the King’s journey he is now on, at Bagshot, and that way, he caused Prince Rupert’s horses to be turned out of an inne, and caused his own to be kept there, which the Prince complained of to the King, and the Duke of York seconded the complaint; but the King did over-rule it for Buckingham, by which there are high dis- pleasures among them; and Buckingham and Arlington, tule all. To White Hall, where Brouncker, W. Pen, and I attended the Commissioners of the Treasury about the victualling-contract, where high words between Sir Thomas Clifford and us, and myself more particularly, who told him that something, that he said was told him about this busi- ness, was a flat untruth. However, we went on to our business in the examination of the draught, and so parted, and I vexed at what happened. 10th. There dined with me Batelier and his wife, and Mercer, and my people, at a good venison-pasty; and after dinner I and W. Howe, who come to see me, by water to the Temple, and met our four women, my wife, W. Batelier, Mercer, and Deb., at the Duke’s play-house, and there saw “The Maid in the Mill,” revived—a pretty, harmless old play. I to the Office, where a child is laid at Sir J. Minnes’s door, as there was one heretofore. Thence to Unthanke’s, and *Change, where wife did a little busi- ness, while Mercer and I staid in the coach; and, in a quarter of an hour, I taught her the whole Larke’s song perfectly, so excellent an eare she hath. Here we at Unthanke’s ‘light, and walked them to White Hall, my 7 At the Exchequer, of which he was Auditor. c2 20 DIARY OF [14th Sept, wife mighty angry at it, and did give me ill words be- fore Batelier, which vexed me, but I made no matter of it, but vexed to myself. So landed them, it being fine moonshine, at the Bear,’ and so took water to the other side, and home. 12th. To the Office, where till noon, and I did see great whispering among my brethren about their replies to the Duke of York, which vexed me, though I know no occasion for it; for I have no manner of ground to fear them. At noon home to dinner, and, after dinner, to work all the afternoon again. At home late, and so to bed. 13th. (Lord’s day.) By coach to St. James’s, and met, to my wish, the Duke of York and Mr. Wren; and under- - stand the Duke of York hath received answers from Brouncker, W. Pen, and J. Minnes; and as soon as he saw me, he bid Mr. Wren read them over with me. So having no opportunity of talk with the Duke of York, and Mr. Wren some business to do, he put them into my hands like an idle companion, to take home with me before himself had read them, which do give me great opportunity of alter- ing my answer, if there was cause. After supper, made my wife to read them all over, wherein she is mighty useful to me; and I find them all evasions, and in many things false, and in few, to the full purpose. Little said reflective on me, though W. Pen and J. Minnes do mean me in one or two places, and J. Minnes a little more plainly would lead the Duke of York to question the exactness of my keeping my records; but all to no purpose. My mind is mightily pleased by this, if I can but get time to have a copy taken of them, for my future use; but I must return them to- morrow. So to bed. 14th. Up betimes, and walked to the Temple, and stopped, viewing the Exchange, and Paul’s, and St. Fayth’s, where strange how the very sight of the stones falling from the top of the steeple do make me sea-sick! But no hurt, I hear, hath yet happened in all this work of the steeple, which is very much. So from the Temple I by coach to St. James’s, where I find Sir W. Pen and Lord Anglesey, who delivered *At the foot of London Bridge, pulled down, Dec., 1761; see 21st Sept., post.. 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 21 this morning his answer to the Duke of York, but I could not see it. But after being above with the Duke of York, I down with Mr. Wren; and he and I read all over that I had, and I expounded them to him, and did so order it that I had them home with me, so thatI shall, to my heart’s wish, be able to take a copy of them. After dinner, I by water to White Hall; and there, with the Cofferer’ and Sir Stephen Fox, attended the Commisssions of the Treasury, about bettering our fund; and are pro- mised it speedily. 15th. Up mighty betimes, my wife and people, Mercer lying here all night, by three o’clock, and I about five; and they before, and I after them, to the coach in Bishopsgate Street, which was not ready to set out. So took wife and Mercer and Deb. and W. Hewer, who are all to set out this day for Cambridge, to cozen Roger Pepys’s, to see: Stur- bridge Fayre; and I showed them the Exchange, which is very finely carried on, with good dispatch. So walked back and saw them gone, there being only one man in the coach besides them; and so home to the Office. To the King’s playhouse, to see a new play, acted but yesterday, a trans- lation out of French by Dryden, called “The Ladys 4 la Mode:’” so mean a thing as, when they came to say it would be acted again to-morrow, both he that said it, Beeson,® and the pit fell a-laughing, there being this day not a quarter of the pit full. 16th. Walking it to the Temple, and in my way observe that the Stockes* are now pulled quite down; and it will 1 William Ashburnham. 2No play called “The Ladies 4 la Mode” has been traced in 1668, or in any earlier or later year. A comedy, entitled “ Love a la Mode,” was brought out very soon after the Restoration, but it was anonymous. Pepys is believed to be the only authority for attributing the piece to Dryden, who possibly had a hand in it, but did not print the play, on account of its ill success. A comedy, named “ Damoyselles 4 la Mode,” and printed in 1667, 8vo., is mentioned by Langbaine, p. 56, as written by Richard Flecknoe, and dedicated to the Duchess of Newcastle; but it does not appear to have ever been acted, though, in point of title and date, it comes very near what is wanted. ’Probably Beeston, who had been Manager of the Cockpit Theatre. *The Stocks Market took its name from a pair of stocks placed near this spot. See 10th Dec., 1660, ante. About 1675, Sir Robert Viner 99 DIARY OF [16th Sept, make the coming into Cornhill and Lumberd Street mighty noble. I stopped, too, at Paul’s, and there did go into St. Fayth’s Church, and also in the body of the west part of the Church; and do see a hideous sight of the walls of the Church ready to fall, that I was in fear as long as I was in it: and here I saw the great vaults underneath the body of the Church. No hurt, I hear, is done yet, since their going to pull down the Church and steeple; but one man, one Mound, this week fell from the top of the roof, of the east end, that stands next the steeple, and there broke him- self all to pieces. It is pretty here to see how the late Church was but a case wrought over the old Church; for you may see the very old pillars standing whole within the wall of this. When I come to St. James’s, I find the Duke of York gone with the King to see the muster of the Guards in Hyde Park; and their Colonel, the Duke of Monmouth, to take his command this day of the King’s Life-Guard, by surrender of my Lord Gerard. So I took a hackney-coach and saw it all: and indeed it was mighty noble, and their firing mighty fine, and the Duke of Mon- mouth in mighty rich clothes: but the well-ordering of the men I understand not. Here, among a thousand coaches that were there, I saw and spoke to Mrs. Pierce: and by and by Mr. Wren hunts me out, and gives me my Lord Anglesey’s answer to the Duke of York’s letter, where, I perceive, he do do what he can to hurt me, by bidding the Duke of York call for my books: but this will do me all the right in the world, and yet I am troubled at it. So away out of the Park, and home; and there Mr. Gibson and I to dinner: and all the afternoon with him, writing over anew, and a little altering, my answer to the Duke of York, which I have not yet delivered, and so have the opportunity of doing it after seeing all their answers, purchased an equestrian statue of John Sobieski trampling down the Turk; which, when it had undergone some necessary alterations, he erected in Stocks Market as Charles II. trampling on Oliver Cromwell. The Mansion House now stands on the site. About 1737, the statue was presented to Robert Viner, the lineal representative of the convivial Lord Mayor, and the Market transferred to the space gained by the covering over the Fleet Ditch. This Fleet Market has, in its turn, given place to Farringdon Street. i 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 23 though this do give me occasion to alter very little. This done, he to write it over, and I to the Office, where late, and then home; and he had finished it; and then he to read to me the Life of Archbishop Laud,’ wrote by Dr. Heylin; which is a shrewd book, but that which I believe will do the Bishops in general no great good, but hurt, it pleads for so much Popish. This day my father’s letters tell me of the death of poor Fancy in the country, big with puppies, which troubles me, as being one of my eldest ac- quaintances and servants. Also good Stankes is dead. 17th. At noon comes Knipp, with design to dine with Lord Brouncker, but she being undressed, and there being much company, dined with me: and after dinner I out with her, and carried her to the playhouse; and in the way did give her five guineas as a fairing, I having given her nothing a great while, and her coming hither sometimes having been matter of cost to her. So to the King’s playhouse, and saw * Rollo, Duke of Normandy,”’ which, for old acquaintance, pleased me pretty well. This evening Batelier comes to tell me that he was going down to Cambridge to my com- pany, to see the Fair, which vexed me, and the more because I fear he do know that Knipp did dine with me to-day.® 18th. To St. James’s, and there took a turn or two in the Park; and then up to the Duke of York, and there had opportunity of delivermg my answer to his late letter, which he did not read, but give to Mr. Wren, as looking on it as a thing I needed not have done, but only that I might not give occasion to the rest to suspect my commu- nication with the Duke of York against them. So now I am at rest in that matter, and shall be more when my copies are finished of their answers. To White Hall, and thither comes the Duke of York to us, where I find him somewhat sour, and particularly angry with Lord Anglesey for his not being there now, nor at other times. To the King’s house, and saw a piece of “ Henry the Fourth,” at the end of the play, thinking to have gone abroad with Knipp, but it was too late, and she to get her part against ‘i ; ah ; i ve ie BD or, The Life and Death of Archbishop Laud, 7By John Fletcher. *And that he might tell Mrs. Pepys. 24 DIARY OF [20th Sept. > and so I only set her to-morrow, in “ The Silent Woman,’ at home, and away home. 19th. To the King’s playhouse, and there saw “ The Silent Woman;” the best comedy, I think, that ever was wrote; and sitting by Shadwell’ the poet, he was big with admi- ration of it. Here was my Lord Brouncker and W. Pen and their ladies in the box, being grown mighty kind of a sudden; but, God knows, it will last but a little while, I dare swear. Knipp did her part mighty well.* And so home straight, and to write, and particularly to my cozen Roger, who, W. Hewer and my wife writes me, do use them with mighty plenty and noble entertainment: so to supper, and to bed. All the news now is, that Mr. Trevor is for certain to be Secretary in Morrice’s place, which the Duke of York did himself tell me yesterday; and also that Par- liament is to be adjourned to the 1st of March, which do please me well, hoping thereby to get my things in a little better order than I should have done; and the less attend- ances at that end of the town in winter. 20th. (Lord’s day.) 'To church, and heard a dull sermon of Dr. Hicks, who is a suitor to Mrs. Howell, the widow of our turner of the Navy; and thence home to dinner, stay- ing till past one o’clock for Harris, whom I invited, and to bring Shadwell the poet with him; but they came not, and so a good dinner lost, through my own folly. And so to dinner alone, having since church heard the boy read over Dryden’s Reply to Sir R. Howard’s Answer, about his Essay of Poesy, and a letter in answer® to that; the latter whereof is mighty silly, in behalf of Howard. To visit Mrs. Pierce, with whom, and him, I staid a little while, and do hear how the Duchess of Monmouth is at this time in great trouble of the shortness of her lame leg, which is likely to 1Thomas Shadwell, the dramatic writer. Ob. 1692. ?She played the Silent woman. See Downes’s Roscius Anglicanus, p. 4, 1708. 8“ A Letter from a Gentleman to the Honourable Ed. Howard, Esq., occasioned by a Civiliz’d Epistle of Mr. Dryden’s before his Second Edition of his Indian Emperour. In the Savoy, printed by Thomas Newcomb, 1668.” The “ Civiliz’d Epistle” was a_ caustic attack on Sir Robert Howard: and the Letter is signed, “Sir, your faithful and humble servant, R. F.”—i. e., Richard Flecknoe.—Gent, Mag., for Dec. 1850, p. 597. 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 25 grow shorter and shorter that she will never recover’ it. So back, and walked in Gray’s Inn walks a while, but little company; and so over the fields to Clerkenwell, to see whether I could find that the fair Botelers” do live there still, I seeing Frances the other day in a coach with Cary Dillon,* her old servant, but know not where she lives. 21st. To St. James’s, and there the Duke of York did of his own accord come to me, and tell me that he had read, and do like of, my answers to the objections which he did give me the other day, about the Navy; and so did Sir W. Coventry, too, who told me that the Duke of York had shown him them. To Southwarke-Fair, very dirty, and there saw the puppet-show of Whittington, which was pretty to see; and how that idle thing do work upon people that see it, and even myself too! And thence to Jacob Hall’s dancing on the ropes, where I saw such action as I never saw before, and mightily worth seeing; and here took acquaintance with a fellow that carried me to a taverne, whither come the musick of this booth, and by and by Jacob Hall himself, with whom I had a mind to speak, to hear whether he had ever any mischief by falls in his time. He told me, “ Yes, many; but never to the breaking of a limb:” he seems a mighty strong man. So giving them a bottle or two of wine, I away with Payne, the waterman. He, seeking me at the play, did get a link to light me, and so light me to the Beare,* where Bland, my waterman, waited for me See 9th and 15th May, and 15th July, 1668, ante. 7Or Butlers. See 18th June, 24th July, 4th Aug., 1660; 23d June, llth Aug., 1661; 31st Dec., 1662; 27th March, 2d Oct., 1664; 19th April, 1665. *Cary Dillon was the youngest son of Robert, second Earl of Ros- common, by his third wife, Anne, daughter of Sir William Stroud, of Stoake, in Somersetshire, and widow of Henry, Lord Folliott, of Bally- shannon. He is the Colonel Dillon before mentioned by Pepys, and who had killed Colonel Giles Rawlins in a duel. See 19th Aug., 1662, (where the note is in error.) He afterwards held several posts under Charles II. and James II., and upon the death, in 1684, of his nephew, the poet, he succeeded as 5th Earl of Roscommon. He married, not Francis Boteler, but Katharine, daughter of John Werden, of Chester, and Sister of Major-General Robert Werden, (before mentioned,) Groom of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York, and Comptroller of his Household when King. Lord Roscommon died 25th Nov., 1689. *See 10th Sept., 1668, ante, 26 DIARY OF [23d Sept, with gold and other things he kept for me, to the value of 401. and more, which I had about me, for fear of my poc- kets being cut. So by link-light through the bridge, it being mighty dark, but still weather, and so home, where I find my draught of “ The Resolution ” come, finished from Chatham; but will cost me, one way or other, above 12/. or 13/., in the board, frame, and garnishing, which is a little too much, but I will not be beholden to the King’s officers that do it. This day I met Mr. Moore in the New Ex- change, and had much talk of my Lord’s concernments. This day also came out first the new five-pieces in gold, coined by the Guiny Company;* and I did get two pieces of Mr. Holder. 22d. To the Office, where sitting all the morning: at noon, home to dinner, with my people, and so to the Office again, where busy all the afternoon, and im the evening spent my time walking in the dark, in the garden, to favour my eyes, which I find nothing but ease do help. In the garden there comes to me my Lady Pen and Mrs. Turner and Markham, and we sat and talked together, and I car- ried them home, and. there eat a bit of something, and by and by comes Sir W. Pen, and eat with us, and mighty merry—in appearance, at least, he being on all occasions glad to be at friendship with me, though we hate one an- other, and know it on both sides. This day Mr. Wren did give me, at the Board, Commissioner Middleton’s answer to the Duke of York’s great letter; so that now I have all of them. 23d. At noon comes Mr. Evelyn to me, about some busi- ness with the Office, and there in discourse tells me of his loss, to the value of 5001., which he hath met with, in a late attempt of making of bricks’ upon an adventure with others, by which he presumed to have got a great deal of money: 1 Guineas took their names from the gold brought from Guinea, by the African Company, who, as an encouragement to bring over gold to be coined, were permitted by their charter from Charles II., to have their stamp of an elephant upon the coin. There were likewise five- pound pieces, like the guinea, with the inscription upon the rim, like the crown piece. 2Fivelyn seems to allude to this speculation, when he records that “Sir John Kiviet came to article with me about his brickwork.”— Diary, 7th September, 1667. a { 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 27 so that I see the most ingenious men may sometimes be mistaken. To White Hall, to attend the Commissioners of the Treasury with Alderman Backewell, about 10,000/. he is to lend us for Tangier. 25th. W. Batelier with me, who is lately come from Im- pington, beyond which I perceive he went not, whatever his pretence at first was; and so he tells me how well and merry all are there, and how nobly used by my cozen. The Duke of York did tell me how Clifford is for Child, and for removing of old Officers, he saying plainly to-night, that though D. Gauden was a man that had done the best ser- vice that he believed any man, or any ten men, could have done, yet that it was for the King’s interest not to let it lie too long in one hand, lest nobody should be able to serve him but one. But the Duke of York did openly tell him that he was not for removing of old servants that had done well, neither in this place, nor in any other place, which is very nobly said. 26th. Could sleep but little last night, for my concern- ments in this business of the victualling, for Sir D. Gauden, and he comes to me, and there I did tell him all, and give him my advice, and so he away. To Charing Cross, and there into the great new Ordinary,” by my Lord Mul- grave’s, being led thither by Mr. Beale, one of Oliver’s, and now of the King’s Guards; and he sat with me while I had two quilted pigeons, very handsome and good meat: and there he and I talked of our old acquaintances, W. Clerke and others, he being a very civil man, and so parted. To White Hall, and there attended the King and Coun- cil. I present, and then withdrew: and they spent two hours at least, afterwards about it, and at last rose; and to my great content, the Duke of York, at coming out, told me that it was carried for D. Gauden at 6d., 8d., and 82d.; but with great difficulty, I understand, both from him and others, so much that Sir Edward Walker told me that he prays to God he may never live to need to plead his +The Swan Tavern. ?John Sheffield, third Earl of Mulgrave, afterwards created Mar- quis and Duke of Normandy and Buckinghamshire. He was suc- ceeded by his only son, Kdmund, with whom all the honours became extinct, in 1737. 28 DIARY OF [27th Sept. merit, for D. Gauden’s sake; for that it hath stood him in no stead in this business at all, though both he and all the world that speaks of him, speaks of him as the most deserv- ing man of any servant of the King’s, of the whole nation, and so I think he is: but it is done, and my heart is glad at it. To my house, where D. Gauden did talk a little, and he do mightily acknowledge my kindness to him, and I know I have done the King and myself good service in it. This noon I went to my Lady Peterborough’s house, and talked with her about the money due to her Lord, and it gives me great trouble, her importunity and impertinency about it. This afternoon at Court I met with Lord Hinchinbroke, newly come out of the country, who tells me that Creed’s business’ with Mrs. Pickering will do, which I am neither troubled nor glad at. 27th. (Lord’s day.) To White Hall, calling in at Somerset House Chapel, and there did hear a little masse: and so to White Hall; and there the King being gone to Chapel, I to walk all the morning in the Park, where I met Mr. Wren; and he and I walked together in the Pell-Mell, it being most summer weather that ever was seen: and here talking of several things: of the corruption of the Court, and how unfit it is for ingenuous men, and himself parti- cularly, to live in it, where a man cannot live but he must spend money, and cannot get it suitably, without breach of his honour: and he did thereupon tell me of the basest thing of my Lord Barkeley that ever was heard of any man, which was this:—how the Duke of York’s Commissioners do let his wine-licenses at a bad rate, and being offered a better, they did persuade the Duke of York to give some satisfaction to the former to quit it, and let it to the latter, which being done, my Lord Barkeley did make the bargain for the former to have 1500/1. a-year to quit it; whereof, since, it is come to light that they were to have but 800I. and himself 7001., which the Duke of York hath ever since for some years paid, though the second bargain hath been broken, and the Duke of York lost by it, half of what the first was. He told me that there had been a seeming ac- commodation between the Duke of York and the Duke of * Their marriage, which took place soon after. 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 29 Buckingham and Lord Arlington, the two latter desiring it; but yet that there is not true agreement between them, but they do labour to bring in all new creatures into play, and the Duke of York do oppose it. Thence, he gone, I to the Queen’s Chapel, and there heard some good singing; and so to White Hall, and saw the King and Queen at dinner: and thence with Sir Stephen Fox to dinner; and the Cof- ferer’ with us; and there mighty kind usage, and good discourse. Thence spent all the afternoon walking in the Park, and then in the evening at Court, on the Queen’s side; and there met Mr. Godolphin,’ who tells me that the news is true that we heard yesterday, of my Lord Sand- wich’s being come to Mount’s-Bay, in Cornwall. This night, in the Queen’s drawing-room, my Lord Brouncker told me the difference that is now between the three Ambassadors here, the Venetian,* French,* and Spaniard;’ the third not being willing to make a visit to the first, because he would not receive him at the door; who is willing to give him as much respect as he did to the French, who was used no other- wise, and who refuses now to take more of him, upon be- ing desired thereto, in order to the making an accommodation in this matter. 28th. Knipp’s maid comes to me, to tell me that the women’s day® at the playhouse is to-day, and that therefore I must be there, to encrease their profit. I did give the pretty maid Betty’ that comes to me, half-a-crown for coming, and had a kiss or two—elle being mighty jolie. By ‘water to St. James’s, and there had good opportunity of speaking with the Duke of York, who desires me again, talking on that matter, to prepare something for him to do for the better managing of our Office, telling me that, ‘my Lord Keeper and he talking about it yesterday, my Lord Keeper did advise him to do so, it being better to come from him than otherwise, which I have promised to William Ashburnham. ? Sidney Godolphin. *Pietro Mocenigo, of whose entry into London, on the 17th Sep- tember, 1668, an account is given in Evelyn’s Diary, and in Bp. Ken- net’s Complete History, vol. iii, 271. A MS. copy of his relation of his embassy is in the British Museum. He was afterwards ambassador to Rome. *Charles Colbert: see 8th of August, 1668, ante. ®Count De Dona. ° Their Benefit. "See 16th May, 1668. 30 DIARY OF | [28th Sept. - do. Thence to my Lord Burlington’s house,’ the first time I ever was there, it being the house built by Sir John Den- ham, next to Clarendon House: and here I visited my Lord Hinchinbroke and his lady; Mr. Sidney Montagu being last night come to town unexpectedly from Mount’s Bay, where he left my Lord well, eight days since, so as we now hourly expect to hear of his arrival at Portsmouth. Sidney is mighty grown; and I am glad I am here to see him at his first coming, though it cost me dear, for here I come to be necessitated to supply them with 500l. for my Lord.* He sent him up with a declaration to his friends, of the necessity of his being presently supplied with 2000/.; but I do not think he will get 10001. However, I think it becomes my duty to my Lord to do something extraordinary in this, and the rather because I have been remiss in writing to him during this voyage, more than ever I did in my life, and more indeed than was fit for me. By and by comes Sir W. Godolphin to see Mr. Sidney, who, I perceive, is much dissatisfied that he should come to town last night, and not yet be with my Lord Arlington, who, and all the town, hear of his being come, and he did, it seems, take notice of it to Godolphin this morning: so that I perceive this remissness in affairs do continue in my Lord’s managements still, which I am sorry for; but, above all, to see in what’ a condition my Lord is for money, that I dare swear he do not know where to take up 5001. of any man in England at this time, upon his word, but of myself, as I believe by the sequel hereof it will appear. Here I first saw and saluted my Lady Burlington,’ a very fine-speaking lady, and a good 1In Piccadilly: it still preserves its name. The house was probably built by Sir John Denham for Lord Burlington, from what is stated, 20th Feb., 1664-5, ante. 2See Pepys’s letter to Lord Sandwich on the subject, in the Cor- respondence, 29th September, 1668. ® Elizabeth, sole daughter and heir to Henry Clifford, Earl of Cum- berland, wife of Richard Boyle, first Earl of Burlington. All the estates of these families came to the Cavendish family by the marriage of William, fourth Duke of Devonshire, with Lady Charlotte Boyle, heiress of Richard, last Earl of Burlington and Cork. The title of Burlington was revived for her son, Lord George Cavendish, grand- father of the present Earl of Burlington. | Me ee 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 31 woman, but old, and not handsome; but a brave woman. Here my Lady Hinchinbroke tells me that she hath bought most of the wedding-clothes for Mrs. Pickering, so that the thing’ is gone through, and will soon be ended. Here I also, standing by a candle that was brought for sealing a letter, do set my periwigg a-fire, which made such an odd noise, nobody could tell what it was till they saw the flame, my back being to the candle. To my vintner’s, and there did only look upon his wife, which is mighty handsome; and so to my glove and ribbon shop, in Fenchurch Street, and did the like there. And there, stopping against the door of the shop, saw Mrs. Horsfall,’? now a widow, in a coach. I to her, and shook her by the hand, and so she away; and I by coach to the King’s playhouse, and there say the “City Match; not acted these thirty years, and but a silly play: the King and Court there; the house, for the women’s sake, mighty full. So I to White Hall, and there all the evening on the Queen’s-side; and it being a most summer-like day, and a fine warm evening, the Italians came in a barge under the leads, before the Queen’s drawing-room; and so the Queen and ladies went out, and heard them, for almost an hour: and the singing was indeed very good together; but yet there was but one voice alone did appear considerable, and that was Signor Joanni.* This done, by and by they went in; and here I saw Mr. Sidney Montagu kiss the Queen’s hand, who was mighty kind to him, and the ladies looked mightily on him; and the King came by and by, and did talk to him. So I away by coach with Alderman Backewell home, who is mighty kind to me, more than ordinary, in his expressions. But I do hear this day what troubles me, that Sir W. Coventry is quite out of play, the King seldom speaking to him; and that there is a design of making a Lord Treasurer, and that my Lord Arlington shall be the man; but I cannot believe it. But yet the Duke of Buckingham hath it in his mind, and those with him, to make a thorough alteration in things; and, among the rest, Coventry to be out. The Duke of York 1The marriage with Creed. ? Probably the same as Mrs. Horsfield: see 18th May, 1668. >A comedy, by Jasper Maine, D.D. *Probably Giovanni B. Draghi: see 12th Feb., 1666-7. 32 DIARY OF [12th Oct. did this day tell me how hot the whole party was in the business of Gauden;* and particularly, my Lord Anglesey tells me, the Duke of Buckingham, for Child against Gau- den; but the Duke of York did stand stoutly to it. 29th. (Tuesday, Michaelmas day.) Up, and to the Office, where all the morning. * * * * * October 11th. To church, where I find Parson Mills come to town and preached, and the church full, most people being now come home to town, though the season of the year is as good as summer, in all respects. At noon dined at home with my wife, all alone. At night comes Mr. Tur- ner and his wife, and there they tell me that Mr. Harper is dead at Deptford, and so now all his and my care is, how to secure his being Storekeeper in his stead; and here they and their daughter, and a kinswoman that come along with them, did sup with me, and pretty merry. 12th. Up, and with Mr. Turner to White Hall, to enquire when the Duke of York will be in town, in order to Mr. Turner’s going down to Audley End,* about his place; and here I met in St. James’s Park with one that told me that the Duke of York would be in town to-morrow. I did stop my intentions of going to the Court, also this day, about securing Mr. Turner’s place of Petty-purveyor to Mr. Hater. Meeting a gentleman of my Lord Middleton’s looking for me about the payment of the 1000/1. lately ordered to his ‘Lord, in advance of his pay, which shall arise upon his going Governor to Tangier, I did go to his Lord’s lodgings, 2See 26th Sept., ante. ?In this part of the Diary, no entry occurs for thirteen days, though there are several pages left blank. During the interval Pepys went into the country, as he subsequently mentions his having been at Saxham, in Suffolk, during the King’s visit to Lord Crofts, which took place at this time, (see 23d Oct., post.) He might also probably have gone to Imp- ington, to fetch his wife. whom we find dining at her home on the 11th October. At all events, the pages left blank were never filled up. > Her Majesty, attended by several ladies of the Court, left White- hall for Audley End, on the 6th October, where his Majesty was ex- pected, after having divertised himself at Newmarket. The Court remained at Audley End till the 14th—The London Gazette, No. 302. 4 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 33 and there spoke the first time with him, and find him a shrewd man, but a drinking man, I think, as the world says; but a man that hath seen much of the world, and is a Scot. I offered him my service, though I can do him little; but he sends his man home with me, where I made him stay till I had gone to Sir W. Pen, to bespeak him about Mr. Hater, who, contrary to my fears, did appear very friendly, to my great content; for I was afraid of his appear- ing for his man Burroughs. But he did not; but did declare to me afterwards his intentions to desire an excuse in his own business, to be eased of the business of Comptroller, his health not giving him power to stay always in town, but he must go into the country. Home, where I find Sir H. Cholmly come to town; and is come hither to see me: and he is a man that I love mightily, as being, of a gentleman, the most industrious that ever I saw. He staid with me awhile talking, and telling me his obligations to my Lord Sandwich, which I was glad of; and that the Duke of Buck- ingham is now chief of all men in this kingdom, which I knew before; and that he do think the Parliament will hardly ever meet again; which is a great many men’s thoughts, and I shall not be sorry for it. I home, and there, to dinner, and Mr. Pelling with us; and thence my wife and Mercer, and W. Hewer and Deb., to the King’s playhouse, and _ afterwards by water with them, and there we did hear the Eunuch, who, it seems, is a Frenchman, but long bred in Italy, sing, which I seemed to take as new to me, though I saw him on Saturday last, but said nothing of it; but such action and singing I could never have imagined to have heard, and do make good whatever Tom Hill used to tell me. Here we met with Mr. Batelier and his sister, and so they home with us in two coaches, and there at my house staid and supped, and this night my bookseller Shrewsbury comes, and brings my books of Martyrs, and I did pay him for them, and did this night make the young women before supper to open all the volumes for me. Read a ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will. Pen,’ for the Quakers; +Penn’s first work, entitled “Truth exalted, in a short but sure testimony against all those religions, faiths, and worships, that have been formed and followed, in the darkness of apostacy: and for that glorious light which is now risen, and shines forth, in the life and VOL. Iv. D 34 DIARY OF [14th Oct. but so full of nothing but nonsense, that I was ashamed to read in it. 13th. With my Lord Brouncker, and did get his ready assent to T. Hater’s having of Mr. Turner’s place, and so Sir J. Minnes’s also: but when we come to sit down at the Board, comes to us Mr. Wren this day to town, and tells me that James Southern do petition the Duke of York for the Storekeeper’s place at Deptford, which did trouble me much, and also the Board, though, upon discourse, after he was gone, we did resolve to move hard for our Clerks, and that places of preferment may go according to seniority and merit. After doing some business, I with Mr. Turner to the Duke of Albemarle’s at night; and there did speak to ~ him about his appearing to Mr. Wren as a friend to Mr. Turner, which he did kindly take from me; and so away thence, well pleased with what we had now done, and so I with him home, stopping at my Lord Brouncker’s, and getting his hand to a letter I wrote to the Duke of York for T. Hater. At my Lord Middleton’s, to give him an account of what I had done this day, with his man, at Alderman Backewell’s, about the getting of his 10001. paid;* and here he did take occasion to discourse about the business of the Dutch war, which, he says, he was always an enemy to; and did discourse well of it, I saying little, but pleased to hear him talk; and to see how some men may by age come to know much, and yet by their drinking and other pleasures, render themselves not very considerable. I did this day find by discourse with somebody, that this nobleman was the great Major-General Middleton, that was of the Scots army, in the beginning of the late war against the King. 14th. To White Hall, and there walked to St. James’s, where I find the Court mighty full, it beg the Duke of York’s birthday; and he mighty fine, and all the musick, one after another, to my great content. Here I met with Sir H. Cholmly; and he and I to walk, and to my Lord doctrine of the despised Quakers....by W. Penn, whom divine love constrains, in holy contempt, to trample on Egypt’s glory, not fear- ing the King’s wrath, having beheld the Majesty of Him who is invisible.” *It was probably for this payment that the tally was obtained, the loss of which caused Pepys so much anxiety: see 26th Nov., 1668, post. eet ee! ERIS aa ee 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 35 Barkeley’s new house,’ there to see a new experiment of a cart, which, by having two little wheeles fastened to the axle-tree, is said to make it go with half the ease and more, than another cart; but we did not see the trial made. To St. James’s, and there met my brethren; but the Duke of York being gone out, and to-night being a play there, and a great festival, we would not stay, but went all of us to the King’s playhouse, and there saw “ The Faythful Shep- herdess ” again, that we might hear the French Eunuch sing, which we did, to our great content; though I do ad- mire his action as much as his singing, being both beyond all I ever saw or heard. 15th. After dinner, my wife and I and Deb., out by coach to the upholsterer’s in Long Lane, Alderman Reeve’s, and then to Alderman Crow’s, to see variety of hangings, and were mightily pleased therewith; and at last I think we shall pitch upon the best suit of Apostles, where three pieces for my room will come to almost 801.: so home. This day at the Board comes unexpected the warrants from the Duke of York for Mr. Turner and Hater, for the places they desire, which contents me mightily. 16th. I took my wife by coach and Deb., and showed her Mr. Wren’s hangings and bed, at St. James’s, and Sir W. Coventry’s in the Pell-Mell, for our satisfaction in what we are going to buy; and so by Mr. Crow’s, home, about his hangings, and do pitch upon buying his second suit of Apostles—the whole suit, which comes to 83l1.; and this we think the best for us, having now the whole suit, to answer any other rooms or service. With Mr. Hater by water to St. James’s: there Mr. Hater, to give Mr. Wren thanks for his kindness about his place that he hath lately granted him, of Petty Purveyor of petty missions, upon the removal of Mr. Turner to be Storekeeper at Deptford, on the death of Harper. ‘To my aunt Wight’s, the first time, I think, these two years; and there mighty kindly used, and had a barrel of oysters, and so to look up and down their house, they having hung a room since I was there, *See the description of this splendid mansion, afterwards burnt to the ground by accident, in Evelyn’s Diary, 25th September, 1672. A small view of it, taken from an old map, is given in the notes to his Memoir of Mrs. Godolphin. D2 36 DIARY OF [20th Oct. but with hangings not fit to be seen with mine, which I find all come home to-night. 17th. Late home, and there with much pleasure getting Mr. Gibbs, that writes well, to write the name upon my new draught of “ The Resolution;” and so set it up, and altered the situation of some of my pictures in my closet, to my extraordinary content. Mr. Moore and Seymour were with me this afternoon, who tell me that my Lord Sandwich was received mighty kindly by the King, and is in exceeding great esteem with him, and the rest about him; but I doubt it will be hard for him to please both the King and the Duke of York, which I shall be sorry for. Mr. Moore tells me the sad condition my Lord is in, in his estate and debts; and the way he now lives in, so high, and so many vain servants about him, that he must be ruined, if he do not take up, which, by the grace of God, I will put him upon, when I come to see him. 18th. With Lord Brouncker to Lincolne’s Inn, and Mr. . Ball, to visit Dr. Wilkins, now newly Bishop of Chester: and he received us mighty kindly; and had most excellent discourse from him about his “‘ Book of Reall Character :’* and so I with Lord Brouncker to White Hall, and there saw the Queen and some ladies. 19th. With my wife and Deb. and Mr. Harman, the upholsterer, and carried them to take measure of Mr. Wren’s bed in St. James’s, I being resolved to have just such an- other made me. To the Duke of York’s playhouse; and there saw, the first time acted, ‘‘ The Queen of Arragon,’” an old Blackfriars’ play, but an admirable one, so good that I am astonished at it, and wonder where it hath lain asleep all this while, that I have never heard of it before. Here met W. Batelier and Mrs. Hunt, Deb.’s aunt; and saw her home—a very witty woman, and one that knows this play, and understands a play mighty well. Left at her home in Jewen Street, and we home, and to supper, and my wife to read to me, and so to bed. 20th. This day a new girl come to us in the room of *See 15th May, 1668, anée. 7A tragi-comedy, by William Habington. Upon its revival, the prologue and epilogue were written by Butler, the author of Hudibras, : +“ wee eae Se SE eee re Ss ee eee ee _——s a ee ee ee ee - 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS es Nell, who is lately, about four days since, gone away, being grown lazy and proud. ‘This girl to stay only till we have a boy, which I intend to keep when I have a coach, which I am now about. At this time my wife and I mighty busy laying out money in dressing up our best chamber, and thinking of a coach and coachman and horses, &c.; and the more because of Creed’s being now married to Mrs. Picker- ing; a thing I could never have expected, but it is done about seven or ten days since. I walked out to look for a coach, and saw many; and did light on one’ for which I bid 501., which do please me mightily. 21st. At noon to dinner to Mr. Batelier’s, his mother coming this day a-housewarming to him, and several friends of his, to which he invited us. Here mighty merry, and his mother the same: I heretofore took her for a gentlewoman of understanding. I rose from table before the rest, be- cause under an obligation to go to my Lord Brouncker’s, where to meet several gentlemen of the Royal Society, to go and make a visit to the French Embassador Colbert, at Leicester House,” he having endeavoured to make one or two to my Lord Brouncker, as our President, but he was not within, but I came too late, they being gone before: ' so I followed to Leicester House ;* but they are gone in and up before me; and so I away to the New Exchange, and there staid for my wife, and she come, we to Cow Lane, and there I showed her the coach which I pitch on, and she is out of herself for joy almost. But the man not within, so did nothing more towards an agreement, but to Mr. Crow’s about a bed, to have his advice. Memorandum: that from Crow’s, we went back to Charing Cross, and there left my people at their tailor’s, while I to my Lord Sandwich’s lodg- ings, who came to town the last night, and is come thither to lye: and met with him within: and among others my new cozen Creed, who looks mighty soberly; and he and I saluted one another with mighty gravity, till we came to a little more freedom of talk about it. But here I hear *In Cow Lane. ? There is a picture of Leicester House at Penshurst. *It occupied the north side of the present Leicester Square. Lisle Street and Sidney’s Alley preserve some of the names, 38 DIARY OF [23d Oct. that Sir Gilbert Pickering is lately dead, about three days since, which makes some sorrow there, though not much, because of his being long expected to die, having been in a lethargy long. So waited on my Lord to Court, and there staid and saw the ladies awhile: and thence to my wife, and took them up; and so home, and to supper and bed. 22d. Up, and W. Batelier’s Frenchman, a perriwigg ' maker, comes and brings me a new one, which I liked and paid him for: a mighty genteel fellow. To Crow’s, and there did see some more beds; and we shall, I think, pitch upon a camlott one, when all is done. Thence to Arundell House, where the first time we’ have met since the vaca- tion, and not much company: but here much good dis- course, and afterwards my Lord and others and I to the Devil tavern,” and there eat and drank, and so home by coach; and there found my uncle Wight and aunt, and Woolly and his wife, and there supped, and mighty merry. And anon they gone, and Mrs. Turner staid, who was there also to talk of her husband’s business; and the truth is, I was the less pleased to talk with her, for that she hath not yet owned, in any fit manner of thanks, my late and princi- pal service to her husband about his place, which I alone ought to have been thanked for, if they know as much as I do; but let it go: if they do not own it, I shall have it in my hand to teach them to do it. This day word come from all the Principal Officers to bring the Commissioners of Ac- counts their patents, which I did in the afternoon, by leay- ing it at their office, but am troubled at what should be their design therein. 23d. 'To my Lord Sandwich’s, where I find my Lord within, but busy, private; and so I staid a little talking with the young gentlemen; and so away with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, towards Tyburne, to see the people executed; but come too late, it beng done: two men and a woman hanged.* In the afternoon comes: my cozen, Sidney Picker- ing,* to bring my wife and me his sister’s Favour for her 1The Royal Society. ?In Fleet Street. The gallows at Tyburn stood on the site of No. 49, Connaught Square. *Mrs. Creed’s brother. weer. npn en 1668) SAMUEL PEPYS 39 wedding, which is kindly done. Pierce do tell me, among other news, the late frolick and debauchery of Sir Charles Sedley and Buckhurst, running up and down all the night almost naked, through the streets; and at last fighting, and being beat by the watch and clapped up all night; and how the King takes their parts; and my Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels’ to answer it next Sessions: which is a horrid shame. How the King and these gentlemen did make the fiddlers of Thetford, this last progress, to sing them all the obscene songs they could think of. How Sir W. Coventry was brought the other day to the Duchess of York by the Duke, to kiss her hand; and did acknowledge his unhappiness to occasion her so much sorrow, declaring his intentions in it, and praying her par- don; which she did give him upon his promise to make good his pretences of innocence to her family, by his faithfulness to his master, the Duke of York. That the Duke of Buck- ingham is now all in all, and will ruin Coventry, if he can: and that Coventry do now rest wholly upon the Duke of York for his standing, which is a great turn. He tells me that my Lady Castlemaine, however, is a mortal enemy to the Duke of Buckingham, which I understand not: but, it seems, she is disgusted with his greatness, and his ill usage of her. That the King was drunk at Saxam* with Sedley, Buckhurst, &c., the night that my Lord Arlington came thither, and would not give him audience, or could not; which is true, for it was the night that I was there, and saw the King go up to his chamber, and was told that the King had been drinking. He tells me, too, that the Duke of York did the next day chide Bab. May for his occasioning the King’s giving himself up to these gentlemen, to the neglecting of my Lord Arlington: to which he answered *An expression probably taking its rise from the custom of fasten- ing people by their feet in the stocks. ?Saxham, near Bury St. Edmunds, then the seat of William Baron Crofts, long since pulled down. “My last told your Grace I was going into the country to pass my Christmas at my Lord Crofts; and when I tell you that the Duke of Bucks and George Porter were there, you will not doubt but we Larne it merrily.".—Lord Arlington to the Duke of Ormond, Ozford, Jan. 9, 1666. (Miscellanea Aulica, p. 371.) 40 DIARY OF [26th Oct. merrily, that there was no man in England that had a head to lose, durst do what they do, every day, with the King, and asked the Duke of York’s pardon: which is a sign of a mad world. God bless us out of it! 24th. This morning comes to me the coachmaker,’ and agreed with me for 53/., and to stand fo the courtesy of what more I should give him upon the finishing of the coach: he is likely, also, to fit me with a coachman. Lord Brouncker tells me that the making Sir J. Minnes a bare Commissioner* is now in doing, which I am glad of; but he speaks of two new Commissioners, which I do not believe. 25th. (Lord’s day.) Up, and discoursing with my wife about our house, and many new things we are doing of, and so to church JI, and there find Jack Fenn come, and his wife, a pretty black woman: I never saw her before, nor took notice of her now. At night, W. Batelier comes and sups with us; and, after supper, to have my head combed by Deb. 26th. I was obliged to attend the Duke of York, think- ing to have had a meeting of Tangier to-day, but had not; but he did take me and Mr. Wren into his closet, and there did press me to prepare what I had to say upon the answers of my fellow-officers to his great letter, which I promised to do against his coming to town again, the next week: and so to other discourse, finding plainly that he is in trouble, and apprehensions of the Reformers, and would be found to do what he can towards reforming, himself. And so thence to my Lord Sandwich’s, where, after long stay he being in talk with others privately, I to him: and there he, taking physic and keeping his chamber, I had an hour’s talk with him about. the ill posture of things at this time, while the King gives countenance to Sir Charles Sedley and Lord Buckhurst. He tells me that he thinks his matters do stand well with the King, and hopes to have dispatch to his mind; but I doubt it, and do see that he do fear it, too. He told me of my Lady Carteret’s trouble about my writing of that letter of the Duke of York’s lately to the Office, which I did not own, but declared to be of no injury to Sir G. Car- +See 20th Oct., ante. ?See 29th Nov., post. *On his relinquishing his other office of Comptroller of the Navy. ee ee ee ee —— 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 41 teret, and that I would write a letter to him to satisfy him therein. But this I am in pain how to do, without doing myself wrong, and the end I had, of preparing a justifi- cation to myself hereafter, when the faults of the Navy come to be found out: however, I will do it in the best manner I can. 27th. This evening Mr. Spong come, and sat late with me, and first told me of the instrument called a parallel- ogram, which I must have one of, shewing me his practice thereon, by a map of England. 28th. By coach with Mr. Gibson to Chancery Lane, and there made oath before a Master in Chancery to the Tangier account of fees, and so to White Hall, where, by and by, a Committee met, my Lord Sandwich there, but his report was not received, it being late, but only a little business done, about the supplying the place with victuals. But I did get, with great content, my account allowed of fees, with great applause by my Lord Ashly and Sir W. Pen. Thence home, calling at one or two places; and there about our workmen, who are at work upon my wife’s closet, and other parts of my house, that we are all in dirt. 29th. Mr. Wren first tells us of the order from the King, come last night to the Duke of York, for signifying his pleasure to the Solicitor-General for drawing up a Com- mission for suspending of my Lord Anglesey,” and putting in Sir Thomas Littleton and Sir Thomas Osborne,’ the Now generally called pentagraph. It is a very useful instrument, by means of which persons having no skill in drawing may copy de- signs, prints, &c., in any proportion. ?See, in Memoirs relating to the Navy, 8vo, 1729, two warrants of 18th Oct., 1668, and 20th Oct., 1668, addressed by the Duke of York to Sir Heneage Finch, the Solicitor-General. The former directs him to prepare a warrant for his suspension, and the second to prepare a Bill for the royal signature, constituting and appointing Sir Thomas Osborne and Sir Thomas Lyttelton to the office of Treasurer of the Navy, hitherto filled by Lord Anglesey. 3 Eldest son of Sir Edward Osborne, Bart.; made a Privy-Councillor 1672, and the following year constituted Lord High Treasurer, and elected K.G. in 1677. He was created Baron Osborne, of Kiveton, and Viscount Latimer, of Danby, 1673; Earl of Danby, 1674; Vis- count Dunblaine, in Scotland, in 1675; Marquis of Caermarthen, 1689; and Duke of Leeds, 1694. Ob. 1712, et. suze 81. 42 DIARY OF [30th Oct. former a creature of Arlington’s, and the latter of the Duke © of Buckingham’s, during the suspension. ‘The Duke of York was forced to obey, and did grant it, he being to go to Newmarket this day with the King, and so the King pressed for it. But Mr. Wren do own that the Duke of York is the most wounded in this, in the world, for it is done and concluded without his privity, after his appearing for Lord Anglesey, and that it is plain that they do ayme to bring the Admiralty into Commission too, and lessen the Duke of York. This do put strange apprehensions into all our Board; only I think I am the least troubled at it, for I care not at all for it: but my Lord Brouncker and Pen do seem to think much of it. 30th. Up betimes; and Mr. Povy comes to even accounts with me, which we did, and then fell to other talk. He tells me, in short, how the King is made a child of, by Buckingham and Arlington, to the lessening of the Duke of York, whom they cannot suffer to be great, for fear of my Lord Chancellor’s return, which, therefore, they make the King violent against. That he believes it is impossible these two great men can hold together long: or, at least, that the ambition of the former is so great, that he will endeavour to master all, and bring into play as many as he can. That Anglesey will not lose his place easily, but will contend in law with whoever comes to execute it. That the Duke of York, in all things, but in his amours, is led by the nose by his wife. That Sir W. Co- ventry is now, by the Duke of York, made friends with the Duchess; and that he is often there, and waits on her. That he do believe that these present great men will break in time, and that Sir W. Coventry will be a great man again; for he do labour to have nothing to do in matters of the State, and is so usefull to the side that he is on, that he will stand, though at present he is quite out of play. That my Lady Castlemaine hates the Duke of Buckingham. That the Duke of York hath expressed him- self very kind to my Lord Sandwich, which I am mighty glad of. That we are to expect more changes if these men stand. This done, he and I to talk of my coach, and I got him to go see it, where he finds most infinite fault with it, 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 43 both as to being out of fashion and heavy, with so good reason, that I am mightily glad of his having corrected me in it; and so I do resolve to have one of his build, and with his advice, both in coach and horses, he being the fittest man in the world for it. $lst. This day my Lord Anglesey was at the Office, and do seem to make nothing of this business of his suspension, resolving to bring it into the Council, where he seems not to doubt to have right, he standing upon his defence and patent, and hath put in his caveats to the several Offices: so, as soon as the King comes back,* which will be on Tues- day next, he will bring it into the Council. This day Roger Pepys and his son Talbot, newly come to town, come and dined with me, and mighty glad I am to see them. November Ist. (Lord’s day.) This noon Mr. Povy sent his coach for my wife and I to see, which we like mightily, and will endeavour to have him get us just such another. 2d. Up, and a cold morning, by water through bridge without a cloak, and there to Mr. Wren at his chamber at White Hall, the first time of his coming thither this year, the Duchess coming thither to-night. To visit Creed at his chamber, but his wife not come thither yet, nor do he tell me where she is, though she be in town, at Stepney, at Atkins’s.* To Mr. Povy’s about a coach, but there I find my Lords Sandwich, Peterborough, and Hinchinbroke, Charles Harbord, and Sidney Montagu; and there I was stopped, and dined mighty nobly at a good table, with one little dish at a time upon it, but mighty merry. I was glad to see it: but sorry, methought, to see my Lord have so little reason to be merry, and yet glad, for his sake, to have him cheerful. After dinner up, and looked up and down the house, and so to the cellar; and thence I slipt away, without taking leave. This day I went, by Mr. Povy’s direction to a coach-maker near him,’ for a coach just like his, but it was sold this very morning. 1From Newmarket. ?Colonel Atkins: see 24th June, 1668. *Mr. Povey lived in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Pepys no doubt went tc Long Acre, then, as now, celebrated for its coachmakers. AA DIARY OF [4th Nov. 3d. We had a great deal of do this day at the Office about Clutterbucke,* I declaring my dissent against the whole Board’s proceedings, and I believe I shall go near to show W. Pen a very knave in it, whatever I find my Lord Brouncker. 4th. To White Hall; and there I find the King and Duke of York came the last night, and every body’s mouth full of my Lord Anglesey’s suspension being sealed, which it was, it seems, yesterday; so that he is prevented in his remedy at the Council; and, it seems, the two new Trea- surers’ did kiss the King’s hand this morning, brought in by my Lord Arlington. They walked up and down to- gether in the Court this day, and several people joyed them; but I avoided it, that I might not be seen to look either way. This day also I hear that my Lord Ormond is to be declared in Council no more Deputy Governor of Ireland, his. commission being expired: and the King is prevailed with to take it out of his hands; which people do mightily admire, saying that he is the greatest subject of any prince in Christendome, and hath more acres of land than any, and hath done more for his Prince than ever any yet did. But all will not do; he must down, it seems, the Duke of Buckingham carrying all before him. But that, that troubles me most is, that they begin to talk that the Duke of York’s regiment is ordered to be disbanded; and more, that undoubtedly his Admiralty will follow: which do shake me mightily, and I fear will have ill consequences in the nation, for these counsels are very mad. ‘The Duke of York do, by all men’s report, carry himself wonderfull submissive to the King, in the most humble manner in the world; but yet, it seems, nothing must be spared that tends to the keeping out the Chancellor; and that is the reason of all this. The great discourse now is, that the Parlia- ment shall be dissolved and another called, which shall give the King the Dean and Chapter lands; and that will put him out of debt. And it is said that Buckingham do know- ingly meet daily with Wildman and other Commonwealth- men; and that when he is with them, he makes the King +See note to 4th February, 1663-4. ?Sir Thomas Osborne and Sir Thomas Lyttelton. 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 45 believe that he is with his wenches; and something looks like the Parliament’s being dissolved, by Harry Brouncker’s being now come back, and appearing this day the first time at White Hall; but he hath not been yet with the King, but is secure that he shall be well received, I hear. God bless us, when such men as he shall be restored! But that, that pleases me most is, that several do tell me that Pen is to be removed; and others, that he hath resigned his place; and particularly Spragg tells me for certain that he hath resigned it, and is become a partner with Gauden in the Victualling: in which I think he hath done a very cunning thing: but I am sure I am glad of it; and it will be well for the King to have him out of this Office. Sir John Talbot’ talks mighty high for my Lord of Ormond: and I perceive this family of the Talbots hath been raised by my Lord. This evening, my wife and I, talking of our being put out of the Office, and my going to live at Dept- ford at her brother’s, till I can clear accounts, and rid my hands of the town, which will take me a year or more, and I do think it will be best for me to do so, in order to our living cheap, and out of sight. 5th. The Duke of York did call me and Mr. Wren; and my paper, that I have lately taken pains to draw up, was read, and the Duke of York pleased therewith; and we did all along conclude upon answers to my mind for the Board, and that which, if put in execution, will do the King’s busi- ness. But I do now more and more perceive the Duke of York’s trouble, and that he do he under great weight of mind from the Duke of Buckingham’s carrying things against him; and particularly when I advised that he would use his interest that a seaman might come into the room of Sir W. Pen, who is now declared to be gone from us to that of the Victualling, and did show how the Office would now be left without one seaman in it, but the Surveyor and the Comptroller, who is so old as to be able to do nothing, he told me plainly that I knew his mind well enough as to seamen, but that it must be as others will. And Wren did tell it me as a secret, that when the Duke of York did first tell the King about Sir W. Pen’s leaving of the place, and *See 17th January, 1667-8, ante, 46 DIARY OF [5th Nov. did move the King that either Captain Cox or Sir Jer. Smith might succeed him, the King did tell him that was a matter fit to be considered of, and would not agree to either pre- sently; and so the Duke of York could not prevail for either, nor knows who it shall be. The Duke did tell me himself, that if he had not carried it privately when first he mentioned Pen’s leaving his place to the King, it had not been done ; for the Duke of Buckingham and those of his party do cry out upon it, as a strange thing to trust such a thing into the hands of one that stands accused in Parliament; and that they have so far prevailed upon the King that he would not have him named in the Council, but only take his name to the Board; but I think he said that only D. Gauden’s name shall go in the patent; at least, at the time when Sir Richard Browne’ asked the King the names of D. Gauden’s security, the King told him it was not yet necessary for him to declare them. And by and by, when the Duke of York and we had done, Wren brought into the closet Captain Cox and James Temple about business of the Guiney Company; and talking something of the Duke of Buckingham’s concernment therein, says the Duke of York, “I shall give the Devil his due, as they say the Duke of Buckingham hath paid in his money to the Com- pany,” or something of that kind, wherein he would do right to him. The Duke of York told me how these people do begin to cast dirt upon the business that passed the Council lately, touching Supernumeraries, as passed by virtue of his authority there, there being not likerty for any man to withstand what the Duke of York advises there; which, he told me, they bring only as an argument to insinuate the putting of the Admiralty into Commission, which by all men’s discourse is now designed, and I per- ceive the same by him. This being done, and going from him, I up and down the house to hear news: and there every body’s mouth full of changes; and, among others, the Duke of York’s regiment of Guards, that was raised during the late war at sea, is to be disbanded: and also, that this day the King do intend to declare that the Duke of Ormond is no more Deputy of Ireland, but that he will put it into 1As Clerk of the Council. 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 47 Commission. This day our new Treasurers did kiss the King’s hand, who complimented them, as they say, very highly,—that he had for a long time been abused in his Treasurer, and that he was now safe in their hands. I saw them walk up and down the Court together all this morn- ing; the first time I ever saw Osborne, who is a comely gentleman. This day I was told that my Lord Anglesey did deliver a petition on Wednesday in Council to the King, laying open, that whereas he had heard that his Majesty had made such a disposal of his place, which he had formerly granted him for life upon a valuable consider- ation, and that, without anything laid to his charge, and during a Parliament’s sessions, he prayed that his Majesty would be pleased to let his case be heard before the Council and the Judges of the land, who were his proper counsel in all matters of right: to which, I am told, the King, after my Lord’s being withdrawn, concluded upon his giving him an answer some few days hence; and so he was called in, and told so. At the Treasurer’s, Sir Thomas Clifford, where I did eat some oysters; which while we were at, in comes my Lord Keeper* and much company; and so I thought it best to withdraw. And so away, and to the Swedes Agent’s,” and there met Mr. Povy; where the Agent would have me stay and dine, there being only them, and Joseph William- son, and Sir Thomas Clayton ;* but what he is I know not. Here much extraordinary noble discourse of foreign princes, and particularly the greatness of the King of France, and of his being fallen into the right way of making the king- dom great. I was mightily pleased with this company and their discourse. With Mr. Povy spent all the afternoon going, up and down among the coachmakers in Cow Lane, and did see several, and at last did pitch upon a little chariott, whose body was framed, but not covered, at the widow’s, that made Mr. Lowther’s fine coach; and we are mightily pleased with it, it being light, and will be very +Sir Orlando Bridgman. *Sir J. B. Leyenburg. ’Thomas Clayton, M.D., Professor of Physic, and Anatomy-Lec- turer at Oxford, for which University he was returned to serve in Parliament in 1660, and afterwards knighted, and made Warden of Mer- - ton College. 48 DIARY OF [9th Nov. genteel and sober: to be covered with leather, but yet will hold four. Being much satisfied with this, I carried him to White Hall. Home, where I give my wife a good account of my day’s work. 6th. To see Roger Pepys at his lodgings, next door to Arundell House, a barber’s; and there I did see a book, which my Lord Sandwich hath promised one to me of, “ A Description of the Escuriall in Spain;”* which I have a great desire to have, though I took it for a finer book when he promised it me. 7th. This afternoon I did go out towards Sir D. Gauden’s, thinking to have bespoke a place for my coach and horses, when I have them, at the Victualling Office; but find the way so bad and long that I returned, and looked up and down for places elsewhere, in an inne, which I hope to Ni with more convenience than there. 8th. (Lord’s day.) Up, and at my chamber all the morn- ing, setting my papers to rights, with my boy; and so to dinner at noon. 9th. The Duke of York told me that Sir W. Pen had been with him this morning, to ask whether it would be fit for him to sit at the Office now, because of his resolution to be gone, and to become concerned in the Victualling. The Duke of York answered, “ Yes, till his contract was signed.”” Thence I to Lord Sandwich’s, and there to see him; but was made to stay very long, as his best friends 1The book alluded to by Pepys is that of the Father Francisco de los Santos, first printed at Madrid, in 1657, and entitled Descripcion breve del Monasterio de 8. Lorenzo el Real del Escorial unica maravilla del mundo. It is in folio, and has some plates; but Pepys might well express his disappointment for the appearance of the volume does not answer to the magnificence of the subject. About the time when Pepys wrote, or soon after, the Escurial received some damage by fire, and was even said to be totally destroyed; and in that belief, an abstract of Father Francisco’s work was published in 1671, purporting to be “translated into English by a servant of the Earl of Sandwich.” That a great amount of damage was really done, is proved by the title of the third edition of the work, printed in Madrid in 1681, which says that the Escurial was rebuilt, after the fire, by Charles II.; and Santos, then alive, asserts the same, in his dedication to that King, comparing him to the restorers of Solomon’s Temple. i 1668} SAMUEL PEPYS 49 are, and when I came to him had little pleasure, his head being full of his own business, I think. Thence to White Hall with him, to a Committee of Tangier; a day appointed for him to give an account of Tangier, and what he did, and found there, which, though he had admirable matter for it, and his doings there were good, and would have afforded a noble account, yet he did it with a mind so low and mean, and delivered in so poor a manner, that it appeared nothing at all, nor any body seemed to value it; whereas, he might have shown himself to have merited extraordinary thanks, and been held to have done a very great service: whereas now, all that cost the King hath been at for his journey through Spain thither, seems to be almost lost. After we were up, Creed and I walked together, and did talk a good while of the weak Report my Lord made, and were troubled for it; I fearing that either his mind and judgment are de- pressed, or that he do it out of his great neglect, and so that he do all the rest of his affairs accordingly. I staid about the Court a little while, and then to look for a dinner, and had it at Hercules-Pillars, very late, all alone, costing me 10d. 11th. To the Office, where by a speciall desire, the new Treasurers came, and there did show their Patent, and the Great seal for the suspension of my Lord Anglesey: and here did sit and discourse of the business of the Office: and brought Mr. Hutchinson with them, who, I hear, is to be their Paymaster, in the room of Mr. Waith. For it seems they do turn out every servant that belongs to the present Treasurer: and so for Fenn, do bring in Mr. Littleton, Sir Thomas’s brother, and oust all the rest. But Mr. Hutchinson do already see that his work now will be another kind of thing than before, as to the trouble of it. They gone, and, indeed, they appear, both of them, very intelligent men, I home to dinner. Then by coach to my cozen Roger Pepys, who did, at my last being with him this day se’nnight, move me as to the supplying him with 500/. this term, and 500/. the next, for two years, upon a mortgage, he having that sum to pay, a debt left him by his father, which I did agree to, trusting to his honesty and ability, and am resolved to do it for him, that I may not have all I have, lie in the King’s hands. _ VOls IVs a 50 . DIARY OF [18th Nov. 12th. With Mr. Gibson late at my chamber, making an end of my draught of a letter for the Duke of York, in answer to the answers of this Office, which I have now done to my mind, so as, if the Duke likes it, will, I think, put an end to a great deal of the faults of this Office, as well as my trouble for them. So to bed. 13th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to White Hall, where to the Duke of York, and there did our usual business ; and thence I to the Commissioners of the Treasury, where I staid, and heard an excellent case argued between my Lord Gerard and the Town of Newcastle, about a piece of ground which that Lord hath got a grant of, under the Exchequer Seal, which they were endeavouring to get of the King, under the Great Seal. I liked mightily the Council for the town, Shafto,’ their recorder, and Mr. Offly.* But I was troubled, and so were the Lords,*® to hear my Lord fly out against their* great pretence of merit from the King, for their sufferings and loyalty; telling them that they might thank him for that repute which they have for their loyalty, for that it was he that forced them to be so, against their wills, when he was there: and moreover, did offer a paper to the Lords to read from the Town, sent in 1648; but the Lords would not read it; but I believe it was some- thing about bringing the King to trial, or some such thing, in that year. Thence I to the Three Tuns Tavern, by Charing Cross, and there dined with W. Pen, Sir J. Minnes, and Commissioner Middleton; and as merry as my mind could be, that hath so much trouble upon it. And thence to White Hall, and there staid in Mr. Wren’s chamber with him, reading over my draught of a letter, which Mr. Gibson then attended me with; and there he did like all, but doubted whether it would be necessary for the Duke to write in so sharp a style to the Office, as I had drawn it in; which I yield to him, to con- Robert Shafto, knighted 26th June, 1670. He died in 1704, and was buried in St. Nicholas’s Church, Newcastle. He married Katha- rine, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Widrington, of the Grange, Yorkshire. 2See 30th March, 1668. It was he who, in 1673, petitioned against Pepys’s return for Castle Rising. See Life, in vol. i. 3 The Lords Commissioners. ‘The inhabitants of Newcastle. ee eee eee i eee 1668} SAMUEL PEPYS 51 sider the present posture of the times and the Duke of York, and whether it were not better to err on that hand than the other. He told me that he did not think it was necessary for the Duke of York to do so, and that it would not suit so well with his nature nor greatness; which last, perhaps, is true, but then do too truly show the effects of having Princes in places, where order and discipline should be. I left it to him to do as the Duke of York pleases; and so fell to other talk, and with great freedom, of public things: and he told me, upon my several enquiries to that purpose, that he did believe it was not yet resolved whether the Parliament should ever meet more or no, the three great rulers of things now standing thus:—the Duke of Bucking- ham is absolutely against their meeting, as moved thereto by his people that he advises with, the people of the late times, who do never expect to have any thing done by this Parliament for their religion, and who do propose that, by the sale of the Church-lands, they shall be able to put the King out of debt; my Lord Keeper is utterly against putting away this and choosing another Parliament, lest they prove worse than this, and will make all the King’s friends, and the King himself, in a desperate condition: my Lord Arling- ton knows not which is best for him, being to seek whether this or the next will use him worst. He tells me that he believes that it is intended to call this Parliament, and try them for a sum of money; and, if they do not like it, then to send them going, and call another, who will, at the ruin of the Church perhaps, please the King with what he will have for a time. And he tells me, therefore, that he do believe that this policy will be endeavoured by the Church and their friends—to seem to promise the King money when it shall be propounded, but make the King and these great men buy it dear, before they have it. He tells me that he is really persuaded that the design of the Duke of Buckingham is, by bringing the state into such a condition as, if the King do die without issue, it shall, upon his death, break into pieces again; and so put by the Duke of York, whom they have disobliged, they know, to that degree, as to despair of his pardon. He tells me that there is no way to rule the King but by briskenesse, which the Duke of E2 52 DIARY OF [16th Nov. Buckingham hath above all men; and that the Duke of York having it not, his best way is what he practices, that “is to say, a good temper, which will support him till the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Arlington fall out, which cannot be long first, the former knowing that the latter did, in the time of the Chancellor, endeavour with the Chancellor to hang him at that time, when he was proclaimed against. And here, by the by, he told me that the Duke of Bucking- ham did, by his friends, treat with my Lord Chancellor, by the mediation of Matt. Wren and Clifford, to fall in with my Lord Chancellor; which, he tells me, he did advise my Lord Chancellor to accept of, as that, that with his own interest and the Duke of York’s, would undoubtedly have: secured all to him and his family; but that my Lord Chan- cellor was a man not to be advised, thinking himself too high to be counselled: and so all is come to nothing; for by that means the Duke of Buckingham became desperate, and was forced to fall in with Arlington, to the Chancellor’s ruin. This morning, at the Treasury-chamber, I did meet Jack Fenn, and there he did show me my Lord Anglesey’s petition and the King’s answer: the former good and stout, as I before did hear it: but the latter short and weak, saying that he was not, by what the King had done, hindered from taking the benefit of the law, and that the reason he had to suspect his mismanagement of his money in Ireland, did make him think it unfit to trust him with his Treasury in England, till he was satisfied in the former. 14th. At the Office all the morning, and merry at noon, at dinner; and after dinner to the Office, where all the afternoon, doing much business, late. 15th. (Lord’s day.) After dinner, W. Howe to tell me what hath happened between him and the Commissioners of late, who are hot again, more than ever, about my Lord Sandwich’s business of prizes, which I am troubled for, and the more, because of the great security and neglect with which, I think, my Lord do look upon this matter, that may yet, for aught I know, undo him. 16th. I did call at Martin’s, my bookseller’s, and there bought “ Cassandra,” and some other French books for my *A romance by Gualtier de Costes, Seigneur de la Calprenéde. It } ; : te- ee a — ee ee ee eee 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 53 wife’s closet, and so home, having eat nothing but two pennyworths of oysters, opened for me by a woman in the street. 17th. To the Office all the morning, where the new Trea- surers come, their second time, and before they sat down, did discourse with the Board, and particularly my Lord Brouncker, about their place, which they challenge, as having been heretofore due, and given to their predecessor ; which, at last, my Lord did own hath been given him only out of courtesy to his quality, and that he did not take it as a right at the Board: so they, for the present, sat down, and did give him the place, but, I think, with an intent to have the Duke of York’s directions about it. My wife and others busy now, to make clean the house above stairs, the upholsterers having done there, in her closet and the blue room, and they are mighty pretty. 19th. This night the upholsterers did finish the hanging of my best chamber. 20th. To meet Roger Pepys, which I did, and did there discourse of the business of lending him 5001. to answer some occasions of his, which I believe to be safe enough, and away by coach home, calling on my coachmaker by the way, where I like my little coach mightily. This evening comes Mr. Billup to me, to read over Mr. Wren’s alterations of my draught of a letter for the Duke of York to sign, to the Board; which I like mighty well, they being not considerable, only in mollifying some hard terms, which I had thought fit to put in. From this to other discourse; and do find that the Duke of York and his master, Mr. Wren, do look upon this service of mine as a very season- able service to the Duke, as that which he will have to show to his enemies in his own justification, of his care of the King’s business; and I am sure I am heartily glad of it, both for the King’s sake and the Duke of York’s, and my own also; for, if I continue here, my work by this means will be the less, and my share in the blame also. 21st. At the Office all the morning; and after dinner had been recently translated into English by Sir Charles Cotterell, no- ticed 8th Sept., 1667. 14. €., precedence, 54 DIARY OF [28d Nov. abroad with W. Hewer to my Lord Ashly’s, where my Lord Barkeley and Sir Thomas Ingram* met upon Mr. Povy’s account, where I was in great pain about that part of his account wherein I am concerned, above 150l., I think; and Creed hath declared himself dissatisfied with it, so far as to desire to cut his “ Examinatur” out of the paper, as the only condition in which he would be silent in it. This Povy had the wit to yield to; and so when it come to be inquired into, I did avouch the truth of the account as to that parti- cular, of my own knowledge, and so it went over as a thing good and just—as, indeed, in the bottom of it, it is; though in strictness, perhaps, it would not so well be understood. The Committee rising, I, with my mind much satisfied therein, away by coach home, setting Creed in Southampton Buildings, and so home; and there ended my letters, and then home to my wife, where I find my house clean now, from top to bottom, so as I have not seen it many a day, and to the full satisfaction of my mind, that I am now at peace, as to my poor wife, as to the dirtiness of my house, and as to seeing an end, in a great measure, to my present great disbursements upon my house, and coach and horses. 22d. (Lord’s day.) My wife and I lay long, with mighty content; and so rose, and she spent the whole day making herself clean, after four or five weeks being in continued dirt; — and I knocking up nails, and making little settlements in my house, till noon, and then eat a bit of meat in the kitchen, I all alone. And so to the Office, to set down my journal, for some days, leaving it imperfect, the matter being mighty grievous to me, and my mind, from the nature of it; and so in, to solace myself with my wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy; and so, after supper, to bed. This day my boy’s livery is come home, the first I ever had, of greene, lined with red; and it likes me well enough. 23d. Up, and called upon by W. Howe, who went, with W. Hewer and me, by water, to the Temple; his business - was to have my advice about a place he is going to buy—the Clerk of the Patent’s place, which I understand not, and so could say little to him. To visit my Lord Sandwich, who is 1See 9th January, 1664-5, ante. 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 55 now so reserved, or moped rather, I think, with his own business, that he bids welcome to no man, I think, to his satisfaction. I bear with it, being willing to give him as little trouble as I can, and to receive as little from him, wishing only that I had my money in my purse, that I have lent him; but, however, I shew no discontent at all. I met with Mr. Povy, who tells me that this discourse which I told him of, of the Duke of Monmouth being made Prince of Wales, hath nothing in it; though he thinks there are all the endeavours used in the world to overthrow the Duke of York. He would not have me doubt of my safety in the Navy, which I am doubtful of from the reports of a general removal; but he will endeavour to inform me, what he can gather from my Lord Arlington. That he do think that the Duke of Buckingham hath a mind rather to overthrow all the kingdom, and bring in a Commonwealth, wherein he may think to be General of their Army, or, to make himself King, which, he believes, he may be led to, by some advice which he hath had with conjurors, which he do affect. I took my wife and boy to Hercules Pillars, and there dined, and thence to our upholsterer’s, about some things more to buy, and so to see our coach, and so to the looking-glass man’s, by the New Exchange, and so to buy a picture for our blue chamber chimney, and so home; and there I made my boy read to me most of the night, to get through the “Life of the Archbishop of Canterbury.”* At supper comes Mary Batelier, and with us all the evening, prettily talking, and very innocent company she is; and she gone, we with much content to bed, and to sleep, with mighty rest all night. 24th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, where Mr. Gentleman, the cook, and an old woman, his third or fourth wife, come and dined with us, to enquire about a ticket of his son’s, that is dead; and after dinner, I with Mr. Hosier to my closet, to discourse of _ the business of balancing Storekeeper’s accounts, which he hath taken great pains in reducing to a method, to my great satisfaction; and I-shall be glad for both the King’s sake and his, that the thing may be put in practice, and will do 1 Laud; see ante, 16th Sept., 1668, 56 DIARY OF [25th Nov. my part to promote it. That done, he gone, I to the Office, where busy till night; and then with comfort to sit with my wife, and get her to read to me, and so to supper, and to bed, with my mind at mighty ease. 25th. By coach to see Sir W. Coventry; but he gone out, I to White Hall, and there waited on Lord Sandwich, which I have little encouragement to do, because of the difficulty of seeing him, and the little he hath to say to me when I do see him, or to any body else, but his own idle people about him, Sir Charles Harbord, &c. Thence walked with him to White Hall, where to the Duke of York; and there the Duke, and Wren, and I, by appointment in his closet, to read over our letter to the Office, which he heard, and signed it, and it is to my mind, Mr. Wren having made it somewhat sweeter to the Board, and yet with all the advice fully, that I did draw it up with. The Duke said little more to us now, his head being full of other business; but I do see that he do continue to put a value upon my advice; and so Mr. Wren and I to his chamber, and there talked: and he seems to hope that these people, the Duke of Buck- ingham and Arlington, will run themselves off their legs; they being forced to be always putting the King upon one idle thing or another, against the easiness of his nature, which he will never be able to bear, nor they to keep him to, and so will lose themselves. And, for instance of their little progress, he tells me that my Lord of Ormond is like yet to carry it, and to continue in his command in Ireland; at least, they cannot get the better of him yet. But he tells me that the Keeper’ is wrought upon, as they say, to give his opinion for the dissolving of the Parliament, which, he thinks, will undo him in the eyes of the people. He do not seem to own the hearing or fearing of any thing to be done in the Admiralty, to the lessening of the Duke of York, though he hears how the town-talk is full of it. Thence I by coach home, and there find my cozen Roger come to dine with me, and to seal his mortgage for the 500/. I lend him; but he and I first walked to the "Change, there to look for my uncle Wight, and get him to dmner with us. So home, buying a barrel of oysters at my old oyster- Lord Keeper; Sir Orlando Bridgman. | f : | f ‘ OS eS ee —— . oe ee ~~ ~~ ~~) = eG eee i ee 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 57 woman’s, in Gracious Street, but over the way to where she kept her shop before. Merry at dinner; and the money not being ready, I carried Roger Pepys to Holborn Conduit,* and there left him going to Stradwick’s,? whom we avoided to see, because of our long absence, and my wife and I to the Duke of York’s house, to see “ The Duchesse of Malfy,” a sorry play, and sat with little pleasure. This evening, to my great content, I got Sir Richard Ford to give me leave to set my coach in his yard. 26th. At the Office all the morning, where I was to have delivered the Duke of York’s letter of advice to the Board, in answer to our several answers to his great letter; but Lord Brouncker not being there, and doubtful to deliver it before the new Treasurer, I forbore it till the next sitting. So home at noon to dinner, where I find Mr. Pierce and his wife: but I was forced to shew very little pleasure in her being there because of my vow to my wife; and, there- fore, was glad of a very bad occasion for my being really troubled, which is, at W. Hewer’s losing of a tally of 10001., which I sent him this day to receive of the Commissioners of Excise. 27th. Up; and with W. Hewer to see Sir W. Coventry, but missed him again, by coming too late, the man of all the world that I am resolved to preserve an interest in. Thence to White Hall, and there at our usual waiting on the Duke of York; and that being done, I away to the Exchequer, to give a stop, and take some advice about my lost tally, wherein I shall have some remedy, with trouble. Comes Mr. Povy, by appointment, to dine with me; and much pleasant discourse with him, and some serious; and he tells me that he would, by all means, have me get to be a Parliament-man, the next Parliament. By and by comes my cozen Roger, and dines with us; and, after dinner, did seal his mortgage, wherein I do wholly rely on his honesty, 1Stowe speaks of “the Conduit of Holborn Cross, erected about 1498: again new made by Mr. William Lamb, 1577. Hence called Lamb’s Conduit.” ?Pepys’s cousin, Thomas Strudwick: see 13th September, 1660. Bunyan died in 1688, at the house of his friend, Mr. Strudwick, 4 grocer, at the sign of the Star, on Snow Hill 58 DIARY OF [29th Nov. not having so much as read over what he hath given me for it, nor minded it, but do trust to his integrity therein. 28th. All the morning at the Office, where, while I was sitting, one comes and tells me that my coach is come. So I was forced to go out, and to Sir Richard Ford’s, where I spoke to him, and he is very willing to have it brought in, and stand there; and so I ordered it, to my great content, it being mighty pretty, only the horses do not please me, and, therefore, resolve to have better. This day I presented to the Board the Duke of York’s letter,’ which, I perceive, troubled Sir W. Pen, he declaring himself meant in that part that concerned excuse by sickness; but I do not care, but am mightily glad that it is done, and now I shall begin to be at pretty good ease in the Office. This morning, to my great content, W. Hewer tells me that a porter is come, who found my tally in Holborn, and brings it him, for which he gives him 20s. 29th. (Lord’s day.) My wife lately frighted me about her being a Catholique; and I dare not, therefore, move her to go to church, for fear she should deny me; but this morning, of her own accord, she spoke of going to church the next Sunday, which pleases me mightily. This morn- ing my coachman’s clothes come home; and I like the livery mightily. All the morning in my chamber, and dined with my wife, and got her to read to me in the afternoon, till Sir W. Warren, by appointment, comes to me, who spent two hours, or three, with me, about his accounts of Gotten- burgh,’ which are so confounded, I doubt they will hardly ever pass without my doing something, which he desires of me, and which, partly from fear, and partly from unwilling- ness to wrong the King, and partly from its being of no profit to me, I am backward to give way to, though the poor man do indeed deserve to be rid of this trouble, that he hath lain so long under, from the negligence of this Board. He tells me, as soon as he saw my coach yester- day, he wished that the owner might not contract envy by it;> but I told him it was now manifestly for my profit to 1Dated, White Hall, 25th Nov., 1668. See a copy of it in Harl. MS., 6003. ? Probably for timber. 5’Though our Journalist prided himself not a little upon becoming ae oe al ee 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 59 keep a coach, and that, after employments like mine for eight years, it were hard if I could not be thought to be justly able to do that. To supper; and to read, and made an end of the “ Life of Archbishop Laud,” which is worth reading, as informing a man plainly in the posture of the Church, and how the things of it were managed with the same self-interest and design that every other thing is, and have succeeded accordingly. 30th. With W. Hewer to White Hall, to a Committee of Tangier, where the business of Mr. Lanyon took up all the morning; and, poor man! he did manage his business with so much folly, and ill fortune to boot, that the Board, before his coming in, inclining, of their own accord, to lay his cause aside, and leave it to the law, he pressed that we would hear it, and it ended to the making him appear a very knaye, as well as it did to me, a fool also, which I was sorry for. Thence by water, Mr. Povy, Creed, and I, to Arundell House, and there I did see them choosing their Council, it being St. Andrew’s day;* and I had his Cross* set on my hat, as the rest had, and cost me 2s. My wife, after dinner, possessed of a carriage, the acquisition was regarded with envy and jealousy by his enemies, as will appear by the following extract from the scurrilous Pamphlet noticed in the Zife, in which Pepys and Hewer are severely handled. “There is one thing more you must be mightily sorry for with all speed. Your presumption in your coach, in which you daily ride, as if you had been son and heir to the great Emperor Neptune, or as if you had been infallibly to have succeeded him in his government of the Ocean, all which was presumption in the highest de- gree. First, you had upon the forepart of your chariot, tempestuous waves and wrecks of ships; on your left hand, forts and great guns, and ships a fighting; on your right hand was a fair harbour and galleys riding, with their flags and pennants spread, kindly saluting each other, just like P[epys] and H[ewer]. Behind it were high curled waves and ships a sinking, and here and there an appearance of some bits of land.” 1The annual meeting of the Royal Society is still held on that day. 2The cross of St. Andrew, like that of St. Patrick, is a saltire. The two, mixed in a very strange manner with the cross of St. George, form the Union flag. There is a very good paper on the subject, written by the late Sir N. H. Nicolas, in Brayley’s Graphic Illustrator, p. 65. 60 DIARY OF [2d Dec, went the first time abroad in her coach, calling on Roger Pepys, and visiting Mrs. Creed, and my cozen Turner. Thus ended this month, with very good content, but most ex- penseful to my purse on things of pleasure, having furnished my wife’s closet and the best chamber, and a coach and horses, that ever I knew in the world; and I am put into the greatest condition of outward state that ever I was in, or hoped ever to be, or desired: and this at a time when we do daily expect great changes in this Office; and by all re- ports we must, all of us, turn out. But my eyes are come to that condition that I am not able to work; and there- fore that, and my wife’s desire, make me have no manner of trouble in my thoughts about it. So God do his will in it! December Ist. This day I hear of poor Mr. Clerke, the solicitor, being dead, of a cold, after being not above two days ill, which troubles me mightily, poor man! 2d. Abroad with W. Hewer, thinking to have found Mr. Wren at Captain Cox’s, to have spoke something to him about doing a favour for Will’s uncle Steventon, but missed him. Abroad with my wife, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach, which do make my heart rejoice, and praise God, and pray him to bless it to me and continue it. So she and I to the King’s playhouse, and there saw “ The Usurper;”’ a pretty good play, in all but what is designed to resemble Cromwell and Hugh Peters, which is mighty silly. The play done, we to White Hall; where my wife staid while I up to the Duchess’s and Queen’s side, to speak with the Duke of York: and here saw all the ladies, and heard the silly discourse of the King, with his people about him, telling a story of my Lord Rochester’s haying of his clothes stole, while he was with a wench; and his gold all gone, but his clothes found afterwards, stuffed in a feather bed by the wench that stole them. I spoke with the Duke of York, just as he was set down to supper with the. King, about our sending of victuals to Sir Thomas Allen’s fleet hence to Cales [Cadiz], to meet him. To-day I hear that Mr. Ackworth’s cause went for him at Guildhall, against his hosiers, which I am well enough pleased with. 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 61 $d. Mr. Wren gives me but small hopes of the favour I hoped to get for Mr. Steventon, Will’s uncle, of having leave, being upon the point of death, to surrender his place, which do trouble me, but I will do what I can. To the Office, Sir Jer. Smith with me; who is a silly, prating, talking man; but he tells me what he hears,—that Holmes and Spragg now rule all with the Duke of Buckingham, as to sea-business, and will be great men: but he do prophesy what will be the fruit of it; so I do. So to the Office, where we sat all the morning; and at noon home to dinner, and then abroad again, with my wife, to the Duke of York’s playhouse, and saw “ The Unfortunate Lovers ;” a mean play, I think, but some parts very good, and excel- lently acted. We sat under the boxes, and saw the fine ladies; among others, my Lady Kerneguy,’ who is most devilishly painted. And so home, it being mighty pleasure to go alone with my poor wife, in a coach of our own, to a play, and makes us appear mighty great, I think, in the world; at least, greater than ever I could, or my friends for me, have once expected; or, I think, than ever any of my family ever yet lived, in my memory, but my cozen Pepys in Salisbury Court. 4th. Did wait as usual upon the Duke of York, where, upon discoursing something touching the Ticket-Office, which by letter the Board did give the Duke of York their advice, to be put upon Lord Brouncker, Sir J. Minnes did foolishly rise up and complain of the Office, and his being made nothing of; and this before Sir Thomas Littleton, who would be glad of this difference among us, which did trouble me mightily; and therefore I did forbear to say what I otherwise would have thought fit for me to say on this occasion, upon so impertinent a speech as this doting fool made—but, I say, I let it alone, and contented myself that it went as I advised, as to the Duke of York’s judg- ment, in the thing disputed. Home, where by invitation I find my aunt Wight, who looked over all our house, and is mighty pleased with it, and indeed it is now mighty hand- some, and rich in furniture. I carried my wife and her to Smithfield, where they sit in the coach, while Mr. Picker- +See note to 19th March, 1665. 62 DIARY OF . [6th Dec. ing, who meets me at Smithfield, and I, and W. Hewer, and a friend of his, a jockey, did go about to see several pairs of horses, for my coach; but it was late, and we agreed on none, but left it to another time: but here I do see instances of a piece of craft and cunning that I never dreamed of, concerning the buying and choosing of horses. So Mr. Pickering, to whom I am much beholden for his kindness herein, and I parted; and I with my people home. To the Office, where vexed to see how ill all the Comp- troller’s business is likely to go on, so long as ever Sir J. Minnes lives; and so troubled I was, that I thought it a good occasion for me to give my thoughts of it in writing, and therefore wrote a letter at the Board, by the help of a tube, to Lord Brouncker, and did give it him, which I kept a copy of, and it may be of use to me hereafter to show, in this matter. This being done, I home to my aunt, who supped with us, and my uncle also: and a good-humoured woman she is, so that I think we shall keep her acquaint- ance; but mighty proud she is of her wedding-ring, being lately set with diamonds; cost her about 12/.: and I did commend it mightily to her, but do not think it very suit- able for one of our quality. 5th. No news stirring, but that my Lord of Ormond is likely to go to Ireland again, which do show that the Duke of Buckingham do not rule all so absolutely; and that, however, we shall speedily have more changes in the Navy: and it is certain that the Nonconformists do now preach openly in houses, in many places, and among others the house that was heretofore Sir G. Carteret’s, in Leadenhall Streete, and have ready access to the King. And now the great dispute is, whether this Parliament or another; and my great design, if I continue in the Navy, is to get my- self to be a Parliament-man. 6th. (Lord’s day.) Up, and with my wife to church; which pleases me mightily, I being full of fear that she would never go to church again, after she had declared to me that she was a Roman Catholick. But though I do verily think she fears God, and is truly and sincerely righte- ous, yet I do see she is not so strictly a Catholick as not to go to church with me, which pleases me mightily. Here ; £ f : 4 i ~~ a, GEORGE MONK, DUKE OF ALBEMARLE. From an engraving by B. Holl, after the original painting by Sir Peter Lely in the Town Hall, Exeter. 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 63 Mills made a lazy sermon, upon Moses’s meeknesse. With my wife and W. Hewer talking over the business of the Office, and particularly my own Office, how I will make it, and it will become, in a little time, an Office of ease, and not slavery, as it hath for so many years been. 7th. Sir W. Coventry says that he hath no more mind to be found meddling with the Navy, lest it should do it hurt, as well as him. So to talk of general things: and telling him that, with all these doings, he, I thanked God, stood yet; he told me, Yes, but that he thought his continuing in, did arise from his enemies my Lord of Buckingham and Arlington’s seeing that he cared so little if he was out; and he do protest to me that he is as weary of the Treasury, as ever he was of the Navy. He tells me that he do believe that their heat is over almost, as to the Navy, there being now none left of the old stock but my Lord Brouncker, J. Minnes, who is ready to leave the world, and myself. But he tells me that he do foresee very great wants and great dis- orders by reason thereof; insomuch, as he is represented to the King by his enemies as a melancholy man, and one that is still prophesying ill events, so as the King called him Visionaire, which being told him, he said he answered the party, that, whatever he foresaw, he was not afraid as to himself of any thing, nor particularly of my Lord Arling- ton, so much as the Duke of Buckingham hath been, nor of the Duke of Buckingham, so much as my Lord Arling- ton at this time is. But he tells me that he hath been always looked upon as a melancholy man; whereas, others that would please the King do make him believe that all is safe; and so he hath heard my Lord Chancellor openly say to the King, that he was now a glorious prince, and in a glorious condition, because of some one accident that hath happened, or some one rut that hath been removed; “‘ when,” says Sir W. Coventry, “ they reckoned their one good meal, without considering that there was nothing left in the cup- board for to-morrow.” After this discourse, to my Lord Sandwich’s, and took a quarter of an hour’s walk in the garden with him, which I have not done for so much time with him since his coming into England; and talking of his own condition, and particularly of the world’s talk of his 64 DIARY OF [sth Dee, going to Tangier. I find, if his conditions can be made profitable and safe as to money, he would go, but not else; but, however, will seem not averse to it, because of facilitat- ing his other accounts now depending, which he finds hard to get through, but yet hath some hopes, the King, he says, speaking very kindly to him. 8th. Up, and Sir H. Cholmly betimes with me, about some accounts and monies due to him; and he gone, I to the Office, where sat all the morning; and here, among other things, breaks out the storm W. Hewer and I have long expected from the Surveyor,’ about W,. Hewer’s con- spiring to get a contract, to the burdening of the stores with kerseys and cottons, of which he hath often complained, and lately more than eyer; and now he did by a most scandalous letter to the Board, reflecting on my Office: and, by discourse, it fell to such high words between him and me, as can hardly ever be forgot; I declaring I would be- lieve W. Hewer as soon as him, and laying the fault, if there be any, upon himself; he, on the other hand, vilifying of my word and W. Hewer’s, calling him knave, and that if he were his clerk, he should lose his ears. At last, I closed the business for this morning with making the thing ridicu- lous, as it is, and he swearing that the King should have right in it, or he would lose his place. The Office was cleared of all but ourselves and W. Hewer; but, however, the world did by the beginning see what it meant, and it will, I believe, come to high terms between us, which I am sorry for, to have any blemish laid upon me or mine, at this time, though never so unjustly, for fear of giving oceasion to my real discredit: and therefore I was not only all the rest of the morning vexed, but so went home to dinner, where my wife tells me of my Lord Orrery’s new play “'Tryphon,’”” at the Duke of York’s house, which, how- ever, I would see, and therefore put a bit of meat in our mouths, and went thither, where, with much ado, at half- past one, we got into a blind hole in the 18d. place, above stairs, where we could not hear well. The house infinite 1 Colonel Middleton. ? This tragedy, taken from the first book of Maccabees, was performed with great success. 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS full, but the prologue most silly, and the play, though ad- mirable, yet no pleasure almost in it, because just the very same design, and words, and sense, and plot, as every one of his plays have, any one of which alone would be held ad- mitable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do but dull one another; and this, I perceive, is the sense of every body else, as well as myself, who therefore showed but little pleasure in it. So home, mighty hot, and my mind mightily out of order, so as I could not eat my supper, or sleep almost all night, though I spent till twelve at night with W. Hewer to consider of our business: and we find it not only most free from any blame of our side, but so horrid scandalous on the other, to make so groundless a complaint, and one so shameful to him, that it could not but let me see that there is no need of my being troubled; but such is the weakness of my nature, that I could not help it, which vexes me, showing me how unable I am to live with difficulties. 9th. To the Office, but did little there, my mind being still uneasy, though more and more satisfied that there is no eccasion for it; but abroad with my wife to the Temple, where I met with Auditor Wood’s clerk, and did some busi- ness with him, and so to see Mr. Spong, and found him out by Southampton Market,’ and there carried my wife, and up to his chamber, a bye place, but with a good prospect of the fields; and there I had most infinite pleasure, not only with his ingenuity in general, but in particular with his shewing me the use of the Parallelogram, by which he drew in a quarter of an hour before me, in little, from a great, a most-neat map of England—that is, all the outlines, which gives me infinite pleasure, and foresight of pleasure, I shall have with it; and therefore desire to have that which I have bespoke, made. Many other pretty things he showed us, and did give me a glass bubble,’ to try the strength of liquors with. This done, and having spent 6d. in ale in the coach, at the door of the Bull Inn, with the mnocent master of ‘Better known as Bloomsbury Market; but since (1851-53) swal- lowed up in the New Oxford Street improvements. ?This seems to be Mr. Boyle’s hydtometer, described in the Philo- sophical Transactions of the time. VOL. Iv. £ 66 DIARY OF [11th Dee, the house, a Yorkshireman, for his letting us go through his house, we away to Hercules Pillars, and there eat a bit of meat: and so, with all speed, back to the Duke of York’s house, where mighty full again; but we come time enough to have a good place in the pit, and did hear this new play again, where, though I better understood it than before, yet my sense of it and pleasure was just the same as yester- . day, and no more, nor any body else’s about us.. So took our coach home, having now little pleasure to look about me to see the fine faces, for fear of displeasmg my wife, whom I take great comfort now, more than ever, in pleas- ing; and it is a real joy to me. So home, and to my Office, where spent an hour or two; and so home to my wife, to supper and talk, and so to bed. 10th. Up, and to the Office, where busy all the morning: Middleton not there, so no words or looks of him. At noon, home to dinner; and so to the Office, and there all the afternoon busy; and at night W. Hewer home with me; and we think we have got matter enough to make Middleton appear a coxcomb. But it troubled me to have Sir W. Warren meet me at night, going out of the Office home, and tell me that Middleton do intend to complain to the Duke of York: but, upon consideration of the business, I did go to bed, satisfied that it was best for me that he should; and so my trouble was over, and to bed, and slept well. llth. Up, and with W. Hewer by water to Somerset House; and there I to my Lord Brouncker, before he went forth to the Duke of York, and there told him my confidence that I should make Middleton appear a fool, and that it was, I thought, best for me to complain of the wrong he hath done; but brought it about, that my Lord desired me I would forbear, and promised that. he would prevent Middleton till I had given in my answer to the Board, which I desired: and so away to White Hall, and there did our usual attendance: and no word spoke before the Duke of York by Middleton at all; at which I was glad to my heart, because by this means I have time to draw up my answer to my mind. With W. Hewer by coach to Smithfield, but met not Mr. Pickering, he being not come, f ; . A tS OEE Fs 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 67 and so Will and I to a cook’s shop, in Aldersgate Street ; and dined well for 1s. 03d., upon roast beef; and so, having dined, we back to Smithfield and there met Pickering, and up and down all the afternoon about horses, and did see the knaveries and tricks of jockeys. Here I met W. Joyce, who troubled me with his impertinencies a great while, and the like Mr. Knipp, who, it seems, is a kind of a jockey, and would fain have been doing something for me, but I avoided him, and the more for fear of being troubled thereby with his wife, whom I dare not see, for my vow to my wife. At last, concluded upon giving 501. for a fine pair of black horses we saw this day se’nnight; and so set Mr. Pickering down near his house, whom I am much beholden to, for his care herein, and he hath admirable skill, I perceive, in this business, and so home. 12th. I hear this day that there is fallen down a new house, not quite finished, in Lumberd Street, and that there have been several so, they making use of bad mortar and bricks; but no hurt yet, as God hath ordered it. This day was brought home my pair of black coach-horses, the first I ever was master of, a fine pair! 14th. To a Committee of Tangier, where, among other things, a silly account of a falling out between Norwood,* at Tangier, and Mr. Bland, the mayor, who is fled to Cales [Cadiz]. His complaint is ill-worded, and the other’s defence the most ridiculous that ever I saw; and so every- body else that was there, thought it; but never did I see so great an instance of the use of grammar, and knowledge how to tell a man’s tale as this day, Bland having spoiled his business by ill-telling it, who had work to have made himself notorious by his mastering Norwood, his enemy, if he had known how to have used it. To dinner by a hackney, my coachman being this day about breaking of my horses to the coach, they having never yet drawn. This day, I hear, and am glad, that the King hath prorogued the Parliament to October next; and, among other reasons, it will give me time to go to France, I hope. 15th. Up, and to the Office. where sat all the morning, *Colonel Norwood, the Deputy Governor: see 2Ist April, 1660. F2 68 DIARY OF [19th Dee. and the new Treasurers there; and, for my life, I cannot keep Sir J. Minnes and others of the Board from showing our weakness, to the dishonour of the Board, though I am not concerned: but it do vex me to the heart to have it before these people, that would be glad to find out all our weaknesses. 18th. To Lord Brouncker, and got him to read over my paper, who owns most absolute content in it, and the advan- tage I have in it, and the folly of the Surveyor. At noon home to dinner; and then to Brook House, and there spoke with Colonel Thomson, I by order carrying the Commis- sioners of Accounts our Contract-books, from the beginning to the end of the late war. I found him finding of errors in a ship’s book, where he showed me many, which must end in the ruin, I doubt, of the Comptroller, who found them not out in the pay of the ship, or the whole Office. To the Office, and after some other business done, we fell to mine. The Surveyor began to be a little brisk at the beginning; but when I came to the point to touch him, which I had all the advantages in the world to do, he became as calm as a lamb, and owned, as the whole Board did, their satisfaction, and cried excuse: and so all made friends; and their acknow- ledgment put into writing, and delivered into Sir J. Minnes’s hand, to be kept there for the use of the Board, or me, when I shall call for it; they desiring it might be so, that I might not make use of it to the prejudice of the Surveyor, whom I had an advantage over, by his extraordinary folly in this matter. So Middleton desiring to be friends, I forgave him; and all mighty quiet, and fell to talk of other stories, and there staid, all of us, till nine or ten at night, more than ever we did in cur lives before, together. 19th. My wife and I by hackney to the King’s playhouse, and there, the pit being full, sat in the box above, and saw ** Catiline’s Conspiracy,” yesterday being the first day: a play of much good sense and words to read, but that do appear the worst upon the stage, I mean, the least diverting, that ever I saw any, though most fine in clothes; and a fine scene of the Senate, and of a fight, as ever I saw in my life. * By Stephen Gosson. It was never printed, 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 69 We sat next to Betty Hall,’ that did belong to this house, and was Sir Philip Howard’s Mistress; a mighty pretty wench, though my wife will not think so; and I dare neither commend, nor be seen to look upon her, or any other, for fear of offending her. So, our own coach coming for us, home, and to end letters, and my wife to read to me out of “ The Siege of Rhodes,” and so to supper, and to bed. 20th. (Lord’s day.) The Duke of York in good humour did fall to tell us many fine stories of the wars in Flanders, and how the Spaniards are the best disciplined foot in the world; will refuse no extraordinary service if commanded, but scorn to be paid for it, as in other countries, though at the same time they will beg in the streets: not a soldier will carry you a cloak-bag for money for the world, though he will beg a penny, and will do the thing, if commanded by his Commander. That, in the citadel of Antwerp, a soldier hath not a liberty of begging till he hath served three years. They will cry out against their King and Commanders and Generals, none like them in the world, and yet will not hear a stranger say a word of them but they will cut his throat. That, upon a time, some of the Commanders of their army exclaiming against their Gene- rals, and particularly the Marquis de Caranen,” the Confessor of the Marquis coming by and hearing them, he stops and gravely tells them that the three great trades of the world are, the lawyers, who govern the world; the churchmen, who enjoy the world; and a sort of fellows whom they call soldiers, who make it their work to defend the world. He told us too, that Turenne being now become a Catholick,* 1See 23d Jan., 1666-7. She is noticed in one of Rochester’s Satires :— “ And Mrs. Strafford yield to B Hall.” State Poems, p. 35, 8vo., 1697. *Luis de Benavides Carillo y Toledo, Marques de Caracena, one of the most eminent of the Spanish Generals. He had been Commander of the Spanish Cavalry in Flanders; and he was afterwards Governor of Milan, and employed in the wars of Italy. He died in 1668. *Henri, Vicomte de Turenne, the celebrated General. In 1666, after the death of his wife, Charlotte, heiress of the Duc de la Force, who like himself had been a Huguenot, and whose influence had re- tained him in that. communion, Turenne professed himself a Roman Catholic, 70 DIARY OF : [21st Dec. he is likely to get over the head of Colbert,’ their in- terests being contrary; the latter to promote trade”* and the sea, which, says the Duke of York, is that we have most cause to fear; and Turenne to employ the King and his forces by land, to encrease his conquests. W. Hewer tells me to-day that he hears that the King of France hath declared in print, that he do intend this next summer to forbid his commanders to strike*® to us, but that both we and the Dutch shall strike to him; and that he hath made his Captains swear already, that they will observe it: which is a great thing if he do it, as I know nothing to hinder him. 21st. To the Temple, the first time my fine horses ever carried me, and I am mighty proud of these. So home, and there dined with my wife and my people: and then she, and W. Hewer, and I out with our coach, but the old horses, not daring yet to use the others too much, but only to enter them. Went into Holborne, and there saw the woman that is to be seen with a beard. She is a little plain woman, a Dane: her name, Ursula Dyan; about forty years old; her voice like a little girl’s; with a beard as much as any man I ever saw, black almost, and grizly; it began to grow at about seven years old, and was shaved not above seven months ago, and is now so big as any man’s almost that ever I saw; I say, bushy and thick. It was a strange sight to me, I confess, and what pleased me mightily. Thence to the Duke’s playhouse, and saw ‘‘ Macbeth.” ‘The King and Court there; and we sat just under them and my Lady Castlemaine, and close to a woman that comes into the pit, a kind of a loose gossip, that pretends to be like her, and is so, something. And my wife, by my troth, appeared, I think, as pretty as any of them; I never thought so much before; and so did Talbot and W. Hewer, as, I heard, they said to one another. The King and the Duke of York minded me, and smiled upon me, at the handsome woman near me: but it vexed me to see Moll Davis, in the box 1Jean Baptiste Colbert, the great Minister. 2This reminds us of the famous reply, Laissez nous faire, made to Colbert by the French merchants, whose interests he thought to promote by laws and regulations. * Strike topsails. : ; ? : i j 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 71 over the King’s and my Lady Castlemaine’s, look down upon the King, and he up to her; and so did my Lady Castlemaine once, to see who it was; but when she saw Moll Davis, she looked like fire; which troubled me. 23d. Discoursed with Sir John Bankes, who thinks this prorogation will please all but the Parliament itself, which will, if ever they meet, be vexed at Buckingham, who yet governs all. He says the Nonconformists are glad of it, and, he believes, will get the upper hand in a little time, for the King must trust to them or nobody; and he thinks the King will be forced to it. He says that Sir D. Gauden is mightily troubled at Pen’s being put upon him, by the Duke of York,* and that he believes he will get clear of it, which, though it will trouble me to have Pen still at the Office, yet I shall think D. Gauden do well in it, and what I would advise him to, because I love him. So home to dinner, and then with my wife alone abroad, with our new horses, the beautifullest almost that ever I saw, and the first time they ever carried her and me, but once; but we are mighty proud of them. To her tailor’s, and to see the *Change, and laid out three or four pounds in lace, for her and me; and so home, and there I upto my Lord Brouncker, at his lodgings, and sat with him an hour, on purpose to talk over the wretched state of this Office at present, accord- ing to the present hands it is made up of; wherein he do fully concur with me, and that it is our part not only to prepare for defending it and ourselves, against the conse- quences of it, but to take the best ways we can, to make it known to the Duke of York: for, till Sir J. Minnes be removed, and a sufficient man brought into W. Pen’s place, when he is gone, it is impossible for this Office ever to support itself. 24th. A cold day. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning alone, nobody meeting, being the eve of Christmas. At noon home to dinner, and then at the Office busy, all the afternoon, and at night home. 25th. (Christmas-day.) I to church, where Alderman Backewell, coming in late, I beckoned to his lady to come up to us, who did, with another lady; and after sermon, I led ?As his partner, in the contract for victualling the Navy. 72 DIARY OF [27th Dee. her down through the church to her husband and coach, a noble, fine woman, and a good one, and one my wife shall be acquainted with. So home, and to dinner alone with my - wife, who, poor wretch! sat undressed all day, till ten at night, altering and lacing of a noble petticoat: while I by her, making the boy read to me the life of Julius Cesar,’ and Des Cartes’ book of Musick’—the latter of which I understand not, nor think he did well that writ it, though a most learned man. Then, after supper, I made the boy play upon his lute, which I have not done before since he come to me; and so, my mind in mighty content, we to bed. 26th. At noon to dinner, and then abroad with my wife. to a play, at the Duke of York’s house, the house full of ordinary citizens. The play was “ Women Pleased,’* which we had never seen before; and, though but indifferent, yet there is a good design for a good play. 27th. (Lord’s-day.) Saw the King at chapel; but staid not to hear anything, but went to walk in the Park, with W. Hewer; and there, among others, met with Sir G. Downing, and walked with him an hour, talking of business, and how the late war was managed, there being nobody to take care of it: and he telling, when he was in Holland, what he offered the King to do, if he might have power, and then, upon the least word, perhaps of a woman, to the King, he was contradicted again, and particularly to the loss of all that we lost in Guinny. He told me that he had so good spies, that he hath had the keys taken out of De Witt’s* pocket when he was a-bed, and his closet opened, *The Life of Julius Cesar, with an Account of his Medals. By Clement Edmonds, fol., Lond., 1655. ?Musice Compendium. By Réné Des Cartes, Amsterdam, 1617; rendered into English, London, 1653, 4to. The translator, whose name did not appear on the title, was William, Viscount Brouncker, Pepys’s colleague, who proved his knowledge of music by the performance. 5A tragi-comedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher: fol. 1647; 8vo., 1778; well thought of at the time, though, when revivea at Drury Lane, nearly a century ago, it met with no success. *The celebrated John de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland, who, a few years afterwards, was massacred, with his brother Cornelius, by the Dutch mob, enraged at their opposition to the elevation of William phen: eo ee ee ae ee 1668] SAMUEL PEPYS 73 and papers brought to him, and left in his hands for an hour, and carried back and laid in the place again, and keys put into De Witt’s pocket again. He says that he hath always had their most private debates, that have been but between two or three of the chief of them, brought to him in an hour after, and an hour after that, hath sent word thereof to the King, but nobody here regarded them. But he tells me the sad news, that he is out of all expectations that ever the debts of the Navy will be paid, if the Parliament do not enable the King to do it by money; all they can hope for to do out of the King’s revenue being but to keep our wheels a-going on present services, and, if they can, to cut off the growing interest: which is a sad story, and grieves me to the heart. 28th. Called up by drums and trumpets; these things and boxes having cost me much money this Christmas already, and will do more. 29th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, and at noon to dinner, and there, by a pleasant mistake, find my uncle and aunt Wight, and three more of their company, come to dine with me to-day, thinking that they had been invited, which they were not; but yet we did give them a pretty good dinner, and mighty merry at the mistake. They sat most of the afternoon with us, and then parted, and my wife and I out, thinking to have gone to a play, but it was too far begun, and so to the ’Change, and there she and I bought several things, and so home, with much plea- sure talking, and then to reading, and so to supper, and to bed. 30th. Up, and vexed a little to be forced to pay 40s. for a glass ef my coach, which was broke the other day, nobody knows how, within the door, while it was down; but I do doubt that I did break it myself with my knees, After dinner, my wife and I to the Duke’s playhouse, and there did see “ King Harry the Eighth;” and was mightily pleased, better than I ever expected, with the history and shows of it, We happened to sit by Mr. Andrews, our neighbour, and his wife, who talked so fondly to his little boy. Thence of Orange to the Stadtholdership when the States were overrun by the French army, and the Dutch fleets beaten at sea by the English. 74 DIARY OF (3d Jan. my wife and I to the ’Change; but, in going, our neere horse did fling himself, kicking of the coachbox over the pole; and a great deal of trouble it was to get him right again, and we forced to ‘light, and in great fear of spoiling the horse, but there was no hurt. 1668-9. January Ist. Presented from Captain Beckford’ with a noble silver warming-pan, which I am doubtful whether to take or no. To the cabinet-shops, to look out, and did agree, for a cabinet to give my wife for a New-year’s gift; and I did buy one cost me 11I., which is very pretty, of walnutt-tree. To the Old Exchange, and met my uncle Wight; and there walked, and met with the Houblons, and talked with them—gentlemen whom I honour mightily: and so to my uncle’s, and met my wife; and there, with W. Hewer, we dined with our family, and had a very good dinner, and pretty merry: and after dinner, my wife and I with our coach to the King’s playhouse, and there in a box saw ‘‘ The Mayden Queene.” Knipp looked upon us, but I durst not show her any countenance; and, as well as I could carry myself, I found my wife uneasy there, poor wretch! therefore, I shall avoid that house as soon as I can. So back to my aunt’s, and there supped and talked, and staid pretty late, it being dry and moonshine, and so walked home. 2d. Home to dinner, where I find my cabinet, and paid for it, and it pleases me and my wife well. 3d. (Lord’s day.) Busy all the morning, getting rooms and dinner ready for my guests, which were my uncle and aunt Wight, and two of their cousins, and an old woman, and Mr. Mills and his wife; and a good dinner, and all our plate out, and mighty fine and merry, only I a little vexed at burning a new table-cloth myself, with one of my trencher-salts.”, Dinner done, I out with W. Hewer and 1See 5th January, 1660-1. ?It would seem that the wooden salt-cellar was burnt, together with the tablecloth. a 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 75 Mr. Spong, who by accident come to dine with me, and good talk with him: to White Hall by coach, and there left him. Up and down the House till the evening, hearing how the King do intend’ this frosty weather, it being this day the first, and very hard frost, that hath come this year, and very cold it is. So home; and to supper and read; and there my wife and I treating about coming to an allow- ance to her for clothes; and there I, out of my natural back- wardness, did hang off, which vexed her, and did occasion some discontented talk in bed, when we went to bed; and also in the morning, but I did recover all. 4th. Talking with my wife, and did of my own accord come to an allowance of her 301. a-year for all expences, clothes and everything, which she was mightily pleased with, it being more than ever she asked or expected, and so rose, with much content. W. Hewer and I went and saw the great tall woman that is to be seen, who is but twenty- one years old, and I do easily stand under her arms.” Then, going further, The. Turner called me, out of her coach where her mother, &c., was, and invited me by all means to dine with them, at my cozen Roger’s mistress’s, the widow Dickenson. So I went to them afterwards, and dined with them, and mighty handsomely treated, and she a wonder- fully merry, good-humoured, fat, but plain woman, but I believe a very good woman, and mighty civil to me. Mrs. Turner,® the mother,* and Mrs. Dyke,’ and The., and Betty was the company, and a gentleman of their acquaintance. Betty I did long to see, and she is indifferent pretty, but not what the world did speak of her; but I am mighty glad to have one so pretty of our kindred. After dinner, I walked with them, to show them the great woman, which they admire, as well they may; and back with them, and 1 This sentence is imperfect. ? Evelyn saw her, 29th January, 1668-9. She was born in the Low Countries, and stood, at the age of twenty-one, according to Evelyn, six feet ten inches high; yet Pepys, 8th Feb., 1668-9, makes her six feet five inches. ’ Jane, the wife of Serjeant John Turner. See note to 3d Feb., 1659- 60, in vol. i. *Anne Pepys, who married Terry Walpole of South Creake. * Elizabeth, married to Thomas Dyke. 76 DIARY OF [6th Jan, left them; and I to White Hall, where a Committee of Tangier met; and I did receive an instance of the Duke of York’s kindness to me, and the whole Committee, that they would not order any thing about the Treasury for the Cor- poration now in establishing, without my assent, and con- sidering whether it would be to my wrong or no. Thence up and down the House, and to the Duke of York’s side, and there in the Duchess’s presence; and was mightily complimented by my Lady Peterborough, in my Lord Sandwich’s presence, whom she engaged to thank me for my kindness to her and her Lord. By and by I met my Lord Brouncker; and he and I to the Duke of York alone, and discoursed over the carriage of the present Treasurers, in opposition to, or at least independency of, the Duke of York, or our Board, which the Duke of York is sensible of, and all remember, I believe; for they do carry themselves very respectlessly of him and us. We also declared our minds together to the Duke of York about Sir John Min- nes’s incapacity to do any service in the Office: he promised to speak to the King about it. To supper, and put into writing, in merry terms, an agreement between my wife and me, about the 801, a-year, and so to bed. This was done under both our hands merrily, and put into W. Hewer’s to keep. 5th. The frost and cold continuing. At noon home with my people to dinner, and in the evening comes Creed to me, and tells me his wife is at my house. §So I in, and spent an hour with them, the first time she hath been here, or I haye seen her, since she was married. She is not over-handsome, though a good lady, and one I love. So after some pleasant discourse, they gone, I to the Office again. 6th. At noon comes Mrs. Turner and Dyke, and Mrs, Dickenson, and then comes The. and Betty Turner, the latter of which is a very pretty girl; and then Creed and his wife, whom I sent for, by my coach. These were my guests, and Mrs. Turner’s friend, whom I saw the other day, Mr. Wicken, and very merry we were at dinner, and so all the afternoon, talking, and looking up and down my house; and in the evening’ I did bring out *It was Twelfth Night. 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 77 my cake—a noble cake, and there cut it into pieces, with wine and good drink: and after a new fashion, to prevent spoiling the cake, did put in so many titles into a hat, and so-drew cuts; and I was the Queen; and The. Turner, King—Creed, Sir Martin Marr-all; and Betty, Mrs. Millicent: and so we were mighty merry till it was midnight: and, being moonshine and fine frost, they went home, I lending some of them my coach to help to carry them. 7th. My wife and I to the King’s playhouse, and there saw “ The Island Princesse,’ the first time I ever saw it; and it is a pretty good play, many good things being in it, and a good: scene of a town on fire. We sat in an upper box, and the jade Nell came and sat in the next box; a bold merry slut, who lay laughing there upon people; and with a comrade of the Duke’s house, that came in to see the play. 8th. Up, and with Colonel Middleton, in his coach, and Mr. Tippets to White Hall; and there attended the Duke of York with the rest, where the Duke was mighty plain with the Treasurers, according to the advice my Lord Brouncker and I did give him the other night, and he did it fully; and so as, I believe, will make the Treasurers care- full of themselves, unless they do resolve upon defying the Duke of York. At a Treasury-Chamber, where I alone did manage the business of “The Leopard” against the whole Committee of the East India Company, with Mr. Blackburne with them; and to the silencing of them all, to my no great content. Home to my wife’s chamber, my people having laid the cloth, and got the rooms all clean above-stairs for our dinner to-morrow. 9th. At noon, my Lord Brouncker, Mr. Wren, Joseph Williamson, and Captain Cocke, dined with me; and, be- ing newly sat down, comes in, by invitation of William- son’s, the Lieutenant of the Tower, and he brings in with him young Mr. Where, whose father, of the Tower, I +A tragi-comedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher; reprinted in 1669 (4to.), “as it is acted at the Theatre Royal by His Majesty’s servants. With the alterations and new additional scenes.” 78 DIARY OF [12th Jan. know. And here I had a neat dinner, and all in so good manner and fashion, and with so good company, and every- thing to my mind, as I never had more in my life—the com- pany being to my heart’s content, and they all well pleased. So continued, looking over my books and closet till the evening. 10th. (Lord’s day.) Accidentally talking of our maids before we rose, I said a little word that did give occasion to my wife to fall out; and she did most excessively, almost all the morning, but ended most perfect good friends ; but the thoughts of the unquiet which her ripping up of old faults will give me, did make me melancholy all day long. llth. Abroad with my wife to the King’s playhouse, and there saw “ The Joviall Crew;” but ill acted to what it was heretofore, in Clun’s time, and when Lacy could dance. Thence to the New Exchange, to buy some things; and, among others, my wife did give me my pair of gloves, which, by contract, she is to give me in her 30]. a-year. Here Mrs. Smith’ tells of the great murder thereabouts, on Saturday last, of one Captain Bumbridge,” by one Symons, both of her acquaintance; and hectors that were at play, and in drink: the former is killed, and is kinsman to my Lord of Ormond, which made him speak of it with so much passion. So home; and there all the evening; and made Tom to prick down some ~ little conceits and notions of mine, in musick, which do mightily encourage me to spend some more thoughts about it; for I fancy, upon good reason, that I am in the right way of unfolding the mystery of this matter, better than ever yet. 12th. Up, and to the Office, where, by occasion of a message from the Treasurers that their Board found fault with Commissioner Middleton, I went up from our Board to the Lords of the Treasury, and there did dispute the business, it being about the matter of paying a little money to Chatham Yard, wherein I find the Treasurers mighty supple, and I believe we shall bring them to reason, though they begun mighty upon us, as if we had no power of di- 1Pepys’s pretty sempstress. ?7Or Bainbridge? 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS | 79 recting them, but they, us. Thence back presently home, to dinner, where I discern my wife to have been in pain about where I have been, but said nothing to me, but I believe did send W. Hewer to seek me, but I take no notice of it, but am vexed. So to dinner with my people, and then to the Office, where all the afternoon, and did much busi- ness, and at it late, and so home to supper, and to bed. This day, meeting Mr. Pierce at White Hall, he tells me that his boy hath a great mind to see me, and is going to school again; and Dr. Clerke, being by, do tell me that he is a fine boy; but I durst not answer anything, because I durst not invite him to my house, for fear of my wife; and therefore, to my great trouble, was forced to neglect that discourse. Mr. Pierce, I asking him whither he was going, told me as a great secret that he was going to his master’s mistress, Mrs. Churchill,” with some physic; meaning, I suppose, that she is with child. This evening I observed my wife mighty dull, and I myself was not mighty fond, because of some hard words she did give me at noon, out of a jealousy at my being abroad this morning, which, God knows, it was upon the business of the Office unexpectedly: but I to bed, not thinking but she would come after me. But waking by and by, out of a slumber, which I usually fall into presently after my coming into the bed, I found she did not prepare to come to bed, but got fresh candles, and more wood for her fire, it being mighty cold, too. At this being troubled, I after awhile prayed her to come to bed; so, after an hour or two, she silent, and I now and then praying her to come to bed, she fell out into a fury, that I was a rogue, and false to her. I did, as I might truly, deny it, and was mightily troubled, but all would not serve. At last, about one o’clock, she come to my side of the bed, and drew my curtaine open, and with the tongs red hot at the ends, made as if she did design to pinch * Arabella Churchill, sister to John Duke of Marlborough, and one of the Maids of Honour to the Duchess of York. James Duke of Ber- wick, and three other children, were the fruits of this intrigue. From the Duke of Bedwick descend the Dukes of Fitzjames in France. She married subsequently Colonel Godfrey, Comptroller of the Household, and died 1730, aged 82. 80 DIARY OF [15th Jan. me with them,’ at which, in dismay, I rose up, and with a few words she laid them down; and did by little and little, very sillily, let all the discourse fall; and about two, but with much seeming difficulty, come to bed, and there lay well all night, and long in bed talking together, with much pleasure, it being, I know, nothing but her doubt of my going out yesterday, without telling her of my going, which did vex her, poor wretch! last night, and I cannot blame her jealousy, though it do vex me tothe heart. 13th. Home, after visiting my Lady Peterborough, and there by invitation find Mr. Povy, and there was also Talbot Pepys, newly come from Impington, and dined with me. After dinner, I and my wife and Talbot to- wards the Temple, and there to the King’s playhouse, and _ there saw, I think, “ The Maiden Queene.” This day come home the instrument I have so long longed for, the Paral- lelogram. 15th. To Sir W. Coventry, where with him a good while in his chamber, talking of the great factions at Court at this day, even to the sober engaging of great persons, and differences, and making the King cheap and ridiculous. It is about my Lady Harvy’s being offended at Doll Com- mon’s acting of Sempronia,’ to imitate her; for which she 1Mrs. Pepys seemed inclined to have acted on the legend of St. Dunstan, who— “‘as the story goes, Once pull’d the devil by the nose With red-hot tongs, which made him roar, That he was heard three miles or more.” 2The following cast of parts in “The Alchymist,” as acted by the King’s company, and given by Downes, in his Roscius Anglicanus, fur- nishes a clue to the actress described aa and in a former passage, (vol. iii., p. 35,) as “Doll Common:” Subtle Ke : ee Mr. Clon. Face ; 40 Sf .. Major Mohun. Sir E. Mammon .. -. |... Mr, Cartwright. Surly Me “5 dd .» Mr. Burt. Annanias .. ae ay ..» Mr. Lacy. Wholesome 55 ae .. Mr. Bateman. Doll Common Ay a -- Mrs. Corey. Dame Plyant a ais -- Mrs. Rutter. 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 8] got my Lord Chamberlain, her kinsman,’ to imprison Doll: upon which my Lady Castlemaine made the King to release her, and to order her to act it again, worse than ever, the other day, where the King himself was; and since it was acted again, and my Lady Harvy provided people to hiss her and fling oranges at her: but it seems the heat is come to a great height, and real troubles at Court about it. Through the Park, where I met the King and the Duke of York, and so walked with them; and I did give the Duke of York thanks for his favour to me yesterday, at the Com- mittee of Tangier, in my absence, where some business was brought forward which the Duke of York would not suffer to go on, without my presence at the debate. And he answered me just thus: that he ought to have a care of him that do the King’s business in the manner that I do, and words of more force than that. Then down with Lord Brouncker to Sir R. Murray, into the King’s little ela- boratory, under his closet, a pretty place; and there saw a great many chymical glasses and things, but understood none of them. With my wife at my cozen Turner’s, where I staid, and sat awhile, and carried The. and my wife to the Duke of York’s house, to “ Macbeth,” and myself to White Hall, to the Lords of the Treasury, about Tangier business; and there was by, at much merry discourse be- tween them and my Lord Anglesey, who made sport of our new Treasurers, and called them his deputys, and much of that kind. And having done my own business, I away back, and carried my cozen Turner and sister Dyke to a friend’s house, where they sup, in Lincoln’s Inn Fields; and I to the Duke of York’s house, and so carried The. thither, and so home with my wife. This day The. Turner shewed me at the play my Lady Portman,’ who was grown out of my knowledge. The identity, however, is placed beyond a doubt, by a reference to “ Catiline’s Conspiracy,” where we find Mrs. Corey acting the part of Sempronia, in which “ Doll Common,” as Pepys styles her, gave offence, by imitating Lady Harvey, and, consequently, was sent to prison. We may add, that Mrs. Corey’s name stands first in the list of female per- formers in the King’s company, under Killigrew. See Roscius Angli- canus, 1708. +See note in vol. i, 18th January, 1661-2. * Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Cutler (by his second lady), mar- VOL. IV» G 82 DIARY OF | [17th Jan. 16th. This morning Creed, and in the afternoon comes Povy, to advise with me about my answer to the Lords Commissioners of Tangier, about the propositions for the - Treasurership there,» which I am not much concerned for. But the latter, talking of publick things, told me, as Mr. Wren also did, that the Parliament is likely to meet again, the King being frighted with what the Speaker hath put him in mind of—his promise not to prorogue, but only to adjourne them. They speak mighty freely of the folly of the King in this foolish woman’s business, of my Lady Harvy. Povy tells me that Sir W. Coventry was with the King alone, an hour this day; and that my Lady Castlemaine is now in a higher command over the King than ever—not as a mistress, for she scorns him, but as a tyrant, to com- mand him: and says that the Duchess of York and the Duke of York are mighty great with her, which is a great interest to my Lord Chancellor’s* family; and that they do agree to hinder all they can the proceedings of the Duke of Buckingham and Arlington; and so we are in the old mad condition, or rather worse than any; no man knowing what the French intend to do the next summer. 17th. (Lord’s day.) After church, home, and thither comes Mrs. Batelier and her two daughters to dinner with us; and W. Hewer and his mother, and Mr. Spong. We were very civilly merry, and Mrs. Batelier a very discreet woman, but mighty fond in the stories she tells of her son Will. After dinner, Mr. Spong and I to my closet, there to try my instrument Parallelogram, which do mighty well, to my full content; but only a little stiff, as being new. Thence, taking leave of my guests, to White Hall, and there parting with Spong, a man that I mightily love for his plainness and ingenuity, spoke with my Lords Bellassis and Peterborough about the business now in dispute, about my deputing a Treasurer to pay the garrison at Tangier, which I would avoid, and not be accountable, and they will serve me therein. Here I met Hugh May, and he brings ried Sir William Portman, K.B., who was the third and last Baronet of his family. Pepys could have known neither of his former wives. +See p. 76, ante. 4Clarendon, whom Pepys mentions by his former office. 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 88 me to the knowledge of Sir Henry Capell,* a member of Parliament, and brother of my Lord of Essex,’ who hath a great value, it seems, for me; and they appoint a day to come and dine with me, and see my books, and papers of the Office, which I shall be glad to show them, and have opportunity to satisfy them therein. Here all the discourse is, that now the King is of opinion to have the Parlia- ment called, notwithstanding his late resolutions for pro- roguing them; so unstable are his councils, and those about him. 18th. To Sir W. Coventry’s, and there discourse the business of my Treasurer’s place, at Tangier, wherein he consents to my desire, and concurs therein, which I am glad of, that I may not be accountable for a man so far off. And so I to my Lord Sandwich’s, and there walk with him through the garden,* to White Hall, where he tells me what he hath done about his Treasurer’s place, and I perceive the whole thing did proceed from him: that finding it would be best to have the Governor have nothing to do with the pay of the garrison, he did propose to the Duke of York alone that a pay-master should be there; and that being desirous to do a courtesy to Sir Charles Harbord,* and to prevent the Duke of York’s looking out for any body else, he did name him to the Duke of York. That when he came the other day to move this to the Board of Tangier, the Duke of York, it seems, did really reply, that it was fit to have Mr. Pepys satisfied therein first, and that it was not good to make places for persons. This my Lord in great confidence tells me, that he do take very ill from the Duke of York, though nobody knew the meaning of *Henry, second son of Arthur, first Baron Capel of Hadham, and himself elevated to the Peerage, in 1692, by the title of Lord Capel of Tewkesbury, for which town he had served in Parliament. He had been created K.B. at the coronation of Charles II., and was a lead- ing member of the House of Commons; and, in 1679, appointed first Commissioner of the Admiralty. At the time of his death at Dublin Castle, 30th May, 1696, he was Lord Deputy of Ireland. He left no issue. ? Which title had been revived for the Capel family in 1661. *The Privy Garden. .. *See note to 25th February, 1665-66, 62 84 DIARY OF [19th Jan. these words but him; and that he did take no notice of them, but bit his lip, being satisfied that the Duke of York’s care of me was as desirable to him, as it could be to serve Sir Charles Harbord: and did seem industrious to let me see that he was glad that the Duke of York and he might come to contend who shall be the kindest to me, which I owned as his great love, and so I hope and believe it is, though my Lord did go a little too far in this business, to move it so far, without consulting me. But I took no notice of that, but was glad to see this competition come about, that my Lord Sandwich is appa- rently jealous of my thinking that the Duke of York do mean me more kindness than him. So we walked together, and I took this occasion to invite him to dinner to my house, and he readily appointed Friday next, which I shall be glad to have over to his content, he having never yet eat a bit of my bread. Thence to the Duke of York on the King’s side, and meeting Mr. Sidney Montagu and Sheres, a small invitation served their turn to carry them to London, where I paid Sheres* his 100/., given him for his pains in drawing the plate of Tangier fortifications. Home to my house to dinner, where I had a pretty handsome sudden din- ner, and all well pleased; and thence we three and my wife to the Duke of York’s playhouse, and there saw “* The Witts,” a medley of things, but some similes mighty good, though ill mixed. At White Hall, and there in the Queen’s with- drawing-room invited my Lord Peterborough to dine with me, with my Lord Sandwich, who readily accepted it. To the Pope’s Head tavern, there to see the fine painted room which Rogerson told me of, of his doing; but I do not like it at all, though it be good for such a publick room. 19th. At noon eat a mouthful, and so with my wife to Madam Turner’s, and find her gone, but The. staid for us; and so to the King’s house, to see “‘ Horace; this the 1H. Sheres was afterwards employed under Lord Dartmouth, as an engineer, in blowing up the works at Tangier, in 1683. He had previ- ously been one of Lord Sandwich’s suite in the embassy to Spain (see 8th, 22d, and 28th Sept., 1667), and seems to have been living in 1703, when he is described as a knight. 2There were two translations, about this period, of the “ Horace” ee ee ——— ee ee, eee 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 85 third day of its acting—a silly tragedy; but Lacy hath made a farce of several dances—between each act, one: but his words are but silly, and invention not extraordinary, as to the dances; only some Dutchmen come out of the mouth and tail of a Hamburgh sow. Thence, not much pleased with the play, set them at home in the Strand; and my wife and I home, and there to do a little business at the Office, and so home to supper and to bed. 20th. Up; and my wife, and I, and W. Hewer to White Hall, where she set us down; and there I spoke with my Lord Peterborough, to tell him of the day for his dining with me, being altered by my Lord Sandwich from Friday to Saturday next. Heard at the Council-board the City, by their single counsel Symson, and the company of Strangers Merchants," debate the business of water-baylage; a tax demanded upon all goods, by the City, imported and ex- ported: which these Merchants oppose, and demanding leave to try the justice of the City’s demand by a Quo Warranto, which the City opposed, the Merchants did quite lay the City on their backs with great triumph, the City’s cause being apparently too weak: but here I observed Mr. Gold,’ the merchant, to speak very well, and very sharply, against the City. ‘To the Duke of York’s house, and saw “ Twelfth Night,” as it is now revived; but, I think, one of the weakest plays that ever I saw on the stage. This afternoon, before the play, I called with my wife at Dencre’s,*? the great landscape-painter, by Mr. Povy’s advice; and have bespoke him to come to take of P. Corneille: one by Charles Cotton; the other, which was per- formed at Court, by Catherine Phillips, the fifth act being added by Sir John Denham. Pepys saw Mrs. Phillips’s translation, as did Evelyn. See Evelyn’s Diary, under Feb. 5, 1668-9. *An account of the Merchants Strangers from their settlement, in the reign of Richard III. to that of Charles II., is given in Seymour’s Survey of London, vol. ii., pp. 473—482. * Edward Gold, a native of Devonshire, living at Highgate, who mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Gower, also of that place. Their Mames occur amongst those of the Governors of Sir Roger Cholmley’s Grammar School in Highgate. *Henry Dankers, born at the Hague, employed by Charles II. to paint views of his sea-ports and palaces. He followed his profession for some years in London. 86 DIARY OF [22d Jan. measure of my dining-room panels. There I met with the pretty daughter of the coal-seller’s, that lived in Cheapside, and now in Covent Garden, who hath her picture drawn here, but very poorly; but she is a pretty woman, and now, I perceive, married, a very pretty black woman. Home, my wife letting fall some words of her observing my eyes to be mightily employed in the play-house, meaning upon women, which did vex me; but, however, when we come home, we were good friends; and so to read, and to supper, and so to bed. 21st. In my own coach home, where I find Madam Tur- ner, Dyke, and The.; and had a good dinner for them, and merry; and so carried them to the Duke of York’s house, all but Dyke, who went away on other business; and there saw “ The Tempest ;” but it is but ill done by Gosnell, in lieu of Moll Davis. Thence set them at home with my wife; and I to the "Change, and so home, where my wife mighty dogged, and I vexed to see it, being mightily troubled, of late, at her being out of humour, for fear of her discover- ing any new matter of offence against me, though I am conscious of none; but I do hate to be unquiet at home. So, late up, silent, and not supping, but hearing her utter some words of discontent to me with silence, and so to bed, weeping to myself for grief, which she discerning, come to bed, and mighty kind. 22d. To the Exchange, calling at several places on occa- sions relating to my feast to-morrow, on which my mind is now set; as how to get a new looking-glass for my dining- room, and some pewter, and good wine, against to-morrow; and so home, where I had the looking-glass set up, cost me 6l. ‘7s. 6d. At the "Change I met with Mr. Dancre, with whom I was on Wednesday; and he took measure of my panels in my dining-room, where, in the four, I intend to have the four houses of the King, White Hall, Hampton Court; Greenwich, and Windsor. Mightily pleased with the fellow that came to lay the cloth, and fold the napkins, which I like so well, as that I am resolved to give him 40s. to teach my wife to do it. So to supper, with much kindness between me and my wife, which, now-a-days, is all my care, and so to bed. 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 87 23d. To the Office till noon, when word brought me that my Lord Sandwich was come; so I presently rose, and there I found my Lords Sandwich, Peterborough, and Sir Charles Harbord: and presently after them comes my Lord Hinch- inbroke, Mr. Sidney,’ and Sir William Godolphin. And after greeting them, and some time spent in talk, dinner was brought up, one dish after another, but a dish at a time, but all so good; but, above all things, the variety of wines, and excellent of their kind, I had for them and all in so good order, that they were mightily pleased, and myself full of content at it: and indeed it was, of a dinner about six or eight dishes, as noble as any man need to have, I think; at least, all was done in the noblest manner that ever I had any, and I have rarely seen in my life better anywhere else, even at the Court. After dinner, my Lords to cards, and the rest of us sitting about them and talking, and looking on my books and pictures, and my wife’s drawings, which they commended mightily; and mighty merry all day long, with exceeding great content, and so till seven at -night; and so took their leaves, it being dark and foul weather. Thus was this entertainment over, the best of its kind, and the fullest of honour and content to me, that ever I had in my life: and I shall not easily have so good again. The truth is, I have some fear that I am more behind-hand in the world for these last two years, since I have not, or for some time could not, look after my accounts, which do a little allay my pleasure. But I do trust in God that I am pretty well yet, and resolve, in a very little time, to look into my accounts, and see how they stand. 24th. (Lord’s day.) An order brought me in bed, for the Principal Officers to attend the King at my Lord Keeper’s this afternoon, it being resolved late the last night; and, by the warrant, I find my Lord Keeper did not then know the cause of it, the messenger being ordered to call upon him, to tell it him by the way, as he came to us. So I up, and to my Office to set down my Journall for yesterday, and so home, and with my wife to church, and then home, and to dinner, and after dinner out with my wife by coach, to 1Sidney Montagu. 88 DIARY OF [24th Jan. cozen Turner’s, where she and The. gone to church, but I left my wife with Mrs. Dyke and Joyce Norton, whom I have not seen till now. since their coming to town: she is become an old woman, and with as cunning a look as ever. I to White Hall; and here I met Will. Batelier, newly come post from France, his boots all dirty. He brought letters to the King, and I glad to see him, it having been reported that he was drowned, for some days past. By and by the King comes out, and so I took coach, and followed his coaches to my Lord Keeper’s, at Essex House,’ where I never was before, since I saw my old Lord Essex lie in state when he was dead; a large, but ugly house. Here all the Officers of the Navy attended, and by and by were called in to the King and Cabinet, where my Lord, who was ill, did lie upon the bed, as my old Lord Treasurer, or Chancellor, heretofore used to do; and the business was to know in what time all the King’s ships might be repaired, fit for service. The Surveyor answered, in two years, and not sooner. I did give them hopes that, with supplies of money suitable, we might have them all fit for sea, some part of the summer after this. Then they demanded in what time we could set out forty ships. It was answered, as they might be chosen of the newest and most ready, we could, with money, get forty ready against May. The King seemed mighty full that he should have money to do all that we desired, and satisfied that, without it, nothing could be done: and so, without determining any thing, we were dismissed; and I doubt all will end in some little fleete this year, and that of hired merchant-men, which would indeed be cheaper to the King, and have many conveniences attending it, more than to fit out the King’s own; and this, I perceive, is designed, springing from Sir W. Coventry's counsel; and the King and most of the Lords, I perceive, full of it, to get the King’s fleete all at once in condition 1Eissex House, where Robert Devereux, third Earl of that name, died, in 1646, when Pepys was fourteen years old, stood formerly on the sight of Essex Street and Devereux Court, near the Temple. It had belonged, in the reign of Elizabeth, to the Earl of Leicester, who left it to the second Earl of Essex, father of the Parliamentary-General here mentioned. 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 89 for service. Thence with Mr. Wren in his coach, for discourse’ sake: and he told me how the business of the Parliament is wholly laid aside, it being overruled now, that they shall not meet, but must be prorogued, upon this argument chiefly, that all the differences between the two Houses, and things on foot, that were matters of difference and discontent, may be laid aside, and must begin again, if ever the House shall have a mind to pursue them. Here he set me down, and I to my cozen Turner, and stayed and talked a little; and so took my wife, and home, and there _to make her read, and then to supper, and to bed. At supper come W. Batelier and supped with us, and told us many pretty things of France, and the greatness of the present King. 25th. My wife showed me many excellent prints of Nan- tueill’s* and others, which W. Batelier hath, at my desire, brought me out of France, of the King, and Colbert, and others, most excellent, to my great content. But he hath also brought me a great many gloves perfumed, of several sorts; but all too big by half for her, and yet she will have two or three dozen of them, which vexed me, and made me angry. So she, at last, to please me, did come to take what alone I thought fit, which pleased me. 26th. To the Office, and then to White Hall, leaving my wife at Unthanke’s; and I to the Secretary’s chamber, where I was, by particular order, this day summonsed to attend, as I find Sir D. Gauden also was. And here was the King and the Cabinet met; and, being called in, among the rest I find my Lord Privy Seale, whom I never before knew to be in so much play, as to be of the Cabinet. The business is, that the Algerines have broke the peace with us, by taking some Spaniards and goods out of an English ship, which had the Duke of York’s pass, of which advice came this day; and the King is resolved to stop Sir Thomas Allen’s fleete from coming home, till he hath amends made him for this affront, and therefore sent for us to advise about victuals to be sent to that fleete, and some more 2Robert Nanteuil, the celebrated French engraver, a native of Rheims. He died in Paris in 1678. 90 | DIARY OF [29th Jan. ships; wherein I answered them to what they demanded of me, which was but some few mean things; but I did see that on all these occasions they seem to rely most upon me. Home, and there I find W. Batelier hath also sent the books which I made him bring me out of France. Among others, L’Estat de France, Marnix,* &c., to my great content; and so I was well pleased with them: as also one or two printed musick-books of songs; but my eyes are now too much out of tune to look upon them, with any pleasure. 27th. To my cozen Turner’s, where I find Roger Pepys come last night to town, and here is his mistress, Mrs. Dickenson, and by and by comes in Mr. Turner, a worthy, sober, serious man—I honour him mightily. And there we dined, having but an ordinary dinner; and so, after dinner, she, and I, and Roger, and his mistress, to the Duke of York’s playhouse, and there saw “The Five Hours’ Ad- venture,” which hath not been acted a good while before, but once, and is a most excellent play, I must confess. 28th. Going home to supper with my wife, and to get her to read to me, I did find that Mr. Sheres hath, beyond his promise, not only got me a candlestick made me, after a form he remembers to have seen in Spain, for keeping the light from one’s eyes, but hath got it done in silver very neat, and designs to give it me, in thanks for my paying him his 1007. in money, for his service at Tangier, which was or- dered him; but I do intend to force him to make me pay for it. But I yet, without his direction, cannot tell how it is to be made use of. 29th. To the Duke of York, where I did give a severe account of our proceedings, and what we found, in the busi- ness of Sir W. Jenings’s demand of Supernumeraries. I thought it a good occasion to make an example of him, for he is a proud, idle fellow; and it did meet with the Duke of York’s acceptance and well-liking; and he did call him in, after I had done, and did not only give him a soft rebuke, but condemns him to pay both their victuals and wages, or right himself of the purser. This I was glad of, 1Résolutions Politiques ou Maximes d’ Etat, par Jean de Marnix. Baron de Potes: Bruxelles, 1612, fol. There were two later editions. of this work printed at Rouen. So 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 91 and so were all the rest of us, though I know I have made myself an immortal enemy by it. My aunt Wight and her husband come presently, and so to dinner; and after dinner Roger, and I, and my wife, and aunt, to see Mr. Cole; but [neither] he nor his wife was within, but we looked upon his picture of Cleopatra, which I went principally to see, being so much commended by my wife and aunt; but I find it a base copy of a good originall, that vexed me to hear so much commended. Thence to see Creed’s wife, where both of them within; and here met Mr. Bland, newly come from Cales [Cadiz], after his differences with Norwood.* I think him a foolish, light-headed man; but certainly he hath been abused in this matter, by Colonel Norwood. Here Creed showed me a copy of some propositions, which Bland and others, in the name of the Corporation of Tangier, did present to Norwood, for his opinion in, in order to the King’s service, which were drawn up very humbly, and were really good things ; but his answer to them was in the most proud, carping, insolent and ironically-prophane stile, that ever I saw in my life, so as I shall never think the place can do well, while he is there. Here, after some talk, and Creed’s telling us that he is upon taking the next house _to his present lodgings, which is next to that which my cozen Tom Pepys once lived in, in Newport Street, in Covent Garden; and is in a good place, and then, I sup- pose, he will keep his coach. So, setting Roger down at the Temple, who tells me that he is now concluded in all matters with his widow, we home, and there hired my wife to make an end of Boyle’s Book of Formes, to-night and to-morrow; and so fell to read and sup, and then to bed. This day, Mr. Ned Pickering brought his lady to see my wife, in acknowledgement of a little present of oranges and olives, which I sent her, for his kindness to me in the buy- ing of my horses, which was very civil. She is old, but hath, I believe, been a pretty comely woman.” 30th. Lay long in bed, it being a fast-day for the murder of the late King; and so up and to church, where Dr. Hicks made a dull sermon; and so home, and W. Batelier and 1See 14th December, 1668, anie. ?See note, vol. i. to 2d April, 1660. 92 DIARY OF [ist Feb. Balty dined with us, and I spent all the afternoon with my wife and W. Batelier talking, and then making them read, and particularly made an end of Mr. Boyle’s Book of Formes, which I am glad to have over. W. Batelier then fell to read a French discourse, which he hath brought over with him for me, to invite the people of France to apply themselves to Navigation, which it do very well, and is cer- tainly their interest, and what will undo us in a few years, if the King of France goes on to fit up his Navy, and en- crease it and his trade, as he hath begun. After supper my wife begun another book I lately bought, called “ The State of England,”* which promises well, and is worth reading. 31st. (Lord’s day.) To church, and there did hear the Doctor that is lately turned Divine, Dr.,Waterhouse.* He preaches in a devout manner, not elegant nor very per- suasive, but seems to mean well, and that he would preach holily ; and was mighty passionate against people that make a scoff of religion. And the truth is, I did observe Mrs. Hollworthy smile often, and many others of the parish, who, I perceive, have known him, and were in mighty ex- pectation of hearing him preach, but could not forbear smiling, and she particularly on me, and I on her. So home to dinner: and before dinner to my Office, to set down. my Journal for this week, and then home to dinner; and after dinner to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me: and so spent the afternoon and the evening, and so after supper to bed. And thus endeth this month, with many different days of sadness and mirth, from differéhces between me and my wife: but this night we are at present very kind. And so ends this month. February Ist. Up, and by water from the Tower to White Hall, the first time that I have gone to that end of the town by water, for two or three months, I think, since I *Anglie Notitia, 1668, &c., by Edward Chamberlayne, LL.D. 2A. Wood, Fasti, vol. iv., p. 163, (Bliss,) mentions that John Water- house, of Trinity College, Cambridge, was created M.D. by virtue of letters from Oliver Cromwell, in 1650, and that he went over to Ireland as physician to the army, where he discharged his duties with ability and diligence. 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 93 _ kept a coach, which God send propitious to me; but it is a very great convenience. Meeting Mr. Povy, he and I away to Dancre’s, to speak something touching the pictures I am getting him to make for me. And thence he carried me to Mr. Streeter’s,* the famous history-painter, over the way, whom I have often heard of, but did never see him before; and there I found him, and Dr. Wren,’ and several Vir- tuosos, looking upon the paintings which he is making for the new Theatre at Oxford: and indeed, they look as if they would be very fine, and the rest think better than those of Rubens, in the Banqueting-house at White Hall, but I do not so fully think so. But they will certainly be very noble; and I am mightily pleased to have the fortune to see this man and his work, which is very famous; and he a very civil little man, and lame, but lives very handsomely. So thence to my Lord Bellassis, and met him within: my business only to see a chimney-piece of Dancre’s doing, in distemper, with egg to keep off the glaring of the light, which I must have done for my room; and indeed it is pretty, but I must confess, I do think it is not altogether so beautiful as the oyle pictures; but I will have some of one, and some of another. So to the King’s playhouse, thinking to have seen “ The Heyresse,”* first acted on Saturday last; but when we come thither, we find no play there; Kinaston, that did act a part therein, in abuse to Sir Charles Sedley, being last night exceedingly beaten with sticks, by two or three that saluted him, so as he is mightily bruised, and forced to keep his bed.* So we to the Duke of York’s play- 1Robert Streater, appointed Serjeant-Painter at the Restoration. Ob. 1680. 2 Afterwards Sir Christopher Wren. 3“ The Heiress” does not appear in the list of the Duke of New- castle’s works, nor has any play of that name and date been traced. At the same time, it is to be observed, that “ Heir” was formerly used for “ Heiress;” and such is the case in May’s play of “The Heir,” in vol. viii. of the last edition of Dodsley’s Old Plays. *The story about the caning of Kynaston has been preserved by Oldys and copied by Malone, who tells us that Kynaston was vain of his per- sonal resemblance to Sir C. Sedley, and dressed exactly like him. Sedley, to revenge this insult, hired a bravo to chastise him in St. James’s Park, under the pretext that he mistook him for the baronet. 94 DIARY OF _ [2d Feb. house, and there saw ‘She Would if She Could.” ‘This day, going to the play, The. Turner met us, and carried us to her mother, at my Lady Mordaunt’s; and I did earry both mother and daughter with us to the Duke of York’s playhouse, next door. 2d. To dinner at noon, where I find Mr. Sheres; and there made a short dinner, and carried him with us to the King’s playhouse, where “ The Heyresse,” nothwithstanding Kinaston’s being beaten, is acted: and they say the King is very angry with Sir Charles Sedley for his being beaten, but he do deny it. But his part is done by Beeston, who is fain to read it out of a book all the while, and therefore spoils the part, and almost the play, it being one of the best parts in it; and though the design is, in the first conception of it, pretty good, yet it is but an indifferent play, wrote, they say, by my Lord Newcastle. But it was pleasant to see Beeston come in with others, supposing it to be dark, and yet he is forced to read his part by the light of the candles: and this I observing to a gentleman that sat by me, he was mightily pleased therewith, and spread it up and down. But that, that pleased me most in the play is, the first song that Knipp sings, she singing three or four; and, indeed, it was very finely sung, so as to make the whole house clap her. Thence carried Sheres to White Hall, and there I stepped in, and looked out Mr. May, who tells me that he and his company cannot come to dine with me to-morrow, whom I expected only to come to see the manner of our Office and books, at which I was not very much displeased, having much business at the Office. My wife in mighty ill humour all night, and in the morning I found it to be from Accotding to Pepys, it would seem that the imitation was made in the play of “The Heiress,” which is very likely; and perhaps for this he got another beating, or it might be the same, and that in which the story, the scene of which is laid in the Park, originated, It is worth remarking, on the authority of Mr. Genest, the compiler of Some Ac- count of the English Stage from 1660 to 1830, that Sir C. Sedley ex- pressly introduced the incident of the beating of one man for another, owing to similarity of dress and appearance, into his comedy of “ The Mulberry Garden,” which seems to have been first acted 18th May, 1668, some time before the date Pepys assigns to the caning of Kynas- ton, Ist February, 1668-9. 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 95 ebserving Knipp to wink and smile on me, and she says I smiled on her; and, poor wretch! I did perceive that she did, and do on all such occasions, mind my eyes. I did, with much difficulty, pacify her, and we were friends, she desiring that hereafter, at that house, we might always sit either above in a box, or, if there be no room, clese up to _ the lewer box. $d. Up, and to the Office till noon, and then home to a little dinner, and thither again till night, mighty busy, to my great content, doing a great deal of business, and so home to supper, and to bed; I finding this day that I may be able te do a great deal of business by dictating, if I do not read myself, or write, without spoiling my eyes, I being very well in my eyes after a great day’s work. 4th. Mr. Spong brings me two or three draughts of the port of Brest, to my great content, and I did call Mr. Gibson to take notice of it, who is very much pleased there- with; and it seems this Parallelogram is not, as Mr. Sheres would, the other day, have persuaded me, the same as a Protracter,’ which do so much the more make me value it, but of itself it is a most useful instrument. Thence out with my wife and him, and carried him to an instrument maker’s shop in Chancery Lane, that was once a ’prentice of Greatorex’s, but the master was not within, and Gibson there showed me a Parallelogram in brass, which I like so well that I will buy, and therefore bid it be made clean and fit for me. And so to my cozen Turner’s, and there just spoke with The., the mother not being at home: and so to the New Exchange, and thence home to my letters;-and so to supper, and to bed. This morning I made a slip from the Office to White Hall, expecting Povy’s business, at a Com- mittee of Tangier, at which I would be, but it did not meet, and so I presently home. 5th. Betimes to Sir W. Coventry’s, meaning by my visit to keep fresh my interest in him: and he tells me how it hath been talked that he was to go one of the Commis- sioners to Ireland, which he was resolved never to do, unless directly commanded; for that to go thither, while the Chief Secretary of State was his professed enemy, was to undo ? An instrument used in surveying, by which the angles are taken. 96 DIARY OF (7th Feb. himself; and, therefore, it were better for him to venture being unhappy here, than to go further off, to be undone by some obscure instructions, or whatever other way of mis- chief his enemy should cut out for him. He mighty kind to me, and so parted. Thence home, calling in two or three places—among others, Dancre’s, where I find him beginning of a piece for me, of Greenwich, which will please me well, and so home to dinner, and very busy all the afternoon, and so at night home to supper, and to bed. 6th. To the King’s playhouse, and there,—in an upper box, where come in Colonel Poynton* and Doll Stacey, who is very fine, and, by her wedding-ring, I suppose he hath married her at last,—did see “‘ The Moor of Venice:” but ill acted in most parts; Mohun, which did a little sur- prise me, not acting Iago’s part by much so well as Clun used to do; nor another Hart’s, which was Cassio’s; nor, indeed, Burt doing the Moor’s so well as I once thought he did. Thence home, and just at Holborn Conduit the bolt broke, that holds the fore-wheels to the perch, and so the horses went away with them, and left the coachman and us; but being near our coachmaker’s and we staying in a little ironmonger’s shop, we were presently supplied with ano- ther. 7th. (Lord’s day.) I up,:and to church, and so home to dinner, where my wife in a jealous fit, which lasted all the afternoon, and shut herself up in her closet, and I mightily grieved and vexed, and could not get her to tell me what ailed her, or to let me into her closet, but at last she did, +Probably Boynton. Sir Matthew Boynton, of Barmston, in York- shire, was created a Baronet in 1618. He had seven sons, one of whom, Colonel Boynton, having embraced, like his father, the cause of the parliament, took Sir John Hotham prisoner at York. Sir Matthew died in 1646. His eldest son became Sir Francis Boynton; the second, Matthew, was slain at Wigan, before the advance of Charles II. to Wor- cester: he left two daughters, one of whom, Katherine, the Maid of Honour, who figures in Grammont, married Richard Talbot, afterwards Duke of Tyrconnel; the other married Wentworth, Earl of Ros- common. The remaining five sons, Marmaduke, John, Gustavus, Cor- nelius, Charles, all died unmarried. One of the sons must have been the Colonel Boynton who took Sir John Hotham prisoner, and in all probability he is the same who is here mentioned in connexion with © Doll Stacey. Pepys only supposes he had married her. 1663-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 97 where I found her crying on the ground, and could not please her; but at last find that she did plainly expound it to me. It was that she did believe me false to her with Jane, and did rip up three or four silly circumstances of her not rising till I come out of my chamber, and her letting me thereby see her dressing herself; and that I must needs go into her chamber: which was so silly, and so far from truth, that I could not be troubled at it, though I could not wonder at her being troubled, if she had these thoughts. At last, I did give her such satisfaction, that we were mighty good friends. 8th. Up, and dressed myself; and by coach, with W. Hewer and my wife, to White Hall, where she set us down; and in the way, our little boy, at Martin, my bookseller’s shop, going to ’light, did fall down; and, had he not been a most nimble boy (I saw how he did it, and was mightily pleased with him for it), he had been run over by the coach. To visit my Lord Sandwich; and there, while my Lord was dressing himself, did see a young Spaniard, that he hath brought over with him, dance, which he is admired for, as the best dancer in Spain, and indeed he do with mighty mastery; but I do not like his dancing as well as the English, though my Lord commends it mightily: but I will have him to my house, and show it my wife. Here I met with Mr. Moore, who tells me the state of my Lord’s accounts of his embassy, which I find not so good as I thought: for, though it be passed the King and his Cabal, the Committee for Foreign Affairs, as they are called, yet they have cut off from 19,000/. full 80001., and have now sent it to the Lords of the Treasury, who, though the Com- mittee have allowed the rest, yet they are not obliged to abide by it. So that I do fear this account may yet be long ere it be passed—much more, ere that sum be paid: I am sorry for the family, and not a little for what it owes me. To my wife, and in our way home did show her the tall woman, in Holborne, which I have seen before; and I measured her, and she is, without shoes, just six feet five inches high, and they say not above twenty-one years old. Thence home, ° and there to dinner, and my wife in a wonderful ill humour; and, after dinner, I staid with her alone, being not able to endure this life, and we fell to some angry words together; VOL. Iv. H 98 DIARY OF [10th Feb, but by and by were mighty good friends, she telling me plain it was about Jane, which I made a matter of mirth at; but at last did call up Jane, and confirm her mistress’s directions for her being gone at Easter, which I find the wench willing to be, but directly prays that Tom might go with her, which I promised, and was but what I designed; and she being thus spoke with, and gone, my wife and I good friends. This day I was told by Mr. Wren, that Cap- tain Cox, Master-Attendant at Deptford, is to be one of us very soon; he and Tippets being to take their turns for Chatham and Portsmouth, which choice I like well enough; and Captain Annesley is to come in his room at Deptford. This morning, also going to visit Roger Pepys, at the potti- cary’s in King’s Street, he tells me that Roger is gone to his wife’s, so that they have been married, as he tells me, ever since the middle of last week: it was his design, upon good reasons, to make no noise of it; but I am well enough contented that it is over. ; 9th. To the King’s playhouse, and there saw “ The Island Princesse,” which I like mighty well, as an excellent play: and here we find Kinaston to be well enough to act again, which he do very well, after his beating, by Sir Charles Sed- ley’s appointment. 10th. To White Hall, where the Duke of York was gone a-hunting: and so to the plaisterer’s at Charing Cross, that casts heads and bodies in plaister: and there I had my whole face done; but I was vexed first to be forced to daub all my face over with pomatum: but it was pretty to feel how soft and easily it is done on the face, and by and by, by degrees, how hard it becomes, that you cannot break it, — and sits so close, that you cannot pull it off, and yet so easy, that it is as soft as a pillow, so safe is everything where many parts of the body do bear alike. ‘Thus was the mould made; but when it came off there was little pleasure in it, — as it looks in the mould, nor any resemblance whatever ~ there will be in the figure, when I come to see it cast off. To White Hall, where I staid till the Duke of York came from hunting, which he did by and by, and, when dressed, did come out to dinner; and there I waited: and he did mightily magnify his sauce, which he did then eat with every thing, and said it was the best universal sauce in the world, 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS ~ 99 it being taught him by the Spanish Embassador;* made of some parsley and a dry toast, beat in a mortar, together with vinegar; salt, and a little pepper; he eats it with flesh, or fowl, or fish: and then he did now mightily commend some new sort of wine lately found out, called Navarre wine, which I tasted, and is, I think, good wine: but I did like better the notion of the sauce, and by and by did taste it, and liked it mightily. After dinner, I did what I went for, which was to get his consent that Balty might hold his Muster-Master’s place by deputy, in his new employment which I design for him, about the Storekeeper’s accounts; which the Duke of York did grant me, and I was mightily glad of it. Home, and there I find Povy and W. Batelier, by appointment, met to talk of some merchandize of wine and linen; but I do not like of their troubling my house to meet in, having no mind to their pretences of having their tendezvous here. llth. Heard that the last night Colonel Middleton’s wife? died; a woman I never saw since she come hither, having nevef been within their house since. 12th. To wait on the Duke of York, with the rest of us, at the Robes, where the Duke of York did tell us that the King would have us prepare a draught of the present ad- ministration of the Navy, and what it was in the late times in order to his being able to distinguish between the good and the bad, which I shall do, but to do it well will give me a great deal of trouble. Here we showed him Sir J. Min- Nies’s propositions about balancing Storekeeper’s accounts; and I did show him Hosier’s, which did please him mightily, and he will have it showed the Council and King anon, to be put in practice. Thence to the Treasurer’s; and I and Sir J. Minnes and Mr. Tippets down to the Lords Com- Missionets of the Treasury, and there had a hot debate from Sir Thomas Clifford and my Lord Ashly, the latter of ' whom, I hear, is turning about as fast as he can to the Duke of Buckingham’s side, being m danger, it seems; of being Gtherwise otit of play, which would not be convenient for him, agaist Sir W. Coventry and Sir J. Duncomb, who did uphold our Office against an accusation of our Treasurers, 1The Conde de Dona. See 17th February, post. Ha 100 DIARY OF [12th Feb. who told the Lords that they found that we had run the King in debt 50,000/., or more more than the money ap- pointed for the year would defray, which they declared like fools, and with design to hurt us, though the thing is in itself ridiculous. But my Lord Ashly and Clifford did most horribly cry out against the want of method in the Office. At last it came that it should be put in writing what they had to object; but I was devilish mad at it, to see us thus wounded by our own members. My wife and I to Hercules Pillars, and there dined; and there coming a Frenchman by with his Shew, we did make him shew it us, which he did just as Lacy acts it, which made it mighty pleasant to me. . Away, and to Dancre’s, and there saw our picture of Green- wich in doing,’ which is mighty pretty. Attended with Lord Brouncker the King and Council, about the proposition of balancing Storekeeper’s accounts; and there presented Hosier’s book, and it was mighty well resented’? and ap- proved of. So the Council being up, we to the Queen’s side with the King and Duke of York: and the Duke of York did take me out to talk of our Treasurers, whom he is mighty angry with; and I perceive he is mighty desirous to bring in as many good motions of profit and reformation in the Navy as he can, before the Treasurers do light upon them, they being desirous, it seems, to be thought the great reformers: and the Duke of York do well. But to my great joy he is mighty open to me in every thing; and by this means I know his whole mind, and shall be able to se- cure myself, if he stands. Here to-night I understand, by my Lord Brouncker, that at last it is concluded on by the King and Buckingham that my Lord of Ormond shall not hold his government of Ireland, which is a great stroke, to shew the power of Buckingham and the poor spirit of the © King, and little hold that any man can have of him. I and my wife called at my cozen Turner’s, and there met our new cozen Pepys, Mrs. Dickenson, and Bab. and Betty come yesterday to town, poor girls, whom we have reason to love, and mighty glad we are to see them; and there staid a little, being also mightily pleased to see Betty Tur- — 1See ante, 22d Jan., 1668-9. 2 Resent. to take well or ill.—Johnson. 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 101 ner, who is now in town, and her brothers Charles and Will, being come from school to see their father, and there talked a while, and so home, and there Pelling hath got W. Pen’s book against the Trinity." I got my wife to read it to me; and I find it so well writ as, I think, it is too good for him ever to have writ it; and it is a serious sort of book, and not fit for every body to read. 14th. (Lord’s day.) Up, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry ; and there he tells me he takes no care for any thing more than in the Treasury; and that, that being done, he goes to cards and other delights, as plays, and in the summer-time to bowles. But here he did show me two or three old books of the Navy, of my Lord Northumberland’s’ times, which he hath taken many good notes out of, for justifying the Duke of York and us, in many things, wherein, per- haps, precedents will be necessary to produce. Thence to White Hall, where the Duke of York expected me; and in his closet Wren and I. He did tell me how the King hath been acquainted with the Treasurers” discourse at the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, the other day, and is dis- satisfied with our running him in debt, which I removed; and he did carry me to the King, and I did satisfy him also; but his satisfaction is nothing worth, it being easily got, and easily removed; but I do purpose to put in writing that which shall make the Treasurers ashamed. But the Duke of York is horrid angry against them; and he hath cause, for they do work all they can to bring dishonour upon his management, as do plainly appear in all they do. Having done with the Duke of York, who do repose all in me, I with Mr. Wren to his chamber, to talk; where he observed, that these people are all of them a broken sort of people, that have not much to lose, and therefore will venture all to *Entitled The Sandy Foundation Shaken. It caused him to be im- prisoned in the Tower. “Aug. 4, 1669. Young Penn who wrote the blasphemous book is delivered to his father to be transported.”—Letter to Sir John Birkenhead, quoted by Bishop Kennett in his MS. Collec- tions, vol. lxxxix., p. 477. ?Algernon Percy, tenth Earl of Northumberland, Lord High Ad- miral to Charles I. ®Of the Navy. 102 DIARY OF | [15th Feb, make their fortunes better; that Sir Thomas Osborne is a beggar, having 11 or 1200]. a-year, but cwes above 10,0001. The Duke of Buckingham’s condition is shortly this: that he hath about 19,6001. a-year, of which he pays away about 7000]. a-year in interest, about 2000]. in fee-farm rents to the King, about 60001. in wages and pensions, and the rest to live upon, and pay taxes for the whole. Wren says, that for the Duke of York to stir in this matter, as his quality might justify, would but make all things worse, and that therefore he must bend, and suffer all, till time works it out: that he fears they will sacrifice the Church, and that the King will take anything, and so he will hold up his head a little longer, and then break in pieces. But Sir W. Coventry did to-day mightily magnify my late Lord Treasurer; for a wise and solid, though infirm man: and, among other things, that when he hath said it was im- possible in nature to find this or that sum of money, and my Lord Chancellor® hath made sport of it, arid told the King that when my Lord hath said it was impossible, yet he hath made shift to find it, and that was by Sir G. Car- teret’s getting credit, my Lord did once in his hearing say thus, which he magnifies as a great saying—that impossible would be found impossible at last; meaning that the King would run himself out, beyond all his credit and funds, and then we should too late find it impossible; which is, he says, now come to pass. 15th. Up, and with Tom to White Hall; and there at a — Committee of Tangier, where a great instance of what a man may lose by the neglect of a friend: Povy never had such an opportunity of passing his accounts, the Duke of York being there, and everybody well disposed, and in ex- pectation of them; but my Lord Ashly, on whom he felied, and for whose sake this day was pitched on, that he might be sure to be there, among the rest of his friends, staid too long, till the Duke of York and his company thotight unfit to stay longer: and so the day lost, and God knows when he will have so good a one again, as long as he lives; and this was the man of the whole company that he hath made the most interest to gain, and now most depended upon 1 Southampton. ? Clarendon. 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 103 him. To the plaisterer’s, and there saw the figure of my face taken from the mould: and it is most admirably like, and I will have another made, before I take it away. To my cozen Turner’s, where, having the last night been told by her that she had drawn me for her Valentine, I did this day call at the New Exchange, and bought her a pair of green silk stockings’ and garters and shoe-strings, and two pair of jessimy gloves, all coming to about 28s., and did give them to her this noon. At the Change, I did at my bookseller’s shop accidentally fall into talk with Sir Samuel Tuke* about trees, and Mr. Evelyn’s garden; and I do find him, I think, a little conceited, but a man of very fine dis- course as any I ever heard almost, which I was mighty glad of. After dinner, my wife and I endeavored to make a visit to Ned Pickering; but he not at home, nor his lady; and therefore back again, and took up my cozen Turner, and to my cozen Roger’s lodgings, and there find him pretty well again, and his wife mighty kind and merry, and did make mighty much of us, and I believe he is married to a very good woman. Here was also Bab. and Betty, who have not their clothes yet, and therefore cannot go out, otherwise I would have had them abroad to-morrow; but the poor girls mighty kind to us, and we must shew them kindness also. In Suffolk Street lives Moll Davis; and we did see her coach come for her to her door, a mighty pretty fine coach. To White Hall; and there, by means of Mr. Cooling, did get into the play, the only one we have seen this winter: it was ‘The Five Hours’ Adventure:” but I sat so far I could not hear well, nor was there any pretty woman that I did see; but my wife, who sat in my Lady Fox’s pew® with her. The house very full; and 1 Pepys was perhaps induced to make this purchase for his cousin, in accordance with the taste of the Duke of York, who in allusion to Lady Chesterfield’s wearing green stockings, remarked, says Hamilton—“ qu'il Wy avoit point de salut pour une jambe sans bas verds.’”—Mémoires de Grammont. *Sir Saniuel Tuke of Cressing Temple, Essex, Bart., was a Colonel in Charles the First’s army, and cousin to John Evelyn. He died at Somerset House, January, 1673. We have seen that he was the trans- lator of The Adventures of Five Hours. Fle was a Roman Catholic; and there is a life of him in Dodd’s Ohureh History: *We may suppose that pews were by no means common at this 104 DIARY OF [17th Feb. late before done, so that it was past eleven before we got home. 16th. Home, where I find some things for W. Batelier’s come out of France, among which some clothes of my wife, wherein she is likely to lead me to the expence of so much money as vexed me; but I seemed so, more than I at this time was, only to prevent her talking too much. But I was mightily pleased with another picture of the King of France’s head, of Nanteuil’s, bigger than the other which he brought over: and so to the Office, where busy all the afternoon, though my eyes mighty bad with the light of the candles last night, which was so great as to make my eyes sore all this day, and to teach me, by a manifest experiment, that it is only too much light that do make my eyes sore. Never- theless, with the help of my tube, and being desirous of easing my mind of five or six days journall, I did venture to write it down from ever since this day se’nnight, and I think without hurting my eyes any more than they were before, which was very much, and so home to supper and to bed. 17th. The King dining yesterday at the Dutch Embas- sador’s, after dinner they drank, and were pretty merry; and, among the rest of the King’s company, there was that worthy fellow my Lord of Rochester, and Tom Killigrew, whose mirth and raillery offended the former so much, that he did give Tom Killigrew a box on the ear in the King’s presence, which do give much offence to the people here at Court, to see how cheap the King makes himself, and the more, for that the King hath not only passed by the thing, and pardoned it to Rochester already, but this very morning the King did publickly walk up and down, and Rochester I saw with him as free as ever, to the King’s everlasting shame, to have so idle a rogue his companion.» How Tom Killi- time, within consecrated walls, from the word being applied indif- ferently by Pepys to a box in a place of amusement, and two days after- wards to a seat at church. It would appear, from other authorities, that between 1646 and 1660, scarcely any pews had been erected; and Sir . C. Wren is known to have objected to their introduction into his Lon- don churches. 1It ought to be remembered, however, that Rochester was not yet twenty-one years old, whilst Charles was of the mature age of thirty- eight. " 1668-69] - SAMUEL PEPYS 105 grew takes it, I do not hear. I do also this day hear that my Lord Privy Seale do accept to go Lieutenant into Ire- land; but whether it be true or not, I cannot tell. To Colonel Middleton’s, to the burial of his wife,’ where we were all invited, and much more company, and had each of us a ring: and so towards evening to our church, where there Was a sermon preached by Mills, and so home. Comes Castle to me, to desire me to go to Mr. Pedly this night, he being to go out of town to-morrow morning, which I, there- fore, did, by hackney-coach, first going to White Hall to meet with Sir W. Coventry, but missed him. But here I had a pleasant rencontre of a lady in mourning, that, by the little light I had, seemed handsome. I passing by her, did observe she looked back again and again upon me, I suffering her to go before, and it being now duske. She went into the little passage towards the Privy Water-Gate, and I followed, but missed her; but coming back again, I observed she returned, and went to go out of the Court. I followed her, and took occasion, in the new passage now built, where the walk is to be, to take her by the hand, to lead her through, which she willingly accepted, and I led her to the Great Gate, and there left her, she telling me, of her own accord, that she was going as far as Charing Cross; but my boy was at the gate, and so I durst not go out with her. So to Lincoln’s Inn, where to Mr. Pedly, with whom I spoke, and did my business presently: and I find him a man of good language, and mighty civil, and I believe very upright: and so home, where W. Batelier was, and supped with us, and I did reckon this night what I owed him; and I do find that the things my wife, of her own head, hath taken, together with my own, which comes not to above 5l., comes to about 22/. But it is the last, and so I am the better contented; and they are things that are not trifles, but clothes, gloves, shoes, hoods, &c. So after supper, to bed. At church there was my Lord Brouncker and Mrs. Williams in our pew, the first time 1“Buried, Mrs. Elizabeth, wife of Colonel Thomas Middleton.”— Register of St. Olave’s, Hart Street. According to Burke, Jane, daugh- ter of Sir Robert Needham, of Lambeth, married Charles, brother of Sir Thomas Middleton, Bart. His sister Eleanor was mistress to the Duke of Monmouth. 106 DIARY OF [21st Feb. they were ever there, or that I knew that either of them would — go to church. 18th. Expecting to have this day seen Bab. and Betty Pepys here, but they come not; and so after dinner my wife and I to the Duke of York’s house, to a play, and there saw “The Mad Lover,” which do not please me so well as it used to do, only Betterton’s part still pleases me. But here who should we have come to us but Bab. and Betty and Talbot, the first play they were yet at; and going to see us, and hearing by my boy, whom I sent te them, that we were here, they come to us hither, and happened all of us to sit by my cozen Turner and The. We carried them home first, and then took Bab. and Betty to our house, where they lay and supped, and pretty merry, and very fine with their new clothes, and good comely girls they are enough, — and very glad I am of their being with us, though I would very well have been contented to be without the charge. So they to bed. 19th. Up, and after seeing the girls, who lodged in our bed, with their maid Martha, who hath been their father’s maid these twenty years and more, I to the Office, while the young people went to see Bedlam. This morning, among other things, talking with Sir W. Coventry, I did propose to him by putting him to serve in Parliament, if there should, as the world begins to expect, be a new one chose: he likes it mightily, both for the King’s and Service’s sake, and the Duke of York’s, and will propound it to the Duke of York: and I confess, if there be one, I would be glad to be in. 20th. After dinner with my wife and my two girls to the Duke of York’s house, and there saw “ The Gratefull Ser- vant,”’ a pretty good play, and which I have forgot that — ever I did see. And thence with them to Mrs. Grotier’s, the — Queen’s tire-woman, for a pair of locks for my wife; she is a oldish French woman, but with a pretty hand as most I have seen; and so home. 21st. (Lord’s day.) With my wife and two girls to church, they very fine; and so home, where comes my cozen *Then in Bishopsgate Without. 7A comedy, by James Shirley. 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 107 Roger and his wife, I having sent for them, te dine with us, and there comes in by chance also Mr. Shepley, who is come to town with my Lady Paulina, who is desperately sick, and is gone to Chelsey, to the old house where my Lord himself was once sick, where I doubt my Lord means to visit her, more for young Mrs. Beck’s sake than for her’s. Here we dined with W. Batelier, and W. Hewer with us, these two girls making it necessary that they be always with us, for I am not company light enough to be always merry with them: and so sat talking all the afternoon, and then Shepley went away first, and then my cozen Roger and his wife, 22d. After dinner, with my wife, in her morning-gown, and the two girls dressed, to Unthanke’s, where my wife dresses herself, haying her gown this day laced, and a new petticoat: and so is indeed very fine. In the evening to White Hall, and there did without much trouble get into the playhouse, finding a good place among the Ladies of Honour, and all of us sitting in the pit; and then by and by eame the King and Queen, and they began “ Bartholomew Fair.” But I like no play here so well as at the common playhouse; besides that, my eyes being very ill since last Sunday and this day se’nnight, I was in mighty pain to de- fend myself now from the light of the candles. After the play done, we met with VW. Batelier and W. Hewer and Talbot Pepys, and they followed us in a hackney-coach: and we all stopped at Hercules’ Pillars ;* and there I did give them the best supper I could, and pretty merry; and so home between eleyen and twelve at night. _ 28d. Up: and to the Office, where all the morning, and then home, and put a mouthfull of victuals in my mouth; and by a hackney-coach followed my wife and the girls, aoe are gone by eleven o’clock, thinking to have seen a new play at the Duke of York’s house. But I do find them staying at my tailor’s, the play not being to-day, and there- fore to Westminster Abbey, and there did see all the tombs very finely, having one with us alone, there being other company this day to see the tombs, it being Shrove Tuesday; and here we did see, by particular favour, the body of Queen +In Fleet Street; see 11th October, 1660. 108 DIARY OF [24th Feb. Katherine of Valois; and I had the upper part of her body in my hands, and I did kiss her mouth, reflecting upon it that I did kiss a Queen, and that this was my birth-day, thirty-six years old, that I did kiss a Queen.* But here this man, who seems to understand well, tells me that the saying is not true that she was never buried, for she was buried; only, when Henry the Seventh built his chapel, she was taken up and laid in this wooden coffin; but I did there see that, in it, the body was buried in a leaden one, which remains under the body to this day. Thence to the Duke of York’s playhouse, and there finding the play begun, we homeward to the Glasshouse,” and there shewed my cozens the making of glass, and had several things made with great content; and, among others, I had one or two singing-glasses made, which make an echo to the voice, the first that ever I saw; but so thin, that the very breath broke one or two of them. Thence to Mr. Batelier’s, where we supped, and had a good supper, and here was Mr. Pembleton: and after supper some fiddles, and so to dance; but my eyes were so out of order, that I had little pleasure this night at all, though I was glad to see the rest merry. 24th. I to the Office, and at night my wife sends for me to W. Hewer’s lodging, where I find two best chambers of 1Pepys’s attachment to the fair sex extended even to a dead queen. The record of this royal salute on his natal day is very characteristic. The story told him in Westminster Abbey appears to have been correct; for Neale informs us (History of Westminster Abbey, vol. ii., p. 88) that near the south side of Henry the Fifth’s tomb, there was formerly a wooden chest, or coffin, wherein part of the skeleton and parched body of Katherine de Valois, his Queen, (from the waist upwards), was to be seen. She was interred in January, 1457, in the Chapel of our Lady, at the east end of this Church; but when that building was pulled down by her grandson, Henry the Seventh, her coffin was found to be decayed, and her body was taken up, and placed in a chest near her first husband’s tomb. “There,” says Dart, “it hath ever since continued to be seen, the bones being firmly united, and thinly clothed with flesh, like scrapings of tanned leather.” This awful spectacle of frail mortality was at length removed from the public gaze, into St. Nicholas’s Chapel, and finally deposited under the monument of Sir George Villiers, when the vault was made for the remains of Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, in December, 1776. 2In Blackfriars. The name of Glasshouse Yard still remains, 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 109 his so finely furnished, and all so rich and neat, that I was mightily pleased with him and them: and here only my wife, and I, and the two girls, and had a mighty neat dish of custards and tarts, and good drink and talk. And so away home to bed, with infinite content at this his treat; for it was mighty pretty, and every thing mighty rich. 25th. To the Duke of York’s house, and there before one, but the house infinite full, where, by and by, the King and Court come, it being a new play, or an old one new vamped, by Shadwell, called “The Royall Shepherdesse;’’* but the silliest for words and design, and everything, that ever I saw in my whole life, there being nothing in the world pleasing in it, but a good martial dance of pikemen, where Harris and another do handle their pikes in a dance to admiration; but I was never less satisfied with a play in my life. 26th. To the King’s playhouse, and saw “ The Faithfull Shepherdesse.” But, Lord! what an empty house, there not being, as I could tell the people, so many as to make up above 10/7. in the whole house! The being of a new play at the other house, I suppose, being the cause, though it be so silly a play that I wonder how there should be enough people to go thither two days together, and not leave more to fill this house. The emptiness of the house took away our pleasure a great deal, though I liked it the better; for I plainly discern the musick is the better, by how much the house the emptier. Thence home, and again to W. Hewer’s, and had a pretty little treat, and spent an hour or two, my voice being wholly taken away with my cold, and so home and to bed. 28th. (Lord’s-day.) Up, and got my wife to read to me a copy of what the Surveyor offered to the Duke of York on Friday, he himself putting it into my hands to read; but, Lord! it is a poor, silly thing ever to think to bring it in practice, in the King’s Navy. It is to have the Captains to account for all stores and victuals; but upon so silly grounds, to my thinking, and ignorance of the present in- structions of Officers, that I am ashamed to hear it. How- *A tragi-comedy, altered by Thomas Shadwell from a comedy written by Mr. Fountain, called “ The Rewards of Virtue.” 110 DIARY OF [ist March, ever, I do take a copy of it, for my future use and answering; and so to church, where, God forgive me! I did most of the time gaze on the fine milliner’s wife, in Fenchurch Street, who was at our church to-day; and so home to dinner. After dinner to write down my Journall; and then abroad by coach with my cozens, to their father’s, where we are kindly received, but he is in great pain for his man Arthur, who, he fears, is now dead, having been desperate sick, and speaks so much of him that my cozen, his wife and I, did make mirth of it, and call him Arthur O’Bradly.* After staying here a little, and eat and drank, and she give me some gingerbread made in cakes, like chocolate, very good, made by a friend, I carried him and her to my cozen Turner’s, where we staid, expecting her coming from church; but she coming not, I went to her husband’s chamber in the Temple, and thence fetched her. After talking there a while, and agreeing to be all merry at my house on Tuesday next, I away home; and there spent the evening talking and reading, with my wife and Mr. Pelling. March ist. I do hear that my Lady Paulina Montagu did die yesterday; at which I went to my Lord’s lodgings, but he is shut up with sorrow, and so not to be spoken with: and therefore I returned, and to Westminster Hall, where I have not been, I think, in some months. And here the Hall was very full, the King having, by Commission to some Lords this day, prorogued the Parliament till the 19th of October next: at which I am glad, hoping to have time to go over to France this year. But I was most of all surprised this morning by my Lord Belassis, who, by appointment, met me at Auditor Wood’s, at the Temple, and tells me of a duell designed between the Duke of Buck- ingham and my Lord Halifax, or Sir W. Coventry; the challenge being carried by Harry Saville, but prevented by my Lord Arlington, and the King told of it; and this was all the discourse at Court this day. But I, meeting Sir W. Coventry in the Duke of York’s chamber, he would not own it to me, but told me he was a man of too much peace to meddle with fighting, and so it rested: but the talk is 1This was an allusion to the old and popular ballad of Arthur O’Bradley, mentioned in note in yol, i, 26th January, 1660-1. ee ee = Te 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 111 full in the town of the business. Thence, having walked some turns with my cozen Pepys, and most people, by their discourse, believing that this Parliament will never sit more, I away to several places to look after things against to- morrow’s’ feast, and so home to dinner; and thence, after noon, my wife and I out by hackney-coach, and spent the afternoon in several places, doing several things at the and elsewhere against to-morrow; and, among others, I did bring home a piece of my face cast in plaister, for to make a vizard upon, for my eyes. And so home, where W. Batelier come, and sat with us; and there, after many doubts, did resolve to go on with our feats and dancing to-morrow; and so, after supper, left the maids to make clean the house, and to lay the cloth, and other things against to-morrow, and so to bed. 2d. Home, and there I find my company come, namely, Madam Turner, Dyke, The., and Betty Turner, and Mr. Bellwood, formerly their father’s clerk, but now set up for himself—a conceited, silly fellow, but one they make mightily of—my cozen Roger Pepys, and his wife, and two daughters. I had a noble dinner for them, as I almost ever had, and mighty merry, and particularly myself pleased with looking on Betty Turner, who is mighty pretty. After dinner, we fell one to one talk, and another to another, and looking over my house, and closet, and things; and The. Turner to write a letter to a lady in the country, in which I did, now and then, put in half-a-dozen words, and some- times five or six lines, and then she as much, and made up a long and good letter, she being mighty witty really, though troublesome-humoured with it. And thus till night, that our musick come, and the Office ready and candles, and alsq W. Batelier and his sister Susan come, and also Will. Howe and two gentlemen more, strangers, which, at my request yesterday, he did bring to dance, called Mr. Ireton and Mr. Starkey. We fell to dancing, and continued, only with in- termission for a good supper, till two in the morning, the musick being Greeting, and another most excellent violin, and theorbo, the best in town. And so with mighty mirth, and pleased with their dancing of jigs, afterwards several of them, and, among others, Betty Turner, who did it mighty 112 DIARY OF [3d March, prettily ; and, lastly, W. Batelier’s “ Blackmore and Black- more Mad;” and then to a country-dance again, and so broke up with extraordinary pleasure, as being one of the days and nights of my life spent with the greatest content; and that which I can but hope to repeat again a few times in my whole life. This done, we parted, the strangers home, and I did lodge my cozen Pepys and his wife in our blue chamber. My cozen Turner, her sister, and The., in our best chamber; Bab., Betty, and Betty Turner, in our own chamber; and myself and my wife in the maid’s bed, which is very good. Our maids in the coachman’s bed; the coachman with the boy in his settle-bed,* and Tom where he uses to lic. And so I did, to my great content, lodge at once in my house, with the greatest ease, fifteen, and eight of them strangers of quality. My wife this day put on first her French gown, called a Sac,* which becomes her very well, brought her over by W. Batelier. 3d. To my guests, and got them to breakfast, and then parted by coaches; and I did, in mine, carry my she-cozen Pepys and her daughters home, and there left them. To White Hall, where W. Hewer met me; and he and I took a turn in St. James’s Park, and in the Mall did meet Sir W. Coventry and Sir J. Duncomb, and did speak with them about some business before the Lords of the Treasury; but I did find them more than usually busy, though I knew not then the reason of it, but I guessed it by what followed next day. Thence to Dancre’s, the painter’s, and there saw my picture of Greenwich, finished to my very great content, though this manner of distemper do make the figures not so pleasing as in oyle. To the Duke of York’s playhouse, and there saw an old play, the first time acted these forty years, called “The Lady’s Tryall,”* acted only by the young people of the house; but the house very full. To the New Exchange, and so called at cozen Turner’s; and there, meeting Mr. Bellwood, did hear how my Lord Mayor,* being invited this day to dinner at the Reader’s at 1A folding bed. ? Which remained in fashion till a much later date. >A tragedy, by John Ford. *Sir William Peake, clothworker. 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 113 the Temple, and endeavouring to carry his sword up,’ the students did pull it down, and forced him to go and stay all the day in a private Councillor’s chamber, until the Reader himself could get the young gentlemen to dinner; and then my Lord Mayor did retreat out of the Temple by stealth, with his sword up. This do make great heat among the students; and my Lord Mayor did send to the King, and also I hear that Sir Richard Browne did cause the drums to beat for the Train-bands;* but all is over, only I hear that the students do resolve to try the Charter of the City. So we home, and betimes to bed, and slept well all night. 4th. To White Hall, where in the first court I did meet Sir Jeremy Smith, who did tell me that Sir W. Coventry was just now sent to the Tower, about the business of his challenging the Duke of Buckingham, and so was also Harry Saville® to the Gate-house ;* which, as he is a gentle man, and of the Duke of York’s bedchamber, I heard after- * As a symbol of his authority. ?The only printed notice of this dispute occurs in Pearce’s History of the Inns of Court and Chancery, 8vo, 1848, p. 236:—* The Lord Mayor (Sir W. Turner) complained to the King, and on the 7th April, 1669, the case was heard before his Majesty in council. The ring- leaders, Mr. Hodges, Mr. Wynn, and Mr. Monday, appeared at the Board, attended by Counsel, who were heard on their behalf. Upon consideration, it appearing to the King that the matter very much de- pended upon the right and privilege of bearing up the Lord Mayor’s sword within the Temple, which, by order of Council on the 24th March, in the same year, had been left to be decided by due course of law, his Majesty thought fit to suspend the declaration of his pleasure thereupon, until the said right and privilege should be determined at law.” Mr. Tyrrel, the City Remembrancer, has obligingly communi- cated the only two entries relating to the business, existing in the Cor- poration Records: ‘the first is an order, dated 23d March, 1668, for the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, &c., to attend the Council on the following day; and the other directs the Chamberlain to pay the Town Clerk 231. 14s. 6d., by him disbursed for counsel, about the business of the Temple, &c. It would appear, the question remains unsettled to this day. *Henry Savile was a younger son of Sir William Savile, Bart., of Thornhill, in Yorkshire, by Anne, one of the daughters of Thomas, first Lord Coventry, and sister to Sir William Coventry. He became _ Vice-Chamberlain to Charles II., and served in Parliament for Newark; and died s. p. *At Westminster, VOL, IV. a "114 DIARY OF [4th March, wards that the Duke of York is mightily incensed at it, and do appear very high to the King that he might not be sent thither, but to the Tower, this bemg done only in contempt to him. This news of Sir W. Coventry did strike me to the heart, and with this reason, for by this and my Lord of Ormond’s business, I do doubt that the Duke of Bucking- ham will be so flushed, that he will not stop at any thing, but be forced to do any thing now, as thinking it not safe to end here; and, Sir W. Coventry being gone, the King will have no good counsellor left, nor the Duke of York any sure friend to stick to him; nor any good man will re- main to advise what is good. This, therefore, do heartily trouble me as any thing that ever I heard. So up inte the House, and met with several people; but the Committee did not meet: and the whole House I find full of this busi- ness of Sir W. Coventry’s, and most men very sensible of the cause and effects of it. So, meeting with my Lord Bellassis, he told me the particulars of this matter; that it arises about a quarrel which Sir W. Coventry had with the Duke of Buckingham about a design between the Duke and Sir Robert Howard, to bring him into a play at the King’s house, which W. Coventry not enduring, did by H. Saville send a letter to the Duke of Buckingham, that he did desire to speak with him. Upon which, the Duke of Buckingham did bid Holmes, his champion ever since my Lord Shrewsbury’s business,’ go to him to do the business; but H. Saville would not tell it to any but himself, and therefore did go presently to the Duke of Buckingham, and told him that his uncle Coventry was a person of honour, and was sensible of his Grace’s liberty taken of abusing him, and that he had a desire of satisfaction, and would fight with him. But that here they were interrupted by my Lord Chamberlain’s coming in, who was commanded to go to bid the Duke of Buckingham to come to the King, Holmes having discovered it. He told me that the King did last night, at the Council, ask the Duke of Buckingham, upon his honour, whether he had received any challenge from W. Coventry? which he confessed that he had; and when the King, asking W. Coventry, he told him that he 1The duel: see 17th Jan., 1667-8, ante. 1668-69] SAMUEL PEPYS 115 did not owne what the Duke of Buckingham had said, though it was not fit for him to give him a direct contra- diction. But, being by the King put upon declaring the truth upon his honour, he answered that he had understood that many hard questions had upon this business been moved to some lawyers, and that therefore he was unwilling to declare any thing that might, from his own mouth, render him obnoxious to his Majesty’s displeasure, and, therefore, prayed to be exeused: which the King did think fit to interpret to be a confession, and so gave warrant that night for his commitment to the Tower. Bemg very much troubled at this, I away by coach homewards, and directly to the Tower, where I find him in one Mr. Bennet’s house, son to Major Bayly, one of the Officers of the Ordnance, in the Bricke Tower: where I find hin busy with my Lord Halifax and his brother; so I would not stay to interrupt them, but only to give him comfort, and offer my service to him, which he kindly and cheerfully received, only owning his being troubled for the King his master’s displeasure, which, I suppose, is the ordinary form and will of persons in this condition. And so I parted, with great content, that I had so earlily seen him there; and so going out, did meet Sir Jer. Smith going to meet me, who had newly been with Sir W. Coventry. And so-he and I by water to Red- riffe, and so walked to Deptford, where I have not been, I think, these twelve months: and there to the Treasurer’s house,” where the Duke of York is, and his Duchess; and there we find them at dinner in the great room, unhung; and there was with them my Lady Duchess of Monmouth, the Countess of Falmouth, Castlemaine, Henrietta Hide*® (my Lady Hinchinbroke’s sister), and my Lady Peterborough. And after dinner Sir Jer. Smith and I were invited down to dinner with some of the Maids of Honour, namely, Mrs. Ogle,* *“Phe Brick Tower, by the Armory, the Master of the Ordnance’ lodging;” so described in a paper of the 16th March, 1641. * See it marked in the Plan of Deptford, in Evelyn’s Diary, vol. i, p. $28, 4to. edit. 1819. * Henrietta, fifth daughter to the Earl of Burlington, married Lau- Tenee Hyde, afterwards created Earl of Rochester. * Anne Ogle, daughter of Thomas Ogle, of Pinchbeck, in Lincolnshire. 116 DIARY OF [4th Merch, Blake, and Howard,* which did me good to have the honour to dine with, and look on them; and the Mother of the Maids,> and Mrs. Howard,* the mother of the Maid of Honour of that name, and the Duke’s house- keeper here. Here was also Monsieur Blancfort,° Sir Richard Powell,® Colonel Villiers, Sir Jonathan Tre- lawny,° and others. And here drank most excellent, and She was afterwards the first wife of Craven Howard (son of Mrs. Howard), brother of her fellow maid of honour (see Evelyn’s Diary, 15th June, 1675). Her only child, Anne, died unmarried. Margaret Blagge, or Blague, daughter of Colonel Blague, and after- wards wife of Sidney Godolphin. Her life, written by Evelyn, needs — only to be mentioned here. ? Dorothy, the elder daughter of Mrs. Howard. She afterwards mar- ried Col. James Graham, of Levens, Keeper of the Privy Purse of the Duke of York. Their daughter, Katharine Graham, married her cousin, Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, and eleventh Earl of Suffolk. >The mother of the maids in the Court of Queen Katharine was Bridget, Lady Sanderson, daughter of Sir Edward Tyrrell, Knt., and wife of Sir William Sanderson, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber. It is possible, however, that some one filled the like office in the household of the Duchess of York. * Elizabeth, daughter of Lowthiel, Lord Dundas, wife of William Howard, fourth son of the first Earl of Berkshire. Her son, Craven Howard, married, first, Anne Ogle, mentioned above: and, secondly, Mary, daughter of George Bower, of Elford in Staffordshire, by whom he had Henry Bowes Howard, who married Katharine Graham. It was by means of Mrs. Howard, who, as housekeeper to the Duke of York, resided in the Treasurer’s house at Deptford, that Evelyn, who lived at Sayes Court, adjoining the Royal Yard, first became acquainted with Mrs. Godolphin, and it is to Lady Sylvius, the younger daughter of Mrs. Howard, that he addresses her Life. 5See 14th Feb., 1665; 13th June, 1666; 27th Aug. and Ist Sept., 1667. In 1677 he succeeded to the titles and estates of his father-in- law, Sir George Sondes, who, in April, 1676, was created Earl of Fever- sham and Viscount Sondes. As Earl of Feversham, Blancfort became of great importance during the short but eventful reign of James II. He died in 1709, s. p. ®Sir Richard Powle, of Shottesbrooke, Berks, Master of the Horse to the Duchess of York. 7Kdward Villiers, Master of the Robes, and Groom of the Bed- chamber to the Duke of York. He was afterwards knighted, and is the direct ancestor of the Earls of Jersey. 8 The second baronet of his family, and father of the Bishop of Win- chester, of the same names. 1669) SAMUEL PEPYS 117 great variety, and plenty of wines, more than I have drank, at once, these seven years, but yet did me no great hurt. Having dined very merrily, and understanding by Blancfort how angry the Duke of York was, about their offering to ‘send Saville to the Gate-house among the rogues; and then, observing how this company, both the ladies and all, are of a gang, and did drink a health to the union of the two brothers, and talking of others as their enemies, they parted, and so we up; and there I did find the Duke of York and Duchess, with all the great ladies, sitting upon a - earpet, on the ground, there being no chairs, playing at “I love my love with an A, because he is so and so: and I hate him with an A, because of this and that:” and some of them, but particularly the Duchess herself, and my Lady Castlemaine, were very witty. This done, they took barge, and I with Sir J. Smith to Captain Cox’s; and there to talk, and left them and other company to drink; while I slunk out to Bagwell’s; and there saw her, and her mother, and our late maid Nell, who cried for joy to see me. So to Cox’s, and thence walked with Sir J. Smith back to Red- riffe; and so by water home, and there my wife mighty angry for my absence, and fell mightily out, but not being certain of any thing, but thinks only that Pierce or Knipp _was there, and did ask me, and, I perceive, the boy many ques- tions. But I did answer her; and so, after much ado, did go to bed, and lie quiet all night; but she had another bout with me in the morning, but I did make shift to quiet her, but yet she was not fully satisfied, poor wretch! in her mind, and thinks much of my taking so much pleasure without her; which, indeed, is a fault, though I did not design or foresee it when I went. 5th. After dinner I to the Tower, where I find Sir W. Coventry with abundance of company with him: and after sitting awhile, and hearing some merry discourse, and, among others, of Mr. Brouncker’s being this day summoned to Sir William Morton,* one of the Judges, to give in security for his good behaviour, upon his words the other day to Sir John Morton,? a Parliament-man, at White Hall, who ?Made a Justice of the King’s Bench, 1665. Ob. 1672. _ *Sir John Morton, of Milborn St. Andrew, Dorset, the second "218 DIARY OF [6th Mareh, had heretofore spoke very highly against Brouncker in the House, I away, and to Aldgate. Walked forward towards White Chapel, till my wife overtook me with the coach, it being a mighty fine afternoon; and there we went the first time out of town with our coach and horses, and went as far as Bow, the spring beginning a little now to appear, though the way be dirty; and so, with great pleasure, with the fore-part of our coach up, we spent the afternoon. And so in the evening home, and there busy at the Office awhile, and so to bed, mightily pleased with being at peace with my poor wife, and with the pleasure we may hope to have with our coach this summer, when the weather comes to be good. 6th. Before the Office, I stepped to Sir W. Coventry at the Tower, and there had a great deal of discourse with him; among others, of the King’s putting him out of the Council yesterday, with which he is well contented, as with what else they can strip him of, he telling me, and so hath long done, that he is weary and surfeited of business; but he joins with me in his fears that all will go to naught, as matters are now managed. He told me the matter of the play that was intended for his abuse, wherein they foolishly and sillily bring in two tables ike that which he hath made, with a round hole in the middle, in his closet, to turn him- self in;* and he is to be in one of them as master, and Sir J. Duncomb in the other, as his man or imitator: and their discourse in those tables, about the disposing of their books and papers, very foolish. But that, that he is offended with, is his being made so contemptible, as that amy should dare to make a gentleman a subject for the mirth of the world; and that therefore he had told Tom Killigrew that he should tell his actors, whoever they were, that did offer at any thing like representing him, that he would not complain to my Lord Chamberlain, which was too weak, nor get him beaten, as Sir Charles Sedley is said to have done, but that he would cause his nose to be eut.? He told me how that baronet of his family, then serving as burgess for Poole, and afterwards for Melcombe Regis. He died in 1698: et. 71, M. I. 1See Diary, 4th July, 1668, where Sir W. Coventry’s round table is described. 2It is painful to find a person of Sir William Coventry’s rank and 1669} SAMUEL PEPYS 119 the Duke of Buckingham did himself, some time since, de- sire to join with him, cf all men in England, and did bid him propound to himself to be Chief Minister of State, saying that he would bring it about, but that he refused to have anything to do with any faction; and that the Duke of Buckingham did, within these few days, say that, of all men in England, he would have chosen Sir W. Coventry to have jomed entire with. He tells me that he fears their prevailing against the Duke of York; and that their vio- lence will force them to it, as being already beyond his pardon. He repeated to me many examples of challenging Privy-Councillors and others: but never any proceeded against with that severity which he is, it never amounting with others to more than a little confinement. THe tells me of his being weary of the Treasury, and of the folly, am- bition, and desire of popularity of Sir Thomas Clifford; and yet the rudeness of his tongue and passions when angry. ‘This day my wife made it appear to me that my late entertainment this week cost me above 12/., an expence which I am almost ashamed of, though it is but once m a great while, and is the end for which, in the most part, we live, to have such a merry day once or twice in a man’s life. 7th. (Lord’s day.) To the Tower, to see Sir W. Coventry, who had H. Jermin and a great many more with him, and more, while I was there, came in; so that I do hear that there was not less than sixty coaches there yesterday, and the other day; which I hear also that there is a great ex- ception taken at, by the King and the Duke of Buckingham, but it cannot be helped. To Suffolk Street, to see my cozen Pepys, but neither the old nor young at home. I to White Hall, and there hear that there are letters come from Sir Thomas Allen, that he hath made some kind of peace with Algiers; upon which the King and the Duke of York, being to go out of town to-morrow, are met at my - Lord Arlington’s: so I there, and by Mr. Wren was desired station entertaining so cowardly a mode of revenging himself; and it is very remarkable that, m little more tham a year afterwards, his own nephew, Sir John Coventry, was maimed im the very same way, his nose having been slit to the bone by a party of assassins hired for the purpose: see note to 27th July, 1667. 120 DIARY OF [7th March, to stay to see if there were occasion for their speaking with me, which I did, walking without, with Charles Porter,* talking of a great many things: and I perceive all the world is against the Duke of Buckingham’s acting thus high, and do prophesy nothing but ruin from it. But he do well ob- serve that the church lands cannot certainly come to much, if the King shall be persuaded to take them, they being leased out for long leases. By and by, after two hours’ stay, the Council rose, having, as Wren tells me, resolved upon sending six ships to the Streights forthwith, not being con- tented with the peace upon the terms they demand; which are, that all our ships, where any Turks or Moores shall be found slaves, shall be prizes; which will imply that they must be searched. I hear that tomorrow the King and the Duke of York set out for Newmarket, by three in the morning, to *“Charles Porter was the son of a prebendary in Norwich, and a *prentice boy in the city in the rebellious times. When the committee house was blown up, he was very active in that rising, and after the soldiers came and dispersed the rout, he, as a rat among joint stools, shifted to and fro among the shambles, and had forty pistols shot at him by the troopers that rode after him to kill him. In that distress he had the presence of mind to catch up a little child that, during the rout, was frighted, and stood crying in the streets, and unobserved by the troopers, ran away with it. The people opened a way for him, say- ing ‘Make room for the poor child.’ Thus he got off, and while search was made for him in the market-place, got into a Yarmouth ferry, took ship and went to Holland. Here he trailed a pike, and was in several actions as a common soldier. At length he kept a cavalier eating- house; but, his customers being needy, he soon broke, and came for England, and being a genteel youth, was taken in among the chancery clerks, and got to be under a master. His industry was great; and he had an acquired dexterity and skill in the forms of court; and although he was a bon companion, and followed much the bottle, yet he made such despatches as satisfied his clients, especially the clerks, who knew where to find him. His person was florid, and speech prompt and articulate. But his vices, in the way of women and the bottle, were so ungoverned, as brought him to a morsel. At.the Revolution, when his interest fell from, and his debts began to fall upon him, he was at his wits’ end. And some, knowing his case, and pitying him (for he was indeed a very honest fellow), recommended him as a man fit to be Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and, accordingly, he was knighted, and sent over. There he lived some years, and in that place concluded his © days little better than an insolvent. His character for fidelity, loyalty, and facetious conversation, was remarkable.’—Roger North’s Lives of the Hon, Francis North, &c. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 121 some foot and horse-races, to be abroad ten or twelve days. So I away, without seeing the Duke of York; but Mr. Wren showed me the order of Council about the balancing the Storekeeper’s accounts, which passed the Council in the very terms I drew it, only I did put in my name as he that presented the book of Hosier’s preparing, and that is left out—I mean, my name—which is no great matter. 8th. To White Hall, from whence the King and the Duke of York went by three in the morning, and had the misfor- tune to be overset with the Duke of York, the Duke of Monmouth and the Prince,’ at the King’s Gate® in Hol- borne; and the King all dirty, but no hurt. How it come to pass I know not, but only it was dark, and the torches did not, they say, light the coach as they should do. I thought this morning to have seen my Lord Sandwich before he went out of town, but I came half an hour too late; which troubles me, I having not seen him since my Lady Pall® died. W. Hewer and I to the Harp-and-Ball, to drink my morning draught; and there met with King, the Parliament- man, with whom I had some impertinent talk. And so to the Privy Seal Office, to examine what records I could find there, for my help in the great business I am put upon, of defending the present constitution of the Navy; but there could not have liberty without order from him that is in present waiting, Mr. Bickerstaffe, who is out of town. Met Mr. Moore, and I find him the same discontented poor man as ever. He tells me that Mr. Shepley is upon being turned away from my Lord’s family, and another sent down, which I am sorry for; but his age and good fellowship have almost made him fit for nothing. With my wife to the King’s playhouse, and there saw “The Mocke Astrologer,” which I have often seen, and but an ordinary play; and so to my cozen Turner’s, where we met Roger Pepys, his wife and + Rupert. * Kingsgate Street stands to the south-east of Bloomsbury Square. In the reign of James I. it was a mere country lane, with a barred gate at its entrance, which, from that monarch’s usually passing through it, on his way to Theobalds, received the denomination of King’s Gate. Theobald’s Road, to which the street leads, takes its name from the Same cause. * Paulina Montague: see lst March, ante. 122 DIARY OF 9th Mareh, two daughters, and then home. There my wife to read to me, my eyes being sensibly hurt by the two great lights of the playhouse. 9th. Up, and to the Tower; and there find Sir W. Coventry alone, writing down his Journal, which, he tells me, he now keeps of the material things; upon which I told him, and he is the only man I ever told it to, I think, that I kept it most strictly these eight or ten years; and I am sorry almost that I told it him, it not being necessary, nor may be convenient, to have it known. Here he showed me the petition he hath sent to the King by my Lord Keeper, which was not to desire any admittance to employment, but submitting himself therein humbly to his Majesty; but prayed the removal of his displeasure, and that he might be set free. He tells me that my Lord Keeper did acquaint the King with the substance of it, not showing him the petition; who answered that he was disposing of his em- ployments, and when that was done, he might be led to dis- charge him: and this is what he expects, and what he seems to desire. But by this discourse he was pleased to take oe- casion to show me and read to me his account, which he hath kept by him under his own hand, of all his discourse, and the King’s answers to him, upon the great business of my Lord Clarendon, and how he had first moved the Duke of York with it twice, at good distance, one after another, but without success; showing me thereby the simplicity and reasons of his so doing, and the manner of it; and the King’s accepting it, telling him that he was not satisfied in his management, and did discover some dissatisfaction against him for his opposing the laying aside of my Lord Treasurer, at Oxford, which was a secret the King had not discovered. And really I was mighty proud to be privy to this great transaction, it giving me great conviction of the noble nature and ends of Sir W. Coventry in it, and con- siderations in general of the consequences of great men’s actions, and the uncertainty of their estates, and other very serious considerations. To the Office, where we sat all the morning, and after dinner by coach to my cozen Turner’s, thinking to have taken up the young ladies; but The. was let blood to-day; and so my wife and I towards the rm playhouse, and by the way found Betty Turner, and Bab., 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 123 and Betty Pepys staying for us; and so took them all to see Claricilla,” which do not please me almost at all, though there are some good things in it. And so to my cozen Turner’s, and there find my Lady Mordaunt, and her sister Johnson ;* and by and by comes in a gentleman, Mr. Overbury, a pleasant man, who plays most excellently on the flagelette, a little one, that sounded as low as one of mine, and mighty pretty. Hence with my wife, and Bab., and Betty Pepys, and W. Hewer, whom I carried all this day with me, to my cozen Stradwick’s, where I have not been ever since my brother Tom died, there being some difference between my father and them, upon the account of my cozen Scott; and I glad of this opportunity of seeing them, they being good and substantial people, and kind. Here met my cozen Roger and his wife, and my cozen Turner, and here, which I never did before, I drank a glass, of a pint, I believe, at one draught, of the juice of oranges, of whose peel they make comfits; and here they drink the juice as wine, with sugar, and it is very fine drink; but it being new, I was doubtful whether it might not do me hurt. Having staid awhile, my wife and I back, with my cozen Turner, &c., to her house. There we took our leaves of my cozen Pepys, who goes with his wife and two daughters for Impington to- morrow. They are very good people, and people I love, and am obliged to, and shall have great pleasure in their friend- ship, and particularly in hers, she being an understanding and good woman. 10th. By hackney-coach to Auditor Beal’s Office, in Holborne, to look for records of the Navy, but he was out _ of the way, and so forced to go next to White Hall, to the Privy Seal; and, after staying a little there, then to West- minster, where, at the Exchequer, I met with Mr. Newport and Major Halsey; and, after doing a little business with Mr. Burges, we by water to White Hall, where I made a little stop: and so with them by coach to Temple Bar, _ where, at the Sugar Loaf, we dined; and there comes a companion of theirs, Colonel Vernon, I think, they called him; a merry good fellow, and one that was very plain in cursing the Duke of Buckingham, and discoursing of his designs to ruin us, and that ruin must follow his counsels, 1Her maiden sister: see note 11th December, 1666. 124 DIARY OF [11th March, and that we are an undone people. To which the others concurred, but not so plain, but all vexed at Sir W. Coventry’s being laid aside: but Vernon is concerned, I perceive, for my Lord Ormond’s being laid aside: but their company, being all old cavaliers, were very pleasant to hear how they swear and talk. But Halsey, to my content, tells me that my Lord Duke of Albemarle says that W. Coventry being gone, nothing will be well done at the Treasury, and I believe it; but they do all talk as that Duncomb, upon some pretence or other, must follow him. We by water home, and there I find my cozen Turner and her two daugh- ters come to see us; and there, after talking a little, I had my coach ready, and they going home, my wife and I out to Whitechapel to take a little ayre, though yet the dirti- ness of the road do prevent most of the pleasure, which we hoped to have from this tour. So home, and my wife to read to me till supper, and to bed. 11th. Up, and to Sir W. Coventry, to the Tower: who tells me that he hears that the Commission is gone down to the King, with a blank to fill, for his place in the Treasury: and he believes it will be filled with one of our Treasurers of the Navy, but which he knows not, but he believes it will be Osborne. We walked down to the Stone Walk, which is called, it seems, my Lord of Northumberland’s walk,’ being paved by some one of that title, that was prisoner there: and at the end of it, there is a piece of iron upon the wall, with his armes upon it, and holes to put in a peg, for every turn they make upon that walk. So away to the Office, where busy all the morning, and so to dinner, and so very busy all the afternoon, at my Office late; and then home tired, to supper, with content, with my wife, and so to bed, she pleasing me, though I dare not own it, that she hath hired a chambermaid: but she, after many commen- dations, told me that she had one great fault, and that was, that she was very handsome, at which I made nothing, but let her go on; but many times to-night she took occasion to discourse of her handsomeness, and the danger she was No trace of this is to be found in Bayley’s History of the Tower. Henry, the ninth Earl, called the Wizard Earl, was confined in the Tower from 1605 to 1621, and the walk was probably constructed for his use during that long imprisonment. 1669) SAMUEL PEPYS 125 in, by taking her, and that she did doubt yet whether it would be fit for her, to take her. But I did assure her of my resolution to have nothing to do with her maids, though in myself I was glad to have the content to have a hand- some one to look on. 12th. With great content spent all the morning looking over the Navy accounts of several years, and the several patents of the Treasurers. W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster; and there he carried me to Nott’s, the famous bookbinder, that bound for my Lord Chancellor’s library: and here I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound, only that I might have one of his binding. To Graye’s Inne: and, at the next door, at a cook-shop of Howe’s acquaintance, we bespoke dinner, it being now two -o’clock; and in the meantime he carried us into Graye’s Inne, to his chamber, where I never was before; and it is very pretty, and little, and neat, as he was always. And so, after a little stay, and looking over a book or two there, we carried a piece of my Lord Coke’ with us, and to our dinner, where, after dinner, he read at my desire a chapter in my Lord Coke about perjury, wherein I did learn a good deal touching oaths, and so away to the Patent Office,” in Chancery Lane, where his brother Jacke, being newly broke by running in debt, and growing an idle rogue, he is forced to hide himself; and W. Howe do look after the Office. Here I did set a clerk to look out some things for me in their books, while W. Hewer and I to the Crowne Office,* where we met with several good things that I most wanted, and did take short notes of the dockets, and so back to the Patent Office, and did the like there, and by candle-light ended. And so home, where, thinking to meet my wife with content, after my pains all this day, I find her in her closet, alone, in the dark, in a hot fit of railing against me: but, what with my high words, and slighting, I did at last bring her to very good and kind terms, poor heart! 13th. Up; and to the Tower, to see Sir W. Coventry, and with him talking of business of the Navy, all alone, an hour, he taking physic. And so away to the Office, where all the morning, and then home to dinner, with my people, 1Cokes’s Institutes. -The Rolls. ®In the Temple, where it is still kept. 126 DIARY OF [15th March, and so to the Office again, and there all the afternoon till night, when comes, by mistake, my cozen Turner and her two daughters, which love such freaks, to eat some anchovies and ham of bacon with me, instead of noon, at dinner, when I expected them. But, however, I had done my business before they come, and so was in good humour enough to be with them, and so home to them to supper, being pleased to see Betty Turner, which hath something mighty pretty. But that which put me in good humour, both at noon and night, is the fancy that I am this day made a Captain of one of the King’s ships, Mr. Wren having this day sent me the Duke of York’s commission to be Captain of “The Jerzy,” in order to my being of a Court-martiall for exa- mining the loss of “The Defyance,”’ and other things; which do give me occasion of much mirth, and may be of some use to me, at least I shall get a little money for the time I have it; it being designed that I must really be a Captain to be able to sit in this Court. They staid tll about eight at night, and then away, and my wife to read to me, and then to bed in mighty good humour, but for my eyes. 14th. (Lord’s day.) With my wife to church, where we heard a most excellent good sermon of Mr. Gifford’s,* upon the righteousness of Scribes and Pharisees. 15th. Up, and by water with W. Hewer to the Temple; and thence to the Rolls, where I made enquiry for several rolls, and was soon informed of the manner of it: and so spent the whole morning with W. Hewer, he taking little notes in short-hand, while I hired a clerk there to read to me about twelve or more several rolls which I did call for: and it was great pleasure to me to see the method wherein their rolls are kept; that when the Master of the Office, one Mr. Case, do call for them, who is a man that I have here- tofore known by coming to my Lord of Sandwich’s, he did most readily turn to them. At noon they shut up; and W. Hewer and I did walk to the Cocke,” at the end of Suf- _ folke Street, where I never was, a great ordinary, mightily 1George Gifford, A.M., appointed, in 1661, rector of St. Dunstan’s in the East; ob. 1686.—Newcourt’s Rep. Eccl. 2There was another Cock ale-house in Fleet Street, still a tavern, described in Ackerman’s Tradesmen’s Tokens, p. 84. SIR GEORGE JEFFREYS LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND ting by Kneller al pain after the origin 8 From an early engravin ty 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 127 cried up, and there bespoke a pullet; which while dressing, he and I walked into St. James’s Park, and thence back, and dined very handsome, with a good soup, and a pullet, for 4s. 6d. the whole. Thence back to the Rolls, and did a little more business: and so by water to White Hall, whither I went to speak with Mr. Williamson, that if he hath any papers relating to the Navy I might see them, which he promises me: and so by water home, with great content for what I have this day found, having got almost as much as I desire of the history of the Navy, from 1618 to 1642, when the King and Parliament fell out. 16th. Visited Sir W. Coventry at the Tower, and walked with him upon the Stone Walk, alone, till other company come to him, and had very good discourse with him. My wife and Jane gone abroad, and Tom, in order to their buy- ing of things for their wedding, which, upon my discourse last night, is now resolved to be done, upon the 26th of this month, the day of my solemnity for my cutting of the stone, when my cozen Turner must be with us. My wife, there- fore, not at dinner; and comes to me Mr. Evelyn of Dept- ford, a worthy good man, and dined with me, but a bad din- ner; who is grieved for, and speaks openly to me his thoughts of, the times, and our ruin approaching; and all by the folly of the King. His business to me was about some ground of his, at Deptford,* next to the King’s yard. and after dinner we parted. To Woolwich, where I saw, but did not go on board, my ship “‘ The Jerzy,” she lying at the wharf under repair. But my business was to speak with Ackworth, about some old things and passages in the Navy, for my information therein, in order to my great business now of stating the history of the Navy. This I did; and upon the whole do find that the late times, in all their management, were not more husbandly than we; and other things of good content to me. Thence to Greenwich by water, and there landed at the King’s house,’ which goes : 1See note 2, March 4th, ante. ?The old palace at Greenwich had just been pulled down, and a new building commenced by Charles II., only one wing of which was com- _ pleted, at the expense of 36,000/., under the auspices of Webb, Inigo | Jones’s kinsman and executor. In 1694, the unfinished edifice was _ granted by William and Mary to trustees, for the use and service of a 128 DIARY OF ) [18th March, on slow, but is very pretty. I to the Park, there to see the prospect of the hill, to judge of Dancre’s picture, which he hath made thereof for me: and I do like it very well: and it is a very pretty place. Thence to Deptford, but staid not, Unthwayte being out of the way: and so home, and then to the King’s Tavern, Morrice’s, and staid till W. Hewer fetched his uncle Blackburne by appointment to me, to dis- course of the business of the Navy in the late times; and he did do it, by giving me a most exact account in writing, of the several turns in the Admiralty and Navy, and of the persons employed therein, from the beginning of the King’s leaving the Parliament, to his Son’s coming in, to my great content; and now I am fully informed in all I at present desire. We fell to other talk; and I find by him that the Bishops must certainly fall, and their hierarchy; these people’ have got so much ground upon the King and king- dom as is not to be got again from them: and the Bishops do well deserve it. But it is all the talk, I find, that Dr. Wilkins, my friend, the Bishop of Chester, shall be removed to Winchester, and be Lord Treasurer.” Though this be foolish talk, yet I do gather that he is a mighty rising man, as being a Latitudinarian, and the Duke of Buckingham his great friend. 17th. Up, and by water to see Mr. Wren, and then Mr. Williamson, who did shew me the very original bookes of propositions made by the Commissioners for the Navy, in 1618, to my great content; but no other Navy papers he could now shew me. Home, and took my wife by a hack- ney to the King’s playhouse, and saw “ The Coxcomb,’” the first time acted, but an old play, and a silly one, being acted only by the young people. 18th. Up, and to see Sir W. Coventry, and walked with him a good while in the Stone Walk: and brave discourse about my Lord Chancellor, and his ill managements and Naval Hospital; and it has been repeatedly enlarged and improved, till — it has arrived at its present splendour. 1 The anti-church party. 2The report could hardly have been believed, considering the Bishop’s connexion with Oliver Cromwell. 5A comedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 129 mistakes and several things of the Navy. Home to dinner, where my wife mighty finely dressed, by a maid that she hath taken, and is to come to her when Jane goes; and the same she the other day told me of, to be so handsome. I therefore longed to see her, but did not till after dinner, that my wife and I going by coach, she went with us to Holborne, where we set her down. She is a mighty _ proper maid, and pretty comely, but so so; but hath a most pleasing tone of voice, and speaks handsomely, but hath most great hands, and I believe ugly; but very well dressed, and good clothes, and that otherwise I believe will please me well enough. Thence to visit Ned Pickering and his lady, and Creed and his wife, but the former abroad, and the latter out of town, gone to my Lady Pickering’s, in Northamptonshire, upon occasion of the late death of their brother, Oliver Pickering, a youth, that is dead of the smallpox. So my wife and I to Dancre’s to see the pictures; and thence to Hyde Park, the first time we were there this year, or ever, in our own coach, where with mighty pride rode up and down, and many coaches there; and I thought our horses and coach as pretty as any there, and observed so to be by others.* Here staid till night, and so home. 19th. Sir Thomas Clifford did speak to me, as desirous that I would some time come and confer with him, about the Navy, which I am glad of, but will take the direction of the Duke of York before I do it, though I would be glad to do something to secure myself, if I could, in my employ- ment. Thence to the plaisterer’s, and took my face, and my Lord Duke of Albemarle’s, home with me by coach, they being done to my mind; and mighty glad I am of under- standing this way of having the pictures of any friends. After dinner, with Commissioner Middleton and Kemp- thorne,” to a Court-martiall, to which, by virtue of my late Captainship, I am called, the first I was ever at; where many Commanders, and Kempthorne president. Here was 1See 29th Noyv., ante. *Sir John Kempthorne, a Commissioner of the Navy under Charles II, and Admiral of a fleete in the Narrow Seas, 1677-8.—Pepys’s Signs Manual. VOL. IV, E 130 DIARY OF [19th March, tried a difference between Sir L. Van Hemskirke,* the Dutch Captain who commands “The Nonsuch,” built by his di- rection, and his Lieutenant; a drunken kind of silly busi- ness. We ordered the Lieutenant to ask him pardon, and have resolved to lay before the Duke of York what concerns the Captain, which was striking of his Lieutenant and chal- lenging him to fight, which comes not within any article of the laws martiall. But upon discourse the other day with Sir W. Coventry, I did advise Middleton, and he and I did forbear to give judgment, but after the debate did withdraw into another cabin, the Court being held in one of the yachts, which was on purpose brought up over against St. Katharine’s, it being to be feared that this precedent of our being made Captains, in order to the trying of the loss of “The Defyance,” wherein we are the proper persons to en- quire into the want of instructions while ships do lie in harbour, might be hereafter made of evil use, by putting the Duke of Buckingham, or any of. these rude fellows that now are uppermost, to make packed Courts, by Captains made on purpose to serve their turns. The other cause was of the loss of “The Providence” at Tangier, where the Captain’s being by chance on shore may prove very incon- venient to him, for example’s sake, though the man be a good man, and one whom, for Norwood’s sake, I would be kind to; but I will not offer any thing to the excusing such a miscarriage. He is at present confined, till he can bring better proofs on his behalf, of the reasons of his being on shore. So Middleton and I away to the Office; and there I late busy, making my people, as I have done lately, to read Mr. Holland’s? “ Discourse of the Navy,” and what other things I can get to inform me fully in all; and here late, about eight at night, comes Mr. Wren to me, who had 1See 22d April, and 13th May, 1668, ante. 2 John Holland, Paymaster to the Treasurer of the Navy, mentioned before (see vol. i, 30th Nov., 1660). A copy of this work, which has never been printed, is amongst Sir Hans Sloane’s MSS., and another, in connexion with papers relative to the Navy, formerly belonging to Sir George Duckett, both in the British Museum. In the Pepysian Collection, No. 113, are Two Discourses of Mr. Holland’s touching the Government of the Navy; one under the Earl of Northumberland in 1638, probably perused by Pepys, 14th Feb., ante, and 18th April, post; the other during the Rebellion, 1659, 2 vols., fol. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 131 been at the Tower to visit Sir W. Coventry. He came only to see how matters go, and tells me, as a secret, that last night the Duke of York’s closet was broken open, and his cabinets, and shut again, one of them: that the rogue that did it hath left plate and a watch behind him, and therefore they fear that it was only for papers, which looks like a very malicious business in design, to hurt the Duke of York; but they cannot know that, till the Duke of York comes to town about the papers, and therefore make no words of it. He gone, I to work again, and then to supper at home, and to bed. 20th. Up, and to the Tower, to Sir W. Coventry, and there walked with him alone, on the Stone Walk, till com- pany came to him; and there about the business of the Navy discoursed with him, and about my Lord Chancellor and Treasurer; that they were against the war with the Dutch at first, declaring, as wise men and statesmen, at first to the King, that they thought it fit to have a war with them at some time or other, but that it ought not to be till we found the Crowns of Spain and France together by the eares, the want of which did ruin our war. But then he told me that, a great while before the war, my Lord Chancellor did speak of a war with some heat, as a thing to be desired, and did it upon a belief that he could with his own speeches make the Parliament give what money he pleased, and do what he would, or would make the King desire; but he found him- self soon deceived of the Parliament, they having a long time before his removal been cloyed with his speeches and good words, and being come to hate him. Sir W. Coventry did tell me it, as the wisest thing that ever was said to the King by any statesman of his time, and it was by my Lord Treasurer that is dead, whom, I find, he takes for a very great statesman—that when the King did show himself for- _ ward for passing the Act of Indemnity, he did advise the _ King that he would hold his hand in doing it, till he had got his power restored, that had been diminished by the late times, and his revenue settled in such a manner as he might depend on himself, without resting upon Parliaments, and then pass it. But my Lord Chancellor, who thought he could have the command of Parliaments for ever, be- cause for the King’s sake they were awhile willing to K2 132 DIARY OF [21st March, grant all the King desired, did press for its being done; and so it was, and the King from that time able to do nothing with the Parliament almost. Mightily pleased with the news brought me to-night, that the King and Duke of York are come back this afternoon, and no sooner come, but a warrant was sent to the Tower for the releasing Sir W. Coventry; which do put me in some hopes that there may be, in his absence, some accommodation made between the Duke of York and the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Arlington. Qlst. (Lord’s day.) By water over to Southwarke; and then, not getting a boat, I forced to walk to Stangate;* and so over to White Hall, in a scull; where to the Duke of York’s dressing-room, and there met Harry Saville, and do understand that Sir W. Coventry is come to his house last night. I understand by Mr. Wren that his friends having, by Secretary Trevor and my Lord Keeper, applied to the King, upon his first coming home, and a promise made that he should be discharged this day, my Lord Arlington did anticipate them, by sending a warrant presently for his dis- charge, which looks a little like kindness, or a desire of it; which God send! though I fear the contrary: however, my heart is glad that he is out. Thence up and down the House. Met Mr. May,’ who tells me the story of his being put by Sir John Denham’s place, of Surveyor of the King’s Works, who, it seems, is lately dead, by the unkindness of the Duke of Buckingham, who hath brought in Dr. Wren:* though, he tells me, he hath been his servant for twenty years together, in all his wants and dangers, saving him from want of bread by his care and management, and with a promise of having his help in his advancement, and an . engagement under his hand for 1000/1. not yet paid, and yet the Duke of Buckingham is so ungrateful as to put him by: which is an ill thing, though Dr. Wren is a worthy man. But he tells me that the King is kind to him, and hath pro- mised him a pension of 300]. a-year out of the Works; which will be of more content to him than the place, which, under their present wants of money, is a place that dis- obliges most people, being not able to do what they desire to their lodgings. Here meeting with Sir H. Cholmly and * Near Lambeta. ?Hugh May. 5 Sir Christopher. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 133 Povy, they tell me that my Lord Middleton is resolved in the Cabal that he shall not go to Tangier; and that Sir Edward Harlow [ Harley ],* whom I know not, is propounded to go, who was Governor of Dunkirke, and, they say, a most worthy brave man, which I shall be very glad of. W. Howe comes to dine with me; and after dinner propounds to me my lending him 500/., to help him to purchase a place—the Master of the Patent Office, of Sir Richard Piggott. I did give him a civil answer, but shall think twice of it; and the more, because of the changes we are like to have in the Navy, which will make it fit for me to divide the little I have left more than I have done, God knowing what my condition is, { having not attended, and now not being able to examine what my state is,of my accounts, and being in the world, which troubles me mightily. News lately come of the Algerines taking 13,000/. in money, out of one of our Company’s East India ships, outward bound, which will certainly make the war last; which I am sorry for, being so poor as we are, and broken in pieces. Pelling comes to see and sup with us, and I find that he is assisting my wife in getting a licence to our young people’ to be married this Lent,’ which is resolved shall be done upon Friday next, my great day, or feast, for my being cut of the stone. 22d. Up, and by water, with W. Hewer, to White Hall, there to attend the Lords of the Treasury; but, before they sat, I did make a step to see Sir W. Coventry at his house, where, I bless God! he is come again; but in my way I met him, and so he took me into his coach and carried me to White Hall, and there set me down where he ought not —at least, he hath not yet leave to come, nor hath thought fit yet to ask it, hearing that Henry Saville is not only denied to kiss the King’s hand, but the King, being asked it by the Duke of York, did deny it, and directed that the Duke shall not receive him, to wait upon him in his. cham- _mer, till further orders. Sir W. Coventry told me that he: _ was going to visit Sir John Trevor, who hath been kind to +See 18th May, 1660, note. ?His servants. * Although marriages during Lent have always been considered un- seemly, it is a vulgar error to suppose that a licence is required to solemnize them at that season. See Johnson’s Clergyman’s Vade-Mecum, vol. i., p. 167. 134 DIARY OF [22d March, him; and he showed me a long list of all his friends that he must this week make visits to, that came to visit him in the Tower; and seems mighty well satisfied at his being out of business, but I hope he will not long be so; at least, I do believe that all must go to rack, if the King do not come to see the want of such a servant. Thence to the Treasury- Chamber, and there all the morning, to my great grief, put to do Sir G. Downing’s work of dividing the Customes for this year, between the Navy, the Ordnance, and Tangier: but it did so trouble my eyes, that I had rather have given 201. than have had it to do; but I did thereby oblige Sir Thomas Clifford and Sir J. Duncombe, and so am glad of the opportunity to recommend myself to the former, for the latter I need not, he loving me well already. At it till noon, here being several of my brethren with me, but doing nothing, but I all. But this day I did also represent to our Treasurers, which we read here, a state of the charge of the Navy, and what the expence of it this year would likely be; which is done so as it will appear well done, and to my honour, for so the Lords did take it: and I oblige the Trea- surers by doing it, at their request. With W. Hewer at noon to Unthanke’s, where my wife stays for me; and so to the Cocke, where there was no room, and thence to King Street, to several cook’s shops, where nothing to be had; and at last to the corner shop, going down Ivy Lane, by my Lord of Salisbury’s,* and there got a good dinner, my wife, and W. Hewer, and I; and after dinner she, with her coach, home; and he and I to look over my papers for the East India Company, against the afternoon: which done, I with them to White Hall, and there to the Treasury-Chamber, where the East India Company and three Councillors pleaded against me alone, for three or four hours, till seven at night, before the Lords; and the Lords did give me the conquest on behalf of the King, but could not come to any conclusion, the Company being stiff: and so I think we shall go to law with them. This done, and my *This house, long since pulled down, was built by Sir Robert Cecil, the first Earl of Salisbury, and called after his title. It stood in the Strand, on the site of Cecil Street. Ivy Bridge Lane was near the old mansion. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 135 eyes mighty bad with this day’s work, I to Mr. Wren’s, and then up to the Duke of York, and there with Mr. Wren did propound to him my going to Chatham to- morrow with Commissioner Middléton, and so this week to make the pay there, and examine the business of “The Defyance” being lost, and other businesses, which I did the rather, that I might be out of the way, at the wedding,” and be at a little liberty myself for a day or two, to find a little pleasure, and give my eyes a little ease. The Duke of York mightily satis- fied with it; and so away home, where my wife troubled at my being so late abroad, poor woman! though never more busy, but I satisfied her; and so begun to put things in order for my journey to-morrow, and so after supper, to bed. 23d. I took coach with Commissioner Middleton, Captain Tinker, and Mr. Huchinson, and out towards Chatham, and dined at Dartford, where we staid an hour or two, it being a cold day; and so on, and got to Chatham just at night, with very good discourse by the way, but mostly of matters of religion, wherein Huchinson his vein lies. After sup- per, we fell to talk of spirits and apparitions, whereupon many pretty, particular stories were told, so as to make me almost afraid to be alone, but for shame I could not help it; and so to bed; and, being sleepy, fell soon to rest, and so rested well. 24th. To the Hill-house, and there did give order for a coach to be made ready; and got Mr. Gibson, whom I carried with me, to go with me and Mr. Coney, the surgeon, towards Maydstone, which I had a mighty mind to see, and took occasion, in my way, at St. Margett’s, to pretend to call to see Captain Allen, to see whether Mrs. Jewkes,’ his daughter, was there; and there his wife come to the door, he being at London, and, through a window, I spied Jewkes, but took no notice of her, but made excuse till night, and then promised to come and see Mrs. Allen again. A mighty cold and windy, but clear day; and had the pleasure of seeing the Medway running, 1See the day before. ?See 9th April, 1661, and Ist April, 1667. 136 DIARY OF [24th March, winding up and down mightily, and a very fine country; and I went a little out of the way to have visited Sir John Bankes, but he at London; but here I had a sight of his seat and house,’ the outside, which is an old abbey just like Hinchinbroke, and as good at least, and mighty finely placed by the river; and he keeps the grounds about it, and walls and the house, very handsome: I was mightily pleased with the sight of it. Thence to Maydstone, which I had a mighty mind to see, having never been there; and walked all up and down the town, and up to the top of the steeple, and had a noble view, and then down again: and in the town did see an old man beating of flax, and did step into the barn and give him money, and saw that piece of hus- bandry which I never saw, and it is very pretty: in the street also I did buy and send to our inne, the Bell, a dish of fresh fish. And so, having walked all round the town, and found it very pretty, as most towns I ever saw, though not very big, and people of good fashion in it, we to our inne, and had a good dinner; and a barber came to me, and there trimmed me, that I might be clean against night, to go to Mrs. Allen. And so, staying till four o’clock, we set out, I alone in the coach going and coming: and in our way back, I ’light out of the way to see a Saxon monument, as they say, of a King, which is of three stones standing upright, and a great round one lying on them, of great big- ness, although not so big as those on Salisbury Plain; but certainly it is a thing of great antiquity, and I am mightily glad to see it; it is near to Aylesford, where Sir John Bankes lives. So homeward to Chatham, to Captain Allen’s, and there ‘light, and sent the coach and Gibson | home, and I and Coney staid: and there comes to us Mrs. Jewkes, who is a very fine, proper lady, as most I know, and well dressed. Here was also a gentleman, one Major 1The Friary, in Aylesford parish, since the property of the Earls of Aylesford, whose ancestor Heneage Finch married the eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir John Bankes. 2This is the ancient monument called Kit’s Coty House, supposed to be the burial-place of Catigern, who fell in command of the Britons, in a sanguinary but successful conflict against the Saxons, under Hen- gist and Horsa. It stands on the Downs, about one mile north-east of Aylesford Church. See Stukeley’s Itinerarium, in which are two views of the monument, and Hasted’s History of Kent, vol. ii. p. 177. 1669) SAMUEL PEPYS 137 Manly,’ and his wife, neighbours; and here we staid, and drank, and talked, and sat. Coney and he to play while Mrs. Jewkes and I to talk, and there had all our old stories up, and there I had the liberty to salute her often; and she mighty free in kindness to me; and had there been time, I might have carried her to Cobham, as she, upon my pressing it, was very willing to go. Here was a pretty cozen of hers come in to supper also, of a great fortune, daughter-in-law to this Manly, mighty pretty, but had now such a cold, she could not speak. Here staid till almost twelve at night, and then with a lanthorn from thence walked over the fields, as dark as pitch, and mighty cold, and snow, to Chatham, and Mr. Coney with great kindness to me; and there all in bed before I come home, and so I presently to bed. 25th. Up, and by and by, about eight o’clock, came Rear- Admiral Kempthorne and seven Captains more, by the Duke of York’s order, as we expected, to hold the Court- martiall about the loss of “The Defyance;” and so pre- sently we by boat to “ The Charles,” which lies over against Upnor Castle; and there I did manage the business, the Duke of York having, by special order, directed them to take the assistance of Commissioner Middleton and me, forasmuch as there might be need of advice in what relates to the government of the ships in harbour. And so I did lay the law open to them, and rattle the Master-Attendants out of their wits almost; and made the trial last till seven at night, not eating a bit all the day; only when we had done examination, and I given my thoughts that the neglect of the Gunner of the ship was as great as I thought any neglect could be, which might by the law deserve death, but Commissioner Middleton did declare that he was against giving the sentence of death, we withdrew, as not being of the Court, and so left them to do what they Pleased; and, while they were debating it, the Boatswain of the ship did bring us out of the kettle a piece of hot salt beef, and some brown bread and brandy; and there we did make a little meal, but so good as I never would desire to 1John Manley, M.P. for Bridport: he married Margaret, daughter of the unfortunate Isaak Dorislaus. 138 DIARY OF [27th March, eat better meat while I live, only I would have cleaner dishes. By and by they had done, and called us down from the quarter-deck; and there we find they do sentence that the Gunner of “The Defyance” should stand upon “The Charles” three hours with his fault writ upon his breast, and with a halter about his neck, and so be made incapable of any service. The truth is, the man do seem, and is, I believe, a good man; but his neglect, in trust- ing a girl to carry fire into his cabin, is not to be par- doned. This being done, we took boat and home; and there a good supper was ready for us, which should have been our dinner. The Captains, desirous to be at Lon- don, went away presently for Gravesend, to get thither by this night’s tide; and so we to supper, it having been a great snowy and mighty cold, foul day; and so after supper to bed. 26th. Up, and with Middleton all the morning at the Docke, looking over the storehouses and Commissioner ° Pett’s house, in order to Captain Cox’s coming to live there in his stead, as Commissioner. But it is a mighty pretty house; and pretty to see how every thing is said to be out of repair for this new man, though 10/. would put it into as good condition in every thing as it ever was in, so free every body is of the King’s money! And so to dinner at the Hill-House; and after dinner, till eight at night, close, Middleton and I, examining the business of Mr. Pett, about selling a boat, and we find him a very knave; and some other quarrels of his, wherein, to justify himself, he hath made complaints of others. This being done, we to sup- per, and so to talk, Commissioner Middleton being mighty good company upon a journey, and so to bed, thinking how merry my people are at this time, Tom and Jane being to have been married this day, it being also my feast for my being cut of the stone, but how many years I do not remember, but I think it to be about ten or eleven. 27th. After drinking a little buttered ale, Huchinson and I took coach, and, exceedingly merry in talk, to Dart- ford: Middleton finding stories of his own life at Bar- badoes, and up and down at Venice, and elsewhere, that are mighty pretty, and worth hearing; and he is a strange 1669] . SAMUEL PEPYS 139 good companion, and droll upon the road, more than ever I could have thought to have been in him. Took coach again, and got home about six at night, it being all the morning as cold, snowy, windy, and rainy day, as any in the whole winter past, but pretty clear in the afternoon. I find all well, but my wife abroad with Jane, who was married yesterday. By and by my wife comes, and there I hear how merry they were yesterday, and I am glad at it, they being married, it seems, very handsomely, at Islington ; and dined at the old house, and lay in our blue chamber, with much company, and wonderful merry. The. Turner and Mary Batelier bridesmaids, and Talbot Pepys and W. Hewer bridesmen. 28th. (Lord’s day.) To the Office with Tom, who looks mighty snug upon his marriage, as Jane also do, both of whom I did give joy, and so Tom and I to work at the Office all the morning till dinner, and then dined, W. Bate- lier with us; and so after dinner to work again, and sent for Gibson, and kept him also till eight at night, doing much business. And so, that being done, and my Journal writ, my eyes being very bad, and every day worse and worse, I fear: but I find it most certain that strong drinks do make my eyes sore, as they have done _ here- tofore always; for, when I was in the country, when my eyes were at the best, their stronge beere would make my eyes sore: so home to supper, and by and by to bed. 29th. Up, and by water to White Hall; and there to the Duke of York, to show myself, after my journey to Chatham, but did no business to-day with him: only after gone from him, I to Sir T. Clifford’s; and there, after an hour’s waiting, he being alone in his closet, I did speak with him, and give him the account he gave me to draw up, and he did like it very well: and then fell to talk of the business of the Navy: and giving me good words, did fall foul of the constitution of the Board, and then did dis- cover his thoughts, that Sir J. Minnes was too old, and so was Colonel Middleton, and that my Lord Brouncker did mind his mathematics too much. I did not give much encouragement to that of finding fault with my fellow- officers; but did stand up for the constitution, and did say 140 DIARY OF [30th March, that what faults there were in our Office would be found not to arise from the constitution, but from the failures of the officers in whose hands it was. This he did seem to give good ear to; but did give me of myself very good words, which pleased me well, though I shall not build upon them any thing. Thence home; and after dinner by water with Tom down to Greenwich, he reading to me all the way, coming and going, my collections out of the Duke of York’s old manuscript of the Navy, which I have bound up, and do please me mightily. At Greenwich I came to Captain Cocke’s, where the house full of company, at the burial of James Temple, who, it seems, hath been dead these five days: here I had a very good ring, which I did give my wife as soon as I come home. I spent my time there walking in the garden, talking with James Pierce, who tells me that he is certain that the Duke of Bucking- ham had been with his wenches all the time that he was absent, which was all the last week, nobody knowing where he was. The great talk is of the King’s being hot of late against Conventicles, and to see whether the Duke of Buck- ingham’s being returned will turn the King, which will make him very popular: and some think it is his plot to make the King thus, to show his power in the making him change his mind. But Pierce did tell me that the King did cer- tainly say, that he that took one stone from the Church, did take two from his Crown. By and by the corpse came out; and I, with Sir Richard Browne and Mr. Evelyn, ‘n their coach to the church, where Mr. Plume preached. I, in the midst of the sermon, did go out, and walked all alone round to Deptford: and so to the King’s Yard, and there my boat by order met me, and home. This day my new chamber-maid, that comes in the room of Jane, is come, Jane and Tom lying at their own lodging this night: the new maid’s name is Matt, a proper and very comely maid. This day also our cook-maid Bridget went away, which I was sorry for; but, just at her going, she was found to be a thief, and so I was the less troubled for it; but now our © whole house will, in a manner, be new, which, since Jane is gone, I am not at all sorry for. 30th. Up, and with Sir W. Coventry, to see and discourse with him; and he tells me that he hath lately been with my_ 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 141 Lord Keeper, and had much disccurse about the Navy; and particularly he tells me that he finds they are divided touch- ing me, and my Lord Brouncker; some are for removing us, and some for keeping us. He told my Lord Keeper that it would cost the King 10,0001. before he had made another as fit to serve him in the Navy as I am; which, though I believe it is true, yet I am much pleased to have that character given me by Sir W. Coventry, whatever be the success of it. But I perceive they do think that I know too much, and shall impose upon whomever shall come next, and therefore must be removed, though he tells me that Sir T. Clifford is inclined well enough to me, and Sir T. Osborne; by what I have lately done, I suppose. This news is but what I ought not to be much troubled for, con- sidering my incapacity, in regard to my eyes, to continue long at this work. To the Office, where all the morning; and Sir W. Pen, the first time that he hath been here since his being last sick, which, I think, is two or three months; and I think will be the last that he will be here as one of the Board, he now inviting us all to dine with him, as a part- ing dinner, on Thursday next, which I am glad of, I am sure; for he is a very villain. $l1st. Up, and by water to Sir W. Coventry’s, there to talk with him about business of the Navy, and received from him direction what to advise the Duke of York at this time, which was, to submit and give way to the King’s naming a man or two, that the people about him have a mind should be brought into the Navy, and perhaps that may stop their fury in running further against the whole; and this, he believes, will do it. After much discourse with him, I walked out with him into St. James’s Park, where, being afraid to be seen with him, he having not leave yet to kiss the King’s hand, but notice taken, as I hear of all that go to him, I did make the pretence of my attending the Tangier Committee, to take my leave, though to serve _him I should, I think, stick at nothing. At the Committee, _ this morning, my Lord Middleton declares at last his being ready to go, as soon as ever money can be made ready to pay the garrison: and so I have orders to get money, but how soon I know not. Thence home, and there find Mr. Sheres, of whom I find my wife of late to talk with 142 DIARY OF [ist March, mighty kindness; and particularly he hath shown himself to be a poet, and that she do mightily value him for. He did not stay to dine with us, but we to dinner; and then, in the afternoon, my wife being very well dressed by her new maid, we abroad, to make a visit to Mrs. Pickering; but she abroad again, and so we never yet saw her. Thence to Dancre’s, and there saw our pictures which are in do- ing; and I did choose a view of Rome instead of Hampton Court; and mightily pleased I shall be in them. Here were Sir Charles Cotterell and his son bespeaking something; both ingenious men, I hear. Thence my wife and I to the Park; and pretty store of company; and so home with great con- tent: and so ends the month, my mind in pretty good con- tent for all things, but the designs on foot to bring alterations in the Office, which trouble me. April 1st. Up, and with Colonel Middleton, at the desire of Rear-Admiral Kempthorne, the President, for our assist- ing them, to the Court-martiall on board a yacht in the River here, to try the business of the Purser’s complaints, Baker against Trevanion, his Commander, of “ The Dart- mouth.” But, Lord! to see what wretched doings there were among all the Commanders to ruin the Purser, and defend the Captain in all his rogueries, be it to the preju- dice of the King or Purser, no good man could bear! I confess I was pretty high, which the young gentlemen Commanders did not like; and Middleton did the same. But could not bring it to any issue this day, sitting till two o’clock; and therefore we being sent for, went to Sir W. Pen’s by invitation to dine; where my wife was, and my Lord Brouncker and his mistress, and Sir J. Minnes and his niece; and here a bad dinner, and little mirth, I being little pleased with my host. However, I make myself sociable; and so after dinner, my wife and I, with my Lord Brouncker and his mistress, who set us down at my cozen Turner’s, and there we staid awhile and talked; and particu- larly here we met with Dr. Ball, the Parson of the Temple, who did tell me a great many pretty stories about the manner of the Parsons being paid for their preaching at Paul’s heretofore, and now, and the ground of the Lecture, and for the names of the founders thereof, which were many, 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 143 at some 5s., some 6s. per annum towards it: and had their names read in the pulpit every sermon among those holy persons that the Church do order a collect for, giving God thanks for. 2d. To White Hall, and there to the Duke of York’s lodgings, whither he, by and by, by his appointment came: and alone with him an hour in his closet, telling him mine and Sir W. Coventry’s advice touching the present posture of the Navy, as the Duke of Buckingham and the rest do now labour to make changes therein; and that it were best for him to suffer the King to be satisfied with the bringing in of a man or two whom they desire. [I did also give the Duke of York a short account of the history of the Navy, as to our Office, wherewith he was very well satisfied: but I do find that he is pretty stiff against their bringing in of men against his mind, as the Treasurers were, and particu- larly against Child’s* coming in, because he is a merchant. After much discourse with him, we parted; and the Council sat, while I staid waiting for his tellmg me when I should be ready to give him a written account of the administration of the Navy, which caused me to wait the whole afternoon, till night. Im the mean time, stepping to the Duchess of York’s side to speak with Lady Peterborough, I did see the young Duchess,’ a little child in hanging sleeves, dance most finely, so as almost to ravish me, her ears were so good: taught by a Frenchman that did heretofore teach the King, and all the King’s children, and the Queen-Mother herself, who do still dance well. Thence to the council door, and Mr. Cheffinch took me into the back stairs, and there with his friend, Mr. Fowkes, for whom he is very solicitous in some things depending in this Office, he did make me, with some others that he took in (among others, Alderman Backewell), eat a pickled herring, the largest I ever saw, and drink variety of wines till I was almost merry; but I did keep in good time; and so, after the Council was up, I home; and there find my wife not yet come from Deptford, where she hath been all this day to see her mother. This night I did bring home from the King’s 1 Afterwards Sir Josiah Child. 7 The Princess Mary, afterwards Queen of England. 144 DIARY OF [5th April, pottecary’s, in White Hall, by Mr. Cooling’s direction, a water that he says is mighty good for his eyes. I pray God it may do me good: but, by his description, his disease was the same as mine, and this do encourage me to use it. 3d. Up, and to the Council of War again, with Middleton: and the proceedings of the Commanders so devilishly bad, and so professedly partial to the Captain, that I could en- dure it no longer, but took occasion to pretend business at the Office, and away, and Colonel Middleton with me, who was of the same mind, and resolved to declare our minds freely to the Duke of York about it. 4th. (Lord’s day.) Up, and to church, where Alderman Backewell’s wife, by invitation with my leave, come up with her mother, and sat with us, and after sermon I did walk with them home, and there left them, and home to dinner. After dinner with Sir J. Minnes and T. Middleton to White Hall, by appointment; and at my Lord Arlington’s the Office did attend the King and Cabal, to discourse of the further quantity of victuals fit to be declared for,* which was 2000 men for six months; and so home without more ado er stay there, hearing no news but that Sir Thomas Allen is to be expected every hour at home with his fleete, or news of his being gone back to Algier. The Queen- Mother hath been of late mighty ill, and some fears of her death. 5th. With Creed walking in the garden, and talking about our Office, and Child’s coming in to be a Com- missioner; and, being his friend, I did think he might do me a kindness to learn of him what the Duke of Bucking- ham and the faction do design touching me, and to instil good words concerning me, which he says, and I believe he will: and it is but necessary; for I have not a mind indeed at this time to be put out of my Office, if I can make any shift that is honourable to keep it; but I will not do it by deserting the Duke of York. At noon by appointment comes Mr. Sheres, and he and I to Unthanke’s, where my ~ wife stays for us in our coach, and Betty. Turner with — her; and we to the Mulberry Garden, where Sheres is to — The official expression still used. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 145 treat us with a Spanish Olio,* by a cook of his acquaintance that is there, that was with my Lord in Spain: and without any other company, he did do it, and mighty nobly; and the Olio was indeed a very noble dish, such as I never saw better or any more of. ‘This, and the discourse he did give us of Spain, and description of the Escuriall, was a fine treat. So we left other good things, that would keep till night, for a collation; and, with much content, took coach again, and went five or six miles towards Branford, where the Prince of Tuscany,’ who comes into England only to spend money and see our country, comes into the town to- day, and is much expected; and we met him, but the coach passing by apace, we could not see much of him, but he seems a very jolly and good comely man. By the way, we overtook Captain Furrers upon his fine Spanish horse, and he is a fine horse indeed; but not so good, I think, as I have seen some. He did ride by us most of the way, and with us to the Park, and there left us, where we passed the evening, and meeting The. Turner, Talbot, W. Batelier, and his sister, in a coach, we anon took them with us to the Mulberry Garden; and there, after a walk, to supper upon what was left at noon: and very good; only Mr. Sheres being taken suddenly ill for a while, did spoil our mirth; and by and by was well again, and we mighty merry: and so broke up, and left him at Charing Cross, and so calling only at my cozen Turner’s, away home, mightily pleased with the day’s work. This day come another new mayd, for a middle mayd, but her name I know not yet; and, for * Olio, or Oglio, a savoury dish composed of a great variety of ingre- dients, as meat, herbs, &c. Cosmo de’ Medici, who succeeded his father Ferdinand in the Dukedom of Tuscany in 1670. Whilst he was in England, in 1669, the Prince caused a number of views of places and of scenery to be executed for him. A few of these have been engraved, on a reduced scale, for Mawman’s 4to, publication of Cosmo’s Travels, in 1821, but those prints being very unsatisfactory, the facsimile copies of the original drawings now at Florence, were purchased by the present Editor’s uncle, the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville, and form part of the splendid library which he bequeathed, in 1846, to the British Museum. Readers will remember the use which Lord Macaulay has made of them, that “ scarce a hedgerow is to be seen, and numerous tracts, now rich with culti- vation, appear as bare as Salisbury Plain.” VOL. Iv. L 146 DIARY OF [7th April, a cook-maid, we have, ever since Bridget went, used a black- moore of Mr. Batelier’s, Doll, who dresses our meat mighty well, and we mightily pleased with her. 6th. To Mr. Batelier’s to dinner, where my cozen Turner and both her daughters, and Talbot Pepys and my wife, and a mighty fine dinner. They at dinner before I come; and, when I had dined, I away home, and thence to White Hall, where the Board waited on the Duke of York; and Mid- dleton and I did in plain terms acquaint him what we thought and had observed in the late Court-martiall, which the Duke did give ear to; and though he thinks not fit to revoke what is already done in this case by a Court-martiall, yet it shall bring forth some good laws in the behaviour of Captains to their under Officers for the time to come. Thence home, and after a while at the Office, come home my wife, who hath been at Batelier’s late, and dancing with the company, at which I seemed a little troubled, not being sent for myself, but I was not so much so, but went to bed well enough pleased. 7th. By coach to my cozen Turner’s, and invited them to dine at the Cocke to-day, with my wife and me; and so to the Lords of the Treasury, where all the morning, and settled matters to their liking about the assignments on the Cus- tomes, between the Navy Office and Victualler, and to that end spent most of the morning there with D. Gauden. I to the New Exchange, to talk with Betty,’ my little semp- stress; and so to Mrs. Turner’s, to call them to dinner, but my wife not come, I back again, and was overtaken by a porter, with a message from my wife that she was ill, and could not come to us: so I back again to Mrs. Turner’s, and find them gone; and so back again to the Cocke, and there find Mrs. Turner, Betty, and Talbot Pepys, and they dined with myself, Sir D. Gauden and Gibson, and mighty merry, this house being famous for good meat, and particularly pease-porridge. After dinner, broke up, and they away; and I to the Council-Chamber, and there heard the great complaint of the City, tried against the gentlemen of the Temple, for the late ryot, as they would have it, when my Lord Mayor was there. But, 1Betty Smith: see 11th January, 1668-9, ante. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 147 upon hearing the whole business, the City was certainly to blame to charge them in this manner as with a ryot: but the King and Council did forbear to determine any thing in it, till the other business of the title and privilege be de- cided, which is now under dispute at law between them, whether the Temple be within the liberty of the City or no.* But I was sorry to see the City so ill-advised as to com- plain in a thing where their proofs were so weak. Thence to my cozen Turner’s, and thence with her and her daughters, and her sister Turner, I carrying Betty in my lap, to Tal- bot’s Chamber at the Temple, where, by agreement, the poor rogue had a pretty dish of Anchovies and sweetmeats for them; and hither come Mr. Eden,’ who was in his mis- tress’s disfavour ever since the other night that he come in thither fuddled, when we were there. But I did make them friends by my buffoonery, and bringing up a way of spelling their names, and making Theophila spell Lamton, which she would have to be the name of Mr. Eden’s mistress, and mighty merry we were till late. This day I do hear that Betty Turner is to be left at school at Hackney, which I am mighty pleased with; for then I shall now and then see her. She is pretty, and a girl for that, and her relations, I love. 8th. Up, and to White Hall, to the King’s side, to find Sir T. Clifford, where the Duke of York came and found me, which I was sorry for, for fear he should think I was making friends on that side. But I did put it off the best I could, my being there: and so, by and by, had opportu- nity alone to show Sir T. Clifford the fair account I had drawn up of the Customes, which he liked, and seemed mightily pleased with me; and so away to the Excise-Office, to do a little business there, and so to the Office, where all the morning. With my wife by coach to Islington, to pay what we owe there, for the late dinner at Jane’s wedding; +See 3d March, 1668-9, ante. 2? Robert Eden, of West Auckland, Durham, which county he repre- sented in Parliament for many years, married the lady here alluded to, Margaret, daughter and heir of John Lambton. He is the direct ancestor of the Lords Auckland. He was created a Baronet 13th November, 1672, and died in 1720, his wife surviving till 1730. Lg 148 DIARY OF [11th April, and so round by Kingsland and Hogsden* home, pleased with my wife’s singing with me, by the way. Going through Smithfield, I did see a coach run over a coachman’s neck, and stand upon it, and yet the man rose up, and was well after it, which I thought a wonder. 9th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there, with the Board, attended the Duke of York, and Sir Thomas Allen with us (who came to town yesterday); and it is resolved another fleete shall go to the Streights forthwith, and he command it. But his coming home is mighty hardly talked on by the merchants, for leaving their ships there to the mercy of the Turks: but of this more in my White-Book. To the Excise-Office, and to several places; among others, to Mr. Faythorne’s, to have seen an instrument which he was said to have, for drawing perspectives, but he had it not: but here I did see his workhouse, and the best things of his doing he had by him. 10th. After dinner comes Mr. Seymour to visit me, a talking fellow: but I hear by him that Captain Trevanion do give it out everywhere, that I did over-rule the whole Court-martiall against him, so long as I was there; and perhaps I may receive, at this time, some wrong by it: but I care not, for what I did was out of my desire to do justice. llth. (Easter day.) Up, and to Church; where Alderman Backewell’s lady, and mother, and boy, and another gentle- woman, did come, and sit in our pew; but no women of our own there, and so there was room enough. Our Parson made a dull sermon, and so home to dinner; and, after dinner, my wife and I by coach, and Balty with us, to Loton,” the landscape-drawer, a Dutchman, living in St. James’s Market,’ but there saw no good pictures. But by accident he did direct us to a painter that was then in the house with him, a Dutchman, newly come over, one Verelst,* 1 Hodié Hoxton. ? John Loten, a landscape painter, long established in London, where he died circ. 1688. *See note to Ist April, 1666, ante. ‘Simon Verelst, a Dutch flower-painter, who practised his art with much success in England about this time. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 149 who took us to his lodging close by, and did show us a little flower-pot of his drawing, the finest thing that ever, I think, I saw in my life; the drops of dew hanging on the leaves, so as I was forced again and again, to put my finger to it, to feel whether my eyes were deceived or no. He did ask 7Ol. for it: I had the vanity to bid him Q0l.: but a better picture I never saw in my whole life; and it is worth going twenty miles to see it. Thence, leaving Balty there, I took my wife to St. James’s, and there carried her to the Queen’s Chapel, the first time I ever did it; and heard ex- cellent musick, but not so good as by accident I did hear there yesterday, as I went through the Park from White Hall to see Sir W. Coventry, which I have forgot to set down in my Journal yesterday. And going out of the Chapel I did see the Prince of Tuscany* come out, a comely, black, fat man, in a mourning suit; and my wife and I did see him this afternoon through a window in this Chapel. All that Sir W. Coventry yesterday did tell me new was, that the King would not yet give him leave to come to kiss his hand; and he do believe that he will not in a great while do it, till those about him shall see fit, which I am sorry for. Thence to the Park, my wife and I; and here Sir W. Coventry did first see me and my wife in a coach of our own; and so did also this night the Duke of York, who did eye my wife mightily. But I begin to doubt that my being so much seen in my own coach at this time, may be ob- served to my prejudice; but I must venture it now. So home, and so set down my Journal, with the help of my left eye through my tube,” for fourteen days past; which is so much, as, I hope, I shall not run in arrear again, but the badness of my eyes do force me to it. 12th. The whole Office attended the Duke of York at his meeting with Sir Thomas Allen and several flag officers, to consider of the matter of managing the war with Algiers; and, it being a thing I was wholly silent in, I did only observe; and find that their manner of discourse on this weighty affair was very mean and disorderly, the Duke of York him- self being the man that I thought spoke most to the pur- +See 5th April, ante. ?See Slst July, 1668. 150 DIARY OF [18th April, pose. Meeting Mr. Sheres, took him to see the fine flower- pot I saw yesterday, and did again offer 201. for it; but he [ Verelst] insists upon 501. By and by to my wife at Un- thanke’s, and with her was Jane, and so to the Cocke, where they, and I, and Sheres, and Tom, dined, my wife having a great desire to eat of their soup made of pease. By water to the Bear-Garden, and there happened to sit by Sir Fretcheville Hollis, who is still full of his vain-glorious and prophane talk. Here we saw a prize fought between a sol- dier and a country fellow, one Warrell, who promised the least in his looks, and performed the most valour in his boldness and evenness of mind, and smiles in all he did, that ever I saw: and we were all both deceived and infinitely taken with him. He did soundly beat the soldier, and cut him over the head. Thence back to White Hall, mightily Pleased, all of us, with this sight, and particularly this fellow, as a most extraordinary man for his temper and evenness in fighting. Home, and after sitting a while, thrumming upon my viall, and singing, I to bed, and left my wife to do something to a waistcoat and petticoat she is to wear to-morrow. This evening, coming home, we over- took Alderman Backwell’s coach and his lady, and followed them to their house, and there made them the first visit, where they received us with extraordinary civility, and owning the obligation. But I do, contrary to my expecta- tion, find her something a proud and vain-glorious woman, in telling the number of her servants and family and ex- pences: he is also so, but he was ever of that strain. But here he showed me the model of his houses that he is going to build in Cornhill and Lumbard Street: but he hath pur- chased so much there, that it looks like a little town, and must have cost him a great deal of money. 13th. I by hackney-coach to the Spittle,* and heard a piece of a dull sermon to my Lord Mayor and Aldermen, and thence saw them all take horse and ride away, which I have not seen together many a-day; their wives also went in their coaches; and, indeed, the sight was mighty pleas- ing. Thence took occasion to go back to a milliner’s in 1 At this time preached at St. Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, but of late years at Christ Church, Newgate Street: see 2d April, 1662, ante. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS ' 151 Fenchurch Street, whose name I understand to be Clerke; and there, her husband inviting me up to the balcony, to see the Show go by to dinner, at Clothworker’s-Hall,* I did go up and there saw it go by: and then, there being a good piece of cold roast beef upon the table, one Margetts, a young merchant that lodges there, and is likely to marry a sister of hers, and I staid and eat, and had much good con- versation with her, who hath the vanity to talk of her great friends and father, one Wingate, near Welling,’ that hath been a Parliament-man. Here also was Stapely, the rope- merchant, and dined with us; and, after spending most of the afternoon also, I away home; and by water to White Hall to look, among other things, for Mr. May, to unbe- speak his dining with me to-morrow. Home by water, and there I find Talbot Pepys, and Mrs. Turner, and Betty, come to invite us to dinner on Thursday; and, after drink- ing, saw them to the water-side. 14th. Up, and with W. Hewer to White Hall, and there I did speak with the Duke of York, the Council sitting in the morning, and it was to direct me to have my business ready of the Administration of the Office against Saturday next, when the King would have a hearing of it. To the Duke of York’s playhouse, and there saw ‘The Imper- tinents,” a play which pleases me well still; but it is with great trouble that I now see a play, because of my eyes, the light of the candles making it very troublesome to me. After the play to Creed’s, and there find him and his wife together alone, in their new house, where I never was be- fore; and a pretty house it is; but I do not see that they intend to keep any coach. Here they treat us like strangers, quite according’ to the fashion—nothing to drink or eat, which is a thing that will spoil our ever having any ac- quaintance with them; for we do continue the old freedom *Clothworkers’ Hall is situated near the north-east end of Mincing » Lane, next to Fenchurch Street. Maitland (Hist. of London, p. 1037) describes it as a fine lofty room, in which Sir John Robinson, when Lord Mayor in 1663, entertained the King and Queen, the Queen Dowager, and the Duke and Duchess of York. The arms of Pepys and Hewer, and other benefactors to the Company, were painted on the glass of the east window. *Edward Wingate, who represented St. Alban’s in the Long Par- liament. 152 DIARY OF [16th April, and kindness of England to all our friends. They do here talk mightily of my Lady Paulina making a very good end, and being mighty religious in her lifetime; and she hath left many good notes of sermons and re- ligion, wrote with her own hand, which nobody ever knew of; which I am glad of: but she was always a peevish lady. 15th. To my Cozen Turner’s, where I find they are gone _all to dinner to Povy’s, and thither I, and there they were all, and W. Batelier and his sister, and had dined; but I had good things brought me, and then all up and down the house, and mightily pleased to see the fine rooms: but, the truth is, there are so many bad pictures, that do make the good ones lose much of the pleasure in seeing them. The. and Betty Turner in new flowered tabby gowns, and so we were pretty merry. So, about five or six o’clock, away, and I took my wife and the two Bateliers, and carried them homeward, and W. Batelier ’lighting, I carried the women round by Islington, and so down Bish- opsgate Street home, and there to talk and sup, and then to bed. 16th. My wife being gone abroad with W. Hewer, to see the new play to-day, at the Duke of York’s house, “ Gus- man;” I dined alone with my people, and in the afternoon away by coach to White Hall: and there the Office at- tended the Duke of York; and being despatched pretty soon, and told we should not wait on the King, as intended, till Sunday, I thence presently to the Duke of York’s play- house, and there, in the 18d. seat, did get room to see almost three acts of the play; but it seemed to me but very ordinary. After the play done, I into the pit, and there find my wife and W. Hewer; and Sheres got to them, which, so jealous is my nature, did trouble me, though my judgment tells me there is no hurt in it, on neither side; but here I did meet with Shadwell, the poet, who, to my great wonder, do tell me that my Lord of [Orrery] did write this play, trying what he could do in comedy, since his heroique plays could do no more wonders. This do trouble me; for it is as mean a thing, and so he says, as hath been upon the stage a great while; and Harris, who hath no part in it, did come to me, and told me in 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 153 discourse, that he was glad of it, it being a play that will not take.’ 17th. At noon home to dinner, and there find Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, and he dined with us; and there hearing that “The Alchymist ” was acted, we did go, and took him with us to the King’s house; and it is still a good play, having not been acted for two or three years before; but I do miss Clun,’ for the Doctor.* To Sir W. Coventry’s, reading over first my draught of the Administration of the Navy, which he do like very well; and so fell to talk of his late disgrace and how basely and in what a mean manner the Duke of Buckingham hath proceeded against him—not like a man of honour. He tells me that the King will not give other answer about his coming to kiss his hands, than “* Not yet.” But he says that this that he desires, of kissing the King’s hand, is only to show to the world that he is not discon- tented, and not in any desire to come again into play, though I do perceive that he speaks this with less earnestness than heretofore: and this, it may be, is, from what he told me lately, that the King is offended at what is talked, that he hath declared himself desirous not to have to do with any employment more. But he do tell me that the leisure he hath yet had do not at all begin to be burdensome to him, he knowing how to spend his time with content to himself; and that he hopes shortly to contract his expence, so as that he shall not be under any straits in that respect neither; and so seems to be in very good condition of content. ‘Thence I away over the Park, it being now night, to White Hall, and there, in the Duchess’s chamber, do find the Duke of York; and, upon my offer to speak with him, he did come to me, and withdrew to his closet, and there did hear and approve my paper of the Administration of the Navy, only did bid me alter these words, “ upon the rupture between the late King and the Parliament,” to these, “ the beginning of the late Rebellion;’’ giving it me as but reason to show that it was through the Rebellion that the Navy was put out of its old good course, into that of a Commission. Having done this, we fell to other talk; he with great con- *Yet Downes the prompter says (p. 28) that it succeeded very well. 7 Who had been murdered: see 14th Aug., 1664, ante, ®Subtle, the Alchymist. 154 DIARY OF [18th April, fidence telling me how matters go among our adversaries, in reference to the Navy, and that he thinks they do begin to flag; but then, beginning to talk in general of the ex- cellency of old constitutions, he did bring out of his cabi- net, and made me read it, an extract out of a book of my late Lord of Northumberland’s, so prophetic of the busi- ness of Chatham, as is almost miraculous.* I did desire, and he did give it me to copy out, which pleased me mightily. 18th. (Lord’s day.) To my Office again, to examine the fair draught; and so, borrowing Sir J. Minnes’s coach, he going with Colonel Middleton, I to White Hall, where we all met and did sign it; and then to my Lord Arlington’s, where the King, and the Duke of York, and Prince Rupert, as also Ormond and the two Secretaries, with my Lord Ashly and Sir T. Chfford, were. And there, by and by, being called in, Mr. Williamson did read over our paper, which was in a letter to the Duke of York, bound up in a book with the Duke of York’s “ Book of Instructions.” He read it well; and, after read, we were bid to withdraw, nothing being at all said to it. And by and by we were called in again, and nothing said to that business; but another be- gun, about the state of this year’s action, and our wants of money, as I had stated the same lately to our Treasurers; which I was bid, and did largely, and with great content, open. And having so done, we all withdrew, and left them to debate our supply of money; to which, being called in, and referred to attend on the Lords of the Treasury, we all departed. And I only staid in the House till the Council *Most probably John Holland’s report on the state of the Defences of the Navy, made to Algernon Earl of Northumberland, in 1638, when Lord High Admiral. See note at p. 130, ante. A copy of the paper here alluded to is in Rawlinson, A 195, fol. 124. It was an extract from an old book formerly in the library at Petworth, and written by Sir William Monson, the well-known English Admiral, who died in 1643. He was the author of several naval tracts, all of which are printed in Churchill’s Voyages, and the passage quoted by Pepys, will be found at p- 421 of vol. iii. It seems highly probable that some one in the Dutch interest might have seen Sir William’s Book of Stratagems, and planned the memorable expedition against Chatham; though the fact of the defenceless state of the River Thames, in the event of the Dutch ever becoming superior to us at sea, was too obvious to merit the appel- lation of a prophecy. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 155 rose; and then to the Duke of York, in the Duchess’s chamber, where he told me that the book was there left with my Lord Arlington, for any of the Lords to view that had a mind, and to prepare and present to the King what they had to say in writing, to any part of it, which is all we can desire, and so that rested. The Duke of York then went to other talk; and by and by comes the Prince of Tuscany to visit him, and the Duchess; and I find that he do still remain incognito, and so intends to do all the time he stays here, for avoiding trouble to the King and himself, and expence also to both. Thence I to White Hall Gate, thinking to have found Sir J. Minnes’s coach staying for me; but, not being there, and this being the first day of rain we have had many a day, the streets being as dusty as in summer, I forced to walk to my cozen Turner’s, and there, having kissed and taken leave of Betty, who goes to Putney to school to-morrow, I walked through the rain to the Temple, and there, with much ado, got a coach, and so home. 19th. Up, and with Tom, whom, with his wife, I, and my wife, had this morning taken occasion to tell that I did in- tend to give him 401. for himself, and 201. to his wife, to- wards their setting out in the world, and that my wife would give her 20]. more, that she might have as much to begin with as he, by coach to White Hall. After dinner out again, and, calling about my coach, which was at the coach- maker’s, and hath been for these two or three days, to be new painted, and the window-frames gilt against next May- day, went on with my hackney to White Hall. 20th. Up; and to the Office, and my wife abroad with Mary Batelier, with our own coach, but borrowed Sir J. Minnes’s coachman, that so our own might stay at home, to attend at dinner; our family being mightily disordered by our little boy’s falling sick the last night: and we fear it will prove the small-pox. At noon comes my guest, Mr. ‘Hugh May,* and with him Sir Henry Capell, my old Lord Capell’s son, and Mr. Parker; and I had a pretty dinner for them; and both before and after dinner had excellent discourse; and showed them my closet and my Office, and the method of it, to their great content; and more extra- +See note to 8th June, 1665, anie. 156 DIARY OF [20th April, ordinary, manly discourse and opportunity of showing my- self, and learning from others, I have not, in ordinary dis- course, had in my life, they being all persons of worth, but especially Sir H. Capell, whose being a Parliament-man, and hearing my discourse in the Parliament-house, hath, as May tells me, given him a long desire to know and discourse with me. In the afternoon we walked to the Old Artillery- Ground: near the Spitalfields, where I never was before, but now, by Captain Deane’s invitation, did go to see his new gun tryed, this being the place where the Officers of the Ordnance do try all their great guns; and when we came, did find that the trial had been made; and they going away with extraordinary report of the proof of his gun, which, from the shortness and bigness, they do call — Punchinello. But I desired Colonel Legg to stay and give us a sight of her performance, which he did, and there, in short, against a gun more than as long and as heavy again, and charged with as much powder again, she carried the same bullet as strong to the mark, and nearer and above the mark at a point blank than their’s, and is more easily managed, and recoils no more than that, which is a thing so extraordinary as to be admired for the happiness of his invention, and to the great regret of the old Gunners and Officers of the Ordnance that were there, only Colonel Legg did do her much right in his report of her. And so, having seen this great and first experiment, we all parted, I seeing my guests into a hackney-coach, and myself, with Captain Deane, taking a hackney-coach, did go out towards Bow, and went as far as Stratford, and all the way talking of this invention, and he offering me a third of the profit of it: which, for aught I know, or do at present think, may prove matter considerable to us: for either the King will give him a reward for it, if he keeps it to himself, or he will give us a patent to make our profit of it; and no doubt but it will be of profit to merchantmen and others, to have guns of the same force at half the charge. This was our talk: 1Teasel Close, in Bishopsgate Street, where some land had been granted to the Gunners of the Tower for the practice of great and small ordnance, by William, last prior of St. Mary Spital. It was long called the Artillery Garden; but ultimately found too small, and disused. Artillery Lane has been built on its site. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 157 and then to talk of other things, of the Navy in general: and, among other things, he did tell me that he do hear how the Duke of Buckingham hath a spite at me, which I knew before, but value it not: and he tells me that Sir T. Allen is not my friend; but for all this I am not much troubled, for I know myself so usefull that, as I believe, they will not part with me; so I thank God my condition is such that I can retire, and be able to live with comfort, though not with abundance. Qist. Up; and with my own coach as far as the Temple, and thence sent it to my cozen Turner, who, to ease her own horses, that are going with her out of town, do borrow mine. To Auditor Wood’s, and met my Lord Bellassis upon some business of his accounts. Attended the Duke of York a little, being the first time of my waiting on him at St. James’s this summer, whither he is now newly gone; and thence walked to White Hall; and so, by and by, to the Council-Chamber, and heard a remarkable cause pleaded between the Farmers of the Excise of Wiltshire, in com- plaint against the Justices of Peace of Salisbury: and Sir H. Finch was for the former. But, Lord! to see how he did with his admirable eloquence order the matter, is not to be conceived almost; so pleasant a thing it is to hear him plead. By and by comes my cozen Turner, and The., and Joyce, in their riding-clothes, they being come from their lodgings to her husband’s chamber, at the Temple, and there do lie, and propose to go out of town on Friday next; and here I had a good dinner for them. After dinner by water to White Hall, where the Duke of York did meet our Office, and went with us to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury; and there we did go over all the business of the state I had drawn up, of this year’s action and ex- pence, which I did do to their satisfaction, and convincing them of the necessity of providing more money, if possible, for us. Thence the Duke of York being gone, I did there stay walking with Sir H. Cholmly in the Court, talking of news; where he told me, that now the great design of the Duke of Buckingham is to prevent the meeting, since he cannot bring about with the King the dissolving, of this Parliament, that the King may not need it; and therefore my Lord St. Albans is hourly expected with great offers of 158 DIARY OF [23d April, a million of money,’ to buy our breach with the Dutch: and this, they do think, may tempt the King to take the money, and thereby be out of a necessity of calling the Parliament again, which these people dare not suffer to meet again: but this he doubts, and so do I, that it will be the ruin of the nation if we fall out with Holland. My boy comes to tell me that his mistress was at the Gate with the coach, whither I went, and there find my wife and the whole company. So she, and Mrs. Turner, and The., and Talbot, in mine; and Joyce, W. Batelier, and I, in a hack- ney, to Hyde Park, where I was ashamed to be seen; but mightily pleased, though troubled, with a drunken coach- man that did not remember when we come to light, where it was that he took us up; but said at Hammersmith, and thither he was carrying of us when we come first out of the Park. So I carried them all to Hercules-Pillars, and there did treat them; and so, about ten at night, parted, and my wife, and I, and W. Batelier, home; and he gone, we to bed. 22d. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and Captain Deane with us; and very good discourse, and particularly about my getting a book for him to draw up his whole theory of shipping, which, at my desire, he hath gone far in, and hath shown me what he hath done therein, to admiration. I did give him a Paral- lelogram, which he is mightily taken with; and so after dinner to the Office, where all the afternoon till night late, and then home. Vexed at my wife’s not being come : home, she being gone again abroad with M. Batelier, and come not home till ten at night, which vexed me, so that I to bed, and lay in pain awake till past one, and then to sleep. 23d. Going to rise, without saying anything, my wife stopped me; and, after a little angry talk, did tell me how she spent all yesterday with M. Batelier and her sweetheart, and seeing a play at the New Nursery, which is set up at the house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, which was formerly the King’s house. To the Council-Chamber, and heard two or three causes; among others, that of the complaint of Sir 1From Louis XIV.: see 28th April, post. ee 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 159 Philip Howard and Watson, the inventors, as they pretend, of the business of varnishing and lackerworke, against the Company of Painters, who take upon them to do the same thing; where I saw a great instance of the weakness of a young Counsel not used to such an audience, against the Solicitor-General and two more able Counsel used to it. Though he had the right of his side, and did prevail for what he pretended to against the rest, yet it was with much disadvantage and hazard. Here I also heard Mr. Pa- pillion* make his defence to the King, against some com- plaints of the Farmers of Excise; but it was so weak, and done only by his own seeking, that it was to his injury more than profit, and made his case the worse, being ill managed, and in a cause against the King. By agreement met my wife, and with her to the Cocke, and did give her a dinner. Thence to the King’s playhouse, and saw “ The Generous Portugalls,”* a play that pleases me better and better every time we see it; and, I thank God! it did not trouble my eyes so much as I was afraid it would. Here, by accident, we met Mr. Sheres, and yet I could not but be troubled, because my wife do so delight to talk of him, and to see him. Nevertheless, we took him with us to our mercer’s, and to the Exchange, and he helped me to choose a sum- mer-suit of coloured camelott, coat and breeches, and a flowered tabby coat, very rich; and so home, where he took his leave, and down to Greenwich, where he hath some friends; and I to see Colonel Middleton, who hath been ill for a day or two, or three; and so home to supper, and to bed. 24th. Mr. Sheres dining with us; and my wife, which troubled me, mighty careful to have a handsome dinner for *Thomas Papillon, Esq., of Lubbenham, in Leicestershire, who pur- chased the manor of Acrise, in Kent, in 1666. He was an eminent merchant of London, and Master of the Mercers’ Company in 1698; and was M.P. for Dover, temp. Charles II., and for London in the 10th of William III. The case of Mr. Papillon related to a Petition of the Company of Wine Merchants, concerning Brandy, alias Strong Water, against the Farmers of Excise, of which some account is given in Anchitell Grey’s Debates, vol. i., p. 237. ?This play has not been traced, 160 DIARY OF [26th April, him; but yet I see no reason to be troubled at it, he being a very civil and worthy man, I think; but only it do seem to imply some little neglect of me. After dinner to the King’s house, and there saw “The General’ revived—a good play, that pleases me well, and thence, our coach com- ing for us, we parted and home. Well pleased to-night to have Lead, the vizard-maker, bring me home my vizard, with a tube fastened in it, which, I think, will do my business, at least in a great measure, for the easing of my- eyes. 25th. (Lord’s day. ) Up, and to my Office awhile, and thither comes Lead with my vizard, with a tube fastened within both eyes; which, with the help which he prompts me to, of a glass in the tube, do content me mightily. To church, where a stranger made a dull sermon, but I mightily pleased to look upon Mr. Buckworth’s little pretty daugh- ters. W. Howe came and dined with us; and then I to my Office, he being gone, to write down my Journal for the last twelve days: and did it with the help of my vizard and tube fixed to it, and do find it mighty manageable, but how helpfull to my eyes this trial will show me. So abroad with my wife, in the afternoon, to the Park, where very much company, and the weather very pleasant. I carried my wife to the Lodge, the first time this year, and there in our coach eat a cheesecake and drank a tankard of milk. I showed her this day also first the Prince of Tuscany, who was in the Park, and many very fine ladies. 26th. To Lilly’s, the Varnisher, who is lately dead, and his wife and brother keep up the trade, and there I left my French prints to be put on boards; and, while I was there, a fire burst out in a chimney of a house over against his house, but it was with a gun quickly put out. So home, calling at the laceman’s for some lace for my new suit, and at my tailors, and Mr. Sheres dined with us, who come hither to-day to teach my wife the rules of perspective; but I think, upon trial, he thinks it too hard to teach her, being ignorant of the principle of lines. After dinner comes Colonel Macnachan, one that I see often at Court, a Scotch- man, but know him not; only he brings me a letter from 1 By James Shirley. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 161 my Lord Middleton, who, he says, is in great distress for 5001. to relieve my Lord Morton* with, but upon what ac- count I know not; and he would have me advance it with- out order upon his pay for Tangier, which I was astonished at, but had the grace to deny him with an excuse. And so he went away, leaving me a little troubled that I was thus driven, on a sudden, to do any thing herein; but Creed, coming just now to see me, he approves of what I have done. And then to talk of general matters, and, by and by, Sheres being gone, my wife, and he, and I out, and I set him down at Temple Bar, and myself and wife went down the Temple upon seeming business, only to put him off ; and to the ’Change, about things for her; and here, at Mrs. Burnett’s shop, I am told by Betty, who was all un- dressed, of a great fire happened in Durham-Yard last night, burning the house of one Lady Hungerford,” who was to come to town to it this night; and so the house is burned, new furnished, by carelessness of the girl sent to take off a candle from a bunch of candles, which she did by burning it off, and left the rest, as is supposed, on fire. The King and Court were here, it seems, and stopped the fire by blowing-up of the next house. The King and Court went out of town to Newmarket this morning betimes, for a week. This night I did call at the coachmaker’s, and do resolve upon having the standards of my coach gilt with this new sort of varnish, which will come but to 40s.; and, contrary to my expectation, the doing of the biggest coach all over comes not to above 6l., which is [not] very much. 27th. Up and to the Office, where all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and then to the Office again, where all the afternoon busy til late, and then home, and got my wife to read to me in the Nepotisme,” which is very pleasant, and so to supper and to bed. * William Douglas, ninth Earl of Morton, who had married Lord Middleton’s daughter Grizel. ? Margaret, daughter and co-heir of William Halliday, Alderman of London, widow of Sir Edward Hungerford, of Black Bourton, Oxford- shire, who died, s. p., 1648. She survived till 1673. The house burned down adjoined ‘the present Hungerford Market. *The work here mentioned is a French translation, published in VOL. IV. M 162 DIARY OF [29th April, 28th. Up, and was called upon by Sir H. Cholmly to dis- course about some accounts of his, of Tangier: and then to other talk; and I find by him that it is brought almost to effect (through the late endeavours of the Duke of York and Duchess, the Queen-Mother, and my Lord St. Albans, together with some of the contrary faction, as my Lord Arlington,) that for a sum of money we shall enter into a league with the King of France, wherein, he says, my Lord Chancellor’ is also concerned; aud that he believes that, in the doing hereof, it is meant that he [Clarendon] shall come in again, and that this sum of money will so help the King as that he will not need the Parliament; and that, in that regard, it will be forwarded by the Duke of Buck- ingham and his faction, who dread the Parliament. But hereby we must leave the Dutch, and that I doubt will undo us; and Sir H. Cholmly says he finds W. Coventry do think the like. My Lady Castlemaine is instrumental in this matter, and, he says, never more great with the King than she is now. But this is a thing that will make the Parliament and kingdom mad, and will turn to our ruine: for with this money the King shall wanton away his time in pleasures, and think nothing of the main till it be too late. This morning Mr. Sheres sent me, in two volumes, Marian his History of Spaine,” in Spanish, an excellent book; and I am much obliged to him for it. 29th. Up; and to the Office, where all the morning, and at noon dined at home, and then to the Office again, there 1669, of a bitter satire against the Court of Rome, written in Italian, and, as some say, by Gregorio Leti. It was first printed in 1667, with- out the name or place of printer, but it is from the press of the Elzevirs. The scope of the work will be well understood by the title: “Il Nipo- tismo di Roma, o vero relatione delle ragioni che muovono i Pontefici all’ aggrandimento de’ Nipoti: del bene e male che hanno portato alla Chiesa dopo Sisto IV., sino al presente: delle difficulta che incontrano i ministri d’ Prencipi nel trattare con loro, ed insieme col rimedio op- portuno per liberarsi da tali difficolta, e della causa perche le famiglie de’ Pontefici non sono durate lungo tempo in grandezza.” From this work the word Nepotism is derived, and is applied to the bad practice of statesmen, when in power, providing lucrative places for their rela- tions. 1 Clarendon, then an exile in France. 2 Historie de Rebus Hispania, libri xx. By Juan Mariana: first printed at Toledo in 1592, The Spanish version is best known. a e 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 163 to dispatch as much business as I could, that I might be at liberty to-morrow to look after many things that I have to do, against May-day. 30th. Up, and by coach to the coachmaker’s: and there I do find a great many ladies sitting m the body of a coach that must be ended by to-morrow: they were my Lady Marquis of Winchester,’ Bellassis,* and other great ladies, eating of bread and butter, and drinking ale. I to my coach, which is silvered over, but no varnish yet laid on, so I put it in a way of doing; and myself, about other business, and particularly to see Sir W. Coventry, with whom I talked a good while to my great content; and so to other places—among others, to my tailor’s: and then to the belt-maker’s, where my belt cost me 55s. of the colour of my new suit: and here, understanding that the mis- tress of the house, an oldish woman in a hat, hath some water good for the eyes, she did dress me, making my eyes smart most horribly, and did give me a little glass of it, which I will use, and hope it will do me good. So to the cut- ler’s, and there did give Tom, who was with me all day, a sword cost me 12s. and a belt of my owne; and sent my own silver-hilt sword a-gilding against to-morrow. This morning I did visit Mr. Oldenburgh,’? and did see the instrument for perspective made by Dr. Wren,* of which I have one making by Browne; and the sight of this do please me mightily. At noon my wife came to me at my tailor’s, and I sent her home, and myself and Tom dined at Hercules Pillars; and so about our business again, and particularly to Lilly’s, the varnisher, about my prints, whereof some of them are pasted upon the boards, *Tsabella, daughter of William Howard, Viscount Stafford, third wife to John Powlett, fifth Marquis of Winchester. ?John Lord Bellassis was thrice married: first, to Jane, daughter of Sir Robert Boteler, of Woodhall, Herts; secondly, to Ann, daughter of Sir Robert Crane, of Chilton, Suffolk; thirdly, to Lady Anne Powlett, daughter of the above-named Marquis of Winchester (by his second wife, Lady Honora de Burgh), and who is the person referred to by Pepys. * Henry Oldenburgh, Secretary of the Royal Society. . 4A description of an instrument invented many years before by Dr. Christopher Wren, for drawing the outlines of any object in perspective, is given in the Abridgment of Phil. Trans., vol. i., p. 325, (1669.) M2 164 DIARY OF [Ist May, and to my full content. Thence to the frame-maker’s, one Norris, in Long Acre, who showed me several forms of frames, which were pretty, in little bits of mouldings, to choose patterns by. This done, I to my coachmaker’s, and there vexed to see nothing yet done to my coach, at three in the afternoon; but I set it in doing, and stood by till eight at night, and saw the painter varnish it, which is pretty to see how every doing it over do make it more and more yellow: and it dries as fast in the sun as it can be laid on almost; and most coaches are, now-a-days, done so, and it is very pretty when laid on well, and not too pale, as some are, even to show the silver. Here I did make the workmen drink, and saw my coach cleaned and oyled; and, staying among poor people there in the alley, did hear them call their fat child Punch, which pleased me mightily, that word being become a word of common use for all that is thick and short.1 At night home, and there find my wife hath been making herself clean against to-morrow; and, late <3 it was, I did send my coachman and horses to fetch home the coach to-night, and so we to supper, myself most weary with walking and standing so much, to see all things fine against to-morrow, and so to bed. Meeting with Mr. Sheres, to several places, and, among others, to buy a perriwig, but I bought none; and also to Dancre’s, where he was about my picture of Windsor, which is mighty pretty, and so will the prospect of Rome be. May Ist. Up betimes. Called by my tailor, and here first put on a summer suit this year; but it was not my fine one of flowered tabby vest, and coloured camelott tunique, because it was too fine with the gold lace at the hands, that I was afraid to be seen in it; but put on the stuff suit I made the last year, which is now repaired; and so did go to the Office in it, and sat all the morning, the day looking as if it would be fowle. At noon home to dinner, and there find my wife extraordinary fine, with her flowered tabby gown: *“ Puncheon, the vessel, Fr. poincon, perhaps so called from the pointed form of the staves; the vessel bellying out in the middle, and tapering towards each end: and hence punch (i. e., the large belly), became applied, as Pepys records, to any thing thick or short.”—Richardson’s Dictionary. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 165 that she made two years ago, now laced exceeding pretty; and, indeed, was fine all over; and mighty earnest to go, though the day was very lowering; and she would have me put on my fine suit, which I did. And so anon we went alone through the town with our new liveries of serge, and the horses’ manes and tails tied with red ribbons, and the standards gilt with varnish, and all clean, and green reines, that people did mightily look upon us; and, the truth is, I did not see any coach more pretty, though more gay than ours, all the day. But we set out, out of humour—I because Betty, whom I expected, was not come to go with us; and my wife that I would sit on the same seat with her, which she likes not, being so fine: and she then expected to meet Sheres, which we did in the Pell Mell, and, against my will, I was forced to take him into the coach, but was sullen all day almost, and little complaisant: the day being unpleasing, though the Park full of coaches, but dusty and windy, and cold, and now and then a little dribbling of rain; and, what made it worse, there were so many hackney- coaches as spoiled the sight of the gentlemen’s;* and so we had little pleasure. But here was W. Batelier and his sister in a borrowed coach by themselves, and I took them and we to the lodge; and at the door did give them a syllabub, and other things, cost me 12s., and pretty merry. And so back to the coaches, and there till the evening, and then home, leaving Mr. Sheres* at St. James’s Gate, where he took leave of us for altogether, he being this night to set out for Portsmouth post, in his way to Tangier, which troubled my wife mightily, who is mighty, though not, I think, too fond of him. 2d. (Lord’s day.) Up, and by water to White Hall, and there visited my Lord Sandwich; who, after about two months’ absence at Hinchinbroke, came to town last night. I saw him, and he was very kind; and I am glad he is so, I having not wrote to him all the time, my eyes indeed not letting me. Here with Sir Charles Harbord, and my Lord Hinchinbroke, and Sidney, and we looked upon the picture *This is a little too much, considering that the Journalist had so recently set up his own carriage. 7See note at 18th Jan., 1669. 166 DIARY OF [8d May, of Tangier, designed by Charles Harbord,’ and drawn by ' Dancre, which my Lord Sandwich admires, as being the truest picture that ever he saw in his life: and it is indeed very pretty, and I will be at the cost of having one of them. Thence with them to White Hall, and there walked out the sermon, with one or other; and then saw the Duke of York, and he talked to me a little; and so away back by water home. After dinner, got my wife to read, and then by coach, she and I, to the Park, and there spent the evening with much pleasure, it proving clear after a little shower, and we mighty fine as yesterday, and people mightily pleased with our coach, as I perceive; but I had not on my fine suit, being really afraid to wear it, it being so fine with the gold lace, though not gay. 3d. Up, and by coach to my Lord Brouncker’s, where Sir G. Carteret did meet Sir J. Minnes and me, to discourse upon Mr. Deering’s business, who was directed, in the time of the war, to provide provisions at Hamburgh, by Sir G. Carteret’s direction; and now Sir G. Carteret is afraid to own it, it being done without written order. But by our meeting, we do all begin to recollect enough to preserve Mr. Deering, which I think, poor, silly man! I shall be glad of, it being too much he should suffer for endeavouring to serve us. Thence to St. James’s, where the Duke of York was playing in the Pell Mell; and so he called me to him most part of the time that he played, which was an hour, and talked alone to me; and, among other things, tells me how the King will not yet be got to name anybody in the room of Pen, but puts it off for three or four days; from whence he do collect that they are brewing something for the Navy, but what he knows not; but I perceive is vexed that things should go so, and he hath reason; for he told me that it is likely they will do.in this as in other things—resolve first, and consider it and the fitness of it afterwards. Thence to White Hall, and met with Creed, and discoursed of matters; and I perceive by him that he makes no doubt but that all will turn to the old religion, for these people cannot hold things in their hands, nor prevent its coming to that; and by his discourse he fits himself for it and would have my Lord Sandwich do so, too, and me. 1See note to 25th February, 1665-6, ante. f 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 167 After a little talk with him, and particularly about the ruinous condition of Tangier, which I have a great mind to lay before the Duke of York, before it be too late, but dare not, because of his great kindness to Lord Middleton, we parted, and I homeward; but called at Povy’s, and there he stopped me to dinner, there being Mr. Williamson, the Lieu- tenant of the Tower,’ Mr. Child, and several others.. And after dinner, Povy and I together to talk of Tangier; and he would have me move the Duke of York in it, for it concerns him particularly, more than any, as being the head of us; and I do think to do it. 4th. Walked with my wife in the garden, and my Lord Brouncker with us, who is newly come to W. Pen’s lodgings; and by and by comes Mr. Hooke; and my Lord, and he, and I into my Lord’s lodgings, and there discoursed of many fine things in philosophy, to my great content. 5th. Up, and thought to have gone with Lord Brouncker to Mr. Hooke this morning betimes; but my Lord is taken ill of the gout, and says his new lodgings have infected him, he never having any symptoms of it till now. So walked to Gresham College, to tell Hooke that my Lord could not come; and so left word, he being abroad. To St. James’s, and thence, with the Duke of York, to White Hall, where the Board waited on him all the morning: and so at noon with Sir Thomas Allen, and Sir Edward Scott,? and Lord Carlingford,’ to the Spanish Ambassador’s,* where I dined the first time. The Olio not so good as Shere’s. There was at the table himself and a Spanish Countess, a good, ' comely, and witty lady—three Fathers and us. Discourse, good and pleasant. And here was an Oxford scholar in a Doctor of Law’s gowne, sent from the College where the Embassador lay, when the Court was there, to salute him before his return to Spain. This man, though a gentle sort of scholar, yet sat like a focl for want of French or Spanish, but knew only Latin, which he spoke like an Englishman, to one of the Fathers. And by and by he and I to talk Sir John Robinson. 7 2Sir Edward Scott, made LL.D. at Oxford, 1677. *See vol. i., Ist May, 1662. “The Conde de Dona. 54, e., with the English pronunciation, 168 DIARY OF [7th May, and the company very merry at my defending Cambridge against Oxford: and I made much use of my French and Spanish here, to my great content. But the dinner not extraordinary at all, either for quantity or quality. Thence home to my wife, and she read to me the epistle of Cassan- dra," which is very good indeed; and the better to her, because recommended by Sheres. So to supper, and to bed. 6th. Up, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry’s, but he gone out. I by water back to the Office, and there all the morn- ing: then to dinner, and then to the Office again, and anon with my wife by coach to take the ayre, it being a noble day, as far as the Greene Man,” mightily pleased with our journey, and our condition of doing it in our own coach, and so home, and to walk in the garden, and so to supper and to bed, my eyes being bad with writing my Journal, part of it, to-night. 7th. Up, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry’s; and there to talk with him a great deal with great content; and so to the Duke of York, having a great mind to speak to him about Tangier; but, when I came to it, his interest for my Lord Middleton is such that I dared not. I passed by Guildhall, which is almost finished, and saw a poor labourer carried by, I think, dead, with a fall, as many there are, I hear. To see my Lord Brouncker, who is a little ill of the gout; and there Madam Williams told me that she heard that my wife was going into France this year, which I did not deny, if I can get time, and I pray God I may. But I wondering how she come to know it, she tells me 1See ante, 16th November, 1668. ?Probably on Stroud Green, and known by the name of Stapleton Hall, originally the residence of Sir Thomas Stapleton, of Gray’s Court, Oxon, Bart. The building, on which were his initials, with those of his wife, and the date 1609, was afterwards converted into a public-house, with the sign of the Green Man, and a century ago had in the front the following inscription :— “Ye are welcome. all To Stapleton Hall.” A club, styling themselves “the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Coit ration of Stroud Green,” formerly met annually at this place, which occasioned a scene similar to that of a country wake or fair.—Lewis’s Hist. of Islington, p. 281. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 169 a woman that my wife spoke to for a maid, did tell her so, and that a lady that desires to go thither, would be glad to go in her company. Thence with my wife abroad, with our coach, most pleasant weather; and to Hackney, and into the marshes, where I never was before, and thence round about to Old Ford and Bow. Home, and there met with a letter from Captain Silas Taylor, and, with it, his written copy of a play that he hath wrote, and intends to have acted. It is called “ The Serenade, or, Disappointment,” which I will read, not believing he can make any good of that kind. He did once offer to show Harris it, but Harris told him that he would judge by one Act, whether it were good or no, which is indeed a foolish saying, and we see them out themselves in the choice of a play after they have read the whole, it being sometimes not fit to act above three times; nay, and some that have been refused at one house, is found a good one at the other. This made Taylor say he would not show it him, but is angry, and hath carried it to the other house, and he thinks that it will be acted there, though he tells me they are not yet agreed upon it. But I will find time to get it read to me, and I did get my wife to begin a little to-night in the garden, but not so much as I could make my judgment of it. 8th. Up, and to the Office, and there comes Lead to me, and at last my vizards are done, and glasses got to put in and out, as I will; and I think I have brought it to the utmost, both for easiness of using and benefit, that I can; and so I paid him 15s. for what he hath done now last, in the finishing them, and they, I hope, will do me a great deal of ease. At the Office all the morning, and this day, the first time, did alter my side of the table, after above eight years sitting on that next the fire. But now I am not able to bear the light of the windows in my eyes, I do begin there, and I did sit with much more content than I had done on the other side for a great while, and in winter the fire will not trouble my back. After dinner, all the after- noon within, with Mr. Hater, Gibson, and W. Hewer, read- ing over and drawing up new things in the Instructions of Commanders, which will be good, and I hope to get them confirmed by the Duke of York, though I perceive nothing will effectually perfect them but to look over the whole body 170 DIARY OF [10th May, of the Instructions, of all the Officers of a ship, and make them all perfect together. This being done, comes my book- seller, and brings me home my collection of papers, about my Addresse to the Duke of York in August, bound, which makes me glad, it being that which shall do me more right many years hence than, perhaps, all I ever did in my life: and therefore I do, both for my own and the King’s sake, value it much. By and by also comes Browne, the mathe- matical instrument maker, and brings me home my instru- ment for perspective, made according to the description of Dr. Wren’s, in the late Transactions; and he hath made it, I think, very well, and that, that I believe will do the thing, and therein gives me great content; but I have, I fear, all the content that must be received by my eyes, which are almost lost. 9th. (Lord’s day.) Up; and, after dressing in my best - suit with gold trimming, to the Office; and, when church- time, to church with my wife. Dr. Mills preached a dull sermon, and so we home to dinner; and thence by coach to St. Andrew’s, Holborne, thinking to have heard Dr. Stilling- fleete preach, but we could not get a place, and so to St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and there heard a sermon, and did get a place, the first we have heard there these many years. Thence towards the Park, but too soon to go in, so went on to Knightsbridge, and there eat and drank at “‘ The World’s End,’ where we had good things, and then back to the Park, and there till night, being fine weather, and much company, and so home. ‘This day I first left off both my waistcoats by day, and my waistcoat by night, it being very hot weather, so hot as to make me break out, here and there, in my hands, which vexes me to see, but is good for me. 10th. Troubled, about three in the morning, with my wife’s calling her maid up, and rising herself, to go with her coach abroad, to gather May-dew,” which she did, and I troubled for it, for fear of any hurt, going abroad so betimes, happening to her; but I to sleep again, and she come home about six. To White Hall, where the Duke of York met the Office, and there discoursed of several things, particularly the In- 1See 3lst March, posi. 2See ante, 28th May, 1667. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 171 structions of Commanders of ships. But here happened by chance a discourse of the Council of Trade, against which the Duke of York is mightily displeased, and par- ticularly Mr. Child, against whom he, speaking hardly, Captain Cox did second the Duke of York, by saying that he was talked of for an unfair dealer with masters of ships, about freight: to which Sir T. Littleton very hotly and foolishly replied presently, that he never heard any honest man speak ill of Child; to which the Duke of York did make a smart reply, and was angry; so as I was sorry to hear it come so far, and that I, by seeming to assent to Cox, might be observed too much by Littleton, though I said nothing aloud, for this must breed great heart-burnings. After this meeting done, the Duke of York took the Trea- surers into his closet to chide them, as Mr. Wren tells me; for that my Lord Keeper did last night at the Council say, when nobody was ready to say any thing against the consti- tution of the Navy, that he did believe the Treasurers of the Navy had something to say, which was very foul on their part, to be parties against us. They being gone, Mr. Wren and I took boat, thinking to dine with my Lord of Canter- bury;’ but, when we came to Lambeth, the gate was shut, which is strictly done at twelve o’clock, and nobody comes in afterwards; so we lost our labour, and therefore back to White Hall, and thence walked to my Lord Crewe, whom I have not seen since he was sick, which is eight months ago, I think, and there dined with him: he is mightily broke. A stranger, a country gentleman, was with him: and he pleased with my discourse accidentally about the decay of gentlemen’s families in the country, telling us that the old rule was, that a family might remain fifty miles from London one hundred years, one hundred miles from London two hundred years, and so farther or nearer London more or less years. He also told us that he hath heard his father say, that in his time it was so rare for a country gentleman to come to London, that, when he did come, he used to make his will before he set out. Thence to St. James’s, and there met the Duke of York, who told me, with great content, that he did now think he should master nur adversaries, for *On one of the public days. 172 DIARY OF [12th May, that the king did tell him that he was satisfied in the con- stitution of the Navy, but that it was well to give these people leave to object against it, which they having not done, he did give order to give warrant to the Duke of York, to direct Sir Jeremy Smith to be a Commissioner of the Navy in the room of Pen; which, though he be an imperti- nent fellow, yet I am glad of it, it showing that the other side is not so strong as it was; and so, in plain terms, the Duke of York did tell me, that they were every day losing ground; and particularly that he would take care to keep out Child: at all which I am glad, though yet I dare not think myself secure, as the King may yet be wrought upon by these people to bring changes in our Office, and remove us, ere it be long. ‘To White Hall, toa Committee of Tan- gier, where I see all things going to rack in the business of the Corporation, and consequently in the place, by Mid- dleton’s going. Thence walked a little with Creed, who tells me he hears how fine my horses and coach are, and advises me to avoid being noted for it, which I was vexed to hear taken notice of, being what I feared: and Povy told me of my gold-laced sleeves in the Park yesterday, which vexed me also, so as to resolve never to appear in Court with them, but presently to have them taken off, as it is fit I should, and so called at my tailor’s for that purpose. llth. My wife again up by four o’clock, to go to gather May-dew; and so back home by seven, to bed. In the even- ing my wife and I all alone, with but the boy, by water, up as high as Putney almost, with the tide, and back again, neither staying, going nor coming; but talking, and sing- ing, and reading a foolish copy of verses upon my Lord Mayor’s entertaining of all the bachelors, designed in praise to my Lord Mayor. Some trouble at Court for fear of the Queen’s miscarrying; she being, as they all conclude, far gone with child. 12th. To Westminster Hall; and there by chance met Roger Pepys, who come to town the last night: I was glad to see him. After some talk with him and others, and among others, Sir Charles Harbord and Sidney Montagu, the latter of whom is to set out to-morrow towards Flan- ie 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 173 ders and Italy, I invited them to dine with me to-morrow. After dinner, my wife and I to the Duke of York’s play- house, and there, in the side balcony, over against the musick, did hear, but not see, a new play, the first day acted, “‘ The Roman Virgin,” an old play, and but ordinary, I thought; but the trouble of my eyes with the light of the candles did almost kill me. Thence to my Lord Sand- wich’s, and there had a promise from Sydney to come and dine with me to-morrow; and so my wife and I home in our coach, and there find my brother John, as I looked for, come to town from Ellington,’ where, among other things, he tells me the first news that my sister Jackson is with child, and far gone, which I know not whether it did more trouble or please me, having no great care for my friends to have children, though I love other people’s. So, glad to see him, we to supper, and so to bed. 13th. At noon comes my Lord Hinchinbroke, and Sid- ney, and Sir Charles Harbord, and Roger Pepys, and dined with me; and had a good dinner, and very merry with us all the afternoon, it being a farewell to Sidney; and so in the evening they away, and I to my business at the Office, and so to supper, and talk with my brother, and so to bed. 14th. At noon with Mr. Wren, to Lambeth, to dinner with the Archbishop of Canterbury; the first time I was ever there, and I have long longed for it; where a noble house, and well furnished with good pictures and furniture, and noble attendance in good order, and a great deal of company, though an ordinary day; and exceeding great cheer, no where better, or so much, that ever I think I saw, for an ordinary table: and the Bishop mighty kind to me particularly, desiring my company another time, when less company there. Most of the company gone, and I going, I heard by a gentleman of a sermon that was to be there; and so I staid to hear it, thinking it serious, till by and by the gentleman told me it was a mockery, by one Cornet *A tragedy, altered by Thomas Betterton, from Webster’s Appius and Virginia. *In Huntingdonshire, the residence of Pepys’s brother-in-law, Mr. Jackson. 174 DIARY OF [14th May, Bolton, a very gentleman-like man, that behind a chair did pray and preach like a Presbyter Scot, with all the possible imitation in grimaces and voice. And his text about the hanging up their harps upon the willows * and a serious good sermon too, exclaiming against Bishops, and crying up of my good Lord Eglinton,’ till it made us all burst; but I did wonder to have the Bishop at this time to make himself sport with things of this kind, but I perceive it was shown him as a rarity; and he took care to have the room-door shut, but there were about twenty gentlemen there, and myself, infinitely pleased with the novelty. So over to White Hall, to a little Committee of Tangier; and thence walking in the Gallery, I met Sir Thomas Osborne, who, to my great content, did of his own accord fall into discourse with me, with such professions of value and respect, placing the whole virtue of the Office of the Navy upon me, and that for the Comptroller’s place, no man in England was fit for it but me, when Sir J. Minnes, as he says it is necessary, is removed: but then he knows not what to do for a man in my place; and in discourse, though I have no mind to the other, I did bring in Tom Hater to be the fittest man in the world for it, which he took good notice of. But in the whole I was mightily pleased, reckoning myself fifty per cent. securer in my place than I did before think myself to be. Thence to Unthanke’s, and there find my wife, but not dressed, which vexed me, because of going to the Park, it being a most pleasant day after yesterday’s rain, which lays all the dust, and most people going out thither, which vexed me. So home, sullen; but then my wife and I by. water, with my brother, as high as Fulham, talking and singing, and playing the rogue with the Western 1 Psalm cxxxyli. 2. 2The person here alluded to is probably Alexander Montgomery, the sixth Earl of Eglintoun, called Greysteel, who was a rank Presby- terian, and a ruling Elder of the General Assembly, when the solemn League and Covenant were drawn up. He fought against Charles at Marston Moor, whilst his son and successor was in the King’s army: but he afterwards became a Royalist, and died in 1661, xt. 73, The son was a consistent supporter of Monarchy, and there seems no reason why he should have been made an object of satire. His death occurred only two months before the unseemly scene at Lambeth. 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 175 bargemen,’ about the women of Woolwich,? which mads them. 15th. Up, and at the Office all the morning. Dined at home, and Creed with me, and I did discourse about even- ing some reckonings with him in the afternoon; but I could not, for my eyes, do it, which troubled me, and vexed him that I would not; but yet we were friends, I advancing him money without it, and so to walk all the afternoon together in the garden; and I perceive that he do expect a change in our matters, especially as to religion, and fits himself for it by professing himself for it in his discourse.* He gone, I to my business at the Office, and so at night home to sup- per, and to bed. 16th. (Lord’s day.) My wife and I at church, our pew filled with Mrs. Backewell, and six more that she brought with her, which vexed me at her confidence. I all the after- noon drawing up a foul draught of my petition to the Duke of York, about my eyes, for leave to spend three or four months out of the Office, drawing it so as to give occasion to a voyage abroad, which I did, to my pretty good liking; and then with my wife to Hyde Park, where a good deal of company, and good weather. 17th. My wife and I and brother John by coach to the King’s playhouse, and saw “ The Spanish Curate” revived, which is a pretty good play, but my eyes troubled with see- ing it, mightily. Great news now of the French taking St. Domingo,* in Spaniola, from the Spaniards, which troubles us, that they should have got it, and have the honour of taking it, when we could not. 18th. Dined in my wife’s chamber, she being much trou- bled with the tooth-ake, and I staid till a surgeon of hers come, one Leeson, who hath formerly drawn her mouth, and he advised her to draw it: so I to the Office, and ?¥For what Addison calls ‘Thames Ribaldry,” see Spectator, No. 383. *See 2d June, 1668, ante, and 28th May, post. *See ante, 3d May, 1669. *St. Domingo, on the southern coast of Hispaniola, the oldest Euro- Sn Establishment in America, was founded by Columbus in 1504, A wn named Isabella had been built in 1493, on the northern coast, but it was afterwards abandoned. 176 DIARY OF [19th May, by and by word is come that she hath drawn it, which pleased me, it being well done. So I home to comfort her. 19th. With my coach to St. James’s; and there finding the Duke of York gone to muster his men, in Hyde Park, I alone with my boy thither, and there saw more, walking out of my coach as other gentlemen did, of a soldier’s trade, than ever I did in my life: the men being mighty fine, and their Commanders, particularly the Duke of Monmouth; but methought their trade but very easy as to the muster- ing of their men, and the men but indifferently ready to perform what was commanded, in the handling of their arms. Here the news was first talked of Harry Killi- grew’s being wounded in nine places last night, by footmen, in the highway, going from the Park in a hackney-coach towards Hammersmith, to his house at Turnham Greene: they being supposed to be my Lady Shrewsbury’s men, she being by, in her coach with six horses; upon an old grudge of his saying openly that he had intrigued with her. Thence by and by to White Hall, and there I waited upon the King and Queen all dinner-time, in the Queen’s lodg- ings, she being in her white pinner,’ and appeared like a woman with child; and she seemed handsomer plain so, than when dressed. And by and by, dinner done, I out, and to walk in the Gallery, for the Duke of York’s coming out; and there, meeting Mr. May, he took me down about four o’clock to Mr. Cheffinch’s lodgings, and all alone did get me a dish of cold chickens, and good wine; and I dined like a prince, being before very hungry and empty. By and by the Duke of York comes, and readily took me to his closet, and received my petition, and discoursed about my eyes, and pitied me, and with much kindness did give me his consent to be absent, and approved. of my proposition to go into Holland to observe things there, of the Navy; but would first ask the King’s leave, which he anon did, and did — tell me that the King would be a good master to me, these were his words, about my eyes, and do like of my going into Holland, but do advise that nobody should know of my going thither, and that I should pretend to go into the 1 Pin-afore, 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 177 country somewhere, which I liked well. In discourse this afternoon, the Duke of York did tell me that he was the most amazed at one thing just now, that ever he was in his life, which was, that the Duke of Buckingham did just now come into the Queen’s bed-chamber, where the King was, with much mixed company, and among others, Tom Kailli- grew, the father of Harry, who was last night wounded so as to be in danger of death, and his man is quite dead; and Buckingham there did say that he had spoke with some one that was by, which person all the world must know must be his mistress, my Lady Shrewsbury, who says that they did not mean to hurt, but beat him, and that he did run first at them with his sword; so that he do hereby clearly discover that he knows who did it, and is of conspiracy with them, being of known conspiracy with her, which the Duke of York did seem to be pleased with, and said it might, per- haps, cost him his life in the House of Lords; and I find was mightily pleased with it, saying it was the most impu- dent thing, as well as the most foolish, that ever he knew man do in all his life. 20th. Up and to the Office. At noon, the whole Office— Brouncker, J. Minnes, T. Middleton, Samuel Pepys, and Captain Cox, to dine with the Parish, at the Three Tuns, this day being Ascension-day, where exceeding good dis- course among the merchants. With my eyes mighty weary, and my head full of care how to get my accounts and busi- ness settled against my journey, home to supper, and to bed. Yesterday, at my coming home, I found that my wife had, on a sudden, put away Matt upon some falling out, and I doubt Matt did call her ill names by my wife’s own dis- course; but I did not meddle to say anything upon it, but let her go, being not sorry, because now we may get one that speaks French, to go abroad with us. 21st. I waited with the Office upon the Duke of York, in the morning. Dined at home, where Lewis Phillips with a friend of his, dined with me. In the afternoon at the Office. In the evening visited by Roger Pepys and Philip Packer: and so home. 23d. (Lord’s day.) Called up by Roger Pepys and his son, who to church with me, and then in the afternoon VOL. Iv. N 178 DIARY OF [26th May, carried them to Westminster, and myself to St. James’s, where, not finding the Duke of York, back home, and with my wife spent the evening taking the ayre about Hackney, with great pleasure. 24th. 'To White Hall, where I attended the Duke of York, and was by him led to the King,’ who expressed great sense of my misfortune in my eyes, and concernment for their recovery; and accordingly signified, not only his as- sent to my desire therein, but commanded me to give them rest this summer, according to my late petition to the Duke of York. W. Hewer and I dined alone at the Swan; and thence, having thus waited on the King, spent till four o’clock in St. James’s Park, when I met my wife at Unthanke’s, and so home. 25th. Dined at home; and the rest of the day, morning and afternoon, at the Office. 26th. To White Hall, where all the morning. Dined with Mr. Cheffinch, with Alderman Backewell, and Spragg. The Court full of the news from Captain Hubbert, of “ The Mil- fort,” touching his being affronted in the Streights, shot at, and having eight of his men killed by a French man-of-war, calling him “ English dog,” and commanding him to strike, which he refused, and, as knowing himself much too weak for him, made away from him. The Queen, as being sup- posed with child, fell ill, so as to call for Madam Nun, Mr. Cheffinch’s sister, and one of her women, from dinner from us; this being the last day of her doubtfulness touch- — ing her being with child; and they were therein well con- firmed by her Majesty’s being well again before night. One Sir Edmund Bury Godfry,’? a woodmonger and Justice of — 21t seems doubtful whether the expression of being led to the King — has any reference to the defective state of Pepys’s vision. Perhaps, he might wish to make the most of this infirmity, in the hope of strengthen- ing his claim for leave of absence. 2The history of Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey is too well known to require any comment, though his tragical end has never been satisfac- — torily made out. In the Gentleman's Magazine for October, 1848, — there are some interesting details about the Knight’s family, and a de- scription and plate of a silver cup, which seems to have been presented to him by the King for his important services during the Plague and 1669] SAMUEL PEPYS 179 Peace in Westminster, having two days since arrested Sir Alexander Frazier’ for about 30/. in firing, the bailiffs were apprehended, committed to the porter’s lodge, and there, by the King’s command, the last night severely whipped; from which the Justice himself very hardly escaped, to such an unusual degree was the King moved therein. But he lies now in the lodge, justifying his act, as grounded upon the opinion of several of the Judges, and among others, my Lord Chief-Justice, which makes the King very angry with the Chief-Justice, as they say; and the Justice do lie and justify his act, and says he will suffer in the cause for the people, and do refuse to receive almost any nutriment. The effects of it may be bad to the Court. 27th. Presented this day by Mr. Browne with a book of drawing by hin, lately printed,’ which cost me 20s., to him. In the afternoon to the Temple, to meet with Auditor Ald- worth® about my interest account, but failed of meeting him. To visit my cozen Creed, and found her ill at home, being - with child, and looks poorly. Thence to her husband, at Gresham College, upon some occasions of Tangier; and so home, with Sir John Bankes with me, to Mark Lane. 28th. To St. James’s, where the King’s being with the Duke of York prevented a meeting of the Tangier Commis- sion. But, Lord! what a deal of sorry discourse did I hear between the King and several Lords about him here! but the Fire of London, and is now in the possession of the Corporation of Sudbury. 7Qne of the King’s physicians. *A curious and uncommon book entitled “4 Compendious Drawing- Book, composed by Alexander Browne, limner, collected from the draw- ings of the most celebrated painters in Europe, engraven by Arnold de Jode.” A second edition with letter-press, and additions, was pub- lished in 1675, under the title of Ars Pictoria. §Richard Aldworth, of Stanlake, Berks, then one of the Auditors of the Exchequer, represented Reading in the first Parliament after the Restoration, and died in 1680. He was the paternal ancestor of the second and third Lords Braybrooke. In 1762, the Auditor’s grandson, Richard Neville Aldworth, succeeded to the estates of the Nevilles of Billingbear, in Berkshire, in right of his mother, who was their sole heir, and whose maiden name he assumed. The Auditor’s portrait, by Lely, is still at Billingbear. N2 NEO | DIARY OF . [30th May, very mean, methought. So with Creed to the Excise Office, and back to White Hall, where, in the Park, Sir G. Carteret did give an account of his discourse lately, with the Com- missioners of Accounts, who except against many things, but none that I find considerable: among others, that of the Officers of the Navy selling of the King’s goods, and particularly my providing him with calico flags, which having been by order, and but once, when necessity, and the King’s apparent profit justified it, as conformable to my particular duty, it will prove to my advantage that it be enquired into. Nevertheless, having this morning received from them a demand of an account of all monies within their cognizance, received and issued by me, I was willing, upon this hint, to give myself rest, by knowing whether their meaning therein might reach only to my Treasurer- ship for Tangier, or the monies employed on this occasion. I went, therefore, to them this afternoon, to understand what monies they meant, where they answered me by say- ing, ‘The eleven months’ tax, customs, and prize-money, without mentioning, any more than I demanding, the ser- vice they respected therein; and so, without further discourse, we parted, upon very good terms of respect, and with few words, but my mind not fuily satisfied about the monies they mean. With my wife and brother spent the evening on the water, carrying our supper with us, as high as Chelsea, making sport with the Westerne bargees,’ and my wife and I singing, to my great content. ; 29th. The King’s birthday. To White Hall, where all very gay; and particularly the Prince of Tuscany very fine, and is the first day of his appearing out of mourning, since he came. I hear the Bishop of Peterborough’ preach but dully; but a good anthem of Pelham’s. Home to dinner, and then with my wife to Hyde Park, where all the even- ing: great store of company, and great preparations by the Prince of Tuscany to celebrate the night with fire works, for the King’s birthday. And so home. 30th. (Whitsunday.) By water to White Hall, and thence * Still a cant term for the Thames bargemen. 2 Joseph Henshaw: ob. 1678. 1669] - SAMUEL PEPYS 181 to Sir W. Coventry, where all the morning by his bed-side, he being indisposed. Our discourse was upon the notes I have lately prepared for Commanders’ Instructions; but concluded that nothing will render them effectual, without an amendment in the choice of them, that they be seamen, and not gentlemen above the command of the Admiral, by the greatness of their relations at Court. Thence to White Hall, and dined with Mr. Cheffinch and his sister; whither by and by came in Mr. Progers and Sir Thomas Allen, and by and by, fine Mrs. Wells,» who is a great beauty; and there I had my full gaze upon her, to my great con- tent, she being a woman of pretty conversation. Thence to the Duke of York, who, with the officers of the Navy, made a good entrance on my draught of my new Instruc- tions to Commanders, as well expressing his general views of a reformation among them, as liking of my humble offers towards it. Thence being called by my wife, we to the Park, whence the rain sent us suddenly home. 3lst. Up very betimes, and continued all the morning with W. Hewer, upon examining and stating my accounts, in order to the fitting myself to go abroad beyond sea, which the ill condition of my eyes, and my neglect for a year or two, hath kept me behind-hand in, and so as to render it very difficult now, and troublesome to my mind to do it; but I this day made a satisfactory entrance therein. Had another meeting with the Duke of York, at White Hall, on yesterday’s work, and made a good advance: and so, being called by my wife, we to the Park, Mary Batelier, and a Dutch gentleman, a friend of hers, being with us. Thence to “ The World’s End,” a drinking-house by the Park; and there merry, and so home. And thus ends all that I doubt I shall be ever able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my Journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand; and, therefore, whatever comes of it, I must forbear: and, therefore, resolve, from this time forward, to have it kept by my people in long-hand, and must be contented to 1See 8th February, 1662-3. 182 SAMUEL PEPYS [Bist May, 1669 set down no more than is fit for them and all the world to know; or, if there be any thing, I must endeavor to keep a margin in my book open, to add, here and there, a note in short-hand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is valsa sib as much as to see myself go into my grave: for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me! $s. P. May 81, 1669. END OF THE DIARY. CONTENTS OF THE CORRESPONDENCE S. Pepys to Lord Hinchingbroke The Earl of Sandwich to S. Pepys . . . The Same to the Duke of Albemarle S. Pepys to Lady Carteret. . . atte Sir W. Coventry to S. Pepys sls - William, Lord Brouncker to the Same . John Evelyn to the Same . de S. Pepys to John Evelyn . - The Same to the Earl of Sandwich . The Same to Captain Elliott . The Duke of York to Lord Henry Howard The Same to the Town of Aldborough . S. Pepys to John Evelyn. ..... The Same to Captain Elliott. .... The Same to Sir R. Brown. . ... . Matthew Wren to S. Pepys. ..... H. Savile to the Same . ie B. St. Michel to the Same . T. Povy to the Same . 2 UAT OS Sir W. Coventry to the Same. . . . Dr. H. Burton to the Same . : S. Pepys to George, Lord Berkeley . George, Lord Berkeley, to S. Pepys . W. Hewer to Sir J. Kempthorne. . . S. Pepys to T. Pepys . Sait ctl The Same to Colonel Legge. . .. . The Earl of Danby to the Same. . . Sir Leoline Jenkins to S. Pepys. . . The Duke of York to the Same. . . The Same to the Same. . a) a the S. Pepys to the Duke of York . Sih senate ONT og Yoeat Coy Se Soe et Pee Seat} July 25, 1665 Aug. 30, 1665 Sept. 5, 1665 Sept. 4, 1665 Nov. 7, 1665 July 3, 1667 Jan. 26, 1667-8 Feb. 8, 1667-8 Sept. 29, 1668 July 1, 1669 July 10, 1669 July 16, 1669 Noy. 2, 1669 March 3, 1669-70 March 26, 1670 Nov. 9, 1670 Aug. 14, 1672 Aug. 14, 1672 Aug. 31, 1672 June 25, 1673 April 9, 1677 Feb. 22, 1677-8 Feb. 23, 1677-8 Novy. 19, 1678 Feb. 1, 1678-9 Feb. 13, 1678-9 Feb. 13, 1678-9 Feb. 24, 1678-9 April 24, 1679 April 25, 1679 May 6, 1679 May 28, 1679 186 CONTENTS OF The Duke of York to S. ict BN The Same to the King. . Bei est ik S. Pepys to the Duke of York . J. Maulyverer to S. Pepys . Dr. Peachell to the Same . FMilsicnayt i S. Pepys to Roger Pepys. - , «+ + » Cesare Morelli to S. Pepys . ° The Duke of York to the Same . The Duchess of Norfolk to the Same , John Evelyn to the Same. . S. Pepys to Sir Thomas Beckford . : The Same to William Viscount Brouncker . John Evelyr to S. Pepys . S. Pepys to W. Hewer . W. Hewer to S. Pepys . S. Pepys to W. Hewer. . Sir Clowdesley Shovel to Sir Martin Wescomb Ursula Pepys to S. Pepys . ’ é Lord Dartmouth to the Same. .. .- S. Pepys to BAS PUNY Sit y i= Abraham Tilghman ie s. “Pepys EA FSR UA) 5 S, Pepys to B. St. Michell . pear ti Sir S. Morland to S. Pepys . Bye Aa Hr Dr, Peachell to the Same. . . a diatave Lord Chancellor Jeffreys to the Same - Josiah Burchett to the Same . 8 H, Slingsby to the Same . Dr. Peachell to the Same . LT Sst ea R. Gibson to the Same - -- «1 6 2 «2 \s Sir S. Morland to the Same . AB eR By SCoch to, the Samer, yea veer irallt ral esti iit Sir S. Morland to the Same. . ..... -» Lord Sunderland to Sir R. Holmes . The King to S, Pepys : Y The Same to Lord Dartmouth’. John Evelyn to S, Pepys . auWeuitiie W. Hewer to the Same. . .... » M. de Luzaney to the Same . : 4 An Account of the Hlection at Harwich : Dr. Gale to S, Pepys. . Sst UME Dr. Cumberland to Dr, Gale Si auyayeet John Evelyn to S. Pepys. . : S. Pepys to the Gentlemen we bailed Ten y John Evelyn to S, Pepys . S. Pepys to W. Hewer . The Bishop of London to S. Pepys | { S. Pepys to John Evelyn. . - - + + « The Same to the Same. . - - + « + Gregory King to S. Pepys. - + + + ¢ ¢ May 22, 1679 June 9, 1679 Nov. 29, 1679 Jan. 11, 1680-1 Mar. 26, 1681 April 11, 1681 May 21, 1681 July 15, 1681 Dec. 6, 1681 Feb. 17, 1681-2 Mar. 13, 1681-2 April 28, 1682 May 8, 1682 May 13, 1682 May 26, 1682 June 22, 1683 Sept. 13, 1683 Jan, 11, 1683-4 Oct. 10, 1685 Feb. 9, 1686 Dec. 11, 1686 Feb, 19, 1686-7 Feb. 23, 1686-7 July 7, 1687 Aug. 13, 1687 Oct, 11, 1687 Dec. 19, 1687 1688 May 17, 1688 June 30, 1688 July 19, 1688 Sept. 15, 1688 Noy. 30, 1688 Dec. 10, 1688 Dec. 12, 1688 Dec, 19, 1688 Jan. 7, 1688-9 Jan. 16, 1688-9 Jan. 16, 1689-90 Jan, 14, 1689-90 Aug. 1690 Oct. 15, 1690 Noy. 26, 1690 Dec. 23, 1690 Dec, 1691 Jan. 9, 1691-2 1692 Feb. “f 1692-S ee ee THE CORRESPONDENCE John Evelyn to the Same . S. Pepys to Isaac Newton . Isaac Newton to S. Pepys . The Same to the Same . Dr. Gibson to Dr. Charlett . S. Pepys to Dr. Smith . The Same to Mrs. Steward . E. Wright to S. Pepys . E. Gibson to the Same . Dr. Tanner to Dr. Charlett . S. Pepys to Mr. Bagford . The Same to the Same . The Same to the Same . The Same to the Same . The Lord Reay to S. Pepys . The Lord Tarbuc to Mr. Boyle . S. Pepys to the Lord Reay . The Lord Reay to S. Pepys . Dr. Hickes to the Same . Henry, Second Earl of Clarendon to ‘the Same Dr. Wallis to the Same . J. Jackson to the Same. Extracts of Letters fromS. Pepys toJ. J ackson S. Pepys to J. Jackson . Extract of Letters from JohnJ ackson to S. Pepys Dr. Tanner to Dr. Charlett . Extracts of Letters fromS. Pepysto i J ackson John Evelyn to S. Pepys . Henry, Second Earl of Clarendon to the Same John Evelyn to the Same . mTriae See S. Pepys to John Evelyn . Dr. Charlett to S. Pepys . S. Pepys to Captain Hatton . A. Charlett to S. Pepys . Paul Lorrain to the Same. . The Dean of York (Dr. Gale) to the "Same Dr. Charlett to the Same. J. Jackson to the Same . Humfrey Wanley to Dr. Charlett . Dr. Wallis to S. Pepys . S. Pepys to John Evelyn . Sir G. Kneller to S. Pepys . S. Pepys to Sir G. Kneller . Sir G. Kneller to S. Pepys . S. Pepys to Sir G. Kneller . Dr. Smith to S. Pepys . Dr. Charlett to the Same . Sir G. Kneller to the Same. . . S. Pepys to Henry, Second Earl of Clarendon Aug. 2, 1692 Nov. 22, 1693 Nov. 26, 1693 Dee. 16, 1693 July 13, 1694 April 15, 1695 Sept. 20, 1695 Noy. 10, 1696 Nov. 25, 1696 April 28, 1699 March 16, 1696-7 Feb. 16, 1697-8 May 11, 1699 Oct. 14, 1699 Nov. 21, 1699 Jan. 9, 1700 June 19, 1700 May 27, 1701 Oct. 24, 1699 Dec. 25, 1699 1699-1700 April 8, 1700 1700 May 6, 1700 1700 May 10, 1700 July 1, 1700 July 22, 1700 Aug. 7, 1700 Sept. 9, 1700 Sept. 19, 1700 Oct. 6, 1700 Oct. 12, 1700 Dec. 9, 1700 Feb. 18, 1700-1 Feb. 24, 1700-1 March 8, 1700-1 Sept. 24, 1701 Dec. 4, 1701 March 24, 1701-2 March 24, 1701-2 March 25, 1702 March 26, 1702 April 16, 1702 May 14, 1702 July 29, 1702 Aug. 4, 1702 188 CONTENTS PAGE Dr. Charlett to S. Pepys. . . . - + + + Aug. 22, 1702 304 Dr. Hickes to the Same. . ... . . - Sept. 1, 1702 305 Dr. Charlett to the Same. .... - - Sept. 3, 1702 305 Dr. Wallis to the Same. . . . ~~ « + Sept. 26, 1702 306 Dr. Charlett to the Same. . . . - ~ + « Sept. 26, 1702 307 S. Pepys to Dr. Wallis. . . =. - . « of Oct Se? 308 Dr. Charlett to S. Pepys . 4 - Oct. 19, 1702 309 The Same to the Same . - ee oo et OGD io? 309 S. Pepys to Dr. Charlett. . . . . « - + Nov. 14, 1702 310 Dr. Charlett to S. Pepys. . - - + + « + Nov. 22, 1702 310 Dr. Delaune to the Same. . ... - ~~. ~ Dec. 5, 1702 311 M. De Galeniére to the Same. ... . . Jan. 1, 1702-3 311 John Evelyn to S. Pepys. . . +» + + « + Jan. 20, 1702-3 312 Robert Nelson to the Same. . . . . . ~ March 2, 1702-3 315 Roger Gale to the Same. . . March 8, 1702-3 316 James Paris du Plessis to Sir Hane i Sliven ‘. 317 ae CORRESPON DENCE OF SAMUEL PEPYS [The Letters marked C. were contributed by the late Samure. Pepys CocxrrEtt, Esq., from Family Papers in his possession. U. de- notes those from the Collection of the late Mr. W. Urcorr; and the remainder, to which B. M., B. L., or P. L. are prefixed, were copied from the British Museum, Bodleian, or Pepysian Libraries.] B.M. orig.] S. Pepys to Lord Hinchingbroke. Navy Office, July 25, 1665. My Lord—Your Lordship’s of the 25th instant (new style), from Paris, came this day to my hand, and, as you command, I have taken care for a ship of 36 guns to attend you at Calais, to be there by the Ist of next month, English style. The Captain, I am sure, will make it his care to express all manner of respects to your Lordship in your passage. Your landing I have thought best to assign to Dover, in the Captain’s instructions, where some advice from my Lady shall meet your Lordship. I shall forbear saying more in this, intending what I have either of news, or anything else I have to inform your Lordship of, to send you by the next post to Calais: therefore take leave, being Your Lordship’s ever affectionate and humble servant, S. Pepys. B.L. orig.]| The Earl of Sandwich to S. Pepys. August 30, 1665. Under sayle, wind at West. (Excuse my haste, the Duke of Albemarle hath a list of the fleete.) Mr. Pepys—Havinge not heard from you of divers dayes, it was very good newes to me to receive your letters, for I was in feare for you of the infection. 190 CORRESPONDENCE OF Wee have hastily hurried in what provisions wee had by us, and without stayinge for more, or for any other supply of men, wee are now got under sayle. I beleeve wee have neer 15 dayes drincke in the fleete, and our actuall condition will be much as it is stated in the ac- count you sent me, but not soe if wee had continued at whole allowance and beene full manned. I have writicn largely of all particulars to none but my brother, Sir Geo. Carteret, with whom I wish you to correspond. There be many thinges necessarye for present care against the fleet’s returne; I pray use your best care for them. God send you good newes of us, and that at my returne I may find your family and my other friends in health and prosperity! I am, &c., SANDWICH. B.L. orig.]_ The Earl of Sandwich to the Duke of Albemarle.* (Transmitted to Mr. Pepys.) On board the Prince, 30 leagues N.N.W.. from the Texell, Sepr. 5, 1665. May itt please your Grace—Since I putt last to sea, on Thursday last, wee had a storme of winde att N.W., which, God be thanked, did us noe other damage than spoiling the masts of the Diamond, sent into Harwich, and 40 barrels of the Soveraigne’s powder. Separated very few of us, though the same upon the coast of Norway much dispersed the Dutch, some of which were light uppon on the 3rd of Septt. Tooke 2 of their East India men, a Straights man, a Malaga man, and 4 men of warre; 3 of them of 50 guns, and one of 40 guns, and some other small vessells. I have intelligence the greatest parte of their fleet is about the Walbanck, whither I am now plying, and hope to see them shortly. I thought requisite to send a vessell to informe the King and Duke thus much of us, and your Grace, noe person in the world being a truer and thankfuller servant of your Grace’s than, &e., SANDWICH. The Hector is unfortunately sunke, and the Captain ‘and most of her men drowned; only 25 saved. The Captain carried himself exceed- ingly well; helped to take the Vice-admirall of the East Indies, and ; ’ : : : | : ; only putt some men on board her, and went on to engage the men of 1 See Diary, vol. ii., p. 294. : SAMUEL PEPYS 191 warre. Capt. Con (Capt. of the Mary) is hurt in the foote with a great shott. B.L. ] S. Pepys to Lady Carteret. Woolwich, September 4, 1665. Dear Madam—Your Ladyship will not (I hope) imagine I expected to be provoked by letters from you to think of the duty I ought and should long since have paid your Ladyship by mine, had it been fit for me (during my indispensable attendance alone in the city) to have ventured the affrighting you with any thing from thence. But now that by the dispatch of the fleet I am at liberty to retire wholly to Woolwich, where I have been purging my inkhorn and papers these six days, your Ladyship shall find no further cause to reproach me my silence. And in amends for what’s past, let me conjure you, Madam, to believe that no day hath passed since my last kissing your hands without my most interested wishes for your health and the uninterrupted prosperity of your Ladyship and family. * Prizes taken on the 3d and 4th of September. Surprizers. Men of warre 4—viz. Men. Guns. Assurance . West ear Peter Clawson . 220 50 Anthelope . The 7 Oakes. . 250 54 Adyenture . A manof warreof . 5 i é - 220 50 Mary . Aman of warreof . : : 5 . 190 40 880 Of 3 East India men and 7 other merchants. Tons. Men. Adventure . ( The Phoenix, an Kast India merchant, being Hector ; i the V. Adml, burden. + 150 Plymouth . { The Slotheny, aunthen East India mercht., 150 Mitford . being the R. Admirall, burthen 2 Rub | Another Streights mercht., soe acca that it <3 a they sett her on fire. Adventure . A mercht. man from Lisbon . f MN 40 Guinea - A mercht. man from the Straights . Sm are 40 Mars . - Amercht. man from Malaga . on 24 The Wiliam and Mary, of Rotterdam. In Dover | her 150 barrels of powder, shott, paper, }+.. 15 &ec., for De Ruyter Fountaine of Schedam, a busse,. laden with 8 clawboards, bound for ek 7 Colchester . A small vessell Nee A oi He 12 A vessell laden wit ¢ awboar s oun or Pembroke Bordeaux c C : 5 \. F e 4A7 880 1327 192 CORRESPONDENCE OF I took care for the present disposal of what were inclosed in your Ladyship’s to me; and, in answer to that to Dagenhams, return these from my Lady Wright, who, in her’s to myself, gives assurance of my Lord Hinchingbroke’s being got up, and the -health of the rest of her family. My Lord Sandwich is gone to sea, with a noble fleet, in want of nothing but a certainty of meeting the enemy. My best Lady Sandwich, with the flock at Hinchingbroke, was, by my last letters, very well. - The absence of the Court and emptiness of the city takes away all occasion of news, save only such melancholy stories as would rather sadden than find your Ladyship any divertisement in the hearing; I having stayed in the city till above 7400 died in one week, and of them above 6000 of the plague, and little noise heard day or night but tolling of bells; till I could walk Lumber-street, and not meet twenty persons from one end to the other, and not 50 upon the Ex- change; till whole families, 10 and 12 together, have been swept away; till my very physician, Dr. Burnet, who undertook -to secure me against any infection, having survived the month of his own house being shut up, died himself of the plague: till the nights, though much lengthened, are grown too short to conceal the burials of those that died the day before, people being thereby constrained to borrow daylight for that service: lastly, till I could find neither meat nor drink safe, the but~ cheries being every where visited, my brewer’s house shut up, and my baker, with his whole family, dead of the plague. Yet, Madam, through God’s blessing, and the good humours begot in my attendance upon our late Amours,’ your poor servant is in a perfect state of health, as well as resolution of employing it as your Ladyship and family shall find work for it. How Deptford stands, your Ladyship is, I doubt not, informed from nearer hands. Greenwich begins apace to be sickly; but we are, by the command of the King, taking all the care we can to prevent its growth; and meeting to that purpose yesterday, after sermon, with the town officers, many doleful informations were brought us, and, among others, this, which I shall trouble your Ladyship with the telling—Compiaint was brought us against one in the town for receiving into his house a child newly brought from an infected house in London. Upon inquiry, we found that it was the child of a very able citizen in Gracious Street, who, having lost already all the rest of his children, and himself and wife being shut up and in despair of escaping, implored only the liberty 1The marriage of Lady Carteret’s son, and Lord Sandwich’s daughter.—See Diary, 31st July, 1665. SAMUEL PEPYS 193 of using the means for the saving of this only babe, which with diffi- culty was allowed, and they suffered to deliver it, stripped naked, out at a window into the arms of a friend, who, shifting into fresh cloathes, conveyed it thus to Greenwich, where, upon this information from Alderman Hooker,' we suffer it to remain, This I tell your Ladyship as one instance of the miserable streights our poor neighbours are reduced to. But, Madam, I’ll go no further in this disagreeable discourse, hop- ing, from the coolness of the last 7 or 8 days, my next may bring you a more welcome accompt of the lessening of the disease, which God say Amen to, Dear Madam, do me right to my good Lady Slaning, in telling her that I have sent and sent again to Mr. Porter’s lodging, who is in the country, for an answer to my letter about her Ladyship’s business, but am yet unable to give her any accompt of it. My wife joins with me in ten thousand happy wishes to the young couple, and as many humble services to your Ladyship and them, my Lady Slaning, Lady Scott, and Mr. Sidney, whose return to Scott’s- hall, if not burthensome to your Ladyship, will, I am sure, be as full of content to him as it will ever be of joy and honour to me to be esteemed, Dearest Madam, Your Ladyship’s most affectionate and obedient servant, SamveEt Pepys. B.L. orig.j Sir W” Coventry to S. Pepys. Oxford, November 7, 1665, Sir—Yours of 4th I have receaved with the enclosed, for which I return you thankes. Some recompences, I well remember, in the Dutch warre, which much exceeded those sette down, as to Capt” Ball 12001., and others in the same booke and folio. If I were at St. James’s, my notes would referre mee to it; but these may bee more proper for the ordi- hary rewards, which God send the King may goe through with; for the extraordinary, hee may doe as hee pleaseth upon emergencies. ‘ I am glad Rear-Admiral Harman has sailed: if God send him good lucke, I hope our reputation may out-goe the Dutch yet. For the close of the yeare, I thinke such a Committee of Commanders as my Lord Sandwich mentions ntay bee very good, if well chosen: pray desire my Lord he propose some fitt men for it. I did send to tempt the Com- Manders in the fleet to enquire into the vast and extrayagant expence 1See Diary, 3d September, 1665. VOL. IV. (*) 194 CORRESPONDENCE OF of victualls, but could gett noe returne of it. Something Sir W™ Penn hath sent me, a draught for a Supplimentall Instruction to Commanders, of which, either by this or the next conveyance, you shall have a copy. It is not hard to make good rules, but to gett them executed is the difficulty, especially when there is soe much worke to doe, and that Commanders and all sort of Officers knowe their owne value enough to beleeve that the King would not easily part with a good fighting Captain for a neglect of keeping a good checque upon his Purser. How- ever, pray lett us try what can bee done in itt; possibly, when the rule comes recommended from the Commanders themselves, it will bee better observed. I will alsoe write to my Lord Sandwich about it. My last gave you my reasons against your coming hither; because Sir G. Carteret was gone to London to gett money, and, at the time of his being there, I held your presence necessary there. For God’s sake, hasten some clothes to Portsmouth. If the Board be satisfied in the need of a Boatswain of the Yard at Harwich as yett, I shall be ready to procure the warrant for any man whoe shall be well certified for it. For the matter of hempe, all I can say is, oportet haberi; and then, redime te captwm quam queas minimo. If money bee not speedily procured, I expect every day shall produce worse and worse effects: but I hope Mr. Vice-Chamberlaine* will cure all that mischeife. I am sorroy Sir W™ Batten hath bin soe rudely handeled, and that the Office hath lost its security. I hope a supply of money will sett it all right; and could heartily wish the Court were neerer London, to bee ready both to advise and execute better then at this distance wee can doe. I hope a little more decrease of the plague will make some- body valiant enough to advise it; though, it concerning his Majesty’s and his Royal Highness’s safety, I am not soe corragious, at least as yett, though I confesse I wish it. The expedient you offer of buying the seamen’s ticketts, if it were certaine that it would bee exactly and sacredly executed, were an ex- cellent one, and worthy the King’s paying the abatement, that soe the seamen might receave the whole, which is, above all, to bee endeavoured: but though I have a good opinion of the person you named, yet I can- not say I am sure noe more profitt should bee made, and nothing abated, unlesse there were a place appointed, and a sett hire for it; when a clarke, or some trusty person, might attend to see it done. What shall be approved for one man in this matter, will soone be altered for others alsoe, and at last it will fall into hands to make ill use of it. Why might not the motley be as well paid to the Treasurer, and then issued only for ticketts? but, I suppose, the answer may bee, money will thus issue only by small summes, and soe easier compassed. To that I can reply nothing, but that, if it can bee done noe otherwise to take 1Sir G. Carteret. SAMUEL PEPYS 195 off the reproach to the King’s service and abuse to the seamen, I am of opinion there ought to bee a checque upon it. If you thinke fitt to speake with Sir G. Carteret upon it, perhaps some good may come of it; if any thing bee done, pray lett me heare. I am cleare of opinion the King had better beare twice the losse of 12d. per T. then lett the seamen bear itt. It is most necessary the men to the westward should bee then sup- plied with clothes: it is well if the slopsellers can furnish the rest of the ships. If Sir John Skelton or any else can furnish them, hee shall doe a good service. If the price were greater, and the cloathes better, the seaman would bee a gainer. I shall, the first Councill Day, propose Mr. Furiers complaint of the Justice. I doubt I have burned Captain Reynolds his letter of his brave retreate from the Dutch fleet: if I find it, I will send it to you, but I thinke it will not conduce to your purpose, hee having bin only at Hull, as I conceave, and not at Newcastle, where, I suppose, Mr Deer- ings ships are. I am, your affectionate humble Servant, W. CoventTrRY. According to the hopes there may be of having the ships ready, which are building at or neere Bristoll, so must there be provision made of victualls for them at Bristoll, and not at Milford; that soe no time may bee lost to run from one port to another for victualls. Pray know by what time each contract-ship building may be ready, and send mee word how many ships we expect to bee built in all, for I think some were ordered and others forbid after I went to sea. Sir W™ Penn hath sent mee reasons which seeme to me of good force, for paying the Soveraigne by ticketts, rather than by a pay at Chatham. I hope the Board will think so. B.L. orig.] William, Lord Brouncker to S. Pepys. Chatham, 3d July, 1667. Sir—Not only, in my opinion, is the chain broke, but, in the opinion of, I think, all who have been with me there at any time, and have well considered the lyeing of the floots, whereof but three at most remain. And hitherto wee could do no more than guesse, because yet wee could nether spare hands nor lighter to underrunn it: but now I entend to remove it as high as the battery next below the castle, and place before, that is, below it, a boome of masts; which done, I will trye the force thereof with the Guilder de Rose, which was never done 02 196 CORRESPONDENCE OF at Gillingham; nor was it laid, as is said, above two or three dayes be- fore the enemy appear’d; nor was it made of Spanish iron. I found in my chamber an Indian staffe, which I suppos’d was yours, and therefore sent it you yesterday by Mrs Williams, who came hither the day before to give me a visit. Adieu! T am, &c. BROUNCKER. B.L. orig. } John Evelyn to S. Pepys. Sayes-Court, 20th January—67-8. Sir—I am heartily asham’d I could not performe your commands before now. It was Friday ere I could possibly get home; and, since I am here, I have been so ill, that I was not able to bestow the paines I intended on the scheme’ I send you, which will onely serye you to preserve our reproach in memory, and my little skill in designing: but I have done it as I could, and as it appear’d to me from the hill above Gillingham. The draught, which I follow for Chatham River, is from an old paper lying by me, and not from any printed map; and some of the flexures I have presumed to reforme, as I think at least, as the river then presented itself to my eye. You must excuse the defects of, Sir, your most humble servant, J. EveLYyn. The extreame whiteness of my ink also deceived me, C.] S. Pepys to John Evelyn. 8th February, 1667-8. Sir—You will not wonder at the backwardness of my thanks for the present you made me, so many days since, of the Prospect of Medway, while the Hollander rode master in it. When I have seriously told you that the sight of it hath led me to such reflections on my particu- lar interest, by my employment, in the reproach due to that miscarriage, as haye given me little less disquiet than he is fancied to have, who found his face in Michael Angelo’s Hell,? The same should serve me also, in excuse for my silence in the celebrating your mastery shown in the design and draught, did not indignation rather than courtship urge me so far to commend them, as to wish the furniture of our House of 1See the engraving, bree from the original sketch in the Bodleian Library. 2 Vasari, (vol. xiv., p. 165, ed. Milano, 1811,) hee that Michael Angelo, being much displeased by ‘the ae made by Biagio da Cesena, Master of the Cere- monies, on the nudities of the Last Judgment, then nearly completed, painted him as Minos, with a great tail coiled round his body. Messer Biagio complained to EE ee SAMUEL PEPYS 197 Lords ehanged from the story of 88+ to that of 67 (of Evelyn's design- ing), till the pravity of this were reformed to the temper of that age, wherein God Almighty found his blessing more operative than, I fear, he doth in our’s, his judgments. Adieu! Your most affectionate and most humble Servant, S. P. C.] S. Pepys to the Earl of Sandwich. 29th September, 1668. May it please your Lordship—Just now are arrived the tidings of your Lordship’s safe arrival at Portsmouth, which I beg your Lordship to believe me to receive with that welcomeness which is due to what- ever, by the greatest obligations of duty and gratitude, I ought most to be concerned for. I am not without hopes of getting leave to wait upon your Lordship before you reach London; therefore shall spare the troubling your Lordship with any other present matters, than that being yesterday made acquainted by my Lord of Hinchingbroke, and Mr. Sidney Montagu, with the straights they found themselves under of providing a sum of money for the answering your Lordship’s present occasions; and, being unwilling your Lordship should want what part thereof I could by any shift supply, I undertook, for the present, fur- nishing your Lordship with 500/.; and not knowing what present use thereof your Lordship might have at Portsmouth, nor what conveniencies my Lord of Hinchingbroke might have of a speedy remitting any thither, I acquainted his Lordship this night, that I would take care for your Lordship’s being furnished with 200]. there; which I have done by the enclosed bill to Mr. Salisbury, not only for that sum, but that your Lordship might be the less straightened, for the whole 500I.: though the more your Lordship leaves to receive here, the better it would Suit with my occasions to comply therewith. I shall need not to say anything particularly touching the healthful state of your Lordship’s family, believing that that will be abundantly told your Lordship by others. The freshest court news is, that Sir John Trevor was this day sworn Secretary of State in the room of Sir William Morrice, and Prince Rupert invested in the Constableship the See (Paul III), asking for redress. His Holiness enquired where he was The other replied, “in Heil.” “Ah,” said the Pope, “if you, were or in me, I might help you, but in Hell nulla est redemptio!” This is ly the sto: enboned by Pepys. In the same spirit Kneller, in paintin the Beene at Hanbury, drew a likeness of Dr. Sacheverell, as being carrie off by one of the furies—See Nash’s Worcestershire, vol. i., p. 548. 4 The tapestry representing the defeat of the Armada, destroyed when the House of Lords was burnt. The designs are preserved in Pyne’s engravings. 198 CORRESPONDENCE OF of Windsor Castle; both purchased: the former for 8000/., and latter for 3500. The King and Queen are at this time at supper at my Lady Carteret’s. To-morrow morning his Majesty and the Duke of York set out for a month’s progress towards Norfolk and Suffolk. I have written to Mr. Deane, his Majesty’s shipwright at Portsmouth, an ingenious as well as a sober man, to attend your Lordship, for the receiving your commands, and any thing wherein he may be service- able to your Lordship during your stay there, who I know will readily embrace them. So, with the tenders of my most humble duty to your Lordship, I take my leave. May it please your Lordship, your Lordship’s most obedient and faithful Servant, S. P. The ill state of my eyes has not allowed me to read or write thus much for several months, but by the help of another’s, which, I hope, will excuse me to your Lordship, in my not appearing with my own hand here. C.] S. Pepys to Captain Thomas Elliott, One of the Bailiffs at Aldborough. Aldborough, July 1, 1669. Captain Elliott—Upon the late arrival of the news of Sir Robert Brookes’s death, who served as one of the Burgesses for the town of Aldborough, his R. H. was pleased, upon considerations of his own, to command me to endeavour after the procurement of the election of myself into this vacancy, an honour which I should not of myself have pretended to, as among other reasons, so in par- ticular from my being wholly a stranger to that corporation. But his R. H. having been thus pleased to think upon me, with a reso- lution of engaging his whole interest in the accomplishing of it, I think it my duty to obey him therein; and, in order thereto, to direct my first applications to yourself, whom his R. H. is pleased to pitch upon, as one of whose endeavours in the promoting of all, his Highness rests most assured: and in an especial manner relies upon your capacity and influence for doing the same in this par- ticular. The inclosed will deliver you his Highness’s mind under his own hand; and more particularly by another from Mr. Wren, to which I must be referred, having never yet had the good for- tune of serving you in any thing that might oblige you to the exercise of your interest and kindness in my behalf. But as your favour herein will be very acceptable to his R. H., so will it SAMUEL PEPYS 199 engage, not only myself singly, but the whole body of this Office, upon all future occasions, to press their sense of your kindness shown to one of its members. Besides, that if his Highness’s desire herein do succeed, I do not despair of having opportunity of showing myself a faithful and useful servant to the corpora- tion. I shall not think it needful to offer you any advice touching the method of your proceedings, but submit the whole to your prudence: and I pray you to believe that I will see you fully and thankfully reimbursed for what charges shall attend the same: and pray that you will please to give me a speedy account of your thoughts and advice how his R. H.’s influence, or any other recommendation, may be most advantageously employed and directed for the obtaining of these our desires. This is all the trouble you shall at present receive from your most affect. friend and humble servt., S;.e- C.J] The Duke of York to Lord Henry Howard. July 10, 1669. My Lord Howard.—I receive with very great kindness your answer to my late request about Mr. Pepys, it being such as gives me not only assurance of your respects to me in general, but grounds of expecting a good issue to my desire, by the assist- ance of your interest in this particular; though Mr. Duke is not likely to contribute any thing to it. I shall make such use of the blank you entrust me with to the town, as you shall be well satis- fied with; and, being very sensible of the readiness with which you have obliged me in this matter, Remain your affectionate friend, For my Lord Howard. J AMES. C.] The Duke of York to the Town of Aldborough in Suffolk. July 16, 1669. Gentlemen—Being informed of the death of Sir Robert Brookes, who served in Parliament as one of the Burgesses of your Cor- poration, I recommend to your favour, in your future election, Samuel Pepys, Esq., one of the Commissioners of the Navy, who, besides his general qualifications for that trust, will, I assure myself, be found on all occasions a useful servant to your town: and what kindness he shall receive from you in this matter, I shall esteem as testimony of your respect to me. I am, your loving friend, J AMES. - 200 CORRESPONDENCE OF U. orig. ] S. Pepys to John Evelyn. Navy Office, November 2, 1669. Sir—I beg you to believe that I would not have been ten days returned into England without waiting on you, had it not pleased God to afflict mee by the sickness of my wife, who, from the first day of her coming back to London, hath layn under a fever so severe, as at this hour to render her recoverie desperate; which affliction hath very much unfitted me for those acts of civilitie and respect which, amongst the first of my friends, I should have paid to yourselfe, as he to whom singly I owe ye much greater part of ye satisfaction I have met with in my late voyage. Next to you, I have my acknowledgmts to make to St Samuel Tuke, to whom, when in a condition of doing it, I shall beg your intro- ducing me,-for the owning of my obligations to him on the like behalfe. But, St,I beg you heartilie to dispense with the cere- monie, till I am better qualified for paying it; and in ye mean time receive the enclosed, which I would with much more satis- faction have delivered with my owne hand. I am, Sir, your most obliged and obedient Servt, S. Pepys, I most humbly kiss your ladies hands, and pray my service may be presented to St Richd Browne. C.] S. Pepys to Captain Elliott, at Aldborough. March 3rd, 1669-70. Captain Elliott—I beg you earnestly to believe that nothing but the sorrow and distraction I have been in by the death of my wife, increased by the suddenness with which it pleased God to surprise me therewith, after a voyage so full of health and con- tent, could have forced me to so long a neglect of my private — concernments; this being, I do assure you, the very first day that my affliction, together with my daily attendance on other public occasions of his Majesty’s, has suffered me to apply myself to the considering any part of my private concernments; among which, that of my doing right to you is no small particular; and therefore, as your charity will, I hope, excuse me for my not doing it sooner, so I pray you to accept now, as late as it is, my hearty thanks for your multiplied kindness in my late affair at Aldborough;* and in particular, your courteous providing of your own house for my reception, had I come down; the entertainment : 1 His unsuccessful election contest. SAMUEL PEPYS 201 you were also pleased to prepare for me, together with your other great pains and charges in the preserving that interest which you had gained, in reference to his Royal Highness’s and my Lord Howard’s desire on my behalf: in all which I can give you good assurance, that not only his Royal Highness retains a thankful memory of your endeavours to serve him, but I shall take upon me the preserving it so with him, that it may be useful to you when you shall have any occasion for asking his favour. The like I dare promise you from my Lord Howard, when he shall return; and both from them and myself make this kindness of yours, and the rest of those gentlemen of the town who were pleased to concur with you, as advantageous both to yourself and them, and to the Corporation also, as if the business had succeeded to the best of our wishes: and this I assure you, whether I shall ever hereafter have the honour of serving them in Parliament or not, having no reason to receive any thing with dissatisfaction in this whole matter, saving the particular disrespect which our noble master, the Duke of York, suffered from the beginning to the end, from Mr. Duke and Captain Shippman, who, I doubt not, may meet with a time of seeing their error therein. But I am extremely ashamed to find myself so much outdone by you in kindness, by your not suffering me to know the expense which this business has occasioned you; which I again entreat you to let me do, esteeming your pains, without that of your charge, an obligation greater than I can foresee opportunity of requiting, though I shall by no means omit to endeavour it. So with a repetition of my hearty acknowledg- ments of all your kindness, with my service to yourself and lady, and all my worthy friends about you, I remain, your obliged friend and humble servant, Smee U. orig. ] S. Pepys to Sir R. Brown. Navy Office, March 26, 1670. Honoured St—I have a suddaine occasion offered me of askeing your friendshipp, as well as a full assurance that I shalle not want it. Tis this: Mt Ascew, Clerk of Trinity-house, is dead. I have a brother of my own (John Pepys), whose relation to me could not tempt me to this motion, were it not that his sobriety, diligence, and education, being a scholer, and I think in every respect qualified for the em- ployment, in a very different proportion to what Mr. Ascew’s educa- tion could render him, doth leade me to think it a service to ye Corpora- tion to offer him to them.t I ayme not soe much at yé sallarie for him, 1John Pepys got the appointment, and died 300/. in debt to the Trinity House, which Samuel Pepys paid. . 202 CORRESPONDENCE OF as the opportunitie, by this meanes, of introducing him to that sort of business for which I have for some time designed him. He is about thirty years of age, unmarried; his life that of a Scholar’s, as, having resided in the Universitie till, having past three or four yeares Master of Arts, I called him thence some time since to my owne tuition, and that acquaintance with business which my trade could lead him to. Now, S', knowing your influence upon the Society of Trinity-House, I pray you soe far to trust my report in this matter, as to thinke it worthy of your countenance by a word or two betweene this and Wednesday next, either to the body of that house, or such members of it as you thinke may be most operative, in conjunction with that assist- ance which your recommendation shall receive from my Lord Sandwich, Lord Craven, and my brethren of this Office, who have promised me to concern themselves thorowly in yis matter, besides a ltt which his Royal Highness was pleased to give mee on y® same behalfe. Your particular favour herein shall be owned with all possible ex- pressions of thankfulness by Your obedient Servant, S. Pepys. B. L. orig. | Matthew Wren to S. Pepys. November 9th, 1670. Sir—His Majesty, having accidentally heard of some dispute be- tween you and the Resident of Sweden,‘ to prevent any further incon- venience that may happen, has, by my Lord Arlington, Principal Secretary of State, signified his pleasure to me to require you neither to send any challenge to the said Resident of Sweden, nor to accept of any from him; but that, as soon as you receive this, you immediately © attend the Lord Arlington. I am, your most humble Servant, M. Wren. B. L. orig. ] H. Savile to S. Pepys. Burlington Bay, Prince, August 14, 1672. Sir—His Royal Highness has commanded me to write to you to send away, with all possible dispatch, to Southwold Bay, the chaloupe that hee ordered should bee»made for Monsr le Comte d’Estrées, that hee may have it ready for him when wee are there, which wee shall bee in a very little time, if his Highness’s resolutions are not prevented by ill weather, or some other unavoideble accidents. Hee has farther ordered mee to acquaint you that, upon a report wee 1See note, vol. i., 26th Nov. 1660. SAMUEL PEPYS 2038 have heer, that Sir Rob. Paston’* is to bee called to the House of Lords, he spoake to my Lord Harry Howard that you might be Burgesse of Rising, which his Lordship has very willingly consented to, both out of obedience to the Duke’s commands, and out of kindnesse to you; and, therefore, it will bee your part to watche Sir Robert’s promotion, and inquire into the truth of it, and acquaint my Lord H. Howard with it. I hope you have receaved the letter I sent you by the Duke’s com- mand, to assure you of the care hee will take in your owne private affayre, which he mentioned to you the last time you were with him. I heartily wishe that during the short time of my being in office, some opportunity would happen of showing you with how much truth I am, Your most faithful humble Servant, HEN. Savitz. B. L. orig. ] B. St. Michel to S. Pepys. « Deale, August 14, 1672. Hond. Sir—You dayly and howerly soe comble me with, not only expressions, but allsoe deeds of your worthyness and goodness, as well to my selfe as the rest of your most devoted humble creaturs heare, that I am as well as my poor drooping mother, whoose continuall ill- ness, since the death of my father, gives me but litell hopes shee will survive him longe, only but to be something longer a living wittness of your dearness to her poore childe, your late deare consort, my beloved sister, by that your noble, worthy, and kinde expresions, and promices to be still her benefactor: for which shee hath only, saith shee, the capasity left her to bless God for your prosperity, and to continue still her prayers to the Allmighty God to power upon you and yours multitude of heavenly blessings: these, Sir, are her own expressions, and I am sure, from the very botome of her harte and sowle. I am then, Sir, as I said, confuted in my selfe how I may ever strive to deserve the least of those your manyfould, gracious, good, kinde, fatherly, and deare, not only expressions, but effects, which I for ever shall owne, Well, Sir, since I fear it will never lye in my power to serve you as I ought, without devoteing my life and fortunes at your feet, be pleased to acept and comande both upon all occasions, which you will find with soe much zeale still, for you and your cause, that never man living will ever be named more gratefull, as I am in duty bounde, to your favours, and more zealous for your consernes and interest, than him, who is proude to be, Sir, Your most faithfull and obedient humble Servt. B. St MicHet. 1 He was created Lord Paston and Viscount Yarmowth, roth Aug., 1673, Earl of Yarmouth, 3oth July, 1679. 204 CORRESPONDENCE OF Litell Samuel, whoe speakes now very pretely, desiers to have his most humble duty presented to his most hontd Uncle and Godfather, which please to accept from your most humble litell disiple. This day the Dragon is come into the Downes, which, to-moroe, God willing, I intend to muster. Pray present my most kinde and humble service to my cosen John Pepys. B. St M. B. L. orig. | T. Povy to S. Pepys. August 31, 1672. Sir—I had this morning full discourse with the Lord Howard, who was telling mee how hee finds himself oppressed with his prerogative of recommending on elections: and how hee stands engaged to the King for Sir Francis North, to the Duchess of Cleveland for Sir John Trevor, hir councill and feoffee, and to the Duke for you: telling me by what circumstances the Duke attacked him: and I find not that hee hath any hesitation in the complying with the Duke on your behalf; though hee bee in much distraction how hee shall accommodate the other 2 persons. The present expedient is the putting what interests and force hee can for the getting the Solicitor elected at Lyn. Yet in that particular hee conflicts with a great dilemma; because Cook, a youth of the principall estate in Norfolk, stands at Lyn, and his Lord- ship is tender of giving him an opposition there, because the gent. of the countrie doe alreadie murmur at his disposing those places, upon which hee hath a full and perticular influence, upon strangers and courtiers, neglecting gentlemen of the countrie, who hold themselves disobliged thereby; and are more reasonably, perhaps, dissatisfied, that he concernes himself at Lyn, also, where hee ought to leave them to a free competition, without concerning himself. : ’ I took noe notice that I had heard any thing of his concession to the Duke: but my advice is, that you goe on Monday to give him 4 visitt at Arundell House, where I am sure you will not find him: but you are to seé the porter, to write down your name, and not forget the acquainting his Lordship that you were to waite on him. Hee goes on Monday into Surrey, to return on Tuesday; and perhaps to goe with the King on Wensday to the Fleet, where hee will receive your letter. It is not doubted but Sir Robert* will have his promised title, though I cannot yet heare that any thing is done in it. I shall in- quire somewhat more closely, and you shall receive what can bee col- lected by, Sir, T. Povy. 1 Sir Robert Paston. SAMUEL PEPYS 205 B.L. orig.] Sir William Coventry to S. Pepys. Minster Lovell, June 25, 73. St—You may reasonably imagine, when you see a letter from mee, that it is to congratulate your new employment, which I persuade my Selfe you will as easily believe mee to rejoice at, as any man whatso- ever; and should have acquiesced in that persuasion, without giving you the trouble of telling you soe, had I not bin sollicited by a servant of mine to intreat yt favour to a brother of his, whose name is Robert Krewstub: my servant tells mee hee hath, during this and the last warre, bin employed as steward in the Navy; his ambition is to become a purser, of which hee doubts not to make his capacity evident, and to give good security. I know you, and the place you execute, too well to thinke it fitt for mee to recommend an unfitt man to you: but if hee appeare fitt for it, I doe very seriously entreat your fayour to him. I am very unlikely ever to make you a returne, unlesse you have occasion to keepe a running horse at Burford, in which case I offer you my diligence to overlook him: therefore, you have it in your power to lay an obligation upon mee, without the least prospect of interest to sully it. I wish all you oblige may bee, as much as my- self, and, if soe, you will be happier than some of your predecessors. Sir, your aff. humble Servant, W. Coventry. B. L. orig. ] Dr. H. Burton to S. Pepys. Magdalene College, April 9, 1677. Sir—The foundation of that building in our College, to which you are pleased to contribute, is now laid, and they begin to want moneys to go on with it. I have said enough to tell you my business, which is to desire you will send yours to Mt William Potts, an apothecary, who lives at the Elephant and Castle, near St. Antholin’s Church, in Queen Street, London, who is appointed Receiver in the city. Sir, I would not have put you to so much trouble, but that indis- pensible business has forced me. Sir, I am, Your most obliged and humble Servant, Heze. Burton. C.] S. Pepys to George, Lord Berkeley. Derby House, 22d February, 1677-8. My Lord—I am greatly owing to your Lordship for your last favopr at St. John’s, and did, till now, reckon myself under no less a debt 206 CORRESPONDENCE OF my Ladies for the honour at the same time done me, in their commands touching Mr. Bonithan. But, my Lord, I have lately had the mis- fortune of being undeceived in the latter, by coming to know the severity with which some of my Ladies are pleased to discourse of me in rela- tion thereto. I assure your Lordship, I was so big with the satisfaction of having an opportunity given me by my Ladies at once of obliging them, paying a small respect to you, and doing a good office to a deserving gentleman, that I did not let one day pass before I had bespoke and obtained his Majesty’s and Royal Highness’s promise — of favour in Mr. Bonithan’s behalf: and was so far afterwards from failing him in my further assistances with Captain Trevanion and others, that I took early care to secure him a lieutenancy, by a commis- sion actually signed for him by the king, in the ship Stavereene, relying upon the character Captain Trevanion had given me of his capacity to abide the examination, established by the King, upon the promotion } of lieutenants; which was not only the most I should have done in the ~ case of a brother, but more than ever I did in any man’s case before, : or, for his sake, do think I shall ever do again. True it is, my Lord, that when, upon his examination by the officers of the Navy, he was 4 found not so fully qualified for the office of lieutenant as was requisite, I did with all respect, and to his seeming satisfaction, advise him to pass a little longer time in the condition he was then in, under a stricter application of himself to the practice of navigation. And, in pursuance of my duty to the King, I did acquaint him also with Mr. Bonithan’s present unreadiness; and had, therefore, a command given me for conferring the commission prepared for him upon another, who, | upon examination, at the same time with Mr. Bonithan, was found better qualified for it+ As to what I understand my Ladies are~ pleased to entertain themselves and others with, to my reproach, as i money had been wanting in the case, it is a reproach lost upon me, my Lord, who am known to be so far from needing any purgation im- the point of selling places, as never to have taken so much as my fee for a commission or warrant to any one officer in the navy, within the whole time, now near twenty years, that I have had the honour of serving His Majesty therein—a self-denial at this day so little im fashion, and yet so chargeable to maintain, that I take no pride, and as little pleasure in the mentioning it, further than it happily falls in here to my defence against the mistake the Ladies seem disposed” to arraign me by on this occasion. Besides that in the particular case of this gentleman, Lieut. Beele, who enjoys the commission de-— signed for Mr. Bonithan, he is one whose face I never saw either be- fore or since the time of his receiving it, nor know one friend he has ~ 2The Report of the Navy Commissioners, certifying Bonithan’s insufficiency — and Beele’s competency to manage a ship, was inclosed in the letter. a JACOB HALL, THE FAMOUS ROPE DANCER. From an extremely rare print formerly in the collection of Sir John St. Aubyn. fi SAMUEL PEPYS 207 in the world to whom he owes this benefit, other than the King’s justice and his own modest merit; which, having said, it remains only that I assure your Lordship what I have so said, is not calculated with any regard to, much less any repining at, the usage the Ladies are pleased to show me in this affair, for ’tis fit I bear it, but to acquit myself to your Lordship in my demeanour towards them, as becomes their and, my Lord, Your Lordship’s most obedient Servant, S. P. B.L.] Lord Berkeley to S. Pepys. Berkeley House, February 23, 1677-8. Good Mr. Pepys—Though I thank you for the favour of your letter, yet I confess myself both much surprised and troubled to receive a letter from you upon such an occasion: so is my wife, who professes herself wholly innocent of any crime of charging you in thought, word, or deed, and hopes you will do her that right to believe so of her. My daughter’ Berkeley says she expressed some trouble that the friend she recommended had not success, and that she was told the Com- missioners of the Navy did report they had given the same recommenda- tions of the person she proposed, as they did of him that was accepted, for the lieutenant’s place; which my daughter, supposing to be true, wondered the more he lost the preferment: but by the copies enclosed in your’s, it appears her Ladyship was very much misinformed. As for Mrs. Henrietta,* she is extremely troubled in saying any thing that gave you offence: and, though she did not in the least intend it, yet she begs your pardon. And now, my good friend, though I am not under any accusation, and therefore need not say any thing to vindi- cate myself, yet give me leave, upon this occasion, to assure you, that there is no person has a better opinion of you than myself, nor is more sensible of your particular civilities to me; which I should be very glad to make a return of when in my power to serve you: and give me leave to add further, without flattery to you, and with great sin- cerity, that I believe our gracious master, His Majesty, is so fortunate in employing you in his service, that, if he should lose you, it would be very difficult for His Majesty to find a successor so well qualified in all respects for his service, if we consider both your integrity, vast abilities, industry, and zealous affections for his service; and, if His Majesty were asked the question, I will hold ten to one His Majesty declares himself of my opinion: so will I believe all that know you, 1 Probably Elizabeth, daughter of Baptist Noel, Viscount Camden, married to Sir Charles Berkeley, K.B., Lord B.’s eldest son. 2Lord Berkeley’s youngest daughter, who afterwards eloped with her brother- in-law, Ford, Lord rex 208 CORRESPONDENCE OF more especially our fellow-traders that are so ¢ohvefsant with you and obliged by you. This is asserted as a great truth by, Sir, Your very affectionate and hearty friend and Servant, BErkELey. ~ B. M. orig.] William Hewer to Sir John Kempthorne, Knt., one of the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Navy, resid- ing at Derby House. Nov. 19, 1678. Sir—I have received your’s of the 16th inst., for which I return you my very kind thanks, and having very recently acquainted Sir John Biggs of my concerns in Sir Denis Gauden’s estate at Clapham, and had Sir Denis Gauden and himself together this afternoon, to dis- course the business as to your security for the money due to you from Sir Denis Gauden, I doubt not but that he will give you stich satis- faction therein as to my concerns, and the security offered by Sir Denis Gauden, for your satisfaction, as to prevent that trouble between us, which I am of opinion the attorney would engage us in. So that I shall not need to give you any further trouble in the matter, save the re- ferring you to Sir John Briggs, who promised me to give you an ac- count, as well as his opinion, of what has passed between us this ik Your faithful and humble Servant, Witi1am Hewer. C.] S. Pepys to Thomas Pepys, of Lynn Regis. February 1, 1678-9. Good Cousin—I do kindly thank you for your letter of yester- day, assuring you that I am not surprised, much less under any dis- appointment from the contents of it; I knowing the world too well to expect more than is to be found in it: and I think mine to you did enough to show you what I asked was rather out of respect to the town of Castle Rising, as having once been their servant, than from any such advantage I propose to myself by it, as would suffer me to — give way to your entering upon any expense for it; I having the good fortune of being so much better understood elsewhere, as to have at this time invitations from the magistracy of no less than three’ several 1In the preceding Parliament. 2 The th Corporations were, Portsmouth; one of the Isle of Wight_toroughs, of eich Gir Robert Holmes was patron; and Harwich, for which Pepys was — returned. 4 SAMUEL PEPYS 209 Corporations of somewhat greater names, though not more in my esteem than that of theirs, to accept of their elections. Therefore, pray be under no further care on my behalf in this matter; the satisfaction of haying discharged my duty to the gentlemen of Castle Rising being all I aim at, without troubling myself to reflect upon any forgetfulness on their parts towards me. As for those two worthy persons who now stand for their fayours, Sir Robert Howard and Sir John Baber, they are both my honoured friends,’ and as far as any interest of mine can bestead them, I do readily resign it to them. And for the kindness I. have received on this occasion from your- self, I shall always most thankfully own it by whatever testimony thereof I may be able to give, by suitable services to you and your family, remaining Your truly affectionate kinsman and humble Servant, ° C.] S. Pepys to Col. Legge, at Portsmouth. 13th February, 1678-9, at night, Sir—Since I wrote to you by express, His R. H. being then abroad a-hunting, I have had opportunities to attend him with an account of yours to me this morning, and mine since to you, with His Majesty’s and my Lord Treasurer’s commands touching Sir John Ernle,? who I now understand from his R. H. is in town, and has spoken to his R. H. concerning this matter; and received for answer what by the Duke’s command I have now to acquaint you with; which is, that Colonel Norton having, as you write, finally declined standing for the town, resolving to apply himself for Knight of the Shire, His R. H. does think it of great moment to His Majesty that Sir John Ernle be provided for, and that therefore all endeavours be used by Sir John Kempthorne, declining it; and otherwise that Sir John Ernle be chosen, in company with you, for that place. Which leaving with you by the Duke’s command, I remain, your most humble Servant, S. P. C.] The Earl of Danby to Col. Legge. (Transmitted through Mr. Pepys.) London, 13th February, 1678-9. Sir—Mr. Pepys being returned to town, His Majesty has com- manded him to do all he can for the election of Sir John Ernle at 2 The two candidates, Pepys’s honoured friends, were at the very time occupied in raising a No Popery ee against him, at Castle Rising —- MS,, Pepys’s Letters. ?He was Chancellor of the Exchequer. 3 Of Portsmouth. VOLe I¥e 2 210 CORRESPONDENCE OF Portsmouth; and hearing that Sir John Kempthorne designs to stand, the King has enjoined Mr. Pepys to let him know, in his name, that he would have him to decline it himself, and to assist Mr. Chancellor, who is likely to be so necessary to his Majesty this Parliament, that he cannot want his service in the House. As he has laid his commands himself upon Mr. Pepys in this manner, so His Majesty has ordered me to signify this his pleasure to you, and to let you know that his service is so much concerned in it, that he would have you leave nothing undone that is in your power, for the obtaining that election for him. I am, Sir, your most humble servant, Dansy. B.L. orig.] Str Leoline Jenkins to S. Pepys. February 24, 1678-9. Sir—Nothing in the world could be more kind nor more generous than your letter of the 13th, by the yacht. The prospect that you and I had of embracing one another is now vanished; but no distance of time or place shall in the least diminish that faithfull cordiall respect I have for your person, and that very high esteem I have for your merits. If there was any honour or new employment designed for me, when I was so suddenly called home, I’ll take leave to tell it in your bosome, that I bless God with all my soule that it is otherwise dis- posed of; for I have had enough of this world; God give me grace to prepare for another! “Tis true I am now putt upon a new com- mission, which, God knows, is a grief to me, and should never be my choice, if it were in my power. However, his Royal Highness may render it as easy as "tis, in the present circumstances, capable of being to an honest man, that cannot but be, at such a time as this, full of anguishes for his King and his Country. I beg your favour in delivering the enclosed to His Royal Highness: ’tis to petition him to that effect. I pray pardon me this boldnesse, and be pleas’d to believe that I am, with perfect truth, Sir, your most humble and most faithful servant, L. JENKINS. C.] The Duke of York to S. Pepys. Hague, April 24, 1679. The place that I came from afforded so little news, that it was not* at all necessary for me to write to you, only to let you know I had 1In spite of this interference Sir John Kempthorne was returned. SAMUEL PEPYS 211 received yours, in which you gave me an account of the loss of the Marigold prize at Tangier. I hope we shall now soon hear of the arrival of Sir J. Narborough; for then we shall have some more strength at home, though not so much as I think ought to be at sea, considering the ships they say the French are fitting out. This goes to you by my page, Mr. Hickman, who, I desire, may go a volunteer in one of the convoys for Newfoundland; and if Captain Lloyd be one, that he may go with him; which is all I shall now say, but that you shall always find me the same to you. J AMES. C.] The Duke of York to S. Pepys. Hague, April 25, 1679. I would not let this bearer, Captain Sanders, go, without writing to you by him, to let you know that I stopped him when he came to Antwerp, intending to have come hither in him; but, by the negli- gence of our pilot, we came on ground near Bergen-op-Zoom, so that I was forced to go on Board the Dutch yacht; but did not stir from thence till we got him off. She is now at Helveotsluys; and, if this wind continue, will soon be at Greenwich. I do intend to go to- morrow to Amsterdam; my chief business is to see the ships and magazines there. I design to be back on Friday, and the next week to return to Brussels. I long to hear of Sir J. Narborough’s being arrived with you, for one does not know what may happen as to France. I wish things may go, where you are, as they ought; and be assured you shall find me as kind to you as ever. J AMES. C.] S. Pepys to the Duke of York. Derby-House, May 6, 1679. May it please your Royal Highness—I acknowledge with all humility and thankfulness, the honour of your Highness’s letters of the 24th and 25th of the last, and do, with equal shame and grief, observe how much your Highness’s solicitude, even at this distance, for the security of this kingdom against the power of France, does exceed all that we ourselves have yet expressed upon that subject, otherwise than by a general but inactive restlessness under our apprehensions of the danger; but without any alteration made, since your Royal Highness’s departure, in the state of our ships or coasts, other than what is consequential to their having lain so much longer neglected. Sir John Narborough’s last letters were of the 7th and 17th of March, from Alicant, where, having newly met with his Majesty’s orders for his coming home, P2 212 CORRESPONDENCE OF after a short visit to Algiers, he therein told me he would accordingly proceed forthwith to Port Mahon, for the settling some matters in that place, and from thence to Algiers; so as to be at’ Tangier, in his way homeward, about the 7th of April. Since which, though we have wanted advice from him wholly, yet, by a letter I have seen from a slave at Algier, of the Ist of April, it appears that he came before that town the 25th, and departed the 29th of March, after haying sent two of his captains ashore to treat of a peace, but without effect, This only is added by the slave, that, had Sir John Narborough staid one day more in the road, those of Algiers had certainly made a peace with him, that government having, it seems, afterwards expressed some trouble that it was not done; by which calculation of time we may now, from day to day, expect his being here. I have remembered your Highness’s command in reference to Cap- tain Lloyd’s being appointed one of the Newfoundland convoys, which his Majesty has been pleased to agree to, in company with Captain- Talbot, in the Mary Rose, Captain Priestman, in the Antelope, and Captain Kempthorne, in the Dover, and will take care that Mr. Hick- man be entertained as a volunteer with Captain Lloyd, How his Majesty has been pleased, among his other great changes, to dispose of the Admiralty, by a new Commission to these gentlemen, viz., Sir Henry Capel, Mr. Dan. Finch, Sir Tho. Ley, Sir Thomas Meres, Mr. Vaughan, Sir Hum. Winch, and Mr. Hales, of Kent, your Highness, I doubt not, has many days since known; nor shall I think it becoming me to interpose any thoughts of mine touching his Majesty’s choice therein, more than for his, and his service’s sake, I could wish his naval arrangements to be such as for a time might allow these worthy gentlemen opportunity of being informed in the work of their great office, before they be urged to much execution in it. And this I am the bolder in wishing, since they have taken upon themselves the performance of that branch of the Admiral’s task which his Majesty was pleased, for the ease of his last Commissioners, to reserve the trouble of to himself, namely, the issuing all sailing instructions to his fleet and ships; his Majesty having, at the instance of these gentle- men, put that part also in their hands, together with the granting of all officers in the navy, in the same manner as it has at any time been exercised by the Lords Admirals of England. For what concerns my own particular, your Highness was pleased to foretell me, at your going hence, what I was soon after to look for; and it is come to pass. For whether I will or no, a Papist I must be, because favoured by your Royal Highness, and found en- deavouring, on all fitting occasions, to express, in the best manner I can, the duty and gratitude due to your Highness from me. But how injuriously soever some would make those just endeavours of mine SAMUEL PEPYS 213 towards your Highness inconsistent with Protestancy, neither they, nor any ill usage I can receive from them, shall, by the grace of God, make me any more quit the one, than I suspect your Royal Highness will ever take offence at my perseverance in the other. His Majesty is, indeed, pleased to express a much more fayourable opinion of me, and my slender qualifications for his service, than I dare own my right to; and as an instance thereof has not spared to tell me how much weight he is pleased to place upon my experience in the Navy, for supplying, by my Secretaryship, what his present choice of Commis- sioners may possibly be found less perfect in: nor shall I think it be- coming me to dispute the giving his Majesty my service on whatever terms he shall think fit to require it from me, But, as your Royal Highness well knows how far I had, not long since, made it my humble motion, and pressed it upon your favour, that after almost twenty years’ continued drudgery in the Navy, to the rendering myself almost blind, and otherwise disabled in health to support it much longer, his Majesty would be pleased to take the residue of my small service by admitting me into the Commission of the Admiralty: so truly, Sir, I have now, upon other considerations purely relative to his service, made the same motion to the King, upon occasion of this change. For if I was truly conscious of being become less able to bear the fatigue of my office any longer, under a Commis- sion that had many members of it competently furnished for its execu- tion, besides the easy and helpful recourse I had at all times had to his Majesty himself, and your Royal Highness, in matters needing it, and those, as old a Navyman as I am, not a few, how much less fit ought I to think myself to go through this task, when, not only stripped of all those helps, but, to say no worse, charged with a new piece of duty, and that not a little one, of informing those who should inform and are to command me; and I to remain accountable for all the ill suecess that should attend my obeying those commands, though prob- ably differing from my own advice. Besides, however fairly some of these gentlemen seemed disposed towards my continuance in this Sec- retaryship, yet that compliance of theirs I well know to be grounded upon some opinion they haye of the necessaryness of my seryice to them till they have obtained a stock of knowledge of their own; and then farewell! But others there be, with whom your Royal Highness knows, (what converts soever they are now to be thought!) I have for many years lived in a constant state of war, they censuring, and I defending, the management of the navy; and with such success on the nayy’s side, as to have always met with too great an appearance of His Majesty’s well accepting my humble endeavours therein, that, however our conjunction may now succeed in reference to His Majesty’s service, I should not promise myself any satisfaction from them, espe- cially upon terms so unequal, as my being brought down to be a 214 CORRESPONDENCE OF servant to them, when the dignity of the trust I have so long had the honour of serving His Majesty in, might, I hope, be thought to have set me upon a level with them. Whereto I have humbly to add, what some have not spared publicly to let fly in opposition to my continuance in this office, namely, that so long as Mr. Pepys should be there, his Royal Highness remains in effect Admiral. In which, though they do me a much greater honour than either I deserve, or their malignity intends me, yet, Sir, I cannot but so far consider the importance of having all rubs removed, which may be either of impediment to the happy going on of this great part of the King’s service, or give any unnecessary occasion of keeping alive the jealousies touching your Royal Highness, that if His Majesty may as well secure to himself the full use of my service, and your Royal Highness receive no less content from my being in the Commission than in my present post, which you were pleased, upon my former motion to that purpose, to express your well-liking of, I see no inconvenience, but to myself, likely to arise from His Majesty’s giving them the satisfaction of his withdrawing me from this odious Secretaryship; I being for these reasons not only contented to submit to, but desire it, and shall be most ready to give my assistance in this Commission with the same faithfulness and industry, though not with the same private satisfac- tion, wherewith I ought, and should, were your Royal Highness at the head of it. Which having said, I make it my humble prayer to your Royal Highness to interpret with your usual justice my deliberation upon this subject, pardoning ought that shall hap- pen not to find your full liking, as being designed most en- tirely for the benefit of His Majesty’s service. But if it shall be my better fortune to meet with your Royal Highness’s ap- probation in what I have here humbly offered, I then make it my suit to your Royal Highness, that you will be pleased to consider how far it may be fit for your Royal Highness to enforce from yourself this my humble proposal to His Majesty, for my being transferred from the Secretaryship into the Commission: your Royal Highness well knowing that, however bounteous you have always been to me in your frequent callings on me, to the improvement of your favours to my benefit with His Majesty, I have never to this day done it to the ob- taining sixpence from the Crown by any boon extraordinary beyond the plain allowance of my office, and not that neither: yet by much more than all I have else reserved in the world to depend upon, as your. Highness was pleased to be informed from me by particulars, and from you the King, just before your going. So as, while the sincer- ity of my wishes for the weal of his service prompts me to this voluntary divesting myself of my present employment, I should be in very ill condition to bear its not being made up to me by His Majesty granting, for his service’s sake, as well as in justice to your SAMUEL PEPYS 215 Royal Highness’s mediation, and his own promises in my favour, the latter part of my motion for his placing me in the Commission, or at least making some other provision for me as one superannuated in his service. Wherein, nevertheless, submitting myself still to your Royal High- ness’s disposal, and beseeching Almighty God to put some timely bounds to your misfortunes, whatever becomes of mine, I, in all humility, remain, May it please your Royal Highness, Your Royal Highness’s most obedient and most dutiful Servant, S. P. C.] The Duke of York to S. Pepys. Bruxelles, May 23, 1679. Yours, by Captain Sanders, I received yesterday morning, and look on what you propose as so reasonable, that I send you here enclosed a letter to His Majesty as you desired, and send it with a flying seal, that you may read it before you deliver it to see how you like it; and truly I hope His Majesty will do it; I am sure he ought, and it will do more good to reward one old servant than to take off twenty mutineers. I have not time to say more, but that you shall always find me firm to you. C.] The Duke of York to the King. Bruxelles, May 22, 1679. I hope your Majesty will pardon me for writing to you in behalf of an old servant of yours in the Navy, that has long and faithfully served you. It is Mr. Pepys, who now, upon this change in the Ad- miralty, is like to suffer, without your Majesty’s favour; and truly, I think, should he be quite laid aside, I believe the service there would not be so well carried on, and those who are named to be Com- missioners of the Admiralty, though in other affairs they are very able men, yet must needs be very raw in that, and will want one amongst them that understands it: therefore, what I have humbly to offer to your Majesty in Mr. Pepys’s behalf is, that you will be pleased to add him to that Commission, and let him be one of their number. Sure none can find fault with your Majesty’s doing it for him, when they consider his long service in the Navy, and that you do it for him as a recompence to him for all his services. And besides, I think it very necessary for your service always, and the easiest and less 216 CORRESPONDENCE OF chargeable way of doing something for him that can be thought on: for give me leave to say, your Majesty is bound to do something for him that has spent so many years in your service to your satis- faction. Pray, Sir, pardon me for being earnest in this affair; I can never help being so where I think your honour concerned, and I wish all your subjects were as true Englishmen, and as dutiful and loyal as I am, and shall ever be. J AMES. C.] S. Pepys to the Duke of York. Tower, June 9, 1679. May it please your Royal Highness—I should not have thought it in any wise becoming me to trouble your Royal Highness with the notice of any thing relating to the present difficulties I lie under, other- wise than as they serve for the necessary excuse of my no earlier own- ing the favour of your Royal Highness’s, by Captain Sanders, which found me in the custody, under which I, with Sir Anthony Deane, do now remain, upon no less suggestions than those of popery, felony, piracy, and treason, but so grounded as to render it hard for me to tell your Royal Highness which of the two enjoys the greater pleasure: whether Mr. Harbord in public, from the contemplation of the con- quest his malice has obtained over me, or I in private, from what my innocence tells me I shall, some time or other, if any justice may be hoped for, obtain against him. Hardships, however, I do and shall suffer contentedly; and the more in that I had the honour of having my duty to your Royal Highness assigned for the real cause of what my adversaries are pleased artificially to pretend, of Popery, and other like chimeras: for begging your Royal Highness to believe that, as your Royal Highness shall never receive any dishonour from the favour you haye been observed to incline towards me, so neither shall any of the hard usages which the malignity of some, or want of information in others, can subject me to, render me either less zealous in my duty and allegiance to my Royal Master, or less forward in the payment of that gratitude, which even that Protestancy of mine the world would be thought so doubtful of, exacts from me towards your Highness, and shall haye it to the last point of my fortune and life. For what concerns your Royal Highness’s particular goodness to me, in your late letter to His Majesty, the condition I am in puts it out of my power to apply it to my benefit; but not so as to make me any thing doubtful of the fruits of it in His Majesty’s justice, so soon as the justice I am waiting for from lower hands shall put me into a capacity of asking it. Towards which, referring your Royal Highness a SAMUEL PEPYS 217 in all humility to Sir John Werden for some particulars, wherein your present aid and direction may be of instant benefit to me under my present misfortune, I pray God protect Your and Her Royal Highness, and am, &c., S. PB: B.L. orig. | J. Maulyverer to S. Pepys. (Magdalene College, Cambridge,) Noy. xxix., 1679. Honrd Sir—This is to return the humble thankes of our whole Society, and particularly myne owne, for the great favour and kindenes with which you have been pleas’d to oblige us. The money, indeed, was, by the bond, payable the last Michaelmas was twelve-moneths, so that you might justly have expected to have heard from us about it before this time. We do beg your pardon for this neglect, and shall all- wayes acknowledge ourselves endebted to you for this and all your other charitable remembrances of Magdalene College. We hope to be able to pay you in a short time, and therefore desire to know when you will be pleas’d to call for it in. We had made a tender of it before this time, had not some of our benefactours been very slow in paying their subscriptions. We have not yet finished the inside, and I know not when we shall; however, we will rather let it stand unfinished than suffer our just debts to be unpay’d. Humble service from the Master and Fellows concludes this, from, Sir, Yours, &c., Jou. MAULYVERER. B.L. orig. ] Dr. Peachell’ to S. Pepys. Magdalen College, Cambridge, Jan. 11th, 80-81 Honour’d Sir—After I bid you good night in Cheapside, yé 13th day of 10ber, I staid in London a fortnight, but was so tender, and had so much adoe to preserve my health, that I was prevented in some measure in the pursuit of my businesse; and particularly in taking that decent and respectful leave of my friends which I thought was requisite, which makes me give you the trouble of this missive, on purpose to acknowledge my own and the Colledge’s great obligations -to you. I hope to have some good view of our concerne by next Easter Terme; and, if the Parliament give His Majesty money, I doubt not but our friends will be the more free to supply us. Although it be counted even Popery, yet I cannot but pray God to preserve us from the tumults, confusions, and rebellion of 1641 and 42, which seeme to 1¥For an account of Dr. Peachell, see note, vol. i, p. 205. 218 CORRESPONDENCE OF threaten us on one hand, as much as Popery on the other. I feare God hath a controversy still with the land: but I will not preach, onely pray for your health and happinesse, and rest, St, your much obliged Servt, J. PEACHELL. B.L.] S. Pepys to his cousin Roger Pepys. March 26, 1681. Honoured Cousin—This comes to kiss your hands, and my cousin your Lady’s, with many thanks for her and your last favours at Imping- ton: since which it hath pleased God, by a continued sickness of my Sister’s, to prevent my coming to any determination touching my house at Brampton; for that my thoughts therein would be much governed by my having or not having her to reside there, for the better looking after my small affairs, as well as her own, about that place, my dependencies here being still such as will not, I doubt, for some time, give me leisure to retire thither myself: which, as public matters go, without any hopes in my view of their bettering, is the first thing I could wish to compass. But my Sister’s illness being be- come such as our best physicians here, where she has for some months been, can give me no assurance of any speedy recovery, I find it incon- venient for me to delay any longer my taking some resolutions in that matter; and, therefore, remembering, though imperfectly, a motion you were pleased to make to me about this house, when I last waited on you, I thought it becoming me to advertise you so far of it, as may give me the satisfaction of knowing whether, in my proceeding herein, I can have any opportunity of serving you. I remember, also, the little things you were pleased to bespeak of me—I mean, my model and two pictures: which, however I may happen to dispose of the house, I shall, with great pleasure, make good to you my promise of, by preferring them to a place with you at Impington, whenever a convenience shall offer itself for their con- veyance thither. So, with my desires also of understanding how it fares with you in your health, and my cousin’s, I remain both her and your Most affectionate Kinsman and humble Servant, S.. PB. B.L. orig. ] Cesare Morelli’ to S. Pepys. The 11 April, 1681. Honoured Sir—I did receive your last letter, dated the 9th of these month, with much grief, haveing an account of your painfull feaver: 1He appears to have been a music-master. Many of his compositions are preserved in the Pepysian Library. ee SAMUEL PEPYS 219 I pray God it will not vex your body too much; and if by chance it. should vex you longer, there is here a man that can cure it with simpathetical power, if you please to send me down the pearinghs of the nailes of both your hands and your foots, and three locks of hair of the top of your crown. I hope, with the grace of God, it will cure you. As for the compositions of them two masters, in my jugement, though weak, I like better Baptist’s works than Pedro’s, because Baptist’s work masterly, as you shall perceive betwixt their bases. All Baptist’s bases are singable, where many of Pedro’s are not so. Herewith my humble respects remaine, Honoured Sir, your most faithfull Servt, Cesare MoreE.11. C.] The Duke of York to S. Pepys. Edinburgh, May 21, 1681. By the last post, I had yours of the 14th, with the copy of the Address which was to be presented by the Trinity House, and never doubted but they would always do their parts as became loyal subjects: and I am sure it will not be your fault if all, where you have any thing to do, do not what becomes them. As for what you propose, for the Commanders and Officers of the Fleet to present such an Address to His Majesty, I do not think it necessary, nor indeed proper, since there can be no doubt of their loyalty; and that it is not necessary or usual for people to doubt of such as have such immediate dependance, or are in pay; and I think what has been done by the Trinity House is sufficient for the seamen: I wish all the landmen would do their parts as well. I shall say no more to you now, but to assure you, you shall _ always find me ready to show you what kindness I can. Pray send me a copy of the Relation of His Majesty’s escape from Worcester; tis only for my own satisfaction, and I shall let no copies be taken of it. JAMES. Duchess of Norfolk* to S. Pepys. Wayberg, July 15, 81. Sir—I am encoreged to geve you thes trubell, and beg a favor of you, knoing the regard you ever had for my Lord Duke desest, and his oblegations to you; which is, that you well own, as for yourself, a parsell of Scottch plad of ten or a leven peses, or geve me leve to order 1Jane, daughter of Robert Bickerton, second wife of Henry, sixth Duke of Norfolk, described in the Peerage as “‘a lady famed for her beauty and accomplishments,” amongst which orthography, certainly, was not included. 220 CORRESPONDENCE OF them to be derected to you, that I may with less trubell com by them; becaus now, in my abcenc, I have letell entreist in town, which is the resen I entrett thes of you: but, if it be the lest enconyenane to you, I also beg you frely ancer me so; and, when it coms in my way to serve you, notwithstanding, I shall to my power lett you se I redely wold obleg you to my uttmost power, as Your Servant, NorFro.ke. St Mills Cooks sonn has promised me to geve thes to your hands. C. orig. | John Evelyn to S. Pepys. Sayes Court, December 6, 1681. Sir—In consequence of your commands, &c., I have sent you already two large sea-charts, and now, with a third, I transmit the sheets I have long since blotted about the late Dutch war: for which I should yet make another apology, besides its preface, were it not that you well understand the prejudices I lay under at that time, by the in- spection of my Lord Treasurer Clifford, who would not endure I should moderate my style when the difference with Holland was to be the subject, nor with much patience suffer that France should be suspected, though in justice to truth, evident as the day, I neither would nor could conceal what all the world must see; how subdolously they dealt, and made us their property all along. The interception of* letter to his master, p. 260, is abundantly pregnant of this, and ought to open our eyes, unless it be that we design to truckle under that power, and seek our ruin with industry. Sir, you will pardon this severe reflection, since I cannot think of it without emotion. Now, as to the compiler’s province, it is not easily to be imagined the sea and ocean of papers, treaties, declarations, relations, letters, and other pieces that I have been obliged to wade through, read over, note, and digest, before I set pen to paper; I confess to you the fatigue was in- sufferable: and, for the more part, did rather oppress and confound me, than enlighten; so much trash there was to sift and lay by: and I was obliged to peruse all that came to hand; and a better judgment than mine had been requisite to elect and dispose the materials that were then apt for use. This, Sir, I dare pronounce you will find be- fore you have prepared all your materiam abstructam for the noble and useful work you are meditating. Nor did I desist here, but had likewise made provision for that which was to follow the Treaty of Breda; though I honestly restored every scrip that had been furnished me from the cabinets of the Secretaries, and other persons, which 1Illegible in the MS. 2The History of the English Navy. — SAMUEL PEPYS 221 were originals; yet blame myself for returning those letters and pieces I received from my Lord Treasurer, because I think I might have re- tained them with better confidence than he to carry them away with him into Devonshire, unde nulli retrorswm. That I did not proceed with the rest is accountable to his successor, who, cutting me short of some honest pretensions I had to his kindness more than ordinary, if you knew all, I cared not to oblige an ungrateful age, and perhaps the world is delivered from a fardel of impertinences. Clifford, his predecessor, was, abating his other imperfections, a generous man, friendly to me, and I verily believe of clean hands: I am sure I was obliged to him; the other had been so to me and mine. A haughty spirit is seldom accompanied with generosity; but that is all past. I know it has been wondered upon what pretence I should have sought to sit at the Navy Board; and I have been as much astonished why some Honoraries, who sat long there, were no more industrious or useful than haply I should have been, whilst, to commute for my ignorance of wear and tear, I might yet, perhaps, have been subservient to such a genius as Mr. Pepys; and by his direction and converse, not altogether an un- profitable member. Something, you see, I should have been digging for my wages, and serving the master builders, though I were myself no architect. But let that go also. Your most humble and faithful Servant, J. Evetyn. B.L.] S. Pepys to Sir Thomas Beckford,’ Alderman of London. February 17, 1681-2 Sir—You were lately pleased to tell me you would do me the favour to accommodate me with your scarlet gown for Signior Vario,’ the King’s painter, to make use of in the picture he is preparing for Christ’s Hospital. I intreat you to send it me in its bag, by the bearer, and will be accountable to you for its speedy return without injury. I kiss your hands, and am, &c. Ss. P: B.L.] 8S. Pepys to William, Viscount Brouncker. Newmarket, March 13th, 1681-2. My Lord—The King received the Duke at his coming with all ex- pressions of kindness; and though the Duke was pleased to tell me 2Thomas Viscount Dunblane, afterwards Earl of Danby and Duke of Leeds. 3See vol. i., p. 138, note to 5th Jan., 1660-61. ® Antonio Verrio, the Neapolitan ceiling-painter, immortalized a Pope: “ Where sprawl the gods of Verrio and La Guerr 222 CORRESPONDENCE OF last night that the King, whose commands should ever be his guide, had not yet declared any thing of his pleasure touching his stay here, and remove hence with him to London, yet I find every body conclud- ing, and all things in appearance concurring, that he shall do both. So that I believe your Lordship will be eased of a journey hither, which truly would be found very troublesome to you, and your accommodation here very uneasy, the town being already very full, and hourly filling. Besides that, I have. to tell you from the Duke, upon my delivering him the message you intrusted me with, that he is most sensible of your particular duty and good will to him (they are his own words), and that he wants not, and therefore would by no means have you think of giving him so inconvenient a proof of it, as he apprehends your visiting him here might prove to you in your health: rather desiring you, for that reason, to respite it till he can meet you at White-hall. Mr. Pearce, however, I find mighty thoughtful and inquisitive after accommoda- tions for your Lordship; but I doubt not but a day or two more will put you and us out of all fear of needing it: for I am already satis- fied that the Duke will not return to Scotland without seeing London, nor then, I hope, but to fetch the Duchess; our Ministers being in all appearance very respectful and obsequious to him, and that squabble about the inn adjusted, my Lord Conway most readily rectifying the mistakes his servants had made, at his first coming, in that matter. I have not yet been at Mrs. Nelly’s,* but I hear Mrs. Knight is better, and the King takes his repose there once or twice daily. Your brother Hales is all the Representative your Board yet has here, but more, I hear, are expected, and of the Navy, a whole host. I kiss your Lordship’s hand, and my Lady’ Williams’s, and am, My Lord, &c., Sik. C. orig. ] _ John Evelyn to S. Pepys. April 28, 1682. Sir—Considering how far your laudable zeal still extends to all things that any way concern the actions of this nation at sea, and that you despise not the least things that may possibly be of use, I make no scruple of sending you all my blotted fragments, which yet with no small pains you will find I had collected, in order to a further progress in the History of the Dutch War. I should be perfectly ashamed of the farrago, when I reflect upon the more precious materials you have amassed; but you know where Virgil found gold, and you will consider that these were only minutes and tumultuary hints relating to ampler 1 Nell Gwyn. 2This is in accordance with the lettering under the lady’s engrayed Portrait. SAMUEL PEPYS 223 Pieces, infirm and unfit to be put into the building, but prepared to work on. It is not imaginable to those who have not tried, what labours an historian that would be exact is condemned to; he must read all, good and bad, and remove a world of rubbish before he can lay the foundation. So far I had gone, and it was well for me I went no farther, and better for the reader on many accounts, as I am sure you find by what I have already been so weak as to show you; and yet I cannot forbear. You will find, among the rest, in a little essay, how what I have written in English would show in Latin, ashamed as I was to see the history of that war published in that universal and learned language, and that in just and specious volumes, whilst we only told our tale to ourselves, and suffered the indignities of those who prepossessed the world to our prejudice; and you know how diffi- cult a thing it is to play an after-game, when men’s minds are perverted and their judgments prepossessed. Our sloth and silence in this diffusive age, greedy of intelligence and public affairs, is a great fault, and I wonder our politicians that are at the helm take no more care of it, since we see what advantages reputation alone carries with it in Hol- land, Genoa, Venice, and even our East India Commission; whereas, all wise men know they are neither so rich, wise or powerful, intrin- sically, and that it is the credit and estimation the vulgar has of them which renders them considerable. It was on this account I chose the action at Bergen: not that I thought it to be the most glorious or discreet, for in truth I think much otherwise, but for that the ex- ploit was entire, and because I had seen what the Dane had published in Latin much to our dishonour. How close I have kept to my text you will find by collation, and whether nervous and sound, none can better judge. That I did not proceed need not be told you. The peace was concluded; my patron resigned his staff: his successor was unkind and unjust to me. The Dutch Embassador complained of my Treatise of Commerce and Navigation, which was intended but for a prolusion, and published by His Maty’s encouragement before the peace was quite ratified, though not publicly till afterwards. In sum, I had no thanks for what I had done, and have been accounted since, I suppose, an useless fop, and fit only to plant coleworts, and I cannot bend to mean submissions; and this, Sir, is the history of the Historian. I confess to you, I had once the vanity to hope, had my patron continued in his station, for some, at least, honorary title that might have animated my progress, as seeing then some amongst them whose talents I did not envy: but it was not my fortune to succeed. If I were a young man and had the vanity to believe any industry of mine might recom- mend me to the friendship and esteem of M: Pepys, as I take him to be of a mere enlarged and generous soul, so I should not doubt but he would promote this ambition of mine, and not think one that would labour for the honour of his country, in my way, unworthy some regard. 224 CORRESPONDENCE OF This almost prompts me to say the same to him that Joseph did to Pharaoh’s exauctorated butler, whose restoration to grace he pre- dicted,—“ Tantum memento mei cum bene tibi fuerit.” And so fare- well, Dear Sir, ‘ i Raptim. J. E. B. L.] S. Pepys to W. Hewer. Edinburgh, Monday, May 8, 1682. Mr. Hewer—After having told you that the Duke is well, and then myself, I may safely take notice to you of what will, I know, soon become the talk of the town, and be very differently entertained by it: but be their constructions of it what the worst part of them please, our solace must be that the Duke is well arrived here, though with a greater loss in his train than we can yet make any just com- putation of, by reason of the Kitchin Yacht not being yet come in; which, of all the yachts, had most opportunity of saving men, as lying nearest and longest about the wreck of the Gloucester, which struck upon the edge of the (Well, some say; Lemmon, say others,) about 5 in the morning, on Friday last, from an obstinate over-winning of the pilot, in opposition to all the contrary opinions of Sir J. Berry, his master, mates, Col. Legg, the Duke himself, and several others, concur- ring unanimously in our not being yet clear of the sands, and therefore advising for his standing longer out to sea. The pilot is one Ayres, a man that has heretofore served the Duke as pilot in the war, and in his voyage hither, and one greatly valued as such by him: but this, however, has fallen out, and will, as it ought, be strictly inquired into, the man being, as is said, saved, and could it be regularly done would be tried and hanged here, for the nearer satisfaction of those great families of this kingdom, who, it is feared, would be found the greatest sufferers in this calamity ;! and among others, my Lord Roxbrough, one of the flowers of this nobility, not yet heard of, nor Mr. Hyde, my Lord Hyde’s brother, and lieutenant of the ship; though Sir J. Berry is, and is very well spoken of by His Royal Highness, for his comportment in this business, though unfortunate. I told you, in a line by Mr. Froud, that though I had abundant invitation to have gone on board the Duke, I chose rather, for room’s sake and accommodation, to keep my yacht, where I had nobody but Sir Christopher Musgrove and our servants with me; the Master of the Ordnance being obliged, by his indispensable attendance on his Highness, to leave us. 1It seems the pilot was to be hanged, whether he deserved it or not, for the satisfaction of the relations of the young aristocrats who were lost in_ the Gloucester. See also page 228, postea, about the commission for the Court Martial. It might be worth enquiring what became of Ayres. SAMUEL PEPYS 225 Our fortune was, and the rest of the yachts, to be near the Gloucester when she struck; between which and her final sinking, there passed not, I believe, a full hour; the Duke and all about him being in bed, and, to show his security, the pilot himself, till waking by her knocks. The Duke himself, by the single care of Col. Legg, was first sent off in a boat, with none but Mr. Churchill’ in her, to prevent his being oppressed with men labouring their escapes: some two or three, however, did fling themselves after him into her, and my Lord President? of Scotland, by the Duke’s advice endeavoured it, but, falling short, was taken up out of the water by him. Mr. Legg (then) looking after his own safety, got into a boat, and was received on board us with Capt. Macdonnell, Mr. Fortry, one of the Duke’s bedchamber, and some poor men unknown: we had also the good fortune to take up Sir Charles Scarborough, almost dead, and others spent with struggling in the water and cold; but were prevented in our doing so much good as we would, by our own boat’s being easily sunk by our side, and her men with much difficulty saved. Had this fallen out but two hours sooner in the morning, or the yachts at the usual distance they had ail the time before been, the Duke himself and every soul had perished; nor ought I to be less sensible of God’s immediate mercy to myself, in directing me, contrary to my purpose at my first coming out, and the Duke’s kind welcome to me when on board him in the river, to keep to the yacht; for many will, I doubt, be found lost, as well or better qualified for saving themselves, by swimming and otherwise, than I might have been. Capt. Wyborne, in the Happy Return, was the only frigate near us, and she, indeed, in no less danger than the Gloucester; but, taking quick notice of the other’s mishaps, dropped presently her anchor, and is this morning, with the Kitchen Yacht, come safe in harbour; and by her we now know that very many are lost; I judge about 200 men: but particulars are not yet fully known, only my Lord Roxbrough and Lord Hopton are certainly gone, and our young English Lord O'Brian. The haste the express is going away in will not allow me to write to my Lord Brouncker now; but pray give him my most humble services, and communicate this to his Lordship, and the like to Crutched Friars, Winchester Street, and Portugal Row, as soon as you conveniently can, to remove any causeless care concerning me, giving my Lord Brouncker a hint, and my thinking it very expedient in itself and regardful in him towards the Duke, that some enquiry be made into the care the 1 Afterwards Duke of Marlborough. 2 James, Marquis of Montrose. *Donald O’Brien, the son of Henry O’Brien, Lord Ibrickan (eldest son of Henry, seventh Earl of Thomond), by Lady Catherine Stuart, sister and heir of Charles, Duke of Richmond and Lennox, and, in her own right, Baroness Clifton. See note 2 in vol. iii., p. 114. VOL. IV. e@ 226 CORRESPONDENCE OF Navy Office will be found to have used in providing for his safety and ship, with respect to the appointment of good and a sufficient number of pilots on this occasion; for I hear something muttered here about it, and it will not, I doubt, be judged enough for them to leaye it to the Duke to take whom he pleased, or might possibly be otherwise advised to, without interposing some immediate care of their own in it, as I am sure was heretofore done in my time, upon his going to sea. I do privately think it will be very well received by His Highness, to hear of his Lordship’s interesting himself of his own accord in this in- quiry. The Duchess is very well, and saving the abatement given her in it by this disaster, under much joy from the Duke’s kindness, and the errand he comes upon of fetching her home. So, with my service to Clapham and everywhere else, I wish your family and self continuance of health, and am ever, &c. &c. S. P. B.L. orig. ] W. Hewer to S. Pepys. Yorke Buildings, 13 May, 1682. Hond Sir—The welcomest newes I ever received in my life, was what you were pleased to honour me with, by yours of the 8th inst. from Edinburgh, after the late misfortune to the Gloucester, concerning which we had some imperfect account on Wednesday morning, about 11 of the clock: it comeing from my Lord Conway, at Windsor, to Sir Leoline Jenkins’s office, at Whitehall, where I was then waiting at the Treasury Chambers, and was not a little surprized at the reporte, which in less than an houres time ran through the whole citty, and was variously discoursed of as people were affected and inclined: some would have it that the Duke and all were lost—others, that all were saved, and the shipp only lost; but all generally concluded it to be a very unfortunate and unkinde disaster; but the thoughts of the Duke’s safety, and our friends, does very much ease our mindes, and give us great satisfaction. ; You cannot imagine in what consternation all your friends in gen- erall were, upon the reporte of your being cast away, but more espe- cially those at Crutched Fryars, Winchester Street, and Portugal Rowe, to whom I communicated your letter, which was matter of no small joy and satisfaction to them; they all joyne with me in returning God Almighty thanks for his great mercy in directing you in your passage as he did. My Lord Brouncker, to whom I communicated your letter and com- mand, was not a little glad to heare of your safety, returning you very kinde thanks for your hints, which he will make use of. The commission omitted to be given Sir John Berry, for holding a a : x SAMUEL PEPYS 227 court martiall at his going out, is sent last night express, as I am inform’d. They have been so disordered in Winchester Street, that I am com- manded to tell you they shall not be themselves till they see you, and the enclosed from Portugal Row will let you know how they doe; all your friends in generall giving you their very humble service, and heartily wish your safe returne. One accident has happen’d here the last week, near in towne, to be lamented, viz., our friend Colon! Scott’s' being fledd for killing a coachman, the Coroner having found it wilful murther: meanes are using to buy off the widow, who has three small children; but we are con- sidering what to doe to prevent it,? Sir A. Deane being come to towne. The Officers of the Navy were directed by the Admiralty to goe downe this day to Chatham, to make some further enquiries concerning the business of the wett dock, that matter not being yet adjusted; my Lord Finch having been very severe on St Ph. Pett, who beares up and thinks nothing has been yet sayd to the prejudice of the reasons he gave against it. Sir John Banks took very kindly my waiting on him with the ac- count you gave, he having not met with any that was soe particular; and being to dine with my Lord Chancellor to-day, where Mr. Sey- moure was to be, he did very much press me to give him an extract of your letter relateing to the loss of the Gloucester, and the circum- stance thereof, which I did doe, leaving out all that related to your selfe, and the hints to my Lord Brouncker. Pray present my very humble service to Mr. Legg, whose great prudence and regard towards the Duke’s safety is very much spoken 1 Colonel Scott had accused Pepys of popery and treason; see Life, vol. i. In the Intelligencer of May 20, 1681, is the following advertisement for his appre- hension:—‘“ The last week, one Colonel John Scott took an occasion to kill one John Butler, a hackney-coachman, at the Horse-shoe on Tower Hill, without any other provocation (’tis said) but refusing to carry him and another gentleman pertaining to the law, from thence to Temple Bar, for 1s. 6d. Amongst the many pranks that he hath played in other countries, ’tis believed this is one of the very worst. He is a very great vindicator of the Salamanca Doctor. He is a lusty tall man, i death, thin-faced, wears a_peruke sometimes, and has a very look. All-good people would do well, if they can, to apprehend him, that he may be brought to justice.” his was followed by another advertisement in the same paper of May 23, 1681:—“In our last, we gave you an account how valiantly Colonel Scott killed Butler the coachman. This is that Scott that cheated the States of Holland of oool., and was hanged in effigy at the Hague, in 1672. Afterwards, he went to ris, and pretended to a person of quality belonging to that Court that he had got several sea-cards, by which he could show them how to burn all his Majesty’s Mavy in their harbours; but being discovered to be a cheat, was forced to fly. Since the discovery of the Popish plot he came into England, and pretended he had those sea-cards of Sir Anthony Deane and Mr. Pepys, and that they would have the ships burnt by the French King, and employed him for that purpose. He is also the person who robbed himself in Flanders, to get contribution from the priests and convents. He has played a thousand pranks more, and hath been of Sheriff B——’s [Slingsby Bethel] club lately, and great with all the Popish, evidences, plot-drivers, and discoverers.” : ipa ?This is another curious specimen of the manner in which justice was ad- ministered in those days. The supposed murderer’s friends tried to buy off widow’s evidence, whilst Pepys’s adherents laboured to ensure the man’s conviction, because he had wronged Pepys on a former occasion. e2 228 CORRESPONDENCE OF of, to his great honour, by all that wish well to the Duke. I shall not offer att the giving you any further trouble at present, hopeing my letter under cover to my Lady Peterborow met you at Edinburgh, but with all due respects and service remaine Your ever faithful and most obedient Servant, Wm. HEwer. B.L.] S. Pepys to W. Hewer. Newcastle, Friday, May 26th, 82. Mr Hewer—Having, by a former letter from Berwick, owned and thanked for yours by my Lady Peterborough, this comes to do the like for another of the 13th instant, which I met at my arrival here, three days since, and was most welcome to me, as bringing me both the satisfaction of understanding your healths, and the kind resentments you had upon the notice of mine: for which, after what is first due to God Almighty, I give all our friends, and particularly yourself, my most affectionate thanks. Since my coming hither, Mr. Legg and I have made a step to Durham, where the Bishop’ seems to live more like a prince of this, than a preacher of the other world, and shall, to-day, set out for Scarborough, where, if I find none from you, pray let me meet a line or two at Hull, which is the last port we are to touch at in our way home; where I hope we shall, in ten days, have a safe meeting. I am infinitely bound to my friends in Portugal Row and Winchester Street, for their thoughts of me, and the favour of their letters, which I will acknowledge to them myself from Scarborough, where we shall, God permitting it, be to-morrow. Sir Ralph Delavall just now com- ing in, and forcing us away to a seat of his,? some few miles from this place, where he will have us eat with him before we sail, interrupting me in my letter to them this post; pray them, therefore, in the mean time, to stay their kind stomachs, that I thank them, love them, long to see them, and having thus escaped [illegible] will not now despair of living to serve them. And this leads me to the tidings you give me of our friend Scott, whom God is pleased to take out of our hands into his own for justice; for should he prevail with the widow for her forgiveness, which yet, in some respects, I could wish might be prevented, there is the King’s pardon behind, which I suppose he will not easily compass, unless by some confessions, which I am confident he is able to make, relating to the State as well as us, that might enough atone for this his last villany; nor do I doubt, but to save his own life, he will forget his 1 Nathaniel, Lord Crewe. 2 Seaton-Delaval, in Northumberland, which has descended to Jacob Astley, Lord Hastings. SAMUEL PEPYS 229 trade and tell truth, though to the hazard of the best friends he has; which pray let Sir Anto. Deane think of, and of putting in a caveat against his getting any pardon from Court, if he should attempt it, till we are first heard, which, upon advising, I believe he and you will find the thing regular enough for us to do. We daily long to hear of the Duke’s arrival in the River. Mr. Legg gives you his service, which pray distribute from me also among all our friends, and to yourseif my most serious wishes of health and all that is good. Adieu! Ss. BP. B.L.] Sir Clowdesley Shovel toSir Martin Wescomb.* (Transmitted to Mr. Pepys.) June 22, 1683, from aboard the James Galley att 11 o’clocke at night. Sir—Yours I have recd, and give your honour thanks for your advice and councell. Sir, my orders call me from this place a Sunday next, therefor I think to saile tomorrow for the Bay of Bulls, if the weather permite; and on Sunday I shall proceed according to my orders, which I shall ever be carefull in keeping, especially my Royal orders, which positively command me to salute neither garison nor flagg of any for- rainer, except I am certine to receave gunne for gunne. Pray, Sir, doe me the favour to gett my two trumpetors: their names are Walter Ashley and William Quinte, the former about 21 years old, the latter about 17: they are aboard the Starr, one of the Armada shipps that was built in Holland. Not else to trouble your honour at present, I remaine, Honoured Sir, &c., Crow. SHOvELL.? B.L.] Ursula Pepys* to S. Pepys. September 13, [1683.] Sir—The civilitys I have receivd from you gives mee a beleife that itt will not be disagreable to you to lett you know wee are well settled at Edmondthorpe, in a very prety seat, and good old house; and, which is best of all, with a fine gentleman, who is a kind good husband. Wee should all think our selvys very hapy to see you here; Consul at Cadiz: created a baronet March 19, 1669. 2The celebrated Admiral, lost in October, 1705, off the Scilly. * Ursula, daughter of Bryan Stapylton, and wife of Thomas Pepys, of Merton Abbey, Surrey, Master of the Jewel Office to Charles II. Their only child, Olivia, had just married Edward, eldest son of Sir Edward Smith, of Edmund- thorpe, in Leicestershire, the place mentioned in the letter- 230 CORRESPONDENCE OF and I hope, if any occasion draw you this way, you will be so kind as to rest your selfe here awhile; and I am sure my daughter and her husband would make you a very hearty wellcome. I beg your pardon for the troble I gave you last, and entreat you to beleive I have a respect and esteem of your meritt, which accompanys me in all places where dwells, sir, &c., Un. Pepys. B.L. orig. | Lord Dartmouth to S. Pepys. Tangier, January 11th, 1683-4. Deare Sir—You will easily imagine the condition we have beene in here, by the ill weather you have beene witness of where you have beene; but yet, God be thanked! we have strugled in it so farr, that the Mole is totally destroyed; neye, much more than you will im- magine, till you see it, which, I hope, will be as soone as conveniently you can; for, when the Alcade and I come to treate of slaves, I shall want both your advice and assistance, for which I must ever acknowledge myself already sufficiently indebted, and Mr. Hewer for paying and ac- counting the mony. Pray, make no scruple of taking any man of warr, that is, of his Majesties fleete, to bring you hither when you thinke fitt to command her; and I send you enclosed an order, that you may please to put in the Commander’s name when you can come to me; for nothing they can pretend, if the ship be in condicon, can be of more service to His Majesty than bringing you hither, whose judgment and kindness I have an entire confidence in, being, from my heart, Your most obliged and faithful friend, And humble Servant, DartmMovutH. As Atkins has drawne the order, no Commander’s name need now be added, so that you may apply it to whom and when you please. But remember Harry Williams is my old friend, and, since he is in hopes of making his fortune, I would not injure him. B.M.] Letter from Samuel Pepys to , respecting the designed establishment of Sir William Boreman’s Mathe- matical School, at Greenwich. October 10, 1685. Sir—I can’t but thank you for the acquaintance you have recom- mended me to; and yet I am ready to wish sometimes you had let it alone. For I can’t putt a book or paper into his hand, out of a desire to entertain him, but he makes one sweat with one confounding ques- tion or other, before I can get it from him again, even to the putting Pei: DAE AIP halal lit i ia cia i ih i SAMUEL PEPYS 231 me sometimes to more torture to find the gentleman a safe answer, than ever Sacheverell or Lee did. Only to-day (I thank him) he has used me very gently, upon occasion of two papers I got him to read to me, the one an account I have lately received from Algiers of the whole proceedings (by way of Journal) of the French fleets there; the other, the Statutes designed by Sir William Boreman for the government of his new Mathematical School at Greenwich, in imitation of that of the King’s at Christ Hospital. Wherein, asking our young man his advice, as Sir William Boreman does mine, he has given it me with great satisfaction, without putting me to any pain about it; only I have promised to carry him down with me next week, when I shall be desired to meet the Founder upon the place. And, indeed, it is a deed of the old man’s very praiseworthy. And for the young one, you may be sure I'll keep him my friend (as you counsel me) for fear of his Tales. For, by my conscience, the knave has discovered more of my nakedness than ever you did, or my Lord Shaftesbury either. In a word, I do most heartily joy you in him, and (as evil as our days are) should not be sorry, you could joy me in such another. And so, God bless your whole fireside, and send you, for their sakes and the King’s, a good occasion of removing your three parts a little nearer us. I do most respectfully kiss your hands, and am, your most faithful and most humble Servant, S. Pepys. P.S.—If you have had any occasion of knowing either here or in Ireland, one Mr. Wentworth, a branch of the great Lord Deputy’s, who has (or is said so) an estate of about 8 or 900/. per annum in the latter, and was a fellow member of ours towards the latter end (as I take it) of the Long Parliament, a good, sober gentleman in appearance, but at that time a great anti-courtier, pray give me a little light concerning him, both as to the character of the man and his estate, there being an overture depending between him and a relation of a friend of yours and mine, wherein it imports us much to know the truth of both. To-night we have had a mighty musical entertainment at Court for the welcoming home of the King and Queen, wherein the frequent re- turns of the words, Arms, Beauty, Triumph, Love, Progeny, Peace, Dominion, Glory, &c., had apparently cost our Poet-Prophet more pains to find rhymes than reasons. The above letter was purchased in 1841, contained in the Library of Dr. Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield. B.L. orig.] Abraham Tilghman to S. Pepys. Deptford, Feby 9th, 86, 4 o’clock. Hono Sir—Whilst Commisst St Michell’ is drowned in tears, and his spirit sinking under the sence of so heavy a loss, I am by him com- 2Mrs. Pepys’s brother. 232 CORRESPONDENCE OF manded to acquaint your Honour that this afternoone, about one, his lady fell in travell, and was, about two, delivered of a son; but the birth of the child became the death of the mother; for within a quarter of an houre after her soul expired, and hath left a husband and numerous family bleeding under, I think, the saddest accents of sorrow I ever saw. I most humbly beg leave to subscribe, honble sir, Your Honour’s most obedient and Most humble Servant, Asra. TILGHMAN. B.L.] S. Pepys to Mr. St. Michel. December 11, 1686. Brother St. Michel—I cannot but thank you (though in few words) for your kind enquiry after my health by yours of the 7th inst. It was not without very much ground, that in one of my late letters of general advice to you, I cautioned you against depending upon any support much longer from me, I then feeling what I now cannot hide, I mean, that paine which I at this day labour under (night and day) from a new stone lodged in my kidneys, and an ulcer attending it, with a general decay of my stomach and strength, that cannot be played with long, nor am I solicitous that it should. This satisfaction I have as to your own particular, that I have discharged my part of friendship and care towards you and your family, as far as I have been, or could ever hope to be able, were I to live twenty years longer in the- Navy; and to such a degree, as will with good conduct, enable you both to provide well for your family, and at the same time doe your King and country good service. Wherein I pray God to bless you soe, as that you may neither by any neglect or miscarriage, fayle in the latter, nor by any improvidence (which I must declare to you I am most doubtfull of, and in paine for) live to lament your neglect of my repeated admoni- tions to you touching the latter. This I say to you, as if I were never to trouble either you or myself about it more; and pray think of it as such, from your truly affectionate Brother and Servant, S. Pepys. B.L. orig.] Sir Sam. Morland to S. Pepys. Saturday, 19 February, 1686-7. Sir—I went, about 3 or 4 days since, to see what the Commissioners of the Navy had done upon the order you sent them relating to the new gun carriages, &¢., but mett none but St Jo, Narborough, who told me your order expres’t a tryal of shooting to be made like that at Ports- mouth, which was impracticable at Deptford; because shooting with powder only was no tryall, and shooting with bullets too dangerous. ee ee ee ee ee ee SAMUEL PEPYS — 283 And, therefore, his opinion, which he did believe would be the opinion of the whole Board, was, that to each new. carriage should be the addi- tion of a windlass, and also the false truck at the end of the carriages; and that all other things, as eyebolts, tackles, &c., should be left as they are in the old carriages, till such time as a full tryall be made of the new way, both at sea and in a fight; and then what shall prove to be useless in the old way, may bee wholly left off, and layd aside. I would have wayted on you with this account myself, but I pre- sume you have, ere this time, heard what an unfortunate and fatall accident has lately befallen me, of which I shall give you an abbreviat. About three weeks or a month since, being in very great perplexities, and almost distracted for want of moneys, my private creditors torment- ing me from morning to night, and some of them threatening me with a prison, and having no positive answer from His Majesty about the 1300/., which the late Lord Treasurer cutt off from my pension so severely, which left a debt upon mee which I was utterly unable to pay, there came_a certain person to me, whom I had relieved in a starving condition, and for whom I had done a thousand kindnesses; who pre- tended in gratitude to help me to a wife who was a very vertuous, pious, and sweet disposition’d lady, and an heiress who had 500/. per ann. in land of inheritance, and 4000]. in ready money, with the interest since nine years, besides a mortgage upon 300]. pt an. more, with plate, jewels, &c. The devil himself could not*contrive more probable cir- cumstances than were layd before me; and when I had often a mind to inquire into the truth, I had no power, believing, for certain reasons, that there were some charms or witchcraft used upon me. And, withall, believing it utterly impossible that a person so obliged should ever be guilty of so black a deed as to betray me in so barbarous a manner, (besides that, I really believ’d it a blessing from Heaven for my charity to that person), I was, about a fortnight since, led as a fool to the stocks, and married a coachmans daughter not worth a shilling, and one who, about 9 months since, was brought to bed of a bastard; and thus I am both absolutely ruined in my fortune and reputation, and must become a derision to all the world. My case is, at present, in the Spiritual Court, and I presume that one word from His Majesty to his Proctor, and Advocate, and Judge, would procure me speedy justice; if either our old acquaintance or Christian pity move you, I beg you to put in a kind word for me, and to deliver the enclosed into the King’s own hands, with all convenient speed; for a criminal bound and going to execution is not in greater agonies, than has been my poor, active soul since this befel me: and I earnestly beg you to leave 3 lines for me with your own porter, what answer the King gives you, and my man shall call for it. A flood of tears blind my eyes, and I can write no more, but that I am Your most humble but poor distressed Servt, S. Morxianp, 234 CORRESPONDENCE OF, B.L. orig. | Dr. Pechell to S. Pepys. Magdalene College, Cambridge, February 23, 86-7. Honourd Sir—I am to returne you manifold thankes for many favours, particularly for the warrant for the Doe, though our audit was put off: and for crediting us with the education of your nephew, who came to continue last Tuesday, and I shall be very mindfull of his health, be- haviour, and improvement while God continueth him and me together. I must not conceal from such a friend as you what, before this, comes to you will be known in Court and City. His Majesty was pleased to send a letter directed to me, as Vice-Chancellor, to admit one Alban Francis, a Benedictine Monk, Master of Arts, without administer- ing any oath or oaths to him. Now, the oaths of allegiance and” supremacy being required by the statutes of Eliz. and Jac. Imi, I could not tell what to do—decline his Majesties letter, or his lawes: I could but pray to God to direct, sanctifie, and governe me in the wayes of his lawes; that so, through his most mighty protection, both here and ever, I may be preserved in body and soul: then, by our Chancellour, I endeavoured to obteine His Majesties release, which could not be ob- teined. I thought it unmannerly to importune his Sacred Majesty, ana was afraid to straine friends against the graine; and so could only betake myself to my owne conscience, and the advice of loyall and prudent men, my friends; and, after all, I was perswaded that my oath as Vice-Chancellor, founded on the statutes, was against it, and I should best exercise a conscience void of offence towards God and man, by deprecating his Majesties displeasure, and casting myselfe upon his princely clemency. Worthy Sir, tis extraordinary distresse and affliction to me, after so much indeavour and affection to his Royall person, crown and succession, I should at last, by the providence of God, in this my station, be thus exposed to his displeasure; but I must commit myselfe to the great God and my dread Sovereigne, the law and my friends, none of which I would have hurt for my sake, but desire all favour and helpe they thinke me capable of without hurting themselves; for if I do ill, tis not out of malice, but feare of the last judgment, and at the worst through involuntary mistake. Sir, I am sorry I have occasion to give you this information and trouble; but you will pardon, I hope, if you cannot helpe, Sir, ; Your most devoted Servant, whatever befall, J. PEACHELL. The business was transacted yesterday, and I presently gave ac- count to the E. of Sunderland and D. of Albemarle, imploring thein candid representation to the King’s Majesty, whom God save. SAMUEL PEPYS 235 B.L. orig. ] Lord Chancellor Jeffreys to S. Pepys. Bulstrode, July ye 7th, 1687. ‘My most Honrd Friend—The bearer, Capt. Wren, came to mee this evening, with a strong fancy that a recommendation of myne might at least entitle him to your favourable reception; his civillities to my brother, and his relation to honest Will Wren, and you know who else, emboldens mee to offer my request on his behalfe. I hope he has served our Mr well, and is capable of being an object of the King’s favour in his request: however, I am sure I shall be excused for this impertinency, because I will gladly, in my way embrace all opportunities wherein I may manifest myselfe to be what I here assure you I am, Sir, Your most entirely affectionate Friend and Servant, JEFFREYS, C. B.L. orig. | Josiah Burchett to S. Pepys. Satturday Noon, August 13, 1687. Honble Sir—Did not my utmost necessity force me to it, I could never have taken the liberty of troubling you with this second letter, knowing how unwelcome any thing must be to you that comes from one to whom you have been pleased to express so great an aversion. ’Tis a severe penance I undergo, in being thrown so suddenly out of a family I have soe long earned my bread in, into a wide world, whereto, God knows, I am so great a stranger, that I know not how or where to bestow myself, being constrained, through want of money, to procure me house-roome, to ramble in those parts where I think I may least ex- pose myselfe to the sight of my friends, which is now grown equally cruel to that of my enemys. I should be heartily glad could I but meet with never soe small employment, whereby I might be able to coope myselfe up; but I am wholly a stranger where to seek it. I most humbly crave pardon for what I have done amiss, and pray God that you suffer no more wrong from them that have thus exasper- ated you against me than I have really done you; and, since it is impossible for me to regain what I have lost, lett me beg some little thing or other to do, to keep me from idlenesse, till God shall please otherwise to dispose of me. I know that this is an unreasonable re- quest, but, for God’s sake, consider that necessity will catch at any thing, wherein there is the least show of hope. I heartily beg pardon, also, for this trouble, and remaine, Honble Sir, your Honours most obedt Servant, J. BurcHert. 236 CORRESPONDENCE OF B.L. orig. | H. Slingsby to S. Pepys. Accompanying a List of modern English Medals by him offered to sale. 11th October, 1687. Sir—You being my ancient friend and good acquaintance, I cannot doe lesse than offer to putt into your hands a generall collection of all the medalls made by Roettiers, of which I had an opportunity to chuse the best struck off; and I am sure soe full a collection noe man in England has besides myself, which you shall have at the same rate I paid for. When Roettier happens to die, they may be worth five or ten pounds more, and yett are not to be had, many of the stampes being broke and spoiled. I have sent you the list to peruse, which, if you approve of, I shall much rejoice at; if not, pray returne the liste againe, for I have severall friends will be glad to have them of, Sr, yours, &c., H. SuinGesBy. If you desire any of the King and Queen’s coronation medalls, I have 6 of them that I can spare at 6s. each. A LIST OF MONSIEUR’S ROETTIER’S MEDALLS, WITH CASES. * li, s. d. 1. The great Brittania, wth Felicitas Britianie 410 0 2. The Duke of Yorke’s, with Nc Minor in Teerris ‘ . 814 0 3. The late King’s for the Hospitall, with Institutor Augustus 3 2 0 4. The Comte de Monterey, with Belgii et Bergundie Guber- nator . ; ; 3 : E : 4 H Sash ae 5. The new Brittannia, with Nullwum numen abest Yr an) 6. The Duke of York, with Genus antiquum 23 0 7. The Duke of Lauderdale, with Concilio et Animis 20 0 8. The King, for the Fyre Shipps, with Pro talibus ausis 119 0 9. The King, with Religionis Reformate Protectori 117 0 10. Colloll Strangways, with Decusque adversa dederunt . 117 0 11. The Bev of Canterbury, with Sancti Caroli Precursor 115 0 12. Another of the same 2 : § ‘ : ; “1: HOe@ 13. The King, for Bruges, with Redeant Commercia Flandris 1 9 9 14. The First Brittania with Favente Deo . ‘ é Pargeke ing fe 15. The King, for the Fyre Shipps, with Pro talibus ausis 18 0 16. The King’s New Invention for Fortifications 1 ed 17. The King, with his Armes : : E . 1 4 0 18. The King on one side and the Queen on the other . 018 0 19. The King of Spaine, with Flandria, Ostende . . 0:18 28 20. The Queen Dowager and St Katherine, with Pietate insegnis 018 0 21. Another of the same : : 5 3 4 Orig @ 22. The King of Sweeden’s Inauguration, 29 May, 1671. 2 (0 DSi 23. The King and Queen together, with Diffusus in Orbe Bri- tannus . : ‘ : ‘ . : : ; . 016 0 24, The little one, the King on one side and the Queen on the other . : F : : : : 2 5 . 010 0 25. St Samuel Morland’s ; { : : : - . 010 0 Total le ° te s. . . 48 0 0 SAMUEL PEPYS ~ 237 B.L. orig. | Dr. Peachell to S. Pepys. December 19, 1687. Hond Sir—I return you my hearty thanks for your countenance when last with you. I found those few friends I thought fit to consult, of your opinion in my case, since my return here, and have occasion given to expect a deprivation in a little time, which may probably be pushed on, by those who have a mind to be in my room. I am a little afraid, too, my patron, the Earl of Suffolk, may be content to have me removed, if he may be secure of nominating a successor. Sir, if you may, without notice of yourself or me, discover any such matters to acquaint me with, you will more and more oblige, Sir, yt very faithful Servt, J. PEACHELL,. B.M. orig.] Richard Gibson to Samuel Pepys.” 1688. Honourable Sir—What I mentioned unto your Honour in the Victual- ling Office, at Tower Hill on Wednesday, the 18th inst., when your Honour saw the sad disaster happened by burning the Cooperidge there —namely, that it is of moment to His Majesty to purchase Sir Denis Gauden’s right to the Redd House for a Victualling Office,’ arose from what occurred to me some years past. For, however, that place at first settling for a Victualling Office in King Henry the Highth’s time, might then be remote from other buildings, yet it is now surrounded by so many old and wood-built tenements, as to remain always liable to the same mishap, by being bad-tenanted and contiguous. Besides, the Cooperidge, bakehouse, stock of bavins, and fleshshed, are too near each other, which, like flax when on fire, is not easily quenched, by being overbuilt, and having but one way (the great gate) to go into it, to the hazard of the whole. That, however, at His Majesty’s great charge, in the late Dutch war, the then Victuallers, Sir Joseph Child and partners, put the Cooperidge into a condition to answer the occasions thereof; yet they found a want of stowage for their flesh, so as (besides that of profit) to put them upon an expedient to answer that defect, by introducing flour in lieu of beef. This want of stowage for flesh still remains, so as to compel the present Commissioners for Victualling to stow their casks one upon 1The right of nominating to the Mastership of Magdalene College, Cam- bridge, was vested for ever, by the founder, Lord Chancellor Audley, in the possessors of Audley End, which at that time belonged to James Howard, third Earl of Suffolk. 2See Note on Victualling Office in vol. i., p. 186. 5“ This had took place if the Revolution had not prevented, to my advantage 500 guineas.”—Note by Richard Gibson. 238 CORRESPONDENCE OF another, to the pressing of the pickle out of the undermost, by which their beef and pork last year was most of it rusty; and the rest remained too long in its bloody pickle for want of room, to inspect it before delivered out of store. Enquire what great quantities of beef and pork Sir Josiah Child and partners sold at Tangier, Barbadoes, &c., that remained upon their hands (at the time of their going off,) unfit for sale at home. That to this day the stowage for biscuits there is scant, which com- pelled Sir Denis Gauden to erect a bread loft over the bakehouse; which (by a little mishap) took fire in these Commissioners’ time, and burnt many thousand weight of biscuit, endangering the whole maga- zine. That the Bayliff’s place is too remote from the water side for a Victualling Office, by which His Majesty is put to the charge of 10d. a ton cartage for all the bread, flesh, pease, oatmeal, flour, water casks, &c., sent thence to the water-side. Ricuarp GIBSON. B.L. orig. | Sir S. Morland to S. Pepys. 17 May, 1688. Sir—Being of late unable to go abroad, by reason of my lame hip, which gives me great pain, besides that it would not be safe for me at present, because of that strumpet’s debts, I take the boldness to entreat you that, according to your wonted favours, of the same kind, you will be pleased, at the next opportunity, to give the King this fol- lowing account. A little before Christmas last, being informed that she was willing, for a sum of money, to confess in’ open Court a precontract with Mr Cheek, and being, at the same time, assured both by her, and my own lawyers, that such a confession would be sufficient for a sentence of nullity, I did deposit the money, and accordingly a day of tryall was appoynted; but, after the cause had been pleaded, I was privately assured that the Judge was not at all satisfyed with such a confession of hers, as to be a sufficient ground for him to null the marriage, and so that design came to nothing. Then I was advised to treat with her, and give her a present sum and a future maintenance, she giving me sufficient security never to trouble mee more; but her demands were so high, I could not consent to them. After this, she having sent me a very submissive letter by her own advocate, I was advised, both by several private friends and some emi- nent divines, to take her home, and a day of treaty was appointed for an accommodation. ; In the interim, a certain gentleman came on purpose, to my house, to assure me that I was taking a snake into my bosom, forasmuch as she ee SAMUEL PEPYS 239 had for six months last past, to his certain knowledge, been kept by, and cohabited with Sir Gilb. Gerrard as his wife, &c. Upon which mak- ing further enquiry, that gentleman furnished me with some witnesses, and I having found out others, I am this Term endeavouring to prove adultery against her, and so to obteyn a divorce, which is the present condition of Your most humble and faithful Servant, S. Morranp. B.L. orig.] R. Scott,’ the Bookseller, to S. Pepys. June 30th, 1688. Sir—Having at length procured Campion, Hanmer, and Spencer's Hist. of Ireland, fol., which, I think, you formerly desired, I here send itt you, with 2 very scarce bookes besides, viz. Pricei Defensio Hist. _ Britt. 4°, and Old Harding’s Chronicle, as alsoe the Old Ship of Fooles, in old verse, by Alex. Berkley, priest; which last, though nott scarce, yett soe very fayre and perfect, that seldome comes such another: the Priceus you will find deare, yett I never sold it under 10s, and att this tyme you can have it of a person of quality; but, without flattery, I love to find a rare book for you, and hope shortly to procure for you a per- fect Hall’s Chronicle. I am, Sir, Your Servant to command, Rosert Scort. Campion, Hanmer, and Spencer, fol. is - 0:12 :0 Harding’s Chronicle, 4° . - . Owes Gis O Pricei Defens. Hist. Brit. “ : - Olay Bhs Shipp of Fooles, fol. . . ; Ov Shis 0 1:14:0 B.L. orig.] Sir Samuel Morland to S. Pepys. 19 July, 1688. Sir—I once more beggeyou to give yourself the trouble of acquainting His Majesty that, upon Munday last, after many hott disputes between the Doctors of the Civil Law, the sentence of divorce was solemnly pro- nounced in open Court against that strumpet, for living in adultery with Sir Gilbert Gerrard for six months last past; so that now, unless shee appeal, for which the law allows her 15 days, I am freed from her + Robert Scot, of Little Britain, the greatest bookseller in Europe: for besides his stock in England, he had warehouses at Frankfort, Paris, and other places. ey Notice of him in North’s Life of Dr. John North, vol. iii., p. 290, edit. 26. " 240 CORRESPONDENCE OF for life, and all that I have to do for the future, will bee to gett clear of her debts which she has contracted from the day of marriage to the time of sentence, which is like to give mee no small trouble, besides the charge, for severall months in the Chancery. And till I gett cleared of these debts, I shall bee little better than a prisoner in my own house. Sir, believing it my duty to give His Majesty this account of myselfe, and of my proceedings, and. having no other friend to do it for mee, I hope you will forgive the trouble thus given you by Yours, &c., S. Morianp. B.L. | Lord Sunderland to Sir Robert Holmes. (Transmitted to S. Pepys.) Windsor, September 15th, 1688. Sir—The King commands me to acquaint you that he approves very well of Mr. William Hewer and Mr. Edward Roberts, for members to serve in Parliament for the borough of Yarmouth, and of yourself and of Mr. Nebbervill, for Newport; and of Mr. William Blathwayte and Mr. Thomas Done, for Newtown; and accordingly His Majesty recommends it to you, to give them your assistance, and use your inter- est, that they may be chosen accordingly. I am, &c., Copia vera. SunperLanp, P.* B.L. orig. ] The King to S. Pepys.” November 30, 1688. Order the Isabella and Anne yachts to fall down to Erith tomorrow. J. R. B.L. ] The King to Lord Dartmouth. [Endorsed in Pepys’s hand.] “Copy of the King’s letter to the Lord Dartmouth, the night before his withdrawing himself. Mem.—That another was next morning brought me sealed up from the King for my Lord Dartmouth very early, by a Frenchman, one of the pages of the back stairs, who told me that at the King’s going away, he put two letters into his hand, one for the Count du Roy, and this other for my Lord Dartmouth, to be delivered to me, which I accordingly dispatched forthwith away to my Lord by express.” S.P. Whitehall, December 10th, 1688. Things haveing soe very bad an aspect, I could noe longer defer secureing the Queen and my son, which I hope I have done, and that 1 President of the Council. ‘ 2The yachts were evidently prepared for the escape of the Royal Family te France, but neither of them were used for that purpose. SAMUEL PEPYS 241 by to-morrow by noone they will be out of the reach of my enemies. I am at ease now I have sent them away. I have not heard this day, as I expected, from my Commissioners with the Prince of Orange, who, I believe, will hardly be prevailed with to stop his march; soe that I am in noe good condition, nay, in as bad a one as is possible. I am sending the Duke of Berwick down to Portsm?, by which you will know my resolution concerning the fleet under your command, and what resolutions I have taken; till when, I would not have you stirr from the place where you. are, for severall reasons. James R. B.L. orig. ] John Evelyn to S. Pepys. [Endorsed] “Upon the great convulsion of State upon the King’s withdrawing.” Sayes Court, 12 December, 88. Sir—I left you indispos’d, and send on purpose to learne how it is with you, and to know if, in any sort, I may serve you in this prodigious Revolution. You have many friends, but no man living who is more sincerely your servant, or that has a greater value for you. We are here as yet, I thank God, unmolested; but this shaking menaces every corner, and the most philosophic breast cannot but be sensible of the motion. I am assur’d you neede no precepts, nor I example, so long as I have yours before me, and I would governe myselfe by your commands to, Sir, Your most humble, faithfull Servant, J. EVELYN. B.L. orig. ] W. Hewer to S. Pepys. [Endorsed in Pepys’s hand|—“ A letter of great tendernesse, at a time of difficulty.” Wensday Night, Decembr 19, 1688. Honoured Sir—I humbly thanke you for yours of this afternoon, which gives me greate satisfaction, and hope this afternoon or even- ing’s audience will prove to your satisfaction, which I doe heartily wish and pray for; if not, I know you will chearefully acquiesce in what ever circumstance God Almighty shall think most proper for you, which, I hope, may prove more to your satisfaction than you can imagine. You may rest assured that I am wholly your’s, and that you shall never want the utmost of my constant, faithfull, and personall service; the utmost I can doe being inconsiderable to what your kind- Ness and favour to me has and does oblige me to: and therefore, as all I have, proceeded from you, soe all I have and am, is and shall be, at your service. VOL. IV. B 242 © CORRESPONDENCE OF I have noe reason to complain as yet of any hardship; but to-morrow I shall know the utmost, and then I shall waite on you: remaineing, in the meane time, Your ever faithfull and obedient Servant, Ws. Hewer. B.L.] Monz. De Luzancy, Minister of Harwich, to S. Pepys. Harwich, Jan. 7, 1688-9. Sir—I have been desired by your friends to send you the enclosed paper, by which you may easily be made sensible how we are overrun with pride, heat, and faction; and unjust to ourselves to that prodigious degree, as to deprive ourselves of the greatest honor and advantage which we could ever attain to, in the choice of so great and so good a man as you are. Had reason had the least place amongst us, or any love for ourselves, we had certainly carried it for you. Yet, if we are not by this late defection altogether become unworthy of you, I dare almost be confident, that an earlier application of the appearing of yourself or Sir Anthony Deane, will put the thing out of doubt against the next Parliament. A conventicle set up here since this un- happy Liberty of Conscience has been the cause of all this. In the meantime, my poor endeavours shall not be wanting, and though my steadfastness to your interests these ten years has almost ruined me, yet I shall continue as long as I live, Your most humble and most obedient Servant, De Luzancy. B.L. orig.] An Account of the Election at Harwich. January 16, 1688-9. The candidates, Sir Thomas Middleton, a very worthy gentleman, agreed upon by all parties, and one Mr John Eldred; the Towne Clerck declaring that Sam. Pepys, Esq., should not be enter’d, except some ap- pear’d personally for him, which being done immediately, he was at last set down. The Common Councel were so hot for the other, that, without hearing any reasons, nothing would serve but a present election. But, before they voted, the Mayor and several of the Aldermen arguing strongly that many of them could not be electors; some not being qualified according to law, others being open Dissenters from the Church, amongst whom one a kind of Quaker, four lately taken in the room of four who 1Hippolitus de Luzancy, A.M., Vicar of Dover Court cum Capella de Harwich, living in 1700. SAMUEL PEPYS 248 were absent, and turn’d out without any warrant; it was learnedly answer’d that, by the King’s late proclamation, they were put in statu quo in 1679; to which reply being made, that the King’s proclamation did really restore them who were then electors, but did not give them power to choose any new members, especially their Charter not being restored, which was their warrant to act by, they not knowing so much as where the said Charter is, all was over-ruled by noise and tumult. They took the paper where they were, to write down their votes, and carried it out of the Court; upon which the Mayor presently adjourning, two of the Aldermen went out, which made the others return into Court, and there give their votes; presently after, the following protestation was put into Mr Mayor’s hand:— Mr Mayor—‘* We humbly conceive that the present choice of Mr Eldred to serve in the Convention is illegal, as to that part of it wherein the new electors are concerned; it being visible, that so long as we have no Charter to choose them by, they are unwarrantably chosen. For, tho’ his Majesties proclamation restores us again to the same state we were in, in 79, and does qualifie them who were then actually chosen, it does not appear to us, how, without the Charter being actually restor’d to us, which it is not at this present, the then electors can choose any new ones; so that their very choice is deficient in itself; and ac- cordingly, we humbly solicit Sam. Pepys, Esq., to be return’d with Sir Thom. Middleton, Kt; protesting against the choice of the said Mr Eldred, and desiring withal that this our said protestation may be enter’d and return’d to the Convention, to be there examin’d with our further allegations against the said election.” Mr Smith, the Town Clerk, took the said paper angrily; threaten’d a schoolmaster, whom he thought had copied it out, to imprison him; said it was a libel, flung it out of the Court, and proclaimed the said Mr Eldred duly chosen. As they carried him up and down in the streets, one Mr. John Wertbrown cry’d out, “ Vo Tower men, no men out of the Tower!” which was echo’d by nobody; most of the freemen, and particularly the seamen, being wholly against such a choice, and de- claring that had they bin concerned in it, they would have chosen Mr Pepys. This account is exactly true. B.L. orig. ] Dr. Gale’ to S. Pepys. January, 1689-90, Thursday, 7 Morne. Sir—Last night, at my returne, I found this letter, which, with the first opportunity, I thought it my duty to communicate to you. Sir, I am your very humble Servant,” Tuomas Gate. 2Thomas Gale, D.D., was born at Scruton, in Yorkshire, 2 educated at R 244 CORRESPONDENCE OF Dr. Cumberland: to Dr. Gale. (Enclosed in the above.) Stamford, January 14th, 1689-90, Honoured Sir—I have received both your letters of enquiry about Walcote House,? and I did not answer suddenly to your first, because you therein gave mee time to doe it at my leasure, and because, as to many particulars mentioned therein, I was not sufficiently informed. But your second letter, intimating your desire to hear what answer I can give, sooner than I imagined, hath induced me to hasten this account, though it bee very imperfect. I have been in the house several times while it was St H. Cholmely’s, being acquainted with both him and his lady; but, being altogether unacquainted with Mr. Worthley, I never was in it since it came into his hands, though I have often rid by it. Its distance from our towne of Stamford is about two miles. The outward view of the house is very beautiful, being adorned with a large lanterne, as it were, on a cupola at the top and leads: the figure a regu- lar oblong, and all the windows placed uniformly. All the inward rooms were not finisht when I was in it, but many were, and well adorned. I am informed it’s much improved by Mr Worthley, both in the rooms and gardens; there is a wall both about the garden and other yards and enclosed ground. There are plentiful springs near it, but not much wood that I have taken notice of: those who are critical about the matter say the house is too large and good for the small estate in land which ad- joines to it, and they add that an inward wall in it was ill-built, and hath crusht an arch therein, and thereby hath endanger’d to thrust out one of the outward walls, which is strengthened and secured by some buttresses. I guesse that your occasion of enquiring about it may bee in behalfe of some purchaser; wherefore, I advise that my imperfect know- ledge and unskilful judgment in a matter of such consequence be not trusted to, but that the person concerned should trust his own eyes and skill, or employ a judicious surveyour. There are many outhouses about it, but how convenient cannot well be judged but by him that knows the Westminster School; from whence he went to Trinity Collge, Cambridge, where he obtained a Fellowship, and became Greek professor of the University. In 1672, he was chosen High Master of St. Paul’s School, which office he held for twenty-five years. In 1676 he was_made a Prebendary of St Paul’s, and, in 1697, advanced to the Deanery of York; but_he enjoyed this dignity only a short time, dying April 8, 1702, ext. 67. He was a learned theologian, skilled in history and archeology, and an excellent Greek scholar; the works which he published furnish evidence of his industry and talents. He also possessed a noble library, and a curious collection of MSS., which he bequeathed to his son Roger. well known as a zealous antiquary.—Abridged from Knight's Life of Dean Colet. 1Rector of All Saints, Stamford, and, in 1691, made Bishop of Peterbor- ough. 2The house alluded to was built by Sir Hugh Cholmley about 1675, and sold by him to the Hon, Sidney Wortley Montague, who alienated it to the Noel family. SAMUEL PEPYS 245 wants or designes of him who is to dwell therein, and make use of the conveniences. The land about it is healthy, and most convenient for the pleasure of hunting. This is the best information I can give you at present. I hope to bee in London between Easter and Whitsunday, if not sooner, and there to have more opportunity of enjoying the benefit of your learned converse and skill in books. My residence in this place, so distant from the city, denies mee the opportunity of knowing books which I sometimes hear of and finde quoted, but cannot see, consult, or peruse: particularly in these late revolutions, I heare of the great Col- lection of the Elder English Historians, wherein you have befriended the world, but I have not seen the entire work, but some part of it onely. If I live to come to London, I shall entreat you to assist me in procuring some such books at the best hand. I hope you will excuse the freedome I use with you, for, because I greatly value your learneing, I presse for- ward into acquaintance with you, desireing ever to bee Yours, &c., Ric. CuMBERLAND. C. orig. } John Evelyn to S. Pepys. August, 1690. Sir—This hasty script is to acquaint you, that my Lord Bishop of St Asaph’ will take it for an honour to be thought able to give Mt Pepys any light in those mysteries you and I have discoursed of.? He would himself wait upon you, but I did not think it convenient to receive that compliment for you, at first. To-morrow his Lordship says, he eating no dinner, shall be alone, and ready to receive your commands, if it be sea- sonable to you. I suppose about 3 o’clock in the afternoon may be a con- venient time for me to wait upon you to his Lordship, or what other sooner hour you appoint. The Lords in the Tower, and other prisoners, against whom there is no special matter chargeable, are to be freed upon bail. My Lord Clarendon is also within that qualification, as the Bishop tells me. C.] 8S. Pepys to the Gentlemen® who bailed him, upon his release from Prison. October 15, 1690. Being this day become once again a free man in every respect, I mean, but that of my obligation to you and the rest of my friends, to whom I 1William Lloyd, successively Bishop of St. Asaph, Lichfield and Coventry, and Worcester. Ob. 1692. 2The Apocalypse. 8Sir Peter Palavicini, Mr. James Iloublon, Mr. Blackburne, and Mr. Martin, 246 CORRESPONDENCE OF stand indebted for my being so, I think it but a reasonable part of my duty to pay you and them my thanks for it in a body; but know not how otherwise to compass it than by begging you, which I hereby do, to take your share with them and me here, to-morrow, of a piece of mutton, which is all I dare promise you, besides that of my being ever Your most bounden and faithful humble Servant, S. P. C. orig. John Evelyn to S. Pepys. Deptford, Tber 26, 1690. Morning. Sir—Si vales, bene est, &c. Without more ceremony, then, and that my small excursion be no impediment to the perfecting your collec- tion,—to the Queries. In the days of Queen Eliz., for before her time J hardly hear of any, came over one Crispin van de Pas;,and in King James’s, his brother Symon, who calls himself Passeus; and afterwards there came, and in Charles Ist’s time, one Elstrack, Stock, De la Rem, and Miriam; and of our own countrymen, Cecil, Martin, Vaughan, and especially Jo: Paine, for I forbear to mention Marshal, Crosse, and some other lamentable fellows, who engraved the effigies of the noblemen, &c., then flourishing. These prints were sold by George Humble and Sudbury, at the Pope’s Head in Cornhill; by Jenner, at the Exchange; one Seager, I know not where, and Roger Daniel: but who had the most choice was Mt Peake, near Holborn Conduit; and if there be any who can direct you where you may most likely hear what became of their plates and works of this kind, I believe nobody may so well inform you as Mr Faithorne, father to the bookseller, who, if I am not mistaken, was apprentice to Sir W™ Peake, for both he and Humble were made Knights, and therefore it may be worth your while to enquire of him. There came afterwards, you know, Lucas, Vosterman, Hollar, Lombart, and other excellent artists; but these were of later times which you do not enquire of. They wrought after Vandyke, the Arundelian Collection, and best painters. And now of late the skilful in Mezzo-tinto masters, who for imitation of life, sometimes excel the burin itself ever so accurately han- dled. But of this enough:—I send you, Sir, my face, such as it was of yore, but is*now so no more, tanto mutata; and with it, what you may find harder to procure, the Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral; which, though it make a gap in my poor Collection, to which it was glad, I most cheerfully bestow it upon you, and would accompany it with the other two, where I was master of them. J have Sir George Villiers, when a youth and newly-dignified, in a small trifling print, not at all fit for you, who ought to have him when he was a Duke and Admiral; and of such 1Daniel Finch, second Earl of Nottingham. SAMUEL PEPYS 247 there are many, easily to be had. I am sure his picture is below several flattering dedications, though at present I do not well remember where. But this I do, that there is a Taille-douce of that mighty favourite, almost as big as the life, and nothing inferior to any of the famous Nan- teuil’s, graved by one Jacob, of Delft, in Holland, from a painting of Miereveld, that were well worth the sending even into Holland for, and for whatever else is of this kind, of that incomparable workman’s hand. I have once seen it, and took this notice of it to mention it in a new edition of my Calcographie, when I have leisure to revise that trifle. Lastly, as to my Lord Chancellor Hide, though I have not his effigies among the rest that I have huddled together, always presuming to get it of my Lord Clarendon, but perpetually forgetting to ask it, yet I can direct you where to come by it, and perhaps you have it already in your library; ’tis but enquiring where Sir W. Dugdale’s History of the Lord Chancellors was printed, and there you will find him, and the rest of the Long Robe, if you have a mind to them. Have you been at Mr Baker’s shop, near the old Exchange. Cannot Mr White furnish you. I am deceived if he has not graved most of the Chancellors since his Majesty’s restoration. Yt most humble faithful Servant, J. Evetyn. C.] S. Pepys to W. Hewer. December 23, 1690. Mr. Hewer—I don’t know how to let go what you observed to me yesterday, touching the late learned descant made by some of our Admirals upon the words at the bottom of my printed head, without telling you that I could be well contented Mr. Southerne were told, when next he comes in the way of Mr. Martin, that whatever reckoning I may make of his learning, I own too great an esteem for that of my Lord of Pembroke, to think it possible for him to misplace upon me the honour of answering for a sentence so much above my ambition of fathoming, or the authority of any man else to censure, but he, if any such there be, that would be thought a Latinist, orator, and philosopher, fit to stand up with Cicero, whose very words these are, in that excellent and most divine chapter, his Somnium Scipionis. Tu vero enitere, et sic habeto, te non esse mortalem, sed Corpus hoc. Nec enim is est quem forma, ista declarat; sed mens cujusque is est quisque, non ea figura que digito monstrari potest. A thought derived to him from Plato, and wrought upon after him by St. Paul. I am, &c., S. Pepys. 248 ~ CORRESPONDENCE OF C. orig.] The Bishop of London’ to S. Pepys. Dect, 1691. Sir—When I tell you I write in behalf of an eminently honest man, I hope you will pardon more easily my importunity. The bearer, M. Nutt, though I have very little acquaintance with him, is one that I value highly for two actions of his life very unusual in this age.-—When, upon the credit he had given King Charles II4, he found himself sink- ing from an estate of 10,000/. or 12,000]. to nothing, he returned back to the value of 3000]. of money just then put into his hands, telling his creditors that he was no longer responsible. His other action was more generous than this; for being called to witness the title of a gentleman who had not wherewithal to reward him, he being himself not worth a groat, he refused to keep back his evidence, though he was offered a con- siderable reward by the other party, which would have supported him all his life. Upon these merits it is that I would beg of you to use your interest with Mr Southerne,? to bestow some clerk’s or other place upon him under the Admiralty, to get him bread. If it were my brother, I could not with more concern intreat you, in this particular, to oblige, Sir, Yr most obedient humble Servt, H. Lonnon. C.] S. Pepys to John Evelyn. January 9, 1691-2. Sir—I would have come at you the other night at St. Martin’s on that grievous occasion,’ but could not. Nor would I have failed in attending you before, to have condoled the death of that great man, had I been for some time in a condition of going abroad. Pray let Dr. Gale, Mr. Newton, and myself, have the honour of your company to-day, foras- much as Mr. Boyle being gone, we shall want your help in thinking of a man in England fit to be set up after him for our Peireskius,* besides Mr. Evelyn. I am sure I know what I think upon it, and shall not spare to tell it you. A happy new year to you, from your faithful, obedient servant, Sues C.] S. Pepys to John Evelyn. Easter Monday, 1692. Sir—The last being Confession, this in all good conscience should be Restitution Week; and, as far as I am able, the first act of it shall be 1 Henry Compton, ‘translated from Oxford, 1675; ob. 1713. 2James Southerne, Clerk of the Acts, 1688, and in 1694 an Extra Commissioner of the Navy. 3Mr. Boyle’s funeral. ‘Nicholas Peiresc, a type, in the opinion of many, of what a learned and accomplished man ought to be. SAMUEL PEPYS 249 the acquitting myself honestly towards you, in reference to that vast treasure of papers which I have had of yours so many years in my hands, in hopes of that otium I have now for three years been master of, but on conditions easily to be guessed at, which have not allowed me the company of more of my papers than I was content to adventure being visited and disordered: and it is not above three weeks since I have taken the liberty of remanding any of them within my reach. Out of these I have made shift to collect all that relate to the State concern- ment in the ministry of Sir R. Browne, and those of your own growth towards the History of our Dutch War, 1665, which, with that which followed it in 1672, I wish I could see put together by your hand, as greatly suspecting they will prove the last instances of the sea actions of this nation, which will either bear telling at all, or be worthy of such an historian as Mr. Evelyn. Another piece of restitution I have to make you, is your Columna Trajani, which, out of a desire of making the most use of, with the greatest care to my eyes, I put out unfortunately to an unskilful hand, for the washing its prints with some thin stain to abate the too strong lustre of the paper: in the execution whereof part of it suffered so much injury, that not knowing with what countenance to return it, I determined upon making you amends by the first fair book I could meet with; but with so ill success, that, notwithstanding all my industry, at auctions and otherwise, I have only been able to lay my eye on one, fair or foul, at Scott’s, and that wholly wanting the histori- cal part; Sir P. Lely, whose book it was, contenting himself with so much and no more, as touched the profession of a painter without that of a scholar. I have, therefore, thought it more religious to restore so great a jewel as your own book, even with this damage. S. P. Gregory King, Lancaster Herald, to S. Pepys. With an enclosure: see note.” Dresden, Febry 7, 1692-3. Hond Sir—I should not forgive myself if I did not pay you the respect of a line or two, even at this distance. The Gazette by this time will in- form you of the ceremony of investing His Electoral Highness of Saxony, 1The papers, after all, were not returned, nor has the MS. History of the Dutch War ever been traced; it is not among the Rawlinson papers in the Bodleian Library. See Evelyn’s Diary, Introduction, p. xxviii., edit. 1850. 2Quoniam hujusmodi chronogrammata, ut dicam, hisce regionibus in usu sunt, quamvis non opere pretium existimo, facultatem tamen meam explorare visum est. 1692. Johannes GeorglVs QVartVs ELecCtor SaXonIe OrDIne Garterl DresDez InVestItVs. h : i 1692. Per NobILes VIros GVL. DVtton CoLt EqVit. AVr. et Greg. King, FeCIaL. LanCaster. AngLIz Regis Vt _ et_ Regine as dee et DepVtatos. 1692. DlIe JoVis VICesIMo SeXto JanVarlII. VeterI StyLo, In Alo een Rm. KING. 250 CORRESPONDENCE OF John George the 4th, with the Order of the Garter, in the Great Hall here, called Atrium Gigantum, on Thursday, Jany 26, 1692. To which I will only add, that the Elector is highly pleased with the Order, which he has not only testified by the noble presents he has made to the Commissioners and all their Retinue, but by the perfect good humour he has shown ever since, and by his bestowing upon Sir William Colt, my Colleague, the Badge of Sincerity, a kind of Order established by the 2 Electors of Brandenburg and Saxony a year or two ago, which he took from his own arm and put upon Sir William’s, being worn in nature of a bracelet: it is an enamelled jewel, of an oval form, about an inch long, wherein is enamelled 2 hands in armour, with this motto—Uni @ jamais, and on the other, Amitié sincére. “The first motto, said the Elector, upon giving it to Sir William, “is for the King and myself, the next is for you and I.” J will give you a draft of it at my return; the ornament is only four diamonds on the outside. The day after the ceremony was a famous tilting, 30 on a side, all gentlemen of 8 descents, and the day after that were most noble fireworks. The next day, being Sunday, the 26th, we had audience of leave, and Sir William presently after delivered new credentials as Envoy. We dined with the Elector that day, and he told me he would give me my passport for England, which he did. The next day we were carried to see the strong fortress of Kénigstein, about 16 or 18 miles from hence, upon the frontiers of Bohemia, and returned the next day and dined at the Elector’s charge, as we did from the time of our first audience, being attended by several gentlemen, and the Elector’s pages and footmen: since which we are upon our own account. Yesterday we were shown the arsenal, the armoury, where there are 36 chambers for that purpose, and then the 7 chambers of rarities, all highly worth seeing, besides the stables. On Thursday next is a masquerade in boor’s habits, 30 ladies and gentlemen, and among them the Elector and Electrice, and on Friday a magnificent opera, all in honour of the Order; after which I return with all diligence to England, and shall long to kiss your hands, and to assure you how truly I am, Yt most obedt Servt, Grery Kine. C. orig. | John Evelyn to S: Pepys. Wotton, August 2, 1692. I have been philosophizing and world-despising in the solitudes of this place, whither I am retired to pass and mourn the absence of my worthiest friend. Here is wood and water, meadows and mountains, the Dryads and Hamadryads; but here’s no Mr Pepys, no Dr Gale. Nothing of all the cheer in the parlour that I taste; all’s insipid, and all will be so to me, till I see and enjoy you again. I long to know what you do, and what you think, because I am certain you do both SAMUEL PEPYS 251 what is worthy the knowing and imitation. On Monday next will Mr Bentley resume his lecture, I think, at Bow Church: I fear I shall hardly get through this wilderness by that time. Pray give him your wonted confidence if you can, and tell him how unhappily I am en- tangled. I hope, however, to get home within this fortnight, and about the end of October to my hyemation in Dover-street. My son is gone with the Lord Lieutenant, and our new relation, Sir Cyril Wych,' into Treland: I look they should return wondrous Statesmen, or else they had as well have stayed at home. I am here with Boccalini,? and Erasmus’s Praise of Folly, and look down upon the world with wondrous contempt, when I consider for what we keep such a mighty bustle. O fortunate M™ Pepys! who knows, possesses, and enjoys all that’s worth the seeking after. Let me live among your inclinations, and I shall be happy. J. Evetyn. C.] S. Pepys to Isaac Newton. November 22, 1693. Sir—However this comes accompanied to you with a little trouble, yet I cannot but say, that the occasion is welcome to me, in that it gives me an opportunity of telling you that I continue sensible of my obliga- tions to you, most desirous of rendering you service in whatever you shall think me able, and no less afflicted when I hear of your being in town, without knowing how to wait on you till it be too late for me to do it. This said, and with great truth and respect, I go on to tell you that the bearer, Mr. Smith, is one I bear great goodwill to, no less for what I per- sonally know of his general ingenuity, industry, and virtue, than for the general reputation he has in this town, inferior to none, but superior to most, for his mastery in the two points of his profession; namely, fair writing and arithmetic, so far, principally, as is subservient to accountant- ship. Now, so it is, that the late project, of which you cannot but have heard, of Mr. Neale, the Groom-Porter’s lottery, has almost extinguished for some time, at all places of public conversation in this town, especially among men of numbers, every other talk but what relates to the doctrine of determining between the true proportion of the hazards incident to this or that given chance or lot. On this occasion, it has fallen out that this gentleman is become concerned, more than in jest, to compass a solution that may be relied upon beyond what his modesty will suffer him to think his own alone, or any less than Mr. Newton’s, to be, to a question which he takes a journey on purpose to attend you with, and prayed my giving him this introduction to you to that purpose, which, 1Who had married for his third wife Evelyn’s niece Elizabeth, daughter of George Evelyn of Wotton. Sir Cyril was_so named after his godfather, the Patriarch of Constantinople, where he was born. 2 Author of I] Pietro Paragone, or Political Touchstone, 252 CORRESPONDENCE OF not in common friendship only, but as due to his so earnest applica- tion after truth, though in a matter of speculation alone, I cannot deny him; and therefore trust you will forgive me in it, and the trouble I desire you to bear, at my instance, of giving him your decision upon it, and the process of your coming at it: wherein I shall esteem myself on his behalf greatly owing to you, and remain, Honoured Sir, your most humble, And most affectionate and faithful Servant, S. P. C. orig. | Isaac Newton to S. Pepys. Cambridge, Novbr 26, 1693. St—I was very glad to hear of your good health by Mr Smith, and to have any opportunity given me of showing how ready I should be to serve you or your friends upon any occasion, and wish that something of greater moment would give me a new opportunity of doing it, so as to become more useful to you than in solving only a mathematical question. In reading the question, it seemed to me at first to be ill stated; and in exainining Mr Smith about the meaning of some phrases in it, he put the case of the question the same as if A played with six dice till he threw a six: and then B threw as often with twelve, and C with eighteen, the one for twice as many, the other for thrice as many, sixes. To examine who had the advantage, I took the case of A throwing with one dice, and B with two—the former till he threw a six, the latter as often for two sixes; and found that A had the advantage. But whether A will have the advantage when he throws with six and B with twelve dice, I can- not tell: for the number of dice may alter the proportion of chances considerably, and I did not compute it in this case, the problem being a very hard one. And, indeed, upon reading the question anew, I found that these cases do not come within the question; for here an advantage is given to A by his throwing first till he throws a six: whereas, the question requires, that they throw upon equal luck, and by consequence that no advantage be given to any one by throwing first. The question is this: A has six dice in a box, with which he is to fling a six; B has in another box twelve dice, with which he is to fling two sixes; C has in another box eighteen dice, with which he is to fling three sixes. Qy, whether B and C have not as easy a task as A at even luck? If this last question must be understood according to the plainest sense of the words, I think that sense must be this: Ist. Because A, B, and C, are to throw upon even luck, there must be no advantage of luck given to any of them by throwing first or last, by making any thing depend upon the throw of any one, which does not equally depend on the throws of the other two: and, therefore, to bar — : SAMUEL PEPYS 2538 all inequality of luck on these accounts, I would understand the question as if A, B, and C, were to throw all at the same time. Qdly, I take the most proper and obvious meaning of the words of the question to be, that when A flings more sixes than one, he flings a six, as well as when he flings but a single six, and so gains his expecta- tion: and so, when B flings more sixes than two, and C more than three, they gain their expectations. But if B throw under two sixes, and C under three, they miss their expectations; because, in the question, ’tis expressed that B is to throw two, and C three sixes. 3dly, Because each man has his dice in a box, ready to throw and the question is put upon the chances of that throw, without naming any more throws than that. I take the question to be the same as if it had been put thus upon single throws. What is the expectation or hope of A to throw every time one six, at least with six dice? What is the expectation or hope of B to throw every time two sixes, at least, with twelve dice? What is the expectation or hope of C to throw every time three sixes, or more than three, with eighteen dice? And, whether has not B and C as great an expectation or hope to hit every time what they throw for, as A hath to hit what he throws for? If the question be thus stated, it appears, by an easy computation, that the expectation of A is greater than that of B or C; that is, the task of A is the easiest: and the reason is, because A has all the chances on sixes on his dice for his expectation, but B and C have not all the chances upon theirs; for, when B throws a single six, or C but one or two sixes, they miss of their expectations. This Mr Smith understands, and therefore allows that, if the question be understood as I have stated it, then B and C have not so easy a task as A; but he seems of opinion, that the question should be so stated, that B and C, as well as A, may haye all the chances of sixes on their. dice within their expectations. I do not see that the words of the question, as ’tis set down in your letter, will admit it; but this being no mathematical question, but a. question what is the true mathematical question, it belongs not to me to determine it. I have contented myself, therefore, to set down how, in my opinion, the question, according to the most obvious and proper meaning of the words, is to be understood; and that, if this be the true state of the question, then B and C have not so easy a task as A: but whether I have hit the true meaning of the question, I must submit to the better judg- ment of yourself and others. If you desire the computation, I will send it you. I an, Sir, Yr most humble and most obedient Servant, Is, NewTon. 254 CORRESPONDENCE OF Isaac Newton to S. Pepys. Cambridge, Dec. 16, 1693. Sir—In stating the case of the wager, you seem to have exactly the same notion of it with me; and to the question, Which of the three chances should Peter chuse, were he to have but one throw for his life? I answer, that if I were Peter, I would chuse the first. To give you the computation upon which this answer is grounded, I would state the question thus: A hath six dice in a box with which he is to fling at least one six, for a wager laid with R. B hath twelve dice in another box, with which he is to fling at least two sixes, for a wager laid with S. C hath eighteen dice in another box, with which he is to fling at least three sixes, for a wager laid with T. The stakes of R, S, and T, are equal; what ought A, B, and C, to stake, that the parties may play upon equal advantage? To compute this, I set down the following progressions of numbers:— iPropre Wie 1h 2 ie 4 5 6 the number of the dice. Progr. 2. 01 3 Cielo 15 Progr. 3. 6 36 216 1996 7776 40856 { “> BUNbes ee { chances upon them. Progr. 4. 5 25 125 625 3125 15625 { the nomber io) eae 4 without sixes. Progr. 5. 15. 25) 225) 1625) Stes 6 rf chances for one six and Progr. 110 75 500 3125 18750 nolineees Progr. 1 5 25 125 625 chances for two sixes and Progr. 8. 1 15 150 1250 9375 { pepe The progressions in this table are thus found: the first progression, which expresses the number of the dice, is an arithmetical one; viz., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, &c.; the second is found, by adding to every term, the term of the progression above it; viz, 0 + 1=1,1+4+22=3,3 4+ 3 = 6, 6+ 4— 10,10 + 5 — 15, &c.; the third progression, which expresses the number of all the changes upon the dice, is found by multiplying the number 6 into itself continually; and the fourth, fifth, and seventh, are found by multiplying the number 5 into itself continually; the sixth is found by multiplying the terms of the first and fifth; viz. Ixili=i12x5=10,3 & 2 = 75,4 « 125 = 500, &c.; and the eighth is found by multiplying the terms of the second and seventh; viz., 1xi=13x%5= 15,6 x 25 = 150, 10 % 125 = 1250, &c.: and by these rules the progressions may be continued on to as many dice as you please. Now, since A plays with six dice, to know what he and R ought to stake, I consult the numbers in the column under six, and there from SAMUEL PEPYS 255 46656, the number of all the chances upon those dice, expressed in the third progression, I subduct 15625, the number of all the chances without a six, expressed in the fourth; and the remainder, 31031, is the number of all the chances, with one six or above: therefore the stake of A must be the stake of R, upon equal advantage, as 31031 to 15625, or #3931 to 1; for their stakes must be as their expectations, that is, as the number of chances which make for them. In like manner, if you would know what B and S ought to stake upon twelve dice, produce the pro- gressions to the column of twelve dice, and the sum of the numbers in the fourth and sixth progressions; viz., 244140625 -+ 585937500— 830078125, will be the number of chances for S; and this number, sub- ducted from the number of all the chances in the third progression, viz., 2176782336, will leave 1346704211, the number of chances for B: there- fore the stake of B would be to the stake of S, as 1346704211 to 830078125, or 2468704211 to 1. And so, by producing the progressions to the number of eighteen dice, and taking the sum of the numbers in the fourth, sixth, and eighth progressions for the number of chances for T, and the difference between this number and that in the third column for the number of the chances for C, you will have the propor- tion of their stakes upon equal advantage. And thence it will appear that, when the stakes of R, S, and T, are units, suppose one pound or one guinea, and by consequence equal, the stake of A must be greater than that of B, and that of B greater than that of C; and, therefore, A has the greatest expectation. The question might have been thus stated, and answered in fewer words: if Peter is to have but one throw for a stake of 1000/., and has his choice of throwing one six at least upon six dice, or two at least upon twelve, or three at least upon eighteen, which throw ought he to chuse; and of what value is his chance or ex- ‘pectation upon every throw, were he to sell it? Amswer: Upon six dice there are 46656 chances, whereof 31031 are for him: upon twelve there are 2176782336 chances, whereof 1346704211 are for him: therefore, his chance or expectation is worth the 31031th part of 1000/. in the first case, and 1346704211th part of 1000/. in the second; that is, 665]. 0s. 2d. in the first case, and 618]. 13s. 4d in the second. In the third case, the value will be found still less. This, I think, Sir, is what you desired me to give you an account of; and if there be anything further, you may command Your most humble and most obedient servant, Is. NEwron. B. L.] Doctor Gibson to D’ Charlett. July 130, 16940. You had receiv’d Mr. Pepys’s Catalogue by Saturday night’s Coach, but that upon receiving it with him yesterday, I took the liberty of suggesting an objection, wherein I hope youl agree with me. Amongst 256 CORRESPONDENCE OF other MSS. which indeed are all exceeding valuable, he has 10 large Volumes fairly writ, consisting of original Letters, Instruments, &c., collected with great care and judgment. But such is his modesty (be- cause they were his own work) that he had concluded them all under this scanty Title, Miscellanies, Historical, Political, and Naval, in 10 Volumes. ’Twas natural for any one to urge that Miscellanies (by which the world means nothing but a confus’d Rhapsodie) was too mean a Title for soe regular a Collection, and that the word Originals, or some- thing to express the real value of them, ought to be inserted. I told » him likewise, that, in my opinion, he could neither do justice to him- self, nor soe much service to the World as would necessary follow upon the mention of such a body of Rarities, unless he publish’d every distinct head through the whole X volumes. And if he agrees to it, I am satisfy’d there’s nothing in England can pretend to equal it; *twill be in my mind one of the greatest ornaments your Catalogue will have. In short, I would not bring it away till he had consider’d further of it. Among these Collections, he has a Catalogue of a great many Original Letters and Papers now in the Dutch Church here, and relating to the Reformation; these he’s ready to communicate. C.] S. Pepys to Dr Smith. April 15, 1695. Reverend Sir—You may be surprised, but won’t, I day say, be offended, that, at the instance of our excellent friend, Dr. Charlett, of Oxford, I come so soon to ask, for another, a favour, it is so little a while since I troubled you for to myself. It is in behalf of this young man,’ the bearer: one whose outside would not lead you to expect such an errand from him, in his education also be- speaking it as little; as having been bred at Coventry, in a trade not very apt to give any occasion for it. But so it is, that by a strange bent of nature, he hath spontaneously given himself up to the love of Antiquities, and looking into Records; Dr. Charlett telling me of several Catalogues of MSS. now before them at Oxford, which they owe to his transcribing: and, after this, what can you think his present want to be, and the only errand that has brought him up to London, and this the first time of his being here, but a curiosity only to see the inside of Sir John Cotton’s Library, which pray let me, in Dr. Charlett’s name and 1 Humphrey Wanley, son to the Rev. Nathaniel Wanley, Vicar of Trinity Church, in Coventry, and better known as the author of the Wonders of the Little World. Humphrey Wanley was sent to Edmund’ Hall, Oxford, by Lloyd, Bishop of Lichfield, &c., whence he soon removed to University College, at the instance of Dr. Charlett, who had obseryed his attention to matters of antiquity. He became, some years afterwards, Librarian to the Earl of Oxford, whose son and successor retained him in his service. He died in July, 1726.— Biographical Dict. ee SAMUEL PEPYS 257 my own, beg you to indulge him an opportunity for, when it may be with least trouble to yourself. And to reconcile this curiosity of his a little more to you, I have it to observe that, though it was his fortune to be disposed of by his friends to a trade, as I have told you, yet was it not, as I understand, without his having been first raised to an academical degree of grammar-learning: so, as books are not wholly strangers to him, and by consequence your favour to him will not want being understood, though it may of being enough acknowledged either by him or me, who am, with all respect, Your most faithful and most humble Servant, S. P. C.] S. Pepys to Mrs Steward. September 20, 1695. Madam—You are very good, and pray continue so, by as many kind messages as you can, and notices of your health, such as the bearer brings you back my thanks for, and a thousand services. Here’s a sad town, and God knows when it will be a better, our losses at sea making a very melancholy exchange at both ends of it; the gentle- women of this, to say nothing of the other, sitting with their arms across, without a yard of muslin in their shops to sell, while the ladies, they tell me, walk pensively by, without a shilling, I mean a good one, in their pockets to buy. One thing there is, indeed, that comes in my way as a Governor, to hear of, which carries a little mirth with it, and indeed is very odd. Two wealthy citizens are lately dead, and left their estates, one to a Blue Coat boy, and the other to a Blue Coat girl, in Christ's Hospital. The extraordinariness of which has led some of the magistrates to carry it on to a match, which is ended in a public wedding; he in his habit of blue satin, led by two of the girls, and she in blue, with an apron green, and petticoat yellow, all of sarsnet, led by two of the boys of the house, through Cheapside to Guildhall Chapel, where they were married by the Dean of St. Paul’s, she given by my Lord Mayor. The wedding-dinner, it seems, was kept in the Hospital Hall, but the great day will be to-morrow, St. Matthew’s; when, so much I am sure of, my Lord Mayor will be there, and myself also have had a ticket of invitation thither, and, if I can, will be there too; but, for other particulars, I must refer you to my next, and so, Dear madam, adieu, Ss. P. Bow bells are just now ringing, ding dong, but whether for this, I cannot presently tell; but it is likely enough; for I have known them to ring upon much foolisher occasions, and lately too. VOL. IV. Ss 258 CORRESPONDENCE OF — C. orig. | E. Wright to S. Pepys. Novr 10, 1696. - Hond Sir—Colonel Scott, your prosecutor, is again turned for Eng- land: when he arrived first, he was in the habit of a Dutch skipper, which disguised him very much; but now he has got good clothes and a perriwig. He was at a friend’s house of mine some few days past, and pretended he had got his pardon for killing the coachman; but he tells me he does not believe it. This I thought good to acquaint you. I am, Sir, yt most humble Servt, Epw> Wricut. [Pepys, in answer, particularly requested to have further information, which produced a second letter from Mr. Wright:] Nov 12, 1696. Hon. Sir—I have now learnt as much as I could since the other day. Col. Scott, about 7 weeks ago, came to England in a seaman’s habit: he was not seen by any body I know till about 16 days ago, and then he appeared in pretty good habit, and a bob wig on, and pulled out a parchment with a broad seal to it, and said it was his pardon, and desired that man to get a silver box made to put it in; but he has not seen him since. The Colonel was at his house yesterday, but he was not at home. Whether it was a pardon he cannot tell, but Kings do not use to grant pardons before conviction, unless it be to noblemen, as to the Duke of Buckingham for killing Lord Shrewsbury, or the like the present King did to Colonel Beveridge for killing Mt Danby, and to some outlaws that he brought with him. But Colonel Scott has always been obnoxious to him: when he was in Scotland, he ran away with his regiment’s money, and was hanged in effigy: besides, I have employed a friend to search the Hanaper Office and the Petty Bag Office, where all patents of that nature pass, and for 16 years there has been no such patent passed. I am informed that he lives in Gray’s Inn, by 2 people that he has told so to. If I can any way further serve your honour, no person shall do it more faithfully. Epwarp WRicHt. When Scott returned out of Holland, he told my friend he had a bill from the Bank of Amsterdam of 100/. upon the Bank here, and could not get his money. His person and carriage are not a bit altered. C. orig. | Edmund Gibson’ to S. Pepys. Lambeth, November 25, 1696. Honored Sir—I here send you the Index of the Catalogue, so far as Bodley’s Library is concerned. I have also enclosed a short account of 1The learned Edmund Gibson, at this time Domestic Chaplain to the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, became, in 1715, Bishop of Lincoln; and, in 1720, was SAMUEL PEPYS 259 the life of Sir Thomas Bodley, and of the foundation and encrease of his Library; you may, if you please, keep them by you till called for. The other day I met with a Catalogue of the Clergy in the Archdeaconry of Middlesex, taken in 1563, with an account of each man’s learning and abilities; in short, observing the strangeness of the characters, I ran over the whole, and, as I went along, branched them under different heads, whereby their several abilities in learning are there expressed. It is a fancy I know you will be pleased with, and therefore I make bold to give you this short view of the learning of those times. Docti Latiné et Greece. III.|Latiné per parum utcunque Docti : : k XII.| aliquid, pauca bare &e., Mediocriter Docti 3 F II.| intellex: . . XLII, Latiné Docti . s { TX.jLatiné non Docti A Pin. @ 00 Latiné mediocriter intell: XXXI. |Indocti : - : A IV. Tf the London Clergy were thus ignorant, what must we imagine the country Divines were? I beg your pardon for this trouble, and remain, é Your obliged, humble Servant, Ep. Gisson. Dr. Tanner, afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph, to Dr. Charlett. Apr. 28, 1699. Mr. Pepys was just finishing a letter to you, last night when I gave him yours. I hear he has printed some letters lately about the abuses of Christ’s Hospital; they are only privately handled about. A Gentle- man that has a very great respect for Mr. P. saw one of them in one of the Alderman’s hands, but wishes there had been some angry ex- pressions left out; which he fears the Papists and other enemies of the Ch. of England will make ill use of. B.M. orig. ] S. Pepys to Mr. Bagford. Wednesday morning, March 16, 1696-7. Mr. Bagford—If there be Stoba@i Sententiw, a fair one of the last edition, in Mr. Littlebury’s auction, not yet disposed of, I commission you to secure it for me upon the easiest terms you can; letting me know, in the meantime, by a line or two, as soon as you may, whether I may expect to be supplied herewith from thence or no, that I may be at translated to the See of London. Ob. 1748. He published the valuable “Codex ee eo ge Anglicani,” whence he has been sometimes humorously called ir. Codex. s2 260 CORRESPONDENCE OF liberty to look out for it elsewhere. And, in that case also, pray in your walk be yourself listening out for a fair one for me; SO as I may be eased of the charge of its re-binding, I am, your assured Friend, S. Pepys. B.M. orig. ] S. Pepys to Mr. Bagford. Tuesday morning. Mr. Bagford—I shall not be able to come to you this morning, nor, I doubt, this week, by reason of some business I have a sudden oc- casion of looking after in Parliament. Whereof, pray tell the gentleman of the house, where I was to meet you, and that (if God pleases) I will not fail to be with him on Monday next, in the morning, before which I hope I shall see you, and remain, Your affectionate Friend and Servant. S. Pepys. B.M. orig. | S. Pepys to Mr. Bagford. Wednesday, Feb. 16, 1697-8. Mr. Bagford—It has been out of my mind to ask either of you or Mr. Sturt, at his late being with me, after Mr. Ayres’s famous Copy- book, whether it be yet finished or published, or no, I having a particular reason to desire the knowing it, and if it be out, of seeing it. And, therefore, in that case, let me desire you by the first opportunity, either to let me see you here with one, or to procure a very fair one, and send it to me. S. Pepys. B.M. orig. | S. Pepys to Mr. Bagford. York Buildings, May 11, 1699. Mr. Bagford—I was prevented the other day in my asking after what you told me you would bring to me the beginning of this week, namely, your gatherings relating to Fair Writing, and particularly the Heads which you tell me you have of several of our Writing Masters. Pray, therefore, let me now desire the sight hereof from you, as soon as with convenience you can, because (as I told you) I am just now making up, and finally putting together, my own collection on that subject. And pray forget not your solicitation for me to Major Ayres, and to look out for the Compartment of Fishes for me, I being lately told (by Mr. Sturt, I think) that there are variety of those Compartments pub- licly sold; but Major Ayres’s kindness must crown all. Adieu! SAMUEL PEPYS 261 C2] The Lord Reay? to S. Pepys. Durness, 24th October, 1699. Honoured Sir—Conforming to my promise, I send you all the in- formation I have met with in the inquiry you recommended to me, touching the Double Sight; and have just now received my Lord Tar- but’s* answer to me relating thereto, as follows:— “T remember that, several years ago, in answer to a letter of Mr. Boyle’s, I wrote to him about the Second Sight; a copy whereof receive enclosed. Since that time, I was not much in the North, nor did I either make any enquiries on purpose, or what I occasionally heard then differ considerably from what I had heard formerly. One particular of which was a footman of your great grandfather’s, who was mightily con- cerned upon seeing a dagger in the Lord Reay’s breast. He informed his master of the sight, who laughed at it. ‘Some months after, he gave the doublet which he did wear when the Seer did see the dagger in his breast, to his servant, who did wear or keep it about a year, and then gave it to this footman, who was the Seer, and who was stabbed in the breast by another, when this doublet was upon him. My Lord, you may inquire further into the truth of this.” This, Sir, is the answer I have had from my Lord Tarbut, and I enclose you a copy of his letter therein. I have since informed myself of the truth of the story about my grandfather’s footman, and find it literally true; as also another, much of the same nature, which I shall give you an account of, because I have it from a sure author, a friend of my own, of unexceptionable honesty, to whose father the thing happened, and he was himself witness to it all. E John Macky, of Dilril, having put on a new suit of clothes, was told by a Seer that he did see the gallows upon his coat, which he never noticed; but, some time after, gave his coat to his servant, William Forbes, to whose honesty there could be nothing said at that time; but he was shortly after hanged for theft, with the same coat about him: 1The letters which follow, relating to the Second Sight ordinarily pretended to in the Highlands, are here introduced seriatim, without reference to the Chronological order observed in the Correspondence. 2George Mackay, third Lord Reay, of Durness, in Scotland, F.R.S., a noble- man of parts and learning. Ob. 1748.—Wood’s Peerage. 3In the Peerage of Scotland, printed for J. Almon, 1767, is the following account of Lord Tarbut:—Sir George Mackenzie, eldest son of the first Baronet, was a man of great learning, and well versed in the laws. He had a com- mission from Charles II., then in exile, to raise what forces he could, in order to promote his restoration; and for those good services, when His Majesty re- turned to se age he was made a Senator of the College of Justice, Clerk Regis- ter, one of the Privy Council, and Justice General; and by James II., created Viscount Tarbut in 1685. In the os of Queen_Anne, he was_ constituted Secretary of State, and a Privy Councillor; created Earl of Cromartie, in 1702, and continued in the post of Justice General. He died in August, 1714, et. suz 84. His grandson, George third Earl of Cromartie, having taken an active part in the rebellion of 1745, was found guilty of High Treason, and his estates and honours were forfeited to the Crown; but he was pardoned, and permitted to reside in England till his death, in 1766. 262 CORRESPONDENCE OF my informer being an eye-witness of his execution, and one who haa heard what the Seer said before. I have heard several other stories, but shall trouble you with no more than what have happened since I last came into the country. There was a servant woman in Mindo Aubrey’s house, in Langdale, on Strathnaver, in the Shire of Sutherland, who told her mistress she saw the gallows about her brother’s neck, who had then the repute of an honest man: at which her mistress being offended, put her out of the house. Her brother, nevertheless, having stolen some goods, was sentenced to be hanged the 22d August, 1698; yet, by the intercession of several gentlemen, who became bail for his future behaviour, was set free, though not customary by our law; which occasioning one of the gentle- men, Lieutenant Alex. Macky, to tell the woman servant that she was once deceived, the man being set at liberty, she replied, he is not dead yet, but shall certainly be hanged; and accordingly, he betaking him- self to stealing anew, and being catched, was hanged the 14th of Febru- ary, 1699. I was this year hunting in my forest, having several Highlanders with me; and, speaking of the Second Sight, one told me there was a boy in company that had it, and had told many things that had fallen out to be true; who being called, and confessing it, I asked him what he saw last: he told me he had seen, the night before, such a man by name, who lived thirty miles from that place, break my Forester’s servant’s head; which the servant overhearing, laughed at him for saying that; that could not be, they being very good friends: so as I did not believe it, but it has certainly happened since. These stories, with what is contained in my Lord Tarbut’s letter, are the most satisfactory for proving Second Sight of any I have heard, | and the people are so persuaded of the truth of it in the Highlands and Isles, that one would be more laughed at for not believing it there than® for affirming it elsewhere. For my own part, I do not question it; though that be of small weight towards the persuading others to the belief of it. But I dare affirm, had you the same reasons I have, you would be of my opinion: I mean, had you heard all the stories I have, attested by men of honour not to be doubted, and been eye-witness to some of them yourself, as the breaking of the man’s head, foretelling ‘ of another’s death, and another story, which the same boy told me long .ere they happened. There was a blind woman in this country, in my time, who saw them perfectly well, and foretold several things that happened, as hundreds of honest men will attest. She was not born blind, but became so by accident, to that degree, that she did not see so much as a glimmering, yet saw the Second Sight as perfectly as before. I have got a manuscript, since I came last to Scotland, whose author, though a parson, does, after giving a very full account of the Second — SAMUEL PEPYS 263 Sight, defend there being no sin in it, for reasons too long to be here inserted: but, with the first opportunity, I shall send you a copy of his books; and I have this day received a letter from a friend I had em- ployed for that purpose, promising me the acquaintance of this man, of which I am very covetous, being persuaded it will give me much light in this matter. There is a people in these countries surnamed “ Mansone,” who see this sight naturally, both men and women, though they commonly deny it, but are so affirmed to do by all their neighbours. A Seer, with whom I was reasoning on this subject, finding me very incredulous in what he asserted, offered to let me see as well as himself. I asked whether he could free me from seeing them thereafter; whereto he answering me he could not, put a stop to my curiosity. The manner of showing them to another is this: the Seer puts both his hands and feet above your’s and mutters some words to himself: which done, you both see them alike. This, Sir, is all the information I can send you on this head, till I have the opportunity of sending. you the fore-mentioned Treatise: remaining, Honoured Sir, your most humble Servant, Reay. The Lord Tarbut, on the same subject, to Mr. Boyle. Sir—I had heard very much, but believed very little, of the Second Sight; yet, it being affirmed by several of great varacity, I was induced to make some inquiry after it in the year 1652, being then confined to abide in the North of Scotland by the English Usurpers. The more general accounts of it were, that many Highlanders, yet far more Islanders, were qualified with this sight: that men, women and children, indistinctively, were subject to it; and sometimes children whose parents were not subject to it; sometimes people when come to age, who had it not when young, nor could any tell by what means produced. It is a trouble to most of those who are subject to it. The sight is of no long duration, only continuing so long as they keep their eyes steadily without trembling: the hardy, therefore, fix their look, that they may see the longer, but the timorous see only glances, their eyes always trembling at the first sight of the object. That which is generally seen by them is the species of living creatures and inanimate things which are in motion, such as ships and habits upon persons: they never see the species of any person who is already dead. What they foresee fails not to exist in the mode and place where it appears to them. They cannot tell what space of time shall intervene betwixt the apparition and real existence; but some of the hardiest and longest experience have some Tules for conjectures: as, if they see a man with a shrouding-sheet in the apparition, they would conjecture at the nearness and remoteness 264 CORRESPONDENCE OF of his death by the more or less of his body that is covered with it. They will ordinarily see their absent friends, though at a great distance, sometimes no less than from America to Scotland, sitting, standing, or walking, in some certain place, and then they conclude with assurance that they will see them so and there. If a man be in love with a woman, they will ordinarily see the species of that man standing by her; and so, likewise, if a woman be in love. They conjecture at their marrying, by the species looking on the person; at their not marrying, by the species appearing at a distance from the beloved person. If they see the species of any person who is sick to death, they see them covered over with a shrouding-sheet. These, generally, I had verified to me by such of them as did see, and were esteemed honest and sober by all the neighbourhood, for I inquired after such for my information: and be- cause there were more Seers in the Isles of Lewis, Harris, and Uist, than any other place, I did entreat Sir James M‘Donald, who is now dead, Sir Normade M‘Leod, and Mr. Daniel Morison, a very honest parson, who is still alive, to make inquiry into this strange sight and to acquaint me therewith; which they did, and found an agreement in these Generals, and informed me of many instances confirming what they said. But, though men of honour and discretion, being but at second hand, I would choose rather to put myself than my friends in the hazard of being laughed at for incredible relations. I was once travelling in the Highlands, and a good number of servants with me, as is usual there, and one of them going a little before me to enter into a house where I was to stay all night; and, going hastily to the door, he suddenly started back with a screech, and fell by a stone, against which he dashed his foot. I asked what the matter was, for he seemed to me to be very much frighted; he told me very seriously that I should not lodge in that house because shortly a dead coffin would be carried out of it, for many were carrying it when he was heard cry. I neglecting his words and staying there, he said to others of the servants he was very sorry for it, and that what he saw would surely come to pass; and though no sick person was then there, yet the landlord, a healthy Highlander, died of an apoplectic fit before I left the house. In the year 1653, Alexander Monro, afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel to the Earl of Dumbarton’s regiment, and I were walking in a place called* , in Loch Broom, in a plain at the foot of a rugged hill; there was a servant working with a spade in the walk before us, his back to us, and his face to the hill. He took no notice of us, though we passed ‘by near to him, which made me look at him; and, perceiving that he stared, I conjectured he was a Seer; wherefore, I called to him, at which he started and smiled. “ What are you doing?” said I. He answered, “I have seen a very strange thing—an army of Englishmen, leading of 2A blank in the MS. ee SAMUEL PEPYS 265 horses, coming down that hill; and a number of them are come down to the plain, and eating the barley which is growing in the field near to the hill.” This was on the fourth of May, for I noted the day, and it was four or five days before the barley was sown in the field he spoke of. Alexander Monro asked him how he knew they were Englishmen: he answered, because they were leading horses, and had on hats and boots, which he knew no Scotchman would have on there. We took little notice of the whole story as other than a foolish vision, but wished that an English party were there, we being then at war with them, and the place almost inaccessible for horsemen. But the beginning of August thereafter, the Earl of Middleton, then Lieutenant for the King in the Highlands, having occasion to march a party of his towards the South _ Islands, sent his Foot through a place called Inverlacwell, and the fore- part, which was the first down the hill, did fall to eating the barley which was on the little plain under it: and Monro, calling to mind what the Seer told us in May preceding, wrote of it, and sent an express to me to Lochslime, in Ross, where I then was, with it. I had occasion to be in company where a young lady was, excuse my not naming of persons, and I was told there was a notable Seer in company; and I called to him to speak with me, as I did ordinarily when I found any of them; and, after he had answered several questions, I asked him if he saw any person to be in love with that lady: he said he did, but knew not the person; for, during the two days he had been in her company, he perceived one standing near her with his head leaning on her shoulders, which he said did foretell that the man should marry her, and die before her, according to his observation. This was in the year 1655. I desired him to describe the person, which he did; so I could conjecture, by the description, that it was such a one who was of that lady’s acquaintance, though there was no thought of their inter-marriage till two years afterwards; and having occasion, in 11e year 1657, to find this Seer, who was an Islander, in company with the other person whom I conjectured to have been described by him, I called him aside, and asked if that was the person he saw beside the lady near two years then past: he said it was he, indeed, for he had seen that lady just then stand- ing by him hand-in-hand. This was some few months before their mar- Triage, and the man is since dead, and the lady still alive. I shall trouble you with but one more, which I thought the most remarkable of all [that] occurred to me. In January, 1682, the above-named Colonel Munro and I happened to be in the house of William M‘Leod, of Feirinhed, in the County of Ross; he, the landlord, and I, sitting in three chairs near the fire, and in the corner of the great chimney there were two Islanders who were that very night come to the house, and were related to the landlord. While the one of them was talking with Munro, I perceived the other to look oddly towards me, and from his looks, and his being an Islander, I conjectured that he was a Seer, and asked him why he stared? 266 CORRESPONDENCE OF He answered by desiring me to rise from that chair, for it was an un- lucky one. I asked, “ Why?” He answered, “ Because there was a dead man in the chair next to it.”—“ Well,” said I, “if it be but in the next, I may safely sit here: but what is the likeness of the man?” He said he was a tall man, with a long grey coat, booted, and one of his legs hang- ing over the chair, and his head hanging down to the other side, and his arm backward, as it were broken. There were then some English troops quartered near the place, and there being at that time a great frost after a thaw, the country was wholly covered over with ice. Four or five Englishmen riding by this house, not two hours after the vision, where we were sitting by the fire, we heard a great noise, which proved to be these troopers, with the help of other servants, carrying in one of their number who had got a very mischievous fall and had his arm broke; and, falling frequently into swooning fits, they brought him to the hall, and set him in the very chair and in the very posture which the Seer had proposed; but the man did not die, though he revived with great difficulty. Among the accounts given me by Sir Normade M‘Leod, there was one worthy of special notice, which was this:—There was a gentleman in the Isle of Harris, who was always seen by the Seers with an arrow in his thigh; such in the Isle who thought these prognostications infallible, did not doubt but he would be shot in the thigh before he died. Sir Normade told me that he heard it the subject of discourse for many years, when that gentleman was present: at last, he died without any such accident. Sir Normade was at his burial at St. Clement’s Church, in the Isle of Harris: at the same time the corpse of another gentleman was brought to be buried in the very same church. The friends on either side came to debate who should first enter the church, and, in a trice, from words they came to blows: one of the number, who was armed with a bow and arrow, let one fly among them; now, every family in that Isle have their burying-place in the church in stone chests, and the bodies are carried on open biers to the place of burial. Sir Normade, having appeased the tumult, one of the arrows was found shot in the dead man’s thigh: to this Sir Normade himself was a witness. In the account Mr. Daniel Morison, Parson in the Lewis, gave me, there was one, which, though it be heterogeneous from this subject, yet it may be worth your notice.—It was of a young woman in this parish who’ was mightily frightened by seeing her own image still before her, always when she came into the open air, and the back of the image always to her; so that it was not a reflection, as in a mirror, but the species of such a body as her own, and in a very like habit, which appeared to herself con- tinually before her. The parson bred her a long time with him, but she had no remedy of her evil, which troubled her exceedingly. I was told afterwards that, when she was four or five years older, she saw it not. These are matters of fact, which, I assure you, are truly related; but these, and all others that occurred to me by information or otherwise, “ SAMUEL PEPYS 267 could never lead me into so much as a remote conjecture of the cause of so extraordinary a phenomenon: whether it be a quality in the eyes of some persons in those parts, concurring with a quality in the air also; or whether such species be every where, though not seen for want of eyes so qualified, or from whatever cause, I must leave to the inquiry of clearer judgments than my own. But a hint may be taken from this image which appeared still to this young woman aforementioned, and from another mentioned by Aristotle, in the 4th of his Metaphysics, if I remember right, for it is long since I read it; as also from that common opinion that young infants, unsoiled with many objects, do see apparitions which are not seen by those of older years: likewise from this, that several who did see the Second Sight when in the Highlands or Isles, yet, when transported to live in other countries, especially in Amer- ica, quite lose this quality; as it was told me by a gentleman who knew some of them in Barbadoes, that did not see any visions there, although he knew them to be Seers when they lived in the Isles of Scotland. C.] S. Pepys to the Lord Reay. York Buildings, November 21, 1699. My Lord—I can never enough acknowledge the honour of your Lord- ship’s letter. Could I have foreseen the least part of the fatigue my in- quiries have cost your Lordship in the answering, I should have proceeded with more tenderness in the burthening you with them. But, since your Lordship has had the goodness to undergo it, I cannot repent me of being the occasion of your giving the world so early a proof of what may be further expected from a genius so curious, so painful, so dis- cerning, and every way so philosophical, as your Lordship has herein shown yours to be; in the exercise whereof I cannot, as an old man, but wish you a long life, and a happy one, to the honour of your noble family, your country, the whole commonwealth of learning, and more particularly that part of it, the Royal Society of England, dedicated to the advancement of natural knowledge, whereto your Lordship is already become a peculiar ornament. And now, my Lord, for the matter of your letter: it carries too much observation and weight in it to be too easily spoken to; and, therefore, I shall pray your Lordship’s bearing with me if I ask a little more time. This only I shall not spare now to say, that, as to the Second Sight, I little expected to have been ever brought so near to a conviction of the reality of it, as by your Lordship’s and Lord Tarbut’s authorities I must already own myself to be: not that I yet know how to subscribe my Lord Tarbut’s charging it upon some singularity of quality in the air, or eye of the person affected therewith; forasmuch as I have never 268 CORRESPONDENCE OF heard of other consequences of any indisposure in the medium or organ of sight, than what related to the miscolouring, misfiguring, diminishing, or undue magnifying, of an object truly existing and exposed thereto; whereas, in this case, we are entertained with daggers, shrouds, arrows, gibbets, and God knows what, that indeed are not, but must be the crea- tures of the mind only, however directed to them, and not to the eye. Nor yet as to the reality of the effect would I be thought, my Lord, to derive this propension of mind to the belief of it, from the credit only which I find it to have obtained amony your neighbours, the Highland- ers; for that it had been my particular fortune to have outlived the be- lief of another point of faith relating to the eyes, no less extraordinary nor of less universal reception elsewhere;—I mean the mal de ojo in Spain; with a third, touching the sanitive and prophetic faculty of the Saludadores there: as, having heretofore pursued my inquiries thereinto so far, upon the place, as to fully convince myself of the vanity thereof, especially of the latter, from the very professions of its professors. But, my Lord, where, as in the matter before us, the power pretended to is so far from being of any advantage to the possessors, as, on the contrary, to be attended with constant uneasiness to them, as well as for the most part of evil and serious import, and irresistibly so, to the persons it is applied to; in consequence whereof, as your Lordship well notes, your Seers are both desirous to be themselves rid of it, and ready to communicate it to any other that will adventure on it; I say, these considerations, joined to that of its being so abundantly attested by eyewitnesses of unques- tionable faith, authority, and capacity to judge, will not permit me to distrust the truth of it, at least till something shall arise from my fur- ther deliberations upon your Lordship’s papers leading me thereto, than, I must acknowledge, there yet does; in which case I shall give myself the liberty of resorting again to your Lordship, praying, in the mean time, to know how far I have your leave to make some of my learned friends partakers with me in the pleasure of them, and of what your Lordship has been pleased, with so much generosity, to promise me of further light upon this subject, from the Manuscript lately come to your Lordship’s hand, a copy of which will be a most welcome and lasting obligation upon me, I remain, with most profound respect, Your Lordship’s most obedient Servant, S. Pepys. C.] The Lord Reay to S. Pepys. ! Inverness, J anuary 9th, 1700. Sir—I had yours some time ago, but have delayed my return, in ex- pectation of sending you the Manuscript I promised you, which, being obliged to stay some time from home, you are not yet to expect from SAMUEL PEPYS 969° me. You may, if you think fit, communicate my letter to whom you please; for there is nothing in it but what I know to be true, or have good authors for; and think it needless, though I have heard many, to relate more stories of Second Sight, save one which has happened since I wrote last. A gentleman, who was married to a cousin of Drynie’s, living in the county of Ross, coming on a visit to him at his house, called him to the door, the ordinary compliments being passed, to speak to him about some business. But when they went out, he was so frightened that he fainted, and, being recovered, would in no wise stay in the house that night, but went with his wife to a farmer’s hard by; where, she asking him why he left the house, he told her publicly that he knew Drynie would die that night; for, when they went to the door, he saw his wind- ing-sheet about him. And, accordingly, the gentleman did die that night, though he went to bed in perfect health, and had had no sickness for some time before. I had this story from Drynie’s own son, the farmer, his servant, and the man himself who saw it. For my part, I am fully convinced of this Sight; but what to attribute it to I know not, nor can I be convinced, any more than you, that it depends on any quality, either of the air or eyes, but would gladly know your opinion of it. I hope to see you shortly in London, And am, Sir, your very humble Servant, Reay. C.] Dr Hickes to S. Pepys. London, June 19, 1700. Honoured Sir—I have been ill of a cold since I had the honour to wait upon you and Mr. Hewer, and that hath been the cause why I have been so long in performing the promise I made, of sending you in writing some things you gave me occasion to say, by imparting to me my Lord Reay’s letter to you, and the letter my Lord Tarbut wrote to him con- cerning the Second Sight. This is a very proper term for that sight which the Scottish Seers or Visionists have of things by representation; for, as the sight of a thing itself is, in order of nature, the first or pri- mary sight of it, so the sight of it, by any representation, whether really made without, as all apparitions are or within upon the stage of imag- ination, as all sorts of visions are made, is, in order of nature, the second or secondary sight of that thing; and, therefore, the sight of any thing by representation, though first in order of time, may properly be called the Second Sight thereof. Thus, the sight of a picture in order of nature, is indeed the second sight of the thing whose picture it is, and, if custom would allow it, might be so called. But the Scotch have restrained the use of the term only to that sight of things by appearance, or represen- 270 CORRESPONDENCE OF tation, which those Seers or Visionists among them used to have; but whether in outward apparitions always, or inward visions, or some times one way and some the other, I have not yet learned, but it would be an inquiry proper for the subject, and fit for that ingenious Lord to make. I told you, when I was in Scotland, I never met with any learned man, either among the Divines or Lawyers, who doubted of the thing. I had the honour to hear Lord Tarbut tell the story of the Second Sight, of my Lord Middleton’s march with his army down a hill, which you read in the letter written by his Lordship to Mr. Boyle. It was before the Duke of Lauderdale he told it, when his Grace was High Commissioner of Scotland, about twenty-two years ago. At the same time, as I remember, he entertained the Duke with a story of Elf Arrows, which was very sur- prising to me; they are of a triangular form, somewhat like the beard or pile of our old English arrows of war, almost as thin as one of our old groats, made of flints or pebbles, or such like stones; and these the coun- try people in Scotland believe that Evil Spirits, which they call Elves, from the old Danish word Alfar, which signifies Damon, Genius, Satyrus, do shoot into the hearts of cattle; and, as I remember, my Lord Tarbut, or some other Lord, did produce one of these Elf arrows, which one of his tenants or neighbours took out of the heart of one of his cattle that died of an usual death. I have another strange story, but very well attested, of an Elf arrow, that was shot at a venerable Irish Bishop by an Evil Spirit in a terrible noise, louder than thunder, which shaked the house where the Bishop was; but this I reserve for his son to tell you, who is one of the deprived Irish Clergymen, and very well known, as by other excellent pieces, so by his late book, entitled, “The Snake in the Grass.” I mention this to encourage you to desire my Lord to send you a more perfect account of these Elf arrows; the subject being of so near an alliance to that of the Second Sight, and to witchcraft, which is akin to them both. As for this subject, I had a very tragical but authentic story, told me by the Duke of Lauderdale, which happened in the family of Sir John Dal- tymple, Laird of Stair, and then Lord President, as they call the Lord Chief -Justice of Scotland. His Grace had no sooner told it me, but my Lord President coming into the room, he desired my Lord to tell it me himself, which altering his countenance, he did with a very mel- ancholick air; but it is so long since, that I dare not trust my memory with relating the particulars of it, though it was a memorable story; but if my Lord Reay would be pleased to make enquiry into it of the present heir of the family, he would find it a story ot great authority, and worthy of being written by his excellent pen. Sir, I beg your pardon for this digression from the Second Sight to Witches; and perhaps the Divine whom my Lord Reay telis you hath 1 Richard Lesley, Bishop of Kilala, whose son Charles published, in 1696, The Snake in the Grass, a tract against the Quakers, and other excellent works. SS —————— SAMUEL PEPYS 271 written a book in defence of the innocency of seeing things by the help of it, would be offended with me for joining them together. In truth, Sir, I long to see that book, being myself uncertain in my opinion whether that way of seeing things be always from a good or evil cause, or sometimes from one and sometimes from the other. One would hope, that, in good men, who contribute nothing towards the having of it, it should be from good spirits, which the old Danes and Norwegians, from whom the Scotch have a great part of their language, called Lias Alfar, i. e., Spirits of Light; but in those who come to have it by certain forms of words, which we call charms, or doing and performing such ceremo- nies as are mentioned in my Lord’s letter, one would think it proceeded from evil spirits, which the old Danes and Norwegians called Stuart Alfar, i. e., Black Spirits: nay, when wicked men have it, though with- out contributing anything towards it by charms or ceremonies, one would fear upon the account of their wickedness, which provokes God and their good angels to abandon them, that it proceeded from Eyil Spirits. It may also be presumed to proceed from the same cause, in men other- wise of unblamed lives, who are addicted to the study of magic, or judi- cial astrology, or who are known to converse with Demons, as many amongst the learned, both ancient and modern, both foreigners and our own countrymen, are said to have done. A good number of well-attested stories out of good historians and records, as well as living witnesses, would help to resolve these doubts. Among the former are to be consulted the histories of the old Northern nations, written in old Danish or Swedish, which commonly have the title of Saga, which signifies a narration of history, and have been printed of late in Denmark and Sweden. But it may be those theories, and many more, are sufficiently resolved and accounted for in the book above men- tioned, which my Lord hath promised to send you; but if not, his Lord- ship has great opportunities of farther inquiry into facts, by which, as by phenomena, they may be resolved. It was commonly reported, when I was in Scotland, that the Lord Seaforth, then living, had the Second Sight, and thereby foretold a dreadful storm to some of his friends, in which they had like to have been cast away. I once heard the Duke of Lauderdale rally him about it, but he neither did own it nor disown it; according to that maxim of the civil law, “ Qui tacet aut non negat, sic utique non fatetur.” At the same time, there was a girl in custody at Edinburgh, whose name was Janet Douglas, about 12 or 13 years of age, famous for the Second Sight, and the discovery of witches, and their malefices and en- chantments thereby. The girl first signalized herself in the Western Islands, where she discovered how one Sir G. Maxwell was tormented in effigy by witches. She was not known there, where she made this, which was her first, discovery, but from thence she came to Glasgow, 272 CORRESPONDENCE OF whither her fame having got before her, the people in great numbers ran out to meet her. As she was surrounded with the crowd, she called out to one man, a goldsmith, as I remember, and told him that of so long a time he had not thriven in his trade, though he was very diligent in it, because an image was made against him, which he might find in such a corner of his shop; and when the man went home, there he found it where she said it was; and the image was such, both as to matter and form, as she had described it, viz., a little rude image made of clay. She told another, that he and his wife, who had been a very loving couple, of late had lived in great discord, to the grief and astonishment of them both; and when the man asked the reason, she answered, as she did before, that there was an image made against them. I have forgot whether she named the witches who made those images, as she did those that made that in which they tortured Sir George Maxwell. But by these, and other such discoveries, she made such tumults and commotions among the people of Glasgow, that the magistrates thought fit to confine her, and sent an account of her to the Privy Council at Edinburgh, who sent for her up in custody; but, when she came near the city, the people went out to meet her in vast crowds, and, as she was surrounded with them, she accused several persons of witchcraft, which obliged them to put her in close confinement, to keep the people and their minds quiet from the commotions she had raised in them. This happened a little before the — Duke of Lauderdale went the last time as High Commissioner into Scot- land, in May, 1678, when I had the honour to attend him as his domestic Chaplain. Hearing these and many other stories of this girl, I had desire to see her, and discourse with her; but it was some time before I could obtain leave to go to her; because an order had been made in Council, before we came into Scotland, that no one should be admitted to her. In the interim, upon an invitation by the then Lord Archbishop of Glasgow, Dr. Bur- net, of honourable memory, afterwards made Archbishop of St. Andrew’s, I went to see Glasgow, where I had the happiness to meet Dr. Rosse, then Lord Bishop of Argyle, who afterwards succeeded Dr. Burnet in the Archbishoprick of St. Andrew’s, of which he was deprived, with the whole order, soon after the Revolution. It was from him that I had the stories above related concerning Janet Douglas, with many more which I have forgotten, from her first appearance in the Highlands to her coming to Glasgow. My Lord Archbishop is still living; and if my Lord Reay would please to inquire of him, and many others yet alive, about that girl, he would be able to give you an account of her much more worthy your knowledge than any thing I can now write of her, at so great a distance of time. One thing I must not omit to tell you—that in all her marches from Sir George Maxwell’s to Edinburgh, nobody knew her, nor would she discover to any one who she was. After I returned to Glasgow, I renewed my petition to my Lord Duke for leave to see Janet Douglas, which he granted me. My desire of see- SAMUEL PEPYS — 273 ing her arose from a great curiosity I had to ask her some questions about the Second Sight, by which she pretended to make all her discov- eries. I took a reverend and learned Diyine with me, one Mr. Scott, Minister of the Church of the Abbey of Holyrood, now the Palace of the Scottish Kings. When we were first brought to her, I found her, as I had heard her described, a girl of very great assurance, undaunted, though surprised at our coming, and suspicious that I was sent to betray her; this made her very shy of conversing with us; but, after many and serious protestations on my own part that I came for no other end but to ask her some questions about the Second Sight, to which she pretended, she at last promised she would freely answer me, provided I would use my interest with my Lord High Commissioner to obtain her liberty, upon condition she went into England, never again to appear in Scotland, which I promised to do, Upon this I began to premise something upon the baseness of lying and deceiving, and especially of pretending to false revelations, and the dangerous consequences of such practices, which made all such lying pre- tenders odious to God and man; and then, requiring her, in the presence of God, to tell me nothing but the truth, she promised me, with a serious air, to tell me nothing but the very truth. I then asked her, if indeed she had the Second Sight; and if by that she knew those things she had discovered; to which she answered in the affirmative. I then asked her if she thought it proceeded from a good or evil cause; upon which she turned the question upon me, and asked me what I thought of it. I told her plainly, I feared it was from an evil cause; but she replied quickly, she hoped it was from good. I then asked her if it came upon her by any act of her own, as by saying any words, or performing any actions or ceremonies; to which she replied No. I asked her, upon this, if she remembered her baptismal vow; but she did not understand my question till I began to explain it; and then, with great quickness replied, she remembered it, and called to mind, that she had renounced the Devil and all his works; and then I told her that by the devil was meant Satan, the prince of devils, and all evil spirits under him, and asked her if she renounced them all, which she said she did, Then I asked if she [would] renounce them all in a form of words that I had provided; which, prom- ising to do, I bid her say after me, which she did in the most serious and emphatical expressions that I was able to devise. I then asked her if she could say the Lord’s Prayer; she said Yes: I bid her say it upon her knees, which she did, I then asked her if she ever prayed to God to deliver her from the power of the devil and all evil spirits; but not answering readily and clearly to that question, I then asked her if she would make such a prayer to God upon her knees, which I had composed for her, which she did without any difficulty. Then I proceeded to ask her at what distance she saw persons and things by the Second Sights VOL. IV. T 274 CORRESPONDENCE OF she replied, at the same distance they were really from her, whether more or less. Then I asked her if the Second Sight came upon her sleep- ing or waking: she answered, never sleeping, but always when she was awake. I asked this question, to know whether the Second Sight was by outward representation, which I call apparition, or by inward repre- sentation on the theatre of the imagination caused by some spirit; or, that I may once more use my own terms for distinction, whether these Second Sight folks were Seers or Visionists, or sometimes one and some- times the other. Then I asked her if she was wont to have any trouble, disorder, or consternation of mind, before or after the Second Sight came upon her; to which she answered, Never, but was in the same temper at those as at all other times. Then I asked her if the Second Sight never left any weariness or faintness upon her; or listlessness to speak, walk, or do any other business; to which she always answered, No; adding that she was always then as before. These two answers of hers do not agree with some accounts in my Lord’s letter, wherein, as I remember, he speaks of one who said he had always perturbation of mind attending the Second Sight; but, as to this, there may be a difference from the different temper of the patients, and the different stock and temper of the animal spirits in them. This girl, as I have observed before, was of a bold, undaunted spirit, and might bear those sights, from what cause soever, without any fear or perturba- tion, which others of more passive tempers, and a less stock of animal spirits, could not so well endure. There seems to have been this differ- ence among the prophets themselves; whereof some, as we read, received the prophetical influx with great terrors, labour, and consternation, of which they complained when their visions-or apparitions were over, and desired of God to be excused from the prophetical influx, and the burthen of it; but, of others, we do not read they had any such complaints. One of the last questions I asked this girl was, if she desired to have the Second Sight taken from her, to which she replied, what God pleased. After I had discoursed with her in this manner, as long as I thought convenient, I returned home, and gave the Duke an account of my con- versation, with which he was pleased; and I also told him of my promise to intercede with his Grace for her liberty, upon condition she might go into England: but he said that would not be convenient for certain rea- sons. After receiving which answer, I sent her word I could not obtain her liberty; and so she was shut up all the while we were there, but, soon after we came away, she was set at liberty. When I heard of it, I made all the inquiry I could what was become of her, and how she came to obtain her liberty; but I could not get any further account of her, which made me suspect that she was the child of some person of honour or quality, for whose sake all things were hushed. When I was with her, I asked of her parentage, but she would tell me nothing of it; I also —— a SAMUEL PEPYS 275 told her how I observed how her words and expressions were of the bet- ter sort, and asked her how she, being a Highlander, and in appearance a poor girl, came to speak so well. To this she artfully replied, by ask- ing me why I should suppose it so difficult for her to learn to express herself well. Indeed, her wit and cunning were both answerable to her assurance, which I told you was very great. I designed to give a second visit, but my first made so much noise about the town, that it was not thought fit; and I did not press for leave again, because I had reason to believe the denial of her liberty would make her sullen and reserved. The famous Lord Advocate, Sir George Mackenzie, of immortal memory, designed to write her history: but why he did not, I can give no account. People were divided in their opinions of her: some suspected her for an impostrix: but others, of whom I ‘was one myself, thought that she really was what she pretended; being induced to that opinion from the notoriety of the facts which the most incredulous and suspicious could not deny. If you think these notices worth imparting to Mr. Hewer, I pray you to communicate them to him, and to give him my humble thanks and service. You know what business I am daily employed in: were not my time and thoughts taken up with that, I would have transcribed the first draught of this narrative with my own hand, and then it would have come to you in a better dress, and more worthy of your perusal; but as it is, be pleased to accept it as a small token of the great respect of him, who, by inclination, as well as by the many obligations you have laid upon him, is, Honoured Sir, Your most obliged, humble Servant, Geo. Hicxes. C. orig.] Henry, second Earl of Clarendon to S. Pepys. London, May 27th, 1701. St—I cannot give you a greater instance of my willingnesse to gratify your curiosity in any thing within my knowledge, than the sending you this foolish letter. The story I told you the other day relating to what they call in Scotland the Second Sight, is of soe old a date, and soe many of the circumstances out of my memory, that I must begin, as old women doe their tales to children, “ Once upon a time.” The matter was thus:—One day, I know by some remarkable circum- stances it was towards the middle of February, 1661-2, the old Earl of Newborough' came to dine with my father at Worcester-House, and another Scotch gentleman with him, whose name I cannot call to mind. 1Sir James Livingston, Bart., of Kinnaird, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles I., who created him Viscount Newburgh in 1647. On the Restoration, he was constituted Captain of the Guards, and advanced to the dignity of an 1. He died Decem 26, 1670. ? T2 276 CORRESPONDENCE OF After dinner, as we were standing and talking together in the room, says my Lord Newborough to the other Scotch gentleman, who was looking very steadfastly upon my wife, “ What is the matter, that thou hast had thine eyes fixed upon my Lady Cornbury’ ever since she came into the room? Is she not a fine woman? Why dost thou not speak ?— “She’s a handsome Lady, indeed,” said the gentleman, “but I see her in blood.” Whereupon my Lord Newborough laughed at him; and all the company going out of the room, we parted; and I believe none of us thought more of the matter; I am sure I did not, My wife was at that time perfectly well in health, and looked as well as ever she did in her life. In the beginning of the next month she fell ill of the small-pox; she was always very apprehensive of that disease, and used to say, if she ever had it, she would dye of it. Upon the ninth day after the small-pox appeared, in the morning, she bled at the nose, which quickly stopt; but in the afternoon the blood burst out again with great vio- lence at her nose and mouth, and about eleyen of the clock that night she dyed, almost weltering in her blood. This is the best account I can now give of this matter, which tho’ I regarded not at the time the words were spoken, yet upon reflection afterwards, I could not but think it odd, if not wonderfull, that a man only looking upon a woman, whom he had never seen before, should give such a prognostick. The great grief I was then in, and going quickly after out of towne, prevented my being so inquisitive as I should have been after the person of this Scotch gentleman, and into other things. You will not wonder that, after soe long a distance of time, I cannot give a more particular account of a thing which seems soe very extra- ordinary. But I have kept you too long upon soe imperfect a subject, and will conclude with assuring you that I am, with great esteem, Sir, your most affectionate and humble Servant, CLARENDON. C. orig. ] Dr Wallis to S. Pepys. Oxford, October 24, 1699, Sir—In a letter of your’s to Dr Charlett, I find you are pleased to speak kindly of me; and particularly of what account I have given of the eclipse lately seen at Oxford, which, by reason of a great mist, could not be seen at London. What account that was I have now for- got, as I quickly shall what I now write; and because you were desirous to see it, I send now a scheme of that observation. It is intended for the Philosophical Transactions, but, how soon it will be there inserted I know not; and do, therefore, in the mean time, send you the copy which Dr Gregory was pleased to give me. My daughter Blencowe, who, 1 Theodosia, third daughter of Arthur, Lord Capel of Hadham, £ _ SAMUEL PEPYS 277 with the Judge, her husband, made me a visit in their passage to Lon- don, tells me that knowing nothing of the eclipse before, but being then writing a letter about 9 o’clock, finding the light of the sun look some- what dim, she looked out to see what the matter was, and found it to be an eclipse. I asked her how the light appeared to her: the best ac- count she could give of it was, much like that in the evening a little before sunset. And I believe it to be a good account, and much as it appeared to us at Oxford; and more than that I know not why any body should expect. Of your queries to Mt Hudson,? I doubt he will be able to give you but a short account from old historians; I doubt scarce any better than that of Acts xxvii. I can partly guess, from a little experience I once had, in a short voyage, if I may so call it, from Stangate Hole to Westminster Bridge. I had one Sunday preached for Mr Gataker, at Redriff,* and lodged there at night. Next morning I walked with him over the fields to Lambeth, meaning there to cross the Thames to Westminster. He showed me in the passage diverse remains of the old channel, which had heretofore been made from Redriff to Lambeth, for diverting the Thames whilst London Bridge was building, all in a straight line or near it, but with great intervals, which had been long since filled up; those remains, which then appeared very visible, are, I suspect, all or most of them filled up before this time, for it is more than fifty years ago, and people in those marshes would be more fond of so much meadow grounds, than to let those lakes remain unfilled; and he told me of many other such remains which had been within his memory, but were then filled up; but thus much by the way. When we came to Stangate Hole,® over against Westminster Bridge, we took a boat, in a thick mist, intending for Westminster Bridge just across the water. When we had been at sea, for so I musi call it, three times as long as would have been sufficient for the voyage, we made land, and discovered a shore with flags and reeds, and found ourselves within a bow-shot of the place from whence we first launched. We then put we Sir John Blencowe, Knight, made in 1697 one of the Justices of the Common eas, 2 The editor of the Geographi Minores, $The landing- — leading from the Thames to New Palace Yard, still used by the Lords Mayor, on their way to be sworn into office at the Exchequer, was Pa in the old maps “ Westminster Bridge.”—Smith’s Antiq. of Westminsier. There had been a plan of building a bridge across the Thames near this place, in 1664, which is thus noticed in the Correspondence of the French Ambassador with Louis XIV. “‘ Sur ce qui avoit été proposé, de faire un pont devant Withall pour passer du coté de Faxail, la Ville s’y est opposé par des vives remon- Strances; et le Roy a declaré que de son vivant il n’y consentirait, ce qui 2 extrémement Satisfait les bateliers, qui sont un corps fort considerable dans cette Ville.” Of the present Westminster Bridge, now shortly to be destroyed, there is, in the Museum, a beautiful contemporary drawing, if not the original design, by the eceteet *Labelye, dedicated to his warm patron, the Earl of Pem- * Rotherhithe. “8 Opposite the present Houses of Parliament, well known to all Westminster boys as the dockyard of Searle and Godfrey. 278 CORRESPONDENCE OF to sea again and when we had a second time spent about as much time, met another vessel just a-head of us; we hailed the boat and asked whither they were bound? they said to Westminster, in a course directly opposite to ours; and found upon discourse that we were going directly to London Bridge, and were as low as Whitehall, or further. I expos- tulated with our boatmen how it was possible they could so mistake, and thought they might at least know whether they rowed with or against tide: they told me, though if they were at anchor they could tell which way the stream ran, yet, being in motion, they could only know what strokes they made with their oars, but knew not what they made at each stroke, unless they could see the shore; nor was there any wind stirring whereby to direct their course. I told them, if they could now set their steerage right, I would be their steersman, to hold on the same course. It was now in winter; and in such cases, though little wind stirring, we might discern the motion of our own breath, and by observ- ing this I could see when we varied from the course designed, and accord- ingly directed them to row more to the right or left hand, as there was occasion; and by this steerage we came within the noise of the people at Westminster Bridge, and then made up to them. Now, if we had then been wandering for half an hour or more, in so short a passage as just across the Thames, we may well con-— jecture at what a pass those must be who, in the wide sea, without sight of land, had no help from sun, moon, or stars, to direct their course, when as yet the magnetic helps were not known. They must then be obliged to keep within sight of land, and littora legere, without pulling out to sea, unless in fair weather, when the sun or stars might guide them; and if by chance they were surprized at sea in dark weather, they must be perfectly at a loss, having little else to help them, excepting soundings, or remembering from what point the wind blew when the darkness began, guessing that it might continue to blow from the same quarter. What better information Mt Hudson may get you from ancient circumnavigations, I leave to him; and, having begged your pardon for the impertinences of a tedious letter, remain, Sir, your very humble Servant, Joun WALLIS. C. orig. | J. Jackson to S. Pepys. Rome, Dect 25, 1699. Honé Sir,—’Tis with no small pleasure that I am at length come to date from this renowned city; nor will it, I am persuaded, be an un- welcome circumstance to you. We made our entry here on Tuesday last, about 23 o’clock, and were soon afterwards deafened with the jangling of all the bells of the town, which, for several days, morning a SAMUEL PEPYS 279 and evening, had proclaimed the approach of the holy year. Our first yisit was, as you may imagine, to St Peter’s, to see the preparations for this great solemnity, where we found them busy in building the scaffolds about the Porta Santa, which is a lesser door on the right hand entering within the Portico. The Portico runs the whole length of the Facciata, and is about twice the breadth of that before Covent Garden Church: without it, nothing of the opening of the door could be seen, nor within it, much further than the middle door, which afforded but little space for scaffolds; part whereof was destined for the Queen of Poland and her suite, part for the Ambassadors, and part for the Ladies, Roman and Foreign; and a separate one, the most remote, for the gentle- men strangers, where not above 100, I am sure, could see well. The seats for the Cardinals and Bishops, &c., assisting were on the area, where, also, were a good number of persons of the first quality to be admitted. But, with all this, I entertained but very little hopes of seeing what I was come so far for, till encouraged by Father Mansfield, Doctor of the College of English Jesuits here, to whom I was recommended by my Lady Throgmorton’ and Sir D. Authur, he haying an interest with the 2 prelates appointed for the placing of strangers; by which means, in short, and force of crowding, Mt Martin and I have had the good fortune to see all the minutest parts of this most solemn ceremony, the whole process of which falling under my notice was this:— The morning, being yesterday the 24th, was ushered in with the jangling of bells I have mentioned: soldiers, like those of our Trained Band, were placed in different quarters of the town, to prevent disorders, and chiefly in the Piazza of St Peter’s, where were the Swiss Halberdiers, in red and yellow, and a troop of horse, in armour, drawn up. About 16 o’clock we got into our places, and about 23 began the procession from the Vatican, through the Corridore into the Piazza, and so into the Portico, drums beating, &c., all the while. First came the Choristers and officiating Priests, with tapers in their hands, singing; then the Bishops; and last of all, the Cardinals in their Pontificalibus; the Cardinal de Bouillon, appointed by the Pope? to perform this office in his stead, by reason of his extreme illness, closing the whole, and being distinguished from the rest by a mitre of rich gold stuff, the others being of white demask. After a short office, with some singing, neither of which could be well distinguished, the Cardinal advanced to the Holy Door, the guns of Castell St Angelo were discharged, and he knocked thrice with a silver hammer on a small cross of brass, fixed in the mortar of the door, pausing a few minutes between each stroke, while some words were repeated. Having given the last stroke, he retired a little, and down fell the door, which made no small dust, being of brick, 2 Probably Mary, daughter of Sir John Yates, of Buckland, Berks, wife of Sir Robert Throgmorton, the third baronet. ag 4Innocent XII, ‘280 CORRESPONDENCE OF plastered on both sides, and kept together by a frame of wood round, and supported on the inside with props, which, being taken away, it fell into a case set to receive it, for its more ready removal: the Cardinals, &c., entering afterwards to sing vespers, and the people, by degrees, following in most astonishing crowds. There was a throne, with six palls, prepared for the Pope, of crimson velvet, close by the door; but, he not being there, no use was made of it, The scaffold was hung with tapestry and crimson damask, with stripes of golden galoon, as are also the pilasters of St Peter's and some other of the churches of the city. In the mean time, other of the Cardinals, &., in cavaleade, went to the Campidoglio, and there divided, to go to the other churches, to open each of their Holy Gates also; but of this I saw nothing, The chief English here were my Lord Exeter and Lady,’ Lord Moun- thermer Mr Cecil, Mt Bruce, &c., my Lady Salisbury* being prevented by the small-pox breaking out that very morning, of which she is said to be dangerously ill, I afterwards saw the Cardinal’s supper in the Vatican Palace, which, both for form and substance, was very singular; and from hence went to the midnight devotions at St Lorenzo, where I heard most ravishing music suited to the occasion; Paluccio, an admired young performer, singing, and Corelli, the famous violin, playing, in concert with above 30 more, all at the charge of Cardinal Ottoboni, who assisted. The crowd still continues at St Peter’s so great, with pilgrims going in at the Holy Gate upon their knees, that I have not yet been able to make my way through it; but I have got a piece of the ruins of it, which will serve, in the mean time, to support my devotion. *Tis very uncertain what the Pope’s condition is at present; at the time of the ceremony yesterday, we overheard some of the English Jesuits telling others, as a secret, that he certainly died the day before, about 23 o’clock, but I much doubt the truth of it; he is, at least, extremely ill, and could not do a greater service to strangers than to drop off at this juncture, complete the show by a Sede Vacante, to which, some say, a canonization would be added this holy year. I must beg you to be assured of my husbanding both my time and expence. Your most dutiful Nephew, J. Jackson. 1John Cecil, fifth Earl of Exeter, ob. 1700. _He lived very much abroad after the Revolution, not having taken the oaths. His lady, who survived him, was Anne Cayendish, only daughter of William, Duke of Devonshire, and widow of Charles Lord Rich: see post, p. 292. 2John Montagu, eldest son of Ralph Montagu, created Viscount Monthermer and Earl of Montagu, in 1689, and Marquess of Monthermer and Duke of Montagu in 1705. In 1699 John Montagu bore the courtesy title of Viscount Monthermer. He afterwards succeeded as second Duke of Montagu. 3 Frances, one of the daughters and coheirs of Simon Bennett, of Beechampton, Bucks, wife of James, fourth Earl of Salisbury. She died in 1713. SAMUEL PEPYS 281 C. orig.] Extracts of Letters from S. Pepys to J. Jackson. London, Jany 22, 1699-1700. Your friends are all well here, myself in particular. I was lately very much surprised with a visit from my cousin, Roger Gale, upon an unexpected call home, post from Paris, from his father, without the least intimation of the ground of it, nor direction, since his coming, what he is next to do, to the no little discomposure, I discern, of his son, which I am greatly sorry for. I find the gentlemen of both Universitys equally amused upon our friend Dr Bentley’s promotion to Trinity College Mastership; and of them, few more so than our friend at York. I have nothing to add, but to recommend it to you not to forget a copy, if it be got, or at least an accurate perusal, of Henry VIIL.’s letters, to enable you to rectify the mistakes, or clear the doubts, which I hope you will remember occurred to us upon reading copies thereof. S. P. London, Jany 29, 1699-1700. I am extremely glad of the aid you have from Father Mansfield, in the business of books, &c., and leave it to you to secure the 2 vols. you speak of relating to St. Peter’s, as you shall judge of them upon seeing them; and if there be any print in sculpture, I mean relating to any of the ceremonies of the present Jubilee, or any former Ecclesiastic Shows or views of St. Peter’s, or aught else thet is curious, beyond what you know I am already master of, I leave it to you to buy for me. : S.P. Febry 5, 1699-1700. I am apt to believe Bishop Ellis* would recollect who I am, were my name mentioned to him, and probably be inclined to show respect to you, we having heretofore, though now a great while since, met where we have been very friendly together treated, at poor Mr. Pearce’s, the King’s Serjeant Surgeon, long since dead, and his family dispersed. I am greatly satisfied with what you have done about my Copy Book, and your other Commissions: for the closeness of your present ap- plication to the studies you have set yourself, you may be sure of my being fully pleased therewith, and wishing good speed to your plough, Adieu! es Febry 8, 1699-1700. As to prints, I would be glad of a few, but those very good ones only, _of any thing like Public Processions, Cavaleades, Canonizations, or any 1Dr. Gale. 7His letters to Anne Boleyn—and such letters!—preserved in the Vatican. have been printed by Hearne and others. 3He was a Roman Catholic prelate. 282 CORRESPONDENCE OF other Solemnities extraordinary, relative to the Church Antiquities, or Town of Rome; not books of sets, for those you know I have great plenty. Captain Hatton, who was my guest to-day, and your kind re- membrancer, tells me of a book of Graveings finely done, printed at Rome, as he thinks, about 60 years ago, of all the alphabets of the several languages in which there are any books extant in the Vatican Library; the same being taken from the paintings or drawings thereof inscribed upon the several columns in the same library, of which book it would greatly sort with my collection that I had a copy. I long to hear of Father Mansfield’s two volumes of St. Peter’s. S.. P. C. orig. ] S. Pepys to John Jackson. York Buildings, April 8, 1700. Nephew—Believing that, after so long silence as this, since my last to you of the 11th of March, it would be of no less satisfaction to you, than, I bless God! it is to me, to be able to give you, under my own hand, the occasion of that silence, and this welcome account of its re- moval; nevertheless, I have chosen to make use of Mr Lorrains for what follows, which is to acquaint you, that it has been my calamity, for much the greatest part of this time, to have been kept bed-rid, under an evil so rarely known, as to have had it matter of universal surprise, and with little less general opinion of its dangerousness; namely, that the cicatrice of a wound occasioned upon my cutting for the stone, without hearing any thing of it in all this time, should, after more than 40 years perfect cure, all of a sudden, without any known occasion given for it, break out again, and call for an operation for its cure, by requiring the wound that has been so long asleep to be anew laid open, and rehealed, which it has been; and, after that, a second time: but both successfully: I being, I thank God! once more on my legs; and, though my long lying in bed will cost me some time for the removal of my weakness, I am in no doubt of recovery. Though the pain and trouble occasioned by this evil have been very great, yet my Chirurgeon, Mt Charles Bernard, a man of fame in his profession, never expressing the least doubt of my cure, and not having in the whole time suffered one quarter of an hour’s sickness of stomach or elsewhere, I have not thought it of any use to interrupt you, and the business you are upon, with any imperfect tydings thereof, till now that I can report it to you as a thing past. April 12, 1700. I go on with my borrowed hand, to tell you that, I thank God! I not only continue, but improve in the recovery of my strength, which my necessary confinement, night and day, with my legs tied, in bed, had unavoidably sunk in a great degree, but without other prejudice to SAMUEL PEPYS 283 my general health. I am equally delighted with all I gather from your letters, relating to your health; your thoughtfulness all along in making the most of your time every where, for the answering every laudable end of your travels; the succinct account you give me of your em- ployment and observations, your care of the commissions you stand charged with, and the memory you carry of the measure as well as the fruit of your expense. I pray God to continue you in his good keeping, so that, at the close of your voyage, you may find cause to thank your- self for the benefits which this your conduct may reasonably entitle you to! You want, I see, some news; therefore let me be your postman, and tell you that the State has been for some time under no small con- vulsion in Parliament, where the Ministers have been, most of them, by turns roughly handled: as one instance, the King has been but two days addressed to, from the Commons, that no person, principally aimed at the Dutch Lords, not born in his dominions, should be admitted to his Council, either in England or Ireland; and yesterday he prorogued the Parliament to the 25th of next month, after having been contented to pass several Bills, which very few could persuade themselves he ever would have done, and particularly a Bill of Resumption to the public of all the forfeited estates by the late rebellion in Ireland, which he had actually distributed to an invidious value among a small number of persons he favoured, such as my Lords Portland, Galloway, Romney, Athlone, &c., and in particular Mrs Villiers, to whose share the late King’s private estate is fallen, valued at about 300,000/., or 25,0001. pr an. The old East India Company have, to the joy of all our nearest friends, obtained their great point against the new, by having got their Bill passed beyond all expectation, this Parliament confirming them in being a separate Corporation. I shall here add another Bill, by which the Parliament, upon what new provocations or considerations I know not, has proceeded to a greater degree of severity against our Roman Catholics than their predecessors have ever done, by condemning all of them, who, being bred up in that profession, do not publicly and solemnly renounce it, and take upon them the Protestant Religion, at or before the age of 18, to forfeit their whole inheritance, be it never so great, and transferring the right thereof, ipso facto, to the next a-kin; which, they say, do more than justify all the King of France does against his Protestant subjects. Another thing, indeed, there is, that looks some- what a mitigation of our present laws, by repealing so much thereof as subjected to death every Romish Priest found among us, by condemn- ing them now to perpetual imprisonment only; but this also that party take to be much worse than what they were before exposed to, because se seldom found, by the tenderness of our Juries, exacted from them. One thing more makes much talk here; the Duke of Norfolk having ob- 1 William III.’s mistress, created Lady Orkney. 284 CORRESPONDENCE OF tained at last, this Session, his desired divorce from his wife, now bare Lady Mary Mordaunt* again, from being the first Duchess of England, with liberty to marry again elsewhere. April 15, 1700. What with my sickness, and absence for some time from town, for the air at Clapham, and the unknown additions your present purchas- ings will probably make in most, if not every head of my collection of prints now before me, I foresee they will not be in a condition of being finally put together before your return. Sehr C. orig.] Extracts of Letters from John J ackson to S. Pepys. Rome, April 24, 1700. Hond Sir—We have had a particular audience of his Holiness at Monte Cavallo, headed by the Rector of the Scotch College, who harangued him on our behalf. He was in a very small room, in an armed chair, behind a table, under which came his feet, but only his right toe just appearing under his robe, his slipper of crimson velvet, with a gold cross embroidered upon if, which we that would, kissed on our knees, and, in-return, had indulgences granted ourselves and our friends for 1000 years. He was very pale, and seemed much spent, his head reclining a little, but his voice strong enough: he answered to our Father, “Non meritiamo questo.” The ceremony was soon over, and we returned, but not as we had entered, upon our knees, on which we also received his formal benediction. If next Saturday bring me nothing from you, I shall think my 15 days’ journey to Venice above 100. Joun Jackson. C. orig.] Florence, July 20, 1700. I was this morning with the famous Magliabechi? at the Palace, and am just now going to visit him at his own house. For figure and dress, he certainly never had his fellow: Sir Peter Pett was a very fop,* compared with him. J.J. Dr Tanner to Dr Charlett. May 6, 1700. Mr. Pepys has been in a very ill state of health this winter, and is now gone to Clapham for the air. 1 Daughter and heir of Henry Earl of Peterborough. She afterwards married Sir John Germaine. 2 Antonio Magliabechi, librarian to Cosmo Ill. His slovenly habits are as well known as his extraordinary talents. 3 See Diary, vol. iii., p. 162. a SAMUEL PEPYS 285) Extracts of Letters from S. Pepys to John Jackson. Clapham, May 9, 1700. I am mightily pleased with your having seen the Old Father,’ and been partaker of an audience from him, before your coming away. I am, I thank God! greatly recovered, and in a fair road towards being perfectly so. Our Great Seal is put into the hands of the two Chief Justices and the Chief Baron, till the King has further deliberated touching the disposal thereof. Sir Peter Daniel,* in this neighbourhood, is lately dead, and so, I am just now told, is Mr. Dryden, who will be buried in Chaucer’s grave, and have his monument erected by Lord Dorset and Mr. Montagu. Clapham, July 1, 1700. I thank you for your welcome list of purchases; as they are many, so are they, in all appearance, well chosen; nor had I any reason to doubt their being so, you so well knowing my gusto, and I your power of discerning. I apprehend, indeed, the amount of their cost, though I make no question of your care in that too. I wish you had met with a greater number of frontispieces, and can only recommend the making up of them more, as also of religious prints, and, in particular, of Habits, in your passage through Spain and Portugal: or if there be any thing else in graveing singularly relating to those countries, whether as to their buildings, manners, or ought else, or their only Royal sport of Juego de Toro, pray do not let it escape you, nor what Copy-books you can meet with. I am, I bless God! restored to as perfect a degree of health as at this time of day, I can ever expect, and it is a very good one. Let not my using another’s hand put you to any doubtings about it, as arising purely from the general tenderness I am come to in overworking my eyes. Clapham, August 1, 1700. Dr. Hickes shall know your want of success in his errand, and the ground of it. I am not prodigal, you know, of news, but the sur- prising death of the Duke of Gloucester, being overheated with dancing on his birthday, is, for the consequences of it, not to be omitted. His distemper turned to the small-pox, which killed him in five days. Adieu! Clapham, October 8, 1700. I have had yours of the 24th September, from Marseilles, importing the ill effects of your improvident excess upon fruit, which alone was the occasion of all that has befallen the Earl of Exeter’s? family, in the 1The Pope. _ 7 Peter Daniel, knighted in 1684, when Sheriff of London, and in the follow- ing year chosen to serve in Parliament for Southwark. SJohn Cecil, fifth Earl of Exeter, died at Issy, near Paris, on his return from Rome, zoth August, 1700. See ante, p. 286. 286 CORRESPONDENCE OF death, not only of himself and of one or two more of his train, but the endangering all the rest, my lady and her son, Mr. Cecil, having but hardly escaped. If this reaches you at Lisbon, I give you in charge to wait upon my Lady Tuke, one of the Ladies attending my once Royal Mistress, our Queen Dowager, there, a lady for whom I bear great honour: nor, if she should offer you the honour of kissing the Queen’s hand, would I have you to omit, if Lady Tuke thinks it proper, the presenting her Majesty, in most humble manner, with my profoundest duty, as becomes a most faithful subject. Let my Lady Tuke also know, that her and my good old friends, Mr. Evelyn and his lady, did me, within these ten days, the honour of coming over to me hither from Wootton, with their whole family of children, children-in-law, and grand-children, and dined with me, when her Ladyship’s health was not forgotten. York Buildings, February 3, 1700-1. This serves only to tell you that I am well, and all your friends here, and all full of expectations of you, which God grant a happy as well as a speedy issue to! There is a great and sudden fall of all our great Stocks; I mean that of the Bank and both our East-India Company’s; put it must take up more time to fit ourselves for declaring war, if that be the vent of it, than will, I hope, be needful for your passage hither; and so committing you to God’s protection, I remain, yours, &c., S. Ps C. orig. | John Evelyn to S. Pepys. Dover Street, May 10, 1700. . Sir—I do most heartily congratulate the improvement of your health, since your change of air; which acceptable news your servant brought us this morning, and returns to you with our prayers and wishes for the happy progress and full restitution of it. In the mean time, I take this opportunity of acquainting you that a worthy correspondent of mine, not unknown to you, Mr Nicholson, Archdeacon of Carlisle, being, it seems, about a work of which he has occasion to mention some affairs relating to the Scots, and, hearing that you are indisposed, writes thus to me:—“I am troubled to hear of Mr. Pepys’s indisposition. I heartily wish his recovery, and the continuance of a restored health. When I was an attendant on Mr Secr Williamson,’ above 20 years ago, I often waited on him at his house in Westminster; but I was then, as I still am, too inconsiderable to be remembered by him. 1 Afterwards, in. 1702, Bishop of Carlisle, and in 1718, Bish of Derry, and in 1727, Archbishop of Cashel; author of the well-known and useful Historical Libraries. Sir Joseph Williamson. ————— SAMUEL PEPYS. 287 Besides an account of the Author, if known, of his MS. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, I very much desire to know whether there be any valuable matters relating to the History of Scotland amongst Sir R. Maitland’s' Collection of Scottish Poems? I observe that, in the same volume with Balfour’s Pratique, or Reports, as we call them, he has a MS. of the old Sea Laws of Scotland; I would beg to be informed, whether this last Treatise is the same with the Leges Portuwum, which, though quoted by Sir John Skene under that Latin title, is written in the Scottish language, and is only a list of the customs of goods im- ported and exported. If I may, through your kind intercession, have the favour of transcribing anything to my purpose out of his library, I have a young kinsman, clerk to Mt Musgrave of the Tower, who will wait on him to that purpose.” This, Sir, is Mt Archdeacon’s request, which I should, indeed, have communicated to you when I was lately to kiss your hands; but so was I transported with seeing you in so hopeful and fair a way of recovery, as it quite put this and all other things out of my thoughts. I am now, God willing, going about the middle of next week for a summer’s residence at’ Wotton,? where I have enough to do with a de- cayed and ruinous dwelling, but where yet my friends, or at least their letters, will find me: and if I suspend my answer to Mr Nicholson till you are at perfect leisure to enable me what to write, without giving you the least disturbance, I am sure he will be highly satisfied. Joun EveELyn. C. orig.] Henry, second Earl of Clarendon, to S. Pepys. July Ist, 1700. Sir—Your’s of the 24th past was doubly welcome, in bringing me the good news of the improvement of your health, which I am as much concerned in, and wish as well to, as any friend you have. You had not been thus long without my letters, but I thought they might be troublesome, not being able to fill them with any thing diverting; and I contented myself with enquiring after your health at your own house. Now my law affairs are a little over for the present, I intend very speedily to make you a visit. I am extremely obliged to your Nephew for remembering so +Sir Richard Maitland, of Lethington, a collector and preserver of_ Scotch Poetry, born in 1496, ob. 1586. There are two documents in the Pepysian Library, entitled “ The Maitland MSS”; one in folio, containing 366 pages, the other MS. in 4to, consisting of 160 pages, written by Mary Maitland, third daughter of Sir Richard. This appears from her name being inscribed twice on the page where the title should have stood, once in Italian capitals, ‘‘ Marie Maitland,” 1586. This MS. is exquisitely written in a_ great variety of foreign hands, and most of it as legible _as the largest print. Both volumes were published by John Pinkerton in 1786. MHartshorne’s Book Rarities of Cambridge, p. 227, which gives the best printed account of the Pepysian Collection. ?To which he had recently succeeded, and where he passed the remainder of his life. See Evelyn’s Diary, i4th Jan., 1699-1700. 288 CORRESPONDENCE OF small an affair as the lettice seeds, of which my wife is very proud. I hope your being thus long at Clapham, for I think you were never so long in the country before, since you knew the world, will make you relish the pleasure of a garden, which will be no burthen to your other perfections. As to your inquiry concerning the Second Sight, and of what happened to me in reference to my first wife upon that occasion, I will tell the story to yourself when I see you, and in the mean time to Dr Smith: and if either of you think it worth notice, I will put it into writing as exactly as I can. I suppose it will be no news to tell you of my Lord Shrewsbury’s once more quitting his em- ployment at Court, and that the Lord Chamberlain’s place is conferred on my Lord Jersey. Who will be Secretary of State in his room is not yet determined: my Lord Lexington and Mr Hill of the Treasury, are both spoken of; but it is said that office will not be filled till the King returns from Holland, so that Mr Secretary Vernon will be sole Secre- tary for some time; and some are of opinion that, after the King re- turns, Mr Blathwayt! may be the man: but all this is only imagination; perhaps after all, this office may be disposed of before the King goes. My Lord Romney you see now possessed of three great places, which, in your time and mine, were thought sufficient stations for three con- siderable men: but, according to the old Proverb, Kissing goes by favour. It can be no secret to you, that the proposals for farming the Revenue of Excise are all rejected, and that branch put under the management of a new Commission, in which there are some very able men; and your neighbour, Mr Tollett, I am told, is Secretary to that Commission, which I am very glad of, for he is both an honest and very able man. I think this letter is become as tedious as my visits used to be, and there- fore I will conclude, with assuring you that I am, with all possible esteem, Sir, Your most affectionate and very humble Servant, CLARENDON. C. orig. ] John Evelyn to S. Pepys. Wotton, July 22, 1700. I could no longer suffer this old servant of mine to pass and repass so near Clapham without a particular account of your health and all your happy family. You will now enquire what I do here? Why, as the patriarchs of old, I pass the day in the fields, among horses and oxen, sheep, cows, bulls, and sows, et cetera pecora campi. We have, thank God! finished our hay harvest prosperously. I am looking after my 1Who had before been Secretary to William. His daughter and_ heiress married Sir Robert Southwell, who thus became ossessed of King’s Weston, and whose grandson succeeded to the title of Lord de Clifford. SAMUEL PEPYS 289 hinds, providing carriage and tackle against reaping time and sowing. What shall I say more? Venio ad voluptates agricolarum, which Cicero, you know, reckons amongst the most becoming diversions of old age; and so I render it. This without:—now within doors, never was any matron more busy than my wife, disposing of our plain coun- try furniture for a naked old extravagant house, suitable to our em- ployments. She has a dairy, and distaffs, for lac, linum, et lanam, and is become a very Sabine. But can you thus hold out? will my friend say; is philosophy, Gresham College, and the example of Mr Pepys, and agreeable conversation of York Buildings, quite forgotten and aban- doned? No, no! WNaturam expellas furcé tamen usque recurret.t Know I have been ranging of no fewer than 30 large cases of books, destined for a competent standing library, during 4 or 5 days wholly destitute of my young coadjutor, who, upon some pretence of being much engaged in the Mathematics, and desiring he may continue his course at Oxford till the beginning of August, I have wholly left it to him. You will now suspect something by this disordered hand; truly I was too happy in these little domestic affairs, when, on the sudden, as I was about my books in the library, I found myself sorely attacked with a shivering, followed by a feverish indisposition, and a strangury, so as to have kept, not my chamber only, but my bed, till very lately, and with just so much strength as to scribble these lines to you. For the rest, I give God thanks for this gracious warning, my great age calling upon me sarcinam componere every day expecting it, who have still enjoyed a wonderful course of bodily health for 40 years. And now to give you some further account of your favourite, I will make you part of what he wrote from Oxon., though it come somewhat late, as to what he acquaints me of the most unhappy catastrophe of that excellent poet and philosopher, Mr Creech. June 17. “Quod de Comitiis Oxon. in penultima scribis epistola, dubiam, ante opinionem negativa Convocationis suffragia jam confirmarunt. Inex- pectatum prorsus, et triste quiddam nuper hic evenit. Clarissimus ille Creech, Coll. Omnium Animarum Socius, sibi ipsi mortem conscivit. Cum enim paucis abfuisset diebus, suspensus tandem repertus est, quibus autem de causis hoc in se commisit nondum liquet. Jam ut de studiis Academicis aliquid dicam, Varenii Geographiam Universalem eo sub nomine physice considerationis multa complectentem, tutor legit, et quotidie in physicas questiones disputamus. In Mathem. Geometriam practicam percurri, quod eo diutius detinuit quod undecimum et duo- decimum Euclidis librum non prius didiceram. Optica proximé discenda venit, et reliqua ad visionem pertinentia. Mathematicum nuper erat zertamen in nostro Collegio, Doctore Gregore, Professore Judice, et 1 Horat. Epist., lib. i., to. VOL. IV. ou 290 CORRESPONDENCE OF viginti solidis sex prestantissimis premio proposito, unum mihi adjudicatum est, quod in librum Mathemat. pro Bibliothecé donandum impendere statui ne premii magis gratid quam ut progressum ostenderem, certasse videar. Vale!” And, with much ado, I have held out thus far. Your prayers I need not beg, you are so charitable. I beseech you to bear with the blots and impertinences of this, from : Your most faithfully devoted Servant, J. EvEtyn. C.] S. Pepys to John Evelyn. Clapham, August 7, 1700. I have no herds to mind, nor will my Doctor allow me any books here. What, then, will you say, too, are you doing? Why, truly, nothing that will bear naming, and yet I am not, I think, idle; for who can, that has so much of past and to come to think on, as I haye? And thinking, I take it, is working, though many forms beneath what my Lady and you are doing. But pray remember what o'clock it is with you and me; and be not now, by overstirring, too bold with your present complaint, any more than I dare be with mine, which, too, has been no less kind in giving me my warning, than the other to you, and to neither of us, I hope, and, through God’s mercy, dare say, either unlooked for or unwelcome. I wish, nevertheless, that I were able to administer any thing towards the lengthening that precious rest of life which God has thus long blessed you, and, in you, mankind, with; but I have always been too little regardful of my own health, to be a prescriber to others. I cannot give myself the scope I otherwise should in talking now to you at this distance, on account of the care extraordinary I am now under from Mrs. Skinner’s being suddenly fallen very ill; but ere long I may possibly venture at entertaining you with something from my young man in exchange—I don’t say in payment, for the pleasure you gratify me with from yours, whom I pray God to bless with continuing but what he is! and I’ll ask no more for him. S. P. C. orig. ] Dr. Charlett to S. Pepys. Southampton Street, Sept. 9, 1700, Honoured Sir—I am now preparing to leave London, with as much appetite to see Mr. Pepys and ask him several questions as if I had never seen him at all. The enclosed* is a challenge to meet half way, 1 Probably addressed te Dr, Wallis. SAMUEL PEPYS 291 and I wish I could bring him quite hither to see you, as I know he much desires. As to the picture you so often mention, and this letter takes notice of, it is possible the person whom you design for the painter may, once in a quarter of a long vacation, have leisure and inclination to visit Oxford, especially on so public an occasion, that would redound much to his honor and fame, and take up so little time. I am going to meet Dr Radcliff in the City at Dinner at Mr. Hartwell’s, being first to visit the East India rarities, where we shall be sure to remember you. The Duke of Bedford* died on Saturday night, having been in his garden that morning. Dr Radcliff was prevailed with to visit him: when he came, a vomit was prepared for the Duke; the Dr said, he knew what would kill him, but not what would save him, so the vomit was hindered. The Dr advised blisters, as the only expedient to prolong his life a few days; but that being neglected, the hydropic humours, as the Dr foretold, upon the first return on his vitals of the stomach, or head, killed him in a moment. I am, &c., A, CHap.ert, C.] S. Pepys to Captain Hatton. Clapham Sept. 19, 1700. Honoured Sir—I have been making several country excursions, such as to Windsor, Hampton Court, Epsom, Richmond, and Streatham Wells, with other places in our neighbourhood, to the preventing me in’ the more timely return I ought otherwise to have made for the favour of yours of the 3lst of the last month. It is a mighty pleasure to me, that my Nephew has in any measure, done what his Uncle would be glad to do in any commission you should honour him with. I heartily condole your long uneasiness and confinement, but with the reserve of no less satisfaction in the success you give me hopes of your receiy- ing from the care and knowledge of our learned friends, Dr. Sloane? and Mr. Barnard, which I pray God perfect. Your most obedient Servant, S. P. C. orig. ] A. Charleti to S. Pepys. Univ. Coll. Oxon, October 6, 1700. Most honoured Sir—I received your most obliging letter at Soundesse, a great Manor of John Wallis, Esqre, in the woods next Nettlebed; 1 William, fifth Earl, and first Duke of Bedford, died 7th September, 1700. 2 Sir Hans Sloane. v2 292 CORRESPONDENCE OF and communicating the contents to him, he said, that for the further encouragement of Sir Godfrey Kneller, he would be willing to be at the charges of having his father’s, his own, his son, and two daughters, viz., five heads in one piece, as the Dean of Christ Church should direct. I am just now informed that Sir Godfrey Kneller has drawn our Chancellor, the Duke of Ormond, at full length, which the Duke has some thoughts of bringing down himself; and it is very probable Sir Godfrey may come with His Grace, he having done so only for his pleasure twice or thrice within these three years. I must also add, that Dr Wallis was a little out of order last night, though I fear we shall have much ado to hinder him this morning from Church, the Earl of Rochester being also to be there, to whom I then read your most obliging inclinations. He seemed, to say the truth, very fond and pleased with the thoughts of having his picture presented to the University by your hands; Mr Pepys and the late Lord Charles Somerset being the two persons most in his honor and estimation. I will not be positive, but am apt to believe that Sir Godfrey Kneller may have more business, if he pleases; and the last time he was with me he seemed desirous to have some of his Art visible in the Gallery. He is Doctor of Laws with us. It is possible a decent application to Dr Radcliffe might persuade him to give the picture of King Alfred, the founder of his old College, Dr Aldrich having long since designed a head for him. I am very much in arrears to you for a thousand civilities, which I have time only now to acknowledge to be due from, Sir, your obedient Servant, A. CHar.ett. A book of verses is ordered for you. My very humble service to Mt Hewer. C. orig. | Paul Lorrain* to S. Pepys. York ‘Buildings, Saturday Night, October 12, 1700. May it please your Honour—Though no other motive than the favour of your Honour’s immediate commands to me, which I re- ceived in your letter of yesterday, did engage me to write, yet I could not, nor think I should, forbear writing, as with leave I now do, in humble acknowledgment of the honour thus conferred upon me; but when I perceive therein some performances of mine to come short of your expectations, I find myself under a double obligation—to en- + Paul Lorrain, employed at this time in copying MSS. for Pepys, and making Catalogues of his Books and Prints, had dedicated to him a translation of Mauret’s Funeral Rites, published in 1682. He also wrote several Tracts and Stites and is stated in Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica to have been Ordinary of ewgate. SAMUEL PEPYS 293 deavour the giving your Honour satisfaction, and a just account of myself in what concerns the service you are pleased to employ me in here; and this, that I may not presume upon giving you too much trouble, I shall thus do in few words. Your Honour required to know how far I was advanced in the transcribing of the Appendix I am now at work upon, and I gave an answer accordingly. But I find, by your Honour’s expecting a further progress, that you did not take notice that much time has been spent by me in perusing, improving, and preparing for a fair transcription not only the several chapters of this Appendix already written, but those that yet remain unwritten fair; among which that also of Tailles Douces has been under my consideration and adjustment, though it has taken up the least of my time, because I meant no great alteration or variation in it. But many of the others have cost me much applica- tion and labour; as I doubt not but when the work is once finished, and comes under your Honour’s examination, you will find it to be so: and that, laying aside the late avocations occasioned by the repairing of your house here, no time has been, as your Honour may rest assured none shall willingly be, lost in your service by me; who, with profound respect, beg leave to subscribe myself, May it please your Honour, your Honour’s most Humble and most obedt Servt, and daily Orator, Pav Lorratn. A bookseller, one Mr. Freeman, over against the Temple Gate in Fleet Street, tells me he can at any time procure, either bound or in quires, the book newly published in relation to the late Karl of Clarendon. The Dean of York (D*’ Gale) to S. Pepys. York, Dec. 9, 1700. My dear Friend—I have yours of the 11th of November, together with a book: for both which I give my hearty thanks. The book was sent me by the very learned Huetius, Bishop of Avranches; it is his Dissertations on the Terrestrial Paradise,1 and the Navigations of Solomon. He left it with my old friend Mabillon, and he transmitted it. To him I shall shortly write. Sure I am, that no friend of mine less approves my stay at York than I do. Damno mea vota. But such is the folly of mankind: we often desire what shortly we dislike. I am here less able to corre- spond or study than I was at St. Paul’s. But enough of complaints, which none will pity. I am glad that your health, in that sweet recess, _ ? Huet places Paradise on the banks of the Shat-el-Arab, about Baara, below the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates. 294 CORRESPONDENCE OF is bettered; God prolong it! and grant that I may be so happy as to kiss your hand next Spring. My son Sam (apprentice at the Naked Boy at St. Paul’s Churchyard) often calls at my house, to inform me of your welfare. I hope my cousin Jackson is returned safe. I pray you recommend my best services to Mt Hewer, Mrs Skinner, and all friends. I am, dear Sir, your ever obliged Friend and humble Servant, Tuomas GALE. —C. orig.] Dr Charlett to S. Pepys. Univ. Coll. Oxon, Febry 18, 1700-1. Hond Sir—I have been very long in debt to you for a most obliging letter, which I now only acknowledge, without pretending to payment, by the hands of my good friend Mr. Tanner,’ who is now leaving us, being nominated by my Lord Bishop of Norwich Chancellor of his diocese. Before this preferment was known, he had the satisfaction to see the respects of the University, by an offer made to him from the best and most considerable part of the University, of the office of Public Registrar, a place of great trust and credit, as Mt Hudson has the custody of the Bodleian Library upon the resignation of Dr Hyde. I am sure this news will be acceptable to so great a lover of the public good, not only for your personal affection, but for the pleasure you take in seeing so generous and public a spirit prevailing here to postpone private interests in favour of eminent worth and abilities. Mr Tanner can best tell how very sensible I am of the numerous long train of civilities I receive from Mt Pepys, and with what respect and delight Dr Wallis, Dt Gregory, and several others unknown to you, acknowledge your patronage and affection to the Universities; which will be ever too hard for their enemies, as long as they can preserve their credit with such judges as yourself, though herein I am sure you show more of the friend altogether, in pardoning the addresses of, Sir, your, &c., Ar. CHARLETT. C. orig. ] John Jackson to S. Pepys. Madrid, Febry 24, 1700-1. Hond Sir—Long looked for come at last. On Friday the 18th, about 4 in the afternoon, Felipe Vto made his entry here; not with much pomp, but a most surprising concourse of coaches and people. For ~ several miles, I might say leagues, out of town, the road was so — 1Thomas Tanner, afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph. ——— SAMUEL PEPYS 295 thronged, that his Mat’ was scarce able to make his way through, hav- ing, according to the Spanish manner, no guards before his coach, but only Magistrates with their white wands. He designed to have mounted on horseback at some distance from the town, as was generally ex- pected, but seeing the crowd and dust he had to encounter with, very prudently waved it, though to the disappointment of abundance that perhaps would have staid at home; and particularly the ladies, who were yery numerous, and the richest in clothes and jewels I ever saw. As a sad proof of the multitudes I speak of, no less than 40 men, women, and children, were trod under foot and killed outright, and above 100 are now said to be languishing under their bruises, and dying daily. Diverse of the dead, I saw, myself, lying heads and tails in a little neighbouring Chapel, where they were put till known and carried away; among the rest were a Friar and a priest. I believe the like accident has not been heard of, nor would it cost so many lives to take the very town of Madrid. The occasion is somewhat differently told, but the most received account is this: That the officers of the Customs, suspecting the people to take adyantage of this confusion for running of goods so soon as the king was entered, shut the gates upon them; and afterwards open- ing them again on a sudden, the foremost fell, and upon them the next, and so on, to the number I have mentioned at least, and were immediately smothered without redress. Certain it is, that the mob had this notion of it; for the same evening they came and plundered the Guards’ Lodge, burnt all their Registers before their door, and then set fire to the house itself; but it went no further than the smoking the walls a little, and damaging a window. The next morning, also, they assembled again, and we were apprehensive of the consequences, ‘but by noon they drew quietly off without doing more: and now, for their satisfaction, I am told the Guardas have been put in prison, and the King has granted pensions to those poor families who suffered by this disaster. His Maty went directly to the Atocha’ to sing Te Deum, and thence to his Palace of the Retiro, where in the evening he was en- tertained with fireworks, prepared in the outermost court for the oc- easion, and performed at least as well as ours upon the Peace. The rockets, and other smaller fires, were in abundance, and the principal part which concluded the whole, was an engagement between a Casile and 4 Men-of-War, which were contrived to move, and though they played their parts very well, were at last overcome. At the same time there were also illuminations quite through the town, and these continued 3 nights together. Whoever has seen the Spaniards this day only, would have con- ' eluded them a very drunken people, having taken their cups very 2A Dominican monastery at Madrid. 296 CORRESPONDENCE OF freely, and laid aside their gravity. They were generally pleased with the person of the King, at first sight; but, upon putting on the golilla, with his whole Court, on Sunday last, he has entirely won their hearts: he hunts and shoots every day, and by this means, and a free admis- sion to his Court, is already become very well known to his people. What is to be excepted against in his entry is, their coming in no parade or order: His Maty in a filthy old coach of the late King’s, with- out guards; his better sort of attendants, some on horseback, and some in coaches, at half-an-hour’s distance from one another; and diverse of the inferior sort attending the baggage, in so very ragged clothes as exposed them extremely to the scorn of the Spaniards. But this, indeed, was not the entry we have all along talked of; that will not be till after Lent, and some say till May, for which triumphal arches are preparing, and bulls feeding, with other things, which our friends would make us believe are worth staying for; but I cannot— at least, if you should think them so, might return from Lisbon in time enough to see them. I had been gone from hence ere this, had my companion used the same diligence with myself, and I fear it will be Sunday before we set out for Seville. The change of Ministers here I shall not trouble you with, you not being acquainted with the names on either side. The Cardinal is the Do-all. The Spaniards expect war, and wait only for some notice of the countenance of our new Parlia- ment before they speak more plainly. I am, &c., J. JACKSON. Humfrey Wanley to Dr Charlett. March 8, 1700-1. I forecasted my business so, that I dined to-day with Mr. Isted at Mr. Pepys’s, who entertained us with that obliging kindness which en- gages all that he converses with into a love and respect for his person, which time that destroys other things, does digest into a habit, and renders it so perfect that it generally lasts as long as a man’s life. Of this there has been many examples; several of Mr. Pepys’s friends continuing so, notwithstanding all accidents, till death; and the rest © are likely to do the same. This I attribute to his judgment in men and things, in placing his friendships, and showing his countenance 2 on those only whose merit gave them some pretensions thereunto. Among these Mr. Isted is always distinguished so. 1 A little band, worn in Spain, sticking out under the chin like a ruff,—Pineda’s Spanish Dictionary. - SAMUEL PEPYS 297 C. orig. ] Dr Wallis to S. Pepys. Oxford, Sept. 24, 1701. Sir—You have been pleased to put an honour upon me which I could not deserve, nor did expect—to send so worthy an artist as Sir Godfrey Kneller, from London to Oxford, to take my picture at length, and put the charge of it to your own account; I wish it may be to your con- tent. It had been more agreeable to my circumstances, if you had commanded my attendance to wait on you at London; which I should have readily obeyed, if my age would permit it. Till I was past four- score years of age, I could pretty well bear up under the weight of these years; but, since that time, it hath been too late to dissemble my being an old man. My sight, my hearing, my strength, are not as they were wont to be. Then I have no cause to complain of God’s providence, through whose goodness I do yet enjoy as much of ease and health as I can reasonably expect at these years; and, though you, and some other friends, are pleased to think me not quite unserviceable, yet I must not so far flatter myself as not to think but that it doth better become me to conceal the infirmities of age, than to expose them. I have endeavoured to express to Sir Godfrey the sense I have of your undeserved favour, by treating him with the respect due to a person of his quality; and, if I have been therein defective, I desire it may be imputed to the absence of my daughter, who is my house- keeper, but chanced to be now out of town; whereby, I was obliged to depend on servants. I know not what to return for your great kindness, but the humble thanks of, Sir, Yours, &c., Joun Watts. C. orig. ] S. Pepys to John Evelyn. Clapham, Dec. 4, 1701. Dearest Sir—Dover Street at the top, and J. Evelyn at the bottom, had alone been a sight equal in the pleasure of it, to all I have had before me in my two or three months’ by-work of sorting and bind- ing together my Nephew’s Roman marketings; and yet I dare predict, that even you will not think two hours thrown away in overlooking them, whenever a kindlier season shall justify my inviting you to it. What shall I say to the glorious matter contained in your last? Why, truly, it looks like a seraphic salutation from one already entered into the regions you talk of, and who has sent me this for a viaticum towards my speeding thither after him; which, as the world now is, and you have so justly described, bereft as I now am of the very uppermost of my wonted felicities here, in your conversation, and that 72 298 CORRESPONDENCE OF of a very few virtuous friends, I should in very good faith rather obey you in by leading, than staying to follow you. I am, for public good’s sake, as sorry as you for your friend’s withdrawing,’ wishing only that I could as easily satisfy myself how he ever came in, as why ~ he now goes out. I fully agree with your excellent Grandson, in his thinking it no longer worth while staying at Oxford. I should not fear the hazard of sending him abroad for four or five months, through Holland and Flanders to Paris—a tour that I, by your instructions, when time was, and with my wife, dispatched in two, to a degree of satis- faction and usefulness that has stuck to me through the whole of my life since. Though my Nephew Jackson be hardly yet at home after near a two-years’ tour, I shall struggle hard to give him leisure, next — summer, to finish his travels in Holland, for the sake of many particu- larities to be seen there at this juncture never to be met with together in any age past; a sight, in one word, that I should hardly think too late even for myself to covet, had I you to wait on thither; for I am, in spite of this distance, with inseparable respect, My ever honoured Mr. Evelyn, Your most affectionately faithful and obedient Servant, S. P. C. orig. | Sir Godfrey Kneller to S. Pepys. . March 24, 1701-2. Sir—I sent a letter written by Dt Wallis when I came from Oxford, | in which, I suppose, he acknowledged your favour for him; and I did . acquaint you then of what I had done, of which you approved in your ) letter to me, and were very much pleased and delighted with what I had done, by order from you, of Dr Charlett’s message; which letter of your’s made me proceed and finish that picture: and I will send a copy of the letter to show at any time, if required, and hope I have done my part, believing Dr Charlett as a Divine, and knowing you an entire gentleman, of a noble and generous mind, or else I should hardly have left my home and business for Oxford’s conversation sake; and — wish you had given me any one hint in your letter of disliking what I - had then done, and I would have kept the face, as I only then had done, © for myself, without putting any figure, as I have done all myself to it, | ot had any more loss of time, which I perceive, in your present letter, © you wonder at, and shall leave it to what you think fit, of which | nobody can be judge like yourself. And I can show I never did a- better picture, nor so good a one, in my life, which is the opinion of all as has seen it; and which I have done merely for the respect I have 4 4Lord Godolphin had just retired from the head of the Treasury. ee SAMUEL PEPYS 299 for your person, sense, and reputation, and for the love of so great a man as Dr Wallis, as you know, and besides being recommended by a message from you of Dr Charlett, a Head in Oxford, which, if all be rightly considered, I hope to have no blame on either account, but to be thanked, and allowed to own myself, Sir, Your obedient and faithful humble Servant, G. Knewirr. C.] S. Pepys to Sir Godfrey Kneller. Clapham, March 24, 1701-2. For God’s sake, my old friend, look once more over my letter of yesterday, and tell me what one word there is in it that should occasion any one syllable of what my man brings me from you this morning in answer to it. I said, indeed, but without the least shadow of dis- Satisfaction, much less relating to you; that I was surprised at the manner of our learned friend’s proceeding with me upon this picture: and I dare take upon me the prophesying, and so will you, too, when you come to know why; which I told you yesterday you should soon do, and had now done, had you been pleased but by two words to satisfy me in what your telling me of the picture’s being very much expected at Oxford, led me to ask of you; as I therefore hereby again do: remain- ing, with the same thankfulness I first expressed to you upon Dr. Wallis’s notice of your respect shown me on this occasion, Sir, Your truly obliged and most humble Servant, S. Pepys. C. orig. | Sir Godfrey Kneller to S. Pepys. March 25, 1702. Sir—I ask your pardon for misapprehending; and, as to the picture being desired, I mean no more but that several from Oxford have only wished to see such a picture in their Gallery; where Dr Aldrich intends to get more, he hopes, and to make it fine, as you may imagine, with great and learned men—their pictures in full length: which is all I might have mentioned, for none of them are so ill bred for to press such a present from you, but expect your leisure, and so will I; for I know no one living knows better, nor can judge truer of manners, and what is truly civil, than yourself on all occasions: and I hope you 300 CORRESPONDENCE OF do believe none shall observe your command, nor be more sincere and real than I am, and ever must be, Sir, Your obedient and most obliged humble Servant, G: Kwewwer. C.] S. Pepys to Sir Godfrey Kneller. Clapham, March 26, 1702. Sir—I know not how better to become even with you for the kind satisfaction you have been at the trouble of giving me, than by trying to give you the like, in reference to my late sending you the same ques- tion twice, that could not but look impertinent enough on my part to have asked you once; and pray take it as follows. I have long, with great pleasure, determined, and no less frequently declared it to my friend Dr. Charlett, upon providing as far as I could by your hand, towards immortalizing the memory of the person, for his fame can never die, of that great man, and my most honoured friend, Dr. Wallis, to be lodged as an humble present of mine, though ~ a Cambridge man, to my dear Aunt, the University of Oxford. Towards — this, I have been long consulting with Dr. Charlett, and not without — hopes of getting this Rev. Gentleman once more up to town; and since, — through his age, those hopes have sunk, I have flattered myself with others, namely, of being able, some time or other, in a Vacation, to pre- vail with my friend Sir Godfrey Kneller, to make a little country — excursion for me, and do it upon the place; with a design, indeed, of . waiting on you myself thither. But so it has fallen out that, by — an unexpected return of an old evil, the Stone, I have been ever — since under a continued incapacity, for these two years and more, of stirring out of doors, and at length was forced for life, as Dr. Charlett knows, to be brought hither where I still am, and am likely to be; but with some hopes given me by Mr. Hewer, and some other of our friends, the last year, of seeing you here: and so this matter has stood, till Dr. Wallis, by your own hand, gave me from Oxford a very first word of my having, as he words it, sent you down thither, and the work’s being done. Now, as much satisfied as I must again and again own I am, with the extraordinary instance of respect I have received from you in it, I submit it to you to judge of the reasonableness or unreasonableness of my surprise, at the manner of my friend’s proceed- ing with me therein, when I have told you, that Dr. Charlett did me the favour of a double visit here about the month of August last, with promise of a third, and bringing Dr. Aldrich with him, before his return to Oxford; which I greatly expected, in order to the considering of some way, under my present distance from town, how to supply it to a SAMUEL PEPYS 301 you in reference to this matter: instead of which, I have not only never heard one word of or from him to this day, but without the least mention, either of your name or any thing at all of the picture, at either of his fore-mentioned visits, you have been pleased to tell me, to my no small confusion, for I swear it still looks like a dream to me, of his message from me to you, and what you have been doing upon it; but pray take it along with you, that I say it is no unpleasing dream to me, but what I shall venture very hard, as soon as the weather shall favour it, to come by chair, and pay you my real thanks for. Remaining, your ever most affectionate and most humble Servant, SamvuE. Pepys. C. orig. | Dr Smith* to S. Pepys. London, April 16, 1702. Honoured Sir—Upon my return to London, on Sunday morning last, out of Huntingdonshire, where I had been to perform the last office of my function, as well as of friendship, to the excellently good Lady Cotton,? I met with the sorrowful news of the death of my learned friend, the Reverend Dr Gale,* but I cannot yet learn the particulars of this his last and fatal sickness. I doubt not but that his Sons will take all possible care of his papers, and especially of those which relate to the illustrating Camden’s Britannia, which he has formerly shown me, and publish in convenient time, to the honour of their Father’s memory, and to the advancing of learning; which, together with those learned books he himself published in his life-time, will render him more illustrious to posterity, than any monument, be it never so stately, for his quality and character, they can erect in York minster. About three weeks since, Sir R. Dutton* was struck with the dead- palsy on his left side: he has recovered the motion, tho’ not the use of his hand and foot: and we hope that, upon settled, fair, and warm, weather, he may be restored to his former vigour, if yet his great age, he being now upon the brink to complete fourscore, may be supposed to permit it. *Thomas Smith, S.T.P., a learned Writer and Divine, was born in London, wa and died there 1710. For a list of his numerous works, see Watt’s ibliotheca Britannica. He had published a Catalogue of the Cottonian MSS., and a Life of Sir Robert Cotton, which explains Pepys’s application to him in behalf of Wanley, p. 260, ante. ? Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Honywood, of_Mark’s Hall, Essex, 2d wife of Sir John Cotton, Bart. She died at Cotton House, 3d of April, 1702, and was buried in Connington Church. 8The Dean of York. : *Sir Ralph Dutton of Shirbourne, in Gloucestershire, which county he repre- sented in Parliament. He was created a Baronet, 22d July, 1678; but the honour became extinct on the death of his son in 1746. 302 CORRESPONDENCE OF The worser sort of Fanaticks, not to say the whole herd of them, begin to be dissatisfied with the new Queen, and pray for her conversion, as if she were of the religion of the King her father; and herein they are followed by the Scotch Presbyterians: and we have here others, too, of greater quality and interest, who are of no religion, and mere Republicans, apt enough to foment discontents and jealousys among the people; which, if not prevented, will render the Regal Government, for Monarchy admits of no difference or distinction of sex, very uneasy at home: and, without pretending to any insight into politics, but what common natural sagacity and foresight suggest to every consider- ing man, it is presumed, that to obviate such ill designs, necessity of State, which is Ratio ultima Regum, requiring it, there will be a speedy alteration made among the Lord Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants, Justices of Peace and Magistrates of Corporations, throughout all England. But this will depend upon the conduct of a wise Ministry, a regulated Council, well-chosen Officers, whether of Justice in West- minster Hall, or in the Army and Navy, and in other great places of trust: otherwise we poor men, who are likely to receive little or no benefit by the late change, cannot but fear, out of a principle of true ‘love to our country, that some disorders and disturbances may be attempted, which may be of ill consequence to the peace and happiness of it. These are our melancholy reflections; but the more sanguine men of the complying Clergy of this Church, who glory that they have got a daughter of King James the Second on the Throne, whom they promised to defend against the pretended Prince of Wales, as if this, setting aside the last consideration, would atone for their horrible defection for these last thirteen years, set before their eyes the glories and felicities of Queen Elizabeth’s long reign, as if it were in all things to be the just and perfect model of the present. To bring others, who have. hitherto preserved their faith and their principles entire and inviolate, into the same condemnation with themselves, they are propagating scandalous, lying, villainous stories, and reflections upon the honour, virtue, and innocence of King James and his Queen, in order to make several non-jurors believe that the Prince of Wales, the abjuring of whom is with them the great difficulty they cannot so easily and readily get over, is not their Son, but a counterfeit and mere supposititious child. And this is done especially by one of the Episcopal Order, who is outrageously, as after his demure way, to tell such as consult him that, upon his salvation, he believes the whole transaction of that affai to be mere juggle and imposture. But when I shall acquaint you at large with the weakness and falseness of his pretended proofs and allega- tions, grounded on hearsay, and stories horribly perverted, not onl against the truth of fact which was so notorious, and so well attest by persons of untainted and unquestionable honour and honesty, them 4 eee SAMUEL PEPYS 303 present, but even almost against the very possibility of things, you will wonder how a man of his learning, great age, and gravity, can be so infatuated, as first to believe, and then, with such a semblance of piety and religion, labour to make others believe such wicked and diabolical calumnies. But these things are better, and with greater satisfaction, discoursed of than written: and, therefore, I will defer the detail of them till I wait upon you: which neither my own impatience and in- clination, nor my readiness to gratify Mt Cherry,’ who is very ambitious of kissing your hands, will suffer me to defer too long. After the chagrin which the contents of this long tedious letter may cast you in to, I have, to divert you, and restore you to your natural good humour, enclosed a paper, containing an Epitaph upon the late high and mighty Dutch Hero, as also some few heroic lines upon Sorrell ;* which, after a single reading, I presume you will throw into the fire. Yours, &c., Tomas SMITH. Sir, I desire that my humble services may be given to my honoured friends, Madame Skinner and Mr Jackson. This being the first rude and hasty draught of my letter, you will be the more easily inclined to pardon the blottings and interlinings in it. C. orig. } Dr Charlett to S. Pepys. University College, May 14, 1702. Most Honoured Sir—By order of the Vice-Chancellor, I left a Book of Verses for you at Mr Hatton’s, being very sorry I had no time to present it with my own hands. I was also very sorry I could not see the picture of Dr Wallis, which is much commended: I hope, Sir, it has your approbation. The original being lately ill, will make the picture more valuable, and the Dr himself talks very fondly of it. I had many services from Dr Wallis and others to give you, but none more due or sincere than from, Sir, Yours, &c., A. CHaRLETT. C. orig. ] Sir Godfrey Kneller to S. Pepys. July 29, 1702. Sir—I understand you have a frame a making for that picture, which I desire to see put on at my house, and all packed together in a case safe; for I intend to send my servant with it to Oxford, for to place it, +Francis Cherry, of Shottisbrooke, Berks, ob. 1713. 3 Sorrell was the name of the horse that stumbled over a molehill, and _oc- casioned King William’s death. The Mole was toasted by the Jacobites as “ the little gentleman in the velvet jacket.” 304 CORRESPONDENCE OF and look that no damage may appear: and I will, when you please, send the porters for to fetchit, and varnish it well before it goes, and finish all to the utmost of my skill. I believe Mts Skinner’s picture is in the house, locked up with others, by my Brother, as is gone away for a month or six weeks to the Bath: you desired that picture. Pray give my humble respects to Madam Skinner, and command, Sir, Your faithful, humble Servant, G. KELLER. C.] 8S. Pepys to Henry, second Earl of Clarendon. Clapham, August 4, 1702. My Noble Lord—I am still forced, much against my will, to make use of my man’s legs on all errands, and particularly on this to your Lordship, to know where you are this uneasy season, and enquire after your health. My Lord, I am but this morning come from the third reading of your noble father, my Lord Chancellor Clarendon’s History, with the same appetite, I assure you, to the fourth, that ever I had to the first; it being most plain that that great story neither had, nor could ever have been told as it ought to be but by the hand and spirit that has now done it, or I hope soon will; and that your Lordship, and my honoured Lord your prother,! will not suffer the press to slacken in the despatch of the remainder, and therewith in the eternizing the honour of your name and family, the delivering your country from the otherwise endless consequences of that its depraved loyalty, which nothing but this can cure: and your putting together such a lecture of government for an English Prince, as you may yet live to be thanked, and to thank God, for. Your Lordship’s most obedient Servant, Ss. P. C. orig. ] Dr Charlett to S. Pepys. London, August 22, 1702. Most Honoured Sir—I was in hopes to have dined with you yesterday at Clapham, but the Queen went so late to prayers, I had not time enough, and must now make haste to return to the same station at Windsor, having obtained a few hours of liberty during her stay last night at Kensington. I sent yesterday morning to Sir Godfrey Kneller, who came to Court to draw her Majesty’s picture for the Kingdom of Scotland, to know whether your picture of Dr Wallis was in the University Gallery. He 1 Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester. 7 Po . “SAMUEL PEPYS 305 sent me word it was in your possession; but Mr Horne having assured me, by your order, that it would be sent speedily, I am in hopes to find it there against the Queen’s coming to Oxford, which will be on Wednesday next, she being also, notwithstanding her haste, pleased very graciously to receive a dinner on Thursday from the University. Your nephew, Mr Jackson, may command a bed in my house, and the com- pany of Mr Isted. I am, with all duty and regard, in great haste, Your most obedient Servant, A. CHARLETT. An Oxford waggon goes on Monday. C. orig. ] Dr Hickes to S. Pepys. Oxford, September 1, 1702. Honoured Sir—I have enquired here of Dt Hudson and Mr Vice-Chan- cellor, concerning the way you are to take of sending Dr Wallis’s picture; and they have both told me, that it being intended as a present to the University for their Gallery belonging to the Library, you must send it directed to M* Vice-Chancellor. I presume you will think fit to send a letter with it, which will need no other direction than, “For Mr Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.” I doubt not but they will make you a very respectful return of thanks, as I am sure Dr Wallis ought to do, who I hear longs to see it in the Gallery. Be pleased to make my humble services to Mt Hewer, Mr Jackson, and Madam Skinner, and to accept the same from, Sir, Your most obliged humble Servant, Grorcre Hickes. C. orig. ] Dr Charlett to S. Pepys. University College, September 3, 1702. Most Honoured Sir—Having received some Northern Querys from Sir Robert Sibbald, transmitted to me by my Lord Bishop of Carlisle, I had yesterday at dinner a set of Gothic Antiquarys, all your humble servants, viz, Dt Hickes, Dt Gregory, Mt Lloyd, Mt Thwaites, and Mr Elstob, to consider them. I could have wished Mr Jackson and Mr Wanley had been of the same number. Such a meeting could not fail of paying their respects and acknowledgements to the worth and favours of Mr Pepys, in all the circumstances, as to regard and esteem. It is now time to thank you for the pleasure of Mt Jackson’s conyersa~ tion, of which very little came to my share,—enough only to raise an appetite to more. 41Dr. William Nicholson. See p. 293, ante. VOL. IV. v 306 CORRESPONDENCE OF I protest I have been afraid to write to you, Sir, this twelve-month, thinking it more proper for discourse than letter; for I can assure you I was equally ignorant and surprised at the conduct of Sir G. Kneller, when I understood, at my return from London, that Sir Godfrey had been at Oxford to draw the picture, having said no more to him than, in general words, that you wished such a thing. However, I am very glad it is so admirably done, tho’ I doubt not, besides the point of good manners, your judgment might have added to the beauty of the contrivance. But the Painter’s fancy was warm, and his imaginations not to be controuled, it seems, with delays. I was informed that it was drawn in Dr Gregory’s house, where both the Dean and he were present the whole time of action: but I have not had the pleasure of seeing it yet. I find Dr Hudson has provided a very proper place in the Gallery, next to Sir Harry Savile, the Founder of the Mathematic Lectures. By this or the next post, I shall send some poetry to Mr Jackson, to whom, and Mr Hewer, my most humble service. Excuse all errors and defects in, Sir, Your most sincerely obedient Servant, A, CHarterr. C. orig. | - Dr Wallis to S. Pepys. Oxford, September 26, 1702. Worthy Sir—If I had not been before acquainted with your gen- erosity and innate goodness, I should have been at a loss to think what should move you to do me the honour, and put yourself to so great a charge on that account: but great men will do great things, and show great expressions of their kindness to those whom they are pleased to favour, a great deal beyond what they can pretend to merit. I did not see the persons who, by your order, did accompany the picture; otherwise I ought by them to have returned my thankful acknowledg- ment of the honour done me, in placing so noble a picture of me in so eminent a place. I trust Master Vice-Chancellor did, by them, return you the thanks of the University for that noble present; which I hope they will be careful long to preserve, as a lasting memorial of your munificence, and of the great skill of Sir Godfrey Kneller, which is highly commended, when I shall be forgotten. The great care you took that the University should not be suffered, on this occasion, to be at one penny charge, is a piece of civility so like yourself, that it. will not be easy to find a precedent. My bare thanks, which I humbly tender, are a thing so inconsiderable, that I should be ashamed to offer (em, if I had ought else, worthy of you, to be presented from, : Sir, ! Your much obliged and very humble Servant, Jonny WALL. SAMUEL PEPYS 307 O. orig. ] Dr Charlett to S. Pepys. Lord Guildford’s, at Wroxton, near Banbury, Sept. 26, 1702. Most Honoured Sir—I had the honour of both your letters together, at my Lord Digby’s, at Colsil,* having sent for my Oxford pacquet to Coventry, whither the carrier by appointment had brought them. It was a very sensible satisfaction to me, that the obscurity of Sir God- frey Kneller’s proceedings were unveiled, which to me were all shadow, and natural cause of umbrage. Your extraordinary care, and conduct, and judgment, and civility, in all the method and circumstances of placing it in the Bodleian Gallery, require a particular and distinct acknowledgment, and look like a Roman consecration of some of their ancent statutes. I am sure it has made a very pleasing journey, and most obliging entertainments, and conversations of two very good Lords, less agreeable, by detaining me from the sight of your picture so long; and will, I am sure, hasten my return to Oxford. By Dr Radcliffe’s prescription, I have been in a short course of riding, as the best remedy against rheumatism, the relapse of which I must fence against. I intended at first only a fortnight’s absence; but good weather, agreeable company, and no disaster with horses, is like to keep me out a little longer. I propose an hundred miles a week, which makes trayel so easy, as to cross a sentence of Lord Burghley’s, who, I suppose, was no traveller, often quoted by Dr Wallis, that he seldom knew either man or horse the better for travel. I have been through the Counties of Gloucester, Worcester, Stafford, and Warwick; Eclesal Castle, and Newport in Shropshire, were the two most remote northern points; a very small temptation would have carried me thence again to Chatsworth in the Peak, notwithstanding I had the year before made a particular progress thither; but as it was then too early to see the cas- cades and water-works play, so I was apprehensive it might now be too late; but if Mr Isted had been with me, I should have adventured. As I passed from Wolverhampton, good fortune, more than design, made me acquainted that I was near the scene of King Charles the Second’s escape, which soon determined me to take a guide to those woods, where I found at Boscobel House, some of the Pendrils remain- ing, that were present at that glorious transaction. It is no small offence and scandal to the neighbourhood, and, indeed, to the lovers of loyalty, fidelity, and integrity, to hear the complaints of these plain people, of their pensions beng stopt in the last reign, which also will be _ mo small rebuke to the late administrators. I remember King James, during whose reign the pensions were most exactly paid, viewed it in his progress, which gave you an opportunity of a nice view. The trunk of the Royal Oak is now enclosed within a round wall, with an inscription, which having no date, I cannot tell whether you have seen it; however, I have transcribed it for Mr Jackson. 2 Coleshill, in Warwickshire, va 308 CORRESPONDENCE OF The digging up of vast quantities of firs mentioned by our friend Dr Plot, in his History of Staffordshire, seems to me most strange and wonderful. In passing from Newport by the great Mears of Fordon and Aquilat, belonging to the Skrymshires, I saw the country people digging them up for fuel: they lie 1—2—3 feet deep: some are very long and entire. Also very large oaks are dug up, which sometimes are serviceable for laths. If you ask the country people how long they think they have lain there, their answer is, Ever since Nyal’s' Flood; which perhaps may be the best. I am now going to see the latter end of Astrop Wells, being allowed here the liberty and privilege of Head Quarters, of making excursive visits, which puts an end to your present trouble, though not to my inclinations of being further troublesome, as soon as the Gallery shall come in sight of, Most honoured Sir, Your most obedient Servant, A. CHar.ert. It is said in these parts, with very little respect or concern, that the politic Baron of Wormleighton lies a-dying; whether with or without extreme unction, is a question in common with many others of the like nature.” C.] S. Pepys to Dr Wallis. Clapham, Oct. 3rd, 1702. Reverend Sir—What you call generosity would more truly bear the name of insolence; I mean, for a private man to take on him the doing that upon canvas, that, when time was, would have been long since made the business of the public, to have seen done in bronze or marble. So that what you thank me for, would indeed prove matter for mortifica- tion to any but you: though by the too kind reception I find it meets with from several of my friends about you, it seems to be otherwise thought of by them; namely, the Master, Dr. Hudson, Dr. Gregory, and more particularly by Mr. Vice-Chancellor, and what he bespeaks my further expecting from the University; while, at the same time, I cannot but think myself already overpaid, in the content you are pleased to own from it, and the honour I have secured to my own name by it, in the place it holds at the foot of Dr. Wallis; to whom I pray God grant many more happy days of painless health, and tranquillity of thoughts; Remaining, Reverend Sir, Your truly honoured and obedient Servant, S. Pepys. 1 Sic orig. 2 Robert, Earl of Sunderland, Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, died Sept. a8, 1702, two days after the date of this letter. me ree SAMUEL PEPYS 309 C. orig. | Dr Charlett to S. Pepys. Univ. Coll, October 19, 1702. Sir—Friends and good luck did not permit me to return to Oxford, till after the termination of a new Vice-Chancellor, and the conclusion of a controversy with the City, which was on Thursday night. On Friday morning I took Dr Lancaster with me to the Schools’ Gallery, where he viewed the noble picture of Dt Wallis: and yesterday, he and Dr Shadwell doing me the honour of dining, Dr Wallis began your health, with that respect that becomes one so obliged to you. I have scare had time to look over my letters and papers, but could not forego the using this kind hand, of assuring you of the obedience of, Sir, Your very much obliged humble Servant, A. CHaRterr. I expect the commands of the University to write to you very speed- ily. C. orig. ] Dr Charlett to S. Pepys. Uniy. Coll. Octt 30, 1702. Sir—Having the honour, in the Vice-Chancellor’s absence on duty in Convocation, to supply his place, I am commanded by the University, assembled in full Convocation, to present Mr Pepys with their most sineere and affectionate thanks, for his noble testimony of respect and affection to learning and this University, in the picsure of one of their Professors, placed by him lately in their great Gallery of Pictures among their founders, benefactors, and men of eminent worth and quality. Our Orator wished for more time to conceive, but our duty would not permit any delay in our thanks.*. These commands I execute with great cheerfulness, and am not, in my own opinion, a little fortunate, to be intrusted with the honour of paying this duty from the University of Oxford, to a gentleman who has, on so many private accounts and singular favors, an entire right to all instances of obedience from his most humble and devoted Servant, A. CHaRLETT. I thought I could not choose a more safe and acceptable hand for the delivery than that of our worthy and learned Professor of Astronomy, Dr Gregory, Colleague to Dr Wallis. 41 See the Diploma, in Appendix, 310 CORRESPONDENCE OF C. orig.] S. Pepys to Dr Charlett. | Clapham, Saturday, Novt. 14, 1702. Reverend Sir—My worthy Friend, your most worthy Professor, Dr Gregory, has in a most obliging manner possessed me of the University’s inestimable present to me; and by it shown how prodigal that august Body can be of their own, upon the least appearance of respect offered towards it from another. Sir, I beg their believing me most sensible | of this their over-payment, as deeming it greatly superior to all I have” had to value myself by, since my first relish of what was honourable. I must, therefore, come back to you, through whose hand it has been | conveyed to me, to learn how I am to proceed to the getting my thanks — properly laid before them, that I may not appear too far in arrear in my acknowledgements to them, where they are got so far before me in their right to them. I would not be thought, neither, unmiridful of the : superlative performance of your Orator therein, whose every period seems to raise a new world of glory to me out of nothing, even to the putting me out of countenance to own it; and yet, not to be wholly silent on his regard, pray let it be told him how much he has me, though unknown, his humble Servant. In a word, the University has now made me their creature, and as such, shall never want the best effects of my veneration and duty when- ever their kindness and service shall call for them from me; nor must I have done till I have thoroughly acknowledged, as I hereby most thank- fully do, the great part which I know I owe herein to the old partiality of my honoured friend Dt Charlett, and his conduct of this affair, so much to the lasting and little merited honour of | Reverend Sir, Your most obedient Servant, S. Pepys. C. orig. | Dr Charlett to S. Pepys. f Univ. Coll. Novr 22, 1702. Most Honoured Sir—The value you are pleased to put on the respects of the University is very agreeable to your humanity, who treat all mankind with civility. I am sure the University intended to express their thanks with the greatest sincerity, and therefore declined all ap- pearance of common forms, as Degrees, &c.; and she is very happy in being so well understood by you. I do not apprehend you have any thing further to do, unless you please, in a letter to the Vice-Chan- cellor, now at home, to acknowledge the receipt of the Diploma, desir- ing him to return your thanks to the Heads of Houses and Convoca- tion. This, I presume, he will communicate to the Heads of Houses at SAMUEL PEPYS , 311 their Hebdomadal Meeting, desiring them to signify the contents to _ their respective Societies. As to the Orator, it is his duty, at the _ Vice-Chancellor’s command, to draw up all Addresses to the King and persons of quality; and I have communicated your respects to him. At a weekly meeting, which by our statutes is every Monday, con- sisting of V. C., Heads of Colleges and Halls, and the two Proctors, I moved that we might have a special Act on the 34 of December, being the public Thanksgiving day, in honour of our Chancellor, which was readily agreed to; and accordingly, our Poets, Musicians, and young Noblemen and Gentlemen, are very busy in preparing against that solemnity, which is like to be performed with great accuracy and decency in the Theatre, several Musicians coming from London, and public exercises in most private Colleges; so that we are like to be as solemn and full as at a Public Act, the Lemmas whereof I shall present to you, as soon as»printed. I should be extremely glad to wait on any friend of yours then, as becomes, Honoured Sir, Your most obedient Servant, Dr Wallis never brighter or more chearful. A. CHARLETT. C. orig.] Dr Delaune (Vice-Chancellor of Oxford) to S. Pepys. St. John’s, Dect 5, 1702. Sir—The favour of your most obliging and valuable present to the University you are pleased very much to add to, by the great value you put upon our but due acknowledgments for it. I am sorry my ab- sence deprived me of the honour of being a greater sharer in the respect paid you: but, Sir, I beg you to believe, though my hand was not at it, my heart accompanied the Seal; and that nobody has a deeper sense of your great respect and kindness to this University than my- self, or a greater honour for so true an ornament and encourager of learning as you have always bin; and that therefore I am, with the utmost sincerity, Honoured Sir, Your most humble and most obedient Servant, W. Deavune. _C. orig. ] Monsieur le Galeniére to S. Pepys. Dublin, Jan‘¥ 1, 1702-3. Monsieur—Si j’étois 4 Londres, aprés avoir commencé la journée et le nouvel an par rendre mes hommages 4 Dieu, dans sa Maison, yous seriez la premiére visite que je ferois, et j'irois 4 Clapham vous as- 312 CORRESPONDENCE OF surer de mon éternel devoiiement. Mais n’étant pas assez heureux pour le pouvoir faire, je me sers du commerce des lettres, qui, comme disoit un Ancien, “ Sola res est que homines absentes presentes facit;” et ce que je ne puis dire, je vous l’écris, c’est qu’en tout temps je pense a vous, je prie Dieu pour vous, surtout’ dans ces jours solennels ot Von n’oublie pas les Bienfaiteurs, que je demande au Ciel votre conservation, votre pros- perité, votre salut, avec autant d’ardeur que je le fais pour moiméme; y joignant votre cher Neveu, Madame Skynner, et notre ami par excellence, Mr Hewer. Le Siécle sera un heureux siécle pour moi tant que vous viverez, que vous vous porterez bien; mais la vie me seroit ennuyeuse, et je ne scay ce que deviendrois s’il en étoit autrement. Ah! te mez si partem anime rapit Maturior vis, quid moror altera, Nec carus qué, nec superstes Integer? Mon bon Evesque m’a mandé la maniére obligeante dont vous lui avez parlé de moi: il est encore en Angleterre. Plit 4 Dieu qu’on y conniit tout son mérite, et qu’on lui fit Primat d’Irlande. On rendroit un bon office 4 l’Eglise, et au royaume, et on donneroit la place au plus digne. Ma femme vous assure de son trés humble respect: il ny en a point qui approche de celui avec lequel je suis, Monsieur, votre tres humble et tres obéissant Serviteur, De GaLENIERE. C. orig. | John Evelyn to S. Pepys. Jany 20, 1702-3, Dover Street. My worthy Friend—I had not deferred so long either from wait- ing on you, or giving you an account of my impertinent life, since I had last the happiness to kiss your hands at your Paradisian Clap- — ham, had my own health and several other uneasy circumstances since 1 came here, permitted me to repay the many kind friends their visits, for which I stand yet a debtor. In the first place it did not a little grieve me, that coming so near you, when I past almost by your door, it was so late, that with no small difficulty we got to Lambeth whilst it was tolerably light; and with more that, when we came to the water side, neither of the ferry boats were there, or could be gotten — to return till it was dark, very cold and uncomfortable passing. Since I came to Dover Street I have scarcely enjoyed three or four days without incessant and pungent attacks proceeding from gravel, disabling ~ both my body and mind from some sort of activity, till now competently enjoyed, considering my great age. SAMUEL PEPYS 313 I have yet at last gained so much relaxation, as to employ the very first opportunity of sending you this volant messenger, to let you know, in whatever place or state I am, you have a most faithful servant. I was continually out of order in the country last summer; yet with such intervals as did not altogether interrupt my taking some satisfac- tion in the improvement I had made, partly in the dwelling-house, and _ without doors, for conveniences suitable to our economy, without re- proach among our neighbours,—my taste for things superfluous being extremely altered from what it was: every day called upon to be ready with my packet, according to the advice of Epictetus, and a wiser Monitor, who is gone before to provide better places and more lasting habitations. In the mean while, one of the greatest consolations I am capable of, is the virtuous progress which my Grandson continues to make in an assiduous cultivation of the talents God has lent him. Hav- ing formerly seen his own country, as Bristol, Bath, Salisbury, and the little towns about Oxford, he went this summer with his Uncle Draper, as far as the Land’s End, which was an excursion of a month. The next progress, if God continue health, is designed to be Northward, as far as Newcastle: in the interim, he is perusing such authors and maps as may be assistant to the speculative part of these motions; and, to supply the present unfavourable period for travelling in foreign coun- tries, has learned the Italian tongue, and intends to proceed to the Spanish, having already the French from a child; whilst his inclinations more seriously lead him to History, Chronology, Mathematics, and the study of the Civil Law, which he joins with our Municipal Constitutions, without which he finds a country gentleman makes but a poor figure, and very useless. He not only keeps but greatly improves his Greek, by diligently reading their histories; and now and then, amongst other exercises, he turns some passages into Latin, translates select Epistles out of Cicero and Pliny, and letting them lye by some time, lest the impression of the style and phrase prepossess him, turns them into Latin again, the better to judge of his improvement. He has his time for his Agrestic Flute, in which, with his Tutor, Mt Bannister, they spend a@ morning’s hour together. He is likewise Mr Hales’s scholar, and goes to the Fencing School here; and when in the country takes as much pleasure with his handbill and pruning-knife about our grounds and gardens, as I should do if I were able. Sometimes, if weather and heighbours invite, he hunts with them; my worthy friend® Mr Finch using that diversion when he is in tolerable health; in sum, finding him so moderately and discreetly disposed, studious, and mindful of his own improvement, I give him free liberty, and I bless God! have never found any indulgence prejudice him. It is a great word when I assure you I never yet saw him in a passion, or do a fault for which he deserved reproof. And now you will no more believe half this, than I do of what 314 CORRESPONDENCE OF Xenophon has written of his Cyrus; however, it entertains an old dotard, and as such I relate it. ‘ Now, as for myself—I cannot but let you know the ineredible satis- faction I have taken in reading my late Lord Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion, so well, and so unexpectedly well written—the preliminary so like that of the noble Polybius, leading us by the courts, avenues, and porches, into the fabric; the style masculine; the characters so just, and tempered without the least ingredient of passion or tincture of revenge, yet with such natural and lively touches as show his Lordship well knew not only the persons’ outsides, but their very interiors; whilst yet he treats the most obnoxious, who deserved the severest re- buke, with a becoming generosity and freedom, even where the ill conduct of those of the pretended loyal party, as well as of the most flagitious, might have justified the worst that could be said of their miscarriages and demerits: in sum, there runs through this noble piece a thread so even, and without breach or knot in the whole contexture, — with such choice and profitable instructions naturally emerging from the subject, as persons of the sublimest rank and office need not be ashamed to learn their duty, and how to govern themselves, and from the lapses and false politicks of others, how the greatest favourites and men in grace should be examples of modesty and temperance, unelated, easy, and accessible without abusing their power; whilst, being apt to forget themselves, and the slippery precipices they stand on, they too often study, not so much how to make their treading sure by the virtue of justice, moderation, and public spirit, as to raise themselves fortunes, and purchase titles and adorations, by flattering the worst and most destructive inclinations of Princes in the most servile compliances and basest offices. What I have written more in this style, and from my heart, to my — present Lord Clarendon, who sent me his father’s books, I wish you had seen, for I acknowledge myself so transported with all the parts of his excellent History, that, knowing as I did most of the persons then acting the tragedy, and those against it, I have no more to say, but much, very much to admire, not doubting but the rest which follows will be still matter of panegyric, and justify the highest epithets; and that, by the time he has done, there will need no history or account of what passed during the reign of that suffering and unfortunate Prince, to — give the w@ld a piece equal to anything extant, not only in our own j poorly furnished history of this, but of any nation about us. To con- clude: it required no little skill, prudence, and dexterity, to adventure so i near the truth without danger or just resentment of those who deserved so ill, as no reflections could have been severe enough. But I have done; — let what I have written to his Lordship speak the rest of my sentiments on this author and noble work. Thus, what I would wish for myself — SAMUEL PEPYS 315 ‘and all I love, as I do Mr. Pepys, should be the old man’s life, as described in the distich, which you deservedly have attained: Vita Senis, libri, domus, hortus, lectus amicus, Vina, Nepos, ignis, mens hilaris, pietas. In the mean time, I feed on the past conversation I once had in York Buildings, and starve since my friend has forsaken it. J. Evetyn. C. orig. ] Robert Nelson* to S. Pepys. Blackheath, March 2, 1702-3. Sir.—I have not been unmindful of your commands, neither can I ever neglect what is enjoined me by so worthy a friend, but it re- quired some time to receive such an account of that matter as I might de- pend upon. After the strictest enquiry, I find none of our Clergy placed in your neighbourhood nearer than Mitcham, where lives one Mr Higden, a very ingenious person, who married the late Lord Stowel’s sister; but I believe you may have one with greater ease from London, by reason of the conveniency of public conveyances. Our friend, Dean Hickes, is at present at Oxford; but if you will be pleased, whenever your occasions require it, to send to Mr Spinckes, who has the honour of being known to you, he will be sure to wait upon you, and take such measures that you may alwaies be supplied, whenever you stand in need of such assistance. He lodges at a Glazier’s in Winchester Street, near London Wall. You will pardon me, Sir, if I take this occasion to acquaint you with a pious work which is now carrying on by the joint assistance of our Nobility and Gentry, as well as of the Bishops and Clergy. The States of Holland have consented that the Church of England worship should be established at Rotterdam; and that it may be performed with its due solemnity, there is a design encouraged of building a Church in that place, which by éstimate will cost 3500/.; 10007. of that sum must be buried to lay the foundation: it will be no surprise to you who are acquainted with that situation. The General Officers have con- tributed beyond expectation, military men having seldom any great zeal in such matters, and a great many of the Nobility and Gentry hay- ing taken this occasion to show their zeal for the Church. The Duke of Marlborough has given it his particular countenance, and the ex- pectation of 500/. from the Queen. I could not forbear laying this matter before you, whom God has blessed with such a plentiful fortune, which you know how to dispose of to the best advantage, and such as will turn you to good account at the great day; and withall I beg that Mt Hewer may be acquainted with this pious design, which will con- +The learned and pious Robert Nelson, author of The Fasts and Festivals, &c. Ob. Jan. 1714-15. 316 CORRESPONDENCE OF tribute so much to God’s glory and the honour of the Church. I do most heartily wish you health and ease; but if the Providence of God thinks fit to try you with the want of both, that you may find ‘the comfort of religion under all your afflictions, and may make His will your choice and satisfaction. I am, with great respect, Your most faithful humble Servant, R. NeEtson. C. orig. ] Roger Gale to S. Pepys. York, March 8, 1702-3. Honoured Sir—I should have been not a little glad to hear by my Brother, that you had your health in a better measure than I now am sorry to find you have. It is no small pleasure to me to find you consult me in a matter which I have always wished to have an opportunity to set in a right light, and that the account I now send is to a person who had rather hear the truth than strange stories. You will easily believe there is not much of that in it, when I assure you that for 3 months after my Father’s death,’ I never heard the least word of this apparition; but, upon my return to Cambridge, I was surprized to find the story in every body’s mouth. The whole was occasioned, as I found at my arrival hither, by one Mr Hawley, a Vicar of the Minster, a person never of any credit, and a great talker; and it was observed, im- mediately upon his broaching this story, that he had dined that day at my Lord Mayor's table, where there was always wine enough. This person, coming to Cambridge to take his Doctor’s degree, amongst other northern news, told.this story at the Vice-Chancellor’s table, where was company enough, and I find it every where spread. The truth of 7 the matter is as follows:—Dr Stainforth, one of the Residentiaries of the Church, and whose stall is next but one to the Dean’s, coming that day a little later than usual to prayers, found his own place and the next filled up by some strangers, so that he was obliged to seat himself in the Dean’s. Mt Hawley read the second lesson, and, coming down from the reading-desk, which stands in the middle of the Choir, did really mistake him for the Dean, and as usual made him a bow. Dr Stain- forth was sensible of his mistake at the very time, and therefore aia not return it, the compliment not being due to him. Dr Stainforth went immediately after Church to a neighbouring coffee-house, and was fol. lowed by most of the Clergy, and this Mr Hawley, who there told this” fine story, and expressed his amazement at the Dean’s anger. But, upon the Doctor’s telling the occasion of his mistake, he was only laughed at. Dr Stainforth gave me the preceding account, and wondered 1He died in the Deanery at York, April 8, 170z. His portrait is preserved jn the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. SAMUEL PEPYS 317 at Dr Hawley’s, as he now is, impudence in setting about such a falsity. “Iwas an easy mistake, the Dr being very much of my Father’s size and make, not very unlike in the face, being pretty fat, and the stall where he sat dark. So that all the strangeness of this matter is, that Dr Hawley should persist in his narration, knowing it to be false. Your most obliged, humble Servant, RocEr Gate. In the Sloane MS., 5246, British Museum, is a volume called, “A Short History of Human Prodigies, and Monstrous Births: of Dwarfs, Sleepers, Giants, Strong Men, Hermaphrodites, Numerous Births, Ex- treme Old Age, &c. Part I—With Drawings of Human Prodigies. Collected by James Paris du Plessis, servant to Mr. Samuel Pepys, and others,” pp. 320. On the third leaf is the following Letter to Sir Hans Sloane from the Compiler. Honoured Sir—I most humbly present these two books to your Honour to peruse, and if you like them, to be so charitable as to give me the most that you shall think them worth. If you do not like them, to bestow some of your charity upon me. It is a collection I made whilst I was a servant to my most honourable Masters, Mr. Samuel Pepys, in York Buildings, and Mr. Laud Doyley in the Strand, of most honour- able memory, and in my travels into several countries of Europe with Mr. John Jackson, in the Jubilee year and several others. Being 70 years of age, and being sickly and not able to serve any longer, and haying above a thousand volumes of books I had collected in my younger days, with a considerable collection of prints, medals, and other curiosities, I took a little shop, and exposed my said goods for sale; but it pleasing God not to bless my undertaking, and spending in it all the money I had, I have been obliged to leave off shop-keeping, and take a garret to lodge myself and goods, and being quite moneyless, and in danger of having my goods seized for rent, and having no money to bear my little necessary charges, I most humbly crave your charity, either to buy some of my goods of me, or to bestow some charity gratis. And I shall for ever, as long as I live, pray God for your health and prosperity, and respectfully acknowledge your goodness and charity to me. Your most humble and most obedient Petitioner and Servant, J. Paris pu PLesssis. P.S.—I have a Catalogue of all my books, but it is yet imperfect, and not finished. If your honour desires to see it, I shall bring it to you. I lodge at a Hatter and Milliner’s, in Little Newport Street, over _against Rider’s Court, Soho. END OF THE CORRESPONDENCE, nay wae TR AE a Gey a i: APPENDIX A Tue following Notes were received too late for insertion in their proper places in the Diary, but it was thought ex- pedient not to omit them altogether :— VOL. I. Pace 11, Nore 38. Wm. Paget was landlord of this house sometime between 1648 and 1672, and issued Tokens. See John Yonge Akerman’s Tradesmen’s Tokens, p. 83. Pace 11, Nore 6. These stationers and booksellers, whose shops disfigured Westminster Hall down to a late period, were a privileged class. Probably they were useful to the lawyers, and were therefore protected. In the statutes for _ appointing licensers and regulating the press, there is a clause exempt- ing them from the pains and penalties of those obnoxious laws. The exception, in the xiv. Car. II., cap. 33, sec. xx., runs thus—* Provided alsoe..that neither this Act, nor anything therein contained, shall be | construed to prohibit any person or persons to sell books or papers, who ) have sold books or papers, within Westminster Hall, the Palace of | Westminster, or in any shopp or shopps within twenty yards of the _ Great Gate of Westminster Hall aforesaid, before the 20th November, | 1661, but they and every of them may sell books and papers as they | have or did before the said 20th November, 1661, within the said Hall, | Pallace, and twenty yards aforesaid, and not elsewhere, anything in this _ Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.”—Communicated by | ae Bruce, Esq., F.S.A. Pace 69, Nore 1. ) Sir William Coventry’s Correspondence with Pepys, in 1664, is in the Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS., A 174. Pace 100, Nore 3. For Mary lege Elizabeth. . t —EE 322 APPENDIX Pace 117, Line 12. ; October 27th should be divided into 27th and 28th. It seems to in- clude two dinners. Evelyn says, Charles went on the 28th to meet the Queen. See the following note. Pace 117, Lane 14. : On the 28th five bishops were consecrated—viz., I. George Griffith, — St. Asaph; 2. Robert Sanderson, Lincoln; 3. Gilbert Sheldon, London; ~ 4, Humphrey Henchman, Salisbury; 5. George Morley, Worcester. Pace 120, Line 30. Thos. Harrison suffered on the 13th; John Carew on the 15th; John Cook and Hughes Peters on the 16th; Thomas Scott, Gregory Clement, — Adrian Scroop, and John Jones, on the 17th; Daniel Axtel and Francis Hacker on the 19th October. Pace 142, Line 23. ‘ Mary Slingsby (daughter of Sir Henry Slingsby), first cousin of the Comptroller, Col. Robt. Slingsby (afterwards, on the 18th March, cre 4 ated a Baronet), married Sir Walter Bethell, of Alne, in Yorkshire, Knt., father of Sir Hugh Bethell, Knt., of Slingsby Bethell, Sheriff of London in 1680, and of Wm. Bethell, D. D. The Capt. Bethell here | named is probably Sir Walter Bethell. Pace 146, Line 18. This document is in the British Museum, Add. MS. 11,602, and gon- sists of twenty-two closely written pages. It is entitled, “A Discourse touching the Past and Present State of the Navy. Composed by thai , Ingenious Gentleman, Sir Robert Slingsby, Knt. and Baronet, Comp-_ troller thereof.” - Pace 167, Nore 1. Another instance of the marvellous barbaric punishment of coating a door with human skin, possibly as a vindictive monition against sacri- lege, has lately been brought under my notice, in connexion with one of our most noted ecclesiastical monuments—namely, Westminster Abbey. Dart, in his History of the Abbey Church (vol. i. book ii., p. 64), re- lates the tradition then preserved in reference to a door, one of th which closed off a chamber from the south transept—namely, a certaim building once known as the Chapel of Henry VIII., and used as a “Revestry.” This chamber, he states, “is inclosed with three doors, the inner cancellated, the middle, which is very thick, lined with s like parchment, and driven full of nails. These skins, they by traditio tell us, were some skins of the Danes, tann’d and given here as a morial of our delivery from them. The doors are very strong, but were, notwithstanding, broken open lately, and the place robb’d.” Suc was Dart’s account in 1723. I was in pursuit of some existing vestig of these tanned relics of the Northman, of which, as yet, I can ob om ; ar. i APPENDIX 328 no intelligence, when my attention was casually drawn by Mr. E. W. Cooke to the strange fact, that not far from the south transept a door still exists on which human skin is to be found. Mr. Quekett, of the Col- lege of Surgeons, to whose skill in such questions we were indebted for proof of the tradition at Hadstock and other places, submitted this skin to his microscope, and it proved to be human. I inspected the door in question last week, and found the skin had been on both sides, the existing remains being found under the massive iron work. It is a small door leading to a chamber, intended, apparently, for a treasury, situated on the south side of the passage, originally the approach from the cloisters to the chapter-house. Within this chamber there is a small depository, or cell, doubtless for safe custody, with a smaller strong closet within, all of good masonry, and constructed in a remarkable part of the buildings of the ancient monastery, being probably a portion of the structure raised in the times of the Confessor. The doorway, however, in which the stout oaken door which bore the skin is hung, and the strong chamber within, are of later date, possibly not older than the time of Abbot Litlington (about 1375). The oak door, how- ever, has been certainly removed to its present position from some other place, since it appears to have been partly cut to fit the door- ease. This, however, is not of recent adaptation, and I do not think it possible that it can have been the same door which Dart described, the position of which was not many yards distant. I imagine that when Litlington, who was a great builder, constructed the west side of the cloisters, and various works adjacent were carried out, this ancient door was remoyed from some other part of the buildings, and cut to fit the new door-case, the approach to a treasury, where the relics of the supposed Dane were preserved in memoriam et terrorem, I say Dane, but without evidence it must be admitted of any tradition as regards this particular oaken production of very primitive carpentry; still, taken in conjunction with the tradition preserved in regard to another door close by, that, namely, which led from the Abbey Church to the “ Revestry,” the fact which we owe to Mr. Cooke’s keen observation, may well claim attention in reference to the repeated traditions of savage punishment of the sacrilegious Northmen. I have recently understood that the doors at Rochester have been so entirely removed, that it is hopeless to seek for proof of the tradition recorded by Pepys.—A.zert Way. Pace 174, Line 19. Simon Wadlow was mine host who kept the Devil Tavern in the days of Ben Jonson, who dubbed him “King of skinkers.”—See Gifford’s edition, vol. ix., p. 87. The rambler in London will look in vain for the Devil Tavern beneath the shade of Temple Bar. The house, with a modern front, is now the bank of Messrs. Child, who have preserved the Leges Conviviales in the Apollo Room where Ben Jonson and his B24 APPENDIX friends held their orgies. They are printed by Gifford, vol. ix. p. 83. The doggrel lines alluded to in the note are as follows, so far as they can be made out from the Ashmolean MS.:— Uppon Simon Wadlowe, Vintner, dwelling at the Signe of y® Devill and St. Dunstan. Apollo et Cohors Musarum Bacchus vini vinearium Ceres pro pane et cervitia Adeste omnes cum tristitia Dijq; Dezq; lamentate cuncti Simonis Wadloe funera defuncti. Sub Signo malo bene vixit, mirabile! Si ad Celos recessit, gratias Diabolo. Pace 186, Note 2. The Cooperage, a portion of the Victualling Office, was burnt 18th May, 1687. ‘The disaster is described in Rawlinson MS., A 171.—See Correspondence, p. 240, of this volume. Pace 187, Note 2. At the funeral of Sir Jonas Moore, sixty pieces of artillery were dis- charged at the Tower. Pace 188, Line 17. The Leg, in King Street, Westminster. Pace 333, Line 25. The Rev. Jeremiah Wells, Curate of All Hallows, Barking, in 1676. He had, in 1670, been a Candidate for the Lectureship of St. Catharine Coleman. Pepys afterwards procured him a naval chaplaincy. Raw- linson, A 174, &e. Pace 338, Nore 1. Oct. 6, 1661, Pepys writes as follows: “To church (St. Olave’s); there was my pretty black girl, Mrs. Dekins.” This passage, which had been overlooked, clearly identifies poor Morena. Captain Dekins, men- tioned in vol. i., page 266, was probably her father. Pace 400, Nore 2. Richard Williams, alias Cromwell, Esq., to whom Ramsey Abbey was partly given, partly sold, was one of the five Tilters who, in the 32d Henry VIII., made the bold challenge at justs to all comers that would, in France, Flanders, Scotland, and Spain..... This Richard came into the place an Esquire, but departed a Knight, dubbed by the King for his valour, clearly carrying away the credit: overthrowing Mr. Palmer in the field at justs one day, and the next serving Mr. Cul- ; pepper, at barriers, in the same manner. Hereupon there goeth a tra- dition in the family, that King Henry, highly pleased with his prowesse, APPENDIX 825 “Formerly,” saith he, “thou wast my Dick, but hereafter shall be my Diamond;” and thereat let fall his diamond ring unto him. In ac- cordance whereof, these Cromwells have ever since given for their crest, a lion holding a diamond ring in his forepaw.—Fuller’s Ch. History, book vi., sect. vi., 11, 12. Pace 421, Line 15. The letters about the Brampton Estate alluded to are in Rawlinson MS. A 191. VOL. IT. Pace 34, Line 14. All researches after the plan of Lisbon, made for Lord Sandwich, had, until every lately, proved fruitless. A copy, however, has been dis- covered, during the passing of this volume through the press, by Mr. Carpenter, of the British Museum, at the country-house of a friend of his, and it has since been purchased for the print room of the Museum. The impression is one of those taken off on white satin, at Pepys’s sug- gestion, but the engraver is the well-known Dirk Stoop: the passage in the Diary probably should be read—“ It ought to have been better done than by jobbing.” The title agrees verbally with that given by Pepys, and the engraving contains not only Lord Sandwich’s arms, but also his portrait: he is represented as holding a measuring rod, which marks the scale of miles. In spite of Pepys’s opinion, it may be con- sidered a fine specimen of the artist’s skill: its rarity is very great: it is not mentioned in any list of Stoop’s works, nor was it known to collectors. Neither the Pepysian, nor the Royal, nor the Museum col- lections possessed it. Lord Sandwich probably made presents only of the impressions. Dirk Stoop, who came to England in the suite of Katharine of Braganza, in the capacity of Court Painter, designed and etched a series of plates, descriptive of the ceremonials and pageants which took place on her marriage. Each etching is 1 foot 10 inches by 7 inches. A complete set is very rare; the British Museum Collection, however, possesses them. 1. “The Entrance of ye Lord Ambassador Montague into the Citty of Lisbone, ye 28th day of March, 1662.” Dedicated to the Earl of Sandwich. um. “The publique proceedings of ye Queenes Matie of Greate Britaine through ye Citty of Lisbone, ye 20th day of Aprill, 1662.” Dedicated to Charles II. 326 APPENDIX mr, “The manner how her Matie Dona Catherina imbarketh from Lisbon for England.” Dedicated to Francisco de Mello, Conde da Ponte. tv. “The Duke of York’s meeting with ye Royall Navy after it came into ye Channell.” Dedicated to the Duke of York. v. ‘The manner of ye Queenes Maties landing at Portsmouth.” Dedi- cated to James, Duke of Ormond. vi. “The coming of ye King’s Matie and ye Queenes from Ports- mouth to Hampton-court.” No dedication. vu. ‘The triumphall entertainment of ye King’s and Queenes Maties by ye Right Honble ye Lord Maior and Cittizens of London at their coming from Hampton Court to Whitehall (on ye River of Thames), Aug. 23, 1662.” Dedicated to Sir John Frederick, Lord Mayor. Walpole (or rather Vertue), who had seen only the first and sixth etching, mentions, after Basan, that there were eight pieces. The Plan of Lisbon, just mentioned, was probably supposed to belong to the series. Dirk Stoop also etched a large portrait of the Queen, the rarity of which is so great, that only two impressions are known: viz., one in the Pepysian Library, and one recently presented to the Print Room of the British Museum, by John Heywood Hawkins, Esg., of Bignor Park. Stoop’s picture of the Procession to Whitehall has been noticed in vol. i, p. 174, Pace 126, Line 20. Captain John Shales. Pace 127, Last Line. Charles Pepys was, in 1689, Master Joiner at Chatham. Pace 162, Line 15. Tom Edwards's death is noticed by Pepys in a letter to Sir Richard Haddock, dated August 20, 1681. Rawlinson, A 194, fol. 256. Pace 172, Nore 2. The picture usually placed before the King’s book, which Pepys says he saw “put up in Bishopsgate church,” was not engraved for the Eikon Basilike, but relates to the frontispiece of the large folio Common Prayer Book of 1661, which consists of a sort of pattern altar-piece, which it was intended should generally be placed in the churches. The design is a sort of classical affair, derived in type from the ciborium of the ancient and continental churches; a composition of two Corinthian columns, engaged or disengaged, with a pediment. It occurs very fre- quently in the London churches, and may be occasionally remarked in country-town churches, especially those restored at the King’s coming in, Any one who has ever seen the great Prayer Book of 1661, will at once recognise the allusion; and it is a well-known fact that the frontis- piece was drawn and engraved for the purpose mentioned ahboye,”— Gent. Mag., March, 1849, p. 226. A ES APPENDIX 327 Pace 210, Line 27. For the relation of the loss of the Royal Oak, see Rawlinson, A 195, fol. 180. $ Pace 228, Live 21. Captain John Goulding, slain on the 13th April. Pace 244, Line 2. Robert Kirby commanded the Breda, James Abelson, the Guinea. Pace 283, Nore 3. This ship was built at Woolwich Dock Yard, in 1637. Her tonnage corresponded with the year, and she was the first vessel built with “flushe decks,” and the largest up to that period belonging to the En- glish navy. Her keel measured 187 feet 9 inches; her main breadth 48 feet 4 inches, and she had three decks, a poop and top gallant fore- castle. She was pierced for 126 guns. Her reputation has remained so great, that, in 1853, a fine American clipper, of 2421 tons, built by Mr. MeKay, of Boston, was named after her. This worthy successor arrived in the Mersey on July 9, 1853, having made the run from New York in a shorter time than was ever accomplished by a sailing ship, except by H. M.S. Resistance, about eleven or twelve years since. See Times, 6th July, 1853. Pace 354, Line 18. For Evelyn’s Report about the proposed Chatham Infirmary, in 1666, see Rawlinson, A 195, fol. 249. Pace 448, Lane 1. Anthony Joyce kept the Three Stags at Holborn Conduit, which appears from a token issued by him, and described by Akerman, p, 105. VOL. IIT. Pace 74, Line 24. Woolwich stones, still collected in that locality, are simply water- worn pebbles of flint, which, when broken with a hammer, exhibit on the smooth surface some resemblance to the human face; and their possessors are thus enabled to trace likenesses of friends, or eminent public characters. Mr. Tennant. the geologist. of the Strand, has a collection of such stones. In the British Museum is a nodule of globular or Egyptian jaspar, which, in its fracture, bears a striking re- semblance to the well-known portrait of Chaucer. It is engraved in Rymsdyk’s Museum Britannicum, tab. xxviii A flint, showing Mr. Pitt’s face, used once to be exhibited at the meetings of the Pitt Club. 328 LETTERS BETWEEN LORD ROBERT DUDLEY The Correspondence of Lord Robert Dudley, afterwards Earl of Leicester, relating to the death of his first wife, Amy — Robsart,’ belonged to a Collection of Letters lent by John Evelyn to Pepys, who appears not to have re- APPENDIX Pace 155, Line 2 From BOTTOM. On the Lord Chancellor Hyde’s disgrace. o “Pride, Lust, Ambition, and the People’s Hate, The kingdom’s broker, ruin of the state, Dunkirk’s sad loss, divider of the fleet, Tangiers’ compounder for a barren sheet: This shrub of gentry, married to the crown, His daughter to the heir, is tumbled down: The grand impostor of the nobles lies Grov’ling in dust, as a just sacrifice, To appease the injured King and abused nation: Who would believe the sudden alteration? God will revenge, too, for the stones he took From aged Paul’s to make a nest for rooks; All cormorants of state, as well as he, We now may hope in the same plight to see.” Poems on State Affairs, vol. i. B AND T[HOMAS] BLOUNT. turned them. These papers have long been transcribed _ from the originals in the Pepysian Library; but, not con-— taining sufficient matter to form a separate volume, are here introduced, in the hope that the subject to which they — relate may prove of some general interest, though the mystery hanging over the fate of the unhappy Amy Robsart has not been entirely removed. 1Lady Anne Robsart, late wife of Robert Dudley, K.G., died on Sunday, the — 8th September, at a house of Mr. Foster’s, three miles from Oxford, 1560, and was buried on Sunday, the 22nd of September, in our Lady Church of Oxford.— (Harleian MS., 807 Fun. Certificate.) Her name is also written Anne in an original Instrument under the hand of Sir John Robsart, dated 1sth May, 4 — Edward VI., by which he settles upon them, the marriage being then agreed upon, — an annuity of 20/.—Charte Misc., in the Augmentation Office; ex. inform. Rev. Joseph Hunter. APPENDIX 329 LORD ROBERT DUDLEY TO THOMAS BLOUNT. ; Cosin Blount, Immediately upon your departinge from me, there came to me Bowes, by whom I do understande that my wife is dead, and, as he saithe, by a falle from a paire of stayres; little other understandinge can I have of him. The greatness and the suddennesse of the mysfortune doth so perplex me, untill I do heare from you how the matter standeth, or howe this evill doth light upon me, considering what the malicious world will bruyte, as I can take no rest. And, because I have no waie to purge myselfe of the malicious talke that I knowe the wicked worlde will use, but one, which is the verie plaine truth to be knowen, I do praye you, as you have loved me, and do tender me and my quietness, and as nowe my special truste is in you, that will use all devises and meanes you can possible for the learning of the truth, wherein have no respect to any living person; and, as by your own travell and diligence, so likewise by order of lawe, I mean by calling of the Coroner, and charging him to the uttermost from me to have good regard to make choyse of no light or slight persons, but the discreetest and substantial men, for the Juries; such as for their knowledge may be able to search honourablie and duelie, by all manner of examynacions, the bottom of the matter; and for their uprightness will earnestlie and sincearlie deale therein, without respect. And that the bodie be viewed and searched accordinglie by them, and in everie respect to proceed by order and lawe. In the mean tyme, Cosin Blount, let me be advertysed from you, by this berer, with all spede, howe the matter doth stande; for, as the cause and the man- ner thereof doth maryellously trouble me, considering my case many waies, so shall I not be at rest, till I may be ascertayned thereof: prayinge you ever, as my truste is in you, and as I have ever loved you, do not dissemble with me, neither let any thinge be hid from me, but send me your trewe conceyt and opinion of the matter; whether it happened by evill chance, or by villainye, and faill not to let me heare contynewallie from you. And thus fare you well, in moch haste from Windsore, this ixth of September, in the eveninge. Y= loving friend and kynsman, moch perplexed, ai I have sent for my brother Appleyarde,” because he is her brother, and other of her friendes also, to be theare, that they may be previe, and see how all things do proceede. _ 1Thomas Blount was of the Pee of that name, long seated at Sodington, in Worcestershire. His cousin, Sir Richard Blount, mentioned in p._ 340, was the son of Richard Blount of Mapledurham, who died in 1564, whilst Lieutenant a the eevee of London, Their relationship to Lord Robert Dudley has not een traced. 2 The following short table shows the connexion of the Robsarts and Appleyards, and explains Dudley’s designation of John Appleyard as “my brother,” he being born of the same mother as Lady Robert Dudley:— 330 APPENDIX ' THOMAS BLOUNT TO LORD ROBERT DUDLEY. Maie it please yte Lordshipe to understande that I have receyved youre letter by Brys, the contents whereof I do well perceyue: and that yte Lordshipe was advertised by Bowes ymediatelie upon my depar- tinge, that my ladie was deade. And also yre straite charge geven unto me, that I should use all the devices and policies that I can for the trewe understanding of the matter; as well by myne owne travell, as by the order of lawe; as in callinge the Coroner; gevinge him charge that he chowse a discrete and substancial jurie; for the view of the bodie, and that no corrupcion should be used, or persons respected. Yre L. great reasons that maketh you so earnestlie searche to learne the trothe, the same with your earnest commandment, dothe make me to do my best herein. The present advertisement I can give to your LP at this tyme is, too trewe it is that my ladie is dead, and as it seamethe with a fall; but yet how or whiche waie I cannot learne. Yre LP shall heare the maner of my proceedings since I cam from you; the same nyghte I came from Windsore I laie at Abington all that nyght, and, because I was desirous to heare what newys went abrode in the Coun- trie, at my Supper I called for myne hoste, and asked him what newys was theare about, taking upon me I was going into Glocestershire; he saide, “theare was fallen a greate mysfortune within three or iiii myles of the Towne;” he saide, “my Lorde Robert Duddeley’s wyfe was deade;” and I axed how, and he saide, “by a mysfortune, as he heard, by a fall from a payre of stayres:’ I asked him by what chance? He saide, “he knewe not.” I asked him what was his judgment and the judgment of the people; he said, “some weare disposed to saie well and some evill.” What is your judgment, said 1? “By my trothe,” said he, “I judge it a mysfortune, because it chanced in that honest gentleman’s house; hys great honestie,” said he, “dothe moche curb the evill thoughts of the people.” Mythinkes, said I, that some of her people that wayted upon her, should somewhat saie to this. “No, Sir,” said he, “but little, for it was said that they were heare at the fayre, and none left with her.” How myght that chance? said I. Then said he, “It is saide heare that she rose that daie yerie earlie, and com- manded all her sorte to go to the fayre, and wold suffer none to tarrie 1st vir. 2nd vir. Sir John Robsart, of Sedistern,=Elizabeth, daughter=Robert Appleyard, Norfolk, which manor was set- | of John Scott, of of Braconash, tled on his daughter and her | Camberwell, Norfolk. husband. Surrey. Arthur. Amy, ob. September, 1560,=Lord Robert John Appleyard at Cumner, s.p. Buried at Dudley. only child. St. Mary’s, Oxford. of Norfolk, 1558. * Edward VI. was present at their nuptials, 4th June, 1550, APPENDIX 331 at home.” And thereof is moche judged, and trewlie, my Lorde, I did first learne of Bowes, as I met with him coming towards yre Lre of his owne beinge that daie; and of all the rest of them beinge, who affirmed * that she wold not that daie suffer one of her owne sorte to tarrie at home, and was so earnest to have them gone to the fayre, that with any of her owne sorte that made reason of tarrying at home, she was verie angrie, and cam to Mrs. Odingselle, the wedowe, that liueth with An- thony Fforster, who refused that daie to go to the fayre, and was verie angrie with her also, because she said it was no daie for gentlewomen to go in, but said the morrowe was moche better, and then wold she go; whereunto my ladie answered and saide, “She mighte chowse and go at her pleasure, but all hers shuld go;” and was verie angrie. They asked who shuld kepe her companye if they all went. She saide, Mrs Owen shuld kepe her companye at dyner. The same tale dothe Pinto, who dothe dearlie [love] her, confirm; certenly, my L4, as little while as I have bene here, I have hearde divers tales, that maketh me to judge her a strange woman of mynde. In askinge of Pinto what she might thinke of this matter, either chance or villany? she saide, “ By her faithe she doth judge it were verie chance, and neither done by man nor by herself. For herself,’ she said, “she was a good vertuous gentlewoman, and daily would praie upon her knees; and divers tymes she saith she hath heard her praie to God to deliver her from dispera- cionne.” Then said I, she myght have an evell eye in her mind. “No, good Mr. Blount,” said Pinto, “do not judge so of my wordes; if you shuld so gather, I am sorie I saide so much.” My Lord, it is most strange that this chance should fall upon you, as it passeth the judgment of any man to saie how it is; but then the tales I do heare of her make me to thinke she had a strange minde, as I will tell you at my cominge. But to the inquest you wuld have so verie circum- spectlie chosen by the Coroner for the understandinge of the truthe, yte Lordshipe nedethe not to doubt of their well chosinge. Before my cominge, the inquest were chosen, and part of them at the house; if I be able to judge of men and of their ableness, I judge them, and spe- ciallie some of them, to be as wise and as able men to be chosen on such a matter as anie men, beinge but Countrymen, as ever I saw, and as well able to answere for their doing before whomsoever they may be ealled, and for there trewe search without respect of persons. I have done youre message unto them, and I have good hope they will conceal no fault, if any be; for as they are wise, so are they, as I heare, part of them verie enemies to Anthony Fforster. God give them, in their wisdom, indifference, and then be they well chosen men. More adver- tisement at this tyme I cannot give your LP; but as I can lerne, so will TI advertise, wyshinge yt Lre to put away sorrow and rejoice, whatsoever fall out of your owne innocency, by the which, in time doubt not, that 332 APPENDIX malicious reports shall turn upon their backe that can be glad to wish or saie against you. And thus I humblie take my leve, from Cumner, this 11th of September. Yr Lp’s life and loving T. B. Yr Lre hath donne verie well in sending for Mr. Appleyard. THOMAS BLOUNT TO LORD ROBERT DUDLEY. I haue done yt Lordshep’s message vnto the iurye, you neede not to byde them to be carefull; whether equitie is the cause or mallice to Fforster to forbyd it, I knowe not. They take great paynes to learne the truth: to morrowe I will wayte upon yor L., and as I come I will brake my fast at Abington, and there I shall mete wth one or two of the iurye, and what I can I will bringe. They be verie secrete, and yet do I heare a whysperinge that they can find no presumpcions of eyill. And if I maie saie to yor L. my conscience, I think some of them be sorie for it, God forgive me! and yf I iudge amysse, myne own opi- nion is much quieted: the more I heare of it, the more free it doth appeare to me. I haue almost nothing that can make me so much to think that any man shuld be the doer thereof, as when I think yor L. Wife before all other women, shuld haue such a chance: the circum- stances and the many thinges wch I can learne doth prswade me that onelie mysfortune hath done it, and nothing els. Myself will wayte vpon yor L. tomorrow, and saie what I knowe. In the meane tyme, I humblie tak my leave from Comner, the 13th of September. Yor Lshipe loving T. B (1560. ) LORD ROBERT DUDLEY TO THOMAS BLOUNT.* I haue reseved a letter from one Smythe, one that seamethe to be forman of the iurye. I prseve by his letter that he and the rest hathe and do travill verie dilligentlie and circumspectlie for the tryall of that matter whiche they haue charge of; and for any thing I hear, that, by any serche or examynacone they can make in the world hitherto, it dothe plainlie appeare, he saithe, a verie mysfortune, whiche, for my owne parte, Cosin Blount, dothe much satisfie and quiet me. Never- theless, becaise of my thoroue quietnes and all others hereafter, my desire is that they may contynowe in their enquiory and examynacone to the vttermost, as longe as they lawfullie maie: yea, and when they 1This letter, which is undated, may perhaps not be in its right place. APPENDIX 333 haue geven there verdyt, though it be never so plainlie found, assuredlie, I do wishe that another substantiall company of honest men mighte trye againe for the more knowledge of truthe. I haue also re- quested St Ric Blount, who is a prfite honest gentleman, to helpe to the furtherance thereof. I trust he be wth you, or with Mr. Norris likewise, and Appleyarde, I heare, hath bene there, as I appointed, and Arthure Robsart, her brothers; yf any more of her frendes had bene to be had, I would also haue caused them to haue sene and bene preyie to all the dealings there. Well. cosin! God’s will be done; and I wishe he had made me the porest [worm] that crepeth on the grounde, so this mys- chance had not happened to me. But, good cosin, according to my trust, have care above all things that there be playne, sencere, and direct dealing for the full tryall of this matter. Concerninge Smythe and the rest, I meane no more to deale wth them, but let them proseade, . in the name of God, accordinglie, and I am ryght glad they be all strangers to me. Thus fare you well, in much haste, from Windsor, Yre loving frend and kinsman, R. D. LORD ROBERT DUDLEY TO THOMAS BLOUNT. Cosin Blount:—Vntil I heare from you againe howe the matter fall- ethe out, in verie truthe I cannot be in quiet, and yet you do well satisfye me wth the discrete jurie you saie are chosen alreadie; vnto whom I praie you saie from me that I require them, as ever I shal think good of them, that they will, according to there duties, earnest- lie, carefullie, and trewlie, deale in this matter, to fynde it as they shall se it fall out. And if it fall out a chaunce or mysfortune, then so to fynde; and if it appeare villainye, (as God forbid so mys- chievous or wicked bodie shuld lyve!) then to fynde it so, and God willing, I shall never feare the daie of prosecution accordinglie, what person soever it maie appeare any waie to touche; as well as for the lust punyshment of the act, as for myne owne trewe iustification; for as I wold be sorie in my heart any such evill should be comytted, so full it will appeare to the worlde my innocensie, by my dealing in the matter, if it shall so fall out. And therefore, Cosin Blount, I seke chiefly truthe in that case, which I would you still to haue mynde vnto, wthout any faver to be shewed either wone waie or other. When you haue done my message to them, I require not to staie to search thorolie yo'self, alwaies that I may be satisfied. And that wth such convenient spede as you maie. Thus fare you well, in hast, at Kewe, this 27th of ‘September. Yor le frend, R. D. 334 APPENDIX Oo Extracts from the Correspondence of the Comte de Com- minges, the French Ambassador at Whitehall, with Louis XIV., and the Marquis de Lionne, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at Paris.’ A Monsieur de Lionne. Calais, Decr. 20, 1662. Vous n’auriez jamais pensé que les folies du Chevalier de Grammont eussent pu servir une seule fois en sa vie 4 l'advancement des affaires du Roi. Néantmoins il est vray, que sans son arrivé en ce port j’y étois retenu par le mauvais temps, qui ne m’eut pas permis de m’embarquer dans le paquebot. Je pars 4 quatre heures dans le yacht de M. le Duc @York qui me conduira jusqu’’ Londres; la voiture sera plus honnéte, et plus sure, et méme plus prompte pour donner commencement aux affaires de S. M. que je traiterais aves tout soin. Au Rot. Londres, Dec. 24, 1662. Sire—Je ne parlerai pas & V. M. des incommodités que j’ai souffert dans le voyage par le débordement des eaux, si je n’y étois nécessite pour excuser le peu de diligence que j’ai fait; ce n’est pas que je nai quasi forcé les elemens & se rendre favorables 4 mes desseins, mais tout ce j que j’ai pu faire aprés avoir évité deux ou trois naufrages sur la terre, et souffert la tourmente sur la mer, a été de me rendre ici hier. . Au Rot. Londres, Dec. 29, 1662. Le Chevalier Benet est fort bien avec son Maitre jusques au point , qu’il avoit donné quelque jalousie 4 la cabale du Chancelier, mais cela est assoupi par quelqué eclaircissement. L’on ne parle en cette Cour que de la magnificence de V. M. Le diamant qu’elle a donné au Mi Lord 1 These letters were copied from the originals, in the ‘‘ Bibliothéque du Roi,” at Paris, by the late Sir Cuthbert Sharpe, F.S.A., and _obligingly placed at the Editor’s disposal. They confirm many of the facts recorded in the early part of the Diary, and, should the reader feel tempted to examine the two accounts of the same event, Pepys’s credit as a faithful chronicler will not suffer from the com- parison. There are also a few anecdotes relating to the Court of Charles II., and more particularly the Comte de Grammont, which have no immediate reference to the Diary, but are not printed elsewhere. ee ens APPENDIX 335 Jarret) en a fourni une ample matiére. Il a été produit en plein eercle, et Leur Ms. de la Grande Bretagne |’ont estimé 6000 écus. Jan. 5-15, 1662-3. Le Reine Mére ne se porte pas bien; elle est extremement maigre, et a une toux qui tire a la consomption. Son médecin lui a déclaré qu'il n’y avoit point de sureté pour sa vie, si elle ne retourneroit en France, quisque l’air d’Angleterre lui étoit mortel. Tous ses gens sont de cet avis, et le Comte de St. Alban’s est si interessé 4 sa conservation qu'il tomberoit dans cette volonté universelle de ses domestiques, quoiqu’il soit ici fort 4 son aise. Ainsi, Sire, je croy, que si elle peut mettre ordre & ses affaires, V. M. la reverra bient6t a Paris. A Monsieur de Lionne. Londres, Janvier 5-15, 1662-3. Le Chevalier de Grammont arriva hier fort content de son voyage. Il a été ici recu le plus agréablement du monde. II est de toutes les parties du Roi, et commande chez Madame de Castlemaine, qui fit hier un assez bon tour. Madame Jaret, avec laquelle elle a ici un grand demeslé, devoit donner 4 souper a Leur M. Toutes choses pré- parés et la compagnie assemblé, le Roi en sortit et s’en alla chez Madame de Castlemaine, ot il passa l’aprés souper. Cela a fait grand bruit, les cabales remuent chacun songe 4 la vengeance, les uns tout pleins de jalousie, les autres de dépit, et tous, en général, d’étonnement. Le Balet est rompu manque de moyens; il n’y a personne qui sache danser, et moins encore pour le diriger, et former un sujet. Il a bal de deux jours l'un, et comédie aussi; les autres jours se passant au jeu, les uns chez la Reine, et les autres chez Madame de Castlemaine, ou la compagnie ne manque pas d’un bon souper. A Monsieur de Lionne. Janvier 22-Febvrier 1. Beaucoup d’officiers Irlandois m’ont faits lhonneur de me rendre visite, et m’ont priés de me servir d’eux si j’en avois besoin. Ils pa- roissent affectionez pour la France, et rebutez de Espagne: en un mot " ce sont gens qui cherchent maitre, et qui sont fort ennuiez de la tyrannie que l’on exerce indifféremment sur toute leur nation. Ma maison sera Ouverte demain avec trente personnes vétues de deuil, quatre carosses, 1 Probably Gerard. 386 APPENDIX et huit ou dix gentilshommes. Le Roi et M. le duc d’York me feront Vhonneur d’y diner: ce n’est pas que j’aye prié sa Majesté; mais il a voulu étre de la partie de tous les illustres desbauchez du Royaume. © Au Roi. Febvrier 12-22, 1662-3. J’ai appris de bon lieu que le Roi de la G. B. négotie en secret le mariage du fils ainé du Chancelier avec la fille du Comte de Bristol afin de réunir les deux cabales. Je ne scay si le Comte de Bristol ne se repent point de s’étre fait Catholique la veille de Paques: cela Véloigne des affaires si bien, que ne pouvant trouver sa satisfaction hors des charges de la Couronne et de la Maison, il faut pour faire quelque figure et le tenir en considération, qu’il prenne parti dans les délibéra- tions du Parlement, qui ne sont pas toujours favorables aux intentions de S. M. B. Le bruit ayant couru dans Londres des raisons qui retardoient mon entrée, le Chevalier de Grammont et le Sieur de St. Evremont me sont venus trouver comme bons Francois, et zélez pour la gloire et ’authorité de V. M. Je me servirai de l'un et de Pautre selon que j’en jugerai 4 propos, et s’ils font leur devoir, comme je suis per- suadé qu’ils feront, j’espére que V. M. aura la bonté de les ouir nommer et permettre qu’ils méritent par leur services qu’elle leur pardonne, aprés une pénitence conforme a la faute. : A Monsieur de Lionne. Febvrier 26-Mars 8, 1662-3. Il y a 5 ou 6 jours que le Roi alla & la Tour de Londres faire préter serment a tous les officiers de la Monnoie, et aprés cette action, il fit luy méme 16 dix piéces dont j’ai reconnu celle que jenvoisa SM. Ce sont nos Louis blancs que l’on a travesti en couronnes, et si l’acquisition de Dunquerque nous les a ravi, les vins de Gascogne nous les rappor- teront. L’on proposa a la Chambre Basse un acte contre les jeu de Yombre, ou du moins une limitation jusques 4 la concurrence de 5 piéces. La proposition fut traitée de ridicule; elle donna occasion & une autre qui passera, qui est que l’on ne sera point obligé & paier aucune debte contractée au jeu que l’on n’ait 31 accomplis. Au Roi. Mars 23, Avril 2, 1663. Sire—Il semble que les arts et les sciences abandonnent quelques fois un pays, pour en aller honorer un autré a son tour. Presentement elles ont passés en France; et s'il en restent ici quelques vestiges, cé APPENDIX 337 n’est que dans Ia mémoire de Bacon, de Morus, de Buchanan, et dans les derniers siécles d’un nommé Miltonius,* qui s’est rendu plus infame par ses dangereux escrits que les boureaux et les assassins de leur Roi. A Monsieur de Lionne. Londres, Avril 2-12, 1663. Je ne scay, et le Duc d’Buckingham ne scait pas luy méme, par quel instinct il se trouva porté a se retirer 4 9 heures, et souper avec madame sa femme. Le valet de son intendant, homme apparement sage et fidelle, croiant qu’il seroit retiré 4 sa chambre sur Vheure de minuit, quisqu’il s’étoit retiré de si bonne heure, sortit de sa chambre avec son épée; un homme qui couchoit avec lui, lui demanda ow il alloit, et ce quwil vouloit faire avec son épée. II luy repondit, qu’il avoit oui crier au voleur, et qu’il couroit au bruit. I] continua son voyage jusqu’a la chambre de Duc, croiant le trouver couché, mais ne luy ayant pas rencontré, il passa 4 l’apartement de la Duchesse. I] trouva un valet de chambre 4 la porte, qui le voiant avec son épée, nue, eut assez de foiblesse pour mettre ordre a sa vie par la fuite, et laisser celle de son maitre en danger. Il entra donc l’épée a la main, 4 valets présents, dont il y en avoit un qui avoit un épée, s’enfuirent. Le Duc se leva d’auprés de sa femme qu'il entretenoit auprés du feu, et luy de- manda ce qu’il souhaitoit dans l’état auquel il étoit. Il repondit, “C’est toy que je cherche, et a qui j’en veux.” A ces paroles, le Duc trouva un couteau sur la table, dont il se saisit, et se jeta sur le valet, avec assez, de bonne fortune pour luy déter son épée; et aprés l’avoir interrogé et l’avoir trouvé hors d’esprit et de bon sens, il vouloit se retirer auprés de la porte pour appeler quelques valets. Cependant le malheureux et méchant homme vouloit encore saisir de luy, et Poffenser avec un couteau qu’il avoit dans sa poche, et eut exécuté son dessein, sans le cry de la Duchesse qui fit retourner le Duc, qui alors luy donna quelques coups.? Voiez, Monsieur, ce que c’est que l’Angleterre! Quand je viens 4 faire réflexion que cette terre ne produit ni loups ni bétes venimeuses, je ne m’en étonne pas, les hommes y sont bien plus méchants et plus dangereux, et s’il falloit se garder de tout avec pré- caution, le meilleur seroit de l’abandonner. Mai 15, 1663. Tl est arrivé depuis trois jours une affaire assez plaisante en cette Cour. M. le Comte d’Oxford, un des plus qualifiez Siegneurs d’Angle- terre, Chevalier de la Jarretitre, et Mestre du Camp du Régiment de 1The Frenchman’s contemptuous notice of Milton is very amusing. 7It turned out that he was a fanatic. VOL. IV. x 338 APPENDIX Cavalrie du Roy, gria 4 diner le Général Monck, le grand Chambellan du Royaume, et quelques autres Conseillers d’Etat. A ce nombre se joignérent tous les jeunes gens de qualité. La débauche s’eschauffa a tel point que chacun y fut offenseur et offensé, l’on se gourma, l’on s’arracha les cheveux, et enfin deux de la troupe se battirent 4 coupe d@hybo. Mais heureusement cette escarmouche sépara la compagnie; chacun prit son parti selon son inclination, ceux qui s’en allérent avec le Général demandeérent a boire, on leur en donna, ils poussérent l’affaire jusques au soir, ce qui les obliga de demander a manager, estants eschauffez du matin et de l’aprés dinée, chacun résolut de porter son compagnon par terre. Le Général, qui a sans doute la téte plus forte, fit un coup de maitre, et leur présentant a chacun un hanap,* qui tenoit beaucoup, les uns l’avalérent, les autres ne purent, mais généralement tous demeurérent jusqu’au lendemain sans avoir conversation, quoiqu’en méme chambre. Le seul Général alla au Parlement comme a son ordinaire, et n’en perdit ni le jugement ni Vesprit. Cela a fait rire la compagnie, et n’a passé que pour un emportement. Au Roi. Londres, Juin, 25-Juillet 5, 1663. Sire—Madame la Duchesse d@’York est préte d’accoucher; la Reine Mére se porte fort bien; le reste va toujours 4 son ordinaire, quoiqu’il — y ait eu depuis peu, grande querelle entre les Dames, jusques 1a que le Roy menaga la Dame ai il soupe tous les soirs, de ne mettre jamais le pied chez elle si la demoiselle? n’y étoit. Cela fait qu’elle ne la quitte plus, ce que tout le monde trouve fort étrange, et moi je suis de con-— traire avis, car il me semble qu’elle ne sera jamais plus sfire de sa con~ quéte qu’en tenant sa rivale par la main, si ce n’est aux heures de son triomphe. Le Roi a fait le jeune Barclay Milord: on Va tenu quelque temps caché, de peur d’irriter la Chambre Basse qui en a témoigné hautement son déplaisir. L’affaire du Comte de St. Alban’s s’est éva- nouie: il n’en est pas de méme de celle de Bristol—il a été trois fois refusé chez Madame de Castlemaine, ov il ne manquoit jamais aller’ souper avec le Roi. A Monsieur de Lionne. Juillet 2-12, 1663. Je vous avois mandé que le Comte de Sunderland épousoit la fille du Comte de Bristol. Il se retira le soir qu’on devoit Vepouser, et donna ordre & un de ses amis de rompre le mariage. Le procédé surprit toute la Cour, et le Roi méme s’en est moqué, et l’a blame au dernier point. 1A large cup or bowl. 2 Miss Stewart. APPENDIX 339 A Monsieur de Lionne. Londres, Octobre 15-20, 1663. La nuit de vendredi au samedi la Reine pensa mourir—elle recut la yiatique, fit son testament, et se fit couper les cheveux, aprés avoir donné ordre a ses affaires domestiques. Le Roi se jetta 4 ses genoux fondant en larmes; elle le consola avec beaucoup de tranquillité et de douceur. Elle réjouit de le_voir bient6t en état de se pouvoir marier avec une princesse d’un plus grand mérite, et qui put contribuer a sa satisfaction et du repos de !’Etat. II fallut retirer le Roi de ce funeste spectacle, qui s’était attendri jusques 4 ]’évanouissement: tout le jour se passa au erainte, le soir le sommeil lui donna quelque repos, la nuit se passa sane redoublement, et présentement elle est en meilleur état. Au Roi. Octobre 25-29, 1663. Sire—Je sors présentement de Witthall ou j’ay laissé la Reine dans un état ot selon le jugement des médecins il y a peu de chose a espérer. Elle a regu l’extréme onction ce matin; et ensuite, elle a prié le Roi de deux choses—l’une que son corps fut renvoié en Portugal pour étre enterré dans le tombeau de ses péres; et l’autre qu'il conservait le souvenir de l’obligation oi son honneur l’engageoit de ne se jamais séparer ses intéréts du Roi son frére, et de la protection d’un peuple affligé. Pour la derniére des priéres, le temps nous en apprendra le succés, pour lautre je ne doute pas que Il’on n’y satisfasse trés vo- lontiers. Le Rei me paroit fort affligé; il soupa néantmoins hier au soir chez Mad. de Castlemaine, et eut conversations ordinaires avec Mademoiselle Stuard, dont il est fort amoureux. Au Roi. Londres, Octobre 26-Novembre 5, 1663. Sire—Monsieur de Catteu arriva le vendredi au soir; je ne perdis point de temps pour le conduire 4 Withall, ot je scavois déja que l’on sempatientoit pour l’arrivée de quelque envoyé, Le Roi le recut avec beaucoup de satisfaciion, et voulut qu’il vit le Reine, mais comme elle re- pesoit, et qu'il étoit déja fort tard, la visite fut remise au lendemain. Je ne manquai pas de me rendre 4 l’heure ordonnée, et le Roi nous in- troduisit dans la ruelle* de son lit, et prit fa peine de faire les compli- Sly Ruelle,” espace qu’on laisse entre le lit et la muraille. On appelait autrefois Ruelles” les Alcoves, et en général les-lieux parés, ou les Dames, soit au lit, soit debout, recevaient leurs visites, BA 840 APPENDIX mens de VY. M. et des Reines, avec assez de peine, parceque sa maladie Pa rendue tellement sourde qu’elle n’entend qu’é force de crier a ses oreilles, encore faut il s’en approcher de fort préz’. Elle témoigna beaucoup de satisfaction, et repondit en peu de mots, mais fort intel- — ligibles. Depuis ce temps elle s’est beaucoup mieux portée, et il me semble que le soin que V. M. a pris de l’envoier visiter, ait plus contri- bué a sa guérison, que tous les médecins. Ils nous font espérer qu’elle est hors de danger, néantmoins elle réve encore assez souvent, ce qui marque que son cerveau est fort attaqué, puisque la fiévre n’est pas assez ardente pour produire cet effet. Il faut avoir été témoin de ce que j’ai vu pour le croire; jusques au moindre courtisan se donnoit la liberté de marier son Maftre: chacun selon son inclination, mais les plus con- fidens parloient de la fille du Prince de Ligne,? a laquelle le Roi d’Es- pagne devoit faire des grands avantages. Je puis assurer V. M. que si la malade eschappe, qu’elle rompra bien des mesures, et que peu de gens en auront de la joye; si ce n’est Monsieur, et Madame la Duchesse a@’York, qui se voyaient bien éloignez des belles espérances des quelles apparement ils se peuvent flatter, puisque l’on dit que la Reine ne peut avoir d’enfans. Au Roi. Londres, Novembre 9, 1663. Sire—Le Maitre des cérémonies prit le soin de venir me prendre a huit heures, afin de me faire voir le commencement de la cérémonie,’ qui se fait sur Peau; de-la il me conduisit dans la grande rue, ow il m’avoit fait préparer une chambre, afin que plus commodement je visse la caval- cade, qui ne fut pas sitét passé, que je monte en carosse pour prendre les devants par les rues destournées. J’arrivois une demi heure devant le Maire. Je fus regu 4 la Maison de Ville avec tout accueil imagin- able; l'on m’ouvrit la porte pour faire entrer mes carosses. Je fus salué de la picque et du drappeau par les officiers qui se trouvérent a ma descente. , Incontinent je fus reci par d’autres bourgeois, qui me remirent sous la conduite d’autres, et ainsy de lieu en lieu lon me conduisit jusques 1 This passage affords a curious specimen of the extent to which court etiquette and ceremony had been carried by Louis XIV. Catherine of Braganza was slowly recovering from a most dangerous fever, and yet she was compelled to give an au- dience in her bed to the French Ambassador; and her deafness rendered it necessary that the King should bawl into her majesty’s ear, before she could understand the compliments which de Comminges had been ordered personally to deliver. His assurance in attributing the improvement that had taken place in the queen’s health to the interest which Louis had evinced in her welfare, rather than to the skill of her medical attendants, is also very characteristic. 2 See vol. i., p. 105, note 2. 8 The Lord Mayor’s Show. APPENDIX 841 Ja salle du festin, ot se trouvent M. le Chancelier et le Conseil du Roy, qui étoit déja a table. Je fus surpris de cette grossitre incivilité; néant- moins, pour éviter de faire une affaire, je pris le parti de donner lieu & ces messieurs de réparer cette faute, sy elle s’étoit faite par ignorance, ou par mesgarde, ou d’éluder leur malice par un procédé franc et hardi. Je marchai droit 4 eux, 4 dessein de leur faire une raillerie de leur bon appetit; mais je les trouve sy froids et sy interdis, que je juge 4 propos de me retirer; le Chancelier et tous ses assistans ne s’estant pas levés pour me recevoir, 4 la réserve de Benet, qui me dit quelque chose 4 quoi je respondis avec mespris. Je retire, le Maitre des cérémonies parloit au Chancelier et lon me vit partir sams que personne se mit en peine - my de me faire excuses, ny civilités. Je dis de ceux du Conseil; car pour les officiers de la Ville, et les principaux bourgeois qui attendoient le Maire pour diner, je ne vis jamais plus de tristesse; chacun m’offrant des partis que je ne pouvois prendre avec bienséance. Ainsy je sortis, tout le peuple murmurant du peu de satisfaction que j’avois recu dans un lieu ot j’avois été convié avec tout la solemnité possible. Je retourne diner chez moy, ot deux heures aprés je fus visité par les deux mémes prévosts qui m’avoient conviés, accompagnés, de quel- ques bourgeois, et du peuple, qui demeura 4 ma porte. L’ordre qwils avoient du Maire et du Corps de Ville étoit de me faire des excuses de ce qui s’étoit passé, et ce que ne peuvent par leurs parolles, leur affec- tion, et le temoignage de leur douleur suppléa au reste. Ils tachérent & rejetter l’affaire sur une surprise; je leur fis voir que cette raison ne valoit rien &4 mon égard, et qu’ilz devoient percevoir qu'il n’y en eust pas, et quayant été prié, ilz ne pouvoient douter que je n’y allasse, surtout leur ayant promis: ensuite, sur leur ignorance et peu de capacité 4 recevoir des personnes de ma qualité; 4 quoi je respondis quil y avoit trop peu de temps quwilz avoient faits cet honneur 4 un Ambassadeur d’Espagne pour avoir oublié ce qu’ilz doivent 4 un de France; et ne trouvant plus rien a dire, ils rejettérent toute la faute sur le Maitre des cérémonies. Je leur dis que cette raison étoit aussy mau- vaise que les autres, puisque sa fonction ne s’étendoit point dans leurs festes, et qu’il étoit venu avec moi comme un particulier convié, pour la commodité de passer et d’entrer avec moins de peine. Pour con- clusion: ils me prient de vouloir me satisfaire de leurs excuses. Je leur respondis que l’affaire avoit eu trop de témoins pour pouvoir se cacher, et que mon devoir m’obligeoit de rendre compte & V. M.; leur insinuant que ce n’étoit pas d’eux seulement que j’avois 4 me plaindre, et quils avoient des complices de leur mauvaise conduite, ou de leur faute. Apres cela, je les conduisis hors de ma salle, ot je les arréte un peu; et pour leur faire plus de honte, je leur dis que je voulois passer plus avant, et payer un assez mauvais traitement par une civilité extraordinaire. 842 APPENDIX Au Roi. Novembre 12-22, 1663. Sire—Le lendemain & onze heures, l’on m’advertit que le Maire étoit parti de chez luy pour me rendre visite, Il arriva un moment aprés, suivi de dix ou douze carosses, et d’un assez grand troupe de peuple, qui suivoit de cortége par curiosité, I] entra chez moi, ayec les marques de sa dignité, c’est-a-dire, l’épée et les masses, portées par des officiers de la Ville, la queue de sa robe par un autre, les Prévosts, les Aldermen, et plusieurs honorables bourgeois. Il arréta quelques momens dans ma salle basse; peut-étre en intention que je l’y allasse recevoir; mais un de mes sécrétaires lui aiant dit qu’il y avoit du feu dans la salle haute, et queje nétois pas achevé d’habiller, aiant emploié toute la matinée & faire mes dépéches, il monta en haut, et sitét je V’allois prendre pour le conduire dans ma chambre d’audience: je ne voulus point l’entendre, quil ne fut assis. D’abord il me témoigna qu’il étoit bien faché de ne pouvoir s’expliquer en Francois, mais qu'il avoit amené avec lui un interpréte, qui m’expliqueroit le discours quwil ayoit 4 me faire, qui con- sistoit en deux points; le premier de les excuser et pardonner la faute qu’ils avoient faits, et l'autre de vouloir leur donner un jour pour la réparer; que de ma réponse dépendoit la satisfaction ou honte éternelle de la Ville.de Londres, et qu’en leur particulier leur disgrace étoit assuré, tant du coté du peuple que de celuy du Roi, qui ne leur pardon- nerait jamais si je leur en donnois exemple. Je conduisis le Maire jusques. 4 son carosse, luy donnant tousjours la porte, mais conservant tousjours la main droite. Le tout se passa avec satisfaction de tous cotéz, Au Roi. Londres, Decembre 10-20, 1663. Sire—Le Chevalier de Grammont a été ravi de la nouvelle que je lui ai donné, et il m’a dit plus de 1000 fois qu’il aimoit mieux servir V. M. pour rien, que tous les Rois du monde pour leurs trésors. Il va se prépare 4 prendre congé de Celui de la Grande Bretagne, auquel, sans doute, il a des grandes obligations pour la maniére obligeante dont il été regu et traité. Dans l’excts de sa joie il n’a pas pu me cacher sa surprise, ce qui me persuade que l’affaire est faite, et qu’il fera un grand sacrifice 4 V. M. d’abandonner ses nouveaux et légitimes amours; car je crois qu’il se consolera bienté6t, et que peut-étre fera Vil voir la Cour de France 4 une belle Angloise,* qui pour le bien n’y trouvera point de difference 4 celle d’Angleterre. Il fait son compte de partir dans 4 jours, 1 Miss Hamilton, APPENDIX 343 Decembre 20-24. ‘Le Chevalier de Grammont devoit partir aujordhui, mais le Roi l’a retenu pour un jour, peut-étre pour lui faire quelque présent, ou pour faciliter le paiement de 800 piéces qui lui sont dues par Madame de Castlemaine. I] laisse ici quelques autres debtes, qu’il prétend venir recueillir quand il se déclarera sur le sujet de Mlle. Hamilton, qui est si embrouillé que les plus clair voyans n’y voyent goutte. Il va faire sa confession générale a V. M. Au Roi. Janvier 25-Février 4, 1663-5. Dimanche dernier le Comte de Bristol se présenta dans la paroisse’ d’Oulmilton? 4 2 lieux de Londres, avec un notaire et des témoins, et prit acte devant tout le peuple qu’il étoit Protestant, et que de bon cceur il recongoit 4 la religion Catholique. Aprés il prit le ministre et puel- ques uns des plus honnétes gens, et les mena diner chez lui, car cette ‘maison lui appartient, l’aiant acheté de la Reine Mére. Le diner fini, il monta a4 cheval avec 4 cavaliers, et se retira. L’action est insolente et téméraire, et fait juger qu’il se présentera sitdt que le Parlement s’ouvrira, Chacun blame cette conduite, mais personne ne se met en peine de la punir. Ce navire d’Irlande,? qui avoit fait tant de bruit, et qui devoit 4 Vavenir servir de modéle pour la fabrique des vaisseaux, est enfin aprés 3 mois de navigation arrivé & Woolwich prés de Greenwich. C’est bien la plus ridicule et inutile machine que l’esprit de ’homme peut conceyoir; le médecin qui l’a inventé retourne 4 son premier metier, et laiss la fabriqu aux charpentiers. ‘Au Roi. : Londres, Mai 19-24, 1664. Les caléches commencent 4 voir le jour; et la Reine, avec toute sa suite, fait souvent des promenades a cheval. Les dames y paroissent a Venvie les unes des autres, mais cela ne produit point de jalousie. Je ne vis jamais deux rivales vivre en si bonne intelligence; ce n’est pas que l’on les ménage beaucoup, et que l’on prenne grand soin de cacher ces larcins, mais c’est ’humeur du pais, qui n’a de sensible jalousie que contre la France. M. de Montagu, prémier écuyer de la Reine d’Angle- terre, gentilhomme aussi bien fait et aussi spirituel qu’ily en ait dans cette Cour, a eu ordre de se retirer en province. L’on parle en secret +Major-General Lambert was Lord of the Manor of Wimbledon in 1656; but at the return of Charles II. it was restored to the Queen-Mother, Henrietta Maria, of = it was purchased, in 1661, by the Earl of Bedford and others, as trustees or George Digby, Earl of Bristol, and his heirs.—Lysons’s Environs. See also Rugge’s Diurnal, Jan. 1660. 2 Sir W, Petty’s double-bottomed vessel. 844 APPENDIX de sa disgrace, mais l’on convient que ce nouveau Tantale n’a pu ménager ses regards, et qu’il les a poussez si haut qu’ils se sont allumez dans la source de la lumiére. Le Chevalier de Grammont rend les derniers abois; il a perdu en deux foix dix huit cent piéces, ce n’étoit — pas véritablement de l’argent comptant; mais Madame sa femme eut — pu les retirer par parcelles, et s’en servir durant son absence pour les affaires domestiques. Je ne scais si cela ne retardera point son voyage, quisqu’un joueur ne se retire guéres sur sa perte. Les malicieux pensent autrement, et disent qu’il a autant de peine a quitter sa femme qu'il en a eu a l’epouser, 4 cause d’un beau cousin, fils du Duc d’Ormond, qui — sous le prétexte de la parenté lui rend des visites fort assidues, qui n’ont pas suivi le mariage, mais qui l’avoient précédé. A Monsieur de Lionne. Londres, Juillet 7-17, 1664. Pour ne vous pas laisser alarme de la maladie, vous sgaurais qu’ily a quatre ou cing jours que le Roy avec les Reines allerént en berges voir — les vaisseaux qui sont sortis du Port de Chatam, et que durant la grande ardeur du soleil, le Roy quitta sa perruque et son pourpoint; 4 son re- tour il se trouva fort enrhumé, ce qui obligea les médecins de le faire — saigner. Le lendemain il se trouva avec un peu de fiévre, et ce matin il a beaucoup sué, et se trouve fort soulagé, et sans aucune chaleur. A Monsieur de Lionne. Londres, Aout 29-Septembre 8, 1664. Madame la Comtesse de Grammont accoucha hier au soir d’un fils* beau comme la mére et galant comme le pére: toute la Cour s’en est — réjouie avec le Comte, que j’en trouve tout rajeuni, mais je croy que V’ésperance de retourner tot en France a effacé les rides de ses yeux et — de son front, et fait naitre les lys et les roses sur ses joues. ’ A Monsieur de Lionne. Londres, Septembre 14-24-Octobre 2, 1664. Le Roi de la Grande Bretagne avec douze des principaux seigneurs de sa Cour ma fit ’honneur de souper lundy céans; toutes choses s’y passérent fort bien, et sans contrainte; la santé du Roi fit le préambule du re pas commencé par le Roi de la Grande Bretagne, qui obligea che de suivre son exemple, sans que les dames pussent rien exempter; aussi, — a dire le vray, ne se firent-elles pas presser. Le repas fut gai, et Papr 1The child died young. APPENDIX 845 soupé emploiée 4 ouir la musique, les violons et le Sieur Francisque, grand joueur de guitare—Madame de Fienne étoit de la partie, qui fit bien son decevoir. Aujourdhuy le Roi est parti pour la chasse. Il y a deux jours que Madame de Castlemaine sortant le soir de chez Madame la Duchesse qui demeure présentement 4 St. James, accom- pagnée d’une seule demoyselle et d’un petit page, fut recontrée par trois gentilshommes (ou de moins le pouvoit on ainsy juger a leur habille- mens) masquéz, qui lui firent la plus forte et rude réprimande que l’on puisse imaginer, jusques a luy dire que la maitresse d’Edouard IV s’étoit morte sur un fumier méprisée et abandonnée de tout le monde. Vous pouvez penser sy le temps leur dura, car le pare est plus long que de chez Renard au Pavillon. Sitét qu’elle fut dans sa chambre elle s’évanouit, le Roi qui en fut adverti courut au secours, et s’étant informé de l’affaire, fit fermer toutes les portes, et arréter tout ce qui se trouva. Sept on hui personnes quy s’y recontrérent ont été confrontés et point reconnues; on a publié l’advanture, que l’on a bien voulu étouffer, mais je croy qu en sera difficile. A Monsieur de Lionne. Londres, Octobre 24-Novembre 3, 1664. Le Compte de Grammont est parti aujourdhui avec sa femme, qui marche en équipage de nouvelle mariée. Il vous dira cent choses que je he scaurois écrire, et je vous dirai pour finir, qu’il est affligé a la mort dun mauvais office qu’on lui a rendu auprés du Roi—le taxant d’étre blasphémateur. Il y a long-temps que je le connois, mais je ne le vis jamais sujet a ce vice; et de plus, je vous assure qu’il ne l’a pas appris ici, quisque l’on y jure moins qu’en aucun lieu, et que j’ai vu 4 gentils- hommes, pour avoir blasphémés, etant ivres, condamnées a tenir prison, et payer chacun mille piéces, dont il y en a eu deux qui n’en sont sortis qu’aprés un long-temps, n’ayans pu fournir la somme qu’avec l’assistance de plusieurs de leurs amis. A Monsieur de Lionne. Londres, Octobre 27-Novembre 6, 1664. Hier le Roi d’Angleterre me fit ’honneur de me mener avec lui voir mettre 4 la mer un vaisseau de 1200 tonneaux,' le plus beau et le plus roial que j’aye jamais vu; cependant que les peintres travaillent a Yembellissement des dehors et des chambres, !’on le maste, l’on y met les cordages et l’artillerye, qui est au nombre de 70 piéces. La batérie basse est de 4 piéces de 48 livres de bal, 6 de 36, et le reste de 24; et la haute de 6 de 24, et le reste de 18: la plus grande partie de fonte, quoyque le fer ne vaille guéres moins, et que l’on y fasse de calibre de 24 qui ne pesent pas un millier plus que celle de metal. 1 For an account of this launch, see Diary, 26th October, 1664. 346 APPENDIX Nous vimes dans ce lieu 1a, tous les vieux généraux et capitaines de Cromwel, qui sont fort affectionez et pleins de confiance, 4 cause de leur derniéres victoires contres les Hollandois. Le Roi me dit devant eux quils avoient tous eu la peste, mais qu’ils étoient parfaitement guéris, et moins susceptibles de maladie que les autres, Je vous ayoue, Sire, qu’il n’y a rien de plus beau a voir que toute cette marine, rien de plus ma- jestueux que ce grand nombre de vaisseaux faicts et a faire; cette nom- breuse quantité de canons, de nasts, de cordages, de planches, et autres machines nécessaires A cette sorte de guerre. Le Roi nous fit dans un de ses yachts un magnifique repas, y but la santé de S. M., et commanda a la com- pagnie de la seconder, qui ne s’espargna pas 4 faire son devoir, Je fis le remerciment, et bus celle du Roi d’Angleterre. L’une et l’autre santé fut célébré de tant de coups de canon, que par son bruit il fit changer le temps. Durant cette rejouissance qui commengoit 4 s’échauffer, la mer grossit, qui ne fit guére moins de malades que le vin; et la Reine, qui se trouvoit sur la riviére avec ses dames, fut bien exempte du mal, mais non pas de la crainte; tout le reste s’en ressentit, et en donna des marques. Cette bourasque finie, le beau temps revient, qui en donna suffisament pour mettre le vaisseau & la mer, et en gouter le plaisir, sans incommodité de la gréle et de la pluie. La chose finie, la Reine prit les carosses préparez pour le Roi, qui faisant son plaisir de voir les autres malades dans la tempéte, ne se soucia guéres de nous y commettre. Nous ne pumes pour- tant arriver A la ville la berge: il falut prendre des carosses et des chevaux 4 Grenwich, pour nous rendre 4 Whithall. Au Roi. Londres, Novre. 13, 1664, Tl y a quinze jours que le Maire destiné pour cette anné, m’envoia convier (dans la forme la plus honorable que se puisse pratiquer) de vouloir diner a la Maison de Ville le jour de sa reception, avec le Conseil du Roi d’Angleterre, m’assurant que toutes choses étoient si bien dis- posées et les mesures si justement prises, que l’on m’y rendroit dun commun consentiment tout Vhonneur et le respect qui étoit di 4 mon caractére; et que la faute, que le seul malheur avoit causé, seroit reparée par une reception que ne me donneroit pas moins de satisfaction, que celle de l’anné passé avoit donné de douleur 4 toute la Ville, qui ne pouvoit avoir de consolation, ni méme de sureté de la parole que je luy avois donné, que V. M. n’en auroit jamais le moindre ressentiment qu’en me voiant satisfait, selon les desirs et souhaits du général et du particulier. Le lendemain le Roy m’envoia le Maitre des cérémonies me prier en son nom d’assister 4 la reception du Maire, ce que je fis d’assez bonne heure afin de ne laisser aucum pretexte & quelque nouvel accident, La chose n’avoit garde d’arriver, car jamais personne n’a été regu avec plus d’hon- neur, tant par messieurs de la Ville que par messieurs du Conseil, dont — APPENDIX B47 les plus considérables, a l’envy les uns des autres, s’empressoient 4 me faire civilité et honneur. Enfin M. le Maire, par ordre de M. le Chancelier, mraddressa tous les complimens de la Ville; qui n’avoient autre but que @honorer V. M. Il me porta la santé du Roi d’Angleterre que je bus, et puis celle de V. M. a M. le Chancelier, qui s’en acquita dignement, et obligea tous ces seigneurs de la célébrer avec respect et joye. Aprés le repas, je fus conduit 4 mon carosse, et jamais M. le Chancelier ni tous ces messieurs ne youlurent se retirer, que je ne fusse parti. Si je parle de tous ces honneurs que l’on ma rendus, ce n’est pas que j’en veuille tirer ni vanité, ni avantage, c’est seulement pour faire scavoir 4 V. M. comme elle est honorée et estimée en cette Cour. D A List of such Shipps as were at Sceaueling in attending on his Maty at his returne to England, with an Account of the then Commanders in each Ship, as also an Account of the Gratuity: from a paper mm the British Museum. June 19, 1660. Names Commanders Men Guns Gratuities Naseby, alias Charles . . . Roger Cuttance . 500 80 80119 6 London , . . . John Lawson. 360 64 58013 6 Swiftsure . . . . . Sir Richd Stayner 300 40 44413 6 Speaker, alias Mary -. .. Rob. Clarke’. ~'). 220° 52° 29517 | 0 Centurion... 2 es 4 JObm Parke’). 150) (4020917 6 Plymouth . . . Jo. Haywarde . 260 54 998 7 10 Cherriton, alias ‘Speedwell . « Henry Cuttance. 90 20 12215 6 Dartmouth. . . « Richd Rooth . 100 22 134 4 2 ieairk-.. A : t . Tho. Levidge . 40 10 557 6 8 Hinde . 4 : 2 . Richd Country . 35 6 5515 8 Nonsuch frigate mir eoe ee vee John arker . 120 34 19418 0 Norwich. 2 F . Mich. Untton . 100 22 133 0 0 Winsby, Happy Return. . Joseph Ames. 160 44 173 6 9 Royal James... . . John Stoakes . 400 70 369 4 8 Lamport, alias Henrietta . . John Coppin . 210 50 274 1 4 Meeker Sy . . Tho. Bunn. . 200 48 210 2 2 Portsmouth ae eiath ai ca Phob. ansum.\) « 130) 38.0 155). 6 3 Manmewh > . -.... ... Cha. Wager . 160 44 215 2 0 Assistance. . . . +. . Thos Sparling . 140 40 16017 4 Foresight . . . . #. . Peter Mootham . 140 40 17619 4 Peete se) Mark. Harrison .~110) 36, 172:10).3 Bradford, Success . . . . Peter Bower - 100 24 SUROITeM es... | 14 klenty, Terne , ..130 38 fl 9-1 Greyhound. . . . . . Jorem. Country . 85 20 95 15 10 Francis Bee eee Pee ey ce ne Ne ele 4) AB EOC VTS: 6 rey te ) he DORM Pearce eA ee Pe Hawk. . Andw Ashford . 35 8 4816 3 Richmond, formerly Wakefield . John Pointz . 100 22 118 2 0 Martin i - W™ Burrowes . 50 Merlyn « Edw. Grove.. . 3416 0 0 Roe, ketch Peers. So hal Bowry. . 51 8 848 APPENDIX E Erectio Edwardi Mountagu, Nob. Ord. Gart. Militis, in Baronem Montagu de St. Neots, Vicecomitem de Hinch- inbroke, et Comitem de Sandwiche. Rex, &c., Archiepiscopis, &c., Salutem. Cum nihil majus muniat ma- gisque illustret regale solium, quam ut nobiles militent, aut milites nobilitentur: cumque predilectus et perquam fidelis consiliarius noster Edwardus Mountagu (prefectus generalis classis nostre, et nobilissimi ordinis Garterii miles) ab antiquissimis ejusdem nominis de Shipton Montacute in agro Somersetensi baronibus, necnon inclitissimis Saris- buriz olim Comitibus, genus deducit suum: propinquiori vero gradu ab alio Edwardo Montagu, equite aurato, Domino Placitorum Commu- nium quondam Justiciaro, cujus pronepotes in lined recté (ultra trei pronepotes eorundem sorores, honorifict nuptas) fuerunt Edwardus, nuper Baro Montagu, de Boughton, vir heroice et prisce probitatis; Gualterus Montagu, miles; Henricus Comes Mancestrie, post pent omnia magistratis vocabula percussa, que mereri possit togata virtus, Dominus Privati Sigilli Custos; Carolus Montagu, eques auratus et officio militari laudabiliter functus; Jacobus Montagu, reverendissimus Wintoniensis Episcopus; postremo autem Sidneius Montagu miles, Libellorum Supplicium Magister, istius Edwardi pater: cumque idem Edwardus, genus virtute superans, postquam summam totius classis Anglicane gubernationem antead divisam adeptus esset propter egregiam indolem, et solus et admodum adolescens, arrepté ansd, ita nautarum sensim animos inflexerit, ut marinam feritatem exuerint, et in obedien- tiam pristinam, singulari nostri amore, incredibili voluptate redierint; interim in fluxu maris, contribuente non parum refluxui terrarum reg- norum trium; quorum (ut orbis magni) fundamenta Deus posuit super aquas: undé preefatus consiliarius noster retulit naves, retulit portus, retulit maria altera regna (claves, portas, mcenia Britanica) nos demum, in operis coronidem, et charissimos fratres nostros retulit Britannie, acceptos Skevelingis Hollandicis in Regiam classem jubilantem et red- ditos Doroberniz, duce scilicet et auspice Montacuto, quod nulla etas tacebit: Sciatis igitur, quod nos de gratia nostra speciali, ac ex certa scientid et mero motu nostris, prefatum Edwardum Montagu ad statum, gradum, stilum, titulum, dignitatem et honorem Baronis Montagu de St. Neots, in comitatu nostro Huntingtoniz, ereximus, prefecimus et creavimus; ipsumque Edwardum Baronem Montagu de St. Neots pra- dicta, tenore presentium erigimus, preficimus et creamus: i Edwardo nomen, statum, gradum, stilum, dignitatem, titulum et hono- rem Baronis Montagu de St. Neots predicté, imposuimus, dedimus et . td Bs ee ee en APPENDIX 349 prebuimus, ac per presentes pro nobis heredibus et successoribus nostris, damus, imponimus et prebemus; habendum et tenendum eidem nomen, statum, gradum, stilum, dignitatem, titulum et honorem Ba- ronis Montagu de St. Neots predicta, prefato Edwardo et heredibus masculis de corpore suo legitimé exeuntibus in perpetuum. Volentes et per presentes concedentes, &c. Ac imsuper pro consideratione predicté, de uberiori gratia nostra speciali, ac ex certa scientia et mero motu nostris, prefatum Edwardum Montagu in honorem Vicecomitis Mountagu de Hinchinbrooke in dicto comitatu Huntingdoniz ereximus, prefecimus et creavimus, ipsumque Edwardum in Vicecomitem de Hinchinbrooke predicta tenore prenes- tium erigimus, preficimus, constituimus et creamus: eidemque Ed- wardo nomen, stilum et titulum Vicecomitis de Hinchinbrooke predicta imposuimus, dedimus, et prebuimus ac per presentes imponimus, da- mus, et prebemus; habendum et tenendum statum, gradum, digni- tatem, stilum, nomen, et honorem Vicecomitis de Hinchinbrooke pre- dicté, prefato, Edwardo et heredibus suis masculis de corpore suo exe- untibus in perpetuum. Volentes, &c. Ac insuper pro consideratione predicta, de uberiori gratia nostra speciali, ac ex cert4 scientiad et mero motu nostris, prefatum Edwardum Mountagu in Comitem de Sandwich in comitatu nostro Kancie, necnon ad statum, gradum, stilum, titulum, dignitatem, nomen et honorem Comitis de Sandwich ereximus, prefecimus, insignivimus, constituimus, et creavimus; ipsumque Edwardum in Comitem de Sandwich, necnon ad statum, gradum, stilum, titulum, dignitatem, nomen et honorem Comitis de Sandwich predicta, tenore presentium erigimus, preficimus, insignimus, constituimus, et creamus: eidemque Edwardo, statum, gradum, stilum, titulum, dignitatem, nomen et honorem Comitis de Sandwich predicté imposuimus, dedimus, et prebuimus, ac per pre- sentes imponimus, damus, et prebemus, ac ipsum Edwardum hujus- modi statu, gradu, stilo, titulo, dignitate, nomine et honore Comitis de Sandwich, per gladii cincturam, cape honoris et circuli aurei impositi- onem inyestimus, et realiter nobilitamus per presentes; habendum et tenendum nomen, statum, gradum, stilum, titulum, dignitatem, nomen et honorem Comitis de Sandwich, cum omnibus et singulis przeminen- tiis, honoribus, czeterisque hujusmodi statui, gradui, stilo, titulo, dig- nitati, nomini, et honori Comitis pertinentiis sive spectantibus prefato Edwardo et heredibus masculis de corpore suo exeuntibus in per- petuum: Volentes, &c. Et quia crescente statfis celsitudine necessarid crescunt sumptus et onera grandiora, ac ut idem Edwardus et heredes masculi de corpore suo exeuntes, juxta dicti nominis Comitis de Sandwich decentiam et statum sic nobilitati melius decentius et honorificentius se habere, ac 350 APPENDIX onera ipsis incumbentia manutenere et supportare valeant, et eorum quilibet valeat, ideo de uberiori gratia nostra speciali, ac ex certa sci- — entia et mero motu nostris, dedimus et concessimus, ac per presentes — pro nobis, heredibus et successoribus nostris damus et concedimus pra~ — fato, Edwardo, et heredibus masculis de corpore suo exeuntibus in per~ — petuum, annualem redditum viginti librarum legalis monete Anglie — singulis annis percipiendum ad Receptum Scaccarii nostri, heredum, et successorum nostrorum, per manus commissionariorum pro thesauro . nostro, vel thesaurarii et camerariorum nostrorum, heredum et succes- — sorum nostrorum pro tempore existentium, ad festa Sancti Michaelis Archangeli, et Annunciationis beate Marie Virginis, per aquales por- tiones annuatim solvendum. Volumus etiam, &c., absque fine in hana- — peris, &c. Eo quod expressa mentio, &c. In cujus, &c. Teste, &c. xij. Julii anno regni nostri duodecimo. 3 F From the original in the Bodleian Library. [Endorsed in Pepys’s handwriting—* Given me by Mr W. Belcher, a copy of what was reade in the pulpitt at Bowe.” ] July the 29th, 1666. The Dutch totally routed. 14 Ships taken. P 26 burnt and sunck. wf 2 Flagg ships taken, and out of them 1200 men, and what else they would, then sunck them. 4 Taken in all 6000 men. oil Oure shipps have blockt up the Zealanders in Flushing, and ride before them top and top gallant. : The Dutch Fleet are gott into the Texell, and wee ride before the same. The Lord Maior ordered thanks to be given this forenoon throughout the City. re APPENDIX 351 G Inscription on Mrs. Pepys’s monument in the Church of St. Olave, Hart Street, Crutched Friars. H. S. E. Cui Cunas dedit SOMERSETIA, Octob: 283,. 1640. Patrem e preclara familia Matrem e nobili Stirpe de St Michel, Cliffodorum, ANDEGAVIA, CUMBRIA, ELIZABETHA PEPYS, Samuelis Pepys (Classi Regie ab Actis) Uxor. Que in Cenobio primum, Aulé dein educata Gallica, Utriusque una claruit virtutibus, Forma, Artibus, Linguis, cultissma. Prolem enixa, quia parem non potuit, nullam. Huic demum placidé cum valedixerat (Confecto per amzniora feré Europe itinere) Potiorem abiit redux lustratura mundum. Obiit 10 Novembris, fAtatis 29. Anno 4 Conjugii 15. Domini 1669. Arms.—Sable, on a Bend Or, between two Nags’ Heads erased Argent, three Fleurs de Lis of the first; impaling Ermine, three Roses. | H William Hewer, so often mentioned in the preceding pages, was interred in the old Church at Clapham, where the monument erected to | his memory is thus described in Manning and Bray’s Surrey, vol. iii., | page 365. ) “On the North wall,’ on a large marble scroll under two angels hold- ing the bust of a man, with an anchor over the arms, at each bottom corner. Sable, 2 Talbots’ Heads, erased in Pale Or, between as many Flanches Ermine.” H. S. E. Gulielmus Hewer de Clapham, Armiger, filius Thome Hewer Londinensis, natus Londini, Novr 17, 1642, Regi- bus Carolo et Jacobo 24is a faustissimo utriusque in patriam reditu 1660, ad infelicem alterius Anglia discessum, servus diligens, fidelis, dilectus. 1The North Aisle, with a Gallery at the west end of it, carrying it from the North Transept to the west end of the Nave, was added by Mr. Hewer previously to the year 1715. 2 The arms, as given in a plate inscribed to this Gentleman in Blome’s Bible, are Party per pale Gules and Vert, on a Chevron Or, between three Mountain Cats pas sant proper, as many Garbs of the first—Note to Manning and Bray’s Surrey. 352 APPENDIX Qui multa et perquam difficilia obivit munera, obeundis omnibus par. De Tingitani propugnaculi conservatione, quamdiu illud conservari voluit Rex optimus, de eodem tandem diruendo, cum id videbatur maximé expedire, probe curavit publici eris administer. Eorum que ad maritima spectarent negotia ita gnarus erat et expertus, ut inter Classis Regie Curatores et Prepositos optimo jure conscriberetur; in iis que commercio promovendo inservirent, ita perspicax erat et inde- fessus, ut mercature ad Indos Orientales una cum viris in re mercatoria primariis multoties preeficeretur. In singulis que ubique gessit officiis, id potissimum sibi proposuit, ut Principis honori et patrie emolumento jugiter consuleret. Ecclesiae Anglican institutis et discipline per uni- versum vite cursum firmiter et tenaciter adhesit. In Deo colendo sine fuco assiduus, in pauperibus sublevandis sine ostentatione beneficus, in amicis et convivis excipiendis facilis...... et sine luxu hospitalis. Ad — annos tres ultra septuagesimum, vitam duxit innocentem, utilem, czli- bem, mortique pié succubuit Dect 3, 1715. Hewer Edgeley Hewer,' Armiger, quem vir laudatus sanguine sibi conjunctum filii loco habuit, et heredem ex testamento reliquit, monumentum hoc exiguum grati- tudinis suze indicium posuit. ; “ At the General Election in 1685, Mr. Hewer was chosen one of the Members for Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight—Chamberlayne’s Anglie Notitia.” I B.L.] My Father’s Will. [Indorsement by S. Pepys.] ' Memorandum. That I, John Pepys of Ellington, in the county of}4 Huntingdon, Gent», doe declare my mind in the disposall of my worldly goods as followeth: First, I desire that my lands and goods left mee by my brother, Robert Pepys, deceased, bee delivered up to my eldest son, Samuell Pepys, of London, Esq', according as is expressed in the last Will of my brother Robert aforesaid. ; Secondly, As for what goods I have brought from London, or procured since, and what moneys I shall leave behind me or due to me, I desire may be disposed of as followeth: J Imprimis, I give to the stock of the poore of the parish of Bramp- ton, in which church I desire to be enterred, five pounds. i Item. I give to the poore of Ellington, forty shillings. ' Item. I desire that my two grandsons, Samuell and John Jackson, have ten pounds a piece. 4Son of the Rev. James Edgeley, mentioned in the Life, p. xxxv. APPENDIX 353 Ttem. I desire that my daughter, Paulina Jackson, may have my largest silver tankerd. Item. I desire that my son John Pepys may have my gold seale-ting. Lastly. I desire that the remainder of what I shall leave be equally distributed between my sons Samuel and John Pepys and my daughter Paulina Jackson. All which I leave to the care of my eldest son Samuel Pepys, to see hoses if he shall think fit. In witness hereunto I set my hand. K B.L. orig.] [Endorsed—* Decemb. 16th, 1688. His H. the P. of Orange’s Order from Windsor, to the Lord Dartmouth, about the disposing of the Fleete.”’] It being for the service of the nation, we doe require you to leave under the command of St John Berry, Knight, the shipps of warr and fier ships mentioned in the margen, at Spitthead;? in which Order to him you are to direct and require that he be very carefull to send, from time to time, two or more frigets to cruce on this coast, as he shall judge most fitting, to prevent any affrount that may be committed by the French or others; you are also to direct him to be very strickt not to suffer any vessel to sayle out of Portsmouth harbour with suspected persons on board; you are to supply the squadron you leave there, out of your fleet, what provision you can with safety to yourselves spare; and, so soon as you have given your necessary orders in these matters, you are forthwith, wind and weather permitting, to sayle with the rest of the ships of warr, fier-ships, and tenders, not named in this Order, to the Buoy of the North,? unless such of the fleet as you shall judge not fitt for the sea, and in that case you are to order them into Ports- mouth harbour, where they are to stay for further orders from us. Tis our pleasure, that you immediately send an Order to the Commissioner of that place, that there be a stopp putt and nothing further done to- wards the fitting out of any ships or vessels of warr in that harbour of Portsmouth, till our further pleasure be known; and also you are to give a generall Order to the proper officers of the fleet in those parts, that no more men be listed or entertained on board any of the men of wart, fier-ships, or tenders; and so soon as you arrive at the Buoy of the Nore, you are to signifie the same to the Secretary of the Navy. +Elizabeth, St. Albans, Dover, St, David, Tiger, Mary, Deptford, Swallow, 4 gga Bristol, Richmond fire- ship, Defyance, Constant Warwick, Woolwich by Pearls ® Quere, Nore? VOL. Iv. x, a4 354 APPENDIX And for so doing this shall be your warrant. Given under my Hand : and Seal the 16th of December, 1688. LS. G. Prince p’ORANGE. L S. Pepys’s Account cf Mr. Meheux’s singular memory. Saturday, September 16, 1698. This day, at my table, Lord Clarendon, Captain Hatton, Dr Smith, and I, each successively at his pleasure, dictated 60 independent words set down in numerical order, to Mt Meheux; which, after a silent pause of about eight minutes, he repeated in the same order backwards and forwards. He also answered our demands, of any of them singly, by their number only, out of all order; and this without the least failure, or so much as hesitancy, saving only that, in his first recital, he stopped at the word budget, which, in repeating the words backwards imme- diately afterwards, he quoted right. Nor did he stint us to any number of words, inviting us to go on beyond 60, which we thought abundantly enough. Memorandum, that he objected to the word Heautontimo- roumenos, not for its length, but praying that each word might be sig- nificative of something which he understood. Captain Hatton, who had seen the like experiment in France, asking him whether his making another trial presently upon a fresh set of words would not entirely — efface the memory of the first, which was the case with him in France, — he said it would not, if he proposed to himself the remembering of the former; and he was-now ready to have given us a proof of it, had we insisted on it. ; S. P: M B.L. } Extract from a paper without date. [Endorsed—* The Coffee-House-Paper, wherein ye scandalous intel-_ ligence touching Mr Pepys.” ] “On Tuesday last, Mt Peeps went to Windsor, having ye confidence yt he might kisse ye King’s hand; and being at Court, mett the Lord Chamberlain and made his complent to his Lordshipp. But his Lord- shipp told him yt he wondered he should presume to come to Court before he had cleared himselfe, being charged with treason; whose an- swer was, his innocency was such, that he valued not any thing he w s charged with; soe parted with his Lordshipp; but by the favour of some courtiers, he was brought into ye King’s presence: but so soon as his Majtie saw him, he frowned and turned aside, showing his dislike 0: seeing him there.” APPENDIX 355 The following contradiction to this statement appeared in The Do- mestic Intelligencer, and News from Town and Country, 15th and 26th September, 1679:—“ These are to give notice that all and every part of the relation published in The Domestic Intelligencer the 9th of this in- stant September, is, as to the matter, and every particular circumstance therein mentioned, altogether false and scandalous, there having no such passage happened, nor any thing that might give occasion to that re- po BG N The Diploma sent by the University of Oxford to Mr. Pepys, Upon his presenting the Portrait of Dr. Wallis to their Picture Gallery, October, 1702. Ornatissimo, Optimoque, Viro Samurtr Perrys, Armigero, Regibus Carolo Secundo et Jacobo Secundo a Secretis Admiralize, Universitas Oxoniensis. Te de litteris optimé mereri (Vir ornatissime!) si non multis aliis, hoe uno argumento probari possit, quod litteratorum honori tam im- pensé faves: certe ante oculos gratissimum simul atque splendidissimum munificentiz vestre atque in nos benevolentize exemplum quotidie cum laude tua observabitur, neque in doctissimi Professoris imagine ipsam quasi depictam mathematicen, insolitamque animi vestri descriptam be- nignitatem satis unquam mirabimur. Et quidem preclare indolis est posse magnum Wallisium in pretio habere, qui hihil unquam vulgare aut saquit, aut fecit, tendit in altos multa cura litterarum tractus, sub- limesque aperit mathematum vias, ccelis proximus quos metitur, et sideribus stellisque quorum numerus ejus arithmetice patet, omnesque nisi Lynceum atque Aquilinum oculum fugit. Tu solertissimus tam ceelestis ingenii estimator, dum tantum in alio meritum suspicis, et dum tam eximii, tam perspicacis in rebus abstrusissimis Viri similitudinem nobis proponis, egregize mentis tue erigis immortalitatem: non illius forme atque titulis tantum, verum fame etiam nomen tuum inscribis, et quantus sis non obscuré inde judicare possumus, quod talem Virum Genti nostrz, et litterati Orbis tam. grande ornamentum, in amicum tibi cooptasti; pulchré similes unit amor, atque in eadem tabula in secula juncti vivatis, utrique perpetuis nostris encomiis dignissimi, quo- tum alter Academiam exornat, alter ipsum ornantem. At non a sola istius tabule diuturnitate utriusque immortalitas estimanda est. Illum Motis Leges et quicquid uspiam cceli terrarumque ab humana mente capi, quedam que a solé Wallisiand inveniri possunt non morituris descripta voluminibus omnium temporum admirationi consecravere; patet vero in laudes tuas ipse Oceanus, quem illa tam bene instructa classe contravisti, que et potentissimorum hostium, et voracissimorma x2 356 | APPENDIX fluctuum iras potuit contemnere. Tu felicioribus quam ullus unquam Dedalus armamentis naves tuas firmasti, ut navigantium non tantum — gloria fuerint, vérum etiam saluti. Tu certé Ligneis Muris Britanniam ~ munivisti, et quod ad utrumque Polum (sive quiddam novi exploraturi, — sive victoriam circumferentes) vela nostri explicare potuissent, sola tua cura effecit. Alii res arduas mari aggredi ausi sunt, tuum vero pro- — fundius ipso Oceano ingenium audaces reddidit; quod mira arte, sive passis velis sive contractis ageretur, excogitavit, ut id tuto poterant pre- stare. Aliorum virtuti forsan debemus, ut res magne agerentur, sed ut agi potuissent, propria gloria est industrie tue. Fruere ergo felix hac ~ parte laudis tue, que tamdiu duratura est, quamdiu erit in usu Pyxis nautica, aut cursus suos peragent Sidera: quam quidem (omissis aliis rebus a quibus immortali gloria viges) ideo tantum memoramus, ne sis ~ nescius probé nos scire quanto a Viro beneyolentia ista in nos con- feratur, quam gratis animis amplectimur ut non plus debeant artes at- que scientie Wallisio, neque Reges et Britannia tibi, quam ob hoc pre- clarum munus nos tibi oberatos leti sentimus, atque optamus ut hoc gratitudinis nostra testimonium observatissime in te nostra mentis viva imago parem cum vestraé fama perennitatis circulum describat, atque adeo sit zterna. Datum in Domo Convocationis, Vicesimo tertio die Mensis Octobris, Anno Domini millesimo septingesimo secundo. Sigillat: in Domo Convocationis, Vicesimo nono ejusdem Mensis — Octobris Annoque Domini supradict. O. A List of all the Persons to whom Rings and Mourning were presented upon the occasion of Mr. Pepys’s Death ale Funeral. Rings of Mourning. PERSONS. 20s, | 158. | 108, Mr. Sam! and John Jackson, his 2 vv6é10 Nephews pe Rt ate ve ~| VV Brd. Pieces capiain § St. Michel, his brother-in- to Samuel. aw die SE v } Ditto, his s daughter, Mrs. Mary . Vv E.of Sandwich . ‘ 3 Vv Relations, Dr, Montagu, Dean of Durham | . Vv viz. Mr. Pickering Vv Mr. Roger Pepys, of Impington Vv Mr. and Mrs. Matthews : 3 ot VOW Mr. Tim. Turner, Minister of Tooting Vv Mr. Bellamy . . Setge rt ave Vv Carried over 8 4 APPENDIX PERSONS. Brought over 8 - Mr. SamlGale—S. P.’sgodson .. Godchildren, Ditto viz. Lt. Edwards Mrs. Frances Johnson, his god. ag me - + 7 : " ts. Ma MOF nes 5 = apes Domestics « eRe, Ditto, hermaid . at nee. His own 7 men and women servants Mr. Richard Gibson Mr. Paul Lorrain . Wats ; E Ditto, his Wife 4 - eee ee poe John Wetton . = 2 2 : < Sam! Holcroft. - > < = : Mrs. JanePenny . = Mrs.Jane Fane. : Mrs. Mary Ballard . - Ditto, her Husband « P Mrs. Eliza Hughson . y + Ditto, her Husband. ae Dr.Sloane . a Ee Dr. Shadwell. vants and dependents, viz. 44 Chirurgeon, Serjt Bernard . ° r Apothecary, Mr. Ethersey . : “ Lawyer, Judge Powis . é : 2 Serivener, Mr. West. ‘ ‘i Ditto, his Clerk, Mr. Martin 2 : Goldsmith, sr Ra Hoare - ? A Ditto, his Foreman, Mr. Arnold. Bookbinder, Mr. Beresford . - Ditto, his Sewer, Mr. Wetton . ‘“ Self, as Executor . a : : Vv Mr. Sam! and Mrs. - Sd igh.) Edgley, < Ditto, their 3 Children Mr. Arthur. s : Blackbourn, Mr, W™ and Isaac crater, {BRB Baer‘ wiley ‘it to. aughters shal : and Margaret . Sargison, pea vid. Navy Office Mr. Forbes, Chaplain . : : Domestics. Mr. Foster, Steward . . : Ditto, his Wife : q - Mr. Saville, the Minister . Mr. Horne, late Lecturer . Clapham. } Mr. Pritchard, present — Mr. Urban Hall. Mr. Juxon = . Royal Sir John Hoskins, Vice-President Society. Mr. Abraham Hill. A Mr. Hunt, Operator 2 Dr. Quadring, Master of Magdalene College. F Cambridge. } Dr. Bentley, Master of Trinity Col. Dr. Aldrich, Dean of Christ ouners Dr. Wallis, Professor . 2 . Dr. Gregory, Ditio Oxford. {BE Charlett, —— of University College - = General, viz. 4 +444 Carricd over | 21 Rings of 44 444 4 44 <44<44 30 4444 44 12 357 Mourning. y 65 Gu. Las 358 Admiralty. Com- missioners. Officers. APPENDIX PERSONS. Brought over Mr. Burchett, Barretary Sir Thomas Littleton, Treasurer, a Supporter . Sir Richard Haddock, Controller Mr. Furzer, Surveyor . . Mr. Sergison, Clerk of the Act = Mr. Atkins . eA oie Mr. Tollett . ° 4 Si Rise Mr. Hammond . . . . Mr. Lyddall . SP OLISN ey unt Mr. Greenhill 4 ° Mr. Timewell. . 5 . . Navy Clerks. { = JOHNSON tae eae Auditors. | Clergy. Sir. Laity. Mr. r. John Crawley . 4 . Housekeeper, Mrs. Griffin . . Principal, Mr. { Badezs eM Deputys, Mr. Byenell mit Archbishop of Canterbury . - Bishop of London Dean of Worcester, Dr. . Hickes, who performed the service : Dr. Smith + 4 . Be Millington a . Dr.Gibson . 5 5 Archdeacon Baynard . eee oe eee Mr. Coppin, Pulatar of Coayenga Ditto, a Reader . Earl of Clarendon, a Su porter . Earl of Feversham, itto . Honble Mr. Hatton, Ditto: HonbleMr. Vernon, Ditto . Ante Deane, Ditto . wn Hodges 5 : 5 Ditto, his Son, Mr, Hodges S ; Ditto, his Partner, Mr. Haines Sir Henry Shere . 4 5 5 Sir Richard Dutton 3 5 5 Sir William Gore: (se) We Bowdler, Thomas . : Dégaléniére, Monsr et Madile 7 Dubois, Charles . Evelyn, John, Grandfather and Grandson . 5 : 5 4 Gauden, Benjamin. : 3 Houblon, Wynne and J ames , Houghton, Apothecary 4 : Hunter,Samuel . 4 s 4 Isted 5 5 4 5 4 5 5 Lowndes. 3 3 Martin, J oseph, Father| and Son é Monro’ . “ 5 | Mussard . 5 S d . * 5 Nelson. ’ 4 Fy 5 5 Penn, William 5 5 5 ‘5 : Snow, Ralph . 5 , 5 3 5 Wind, Captain © he ot Mie 5 Carried over Rings of 208, | 158, | 10s, 21 30 12 Vv v v Vv v Vv v v Vv Vv v v v v v v v v v v v v Vv 4A ¥ if Vv oY. v Vv Vv v v v v v \ Vv Vv ay Yoav v Vv Vv VV v v v 1 VV v v Vv v v 42 | 64 | 16 Nir; i, 166, 171 3 iv. 136 —, , Rebecca, intercedes for her husband, iii. 95—alluded to, i. 166, 168, 196, 216, 306; ii. 22: see Mrs. Jewkes ‘3 GENERAL INDEX —, Sir Thos., Alderman of Lon- don, i. 8, 20, 37, 169, 263—his daughter burnt, 365 —, Captain Sir Thomas, con- cludes peace with Algiers, i. 282; ii. 188; iv. 119—defeats the Duich in the Bay of Cadiz, ii. 205—arrives from the Straits, 220—dispute with Mr. Wayth, 368—portrait of him, 371—elder brother of Trinity House, iii. 16 —said to have been tried for cowardice, 105, 411—retakes an English Ship from La Roche, 389—alluded to, i. 166, 168, 196, 263, 388; ii. 11, 48, 200, 204, 256, 330, 401, 431; iii. 95, 99, 275; iv. 2, 3, 60, 89, 119, 135, 136, 144, 148, 167, 181 Allerton Maleverer, Yorkshire, i. 48 Allestry, the bookseller, iii. 298 All Hallows’ Church, i. 46; ii. 174 —register of, i. 338 Allington, Baron, iii. 86, 91 * “All night I weepe,” a song, iii. 58 ~“ All’s Lost by Lust,” a tragedy, i. 161 All Souls’ College, Oxford, i. 90; iii. 458 Alsopp, Mr., the divine, i. 236 » Mr., the king’s brewer, ii. 96, 149—his death, 153 Alstead, his Encyclopedia, i. 117 Ambassador, Dutch, i. 10; ii. 136, 164, 171, 213; iv. 104 —————_., French, i. 222; ii. 52, 225; ii. 376; iv. 3, 29 ————_——,, Portuguese, i. 198; iii. 143 ——————., Russian, i. 352, 356, 8365, 370; ii. 5 Ambassador, Spanish, i. 185, 222, 225; iii. 82, 258; iv. 29, 167, 341 ——___—_., Swedish, i. 221, 233; iii. 72, 110, 196 ————_—_—,, Venetian, iv. 29 Ambassadors of Spain and France, affray between, i. 222, 224 Ames, Captain Joseph, iv. 347 Amsterdam, plague at, ii. 48, 53, 68, 124—letters from, 237—un- popularity of De Witt at, 432— alluded to, 256; iii. 67, 83; iv. 211 Amy Robsart (Lady R. Dudley), li. 327; iv. 328 365 Anabaptists, i. 41, 160 Ananias and Sapphira, story of, i. 313 Anderson, Mr., i. 186 Andrews, Mr., ii. 187, 287, 294; iii. 35 Angel,-a gold coin, i. 85, 184; ii. Q94; iii. 194 —— Tavern, ii. 296 Angell, the actor, iii. 382 Angelo, Michael, iv. 196 Angier, Percival (cousin of Pepys), i. 180, 200, 218, 332; ii. 80—his death, 203 Anglesey, Lord, i. 85, 172; ii. 188, 214; iii. 161, 168, 170, 172, 174, 210, 214, 228, 256, 264, 278, 315, 318, $21, 332, 342, 350, 358, 372, 415, 441, 449, 468, 473, 474; iv. 15, 20-23, 41-44, 47, 49, 81— made treasurer of the Navy, iii. 183, 185—character of, 185: see Annesly Angling, improvements in, ili. 87 Anjou, Duke of, his intention of espousing the Princess Henri- etta, i. 106, 160—allusion to, 150 Annapolis, iii. 126 Anne, of Austria, i. 224; ii. 17 , of Denmark, i. 288 , of Prussia, iii. 352 » Mrs. (Lady Sandwich’s maid), i. 168, 169 ; Queen, touches for the evil, i. 84 , alluded to, iv. 302, 315 ——, the yacht, iv. 240 Annesley, Captain, iv. 98 Annesly, Mr. (afterwards Earl of Anglesey), privy councillor, i. Annus Mirabilis, extract from, iii. 145 Antelope, the, ii. 205; iv. 191 Anthems, i. 101, 111, 113, 279, 364, 393; ii. 67, 77, 199, 358, 370, 430; iii. 16, 472; iv. 14, 180 “ Antipodes, The,” a play, i. 211 Antrim, Earl of, ii. 97 Antwerp, i. 253; ii. 206—citadel of, iv. 69—alluded to, 211 “ Apology for Papists,” iii. 22, 68 Apothecaries’ Hall, i. 148: see Blackfriars Playhouse Appendix, iv. 321 Appesly, Colonel, i. 263 366 GENERAL INDEX Arthur, Sir D., iv. 279 Arts and sciences, decline of the, “ Appius and Virginia,” a play, iv. 173 Apposition at St. Paul’s School, i. 6 Apple-trees, in the Park, iv. 15 Appleyard, Mr., iii. 457 ——., John, iv. 329, 330 ———, Roger, iv. 330 Apprentices, put in the guard- chamber, i. 17—placed in the pillory, but rescued, ii. 110—pull down the brothels in Moorfields, iii. 406, 408—condemned to death, AlT Apsley, Sir Allen, particulars con- cerning, ii. 18—his behaviour in the House of Commons, iii. 33, 34—alluded to, 224 , Sir Anthony, ii. 363 Aquitaine, Duke of, i. 174 Arched vial, the, ii. 173 Archer, Mrs. Mary, i. 236, 238 Arches, Court of, i. 380 Arethusa, character of, iii. 454 Argall, family of, i. 161 “Argalus and Parthenia,” a pas- toral, i. 149, 151, 229 Arlington, Lady, noticed, li. 413; “TI , Lord, his difference with Sir William Coventry, ii. 455; iii. 372, 376—his portrait, by Lely, ii. 473—alluded to, i. 90, 92, 335; ii. 266, 281, 316, 321, 345, 357, 413, 436, 440; iii. 67, 71, 87, 90, 91, 102, 115, 117, 119, 128, 161, 162, 168, 186, 192, 195, 234, 289, 303, 333, 376, 380, 401, 412; iv. 1, 18, 19, 29, 30, 31, 39, 42, 44, 51, 52, 56, 63, 82, 119, 132, 144, 154, 162 Armerer, Sir William, iii. 255 Armiger, Mr., i. 156, 162—esquire to a knight at the Coronation, 174—alluded to, 231 Arms, Republican, exchanged for the king's, i. 47, 58, 60, 422—set up in divers places, 46, "41, 58, 75 Arnold, Mr., iv. 357 Arran, Lord, singular wager won by, ii. 158—figures in a masquer- ade, 208 , Richard, earl of, ii. 208 Arras, town of, i. xii. Arrét of Louis XIV., against Alex- ander VILI., ii. 261 “ Artamine,” i. 129: see Cyrus Arundel Castle, restored, ii. 302 Ascew (Askew), Mr., his death, iv. Ascue, Sir G., ii. 87, 173, 183, 198, Ash, Simeon, i. 119 Ashburnham, Earl of, i. 85 tices of, ii. 324, 331; iii. 29—cha ii. 367, 478; iii. 29, 121, 246, 394, Ashby, town of, i. 23 in England, iv. 336 » Earl of, iii. 20, 40, 354 House, seat of Mr. H. How-— ard, i. 189; iii. 40, 139, 140, 302, 314, 477; iv. 38, 48, 204 3 manuscripts, iii. 40 marbles, i. xviii. 201 201, 310—made Admiral, 256— portrait of, 371—report of hi being taken prisoner by Dutch, 390, 398—high deman for his ransom, iii. 244 House, iii. 121 ‘ ,» Mr. John, i. 327—no- acter of, iii. 17—alluded to, i. 56, 85; iii. 17, 85, 90, 238, 246 , Sir John, his vindic tion of his ancestors, ii. 324, 331 , William, the coffere 480; iv. 5, 6, 21, 29 » town of, i. 85 Ashford, Andrew, iv. 347 ly Ashley, Anthony, ii. 457 A , Lady, ili. 254 | » Lord, Chancellor of Exchequer, ii. 293—takes bribe, 378, 381, 397—his dispul with the Earl of Ossory, iii 3. —Commissioner for the — ury, 130, 132—his illness, 4 - alluded to, i. 419, 424; ii. 5, 1 203, 226, 227, 365, 464; iii. 4 45, 96, 140, 142, 161, 195, 256, 261, 314, 332, 342, 418; iv 21, 54 , Walter, the trumpeter, iv. 229 Ashmole, Elias, the antiquary, i 116, 187 i; Ashmolean MS. quoted, iv. 325 Ashted, i. 305; li. 27 Ashton Hall, i. $48 Ashwell, Mary, i. 384, 397, 399, 406, 407; ii. 7, 83 ‘ Askew, Sir J., 1. 215 } Assay Office, experiments at, i. 421 ; GENERAL INDEX Assistance, man-of-war, i. 56, 79; iv. 347 Assurance, the, man-of-war, i. 129; iv. 191 Astrop Wells, iv. 308 Atber, Captain, wounded, ii. 391 “ Athene Cantabrigienses,” i. xix. “Athene Oxonienses,” extract from, i. 213, 214 Athens, iii. 369 Athlone, Lord, iv. 283 Atkins, Col., iii. 471; iv. 43 , Mr., iv. 230, 358 +» Samuel (Pepys’s clerk), trial of, i. xix. xx. , Sir Robert, ii. 267 Attwaters, Mary, i. 246 Aubigny, Lord, ii. 21, 48 Aubrey, John, his Miscellanies, i. 128 Aucklands, the Lords, iv. 147 Audley End, account of, i. 29— visit of Charles II. to, ii. 361— his purchase of it, ib—portrait of Lady Essex Howard at, iii. 1l—of Mary Davis, 80—house- hold book at, 167—alluded to, i. 115, 176, 305; ii. 25; iii. 267, 269; ivy. 32—privilege of the posses- sors of, 237 Audley, Hugh, dies immensely rich, i. 351—his “ Way to be Rich,” 351, 376—allusion to, iii. 286, 352 , Lord Chancellor, i. 29; iv. 237 Augustine Fryers, the, ii. 171 Auricular confession, sermon against, i. 319 Aurum Fulminans, with, ii. 61 Axe-yard, house belonging to Pepys in, i. 1, 37, 98, 100, 179; Axtell, Daniel, his execution, i. 114; iv. 322 Aylesbury, Lord, ii. 383 ere Earl of, iv. 136—town of, ib. Aylett, Captain, ii. 399 Aynsworth, Mrs. (of Bishop Stort- ford), iii. 265, 448 Ayres, Colonel, i. 27 ——, Major, iv. 260 —, the pilot, iv. 224 “ Ayres and Dialogues,” i. 256 experiment 867 Baber, Sir John, the king’s phy- Sician, ii. 343, 362; iv. 209 Baboon, brought from Guinea, i. 211 Backewell (Bakewell), Alderman, i. 86, 89, 134, 193, 285, 327; ii. 67, 94, 257, 266, 269, 476; iii. 150, 302, 348, 418, 434, 473; iv. 27, 31, 34, 71, 143, 148, 175, 178 ——————., Mrs., iii. 348, 434 Bacon, Captain, killed, ii. 387, 390 ——, Francis, Lord Chancellor, his “Faber Fortune,’ ii. 362—al- luded to, i. 185; ii. 93; iv. 337 » Friar, iii. 459 Bacon, Sir N., i. 215 “Badge of Sincerity,” order of the, iv. 250 Bagford, Mr., Pepys’s letters to, iv. 259, 260 Bagge, Frank, i. 226 Bagot, Hervey, Esq., ii. 401 Bagshot, iii. 253; iv. 19 Bagwell, Captain, ii. 400 » Mrs., ii. 396; iv. 117 Bailey, Old, execution at, i. 369— destroyed by the great fire, ii. 446— trial at, iii. 28 Bailey’s Dictionary, i. 252 Baker, the printseller, iv. 247 , the purser, iv. 142 Baldock, i. 206, 219; ii. 42 Balendin, kills Sir John Gooscall, i. 128 Bales, Mrs., iii. 23 , Tom, iii. 16 Baliol, John, king of Scotland, ii. 278 » William, seat of, ii. 278 Ball, Captain, ii. 455—prize-money awarded to, iv. 193 » Dr., i. 347; iv. 142 . Mr., iii. 234, 402; iv. 36 ,» Sir P., the queen’s at- torney, i. 288, 319; iii. 46 Ball at St. James’s, child dropped there, i. 381, 385 Ballard, Mrs. Mary, iv. 357 Ballers, company so called, iii. 454 Balliol College, iii. 473 Balls, grand, at court, i. 367, 381, 395; ii. 480; iii. 11; iv. 143 Bally, Mr., ship built by, iii. 464 Baltic, the, i. 42 Balty: see Balthazar St. Michel Ramborough charities, iii. 97 368 Banbury waters, ili. 476 i laced, worn by gentlemen, i. Banes, Mr., made prisoner, i. 40 Rr Mr., ii. 430; iii. 419, 412, Bankers, distress of the, iii. 150, 157, 160, 165, 169 Bankert, Captain, ii. 255—his ship burnt, 424 Bankes, Sir John, ordered to at- tend the Bar of the House, i. xviii—reported assertions of, xix.—his recovery of money from the Dutch, ii. 95—alluded to, iv. 71, 136, 169, 227 , Sir Joseph, ii. 394 Banks, national, ii. 433 Bankside, ii. 443 Bannister, the musician, iii. 69 Banquetting House, Whitehall, i. 85, 170, 425; ii. 7 Banstead Downs, races on, i. 425; ii. 25, 30 Barbadoes, hurricane at, ili. 21; ship lost on her passage from, 214—-defeat of the French at,- 246—fire at, 468 “Barbara Allen,” a song, ii. 339 Barbary Company, arms of the, i. 423 Barber, Mr., iii. 163 Barbers’ music, i. 79 Barclay (Berkley), Mr., created a peer, iv. 338 , Sir W., comedy by, i. 145 Barebones, Mr., noticed, i. 21—de- molition of his windows, 23, 27 Barkeley: see Berkeley Barkley, George, his travels, ii. 72 Barker, Mr., ii. 92 > —, iii. 401 , Alderman, ii. 73—trial brought by, iii. 230, 241 (Pepys’s maid), ii. 475; iii. 1, 35, 98, 107, 126 , Sir William, iii. 230 Barkestead, John, his arrest, i. 264, 265—his execution, 272—al- luded to, 342, 345, 346 Barking Church, endangered by the great fire, ii. 446, 447 ————— Creek, iii. 150 Barkshire, Ist Earl of, ii. 289, 419; iii. 13, 25, 80, 107; iv. 16 Henry Bowes, 4th Earl of, iv. 16 GENERAL INDEX —___—— House, seat of the Earl of Berkshire, iii. 13, 437 Barlow, Thomas, Clerk of the Acts, i. 86, 87, 89, 90, 94, 95, 96—his death, ii. 209 Barnardiston, Sir Samuel, iii. 439 Barne-Elmes, ii. 426; iii. 136, 145 —a place for rural recreation, 116, 194, 228, 351, 405; iv. 1 Barnes, Mr., iii. 149 Barnet, wells at, ii. 142; iii. 217 —alluded to, ii. 100, 155, 177; iii. 273, 457 Barnewell Abbey, iii. 451 Barnewell, Mr., his illness, i. 137 —alluded to, 170, 200, 219 Barnston (Pepys’s cousin), iii. 266 Baron, Argal, i. 161 —, Mr., Clerk of Privy Seal, i. 6 9 —., Lieut.-Col., i. 161; ii. 51 Barons, ceremony at their creation, i. 173—demands of the, iii. 395 Barr, Mr. Peter, ii. 400 Bartholomew Fair, ancient custom on, ii. 34—alluded to, i. 106; ii. 163, 164; iii, 230, 233, 241; iv. 12, 13, 16 5 “Bartholomew Fayre,” a comedy, 1. 197, 215; ii. 154 . Barwell, the king’s saddler, i. 317 Basinghall Street, ii. 255 Batelier, Joseph, iii. 217 , Mr., his death, iii. 265 , Mrs., ii. 269, 270, 344, 380, All, 412, 441; iii, 28; iv. 16, 55, 82 , William, ii. 428—a good dancer, 430—curious anecdote re- lated by, 435—his return from France, iv. 88—alluded to, iii. 5, 14, 15, 35, 44, 193, 256, 261, 294, 317, 344, 345, 356, 410; iv. 11, 18, 19, 23, 27, 33, 37, 89, 90, 99, 111,112, 145, 146, 152, 165 Bateman family, ii. 51 , Richard, ii. 51 , Sir Anthony, Lord Mayor, ii. 51, 160 Bates, Dr. Wm., i. 187—sermons by him, 310, 312, 313—alluded to, 310; iii. 152, 219 Bath, city of, ii. 33, 35, 46; iii. 462, 465 ——.,, Earl of, i. 7, 172; ii. 144 —, Lady, iii. 23 GENERAL INDEX Bathurst, Sir F. H., ii. 144 , Sir Benjamin, iv. 359 Batten, Benjamin, son of Sir Wil- liam, i. 151 ,» Mrs. Martha, i. 153, 189, 226, 235 » Lady, i. 126, 130, 149, 173, 197, 211, 216, 228, 267, 273, 322, 346, 359, 365, 372; ii. 5, 12, 227, 295, 299, 323, 443; iii. 39, 103, 132, 326, 401, 416 Batten, Sir William, notice of, i. 74—made a justice of peace, 109 —contends to be Master of the Trinity House, 284—accused of cowardice, ii. 132—his sickness, 209—receives news from the fleet, 422—his death, iii. 263, 264— buried at Walthamstow, 273— state of his affairs, 274, 277, 326, 416—his opinion of the war against the Dutch, 175—alluded to, i. 88, 98, 112, 118, 123, 126, 129, 137, 141, 144, 151, 153-155, 158, 161, 162, 168, 188, 189, 208, 210, 214, 217, 226, 228-230, 235, 245, 246, 252, 256, 257, 263, 266, 273, 287, 288, 292, 301, 305, 315, $17, 321, 322, 326, 336, 347, 351, 357-359, 371, 376, 377, 379, 387- 394, 397, 398, 402; ii. 3-8, 14, 47, 54, 234, 268, 294, 307, 319, 371, 388, 400, 423, 432, 433, 443, 445, 449-454, 455, 463, 465, 468; iii. 23, 33, 36, 42, 60, 85, 88, 101, 103, 127, 132, 134, 145, 153, 154, 157, 159, 160, 173, 192, 197, 203, 220, 228, 240, 241, 247, 248, 252, 256, 262, 320; iv. 194 Batters, Mr., his death, iii. 32 » Mrs., ii. 211; iii. 34, 54 Battersby, Mr., i. 301, 364, 373; ii. 426 154, Batteville, the Baron de, i. 185, 229-295 Batts, Captain, ii. 11—character of, iii. 340 Baulmes’ House, Hoxton, ii. 167 Baxter, Richard, i. 108, 284, 407— his life quoted, 178 Bayly, Dr. Thomas, i. 286 —, Major, iv. 115 Baynard, Archdeacon, iv. 358 , Sir R., iii. 180 Baynard’s Castle, i. 82 Beachamps, Mr., the goldsmith, i. 128; ii. 3 VOL. IVs 369 Beale, Mr. Auditor, i. 73, 93, 357; li. 223; iv. 123 Beale, Mr., of the King’s Guard, iv. 27 : ——, Simon, the trumpeter, i. 131 Bearcroft, Serjeant, iii. 75, 77 Beare, the, man-of-war, iii. 74 Bear-garden, sports at the, ii. 430; iii. 137, 247; iv. 150 —— Inn, Cambridge, i. 219, 332, 335 ———., at the Bridge foot, i. 191; iii. 97; iv. 20 Bears, harmless, ii. 73 Beasts, their food known by their teeth, ii. 421 Beaufort, Dukes of, i. 93; iii. 251 Beaumont, Dr., ii. 199 ———., le Duc de, ii. 174, 475 Buildings, i. 93 and Fletcher, plays by, 1. 102, 124, 197, 153, 159, 173, 180, 184, 234, 277, 406; ii. 72, 170; iii. 38, 58, 347, 444, 453, iv. 72, 77, 128 “ Beauty retire,” a song by Pepys, ii. 332, 334, 355; iii. 6 Beckarts, the, conspire against the Prince of Orange, ii. 256 Becke, Mrs., ii. 27, 133, 134, 137 Becket, Thomas, his tomb, i. 80 Beckford, Sir Thomas, Alderman, his present to Pepys, i. 138; iii. 380; iv. 221 , Peter, jun., i. 138; iv. 74 ,» Peter, sen., i. 138 Beckfords, family of the, i. 138 Beckman, Sir Martin, i. 261 ’ Bedell, Sir Capell, i. 56 Bedford, Duke of, his death, iv. 298 Bedford, Lord, i. 191 , Richard, ii. 11 House, ii. 249; iii. 445 , town of, iii, 458 Bedlam, in Bishopsgate, iv. 106 Beech, Capt., ii. 11 Beele, Lieutenant, iv. 207 Bees, how deprived of honey, ii. 73 —hived in a glass, 234 Beeston, Mr., the actor, i. 221; iv. 21, 94 “ Beggar’s Bush,” a comedy, i. 124, 137, 226; iii. 427 Belcher, William, iv. 350 Bell, Captain, ii. 388 870 ——, Mrs. (Pepys’s aunt), i. 211— dies of the plague, ii. 330, 338 Bellamy, Mr., iv. 356 Bellamys, ii. 59 Bellassis, Lady, ii. 352; iv. 163 —, Lord, i. 418—Governor of Tangier, ii. 199—how a mes- sage was sent to him by Charles I., 208—his subtlety, 378—pro- poses to reduce the garrison of Tangier, 471—his conduct towards Sir H. Cholmly, iii. 58 —condemned by the Duke of York, 64—on the state of public affairs, 70—displaced from the government of Tangier, iv. 13— alluded to, ii. 200, 204, 206, 208, 398, 405, 470, 480; iii. 32, 36, 51, 58, 64, 70, 82, 86, 91, 101, 194, 442, 445; iv. 83, 110, 157, 163 Bellassis, Sir Henry, (son of Lord B.) i. 56—apprehended for mur- der, 259—his duel with Tom Por- ter, iii. 207—-death in consequence of it, 214, 219 » John, murder, i. 259 Bell Tavern, King Street, i. 88, 120 —_—_——., at Maidstone, iv. 136 Bellwood, Mr., iv. 111, 112 Belsize House, the seat of Lord Wotton, iv. 6 Bendy, Mrs., ii. 120 Benevolence, a contribution to the King, i. 190, 213 Benier, Mr., i. 338 Bennet, Lady, iii. 454 5 Mar, av, 005 , Mr., the mercer, ii. 341, apprehended for A59 , Simon, iv. 280 , Sir H., made Secretary of State, i, 336, 337—his influence with the king, iv. 342—alluded to, i. 340, 341, 342, 344, 360, 362, 368, 385, 397, 404, 409, 419; ii. 22, 30, 55, 96, 137, 147, 148, 219, 223, 254, 436: see Lord Arling- ton Bens, Mr., i. 134 Benson, a fictitious name, ii. 3 Benson’s, i. 22 Bentinck, Henry, Duke of Port- land, i. 274 Bentley, Dr., made Master of Trinity College, iv. 281, 291, 357 GENERAL INDEX , Mr., the divine, iv. 251 Berealston, i. 179 Beresford, Mr., iv. 357 Bergen, attack on the Dutch fleet at, ii. 282, 283—alluded to, 293, — 298, 345, 357, 478; iii. 72, 283, — 308—naval action near, iv. 223 Berkeley, Captain, brings a letter from the Dey of Algiers to the King, ii. 56—alluded to, 62 ,» Charles, Lord, afterwards second Earl of, iii. 190 , George, Lord Berkeley, of Berkeley, afterwards Earl of Berkeley, notice of, i. 31—his seat near Epsom, 321; ii. 227—his letter to Pepys, iv. 207—attended © to, i. 72; iii. 11, 140, 190 » Henrietta, iv. 207 , John, Lord Berkeley, of Stratton, notice of, i. 31—his- mansion near St. James’s, 31; ii. 212; iv. 35—Master of the Ord- nance, ii. 182—Commissioner for Tangier, 199—sells places, iii. 172 —alluded to, i. 88, 92, 130, 295, 400, 412; ii. 45, 48, 74, 83, 114, 153, 182, 188, 203, 227, 331, 401; lii. 84, 96, 99, 138, 145, 280, 285, 394; iv. 28, 54 , Lady Christiana, iii. 279 , Lady Elizabeth, iii. 11; iv. 207 ,» Lady George, iii. 190 , Sir Charles, made Privy Purse, i. 335, 340—his interest at Court, 358, 377—alluded to, 130, 340, 362, 368, 410, 419; ii. 30; iv. 207: see also Earl of Fal-— mouth ; , Sir William, portrait of, ii. 371—killed, 397, 398—alluded to, ii. 248, 256, 258, 390: see Bar- cla Berkeley House, Clerkenwell, i. 31 Berkenheade, Sir John, i. 359 Berkenshaw, Mr., i. 247, 260; ii. 313 Berkley, Alex., his Fooles,” iv. 239 Berkshire, Earl of: see Barkshire Bernard, Charles, the surgeon, iv. 282 , Sir John, his election for Huntingdon, i. 35, 40—alluded to, 333 “Ship of — GENERAL INDEX ——,, Sir Robert, i. 35, 201, 333, 334, 358, 379, 393 Berry, Sir John, iv. 224, 226, 353 Bertie, Montagu, i. 418 » Messrs., i. 58 , James, Duke of, iv. 79, 241 Bethel, Slingsby, iv. 227 Bethell, Captain, i. 142; iii. 152; iv. 322 , Sir Hugh, iv. 322 , Sir Richard, ii. 422 Bethnal Green, beggar of, ii. 12 ——___—, Sir W. Rider’s house at, i. 226; ii. 13, 443, 452; iii. 144—alluded to, ii. 121, 452 Betsy (servant of Pepys), ii. 54, 107, 162 Betterton, the actor, account of, i. 231—his performances, 102, 157, 160, 211, 231, 261, 330, 355, 426; ii. 188; iv. 6—his illness, iii. 277, 288—alluded to, ii. 26, 90, 158, 994, 483: iii. 241, 276, 475; iv. 173 ———., Mrs., i. 261; ii. 90, 483 Betton, Thomas, his bequest, i. 237 Beverham, Mrs., ii. 323 Beveridge, Colonel, royal pardon granted to, iv. 258 Beverweert, Lord, ii. 413 Bevis, picture of, i. 274 Ts, li. 136 Bezan yacht, the, ii. 298, 306, 325, 454 Biagio da Cesena, iv. 196 Bible, increased value of the new edition, ii. 464 Bibles mounted with crosses, i. 119 Bibliothéque du Roi, at Paris, let- ters transcribed from the, iv. 334-347 Bickerstaffe, Mr., Clerk of the Privy Seal, i. 96; iv. 121 Biddeford, town of, i. xii Biddenden, traditionary story at, Biddulph, Sir Theoph., ii. 193, 288 Bide, Alderman, the brewer, iii. 221 Biggleswade, i. 201; ii. 41, 156 enine. the Quaker, i. 19, 20; iii. 196 Billingbear, iv. 179 billings, Mr., iv. 10 Billiter Lane, iii. 194, 253 Bills, John, Esq., ii. 476 871 ——, Lady, ii. 476 Billup, Mr., iv. 53 Binns, Capt. Thomas, i. 51 Birch, Colonel John, i. 104—char- acter of, ii. 465—his plan for re- building the city, iii. 73—alluded to, 108, 112; ii. 462; iii. 152, 289, 361, 374, 381, 384, 389 Bird (Burt), Nicholas, the actor, i. 329 ; Thomas, i. 29 » remarkable, ii. 120 Birkenhead: see Berkenheade Biscay, Bay of, i. 277 Bishops, unpopular, i. 111, 160, 294, 297, 348, 349, 354, 369, 420; ii. 109; iii. 328, 333; iv. 128—con- secration of, i. 117—Bill to re- store them to the House of Lords, 190—fast of the, 193— take their places in the House, 235—prohibit plays during the plague, iii. 13 Bishops-Gate, breaking out of the fire at, ii. 448 Bishopsgate Church, picture in, ii. 172; iv. 326 Street, house blown up in, iii. 87 Bishop’s Hall, Somerset, i. xxxiv. Bishop-Stortford, iii. 265, 448 Blackbrough, Mr., ii. 281 Blackburne, Robert, i. 13, 37, 90, 94, 98, 256; ii. 57, 60; iv. 77 —————., William, i. xxxv.; iv. 128, 245, 357 Blackbury, Mr., i. 312 Blackfriars, i. 118, 148; iii. 39— playhouse there, i. 148, 228; ii. 130 Blackheath, ii. 233, 291 Blackmore, the, i. 264, 265 “Black Prince,” a play, iii. 279, 287, 414 Black wall, i. 142; ii. 301, 382; iii. 157 Blackwell, Sir Ralph, iv. 4 Blaew, the chorister, iii. 223 Blagge, Margaret: see Mrs. Blake Blagrave, Thomas, i. 129, 262; ii. 166; iii. 303—notice of, ib. Blake, Captain Robert, appointed to the Worcester, i. 44—alluded to, 134, 145—his death, 169 - General, his defence of Taun- ton and Lyme, ii. 132 —, Mrs, (Blague), iv. 115, 116 z2 372 Blancford, M., Earl of Feversham, ii. 208. 395; iii, 230—made Privy Purse to the Duke of York, 234 —notice of, iv, 116 Blanch Apleton, a manor, ii. 85 Bland, Mr., i. 322, 383; ii, 113, 123, 397; iv. 67, 91 ——, Mr., jun., ii. 222, 373 ——, Mr., the vocalist, iii, 428 ——, the waterman, iv. 25 Blantyre, Walter, first Lord, iil. 114 Blany, Mr., iii. 418 Blathwayte, William, iv. 240, 288, 359 Blayton, Mr., i. 28, 29 Bleau, Cardinal, iii. 474 Blencowe, Lady, iv. 276 Blencowe, Sir John, iv. 277 Blindman’s buff, ii. 195 Blinkinsopp, accomplice of Col. Appesly, i. 263 Blockehouse, near Gravesend, ii. Q77 Blomefield’s History of Norfolk, i. ix, Blondeau, Mr., i. 155, 352, 396 Blood, charm for staunching, ii. 197—the transfusion of, iii, 10, 12, 310, 314 ‘Bloomsbury market, iii. 108; iv. 65 —_——_—_— Square, ii. 249; ili. 445 Blore, Edward, Esq., i. 27 Blount, Edward, Esq,, ii, 233 , Thomas, iy. 328-333 , Sir Richard, iv, 336, 340 Blowbladder Street, iii. 212 Bludworth, Sir Thomas, i. 310; ii. 387—refuses to advance impress money, 405—alluded to, 407— his inactivity during the great fire, 405, 440, 451; ii. 21 Blue Bells, a tavern, iii. 380, 409 Blue-Bladder Street, near Cheap- side, iii. 213 Blunt, Colonel, his house described, ii. 2833—his chariot on springs, 290—alluded to, 345 Boats, forbidden to ply on a Sun- day, i. 325—want of, in the Navy, lii. 142 : Bob-cherry, a game, ii. 250 Boccalini, Trajano, iv, 251 Boddeville, Mrs,, iii. 429 Bodham, W., i. 273; ii. 280; iii. 156, 165 GENERAL INDEX Bodleian Library, alluded to, i. yii., Xxxvi.; iv. 189, 196, 258; see Rawlinson MSS, Bodley, Sir Thomas, Life of, iv. 258 Bodsey House, the seat of Col. Williams, i. 400 \ Bodvill, Mr., ii. 123, 230 ; Bohemia, Elizabeth, Queen of, 1. 61, 66, 70, 110, 198, 209—her death, 256, 278 » King of, i. 110, 198 Baits Mr., his house burnt, ii, 160, 174 Bois-le-Due, iii. 72 Bold, Henry, i. 177 Boltele, Mr., ii. 361 Bolton, Cornet, sermon by him, iy. ——, Dr. Samuel, i. 248 ——, Sir William, Lord Mayor of London, ii. 483—his proposal for re-building the City, iii. 72—di honesty of, 317 Bombay, island of, part of Quee! Katharine’s dowry, i. 239—no- ticed, 420; ii. 26, 94 j Bond, Sir Henry, i, 133 , Sir Thomas, i. 133—buried at Camberwell, 134 ; “Bondman,” a play, i, 157, 162, 231, 236, 268; li. 153 a Bonfires, i. 22, 26, 50, 119, 120, 179, 279, 285; ii, 62, 182, 249, 373, 380, 389, 431; iii. 426 ; Bonithan, Mr., of the Navy, iy. 206 Book, imitation of a, i. 110 Booker’s Almanack, iii. 56 Books, burnt in the great fire, ii. 461, 464 : Boone, Mr., iii. 439 ' Booth, Sir G., i. 26—set at liberty, 30 : Boreman, Dr., iii. 79 a , Mr., afterwards Sir W., i. 291; ii. 193, 301, 315, 339, 3445 iii. 228—letter respecting his Mathematical school, iv. 230 — Borfett, Lord Sandwich’s chaplain, — iii, 79 Borkett, Mrs., i. 120, 126 Boscawen, Edward, ii. 462; iii, 38 Boscobel House, the asylum 6 Charles II., iv. 307 ; a Bosse, Mr., his portrait of Pepys lil. 477 Be Boswell’s Life of Johnson, i. 84 Bosworth Field, ii. 302 GENERAL INDEX Botargo, a kind of sausage, i. 191 Boteler, Sir Robert, iv. 163 » Sir William, i. 150 Botelers, the two fayre, i. 207; iy. 25 “ Boteler’s Case,” iii. 266 Bottomary, explained, ii. 69 “ Bottle of Hay,” the, iii. 214 Boughton, ii. 260 Bouillon, Cardinal de, iy. 279 Boulogne, i. 363—arrival of the Dutch before, ii. 450, 451—al- luded to, iii, 217 - Bourdeaux, capture of the Dutch fieet at, ii. 186, 192—alluded to, 273, 412, 435 Bovy, Mr., the solicitor, iii. 447 Bow, i. 313, 315; ii. 388, 428; iii, 182, 215, 456; iv. 169 Bow Street, ii. 16, 91 Bowdler, Thomas, iv. 358 Bowen, porter of Merton College, i, 262 Bower, Captain Peter, iv, 347 —, Robert, i. 56 —, George, of Elford, iy. 116 Bowes, Mr., iv. 330, 331 —,, Sir Jerom, i. 323 Bowles, John, iii. 272, 276, 457 Bowls, a game for both sexes, i. 187, 304 Bowman, Mr., i. 173 Bowry, Captain Tho., iv. 347 Bowyer, Mr. (Mrs. Pepys’s father- in-law), i. 35, 57, 190 , Mrs., i. 35, 131 . William, i. 178, 256, 317, 367; ii. 91, 164, 301 Boy, black, remains of a, ii. 292 ——, dumb, intelligence of a, iii, 7 Boyle, Lady Anne, iii. 117 ——, Lady Charlotte, iv. 30 ——, Lady Henrietta, iii. 117 —, Richard, second son of the Earl of Burlington, killed, ii. 243 ——, Robert, i. 43, 45; ii, 211; iii. 470—his death, iv. 248 Ake Book of Colours, iii. 116, 141 Book of Formes, iii. 414; iv. 92 Hydrometer, iv. 65 Hydrostatics, iii. 197, 228 Boynton, Colonel, iv. 96 5 Mrs., Maid of Honour, i. 382; ii. 179 373 ,» Sir Matthew, ii. 179; iv. Boys, Mr., i. 310 ——, Sir John, i. 46, 92—carries despatches to the Earl of Sand- wich, 52—-sails in the Nonsuch, 59 Boysse (Boyse-le-Duc), ii. 72 Bradford, the, altered to the Suc- cesse, i. 70 ’ ———., Earl of, i. 112, 348 4 Bradshaw, John, Serjeant-at-law, noticed, i. 5, 6—yote of the Par- liament respecting, 128, 129— buried at Tyburn, 148, 149—his head exposed, 151 Brahé, Count, i. 222, 333 Brampton, death of Robert Pepys at, i. 199—damage by a high wind at, 260, 262—alluded to, 195, 199, 200, 205, 243, 245, 249, 288, 298, 303, 325, 333, 424; ii. 39, 41, 79, 108, 270, 367, 468, 469, AT7, 480; iii. 28, 136, 151, 264, 268, 447-449, 457; iv. 218, 325 Church, i. 36, 333 House, i. 329 ——_——, Manor of, i. 288 Brampton, Rectory of, in North- amptonshire, i, 18 Bramston, Sir John, iii. 318—his Autobiography, ib. Brandaris, burnt, ii. 435 Brandenburg, the electors of, iy. 250 —— House, i. 22 Brantle, or Bransles, a kind of dance, i. 367; iii. 12 Braybrooke, Robert, London, iii. 9 s the Lords, ii. 42; iy. Bishop of 179 Brayley’s “Graphic Illustrator,” i. 181 Brazen-nose College, iii. 458 Bread, superior quality in France, ii, 215 Breames, Sir Arnold, i. 134; iii. 368 ————., Charles, i. 134 Breda, attraction to, i. 48—letter of Charles II. from, 51—alluded to, 56, 391; ii. 75—appointed as a place of treaty with the Dutch, iii. 72, 94, 105, 166, 184; iy. 220 —ratification of peace at, iii. 216, 220 ——, man of war, iv. 327 874. Brekington, town of, iii. 462 “ Brenoralt,” a tragedy, i. 201; iii. 219, 279 Brentford, town of, ii. 259, 285, 291, 292, 297, 313, 356; iv. 145 Brentwood, or Burntwood, ii. 276 Brereton, Lord, iii. 324, 343 Brest, iii. 38—draught of, iv. 95 Brett, Robert, D.D., iii. 75 Brewer, Captain, i. 374 Brewster, Sir David, quotation from his “Natural Magic,” ii. 273 Brian, Mr., i. 332 Bribery, common at Court, iii. 211 Bridegroom’s ribbons, i. 12, 147, 254, 382; iii. 352 Bridewell, impressed men com- mitted to, ii. 407—alluded to, iii. 39 ———,, the new, ii. 161, 173 Bridge of London, iv. 283—new one proposed from Whitehall to Lambeth, ib. Bridgeman, John, Bishop of Ches- ter, i. 112, 348 Bridgeman, Sir Orlando, notice of, i. 112, 348—appointed Lord Keeper, iii. 234, 235—alluded to, i. 350; iii, 241, 273, 276, 309, 328, 359, 395; iv. 12, 29, 47, 51, 56, 87, 88, 141, 171 Bridges, G. R., iii. 351 » Mr., iv. 358, 359 , Sir Thomas, iii. 351 » Sir Toby, ii. 181 Bridget, Dame, i. 57 Bridgewater House, iii. 13 ee al Jot ei 1s, Gl, 210, 333 Briefs, frequency of, i. 197 Brienne, Le Comte de, his Memoirs, i, 229 Brigden, Dick, i. 147, 258, 312 Briggs, Mr., i. 332 » Mr., the scrivener, ii. 229, 235 Brigham, Mr., i. 84 Brighton, ii. 455; iii. 70 Brinvilliers, family of the, i. 116 Brisband, Mr., ii. 273, 275; iii. 20, 46, 338, 356, 372, 383, 384, 405, 431 Bristol, defence of the city of, ii. 132—alluded to, 209; iii. 59, 157, 462, 463—ships building at, iv. 195 GENERAL INDEX » Earl of, his speech to the House respecting Sir R. Temple, ii. 15, 16, 17—refusal of Lord Sunderland to marry his daugh- ter, 16—impeaches Lord Claren- don, 20, 22, 24—warrants issued against, 33—obtains permission to go to France, 106—alluded to, i. 202, 265, 409, 419; ii. 12, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 55, 90, 99, 437; iii. 28, 90, 206, 254, 303, 305, 308, 309, 333, 338, 346, 402; iv. 336, 338—renounces Romanism, 343 » man-of-war, ii. 387 » Mayor of, anecdote of, i. 320 milk, iii. 464 Britannia, figure of, on the king’s medal, i. 396; iii. 74 British Museum, Sir John Den- ham’s Prologue in, i. 124—Jewel- Office Rolls in the, 138—King Edgar’s Charter, ii. 228—Prizes taken in Dutch war, 302— Pepys’s letter to Sir W. Coven- try, 339—Vandervelde’s draw- ings in the, iii. 149—Beckman’s plans in the, i. 261—Dering’s songs in, 351—Silas Taylor’s work in, ii. 56—view of the at- tack on Bergen in the, 282 Britton, John, quoted, ii. 144 (Bretton), Dr., ii. 4 Broad Face, a tavern at Reading, iii. 467 —— Street, i. 109; ii. 248; iii. 200 Broderick, Sir Allen, his indeco- rous behaviour, iii. $3—alluded to, ii. 229—his funeral sermon, iii. 33 ———., Sir St. John, iii. 34 Broghill, Richard, Lord, i. 83— play by, ii. 170 Brome, Alex., i. 404; ii, $43, 408 » Richard, plays by, i. 202, Qi1 Bromley, i. 323 Brook House, noticed, ii. 404—al- luded to, iii. 473; iv. 68 ——, Lord, his house at Hackney, ii. 404 ——, Lady, ii. 404 Brooke, Robert, of Newcells, i. 170 Brookes, Sir Robert, his death, i. xvil.; iv. 198, 199—his seat at Wanstead, ii. 236; iii, 109, 121— aa + GENERAL INDEX — 875 character of, 385—alluded to, i. 102; iii. 138, 279, 283, 307, 308, $10, 311, 322, 385 , Captain, iii. 178 Broome (Brome), Alex., the poet, i. 404; ii. 343—his death, 408 Broomfield, Mr., i. 11 Brothels, pulled down by the ap- prentices, iii. 406, 408 Brouncker family, genealogical notes of, iii. 89 » Henry (brother of Lord B.), notices of, iii. 67, 166—dis- missed from court, 232—alluded to, ii. 18, 393; iii. 255, 280-284, 421, 423, 424, 430; iv. 45, 117 ———, Lord, builds a yacht for the king, i. 311, 322—president of in College, ii. 210, 369 —apartments in the Navy Office, i. 251—his house in Covent Gar- den, ii. 340, 342, 343—Comptrol- ler of the Navy, iii. 5—his opin- ion of Parliament, 31—censured for discharging the seamen, 158 —prize-money awarded him, 254, 255—his illness, 457—translates Des Cartes’ Book of Music, iv. 72—his letter to Pepys concern- ing the chain at Chatham, 195— alluded to, ii. 186, 190, 197, 226, 257, 280, 286, 288-290-293, 295, 297, 300, 311, 319, 324, 334, 336, 340, 348, 345, 348, 351, 355, 359, 360, 362, 364, 365, 372, 379, 387, 389, 393, 414, 421, 432, 436, 450, 459, 462, 465, 472; iii. 13, 20, 30, 38-42, 47, 61, 66, 84, 89, 130, 147, 155, 157, 176, 179, 196, 223- . 225, 228, 234, 243, 255, 265, 276, 284, 289, 290, 308, 331, 355, 367, $73, 378, 380, 391-393, 397, 399, 402, 407, 410, 415, 427, 442, 443, 451, 470; iv. 3, 10, 15, 18-20, 23, 24, 34, 36, 37, 40, 42, 44, 53, 57, 61-63, 66, 76, 77, 81, 100, 105, 139, 142, 166, 167, 221, 225, 226 Brown, Sir Anthony, ii. 276 » Mr., of St. Maloes, ii. 379 Browne, Capt. Arthur, i. 143, 153, 305—his death, 408 ——,, Mrs., i. 82, 144, 189, 204 » Mr., Clerk of the House of Lords, iii. 336 ——, Mr., of Brampton, iii. 450 ——, Mr., mathematical instru- ment maker, ii. 157; ivy. 163, 170 , Mr., the painter, ii. 234, 287, 290, 375, 379; iii. 477; iv. 179—his Drawing Book, ib. » Major, afterwards Sir Richard, noticed, i. 26, 92, 164; ii. 68, 246; iii. 161, 163, 231, 447; iv. 46, 140, 200, 201, 249 » Sir Richard, Lord Mayor of London, his loyalty, ii. 246— reported design against his life, iii. 28—alluded to, i. 26, 117, 140, 230, 251, 359; ii. 78, 116, 246, 442; iii. 110; iv. 113 Brownlow, Mr., iii. 419 Bruant, beheaded, ii. 467 Bruce, John, on Westminster Hall stationers, iv. 321 » Lord, i. 418 , Mr., iv. 280 Brunetta and Phillis, a painting, iii. 15 Brussels, i. 105, 367; iii. 369 Bryan, Jacob, Purser of the Prin- cess, iii. 158 Buccleugh, Earl of, i. 324 ——., Duke of, i. 324, 406 Buchanan, George, the poet and historian, iv. 337 Buck, Dr. James, i. 226, 232 ——, Sir Peter, i. 131 Buckhurst, Lord, apprehended for murder, i. 259, 260—reproved by the Lord Chief Justice, ii. 16— his translation of “Pompey the Great,” 400—alluded to, ii. 198; iii. 188, 189, 212, 229, 289, 366; iv. 39-40 Buckingham, George, Ist Duke, killed by Felton, i. 181—alluded to, 76, 185, 248, 272; ii. 5, 201 ——————,, George, 2nd Duke of, his dispute at cards with the Earl of Sandwich, i. 152—sworn of the Privy council, 276—his motion in the House of Lords, li. 464—his dispute with the Earl of Clarendon, 481—with the Mar- quis of Dorchester, iii. 32—sent to the Tower, ib.—claims the title of Lord Rosse, 46—his com- edy of “The Chances,” 58—in disgrace with the King, 75, 77 —charges against him, 78—pro- claimed a traitor, 82, 83—sur- rendered himself prisoner, 173— his conduct in the king’s pres- ence, 186—restored to liberty, “876 192—his quarrel with H. Killi- grew, 196—takes his seat in the House of Lords, 206—character of, 229—his remarks relative to the King, 306—fights a duel, 351 —his pardon, 365—his great in- fluence at Court, iv. 19, 33, 40, 44, '71—alluded to, i. 203, 272, 382, 419; ii. 25, 55, 96, 473; iii. 11, 79, 108, 206, 217, 229, 256, 303, 306, 313, 319, 321, 324, 328, 333, 342, 344, 352, 365, 366, 478, 479; iv. 14, 15, 29, 32, 42, 51, 52, 55, 56, 62, 63, 82, 100, 102, 114, 119, 123, 128, 130-132, 140, 143, 144, 153, 157, 162, 177—receives the royal pardon for killing Lord Shrews- bury, 258—attempted assassina- tion of, 337 Buckingham, Duchess of, i, 367; ii. 55, 179; iii. 78, 307, 443; iv. 337° » Mary, Countess of, i. 56 Palace, i. 91; iii. 447 ————, town of, iii. 458 Buckland House, ii. 238 Bucknell, Sir William, iii, 435 Buckworth, a parish in Hunting- donshire, iii. 434 —————., Mr., iv. 160 Bugden, or Buckden, palace at, iii. 356—alluded to, i. 304; ii. 176, 368 Buggins, Mr., i. 319 Bulkeley, Hon. Henry, iii. 114 Bull-baiting (an amusement for ladies), ii. 430 Bull Head Tavern, iii. 13, 93 — sports, “Juego de Toros,” in Spain, i. 231, 283 Bullion, on exporting, ii. 206 Bulstrode, iv. Bulteale, Mr., iii. 224 Bumbridge, Captain, murdered, iv. 78 Bunce, Sir James, ii. 330, 335, 337 Bunker, Admiral, ii. 250 Bunn, Captain Thomas, iv. 347 , Mr., his draught of a bridge for Tangier, i. 340 Burchett, Josiah, conduct of, i. xxxii—his letter to Pepys, iv. 935 ———, Secretary, iv. 358 Burford, town of, iv. 205 Burgby, Mr., ii, 103 GENERAL INDEX Burges, Mr., discourses with Pepys” on state affairs, iii, 215—alluded to, iv. 123 Burghley House, silver cistern at, iii, 400 Burleigh, Lord, saying of, iv. 307 Burlington Bay, iv. 202 ———, Earl of, ii. 248, 343; iil. 117, 127, 352, 408; iv, 30, 115 , Lady, iv. Burlington House, iv. 30 Burn, charm for a, ii, 197 Burnet, Bishop, testimony of, i. xx. xxi—his character of Sir William Coventry, 69—his “ His- tory of his Own Time” referred to, i, xxi. 59, 290; iii, 132, 328, 331 » Dr., Archbishop of St. An- drews, iv. 272 Burnett, Dr., i, 320; ii, 87—plague in his house, 245—his death, 287; iv, 276—alluded to, ii. 139, 140, 149, 266 Burney’s “History of Musie,” i. 283 Burnt Island, iii. 123 Burr, John, i. 104 . a Banners Sir John, Treatise by, i. 24 ———, Mrs., iv. 33 ———.,, Mrs., iii. 23 Burrowes, Captain John, ivy. 347 Burston, Mr., ii, 212, 217 Burt, Nicholas, i, 113; iii, 323; iv. 96 Burton, Dr. Hezekiah, i. 28, 253— letter to Pepys, iv. 205 Burton Lazers, i, 170 : Bury, noted for beautiful women, ii. 8 | Busby, Dr., character of, iii. 121 Busse, a small sea-vessel, i. 353 “ Bussy d’Amboise,” a tragedy, 243, Butcher and a waterman, fight be- tween, iii. 137 Butchers and weavers, fray tween, ii. 153 Butler, Dr. Samuel, Lichfield, iv. 231 f » James, Duke of Ormond, i. 103, 177 , John, killed by Col, Scot iv, 227 A , John, Lord, of Bramfield, 29 7 Bishop GENERAL INDEX » Lord John, iii, 18, 57 ——, Lord, of Morepark, ii, 481 , Mr., nicknamed “ Monsieur l’Impertinent,” i. 94, 96, 109, 128, 196 » Mr., ii, 3 ,» Madame Frances, i. 82, 196, 207, 337, 367; ii. 230; iv. 25; see Botelers Butler, Madame Frances, the beauty, ii. 111, 172 Butler’s Hudibras, i. 364, 380; ii 68, 72—alluded to, i. 14, 324; ii. 311; iii. 129, 478; iv. 36 Buttolph’s Wharf, ii. 442 Buxtorf’s “Hebrew Grammar,” i. 13 sore William, the musician, ii. heres, Lady, one of the King’s ae arg iii. 112 , first Lord, iii, 112 —, , Lord, the *poet, iii, 464 Bythell, Mr., iv. 358 Cabal, the, ii. 312; iii. 94, 333, 335; iv. 97, 133, 144—origin of the word, iii. 328 “Cabal, Dream of the,” iii. 328 Cabarets, inscription in, i, 328 Cabbala, or Collection of Letters of State, ii. 72 “Cabinet Council,” earliest use of the term, iii. 304 Cade, Dr., chaplain to the king, i. 66 4 —,, Mr., i. 125; ii. 350; iii, 35, 136, 322 Cadiz: see Cales Cesar, Mr., the lute-master, ii. 352: iii. 31, 303—his method of angling, iii. 87 Caius College, i. 263; iii. 310 —, Dr., curious anecdote of, iii. 310 Calais, i. 43, 303, 351; ii. 68, 136, 268, 405, 475; iv. 67, 189, 334 a. Edward, chaplain to Charles II., i. 79—sermons him, 100, 310—committed to Newgate, '871—his “Lives of the Ministers Ejected,” i. $10—no- ticed, 407 Calcographie, Treatise on, by John Evelyn, iv. 247 Calderon, a Spanish poet, i, 371 377 Cales (Cadiz), plague at, ii. 136— action with the Dutch in the Bay of, 205—arrival of Sir Jer. Smith at, 353, 362—alluded to, i. 250; iv. 60 Calico, dispute respecting, ii. 100 Calprenede and Scudéri, romances of, ii. 376 Calthorpe, Lord, i. 30 Calthrop, Mr., i. 16, 354 Calvin, John, i. 402 Cambridge, the, man-of-war, ir- regular payment of her crew, lii. 158 Cambridge, James, Duke of, ii. 23 —created Knight of the Garter, iii. 24—his illness, 117, 118, 127, 135, 137, 144—his death, 164, 165 , University of, i. 27, 44; ii. 359; iv. 168—election of knights of the shire at, i. 46— election of Roger Pepys for the town of, 160—alluded to, 91, 204, 219, 251, 253, 332, 335, 378, 391, 394; ii. 54, 80, 230; iii. 10, 140, 266, 325, 449, 450; iv. 21, 23 Camden’s “ Britannia,” i. 235—Dr. Gale’s illustrations of, iv. 301 Camden, Lord, i. 97 Society, i. 23 Camera obscura, ii. 355 Campbell, Lord, his “ Lives of the Chancellors,” iii. 346 Campbell’s “Naval History,” quoted, ii. 171 Campden-House, i. 97 , Viscount, i. 97; iv. 207 Campion, Father, his Works, iv. 239 Canary Company, ii. 480; iii. 32, 68, 172, 192 Canning, or Cannon Street, i. xxiii., 108; ii. 440, 441; iii. 122; iv. 10 Canterbury Cathedral, i. 80; ii, 337 ————., town of, i. 76, 152 Capel, Arthur, first Baron, of Had- ham, i. 237; iv, 83, 276 Capel, Sir Henry, afterwards Lord Capel, of Tewkesbury, iv, 83, 155 Caper, a pirate-ship, iii. 105 Captains, naval, questions concern- ing, i. Caranen, Marquis de, iy. 69 Carberry, Earl of, iii. 305 Carcasse, Mr., his work “Lucida Intervalla,” ii. 441—noticed, iii. 64, 71, 81, 360 878 Cardigan, Earl of, i. 172; iii. 351 “ Cardinall,” a tragi-comedy, i. 330; iii. 227, 429 Cards, dispute at a game of, i. 152 —played at Court on Sundays, iii. 68 : Carew, John, the regicide, i. 114 ——, Sir Nicholas, iii. 11 Carlell, Ludowick, his “ Heraclius,” a tragedy, ii. 104; iii. 57 Carleton, Mary, i. 426; ii. 6, 118 Carlingford, Lord, i. 276; iv. 167 Carlisle, Lady, iii. 315 » Lord, duel fought by a brother of, i. 316—alluded to, 172, 272; iii. 34, 140, 161, 315 » Bishop of, (Rainbow,) iii. Carnarvon, Earl of, anecdote of, iii. 122 Carpenter, Mr., sermon by, i. 310 » Mr., of the British Mu- seum, iv. 325 ——, William (the artist), i. 65 Carr, ordered to stand in the pil- lory, iii. 327, 329, 354—1+rial of, 367, 368 » Sir Robert, iii. 206, 427 Carrefour, or Quatre-Voies, i. 352 Carter, Charles, i. 133 » Mrs. ii. 263 ,» Thomas, iii. 60 Carteret, Anne, ii. 30, 277 , Caroline, ii. 29 » Edward, Esq., ii. 215, 261 , Sir George, account of, i. 88—vice-chamberlain at the coro- nation, 174—his zeal in the king’s service, 269—his difference with Mr. Coventry, 289—commissioner for Tangier, 340—his examina- tion of suspected persons, 341— management of affairs in Jersey, ii. 10—marriage of his daughter Caroline, 29—his altercation with Mr. Coventry, 44, 45—incurs the displeasure of the lord chancel- lor, 145—house in Broad Street, 170—marriage of his son Philip, 272—his services to the king, 280 —has enemies at court, 342—his opinion of an engagement with the Dutch, 393—sentiments on public affairs, 410—wager of, 432—proposed retrenchment of his salary, 467—his circum- GENERAL INDEX stances, iii. 106—purchases a house for his son, 124, 129—be- comes deputy-treasurer of Ire- land, 173, 174—censure of his conduct, 174—entertains the king at Cranborne, 255—his house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 257—in Leadenhall Street, iv. 62—his of- ficial residence at Deptford, ii. 261—alluded to, i. 88, 90, 93, 127, 149, 154, 162, 193, 227, 229, 237, 239, 263, 269, 271, 273-280, 287, 289, 316, 317, 326, 328, 330, 342, 343, 353, 357, 370, 405, 406, 416, 423; ii. 2, 3, 11, 17, 20, 38, 43, 48, 54, 64, 70, 74, 84, 103, 112, 149, 150, 152, 224, 226, 246, 252, 254, 255, 257, 261, 266-268, 271, 281, 284, 313, 321, 328, 333, 341, 345-348, 357, 360, 361, 364, 378, 384, 398, 429, 436, 437, 449, 451, 454, 457, 458, 463, 466, 473, 477, 478, 480; iii. 2-4, 10, 13, 17, 19, 44, 45, 51, 55, 56, 67, 70, 86, 89, 95-97, 99, 104, 105, 117, 124, 127, 129, 132, 140, 143, 161, 169, 172- 175, 183, 185, 200, 231, 238, 239, 246, 255, 256, 263, 264, 275, 283, 295, 296, 300, 322, $332, 333, 335, 372, 383, 384, 389, 396, 431, 451, 453, 471; iv. 41, 102, 166, 180, 190, 194, 195 Carteret, Baron, iii. 129, 183 » Lady Elizabeth, i. 89, 277, 297, 326; ii. 82, 112, 134, 227, 259, 258-261, 265, 267, 271, 275, 357, 367, 459, 474, 478; iii. 17, 56, 99, 173, 343; iv. 40, 192—entertains the king and queen, 198 ,» Louisa, ii. 267 » Lady Jemimah, ii. 208, 264, 267, 357, 429; iii. 3, 17, 97, 99, 124, 129, 161, 183, 200, 264, 334, 399 » Philip (afterwards Sir Philip), son of Sir George, mar- ried to Lady Jemimah Montagu, ii. 4, 255, 272—alluded to, i. 306; ii. 208, 215, 217, 222, 251, 252, 258, 261-265, 267, 357, 429, A'7A:; iii. 3, 16, 19, 20, 97, 129, 173, 335, 396, 399 » Sir Philip, of St. Quen, i. , Sir Thomas, ii. 278 Carts, improvements in, iv. 35 GENERAL INDEX 379 Cartwright, William, the actor, i. 129; iii. 296 Cary House, iii. 314 ——, Mr., i. 73 Caryl, J., his tragedy of “The En- glish Princesse,” iii. 80 —, Mr., the divine, i. 407 Case, Mr. Thomas, i. 118, 407; iii. 354, 437 —.,, Master of the Rolls, iv. 126 » of Hinchinbroke, i. 219 “ Cassandra,” a romance, iv. 52, 168 Cassio, character of, iv. 96 Castle, Mr., i. 166—builds a yacht for the King, ii. 268, 350—al- luded to, 20; iii. 116; iv. 105 Castlehaven, Lord, proposes to raise an army against the Turks, ii. 50—singular wager won by, 158—raises a regiment to aid the Spanish, iii. 141 Castle-hill, Cambridge, i. 204 Castle Lyons, i. 311 Castlemaine, Lady, her intimacy with the king, i. 281, 301, 369, 379, 390, 403, 407; ii. 4, 14, 24, 25, 42, 46, 49, 129, 342; iii. 27, 164, 205, 437—envied for her beauty, i. 255, 271—her dispute with the Duchess of Richmond, 272—purposes to lie-in at Hamp- ton Court, 279, 281—weighs heavier than the King, 281—her portraits, 292, 337; ii. 142; iii. 22, 34—-leaves her husband, and goes to Richmond, i. 302—dislike of the queen to her, 304—at the queen-mother’s court, 325—at- tends the queen to chapel, 328— gives a grand ball to the king, 331—her interest at court, 336, 362, 377—-said to be enceinte, 345 —her power over the king, 359; iii. 27, 193, 209, 214, 245; iv. 82—a good dancer, i. 367—her sham marriage, 382, 385—Dry- den’s verses to, 390—her jewels, 391—a card player, 417—her re- ported retirement from Court, ii. 18, 19, 393—contradicted, 21— coolness of the king to her, 21, 23, 24—restored to favour, 24, 42, 46—said to have turned Papist, 7i—fire at her lodgings, 87—de- cline of her beauty, 175, 372— _at a masquerade, 208—her sick- ness, 224—quarrels with the king, 393—reconciled, ib—said to be again enceinte, 473; iii. 200—her debts paid by the king, 27—de- fends the Duke of Buckingham, 186, 187—said to have made Dr. Glenham Bishop of Lincoln, 208 —falls in love with young Jer- myn, 209—her faction, 437—pro- poses to retire with a pension to France, 24l—a great gamester, 375—falls in love with Hart, the actor, 420—has two sons by the king, i. 303; ii. 42—other chil- dren, iii. 200—her intimacy with the king, iv. 335—insulted in the Park, 344—alluded to, i. 95, 278, 286, 300, 304, 318, 331, 336, 337, 339, 344, 350,368, 372, 395, 408, 409, 416, 418, 421; ii. 25, 30, 32, 49, 57, 85, 86, 87, 90, 96, 104, 119, 123, 150, 160, 168, 208, 212, 219, 224, 240, 372, 460, 463, 479, 483; iii. 12, 17, 52, 58, 114, 120, 130, 164, 168, 184, 186, 205, 209, 210, 215, 229, 233, 235, 237, 248, 249, 305, 330, 349, 352, 419, 434, 455; iv. 7, 13, 39, 42, 71, 81, 115, 117, 162, 339, 343, 345: see also Mrs. Palmer Castlemaine, Roger, Earl of, i. 93, 240—quarrels with his lady and goes to France, 303—his return, li. 212—alluded to, 217; iii. 22, 27 Castle Rising, borough of, Pepys chosen burgess for, i. xviii—de- bate relative to, ib.—alluded to, iv. 203 Castles, Dr., i. 107 Castle Tavern, the, iii. 92, 225 Cat, experiment on one, iii. 221 —, burnt in the great fire, ii. 448 Catch, a swift sailing vessel, i. 111, 126; ii. 287 Catherine, Queen: see Katherine Catholic, knives found in the house of a, ii. 481 Catholics, hope to obtain an indul- gence, i. 394—insurrection of, in Ireland, 403—vote respecting, ii. 481; iii. 2—alluded to, ii. 99; ili. 22, 346—parliamentary severi- ties against the, iv. 283 “Catholic’s Apology,” a pamphlet, iii. 22 “ Catiline,” play of, iii. 323, 348 380 , Cicero’s oration against, i. 290 “ Catiline’s Conspiracy,” a play, iv. 68 Catteu, Monsieur de, iv. 339 Cattle, Irish, Bill against the im- portation of, ii. 467, 481 Cavaliers, noticed, i. 45, 48, 49, 158, 238, 263, 326; ii. 2, 11, 59, 325, 335; iii. 353 Cave, killed in a quarrel, ii. 89 , the pensioner, ii. 116, 131, 161 Cavendish Family, iv. 30 , Anne, iv. 280, 285 ———., George, his Life of Car- dinal Wolsey, iii. 141—new edi- tion, with notes, by J. Holmes, Esq., 142 ———., Lord, i. 58; ii. 343 Caxton, iii. 158 Cecil, John, 5th Earl of Exeter, iv. 280, 285 » engraver, iv. 246 Centurion, the, man-of-war, iv. 347 Chair, curious, i. 118 Chamberlain, Mrs., ii. 330, 337 Chamberlayne, Wm., ii. 94 Chamberlin, Sir Thos. (Chamber- layne), ii. 94 Chambers, a sort of gun, i. 180 Champion at the Coronation, i. 177 Chancellors, History of the, iv. 150 “ Chances,” a comedy, i. 180; iii. 58 Chandois, Lord (Chandos), i. 361 “ Changeling,” a tragedy, i. 156 “Change of Crownes,” a play, iii. 107 “ Changes,” a play, i. 282; iii, 119 Channell, Luke, i. 109 Chaplin, Sir Francis, i. 109; iii. 248, 356 Chapman, George, his _ play, “D’Ambois,” i. 243—‘ Revenge for Honour,” iii. 345 Chapone, Mrs., letters of, ii. 376 Chappell’s Collection of Music, i. 367 Charett, Mrs., ii. 88 Charing Cross, execution of Major- Gen. Harrison at, i. 118—execu- tion of Carew at, 114 Chariot, improved, ii. 290, 313, 346 Charissimi (Chiarissimi), Giacomo, li. 152; iii. 62 Charity, instamce of, i. 327 GENERAL INDEX Charles, the, man-of-war, i. 70— estimate of the pay for a month, 79—taken by the Dutch, iii. 150, 152, 154, 164, 179—new one of the same name, 391—courts mar- tial held on board, iv. 187, 1838— alluded to, i. 73, 144; ii. 75, 181, 183, 243, 298, 385, 390; iv. 137 Charles I., verses on the execution of, i. 3, 14—his statue in the Ex- change, 36—order of Parliament respecting, 68—allusion to his being beheaded, 113—Fast-day for, 148, 379; ii. 349, 474—ex- ecution of his murderers, i. 113, 114—his picture, ii. 172; iv. 326 —anecdotes of, ii. 208—buried at Windsor, 176, 358—his seizure of money in the Tower, 434—al- luded to, i. 89, 105, 112, 113, 121, 149, 150, 214, 231, 252, 413; ii. 17, 59, 102, 291, 324, 331, 362, 434; iii, 24, 111, 115, 184, 305, 312; iv. 50, 127 II., restoration of, i. xiii.— portrait of, intended for Pepys, xxvii—his efforts to regenerate the Navy, ib.—disposition of the Parliament towards, 35—popu- larity of, 36, 41, 42, 50—effigies of, 41—report of his coming over, 31, 32, 43, 45—statue of, 47— his letter to Parliament, 49— read in the house, 50—his dec- laration and letter to the two generals, 51—corresponds with Sir Edward Montagu, 52, 54, 56, 57—money voted him, 50, 55— proclaimed in London, 57—let- ters to apprise him of the fleet’s sailing, 60—his oso 4 cir- cumstances, 65—reported designs against his life, 65, 131; iii. 29 —goes on board the British fleet, i. 70—alters the names of the ships, 71 —his_ relation of his misfortune, ib.—arrives at Dover, 74—entry into London, 78—celebration of his birthday, 77, 189, 285; ii, 198, 380; iii. 453; iv. 180—proclamation against swearing, &c., i. goes to Whitehall, 81—touches for the evil, 84, 169, iii. 104— entertained by the City, i. 90 —his early rising, 10i—in mourning for his brother, 107— receives a present of tea from the East India Company, 109— declaration on religion, 118— proclamation respecting hack- ney coaches, 121—picture of him, 123, 162—humane character, 124—-excise voted him for ever, 127—dissolves Parliament, 136— gives a new charter to Trinity ' House, 137—yachts built for, 143, 186, 311, 323, 413—proclamation respecting Lent, i. 154—reported marriage, 155, 157, 159—receives a present from the Dutch, 164 —preparations for his corona- tion, 173, 174—the coronation, 175, et seg—goes stag-hunting, 207—profligacy of his court, 209, 213, 279, 354, 364, 419; ii. 14, 472; iii. 112, 164, 184, 211—sum yoted him to pay his debts, i. 235—receives letters from the Queen at Lisbon, 266—delivery of traitors to, by the States, 263—his fashion of dress, 278 —speech to the Commons, 280 —prorogues Parliament, 280; iii. 327—-weighs Lady Castlemaine, i. 281—figure of, 292—his agree- ment respecting the Forest of Dean, 293—his connexion with Lady Castlemaine, Mrs. Stuart, &c., 281, 369, 379, 403, 421; ii. 4, 14, 25, 42, 46, 57, 85, 86, 90, 129, 160, 342, 370, 393, 473; iii. 98, 114, 164, 209, 215, 349, 437, 455—Mr. Crofts, illegitimate son of, i. 324—anecdotes of, 385; ii. 8371; iii. 255—slights the queen, i. 339, 407; ii. 85; iii. 315—en- courages the fishery, i. 353, 354 —his reception of the Russian ambassador, 365—gives grand balls at court, 367, 395; ii. 480; iii. 11—his speech to Parliament, i. 386—incensed at their oppos- ing the indulgence to the Pres- byters and Papists, 394—con- curs with the Parliament against the Popish priests, &c., 402— his partiality to the Duke of Monmouth, 408, 413, 417; ii. 60, 86, 93—two bodies dissected in his presence, i. 416—his neglect of public affairs, 418, 420; ii. 86, 411, 472; iii. 25, 29, 256, 322, 331, 341, 372—anniversaries of : GENERAL INDEX 381 his coronation, i. 426; ii. 230, 380—voted a further supply by the Parliament, ii. 7, 8, 14, 210 —his great expenditure, 10—in- quiry of Parliament respecting a speech of Sir R. Temple, 10, 15—his answer, 12—his speech on the prorogation of Parlia- ment, 28—his affliction at the Queen’s illness, 48, 49; iv. 338, 339—contempt of, in Holland, ii. 68—a player at tennis, 79, $1, 85; iii. 240—his interview with a Quaker woman, ii. 84—jokes Sir William Petty about his boat, 89—his effeminacy, 92; iii. 168 —attachment to his illegitimate children, ii. 96—commits several persons to the Gate-house, 98— house building for him at Green- wich, 103, 268, 350—defers the meeting of Parliament, 106—his speech to Parliament, 108—visits the fleet, 141—his present from India, 154—100,000/. lent him by the City of London, 180—sum voted by Parliament for the Navy, 187—masquerade before, 208—inquires into the state of the navy, 229, 232, 436—regrets the death of the Earl of Fal- mouth, 245—indisposition of, 292—-sum voted him by Parlia- ment for carrying on the war, 313—his encouragement of Eng- lish manufactures, 318—declares war with France, 351—visits Audley-End, with intent to pur- chase, 361—his numerous pro- geny, 370—receives an account of the action with the Dutch, 386 —his intention to borrow money of the City, 394, 398—loan of 100,0007. procured for him, 399 —orders houses to be pulled down to stop the great fire, 440, 4492—his alterations in the fash- ion of dress, 467, 471, 473— 1,800,000/7, voted him by Parlia- ment, 471, 474—his declaration, relative to the King of Denmark, 478—dances on the Queen’s birthday, iii. 12—ridiculed by the French, 14—orders the attend- ance of members in Parliament, 25—his sentiments respecting the Poll Bill, 27—pays Lady Cas- oom 382 tlemaine’s debts, ib.—irregular payment of his household, 32, 210—his speech to the House of Lords, 44—prorogues the Par- liament, 60—in treaty with the Dutch, 65—his disapprobation of some theatrical performances, 108—makes a speech to the City militia, 151—10,000/. lent him by the City, towards fortifying the Thames, 165—resolves to call a meeting of Parliament, 171—ar- gues in favour of peace, 185— proposes to raise an army, 187, 199, 209—contrasted with Crom- well, 187—his versatility and fick- leness, 200, 305—governed by his mistresses, 200, 205, 209, 210, 215 —his speech to the House of Commons, 204—his revenue, 224 —proposal for lending money to, 227, 232—his want of linen, 238 —his behaviour at the council- table, 240—speech to Parliament, 273—reprimands the Duke of York, for espousing the cause of Lord Clarendon, 276, 304, 305— lays the first stone of the new Exchange, 286—disregards his friends, 322, 372—adjourns Par- liament, 322—passes several Bills, 327—sides with the Commons, ib. —dismisses persons from the Privy Council, 332—falls in love with Miss Davis, 347, 349, 420, 455—300,000/. voted him by Par- liament, 387, 402, 403, 431, 438— speech on the occasion, 438—goes to Newmarket races, 448; iv. 120, 161, 221—his new buildings at Whitehall, iii. 472—his de- bauchery, iv. 39—his carriage over-turned, 121—excursion of, 198—his escape from Worcester GENERAL INDEX Gothic antiquities, &c., 305—on various matters, 307—on the di- ploma sent to Pepys from Ox- ford, 309—alluded to, 256, 276, 284, 296, 298-300, 357 : Charlton, i. 323 Charms various, ii. 79, 197 and spells, ii. 273 Charnock, Mr., ii. 259 Chatelin’s tavern, iii. 426 Charter of King Edgar, ii. 228 Chatham, sale of old stores at, i. Chatsworth, iv. 307 Chaucer, ii. 7, 72, 142, 157, 350; Cheapside, gibbet in, i. 18—pillory Cheek, Mr., iv. 938 Cheffins, Thomas: see Chiffinch Chelsea, i. 185, 222, 228, 384, 403, 165—state of the chest at, 299, 308, 318, 349, 356; iii. 171, 179— infirmary, iv. 334—plague at, ii. 352, 434—fortifications at, iii. 89, 176—chain at, broken by Dutch, 148; iv. 195—alluded to, i. 141, 143, 165, 311; ii. 22, 197, 173, 216, 277, 284, 304, 307, 434; iii. 30, 95, 145, 147-154, 157, 158, 164, 170-176, 193, 196, 281, 283, 284, 288, 300, 308, 343, 473, 476; iv. 17, 26, 98, 135-137, 154, 195, 227, 344 iv. 327 in, ii, 110—fire in, 160—riot in, 278—destroyed by the great fire, 446, 447—new street from Guild- 408; ii. 229, 369; iii. 212, sot iv. 180 hall to, iii. 317 College, grant of, to the Royal Society, iii. 307 ; t Cheriton, altered to the Spedaea E i. 70, 143; iv. 347 Cherrett, Mrs. Mary, ii. 88 pi » Mr. George, ii. 88 ” field, i. xxvi.; iv. 219, 307 Charles, Gustavus, King of Sweden, Cherry Garden, the, ii. 135 his death, i. 34 » Mr., iv. 308 y ‘ Charleton, Sir Job, iii. $87 Chester, siege of, i. 121—history of, ———.,, Walter, ii. 421, 423 iii. 289 Pe. Charlett, Dr., his letter on the , Sir Anthony, ii. 126 > abuses of Christ Hospital, iv. 259 Chesterfield, second Earl of, no- —letters to Pepys, on Dr. Wal- lis’s picture, &c., 291, 292, 303, 304, 306, 307—respecting Sir Godfrey Kneller, 292—compli- mentary, 294—on Queen Anne’s ticed, i. 8, 9—death of his foot- man, 127—quarrel with Mr. Edw. Montagu, 362, 377—removes his lady from court, 370, 875—plays” with the king at tennis, ii. 79—_ visit to Oxford, &c., 305—on alluded to, i. 346; ii. 795 iii, 146 ae ries , Katherine, Countess of, i. 299, 345, 370, 375; ii. 178; iv. 103 Chesterton, iii. 451 Chetwind, Mr., i. 25, 107, 120, 244, 945; iii. 13—commends Hooker’s “eclesiastical Polity,’ i. 197— his death, 356 Chevy Chase, a ballad, iii. 62 Chaiaus, meaning of the word, i. 420 Chichester, Bishop of (Dr. King), sermons by, i. 90, 395 Chichley, Sir Henry, i. 56 ——_, Sir John, iii. 26, 249, 302, $12, 323; iv. 7 Chichley, Mr. (afterwards Sir Tho- mas), master of the Ordnance, li. 182, 404; iii. 75, 84, 116, 240, 303, 394, 398; iv. 2 ————, Archbishop, iii. 458 Chiffinch, Thomas, Page of the Bed- chamber, his death, ii. 368 —__—_— ,, William, iii. 13, 229, 230, 442; iy. 176, 178, 181 Chigi, Cardinal, ii. 261; iii. 47 Child, Mr. (afterwards Sir Josiah), i. 119, 121, 135, 143, 253; iii. 88, 121; iv. 27, 143, 144, 167, 171, 172, 237 —— of Hales, the, a giant, iii. 459 Child’s Place, near Temple Bar, ii. 214 Childe, Dr., ii. 12, 77, 358, 359; iii. a7. Chillington, i. 4 Chiltern, iii. 463 Chimneys, tax on, i. 262, 298; ii. $13, 474, 476; iii. 96 China, work on, iii. 347, 348 Chippell, Mr., sermon by, i. 81 Cholmly, Mr., afterwards Sir Hugh, his duel with Edw. Mon- tagu, i. 367, 385—made a com- missioner for Tangier, 340— arrives from Tangier, ii. 326—al- luded to, ii. 150, 190, 191, 235, 395, 479; iii. 27, 30, 58, 64, 78, 79, 82, 83, 86, 107, 126, 140, 164, 171, 175, 185-187, 234, 251, 255, 256, 274, 276, 297, 298, 299, 365, 389, 403, 442; iv. 33, 34, 64, 132, 157, 162—his character, 33—his seat of Walcote described, 247 Christ Hospital, ii. 398; iii. 4, 197; iv. 259—extraordinary leg- acy to two scholars of, iv. 257 GENERAL INDEX 383 , Abingdon, iii. 459 — Church, Oxford, i. 269; iii. 121, 216, 458 Christenings, i. 189, 214, 235, 240; li. 25, 354, 378, 475; iii. 23, 230; 308, 312 Christmas, Mr., i. 118 Day, custom of dropping money on, iii. 330 Eve, ceremonies on, iii. 330 pa ge presents to the king, i. 1 eds Church College, i. 156, 200, 19 Church discipline upon evil doers, ii. 263 Churches, Covenant ordered to be placed in, i. 31—the king’s arms placed in, 46—on wearing hats in, 234, 329—not much fre- quented, 426—removal of prop- erty into during the great fire, ii. 441—plan for rebuilding those destroyed, ili. 100—number burnt, 362 Churchill, Captain, (afterwards Duke of Marlborough) iv. 225 , Mr., iv. 359 , Mrs. Arabella, iv. 79 Churchill’s “Divi Britannici,” i. 85 Church lands, the contemplated sale of, iv. 51—state of, 120 music, iii. 47 stile, i. 171 yards, crowded state of, ii. 264, 265, 349 Cibber’s Apology, extract from, ii. 363 Cicero, character of, in Catiline, lii. 323 Cicero’s Second Oration against Catiline, i. 290, 292 Somnium Scipionis, extract from, iv. 247 Cinque Ports, writs respecting, i. 39, 42—barons of the, 176, 178 Cisterns in dining rooms, iii. 400 “City Heiress,” quoted, i. 320 “ City Match,” a comedy, iv. 31 Clanearty, Earl of, ii. 191 Clapham, iv. 226, 284, 285, 290, 291, 297, 299, 300, 304, 308 s Mr., iii. 151 , seat of Sir Dennis Gau- den at, i. 95, 132; ii. 26, 270 384 Clapton, ii. 404 “Claracilla,” a tragi-comedy, i. 198, 371; iv. 123 Clare, Earl of, ii. 75 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, i. 80—intimacy of the Duke of York with his daughter, 111, 116 —expected marriage of his daughter, 117, 130—created earl, 172—proposes to raise an army, 250—differs with the Earl of Bristol, 265—the king’s munifi- cence to him, 209—his illness, 362; ii. 186—character of, i. 368 —impeached of high treason, ii. 21-24—angry with the navy board, 143, 144—new house of, 212, 349, 352; iii. 123—his avarice, li. 293—his friendship for the Earl of Sandwich, 328—procures from the city a loan of 100,0001. for the king, 399—a good speaker, 471—his dispute with the Duke of Buckingham, 481— receives a challenge from the Earl of Ossory, ib.—his windows demolished by the populace, iii. 155—his sentiments on the pro- posed peace, 185—refuses to re- sign his seal, 228-232—divested of his office, 234, 240, 245, 249, 273—his paramount influence, 245—charges against, 293, 297— impeached of high treason, 299- 302—retires to France, 316-319, 325—his letter burned, 318, 324 —Bill to banish him, 325, 327— his eldest son’s union proposed with Lord Bristol’s daughter, iv. 336—remarks upon his His- tory, 314—lines on his disgrace, 328—alluded to, i. 90, 93, 96, 103, 115, 116, 120, 130, 176, 193, 202, 231, 234, 259, 265, 271, 282, 296, 316, 323, 362, 375, 384, 387, 392, 395, 408, 409, 413, 419, 426; ii. 4, 11, 18, 20-24, 33, 36, 48, 55, 90, 96, 98, 106, 143-145, 148- 152, 169, 183, 185, 186, 191, 226, 247, 293, 308, 314-317, 321, 357, 437, 463, 471, 478; iii. 13, 14, 26, 30, 32, 64, 70, 71, 78, 95, 97, 100, 110, 115, 117, 123, 126-130, 152, 155, 167, 171, 175, 186, 193, 195, 209, 228, 229, 231-240, 245- 249, 254, 267, 273-277, 290-292, 297, 299-302, 309-319, 331, 335, GENERAL INDEX 365, 419, 425, 474; iv. 42, 44, 52, 63, 82, 102, 122, 131, 162, 247, 293, 341, 347: see also Ed- ward Hyde Clarendon, Henry (2nd Earl of), his letters to Pepys: relates a re- markable anecdote of Second Sight, iv. 275—complimentary and political, 287—alluded to, 245, 247, 304, 314, 354, 358 Clarendon House, ii. 212, 349, 352; iii. 110, 123, 229; iv. 30 Park, i. 210; ii. 99, 144, 150, 183, 185 Claret, curious method of cheap- ening, ii. 435 Clarges, Anne, i. 22, 55, 158: see Duchess of Albemarle » Dr. Thomas, i. 55, 85; iii. 370 , John, the blacksmith, ii. 1 Clarke, Captain Robert, iv. 347 , Dr., i. 337—dissects two bodies in the king’s presence, 416 , Rev. Edward, his “ Letters on the Spanish Nation,” iii. 401 , Thomas, Esq., ii. 291 Clawson, Captain Peter, iv. 191 Claxton, Mr., i. 204, 333 » Mrs., i. 424 Claypole Lord, notice of, i. 100 Clayton, Sir Thomas, noticed, iv. 47 Cleggat, Colonel, ii. 330 Clement, Gregory, iv. 322 IX., elected Pope, iii. 188 Cleopatra, ii. 109—the Romance of, 184—-picture of, iv. 91 Clergy, old, hope to regain their lands, i. 68—character of, 103— their haughty demeanour, 213— discontents with the, 354—dislike to, in England, ii. 58; iii. 333— condition of, 375—low state of learning among the, in the reign of Elizabeth, iv. 259 , Presbyterian, i. 312, 330 , Scotch, their general belief in the Second Sight, iv. 270 Clerke, Captain, i. 40, 47; ii. 205, 387; iii. 178 » Clement, i. 35 » Dr., kisses the Queen of Bohemia’s hand, i. 60—informa- tion communicated by, 65—al- luded to, 70, 73, 75, 98, 99, 186, 272, 358, 366, 373-375; ii. 126, — + tg Aat i pane ee Ce ee . - —————— 211, 252, 382, 354, 400; iii. 58, 63, 102, 443, 473; iv. 79 Clerke, the solicitor, i. 387, 388, 390; iii. 152, 360, 457—his death, iv. 60 , Mrs., wife of the Doctor, i. 276, 366, 373, 421; ii. 141, 160, 332, 413; iii. 63, 102 , the milliner, iv. 150, 151 , the confectioner, i. 317 , Sir Francis, i. 349 ——,, Sir William, ii. 243, 318, 365—wounded in an action with the Dutch, 386—his death, 390— alluded to, 413 Clerkenwell Church, i. 207; ii. 172 New Prison, escape of apprentices from, iii. 407—al- luded to, i. 240 Cleve, ii. 432 Cleveland, Duchess of, i. 93; iii. 13; iv. 204: see also Lady Castle- maine , Earl of, iii. 10 , present Duke of, i. 6, 7 Cliff, at Deal, height of one, i. 77 Clifford, Hugh, Esq., ii. 456; iii. 115 , Lord de, iv. 288 , Madam, i. 226 , Sir Thomas, afterwards Baron Clifford, notice of, ii. 456; iii. 115—made Comptroller of the king’s house, iii. 21—commis- sioner for the Treasury, 133— alluded to, ii. 174, 357; iii. 72, 115, 143, 161, 168, 169, 301, 401, 403; iv. 19, 47, 52, 99, 119, 129, 134, 139, 141, 147, 220, 221 Clifton, Baroness, iv. 225 Clinke, Mynheer, i. 99 Cloaks, fashion of, i. 88, 111; ii. 49, 69, 460; iii. 335, 420 Clock, curious, i. 97 Clocke-work, specimen of, iii. 242 Clodins, Mr., i. 91 Clothworkers’ Company, i. xl. ——————— Hall, destroyed by the great fire, ii. 449—alluded to, iii. 469; iv. 151 Clotworthy, Sir John, ii. 169 Cloves, introduction of, ii. 303, 324 Clunn, the actor, murdered, ii. 155 —alluded to, i. 415; iv. 96, 153 orgies Sir Thomas, ii. 92; iv. VOL. IV. GENERAL INDEX 385 Clutterbucke Alder- man), ii. 92 Coach, on man-of-war, i. 51 Coaches, hackney, iv. 163—procla- mation respecting, i. 121—experi- ments on, ii. 333—stand at Ald gate, 453 3 Coach-glasses, iii. 254; iv. 74: see Glass-coaches Coach-horses, fancifully adorned, iv. 165 Coachmakers, iv. 37, 43, 96 Coachmen, frays between, i. 127; ii. 78 Coals, high price of, iii. 26, 79, 81, 115, 172, 250—want of in the city, 166, 172 Coast, English, placed in a state of defence, ii. 405 Coat, jackanapes, i. 89—velvet, 104 Cobham, iii. 114; iv. 2, 19, 137 Hall, iii. 97, 114 Cock ale-house, at Temple Bar, lii. 426 Cocke, an ordinary, in Suffolk- street, iv. 126, 146, 159 , Captain, his sentiments on public affairs, i. 227; ii. 455; iii. 67—alluded to, i. 257, 302, 306, 307; ii. 10, 187, 188, 224, 280, 286, 287, 293, 297, 301-325, 329, 336, 338, 343, 345, 361, 367, 374, 376, 379, 399, 414, 440, 455, 463, 468; iii. 7, 26, 28, 30, 44, 47, 72, 82, $4, 160, 165-168, 224, 933, 252, 255, 286, 304, 306, 319, 322, 364, 394, 398, 413, 415; iv. &. 9% 9, 1,77 , Colonel C. G., iii. 398 , Solomon, ii. 309 Cocker, Edward, the arithmetician, li. 157, 158, 173 Cockerell family, i. xxxviii. Cockerell, John, i. xxxiv. Ss Ps), Msgs, te VS) 12 369—his family papers, iv. 189 Cock-fighting, ii. 77; iii. 143, 182, 393, 419 Cockpit, the, i. 25, 82, 173; ii. 57, 231, 234, 320, 332, 365, 451; iii. —419 Playhouse, performances at, i. 102, 113, 118, 124, 173, 231, 330, 350, 355, 371 Cocoa-nut, rings made of the, i. 301 (probably AA 386 Code Victoria, ii. 373 “ Coffee-house,” a play, iii. 276 Coga, Arthur, iii. 310 Coinage, new, imperfection of the i. 155; ii. 67—alluded to, i. 396, 423 Coining, new mode of, i. 422 Coke, or Cooke, the people’s so- licitor, i. 112 s Lord Chief-Justice, his Pleas of the Crown, iii. 165—alluded to, 360 Colbert, Jean Baptiste, the French Minister, ii. 175; iii. 174, 427 , Charles, the French Am- bassador, iv. 3, 7, 8, 29, 37, 70, 89 Colborne, Nick, ii. 213 Colchester, i. 315—plague rages at, ii. 327, 408—bays, iii. 72 , the, man of war, iy. 191 Cole, Jack, i. 52, 300—his death, - ii. 239, 240 , John, tried for a conspiracy, iii. 28 —, Mr., the lawyer, i. 320; ii. 117, 161 , Mr., the timber-merchant, i. 383; iv. 91 Colebrooke, iii. 467 Cole Harbour, i. 342 Coleman, a pensioner, iii. 169 eS wey i SL Gy) aaee aoa, 340—character of, ili. 329 —__+_ ——, Mrs., ii. 318, 319, 332, 333, 340 Cole’s MSS., i. xix., xx., 91 Colet, Dean, i. 19—his grammar, 380—his will, ii. 92—founder of St. Paul’s school, iii. 128—his life, i. 19; iv. 246 Coligni, his cavalry, ii. 157 Colliton, or Collidon, Sir J., ii. 42, 177 Collier’s Dictionary, i. xxxviii. Collins, Mr., iii. 360 Colsill (Coleshill), iv. 307 Colt, Sir William, herald, iv. 250 Colvill, Mr., ii. 287, 331, 472; iii. 390, 397, 398 Columna rostrata, ii. 371 Comet, appearance of a, ii. 191, 194, 214, 225 “Comical Revenge,” a comedy, ii. 199 Commander, Mr., ii. 85; iii, 142, 143 GENERAL INDEX Commanders, list of, killed, fii. 377 G Commenius, John Amos, ii. 403 Comminges, Count de, the French © Ambassador, his letters to Mon- — sieur de Lionne, iv. 334, 335, 336, — 337, 338, 339, 344, 345—to © Louis XIV., 334-346—repairs — to London, 334—his_ tedi- ous journey, 335—entertains the — king, 336, 345—his introduction — to the queen, 339—his cool recep- tion at Guildhall, 342—accepts an apology from the city, ib.—wit- nesses a launch at Woolwich, 345 — —entertained at Guildhall, 346 — Commissioners for Accounts, meet- — ings of, iii. 31, 337, 360, 363, 373, 431, 453, 473, 475; iv. 12, 15 —————. for paying off the fleet, iv. 357 for the Treasury, iii. 129, 136, 140, 143, 165, 169, 195, 213, 216, 239, 302, 307, 329, 333, — 361, 397, 416, 418, 474; iv. 19, 21, QT “Committee, The,” a comedy, ii. 6; iii. 220, 293, 443 Committee of Safety, i. 9, 13, 15, — 17, 20, 21, 25, 181 Comoe Council, its proceedings, — i. 2, 19 , Doll (Mrs. Corey), her performance of Abigail, iii. 35—_ of Sempronia, iv. 80, 81 : Commonwealth, revival of the, an- ticipated, iii. 215, 223, 315 4 Comprehension, Act of, iii. 365, 369, — 398 Compton, Henry, Bishop of Lon- don, his letter to Pepys, iv. 248 ——., Sir Thomas, i. 56 7 , Sir William, sails for Breda, i. 56—commissioner for Tangier, 340, 355—death and character of, ii. 47—alluded to, — i. 299, 322; ii. 32 Condé, Prince of, i. 172; ii. 18— his valour, 133—noticed, iii. 340 Conduit, the, on Cornhill, i, 130 Coney, Mr., the Surgeon, iv. 135, © 136, 137 S| Conformity, Act of, i. 266, 286, 294, — 391; iii, 369 4 Conspirators, trial of, iii. 98 — Constant Warwick, a ship,i. 76 Constantinople, city of, i. 100, 420; ii. 56 GENERAL INDEX Contareni, Dominico, i. 217 Convent, Capuchin, iii. 48, 49 Coventicles, act against, i. 425; iii. 429, 432, 438—bill respecting, il. 28, 124—-apprehension of persons found in, 156, 285—alluded to, iv. 140 Convertine, the, i. 257 Convocation House Yard, St. Paul’s, exhibition of the remains of Robert Braybrooke, Bishop of London, in, iii. 9 Conway, Lord, iv. 222, 226 Cooke (Coke), Mr., of Norfolk, iv, 204 —, Captain Henry, notice of, i. 101—anthems by, i. 111, 279, 326: ii. 67, 77—alluded to, i. 203, 235, 236, 238, 257; iii. 63, 223 ——, E. W., iv. 322 ——, John, the traitor, i. 115; iv. 322 : ——, Mr., i. 319, 335; fi. 4255 iii. 32 —, Mr. (of the Nazeby), i. 41, 44, 45, 49, 56, 78, 33 —, Sir Robert, iii. 454 Cooling, Richard (Secretary to the Lord Chamberlain), i. 90; iii. 2, 75, 210, 413—alluded to, ii. 245, 947; iii. 311, 333; iv. 103, 144 Coome Farm, ii. 286, 290 Cooper, Sir Anthony (afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury), made ia Councillor, i. 80—alluded to, ii. 90 Cooper, Mr., the author of “ Coop- er’s Hill,” i. 175 , Samuel, the miniature- ainter, i. 244, 401—pictures by a iii. 412—his portrait of Mrs. Pepys, 473, 475, 476, 478, 479; iv. 4 » Major, ii. 361; iii. 28 ——,, Mr., the mathematician, i. 300-302, 309-311, 401 : , Mr., Officer in the Forest of Dean, i. 315 Cooperage, part of the Victualling Office, iv. 237, 323 Copenhagen, i. 396 Copleston, John, Provost of King’s College, i. xxii. —* Mines in Nova Scotia, iii. 387 Coppin, Captain, appointed to the Newbury, i. 44—killed, ii. 390 >» John, iv. 358 Coranto, a dance, i. 367; iii. 12 Corbet, Miles, i. 15—his arrest, 264 —his execution, 272 >» Mr., ii. 34 , Mrs., iii. 6, 219, 344, 405, , Sir John, ii. 130 Corelli, the violinist, iv. 280 Corey, Mrs. (Doll Common), iii. 35; iv. 80, 81 Cork, used for barricadoes, ii. 414 ——, Ear) of, iii 173 , Richard, first Earl of, i. 43 Corn, scarcity of, at Paris, i. 327 —regulations in London concern- ing, ii. 138—its cheapness in England, iii. 337 Cornbury, stables erected at, ii. 242 ———,, Lady, anecdote of, iv. 275 —_——, Lord, iii. 245, 311, 366 Corneille, tragedy from the French of, ii. 104, 122; iii. 57—play by, ii, 400 Cornhill, i. 130; ii. 240; iv. 150— churches in, iii. 100 Cornwallis, Henrietta Maria, iii. 349 ————.,, Charles, third Lord, iii. 349 Cornwallis, Frederick, Lord, i. 172, 176—his funeral, 248 Coronation of Charles II., i. 155, 157, 169, 171, 173, 175, 176—a book descriptive of the, ii. 354— lines on, i. 178 ——— of Queen Victoria, al- luded to, i. 105 Coronets, granted to barons, i. 176 Cosins (Cosens), Jobn, Bishop of Durham, iii. 309 Cotgrave’s Dictionary, i. 156 Cottenar, Admiral, ii. 237 Cottenham, town of, iii. 149; 159, 266 Cotterell, Sir Charles, iii. 246; iv, 53, 142 Cottington, Charles, ii. 434 SS ond, 1.433; BL 30i— anecdote of, iii. 319, 474 Cotton, Charles, iv. 85 , Lady, her death, iv, 301 aa 388 , Sir John, library of, iv. 256, 301 , Sir Robert, life of, iv. 303 Cottonian Library, damaged by fire, iii. 121—catalogue of Manu- scripts, iv. 301 “Counsell to Builders,’ a book, i. 425. Country, Captain, i. 220; iv. 347 Gentlemen, decayed circum- stances of, iv. 171 ,» Jeremiah, iv. 347 “Country Captaine,” a play, i. 229, 236; iil. 220, 442 Courage, definition of, ii. 202 Courland, Duke of, his manner of hunting, ii. 73 Court, its profligacy, i. 209, 354, 364, 419; ii. 14, 267, 316, 325, 370, 474; iii. 337, 112, 113, 164, 184, 200, 211; iv. 28—factions at, i. 340; ii. 316, 317, 325; iii. 231, 232, 237, 321, 334, 335; iv. 80— grand balls at, i. 367, 381, 395; ii. 480; iii. 11, 190—singular circum- stance at a ball at, i. 381, 385— state of affairs at, ii. 96, 97, 411; iii. 25—-masquerade at, ii. 208— alarm at, on account of the plague, 254, 260—retires to Salis- bury on account of the plague, 304—in mourning for the king of Spain, 351—dejection of the, 419—new fashion of dress at, © A471, 473, 474, 475, 478—plays at, A474; iii. 349—alarm at, on the appearance of the Dutch, iii. 148, 160, 170—quarrels and intrigues at, iv. 335—corruption of, 28 Court ladies, masculine attire of the, ii. 394 — of Arches, i. 380 “ Court Secret,” a tragi-comedy, ii. 160 Courtier, qualifications for a, i. 240, 411 Courtiers, strictures on, iv. 313 Courtin, M. de, the French Ambas- sador, ii. 225; iii. 216 Courts-martial, iv. 126, 129, 137, 146 Covell, Mr., i. 332 Covenant, ordered to be hung in churches, i. 32—renunciation of the, 312, 330, 388—proclaimed in Ireland, ii. 1 GENERAL INDEX Covenanters, rising of, in Scotland, iii. 16, 17—defeated near Edin- burgh, 24 Covent Garden, new theatre in, i. 277, 380, 414, 426; ii, 340, 344, — 345, 459; iii. 125, 130, 219, 330 Coventry Act, the, iii. 199; iv. 118 , the, lost in a hurricane, iii. 21, 294 » Sir G., i. 305 . Henry, appointed Ambas- sador, iii. 65, 68—alluded to, 91, 94, 183, 184, 186, 245, 393 « » Sir John, particulars re- specting, iii. 199—alluded to, 387 » William (afterwards Sir William), report of, i. xviii— particulars respecting, 69—Com- missioner for the Navy, 277, 278, 287—accused of selling places, 289, 424, 427; ii. 3, 463; iii. 44, 290, 390, 425—his difference with Sir G. Carteret, i. 289—Com- missioner for Tangier, 317, 340, 355—defends his conduct in re- gard to the sale of places, 343; ii. 44, 45—prepares to go to sea, — 181, 183—his advice to Pepys, on Povy’s proposal, 219—his friendship for him, 222—on the state of the Navy, 201, 401— his opinion of Lord Sandwich, 254—of Prince Rupert, 253— knighted and made Privy Coun- cillor, 254—his difference with the Earl of Sandwich, 315, 360— Pepys’s new year’s gift to, 339 —visits the fleet, 389, 390, 397— spirited application of some sea- men to, _396—differs with the Duke of Albermarle, 399—motion made by him for rousing the spirits of the seamen, 415—his sarcasm upon the Duke of Albe- marle, 413—his opinion of an en- gagement with the Dutch, 423— accused of neglect, 438—defends — himself from the imputation, ib. —letter of Pepys to him, on the pulling down of houses to stop the great fire, 445—his senti- ments on the state of public affairs, 465; iii. 43, 45, 133, 134, 215, 216, 333; iv. 63, 64, 128, 131 —resigns his office of Commis- sioner of the Navy, iii. 41, 48— expected to be made Secretary, = GENERAL INDEX of State, 87—his sentiments re- specting Tangier, 104—his dis- pute with Sir G. Carteret, 106— Commissioner for the Treasury, 130, 132—alleged negligence of, 157—his proposed retrenchments in the navy, 216, 223—his alterca- tion with the Duke of York, 233 —leayes the Duke of York’s service, 235—his justification of his public conduct, 290 et seq.— his popularity, 305—his defer- ence to the Duke of York, 306, 313—his opinion of naval and other public matters, 320, 321— anecdote of, 341—pepares to de- fend himself, 396, 406—resolves not to interfere in naval affairs, iv. 63—committed to the Tower, for challenging the Duke of Buckingham, 113-119—excluded from the Privy Council, 118— keeps a journal, 121—his peti- tion to the king, 122—his release, 133—his letters to Pepys, on naval affairs, 193, et seg—on be- half of R. Krewstub, 205—his correspondence with Pepys, 329 —alluded to, i. 85, 86, 90, 91, 92, 104, 129, 138, 140, 160, 171, 172, 214, 237, 269, 288, 289, 295, 296, 300-302, 305, 309, 310, 312, 315, 317, 318, 321, 325, 326-330, 331, 336, 343, 353, 355, 357-362, 368, 373, 374, 379, 388, 389, 397, 408, 413, 417, 418, 493; ii. 2, 3, 9, 10, 21, 24, 29, 32, 44, 45, 82, 94, 118, 228, 239, 240, 248, 249, 251-254, 256, 260, 282, 294, 299, 312, 317, 318, 321, 351, 355, 360, 365, 383, 385, 388, 389, 391, 394- 398, 401, 403, 404, 406, 410, 415, 418-425, 431, 435-437, 445, 451, 456, 458, 461, 465-472, 480; iii. 5, 6, 31, 38, 44, 45, 55, 57, 58, 67, 69, 81, 87, 94-96, 104, 107, 111, 122, 123, 131-133, 137, 141, 144, 145, 147, 157-159, 161-163, 169, 170, 172, 173, 195, 196, 198, 199, 201, 215, 216, 223, 226, 233-235, 940, 242, P47, 256, 257, 262-265, 273, 278, 279, 281, 283, 286, 295- 298, 300, 303, 305, 306, 313, 315, 316, 319-321, 328, 331, 333, 341, 355, 359, 372, 375, 376, 379, 383, 386, 387, 390, 393, 398, 401, 402, 422, 423, 430, 456, 470, 473, 475, 389 479; iv. 12, 14, 15, 25, 31, 32, 35, 39, 42, 56, 57, 80, 83, 88, 95, 99, 106, 110, 112, 122, 124, 131, 132, 141-143, 149, 162, 168, 181 Coventry, Lord (father of Sir Wil- liam), his portrait, ii. 404—al- luded to, 437 Cowes, Captain, i. 47 Cowes, ii. 178 Cow-lane, iii. 12, 265; iv. 37, 47 Cowley, Abraham, the poet, his “ Naufragium joculare,” i. 155— play by him, 241—his poems, ii. 62—alluded to, iii. 25—his death, iii. 217, 219 Cox, Captain, iii. 280, 282; iv. 46, 60, 98, 117, 138, 140, 171, 178 ,; Colonel, his narrow escape, li. 407 Cox, Mr., iii. 116 “Coxcomb,” the, a play, iv. 128 Coyet, Lord Peter Julius, iii. 11 Crafford, Lord (Crawfurd), i. 58 Cramp, charm for a, il. 197 Cranborne, ii. 265, 284, 356; iii. 50 —house of Sir G. Carteret at, iii. 255 Crane, Sir Robert, iv. 163 Cranmer, Archbishop, ii. 44 Cranworth, Lord Chancellor, ii. 373 Craven, Earl of, i. 209; ii. 7, 105, 133, 177, 216, 284, 303, 310, 312, 341, 343; iii. 120, 161, 407, 467; iv. 202 Crawley, Mrs., iv. 358 , Mr. John, iv. 358 Cree Church, iii. 222 Creech, the poet, commits suicide, iv. 289 Creed, John, married to Eliz. daughter of Sir G. Pickering, i. 38—account of, 82—alluded to, 100, 113, 126, 152, 163, 177, 180- 182, 190, 208, 283, 285, 287, 300, 303, 317, 318, 325, 335, 340, 344, 350, 353, 355, 358, 361, 363, 372, 379, 381, 390, 400, 414, 416, 425, 426; ii. 15, 18, 19, 26, 33, 39, 52, 65, 100, 113, 230-232, 240, 252, 259, 387, 410, 442, 449; iii. 8, 123, 125, 143, 176, 206, 210, 211, 245, 246, 258, 265, 279, 296, 302, 310, 325, 329, 352, 368, 374, 400, 407, All, 422, 428, 429, 434, 468, 470, 471, 478, 480; iv. 5, 14, 28, 31, 37, 43, 49, 54, 60, 77, 91, 199, 144, 151, 166, 172, 175, 180 390 ——, Major Richard, i. 82 ot AT NG » Mrs., iv. 60, 91, 129, 179 | Creighton, Dr, (Creeton), notice of, i. 262—sermons by, 262, 402; li. 109; iii, 206—alluded to, 238 Créme d’ Absinthe, a liqueur, i, 126 Créqui, Duc de, i. 376; ii. 261 Cresset, Mr., the singer, iii, 243 Cressing Temple, Essex, i. 371; iy. 103 Cretz, De, Mr., i. 126, 227 Crew, Captain, iii. 153 Crewe, Dr., sermon by him, iii. 97 i i. 53 pe) John, i. 241; iii. 3, 4, 20; iii. —— (afterwards Baron Crewe), noticed, i. 4, 8—Deputy- treasurer to the fleet, 35—re- turned for Northamptonshire, 48 —created baron, 173—his opinion of the affairs of Tangier, 328— his illness, iii. 478, 480; iv. 171— alluded to, i. 8, 19, 24, 25, 30, 31, 38, 40, 49, 53, 70, 82-84, 86, 102, 148, 191, 196, 208, 214, 220, 233, 240, 248, 249, 254, 272, 292, 303, 328, 338, 348, 362, 414, 417; ii. 24, 43, 262, 272; iii. 3, 36, 79, 117-119, 231, 263, 264, 315, 336, 353, 399, 422, 429, 437, 456 7, i. 215; ii. 148, 345 —, Nathaniel, (afterwards Bishop of Durham), i. 279; ii. 12; iii. 3, 4estate left to him, 36 : . picture of, i. 13, 420—his illness, 263—alluded to, 59, 101, 151, 233, 272, 414, 420; fii. 3, 13, 20, 97, 187, 188, 303, 308, 371, 399, 422, 429 Cribbage, game of, i. 63 Cripplegate, ii. 934 Crisp, Sir Nicholas, i. 22, 252, 256, 258, 323 ert "Bilis, iii. 447 Crispe, Captain, ii. 230—master of the Trinity House, 323 Crispin, the waterman, iii. 289 Crockford, Mr., 1, 179 Croft, Dr., Bishop of Hereford, sermons by, i. 113; iii, 85—al- luded to, 304 Crofton, Zachary, the Presbyterian divine, i. 16] GENERAL INDEX Crofts, J ames, the King’s illegiti- — mate son, i, 98, 324, 325, 341: see also Duke of Monmouth his weakness, i, 305— __ alluded to, iv. 32 » Mrs. Cecilia, ii. 478 Cromartie, Earl of: see Viscount Tarbut Cromwell, Lady Frances, j. 108 ————, Henry, i. 333, 400; iy.) 324: see Colonel Williams » Mary, i. 100, 175; ii. 6 ———., Oliver, 1, 2, 3, 6—disin- q terred, 129—hanged and buried — at Ty burn, 148, 149—his head ex- — posed to public view, 152—his crown pieces, 396—the life of, 400; iii, 218—alluded to, i. 6, 9, 10, 15, 31, 32, 47, 54, 60, 64, 82, 84, 94, 100, 101, 108, 113, 132, © 175, 193, 257, 264, 294, 321, 333, — 335, 372, 396, 400; ii. 6, 60, 75, 76, 82, 95, 99, 175, 226, 256, 335, 368; ili. 6, 13, 60, 78, 93, 108, 131, 142, 187, 200, 361, 374, 376, 409; iy. 28, 60, 128, 346 ———~, Sir Henry, 1. 27 , Sir Oliver, i. 27, 400 ; ————» Richard, i, 9, 30, 84, 100, 395; ii. 175, 368; iii. 108 : Croone, Dr. (Croune), iii. 10 Crouch, Margaret, the Earl of — Manchester’s third wife, i. 250 Cross, pieces of, iii. 48 Crow, the pedestrian, race run by, i. 100 Crowe, the upholsterer, i. 115; iv. 35, 38 j Crown Office, the, iv. 125 —— lands, i. 128—resumption of, 401 Crowne, the, a tavern, i, 1855 ii. 387; iii. 360 Crowns of Cromwell, sum given for, i. 396 7 Croyland, Abbot of, i, ix.; iii. 149 — Crucifix, Pepys charged with hay- ing one, i. xix.; ii. 416—one given to Mary Queen of Scots, iii. 46 Crumlum, or Cromleholme, Samuel, i. 13, 18, 242, 416; ii. 216—his losses by the great fire, 459 Crusado, a Portuguese coin, i. 286- — 288, 293 i Crutched Friars, i. 91 ; Cuba, fort razed at, i. 383, 389, 403 — GENERAL INDEX “ Cuckold’s all Awry,” a dance, i. 367 Cully, Sir Nicholas, iii. 455 Cumberland, Henry, Earl of, iv. 30 , Mr., his death, i. 379 Cumberland, Richard, noticed, i. 19—made Bishop of Peterbor- ough, ib.—alluded to, iii. 86, 346, 367—his letter to Dr. Gale, con- cerning Walcote House, iv. 244 Cunningham, Peter, portrait bought by him, ii. 369—his Hand Book quoted, ii. 77, 85, 91, 214, 323 Cup, gold one offered to Sir H. Bennett, i. 409—presented by Henry VIII. to Surgeons’ Hall, 391—one presented to Mrs. Pepys, ii. 94 Cupid, character of, i. 157 “Cupid’s Revenge,” a play, iv. 7 Cureton, Mr., coin collector, i. 397 Curle, Captain, i. 83 Cursitor’s Alley, Chancery Lane, iii. 413 Curtis, Mr., i. 83 Custom House, New, ii. 450 ——— ——— officers, ii. 309 “Custom of the Country,” the, a tragi-comedy, ii. 170; iii. 38, Q12 Cutler, Mr., ii. 19, 95, 123, 229, 266, 336 ——, Sir J., i. 103, 151, 376s ii. 55, 78 Cuttance, Captain, i. 39, 43, 83, 104 —projects a bridge at Tangier, 340—Commissioner for the af- fairs of Tangier, ib,—alluded to, i. 15, 144, 147; ii. 44, 326; iv. 347 , Sir Roger, i. 144; ii. 299; iii. 386 “Cutter of Coleman Street,” a play, i. 241; iv. 1 Cutter, meaning of the word, i. 241 Cuttle, Captain, i. 152; ii. 294, 337, 340—killed, 297 Cutts, Sir John, i. 42—pays his ad- dresses to Lady Jemimah Mon- tagu, ii. 4 Cyrus the Great, a romance, i. 129; ii. 376 391 Dagenhams, near Romford, i. 40— seat of Sir Thomas Neave, Bart., ii. 261, 262, 265, 267, 270, 275- Qi7, 279, 281, 296, 344; iv. 192 Dale, Captain William, iv. 347 , Rev. John, i. ix, Dalmahoy, Thomas, i. 58 Dalrymple, Sir John, Lord Presi- dent, iv. 276 Damford, a black, anecdote of, i. 112 Danby, Ear! of, i. 249—his letter to Col. Legge on election matters, iv. 209—alluded to, 221: see also Sir Thomas Osborne Danby, Mr., killed in a duel, iy. 258 Dance, Mr., the architect, iii. 327 Dances, country, at court, i. 367 Dancre, Henry (Dankers), the landscape painter, iv. 85, 86, 93, 96, 100, 112, 128, 129, 142, 166 Danes, popular tradition concern- ing the, i. 167; iv. 322—supersti- tion of the, concerning spirits, 270, 271 Daniel, Mr., curious plight of, ii. 385—his present from the King, 387 , George, of Canonbury, ii. 25 , Roger, the printseller, iv. 246 , Sarah, ii. 417, 427 ——., Sir Peter, his death, iv. 285 Danvers, Colonel, rescued on his way to the Tower, ii. 278 “Dapper Dickey,” a sobriquet of Pepys’, iii. 148 Darcy, Conyers, Lord, i. 72 , Marmaduke, i. 72, 74, 151 , Sir Arthur, i. 186 , Sir Conyers, i. 353 , Sir William, i. 353 Dardanelles, iii. 116 Dartford, i. 143, 152, 168; iy. 135, 138 Dartmouth, iii. 194 ————., Lord, his expedition to Tangier, i. xxvi., 229—his letter to Pepys relative to the mole at Tangier, iv. 232—alluded to, ii. 332; iii. 152, 359 —__—_—_., the man-of-war, i, 147; iv. 142, 347 392 Dashwood, Alderman, ii. 277 Dauvet, Gasper, i. 222 Davenant, Sir William, i. 102, 231; li. 26—his “Siege of Rhodes,” i. 148, 198, 365; ii. 90—his comedy of “The Witts,” i. 208, 209—his “Love and Honour,” 228—the “Law against Lovers,” 258—re- fusal of Harris to play for him, ii. 25—Harris returns to him, 50 —new play by, announced, 72 —his speeches about London and Paris, 92—his tragedy of the “ Unfortunate Lovers,” iii. 249— his play of “The Man is the Master,” 409—his death, 420— funeral, 421—alluded to, ii. 182; iii. 63 Davenport, Elizabeth, i. 258, 355, 370, 407; iii. 420 ———., Mr., i. 148 Davies’s Dramatic Miscellanies, i. 113; ii. 90 Davila, the historian, ii. 414 Davis, Lady, i. 118 ,» Morgan, iii. 135 , Mr. John, i. 128, 130, 140- 142, 148, 298, 351; iii. 286 » Moll, iii. 80—her perform- ances, ii. 158; iii. 214——becomes one of the King’s mistresses, 347, 349, 420, 455; iv. 71, 86 ——, Thomas, bookseller, i. 351 Dawes, John (afterwards John), i. 152, 412 ,» Sir Thomas, i. 412 , Sir William, Archbishop of York, i. 412 Day, Mr. (uncle of Pepys), ii. 39 Deal, rejoicings at, i. 49, 55, 77— plague at, ii. 429—alluded to, i. 43, 77, 80; ii. 385 Castle, i. 43 Dean, Forest of, effects of a high wind in, i. 260—agreement be- tween the King and Sir John Winter respecting, 293—alluded to, 313; iii. 85, 117 ——, Captain, afterwards Sir An- thony, charges against, i. xxiii committed to the Tower, xxiv.— builds the Rupert, ii. 375, 378; iii. 95—his method of preparing fireships, 202—his newly invented gun, iv. 156—his theory of ship- ping, 158—alluded to, i. 315, 331; ii. 146, 149, 151, 158, 337; iii. Sir GENERAL INDEX 416; iv. 156, 158, 198, 216, 227, 229, 358 Debasty, Mr., ii. 399; iii. 28 De Burgh, Lady Honora, iv. 163 De Clifford, Lord, ii. 472 ; De Costes, Gualtier, his romance of — “ Cassandra,” iv. 53 De Cretz, Mr., i. 87 De Dona, Count, iv. 29, 99, 167 Deering, or Dering, Richard, his Latin songs, i. 351—alluded to, li. 279, 306, 326; iv. 166, 195 , Sir E., ii. 226 ) De Foe’s History of the Plague, quoted, iii. 204 Defyance, the, ii. 375; iv. 126, 130, — 135, 137, 138 ‘ De Grammont, Chevalier, ii. 77; iv. 334, 336, 342-344 ———————., Comtesse, iv. 344 De Gunn (de Gommn), Sir Bern- ard, ii. 281; iii. 74, 90 De Haes, Admiral, ii. 424 Dekins, or Dekings, Captain, dis- missed from the Worcester, i. 44 —alluded to, 265, 338; iv. 324: see Dickens » Mrs. Elizabeth (Morena), i. 225, 338; iv. 324 Delabar, Mr., i. 164 Delamere, Baron, i. 172 De La Rem, the engraver, iv. 246 De Laun, Mr., burnt, i. 365 De Laune, Dr. W., letter to Pepys, iv. 311 Delavall, Sir Ralph, invites Pepys to his mansion, iv. 228 Delfe, in Holland, regicides appre- hended at, i. 263, 265 “Délices de Hollande,” ii. 72 Delme, Mr., i. 274 De Luzancy, Mons., his letter to Pepys, iv. 242 De’Medici, Cosmo, iv. 145 Sa Le Denham, Lady, one of the Duke of York’s mistresses, ii. 392, 460, 467, 471; iii. 28—report of her being poisoned, 8, 39—her death, 40 , Sir J., notice of, i. 130— cure of, ii. 159—his new house, — 212; iv. 30—his prologue, i. 124 —his poems, iii. 217—his death, iv. 132—alluded to, i. 175; ii. 72, — 168, 242, 243, 282, 392; iii. 115, 148, 281; iv. 30, 85, 132 GENERAL INDEX Denmark, King of, made a Knight of the Garter, i. 407—his double dealing, ii. 285, 298—character of, 478—declares for the Dutch, 360—peace with, iii. 227 Dennis’s Letters quoted, iii. 447 Deptford, false alarm at, i. 142— plague rages at, ii. 428, 429— alluded to, i. 112, 141, 143, 154, 186, 197, 252, 256, 270, 284, 298, 301, 307, 309, 327, 356, 373; ii. 99, 87, 151, 161, 162, 195, 225, 233, 260, 264, 265, 267, 268, 270, 275, 287, 288, 320, 322, 397, 400, 428, 445, 447, 453, 458; iii. 4, 46, 116, 142, 145, 290, 350, 353, 391, 406, 432, 456, 477; iv. 32, 45, 115, 127, 140, 192, 232, 233 De Puy, Monsieur, iii. 213 Derby House, iv. 205, 208, 211 De Ruyter, Admiral, his successful enterprise against Chatham, i. xv. —reported death of, ii. 136, 457— proceeds to Guinea, 175, 193—va- rious reports concerning, 181, 194, 275, 279—engages the Eng- lish fleet between Dunkirk and Ostend, 386—in disgrace, 424, 425—alluded to, 256, 421, 423, 431; iii. 303; iv. 191 Derwentwater, Earl of, iii. 80 Desborough, John, brother-in-law of Cromwell, i. 10; iii. 108. Des Cartes, work on music, iv. 72 Desdemona, character of, i. 113 De Sévigne, Madame, ii. 374 Desmond, Ear! of, iii. 124 D’Espagne, M., ii. 99 D’Esquier, M., i. 69 D’Estrades, Count, i. 222, 224; iii. 53, 216—bold speech of, 356 D’Estrées, Monsieur le Comte, iv. 202 De Thou, President, i. 3 Devereux, Robert, Earl of Essex, iv. 88 De Vicke (Vic), Sir Henry, his daughter a good dancer, i. 367 Devil, his reported appearance in Wiltshire, ii. 7 Devil, the, a tavern, ii. 213; iv. 38, 323 Devonshire House, i. 31; iii. 80 ————, William, Duke of, ii. 343; iv. 30, 280 De Witt, Admiral, ii. 285 393 » conspires against the Prince of Orange, ii. 256, 419— in disgrace with the populace, 432; iii. 67—alluded to, 77, 195; iv. 73 Diamond presented by the French king to Lord Jarrett (Gerard), iv. 335 , Captain, trial of, i. 296 ———, the, man-of-war, ii. 228, 482; iv. 190 Dickens or Dekins, John, i. 266, 338; iv. 324 Dickenson, widow, iv. 75, 76, 90— married to Roger Pepys, 100 Dick-Shoare, i. 142 Dieppe, marriage custom at, i. 12 Digby, Captain (son of the Earl of Bristol), ii. 477 » Lady, i. 201 , Lord: see Earl of Bristol Digges, Elizabeth, i. 134 » Sir Dudley, i. 134 Dillion, a seaman, hung for rob- bery, i. 392 , Cary, afterwards 5th Earl of Roscommon, i. 100, 207, 316, 367 —notice of, iv. 25 ——, Rupert, i. 316 ——, Viscount, i. 316 “ Discontented Colonel,” a tragedy, i. 201; iii. 393 Dives, Sir Lewis, iii. 338 Dockyards, guards placed in the, i. 141—alluded to, 143 aS Of Holand. i.)5 Dog, remarkable, i. 216 Tavern, i. 34, 83, 95, 241; ii. 468; ili. 249 Dogs, experiments on, ii. 126, 218; iii. 477 , for the hearth, ii. 37 , keep watch during the night at St. Maloes, ii. 379—experi- ments on the blood of, iii. 10, 12, 20—burnt in the great fire, 348 Dogs, Isle of, ii. 268, 271, 336 Dolben, John, Bishop of Rochester, suspended, iii. 329—alluded to, ii. 430; iii. 333, 366, 385 Doling, Mr., i. 7, 16, 53, 97, 131 Dolphin Tavern, i. 92, 162, 163, 216, 935, 344, 349; ii. 50, 241, 250, 446; iii. 430, 471 Domesday Book, i. 241 Doncaster, the waterman, i. 307 394 Done, Thomas, iv, 240 Donegall, Arthur Chichester, Earl of, iii, 57 Donne, Dr., iii. 452 , Mr. i. 47, 50 Dorchester, Marquis of, his quar- rel with the Duke of Bucking- ham, iii. 32—alluded to, 152 Dorislaus, Isaak, iv. 137 Dormer, Hay (Dalmahoy), Mr., i. 9 Dorrington, Mr., value of a ship belonging to, iii. 373 Dorset, Charles, first Duke of, ii. 401 , Charles, sixth Earl of, his song, “To all ye ladies now at land,” ii, 197—his works, iii. 276 —alluded to, 209, 299—proposes to erect a monument to Dryden, iy. 285: see also, Lord Buckhurst House, in Salisbury Court, i. 80, 86 » Lady, iii. 299 » Lionel, Earl of, ii. 197 . Richard, fifth Earl of, ac- tion brought by, i. 20—two of his sons apprehended for murder, 259, 260—alluded to, i. 24 » Robert, second Earl of, founds a spital at East Grin- stead, i. 20 Dorsetshire, reported disturbances in, i. 339 Douglas, Janet, famous for the Se- cond Sight and the discovery of witches, iy. 271—popular at Glas- gow and Edinburgh, ib.—closely confined, ib.—examined before the Privy Council at Edinburgh, ib.—interrogated by Dr. Hickes and the Rev. Mr. Scott, 272— liberated, 274 : Douglas, Lord, jii. 11, 176-179 Dover, Earl of: see Henry Jermyn » election of Sir Edw. Montagu for, i. 45—arrival of Charles ITI. at, 74—expected invasion of, ii. 405; iii, 185—alluded to, i. 43, 44, 46, 58, 83, 103; ii, 186, 384, 385, 405, 475; iii. 77, 99; iv. 6, 189 —CCasile, i. 39, 59—salute fired at, 59—Victuallers provision placed in, for security, ii. 405— alluded to, i. 48, 214; ii, 385, 405 » Mayor of, i. 74 GENERAL INDEX oa —— Street, origin of the name, iil, 209 ar ——., the man-of-war, iv. 191, 212 Dowgate, ii. 441 a Downes, Mr., ii. 363; iv. 80—saying — of his about Moll Davis, iii. 80 Downes’s “Roscius Anglicanus” — quoted, i. 148, 153; ii. 229 Downing, Captain, iii. 6, 308 » Emmanuel, i. 2 i » George (afterwards Sir George), i. xiii—noticed, 2—his — intention of returning to Hol- land, 8, 13, 14—knighted, 70— character of him, 86, 264, 265; iii. 136—arrests three of the regi- cides, i. 264—made Secretary to the Treasury, iii. 136, 137—al- luded to, i. 8, 10, 15, 34, 55, 70, — 140, 146, 188; ii. 185, 236, 333, 342, 376, 377; iii. 15, 51, 74, 148, 156, 226, 232, 243, 244; iv. 72, 134 , the anchor-smith, ii. 375 Doyly, Sir William, a Commission for Sick and Wounded, ii. 293, 294; ili, 232—wager of, 141 Draghi, Giovanni Baptista, iii. 61 _ Dragon, the, man-of-war, iv. 204 p Drake, Mr., his house at Hackney, — li. 403 . Sir Francis, i. 349 Draper, Mr., of Deptford, iv. 313 Drayman, dispute with one, i. 127 — Dream, singular, ii. 83 Dredger, a species of spice-box, ii. — 350 4 Dress, fashion of, i. 2, 11, 17, 63, — 72, 88, 90, 92, 93, 101, 102, 104, 106, 109, 111, 150, 154, 174, 175, 187, 210, 227, 230, 242, 266, 271, — 278, 280, 286, 289, 297, 366, 367, 405; ii. 8, 51, 53, 180, 236, 239, 246, 247, 269, 271, 290, 341, 344, 372, 395, 404, 473; iii. 1, 88, 91, 105, 115, 139, 223, 261, 326, 444; — iv. 159—splendour of, at coronation, i. 174—alterations in, — at court, ii. 467, 471, 473-475, © 478—ridiculed by the King of France, iii. 14—fashion of, in Spain, 72 ; Dribble, Dr., his instrument to — sink ships, ii. 61 Drumbleby, Mr., iii. 353, 420 “Drummer, the, or The Haunted House,” ii. 8 * 5 ¥ GENERAL INDEX Drunkenness, sermon against, i. 156 Drury House, i. 256 ——, William, the invisible drum- mer, ii. 8 — Lane, houses marked in, ii. 242 Theatre, established by royal authority, i. 231; iii. 296— rformances at, ii. 81 Dryden, John, his “Mac Flecknoe,” i. 124; iii. 345; iv. 24-his “ Wilde Gallant,” a comedy, i. 390—his tragedy of “The Indian Queen,” ii. 89, 90; iii. 43, 470—his “ Rivall Ladys,” a tragedy, ii. 155—his play of “ The Indian Empereur,” iii. 42, 349, 470—his poem on the war, 54—his tragedy of “The Mayden Queene,” 77, 353—ex- tract from his “Annus Mir- abilis,” 145—his “ Evening Love, or, the Mock Astrologer,” a comedy, 470—“ The Ladies a-la- mode,” iv. 21—his reply to Sir R. Howard’s answer about his Essay of Poesy, 24—his death, 291—and funeral, ib.—alluded to, ii. 91; iii. 107, 207, 220, 345, 446, 470 Dublin, discontents at, i. 400; ii. 1, 2—alluded to, 31 Dublin packet boat, ii. 31 Dubois, Charles, iv. 358 “Duchess of Malfy,” a play, i. 330; lil. 4; iv. 57 Ducke Lane, ii. 336; iii. 402, 421, 427, 476 : Duckett, Sir George, iv. 130 Ducking Ponds at Islington, ii. 111 Dudley, Lord Robert, iv. 329-333 + Mr., i. 34 Dugdale, Mr., i. 237; ii. 459 Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s, ii. 72—his “History of the Inns of Court,” ii. 460, iii. 107—his History of the Chancellors, iv. QAT Duilius, C., column erected to him, ii. 371 Duke, Mr., ii. 182; iv. 199—his discourtesy to the Duke of York, 201 “Duke of Lerma,” a play, iii. 370 “Duke of Lorane,” the, a play, iii. 348 395 Duke’s Theatre: see Lincoln’s Inn Fields Duke-Shore Stairs, i. 142, 143 Dumb boy, intelligence of a, iii. 7 Dun, Mr., i. 301 Dunbar, man-of-war, name altered to the Henry, i. 70 Dunblane, Thomas, Viscount, iv. 221 Duncombe, Sir J., made a Master of the Ordnance, ii. 182—ap- pointed a Commissioner for the Treasury, iii. 110, 130, 132—made Privy Councillor, 110, 135— character of, 132—alluded to, 84, 110, 140, 142, 161, 285, 289, 359, 387, 394, 403; iv. 99, 112, 124, 134 Dundas, Lowthiel, Lord, iv. 116 Dunes, the battle of the, iii. 340 Dunkirk, the, man-of-war, ii. 388 , soldiery of, i. 41—sum produced by the sale of, 351; ii. $34; iv. 336—French army at, ’ jij. 152—alluded to, i. xii., 210, 264, 293, 336, 337, 344, 355, 359; ii. 21, 98, 132, 249, 357, 386; iii. 152, 155, 195, 278, 340; iv. 133 Dunkirke House, ii. 212; iii. 124, 152 «_ i. . _-... News from,” a tract, ii. 212; iii. 317 Dunster Castle, ii. 324 Dunstar, Mr., iii. 473 Duport, Dr., sermon by him, i. 381 Duppa, Brian, Bishop of Salisbury, i. 97, 111 Durdans, near Epsom, i. 31, 321; ii. Q27 Durfey, Thomas, the author, ii. 198 Durham, Bishop of (Lord Crewe) iv. 228 House, i. 271 Street, iii. 440 Yard, iii. 360, 439, 440— fire in, iv. 161 Dutch Captain, traitorous conduct of a, ii. 431 —— Giant, the, ii. 159 —— pleasure boat: see Yacht ——, the commencement of the war with, in 1664, i. xiv—equip a fleet for the East Indies, 157— present made by, to Charles ie 164—expectations of a war with, 296; ii. 98, 120, 122, 128, 138— 396 their power in India, 89, 93, 94— proclaim themselves masters of the Southern Seas, 93—their East India fleet, 161—appear- ance of their fleet before Ostend, 162—plague on board one of their ships, 170—defeated at Guinea, 170, 171—their Bour- deaux fleet taken by the English, 186, 192—preparations of the, 189, 318; iii. 350—capture some English colliers, ii. 198—defeated by Captain Allen in the Bay of Cadiz—determine to prosecute the war with vigour, 205—seen off the Goodwin, 208—capture of three of their privateers, 228— appearance of their Smyrna fleet off Scotland, 229—eight ships taken from, 234—squadrons com- posing their fleet, 237—successes over the, 239—victory over, 243, 244—thanksgiving for it, 250— put to sea again, ib.—attacked at Bergen, 282-284—defeated at Solebay, 295, 296—their fleet off Solebay, 309—damaged by a storm, 317—action with, be- tween Dunkirk and Ostend, 386- 388—allusions to it, 393-396, 409 —hboast of their victory, 397— appearance of their fleet off France, 405—seen off the English coast, 408—reported loss sus- tained by, 415—reported victory over, 420, 423—town of, on the Schelling, burnt by the British, 431—their fleet seen at Boulogne, 450, 451—their manner of fight- ing, 482—expected peace with, iii. 64, 67, 72, 77, 82, 85, 94, 97, 105, 130, 183, 332, 333—preparation of, for war, 54—reappearance of their fleet off the English coast, 115, 122—equip a large fleet, 142 —seen off Harwich, 144—reach the Nore, 145, 172, 199—and Sheerness, 146, 147 — break through the chain at Chatham, 148—and burn the English ships, 148, 149—progress of, in the river, 152, 153, 173, 197—English sea- men in their fleet, 154—seen off Harwich, 164—land there, 180— arrive before ,Dover, 185—at Dartmouth, 194 — engagement with, 196—conclusion of peace GENERAL INDEX 4 with, 185, 188, 225, 227—attack upon, at Harwich, 199, 201-203— their policy, 232—proposed his- tory of the war with, iv. 220, 221, 223, 249 Du Tell, Captain, ii. 395, 421; iii. 398—satirical verses upon, ii. 421 _ Dutton, Sir Ralph, iv. 302, 358 , John, of Dutton, iii. 289 Dyan, Ursula, iv. 70 Dyer, Sir Edward, ii. 112 Dyer’s Reports, iii. 246 Dyke, Mrs., iv. 75, 76, 81, 88 gee the King’s Champion, i. Eades, Mr., ii. 34 wee Solomon, the Quaker, iii. Earl, customary present from one to the king, i. 138—ceremony of - creating, 172 Earle, Bishop John, i. 72, 175 Earnest money, iii. 75 East, Gammer, i. 16, 186 East India Company, charter granted to, i. 239—verdict against, ii. 100—disputes in Par- liament respecting, iii. 432, 433, 435, 436, 438, 439—alluded to, ii. 322; iii, 261, 381; iv. 134, 283, 286 L —— Indiamen, Dutch, capture of, iii. 214 Indies, fleet sent to, i. 265— particulars respecting, 420; ii. 36—proceedings of the Dutch in, 93—account of, ii. 432, 433 Eccleshall Castle, iv. 307 Echoes, curious, ii. 204; iii. 299 Eclipse, seen at Oxford in 1699, iv. 276 Eden, Mr., iv. 147 Edgar, King, charter granted by, to Worcester, ii. 228 ‘ Edgeborough, Mr., i. 165 Edgehill fight, i. 58 Edgeley, Rev. James, i. xxxv.; iv. 52 reported » Mr. Samuel, iv. 357 Edinburgh, defeat of the Coven-— anters near, iii. 24—alluded to, iv. 224, 226, 228 j Edin, Mr., i. 268 Edmundthorpe, seat of Sir Edward Smith, iv. 229 GENERAL INDEX Edward IV., iv. 345 V., ii. 301 VI., ii. 144 the Confessor, said to have first touched for the Evil, i. 84 Edwards, Lieutenant, iv. 359 , Thomas (Pepys’s boy), ii. 162, 255—his father dies of the plague, 297—alluded to, 300, 431, 453; iii. 214, 371; iv. 1, 7, 139, 155 Eels, high price of, ii. 451 Egerton, Chancellor, i. 185 , Bishop of Durham, ii. 82 Eglin, Mr., i. 201 Eglinton, Lord, iv. 174 Bikon Basilike, ii. 172; iv. 326 Elborough, Mr., i. 371; ii. 425, 440 “Bilder Brother,” a play, i. 215 Eldred, Mr. John, iv. 242 Elias, the, man-of-war, i. 375— sunk, ii. 185—alluded to, iv. 347 Elizabeth, Queen, i. 191—fleet of, 322—letters in the handwriting of, ii. 327—book translated by, iii. 354glorious reign of, iv. 302—alluded to, i. 176, 323, 422, 493; ii. 7; iii. 22, 74, 116, 152, 171, 221, 358, 467 Ellington, Hunts, bequest to the poor of, iv. 352—alluded to, 173 Elliott, Captain, ii. 383, 384; iv. 198, 200 Ellis, Bishop, i. xxvii.; iv. 281 — ,, Sir Henry, his Letters quoted, j. xxvii—noticed, ii. 245, 287 Elsinge, Henry, Clerk of Parlia- ment, i. 6 Elstrach, the engraver, iv. 246 | Elstrob, Mr. (Elstob), the Saxon scholar, iv. 305 Elve, the, ii. 362 Elve-arrows, strange belief con- cerning, in Scotland, iv. 270 Ely, Bishop of, iii. 30 Emmanuel College, iii. 10 Engagement, the, Act of Parlia- ment, burnt, i. 188 Engines for drawing up water, i. 113 England, introduction of tea in, i. 109—history of families in, 146— increase of trade in, 376—indif- ferent state of affairs in, ii. 58, 59—obscurity of the laws of, 373—threatened invasion of, by the Dutch, iii. 142, 170 397 England and France, supposed to have been once the same conti- nent, i. 187 Englefield, Sir H., communication of, to the Society of Antiquaries, i. 167 “English Monsieur,” a comedy, iii. 26, 420 “English Princesse,” a tragedy, iii. 80 Ensum, Mr., his death, iii. 28 Ent, Sir G., on respiration, ii. 346 —alluded to, 387; iii. 66 “ Epicene; or, the Silent Woman,” a comedy, i. 80, 139; ii. 130; iil. 108, 210; iv. 24 Epitaph, Van Trump’s, i. 66 Epping, i. 29 Forest, ii. 295; iii. 451 Epsom, seat of Lord Berkeley, near, i. 321—allusions to the town, ii. 27; iii. 175, 189, 191; iv. 4 Erasmus, his Book “ De Scribendis Epistolis,” iii. 51—his “ Praise of Folly,” iv. 251 Erith, i. 195; ii. 307, 310, 324, 325, 327; iv. 240 Ernle, Sir John, Chancellor of the Exchequer, iv. 209 Erwin, Capt., ii. 382—his account of the East Indies, 432, 433 Eschar, M., i. 202, 224, 383 Escurial, in Spain, removal of the bodies of the Kings of Spain thither, iii. 401—description of, iv. 48, 145 Esquire, title of, i. 39; iii. 87, 101 Essex, Arthur Capel, Earl of, i. 172; iv. 83 ——, Devereux, Lord, the Parlia- mentary General, ii. 292; iv. 88 ——, Lady, ii. 292 —— House, iv. 88 ——, man-of-war, i. 51—said to be taken by the Dutch, ii. 390, 392 —alluded to, iv. 347 Etheridge (Etherege), Sir George, comedies by, ii. 199, 483; iii. 455 —his play “She Would if she Could,” iii. 366 Ethersey, Mr., iv. 357 Eton College, account of, ii. 358 Eugene, Maurice, i. 116 , Prince, i. 116 Eunuch, French, iv. 33, 35 Euston Hall, Suffolk, iii. 168 398 “Evangelium Armatum,” by Dr. Wm. Assheton, i. 407 Evans, Capt., i. 344; ii. 43 ——, Mr., the tailor, i. 211 —, Thomas, tried for a conspir- acy, iii. 28 Evelyn, John (the intimate friend of Pepys), his Diary, i. 7, 85, 229, 298; iii. 136; iv. 29, 35— his seat at Deptford, i. 252; ii. 320—agreeable society of, 294— his garden, 308; iv. 103—his favourite pursuits, ii. 308—his presents to Pepys, 308, 327—pro- jects an infirmary for sick and wounded, 308, 354; iv. 327—his conversation respecting the King’s mistresses, ii. 460; iii. 111, 215—his eulogium on the King of France, 112—on the state of Public affairs, ii. 460; iii. 29, 142, 914, 315; iv. 127—failure of his brick-making speculation, 26— his translation of Naudé’s Work, ii. 308—his letters to Pepys, rela- tive to Chatham River, &c., iv. 196—on the projected history of the Dutch War, 221, 224, 252— his Treatise of Commerce, &c., 225—on the Revolution of 1688, 244—his answer to Pepys con- cerning eminent engravers, 249— his Treatise on Calcographie, 50—his portrait, ib.—proposes to accompany Pepys to Bishop Lloyd’s, 248—his letters on vari- ous matters, 254—expresses his regret at Pepys’ indisposition, 293—his own rural mode of life, and his grandson, 295—his library at Wotton, 296—sends an extract from Archdeacon Nichol- son’s letter, 293—alluded to, i. 26, 252, 259, 371, 396; ii. 68, 129, 150, 222, 233, 234, 293, 303, 305, 308 336, 348, 373, 473; iii. 114, 136, 157, 161, 190, 191, 193, 315; iv. 26, 127, 140, 197, 248, 249, 286, 290, 297, 330, 358 Evelyn, John (grandson of the pre- ceding), extract from his Latin letter, iv. 289—his studies and conduct approved by his grand- father, 321—alluded to, 305, 363 , Mrs., ii. 305; iii, 190; iv. 286, 289 GENERAL INDEX ———, George, of Wotton, iv. 251 , Richard, iii. 190 “Evening Love; or, the Mock As- trologer,” a comedy, by: Dryden, lil. 470 7 Evens, Mr., the musician, dies of want, iii. 32 J Everson, Admiral, ii. 228, 237, 244 —killed, 425 7 , Capt. taken prisoner by the British, ii. 228, 229—anecdote of, 229 3 “Every Man in his Humour,” a_ play, ii. 111; iii. 60 ¥ Evett, Capt., i. 342, 344, 349, 3 Evora, the capture of, ii. 19 Ewell, ii. 305 Exchange, Royal, i. 36—effigies of the King placed in, 41, 47— closed, ii. 78—destroyed by the great fire, 447—stone laid for the new building, iii. 286 ———., New, i. 271; ii. 89, 121, 450; iii. 27, 219, 471; iv. 20, 26, 55 b Exchequer, the money in, i. 48, 49; _ iii. 156—regulations in the, i. 365 —removed to Nonsuch, ii. 279, — 449—new act relating to, 329— ‘gene of, in Wiltshire, iv. 157, 5 ; ———.,, Elizabeth, iv. 251 0 Books, on signing them, — i. 384 i Men, their custom on St. Thomas’s day, i. 132, 241 Excise, voted the King, i. 127 Executions, i. 113, 115, 129, 149, aml, 990, 392; ii. 2, 86, 87, iv 3! Exeter, Bishop of (Gauden), 26 » Countess of, i. 170 House, its site, i. Pe at, ii. 35— trial at, iii. 92—alluded to, i. 14; it. 203 , Lord, iv. 280—his de 285 Exmouth, Lord, i. 237 4 Experiment, the, a double-bot- — tomed boat, ii. 31, 89, 193, 210, 211, 221 ‘ Exton, Sir Thomas, his charge on opening the Admiralty Court, i. 398 Eyes, experiments on, iii. 473 iz GENERAL INDEX Faber, Mr., his portrait of Mrs. Knight, i. 260 Fage, Mr., i. 5, 7, 11, 19, 20, 23 Fairebrother (Fairbrother), Wil- liam, i. 91, 101, 149, 173, 200, 253, $10, 321, 332, 335 Fairfax, Thomas Lord, heads the Trish brigade, i. 3—lays down his arms, 4—ordered to London, 5— his remonstrance, 23—alluded to, i. 19; ii. 292; iii. 152 Fair maids of Foscott, the story of, iii. 462 Fair Rosamond, ii. 109 “Faithful Shepherdess,” a play, ii. 6; iv. 35, 109 Faithorne, William, engraver, i. 944; iii. 5, 42; iv. 148, 246 Faleonberge, Mr., i. 241; ii. 470; iii. 126 Falconbridge, Lady, i. 175; ii. 6 — (Falconberg), Lord, i. 175, 259; ii. 6 Falconer, Mr., i. 309, 394; ii. 94— his death, 150—his funeral, 151— alluded to, iii. 132 , the royal office of, iii. 224 Falkland, Lord, his tragedy “ The Wedding Night,” iii. 88 Falmouth, safe arrival of the New England fleet at, iii. 24 ——_— _, Earl of, ii. 8, 390—killed in an engagement with the Dutch, 224, 243, 245, 401—char- acter of, iv. 14: see also Charles Berkeley —— _, Lady, ii. 401; iii. 209, 210; iv. 115 Falstaff, character of, i. 129; ii. 438; iii. 296 Families, rise or origin of, ii. 184 Famine apprehended in England, i. 190—in France, 270 Fanatics, petition of, i. 21—insur- rection of, 138, 139-140; ii. 65— one of their meeting-houses pulled down, i. 139—arrest and examination of, 140—execution of, at the Old Bailey, 369—al- Iuded to, i. 45, 165, 293, 321, 352; li. 58, 65; iii. 389 Fane, Lady Diana, ii. 476 ——, Mrs. Jane, iv. 357 —, Mildmay, second Earl of Westmoreland, ii. 476 Fanfan, the, man-of-war, iii. 192 Fanfaroone explained, ii. 280 399 Fanshawe, Lord Viscount, iii. 383 , Lady, i. 297; iii. 15 ——_—-, Sir Henry, i. 151 ———., Sir Richard, i. 87, 297— returns from Portugal, 244—his death at Madrid, ii. 418; iii. 15 Faringdon, seat of Sir Robert Pye, i. 19 Farmers, condition of the, iii. 337 Farming Woods, Northampton- shire, i. 99 “ Farnley Plot,” ii. 60 Farthingales, custom of wearing, i. 284 Faryner, the king’s baker, the great fire commences in his house, ii. 439 Fasts, general, appointed, i. 148, 193, 248, 253, 379; ii. 24, 207, 224, 225, 260, 275, 321, 349, 351, 381, 387, 468; iii. 54; iv. 16, 91 “Father’s owne Son,” a play, i. 221 “Faustus, Dr.,” a play, i. 284 “Faythful Shepherd,” a pastoral, iii. 386 Fazeby, Captain, ii. 383 Fecamp, in France, i. 71 “Feign Innocence; or, Sir Martin Mar-all,” a play, iii. 220 Felippe V. of Spain, his entry into Madrid, iv. 294 Felt-making, lecture on, ii. 355 Felton, the assassin of the Duke of Buckingham, i. 181 , Sir Henry, ii. 241 , Sir Thomas, ii. 25, 241 Fen Church, ii. 226 Fenchurch Street, i. 135, 311; ii. 246, 248, 296, 445; iv. 31—plague in, ii. 245, 296, 426—destroyed in the great fire, 445, 447 Fencing, art of, ii. 1 Fenn, John, ii. 284, 397, 466; iii. 98, 105, 147, 165, 173, 185, 199; iv. 40, 49, 52 Fenner, Mr. (uncle of Pepys), i. 14, 136, 201, 210, 217, 230, 251, 310; ii. 106, 114—his death, 127, 128 , Mrs., i. 203, 208—her death, Q17 , Kate, ii. 113 Fenwick, Sir W., i. 170 Ferabosco, ii. 163, 164—account of her, iii. 139 400 Ferrandin, a species of stuff, i. 378; li. 246 Ferrers, Mrs., i. 203, 366 , Captain, i. 102, 152—his astonishing leap, 185, 186—affray of, with watermen, 239—accident to, 325—alluded to, 180, 185, 188, 194, 203, 232, 239, 284, 301, 325, 332, 337, 361; ii. 247, 326, 354; iv. 145 Ferry-boats across the Thames at Westminster, iv. 312 Fever, pretensions to cure it by magic and sympathy, iv. 219 Feversham, iii. 202 ———., Earl of, iv. 116, 358: see M. Blancford Field, committed to prison, i. 255, 338—obtains a verdict against the Navy Board, 294, 338, 350, 358, 386—alluded to, ii. 3 Fielding, kills his brother in a quarrel, iii. 124, 181—tried at the Sessions House, 181—found guilty, 183 — —., Basil, killed by his brother, iii. 181 Fienne, Madame de, iv. 345 Fiennes, Lord, i. 31 Fifth-monarchy men, i. 4, 136, 146 Finch, Daniel (afterwards Lord), a Commissioner of the Admir- alty, iv. 212, 227 » Daniel, a Commissioner of Excise, ii. 252, 407 ——, Sir Heneage (afterwards Earl of Nottingham), i. 99, 109; ii. 123; iii. 393; iv. 41, 106—enter- tains the King and Duke of York, i. 208—fray with his coach- man, ii. 73—his house at Ken- sington, 134; iii. 446—his elo- quence, iv. 157 Finch, Sir John, iii. 446 Fines, or Fiennes, Major, ii. 131 Fire, experiments on, ii. 210 Fire in Cheapside, ii. 160—of Lon- don: see London Fireships, to annoy the Dutch, ii. 436; ili. 145, 147, 151, 160, 178, 197, 202 Fireworks, ii. 430 Fir-trees, manner of planting, ii. 73—underground, antediluvian, iv. 308 Fish, method of preserving, ii. 73 —kept in glasses, 239 GENERAL INDEX —., Mrs., ii. 150 Fish Street, destroyed by the great fire, ii. 439, 441, 448; iv. 8 Fisher, Mr. (cousin of Pepys), i. 290, 292 » Payne, the poet, account of, i. 94—letter from, 97 Fishery, encouragement of the, i. 353: see Royal Fishery Fishing, Committee for, ii. 150 Fishmongers’ Company, their peti- tion for the observance of Lent, i. 257 Fissant, Mrs., ii. 270 Fitch, Colonel, i. 16, 17 Fitton, deed forged in behalf of, iii. 382 Fitzgerald, Colonel, i. 329—made Deputy Governor of Tangier, 410 —alluded to, iii. 229; iv. 1,3 Fitzharding, Lord, ii. 45, 86, 93, 95, 96, 132, 155, 191, 202, 218, 219, 248 Fitzroy, Charles, Duke of South- ampton, i. 303; ii. 281, 342; iii. 200 , George, Duke of Northum- berland, ii. 224, 342 , Henry, first Duke of Graf- ton, ii. 42 Flageolet, played by ladies, iii. 76 —improvement in, 353 Flag, dispute on striking the, i. 233 Flag-makers, imposition of the, i. 311 Flag-Officers, on granting pensions to, iii. 475 Flanders, i. 38, 123, 396; ii. 18, 98, 191, 225, 383, 412, 424; iii. 70, 77, 82, 83, 141, 248, 340, 428, 478; iv. 69, 173 Fleece Tavern, in York Street, Scotch knight killed there, i. 1268 —alluded to, 152, 236 Fleet, the, proposed reductions in, i. 42—to fetch the king from Holland, 58—arrives at the Hague, 60—fires a salute to the king, who goes on board, 69— — sails for England, 71—alteration ~ in the names of the ships com- posing, 70—estimate of the ex- pense of, for a month, 78—debts of, 103, 120—to fetch the queen, 111, 114—conjectures respecting, 157 — commissioners appointed GENERAL INDEX 401 for paying off, 146, 157—equip- ment of one, for Algiers, 172, 193, 223—for Portugal, 268, 270, 276, 280—superiority of the pres- ent, compared with Queen Eliza- beth’s, 322—-receives orders to proceed to Guinea, ii. 163, 164, 194—preparations for one to pro- ceed against the Dutch, 171, 181 —arrives off the coast of Hol- land, 233—gains a complete vic- tory over the Dutch, 243, et seq. —teturns to Solebay, 281—at- tacks the Dutch fleet at Bergen, 282, 283—wants of, 298—appre- hensions concerning that under Sir J. Smith, 351—arrives at Ma- laga, 352—at Cadiz, 362—at the Nore, 377—fast-day for its suc- cess, 38l1—within sight of the Dutch, 384, 385—engages them, 386-388, 421; iii. 197—its pro- ceedings condemned, ii. 391, 392 —numbers of seamen leave, 394—on the division of, 393, 402; iii, 98, 280, 295—ille- gal impressment of men for, 405-407—proposed regulations in, 408—method of rousing the spirits of the seamen in, 415, 416 —insubordination in, 417, 473, 478, 482, 483—peculation in, 468 —efficient state of, 419—its suc- cesses, 422-425—on the victual- ling of, 436, 438; iii. 84, 390— proceedings of, ii. 451, 455—re- turns to the Downs, 457—condi- tion of, 466, 469; iii. 154, 164, 339, 340, 359—parliamentary in- quiry concerning, 295—orders for equipping a, 350, 402, 453, 456, 457 : Fleet-bridge, rebuilt, iii. 457, 475 —— marriages, i. 193 —— Market, iv. 22 —— Street, i. 3—destroyed in the great fire, ii. 446, 449 Fleetwood, Charles, noticed, i. 9, 15, 251 Flemming, Dennis, i. 86 ———-, Lord George, iii. 11 Fletcher, John, his ‘Woman’s Prize; or, Tamer Tamed,” a comedy, i. 118—“ Rollo,” 163; iv. 23—“ The Night Walker; or, Little Thief,” i. 163, 268—“ Rule a Wife, and have a Wife,” 163, 255—* Mad Lover,” 239—“ Span- ish Curate,” 244—“* A Wife for a Month,” 360—“The Storme,” ili. 257—“The Faithful Shep- herdess,” ii. 6; iv. 35 Flint, Thomas, tried for a con- spiracy, iii. 28 “Flora’s Figarys,” ii. 156; iii. 264, 378 Florence, wine from, i. 134—ambas- sador from, 160 poison, experiments with, ii. 230 Florimell, character of, iii. 77, 135 Flower, Mr., i. 128 Floyd, Mr., sermon by, iii. 16 » Secretary, iii. 63, 123 ——, Sir Richard, i. 398 Flushing, i. 40, 45, 48, 57; ii. 425; iv. 350 Fly (Vlieland) defeat of the Dutch at the, ii. 431, 435 Flying Greyhound, a privateer, iii. 424 Fogourdy, Father, ii. 92, 112 Folliott, Henry, Lord, iv. 25 Folly, the, on the Thames, iii. 422 Foly, the locksmith, ii. 180, 185; iii. 130 » or Foley, Thomas, iii. 459 Fonthill, i. 138 Footman, killed in a quarrel, i. 127 —resents a blow, 325 Forbes, Mr., iv. 357 Ford, Catherine, ii. 42 —,, John, play by, i. 216—his play “The Lady’s Triall,” iv. 112 ——, Lady, ii. 388 ——, Sir Edward, ii. 42, 188, 189 , Sir R., i. 140, 213—his house, 210, 213; ii. 43, 78—his Holland yarn, i. 288—his daughter repre- sents the queen in a pageant, 318 —made Commissioner for Tan- gier, 340, 355—his sentiments upon the Commons’ House, iii. 33 —alluded to, i. 140, 210, 213, 287, 288, 318, 351, 354, 359, 398, 399; li. 43, 51, 78, 160, 177, 186, 256, 433, 449, 479; iii. 44, 100, 127, 157, 180, 181, 192, 198, 220, 228, 317, 327, 447; iv. 11, 57, 58 Forecastles in ships, use of, il. 409 Foresight, the, man-of-war, ii. 482; iv. 347 Forster, Anthony, iv. 329, 332 402 , Captain, iii. 449 Fortescue, Sir John, i. 84 Fortry, Mr., of the Duke of York’s bedchamber, iv. 225 Foscott, maids of, iii. 462 Foster, Sir Robert, Lord Chief Jus- tice, ii. 16 Foulmer, i. 27 Foundes, Mr., iii. 30 Fountain, John, his comedy, “The Rewards of Virtue,” iv. 109 Fountain, Lord, i. 18 Tavern, i. 226 Fouquet, Monsieur, his magnificent mansion, iii. 427 Fowke, Alderman, i. 11—his elec- tion for London, 160 Fowkes, Mr., iv. 143 Fowl, preservation of, ii. 73 Fowler, Judge Advocate, i. 100, 165 , Mr., ii. 307 Fox Hall, i. 285; ii. 27, 241, 250, 265, 330, 380, 458; iii. 138, 143, 426 Fox, Lady, i. 125, 324; iii. 29; iv. 6, 103 Fox, Stephen (afterwards Sir Ste- phen), i. 72, 121-125, 147, 150, 324, 328, 393; ii. 243, 367; Iii. 29, 43, 84, 99, 121, 247, 329; iv. 2 6,91 28 Fox’s “Book of Martyrs,” iv. 8 Foy, a merry-making, i. 236 Frampton, Mr., sermons by him, ii- 468; ili. 45 France, famine in, i. 270—revenue of, ii. 101—expectations of a war with, 266, 317—declares. war against England, 347—partridges prolific in, 364—on the gardens of, 417—reported peace with, iii. 35—peace proclaimed with, 227, 259—proposed league with, 341; iv. 162—peace between, and Spain, iii. 428, 432 , King of, book in praise of, i. 94—ill-treatment of his am- bassador in London, 224—anec- dotes of, 348, 377—proposes to make war with the Pope, 376— character of, 376; ii. 80—con- cludes peace with the Pope, i. 393—his illness, 424—his recov- ery, 427; ii. 2—his ambitious projects, 48, 50—hires ships of the Dutch, 71, 75—degrades twelve of his nobility, 74—gives GENERAL INDEX the precedence to princes of the blood before foreign ambassa- dors, 75—adjustment of differ- ences between him and the Pope, 92, 93, 98—puts forth an arrét against the Pope, 261—leagues with Holland, 266, 419—ridi- cules the dress of the English Court, iii. 14—suspected of fo- menting the insurrection in Scot- land, 17—his mistresses, 112— despotic power of, 173, 174, 188; iv. 48, 88, 89—prosecutes the war with Spain, iii. 478—his harsh- ness to his Protestant subjects, iv. 283—alluded to, 150, 224; ii. 47, 48, 71, 98, 209, 225, 309, 475; iii. 70, 77, 82, 83, 112-114, 126, 166, 170, 172, 190, 248, 320, 390, 428, 472; iv. 14, 70, 158, 334: see also Louis XIV. France, Queen of, i. 224, 327; ii. 17, 18 Frances, Madam, i. 96 Francis, Alban, the monk, iv. 234 L., of France, iii. 54 , the, man-of-war, iv. 347 Francisco de Quevedo, iii. 145 , the musician, iii. 213 Francisque, le Sieur, iv. 345 Francklin, the, sunk by mistake, iii. 157 Frankleyn, Mrs., i. 179 Frazier, Dr., or Frazer (afterwards Sir Alexander), ii. 168—blamed on account of the death of the Princess Royal, i. 134—arrested, iv. 179—alluded to, iii. 55, 118 —,, Mrs., i. 382 Frederick, Sir John, Lord Mayor of London, iii. 127, 431; iv. 326 Freeman, Mr., the bookseller, iv. 293 ———., Sir R., i. 59 Freemantle, Mr., i. 420 Freezeland, ii. 425 French, cowardice of the, i. 223— their expedition against Gigery, ii. 175—take the Island of St. Christopher’s, 398—expected to invade England, 405; iii. 24, 89, 152, 341—reported design of the, against Ireland, 38—take the Is- land of Antigua, 54—their fleet put to sea, 142—defeated at Bar- badoes, 246—preparations of the, . 350, 471—they take St. Domingo © GENERAL INDEX from the Spaniards, iv. 175 church in London, ii. 84 “French Dancing Master,” a play, i. 281 Frenchmen, hanged for firing the City, iii. 73 Fresheville, Lord, i. 367 Frewen, Dr., translated to York, merely Frezendorfe (Friesendorff), Lord, i. 85 Friar Bacon’s study at Oxford, iii. 459 Friday Street, disturbance at a church in, i. 320 Frosting of horses, ii. 327 Frosts, unusual, i. 353, 381—al- luded to, ii. 35, 209, 350; iii. 34, 38, 39 Froud, Mr., iv. 224 Frowde, Sir Philip, ii. 387; iii. 219 —his monument, ib. Fryer, Mr., iii, 153. Fulham, iv. 174 Fuller, Dr. Thomas, i. 66—his His- tory of Abbeys, 129—his History of all: the Families in England, 146—his wonderful memory, 1b. —sermon by, 183—his death, 209 —his “Worthies of England,” 955, 260; ii. 72, 117—alluded to, i. 138, 150, 183; ii. 44, 160 , William, Dean of St. Pat- rick’s, i. 84, 164, 192, 280, 310; ii. 192—made Bishop of Lim- erick, 416—and Bishop of Lin- coln, iii. 208, 257, 298—alluded to, i. 192, 196; ii. 169, 461; iii. 356—sermon by, ii. 174 Fulwood, Jervas, sermon of, iii. A50 Furier, Mr., iv. 195 Furzer, Daniel, iii. 464; iv. 358 Gainsborough, Edmund (first Earl of), i. 274 Gale, Mr., i. 269 —, Roger, his letter to Pepys, concerning his father’s appari- tion, iv. 316, 321—alluded to, 243, 281 ——, Samuel (Pepys’s godson), iv. 357 ——, Thomas, Dean of York, no- tice of, iv. 243—his letter to Pepys, enclosing one from Dr. Cumberland, ib. — acknowledges 403 the receipt of a book, 293—his death, 301—his reported appari- tion, 316—portrait of, ib.—al- Iuded to, 248, 250, 281 Galeniére, Monsieur de, his com- plimentary letter to Pepys, iv. 311, 312—alluded to, 358 Gallantry, on, i. 240 Gallipoli, ship lost on her passage from, iii. 213 Galloper, the ships run aground on, ii. 390, 409; iii. 203 Galloway, Bishop of, i. 192—attack on, 415, 420 ————., Lord, iv. 283 Gambia, the King of, his longevity, ij. 248 Gaming, Parliamentary act con- cerning, iv. 336 Gardeman, Rev. Balthazar, i. 215 Gardening, state of, in England, ii. 417, 418 , Evelyn’s Discourse on, ii. 320 Garden Stairs, i. 194 Gardiner, Sir George, introduces melons into England, i. 104 Garrard, Sir John, ii. 81 Garraway, Mr., i. xviii; ii, 462; iii. 118, 198—character of, ii. 465, 468 Garter, Order of the, i. 76, 404; ii. 358; iii. 114 Garters at marriages, i. 12: see Ribbons Garthwayt, Mr., i. 27 Gascony, the wines of, iv. 336 Gaston, Duke of Orleans, i. 150 Gataker, Mr., the divine, iv. 277 Gate House, Westminster, i. xxviii., 96, 426—persons committed to, ii. 98, 128, 240 Gauden, Dennis (afterwards Sir Dennis), victualler to the Navy, his seat at Clapham, i. 95, 132, 363; ii. 26, 64—his dispute with Sir J. Lawson, 74—his presents to Pepys, 151, 166, 338; iii. 42, 57—sheriff of London, 262, 286— knighted, ib.—alluded to, i. 132, 363; ii. 49, 151, 269, 329, 348, 367, 448; iii. 53, 54, 76, 84, 154, 155, 212, 248, 295, 327, 350, 355 —character of, iii. 212, 213, 393, 397; iv. 10, 27, 28, 45, 46, 48, 71, 89, 146, 238 404 » Dr. John, Bishop of Exe- ter (afterwards of Worcester), i. 132 » Lady, iii. 355 , Benjamin, iv. 358 Gavelkind, Silas Taylor’s treatise on, ii. 56 Gavet, Mrs. Susan, iii. 441, 442, 444, 452, 453 “Gaze not on Swans,” a song, by H. Noel, i. 256, 260 “General,” the, a play, by James Shirley, ii. 170, 173; iv. 160 “Generous Portugalls,” a play, iv. 159 Genest’s “ History of the Stage,” li. 332 Genoa, Duke of, custom at his elec- tion, i. 246 Genoese galley struck by lightning, ii. 13 Gentleman, Mr., iv. 56 “ Gentleman’s Magazine,” i. 20 George IV., i. 177 Inn, at Old Sarum, iii. 460 » Mr., i. 310: see Gouge , servant of Sir J. Minnes, li. 286 Gerard, Lady, in disgrace with the King, i. 395 ,» Lord, i. 369, 395; ii. 45; lii. 101, 250, 289, 301, 322, 326, 327, 354, 367, 368, 381, 395; iv. 99, 50 » Thomas, Esq., of Trent, ii. 331 Gerbier, Sir Balth., book by, i. 425 Germaine, Sir John, iv. 284 “ German Princesse,” i. 426; ii. 5, 118 Germany, advance of the Turks into, ii. 42, 80—defeat of the Turks in, 154, 157, 160 Gerrold, Sir Gilbert, iv. 239, 240 Gesner, ii. 72 “ Ghosts,” the, a play, ii. 229 Giant, Dutch, ii. 159 Giantess, iv. 75, 97 Gibbet, in Cheapside, i. 13 Gibbon’s Tennis-court, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, i. 424 Gibbons, Christoph. (afterwards Dr.), i. 361; iii. 385; iv. 1 , Orlando, the organist, iii. 322 Gibbs, Joseph, on crown-pieces, i. 396 Cromwell’s GENERAL INDEX ——, (Pepys’s clerk), iii. 311; iv. 36 Gibraltar, loss of two ships in the Bay of, ii. 205 Gibson, Edmund (afterwards Bishop of London), his letter to Dr. Charlett on Pepys’s MSS., iv. 255—his letter to Pepys re- specting the London clergy, iv. 259 Gibson, Mr., clerk to Pepys, ii. 453; iii. 151, 155, 158, 159, 271, 360; iv. 9, 22, 41, 50, 95, 135, 139, 146, 169—his letter to Pepys, 237 » Richard, ii. 453; iii. 155, 159—notice of, 351; iv. 51 Gifford, Mr., the merchant, ii. 213 » sermons by, iv. 9, 126 —alluded to, i. 31 » Thomas, ii. 96 Gift, the (a ship), i. 149 Gigery, fort of, taken by the French, ii. 175 Giles, Sarah, ii. 399; iii. 150 Gilingham, ii. 307; iii. 177; iv. 196 Gilsthrop, Mr. (clerk to Sir Wil- liam Batten), ii. 305—his com- munication respecting the Navy, lii. 316—his funeral, 318 Gipps, or Gibbs, Thomas, ii. 337 Gipsies, at Lambeth, iv. 5 Glanville, Joseph, ii. 8 ——., Mr.,, ii. 305, 323 Glapthorn, Henry, plays by him, i. 49, 282 -Glascocke, Charles, i. 23, 175, 203 , John, i. 203 Glass coaches, fashion of, iii. 120 —inconvenience of, 225, 254 Glasses, chemical, experiment with, i. 247 Glass house, the, iv. 108 Gleeke, a game at cards, i. 247, 257 Glenham, Dr., iii. 208—his charac- ter, ib. Globe Tavern, Deptford, i. 141; ii. 453 —— Theatre, i. 161 Gloucester, the man-of-war, ii. 387 —wrecked, iv. 225-228 ————,, Duke of, i. 70, 71, 73— goes on board the fleet, 69, 71— his death, 107—his funeral, 106 —alluded to, iv, 285 : ee — ee ee ‘ } ' \ . GENERAL INDEX Glover, Dr., died of the plague, ii. 287 Gloves, perfumed, ii. 482 Glynne, Serjeant, i. 179 Goate, the, at Charing Cross, i. 170 “ Goblins,” a play, iii. 49, 50, 134 Godalming, town of, i. 180 Goddard, Dr. Jonathan, ii. 211, 346 Godfrey, Colonel, iv. 79 , Sir E. B., i. xx.; iv. 178 Godmanchester, town of, ii. 39 Godolphip, Mrs., iii. 113; iv. 116 ——_, Sidney, Earl, translation by, ii. 400—notice of, iii. 362— his retirement from the Treas- ury, iv. 298—character of, iii. 365, 368—alluded to, 394, 400, 401, 420; iv. 29, 116 = Sr W., iii. 362; iv. 30, 87 God’s penny, a species of alms, i. 67, 328 Godwin, “De Przsulibus,” quoted, iii. 85 “Goe and be hanged,” &c., a song, i. 168 Goffe, Dr., Clerk of the Queen’s closet, ii. 456 Gold, project of digging for, in Africa, i. 110 — coin, scarcity of, ii. 483; iii. 8 —— fish, a great rarity, ii. 239 Gold, Lady, her marriage, ii. 81, 137, 247 —,, Mr., i. 7; iv. 85 ——, Sir Nicholas, notice of, ii. 81 Golden Eagle, the, i. 95 Golden-lane Playhouse, iii. 345 Golding, Captain John, ii. 228 Goldsborough, Mr., ii. 13 Goldsmiths, usury of the, i. 365, 374; ii. 5 Goldsmiths’ Hall, i. 117; ii. 240 Gombout, M., his Plan of Paris, iii. 14 Gondolas for the King, i. 217; iii. 62 Gondomar, formerly Spanish Am- bassador, i. 222 Good Friday, fare on, i. 169—a fast, ii. 222 me, John, songs by, iii. 31, 83, 215, 234 —_—_—_—, Theodore, i. 198 Goodrich Court, i. 174 405 Goods, John, i. 32, 75, 145 Goodwood, Countess of Shrews- bury’s portrait at, iii. 351 Goome, Sir Barnard de: see De Gunn = Goosecall, Sir John, killed, i. 128 Gordon, Dean, i. 247 Gore, Sir William, iv. 358 Goring House, notice of, i. 91—al- luded to, ii. 413; iv. 4 , Colonel, ii. 456 , Lord, i. 43, 91, 150—cre- ated Earl of Norwich, 150 Gosnell (Pepys’s maid), i. 350—her performance of Pyramena, 426— alluded to, ii. 165; iii. 35, 455; iv. 86 Gosnells, the, i. 349 Gosport, i. 27: Gossip, a sponsor at a christening, iii. 24 Gosson, Stephen, his play, “ Cata- line’s Conspiracy,” iv. 68 Gottenburgh, death of the King of Sweder at, i. 34—Dutch ship cast on shore at, ii. 170—alluded to, 418, 461—British ships seized at, iii. 21 , fleet, danger of, ii. 455; iii. 30—uncertainty respecting it, 35—safe arrival of, 36 Gouge, Mr., the divine, i. 310 Gowran, Earl of (Lord John But- ler), ili. 57 Grabut, Louis: see Grebus Grace, Mrs., i. 144 Gracious, or Gracechurch Street, i. 130; ii. 290, 327; iv. 57—de- stroyed by the great fire, ii. 447; iv. 8 Grafton, Duchess of, iii. 11 , Duke of, the king’s illegiti- mate son; i. 93; ii. 42; iii. 200 , man-of-war, i. xxv Graham, Colonel, iv. 116, 359 , Katherine, iv. 116 Grammont, Chevalier de, iv. 334 his reception at the English Court, 335—married to Miss Hamilton, 342—returns to France, 345 Grammont, Countess de, iv. 344 , Maréchal-Duc de, ii. 17 Granaries, public, in London, ii, 138 "406 Grandison, Lord, i. 93—grants to, lii, 249 Grandmont, M., ii. 18. Granger, Mr., his imprisonment, iii. 381 Grant, Captain, iii. 428 » Mr., his collection of prints, i. 406—alluded to, 224, 266, 376; ii. 31, 268 Grantham, the, i. 48 Grapes and melons, from Lisbon, esteemed a rarity, i. 220, 221 “Grateful Servant, a comedy, iy. 106 Gratien, Mr., i. 189 Gravyeings, the artist, iv. Gravely, town of, i. 218, 219 Graves, Mr., the divine, i. 351 Gravesend, i. 40, 41, 81, 165, 285, 306, 307; ii. 139, 241, 279, 281, 298, 303, 307; iii. 146, 155, 160, 171, 175, 179, 196, 197, 216; iv. 17, 138 block house, or bulwark, iii. 146 Gray, Mr., ii. 164, 177, 192 Grayes, in Essex, ii. 303 Gray’s Inn, i. 183; ii. 172, 362— fray of the students in, iii. 129 —— Walks, i. 82, 183, 197, 207, 271, 276, 313, 404; iv. 25 Greathead, Major, ii. 61 Greatorex, Mr., his engine for drawing up water, i. 113—his lamp-glasses, 146 — smoke-jack used by, ib.—alluded to, 289, 328, 401, 424 Grebus (Grabut), Louis, his mu- sical concert, iii. 69, 261—alluded to, 303, 442 Green, Alexander, comedy by, ii. 29 ——., Captain, character of, iii. 340, 359 Greenfield, Thomas, the divine, i. 194 Greenhill, Mr., iv. 358 Greenwich, house-building for the King at, ii. 103, 268, 351; iv. 127—intended removal of the Navy Office to, ii. 281—plague at, 428; iv. 192—alluded to, i. 142, 191, 195, 270, 292, 297, 302, 305, 307, 308, 322, 353, 416; ii. 120, 135, 140, 233, 253, 262, 268, 275, 281, 286, 288, 295, 304, 325, GENERAL INDEX 330, 335, 336, 352, 382, 428; il. 364; iv. 140 Church, ii. 255 Hospital, iv. 127, 128 Park, improvements in, i. 270 Greeting, Mr., the musician, iii. 76, 344 Gregory, Dr., iv. 276, 289, 305, 308, 309, 357 » Mr., i. 25; iii. 304, 478 Grenville, Sir B., i. 50 ————., Sir John, vote of thanks to, i. 50—receives from Parlia- ment a letter to the King, 55— visits the Earl of Sandwich, 58— despatched with supplies to the King, 65—alluded to, 87; see also Earl of Bath Gresham College, experiment at, ii. 89, 210; iii. 10, 12—used for an exchange, ii. 450—alluded to, i. 147; ii. 173, 210, 214, 218, 346, 355, 369, 387; iii. 16, 20, 40, 170, 307, 310, 324, 398; iv. 167, 179, 289 : Gresham, Sir Thomas, i. 47; his picture, ii. 447, 449 Greville, Fulk, Lord Brook, trag- edy of “ Mustapha,” by, ii. 224— his Life of Sir Philip Sidney, iii. 337, 341 Grey de Ruthen, Lord, iii. 351 » Lord, of Warke, marriage of a daughter of, iii. 335; iv. 207 » Mr., iii. 5, 241 » Ralph, Lord, ii. 42 Greyhound, fears entertained for the, ii. 93—her safe arrival, 94 —alluded to, iv. 347 Greyhound, the, an inn at Dart- ford, 145 Griffin, Edward (afterwards Lord), li. 177; iii. 11 » Mrs., iv. 160 (Griffith), Sir John, iii. » W., i. 320, 348; ii. 413; iii. 358, 360, 362 Griffith, Dr. Matthew, i. 170 » George, Bishop of St. Asaph, iv. 322 » Mr., iii. 11, 249 » Sir John, iii, 147 Grimsby, iii. 260 Grimston, Sir Harbottle, appointed Speaker, i. 48 147 GENERAL INDEX Grocers’ Hall, i. 29 Groom Porter’s, gaming at the, iii. 338, 339 Grotier, Mrs., the Queen’s tire-wo- man, iv. 106 Grotius, the author, i. 241 Ground, increased value of, in Lon- don, iil. 317 Grove, Captain, i. 387, 401, 402; ii. 24—his disgraceful conduct, 249 —alluded to, iv. 347 Guadagni, Lieut-Gen., ii. 175 “Guardian,” the, a play, i. 241; iv. 1 Guards, muster of, ii. 19, 45; iv. 22—alluded to, ii. 61; iii. 187 Guarini, his “Pastor Fido,” iii. 386 Guernsey, the, i. 267; ii. 383 Guiche, the Count of, ii. 420 Guildford, i. 59, 273, 280; iv. 2, 3 ——_—, Lord, iv. 307 Guildhall, i. 20, 356—grand dinner at, 51—+trial at, 69—mnew street from, to Cheapside, iii. 317—al- Iuded to, i. 157, 228, 230; iii. 327, 355; iv. 168 _ “Guillim’s Heraldry,” iii. 242 Guinea, equipment of a fleet for, i. 129, 131; ii. 163, 164, 173—de- feat of the Dutch at, 171—arrival of De Ruyter at, 175, 193—de- feat of the British at, 193, 194— ships lost coming from, iii. 213— alluded to, i. 210; ii. 213, 217; iv. 72 Guinea Company, the, ii. 128; iii. Q44; iv. 26 , the, man-of-war, iv. 191, 327 Guineas, increased value of, ii. 483, iii. 8, 53, 151—why so called, iv. 26 Gumbleton, Mr., iv. 11 Guizot, M., on Monk’s character, ii. 79 Gun, newly-invented, ii. 103; iv. 156 Gunn, or Gomme, Sir Bernard de, iii. 74, 90 Gunning, Peter, noticed, i. 2—ser- mons by, 14, 24, 205, 242—admi- nisters the sacrament, 188—al- luded to, 205 Gunpowder Plot, iii. 22 Guns, curious, i. 299; ii. 103—ill- success of, 404 Guy, Captain, i. 41; ii. 482 407 5 Tom, i. 84 of Warwicke, iii. 79 Guyland, a Moorish usurper, i. 317; li. 33, 397 “ Guzman,” a comedy, iv. 152 Gwyn, Nell, ii. 156, 224; iii. 25, 49, 77, 80, 91, 118, 120, 135, 187, 189, 224, 229, 259, 264, 289, 330, 332, 347, 380, 436; iv. 77, 222— becomes the mistress of Lord Buckhurst, iii. 187, 189, 212, 259 Gyles, Sarah, Pepys’s cousin, ii. 165 Haarlem Gazette, iii. 90 Habington, William, his “Queen of Arragon,” a tragi-comedy, iv. 36 Hacker, Col. Francis, execution of, i. 114; iv. 322 Hacket, Dr. John, sermon by, i. 279—his quarrel with the Dean of Coventry and Lichfield, iii. 361 Hackney, ii. 143, 225, 236, 376, 403, 415; iii. 100, 109, 493, 441; iv. 4, 169, 178 Hackney Coaches: see Coaches “ Hacquenée,” a lady’s horse, ii. Q77 Haddock, Sir Richard, iv. 324, 358 Hadley, Mr., ii. 288 Hagley, Lord Lyttleton’s seat, i. 311 Hague, discovered by the fleet, i. 60—account of, 61—apprehension of a Portuguese at, 65—house of the Princess Dowager near, 66— monument to Van Tromp at, ib. —tomb of the Old Prince of Orange at, ib—triumph of the Dutch at, ii. 397—named as a place of treaty with the Dutch, iii. 65, 67, 72, 77, 82—alluded to, i. 52, 72, 73, 106, 186; ii. 398; iv. 85 Hail-storms, ii. 130, 415 Haines, Mr., iv. 358 Hair, fashion of wearing, ii. 217; iii. 57, 115 Hakewill’s “ Apology,” ii. 57 Hale, Sir Matthew, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, i. 350; iii. 311 , the fencing-master, iv. 313 Hales, John, of Eton, i. 317 —, Mr., his portrait of Mrs. Pepys, ii. 352, 356, 359, 363; iil. 408 412; iv. 13, 17—his portrait of Samuel Pepys, ii. 363, 366, 370 —his portrait of Mrs. Pierce, 368—his portrait of Pepys’s father, 388, 404, 412—alluded to, li. 377; iii. 91, 428, 435, 447, 478 ,» Mr., of Kent (Commissioner of the Admiralty), iv. 213, 223 Half-moon, sale of a ship so called, i. 120 —— Tavern, i. 102; ii. 242 Halford, Sir Thomas, kills Colonel Temple in a quarrel, iii. 397 Halifax, Lord, i. 33; iii. 338, 473; iv. 110, 115 Hall, Betty, iii. 49, 94; iv. 69 , Captain, trial and acquittal of, i. 296 ——, George, Bishop of Chester, iii. 343 , Jacob, the rope dancer, iii. 420; iv. 13, 25. » Urban, iv. 357 Hallam’s “ Middle Ages,” i. 246 Halliday, Wm., Alderman, iv. 161 Hallowes, Brabazon, iv. Hall’s Chronicle, iv. 239 Halsey, Major, ii. 385, 400, 413; lii. 211; iv. 123, 124 Halter, silk, i. 392 Haly, Lord (Hawley), ii. 238 Hambleton, Mrs. (Hamilton), ii. 86 —————., Lady Anne, ii. 219 Hamburgh, plague at, ii. 68 , fleet, the, ii. 239; iii. 30 Ham Creeke, near Chatham, i. 144 Hamilton, Duchess Dowager of, i. 58 ——., James, Duke of, iii. 382 ———., William, Duke of, i. 58; li. 96, 219; iii. 176 , George, ii. 86; iii. 11 ———., James, Bishop of Gallo- way, i. 192 , Marquis of, iii. 304 ————, Miss, iv. 343 Hamlet, tragedy of, i. 211, 237, 426; ii. 185; iv. 15 Hammon, Mrs., ii. 434 Hammond, Mr., iv. 358 Hampden, John, i. 19 Hampshire, the, i. 157; ii. 384; iv. 3A7 Hampstead, iv. 6 GENERAL INDEX Hampstead Marshal, seat of the Earl of Craven, iii. 467 Hampton Court, i. 148, 278, 282, 286, 293, 297, 303, 305, 307, 318, 363; ii. 260, 261, 267, 268, 331, 347, 353; iii. 247; iv. 142 Hanbury, painted staircase at, iv. 197 Hanbury, Mrs., i. 333 Handycap, game so called, i. 108 Hanes, Mrs. (aunt to Pepys), i. 219 , or Haynes, Joseph, come- dian, iii. 395 Hanging, said to occasion no pain, i. 392 Hangman, office of, in Poland, i. 306 " Hanker, Mr., i. 200 Hanmer’s Works, iv. 239 ” Hannam, Captain, ii. 420 Happy Return, the, i. 71—mutiny of the crew of, iii. 143—alluded to, iv. 225, 347 Harbord, Mr. (burgess for Thet- ford), i. xxiii., xxv. , Mr. (afterwards Sir Chas.), i. xxiii., 268; ii. 316, 356; iv. 43, 56, 84, 87, 165, 173—his epitaph in Westminster Abbey, ii. 356 Harbord, W., iv. 216 Harding, Dean (probably Nathan- iel Hardy), sermon by, ii. 452 Hardwick, Mr. (cousin of Pepys), i. 136, 139; ii. 168 Hare’s-foot, supposed good effects of, ii. 195, 204, 222 Harley, Major, carries despatches to England, i. 67; iv. 133 , Mr., iv. 358 Harlington, the residence of Lord Arlington, ii. 292 Harlow (Harley), Sir Edward, i. 67; iv. 133 Harman,. Capt. afterwards Sir John, made Rear-Admiral, ii. 248, 256—portrait of, 371—nar- row escape of, 384—wounded, 394—report of his capture of some Dutch ships, iii. 214—de- © feats the French at Barbadoes, 246—committed to prison by the Parliament, 423—liberated, 424— alluded to, ii. 246, 259, 265, 370, — 384, 391; iii. 99, 263, 282, 379, 397, 405, 421, 423; iv. 193 » Mr., iv. 36 GENERAL INDEX —, Mrs., ii. 154, 165 Harold, the Danish king, buried at St. Clement’s Danes, i. 236 Harp, ordered to be removed from the flags, i. 60, 422 Harp and cross money, calculation respecting, i. 422; li. 334 Harper, Mr., i. 5, 6, 9, 15-17, 20, 31—his death, iv. 32, 35 Harrington, James, noticed, i. 7— his opinion of the Roman Gov- ernment, 9—his account of cus- toms in countries near the Baltic, ii. 72-74—his “ Oceana,” 361; iii. 935, 236, 330—answer to it by Mr. Wren, 235, 236—alluded to, i. 24; ii. 92 , Sir James, ii. 292; iii 431 , Lady, ii. 292 Harris, Alexander, i. xxv. , Mr., the sail-maker, ii. 218 , Henry, ii. 25 , Joseph, the actor, ii. 25, 50, 72, 91, 165, 188, 363; iii. 50, 60, 138, 241, 323, 344, 366, 396, 405, 406, 407, 409, 412, 428, 440, 454, 455, 475, 478; iv. 11, 13, 17, 24, 153, 169—his agreeable society, iii. 344his portrait, iv. 17 Harris, Sir Arthur, i. 17 Harrison, Mark, iv. 347 , Sir John, i. 297, 323 , Major-general, arraigned at the Sessions House, i. 112— his execution, 113—his head placed near Westminster Hall, 115 , the doorkeeper, i. 126 Hart, the actor, i. 113, 184; ii. 363; iii. 120, 229, 280, 332 ——, Capt. John, iii. 164 —, Major, i. 104, 108, 110, 127 Tavern, at Marlborough, iii. 446 — Hall, Oxford, i. 94 Hartlib, Nan, her wedding, i. 91; ii. 413 ——, Samuel, i. 91, 99, 155; ii. 413; iii. 242 Hartwell, Mr., iv. 291 Harvey, Sir D., i. 226, 249, 308; ii. 389; iii. 209, 214 , Lady, i. 226, 249; iv. 80-82 , Sir Job, i. 323, 324 ——,, Sir Thomas, ii. 226, 241, 409 351, 389; iii. 7, 71, 171, 179, 380, 391, 392, 399 Harwich, light-house erected there, ii. 198—British fleet lying there, 225—hail-storm at, 415—fortifi- cations at, ili. 85, 90—appearance of the Dutch fleet off, iii. 144, 164, 194—the Dutch land at, iii. 180—attack on, ib.—election at, iv. 241, 242, 243—alluded to, ii. 182, 192, 232, 239, 240, 247, 385, 387, 388, 408, 415; iii. 30, 59, 89, 183, 199, 417; iv. 190, 194 Haselrigge, Sir Arthur, i. 7, 10, 20, 22, 24, 30, 33, 181 , Mrs., her accouchement, i. 336, 349 Hastings, town of, i. 38, 42 Hatcham, Surrey, ii. 374 Hater, Thomas, engaged as clerk to Pepys, i. 91—committed to prison, ii. 240—burnt out in the great fire, 443—alluded to, i. 98, 166, 180, 289, 386; ii. 170, 319, 329, 353, 443, 453, 483; ili. 155, 156, 159, 163, 265, 284, 357, 401; iv. 32, 33, 34, 35, 169, 174 Hater, Mrs., i. 180; ii. 483 Hatfield, i. 201, 206, 210; ii. 42, 177 Hats, on wearing, in churches, i. 234, 239—on wearing at dinner, ii. 169—cost of, i. 148, 197— noticed, 173, 272, 274 Hatton, Captain, iv. 282, 291, 303, 354 Garden, fire in, iii. 333— Nursery for actors, 345 , the Hon. Mr., iv. 358 , Lord, i. 237 - , Sir Thomas, i. 48 Havant, i. 273 Havre de Grace, i. 152 Hawke, the, man-of-war, iv. 347 Hawkins’s “ English Coins,” i. 396, 499 Hawkins, John Heywood, iv. 326 , Sir John, his “ History of Music,” ii. 56; iii. 61, 69, 80, 215, 452—alluded to, i. 262; ii. 56 , Mr., sermon by him, ii. 101 , Sir John, the Admiral, i. 349 Hawks, presented to the King, i. 353, 366 Hawley, the divine, iv. 316, 317 “410 ——.,, Elizabeth, i. 238 —., Lord, i. 238 , Mr., 3.8, 14, 15, 32, 107; ii. 417 Hawnes, in Bedfordshire, iii. 129, 183 Hayes, Mr., Secretary to Prince Rupert, ii. 365, 479; iii. 52, 61. Haynes, the dancer, iii. 436 Hayward, Capt. John, i. 51, 100; ii. 388; iv. 347 , or Haward, the musical instrument maker, iii. 416, 477 Haywood, Captain, iii. 164 Healths, mode of drinking France, ii. 9 Heart, Mr., iii. 460 Hearth tax (in Ireland), ii. 361 Heath, Mr., i. 349 Heaven, a place of entertainment, in Old Palace Yard, i. 14 Hebden, Sir John, ii. 5 Hector, the, man-of-war, ii. 294— sunk at sea, iv. 190 Hectors, iv. 78 Helvoetsluys, i. 54; iv. 211 Hemp, experiments on, i. 303—ten- der of, ii. 414 Hempson, Mr., i. 166, 167, 196 Hemskirke, Von: see Von Hems- kirke Henault, President, extract from his book, i. 264 Henchman, Humphry, Bishop of Salisbury, i. 111; ii. 101; iv. 322 —of London, iii. 349 Henflete, Joana, i. 134 , Walter, i. 134 Henly, Sir Andrew, assaulted by Lord St. John, iii. 21 Henrietta, man-of-war, i. 70; ii. 164 in —., Princess, daughter of Charles I., her intended marriage, i. 106, 160—her person de- scribed, 125—her departure for France, 135—falls sick of the measles, 141—her recovery, 143 —alluded to, 141, 150, 378 Henrietta-Maria, Dowager of Charles I., fleet sent for, i. 111, 114, 115—her arrival in London, 119—her person described, 125 —intends visiting France, 127— her reception of the Duchess of York, 136, 137—embarks for France, but returns to Ports- GENERAL INDEX mouth, 141—sails again for France, 147—her Court at Som- erset House, 324, 326, 366, 368, 385; ii. 177—her reported mar- riage, i. 348, 351, 368—her ex- travagance, ii. 98—pictures of, 162, 295—sets out for France, 254—her bigotry, iii. 17—report of her concluding peace with France, 35—her illness, iv. 144, 335—her recovery, 338—alluded to, i. xii., 117, 126, 191, 302-304, 324, 325, 366, 414; ii. 23, 55, 96, 434, 476; iii. 105, 111, 305; iv. 143, 162, 343 Henry, the, man-of-war, i. 70, 129, 167, 214; ii. 384, 391; iii. 178 Henry II., of France, iii. 55 IV., of France, i. 150 ———., play of, i. 135, 191; iii. 296, 345; iv. 23 — V., play of, ii. 158; ii. 36, 64, 217, 475; iv. 17 } — VIL., i. 237 ——’s chapel, i. 94, III, 117; ii. 393; iv. 108 —— VIII., pictures of, i. 29, 391, 392; iii. 267—pictures of his Boulogne fleet, i. 363—cup pre- sented to him by Surgeons’ Hall, 391—buried at Windsor, ii. 358 —his letters in the Vatican, iv. 281—alluded to, ii. 102, 302 89; iv. 74 ———’s Gallery at Whitehall, i. 125, 363 Henshaw, Joseph, Bishop of Peter- borough, sermon of, iv. 180. Hensley, Mr., i. 140 Henson, Mr., curious clock taken from, i. 97—alluded to, 306 “ Heraclius,” a tragedy, ii. 104; iil, 57, 242 Herbert, Captain, ii. 301, 302. , Lord, iii. 18 >» Mr., ii. 159 : see Harbord | 174 144 Hercules Pillars, i. 113, 204; iii, — 360, 366, 432; iv. 15, 17, 49, 66 Hereford, iii. 460 Henry VIII. play of, ii. 72, 81, , Mrs., of Newington, ii. 121 — , Philip, Lord Pembroke, ii. — , W., Earl of Pembroke, ii. GENERAL INDEX Herman, Margaretta, numerous fa- mily of, i. 68 Herring, John, sermon of, i. 11— minister of St. Bride’s, 104— ejected from St. Bride’s, 310— alluded to, 313 Herringman, H., iii. 217, 251, 470 Hertfordshire, election for, iii. 417. Hester, Mrs., i. 234 Hetley, Mrs., i. 77, 82 Hewer, H. Edgeley (heir of Wil- liam Hewer), iv. 352 , Mrs., ii. 446 , William (Pepys’s chief clerk), his house at Clapham, i. xxxii., notice of, 95—his father dies of the plague, ii. 297, 300— his letters to Pepys, respecting the disasters of the squadron go- ing to Scotland, iv. 226-—express- ing kindness and gratitude, 241 —chosen for Yarmouth, 352— monument to his memory, ib.— alluded to, i. xxxv., xxxvi., 98, 102, 104, 114, 132, 135, 140, 175, 243, 260, 273, 289, 306, 329, 332, 335, 406; ii. 14, 26, 142, 164-166, 179, 232, 241, 260, 270, 319, 353, 367, 368, 389, 444, 446, 457; iii. 1, 12, 28, 44, 93, 109, 123, 137, 147, 150, 156, 189, 190, 218, 298, 265- 967, 270-273, 299, 308, 311, 334, 341, 347, 358, 390, 392, 393, 395, ALT, 444, 448, 455, 457, 458, 460, A61, 463, 467, 471, 474, 475, 477, 479; iv. 7, 9, 16, 21, 24, 33, 54, 57-66, 70-72, 79, 85, 97, 107-109, 112, -125, 126, 133, 134, 139, 151, 152, 169, 178, 181, 230, 240, 269, 975, 292, 300, 305, 312, 315 Hewet, Thomas, i. 272, 319 Hewlett, his arrest, i. 400 . Mrs., iii. 392 Hewson, John, noticed, i. 13 Heylin, Dr., his Life of Arch- bishop Laud, iv. 23 “ Heyresse,” the, a play, iv. 93, 94 Heywood, Oliver, extract from his diary, ii. 61 —__—_,, T., a play by, i. 158; iii. 221 Hickeman, Henry, notice of, i. 103 Hickes, Captain, ii. 35 , Dr., letter from, to Dr. Charlett, i. xxxvi—particulars respecting, ib.—his letters to _ Pepys, concerning the “ Second 411 Sight,” &c., iv. 269—on Dr. Wal- lis’s picture, 305—alluded to, ii. 228; iv. 24, 91, 285, 305, 315, 358 , Sir Baptist: see Viscount Campden Hickes, Sir W., ii. 295 Hickman, Mr. (the Duke of York’s page), iv. 211, 212 ——., Sir William, ii. 114 ——_—., Sir Willoughby, ii. 114 Hide, Henrietta, iv. 115 , Lawrence (Hyde), son of Lord Clarendon, iii. 308, 366; iv. 115: see Hyde , Lord Chancellor, portrait of, iv. 247 , Nan, iii. 2 “ Hide Parke,” a play, iii. 476 Higden, Mr., iv. 315 Highgate, i. 140; ii. 100, 155, 422 Hill, Abraham, iy. 357 , Captain, i. 255; ii. 185; iii. 294 — House, at Chatham, i. 165; ii. 278; iii. 178; iv. 135 , Mr., attendant on Lord Sand- wich, i. 82, 83 , Mr., a courtier, i. 117 , Mr., Pepys’s musical friend, ii. 118, 151, 163, 187, 204, 205— his supposed portrait, 369 — , Mr., of the Admiralty, iv. 359 , Mr., of the Treasury, iv. 288 —, Rev. Joseph, i. 28, 202 Hilton’s, i. 19 Hinchingbroke, seat of the Earl of Sandwich, i. 27, 28, 83, 87, 101, 130, 149, 158, 159, 200, 202, 219, 292, 333-335, 361; ii. 39, 41, 44, 80, 272, 278, 425, 426; iii. 3, 123, 136, 161, 183, 268, 270; iv. 136, 165 —__—., Lady, iii. 396—charac- ter of, 400—alluded to, 399, 450; iv. 31 , Lord, i. 5, 202—his sickness, 207—report of his death, 248—kills his boy by ac- cident, 419—attacked by the small-pox, ii. 281—marries a daughter of Lord Burlington, iii. 352—Pepys’s letter to, iv. 189— alluded to, i. 139, 188, 190, 207, 208, 211, 363, 377; ii. 202, 238, 241, 268, 275, 353, 356, 436; iii. 3, 4, 9, 10, 18, 19, 117, 127, 160, 215, 239, 287, 296, 322, 325, 334, 412 365, 396, 399, 450; iv. 28, 87, 165, 173, 192, 197 Hind, the, man-of-war, i. 220; iv. 347 ——, Mr., admonished at College, Sy x Hindhead, iv. 2 Hingeton, Mr., the organist, iii. 32 —notice of, 323 Hoare, Sir Richard, iv. 357 Hobbes’s “ Liberty and Necessity,” i. 235—his “Leviathan,” iv. 16 Hobell, Mrs., i. 319 Hodges, Mr., iv. 113 ,» Thomas, the dean, ii. 134 , W., iv. 358 Hodgkins, execution of, i. 145 Hodsden, iii. 451 Hogg, prizes taken by him, iii. 34, 36, 192, 197—character of, 197, 220 Holbein, his pictures of Henry VIII., i. 391, 392; iii. 267—al- luded to, ii. 300; iv. 13 Holborn, arrest of a priest in, 1. 383—fall of a house in, ii. 105— fire in, 452 Conduit, i. 304; iii. 256; iv. 30, 43, 57 Holcrofte, W., iv. 357 Holden, Mr., i. 148, 197 , the dramatist, ii. , Mrs., ii. 106, 107 Holder, Mr., iii. 23; iv. 26 Holehaven, ships ordered to per- form quarantine at, ii. 68—al- luded to, iii. 176 Holinshed, the tobacconist, iii. 405, 440 Holland, dock-yards in, ii. 5—peace concluded with, 21—contempt of Cnarles II., 68—revenue of, 101 —plague there, 138, 153—war proclaimed with, 215—alarm on the coast of, 229—arrival of the British fleet there, 233— Sweden declares war against, 367 —British prisoners in, 412; iii. 232, 244—bank of, ii. 433—peace proclaimed with, iii, 227, 259— league with, 353, 356, 369 Holland, Captain, i. 34—order to renew his commission, 78—al- luded to, iii. 433 » Lord, i. 99, 348 Holland, Mr., his project of dis- charging seamen by ticket, i. 127 118, 229 GENERAL INDEX —his “Discourse of the Navy,” 303; iv. 130, 154 Hollar, the artist, his views of Tan- — gier, i. 229—his print and maps of the city, iii. 14—alluded to, iv. 246 Holles, Baron, of Ifield, i. 172; ii. 75 Holliard, Mr., or Hollier, the sur- geon, i. 145, 276; ii. 49, 62; iii. 76, 346, 375, 414; iv. 5 Hollins, John, i. 28; iii. 450 Hollis, Sir Fretchville, some ac- — count of, iii. 145—character of, 158, 160—insubordination among — his men, 158, 160, 171—alluded to, 210, 260, 377, 396, 401, 407, 410; iv. 150 xxi., 80—attack on, at Paris, ii. 75—appointed ambassador, iii. © 65, 68—alluded to, ii. 98; iii. 10, 94, 198, 332 ——, Gervase, iii. 145 i. 72 Hollworthy, Mr., his death, ii. 322 ———_, Mrs., iii. 95, 310, 345, 4553 iv. 92 Holmes, Captain (afterwards Sir Robert, sometimes called Major), i. 81—character of, 213—reduces the Dutch of New Netherlands, — ii. 171—returns from Guinea, 190—committed to the Tower, 199—liberated, 217—resigns his commission, 248—exhibits arti- cles against Smith, 479—fights a duel, iii. 351—returns to sea, 416—alluded to, i. 210, 233, 237, 240, 242, 245, 254, 401; ii. 11, 128, 244, 384, 392, 401, 403, 414, 431, 478; iii, 99, 145, 178, 401, 403, 416, 421; iv. 61, 114, 208, 240 , brother of Sir Robert (afterwards Sir John), his mar- riage, ii. 369, 391; iii. 120, 421 Holmes, Captain, wounded, ii. 391 , Gabriel, trial of, iii. 181, 182 » Dr. Nathaniel, noticed, i. 22 ( Holt, Mr., i. 274 Holyhead packet boat, ii. 31 Holy Thursday, ceremony on, i. 187; iii. 197 9 GENERAL INDEX Hone, William, on tallies, ii. 235 Honey, singular method of obtain- ing, ii. 73 Honeywood, John, ii. 278 ———., Sir Thomas, i. 84, 101; iv. 301 Honiwood, Arthur, i. 377 , Colonel Henry, i. 56, 246 —his Raialent death, 377 ——., Michael, Dean of Lin- coln, i. 247; ii. 139, 156 , Peter, i. 137, 246, 247; li. 107, 159; iii. 208 , Sir Philip, iii. 376 Honywood, Sir R., i. 93, 246 ——; see Honiwood Hooke, Dr. Robert, notice of, ii. 211—his book on Microscopy, 203—on Felt-making, 355—on Musical Sounds, 428—alluded to, 214, 233, 345; ili. 12, 66; iv. 167 Hooker, Anne, iii. 425 , Sir William, Alderman, ii. 290, 335; iii. 425; iv. 193 , Richard, practice at per- ambulations, i. 188—his Eccle- siastical Polity commended, 197, 209—Pepys buys a copy; iii. 107 Hoole, Robert, ii. 33 , William, ii. 33, 91 Hooper, Mr., i. 243 Hope Tavern, i. 109, 121 , the, a reach of the Thames, i. 40, 75, 285; ii. 183; iii. 143, 144, 146, 150 —, the, man-of-war, iii. 20 Hoppy, accidental death of, i. 260 Hopson, Sir Thomas, iv. 359 Hopton, Lord, drowned at sea, iv. 225 “ Horace,” by Corneille, iv. 84 Horne, Mr., iv. 305, 357 Horse, a learned one, iv. 18 Horse Guards, fire at, iii. 6 ae Shoe Tavern, murder at, iv. 27 Horseradish ale, recommended for the stone, ii. 167 Horse-sand, the, i. 141 Horsfall, Mrs., widow, iv. 31 Horsfield, Mrs., iii. 445, 446; iv. 31 ‘Horsley, Mrs., ii. 380, 425; iii. 107 “Hortus Hyemalis” (Mr. Eve- lyn’s), ii. 320 ea Mr., iii. 301; iv. 17, 55, Haskins, Sir John, iv. 357 413 Hotham, Sir John, iv. 96 Houblon, Isaac, ii. 441; iii. 372 , James, letter on Pepys’s behalf, i. xxvi—alluded to, ii. 220, 359, 377; iil. 373; iv. 245, 358, 360—epitaph on, ii. 221 > Messrs., ii. 350, 351; iii. 9, 10, 189; iv. 74 » Mr. John Archer, ii. 221 » Mrs., ii. 220, 221 Sir James, ii. 220, 221, 377 Sir John, ii. 220, 221, 377 ,» Wynne, iv. 358, 360 Houghton, Mr., the apothecary, iv. 358 Hounslow, ii. 284 Houses, marked to denote. the plague in, ii, 242—pulled down to stop the great fire, 440, 445- 448; iii. 3—high rent of, ii. 450, 459—computation of the rents of those burnt, 455 House-warming, iii. 1; iv. 37 Howard, Bernard, duel fought by, iii. 351 ,» Captain Thomas, brother of Lord Carlisle, i. 272—fights a duel with Jermyn, 316 , Cardinal, the Queen’s Al- moner, iii. 47-49 , Chas., Earl of Carlisle, iii. i 5 , Colonel, iii. 98, 349 , Craven, iv. 115, 116 » Dorothy, iv. 116 , Edward, his tragedy of “The Usurper,” ii. 81—“ Man of Newmarket,” iii. 6—his play “The Change of Crownes,” 107 —his quarrel with Lacy, the actor, 109 Howard, Henry (afterwards Duke of Norfolk); i. XVii.; iii. 20, 47 —his present to the Royal Soci- ety, 40—alluded to, 351, 470; iv. 199, 201, 203, 204 , Henry Bowes, fourth Earl of Berkshire, iv. 116 , James, third Earl of Suf- folk, i. 28, 177; ii. 25 , James, his comedy, “ The English Monsieur,” iii. 25, 420— “ All Lehi 253 , Lady Essex, ii. 177; iii. 11 > Lord, of Escrick, iii. 315 » Mr., Comptroller of the Mint, i. 421 414 > Mrs., ii. 427; iv. 116 , Sir Philip, ii. 289—lands on the Schelling, and burns a town, 431; iii. 178—his com- plaint against the Company of Painters, iv. 159—alluded to, ii. 331, 366; iii. 14, 49, 343, 425, 470; iv.. 69 , Sir Robert, his comedy of “The Committee,” ii. 6—his tra- gedy of “ The Indian Queen,” 89 —his Proviso to the Poll Bill, iii. 25—his comedy of “The Sur- prizall,” 103, 229—his play “ The Duke of Lerma,” 380—alluded to, 41, 107, 192, 375, 423, 428, 434, 435, 437; iv. 114, 209 , William, of Naworth, iii. 75 , William, fourth son of the Ear! of Berkshire, iv. 116 de Walden, James, Lord, ii. 95, 241 Howarth, Dr., iii. 268 Howe, W., his purchase of ‘stolen jewels, ii. 324, 326, 346—ar- rested, iii. 326—alluded to, i. 65, 89, 90, 94, 114, 121, 177, 185, 194, 283, 358, 411; ii. 65, 69, 77, 91, 299, 345, 346; iii. 129, 215, 235, 386, 412, 444, 455; iv. 5, 19, 52 233 Howell, Mr., burnt out great fire, ii. 445 _ , widow, iv. 24 Howlett, Mr., iii. 69 ,» Mrs., ii. 367; iii. 23, 252 Howley, Archbishop of Canter- bury, ii. 265 Hubbert, Captain, iii. 278; iv. 178 Hudibras, of Butler, alluded to, i. 14, 116, 247, 324, 364, 380; ii. 68, 72, 311; iii. 129 Hudson, Dr., Custos of the Bod- leian Library, iv. 294—alluded to, 277, 305, 306, 308 in the , Mr., the cooper, iii. 152 Huetius (Huet), Peter Daniel (Bishop of Avranches), works by, iv. 293 Hughes, Mr., i. 288; ii. 3, 162 Hughson, Eliza, iv. 357 Hull, garrison at, ii. 405—alluded to, i. 32; iii, 192, 194, 197, 220 Humble, George, the printseller, iv. 246 Hume, Mr., of Blackadder, iii. 48 GENERAL INDEX q 173; q “Humorous Lieutenant,” i. lii. 49 “ Humorous Lovers,” iii. 94 Humphrey, Pelham: see Pelham q Hungary, ii. 43, 57 Hungerford, Lady, burnt, iv. 161 Market, iv. 161 ,» town of, iii. 460 her Hunt, Mr., conversations with him, ; 74— i. 24, 32, 179; ii. 66; iii. alluded to, ii. 419; iv. 357 —, Mrs., i. 100, 179, 241, 246, 397, 411; ii. 211, 368, 420; iv. 36 Hunter, Rev. Mr, iv. 328 ‘ , Samuel, iv. 358 Hunting, singular mode of, ii. 73 Huntingdon, Major, ii. 188 ————., town of, i. tion at, 40—justices of the peace for the county of, 86—alluded iii. 105, 134, 268, 457 Huntsmore, Bucks, i. 35, 56 house © 35—elec- — to, 27, 137, 201, 205, 219; ii. 415 — Hurleston, Mr., chosen Master of — the Trinity House, ii. death, 323 Hurricane at Barbadoes, iii. 20 237—his © Husbandry, state of, in England, — iii. 337 Hutchinson, Mr., i. 87, 184; iv. 49, — 135, 138 Huysman, the Dutch painter, ii. 162, 168, 239 Hyde, Dr., keeper of the Bodleian © Library, iv. 294 iii. 117; iv. 115 , Lord, iv. 224: see Hide , Lawrence, Earl of Rochester, — ——, Sir Robert, Lord Chief Jus-\) tice, trial. before, ii. 69—his death, 234—alluded to, i. ii. 103; iii. 278 . 192 : see Clarendon ; —— Park, foot-race in, i. 100— muster of the Guards in, ii. 19 —alluded to, i. 50, 181 if Hydrostatics, treatise on, iii. 197 Hypocras, a kind of drink, ii. 52 Tago, character of, iv. 96 Tanthe, character of, i. 355; ii. 90, 318 55, 60 3785 330, 338, Ibbott, Edmund, noticed, i. 39, ay = c Tbrickan, Lord, iv. 225 Ickenham, ii. 291 Ilford i. 315; ii. 247 Imperiali, Cardinal, ii. 261 “ Tmpertinents,” the, a comedy, iii. 432, 433, 434; iv. 13, 151 Impington, residence of Talbot Pepys at, i. 200, 205—alluded to, 218, 232; iii. 472; iv. 27, 32, 123, 218 Impressment of seamen, ii. 214, 234 —illegal, 405-407—fear of, 410 Inchiquin, Lord, i. 133 Indemnity, Act of, i. 15, 103, 104, 105; iv. 131 Indiaman, rich cargo of one, ii, 324 “JTndian,” sale of a ship so called, i. 120 “Jndian Emperour,” a tragi-com- edy, iii. 43, 224, 301, 349, 425 “Tndian Queen,” a play, ii: 88, 90; iii. 471 Indies, East, particulars respect- ing, i. 420; ii. 36—proceedings of the Dutch in, 93, 128—ac- count of, 433 —, West, success of British pri- yateers in, iii. 70 Ingoldsby, Colonel, apprehends Major-General Lambert, i. 47— alluded to, 48; iii. 152 Ingram, Sir Arthur, ii. 237 , Sir Thomas, made Com- missioner for Tangier, ii. 199— alluded to, 219, 242, 266; iii. 161; iv. 54 Innocent XII., iv. 279 Inquisition, the, in Spain, ili. 72 Insanity, prevalence of, i. 327 “Intelligencer,” (a newspaper), i. 126, 192, 425; ii. 36, 46, 105 Interest, high rate of, i. 127, 365, $74; ii. 250, 412; iii, 122, 239 Ipswich, ii. 293 Irby, Sir Anthony, iii. 418 Treland, state of affairs in, i. 165, 394, 400, 404; ii. 35, 99, 191—in- surrection of the Catholics in, 403—discovery of a plot in, ii. 1, 3division of land in, 21, 35 —apprehended invasion of, by the French, iii. 38—reduction of the charges of, 359—act of set- tlement in, 401—Spencer’s His- tory of, iv. 239 ——, 2 cooper, ii. 110 GENERAL INDEX _ Tbrahim, a romance, iii. 385 415 Ireton, Henry, vote of the Parlia- ment respecting, i. 128—buried at Tyburn, 148, 149—his head exposed to public view, 151—al- luded to, 10, 129, 148, 149 Irish Brigade, i. 3 — Cattle, bill against the impor- — of, ii. 467, 481; iii. 40, 41, — officers, their discontent and disloyalty, iv. 335 Iron gate, at the Tower, i. 389 Ironmongers’ Hall, i. 353 Isaacson, Mr., the linendraper, i. 117 Isabella, the, yacht, iv. 240 Isham, Captain, i. 38, 53, 59, 203 —brings letters from the Queen at Lisbon, 266 Isham family, i. 138 “Tsland Princesse,” a tragi-com- edy, iv. 77 Islington, i. 183, 196; ii. 111, 121, 239, 272, 376, 446; iii. 135, 193, 222, 409; iv. 139, 148 Isted, Mr., iv. 296, 297, 305, 358 Italian motion, i. 348 music, iii. 61, 405 Italy, gardens of, ii. 417—alluded to, 155, 175, 187; iii. 259; iv. 173 “Tter Boreale,” a poem, ii. 34; iif. 330 Ivan IV., the Terrible, i. 323 Jackson, Mr., sen. character of, iii. 368—married to Paulina Pepys, 328, 346, 347, 391, 449 , John, inherits Pepys’s pro- perty, i. xxix., xxxii—his letter to Mr. Evelyn respecting his uncle’s death, xxxiv., xxxv.—pro- posal of marriage made by, xxxv.—his letters to his uncle Pepys, describing the solemnity of the holy year at Rome, iv. 284-287—has an audience of the Pope, 290—describes King Phil- ip’s entry into Madrid, 302, 303 —alluded to, iv. 291, 294, 298, 302, 305, 306, 312, 317 Jackson, Mrs., iii. 449; iv. 173, 352: see also Paulina Pepys , Samuel, iv. 357, 361 Jacob, Sir John, i. 323 Jacobus, a gold coin, i. 352; iii. 164 Jacomb, Dr., i. 170, 256 416 Jaggard, Mr., iii. 404 Jamaica, map of, i. 160—Lord Windsor goes out as Governor of, 270—return of Lord Wind- sor from, 383—success of British privateers at, iii. 70—alluded to, i. 138, 270, 293; ii. 60; iii. 304 House, a place of enter- tainment, iii. 107, 184 James (butler of Pepys), deposi- tion of, i. xxiv. xxv. —, Duke of York: Duke of ——,, the soldier, i. 16, 17 , Mrs., (Pepys’s aunt), ii. 163, 246—her death, 350 ——, the, man-of-war, i. 70, 285 James I., i. 271, 309, 422; ii. 302; iii. 184—the Court of, a book, ii. 209, 236 —-~-— IL. his mandate to Magda- lene College, Cambridge, iv. 233 —his memorable letter to Lord Dartmouth, relative to the Kevo- lution of 1688, 240—his orders to Pepys, ib.—alluded to, i. 240; iii. 100; iv. 217, 302, 307, 355: see also York, Duke of James, the old, name of a tavern, li. 229 Jane (Pepys’s maid, afterwards married to Tom Edwards), ii. 365; iii. 9, 93, 107, 137, 184, 192, 214, 314, 371, 400; iv. 7, 96, 97, 13357 18a) 4198) 2-139, 1403see Wayneman — Shore’s tower, i. 193 Jansenist, ii. 261 Jarret (Gerard), Lady, iv. 335 , Lord, iv. 335—is presented with a costly diamond by Louis XIV., ib. Jasper, Mr., i. 34, 37 ——., Sir John, i. 445 » Margaret, Sir John’s daugh- ter, i. 245: see Lady Penn Jefferys, Mr., i. 266 Jeffreys, Lord Chancellor, his let- ter to Pepys, recommending Captain Wren to him, iv 235 Jeffrys, the apothecary, iii. 297 Jenifer, Captain, iii. 87, 201 Jenings, Captain, ii. 387 , Mr., ii. 187 Jenkins, duel fought by, iii. 351, 365 » Mr., the divine, i. 407 see York, GENERAL INDEX » Sir L., character of, iii. 91 —his letter to Pepys, iv. 210— alluded to, 226 Jenner, the printseller, iv. 246 Jennings, Frances, ii. 213 » Richard, ii. 213 » Sir W., ii. 433; iii, 15, 197, 216; iv. 90 Jermyn, Henry (younger brother of the Earl of St. Albans), said to be married to the Princess Royal, i. 132—attachment of Lady Castlemaine to, iii. 209, 210—alluded to, ii. 97; iii. 120, iv. 119 » Hon. Thomas, iii. 89 . Lord, i. 126; ii, 97: see also Earl of St. Albans » Mr. (nephew to Lord St. Albans), duel fought by, i. 315, 316 Street, origin of the name, li. 36, 366 “Jeronimo is mad again,” a trag- edy, iii. 386 Jersey, Isle of, i. 89; iii. 105—on the management of affairs in, ii. 10 » Lord, ii. 368—appointed - Lord Chamberlain, iv. 288 Jervas, the perriwig-maker, i. 415; ii. 51 Jerzy (Jersey), the, man-of-war, iv. 126, 127 Jessemin gloves, ii. 482 Jessop, Mr., secretary to the com- missioners for accounts, iii. 353, 361 Jesuits, the, ii. 51 iv. 286 Jesus College, Cambridge, ii 2195 iii. 451 , Oxford, iii. 91 Jew, wager of a, respecting a new Messiah, ii. 353 Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, i. 80 ose Office, Whitehall, i. 137—rolls of, in the British Museum, ib. Jewels stolen from the Dutch Vice-Admiral, ii. 324, 345 Jewkes, Lieutenant, i. 166; iii. 95 » Mrs., i. 166; iii. 95; iv. 135, 136: "see Rebecca "Allen - Jewks, Rowland, iii. 311 Jews’ Synagogue; ii. 46 Jiggins, Justice, i. 357 Joanni, Signor, iy. 31 GENERAL INDEX 417 Jobing, Mr., ii. 34 “ Jodelet,” a play by Scarron, iii. 409 John, Don, of Austria, flight of, ii. 13—report of his death, 17— contradicted, 21—alluded to, 97 —,, King of Sweden, i. 323 Johnson, Dr. Samuel, touched for the evil by Queen Anne, i. 84— extract from his “Lives of the Poets,” ii. 197, 198 ——_—_—., Elizabeth, iii. 27; iv. 122 ————,, Mr.,, ii. 301 ——., Mr., the chemist, ii. 287 —————.,, Mrs., i. 16 Jones, Colonel John, i. 15, 83; iv. 322 ——, Dr. F., i. 63 Jones, Inigo, the architect, i. 414; ii. 103 , Mr., his election for London, i. 160 ——, the Attorney-General, i. xx. ——, Mrs. Anne, ii. 380; iii. 50, 441 ——, Sir Theoph., i. 215 Jonson, Ben., plays by, i. 80, 139, 192; ii. 72, 130, 200, 319; iii. 60, 323, 383; iv. 323 Jordan, Mrs., i. 189 , Sir Joseph, i. 189; ii. 244, 256, 299—portrait of, 371—at- tacks the Dutch at Harwich, iii. 199, 201, 203 Joseph, the patriarch, iv. 224 “ Joviall Crew,” a play, i. 202, 211, 230; iv. 78 Joyce, Anthony (cousin of Pepys), ii. 265—his house consumed in the great fire, 448—alluded to, i. 251; ii. 114, 246; iii, 346, 354; iv. 335; his death, iii. 355 —, Kate, i. 196; ii. 247, 258, 270, 358, 454; iii, 151, 252, 257, 354, 357, 359, 363, 404, 405, 440 —, Theod., i. 162 , William (cousin of Pepys), i. 17, 108—summoned before the House of Lords, ii. 114—com- mitted to the Black Rod, ib— asks pardon, and is released, 119 —alluded to, i. 210, 251; ii. 121, QA2, 246, 372, 398; iii. 256, 397; iv. 67 Juan IV. (of Portugal), ii. 365 ——, Don, of Austria, iii. 340 Juego de Toros, bull sports in Spain, i. 231, 283; iv. 285 Julius Cesar, life of, iv. 72 Junk, cork substituted for, ii. 414 Junto, the, iii. 304 Justice, described, i. 398 Juxon, Mr., iv. 357 —,, William, Archbishop of Can- terbury, i. 175; death of, ii. 4— alluded to, 9, 18, 19, 265; iii. 422 Katherine, Queen, her name in- troduced into the Church Litany, i. 232—her Court at Lisbon, 221 —prepares to leave Portugal, 265 —embarks for England, 270— presents intended for, 275, 278 —arrives at Portsmouth, 279— conduct of, on board, 283—her character, 286, 362—her portion, 283, 286; ii. 36—proceeds to Hampton Court, i. 286—her beauty, 286, 287—receives from the City a present of a gold cup, 287—her dislike of Lady Castle- maine, 304—leaves Hampton Court for London, 318—at the Queen-mother’s Court, at Somer- set House, 324, 325; ii. 19— slighted by the king, i. 339, 407; ii. 85; iii. 315—her chapel at St. James’s, i. 328; ii. 99, 138, 366, 370, 372; iii. 47, 85, 101, 329; iv. 29—-supposed to be enceinte, i. 332, 362; ii. 5; iv. 172, 178—her Court at Whitehall, i. 366, 367— remonstrates respecting her al- lowance, 414—said to be incapa- ble of bearing children, ii. 21, 96, 98, 99—her illness, 46, 47, 49, 50 —strange fancy of, ii. 50, 51— convalescent, 49-53—her recoy- ery, 61, 80—her birthdays, 62, 480; iii. 11—disposal of her joint- ure, ii. 93, 95—picture of, 162— said to have miscarried, 354; iii. 437—her lodgings at Windsor, ii. 358—alteration in her fashion of dress, 474—attends mass, iii. 17 —plays at cards on a Sunday, 68 —proposes to enter a nunnery, 941—illness of, iv. 338—con- valescent, 339—witnesses a launch at Woolwich, 346—alluded to, i. 338; iv. 198 Katherine Hall, Cambridge, i. 111 418 pear, iii. 238 of Valois, Queen, tomb of, in Westminster Abbey, iv. 108 , the, man-of-war, ii. 228 Yacht, i. xxvi.; ii. 383, 385 Keeling, Sir John, trials before, iii. 180—proceedings against him, 278, 284, 324 325—alluded to, iv. 39, 179 Kelsy, Captain, iii. 295 Kem, Harry, i. 358 Kempthorne, Captain, iv. 212 ——, John (afterwards Sir John), want of victuals for his fleet, iii. 56—notice of, ib.—re- turned for Portsmouth, iv. 210— alluded to, i. 129, 137, 142, 210 Kendall, Duke of, his illness, iii. 127—his death, 135 Kennard, Mr., i. 130, 134 Kennett, Bishop, quoted, ii. 350 Kennett’s Register, extracts from, i. 91, 170, 178, 259; iii. 243 Kensington, i. 8, 98, 100, 403; ii. 133, 134, 369, 370; iii. 423, 425, 446; iv. 304 ——., Henry Rich, Lord, iii. 279 Kent, Lord, i. 191 Kent, Mr., iii. 124 Kentish Knock, the, a shoal, i. 110 Town, ii. 155 Ken Wood, near Highgate, the rendezvous of the Fanatics, i. 140 Kerneguy, Lady (Carnegy), ii. 219; iii. 419; iv. 61 -_——, Lord (Carnegy), ii. 219; iii. 419 Ketch, a sailing-vessel: see Catch Kevet, Burgomaster of Amster- dam, iii. 67 Keyes’ College (Caius College), i. 263 Killigrew, Anne, the poetess, ii. 67 ——., Henry, ii. 478—chastised by the Duke of Buckingham, iii. 196—character of, 454—attack on, iv. 176, 177° , Dr. Henry, sermon by, ii. 67 —_—_——,, Sir Peter, i. 57 ——__——, ‘Sir Robert; 1-735 i. 67 —_—, Thomas (father of Hen- ry), iv. 177 , Thomas, (son of Sir Ro- bert), notice of, i. %3—his GENERAL INDEX “ Claracilla,” a tragi-comedy, 19, 371—his “Love at First Sight,” 238—his method of seeing plays — when a boy, 343—his intention of building a new theatre in Moor- fields, ii. 154—his “ Parson’s Wedding,” a comedy, 174—his advice to the king, iii. 25—on the — state of the stage, 61, 62—anec- dote of, 211—alluded to, i. 129, 231, 281, 336, 352, 380; ii. 87, 268, 478; iii. 61, 247, 286, 372, 443, 475; iv. 104, 118: see Lin- coln’s Inn Playhouse Killigrew, Sir W., ii. 268 Kilmurrey, Lord, iii. 112 Kinaston, Edward (Kynaston), no- tice of, i. 102—alluded to, 139; iv. 94, 98 King at Arms, proclamation of, i. 176 “King and no King,” a play, i. 159, 220 “ King Charles’s Beauties,” alluded to, ii. 222; iv. 8 King, Colonel, i. 159 . Dr., Bishop of Chichester, i. 90, 395; ii. 217 , Dr., the physician, ii. 41 , Gregory, his letter to Pepys, describing the ceremony of in- vestiture of the Garter, &c., iv. 249 ——, Mr., iv. 121 ——, Thomas, Member for Har- — wich, iii. 300 King Salomon, a Dutch ship, sunk, — ii. 205 Kingdone, Mr., iii. 43 King’s Arms, substituted for those of the State, i. 46, 58, 60 4 King’s Bench, trial of Sir H. Vane at, i. 288 ' College, Cambridge, i. 91, 200; lii. 267 Evil, touching for the, i. 84, 170; iii. 104—“ the Office for the — Healing,” i. 85 Fool, privileges of the, iii. 372 Head Tavern, ii. 253, 323 Head, Islington, i. 183; il. 111 Playhouse, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, i. 124—Pepys’s descrip- tion of the tiring-rooms, ii. 363; GENERAL INDEX iii. 264: see Lincoln’s Inn Play- house “ King’s Meditations,” the (Charles I.), iii. 451 Kingsale, the, a ship, i. 131 Kingsland, i. 218; ii. 376; iii. 126, 222 Kingsmill, Sir Francis, i. xii. Kingston, town of, i. 229; ii. 32, 259, 266 ——_——, Earl of, i. 27; iii. 152 ——,, Lady, i. 160 King Street, stoppage of coaches in, i. 127—accident in, 180—al- luded to, ii. 254, 265, 462; iii. 317 King’s Theatre, performances at, i. 330, 390, 406; ii. 81, 91, 122, 130, 154, 156, 363; iii. 24, 25, 38, 49, 58, 68, 77, 80, 91, 103, 107-109, 119, 134, 135, 212, 219- 991, 224, 226, 229, 250, 252, 253, 257, 262, 264, 279, 287, 296, 301, 313, 323, 330, 332, 334, 345, 347, 357, 368, 378, 393, 395, 409, 411, 414, 420, 427, 429, 433, 439, 442- 445, 454, 469, 471, 476, 480; iv. 6, 21, 23, 24, 31, 33, 35, 60, 69, 74, 78, 93, 96, 109, 128, 153, 175 Kipps, Mr., i. 86, 92, 93, 237 Kirby, Capt. Robert, killed, ii. 244; iv. 327 —Castle, the seat of Sir Wm. Ryder, ii. 12 Kirk, Mary, i. 382 Kirkleatham Hospital, iii. 27 Kirtcher, his Musurgia, iii. 382 Kirton, Mr., the bookseller, i. 23, 119, 400—loss sustained by, in the great fire, ii. 460, 464—his death, iii. 301 Kitchen, yacht, iv. 224-226 Kite, Mrs. (aunt to Pepys), i. 218 ——,, Sarah, iii. 252, 255 Knapp, Dr., ii. 71 Knatchbull, Sir Edward, ii. 278 Kneller, his portrait of James II., i. xxvii—his portrait of Pepys, i. xxvii. ; ii. 210—his picture of Miss Davis, iii. 80—his letter to Pepys concerning Dr. Wallis’s portrait, iv. 299—on the same subject, 303 —painted staircase by, 197—al- luded to, 295, 297, 303, 306, 307 Knight, Mrs., the singer, iii. 259; iv. 17, 222 419 , Sir John, iii, 464 “Knight of the Burning Pestle,” a comedy, i. 277 Knightly, Mr., i. 279; ii. 449 Knight’s “Life of Dean Colet,” i. x., 18; iv. 243, 244 “ London,” ii. 136 Knights of the Bath, i. 172, 174, 177 of the Garter, ii. 358; iii. 114, 469 of the Royal Oak, proposed order of, ii. 3, 319; iii. 206 of the Sea, proposed order of, i. 130 , order of, ii. 358 Knightsbridge, ii. 231; iv. 170 Knipp, Mrs., the actress, ii. 332, 333, 339, 341, 344, 345, 352, 355, 356, 359, 362, 363, 369, 375, 427, 428, 435, 480, 481, 482; iii. 6, 9, 36, 38, 42, 49, 50, 58, 62, 66, 75, 80, 94, 107, 108, 120, 125, 134, 138, 212, 219, 221, 224, 227, 247, 264, 334, 344, 345, 347, 379, 380, 396, 406, 409, 420, 425, 426, 433, 435, 436, 439, 444, 454-456; iv. 4, 11, 16, 17, 23, 24, 29, 74, 95, 117— notice of, ii. 332 Knives, found in the house of a Catholic, ii. 481 Knollys, family of, ii. 25 Knuffler, Dr., his engine, i. 264 Konigsberg, ii. 72 Konigstein, fortress of, iv. 250 Krewstub, Robert, iv. 205 Labelye’s drawing of Westminster bridge, iv. 277 “ Labyrinth,” a play, ii. 122 Lacock Abbey, Wilts, iii. 351 Lacy, the actor, i. 281, 415; ii. 55 iii. 103, 107, 108, 119, 220, 429, 481; iv. 85—in disgrace with the King, iii. 108, 109—alluded to, ii. 363; iii. 188, 429, 481 Ladies, new fashions for, ii. 474, 478; iii. 11, 12 , Portuguese, i. 283, 294 , Spanish, manners and cus- toms of, iii. 259 “Ladys 4 la Mode,” a play, iv. 21 “Lady’s Tryall,” a tragedy, iv. 112 La Garde, Mrs., i. 382 Lam, Mother, i. 7 Lamb, Dr., i. 112 420 Lambert, the, man-of-war, altered to the Henrietta, i. 70; iv. 347 , Lady, iii. 452 >» Lieutenant (afterwards Captain), i. 12, 111, 142, 148, 184, 192, 195, 227, 236—killed in action, ii. 297 » Major-General, notices of, i. 1; iii, 452; i. 2-4, 20, 30— committed to the Tower, 27—his escape and reward offered for, 44 —apprehended, 47, 49—sent to Scilly, 230—alluded to, i. 1-4, 20, 30, 181, 294 Lambeth, i. 106, 119, 148, 272, 362, 373; ii. 9, 19, 300, 303, 315, 320; li. 194; iv. 2, 173—gipsies at, iv. 5 Lambeth Palace library, ii. 265 Lamb’s Conduit, iv. 57 wool, iii. 7 Lambton, John, iv. 147 ————., Margaret, iv. 147 Lamoral, Claude: see Prince de Ligne Lamp-glasses, described, i, 116 Lancashire, serpents of, i. 254 Lancaster, Dr., of Oxford, iv. 309 Lancaster Herald, ii. 126 Land, decrease in the yalue of, iii. 361 Landguard Fort, iii. 180 Land’s End, the, iv. 313 Lansdowne, Marquis of, i. 7 Land-tax, proposed, iii, 3, 20, 30, 96 Lane, Mrs., i. 140 ——, Sir George, one of the clerks of the Privy Council, ii. 45, 103 Laneare (or Lanier), Mr., the musician, i. 124; ii. 318, 330, 332, 333, 340 Lanesborough, Viscount, ii. 45 Langbaine, quoted, iii. 345 “La Nouvelle Allegorique,” ii. 325 Lany, Benjamin, iii. 208: see Bishop of Peterborough , Monsieur, i. 248 Lanyon, sum due to him, iii. 96— alluded to, ii. 149, 152, 154; iv. 59 Larke, the, man-of-war, iv. 347 “ Larke,” the, a song, iv. 17 Larks, a food for serpents, i. 254 La Roche, Captain, ii. 475—his con- duct at Plymouth, iii. 379—En- glish ship retaken from, 389 GENERAL INDEX ———., the dentist, i 159 |. Laud, Archbishop, iii. 86, 142—life _ of, iv. 23, 55, 59 i. 126 4 Landerdide! Earl of (afterwards Duke), i. 58—his aversion to mu- — sic, ii. 422—his house at High- gate, ib——alluded to, i. 185, 342; li. 90, 96, 103, 420, 422; iii. 120, — 161; iv. 270-272 ; Lauderdale House, near Highgate, li. 422 q Lausdune, story of the children born at, i. 67 4 La Vallitre, Mademoiselle, i. 378; ii. 9; iii, 112—notice of, iii. 112, © 113 a “Law against Loyers,” a tragi- comedy, i. 258 ag Lawes, Henry, the composer, i. 121, , 358 » William, i, 121 Lawrence, Goody (Pepys’s nurse), ii. 121 ————,, Mr,, i. 133 , Sir John, Lord Mayor, ii. 180, 246, 280, 291, 300; iii. 110 : Laws, obscurity of the, ii. 373 Lawson, John, the Royalist, i. 1 ,» WVice-Admiral, Sir John, — noticed, i. 1—knighted, 110—his — engagement with the Turks, 277 —articles concluded on by him — at Algiers, 282—makes . pe with Tunis and Tripoli, 351, —esteemed at court, 370—pro- | claims war with Algiers, ii. 123 3 —his ship, the London,. blown” oP. 216—returns to Portsmoutl . 370; ii. 56, 175—wounded i an engagement with the Du 244, 248-250—his death, 253— burial, 255—alluded to, i. 25, 32, 38, 45, 47, 164, 199, 295, 376, 388; ii. 59, 74, 82, 190, 198, 250, 2651, 253, 258, 317, 371, 409, 423; iy. 270-272 Laxton, the apothecary, ii, 134— Layton, Sir Ellis, ii. 84, 177, 206, 336, 394; iii. 91, 92—particulars respecting, ii. 205, 206 ; Lea-bayly, hamlet of, i, 293 Lead, Mr., iv. 160 . Leadenhall Market, ii. 450; iv. 8 TET RS ERS wi. . Street, i. 424; ii. 87, 118 Leatherhead, i, 180 Le Blanc, Mademoiselle, i. 234 Lechmore (Lechmere), Nicholas, i. 337; ii. 356 Lee, on the Thames, iii. 199 —, Mr., the Counsellor, i. 281 — ,, Mr., i. 341-343, 345, 347, 360 — , Sir Thomas, iii. 393 ——.,, the Duke of Richmond’s foot- man, race won by, ii. 30 Leeds, Duke of (Viscount Dun- blane), iv. 221 Leeson, the surgeon, iv. 175 , the, a tavern, i. 188; ii. 237; jii. 70, 394; iv. 324 Legacy, extraordinary one, to two Blue-coat scholars, iv. 257 Legge, Geo., son of the Colonel, iii. 359 — , Colonel William, ii. 331; iii. 111, 152, 345, 359; iv. 156, 210, 294, 227, 228 Leghorn, city of, ii. 74 Leicester, Earl of, ii. 325, 327 , House, i. 256; iv. 37 Leigh, Messrs., i. 10 —,, Sir William, iii. 9 Leighton, Alex., ii. 84 , Elisha, ii. 80: Ellis Layton , R., Bishop of Dunblane, see Sir ii. 84 Leith, Dutch prisoners at, released, Lemon, Mr., i. 315 ——,, Mrs., i. 329; ii. 20 Le Neve, John, quoted, i. 134 Le Neve, Lieut., iii. 15 Lennox, Duke of, i. 272; ii. 21, 125—his daughter, 97 Lent, proclamation of the King re- specting, i. 154—observance of, 157, 162, 257, 395, 396, 405; ii. 74 Lenthall, Sir John, brother of the Speaker, i. 11; ii. 32 , Sir John, son of the Speaker, i. 11—his apprehension of Quakers, ii. 32 ———., William, resumes the chair, i. 11—refuses to sign writs for new members, 24 Leopard, the, ii. 128—lost, 199 Leopold, Emperor, ii. 51 i de France,’ a book, iv. GENERAL INDEX 421 L’Estrange, Sir Roger, ii. 36—cha- racter of, 192—alluded to, 247, 251; iii. 56, 145 Lethenborough, Bucks, i. 47 Lethieullier, Mr., ii. 291, 3353 iii. 425 = _Mrs., “the noble, fat, brave lady,” ii. 335, 472 Letters patent, appointing Pepys to the clerkship of the Acts, i. 86—for the Earldom of Sand- wich, &c., 87 Letter-writing, advantages of, iv. 311 Leuthrop (Leventhorpe), Sir Thomas, i. 56 Leventhorpe, Sir Thomas, i. 56 Lever, Mr., ii. 183 Levers, i. 348 Levett, Mr., iii. 400 Levidge, Captain Thomas, iv. 347 Lewellin, Mr., ii. 35 Lewentz, battle fought at, ii. 154 Lewes, Alderman, i. 266 ——, Dr., 1 sve ——, Mr., ii. 297; iii. 154 ——, Sir J., i. 266 Lewin, Mr., i. 267 Lexington, Lord, iv. 288 Lex Mercatoria, a book so entitled, iii. 326 Ley, Jas., Earl of Marlborough, iii. 29 ——, Sir Thomas, Commissioner of the Admiralty, iv. 212 Leybourn’s “ Complete Surveyor,” ji. 314 Leycester, Sir Peter, iii. 289 Leyenburg, Sir J. B., the Swedish Envoy, i. 127; iii. 46; iv. 47 “ LT’ Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules;’ book so called, ii. 374 Lichfield Cathedral, iii. 121 Liddall, Sir Thomas, ii. 383 Lieutenancy, Commissioners the, ii. 356 Lightning, remarkable effect of, i. 13 for Ligne, Prince de, the Spanish Am- bassador, i. 105, 111, 154; iv. 340 —reported marriage of his niece to Charles II., i. 155 “T/Illustre Bassa,’ a romance, iii. 385, 470 Lilly, Peter (Lely), the painter, his picture of the Earl of Sandwich, i. 115—of the Duchess of York, 422 292; ii. 365—William, Lord Brouncker, i. 311—pictures by him, i. 292, 337; ii. 112, 365, 371, 416; iii. 11, 91, 351; iv. 8, 179, 249 ——, William, the astrologer, i. 116 —his almanack, iii. 28, 156 ——,, the varnisher, iv. 160, 164 Lilly’s Grammar, ii. 216 Lily, the, man-of-war, iii. 202; iv. 347 Lime Street, i. 122 Limehouse, high tide at, i. 38—ori- gin of its name, 227 Limerick, siege of, i. 149 Lincoln’s Inn, revels at, i. 244 Chapel, ii. 408 Fields, House of Mr. Povey in, i. 287; ii. 129—house of Lord Sandwich in, ii. 356; iii. 257, 333 ————— Playhouse, perform- ances at, i. 124, 137, 149, 153, 156, 159, 198, 212, 217, 229, 231, 239, Q41, 244, 255, 258, 261, 277, 330, 337, 365, 370, 371, 390, 426; ii. 6, 81, 104, 118, 224, 480, 483; iii. 35, 36, 39, 40, 57, 81, 88, 108, 130, 214, 220, 241, 249, 250, 276, 288, 302, 337, 345, 366, 370, 382, 387, 420, 427, 430, 432, 471, 480; iv.) 5, 16; 20,°36,' 57; 61,71, 106; 108, 109, 151, 152, 173 Lincoln’s Inn Walks, i. 81 Lideboome, the, a prize-ship, iii. 93 Lindsay, Earl of, i. 58 » Montague Bertie, second Earl of, i. 418 Linen, deficiency of, in the royal wardrobe, iii. 238 Lion, a man-of-war, iii. 116 Lionne, M. de, extracts from the correspondence of the Count de Comminges with, iv. 334, et seq. > M. de, letters of the Comte de Comminges to, iv. 334-347 Lions, kept in the Tower, i. 411 Liphook, iv. 2 Lisbon, city of, i. 227—Spanish and Dutch fleet before, 292—plan of, ii. 34; iv. 333—alluded to, i. 193, 220, 227, 266, 270, 292, 346; ii. 98; iii. 83, 214; iv. 285, 296 Gazette, ii. 18 Litlington, Albot, iv. 323 Little, Francis, his History of Ab- ingdon, iii. 459 GENERAL INDEX “Little Thief,” the, a play, i. 163, 268 a Littlecote, the seat of Alexander Popham, iii. 467 a Littleton, Mr., iii. 118; iv. 49 ——, Sir Thomas, ii. 416; ii 198, 375, 393; iv. 42, 49, 61, 171, 358 Liturgy, the, ii. 372 Livery-servants, their custom of wearing swords, i. 239, 276, 326 Livingston, Sir James, iv. 275 Livingstone, Lady Betty, i. 382 Lloyd, Bishop of St. Asaph, iii. 22 » Captain, iv. 211, 212, 359 — ———,, Dr., sermon by him, iii. 320 > Mr., iii. 6; iv. 313 » Sir Godfrey, iii. 90 » William, Bishop of Li field, iv. 245, 256 Lock, Matthew, i. 20, 25, 26; ii 235 Loggings, the chorister, iii. 223 Lombard Street, i. 154: see Z bard Street Lombart, the engraver, iv. 246 London, new Common Council, i. 2, 5—charter of, 8—entry of eral Monk into, 17—demolition of gates and chains in, 19—vote of Parliament touching the Com- mon Council of, 20—bonfires in, 21, 22, 28, 51, 119, 120, 179, 285; ii. 62, 182, 380, 389, 432—vote Parliament for restoring gates of, i. 26—declaration 50—enthusiasm of the people favour of the King, 51—Charles II. proclaimed in, 57—his entry into, 78—executions in, 113-115, 129, 146, 271, 291, 369, 392; 2, 87’—arrival of the Queen i. 119—commotion of fanatics in, 140, 141—meeting-house pulled down in, 140—election for mem- bers, 160—rejoicings at the coro- nation of Charles II., 179—fey prevalent in, 209, 214—fray between the ambassadors France and Spain, 223—h wind in, 257—patrolled by t King’s guards, 284—gates of tl city shut, and double gua placed, 336—apprehension of sus- pected persons in, 341, 344—dis- turbed state of, 348—entry of the Russian ambassador into, 353— GENERAL INDEX 423 projected improvements in, 399; ii. 9—well provided with water, 35, 43—lends the King 100,000/., 180, 399—impressment of sea- men in, 214, 405-407—apprehen- sions of the plague in, 233—its appearance, i. XV.; ii. 237, 245— its progress in, 246, Q4T, 254- 259, 264, 265, 268-271, 274, 275, 279, 285-291, 294, 296, 297, 300, 309, 312, 314, 318, 319, 323, 326, 330, 335, 338, 339, 343-346, 349, 352, 355, 359, 367-369, 372, 373, 377, 426-429; iv. 192-194—more fires kindled, to counteract it, ii. 291—intention of the King to borrow money of the city, 393, 394, 398—rejoicings in, for suc- cesses over the Dutch, 432—great fire of, 439, et seq.—breaks out in the King’s baker’s house, in Pudding Lane, ib.—destroys St. Magnus Church, ib.—Fish Street, ib—London bridge, ib.—reaches the Steel Yard, 440—removal of goods, &c., in lighters, 440, 442— pigeons disturbed by the heat, 439— consumes St. Lawrence Poultney Church, ib. — houses ordered to be pulled down by the King, 442—inactivity of the Lord Mayor of, 44.1—combustible materials in the warehouses in Thames Street, ib—removal of property into the churches, ib.— confusion in the streets, ib.— reaches Canning Street, 441— showers of sparks fall in the Thames, 443—grand appearance of the city of, by night, 443, 446 —Tower Street destroyed, 445; iii. 21—houses blown up near the Tower, ii. 446—Pye Corner con- sumed, ib—Old Bailey, ib— Fleet Street, ib—Cheapside, ib. — St. Paul’s, 446, 449; iii. 348—endangers Barking Church, ii. 446—its fury in some meas- ure arrested, 447—desolate ap- pearance of the city, ib.—Fen- church Street destroyed, ib.— Gracious Street, ib.—Lumbard Street, ib—the Exchange, ib.— removal of property to Moor- fields, ib—favourable state of the weather, ib—Newgate Mar- ket consumed, ib.—appearance of the flames at Bishopsgate, 448—danger of walking in the streets, ib.—conjectures respect- ing the origin of the fire, ib., 450 —progress of, as far as_ the Temple, 449—Clothworkers’ Hall destroyed, ib—lLudgate Street, ib—high rent offered for houses in, 450—calculation of the rents of houses burnt, 454—books burnt in, 459, 460, 464; iii. 348— timber for re-building, ii. 460— fast-days for the fire, 468; iii. 13 —knives found among the ruins of a house belonging to a Roman- ist, ii. 481—reasons for attribut- ing the fire to the Papists, iii. 3, 27—survey of the ruins, 4— fears of some great calamity in, 5—apprehensions of the Papists in, 5, 8—fire at the Horse Guards, and alarm in the city, 6—Thanksgiving-day for the cessation of the plague, 13— Hollar’s new print and map of, 14—plan for rebuilding, 17, 93— continuance of fire among the ruins, 21, 22, 26, 44, 76, 85—high price of coals in, 26, 79, 81—trial of conspirators in, 28, 29—insur- rection of the seamen in, 33, 49 —houses blown up in the Min- ories, 36—allusions to the fire of, i. xv.; iii. 39, 362—prophecy re- specting the fire of, 56—new act for rebuilding, 72—inquiry into the origin of the fire, 73—re- building of, considered, 100— fires in, 106, 122, 180, 181, 468— alarm of the Dutch coming into the river, 147, 152, 155—trial of persons for setting houses on fire, 180, 181—seasonable rain in, 201—proclamation of peace with Holland, France, and Den- mark in, 227—printed account of the examinations concerning, 252, 253—new street from Guildhall to Cheapside, 317 — increased value of ground in, ib.— disturb- ance among the apprentices, 406, 408—meteor seen in, 448—fire in Minchin Lane, 469—progress of the new buildings in, iv. 8, 10, 22—fire in Durham Yard, 161—claims of owners of prop- erty burnt in, iil. 349 424 London Bridge, state of the foot- way on, ii. 180—pales blown off, 347—destroyed by the great fire, 439: see “Shooting the bridge” London, man-of-war, i. 47, 71, 141 —blown up, ii. 216—one of the same name burnt by the Dutch, lii. 152, 177—alluded to, iv. 347 London Gazette, its commence- ment, ii. 326 Long Acre, iv. 44 Long, Mrs., actress, ii. 158 ——, Sir Robert, i. 400; ii. 329, 364; iii. 380; iv. 19 Longevity, remarkable instances of, i. 107; ii. 96, 301 Longracke, Mr., his marriage, ii. 437 Longueville, first Viscount, i. 30; iii. 351 Looker, Mr., Lord Salisbury’s gar- dener, i. 201 “Lord have mercy upon us!” the mark set on houses infected with the plague, ii. 242 Lord Mayor’s Day, i. 53; iv. 340 banquetting house, iii. 1173 i. 51, Q11 swords, ii. 35 Lords, House of, dispute respect- ing, i. 46—meeting of the, 48, 49 —privileges of, 203; ii. 125— power of, iii. 254, 309, 435— stormy debate in, 302, 309 Loriner’s Hall, iii. 443 Lorrain, Paul (Pepys’s amanu- ensis), his letter to Pepys, iv. 292 —alluded to, 282, 357 “Tos Illustres Varones,” ish work, iii. 427 “Lost Lady,” tragi-comedy, i. 145, 148 Lothbury, fire in, i. 365 Loton, Mr., landscape-painter, iv. 148 Lottery, drawing of the, ii. 150 Louis Philippe, (late) King of France, i. 150 XIIL., i. 348 — XIV., i. 106, 150, 270—his arrét against the Pope, ii. 260— his campaigns, iii. 166—extracts from the correspondence of the Count de Comminges with, iv. 341, et seq.—noticed, iii. 14; iv. 158 a Span- GENERAL INDEX Love, method of making in Spain, iii. 259 ; “Love a-la-mode,” a comedy, iv. — Q1 y “ Love and Honour,” a tragi-com- — edy, i. 228 “Love at First Sight,” a play, i. 238 “Love Despised,” a play, iv. 7 “Love in a Maze,” a play, i. 282; iii. 119, 368, 430 “ Love in a Tub,” a comedy, ii. 199, 483; iii. 430 “Love, a Cheate,”’ a romance, ii. 89 Love, Mr., his election for London, i. 160 “Love’s Cruelty,” iii. 334, 422 “TLove’s Mistress, or the Queen’s — Mask,” a play, i. 157, 159; i, 236; iv. 6 ; « Love’s Quarrel,” i. 164 “Love’s Trickes, or the School of Compliments,” a comedy, iii. 214 — Lovett, Mr., christening of a child of, ii. 475—alluded to, 379, 411, 416; iii, 1 Lowestoffe, ii. 249 Lowndes, Mr., iv. 358 , Lowre, Dr. (Lower), iii. 473 — Lowther, Alderman Robert, iii. 135 , Anthony, notices of, ii. 343; iii. 185—alluded to, iii. 39, — 50, 65, 71, 75, 91, 95, 135, 173, 215, 230, 265, 368 | , John, the merchant, iii. — 135 ———., Margaret, ii. 369, 391; iii. 91, 95, 120, 135, 175, 189, 215, 248, 265, 439 ——., Pegg (sister of An-— thony), iii. 421 j » Sir John, iii. 381 ——., William (son of An- thony), some account of, ii. 343 — Loyall, George, the, man-of-war, i if 390 4 Loyall London, the, launched, i. 394—ill success of the guns made for, 404—alluded to, 418; iii. 101 “Loyall Subject,” tragi-comedy, iy 102 ‘ Lubeck, i. 396 Lucas, John, Lord, iii. 94 , Thomas, iii. 94 4 Luce (Pepys’s maid), ii. 406; iti, 89, 106 ; fi GENERAL INDEX “Tucida Intervalla,’ by J. Car- easse, ii. 441 Lucin, or Lukyn, Mrs., i. 277 Lucy, Mr., i. 164 —, W., Bishop of St. David's, i. 248 Ludgate Street, destroyed by the great fire, ii. 449 Ludlow, General, i. 15—memoirs of, 263 Luellin, Mr., a Clerk of the Coun- cil, i. 10, 14, 16, 91, 97, 108; ii. 74, 82, 104, 174, 306—his death, 326 , Mrs., her prophecy, ii. 83 Luiza, Donna, Queen of Portugal, li. 365, 372 Luke, Sir Samuel, iii. 129—sup- posed to be the original Hudi- bras, ib. Lumbard Street, destroyed by the great fire, ii. 441, 447—rebuilt, iii. 398—alluded to, i. 154, 285, 305, 404; ii, 330, 366, 398, 410, 429; iv. 22, 67, 150 Lumley House, i. 91 Luther on relics, iii. 48 Lyddall, Mr., iv. 358 “Lyer,” the, a comedy, iii. 313 Lyme Street, robbery in, ii. 83, 87 Lynn, i. 83, 149—election at, iv. 209 204, “Lynsey (Lindsay), Lord, i. 418 Lyons, William, Esgq., i. 412 Lyra, the (a musical instrument), li. 474 Lysons’s “Environs,” extracts from, i. 126, 252; ii. 13, 261, 291; iv. 7, 343 _ Lyttleton, Sir Charles, iii. 11 , Lord, i. 311 Mabbot, Mr., i. 27 Mabillon, John, the Benedictine, iv. 293 “Macbeth,” tragedy of, ii. 182; iii. 36, 40, 108, 277; iv. 5, 70 Maccassa (Macassah), poison, its effects, ii. 218 Macclesfield House, near Soho, i. 369 . Macdonald, Sir James, iv. 264 Macdonnell, Captain, iv. 225 Mackay, Mr., of Boston, iv. 327 — Sir George, iii. 136; iv. 5 Macknachan, Colonel, iv. 160 425 M’Whinnick, A. M., on the change of the skin of negroes, i. 270 Mackworth, Mr., i. 193 Macleod, Sir Normade, 266 “Mad Couple,” a comedy, iii. 253, 332, 480 Madden, Mr., ii. 437 Madeiras, the, i. 265 Madge, Mr., i. 361; ii. 77 “Mad Lovers,” a play, i. 153, 239; ii. 170; iv. 106 Madrid, city of, ii. 418; ili, 325— Philip the Fifth’s entry into, iv. 294 Magdalene College, Cambridge, i. X., Xi, Xxix., XXx., Xxxii., XxxvVi., 18, 28, 94, 251, 253, 295, 381, 404; ii. 33; iii. 19, 25, 60, 86, 268, 356, 450—right of nomination to the Mastership of, iv. 239—alluded to, 205, 218, 236 Hall, Oxford, i. 164 Magget, Mr., the divine, ii. 194 Magliabechi, Antonio, the extra- ordinary scholar, iv. 284 Magna Charta, remark upon, iii. 324 Maidenhead, town of, iii. 467 ——————— boat upset, i. 38 Maids of honour, i. 382 Maidstone, account of, iv. 136 Maitland, Dr. S. R., on an experi- ment of lifting, ii. 274 ———., Sir R., iv. 287—his col- lection of Poems, ib. Maitland’s “History of London,” i. 130; iv. 151 Malaga, safe arrival of Sir Jer. Smith at, ii. 352 Malago, fire-ship, ili. 59 Malcolm’s “ Manners of London,” iii. 146 Mal de Ojo, or the Evil Eye, Span- ish superstition concerning, iy. 268 Malefactors, punishment of, Siam, ii. 432 Maleverer, Sir R., i. 48 Mall, in the Park, mode of pre- paring it for playing, i. 417— games played there, ii. 81 Mallard, Mr., i. 361; ii. 77, 100, 192 Mallett, John, ii. 238 , Mrs., run away with by the Earl of Rochester, ii, 238— has many admirers, iii. 1$—mar- iv. 264, in 426 ried to Lord Rochester, 18, 50— alluded to, ii. 241, 357, 437; iii. 17 Malone’s “ History of the English Stage,” ii. 90, 318 “Man is the Master,” a play, iii. 409, 436 Man, Mr., i. 97—offers 1000]. for the office of Clerk of the Acts, 99 Manchester, Earl of, i. 31—ap- pointed Speaker to the House of Lords, 47—alluded to, 33, 43, 45, 47, 90, 101, 183, 250, 273, 362, 385; iii. 161, 180, 210, 418 Mancini, Hortense, i. 154 , Olympia, i. 116 Mandeville, Lord, i. 35—his pres- ent to Mrs. Stuart, iii. 114—al- luded to, i. 73, 250, 424; iii. 144 Manly, Major John, iv. 137 “Manning’s Surrey,” extract from, iii. 447—alluded to, iv. 351 Mansell, Admiral, i. 233 » Colonel, i. xxv. » Mr., i. 73, 110 Mansfield, Father, iv. 279, 281, 282 » Lord, his mansion at Ken Wood, i. 140 ; Manuel, Mrs., the actress, iii. 219, 334, 405, 409, 420, 426 Marcenus’s Book of Music, iii. 452 March, Mr., i. 282 Mardike, fort of, i. 109—-siege of, iii. 340 Mare Clausum, by Selden, i. 237, 238 Margate, arrival of the Princess Royal at, i. 109—arrival of the Dutch before, ii. 200 Margetts, Mr., the merchant, iv. 151 Maria Clara (of Nassau), i. 105 “ Mariana’s History of Spain,” iv. 162 Marigold, a ship lost at Tangier, iv. 211 Markets, proclamation respecting the, ii. 450 Markham, Mrs., ii. 426, 450; iii. 2, 50, 212, 250, 429; iv. 26 Mark Lane, consumed by the great fire, ii. 439, 447—alluded to, iii. 76, 194, 468; iv. 179 Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, furthers the foundation of an GENERAL INDEX English church in Holland, ive 315 Marlborough, James Ley, Earl of, i. 420; ii. 89, 155; iii, 29—killed © in action with the Dutch, ii. 243 —his funeral, 247 , » Sarah, Duchess of, ii. 213 f 4 —————_s, tow of, 1 466 Marlow, Christopher, his play, i. 284 a Marmotte, i. 354 Marr, Mr., ii. 276 Marriage, an extraordinary one, iy. 257 7 custom, i. 12, 148, 382 of servants, gifts at, i, 124 i Marriages, late, ii. 74—in Lent, iv. 133 \ Marriott, Mr., i. 278; ii. 266 Marrowbone (Marylebone), iii. 212, 436 Mars, the, man-of-war, iv. 191 Marseilles, city of, iv. 285 Marsenne’s “‘ Harmonie selle,” iii. 452 Marsh, Mr., i. 10, 27, 227 - Marshall, Anne, the actress, i. 153, 184; ii. 90; iii. 289, 471 } ——_.,, Becke, ii. 90, 224; an, 95m 135, 227, 249, 289, 357, 388, 420, 436, 476 i. ———, Stephen, i. 407; iii. 289 Marshalsea, the Admiralty Court, there, i. 398 Marston Moor, fight at, i. 94 Marten, Mr., ii. 34, 178 Martin Abbey, Surrey, iii. 447 Martin, Captain, killed in action, ii, 425 » Mr., the bookseller, iii. 348, 368, 432; iv. 52 , the engraver, iv. 246 , the clerk, iv. 357 135 Mary Rose, on man-of-war, iv. 212 5 a enert. the merchant, i. Dunc, fashion of wearing, ii. 6, “$8; iii. 68, 242 _ Mason, Sir R., i. xxiv. _ Masquerade, account of one, ii. 208 _ Massarene, Viscount: see Sir John Skeffington Wace book, cost of one, i. 119 _ Massingberd, John, Esq., iii. 190 _ Massinger, his tragedy, “The Vir- _ gin Martyr,” i. 154; iii. 388—his play of “The Bondman,” i. 157, Puan, Major-General, i. 236 Mastricht, iii. 72, 82 Mathews, Mr., i. 236 » Dr., i. 76 » Mr., a good fencer, ii. 1 ——,, Mr. (Pepys’s relative), iv. 356 Matthews, Toby, i. 185 Maulyverer, John, his letter to Pepys, acknowledging his sub- scription to Magdalene College, Cambridge, iv. 217 Maundy Thursday, ceremony on, iii. 100 Mauret’s “ Funeral Rites,” transla- tion of, iv. 292 Maurice, Prince, i. 382; ii. 413 Maxwell, Sir George, iv. 273 May, Baptist (keeper of the Privy ), brings news of the vic- tory over the Dutch fleet, ii. 242 _ —alluded to, 479; iii. 183, 205, 209, 235, 237, 239, 300; iv. 39, 94, 176 May, Hugh, notice of, ii. 242, 243 —his discourse on gardening, 417 Pi GENERAL INDEX 427 —alluded to, 286; iii. 17, 52, 238, 472, 480; iv. 82, 132, 155 , Jeffrey, ii i . 249 May Day, celebration of, iii. 118 May 29th, ordered to be kept as a day of thanksgiving for the King’s Restoration, i. 78 Maybolt Galliot, iii. 275, 299, 336, 353 “Mayden Queene,” a tragedy, iii. 77, 91, 135, 226, 353; iv. 74 “ Mayd of the Mill,” i. 148, 268; iv. 19 May-dew, a wash for the face, iii. 137; iv. 170 May Fair, i. 96 “Mayd’s Tragedy,” 24, 68, 439 Maynard, John, i. 179; ii. 13; iii. 414 Mayne, Jasper, his comedy, “ The City Match,” iv. 31 Maynell, or Meynell, Sheriff, i. 327, 374—his death, ii. 467 Mayors, country, entertain the King, i. 119 Maypole, in the Strand, ii. 1; iii. 34, 123 Maypoles, curious custom of, i. 61 Mazarine, Cardinal, i. 154—his death, 158—his will, ii. 72—al- luded to, i. 378; ii. 17 Mazer Cup, iii. 39 Measles, attacks of the, i. 141, 427 Medals, ancient silver dishes mounted with, i. 302 , Roettier’s, list of, iv. 236 Medici, Cosmo de’, iv. 145 Medows, Mr. (Lord Sandwich’s do- mestic), ii: 263 Medway, river, fortified, iii. 99, 161, 284; iv. 135, 196 Meeting-houses pulled down, i. 139 Meheux, M., his singular memory, iv. 354 Mello, Don Francisco de, i. 198 Melons, estimation of, i. 104 “ Mémoires de Grammont,’ alluded to, i. 258, 270, 316, 345; ii. 90, 219, 392; iii. 419; iv. 103 Memory, art of, i. 146; iv. 354 Mercer (Pepys’s maid), ii. 255— learns music, 424—alluded to, ii 165, 166, 188, 196, 231, 236, 239, 241, 255, 302, 311, 338, 344, 352, 359, 363, 375, 389, 412, 420, 425, the, i. 184; iii. T4, 89, 428 430, 431, 435, 437, 444, 460, 461; iii. 32, 44, 49, 50, 102, 103, 107, 109, 175, 194, 214, 251, 294, 344, 347, 359, 372, 382, 395, 430, 440, 442, 444, 445, 452, 468, 471; iv. 5, 6, 10, 16, 19, 21 (sister of the foregoing), iii. 44 » Mrs., ii. 371, 412, 444; iii. 344, 345, 397, 441; iv. 4 » William, ii. 225; iii. 65 Mercers’ Chapel, i. 146; ii. 448 Company, the, i. 35, 47; iii. 128 Merchants Strangers, iv. 85 Merchant Tailors’ Company, his- tory of the, iv. 4 Merchants of London, honourable mention of the, iii. 257 Mercurius Publicus, extracts from, i. 259; ii. 8 Meres, Sir Thomas, i. xviii.; iii. 38, 192; iv. 212 Meriton, Mr., ii. 259—sermons by, iii. 8, 129 Merlyn, the, man-of-war, iv. 347 Merritt (Merret), Dr. Christopher, i. 336 “Merry Beggars,” a comedy, i. 202 “Merry Devil of Edmonton,” i. 207 “Merry Wives of Windsor,” i. 129, 220; iii. 220 Merton Abbey, the seat of Thomas Pepys, Esq., iv. 229 College, i. 175; ii. 342; iv. AT Messiah, wager respecting a new one, ii. 353 Messum (Mossom), Mr., sermons by him, i. 24, 37, 81; iii. 314 Meteor, appearance of a, iii. 447, 448 Metheglin, a beverage, i. 30; ii. 419 Mews, the, at Charing Cross, i. 220 Meynell, Hugo Charles, i. 326 Michell, Betty, iii. 476 , Mr., his house destroyed by the great fire, ii. 439—alluded to, 264; iii. 69, 234, 377, 474 Mico, Alderman, recovers money from the Dutch, ii. 95 Middleburgh, i. 79 Middlesex, Earl of, i. 72; iii. 23, 299 Middleton, Colonel, Commissioner of the Navy, ii. 477—made sur- veyor of the Navy, ili. 327—his GENERAL INDEX ——-, Ear! of, general of the —_—,, Mrs. (the beauty), ii. 221, 99—her funeral, 105 ———., Thomas, tragedy by, difference with Pepys, iv. 64, 66, 67, 69—alluded to, ii. 182; 264, 323, 391, 446, 479; iv. 26, 77, 78, 105, 109, 129, 130, 1 137-139, 142, 144, 154, 159, 177 forces in Scotland, ii. 89—made governor of Tangier, iii. 107—al- luded to, ii. 96; iii. 176, 179, 336 343; iv. 14, 31, 34, 133, 141, 161, 167, 168, 172, 265, 270 226, 305, 388, 452; iii. 58, 167 4 » Mrs. Col., her death, iy. ———,, Sir Thomas, iv. 242 155, 195—comedy by, ii. 397 . ———., the Lords, iii. 34 7 “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” i. 330 4 Miereveld, his picture of George Villiers, iv. 247 a Mildmay, Sir H., his degradation, i. 253—his death, ii. 236 Mile-End Green, ii, 227, 450; i 291, 226, 288 j Miles’s Coffee-house, i. 7 Milford, the, man-of-war, ii. 2053 iv. 178, 191 : , town of, iv. 195 F Militia of London, i. 30; ii. 450 — Milk, difference in, iii. 310 Miller, Lieut-Col., i. 17 Milleville, Daniel de, ii. 33 ——., Susan de, ii. 33 a Millicent, Sir John, curious patent applied for by him, i. 308 Millington, Dr., iv. 358 ; Mills, Daniel, certificate of, i. xxxiii—notice of, 102—sermons by, 120, 128, 133, 148, 156, 161, 164, 190, 225, 942, 253, 300, 320, 339, 345, 379; ii. 31, 350, 373; iii. 35, 60, 251, 330; 32, 63, 105, 170—made chapl: to the Duke of York, iii. 138, 1 —alluded to, i. 149, 254, 267 127, 138, 308, 312, 431, 454, 4 iv. 74 ——, Mrs., ii. 164 Milman, Dean, iii. 121 Milton, the poet, quoted, i. 8—e sure of his political writings, 337 ‘ Minchin Lane, i. 341—fire in, 469 ; Mingo (servant of Sir W. Batten), i. 153, 387 Mings, Sir Christopher, portrait of, ii. 371—wounded, 388, 391—his death, 394—his funeral, 395—pro- of his men, 396—alluded to, 256, 310, 317, 362, 402, 403 i _ Minnes, Capt, i. 270; ii. 215 —— _, Lady, iii. 263 , Mr., iii. 13, 191 —— ,, Mrs., iii. 191 , Sir J., Vice-Admiral and Comptroller of the Navy, i. 213 —Pepys’s opinion of him, 231— recommends the dismissal of cap- tains, 235—character of, 240— elected master of the Trinity- _ house, 284—made Commissioner for the affairs of Tangier, 355— cures performed by, ii. 159—has a fit, 166, 206, 434, 437—made a Master of the Ordnance, 182— made a Commissioner for the Navy, in place of his office as Comptroller, iii. 5—incompetent to perform the duties of Comp- troller, ii. 465—his illness, iii. 179 —his share of prize-money, 254 —his incapacity to attend to his ' official duties, 414; iv. 72—al- Iuded to, i. 231, 240, 261, 287, 292, 296, 325, 326, 336, 344, 347, 350, 351, 357, 371, 379, 386, 387, 393, 394, 397, 402, 406, 413, 414, 421; ii. 4, 7, 8, 14, 17, 20, 43, 47, 54, 75, 145, 290, 294, 295, 297, 301, 311, 388, 422, 434, 447, 462; ili. 16, 47, 76, 89, 95, 127, 146, WAT, 155, 158, 173, 179, 217, 223, 999, 235, 290, 318-321, 391, 392, 399, 408, 417, 451, 481; iv. 18- 20, 34, 40, 50, 61, 68, 76, 99, 139, 142, 154, 155, 166, 174, 177 Minories, ‘houses blown up in the, iii. 35 Minors, Captain, iii. 357 Minshell, Mr., i. 177 Minster Lovell, iv. 205 Mint, the, i. 155 ‘Miriam, the engraver, iv. 246 Miscarriages, Committee of, iii. ~ 370, 374, 403, 412 “Mistaken Beauty,” a comedy, iii. 313 ‘Mitchell, Mrs., i. 365; ii. 479; iii. I, 22, 23, 58 ——, Sir David, iv. 359 GENERAL INDEX 429 Mitre, in Fenchurch Street, i. 312 ——, in Fleet Street, i. 11 —— Tavern, in Wood Street, i. 107; ii. 271, 272 Mocenigo, Pietro, the Venetian Ambassador, iv. 29 “ Mock Astrologer,” iv. 121 Moders, Mary, some account of, i. 426: see German Princesse Mohair (moire, Fr.), a species of silk, i. 366, 378 Mohun, Lord Charles, iii. 381 , the actor: see Moone Mole, at Algiers, destroyed, i. 253 ——, at Tangier, i. 229—computed expense of, 403—draught of the, ii. 43—alluded to, i. 328, 355, 361; li. 37, 43, 190; iii. 58, 442 Molesworth, Sir William, iv. 16 Mompesson, Mr., his house haunted, ii. 7, 8—alluded to, iii. 330 Monastery, new, at St. James’s, iii. 47 Monday, Mr., iv. 113 Money, strange mode of sending, i. 245 , supposed to be hidden, i. 423—amount of, in circulation, ii. 206 Monk, George (afterwards Duke of Albemarle), with the army in Scotland, i. 1—ordered to Lon- don, 5, 6—his letter to the Par- liament, 8, 20—arrives with his forces in London, 17, 19—im- prisons some of the common council, 20—breaks down the gates and chains of the city, 20 —enthusiastic reception of, 20-22 —made General of all the forces, 25—goes to St. Paul’s, 29—made General at sea, 30—receives in- vitations from the city com- panies, 33, 43—proclamations of, 37—instrumental in restoring the king, 42, 44, 49—has 20,0001. voted hint by Parliament, 49— receives the king on his landing at Dover, 74—is invested with the Order of the Garter, 76—made Commissioner of the Treasury, 79—created Duke of Albemarle, 87—alluded to, ii. 25, 30, 37, 51, 53, 54, 82, 124; ii. 58, 60, 176: see Duke of Albemarle Monk, Lady, i. 84, 86, 263 Monmouth cock, iii. 142 430 , man-of-war, iii. 178 ————, Duchess of, ii. 208—her accident in dancing, iii. 437, 443, AT7; iv. 25—alluded to, iii. 11, 164, 168, 349; iv. 115 ———, Duke of, partiality of the King to him, i. 368, 382, 408, 413, 417, 419; ii. 86, 96, 370; iii. 249 —entertained at Cambridge, i. 404—made Master of Arts, ib.— his marriage, 406—book pre- sented to, ii. 97—his title and arms, i. 406; ii. 184—-Pepys’s re- mark upon him, 269—his profli- gacy, iil. 31—his illness, 326—his performance of “The Indian Emperour,” 349—alluded to, i. 324, 325, 333, 350, 362, 366, 367, 406; ii..57, 60, 208, 267, 370; iii. 11, 102, 114, 141, 144, 250, 298, 333, 426; iv. 22, 55, 121, 176: see also Mr. Crofts Monro, Lieut-Col. Alex., iv. 264, 265 , Mr., iv. 358 “ Monsieur Ragou,” a play, iii. 481 Monson, Alston, i. 253 Lord, his degradation, i. > 252 Monson, Sir Thomas, i. 252 , Sir William, iv. 154 Monster, account of a, ii. 184 Montacutes, ancient tombs of the, at Salisbury, iii. 461 Montagu, Abbot, i. 191; They AWS , Anne, iii. 268 , Bishop, his tomb at Bath, lii. 465 , Dr., Dean of Durham, iv. 356 , Edward, Esq., sails with the fleet, i. 249—Master of the Horse to the Queen, 263, 377— brings intelligence from the Queen, 277—his duel with Mr. Cholmly, 307, 308—in disgrace at court, 362—his altercation with the Earl of Sandwich, 384, 385, 408, 409—his reconciliation with his father, ii. 8—changes his con- duct towards the Earl of Sand- wich, 55—his character, 126—dis- missed from court, ib.—killed in action with the Dutch, 283—al- luded to, i. 42, 45, 46, 78, 195, 211, 994, 227, 249, 250, 263, 266, 301, 308, 362, 377, 383, 384; ii, 55, 146, 147; iii. 117; iv. 343 GENERAL INDEX , Edward, Ist Lord, Boughton, i. 38, 58, 418 , Edw., 2nd Lord, of Bough- ton, i. 46 q , Edward, son of the second — Lord, i. 46 } , Elizabeth, i, 418 ; , George, noticed, i. 33, 250 —death of his son, 248—alluded to, 35, 40, 78, 83-85, 103, 137, 202, 400; iii. 298, 371, 394, 400, 418, 419, 422, 430; iv. 19 , Henry (1st Earl of Man-— chester), i. 250 , James, ii. 148, 149; iii. 180 , John, son of Ralph, iv. 280 ———.,, Katherine, i. 215; ii. 138 » Lady, i. 215 , Lady, or Mrs., trial of a son of, iii. 181 , Lady Jemimah, noticed, i. 5, 99, 101, 115—preparations for her wedding, ii. 261—married to Mr. Philip Carteret, 272—al luded to, i. 115, 117, 144, 1 187, 203, 212, 279, 401, 414; 24, 25, 95, 251, 252, 255, 260- see Lady Jemimah Carteret Montagu, Lady Paulina, ii. 95— her death, iv. 110—alluded to, i. 212, 289; ii. 108, 135; iii. 268; iv. 121, 152 , Lord, ii. 8 , Lord, ii. 302 , Ralph, i. 249, 263—cr Earl and Duke of Montagu, iv. 280 , Sidney, i. ESS, ii. 297—alluded to, i. , 1, 139, 209; ii. 137, 142, 356; iv. § 31, 43, 84, 87, 173, 193, 197 , Sir Edward (afterw: Earl of Sandwich), i. xiii., 4, 40—brings home Charles II., 69—elected one of the Coun State, 27—his seat at Hinchin broke, 27, 28—chosen General sea, 29, 30—proposes to ma Pepys his secretary, 35—joins fleet, 38, 41— receives the free of Weymouth, 44—elected Dover, 45—summons a council war, 53—causes a _ letter Charles II. to be read to fleet, ib.—his corresponde with the King, 54, 57—sails f the Downs, 58—arrives at th Hague, 61—goes on shore to Reade = a ceive the King, 69—is invested with the Order of the Garter, 76—made Clerk of the Signet, 80 —appointed Commissioner of the Treasury, ib.—Master of the Wardrobe, 8l—receives the thanks of the House of Com- mons, 82, 96—made a Privy Councillor, 83—his last words to the Protector, 84—created Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Montagu of Hinchingbroke, and Baron of St. Neots, 87, 92: see Earl of Sandwich , Sir Sidney, of Barnwell, i. 27, 38 . Montagu, the, a ship, i. 181 , William, Attorney-General, afterwards Lord Chief Baron, i. 38, 115, 137, 244, 418; iii. 46, 333, 352 family, descendants of, ii. 302 Montaigne’s Essays, translated, iii. 402 Montecucoli, at the battle of St. Gothard, ii. 157 Monteith, Mr., iii. 453 Montelion (an almanack), i. 122 Monthermer, Viscount, iv. 280 Montrose, Marquis, Lord President of Scotland, his verses on the exe- cution of Charles I., i. 15—allud- ed to, iv. 225 . Monument, Saxon, iv. 136 Moody, Mir., iv. 358 Moone (or Mohun), Michael, the actor, i. 124, 184, 406; iii. 108; iv. 96 , Captain, ii. 205 ,» Mr., ii. 441 Moore, Frank, i. 294 , Jonas, the mathematician, j. 187, 379; ii. 43; iii. 257; iv. 324 , Mr., i. 4, 10, 23, 24, 29, 46, 48, 80, 87, 100, 103, 107, 112, 127, 131, 136, 170, 184, 208, 210, 248, 252, 279, 284, 301, 336, 347, 351, 355, 358, 369, 401, 417; ii. 9, 12, 38, 61, 65, 93, 137, 138, 229, 245, Q47, 262, 436; iii. 29, 116, 128, 183, 214, 249, 250, 288, 296, 303, 325, 365, 390, 397; iv. 26, 36, 97 , Mrs., iii. 139 “Moore of Venice,” remarks on, i. 113; iv. 96 GENERAL INDEX 431 Moorfields, wrestling match in, i. 197, 284—-fray between the butch- ers and weavers in, ii. 153—new theatre in, 154; iii. 62—new houses in, 102— disturbance among the apprentices in, 406- 409—alluded to, i. 242; ii. 288, 435, 447; iii. 100, 102, 181 Mootham, Captain, i. 152; iv. 347 —killed, ii. 390 Mordaunt, Lady, iv. 94, 123 ———., Lady Elizabeth, iii. 27 Mordaunt, Lady Mary, divorced, iv. 284 ———,, Lord, verses of, ii. 193— proceedings against, iii. 18, 52— his bill for rebuilding the city, 53—intention of displacing him from the government of Windsor Castle, 60—resigns his commis- sion, 172—alluded to, 68, 206, 289 More, Sir Thomas, on relics, iii. 48 Morecoke, Mr., iii. 134 Morena: see Mrs. Dekins Morelli, said to be a priest in dis- guise, i. xxv.—his letter toPepys, proposing a fanciful cure of his fever, iv. 218 Morgan, Sir Anthony, iii. 393 » William, his map of Lon- don, iii. 14 Morison, Daniel, the divine, iv. 264, 266 Morland, Lady, ii. 33; iii. 252 , Sir Samuel, notice of, i. 60, 62; ii. 33, 187—his autobiog- raphy, 33—his method of serv- ing the King, i. 101—invention of, iii. 400—his letters to Pepys, concerning the trial of the new gun carriages, &c., iv. 232, 238— seeks and obtains a divorce, 238, 239—alluded to, i. 101, 125; ii. 187, 190; iii. 240, 252 Morley (probably Colonel Morley), at , George, Bishop of Winches- ter, sermon by, i. 364; iv. 322— suspended, iii. 329, 366—alluded to, 219 » Henry, Lord, iii. 89 Morpeth, i. 2 Morrice, Mr., i. 162; ii. 466 , Captain, i, 141 482 Morris, Mr, (son of Sir William), Secretary to the Embassy to the Hague, iii. 65 —=—, Sir Wm., Secretary of State, i, 95—commits a priest to prison, 383—alluded to, 342; iii. 65, 140, 161, 173, 234, 289, 291, eh 332, 374, 376; iv, 19, 24, 198 Morson, Mr., of Rochester, i, 64 Mortality, Bills of, i, 266; ii, 254, 268, 270, 279, 288, 291, 296, 300, 305, 312, 319, 322, 324, 326, 330, 339, 359 Mortlake, i, 278; ii, 260, 425 Morton, Earl, his circumstances, iv. 161 » Sir John, iv. 117 , Sir William, iv, 117 Moscow, city of, ii, 167 Moses and Sons, Aldgate, formerly a draper’s, i. 272 Moseley, Sir Edward, iii. 335 Mossum, Dr., i. 24; iii. 314 Mother Red Cap tavern, i. 220 Moulins, Mr., trepans Prince Ru- pert, iii. 55 Mound, a labourer, his death, iv. 22 Mount, Mr., i. 159 Mounthermer, Lord, iv. 280 Mount’s Bay, in Cornwall, i. 277; iv. 29, 30 Mourning purple dress, i, 107 Mourning rings, custom of pre- senting, i. 198, 353, 375; iii. 443; iv. 105 Moxon, the globe maker, ii. 37 Moyer, Lawrence, iii. 128, 129 —, Rebecea, founder of Lady Moyer’s Lectures, iii. 128 / , Samuel, his arrest, i. 238— his release from prison, iii. 128, 184 Moyre, or Mohair, i. 366 Muddiman, Mr., i. 6 Muffet, or Moufet, Mr., the physi- cian, iii. 310 Muffs, worn by gentlemen, i. 354 Muilman, Henry, Esq., ii. 261 Mulberry Gardens, i. 92; iii. 447; iv. 9, 145 “Mulberry Garden,” a play, iii. 348, 445 : Mules, a rarity in England, iy. 7 —, Mr., i, 254 Mulgrave, Lord, notice of, iy. 27 GENERAL INDEX Mulliner, Goody, iii. 450 Mullins, Ned, ii. 48—his death, 49 Mum, a German beverage, ii. 124 Mumford, Mrs., ii. 279 ; a one shown to Pepys, ii Murford, Captain, his affair wi h Pepys, i. 82, 156, 157 —, Mr., iii. 265, 266 ———, Widow, iii. 134 Murray, Sir R., ii. 211, 233, 420; iii, 61, 66; iv. 81 “ Musarum Delicie,” a poem, i. 214 Muscle bank, iii. 178 . Musgrave, Mr,, of the Tower, Musgrove, Sir Christopher, iy, 226 Music, barber’s (so called), i. 79 — ——, concert of, iii, 261, 306 extraordinary power of, 388 » Italian, iii, 62, 101 Meee meeting, account of one, ii. Musical sounds on, ii, 428 Musicians, the society of, incor- porated, ii. 318 Muskerry, Lord, ii, 131, 191—killed in action with the Dutch, 243 Mussard, Mr., iv. 358 : “ Mustapha,” a tragedy, ii. 224; ili, 39, 217, 241 Mutton, turned into blood, ifi, 139 Myles, John, tried for a conspiracy, ili. 28 : a Mynne, George, of Epsom, iii. 19] Nanteuil, engrayer, prints by, 89, 104 , Napier, Lord, the mathematician, lil. 257 ; : Narborough, Sir John, iv. 211, 212, 233 ; Naseby, battle of, i. 91 ——, the, man-of-war: Nazeby Nation, general discontent of the, i, 284, 298; ii. 484; iii. 19, 155, 156, 205, 215, 216 f Naudé, Gabriel, ii. 308 :. Naufragium Joculare, a Latin play. i. 155 Navarre, Queen of, iii. 354 wine, iv. 99 Navigation, act of, ii. 202; iii. 263 Navy, reported miscarriages in the, i. xxiii—state of the, 98, 99, 193, 208, 224, 233, 243, 297, 3 $86, 400, 408, 413, 424; if. 38, 90, 80, 133, 224, 226, 309-312, - 814-321, 342, 351, 364, 377, 379, - $92, 393, 401, 414, 416, 457, 461- 469, 477; iii. 16, 17, 45, 63, 67, 68, 154, 170, 457; iv. 73, 89, 99, 100—enormous debts of the, i. 243; ii. 354; iii. 213; iv. 73— on the sale of places in the, i. - 988, 289, 426; ii. 2, 35 iii. 43, 290 —retrenchment in the expendi- ture of the, i. 368; ii. 14; iii. 216, _ 923—inquiry into the expenses of the, i. 405—sum voted by Par- + Tiament towards the expense of the, ii. 187—book relative to the _ eustoms of the, 354—mismanage- ment of the funds for the, 364, _ 469; iv. 102—want of men for, _- fi, 405; iii. 170—proposed in- _erease of, ii. 409, 414—on the _ yietualling of the, 436; iii. 472— eommittee of the House to ex- amine the accounts of the, ii. 460- 462—embarrassments and confu- sion in its affairs, 476; = — > posed re ations in the, 474 ‘ eoetter of as Duke of York on the state of, iv. 11, 13, 14—on the administration of, 100, 153, am _ Navy Bills, depreciation of, i. 405 Office, particulars respecting u i. 91, 93; iii. 171 _ Naylor, Mr., i. 263 ;_ iii. 103 3 azeby, man-of-war, i. 32, 41, 42, $i—altered to the Charles, 7, ‘Udy iv. 347 Neal, Thomas, marries Lady Gold, ii. 81, 137, 247 : ——, (Neile), Sir P., i. 2455 ii. j @11; iii. 31, 422 — Neal’s History of the Puritans, i. «140; iii. 289 é f Neale, Mr., the groom-porter, iv. ae 251 Neat houses, the, ii. 426; iii. 212, ‘ 452 GENERAL INDEX 433 Nelson, Robert, his letter to Pepys on the proposed church at Rot- terdam, iv. 315—alluded to, 358 Nepotism, a satirical work, iv. 162 Nepotism, its derivation, iv. 162 Netherlands, New, (now New York), defeat of the Dutch in, ii. 171 Nettle porridge, i. 156 Nevill, Mr., the draper, i. 117 ——, Henry, i. 7 a the (of Billingbear), iv. 1 Newark, defence of, ii. 208 Newborne, Mr., i. 160 Newburgh, Viscount, i. 382; iv. 276 Newbury, battle of, iii. 122—al- luded to, 467 ————, the, man-of-war, i. 44 Newcastle, Duke of, his play, * The Coun Captaine,” i. 229; iii. 220—“*'The eign Innocence,” 220— The Heyresse,” iv. 93— alluded to, iii. 94, 105, 403 ——, Duchess of, her play, “The Humorous Lovers,” iii. 94, 105—particulars respecting, 105, 115—visits the Royal Society, 139 —her history of the Duke, her husband, 403—alluded to, 120, 125 — House, in Clerkenwell, iii. 125 ——_——, the, a ship, i. 144 ———., town of, i. 171; iii. 152, 166, 250, 336; iv. 50, 228 “ New Droll,” the, a song, iii. 39 New England, Presbyterians of, iii. 354; alluded to, i. 397; ii. 185 fleet, dispersed by storms, iii. 23—arrives safe at Falmouth, 24 Newfoundland, fleet sent thither, iv. 211 Newgate, escape of prisoners from, iii. 212—bad state of, 317 Market, destroyed by the great fire, ii. 447 Newhall, ii. 79 Newington, marriage of Pepys’s parents at, ii. 196 New London, ship so called, ii. 372 Newman, Mr., prediction of, iii. 354 Newmarket, ii. 44—races at, iii. 448—alluded to, 460, 478; iv. 42 Newport, Andrew, iii. 398 434 » borough of, iii. 458; iv. 240, 8 > Mr., iii, 454, 455; iv. 193 News Book, the, a journal, ii. 247; iii. 19 New Street, Fetter Lane, i. 95 Newton, borough of, iv. 240 > Isaac, his letters to Pepys, on the doctrine of chances by dice, iv. 252, 254—alluded to, 248, 251 New York, formerly called New Netherlands, ii. 171 Nicholas, Dr., Dean of St. Paul’s, his death, i. 208 ———., Mr., i. 28 ———_ Sir Edward, Secretary of State, i. 95—displaced from office, 385—character of, iii. 305 —alluded to, i. 86, 89, 208, 281; ii. 21, 103 ———., Sir John, iii. 418 Nicholson, Dr. William, Archdea- con of Carlisle, iv. 286—regrets Pepys’s _indisposition, ib. — Bishop of Carlisle, 286, 305 ———., Thomas, i. 294 Nieuport, the Dutch Ambassador, i. 10 i. Nightingale (a cousin of Pepys), i. 205 Nimeguen, conference of, i. 221 Nine-pins, game of, i. 47, 75, 77, 495 Nixon, cowardice of, ii. 236—con- demned to be shot, 238 Noble, John, a servant, ii. 115, 116, 124, 131, 161 » Mr., brings a letter from the House of Lords, i. 57 , the author, i. 107, 400 » Mrs., iii. 23 Noel, Baptist, Viscount Campden, i. 97; iv. 207 , Edmund, Earl of Gainsbor- ough, i. 274 . H,, i. 956 Noell, Lady, her death, ii. 310 . Martin, knighted, i. 324—his dispute with the East India Com- pany, ii. 100—his death, 306—~al- luded to, 310 Nokes, Mr., ii. 277; iii. 455 Nonconformists, meeting of the, iv 5—alluded to, iii. 328, 393, 398, 431; iv. 62, 71 GENERAL INDEX — Nonsuch House, near Epsom, i 279, 300, 305, 326, 329—the Es: chequer removed thither, 449 ; Man-of-war, i. 59, iv. lost in the Bay of Gib 201, 205—new one built, of th same name, iv. 130 » Park, ii. 27, 300 # Norbury, Mr., i. 195; ii. 194, 37 , Mrs., i. 249; ii. 31, 379 Nore, the, ii. 297, 322, 377; iii. 98 145, 147, 199 j Norfolk, Charles, Duke of, ii. 309- obtains a divorce, iv. 283. » Duchess of, her letter t Pepys, iv. 219 @ . Jock of, ii. 302 ‘ Normandy, Duke of, represented a the Coronation, i. 174 Norris, the picture-frame maker, | 164 North, Charles, son of Dud 51—kisses the Queen of mia’s hand, 61 » Lord, i. 31; iii. 335 i > Sir Christopher, ma Ties daughter of Lord Grey, iii. 3 ——., Dudley, i. 31, 46, 51; i 413 a ——, Francis, iv. 204 Al Northampton, declaration from, 13—election for the coun’ 48—storm of thunder and ning at, 420 —————, James, third Ez motion respecting Lord Clare don, iii. 318 4 ————, Spencer, Earl of, ii “ Northerne Castle,” a play, iii. North’s Examen, reference to, xix. ; Northumberland, Duke of, # King’s illegitimate son, ii. ‘ iii. 200 342; iii. “4 ————_.,, Earl of, 1. 87, Bie iv. 101, 124, 154—his walk in t Tower, 124 5 Northumberland, Lady, iii. 94 _ Norton, Colonel, ii. 258; iv. 210 » Joyce (cousin of Pepys), 267; ii. 94, 107; iii. 152; iv. 8 , Mr. (son of the Colonel his death, ii. 438 . Mrs. (the actress), i. ii. 407 ——, Roger, the printer, ii. ei =" oc, | : eovians y g their superstition con- "cerning spirits, iv. 271 ich, Lord, i. xviii. 43, 150; ii. — > the, iv. 8347 Norwood, Colonel, deputy-governor _ of Tangier, iv. 67, 91, 130 Norwood, Major, i. 46, 355 — , Mr., i. 46—bears letters from Charles II. to the Earl of - aa respecting, iii. 55—curious anec- dote related of him, 56 Notices of Popular Histories,” a work, i. 80 Nott, Mr., the bookbinder, iv. 125 -Nottin Earl of, Lord High _ Admiral, portrait of, iv. 246 Nottingham House, iii. Nova Scotia, iii. 126, 244 Noy, Attorney-General, iii. 246 “Nuisance,” discussion respecting the word, iii. 41, 42, 44 Nun, Mrs., iv. 178, 181 Nunneries, their former demoral- ized state, i. 284 Nun’s Bridge, near Hinchingbroke, 52 Michael, particulars _ Nursery Playhouses, iii. 345, 386, _ Nutmegs, a great rarity, ii. 303, «304, 324 Nutt, Mr., iv. 248 _ Nye, Mr., i. 119 Daks with seats, iii. 212 Oates, Captain Titus, conspiracy _ of, ii. 61, 84 _ Oath of Allegiance and “Suprem- acy, iv. 234 ‘OBradley, Arthur, ballad of, iv. 7 220 _ O’Brien, Donald, iv. 225 — » Henry, iv. 225 _ ——,, Lord, drowned at sea, iv. —— Lady Catherine, iii. 114; iv. iii. 199 Brian, Captain, iii. 280, " O'Dowd, Dr., died of the plague, ii. O'Bryan, ~a ——, or ‘Offiey, Mr., petition of, i. xviii.; iii. _ 413; iv. 50 _ Off-square (half-square), i. 314 GENERAL INDEX 435 Ogilby’s “ sop’s Fables,” i. 138, 145; ii. 354—his work, “The Coronation,” ib.—his Bible, iii. 136—his lottery, ii. 354 Ogle, Anne, iv. 115, 116 Okey, John, his arrest, i. 263, 264 —execution of, 272 Old Age, the proper comforts of, iv. 315 Artillery Ground, iv. 156 ——Bailey, execution of Fanatics at, i. 369—destroyed at the great fire, ii. 446—1trial of persons for treason, iii. 28 Oldenburgh, Henry, Secretary to the Royal Society, ii. 173—com- mitted to the Tower, iii. 170—al- luded to, iv. 163 Old Fish Street, ii. 427, 443 Ford, ii. 133; iii. 456; iv. 169 Sarum, iii. 460, 466 Swan, i. 162; ii. 426, 439—in Tower Street, iii. 21, 170; iv. 10 Oldham, John, his “ Imitation of Boileau,” quoted, iii. 447 Olio, a Spanish dish, iv. 145 Oliver Cromwell, life of, iii. 218 O’Neale, Daniel, the great, i. 299; his death, ii. 178; epitaph on, i. 299 Onslow, Mr., i. 58 Opdam, Admiral, i. 63, 69; ii. 237 —his ship blown up, 244 Orange Moll (an attendant at the theatre), ii. 438; iii. 224, 229, 334, 440—anecdote of, 297 , old Prince of, i. 66—his tomb, 66—said to have been poi- soned, ii. 256 Orange, Prince of (afterwards Wil- liam III.), i. 61, 62, 70; ii. 244, 256, 432, 468; iii. 67—his order to Lord Dartmouth, iv. 353 , Princes of: see Mary, daughter of Charles I. and Prin- cess of Orange Oranges, grown at Hackney, ii. 404 —high price of, iii. 409, 440 Orange-trees, in St. J ames’s Park, ii. 119 Ordnance-Office, regulations in, iii. 111—irregularity in, 152, 153, 160 Organs, introduction of, i. 91, 192; iii. 47, 100, 110, 385 “ Origines Juridiciales,” a work by Dugdale, ii, 460 436 “ Origines Sacre,” by Stillingfleet, ii, 322 Orkney, Bishop of, his death, i. 192 » Lady (Mrs. Villiers), iv. 283 Orleans, Duchess of, ii. 78 Ormond, Marquis and Duke of, Lord High Steward, at the cor- onation, i. 177—alluded to, 105, 125, 184, 273, 274, 345; ii. 45, 50, 103, 267, 481; iii. 18, 42, 57, 185, 298, 433, 440, 446; iv. 44, 45, 47, 56, 62, 100, 124, 154, 292, 344 Orrery, Lord, i. 83—his play of “Henry V.,” ii. 158; iii. 36, 279, AT5; iv. 11—his tragedy of «“Mus- tapha,” ii. 224; iii, 39, 241, 279 —his play of “The Black Prince,’ 279, 287, 414—his trag- edy of 7 Tryphon,” iv. 65—his comedy of “Guzman,” 152—al- luded to, iii. 433; iv. 4 Osborne, Francis, notice of, li. 88— his “ Advice to a Son,” i. 228; ii. 88 , Mr., clerk to Mr. Gauden, iii, 54 s Nich. i. 29, 109; ii. 151, 152 , Sir Thomas, ii. 416; iii. A473; iv. 42, 47, 102, 141, 174 Ossory, Countess of, ii. 413 , Earl of, i. 155—sends a challenge to the Earl of Claren- don, ii. 481—his dispute with Lord Ashly, iii. 13—asks his par- don, and the Duke of Bucking- ham’s ib.—alluded to, 11 Ostend, appearance of the Dutch before, ii. 162—report respecting, 266—alluded to, 386; iii. 332, 389 Otacousticon, an instrument for conveying sound, ili. 415 “ Othello,” tragedy of, i. 435 Ottoboni, Cardinal, iv. 280 Oundle, i. 35 Outram, William, i. 380 Overton, Major-General, i. 32—his apprehension, 131 Oviatt, Mr., iii. 194 Ovid’s Metamorphoses,” 1. 362 Owen, Dr. John, notice of, i. 275 , Geo., York Herald, i. 177, 178 ee Mrs. iv. 331 IkSs ii. GENERAL INDEX Oxendon, Sir George, ii. 94 Oxford, city of, i. 47, 164, 251, 272s ii, 12, 19, 33, 42, 807, 315, 32 328, 331, 3325 iii. 216, 385, 46 459; iv. 93, 129—the Court re- moves thither during the plague 194 , Earl of, mistake respecting his death, i. 107—affray at hi house, iv. 344—alluded to, i. 25! 303, 418; ii. 90, 198, 3774 iii. 11) 144 a “ Oxford Kate,’ in Bow Street, ii 16 - Gazette, Commiencement of, is 326 , the, man-of-war, ii. 205 , University of, iv. 168— course of studies pursued there 289 a Oxman, a fifth-monarchy man, exeé- cuted, i. 146 og Oyer and Terniiner, commission of, i. 398 Packer, Philip, iv. 178 é Page, Captain, loses his arm in action with the Dutch, ii. 3§ ,» Daman, her house pullec down by the apprentices, iii. 46 ——, Sir Gregory, ii. 233 Page, Sir Thomas Hyde, iii. Paget, William, landlord of Mitre, iv. 321 Pagett, Mr., i. 358, 361 Paine, Joseph, the engraver, iv. 246 “ Painter, the Third Advice to aj a satire on the Duke of Alb marle, iii. 46 Painters, Company of, iv. 159 Palavicini, Sir Peter, iv. 245 Pall Mall, i. 96, 107, 417—1e of Lady Castlemaine in, Palmer, Mrs., notice of, i. 93 intimacy with the King, 173; 250 —alluded to, 114, 201, 211, a see Lady Castlemaine ' ,» Margaret, i, 134 , Roger, Esq., i. 93—cré Earl of Castlemaine, 240: Earl of Castlemaine 2 , Sir Geoffry, i. 873 iv. 6 , Sir Thomas, i. 134 | Paluccio, the singer, iv. 280 Pane’s Wharf, ii. 449 Pantheon at the Escuriall, iii. 401 Panther, the, man-of-war, iii. 18 ‘ f Ne GENERAL INDEX Paper Bill, the, iii. 29, 30 Papillon, Thomas, defence of, iv. 159 Papists, the, sermon against, i. 403 —bill against, ii. 28—supposed to have caused the great fire, iii. 3, 5, 252—apprehension of the, 3-8, 152—act of council to ex- clude them from office, 243, 273— toleration of, 362—laws against, 393—motion respecting, 429—al- Iuded to, i. 383, 386, 391, 392, 402, 404; ii. 11; tii. 152, 156 Paradise, tetrestrial, discourse upon the, iv. 293 Parallelogram: see Pentagraph Pargitor, Mr., ii. 167 Parham, Mr., i. 353 Paris, scarcity of corn at, i. 327— attack on Lord Hollis at, ii. 75— the effective police of, iii. 173— alluded to, ii. 268; iii. 14, 70, 82, 359, 475 Paris du Plessis, James, his letter to Sir Hans Sloane, iv. 317 Parke, Captain John, iv. 347 Parker, Captain Jom, iv. 347 Parker, Mr., the merchant, i. 237; iv. 155 Parkhurst, Mr. John, iii. 429 Parliament, particulars respecting the, i. 1-5—-proceedings of, 6-8, $2, 103—declaration of, for law, gospel, and tithes, 11—votes of, 18, 19—complaints of General Monk against, 20—qualification for its members, 23—admission of the excluded members, 25— writs for a free one, ib.—vote for restoring the gates of the City, 26—disputes respecting writs for a new one, 30—vote respecting the Covenant, 31—dissolution of, 36, 186—dispute likely to occur in, 46—meetings of the, 47, 48, 235; 386; ii. 108, 372, 456—letter of Charles II. to; i. 50—read in the House, ib—proceedings thereon, 50, 5l1—answer to the King’s let- ter, 55—order of, respecting Charles I.; 68—refuses to pay off debts at séa, 122—orders Crom- well, Ireton, &c., to be disin- terred, 128, 129—acts of, burnt, 188—bill for restoring the Bish- ops to, 190—disordered state of 487 the, 202, 205—differences in, 203 —adjournment of the; ib.; ii. 106; iii. 327—-sum voted the King by; i. 235—jealousies in, 250—or- ders all the regicides to be exe- cuted, 251—taxes chimneys, 262— difference in, respecting the Act of Conformity, 266—prorogation of, 280; ii. 29; iii. 60; iv. 68; 71, 110—King’s speech to, i. 282, 386 —the members of, stibscribe to the renouncing the Covenant, 388—proceedings respecting Pap- ists and Presbyters, 391, 394— opposed to the Indulgence, 393, 394, 400—tendency of the mea- sures of, 414—motion to disqual- ify persons from any employ- ment, 414, 417, 418—requires an estimate of expenses of the Navy, 423—inquires into the revenue, 426—votes the King a further supply, ii. 7, 8, 14, 28—dispute between the Earl of Bristol and Sir R. Temple; 12, 15; ef seq. —proceedings in; between the Earl of Bristol and Lord Claren- don, 23, 24—fast of, for the un- seasonable weather, 24—King’s speech to, on the prorogation of, 28, 29—W. Joyce summoned be- fore, to answeF a complaint of Lady Petre’s, 113-115, 119—pro- ceedings in, relative to the Dutch, 120—sum voted by, for carrying on the war, 187; ii. 313—sum voted the Duke of York, 318— privileges of, 357—Lord Claren- don impeached of high treason in, iii. 301, 302, 303, 308, 309— apprehensions of its inquiries, 304, 305, 321—on liberty of speech in, 312—controversy in, 315—its inquiries into the public expenditure, ii. 458, 461, 462; iii. 7, 388, 389—bill against import- ing Irish cattle, ii 467—re- trenches the expenditure of the Navy, 469—votes the King 1,800,- 000/., 471, 474disputes and fac- tions in, 479—vote of, respecting the Catholics, 481—proceedings in, against Lord Mordaunt, iii. 18, 19; 52—imposition of new taxes by; 19—sits, contrary to eustom, on St. Andrew's day, 21 —the King orders the attendance 438 of its members, 25—substance of a proviso to the Poll Bill, 25-27 —proceedings in, respecting the Paper Bill, 30—dispute in, be- tween the Duke of Buckingham and the Marquis of Dorchester, 32—conference in, respecting the wine patent, 38—discussion in, respecting the Irish Bill, 41-44— prorogued, 204, 205, proceedings in, respecting the Lord Chief Justice Keeling, 278, 284—letters sent to, 371—proceedings in, 373- 375, 379, 380, 388, 389, 398, 402 —bill for Triennial Parliaments, 378—votes the King 300,000/., 387, 402, 403, 431—act against Conventicles, 429, 432—dispute in, respecting the East India Company, 432, 438—bill for re- building the City, 435, 438—ex- pectations of its being dissolved, iv. 45, 51—its measures some- times opposed to the King, 336 Parliaments, triennial, act for, ii. 108, 110, 112, 115; iii. 378 ————; manner of holding, iii. 345—members, formerly paid by their constituents, 346, 413, 441 Parma, ii. 21 Parson’s Green, iii. 227 “Parson’s Wedding,” a comedy, ii. 174 Partridges, plenty of, in France, ii. 364 Pas, Crispin de, the artist, iv. 246 Passion, print of the, iii. 1 Paston, Sir Robert, elevated to the Peerage, i. xviii.; iv. 203—alluded to, 203, 205 Patches, black, custom of wearing, i. 105, 145; ii. 114, 120, 125, 341 Patent Office, the, iv. 125, 126 Paternoster Row, i. 124, 279; ii. 240, 246, 341, 342 Patrick, a fire-ship, iii. 59 Payne, Mr., ii. 296 Paynter, Mr., i. 228 » the waterman, i. 183, 185; iv. 25 Peachell, Dr. John, i. 204; iii. 122, 452—his complimentary letter to Pepys, iv. 217—his perplexity at the King’s mandate, concerning Father Francis, 234—his fears of being removed from Office, 239 GENERAL INDEX Peacock, Dean, on the Statutes of Cambridge, ii. 169 Peak, in Derbyshire, i. 375 4 Peake, Sir William, the printseller, iv. 246 ‘ Pearce, Captain John, i. 257; iv. 347 ; , Mr,, iv. 222 . Pearce’s History of the Inns of Court, iv. 113 Pedley, Mr., iv. 105 P » Nicholas, his election for Huntingdon, i. 36, 40 Pedro, a servant, kills a soldier, i, ‘151 » Signor, a musician, ii. 151. Peel, Sir Robert, i. 230; iii. 351 Pegg, the actress (probably Mar- garet Hughes), iii. 436 Peiresc, Nicholas, iv. 248 Pelham, Edward, ii. 476 » Humphrey, notice of, ii 296—alluded to, 303, 304, 306 453, 477—anthem by, iv. 180 Pelling, John, tomb of, iii. 465 » Mr., the apothecary, iii. 152, 155, 175, 225, 227, 251, 265, 281, 330, 353, 399, 405, 411, 468, 477; iv. 33 Pell Mell, game so called, i. 168; 81 : Pemberton, Francis, the lawyer, iii. 370, 413 ‘ , wa Pembleton, Mr., i. 407; iii. 35, 50, 125, 189, 294, 344; iy. 108 3 Pembroke, Philip Herbert, Earl of, dismissed from the House of Lords, i. 54—his project of dig- ging for gold in Africa, 110— his notions respecting Genesis, iii. 417—seat of, 461—alluded to, ii. 174, 280; iv. 247, 277 ‘Z -————, the, man-of-war, iy. 191 Pen, Captain, ii. 154 ——, Dick, ii. 210 a ——, General, i. 69 » Lady, ii. 160, 200, 227, 245, 290, 343, 369, 388, 394, 406, 431, 465; iii. 2, 39, 50, 75, 132, 930, 248, 439, 444; iv. 26 in —— Margaret (daughter of Sir William), i. 204, 225, 240, 267; ii, 186, 278, 290, 343, 369, 406, 431; iii. 2, 39, 50, 65, 69, 71, 75, 120, 132, 135, 368, 382; see also Mrs. Lowther q § ; | | GENERAL INDEX 439 —, Mrs., ii. 408; iii. 38, 131 -—, Sir William, Comptroller of the Navy, account of, i. 81—his affray with two country fellows, 172—consults Pepys about his son, 251, 253—governor of Kin- sale, 296—made Deputy Comp- troller, 392; character of, ii. 59, 60, 321—made Vice-Admiral of England, 256—portrait of him, 371—service performed by him at Sheerness, 406—his opinion of an engagement with the Dutch, 408—his discourse upon naval tactics, 409, 410—proposes to fetch timber from Scotland for re-building the City, 460-461— his obscure origin and advance- ment, iii. 130-132—his rapacity in Treland, 132—offers to lend the King money, 232—impeachment inst 423, 425, 427, 430, 432— ill of the gout, 452, 457—his re- covery, 468—alluded to, i. 69, 88, 92, 98, 102, 106, 118, 131, 133, 147, 151, 153, 155, 160, 164, 171, 172, 189, 196, 203, 207, 211, 216, 221, 226, 228, 230, 238, 240, 245, 257, 262, 263-265, 268, 270, 273, 274, 280, 287, 293, 296, 300, 320, 326, 327, 354, 357, 358, 364, 370, 374, 376, 392, 393, 396, 397, 402, 408, 413, 416; ii. 7, 21, 59, 60, 69, 78, 80, 82, 108, 130, 136, 139, 160, 172, 174, 180, 181, 200, 249, 252, 956-258, 299, 321, 385, 390, 406, 408, 415, 416, 425, 426, 435, 436, 438, 444, 445, 447, 450, 453, 456, 468, 466, 467; iii. 5, 13, 39, 45, 47, 79, 84, 85, 87, 89, 91, 95, 106, 109, 120, 121, 127, 130-132, 135, 141, 144, 145, 148, 157, 160, 169- 172, 179, 196, 197, 211, 220, 223, 229, 233, 237, 240, 249, 252, 256, 964, 274, 275, 280, 282, 284, 288, 299, 300, 312, 323, 327, 332, 348, 358, 363, 373, 374, 378, 384, 388, 398, 403-405, 408, 410, 412, 413, 492, 493, 425, 429, 430, 432, 433, 437, 444; iv. 4, 18-20, 24, 26, 33, Al, 42, 44-46, 48, 50, 58, 71, 141, 142, 166, 167, 172, 194, 195 Pen, William (the celebrated Quaker), i. 230—his return from France, ii. 162—his work against the Trinity, iv. 101—his Life quoted, i. 245, 251—alluded to, i. 251, 264, 275, 300; ii. 163, 231; lil. 332; iv. 358 Penderills, family of the, iv. 307 Pennant, alluded to, i. 193; ii. 221; iii. 345 Pennington, Isaac, ii. 323 =, Mrs, i. 309, 323 Pennsylvania, i. 230 Penny, Mrs. Jane, iy. 357 Penshurst oak, iii. 212 Pentagraph, the, iv. 41, 66, 80, 95 Pepper, Mr., i. 157, 332 Pepys, Anne (cousin to Samuel), i. 290, 292 ——, Bab, iv. 106, 121, 122, 123 , Betty, iv. 106, 121, 122, 123 , Captain (uncle of Samuel), his death, i. 393 , Charles, ii. 127; iv. 326 ——, Dr. John, i. 332 , Edward, i. 180; ii. 4, 8, 76; iii. 208, 297 ——, Elizabeth (wife of Samuel), her parentage, i. xi. xii—her beauty, 92; ii. 8—first wears black patches, i. 105, 120, 125—a notable housewife, 123; ii. 343, 347; iii. 379; iv. 10—at the Coro- nation of Charles II., i. 176— portrait of, 236, 253; ii. 352, 356, 361, 363, 375; iii. 412, 473, 475, 476, 477, 479; iv. 4—learns to dance, i. 406—learns the art of limning, ii. 234, 255, 269, 270, 278, 286, 304, 429—her jewels, 373; iii. 385—said to be a Romanist, iv. 58, 62—her jealousy, 79, 96—her drawings, 89—her illness, i. xvii.; iv. 200—her death, ib—her mon- ument and epitaph, 356 , Jane (daughter of John), i. 17 , John (father of Samuel), i. x., 14, 17, 22, 28, 30, 81, 83, 95, 101, 108, 112, 122, 131, 156, 162, 183, 196, 199, 206, 211, 218, 243, 259, 287, 325, 333-335, 411; ii. 39, 156, 163, 330, 364, 381, 395, 399, 400, 449, 463, 469; iii. 76, 87, 88, 103, 105, 106, 134, 144, 150, 163, 268, 346, 389—picture of, ii. 395, 396—his illness, iii. 76—his will, iv. 352, 353 ——, John (brother of Samuel), i. 5, 19, 26, 28, 34, 123, 149, 156, 440 182, 259; ii. 354, 460, 464, 467, 469; iii. 25, 35, 59, 450; iv. 202, 204, 353 ——, Margaret (mother of Sam- uel), i, x., 215; fi, 250, 354, 399 —her illness, iii. 76, 87—her death, 92 Pepys, Mary (cousin of Samuel), -- ii, 190 , Olivia, iv. 229 ——,, Paulina (sister of Samuel), i. 34; 196, 201, 203, 212, 215, 334, 370, 417; ii. 80, 265, 308, 364, 381, 399; iii. 149, 268, 269, 272, 273, 308, 346, 370; iv. 173, 353 —miarried to John Jackson, iii. 391: see Mrs. Jackson —; Richard, ii. 136 —, Robert (uncle to Samuel), his death, i. 198, 199; iv. 352 ——, Roger (cousin of Samuel), i. 91—his election for Cambridge, 160—yvisits Impington, 205—pro- poses to marry Mrs. Elizabeth Wiles, iii. 208—marries Mrs. Dickenson, iv. 98, 111, 121, 123 —alluded to, i. 204, 205, 333, 348, 381, 394, 401, 424; ii. 7; 10, 13, 17; 189; iii. 19, 51, 75, 149, 159, 205-208, 223, 278, 283, 285, 294, 297, 315, 324, 325, 360, 367, 368, 371, 372, 374, 381, 389, 398, 400, 422, 424, 427, 456, 4725 iv. 18, 21, 24, 43, 48, 49, 57, 98, 173, 218 Pepys, SamvueEt, his biography, 1632-3. Birth and parentage, i. ix., xi, 255; iii. 149, 159 1650. At St. Paul’s school, i. x. 1651. Studies at Cambridge, i. x., xi. 1655. Marries Elizabeth St. Michel, i. xi.; ii: 174—resides with Sir Edward Montagu, i. xii. 1658. Undergoes an operation for the stone, i. xii., 1, 39, 266—be- comes clerk to Mr. George Down- ing, i. xiii, 2—resides in Axe Yard, Westminster, 1, 2, 37, 100, 179; ii. 368 1659-60. Commences his Diary, i. xiii. 1660. Appointed Secretary to the two Generals of the Fleet, i. xiii., GENERAL INDEX 32, 35, 38—first addressed as S, P. Esq.; i. 39—his first interview with Charles II. and the Duke of York, 65—made Clerk of the Acts, i. xiv. 82, 86, 87, 99, 10 —rTemoves to the Navy Of Seething Lane, i. xiv., 89, 93, 94; ii. 446—made Master of Arts, i. 91, 101, 102—sworn Clerk of the Privy Seal, i. 95, 99—made a Justice of the Peace, 109, 399, 400 4 1661-2. Sworn younger brother of the Trinity-House, i. 256 1662. Made burgess of Portsmouth, i. 275; his law-suit with Field, 294, 337, 350, 358, 386; me ‘ Commissioner for the affairs of Tangier, i. 316; 340, 341, 368 ee 1664. Made Assistant to the Royal Fishery, ii. 105 1664-5. Admitted a member Gresham College, ii. 210. 1665. Made Treasurer to the missioners for the affairs of gier, i. xv. ii, 229, 233, 9 removes to Woolwich on ac of the Plague, i. xv.; ii. 2 appointed Surveyor-General the Victualling-office, ii, 317, 1666. His activity during Great Fire of London, i. xv.j 439-453 1667. Keeps a coach, iii. 109, 140, 227; iv. 37, 40, 595 67, —buries his gold at Brampt iii, 150, 151, 155, 159, 163, 270-273 1668. His speech at the bar of | House of Commons, i. xvi.; | 311, 390-393—presented his ter Paulina with 6001, as a riage portion, i: xxxi.; iii. 390—subseribes 40]. to the R Society, iii: 415—lends 500] the Earl of Sandwich, iv, 30, —lends 10001. to Roger Pepys, ' 49, 53, 57—proposes to serv Parliament, 62; 106—intends visit France, 68, 110 *q 1669. Receives his commission Captain of The Jersey, iv. petitions for leave of abse 175, 176, 177, 181—diseon his Diary, i. xvi.s iv. 181; : makes a tour through Frafice afid — peveetig? peta A 8 % Holland, i. xvii—death of his wife, i. xvii.; iv. 200, 348, 349 1670. Unsuccessful election contest aired i. xvii.; iv. 198- 20 -1673—Chosen burgess for Castle Rising, i. xviii.; iv. 209—debate on Mr. Offiey’s petition against his return, i. xviii. xix—charged with being Popishly inclined, i. xviii, xxii—appointed Secretary for the affairs of the Navy, xxii. 1677. Pays the debts of his brother John, iv. 202—elected a member = the Clothworkers’ Company, i. 1679. Accused on the depositions of Colonel Scott of betraying the English navy, i. xxiii, 25; iv. * 216—committed to the Tower; i. xxiv.; iv. 216 1680. Resigns his post as Secretary for the affairs of the Navy, i. RXV. 1681. Proposed as Provost of ames College, Cambridge, i. 1683. Accompanies Lord Dart- mouth to Tangier, i. xxv.; iv. 230 1684. Constituted Secretary to the Admiralty, i. xxvi—made Presi- dent of the Royal Society, i. xxx. 1688. Loses his official appoint- ments oft the accession of Wil- liam and Marty, i. xxviii. 1689. Unsuccessful at the Harwich election, i. xxvili.; iv. 241, 243 1650. Committed to the Gate House, i. xxviii.; iv. 245—retires into private life, i. xxix,xxxii.— publishes his “Memoirs of the Navy,’ i. xxvii.; iii, 351; iv. 127, 140, 153—his literary correspond- ence after his retirement, i. Kxxili.; iv. 244-317 1700. Removes from York Build- ings to Clapham, i. xxxii.; iv. 1702. Receives a diploma from the University of Oxford, iv. 355 1703. His death, i. «xxiii. xl— funeral, xxxvi.. xxxviii—list of persons presented with rings, iv. 356-7-8-9—his will, i. »«xvil.; iv. 369 ; library, i. xxix-xxxi., xvii; GENERAL INDEX --Pspys, Samet, his biography 441 ii. 418, 430, 435, 488, 457, 461, 462, 463; iii. 32, 35, 40, 57, 88, 102, 107, 333—manuscript col- lections, i. xxix.; iv. 255—charac- ter i. xix., xxxii.-xxxix.—motto, i. xxxix.; iv. 248—his portrait by Savill, i. 236, 239, 251, 255, 259— in little, i. 260, 261, 276, 289— by Hales, ii. 366, 369—by Knel- ler, i. xxvii., xxx.; ii. 210 Pepys, Samuel, his habits, man- ners, and connexions — good offices of his cousin, Sir Edward Montagu, xii—his zeal in dis- charge of his official duties, xiv.— succeeds Mr. Povy, xv.—his serv- ices during the great fire, ib.— defends the officers of the Navy Board, xvi—religious faith of, xxi—accusations made against, xxiii—brought to the bar of the King’s Bench, ib—remanded to the Tower, xxiv.—released, ib.— testimony of Evelyn respecting, xxy.—takes down the narrative of Charles II.’s escape after the Battle of Worcester, xxv.—his excursions into various countries, xxvi—intended present of the King to, ib—his efforts to im- prove the Navy, xxvii—his let- ters and papers, xxix.—estima- tion in which he was held, ib.— literary assemblies at his house, xxx. xxxi—collections for_ the history of the Navalia of Eng- land, ib—a patron of literature, xxx.—his kindness to his family, ib,—examined at the trial of the Seven Bishops, ib., xxxii—his death, xxxiii—his religious du- ties, ib—certificate relative to, ib—pious resignation of, xxxiv. —letter from Mr. Jackson to Mr. Evelyn relative to his last mo- ments, xxxiv., xxxv.—letter from Dr. Hickes to Dr. Charlett on the same subject, xxxvi—dies in reduced circumstances, xxxvil.— balance due to him from the Crown, ib.—cup presented by him to the Clothworkers’ Com- pany, xxxix. xl—corrects a speech for his brother John, i. 6—invited to accompany Mr. Downing to Holland, 8—pro- posed one of the Clerks of the 442 GENERAL INDEX Council, 10, 15—his song of “Great, good, and just,” 14—his birth-days, 27, 155, 260, 390; ii. 99, 213, 355; iii. 71—visits Mag- dalene College, i. 27; iii. 450— Audley End, i. 28; iii. 267—his fondness for music, i. 26, 29, 101, 161, 162, 168, 177, 184, 202, 266; li. 261, 313, 339, 424; iii. 31, 63, 100, 159, 251—goes on board the fleet, i. 38—anniversary of his being cut for the stone, 39, 266— proceeds to sea, 41—reads a let- ter and declaration of Charles II. to the fleet, 51—his flattering reception, ib.—his letter to Mr. Doling, 53—sails from _ the Downs, 58—arrives at the Hague, 60—his interview with the king, 65—kisses his hand, ib—his ac- count of the Hague, 66, 67—re- turns to Schevelling, 67—-visits Lausdune, ib. 68—rejoins the fleet ib.—accident to, from firing a gun, 69—sails with the fleet for England, 71—reaches Dover, 74 —his wager respecting the height of a cliff, 77—his conjugal affec- tion, 78, 345; ii. 174—rises in Lord Sandwich’s confidence and esteem, i. 79, 80, 190, 193, 337, 345, 361—promised the situation of Clerk of the Acts, i. 82, 85—is offered 500/. to resign his claim to it, 86—his present to Mr. Cov- entry, 89, 90, 140—engages Mr. Hater as his clerk, 90—his salary raised, 90—goes to a grand wed- ding, 91, 92—difficulty of obtain- ing his patent, 93—signs an agreement with Mr. Barlow, 96— takes the oath of allegiance and supremacy, ib., 97—is offered 10007. for his office of Clerk of the Acts, 99—laments his moth- er’s sickness, 107—first drinks tea, 109—witnesses the execution of Major-General Harrison, 113 —a spectator at the execution of Charles I., ib—proposes to re- trench the expenses of the fleet, 128—sings before the king, 129— his apprehensions of the fanatics, 140—goes to Deptford and Wool- wich, to place guards in the dock- yards, 141—decay of his mem- ory, 146—first wears a sword, 150—visits Chatham, 165, et seq.; ii. 307; iii. 175—and Rochester, — i. 165, 166; ii. 307—his diverting flirtation with Rebecca Allen, | afterwards Mrs. Jukes, i. 166, 168 —a spectator of the ceremonies — at the coronation of Charles II., 174-179—visits Portsmouth, 181—writes to the Duke of York, respecting the Navy Office, 193— goes to Brampton, on the death of his uncle, Robert Pepys, 199 —his reflections upon that event, 199, 200—visits King’s College, Cambridge, 200; iii. 267—revis- its Cambridge, i. 204; iii, 267— his reflections upon a gamester’s. life, i. 232; iii. 339—resolves to retrench his expenses, i. 243— commits Field to prison, 255—his song, “Gaze not on Swans,” 256, 260—his self-reproach for neg- lect of the Sacrament, i. 267— visits Hampton Court, 278—ob- tains a vote relative to the issue of warrants, 289—his gallantry, 292; iii. 222—his self-compla- cency, i. 296, 330, 344; ii. 161— his conversations with the Earl of Sandwich, on the affairs of the Navy, i. 295, 296—his “ Observa Queen-Mother’s Court, at Somerset House, 325— his conduct commended by the Duke of York, 331—obtains leave of absence, and again visits the University of Cambridge, 332, 333—votes at the election of a taxor, 333—proceeds to Bramp- ton, 334; iii. 268, 449—deputed to search for money, said to be concealed in the Tower, i. 341, 342, 344-346, 349—presents a copy of Stephens’ Thesaurus to St. Paul’s School, 362, 380—his opinion of Butler’s Hudibras 364, 380; ii. 68, 72—present at grand balls at Court, i. 367; iii. 11—gains the esteem of Mr. Coy- entry, i. 368—fortunate position of, 369; ii. 235, 306, 311, 327, 355, 374, 388, 424; iii. 35, Ti 146, 240, 336—his opinion of “The Adventures of Five Hours,” a play, by Colonel Tuke, i, 371; ii. 435; iv. 90—his MS. 2 respecting the Navy, i. 373, 379 —his taste for astronomy, 383; ii, 428, 429, 434threat of Mr. Edward Montagu towards him, i. 384—applies to be made a Jus- tice of the Peace in the City, 399, 400—alters the title and ded- ication of his “ Mare Clausum,” 405, 406—learns to dance, 413, 421, 425—dances for the first time in public, ii. 345—his con- versations with Mr. Coventry, i. 418; ii. 10—visits the guardships at Chatham, 22—witnesses some proceedings in the House of Lords respecting conventicles and Papists, 27-29—his discourse with Dr. Pierce, 30—his vow against drinking wine, 35, 52— re-visits Brampton, 39, 176—first wears a periwig, 54—his conver- sation with Mr. Blackburne, on public affairs, 57, et seq—writes a letter of reproof to Lord Sand- mance of his wich, 62—his excellent epistolary style, 62, 63—increasing weak- ness of his eyes, 85; iii. 141, 213, 257, 298, 302, 357, 403, 431, 471, 472, 479; iv. 1, 26, 60, 95, 104, 107, 122, 135, 139, 168, 169— makes his will, ii. 84, 87, 89—wit- nesses the execution of Colonel Turner, 86, 87—destroys a ro- writing, called “Tove a Cheate,”’ 89—presents a laced coat to his wife’s brother, 93—attends his brother’s funeral, 106, 107, 108—his interference in behalf of his cousin Joyce, 113-115, 119—Mr. Coventry pro- poses to him the writing a His- tory of the Navy, 134— incurs the displeasure of the Earl of Clar- endon, 143, 144—his interview and explanation with him, 144- 146—receives a present from Mr. Gauden, 151, 156—his opinion of “The Rival Ladys,” a tragedy, 155, 416—present of Sir W. War- ren to, 167—questioned by the King on the state of the Navy, 183, 229—his collections of Signs Manual, i. 5, 131; ii. 187, 244; iv. 129—destroys some of his pa- GENERAL INDEX 443 pers, ii. 196—account of his re- lations, ib.—apprehensive of a burglary at his house, 207—pres- ent of Mr. Harris to, 218— highly esteemed by the Duke of York, 222, 284, 303; iii. 274; iv. 215—laments his neglect of busi- ness, ii. 232, 233—his visits to John Evelyn, and conversations with him, 234, 293, 294, 305, 320, 327, 348, 349, 354, 373, 429, 460; iii, 29, 111, 112, 114, 142, 189, 193, 214, 315; iv. 26, 127—books presented to him by John Evelyn, ii. 308, 327—negotiates the mar- riage between Mr. Philip Car- teret and a daughter of Lord Sandwich, ii. 252, 253, 255, 261, 263—bribes refused by him, 279 —makes a new will, from appre- hensions of the plague, 279, 280 —kisses the King’s hand at Hampton Court, 347—the King’s gracious addresses to him, 347 —goes to church for the first time after the plague, 349, 350— his song of “ Beauty, retire,” 355, 435; iii. 6—visits Windsor, ii. 358—Eton College, ib.—visits the Mint, 365—introduces two sea- men to the King, to give an ac- count of an action with the Dutch, 386—his discourse with Sir G. Carteret, respecting an engagement with the Dutch, 393 —his kindness to his relatives, i. xxxii.; ii, 399, 453; iii, 59, 308, 318, 370, 389—his opinion of “Pompey the Great,” a play, ii. 400—his conversations with Sir William Coventry, on the state of public affairs, 401, 465; iii. 104, 105, 133, 216, 235-237, 320, 321 —visits Lord Brooke’s, at Hack- ney, ii. 404—advances money for impressed men, 406—his senti- ments respecting Sir William Penn, ib—gets the impressed men shipped off, ib.—his opinion of their impressment, 406, 407— visits Sir Thomas Bloodworth on the subject, ib—his discourse with Sir William Penn on Naval affairs, 408, 409—withdraws money from his banker for se- curity, 410—application made to 444 GENERAL INDEX him for relief of prisoners in Holland, 412—his interview with the King and Duke of York on the subject, ib.—withdraws his money from the King’s hands, ib.—writes to the Duke of York, respecting the want of money for the Navy, 414—his discourse with Commissioner Pett, on the state of discipline in the fleet, 417 —his conversation with Hugh May, on gardening, ib.—with Sir W. Coventry, respecting an ac- tion with the Dutch, 420—his dis- course with Mr. Hooke, on the nature of musical sounds, 428— ineurs the displeasure of the Earl of Peterborough, 430—visits the bear-garden, 430; iii. 137, 247— his opinion of “ Othello,” ii. 434 —wonderful accuracy in his ac- counts, ib—his song, “It is de- ereed,” 435; iii. 35, 407—gives the king an account of the state of the fleet, ii. 436—accused of neglect, 438—disturbed by the great fire of London, 439—de- scribes it to the King, and sug- gests measures for stopping it, 440—carries a message to the Lord Mayor, ib.—removes his goods, &c., to Sir W. Rider’s, at Bethnal Green, 443—buries his wine in the garden, to secure it from the flames, 445—his letter to Sir W. Coventry, respecting the pulling down of houses to save the office, ib.—goes to Wool- wich, 445—entertains hopes of saving the office, ib.—assists in extinguishing the fire at Bish- opsgate, 448—removes his goods to Deptford, 449—removes his propertly from Sir W. Rider’s, 453—required to prepare an ac- eount for Parliament of the ex- penditure of the Navy, 454, 458, 461, 462—his frightful dreams of fire, 455, 459, 460—lays his statement before the committee, 462—his conversations with Sir G. Carteret, respecting the want of money for the Navy, and on the state of public affairs, 463; iii, 332, 333—represents to the King and council the state of the Navy, ii. 466—Sir W. Coventry’s advice to him on that occasion, 4 —his apprehensions relative © public affairs, 468, 477—his advi to his brother, 475—stands ge L father to a child of Mr, Lovett, a Romanist, 475—his conversatio with Captain Guy, on the want of discipline in the Navy, 482—with Sir Thomas Teddiman, on th same subject, 483—inspects Ruby, a French Prize, iii. visits Lord Crewe, 3—suryeys the ruins of the city, 4—alarn by a fire at the Horse Gua) As, while on a yisit to Mrs. Piere 6—concerned for the safety ¢ the great amount of gold coir and other valuables in his hous 9—indites an official letter to Duke of York, 12—goes on pub- lic business to Berkshire House, 13—his application to the King for money for the Navy, 17- witnesses some proceedings if Parliament against Lord M daunt, 18—grand dinner party given by him, 20—his letter t Lord Brouncker, ib,—his opinia of “The Catholique’s Ape 22—his fear of being seen at the theatre, 24—receives a pres of plate from Captain Cocke, 9 —from Mr, Foundes, 30—death of his mother, 92—writes a join letter with Sir W. Coventry the Duke of York, 94—discour with Sir W. Coventry upon the affairs of Tangier and other mat- ters, 104, 133; iv, 118, 131- mends John Evelyn’s against Big tine iii. 136 its Arundel House, 130—lays ¢ wager with Sir William Do 141—his apprehensions of © Dutch, 148, 149—makes a wile 153 —his letter to Sir am Coventry, complaining @ the want of money for the Na 159—attends a Committee of t Council, relative to the Med 161—his conversations with Povy, on the aspect of public affairs, 166-168, 247, 948—in fa vour with Parliament, 187 n eral commendation of his 0! conduct, 189—yigits Roe et seq. —confined to his bed by an ae dent, 191—offers to resign office of the Victualling, 201 opinion on State affairs and ings in Parliament, 199—his opinion of the su- or skill and conduct of the teh, 204—visits Hatfield, 218 —purehases “Scott’s Discourse of Witches,” 218, 219—presents a tierce of claret to his cousin, Roger, 223—requested to lend money to the King, 223, 226, 232 _ —discourses with Lord Crewe, ‘on the affairs of the Earl of Sandwich, 263—admitted behind the scenes at the theatre, 264— wishes to procure a husband for his sister, 269, 347, 363, 367, 370, _390—ordered to prepare an ac- - eount of the defence of the Med- way and Chatham, 283, 264—ex- amined on the subject by a com- ‘mittee of the House of Commons, 84—his conversation with Mr. epory, respecting the Earl of r rendon, 304—prepares to _ answer the inquiries of Parlia- ment, 311, 322, 390—ludicrous cause of a nocturnal panic in his house, 313, 314—his reluctance to d money to Lord Sandwich, , 326—goes to the Queen’s _ chapel, to see the ceremonies on Christmas Eve, 329—his_ dis- course with Mr. Martin, concern- ing the great fire, 348,349—pro- F a to write a history of the Navy, 37i—appeals to the King respecting the estate of William yee, 355—examined by the Commissioners for Accounts, 360, _ 861—prepares his narrative rela- tive to prize-goods, 373—de- _ frauded at the theatre, 386—his apprehensions of the Parlia- ‘ment’s inquiries, 388, 392—lends s cloak to the Duke of York, 420—inspects the curiosities in ' 1e Tower, 426—attends the fu- i _ neral of Sir Thomas Teddiman, _ 443—observes a meteor pass over ) e city, 448—obtains leave of _ absence for a few days, 456— proceeds to Oxford, 458—Old _ Sarum, 460—Bath, 463—Bristol, _ib—Marlborough, 466—returns _ to London, armed by a GENERAL INDEX 445 fire in Minchin Lane, 469—visits Guildford, iv. 2—Petersfield, ib. —prepares his report for the Duke of York, 6-14—purchases Hobbes’s Leviathan, 16 — his answer to the Duke of York’s letter, 23—visits Lord Sandwich, on his return from Spain, 40— his conversation with Mr. Povy, AQ, 43—his discourse with Mr. Wren, on the state of public af- fairs, 50, 51, 52, 101—his differ- ence with the Surveyor of the Navy, 64, 66-68—receives a pres- ent from Captain Beckford, 74 —his allowance of pin-money, 75 —has his head cast in plaster, 98, 103, 111, 129—visits the tombs in Westminster Abbey, 107—vis- its Sir William Coventry at the Tower, 117-119, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128—attends several courts mar- tial, 126, 129, 142, 146, 148—visits the Spanish Ambassador, 167— his address to the Duke of York, 170—prepares his commander’s instructions, 169, 181—petitions the Duke of York for leave of absence for three or four months, 175—obtains the Duke of York’s permission, 176—and that of the King, 178—arrangements for his journey, 181—reasons for dis- continuing his Diary, ib.—appre- hensions of being blind, ib.—is succeeded by his brother John, as Clerk of the Acts, i. 5 His Lerrers: to Lady Carteret, in- forms her of Lord Sandwich’s going to sea, and of the raging of the plague, iv. 191—to John Evelyn: thanks him for “The Prospect of the Medway,” 196; is alarmed at Mrs. Pepys’s sick- ness, 200; alludes to Mr. Boyle’s death, 248; returns various pa- pers, 249; complimentary, 290; invites him to Clapham, apprizes him of his nephew’s (Mr. Jack- son’s) return from his_ travels, &c., 298—to Lord Sandwich: con- gratulates his Lordship on his return from Spain, and sends him money, court-news, &c. 197 —to Capt. T. Elliott: mforms him that he purposes to stand for Aldborough, iv. 198—te the same, 446 thanking him for his courtesy, 200—to Sir R. Brown, in behalf of his brother John, 201—to George Lord Berkeley, touching a lieutenancy sought by his lord- ship for Mr. Bonithan, 206—to Thomas Pepys, of Lynn-Regis, concerning the representation of Castle-Rising, 208—to Col. Legge, upon election matters, ib. —to the Duke of York, on poli- tics, the Admiralty Commission, and Sir J. Narborough’s fleet, 211—to Roger Pepys, concern- ing his sister’s illness and his house at Brampton, 218—to Lord Brouncker, of the king’s kind re- ception of the Duke of York, and other matters, 221—to William Hewer: detailing a disaster to the squadron, 224, et seq.; in- forms him of his returning home- wards, 228; alludes to his bail, 245; his motto, 246—to Isaac Newton, on the doctrine of chances, 251—to Dr. Smith, in behalf of Humphrey Wanley, 256—to Mrs. Steward, describing a wedding in the city, 257—to Lord Reay: expresses his belief in the Second Sight, 267—to his nephew, J. Jackson: extracts of letters, on various subjects, chiefly literary, 281; informs him of his sickness and partial recov- ery, of Parliamentary proceed- ings, &c., 282, 283—to Captain Hatton: condoles with him on his illness, 291—to Sir Godfrey Kneller, relative to Dr. Wallis’s picture, 300—to the 2nd Earl of Clarendon: commends his fath- er’s History of the Rebellion, 304 —to Dr. Wallis: answers the doctor’s acknowledgments, 308— to Dr. Charlett: thanks him for his diploma, 310—his father’s will, 352—his account of M. Me- heux’s singular memory, 354— visits Windsor, ib—diploma sent to him by the University of Ox- ford, 355 Pepys, Talbot (son of Roger), iv. 43, 70, 80, 106, 139, 145, 146, 151 —_, of Impington (great uncle of Samuel), i. 200, 232, 333 —his death, ii. 362 GENERAL INDEX i. 13—said to be in a consump tion, ii. 85, 89, 105—his de 106—his funeral, 107—his pap 106; iii. 151—state of his aff. ii. 110—his intimacy with E beth Taylor, 115, 116, 124—al luded to, i. 90, 133, 136, 149, 21¢ 213, 243, 251, 265, 276, 279, 290, 303, 319, 334 Pepys, Thomas (cousin of Samuel) master of the jewel office, ii —purchases Merton Abbey, 447—alluded to, i. 136, 163, li. 93, 127, 137, 374; iii. 432; iv. 61, 91, 208 q ——_—. (uncle of Samuel), i 32, 34, 219; ii. 14, 38, 41, 84 468, iii. 40, 136, 269, 336, 414 , Thomas (the turner), i, 124 ii. "455; iii. 40, 136 : , Dr. Thomas, i. 136, 139, 17% 203, 310—his death; ii. 203 ,» Ursula, her letter to Pepys inviting him to Edmonthorpe, iv 229 > William, i. xix. ; Perambulation of parishes, i. 187; iii. 127 Percy, Algernon, tenth Earl o Northumberland, i, 131— or high constable at the coronation 177 a Percy Society, the, i. 79 Perkin, Jane, i. 200 » the miller, i. 183 Perkins (uncle of Pepys), ii. 39 Perriman, Captain, iii. 116, 143, 3 Perriwigs, fashion of wearing, | 415; il. 53, 54, 56, 225, 234, 290 394, 431; iii. 93, 94, 453 Persia, an envoy from, attenc Whitehall, iii. 346 : Pest-houses (during the plague li. 266, 276 Peterborough, Bishop of (Lany) translated to Lincoln, i. 404. ,» Earl of, made Gov ernor of Tangier, i, 228, 228 recall, 359—his commission 397—his pension, 403—pre a petition to the House fro Joyce, ii. 115—character of, his letter to Pepys, 430—his cumstances, iii. 3, 4, 262 to, i. 258, 291, 317, 328, 403; ii. 82, 108, 110, 114, 123, 143, 232, 430, 478; iii, 18, 23, 195, 468; iv. 98, 43, 83-85, 87, 290 i) ——, Lady, ii. 32; iii. 2, 254, 262, 358, 468; iv. 28, 76, 80, 115, 148, 228 Peters, Hugh, i. 106—arraigned at _ the Sessions House, 112—alluded to, 263, 402; ii. 75; iv. 60, 322 , (Petre) Lady, particulars respecting, ii. 113, 115, 121—her proceedings against W. Joyce, 119—portrait of, 352, 355 , (Petre) Lord, ii. 114, 115 Petersfield, plague at, iii, 99—town of, alluded to, i. 181, 273, 275; ‘ iv. Q “Pett, Christopher, i. 63, 143; il. 228, 372, 488—his death, iii, 406 _——, Mr., of Chatham, i. 64, ii. 992; iii. 479 _——, Mrs. (widow of Christopher), petition of, iii. 425, 427 Pett, Peter (afterwards Sir Peter), Commissioner for the Navy, pre- pares to receive the king, i. 64— yisits the Hague, 66—entertains the king, 106—builds a yacht for the king, 186—his house at Roch- ester, 306—presented with a sil- ver flagon by the Duke of York, ii. 179—is challenged by. Sir Ed- ward Spragge and Captain Sey- mour, 417—his mode of selling timber for the Navy, iii. 123, 134 —committed to the Tower, 160, 294, 294—examined by the Coun- cil, 161—by a committee of the House of Commons, 284, 285— Andrew Marvel’s satirical verses on, 162—alluded to, i. 67, 88, 89, 92, 104, 133, 144, 143, 166, 2538, 298, 311, 322, 337, 356, 360, 388, 391; ii. 307, 461; iii. 74, 147, 150, 155, 157, 163, 173, 178, 288, 294, 301, 308, 343; iv. 138, 284 _——, Phineas (afterwards Sir Phi- _ neas), suspended from his em- ployment, i. 64, 104; iv. 227 Petty, Sir William, noticed, i. (— his Observations on the Bills of _ Mortality, 266 — double-keeled vessel constructed by, ii. 31, 87, 89, 198—character of, 88—his sensi- ' ble discourse, ib.—his arguments . with the king, 89, 90—provisions GENERAL INDEX 447 of his will, 221—alluded to, i. 89, 90; ii. 209, 210, 212, 221 Pews, in churches, iv. 140 “ Philaster,” a tragedy, i. 234; iii. 453 Philip III., King of Spain, iii. 401 ——IV., King of Spain, ii. 18, 319, 351; iii. 401 Philips-Norton, town of, iii. 462 Phillips, Catherine, the poetess, ili. Q17, 251; iv. 85 , John, i, 122 , Lewis, of Brampton, i. 424; ji. 364; iii, 328, 449; iv. 177 —, Mr., messenger of the coun- cil, i. 51 Philpot Lane, ii. 437 Phipps, Mr., ii. 400 Phoenix, the ship, lost in the Bay of Gibraltar, ii. 201, 204—trial respecting, iii, 88 Pickering, Edward, brings intelli- gence from the king, i. 41, 42, 64—despatched with letters to him, 60—alluded to, 64, 71, 108, 163, 207, 208, 235, 271, 378, 384, 385; ii. 30, 36, 90, 459; iii. 111; iv. 62, 67, 91, 103, 356 , Elizabeth, ii. 39, 95, 231, 232; iv. 28, 31, 37, 142 eS eo Dents ue Let Pickering, John, i. 64, 70, 101; iii. 4 BT ays ts Bla S25) dk ta LES ji. 260; iii. 477 , Oliver, his death, iv. 129 , Sidney, iv. 38, 360 ES Sir LST ty death, iv. 38 Picture as frontispiece to Prayer- book of 1661, ii, 172; iv. 326 Pictures, art of drawing, ii, 355— allusions to, i. 29, 66, 110, 112, 123, 125, 126, 147, 162, 201, 241, 943, 244, 248, 253, 2775 ii. 156, 204, 371, 399, 415, 456; iii. 48, 194, 229, 477; iv. 1, 8 , at Whitehall, iii. 229 Pieces of eight, difference in the value of, i. 416—alluded to, iii. 105, 211 Pier, pun respecting a, ii, 11 Pierce, Dr., i. 362—sermon by him, 403—made groom of the Privy Chamber to the Queen, ii. 30— alluded to, 4, 32, 50, 168 , James, jun., iii. 116, 344 42—his 448 —, Mr., the purser, i. 104, 136, 147, 192, 227 , the surgeon and “ chyrurgeon- general,” i. 12, 14, 27, 28, 66, 82, 136, 147, 263, 266, 307, 324, 336, 338, 345, 373, 374, 416; ii. 57, 66, 68, 81, 82, 90, 92, 120, 126, 138, 141, 332, 333, 370, 375, 391, 459, 467, 472, 483; iii. 11, 25, 59, 63, 66, 77, 102, 118, 121, 135, 144, 156, 172, 187, 214, 230, 250, 274, 313, 343, 347, 386, 409, 435, 443, 446, 455; iv. 9, 13, 39, 57, 140, 153 i. 12, 62, 182, 318, 332, 344, 352, 356, 375, 380, 427, 480, 11, 49, 51, 66, 103, 345, > 266; ii. 362-3, 369, 481, 483, iii. 135, 138, 251, 290, 334, 344, 426, 434, 455; iv. 11, 22, 24 ——, Mrs., wife of the purser, i. 147 —,, William, Bishop of Bath and Wells, i. 111 Piercy, Lady (Percy), ili. 94 Pierrepont, William, noticed, i. 27; iii. 152, 324 Pierson, Dr., ii. 107, 108; iii. 189 “Piety, Causes of the Decay of,” iii. 343 Pigeons, disturbed by the great fire, ii. 439 Pigott, Mr., of Brampton, ii. 170 , Sir Richard, iv. 133 Pillory, apprentices placed in the, ii. 110 Pim, Mr. or Penny (Pepys’s tailor), i. 48, 101, 104, 226; ii. 460 Pinchbacke, Mr., ii. 456 Pinkerton, John, iv. 287 Pinkney, Mr., i. 31, 57 Pisa, treaty signed at, ii. 260, 261 Pitt, Captain, i. 166 , Mr., i. 3, 405, 416; ii. 121; iv. 327 Plague, predicted, i. 248—its ap- pearance at Amsterdam, ii. 48, 53, 68, 153—at Cadiz, 136—on board a Dutch ship, 170—appre- hended, ii. 233, 237, 242—at Col- chester, 408—at Greenwich and Deptford, 428; iv. 192—at Deal, ii. 429 Plague, in London: see London water, ii. 265 Player, Sir Thomas, ii. 362 GENERAL INDEX ——, Sir Edmund, ii. 319, 324, 325 Playford, Mr., the music-seller, i 351—his Catch-book, iii. 107- his Collections, 31 Playhouse at Blackfriars, i. 148 see Lincoln’s Inn Playhouse Plays at Court, ii. 474; iii. 349— prohibited during the plague, ii 481, 483; iii. 24 1 Plot against the King and Genera Monk, i. 131, 132 4 Plot, Dr., his “ History of Oxon, extract from, i. 257, 258—on th season for felling timber, ii. 2 284—his “History of Stafford- shire,” iv. 308 Plots, rumoured, ii. 60, 108, 289 Plume, Thomas, sermons by ii. 297, 331; iv. 140 Plymouth, the man-of-war, i 58, 100; iv. 191, 347 , town of, ii. 190, 200, lii. 23, 76, 99, 194, 316 Pointz, Captain John, iv. 347 Poland, office of hangman in, i. 30 —alluded to, iii. 77 , the Queen of, iv. 279 Polichinello, in Moorfields, ii. 435 iii. 103—at Bartholomew Fai QA1 “ Politician Cheated,” a comedy, ii 29 Pollard, Sir H., iii. 21 Poll Bill, proviso to the, iii. 25, 26 27—comments on, 51, 54—alludec to, 44, 63, 70, 87; iii. 123, 143 380, 402 } Polleron, ii. 128—surrendered the Dutch, iii. 244 Poll-money, i. 105; iii. 101 Polyglot Bibles, increased value of li. 464 “Pompey the Great,” a play, i 400 Poole, Captain W., i. 190; ii. 205 , Jonas, disgraestal conduct li. 248 ‘ Poole, Mrs., iii. 230 , P. F., picture of Solomol Eagle, iii. "204 } Pooly, Lady, ii. 429 428, 429 Poor-boxes, in Holland, i. 328 Pope, dispensation from the, i. —power of the, 376, 377. justment of differences between and France, 92, 93, 98; iii. 188 4 —rumour of his death, ii. 309 Pope, the poet, i. 376; ii. 6 Pope’s Head (sign of a cutler’s _ shop), i. 125 ; (a tavern), i. 262; ii. - $35, 421; iii. 10; iv. 84 \ Alley, i. 262, 293 ‘Popham, Alexander, iii. 467 , Sir [Francis?], iii. 18 “Porridge,” a party-cry of the fa- 4 natics, i. 320 Porter, Charles, i. 358, 418; iii. 28, 413, 415—curious notice of, iv. 120 ——, George, iv. 39 =, Mrs., ii. 279 ——, Thomas, his play of “The Villaine,” i. 336—his duel with Sir H. Bellasis, i. 418; iii. 207, _ 914—absconds in consequence, 219 -Portholme, near Brampton, i. 334; iii. 449 Portland, Earl of, killed in action with the Dutch, ii. 244 , Henry, Duke of, i. QTL , isle of, ii. 220 , the, man-of-war, ii. 383 ‘Port Mahon, iv. 212 Portman, Lady, i. 376; iv. 81, 82 . Mr., ii. 59 , Sir William, i. 376; iv. 82. Portsmouth, rejoicings at, on the arrival of the Queen, i. 279—ap- pearance of a comet at, ii. 193— disorder in the dock-yard, 255— fortifications at, iii. 79, 89, 376— Dutch fleet at, 194—election at, iy. 209, et seq.—allusions to the town of, i. 88, 137, 141, 147, 180, 181, 228, 271, 273, 274, 279, 282, 317, 346, 377; ii. 22, 62, 255, 315, 451; iii. 34, 59, 90, 99, 108, 158, 164, 194; iv. 2, 30, 98, 165, 194, me 197 Portsmouth, Earl of, i. 92 Portugal, fleet for, i. 269, 275, 276, _ 280—advance of the Spanish into, ii. 12—peace between and Spain, iii. 379, 456—Queen Catherine’s concern for the interest of, iv. 346—alluded to, i. 164, 211, 227, 250, 265, 270, 280, 283, 298, 347, 420: ii. 51, 351; iii. 83, 369 , King of, i. 227, 283, 308, 347, 420; iii. 325 —_ ——_ ’ i ; GENERAL INDEX 449 res Queen of, her death, ii. 65 Portuguese, apprehension of a, i. 65—their victory over the Span- ish, ii. 12, 14 ladies, particulars respect- ing, i. 284—one delivered of a child at Hampton Court, 294 ———— sermon, iii. 85 Post-house, at Dartford, i. 145 “ Potter’s Discourse upon the num- ber 666,” ii. 353; iii. 2, 8 Potts, W., the apothecary, iv. 206 Poulterer, death of a rich one, i. 351 Poultny, Sir William, noticed, i. 7; ii. 130 , Lady, ii. 130 Poundy, the waterman, iii. 303, 304 Povy, John, i. 288 , Justinian, alluded to, i. 288 ——, Richard, i. 288 , Thomas, M.P., notice of, i. 287—made a Commissioner for the affairs of Tangier, 340—his house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, ii. 129—defends Lord Peterborough, 203—his official conduct, 204, 211 —his proposal to Pepys, 218—de- fends himself before the Tangier committee, 220—is succeeded in his office by Pepys, ib.—char- acter of, 407, 408—his sentiments on the state of public affairs, iii. 166, et seg.—his letter to Pepys, on election matters, iv. 204—al- luded to, i. 363, 367, 374, 380, 394; ii. 32, 67, 110, 113, 118, 123, 143, 169, 188, 189, 226, 227, 252, 259, 285, 292, 378, 407, 424, 429, A476, 478, 481; iii. 54, 91, 126, 127, 172, 209, 247, 331, 358, 468, 470; iv. 42, 43, 47, 54, 55, 59, 80, 82, 93, 95, 102, 133, 152, 172, 335 Povy, William, i. 288 Powell, Mr., i. 85; iii. 148 (Powle), Sir Richard, iv. 116 Powls, Judge, iv. 357 Powlet, Lady Anne, iv. 163 Poynton (Boynton?), Colonel, iv. 96 Poyntz, Captain, ii. 168 Prevaricator at Cambridge, ii. 169 Pratt, Monsieur, iii. 160 Prayer-book of 1661, frontispiece, ii, 171; iv. 326 450 Presbyterians, their dispute with the Papists, i. 383, 391, 392—in- surrection of, in Ireland, ii, 1— alluded to, i. 48, 49, 53, 80, 95, 103, 115, 165, 202, 268, 286, 310, 312, 313, 319, 321, 322, 349, 369, 374, 391, 402; ii. 285; iii. 152, 160, 370 Pressgangs, severity of the, ii. 405- 407, 410-412; iii. 223, 224 Preston, Thomas, Esq., of Holker, ii. 343 Prettyman, Lady, iii. 6 , Sir John, iii. 6 Price, Dr., his ‘‘ Defensio Hist. Brit.,” iv. 239 , John, i. 6, 9 3 li, 392 . Sir Herbert, iii, 418 Prichard, Mr., iii. 357 Pride, Mr., his suit against the Earl of Bath, iii. 307 » Thomas, the regicide, i. 128, 148 Pridgeon, Sir Francis, attends the Queen in her illness, ii. 50—al- luded to, 184: see Prujean Priest, arrest of a, i. 383 Priestman, Captain, iv. 212 Primate, Mr., the leather-seller, ii. 76 Prin, Monsieur, the musician, iii. 288 , or Prynne, William, noticed, i. 25, 30—character of, 112; ii. 408—his antipathy to the bishops, i. 190; ii. 408—accuses Sir G. Carteret of selling places, i. 290 —alluded to, i. 188, 284, 350; ii. 7, 110, 195, 196, 133, 355, 373, 408; iii. 345 Prince, the, man-of-war, i, 166, ii. 22, 217, 248, 298, 304, 391, 477; iii. 1, 285, 286; iv. 190, 203— strikes on the Galloper, ii. 390; iii. 203 Princess, the, insubordination among her crew, iii. 158 Prints, one of an old pillar at Rome, ii. 371—brought from France, 417; iv. 89, 104 Prior, Matthew, the Poet, ii. 197 Prisoners in Holland, relief of, ii. 4125 iii. 15, 243, 244 Pritchard, his execution, i. 145 eet, | Mir. ayn Bb7 Privateers, Dutch, captured, ii. 228 GENERAL INDEX Privy Council, state of the, iii. 167 —— Purse, demands on, iii. 183, 187 ; —— Seal, i. 129, 206, 209, 210, 299, 240, 241, 279 Prize-goods, distribution of, ii. 3 310-316, 342, 352, 365, 382; 96, 134, 220, 254, 263, 323, iv. 52 cae office, the, ii. 188, 190, 206; iii, Proby, Mr., ii. 51, 52 Proclamation to the fleet of the King’s Restoration, i. 52 Proctor, the vintner, his death, ii 271 Progers, Edward, valet-de-chambre to the King, ii. 96; iii. 246, 250 394, 404; iv. 181 ) Prophecies fulfilled, ii. 12; iii. _ Prophecy, concerning the mark of the Beast, ii. 353 Prostitutes, ’petition of the, iii. 41 Protestants, particulars respecting, i, 63—at Dublin, 400—in Ireland ii. 99 Proud, Captain, iii. 196 Proundy, ii. 446 Proverbs, i. 164, 248 Providence, fire-ship, ii. 280, 400 » lost at Tangier, iv, 13 Prujean, Sir Francis, notice of, ii 400—his death, ib.: see Pridgeor Prynne, Williana: see Prin Puckeridge, i. 27, 218, 332 Pudding Lane, ‘commencement of the great fire in, ii. 439; iii. 39 Pulsford, Mr., i. 15 Pun, ii. 11 Punch, meaning of the word, 164 , the puppet, i. 349 Punnet, the pilot, iii. 179 j Puppet plays, i. 232, 278, 282; iii. 233; iv. 16—before the King, 1 331 4 Purcell, Henry, i. 26 Purgatory, doctrine of, ii. 377 Puritanism, i. 216; ii, 109, 430; iv. 16 a Purple used for mourning, i, 107 Purser, his illicit gains, ii, 326 Pursers, Pepys’s discourse concern- ing, ii. 348 Purveyance, right of, in the King’s name, i. 73 : Putney, heath, iii, 123 Pu 7, Monsieur de, i. xx.; ii. 170 Pye-corner, destroyed by the great 446 - Quadring, Dr., iv. 357 Quaker, singular anecdote of a, iii. , the (a tavern), i. 98 __ woman, her petition to the King, ii. 84 - Quakers, abused by the soldiers, i. 19—particulars respecting, 206— arrest of, 311, 339; ii. 32—al- luded to, ii. 79, 289; iii. 10, 328, 417; iv. 34 - Quarantine, on placing ships under, ii. *68, 74 -Quarrefowr (Carrefour), i. 32 _ © Quarterly Review,” referred to, i. 8, 104, 109; ii. 473—extract from, , 283 ~ Quarterman, William, physician, i. 72 ~ Queenborough, ii. 324 ~ “Queen Elizabeth’s Troubles, and the History of Eighty Eight,” a play, iii. 221 “a ithe, ii. 266, 285, 442 - Queen-Mother, of France, i. 224, B,. 225 ‘a : see Henrietta Maria _ Queen of Aragon,” a play, iv. 36 Queen’s chapel; ceremonies at, ili. » 329 ~ Queen’s Mask,” a play, i. 157, 162 Queen Street, Covent Garden, iii. ~ Quevedo, his book of “ The Vis- ions,” iii. 145 _ Quinborough (Kénigsberg), identi- fication of the place, ii. 72—on taking and preserving fish in, 73 —method of obtaining the honey in, ib—hunting in the neighbour- hood of, ib. _ “Quinborough, the Mayor of,” a play, ii. 397 water, ii. 324 GENERAL INDEX 451 Quinte, William, the trumpeter, iv. 229 rig Bussy, work by him, ii. 74 Raby Castle, the seat of Sir H. Vane, i. 7 5 MS G-STT Radcliff, Dr., the eminent physi- cian, iv. 291, 292, 307 Radcliffe, Mr. Jonathan, his ser- mon, i. 189 Radclyffe, Sir Edward, i. 170 Radnor, Lord, i. 103, 376 Ragusa, dukedom of, custom in the, i. 246 Rainbow, the, man-of-war, ii. 387 Raleigh, Sir W., ii. 199 Ratcliffe, ii. 212; iii. 141 Rathbone, John, tried for a conspi- racy, iil. 28 - Rattoon, i. 107 Ravencroft’s Psalms, ii. 187 Rawlins, Colonel Giles, killed, i. 305, 315, 316; iv. 25 Rawlins, Mr., anecdote of, i. 305 Rawlinson, Dr., i. xxix.; ii. 426— his MSS. in the Bodleian noticed, i. xviii, xx., xxiii, xxvi., xxix; iii. 98, 164, 168, 377; iv. 154, 321, 324, 326, 327 , Mr., i. 188—plague in his house, ii. 426, 429—alluded to, i. 317, 320; ii. 46; iii. 245 __——.,, Mrs., dies of the plague, ii. 429 , Sir Thomas, ii. 426 Rawlinson’s, i. 94 Rawmere, in Sussex, ii. 242 Rawworth, Mr., the lawyer, ii. 13 Raynbow (Rainbow), Dr., i. 404— Bishop of Carlisle, ii. 122; iii. 60, 208 Rayne-deere, the, at Bishop-Stort- ford, iii. 265 Rayner, the boatmaker, ii. 279 Raynolds, Captain, cowardice of, ii. 194 Reade, Dr. of Laws, iii. 225 Reading, town of, iii. 467 Reames (or Reymes), Col. Bullen, ii. 168; iii. 172, 295, 357, 359 Reay, Lord, his letters on the Sec- ond Sight, iv. 261, 268—alluded to, 266, 268 Rebellion, commission of, i. 386 452 Recorder, a musical instrument, iii. 420 Red Bull playhouse, i. 99, 161, 284, 343 — House, iv. 237 —— Lion, at Guildford, i. 181, 182; iv. 3 , at Portsmouth, i. 181 » Holborn, i. 149 Red Lyon, at Barnet, ii. 177; iii. 218 Redriffe (Rotherhithe), i. 141, 190, 327; ii. 193, 234, 265, 286, 374, 400; iii, 184, 350, 443; iv. 115, Q77 Reeves, Alderman, iv. 35 » Mr., the optician, ii. 428, 429, 434; iii. 476, 478 >» Mrs., iii. 478 Reformado, what? i. 110 Regicides, execution of, i. 113-115, 129, 146, 251, 271, 290; ii. 2; iv. 322—alluded to, i. 120 “Religio Medici,” commended, ii. 88 Remball (Rumbell?), Mr., of the Wardrobe, i. 117, 240, 395 Rendall, the carpenter, i. 423 Repartee, upon the Peace, iii. 188 Reputation, popular, advantages of, iv. 223 Resbury, Nathaniel, D.D., iii. 33 Reserve, the, a ship, i. 309 Resolution, the, man-of-war, ii. 420 —burned, 420, 423—draught of the, iv. 26, 36 Respiration, on, ii. 346 Restoration of the King, reported, i. 41-45 Resumption, Act of, iii. 303, 397; iv. 283 Resurrection, on the, i. 354; iii. 412 Retiro, palace of the, iv. 295 Revenge, man-of-war, ii. 482; iii. 164 Revenue, inquiry into the state of the, i. 426—state of, at various periods, ii. 101 Revolution of 1688, alluded to, iv. 240 Reymes, Bullen: see Reames Reynell, Sir Richard, iii. 465 Reynolds, Captain, his bravery, iv. 195 ——.,, Bp. Eadw., i. 29, 48; iii. 405—alluded to, 310 GENERAL INDEX Rhé, isle of, ii. 201 Rhenish Wine-house, the, i. 97, 100, 126, 187; ii. 9; iii. 455 i Rhodes, Richard, the dramatist, ii, 156 Ribbons, scramble for, i. 12, 147, 254, 382; ili. 353 "i Rich, Charles Lord, iv. 280 » Henry, Earl of Holland, ii 11 >» Robert, i. 107 » Robert, second Earl of War- wick, i. 413; ii. 132; iii, 175 Rich’s System of Shorthand, i. xiii, Richard, man-of-war, altered to the James, i. 70 Richard II1., iii. 424 Richardson, Sir Thomas, narrow es- cape of, iii. 246 / Richardson, the bookbinder, iii. 136 Richmond, i. 278, 302; ii. 24, 260 ———.,, Duchess of, her dispute with Lady Castlemaine, i. 272— alluded to, i. 315; iii, 114, 186, 331, 350, 410, 446, 475; iv. 7, 1 —remarks upon, iii. 113 ——., Duke of, ii. 30—married to Mrs. Stuart, ii. 267; iii. 97. 108, 193, 330—alluded to, 87, 88, 113, 193, 331; iv. 18 , the, man-of-war, i. 71; iv. 347 q Richmond and Lennox, Charles, Duke of, iv. 225 Rickard, Sir Andrew, i. 412; iii 101, 127, 430, 433, 439 Rider, Captain, i. 137 ——., Mrs. Anne, ii. 261 » Sir William (Ryder), i. 246, 261—made Commissioner for Tangier, 340, 355—his house at Bethnal Green, ii. 12—anecdote related by him, 13—alluded to, i. 226, 252, 256, 350; ii. 95, 110, 118 229, 261, 444, 450, 453; iii. 144, 157 } Riding, ancient custom so called, iii. 146 ; Ridley, Sir Thomas, his Discourse on the Civil and Ecclesiastical — Law, ii. 373 ‘ Riga yarn, superior, i. 288 Riggs, ii. 413 4 Rising, a, apprehended in the North, i. 376 Ritson’s Robin Hood quoted, i. 12 — Sa dp ae _ Rivall Ladys,” a tragedy, ii. 155, «416 _ & Rivalls,” comedy, ii. 165, 188; iii. — 80 - Rivers, Earl, ii. 113 - Roane, iii. 73 Roberts, Edward, iv. 240 , Lady, some account of, iii. 429 , Lord (Robartes), Keeper of the Privy Seal, i. 103, 241; ii. 193, 198, 230; iii. 257, 328, 429; iv. 89, 105 , Mr., cause brought by him, ii. 123 Roberts, William, Bishop of Ban- gor, i. 111 Robins, Mr., the perriwig-maker, iii, 125 Robinson, Captain, takes three Dutchmen, iii. 36 , Lady, ii. 314; iii. 33 , Luke, i. 21, 50 , Sir John, Lieutenant of the Tower, notice of, i. 99, 341; ii. 423—made Lord Mayor of London, i. 342—character of him, g9g—entertains the King and Queen, ii. 10—design against his life, iii. 98—alluded to, i. 26, 158, 159, 288, 342, 396; ii. 34, TROL, Q17, 322, 323, 412, 439; iii. 28, 32, 122, 387, 439; iv. 151, 167 Robsart, Amy, iv. 328 , Sir John, iv. 328 - Robson, servant of Sir William Coventry, iii. 384, 425 - Rochelle, ii. 7, 381 Rochester, i. 80, 143, 160, 161, 165, 167; ii. 304, 307, 394; iii. 176— History of, alluded to, i. 64, 349 Castle, ii. 307 Cathedral, i. 167; ii. 307 Rochester, Lawrence Hyde, ist Earl of, iii. 117 —____—., John Wilmot, 2d Earl of, runs away with Mrs. Mallett, ii. 938—sent to the Tower, ib.— marries Mrs. Mallett, ii. 357; iii. 57—alluded to, ii. 241, 283, 309; fii. 11, 18; iv. 60, 104, 292 ee) Lady, iii. 18 Rock, Sir George, iv. 359 Roder, Mynheer (afterwards Sir John), married to Nan Hartlib, i. 91, 99 Roe, ketch, man-of-war, iv. 347 GENERAL INDEX 458 Rogers, family of the, iii. 66 Rogerson, Mr., the painter, iv. 84 Rolle, Sir Francis, i. xxv. “Rollo, Duke of Normandy,” a play, i. 163; iii. 108; iv. 23 Rolls’ Chapel, ii. 228 Rolt, Captain, ii. 332, 333; iii. 50, 60, 323; iv. 18 Rolt, Mr., i. 194; iii, 109, 423 Romances, ii. 184 Roman Government, opinion re- specting it, i. 9 “Roman Virgin,” a tragedy, iv. 173 Rome, city of, ii. 187, 202, 272, iv. 142, 164—celebration of the ap- proach of the Holy Year there, 278, 279 ——,, church of, i. 63; iii. 112—ser- mon against the, 329 “ Romeo and Juliet,” i. 261 Romford, ii. 261 Romney, Lord, iv. 283, 288 Rooker (Booker?), Mr., i. 116 Roos, Sir Thomas, ii. 85 Rooth, Captain, i. 147; iv. 347 Rope, Alexander, i. 169 Rope-dancing, at Bartholomew Fair, ii. 37; iv. 13 “ Roscius Anglicanus,” referred to, iv. 80 Roscommon, Robert, 2d Earl of, iv. 25 , Cary, 5th Earl of, iv. 25 F , Wentworth, Earl of, iv. 6 Rosebush, the, i. 153, 305 Rose Inn, at Cambridge, i. 200, 204; iii. 267 —— Tavern, iii. 330, 445 Roses, the Duke of Albemarle’s pretended antipathy to, ii. 414 Rosse, Dr., iv. 272 (De Ros), Lord, Duke of Buckingham, claims the title of, lil. 46 Rota, the club so called, i. q Rotherhithe, iv. 277: see Redriff Rotterdam, ii. 237—English church proposed to be built at, iv. 315 Rotyr (Roetier), Mr., the medal- list, i. 396; iv. 235 Rouen, arrival of Charles II. at, i. 712 Roulé, a French preacher, ii. 112 454A GENERAL INDEX Rump Parliament, i. 1, 11, 12, 23, Roundtree, admitted to orders, i. 192 Rowe, Mr., i. 108 Rowley, W., plays by him, i. 148, 155, 161, 195 Roxalana, i. 258, 281, 365, 370; ii. 332, 407 Roxburgh, Lord, drowned at sea, iv. 225, 226 Roy, Count du, iv. 240 Royal Catherine, a merchantman, i. 307 —— Charles, the, ii. 385, 390; iii. 149, 150, 152, 193, 203, 289 -_— Fishery, corporation of the, ii. 105, 141, 142, 150, 166, 174, 186, 193 ——James, ii. 325—burnt by_ the Dutch, lili. 152, 177—alluded to, iv. 347 Katherine, the, man-of-war, ii. 179, 326, 390 Oake, the, i. 142; lost, ii. 210; iv. 334—another of the same name, ii. 244—burnt by the Dutch, iii. 152, 177 “Royal Shepherdesse,” a _ tragi- comedy, iv. 109 Society, the, their charter, ii. 199—present of Mr. Howard to, iii, 40—History of, by Thomas Sprat, 217, 221—new college of, 415—alluded to, i. 245, 275; ii. 190, 211, 214, 215, 346; iii. 30, 42, 139, 140, 298, 302, 307, 314, 352, 415, 423, 470; iv. 37, 59 — Sovereign, the, man-of-war, ii. 256 Royston, iii. 155 Rubens, paintings by, i. 230; ii. 300; iv. 93 Ruby, the, man-of-war, ii. 387; iv. 191 ——,, French prize, iii. 1 Ruckholts, or Rookwood, the seat of Sir William Hickes, ii. 294 Rugge’s Diurnal, some account of, i. vii., vilii—quoted, i. 9, 11, 13, 19, 24, 25, 36, 38, 43, 44, 51, 58, 76, 77, 89, 96, 110, 121, 128, 136, 148, 149, 163, 176, 217, 257, 279, 315, 365; ii. 78, 212, 473; iii. 17, 22, 286, 325 “Rule a Wife and have a Wife,” a comedy, i. 163, 255 Rumbell, Mr., i. 117, 240, 395 “Rump,” the, comedy of, i. 122 Rupert, Prince, i. 110—sworn of —— drops, i. 247 , Rushworth, John, ii. 61—his “ Col- Russell, Captain, i. xxiii. ——., : Mr. iii. 45 —, Mrs. ii. 71 Russia, Emperor of, .anecdote of Russian Ambassador, i. 353, 356, 26, 33, 35, 46, 95, 285; ii. 206 — the Privy Council, 276—made a Commissioner for Tangier, 340, 355—his great courage, ii. 132— appointed to command the Guinea fleet, 163, 173—exposed situation of, 178—his illness, 202; iii, 33 53—anecdote of, ii. 209—his -vie 355—picture of him, 371—puts to sea to prevent a junction of the French and Dutch, 372, 382—re- turns to Dover, 384— joins ; Duke of Albemarle, 386—com- plains of the Commissioners of the Navy, 399—vindicates his conduct, 466—is trepanned, iii. 53, 55, 58, 63—his convalescence, BY, 58, 97—plays at Tennis, 239 —thanks of the Houses of Par- liament voted to him, 287—goes again to sea, 416—made Con- stable of Windsor Castle, iv. 198 —alluded to, i. 247, 382; ii. 29, 86, 131, 132, ‘136, 178, 251, 253, 256, 25%, 316, 338, 372, 382-38 f 402, 409, 466, 467, 471, 472, 479, 482; ili. 11, 61, 97, 98, 105, 120. 239, 280, 294-296, 304, 340, 358, 374, 376, 405, 408, 413, 418, 446, 453; iv. 19; 121, 154 i ship, ii. 383, 391; iii. 95, 278 lections,” 67, 79, 201 » Colonel, iii. 11 » Elizabeth, wife of Sir Bateman, ii. 51 rel iii. 171; iv. 17 » Sir John, i. 107, 108 » Sir W., ii. 26 the, i. 323 House, in Moorfields, 181, 182 ss 365, 370 customs, ii. 167; iii, 245, 246 SY Fa” RS a ee ee ~~ a gps GENERAL INDEX Rutherford, Lord, notice of, i. 359 —made Governor of Tangier, 359, 361, 397—alluded to, 401; ii. 295, 307 Ruysch, Frederick, the anatomist, ii. 398 “Rycaut’s Discourse of Turkey,” its high price, iii. 88, 102 Rye, i. 202, 211 Ryley, W., the Herald, i. 240; ii. 126 Ryves, Dr. Bruno, i. 248 Dutch Sacheverell, Dr., iv. 197 Sackville College, i. 20 , Edward, Esq., apprehended for murder, i. 259 : Sacrament, administration of the, ii. 370 ; * Sadducism, a Blow at,” iii. 16 Saffron Walden, i. 28 Sage, graves sown with, i. 274 Sailing-match, ii. 31 St. Alban’s, Duke of, iii. 224 , Lord, intends visiting France, i. 126—said to be mar- ried to the Queen-Mother, 126, 351, 368—goes plenipotentiary to Paris, iii. 82—in disgrace with the King of France, 171, 172— alluded to, i. 128, 152, 315, 336; ii. 23, 36, 97, 331, 366, 475; iii. 117, 171, 172; iv. 157, 162, 335, 338 St. Andrew’s Day, non-observance of, iii. 21 Cross, iv. 60 , Holborn, ii. 230; iii. 357; iv. 170 — Antholin’s Church, iv. 206 — Bride’s, i. 256, 310; ii. 107; iii. 40 _ — Catherine Coleman, iv. 324 — Catherine’s Hospital, i. 311; iv. 130 — Christopher’s, Island of, taken by the French, ii. 398—intended attack on, iii. 21 — Clement’s Church, i. 236; ii. 254; iii. 26, 283 St. Dionis Backchurch, ii. 194 _ — Domingo, taken by the French, iv. 175 — Dunstan’s Church, i. 22, 97, 197, 310, 312, 376; ii. 143, 214, 255; iii, 222 455 — Edward’s Staff, i. 175 — Evremont, le Sieur de, iv. 336 — Fayth’s, destroyed by the great fire, ii, 450, 460; iii. 348; iv. 20, 22 — George, the, man-of-war, li. 244 — George’s Chapel, at Windsor, ii. 358 feast, at Windsor, i. 407, 408 — Giles’s, ii. 142, 417; iii. 69, 79, 262 — Gothard, battle of, ii. 157 — Gregory’s Church, i. 225, 347 — Helen’s, ii. 382, 450 — Jago, fort of, taken, i. 383, 389, 403 — James’s Chapel, i. 328, 415; ii. 99, 368; iii. 47; iv. 149 Fair, i. 97 Market, ii. 366; iv. 148 Park, river made through, i. 107, 113—improvements in, 209, 215, 304—-skating in, 355, 357— mode of preparing the Mall for playing in, 417—games played there, ii. 81, 82—orange-trees in, 119—Capuchin convent in, iii. 43 —alluded to, i. 17 — John, Lord, declares for a free Parliament, i. 19, 30—proceeds to Flushing, 57—particulars re- specting, 333; iii. 435—assaults Sir Andrew Henly, 21 — John’s College, Cambridge, i. 335; iii. 267 College, Oxford, ii. 426; iv. 311 Day, sermon on, i. 242 Street, i. 161 — Lawrence Church, ii. 210—de- stroyed by the great fire, 440 — Magnus Church, burnt, ii. 439 — Maloes, guarded by dogs at night, ii. 379 St. Margaret’s Church, i. xi, 99, 105, 188; ii. 377, 468; iii. 136; iv. 170 Hill, Southwark, i. 397 — Martin’s parish, i. 199; ii. 319, 320; iii. 8 — Mary Magdalene, i. 170 of the Graces’ Abbey, East Smithfield, i. 186 — Overy’s Church, ii. 18 Woolchurch, i. 347 Woolnoth, ii. 240 456 — Michael’s, Cornhill, healthy state of, ii. 259 — Michel, Balthazar (Mrs. Pepys’s brother), account of his sister’s early life, i. xi., 160—obtains an appointment in the Duke of Al- bemarle’s Guards, ii. 331—an- other from the Duke of York, 370—his gallant conduct, 392— made deputy-treasurer to the fleet, iii. 99, 106—his letter to Pepys, expressive of gratitude and affection, iv. 203—alluded to, i. 217; ii. 253, 315, 331, 372, 384, 415, 417, 455; iii. 15, 34, 44, 94, 99, 105, 421, 428, 458, 470; iv. 99, 148, 149 — Michael, Mary, iv. 356 SSS TL i REY SII is 425, 454; iii. 193—her death, iv. 232 ——, Samuel son), iv. 204 — Neot’s iii. 273 — Olave’s, Hart Street, Pepys buried in, i. xxxviii., xxxix.—al- luded to, i. 120, 197, 412; ii. 349; iv. 105, 324 — Pancras Fields, ii. 230 — Patricke, ioss of the, iii. 59, 67 — Paul’s Cathedral, wager respect- ing its height, i. 77—divine serv- ice at, 242, 272; ii. 101—repairs of, 153—north gate of, 407—de- ‘stroyed by the great fire, 446, 449; iii. 222, 348—alluded to, i. 242; iv. 10, 22 ——— Churchyard, books burnt in, ii. 459 — School, declamations at, i. 6, 380—burned, ii. 449—alluded to, i. x., 19, 30, 146, 242, 362; ii. 91, 216; iii. 86, 127 St. Sepulchre’s Church, i. 310—re- paired, iii. 457 — Thomas’s Day, custom on, i. 132, Q41 (Pepys’s god- Hospital, iii. 77 Salamon: see King Solomon Salisbury, William Cecil, Earl of, dismissed from House of Lords, i, 54—his tomb at Hatfield, iii. 218—his house near the Strand, iv. 134—alluded to, i. 201 , James, 4th Earl, iv. 280 GENERAL INDEX » city of, ii, 184, 269, 280, 304; iii. 246, 460, 470; iv. 157 — Court, performances at the ~ theatre in, i. 153, 157, 159, 162, 163, 164, 216 q » Lady, iv. 280 » Mr., i. 91, 113, 162, 203, 278; iv. 198 R Salloway (Salwey), Major, sent to the Tower, i. 9 q Saltseller, presented to the Queen, 1. 275 "i Salutacione Tavern, at Rochester, i. 167 a Samphire, i. 109 . Sanchy, or Sankey, Mr., i. 28, 200, 204, 236, 238, 268; iii. 44, 100 Sancroft, Archbishop, i. 204; ii, 468 iy Sancta Maria, runs aground, iii. 178 Sanders, Captain, iv. 211, 215, 216 Sanderson, Lady, her accidental death, i. 258 .. ———, Bridget, mother of the maids, i. 57, 279; iv. 116 ‘i ———— Robert, Bishop of Lin- coln, iv. 322 —.—: Sir W., noticed, i. 57; iv. 116 : Sandford, Mr., the actor, i. 336 __ Sands, or Sandys, Colonel Samuel, iii. 327 ¥ ——, Mr., iii. 394 wy Sandwich Castle, i. 43 a ———— ‘the Countess of, i, iam 117, 133, 139, 144, 172, 182, 193, 195, 202, 203, 206, 210, 218, 221 232, 237, 241, 244, 251, 276, 279, 286, 300, 308, 331; ii. 104, 120, 122, 124, 134, 137, 142, 162, 208, 259-261, 264, 270, 272, 275, 276, 391; iii. 124, 127, 266, 270, a 439, 449; iv. 199 a Sandwich, Earl of (see Sir Edw. Montagu), a sceptic in religion, } 95—takes the oath of supremacy and allegiance before the two Se- cretaries of State, 96—receives the thanks of the House of Com- _ mons, ib.—takes his place in the House of Lords, 96—ordered to go to sea, 105—ring presented to, by the King of Sweden, 105, 158 —sails for the Downs, 106—takes _ leave of the King, ib,—arrives in GENERAL INDEX Holland, 108—returns to Eng- land, 110—Pepys discourses with him on the state of his private affairs, 110, 284, 295, 319, 409; ii. 146, 148, 348, 357—pictures of him, i. 112, 115; ii. 371—his prep- arations for fetching to England the Queen-Mother from France, i. 114, 115, 118—his idea of grati- tude, 120—receives a promise of 4000]. per annum from the King, 123, 137, 157—picture of the King presented to, 123—proposes to enlarge his household, 129— intends to go to sea with the Queen-Mother, 134—proceeds to Portsmouth, 137—his present to the King, 138—sails from Ports- mouth with the Queen-Mother for France, 147—returns to Lon- don, 152—his dispute at cards with the Duke of Buckingham, ib.—expected to go again to sea, 157—-visits Hinchingbroke, 158— officiates at the coronation of Charles II., 175—expects to be sent on an expedition to Algiers, 193—appointed to bring over the Queen from Portugal, ib.— chosen Master of the Trinity House, ib.—sails for the Downs, 195—his improvements at Hinch- ingbroke, 200—taken ill at Alicante, 207—recovers, 211—his ill success at Algiers, 220, 223, 253—his successes over the Turks, 237—his Journal noticed, 937, 259, 282—takes possession of Tangier, 258—brings the Queen to England, 282, 286—his present from the Queen, 283—is again engaged to bring the Queen to England, 298—perilous situation of his ship, 303—his safe arrival in France, ib.—returns to Lon- don, 305—has a grant of the re- version of Brampton, 319—his opinion upon the loss of Dun- _ kirk, ib—made a Commissioner for Tangier, 340, 355—desires Pepys to search for money said to be concealed in the Tower, 341, 342—his altercation with Mr. Edward Montagu, 384, 385, 408, 409—-made recorder of Huntingdon, 393—his illness, 393, 394—his noble disposition, 409 457 —plays at cards with Lady Castlemaine, 417—his opinion of spirits, ii. 7—his intimacy with Mrs. Becke, 37, 68, 75, 133; iv. 107—his house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, ii. 85, 93, 95—his reported intimacy with Miss Stuart, 86— bad condition of his private af- fairs, 121, 137; iii. 116—expected to put to sea with the fleet, ii. 128, 129—-preparations for his de- parture, 138—entertains the King © and Queen at Tilbury, 141—is presented with a picture of Lady Castlemaine, 142—his conversa- tions with Pepys, 143, 146—his departure, 149—returns to the Downs, 162, 212—joins the fleet at Portsmouth, 196—sails from Deal, 207—his draught of Ports- mouth Harbour, 212—defeats the Dutch, 243, 248—proposes to marry his daughter, Jemimah, to Mr. Philip Carteret, 251—rejoins the fleet, as admiral, 257, 258— marriage of his daughter, 272— his successes over the Dutch, 294- 296, 299—captures two of their East Indiamen, 294, 299—re- ceives a letter of recommenda- tion from the King, 301—is at variance with Mr. Coventry, 316, 317—his intimacy with Prince Rupert, 316—has many enemies, 321, 345; iii. 144—friendship of Lord Clarendon for him, ii. 321, 328—highly esteemed by the King, 328, 331-333—goes as Ambassa- dor to Spain, 332, 338, 345, 355— his conduct respecting prizes, 338, 345, 357; ili. 278, 284, 288, 384, 397; iv. 53—decline of his in- terest at Court, ii. 338, 341, 342— obtains pardon of the King, 436 —included by name in a motion of the Duke of Buckingham, 464 —his conduct commended by Sir Thomas Teddiman, 483—his re- call from Spain, iii. 30—fray be- tween his servants and _ the French Ambassador’s, at Madrid, 53—concludes a _ peace with Spain, 58, 83—restored to favour with the King, 86, 372—anecdote of, 127—his office of the Ward- robe, 239—his expenses as Am- bassador, 263—preparations for 458 his defence, 288—expected in- vestigation of his conduct, 283, 308, 313—on his not following the Dutch ships, 322—in high es- timation in Spain, 325—concludes a peace between Spain and Port- ugal, 379—prejudices against him, 386, 427, 431—his arrival in England, 4, 30—kindly received by the king, 36—his account of Tangier, 49—his reserved con- duct, 54, 55—expected to go to Tangier, 64—account of his em- bassy, 97—his affliction on the death of his daughter, 110—his letter to Pepys, relative to the fleet, 189—to the Duke of Albe- marle, informing him of the cap- ture of certain Dutch ships, &c., 190—his arrival at Portsmouth, 197—copy of his patent of no- bility, 353—order of his funeral, 364, 365—alluded to, ii. 251; iv. 192, 194, 202, 348: see also Sir Edward Montagu Sandwich, Edward, Second Earl, i. 57 Sandwich, town of, i. 92 Sandys, Hester, her numerous de- scendants, ii. 302 , Sir Thomas, iii. 199 Sansum, Rear-Admiral, killed in action with the Dutch, ii. 244, 248 Sarah (the Earl of Sandwich’s housekeeper), i. 135, 265, 281, 285, 286, 303, 347, 364; ii. 12, 42 Satisfaction, the, man-of-war, ii. Sauce, Spanish, iv. 98 Saunders, Captain, ii. 387 ———, Mr., iii. 151 , the violinist, his death, iii, 268 » William, the conspirator, his trial, iii. 28 Saunderson, Mary, ii. 90 Saunderson, Mr., visits Charles IL., BOT Savage, Captain Francis D’Arcy, ii. A476 , Lady Mary, i. 382 » Sir Edward, iii. 129; iy. 5 Savile, Sir Harry, Queen Eliza- GENERAL INDEX beth’s tutor, his portrait at Ox- ford, iv. 306 fi , Sir G., created Lord Hali- | fax, iii. 337 : Savill, Mr., the miniature-painter, i. 236, 239, 251, 255, 259, 289 Saville, Henry, Groom of the Bed- chamber, ii. 325; iv. 113—sent to the Gate House, 113, 117, al- luded to, 132—King’s directions respecting, 133—his letter to Pepys, conveying orders from the Duke of York, 203 » Mr., the divine, iv. 357 Saving Grace, sermon upon, iii. 218 Savoy Church, service at the, i. 150, 184, 329 a ——,, Duchess of, mourning for her, | ii. 85, 86 ——,, Envoy from, ii. 413 ,» Thomas of, i. 116 Savoy, the, i. 184, 309—conference at, 187, 202 ; Sawyer, Robert (afterwards Sir Robert), iii. 19, 451 Saxham, the seat of Lord Crofts, i. 305; iv. 32, 39 F Saxon monument, iy. 136 ; Saxony, Elector of, created Knight of the Garter, iii. 469; iv. 249 Say and Sele, Baron, i. 31, 206, 269 Sayes Court, the residence of John Evelyn, i. 252; ii. 233; iv. 196 Scapula’s Lexicon, ii. 141 ! Scarborough, Dr. Charles, pbysi- — cian, i. 73, 392; iv. 225 ———., Town of, iv. 228 Scarron, plays by, iii. 409 “ Scarronides,” a poem so called, ii, 102 Schelling, town on the, burnt by the British, ii. 431, 435; iii. 178— list of ships at, on the King’s embarkation, iv. 347 Scheveling, named as the place of the King’s embarkation, i. 54—_ alluded to, 59, 62, 66, 79, 92 ae “School of Compliments,” iii. 214, — 345 a Schram, Admiral, ii. 937 a Scilly, Isle of, i. 230, 277—loss of — the Royall Oake on the rocks of, — ii. 210 4 Scobell, D., i. 96, 107 f s Henry, Clerk to the House — of Commons, unauthorized entry, CSS ee ee Ry. ° ; : ta] 7 : id 1 ee a ae a ee ES et a “» ai ae 4 Pyne ee Os GENERAL INDEX 459 made by him, i. 6—his “ Acts,” ii. 67—alluded to, 18 a. Mr., ii. 63 “ Scornful Lady,” a comedy, i. 127, 138, 153, 350; iii. 35, 252, 456 Scotch March, the, iii. 179 Scotland, state of affairs in, i. 415, 420; ii. 2—appearance of a Dutch fleet off the coast of, 188, 191, 229; iii. 122—timber of, ii. 460, 461—rising of Covenanters in, iii. 16, 17, 21, 24remarkable in- stances of Second Sight in, iv. 265—the peerage of, ib.—History of, 293 Yard, i. 27, 131; ii, 392 Scots, King of, his escape after the battle of Worcester, iii. 302: see also Charles II. Scott, Colonel John, i. xxiii.—de- positions of, xxiv.—infamy of, xxv.— outlawed, ib. — absconds for murder, iy. 227, 229—returns to England in disguise, 258 ——, Lady Anne, i. 324, 366, 367; ii. 184: see also Duchess of Mon- mouth , Lady (wife of Sir Thomas), ii. 268; iv. 193 ——, Mr. (cousin of Pepys), ii. 124; iv. 123 , Mr., married to Caroline Car- teret, ii. 29 ——., Mr., the Scotch divine, iv. 272 ——, Mrs., ii. 29 ——., Mrs., (a cousin of Pepys), i. 106, 190, 235—her death, ii. 122 ——, Robert, the bookseller, his let- ter to Pepys, with some rare books, iv. 239 ——, Sir Edward, iv. 167 ——, Sir Thomas, ii. 29, 268, 278 ——., Sir Walter, his notes to “ Ab- salom and Achitophel,” ii. 362— his works alluded to, iii. 86 ——, Thomas (the regicide), notice of, i. 21—made Intelligencer to “the Rump,” i. 7—notices of, 7, 91—is sent to treat with Gen- eral Monk, 21—arraigned at the Sessions’ House, 112—executed, iv. 322—arrest of his son in Ire- land, ii. 2 Scottish poems, collections of, iv. 287 «Scott’s Discourse of Witches,” iii. 219 prods Hall, ii. 275, 278, 297; iv. 193 Scowen, Mr., iii. 141, 276 Scroggs, Sir William, iii. 46 Scroope, Colonel Adrian, i. 104; iv. 322 , Lady, i.-382 Sea, on the dominion of the, i. 241, 243 Seaforth, Lord, iv. 271 Seale, Captain, ii. 205 Seall, King, tradition of, iii. 466 “Seaman’s Grammar and Diction- ary,” i. 159 Seamen, on the discharge of, i. 127 —act against, 294— ballad of the, ii. 197—impressment of, 214, 234 —distress of the, 308, 309, 321— infirmary for sick and wounded, 348, 354—numbers of them leave the fleet, 394; iii. 154, 223—spi- rited proposal of some, ii. 396— illegal impressment of, 405, 407 —dejected state of, 407—dis- order and mutiny of the, iii. 37, 38, 49, 154, 170-172—-demur about their wages, 157-160, 170—on paying them by ticket, 160, 172, 260, 287, 290, 311, 360, 373, 376, 384, 388, 390, 478; iv. 194_want of courage among, iii. 185, 203— two shot, 224—seduced by a bounty into the French service, 336—anecdote of two, 350 Seamons, Captain (probably Sey- mour), ii. 417 Seamour, Captain, killed, ii. 492 Seaton, Captain, killed, ii. Q4A4, “Sea Voyage,” a comedy, iii. 444 Second Sight, letters upon, and anecdotes concerning it, iv. 261, 275, 287 Sedgewick, Mr., i. 219 Sedley, Sir Charles, trial of, ii. 16— character of, 16, 173; iii. 68, 69, 305—translation by, ii. 400—his play, “The Wandering Ladys,” iii. 348—“The Mulberry Gar- den,” 348, 436, 445—froliec of, iv. 39—alluded to, ii. 173; iii, 189, 208, 305, 366, 436; iv. 40, 93, 98 Seely, Captain, iii. 59 Seers, or visionists, in Scotland, iv. 266 Seething Lane, house of Pepys in, i. xiv., 89, 95; ii. 446 460 Selden, Mr., i. 237, 241; ii, 298— his tomb, iii. 311—executors, ib. Sempronia, character of, iy. 80, 81 September 3rd, a day of notable events, i. 321 “Serenade,” the, a play, by Silas Taylor, iv. 169 Sergison, Mr., iv. 357 Sermon, Portuguese, iii. 85 Sermons, funeral, i. 199 Serpents, particulars respecting, i. Q54 Service-book, the new, i. 310 Sessions’ House, persons arraigned at, i. 112—+trials at, iii. 180, 181 Sestos, Castle of, iii. 116 Seven Oakes, the, man-of-war, missing, ii. 390 Severus, Emperor, ii. 109 Seville, city of, iv. 295 Seymour, Jane (consort of Henry VIII.), buried at Windsor, ii. 358 » Mr., ii. 84, 310, 312, 337; iv. 36, 148, 227 Shadwell, Dr., iv. 357 » Thomas, the poet, i. 124; ili. 366, 399; iv. 24, 109, 152 Shaftesbury, Earl of, denial of, i. Xviii., xix.—his assertions, xix. testimony against, xx.—observa- tion of, xxi—noticed, ii. 462 Shafto, Sir R., the Recorder of Newcastle, notice of, iv. 50 Shakspeare, plays by, i. 113, 261, 330; ii. 72, 142, 295, 434; iii. 36, 40, 221, 277, 296, 298; iv. 5, 16, 70, 96 Shales, Capt. John, ii. 126 Sharpe, Sir Cuthbert, iv. 334 » Mr., i. 55 Shavan Aga, Basha, ii. 57 Shaw, Mr., ii. 266—his death, 269 » Sir John, i. 323; ii. 247, 310; iii. 226 Sheepskin, improved method of dressing, iii. 243 Sheerness, new yard at, ii. 281— accident of the Diamond at, 482 —fortifications at, iii. 74, 79, 178 —arrival of the Dutch fleet at, 146—taken, 147—cowardice of the troops there, 177--—alluded to, li. 406, 482; iii. 148, 281, 285, 376 Shelden, Sir Joseph, iii. 181 Sheldon, Barbara, ii. 311, 363, 429, 432, 436; iii. 214 GENERAL INDEX ——-—, Gilbert, Bishop of London and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, i. 175—his great in- fluence with the king, 321—al- luded to, 324, 325, 371, 383, 419; ii. 4, 103, 183, 230, 265; iii. 92, 208, 328, 329; iv. 171, 173, 322 Sheldon, Mr., ii. 247, 447 a Shellhaven, iii, 197 Shepley, Mr. (servant to Lord Sandwich), i. 4, 5, 32, 37, 41, 45, 46, 49, 73, 77, 99, 100, 115, 124, 126, 134, 135, 157, 165, 179, 193, 285, 286, 334; ii. 41, 139, 140, 344, 379, 410; iii. 269, 270, 273, 439, 450, 4573; iv. 107 Sheppey, the actor, i. 156 Sherborne Castle, iii. 338 Sheres, Mr. Sherwin, Mr., ii. 203 Sherwyn, R. V., i. xi ; “She Would if She Could,” a play, iii. 366; iv. 94 : “ Shibboleth,” a book so entitled, ii. 99 ei Shield Gallery, at Whitehall, i. 84, 107 i Ship, trial respecting the insurance _ of a, ii. 69—launch of a, 179— calculation of the draught of — water of, before launching, 378— _ discovered in the wet dock, at Deptford, iii. 116 ; Shipman, Captain, his uncourteous behaviour to the Duke of York, iv. 201 9 » Mrs., i. 189, 254 » Robert, i. 189 , » Sir Abraham, sent to take — possession of Bombay, i. 420 a “Ship of Fooles,” iv. 239 Ship, the, a tavern, i. Gravesend, iv. 17 - Ships, clerk of the, i. 86—produce of the sale of two, 120—engine — for blowing up, 264—differ from _ those of Henry VIII., 363—em- bargo laid on British, in Spain, 403—list of, ii. 20—instrument for sinking, 61—on placing under — quarantine, 68, 75—proposal for building new ones, 408, 412—use of forecastles in, 409, 410—lost 215; at in a hurricane, iii. 21—sunk, to impede the progress of the Dutch, 157, 165—loss of four, 213—alteration in the masts of, 339—proposed improvements in, 425, 441, 446 _ $Shipton’s, Mother, prophecies, ii. ATT Shirley, James, plays by him, i. 226, 281, 330; ii. 160; iii. 214, 334, 476—his prologue, ii. 170 , Sir Robert, i. 420 Shish, Jonas, ii. 151; iii. 116—new ! ship built by him, 390 Shoe Lane, cockpit in, ii. 77 _ Shooter’s Hill, i. 169; ii. 291 _ * Shooting the bridge,” explained, i. 309; noticed, ii. 135 Shore, Jane, i. 272; ii. 109; iv. 345 _ Shoreditch, iii. 126 Shotterel, Messrs., the actors, il. - 363 hy - Shovell, Sir Clowdesley, Admiral, his letter to Sir Martin Wes- comb, iv. 929—alluded to, 357 1 Shrewsbury, Duke of, resigns his office of chamberlain, iv. 288 , Earl of, duel fought by, iii. 351, 352; iv. 258 a Countess of, iii. 351, | . AAA; iv. 176, 177 _ ———, the bookseller, iv. 33 Shuffle-board, game of, i. 305; ii. 133, 295 Siam, account of the King of, ii. «432 Sibbald, Sir Robert, iv. 305 Sidney, Algernon, i. 59 4 , Harry, his intimacy with | __ the Duchess of York, ii. 325, 343, 472 , Sir Philip, prophecy of, iii. 337, 341—his oak-tree, 212 Siege of Rhodes,” i. 148, 198, 234, | 365; ii. 318, 332, 426; lii. 64, 130; ia iv: 69 zy Signs Manual, a collection by S. | Pepys, i. 5, 131; ii. 187, 244; iv. 129 Silbury Mount, iii. 466 _ © Silent Woman,” a play, i. 80, 139, __—- 188; ii. 130; iii. 108, 210; iv. 24 Silk beds, iii. 460 Silon, Don Duarte de, i. 292 Simons, Mr., i. 237 , Mrs., i. 96, 107 eee GENERAL INDEX 461 Simons, W., i. 6, 10, 17, 25, 27, 96, 108—his political dexterity, ii. 82 Simpson, John, i. 47 Singing, extemporaneous, i. 90 Singleton, John, his music, i. 124 “Sir Martin Marr-all,”’ character of, ili. 222, 337 “ Sir Positive At-all,” character of, lii. 434 Sittingbourne, i. 80 Six hundred and sixty-six, the mys- tical number, iii. 2, 8 Skating, diversion of, i. 355, 358 Skeffington, family of, iii. 267 _—___—, Sir John, notices of, ii. 169 Skelton, Bernard, i. 333 , Sir John, iv. 195 Skene, Sir John, iv. 287 Skinner, sum awarded him from the East India Company, iii. 382, 432—disputes in Parliament re- specting, 435, 437, 441 , Mrs. (Skynner), her por- trait by Kneller, iv. 304—alluded to, 290, 303, 312, 357 Skinners’ Company entertain Gen- eral Monk, i. 43 Skrymshires, family of the, iv. 308 Slaning, Lady, ii. 277, 357; iv. 193 , Sir Nicholas, ii. 30, 215, QT7 Slaves, their condition at Algiers, i. 152 ——, Christian, in Barbary, a fund for their redemption, i. 237 “ Slighted Mayde,” a comedy, i. 390, 426; iii. 480 Slingsby, Colonel, i. 111, 141, 158 , Lady, i. 148, 170 , Mary, iv. 322 , Mr. (of the Mint), i. 155, 352, 396, 421, 462; iv. 3—his let- ter to Pepys, with a list of Eng- lish medals, iv. 235, 236 , Sir Arthur, ii. 33, 79, 150 , Sir Guildford, i, 122; ii. 33 —_—., Sir Henry, iv. 322 , Sir R. (Comptroller of the Navy), i. 122—his death, 229— alluded to, 88, 130, 131, 142, 143, 146, 149, 151, 156, 163, 170, 180, 186, 187, 191, 194, 216, 220, 230; iv. 322 Sloane, Sir Hans, iv. 291, 317, 357 Slotheny, the, a Dutch East India- man, taken, iv. 191 462 Smallpox, deaths by, i. 107, 132— its great prevalence, iii. 368; iv. 129 Smallwood, Mr., ii. 92 Smith, Betty, iv. 78, 146 » Captain Jeremy (afterwards Sir Jeremy), ii. 3, 11—his gallant conduct, 244, 249, 251—his fleet encounters a storm, 342—appre- hensions for it, 351—arrives safe at Malaga, 352—at Cadiz, 362— portrait of, 371—made a Com- missioner of the Navy, iy. 172— alluded to, ii. 251, 312, 351, 352, 392, 477, 479, 482; iii. 151, 275, 401, 403, 411; iv. 46, 60, 113, 115, 117 » Dr. Thomas, his letter to Pepys respecting the deaths of Lady Cotton and Dr. Gale, &c., iv. 301—biographical notice of, ib.—alluded to, 256, 287, 354, 358 » Mr., i. 169, 337; ii. 44, 432; iv, 252, 253 , the scrivener, i, 337 ——, Mr., town clerk of Norwich, iv. 243 » Mr. Vernon, i. 99 ——, Mrs,, iii. 188 , Sir Edward, iv. 229 ——, Sir George, ii. 308, 309, 323, 327, 329, 399 Smith’s Obituary, quoted, i. 23, 351; ii. 271, 323; iii. 182 Smith, William, the actor, kills a man in a quarrel, iii. 10—his part of Zanga, 370 Smithes, Mr., i. 269 Smithfield, i. 186; iv. 62, 67 Smith’s “ Antiquities of Westmin- ster,” iv. 277 Smyrna, ii. 353 ships, iii. 21—arrive safe in the Downs, 27 Snow, Mr. (cousin of Pepys), i. 128 . Ralph, iv. 358 Snow, uncommon in London, i. 352 —a heavy fall of, 357 Sobieski, John, iy. 22 Soissons, Countess of, i. 116 s- Duke de, his splendid equipage, i. 116 Soldiers, mutiny of the, i. 16, 17, 19—execution of two, 24—death of one, 151—the English, in much esteem, ii. 18, 19 GENERAL INDEX » Spanish, disetpline among, iv. 69 Solebay, ii. 240, 241, 251, 252, 256, 286, 361, 433 : | : Solitude, discourse against, by John Evelyn, iii. 136 Solomon, King, on the navigations © in his reign, iv. 293 Soloman, Mr. A., his picture of Brunett and Phillis, iii. 14 Solyman’s words to Roxalana, ii. 332 Somers’ Tracts, referred to, i. 140, 177, 282; iii. 86 Somerset, Charles, i, 212; iv. 292 ———, Duke of, i. 212; iii, 140 ———, Henry, i. 212 ————-, Lord John, i. 212 ———., Mr.,, i. 212, 215 ———. Thomas, i. 212 » House, mutiny of the sol- | diers at, i. 16-18—Court of the Queen-Mother at, 325, 366—al- luded to, i, 91, 414; ii. 55, 97, 99, 135, 177, 204, 254; iii, 77, 410, 446; iv. 28 Sondes, Sir George, Viscount, iv. 116 » the present Lord, i. 352 Sorbiére, M., noticed, ii. 176 Sorrel, King William’s horse, iv. 303 Sound, affairs of the, i, 395 Sound fleet, arrival of, ii. 335 Soushe, General, his defeat of the Turks, ii. 154 South, Dr., notice of, i. 272 Southampton, Duke of, the King’s bastard, i. 281, 304; iii, 200 » Earl of, sworn Lord Treasurer, i. 154—his estate near Southampton, 274—afflicted with the gout, ii. 64, 352—his letter to the King, 102—his house, 249— afflicted with the stone, iii. 116— his illness, 127—his death, 128— character of, ib.—his last mo- ments, 129—his wisdom, iv. 131— alluded to, i. 350, 365, 374, 400, 403, 419; ii, 12, 55, 64, 92, 105, 172, 183, 185, 186, 294, 296, 230, 242, 248, 252, 357, 377, 436, 450, 458, 466; iii. 43, 71, 84, 94, 111, 117-119, 121, 126, 133, 307, 445; iv. 102 Southampton Buildings, iv. 54 -—————. Market, iii. 108; iy. 65 afterwards GENERAL INDEX 7 town of, i. 274 Southerne, James, conduct of, i. ——_—.,, Mr., brings the declara- tion of Parliament, i. 13—alluded _ to, 85; ii. 317; iv. 34, 247, 248 ‘Southwark, fire in, iii. 6, 117 fair, i. 106; iv. 25 —— prison, i. 311 Southwell, Sir Robert, notice of, iii. 369—alluded to, ii. 130, 219; ~ iv. 288, 357 Southwold Bay, battle of, iii. 145; iv. 203 Soveraigne, the, man-of-war, i. 144, 166; ii. 283, 298; iv. 190, 195 Spain, apprehensions of a war with, i. 293—embargo laid on British ships in, 403—at war with Portu- gal, ii. 12—revenue of, 101— peace concluded with, iii. 58, 70, 141, 259, 379—customs in, 66, 67, 84, 184, 258—superstition in, concerning the Evil Eye, iv. 268 —history of, 162 — and France, affray between the Ambassadors of, i. 222, 223 — , king of, i. 105—his death al- luded to, ii. 309—mourning for him, 35l—ceremoniousness of, 413—mean dress of, iii. 72—al- luded to, i. 227; ii. 17, 48, 51, 325, A412; iii. 67, 70, 83, 478 —, Queen of, letter to, iii. 259 ‘Spaniards, mean apparel of the, iii. _ %2—manners and customs of the, 258, 259° ‘Spanish Ambassador, i. 222, 224; ) iii. 82, 258 “Spanish Curate,” the, a play, i. ‘ 160, 244; iv. 175 Spanish, defeat of the, ii. 13, 17, 21 _ —cowardice of, in Flanders, iii. 340 i fleet before Lisbon, i. 292 — funeral sermon, iii. 401 Spanish Gypsey,” a play, i. 195; il. 395 Olio, iv. 145 — soldiery, discipline among _ the, iv. 69, 70 ‘Sparling, Capt. Thomas, i. 69, 77; A, iv. 347 Speaker, the, man-of-war, i. 35, 46, 70—altered to the Mary, 70 \ we = re 463 Spectacles, tubulous, iii. 481; iv. & 9, 149 Species, an optical term, i. 425 Speech, liberty of, iii. 312 — Chronicle, ii. 457; iii. 221, Maps, i. 293; ii. 457 Speedwell, the, i. 70, 143 Spencer, his Book of Prodigys, ii. 130 , W. Lord, of Wormleighton, lii. 254 eee his History of Ireland, iv. Spendluffe’s scholarship, i. x. Spicer, Mr., i. 18, 110, 122, 137, 365; ii. 300; iii. 330 Spillman, Lady, ii. 120 (Spelman), Sir Harry, his Glossary, ii. 139, 141 Spinckes, Mr., iv. 323 Spirits, opinion respecting, ii. 7— remarks upon, iv. 270 Spitalfields, iv. 156 *Spital sermons, i. 268; iv. 150 Spong, Mr., makes out Pepys’s pa- tent, i. 93—his arrest, 340— claims acquaintance with Pepys, ib.—alluded to, 116, 286; ii. 434; iv. 41, 65, 82 Sports, various, i. 17, 47, 106, 151, 165 Spragg, Sir Edward, i. 388; ii. 299; 343, 392, 401, 402, 417; iii. 95, 98, 99, 177, 197, 199, 203, 216, 278, 285, 288; iv. 45, 61, 178— notice of, i. 388 Spratt’s History of the Royal So- ciety, iii. 217, 221 Spring Garden, i. 285; ii. 241, 265; iii. 138, 143 Spurstow, Dr. William, i. 111 Squibb, Mr., i. 14 Stables, curiously ornamented, i. 374 Stacey, Doll, iv. 96 Stadt House, at the Hague, i. 67 Stafford, Viscount, iv. 163 Stage, British, improved state of the, iii. 61, 62 Staines, town of, ii. 284, 285 Stainforth, Dr., iv. 316 Staley, prosecution of, i. xx. Stamford, rectory of All Saints there, i. 18 Stanes, Mr., ii. 441 464 Stanesby, his cowardice, ii, 236 Stanhope, Lord, iv. 6 Stankes, Will. i. 219, death, iv. 23 411—his Stanley, Mr., sermon by him, i. 55, Stanly, Mr., dies of the smallpox, ii. 181 Stanton, town of, i. 205 Stapely, the rope-merchant, iv. 151 Stapelton Hall, iv. 168 Stapylton, Brian, Esq., iv. 229 ———— Sir Robert, comedies, i. 390, 426 —————., Sir Thomas, iv. 168 Star Chamber, the, i. 15, 100 — Tavern, i. 22, 242 Starling, Alderman, his parsimony, li. 452 Starling, an extraordinary one, iii. 390, 448 Starr, the man-of-war, iv. 229 State’s Arms replaced by the King’s, i. 46, 58, 60—sale of, 166 Stavareene, the, a Dutch ship, iv. 200 Stayner, Sir R., i. 38, 45, 51—de- spatched to Dover, 59—receives the king, 70—knighted, 110—car- ries a challenge to the Duke of Buckingham, 152—his death, 346 —funeral, 353—alluded to, i. 78, 152, 259; iv. 347 Steele’s Tatler, alluded to, i. 39 Steel-yard: see Still-yard Stephens, Mr., Treasurer of the Navy, i. 89, 273 , H., his Thesaurus, given by Pepys to St. Paul’s School, i. 242, 362 » Mrs., i. 273 Stephenson, Mr., i. 275 Stepney, i. 81; iii. 16, 142, 251; iv. 43 Sterne, Richard, Archbishop of York, ii. 368 Sterry, Mr., i. 34 Stevenage, i. 220; ii. 177; iii. 273, 457 Stevens, the silversmith, i. 147; ii. 177 Steventon, Mr., iii. 217, 435; iv. 61 Steward, Captain, ii. 399 Stewart, Mrs.: see Stuart “Stewarts, the Rise and Fall of the,” a book so entitled, ii. 209 Stillingfleet, Edward, sermons by, ii. 230, 468; iii. 357, 359; iv. 170 GENERAL INDEX —alluded to, ii. 228, 322; iii. 44 Stillingworth, Admiral, ii. 237 Still-yard, the, ii. 314, 440 Stint, Mr., i. 358 Stoakes, Captain John, iv. 347 ; » Mr., i. 129, 131—his ac- count of Gambo, 248 Stock, the engraver, iv. 246 Stockings, linen, i. 72 4 , Silk, i. 108; ii. 362; iv. 103 Stokes, Captain, i. 44—his death, ii. 210 d ——, Humphrey, the goldsmith, ii, 342, 442; ili. 8, 326 Stocks, the, near Cornhill, i. 130 _ market, ii. 292; iv. 21, 22 Stocks, Humphrey: see Stokes Stone-feast, anniversary of, kept by Pepys, ii. 245—alluded to, 91; iv. 133 Stone, Mr., his picture of Lord Coventry, ii. 404 Stonehenge, iii. 458, 461, 466 Stones, precious, found on one of the Dutch Admirals, ii. 324, 345 Stoop, Dirk, engraver, i. 174; iv. 325 q “ Storie delle guerre ciwili di Fran- cia,’ by Davila, ii, 414 Storm, dreadful, on coronation-day, i. 178—remarkable effects of one at Oxford in 1661-2, 257—ané the great mischief done by it in London, 258—violent one in Lon don, ii. 346, 347, 411, 461 ; “ Storme, the,” a play, iii. 257, 409 Story, Captain, iii. 75 : Stothard’s picture of Brunetta a Phillis, iii. 15 Stourbridge Fair, i. 219; iii. 472; iv. 18, 21 Stowel, Lord, iv. 315 Stow’s London, ii. 72 7 Stradling, Dr., dean of Chichester, i, 407 4 Stradwick, Mrs. (cousin of Pepys), i. 106, 235; ii, 106; iv. 57, 199 Strafford, Lord, ii. 109; iii. 298, 304 Strand, riot among the soldiers i. 16—execution of two soldiers in, 24 Bridge, i. 22; iii. 442 Maypole, ii. 1; iii. 34, 12 Strangways, Colonel, i. 398 Stratford, Essex, iv. 156 Stratford-on-Avon, ii. 124 _ Streater, Robert, the painter, ii. 50; f iv. 95 _ Stoop, picture by, i. 174 Stroud, Sir William, iv. 25 Green, iv. 168 _ Strowd, Governor of Dover Castle, ii. 384 Stuart, Charles, i. 25, 30, 34, 176, j 177, 188; iii. 25 _—, Frances, the great beauty, _ strange frolic of, i. 382, 385—pic- i = P tures of her, ii. 148, 162; iii. 412 _ -—fashion of wearing her hair, ii. P 148; iii. 57—the Duke of York _ falls in love with her, ii. 325— _ married to the Duke of Rich- ‘mond, iii. 97, 108—presents made to her, 113—attacked by the smallpox, 410, 412—her faction at court, 437—alluded to, i. 382; ii. 4, 14, 23, 25, 55, 57, 85, 86, 92, 113, 123, 129, 238, 342, 370, 372, x 433, 463, 473; iii. 11, 17, 28, 57, 74, 87, 88, 114, 193, 330; iv. 257, 338 _ Stuart, Lady Catharine, iv. 225 » Lady Mary, ii. 267 A , Lord Esme, ii. 267 _ ——, Mrs. Walter, ii. 55 —,, Sophia, sister to the Duchess of Richmond, iv. 15 —, Walter, iii. 114 ny, peezeon, saying respecting a, iii. Sturtlow, i. 226 _ Success, the, man-of-war, ii. 455 “a Suckling, Sir John, his tragedy, _ “The Discontented Colonell,” i. 201—his “ Aglaura,” ii. 164—his play, “The Goblins,” iii. 49, 50, 134 _ Suffolk cheese, i. 225 > —. Earl of, i. 177, 323; ii. 79, 177, 241, 357, 361, 419; iii. 11, 94; iv. 237 _ —, Countess of, i. 304; ii. 25, 47 Ni —stands godmother to the Duke __ of York’s child, iii. 251 Suffolk Street, house of Moll Davis in, iii. 349; iv. 103 © Sullen Lovers,” a comedy, iii. 432; iv. 151: see The Impertinents Sully, Minister of Henry IV., i. 233 Sunderland, Earl of, refuses to " marry a daughter of the Earl of GENERAL INDEX 465 Bristol, ii. 16—his letter to Sir Robert Holmes about elections, iv. 240—his intended marriage, 338—alluded to, 234, 308 Sun Tavern, i. 84, 133, 231, 401; ii. 226, 350; iii. 173; iv. 1 » Bristol, iii. 463 Surat, factory of, ii. 94 Surgeons’ Hall, i. 391; ii. 166—re- built, iv. 13 Surinam, surrendered to the Dutch, iii. 244 Surplices, fashion of, i. 339 “ Surprizall,” a comedy, iii. 929, 330, 432 Susan (Pepys’s maid), i. 380; ii. 163, 183, 185, 196, 255, 374, 377 Sussex, Duke of, his library, i. 85 Sutton, Mr., i. 320; ii. 117 Sutton Cheynell, ii. 242 Swaddle, Mr., iii. 426 Swakeley House, the seat of Sir R. Viner, ii. 291, 313 Swallow, the, a ship, i. 275 Swallows, marvellous account of, ii. 72, 73 Swan Inn, the, i. 7, 86, 192, 236, 306; ii. 239, 462 Swan, William, i. 293, 356; ili. 478, 480 103, Tavern, Charing Cross, iv. 27 Swanly, Captain, ii. 400 Swede, whipped for imposing upon the King, ii. 213 Sweden, Charles Gustavus, King of, his death, i. 34—illegitimate son of, ii. 456 , King of, i. 106, 158—de- clares war against the Dutch, ii. 367—report of his seizing British ships at Gottenburgh, iii. 21 Swedish Ambassador, the, i. 85, 221, 233; iii. 46, 72, 110, 196—his quarrel with Pepys, iv. 202 Sweepstakes, the, man-of-war, ii. 387 Swift, Dean, i. 205 — , John, the merchant, ii. 308 Swiftsure, the, i. 32, 38, 42, 71; ii. 948, 390, 391; iv. 347 Swinfen, Mr., i. 348; iii. 38, 412 Swords, fashion of wearing, i. 150, 239, 276; iii. i. 64; iv. 163 Sydenham, Colonel, noticed, i. 9 Sydney, Algernon, i. 395, 396 Sydney’s “ Arcadia,” i. 150 466 Sydserf, Thomas, i. 192 Sylvius, Lady, iv. 116 Symons (Simon), Thomas, an en- graver of coins, i. 396 , kills Captain Bumbridge, iv. 78 , W., i. 356; ii. 74, 82 Symson, Mr., ii. 435; iii. 479; iv. 5, 85 Synagogue, Jewish, ii. 46 Syon House, ii. 313 Tables, (backgammon), the game of, ii. 297, 301 Tagus river, prints of the, ii. 34 Talbot, Captain, his engagement with the Dutch, ii. 420—alluded to, iv. 212 ——, Colonel (afterwards Earl and Duke of Tyrconnel), brings let- ters from Portugal, i. 270—al- luded to, 295; ii. 179, 213; iv. 96: see also Tyrconnel ——, Mr., admires Mrs. Pepys, iv. 70 ——,, Peter, the priest, iii. 474 —, Sir John, iii. 324-duel fought by, 351—notice of, ib.— alluded to, iii. 424; iv. 45 Talbots, the, some account of, iii. 351 Talents, Mr., jun., iii. 356 Tallies, their use explained, ii. 234 Talmash, Sir Lionel, ii. 241 “ Tameing of a Shrew,” iii. 103, 296 “Tamer Tamed,” a comedy, i. 118, 204 Tamkin, or tompion, iii. 197 Tamworth, i. 348 Tangier, account of, i. 223, 229— fleet sent to, 252, 256—defeat of the Moors at, 258—is given up to Lord Sandwich, 258, 259—on the affairs of, ib.—map of, presented to the Duke of York, 261—pro- jected mole at, 340—committee for the affairs of, 357, 359, 361, 397, 402-404, 413; ii. 32, 43, 126, 131, 149, 153, 181, 226, 227, 251, 253, 317, 391, 396, 470, 478; iii. 64, 126, 195, 331, 411, 442, 473; iv. 14, 41, 49, 59, 67, 81, 95, 102, 172, 174—great expense of, i. 403; iii. 104, 122, 195—attacked by the Moors, under Guyland, ii. 26, 37, 131—Pepys’s appoint- ment as Treasurer for, 220— GENERAL INDEX ruinous condition of, 373; iv. 167 —the mole at, destroyed, 230— alluded to, i. "94, 278, 283, 293, 317, 355, 363, 372, 315, ; ii. 56, 67, 71, 110, 158, 185, 199, 200, 203, 255, 266, 289, 295, 314, 396, 337, 350, ; 400, 434; iii. 73, 84, 86, 101, 102, 107, 150, 155, 213, ‘249, 298, 299, 327, 336, 358, 363, 471, 473, 480; iv. 27, 40, 83, 84, 91, 141, 161, 165, 167, 180, 211, 212, 230 Tankard, presented to the Earl of Sandwich, i. 138 Tanner, Dr., Chancellor of the Dio- cese of Norwich, iv. 284, 294 Tansy, a savoury dish, i. 267 Tarantula, cure for its bite, i. 255 Tarbut, Lord, his letter to the Lord Reay, respecting the Second Sight, iv. 261—to Mr. Boyle, on the same subject, 263—alluded to, 268, 269 “Tarugo’s Wiles,” a comedy, iii. 276 Tasbrough, Mr., ii. 259 Taterset (Norfolk), ii. 83 Tatham, John, comedy by, i. 122 Tatnell, Captain, iii. 396, 406 Taunton and Lyme, defence of, ii. 132 Taylor, Captain, i. 26; ii. 128, +22 293, 228, 315, 322, 388 —, Commissioner, ii. 372, 387; iii. 101 : f » Elizabeth, ii. 115 » Mr., the Rev., i. 199 —, Mr. (the schoolmaster), ii 270 ; ——, Silas, notices of, ii. 56—al- luded to, 192; iii. 417; iv. 1, 169— anthem by, iii. 472 (Tayleur), William, arbitrary proceedings adopted by Lord Mordaunt against, iii. 18, 19, 206 Taylors’ Company, History of the, iv. 4 Tax, a voluntary one, for the poo i. 194 Tea, first known in England, i. 109; ii. 175 é Tearne, Captain, killed, ii. 390 —— (Terne), Dr., i. 391 ~ Teasel Close, Bishopsgate, iv. 156 Teddiman, Captain Cara ds Admiral Sir Thomas), i. 182— sends news from Algiers, 282 SS SS eee GENERAL INDEX captures some vessels belonging to the Dutch, ii. 186—portrait of, 371—cowardice of, asserted, 387—commended by the Duke of York, 391—considers himself slighted, 392—complains of the want of discipline in the fleet, 482, 483—illness of, iii. 4833—his death, 442—his funeral, 443—al- luded to, i. 44, 282; ii. 227, 228, 256, 282, 283, 395, 421; iii. 99, 433 Teddington, i. 278 Tedworth, Wilts, house haunted at, ii. 8; iii. 16 Tempest, Mr., iii. 455, 477 “Tempest, the,” iii. 299, 302, 324 Temple, Colonel, killed in a quar- rel, iii. 397 , James, iv. 46—his death, 140 , John, the goldsmith, his statement respecting the harp and cross money, ii. 334—alluded to, 307 Temple, Mrs., iii. 7, 11 , Sir Richard, expression said to have been used by, to the King, ii. 9, 10, 12, 15—voted clear of any imputation, by the House of Commons, 17—alluded to, 110; iii. 378, 406 ,. Thomas, of Frankton, iii. ll Temple, stoppage of the great fire at the, ii. 449—riot among the students in, iv. 113, 147—alluded to, ii. 264; iii. 102 Bar, i. 13; ii. 351; iii. 49 Church, i. 126, 170, 271; ii. 479; iii. 311 Templer, Mr., describes a species of serpent, i. 254 Tennent, Mr., geologist, iv. 327 Tennis, game of, ii. 79, 81, 83; iii. 239 Terella, or obicular loadstone, one given to Pepys by Barlow, ii. 68 —invented by Sir Christopher Wren, ib—one shown to J. Evelyn, ib. Terne, Captain Henry, iv. 347 Terre Filius at Oxford, iii. 386 Terry, Mrs., i. 210 Tettersell, Nicholas, notice of, iii. 70 467 Teviot, Lord, made Deputy-Goy- ernor of Tangier, i. 409, 410—re- pulses the Moors, ii. 26—makes peace with Guyland, 37—killed at Tangier by an ambush of the Moors, 130—his great courage, 132—alluded to, 32, 33, 43, 71, 131, 134, 168, 204; iii. 177, 195; iv. 14 Texel, the, ii. 233, 245, 266; iv. 350 Thacker, Mr., iii. 477 Thames, procession on, on_ the Queen’s arrival in London, i. 318 —London first supplied with water from, ii. 42—high tide in the, 71—particulars respecting, 340—removal of property on, at the great fire, 442—showers of sparks fall into, 443—dismal ap- pearance of, 449—bridge of barges over, iii. 144—fortifica- tions of, 165 Street, i. 318—destroyed by the great fire, ii. 441; iii. 39, 404 —alluded to, 443 Thanksgiving appointed for the naval victory, il. 429 Theatre, new, in Covent Garden, i. 380—one projected, in Moor- fields, ii. 154; iii. 62 Theatres, price of admission into, iii. 337 Theorbo, a musical instrument, i. 239; iii. 344, 406 Thetford, fiddlers of, iv. 29, 38 Thin, Mr.: see Thynne Thomas, Mr., i. 29, 38 Thomond, Earls of, ii. 32; iv. 225 Thompson, John, the divine, iii. 222 3) Mirs.5) 13), 197 , Sir William, elected for London, i. 160; ii. 462 Thoms, W. J., ii. 274 Thomson, Colonel, i. 42, 81; iii. 320, 321, 373; iv. 68 Thorn, charms for the prick of a, ii. 197 Thornbury, Mr., i. 179, 225 Thornton, declares for the Par- liament, i. 46 Thorpe, John, built Kirby Castle, ii. 13 Three Cranes, the, i. 251, 309; ii. 44Q —— Crowns, Bristol, iii. 463 468 ————, in Cheapside, i. SI0 Three Stags, iv. 327 — Tung, ii. 334 ——— Tavern, fray at, ili. 123, 127—alluded to, iv. 50, 177 ————,, Cambridge, i. 27 Throgmorton, Robert, iv. 279 Se ee Thunder-storms, dreadful, i. li. 13, 140, 159 Thurland, Edward, i. 350 Thurloe, John, noticed, i. 30—his house at Wisbeach, ii. 40—al- luded to, i. 60, 101, 395 Thwaites, Mr., the antiquary, iv. 305 Thynne, Mr. Henry, iv. 359 ,» Sir Thomas, Bart. of Kempsford, ii. 461 , Thomas, Envoy Extraordi- nary to Sweden, ii. 461 , Thomas, of Longleate, his murder, ii. 461 Tibalds (Theobalds), palace of, iii. 451 Tickets, on the payment of seamen by, i. 127; iii. 154, 160, 172, 260, 287, 290, 292, 293, 311, 360, 370, 313, 376, 378, 384, 388, 390, 478, 479; iv. 195 Tides, high, i. 37; ii. 71 Tilbury Fort, ii. 277 Tilghman, Abraham, to S. Pepys, informing him of Mrs. St. Michel’s death, iv. 231-232 Tillison, J., letter to Dr. Sancroft, ii. 287 Timber, speculation in, proposed to Pepys, ii. 460, 461—on the proper time for felling, ii. 283 Timbrell, Mr., the anchorsmith, i. QA Timewell, Mr., iv. 358 Tinker, Captain, of the Covertine, i. 257; iv. 135 Tippets (Tippet), eae afterwards knighted, i. 273; 2, 17, 98— Commissioner of ae Navy, ili. 391 Tichfield House, near Southampton, i. 274 Titchmarch, Northamptonshire, i. 178; Tite, Mrs., ii. 389 Titus, Col. Silas, i. 56; ii. 175 Toad, experiment with a, li. 456 Tobacco, an antidote for the GENERAL INDEX plague, ii. 242—its salutary effect — upon horses, iii. 222—cultivated successfully in England, 253 4 Tolhurst, Major, i. 372 Tollett, Mr., high character of, iv. — 288—alluded to, 358 : Tomkins, Sir Thomas, ii. 3; iii. 198 — Tomkis, Mr., his play of “ Albuma- zar,” iii. 382 Tom of the Wood, prediction of, — ili. 156 Tom Otter, character of, iii. 210 Tomson, Mr., ii. 237 Tonson, Jacob, iii. 217 Tooker, Francis, called also Frank, and Mrs., ii. 311, 318, 354 | Mr. epi 327, 339, 444, 453 Torrington, Earl of, suspected ille- gitimacy of, iii. 307, 308 q Tothill Fields, made a burial place, © ii. 264, 265 : Toulon, ii. 317 ' Toulsky, Duke of, ambassador, i. — 365 Tower, Major Salwey committed | to, i. 9—Crofton committed to, 161—Barkestead, Oakey, and Corbet committed to, 264—sum — of money said to be concealed in, ~ 341—ineffectual search for it, 342, 343, 345, 346, 349—Dunkirk money deposited in, 352—the lions in, 411—committal of — Holmes to, ii. 199—Earl of | Northumberland’s walk, iv. 124— — alluded to, i. 142, 148, 158, 185, 411; ii. 407, 410, "413 f Tower Hill, i. 252—execution of — Sir H. Vane on, 290—houses ~ pulled down on, iii. 4 : —— Street, destroyed by the great y fire, ii. 445, 446 ; Townshend, Baron, i, 172 Y Townsend, Mr., officer of the ward- robe, i. 83, 86, 105, 117, 164, 190, a 192, 203, 218, 278; iii. 144, 238, © 239, 293, 333——character of, 359 7 Trade, increase of, i. 376—prohibi- tion of, by the Dutch, ii. 205 » the Council for, i. 146; iy. 171 Train bands, i. 106, 127, 136, 140, — 299, 321; ii. 111, 276; fii. 147, 198 Transfusion of blood, iii. 10, 310 © Travelling on Sundays, proclama- tion against, ii. 41 _ “Traytor, the,” a play, i. 226; ii. 200; iii. 262 ; Treasurer, Lord: see Southampton, Earl of Treby, Chief Justice, iii. 246 Tredagh, the, man-of-war, strikes on the Kentish Knock, i. 110 Trees, blown down, i. 260—covered with earth at Blackwall, ii. 301 Trelawny, Sir Jonathan, iv. 116 Trent, History of, ii. 72 Treswell, Colonel, i. 245 Trevanion, Captain, iv. 142, 148, 206 Trevor, John (afterwards Sir John), i. 238; iii. 332; iv. 19, 24, 132, 133—made Secretary of State, 198—alluded to, 204 Trice, Jasper, his circumstances, iii. 103 ——, T., his lawsuit with Pepys, i. 238, 243, 245—alluded to, 199, 987; ii. 111, 175, 176 Triennial Parliaments, act for, il. 208, 110, 112, 115, 408; iii. 378 Trinculo, character of, iii. 382 Trinity, Penn’s tract on the, iv. 101 ——— College, i. 335, 404; iii. 267, 383 —__— Hall, i. 204; iii. 92 House, i. 81—new charter granted to, 137—election of a master of, 193, 284; ii. 323; iii. 444, 445—alms-houses belonging to, ii. 117—alluded to, i. 251, 254, 256, 258, 291, 319, 322, 324, 344, Al4; ii. 7, 230, 355, 446; iii. 16, 142, 384; iv. 202 Tripos, at Cambridge, i. 28; ii. 169 Tripp, Mr., iii. 6 Triumph Tavern, at Charing Cross, i. 284 “Troilus and Creseide,” extract from, ii. 157 Troutbecke, Mr. (physician to the Fleet), ii. 364—anecdote of, iii. 8 —alluded to, 61, 121 — Troy, siege of, a story, i, 157 Truelocke, the gunsmith, iii. 93 Trumpet-marine, iii. 288 Tryan, Mr., robbed, ii. $3 § hon,” a tragedy, iv- 64 er, Henry, tried for a con- spiracy, iii. 28 Tudor, character of, ii. 158 => Mary; iii. 80 GENERAL INDEX 469 Tuke, Lady, iv. 286 ——, Sir George, his “ Adventures of Five Hours,” i. 371; ii. 151, 433; iv. 90, 103 —, Sir Samuel, iii. 257; iv. 103, 200 Tully’s Offices, i. 138 vie tin ii. 26, 29, 258, 418, 424, Tunis and Tripoli, reported peace with, i. 351, 355 “Tu Quoque,” a play, iii. 249, 252 Turberville, Dr., iii. 470, 473, 474 Turenne, Marshal, anecdote of, iil. 90—becomes a Romanist, iv. T0— noticed, iii. 166, 340 Turkey fleet, the, ii. 201 aime Head, New Palace Yard, i. Turks, presents designed for the, j. 194—they capture the English merchantmen, 250—defeat of, 277 —their advance into Germany, &e., ii. 42, 45, 50, 53, s0—de- feated, 154, 157, 160 Turlington (the spectacle-maker), iii. 279, 298 : Turner, Betsy, iii. 27, 222. 294, 344, 356, 409, 415, 461, 463; iy. 18, 100, 111, 126, 145 ——, Colonel, tried for robbery, ii. $4, 85—his execution, $6, 87 —his confession, ib. , Frank, iii. 326 , John, i. 17, 287; iii. Q7; iv. 75 , Mr., of Eynsbury, iii. 294 (of the Navy office), i. 87, 88—alluded to, 89, 148; iii. 38, 131, 222, 225, 251, 296, 414, 433, 468; iv. 32, 34, 35, 90, 122 , Mr. (the draper), knighted, i. 310 Turner, Mr., sermon by, i. 199— alluded to, iii. 297 , Mrs. (sister of Edward Pepys), i. 17, 39, 162, 165, 166, 256, 266, 277, 312, 354, 394; ii. 945, 339, 371, 445; iii. 19, 26, 53, 60, 66, 95, 130, 131, 188, 191, 192, 212, 217, 225, 281, 326, 332, 357, 399, 425, 442, 468, 472, 475; iv. 4, 5, 26, 32, 38, 60, 76, 86, 103, 124, 126, 142, 146, 147 , Sir Charles, iii. 27 , Sir Edward, Speaker of the 470 House of Commons, ii. 84—made Solicitor-General, iii. 46, 235— alluded to, 46, 91 » Sir Gregory Page, ii. 233 » Sir William, ii. 76; iii, 19, 27, 91, 324, 335, 473 » Theophila (daughter of John), i. 17, 18, 114, 162, 267, 276, 394; ii. 234, 329 ; iii. 27, 148, 249, 251; iv. 76, 81, 86, 94, 111, 139, 145, 152 » Timothy, the divine, iv. 356 Turtle-doves, a present to Mrs. Pepys, i. 164, 114 Tuscany, Prince of, Cosmo, iv. 145, 149, 155, 180 Tuttle (Tothill) Fields, ii. 264 “Twelfth Night,” a play, i. 217; iv. 85—celebrated, ii. 341; iii. 344; iv. 77 Twickenham, i. 84, 164; ii. 416; iii. 319 Twiddy, Captain, iii. 131 Tyburn; Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw, buried at, i. 148, 149 —executions at, 270, 426; iv. 38 Tyler, the purser, iii. 158 Tylney, Earl of, i. 253 Tyreonnel, Richard Talbot, Earl and Duke of, i. 270; ii. 179; iv. 96: see also Talbot Tyrrel, Mr., the City brancer, iv. 113 Tyrrell, Sir Edward, iv. 116 ,» Thomas, Commissioner of the Great Seal, i. 18 Remem- “Unfortunate Lovers,” a play, ii. 104; iii. 249, 420; iv. 61 “Ungrateful Lovers,” a play, iii. 249 Uniformity, act of; see Conform- ity Union, act of, iii. 395 Unity, the, man-of-war, iii. 288 Unthanke, Mr., iii. 475; iv. 19, 89, 107, 134, 144, 150, 174 Unthwayte, Mr., ii. 275; iii. 290; iv. 128 Untton, Captain Michael, iv. 347 Upas tree, ii. 218 Upcott, Mr., i. xxxiv.—his collec- tion of letters, iv. 189 Upnor Castle, i. 307; iv. 187—ill defence of, iii, 152, 153, 154, 160, 177 perme y NI iS GENERAL INDEX Urania, man-of-war, taken, ii, 244 Urquhart, Sir Alexander, ii. 307 Ursulines, the, in Paris, i. xii. Urwin, William, landlord of Will’s Coffee-house, ii. 91 Uscut, Wilts, ii. 8 Hf Uae a tragedy, ii. 81; iv. Utber, Captain, ii, 11 Utrecht, i. 91 Uxbridge, treaty at, ii. 17—alluded to, 238 Valentines, curious particulars re- Specting, i. 23, 153-156, 256, 394; il. 210, 352; iii. 65, 66, 75, 114, 372; iv. 103 Vales, at christenings, ii. 476 “ Valiant Cidd,” a play, i. 356 Valladolid, ii. 434 ; Valour, different kinds of, ii. 132 Vandeputt, Mr., iii. 431 Vandyke, Sir Anthony, picture of, i. 421—his portrait of the Queen- Mother, ii. 295—alluded to, 352; iii. 111; iv. 246 Vane, Lady, iii. 131 j » Sir H.. noticed, i. 6, 21, 23— sent prisoner to Scilly, 230— charges against him, 281—is tried and found guilty, 288—his execu- tion on Tower Hill, 290—courage of, 291-293, 297—his trial printed, 383—alluded to, ii. 60; iii. 131 Vanguard, man-of-war, ii. 248; iii. 178 Van Tromp, Admiral, false report of his death, ii. 244—alluded to, 388; ii. 237, 391, 424 Van Tromp, the great Dutch Ad- miral, epitaph on, i. 66 Vario (Verrio), Signor, iv. 221 Vatteville. (Batteville), Baron de, the Spanish Ambassador, i. 185, 222, 223-295 _ Vaughan, John, his speech on Tri- ennial Parliaments, ii. 111, 112— character of him, 408—made Privy Councillor, iii. 152—made Lord Chief Justice, 466—alluded to, ii. 125, 416; iii. 205, 311, 375, 384, 394, 419, 499 animosity against Lord Clarendon, iii. 305 an GENERAL INDEX —particulars respecting, ib.—his servility to the king, 375 , Mr., Commissioner of the Admiralty, iv. 213 , Mr., the engraver, iv. 249 Venice, city of, i. 73, 246; iv. 138, 284—picture of, at Eton College, li. 359 Venner, Dr., tomb of, iii. 465 , Thomas, the fifth-monarchy man, heads the insurrection, 1. 139—his execution, 145—occur- rence during insurrection of, ii. 407 Vere, Aubrey, i. 258 Verelst, Simon, a Dutch flower painter, iv. 148 Vernatty, Mr., ii. seconds, 481 Verneuil, Duc de, ii. 225 Vernon, Colonel, iv. 123 , Lady, i. 382 , Mr. Secretary, iv. 288, 358 —, Sir Thomas, i. 382 Versailles, partridges mumerous near, ii. 364 Vertue, George, engraver, i. XxvVii. Vessel, with two keels, fast sailing, ii. 31, 87, 89, 193 Viall, arched, account of, ii. 173 “ Victoria Corombona” (Vittoria Corombona), a play, i. 224 Victoria, Queen, i. 105 Victuallers’ account, question con- cerning i. 289—alluded to, ii. 312;, iii. 213 Victualling-office, its site, i. 186; iv. 332—fire at, 240 “Villaine,” a play, i. 336; ii. 291; iii. 288 Villiers, Barbara, i. 93: see Mrs. - Palmer ' , Barbara, wife of James Howard, Earl of Suffolk, ii. 25 , Colonel Edward, iv. 116 , Edward, lst Earl of Jer- sey, i. 368 , Elizabeth, Countess of Ork- ney (King William’s mistress), his prodigality to her, iv. 283 , Elizabeth (sister of Ist Duke of Buckingham), iii. 29 , George, Viscount Grandi- son, iii. 249 ‘ , Katharine, ii. 280 , Sir George (afterwards Ist 113, 118—ab- 471 Duke of Buckingham), i. 56, 76 —portrait of, iv. 246: see also Buckingham , Sir William, ii. 280 eer William, alderman, i. 11, Q Viner, Lady (wife of Sir G.), her beauty, ii. 292; iii, 110—alluded to, 233 ——, Sir George, iii. 110 ——., Sir R., entertains the King at Guildhall, ii. 291—>preserves the remains of a black boy, 292— alluded to, 306, 313, 335, 4765 iii. 8, 72, 73, 80, 110, 120, 129, 156, 160; iv. 22 , Sir Thomas, his funeral, ii. 940 Vines, George, i. 115 ——., Mr., ii. 280 Vineyard, at Hatfield, i, 201—at Greenwich, ii. 233—at Waltham- stow, iii. 192 Vinnecotio, an Italian musician, iii. 63, 66 “ Virgin Martyr,” a tragedy, i. 154; jii. 388, 435 Virginalls, a sort of espinett, ii. 449; iii. 47, 416 Virginia gained by the English, ii. 171 “ Visions,” a satire, iii. 145 Vivion, Mr., i. 107 Vizards, fashion of wearing, ii. 6, 208 Voltaire, ii. 176 Von Hemskirke, Captain, proposi- tion of, iii. 425, 441, 446—differs with his lieutenant, iv. 130 Vosterman, Lucas, the artist, iv. 246 “ Vulpone,” a comedy, ii. 201 Wade, Mr., i. 34, 341, 342, 344, 345, 349, 360 Wadlow, Simon, i. iii. 173; iv. 324 Wagenaer, his “Speculum Nauti- cum,” ii. 457 Wager, Captain Charles, iv. 347 , Charles, conduct of, iii. 411 Waith, Mr., i. 308; iv. 49 Wakefield, the, man-of-war, altered to the Richmond, i. 70 Walckenaer, Baron, iii. 14 Walcot, Charles, iii. 338 174; ii. 213; 472 Walcote House, near Stamford, iv. Walcott, Rey. Mackenzie, i. xi. Walden, Lionel, M.P. for Hunting- don, i. 193; ii. 459; iii. 397 Walden Monastery, i. 28 Waldron, Thomas, iii. 473 Wale, Sir William, i. 158 Wales, the Prince of, his legitimacy might have been questioned, iy. 302 Walgrave, Edward, i. 4 Walker, Dr., afterwards Sir Wil- liam, one of the Judges of the Admiralty, i. 103—alluded to, 405; ii. 368; iii. 88, 91, 92 , Sir Edward, King at arms, i. 75, 87, 176; ii. 184, 368; iii. 31; iv. 27 Wallbank, the, iy. 190 Waller, Edmund, the poet, ii. 49, 125, 222, 400; iii. 308 , Sir Hardress, i. 112 , Sir W., iii. 465 “ Wall-flower, the,” a book, i. 286 Wallingford House, ii. 25; iii. 217 Wallington, Mr., iii. 477 Wallis, Dr. John, ‘the mathemati- cian, iii. 31—his letter to Pepys, noticing the eclipse, &c., iv. 2776— concerning his picture, 297— thanking him “for that noble present” to the University, 306 —alluded to, 305-307, 309, 357 Wallis, Mr., his MS. on ship-build- ing, ii. 113 , leader of the Covenanters, iii. 24 Wallop, John, Viscount Lyming- ton, i. 92 , Robert, i. 253 Walmer Castle, i. 43 Walpole, Elizabeth, married to Ed- ward Pepys, iii. 208 » Terry, married to Anne Pepys, iv. 75 Walpole’s “Noble Authors,” ex- tract from, iii. 22; noticed, ii. 243 Waltham Cross, i. 260 Forest, timber in, i. 314 Walthamstow, i. 118, 169, 171, 189, 204; ii. 227, 294, 300; iii. 192, 933, 265 Walton, Bishop, his Polyglott, ii. 464 , Izaak, iii. 107 Walton, Mr., i. 181 GENERAL INDEX | “Wandering Ladys,” a comedy, iii. 348 Wanley, Humphrey, the antiquary, — i. xxxvii.; iv. 256, 296, 301, 305 — Wanstead House, the seat of Sir Robt. Brookes, i. xvii.; ii. 236; iii, 109, 121—particulars con- ; cerning, i. 253 ———— Rectory, i. 102; iii. 138 Wapping, riot of the seamen at, iii. 38, 154 ; War, councils of, i. 51, 55; ii. 324, — 409—expectations of, with the Dutch, i. 296; ii. 98, 120, 128; — iv. 144—proclaimed against, ii. : 215—want of money to carry it — on, ii. 225, 377, 379, 393, 416, — 451, 465, 467; iii. 15, 95, 96, 111, _— 157, 158, 170, 474 q Warburton, Peter, iii. 112 i, Ward, Dr., Bishop of Exeter, ii. 468; iii. 86, 219 { » Mr., i. 139; ii. 308; iii, 44 Ward’s Diary, quoted, i. 145, 258; ii. 48; iii. 56 Warden, Mr. J. S., on the meaning — of Morena, i. 338 ‘, Warder, Mr. (Master of the Pells), ii. 305 Warding, Ned, i. 169 Wardrobe, the, Lord Sandwich’s official residence at, i. 81, 182, 184, 187, 190-192, 196, 202, 203, — 208, 217, 220, 232, 935, 243, 268, 271, 278, 279, 282, 284, 286, 299, 300, 364; ii. 161; iii. 119, 338 Wards, court of, i. 18 Ware, Mr., i. 173 ——, town of, i. 27, 204, 218; ii. 38 1 Warmestry, Mrs., Maid of Hon-- our, i. 382 Warner, John, Bishop of Roches- — ber; i. eae , Warrants, votes relative to the — issue of, i. 289 Warrell, prize won by, iv. 150 Warren, Mr. (afterwards Sir W.), — notice of, i. 134; ii, 334—his pre- sent to Pepys, 167—his inde- a corous letter to the Navy Board, — iii. 122—alluded to, i. 184, 149, 171, 314; ii. 37, 91, 175, 185, 289, 364, 365, 367, 421; iii. 29, 42, 312, 386, 473; iv. 58, 66 , W,, i. 383 Warwick, Earl of (Robert Rich), i. 413; ii, 182 _- House, i. 31, 115 ) , Lady, i. 151 , Sir Philip, i. 150, 400; ii. 38, 43, 101, 185-187, 214, 225, 938, 259, 359, 377; iii. 16, 51, 126, 128 i , the Admiral, iii. 175 Yi Washington, Mr., i. 9, 33, 88 Wassail-bowl, carried about at _ _ Christmas, i. 242 _ Wassel (wassail) feast, a, i. 383 _ Watch, mechanism of a, ii. 336 Water-baylage, tax so called, iv. 85 Water, Sir William, i. 148 _ Waterhouse, Dr., sermon by, iv. 92 _ ———, Mr., i. 15 | Waterman, George, Sheriff, ii. Q27 Watermen, petition of the, i, 16 _ Waters, Lucy, a favourite of Charles II., i. 324, 340 } , Major, i. 141, 148, 186 t; , Mr. Justice, ii. 97 i , Richard, i. 324 Watkins, Mr., i. 96 ‘Watling Street, ii. 440 _ Watson, Mr., iv. 159 _ Watts, Mr. i. 86 _ Watt’s “ Bibliotheca,” i. xxvii., 122 _ Wax candles, used for the stage, __ iii. 62 _ Way, Albert, on Danes’ skins af- ___ fixed to churches, i. 167; iv. 322 _ Weyberg (Weybridge), iv. 219 _ “Way to be Rich,” a tract, i. 351 _ Wayneman, Jane (Pepys’s servant maid), i. 88, 135, 243; ii. 439, 4A7; iii. 137, 253 / ——_—., brother of the foregoing, and Pepys’s errand-boy, i. 88, «104,135, 153; li. 14 _ Wayth, Mr., his dispute with Sir Thomas Allen, ii. 368—alluded to, 390, 458 _ Weather, state of the, on various occasions, i. 146, 248; ii. 35, 209, 415; iii. 187, 201; iv. 26—rules ___ respecting the, iii. 416 Weaver, Mr., iii. 105 ei , Mrs., the actress, iii, 42 _ Weavers and butchers, affray be- _ __tween, ii. 153 he pupil of Inigo Jones, ii. 3 GENERAL INDEX AT3 Webster, John, “The White Devil,” a play by him, i. 224— his tragedy of “The Duchess of Maltfy,” 330 sf crete Night,” a tragedy, iii. Weddings, curious old customs at, i. 12, 245, 254, 382—alluded to, {. 91, 123; ii. 20, 272, 432, 438; iii. 65; iv. 5 Weelings, the, on the coast of Hol- land, ii. 422 Weld, Dorothy, i. 42 Weldon, Sir Anthony, his work, “The Court of King James,” ii. 209, 236 Wellfit, Timothy, i. 91 Welling, town of, i. 220; ii. 156, 175 Wells, Jeremiah, the divine, i. 334; iv. 324 —, Mrs. Winifred, Maid of Ho- nour to the Queen, i. 381, 382, 390—curious dress worn by, ii. 395—her beauty, iv. 181 Wells, town of, iii. 465 Wendby, declares for the Parlia- ment, i. 46 Wenman, Viscount, ii. 25 Wentworth, Henrietta, Baroness, iii. 102 ———., Mr., iv. 230 —_——,, Sir G., i. 260 —_———.,, Thos., Esq., apprehended on a charge of murder, i. 259 , Thomas (Earl of Cleve- land), iii. 102 Werden, Colonel Robert, iii. 167, 931; iv, 25 , Sir John (his son), iii. 231 Wertbrown, John, iv. 243 Wescomb, Sir Martin, iv. 229 West, Mr., iv. 357 Westcot, Wm., tried for a conspir- acy, iii. 28 West Frezeland, the, man-of-war, iv. 191 Westhorpe, the seat of the Duke of Buckingham, iii. 78 West Indies, success of British privateers in, iii. 70 Westminster, improvements in, il. Abbey, service in, i. 88, 108, 110, 111, 120, 243—ludi- crous remark of a preacher in, ATA 108—coronation of Charles II. in, 175—tombs in, ii. 247; iv. 108, 322 Bridge, iv. 277 , Dean of, iii. 385 Hall, i. 3—bookstalls, i. 11; iv. 321—Harrison’s head placed near, i. 115—removal of property from the great fire into, ii. 449—alluded to, i. 185 Westmoreland, Francis, Earl of, iii. 23 Weston, Charles, Portland, ii. 244 Westwicke, the fencer, ii. 1 Wetton, John, iv. 357 Weymouth, i. 42—freedom of, pre- sented to Sir Edward Montagu, 45 third Earl of ———., Viscount, ii. 461 Whale-fishery in Greenland, i. 414 Whally’s, i. 93 Wheatly, Mrs., i. 210 Wheeler, Sir William, i. 389, 395; ii. 7, 134 Where, Mr., i. 57; ii. 219; iv. 77 Whetstone, Mr., i. 395, 396 Whisk, a neckerchief, i. 125; ii. 217 Whistler, Dr., i. 151; ii. 211, 343, 349, 408, 447; iii. 12, 310, 398, 439, 455 , the flagmaker, iii. 58 Whitchurch, John, ii. 292 “White Devil, the,” a play, i. 224: see also “ Victoria Corombona” White, the waterman, i. 16 , Jeremiah (Cromwell’s chap- lain), i. 108; ii. 175, 176 , Mr., the engraver, iv. 246 —, Mr. (of Dover), i. 75 White Hart, Saffron Walden, i. 28 —at Woolwich, 305 Horse Tavern, Street, iii. 73 — Lion Inn, Islington, iii. 354 Whitefriars’ playhouse, i. 153, 159, 163 Whitefriars, Gerbier’s academy at, i. 425 White’s Place, i. 183 Whitehall, Shield Gallery at, i. 83, 105—execution of Charles I. at, 113—high tide at, ii. 71—picture gallery at, 370—goods removed from, 450—fire at, iii. 6—new theatre at, ii. 483; iii, 306; iv. Lombard GENERAL INDEX 107—proposed bridge opposi to, 278—noticed, ii. 351 ——__, Banquetting House at, i. 172, 318, 365, 425; ii. 7. Chapel, service at, i. 22, 90, 97, 100, 113, 117, 262, 269, 279, 324, 381, 393; ii. 230, 370, 419; ili. 16, 85, 97, 101, 243; iv. 14 ——., Jewel Office at, i. 137 Whitlock, B., i. 151 Whitmore, Anne, daughter of Sir George, iii. 33 , Frances, ii. 392 , Lady, ii. 392 , Sir George, ii. 101, 167, 392; iii. 33, 441 ] ——_——., Sir Thomas, ii. 392 Whittington, Captain, i. 65 Whittington, puppet-show of, iv. — 28 Whittle, Mrs. Elizabeth, i, 121, 122 , William, Esq., i. 121 Whittlewood, or Whittlebury For- est, ili. 223 Whitton, Thomas, his death, i. 208 Whitty, Captain, killed, ii. 390 Wiard, Mr., the surgeon, i. 273 © Wicken, Mr., iv. 76 “ Widow, the,” a play, i. 139 Widdrington, Dr. Ralph, i. 26, 28, 157 —————,, Sir Thos., i. 11, 18, 38 “Wife for 4 Month,” a play, i. 360 Wiggs, or buns, ii. 7 Wight, Anne, i. 317 ——., Isle of, treaty at the, ii. 58— alluded to, ii. 331 ! i. 161 210; ii. 208, 229, 379; iii. 8; iv 3, 56, 73, 74, 91 Wight, Mrs. (aunt to Pepys), i. 357; ii. 377, 379, 380, 382, 411; iv. 35, 61 » Mrs. Margaret, ii. 208—ad- mired by Mrs. Pepys, 379—and by Pepys, 382 — Wigs, fashionable for ladies, i 266; ii. 394fear of their com- municating the plague, 290 Wild, Robert, his “Iter Boreale,” li. 34; iii. 330 “* Wild-goose Chase,” iii. 347 Wilde, Sir W., the Recorder, i. 26 —made a Justice of Peace, 108 “Wild Gallant,” a comedy, i. 39€ oo Wildes, Mr., ii. 77 Wildman, Mr., iii. 320, 321; iv. 44 Wiles, Mr., iii. 393 _— , Mrs. Elizabeth, iii. 208 3 Wilferd, Francis, Dean of Ely, i. — —824 Wilgness, Captain, i. 41 Wilkes, Mr., ii. 456 Wilkins, Dr. John, Dean of Ripon, ii. 233; iii. 310—made Bishop of Chester, i. 126; iv. 36—alluded to, i. 380; ii. 92, 210, 345, 362; iii. 398; iv. 128—his “ Real Cha- yacter,” iii. 443, 445, 474; iv. 36 Wilkinson, Captain, ii. 241 —_—,, Mr., i. 37, 185 ‘Willet, Mrs., iii. 261, 265, 269, 276, 993, 347, 402, 461, 463, 464 ‘William III., passes several impor- tant Bills, iv. 283 William and Mary, a Dutch ship, iv. 191 Williams, Colonel Richard (origi- nally Cromwell), i. 27, 400; ii. Als iv. 324 —_——., Dr., i. 196—remarkable dog belonging to, 216—alluded to, 287 —_———.,, Harry, protégé of Lord Dartmouth, iv. 230 ——__—., Mr., ii. 419 _———.,, Mrs. (called sometimes _ Lady), mistress of Lord ‘Brouncker, ii. 288, 290, 315, 319, $24, 325, 336, 340, 345, 428, 480; iii. 7, 30, 60, 130, 224, 225, 395, 410; iv. 3, 105, 168, 196, 230 ‘Williamson, Mr. (afterwards Sir _ Joseph), character and notice of, i. 381; iii, 114—alluded to, ii. 32, 186, 223, 260, 424, 479; iii. 183, 394; iv. 47, 77, 127, 128, 154, 167, 286—his commencement of _ “The Oxford Gazette,” ii. 326 Willis, Sir Richard, i. 62—devotes his fortune to the king’s service, - 101—alluded to, ii. 209 - , Sir Thomas, i. 46, 381 Willoughby, Lord, drowned at Bar- _ badoes, iii. 2] Willoughby’s Historia Piscium, i. Will’s coffee-house, ii. 91 Wilson, Mr. (of Chatham), iii. 154; mr av. 17 _ > Mrs., iii. 184, 434 GENERAL INDEX 475 , Thomas, ii. 434; iii. 189, 255 Wilton, the seat of the Earl of Pembroke, iii. 461 Wiltshire, reported appearance of the Devil in, ii. 7 Wimbledon, ii. 106 ———— House and Manor, iv. 343 Win, proceedings against, ii. 123 Winchecombe, town of, iii. 253 Winch, Sir Humphrey, Commis- sioner of the Admiralty, iii. 129; iv. 212 Winchelsea, Earl of, i. 57, 59— ambassador to Constantinople, 100 , town of, ii. 479 Winchester, Marquess of, iv. 163 Wind, Captain, iv. 358 Windebank, Sir Francis, iii. 304 Windham, Mr., killed in an action with the Dutch, ii. 283 Winds, high, i. 257, 260; ii. 346 Windsor Castle, i. 171; ii. 358; iii. 18 , St. George’s feast at, i. 161, 407, 408—alluded to, 170; ii. 271, 281, 285, 356; iv. 164 Forest, ii. 265, 284 ————,, Lord, goes as Governor to Jamaica, i. 270—his return, 383, 389—takes the fort of St. Jago, 389, 403 Wine, buried in the ground, to se- cure it from fire, ii. 445, 454— patent for, iii. 38—act for rais- ing the price of, 471—licenses for, iv. 28 Wingate, Edward, iv. 151 Winsly, man-of-war, altered to The Happy Return, i. 70 Winstanley, William, book by him, iv. 4 Winter, an Algerine pirate, i. 296 mildness of, i. 146, 148, 3 248 , Sir John, agreement re- specting the Forest of Dean, i. 293— alluded to, 312; ii. 10, 220; iii. 85, 117 Wintershell, the actor, iii. 429 Wire, Mr., i. 121 Wisbeach, town of, ii. 40 Wiseman, Sir Robert, i. 404; iii. 91, 92 476 Witches, a discourse upon, iii. 16, 219; iv. 269, 270 Witham, Captain, ii, 134—his ee rel with Colonel Fitzgeral 2 Withers, Mr., ii. 449 “Witt in a Constable,” a play, i. 282 “Witt without Money,” i. 406 “ Witts, the,” a comedy, i. 208, 209, a comedy, 211; iii. 108; iv. 84 Wolsey, Cardinal, his Life, by George Cavendish, iii. 141—al- luded to, ii. 25; iii. 48 Wolstenholme, Sir John, i. 323 Wolverhampton, iv. 307 Woman with a beard, iv. 70 , a tall one, iv. 75, 97 “Woman’s Prize, or the Tamer Tamed,” a comedy, i. 118 Women, their first appearance on the stage, i. 138, 153; ii. 318— churching of, iii. 412 “Women pleased,” a tragi-comedy, iv. 72 Wood, Alderman, i. 42 , Anthony, i. 2—his “Athenee,” 2, 271; ii. 34 i. Sa%'s ay, Gp, LLOs 157 —., Captain, killed, ii. 390 , Dr, Thomas, Dean of Coven- try, ili. 361 , John, Registrar, i. xi , Lady, i. 382—her death, ii. 218 —, Mr. 429, 433 ——, Mr. (son of the foregoing), ii. "429, 433, 441, 442 7 Mrs. (wife of the preced- ing), ii. 436, 441, 443; iii. 214; see also Barbara Sheldon. —., Sir Henry, ii. 456 Woodall, Tom, killed in a quarrel, iii. 77 Woodcock, Elizabeth: Batten ————., Mr., sermons by him, i. 158, 283—is afterwards ejected, 158 Woodmongers, the company of, iii. 298 Wood's 261 (the mast-maker), see Lady Peerage, extract from, iv. ————., a tavern, i. 96 Woolfe, Mr., ii. 441 GENERAL INDEX Woolwich, measures adopted agains the Dutch at, iii. 165, 179—mor- tality among the soldiery there, 232—alluded to, i. 129, 141-143, 153, 186, 190, 270, 301, 304, 307, 308, 322, 327, 352, 361, 394, 405; li. 29, 114, 120, 140, 150, 164, 178, 179, 195, 225, 239, 247, 256, 269,) 280, 288, 289, 297, 301, 311, 338, 341, 397, 416, 432, 446, 450, 452, 453; iii, 74, 137, 138, 153, 156, 157, 165, 406, 456, 476; iv. 127, 175, 327 Woolwich, old woman of, iii. 456; iv. 175, 180 ; ——— stones, iii. 74; iv. 327 Wooly, Mr., ii. 382; iii. 8, 110, 112; iv. 38 ] Woolly, Dr., his son killed in a duel, i. 9 Wootten (Wotton), the seat John Evelyn, iv. 288 Worcester, escape of Charles II, from, i. 71; ii. 242; iii. 301, 302, } iv. 220—original charter of, ii. 229 ————— Cathedral, i. 167 — House, i. 93, 102, 193, 209; ii. 329, 372; iv. 275 , man-of-war, i. 43 ————-, Marquis of, stands god- father to the Duke of York’s child, iii. 251—alluded to, i, 212 World, prediction of its end, i. 352 World’s End, a tavern, iv. 170, 18! Wormleighton, Baron of: see Sun- derland Wormwood wine, i. 126 “Worse and Worse,” a comedy, ii 150 ; Worshipp, Mrs., ii. 332, 333, iii. 63, 102 4 Worthies of England, i. 255: see also Fuller Worthley, Mr., pean iv. 244 his mansion 50, 72 Wotton, Lord, iv. 6—his seat Hampstead, 7 - 4 , Sir Henry, his definition of an ambassador, i. 233—his epi- taph, ii. 359 ; Wragh, Monsieur, the Danish Am a bassador, i. 70 : Wray, Sir Christopher, i. 23 at _ Wren, Dr. (afterwards Sir Christ- _ opher), his machine for drawing pictures, ii. 355; iii. 66—plan for rebuilding the City, 73—alluded to, ii. 242, 243; ili. 56; iv. 93, 101, 132, 163, 170 Wren, Matthew (Bishop of Ely), i, 86; iii. 30 _—, Matthew, secretary to the Duke of York, ii. 361, 480; iii. 98, 30, 47, 173, 224, 235, 240, 942, 255, 260, 275, 302, 319, 340, 387, 413, 437,.470; iv. 2, 5, 10, ll, 12, 18, 20-23, 26, 28, 34-36, 40, 42, 43, 45, 50, 53, 56, 60, 61, 77, 82, 89, 101, 120, 121, 128, 132, 135, 171, 199—his letter to Pepys, concerning his quarrel with the Swedish resident, 202 ——, William, iv. 237 Wrestling-match, i. 197 Wricklesmarsh, the residence of Edward Blunt, Esq., ii. 233, 290 Wright, Abraham, his Sermons, iv. 17 . Yo W , Edward, his letter to Pepys concerning Colonel Scott, iv. 262 Wright, John, i. g0—his maid ser- vant falls sick of the plague, ii. 276, 277 , Lady, i. 172, 187, 935, 240, 384; ii. 262, 263; iii. 79; iv. 192 Michael, the portrait- painter, i. 292 , Mr. (uncle to Pepys), i. , Mrs. (aunt to Pepys), i. 106, 149, 401, 403; ii. 172 , Nan, ii. 431; iii. 35 , Sir Edmund, ii. 291 , Sir Henry, noticed, i. 40— his illness, ii. 72—alluded to, i. 59, 81, 122, 134, 207; ii. 261 Wriothesley, Sir Thomas, i. 274 , Thomas, Earl of Southampton, i. 273: see South- ampton Wroxton, iv. 307 Wyborne, Captain of the Happy Return, iv. 225 Wych, Sir Cyril, iv. 251 Wyndham, Colonel, ii. 324, 331 ——_—_., Mrs. (King’s nurse), ii. Lord Guildford’s seat, , Sir William, ii. 283 GENERAL INDEX 477 Wynn, Mr., of the Temple, iv. 115 Wynne (or Gwynn), Mr. (of the East India Company), ili. 438 Yachts built for the King, i. 142, 148, 217; ii. 268—the Dutch one, i. 101, 121, 142 Yarmouth, man-of-war, ii. 228; iv. 347 , Viscount, i. xviii. , town of, i. 38; ii. 2935 iii. 183, iv. 240, 352 Yarn, Holland, experiment with, i. 288 Yarranton, Andrew, ii. 124 Yates, James, Esq., ii. 422 , Mrs., the singer, iii. 247 , Sir John, iv. 279 Yeabsly, Mr., ii. 378—his demand on the Tangier Committee, 397— alluded to, 287, 378, 381, 397; lil. 255, 295 Yelling, town of, i. 205 Yelverton, Sir Christopher, i. 30 , Sir H., i. 30—elected for the county of Northampton, 48 —alluded to, iii. 351, 403 Yew-trees, under ground, found at Blackwall, ii. 301 York, Anne Hyde, Duchess of, i. 135—her marriage with the Duke of York publicly avowed, 132, 155—is received by the Queen-mother, 136—particulars relative to her marriage, 155, 156 —her person described, 173— death of her son, the Duke of Cambridge, 182—goes to the Opera, 208—her pride, 271; iii. 167—delivered of a girl, i. 275—portraits of her, 292; ii. 365; iv. 345—complains of Lady Chesterfield to the King, i. 345—her jealousy, 419—her ac- couchements, 155, 276; ii. 412; iii. 950—sick of the measles, ii. 79— convalescent, 80—her reported amour with Harry Sidney, 325, 341, 472—goes in mourning for her mother, iii. 320—character of, 353—alluded to, i. 182, 208, 321, 324, 345, 367, 371, 377; ii. AT, 71, 150, 236, 269, 284, 389, 401, 474, 483; iii. 11, 52, 68, 107, 940, 243, 343, 365, 419; iv. 8, 39, 42, 43, 76, 82, 115, 117, 143, 154, 155, 225 478 GENERAL INDEX York House, performance of mass at, i. 185; iv. 28—notice of, i. 185, 366 York, James, Duke of, i. xiv.—re- signs his employments, xxii— voyages of, xxvi—his letter to Sir Edward Montagu, 52—made High Admiral of England, 65, 66, 69, 88—inspects the fleet, 68, 70— his munificence, 78—goes to the Downs, 106—retirns to Lon- don on the death of the Duke of Gloucester, 107, 108—goes to Margate to meet the Princess, his sister, 108—his project of digging for gold in Africa, 110 —his amour with the Lord Chan- cellor’s daughter, 112, 116, 130 —his intimacy with Mrs. Palmer, 114—his expected marriage, 117, 130, 132—his marriage publicly avowed, 132, 155—legitimacy of his son, 111, 155, 182—intro- duces the Duchess to the Queen- mother, 136—said to be friendly to the Romanists, 154—plays at Pall Mall, 163—death of his son, 182—goes to Portsmouth, to meet the Queen, 278, 302—his conversation with the Earl of Sandwich on naval affairs, 295 —is fond of hunting, 326, 350; li. 1, 10, 381, 424, 471; iii. 20, 218, 253; iv. 98—appointed a Commissioner for ‘Tangier, i. 340, 355—falls in love with Lady Chesterfield, 345, 370, 375—is a good skater, 358—character of, 410; ii. 55, 56, 86—christening of his sons, ii. 24; iii. 251—sent for by the Queen, ii. 47—first wears a periwig, 94—made Gov- ernor of the Royal Fishery, 105 —his great personal courage, 132 —relates an anecdote of the Dutch, 136—his reception of the - Dutch Ambassador, 164—his af- fection as a father, 166—pre- pares to join the fleet, 181—re- turns to Portsmouth, 189—his friendship for Lord Muskerry, 191—becomes a Fellow of the Royal Society, 199—expected to return to sea, 216, 223—his high opinion of Pepys, 222—defeats the Dutch, 248—arrives at Court, . Open, 248—his conduct during the en gagement, 251—-visits the fleet, 255—his popularity, 313—s voted him by Parliament, 318 offends the King by his intrigues, and proposes to enter into the Spanish service, 325—made Gen- eral of the Forces, 333—his cool- ness to the Duchess, 341—his de. cision of a dispute between tw naval captains, 368—his com mendation of Sir T. Teddiman and Harman, 391—his intimacy with Lady Denham, 392, 460, 471, 472; ili. 283—his dispute with the Duke of Albemarle, ii. 395— visits. the fleet, 398—reports the loss sustained by the Dutch, 415 —receives a blow while hunting, 428—his orders respecting the great fire, 440, 442—patrols the City, 444—new fashion of dress adopted by, 471—purposes to go to the North, to raise an army, iii. 24expected to return to sea with the fleet, 55—his present to Mrs. Stuart, 113—his partiality for the fair sex, 166—embarrass- ment of his affairs, 167—goy- erned by his wife, 210; iv. 42—_ resolves to reform his domestic conduct, iii. 213—dismisses Mr. Brounker from Court, 231—his altercation with Sir W. Coven- try, 233, 475—his letter to the Queen of Spain, 259—incurs the King’s displeasure _ respecting Lord Clarendon, 276, 304, 305, 319—inquiries of Parliament into his conduct, 280, et seq.—at- tacked with the smallpox, 300-— 302—his recovery, 302—his es- tate put into commission, 331— his rules respecting the weather, 416—proposal made to him by — Captain Von Hemskirke, 425—_ his letter on the state of the — Navy, i. xxviii; iv. 11, 12, 26, 58—his birthday, 34—his submis- — sion to the King, 44—his account of the Spanish soldiers, 69, 70— — his proposed reformation of naval — affairs, 100—his cabinet broken — 131—alluded to, 190, 194, 198, 199, 202, 204, 205, 210, © x “a Rae P seq., 334, 336—His Letters: Lord H. Howard, concerning epys’s election, 199—to the mn of Aldborough, concerning same, ib.——to Pepys: inquir- about Narborough’s fleet, 210 1—visits Holland, ib.—to the _ King, in behalf of Pepys, 215— _ to Pepys, concerning an address to the King, 219—at Newmar- ket, 221—returns to Scotland, _924——shipwrecked in his voyage thither, 224, 225: see also James York, plot at, ii. 84 —~—, the, man-of-war, ii. 400 Oye GENERAL INDEX A479 — waggon (a public convey- ance), li. 330 Young, the actor, his performance of Macbeth, iii. 277 ——, Mr. (of the wardrobe), i. 319 —his death, iii. 293 , Mr., the flagmaker, i. 174; ii. 447; iii. 58, 100 , Sir Charles George, iii. 40 Zanchy: see Sanchy - Zealand, i. 18—British prisoners in, iii. 232, 244 squadron, the, ii. 420, 425 “Zion’s Plea against Prelacy,” ii. 84 THE END if ‘| ' Y y ‘ ‘ ig a i ; i, Hi i \ 5 { ; I Wet ] " - A ‘ 1 { ‘ Wik ny : ele ‘ ; . . , ‘ - we 4 yh Fy - s Z _ ? t . - . : 5 - a i Kah Heat st aH tylh WThsast x Sine 3 ati Hety ty NOL960rE TT weWgr] Aysueatuy eng