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1897

This edition, consisting of

4 copies on Vellum paper,
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all of which are signed and numbered, was printed in
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diary and correspondence of
Samuel Pepys, esq^, f.r.s.

DIARY

CORRESPONDENCE
Samuel Pepys, esq^,fr.s.

FROM His MS. CYPHER IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY,
WITH A LIFE AND NOTES BY
RICHARD LORD BRAYBROOKE.
DECIPHERED, WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES, BY
REV. MYNORS BRIGHT, M.A.,
PRESIDENT AND SENIOR FELLOW OF MAGDALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

VOL. I.

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NEW-YORK:
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY.
1884.

Milverton. Let us take five or six of the men who are best
known to the world. Now they shall not be saints or martyrs ; or
men especially renowned tor goodness of any kind. I will choose
them only from the fact that they happen to be well known to us —
not their lives particularly, but themselves. The men I will choose
are Horace, Dante, Montaigne, Pepys, Dr. Johnson, and Rousseau.
EUesmere. A queer collection. How they would have quar
relled !
Milverton. I don't know about that. All I contend for is, that
there is much to admire and like in each of these men, however great
their faults may have been.
Sir Arthur. Pepys ?
Ellesmere. The best chosen of all. Now, there is a book I have
read — his Diary — over and over again. I give Milverton great
credit for choosing him. He does not pretend to be a mass of virtue,
but, after all, how much good and worth there is in the fellow. I look
upon that Diary of his as the truest book ever written. Even when
he condescends to conformity, you can see that he does not take in
himself, or wish to take in any reader, if that Diary was ever intended
to be read. One day he goes in a barge with the King and the Duke
of York. " Good Lord ! " he says, " what poor stuff they did talk."
Then recollecting that, as an ofBcial man,- he must not, even to him
self, run down his oflBcial superiors, he adds, " But God be praised,
they are both ot them princes of marvellous nobleness and spirit."
Helps' Social Pressure, pp. 162, 163.

PREFACE.

When I was obliged three or four years ago, owing
to ill health, to leave Cambridge, a college friend said
to me, "You may as well decipher afresh Pepys'
Diary." I followed his suggestion, and I have de
ciphered the original MS. to the best of my abihty.
I have twice carefully gone over every word in the
original short-hand. I have added about one third
of matter never yet published, and at the end of each
volume I have made a hst of the principal mistakes
in the former editions, so that any one who chooses to
take the trouble may compare the corrections with the
mistakes, and form his own opinion upon them.
"Mr. Pips his Diary," immortalized by Doyle and
Leigh, is so well known and his name is now such a
"household word," that I think I have no need to
apologize for giving the pubhc a fuller account of his
domestic affairs. I have therefore pubhshed the whole
of the Diary, with the exception of such parts as I

vi PREFACE.
thought would be tedious to the reader, or that are
unfit for publication. To some I may appear to have
put in too much unimportant matter, others may think
that I should have pubhshed the whole of the Diary.
To all, however, who may read this edition and be
come acquainted with most of Pepys' most secret
thoughts, which he never intended should be known,-
I will venture to say :
" Be to his virtues very kind.
Be to his faults a little blind."
He was a passionate and jealous, but an affectionate
husband. He and his wife, who had " a temper of
her own," were continually quarrelling, but, with the
exception of one disastrous occasion, they soon made
up their domestic squabbles and " friends again as we
always are." He was a good son, and he was on the
whole a kind and generous brother.
It is impossible for any one who has not read the
entire Diary fully to appreciate Pepys' industry and
diligence in his ofifice of Secretary to the Admiralty,
but it would have been tedious to the reader if I had
copied from the Diary the account of his daily work
at the ofifice, and it is no wonder after nine years'
constant labour and writing from early in the moming
till late at night that his eyes failed him, and that he
- See last page of the'Diary. (M. B.)

PREFACE. Vll
was obhged for a time to give up his work. I felt
quite grieved for him when I compared the cipher in
the sixth and last volume with the beautifully written
and clear cipher in the preceding volumes.
I will only add the character given of Pepys by
his intimate friend Eveljm in his Diary, May 26th,
1703: —
" This day died Mr. Samuel Pepys, a very worthy, industri
ous, and curious person, none in England exceeding him in
knowledge of the navy, in which he had passed through all the
most considerable offices. Clerk of the Acts and Secretary of
the Admiralty, all which he performed with great integrity.
When King James II. went out of England, he laid down his
office and would serve no more, but withdrawing himself from
all public affairs, he lived at Clapham with his partner, Mr.
Hewer, formerly his clerk, in a very noble house and sweet
place, where he enjoyed the fruit of his labours in great pros
perity. He was universally beloved, hospitable, generous,
learned in many things, skilled in music, a very great cherisher
of learned men, of whom he had the conversation. His library
and collection of other curiosities were of the most consider
able, the models of ships especially. Besides what he pub
lished of an account of the navy, as he found and left it, he
had for divers years under his hand the history of the navy, or
Navalia, as he called it ; but how far advanced and what will
follow of his is left, I suppose, to his sister's son, Mr. Jackson,
a young gentleman whom Mr. Pepys had educated in all sorts
of useful learning, sending him to travel abroad, from whence
he returned with extraordinary accomplishments and worthy

Vlll PREFACE.
to be his heir. Mr. Pepys had been for near forty years so
much my particular friend, that Mr. Jackson sent me complete
mourning, desiring me to be one to hold up the pall at his
magnificent obsequies ; but my indisposition hindered me from
doing him this last office."
Mynors Bright.
23, Sussex Place, Regent's Park.

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THE LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS.

Samuel Pepys, the author of the Diary, was de
scended from a younger branch of the ancient family
of Pepys, who are represented to have settled at Cot-
tenham, in Cambridgeshire, early in the i6th century."
His father, John Pepys, was a citizen of London,
where he followed the trade of a tailor about the year
1660; he soon afterwards retired to Brampton, in
Huntingdonshire, at which place he had inherited a
small property ^ from an elder brother, and ended his
days there in 1680. Of his mother, I can only learn
that her name was Margaret, and that she died in
1666-7, having had issue six sons and five daughters,
of which number, three only of the former, and one
of the latter, were living in 1659.
Samuel, the eldest surviving son, was born February
23, 1632-33, whether at Brampton or in London I have
no means of ascertaining ; both places being named
with equal confidence by his different biographers.
' They are said, in the History of Norfolk, to have originally been seated
at Diss in that county.
2 The rental was about ;^4o per annum.

X LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
From allusions in the Diary, we leam that he passed
his boyish days in or near the Metropohs,' and was
educated at St. Paul's School, where he probably con
tinued till 1650, early in which year his name occurs
as sizar on the boards of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Previously, however, to his going to reside in that
University, March 5th, 1650-1, he had removed to
Magdalene College, where he was elected into one of
Mr. Spendlufife's scholarships the next month -, and in
165 1, preferred to one on Dr. Smith's foundation.^

" He went first to school at Huntingdon. See Diary, March 15, 1660:
" I met Tom Alcock, one that went to school with me at Huntingdon, but I
had not seen him these sixteen years." (M. B.)
2 The only notices that I have been able to gather from the Entry and
Register-books of Magdalene College are the following: —
"Oct. I, 1650.
" * Samuell Peapys fiiius Johannis Peapys civis Londinensis, annos natus
 6 schola Paulina admissus est Sizator Tutore Dno Moriand.
" * Mem, eu prius admissu fuisse in Aula Trin: 21 die Junij ejusdem ani,
ut patet ex testif Mri Twells ibidem Socio, dat. Mar: 4. 1632, quo die etia
in ordine transijt Pensionariorum apud nos."
"Aprilis 30. 1651.
" Ego Samuel Pepys admissus fui in discipulum hujus Collegij pro Magis
tro Spenluff." " Octob. 40. 1653.
" Ego Samuel Pepys electus fui et admissus in discipulum hujus Collegij
pro Magistro Joanne Smyth."
These entries show that he was a fair scholar and a " reading man." But
alas / from the Registrar's book: —
" October 21, 1653. Memorandum: that Peapys and Hind were solemnly
admonished by myself and Mr. Hill, for having been scandalously overserved
with drink ye night before. This was done in the presence of all the Fellows
then resident in Mr. Hill's chamber. John Wood, Registrar."
We read in the Diary, May, 1668, " Walked to Magdalen College and
there into the butterys, as a stranger, and there drank my bellyfull of their
beer, which pleased me, as the best I ever drank."
I should be glad, if I could, to have a gossip with him and hear his opinion

LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. xi
How long Mr. Pepys continued at Cambridge, or
what were his academical pursuits, we are not in--
formed; but in October, 1655, he married Elizabeth
St. Michel, a native of Somersetshire, whose father is
described as having been of a good family ; and her
mother was descended from the Cliffords of Cumber
land. As Mrs. Pepys had only just quitted the con
vent in which she was educated, at the early age of
fifteen,' and brought her husband no fortune, it is
unnecessary to say more upon the imprudence of the
alhance ; but no doubt the youthful pair were glad to
find an asylum in the family of Mr. Pepys's Cousin,
Sir Edward Montagu, afterwards created Earl of Sand
wich, to whose good offices at this period, and con
tinued friendship, he owed and gratefully acknowledged
his subsequent advancement. Of the exact situation
which he filled during his residence in the house of
his powerful relative, no mention is made. We ofily
know that after having been successfully cut for the

of the beer now. I am afraid in those days that Magdalene College did not
enjoy the reputation of a " tea-drinking " college, which it afterwards had at
the beginning of this century. The next entry in the Registrar's book is : —
" September gth, 1654.
" Memorandum. Yt Sir White ijiis title as B.A.) and Anderson being
both taken drunke, should have received admonition for it, but being contu
macious and refusing to come into ye Hall, they had both their names forth
with cut out of ye tables, and Sir White was finally expelled, though Anderson,
upon his reading a recantation, had his name put in again. J. Peachelle,
Registr." (M. B.)
^ Evelyn's mother was married when she was fifteen (Evelyn, Diary^
Svo. 1827, vol. i. p. 11), and Evelyn married his own wife when she was four
teen {Diary, i. p. xxxvi.) ; Samuel Pepys married in 1655 " a girl of fifteen."
Buckle, Common Place Book. (M. B.)

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Stone (the anniversary of which operation he was in
the habit of afterwards celebrating with a becoming
sense of the Divine mercy extended to him), he ac
companied Sir Edward upon his expedition to the
Sound, in March, 1658, and at their return was em
ployed as a clerk, under Sir George Downing, in some
office in the Exchequer, connected with the pay of the
Army. About this period he began his Diary,' which is
interesting in its outset, from the notices which it
convjsys of the opinions and reports prevailing at that
important crisis ; and shortly after becomes still more
so, firom his obtaining the appointment of Secretary
to the two Generals of the Fleet, and his having thus
the opportunity of detailing every occurrence that took
place on board the Naseby, from the time of Sir Ed
ward Montagu's sailing to bring home Charles II. to
that Monarch's arrival at Dover. It was natural to
suppose, that while his Patron, who had acted so con
spicuous a part in bringing about the Restoration, was
rewarded with an Earldom, and made Keeper of the
Great Wardrobe and Clerk of the Privy Seal, Mr.
Pepys would not long remain unemployed. Accord
ingly, we find him the following summer nominated
Clerk of the Acts of the Navy ; and he entered upon
the duties of that Office early in June, 1660, at which
time he resided in Seething-lane, in the parish of St.

' The cipher employed by Pepys is not that known by the name of " Rich's
System," but one composed by Shelton, a later edition of which, i6gi, is in
the Pepysian Library. (M. B.)

LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. xiii
Olave, Hart-street. From this moment his natural
talents for business, which were afterwards to become
so useful to his country, seem to have developed them
selves; and his zeal and industry soon acquired for
him respect in the eyes of the other officers of his
department, and the esteem of the Duke of York, with
whom, as Lord High Admiral, he had almost daily
intercourse. It cannot be supposed, that in so licentious an age,
when the love of pleasure was predominant to every
other consideration, Mr. Pepys should have been so
completely absorbed by his official labours, as to take
no interest in the scenes of dissipation which sur
rounded him. His first object, however, was to dis
charge his duty conscientiously ; and when we observe
the many hours which he devoted to the theatre, and
to the pursuit of every sort of amusement, it is matter
of astonishment how he could have found leisure to
dispatch so much business, and to make copies of the
voluminous Correspondence which passed through his
hands. From the mass of these Papers still extant, it
may be inferred, that he never lost sight of the public
good, and took infinite pains to check the rapacity of
the Contractors, by whom the naval stores were then
supplied, and to estabhsh such regulations in the Dock
yards as might be productive of order and economy.
He was also most anxious for the promotion of the
old-established Officers of the Navy, uniformly striv
ing to counteract the superior influence of the Court
favourites, which too often prevailed in that unprinci-

xiv LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
pled Government over every claim of merit or service,
and resisting to the utmost the infamous system of
selling places, practised at that period, in every de
partment of the State, in the most open and unblush
ing manner. ¦
The Dutch war, which broke out in 1664, stimu
lated Mr. Pepys to still farther exertions, as all the
naval energies of the nation were necessarily called
into action; and during the Plague which occurred
in the following year, when the Metropolis was de
serted, and the service completely abandoned, the
whole management of the concerns of the Navy de
volved upon him, and he remained at his post, regard
less of the dangers which environed him. " The
sickness in general thickens round us, and particu
larly upon our neighbourhood," observes Mr. Pepys,
in writing to Sir W. Coventry at this juncture. " You,
Sir, took your tum of the sword ; I must not, there
fore, grudge to take mine of the pestilence."
He was soon afterwards made Secretary to the
Commissioners for managing the affairs of Tangier,
and Surveyor-general of the Victualling Department ;
which last office he resigned when the peace was
concluded. During the fire of London, respecting which there
are very curious details in the Diary, Mr. Pepys ren
dered the most essential service, by sending up the
artificers from the Dock-yards, who adopted the plan
of blowing up houses, and ultimately arrested the
progress of the flames. In the spring of 1668, when

LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. XV
De Ruyter's successful enterprise against Chatham, in
the preceding year, became the subject of a Par
liamentary inquiry, the Ofiicers of the Navy Board
naturally incurred the greatest share of the pubhc
indignation ; they were accordingly summoned to the
Bar of the House of Commons. Upon this occasion,
the Clerk of the Acts undertook their defence, and, in
a speech of three hours' duration, succeeded so well
in proving that the blame neither rested with himself
nor his Colleagues, that no farther proceedings were
instituted against them.
The compliments which he received from so many
different quarters upon this brilhant display -of elo
quence, could not fail to have been highly flattering
to his feelings, and the particulars are too minutely
detailed in the Diary to leave any doubt on the
subject. Nevertheless, it seems unaccountable that
the same individual, who in this one instance did
himself so much credit, should never afterwards have
risen to any distinction as a Parliamentary Speaker,
though he sat for many years in the House of Com
mons, and occasionally took part in the debates. In
the summer of 1669, Mr. Pepys was obliged to dis
continue his Diary, owing to the increasing weakness
of his eyes, which had long been impaired by his
incessant correspondence, and his habit of writing so
much in short-hand; but although he was at this
period apprehensive of losing his sight, the disorder
does not seem to have gained ground during the re
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the duties of his office appeared absolutely necessary,
after nine years' uninterrupted apphcation to business :
Mr. Pepys accordingly memoriahzed the King for a
few months' leave of absence, which being granted,
he availed himself of the opportunity to make a tour
through France' and Holland, accompanied by his
wife. Upon this excursion he often looks back with
pleasure in his Correspondence ; and he appears, from
one of his letters to Charles IL, to have occupied
himself while abroad, in making coUections respecting
the French and Dutch Navy; so anxious was he at
all times to improve his knowledge of nautical affairs,
and to acquire useful information connected with his
official employments.
Shortly after his retum to England, he had the mis
fortune to lose his wife, who died at his house in
Hart-street, leaving him no issue. She had been ill
only a few days, but her dehcate state of health is
often mentioned in the Diary. Previously to her
death, she received the Sacrament from Dr. Milles,
the Rector of the Parish, with her husband ; thus, in
her last moments, reraoving the doubts which he had
long entertained, of her being disposed to embrace
the Catholic Rehgion.
This melancholy event prevented Mr. Pepys from
attending the Election at Aldborough in Suffolk, for
which Borough he had been proposed as a Candidate,
in lieu of Sir Robert Brookes, lately deceased; and
his friends, notwithstanding his absence, exerted them
selves to the utmost to procure his election. His

LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. Xvii
cause was also openly and warmly espoused by the
Duke of York and Lord Henry Howard ; ' but, upon
going to a Poll, all their efforts combined proved in
effectual, and the popular party prevailed. In Janu
ary, 1673, however, Mr. Pepys was chosen Member
for Castle Rising, on Sir Robert Paston's elevation
to the Peerage ; and his unsuccessful opponent, Mr.
Offley, petitioning against the retum, the Election was
determined to be void by the Committee of Privi
leges, But the Parliament was prorogued the fol
lowing month, without the House's coming to any
decision on the subject, and Mr. Pepys was permitted
to retain his seat.^ The grounds upon which the
^ Second son of Henry Earl of Arundel, in 1669 created Baron Howard
of Castle Rising, and in 1672 advanced to the Earldom of Norwich. Upon
the death of his elder brother Thomas, s. p. in 1677, he became the sixth
Duke of Norfolk. He presented the Arundel Marbles to the University of
Oxford. Ob. January, 1683-4.
2 " The House then proceeding upon the debate touching the Election for
Castle Rising, between Mr. Pepys and Mr. Offley, did, in the first place, take
into consideration what related personally to Mr. Pepys. Information being
given to the House that they had received an account from a person of qual
ity, that he saw an Altar with a Crucifix upon it in the house of Mr. Pepys ;
Mr. Pepys, standing up in his place, did heartily and flatly deny that he ever
had any Altar or Crucifix, or the image or picture of any Saint whatsoever in
his house, from the top to the bottom of it ; and the Members being called
upon to name the person that gave them the information, they were unwilling
to declare it, without the order of the House; which being made, they named
the Ear! of Shaftesbury ; and the House being also informed that Sir J. Banks
did likewise see the Altar, he was ordered to attend the Bar of the House, to
declare what he knew of this matter. * Ordered, that Sir William Coventry,
Sir Thomas Meeres, and Mr. Garraway, do attend Lord Shaftesbury on the
like occasion, and receive what information his Lordship can give on this
matter.' — yournals of the House of Commons^ vol. ix. p. 306. 
' 13 February. Sir W. Coventry reports that they attended the Earl of
Shaftesbury, and received from him the account which ' they had put in

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Committee decided do not^appear ; but the proceed
ings of the House on the subject, as entered on the
Journals, are given in the note below. They exhibit a
striking and most disgusting picture of the spirit of
those times. It was charged against Pepys, that a
crucifix had been seen in his house, from which it was
inferred that he was " a Papist, or Popishly inclined ; "
and this vague suspicion, not of a man's actions, but
of his belief or inclinations, was deemed by the House
the first subject to be inquired into in the adjudi
cation of a controverted election. From the result,
however, of this examination, neither the fact nor
the inference received the smallest support. They
had been grounded on the reported assertions of Sir
John Banks and the Earl of Shaftesbury. Banks ex
plicitly denied the whole. Shaftesbury's evidence I

writing. The Earl of Shaftesbury denieth that he ever saw an Altar -in
Mr. Pepys's house or lodgings; as to the Crucifix, he saith he hath some
imperfect memory' of seeing somewhat which he conceived to be a Crucifix.
When his Lordship was asked the time, he said it was before the burning
the Office of the Navy. Being asked conceming the manner, he said he
could not remember whether it were painted or carved, or in what manner
the thing was ; and that his memory was so very imperfect in it, that if he
were upon his oath he could give no testimony.' — Ibid. vol. ix. p. 309. 
* 16 February. Sir John Banks was called in — The Speaker desired him
to answer what acquaintance he hath with Mr. Pepys, and whether he used
to have recourse to him to his house, and had ever seen there any Altar' or
Crucifix, and whether he knew of his being a Papist, or Popishly inclined.
Sir J. Banks said that he had known and had been acquainted with Mr.
Pepys several years, and had often visited him and conversed with him at
the Navy Office, and at his house there, upon several occasions ; and that
he never saw in his house there any Altar or Crucifix, and" that he does not
believe him to be a Papist, or that way inclined in the least, nor had any
reason or ground to think or believe it.' — Ibz'd. vol. ix. p. 310."

LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. xix
forbear to characterize : such as it is, the reader may
see it in the note. Painful, indeed, is it to reflect to
what ^lengths the bad passions which party violence
inflames, could in those days carry a man of Shaftes
bury's rank, station, and abilities. We also collect
from Cole's MSS. Athena: Cantabrigienses,^ that some
years afterwards Shaftesbury, in his eagerness to fix
the odium of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's self-murder
upon the Roman Cathohcs, threatened the principal
witness examined during that inquiry with the utmost
rigour, in cases he refused to say that Sir John Banks,
Mr. Pepys, and Monsieur de Puy, a servant of the
Duke of York's, had obliged her to depose to the
fact of Godfrey's having destroyed himself
A fact of the same character, but of a still deeper
hue, is told by an unexceptionable witness. Burnet
was among the warmest and ablest antagonists of the
Church of Rome ; and he was also, in his general
opinions, an adherent of the same political party to
which Shaftesbury belonged : but when he relates the
detestable imposture of the Popish Plot, he bears
against that great promoter of those proceedings an
honest and memorable testimony. He is speaking of
the prosecution of Staley, the first victim of those
horrid perjuries. '
" When I heard [he says] who the witnesses were, I thought
I was bound to do what I could to stop it ; so I sent both
to the Lord Chancellor and to the Attorney-General, to let
1 In the British Museum.

XX LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
them know what profligate wretches these witnesses were.
Jones, the Attorney-General, took it ill of me that I should
disparage the King's evidence."
He then speaks of the clamour raised on this occa
sion against himself, and adds, —
" I had likewise observed to several persons of weight, how
many incredible things there were in the evidence that was
given. I wished they would make use of the heat the nation
was in to secure us effectually from Popery : we saw certain
evidence to carry us so far as to graft that upon it ; ' but I
wished they would not run too hastily to the taking men's
lives away upon such testiraonies. Lord Hollis had more
temper than I expected from a man of his heat. Lord Hali
fax was of the same mind. But the Earl of Shaftesbury could
not bear the discourse: he said, 'We must support the
EVIDENCE, and that all those who undermined the credit of
the witnesses were to be looked on as public enemies.' " ^
This passage requires no comment. The charge
against Pepys was in truth a heavy one, — that of
hypocrisy and dissimulation in matters of religion : it
is sufficiently refuted by this view of the principles
and conduct of him who was the chief instigator, as
well as the chief witness in the case ; but with respect
to the religion of Pepys, these volumes supply con
clusive information. He was educated in the pure

I He here alludes, probably, to the projected exclusion of the Duke of
York from the throne, a measure for which abundant cause has been given.
The only real Popish Plot was the plot of the King and his brother. They,
and not the wretched victims of this persecution, had conspired with France
to subvert the religion and liberties of a people, to whose ill-requited loyalty
they had been so recently and so largely indebted.
^ Burnet, " History of his own Time," 1678.

LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. Xxi
and reformed faith of the Church of England. To
that he adhered through hfe, and in that he died. In
some of the earhest pages of his Diary, how interest
ing are the accounts of his attendance on the wor
ship of that Church, when her rites were administered
to a scattered flock by a few faithful and courageous
men, who met for that purpose in secret and in
danger, hke the Fathers of the primitive Church
under the tyranny of their heathen persecutors !
After the Restoration, the confidential servant of the
Duke of York, and the Secretary of the Admiralty
to Charles II. and James II., saw, undoubtedly, how
much his temporal interests would be promoted by
his conversion to that faith which both those Princes
had embraced, and for the propagation of which the
last of them, his immediate patron, manifested such a
bigoted and fanatical enthusiasm. But there is no
reason for believing that any such temptation ever
entered into his mind ; or, if it did, the reader will
see, in the close of this Memoir, the most satisfactory
proofs that it was steadily and successfully resisted.
In the summer of 1673, the Duke of York having
resigned all his employments, upon the passing of the
Test Act, his Majesty called Mr. Pepys into his own
service, as Secretary for the affairs of the Navy, in
which important station he gained additional credit ;
not, however, without once more exciting the envy
and malice of his enemies, who lost no opportunity
of revenging themselves upon the Duke of York,
by directing their attacks against all his adherents.

xxii LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
Accordingly, in the turbulent juncture of the Popish
Plot, complaint having been made in the House of
Commons of various miscarriages in the Navy, a
Committee was appointed to inquire into the circum
stances, in which Mr. Harbord, Member for Thetford,
took the lead against Mr. Pepys and Sir Anthony
Deane.' They were accused on the depositions of
Colonel John Scott, and others, of sending secret
particulars respecting the Enghsh Navy to the French
Government, in order to assist in the design of
dethroning the King, and extirpating the Protestant
religion ; and Mr. Pepys was again charged with being
himself a Roman Catholic, and a great favourer of
that party. They were committed to the Tower,
under the Speaker's warrant, May 22nd, 1679. On
the 2nd of June both prisoners were brought to the
Bar of the King's Bench, when bail being denied
them, their Counsel pressed for a speedy trial, which
the Attorney- General refused, upon the ground that
he expected more evidence of their treasonable corre
spondence with France. They were then remanded
to the Tower, and, after being brought up a second
and third time, allowed to find security in 30,000/. ;
and though they subsequently appeared in Court four
times more, the trial was always postponed upon the
same plea. At length, on February 12 th, they moved
by Counsel to be discharged ; and on the Attorney-
^ There is a pamphlet, which I never saw, called " Plain Truth, or a Pri
vate Discourse between (P)e^ys and (.ll)ariord, about the Navy," printed,
I believe, in 1679.

LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. xxiii
General's stating that Scott now refused to acknowl
edge the truth of his original deposition, upon which
the whole charge rested, the prisoners were relieved
from their bail, and their motion was acceded to on
the first day of the next Term, with the consent of
the Law Ofiicers of the Crown.
It is impossible to recur to these unjust and arbi
trary proceedings without feehngs of disgust ; but the
accusation being so serious, it seems due to the char
acters of the parties suspected, to examine the allega
tions closer. On reference to the papers still extant, in
which the whole case is detailed, I find that numerous
affidavits were made by persons resident in France,
Holland, America, and England, all agreeing as to the
infamy of Scott's character. . We are also informed in
the Correspondence, that he was afterwards obhged
to quit the country precipitately, having killed a
coachman in a fray, for which offence he was outlawed.
It farther appears, that a principal witness against Mr.
Pepys, named James, formerly his butler, had deposed
before the Committee to his master's being a Roman
Cathohc ; and that Morelli, who lived with him, though
engaged under pretence of teaching him music, was
a priest in disguise. But on his own apprehension,
James confessed that he had invented the whole story,
at the instigation of Mr. Harbord, who had held out
promises and rewards to him through Colonel Mansell
and Mr. AlejCander Hariis ; and he swore to this recan
tation before several witnesses. In addition to these
exculpatory facts, we have the testimony of Evelyn,

XXIV LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
who mentions in his Diary that he dined with Mr.
Pepys, then a prisoner in the Tower, and believed him
to be unjustly accused.
In the mean time, Charles II. again thought fit to
change the constitution of the Admiralty; owing to
which arrangement, the nation lost the benefit of Mr.
Pepys's services therein, biit he had the honour of
attending his Royal Master for ten days at Newmarket,
in October, 1680, and on this occasion took down in
short-hand, from the King's own mouth, the Narrative,
since published, of his Majesty's escape after the battle
of Worcester.
In September, 1683, Mr. Pepys was again brought
into notice, having received the King's commands to
accompany Lord Dartmouth on the expedition for
demolishing Tangier : at the same time, he profited by
the opportunity of making large excursions into Spain,
as he had .formerly done into France, Flanders, Hol
land, Sweden, and Denmark ; not to mention his lesser
voyages with the Duke of York, and especially one to
Scotland in the preceding year, when he narrowly es
caped shipwreck, by being on board his own yacht."
From the Tangier expedition Mr. Pepys retumed
the following spring ; and the Kjng having himself
assumed the ofiice of High Admiral, he was, " by the
Royal commands, neither sought for nor foreseen,
but brought to him expressly by Lord Dartmouth from
Windsor," ^ constituted Secretary for the affairs of the
' Vide Correspondence, p. 142,
* Mr. Pepys's own words in speaking of the transaction.

LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. xxv
Admiralty, which office he continued to fill during the
remainder of Charles II.'s reign, and the whole of that
of his successor, whose confidence he had long most
deservedly enjoyed : so much so, that the curious cur-
cumstance respecting the religion of Charies IL, re
lated by Evelyn, rests chiefly upon the authority of Mr.
Pepys, to whom King James himself had communi
cated it. We are also told, that when his Majesty was
sitting to Kneller for his picture,' intended as a pres
ent to the Secretary of the Admiralty, news coming
of the Prince of Orange having landed, the King, with
the utmost composure, desired the painter to proceed
and finish the portrait, that his good friend might not
be disappointed.
The history of the period firom Mr. Pepys's com
mittal to the Tower to the abdication of James IL, so
far as the administration of the Navy is concemed,
and the .part borne by him therein, will be found fully
and elegantly detailed in his Memoirs, pubhshed in
1690, which the reader may consult for his more ample
satisfaction.^ From the perusal of this interesting
httle Tract, as well as many parts of the Work now
pubhshed, it may be seen how erroneously the merit
of restoring the Navy to its pristine splendour has been
assigned to James II. by his diff'erent Biographers. Mr.

' Now in the possession of Mr. S. P. Cockerell, and engraved by Vertue.
® There is a ^mall book in the Pepysian Library, entitled *' A Relation of
the Troubles in the Court of Portugal in 1667 and 8, by S. P. Esqre," Lon
don, 1677, i2mo. ; of which Watt states Mr. Pepys to have been the author. —
Vide " Bibliotheca Britan."

xxvi LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
Stanier Clarke,' in particular, actually dwells upon the
essential and lasting benefit which that Monarch con
ferred on his country, by building up and regenerating
the Naval Power; and asserts, as a proof of the
King's great ability, that the regulations still enforced
under the orders ofthe Admiralty, are nearly the same
as those origiitally drawn up by him. It becomes due
therefore to Mr. Pepys, to explain, that for these im
provements, the value of which no person can doubt,
we are indebted to him, and not to his Royal Master.
To establish this fact, it is only necessary to refer to
the MSS. connected with the subject, in the Bodleian
and Pepysian Libraries, by which the extent of Mr.
Pepys's official labours can alone be appreciated ; and
we even find in the Diary, as early as 1668, that along
letter of Regulation, produced before the Commission
ers of the Navy by the Duke of York, as his own
composition, was entirely written by the Clerk of the
¦ Acts. Upon the accession of WiUiam and Mary, Mr. Pepys
lost his official employments, and the Electors of
Harwich, unmindful of his. having served them in three
successive Parliaments, and perhaps naturally jealous
of his avowed attachment to the exiled Monarch, re
fused, after a slight straggle, to retum him to the
Convention. He retired consequently into private
¦ life, trasting that he should be allowfed to pass the
remainder of his days in tranquilhty, and the enjoyment
' Vide " Memoirs of James II."

LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. xxvii
of literary society, for which his various acquirements
so peculiarly quahfied him. He was, however, soon
disturbed by the malice of his enemies, who, in June,
1690, procured his committal to the Gatehouse, upon
pretence of his being affected to King James ; but he
was soon permitted, on account of iU health, to retum
to his own house, and there is no farther mention of
the charge ; though, even in 1692, he appears to have
apprehended some fresh persecution, being obhged
(as he himself observes) to enjoy his otium without
the company of more of his books and papers, than
he. was willing should be visited and disturbed. "We
are assured too, that notwithstanding political preju
dices, and the bitterness of party spirit, Mr. Pepys was
very generally consulted up to the time of his death,
and looked upon as an oracle in all matters concerning
the Navy ; and, as far as the difficulties of the times
allowed him opportunity, he seemed uniformly anxious
to point out any improvement likely to benefit the '
service to which he had so long been an oijiament.
Nor was the period of his retireinent in other re
spects spent in an unprofitable manner, part of which
he devoted with .great application, and no small ex
pense, to the restoration of the govemment of Christ's
Hospital to its- pristine purity;'. and he succeeded in
preserving from impending ruin the Mathematical
Foundation there, which had been originally designed ¦
by him, and, through his almost sole solicitations,
endowed and cherished by his two Royal Masters.
The estimation in which Mr. Pepys was held for his

xxviii LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
hterary attainments, had raised him in 1684 to the
high station of President of the Royal Society, which
he filled during two years with credit and ability.
After he had rehnquished the ofiice, he was in the
habit of entertaining the most distinguished members
of that leamed body, on Saturday evenings, at his
house in York Buildings, where they assembled for
the discussion of literary subjects, and the encourage
ment of the hberal arts. To the dissolution of these
meetings, occasioned by the increasing infirmities of
their Founder, Evelyn adverts in his letters, in terms
of the strongest regret : nor could a person of his
enhghtened mind fail to derive the most heartfelt
gratification from witnessing so many of his contem
poraries eagerly devoting the small portion of their
lives that remained, to the cultivation of science and
the acquirement of useful knowledge.
Another portion of his fraitful recess the Author of
the Diary set apart for the arrangement of his exten
sive collections, obtained, at an immense cost, for the
general history of the Navalia of England, which he
had promised to the public ; but age and ill health
intervening, he was deprived of the vigour and oppor
tunities requisite for completing the work; and it
remains a desideratum to this day.
Of his munificence, as a patron of hterature, the
numerous books dedicated to Mr. Pepys fumish ample
testimony; and in the Preface to Willoughby's His
toria Piscium, 1684, he is justly styled by Mr. Ray,
" Ingenuaram Artium, et Eraditorum Fautor et Patro-

LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. xxix.
nus eximius," as having contributed no fewer than
sixty plates to that work. He was also a considerable
benefactor to St. Paul's School, and a subscriber to
the New Court at Magdalene College.
Of his tender affection to his parents, the Diary
affords many instances ; and his liberality, at a time
when he was far from rich, in giving his sister Mrs.
Jackson .;^6oo as a marriage portion, is worthy of
mention. Nor did his kindness to the family termi
nate here, as he took the management of her two sons,
who were left orphans when very young, and wholly
unprovided for, and educated them at his own expense.
Samuel, the eldest, contracting extravagant habits early
in life, and making a discreditable marriage, soon for
feited all claim to his relative's further good offices,
while his brother John lived to repay the kindness
shown to him. After completing his studies at Mag
dalene College, he was sent, under the auspices of
his uncle, to make the tour of Italy and Spain ; and
on his retum, being received once more under his
benefactor's roof, ultimately inherited his property, as
a reward for the attentions with which he had soothed
his declining years.
Mr. Pepys's valuable life was now drawing gradually
to a close. By the too continued exercises of his
mind, without any consideration to his advanced age,
he had destroyed his constitution?, long before impaired
by the stone. On this account the physicians per
suaded him, in 1 700, to bid adieu-to.J5(grk Buildings,
and retire, for the sake of change of airpaJid repose,

xxx LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
to the seat of his old friend and servant, William
Hewer, at Clapham. Nor could a more eligible re
treat have been selected, nor a kinder companion, than
that cherished individual, whose amiable qualities, and
disinterested gratitude to his patron, under circum
stances of no common difficulty, entitle him to the
highest commendation which can be bestowed.' Mr.
Pepys, however, still persevered in the same studious
occupations ; and with the greater intenseness, as he
was less exposed to interraption : the object of his
removal was consequently frustrated, and he consum
mated the rain of his health, and expired, after a
lingering illness. May 26, 1703.
Though he lived in an age when religious duties
were too generally neglected, and even ridiculed, Mr.
Pepys retained the habit, acquired in his earhest youth,
of constantly attending the service of the Church of
England, and receiving the Holy Sacrament.^ It is
I Far different was the conduct of Josiah Burchett, and James Southeme,
who had both been footboys in Mr. Pepys's service; and rising, through his
interest, to high stations in the Admiralty, lived to forget their benefactor, and
even treat him with neglect and disrespect
2 Upon this subject, the Certificate which foUows, copied from the original
in the Bodleian Library, appears too interesting to be omitted : —
"May-22, 1681.
" I, Daniel Milles, Doctor in Divinity, present (and for above twenty
yeares last past) Rector of the parish of St. Olave's, Hart Street, London,
doe hereby certify, that Samuel Pepys, Esq. some time one of the principali
Officers and Commissioners of his Majestie's Navy, and since Secretary of
the Admiralty of England, became (with his family) an inhabitant of the said
Parish, about the month of June, in the yeare of our Lord, 1660, and so con
tinued (without intermission) for the space of thirteen yeares, viz. untill about
the same month in the yeare 1673, when he was called thence to attend his
Majesty in his said Secretaryship: during all which time, the said Mr. Pepys

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further gratifying to his Biographer, to be able to trace
in the Correspondence, that, as he advanced in years,
he tumed his mind more earnestly to serious thoughts,
and devoutly prepared for the change which awaited
him. Nor could the example of the virtuous Evelyn,
whose friendship and society he had so long enjoyed,
and cultivated to the last moments of his hfe, have
been useless or unprofitable in this particular. The
tranquiUity of mind, and pious resignation, which he
evinced on his death-bed, with some interesting details
on the subject of his last illness, are so well related in
the following letters, that no apology can be deemed
necessary for their insertion : —
and his whole family were constant attenders upon the publick worship of
God and his holy Ordinances, (under my administration,) according to the
Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England, established by Law, with
out the least appearance or suggestion had of any inclination towards Popery,
either in himself or any cf his family ; his Lady receiving the Holy Sacrament
(in company with him, the said Mr. Pepys, her husband, and others) from
my hand, according to the rites of the Church of England, upon her death
bed few houres before her decease, in the yeare i66g.
" And I doe hereby further certify, that the said Mr. Pepys hath, from
the determination of his said residence in this parish, continued to receive the
Holy Communion with the inhabitants thereof, to this day ; so that I verily
beleeve hee never failed, within the whole space of one and twenty yeares
last past, (viz. from Jane 1660,) to this instant sad of May, (being Whit
sunday in the yeare 1681,) of communicating publickly in the Sacrament of
the Lord's Supper with the inhabitants of the Parish, from my hand, at any
of the solemn Feasts of Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost, (besides his fre
quent monthly communicatings therein,) saving on Whitsunday 1679, when,
being a prisoner in the Tower, he appears to have received it in the publick
Chappell there; and at Easter last, when, by a violent sicknesse, (which con
fined him to his bed,) hee was to my particular knowledge rendered incapable
of attending it. Witnesse my Hand, the day and the yeare above written.
"D. Milles, D.D. Rectr of St Olave,
"Hart Street, Lond."

XXXll LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
MR JACKSON TO MR EVELYN.' Clapham, May 28th, 1703,
Friday night.
Honoured Sir, — 'Tis no small addition to my grief, to be
obliged to interrupt the quiet of your happy recess with the
afflicting tidings of my Uncle Pepys's death; knowing how
sensibly you will partake with me herein. But I should not be
faithful to his desires, if I did not beg your doing the honour
to his memory of accepting mourning from him, as a small
instance of his most affectionate respect and honour for you.
I have thought myself extremely unfortunate to be out of the
way at that only time when you were pleased lately to touch
here, and express so great a desire of taking your leave pf my
Uncle ; which cpuld not but have been admitted by him as a
most welcome exception to his general orders against being
interrupted ; and I could most heartily wish that the circum
stances of your health, and distance, did not forbid me to ask
the favour of your assisting in the holding up of the pawU at
his interment, which is intended to be on Thursday next ; for
if the manes are affected with what passes below, I am sure
this would have been very grateful to his.
I must not omit acquainting you, Sir, that upon opening his
body, (which the uncommonness of his case required of us,
for our own satisfaction as well as public good,) there was
found in his left kidney a nest of no less than seven stones, of
the most irregular figures your imagination can frame, and
weighing together four ounces and a half, but all fast linked
together, and adhering to his back; whereby they solve his
having felt no greater pains upon motion, nor other of the
ordinary symptoms of the stone. Some other lesser defects
there also were in his body, proceeding from the same cause.
But his stamina, in general, were marvellously strong, and not
only supported him, under the most exquisite pains, weeks
' From a copy of the original letter, communicated by Mr. W. Upcott.

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beyond all expectations ; but, in the conclusion, contended for
near forty hours (unassisted by any nourishment) with the very
agonies of death, some few minutes excepted before his expir
ing, which were very calm.
There remains only for me, under this affliction, to beg the
consolation and honour of succeeding to your patronage, for
my Uncle's sake"; and leave to number myself, with the same
sincerity he ever did, among your greatest honourers, which I
shall esteera as one of the most valuable parts of my inherit
ances from him ; being also, with the faithfullest wishes of
health and a happy long life to you.
Honoured Sir,
Your most obedient and
Most humble Servant, J. JACKSON.
Mr. Hewer, as my Uncle's Executor, and equally your faith-
frl Servant, joines with me in every part hereof.
The time of my good Uncle's departure was about three-
quarters past three on Wednesday morning last.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM D" HICKES"
TO DR CHARLETT.^ June 5, 1703.
Last night, at 9 a clock, I did the last office for your and my
good friehd, M' Pepys, at S' Olave's Church, where he was
laid in a vault of his own makeing, by his wife and brother.
The greatness of his behaviour, in his long and sharp tryall
before his death, was in every respect answerable to his great
' George Hickes, D.D., deprived of the Deanery of Worcester, which he
had held five years, frora February 1689-go, for refusing to take the oaths
to King William. He was a person of universal learning, and author of sev
eral works upon the old Northem Languages, in which he was deeply read.
Ob. 1714, eet. suas 74.
2 From the original in the Bodleian Library, communicated by Dr.
Bandinel.

XXXIV LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
life ; and I believe no man ever went out of this world with
greater contempt of it, or a more lively faith in every thing
that was revealed of the world to come. I administered the
Holy Sacrament twice in his illnesse to him, and had adminis
tered it a third time, but for a sudden fit of illness that hap
pened at the appointed time of administering of it. Twice I
gave him the absolution of the Church, which he desired, and
received with all reverence and comfort, and I never attended
any sick, or dying person, that dyed with so much Christian
greatnesse of mind, or a more lively sense of immortality, or
so much fortitude and patience, in so long and sharp a. tryall,
or greater resignation to the will, which he most devoutly
acknowledged to be the wisdom of God ; and I doubt not but
he is now a very blessed spirit, according to his motto, mens
CUJUSQUE, IS EST QUISQUE. GEORGE HICKES.
Mr. Pepys, by his will bearing date May, 1703, left
his estate at Brampton, and the residue of his prop
erty, charged with a few legacies, to his nephew John
Jackson ; to whom he also gave the use of his valu
able Library and CoUection of Prints, for his hfe, and
directed that they should afterwards be removed to
Magdalene College, Cambridge, and placed for ever,
subject to certain restrictions and regulations, in the
sole custody of the Master for the time being.' He
" In a book in the College ch^st are two letters, dated from Clapham, 22nd
July and 6th of August, 1703, and written by Mr. Jackson, nephew and heir
of Samuel Pepys, to Dr. Quadring, Master of the College, relative to the
death of his uncle, and the gift of his library either to Magdalene College or to
Trinity. (See Hartshorne's " Book Rarities of Cambridge.") Mr. Jackson
was to retain possession for his life, and the College did not come into posses
sion of the Library until 1724, when it was removed with the original book
cases (see Diary, August 31st, 1666) to the College. Mr. Jackson had been a
member of the College. See Entry-book : " Johannes Jacksou, filius Johan-

LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. XXXV
seemed conscious that his heirs would not feel satisfied
with his testamentary dispositions, and accordingly in
serted the following clause in his will : —
" I earnestly recommend it to my said Nephews to join with
me in not repining at any disappointment they may, by the late
public Providence of God, meet with in what they might other
wise have reasonably hoped for from me at my death ; but to
receive with thankfulness, from God's hands, whatsoever it
Will prove, remembering it to be more than what either myself,
or they, were born to, and therefore endeavouring, on their part,
by all humble and honest endeavours to improve the same."
He died, in fact, in very reduced circumstances ;
nor could it be otherwise, since he never received any
pension or remuneration for his long official labours,
subsequently to his retirement at the Revolution ;
while the habits of generosity and hospitahty, in
which he had indulged, when his means were more
ample, terminated only vnth his life : and these ex
penses, added to the charges entailed upon him for
the education of his Nephews, and the extensive
coUections which he was constantly making for his
hbrary, would have absorbed a larger income than
he had ever possessed. There was also a balance of
28,007/. ¦zs. \\d. due to him from the Crown, on a long
unsettled account, which had grown up during his
employments as Treasurer for Tangier, Clerk of the
Acts, and Secretary to the Admiralty ; and which he
bequeathed specificaUy to be laid out in the purchase
nis, de Brampton in Comitatu Huntingdonise, 15 annos tantum natus, e schola
publica Huntingdoniae admissus Pensionarius. Tutore Magistro MiUington
Junii 28° 1686." (M. B.)

XXXVI LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
of lands for the use of his Nephew and his heirs.
The original vouchers relating to this transaction,
as verified on oath by the claimant himself, before
Chief Baron Warde, are still in the possession of
Mr. S. P. Cockerel, the representative of the family;
but the times which immediately preceded and fol
lowed his decease were not favourable to the liquida
tion of the debt, however due as an act of justice, as
weU as a tribute to the memory of so good and
faithful a servant of the pubhc. It is farther to be
remarked, that though Mr. Pepys's funeral was con
ducted in a manner suitable to the station which he
had adorned,' no stone, however humble, marks the
spot within St. Olave's church in which his remains
were deposited ; the vault is, however, probably con
tiguous to the monument erected by him to his wife,
still to be seen.
In conclusion, I cannot resist inserting the character
of Mr. Pepys, as given in the Supplement to ColUer's
Dictionary, from which article I am bound to acknowl
edge that I have already drawn largely, in my attempt
to compile this hasty and imperfect Memoir.
"It may be affirmed of this Gentleman [says his contem
poraneous Biographer] that he was, without exception, the
greatest and most useful Minister that ever filled the same
situations in England; the Acts and Registers of the Admi-
' " London, June 5. Yesterday in the evening were performed the obse
quies of Samuel Pepys, Esq., in Crutched-Friars' Church; whither his corpse
was brought in a very honourable and solemn manner from Clapham, wheie
he departed this life, the 26th day of the last Month.'* — Post Boy, No. 1257.
June 5, 1703.

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ralty proving this fact beyond contradiction. The principal
rules and establishments in present use in those offices are well
known to have been of his introducing, and most of the officers
serving therein, since the Restoration, of his bringing up. He
was a most studious promoter and strenuous assertor of order
and discipline through all their dependencies. Sobriety, dili
gence, capacity, loyalty, and subjection to command, were
essentials required in all whom he advanced. Where any of
these were found wanting, no interest or authority were capa
ble of moving him in favour of the highest pretender; the
Royal command only excepted, of which he was also very
watchful, to prevent any undue procurements. Discharging
his duty to his Prince and Country with a religious applica
tion and perfect integrity, he feared no one, courted no one,
neglected his own fortune. Besides this, he was a person of
universal worth, and in great estimation among the Literati,
for his unbounded reading, his sound judgment, his great elo
cution, his mastery in method, his singular curiosity, and his
uncommon munificence towards the advancement of learning,
arts, and industry, in all degrees : to which were joined the
severest morality of a philosopher, and all the polite accom
plishments of a gentleman, particularly those of music, lan
guages, conversation, and address. He assisted, as one of the
Barons of the Cinque Ports, at the Coronation of James II.,
and was a standing Governor of all the principal houses of
charity in and about London, and sat at the head of many
other honourable bodies, in divers of which, as he deemed
their constitution and methods deserving, he left lasting monu
ments of his bounty and patronage."
Annexed is an engraving of a richly chased silver
cup, presented by Mr. Pepys to the Clothworkers'
Company, — of which he was Master in 1677, ^ and
StiU constantly used at their Festivals.

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.

1659-60. Blessed be God, at the end of the last
year I was in very good health, without any sense of
my old pain, but upon taking of cold/ I lived in Axe
Yard,2 having my wife, and servant Jane, and no more
in family than us three.
The condition of the State was thus ; viz. the Rump,
after being disturbed by my Lord Lambert,3 was lately
1 " See March 26th: " This day it is two years since it pleased God that
-• I was cut for the stone at Mrs. Turner's in Salisbury Court; and did resolve
while I live to keep it a festival." There is a very interesting letter, which is
given in the correspondence from Pepys to his nephew, April Sth, 1700: "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 uni
versal 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 anything of it in all this time, should after more than
40 years' perfect cure, break out again," &c. (M. B.)
2 Pepys's house was on the south side of King Street, Westminster; it is
singular that when he removed to a residence in the city, he should have
settled close to another Axe Yard. Fludyer Street stands on the site of Axe
Yard, which derived its name from a great messuage or brewhouse on the
west side of King Street, called *' The Axe," and referred to in a document of
the 23rd of Henry VIII.
3 Sufficiently known by his services as a major-general in the Parliament
forces during the Civil War, and condemned as a traitor after the Restoration;
but reprieved and banished to Guernsey, where he lived in confinement thirty
I

2 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
returned to sit again. The officers of the Army all
forced to yield. Lawson " lies still in the river, and
Monk^ is with his army in Scotland. Only my Lord
Lambert is not yet come into the Parhament, nor is it
expected that he will without being forced to it. The
new Common Council of the City do speak very high ;
and had sent to Monk their sword-bearer, to acquaint
him with their desires for a free and full Parliament,
which is at present the desires, and the hopes, and
expectation of all. Twenty-two of the old secluded
members having been at the House-door the last week
to demand entrance, but it was denied them ; and it
is believed that neither they nor the people toU be
satisfied tiU the House be fiUed. My own private
condition very handsome, and esteemed rich, but in
deed very poor ; besides my goods of my house, and
my office, which at present is somewhat uncertain.
Mr. Downing ' master of my office.
years. He is styled "Lord" not by right, nor even by courtesy: the title
was often given to the republican officers and their dependants.
^ Sir John Lawson, the son of a poor man at Hull, rose to the rank of
Admiral, and distinguished himself during the Protectorate: and, though a
republican in his heart, readily closed with the design of restoring the King.
He was mortally wounded in the sea-fight in 1665. He must not be con
founded with another John Lawson, the Royalist, of Brough Hall, in York
shire, who was created a Baronet by Charles H., July 6, 1665.
2 George Monk, afterwards Duke of Albemarle.
3 Wood has misled us in stating that Sir George Downing, here men
tioned, was a son of Dr. Calibut Downing, the rector of Hackney. He was
beyond doubt the son of Emmanuel Downing, a London merchant, who went
to New England, It is not improbable that Emmanuel was a near kinsman
of Calibut: how related has not yet been discovered. Governor Hutchinson,
in his " History of Massachusetts," gives the true account of Downing's
afRliation, which has been further confirmed by Mr. Savage, of Boston, from

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Jan. ist (Lord's day). This moming (we living
lately in the garret,) I rose, put on my suit with great
skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but
them. Went to Mr. Gunning's ' chapel at Exeter
House,^ where he made a ver}' good sermon upon
these words : — " That in the fulness of time God sent
his Son, made of a woman," &c. ; showing, that, by
" made under the law," is meant his circumcision,
which is solemnized this day. Dined at home in the
garret, where my wife dressed the remains of a turkey,
and in the doing of it she bumed her hai\d. I staid
at home the whole afternoon, looking over my ac
counts j then went with my wife to my father's, and
the public records of New England. Wood calls Downing a sider with all
times and changes: skilled in the common cant, and a preacher occasionally.
He was sent by Cromwell to Holland, as resident there. About the Restora
tion, he espoused the King's cause, and was knighted and elected M.P. for
Morpeth, in 1661. Afterwards, becoming Secretary to the Treasury and
Commissioner of the Customs, he was in 1663 created a Baronet of East
Hatley, in Cambridgeshire, and was again sent Ambassador to Holland. His
grandson of the same name, who died in 1749, was the founder of Downing
College, Cambridge. The title became extinct in 1764, upon the decease of
Sir John Gerrard Downing, the last heir male of the family. The office ap
pears to have been in the Exchequer, and connected with the pay of the army.
Sir George Downing's character will be found in Lord Clarendon's *' Life,"
vol. iii. p. 4. Pepys's opinion seems to be somewhat of a fnixed kind. Lud
low, in his " Memoirs," bitterly inveighs against Downing, who had been
Okey^s chaplain, and had received many obligations at his hands.
^ Peter Gunning, afterwards master of St. John's College, Cambridge, and
successively Bishop of Chichester and Ely: ob. 1684. He had continued to
read the Liturgy at the chapel at Exeter House when the Parliament was
most predominant, for which Cromwell often rebuked him. — Wood's Athene.
2 Exeter House, here mentioned, on the north side of the Strand, was built
by Lord Burleigh, whose son was the first Earl of Exeter, from whom it was
named : nearly on the same site stood Exeter Change, which has given place
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in going observed the great posts which the City have
set up at the Conduit in Fleet-street. Supt at my
father's, where in came Mrs. The. Turner and Madam
Morrice, and supt with us. After that my wife went
home with them, and so to our own home.
2nd. In the moming before I went forth old East
brought me a dozen of bottles of sack, and I gave
him a shilling for his pains. Then I went to Mr.
Shepley, who was drawing of sack in the wine cellar
to send to other places as a gift from my Lord, and
told me that my Lord had given him order to give me
the dozen of bottles. Then I went to the Temple to
speak with Mr. Calthropp about the ;^6o due to my
Lord, but missed of him, he being abroad. Then I
went to Mr. Crew's, and borrowed _;^io of Mr. An
drews for my own use, and so went to my office, where
there was nothing to do. Then I walked a great while
in Westminster Hall, where I heard that Lambert was
coming up to London ; that my Lord Fairfax was in
the head of the Irish brigade, but it was not certain
what he would declare for. The House was to-day
upon finishing the act for the Council of State, which
they did ; and for the indemnity to the soldiers j and
were to sit again thereupon in the afternoon. Great
talk that many places have declared for a free Parlia
ment ; and it is believed that they will be forced to
fill up the House with the old members. From the
Hall I called at home, and so went to Mr. Crew's '
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(my wife she was to go to her father's), thinking to
have dined, but I came too late, so Mr. Moore and I
and another gentleman went out and drank a cup of
ale together in the new market, and there I eat some
bread and cheese for my dinner. After that Mr. Moore
and I went as far as Fleete-streete together and parted,
he going into the City, I to find Mr. Calthropp, but
failed again of finding him, so returned to Mr. Crew's
again, and from thence went along with Mrs. Jemimah
home, and there she taught me how to play at cribbage.
Then I went home, and finding my wife gone to see
Mrs. Hunt, I went to Wih's, and there sat with Mr.
Ashwell talking and singing tih nine o'clock, and so
home, there, having not eaten but bread and cheese,
my wife cut me a slice of brawn which I received from
my Lady, which proves as good as ever I had any.
So to bed, and my wife had a very bad night of it
through wind and cold.
3rd. I went out in the morning, it being a great
frost, and walked to Mrs. Turner's to stop her from
coming to see me to-day, because of Mrs. Jem's com
ing, thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr.
Calthropp, and walked in his chamber an hour, but
could not see him, so to Westminster, where I found
soldiers in my office to receive money, and paid it
them. At noon went home, where Mrs. Jem, her

Charles II. He married Jemima, daughter and co-heir to Edward Walgrave,
Esq., of Lawford, co. Essex.
Pepys invariably spells the name without the final e; in general he is not
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mayde, Mr. Shepley, Hawley, and Moore dined with
me on a piece of beef and cabbage, and a collar of
brawn. We then fell to cards tiU dark, and then I
went home with Mrs. Jem, and meeting Mr. Hawley
got him to bear me company to Chancery Lane, where
I spoke with Mr. Calthropp, he told me that Sir James
Calthropp was lately dead, but that he would write to
his Lady, that the money may be speedily paid.
Thence back to White Hall, where I understood that
the Parliament had passed the act for indemnity for the
soldiers and officers that would come in, in so many
days, and that my Lord Lambert should have benefit
of the said act. They had also voted that all vacancies
in the House, by the death of any of the old members,
shall be fiUed up ; but those that are living shall not
be called in. Thence I went home, and there found
Mr. Hunt and his wife, and Mr. Hawley, who sat with
me till ten at night at cards, and so broke up and to
bed. 4th. Early came Mr. Vanley to me for his half-
year's rent, which I have not in the house, but took
his man to the office and there paid him. Then I
went down into the Hall and to WiU's, where Hawley
brought a piece of his Cheshire cheese, and we were
merry with it. Then into the Hall again, where I met
with the Clerk and Quarter Master of my Lord's troop,
and took them to the Swan and gave them their morn
ing's draft, they being just come to town. Mr Jen
kins shewed me two bills of exchange for money to
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all this morning, and was very cold, and my nose was
much swelled with cold. Strange the difference of
men's talk ! Some say that Lambert must of necessity
yield up ; others, that he is very strong, and that the
Fifth-monarchy-men will stick to him, if he declares
for a free Parhament. ChiUington was sent yesterday
to him with the vote of pardon and indemnity from
the Parhament. From the Hall I came home, where
I found letters from Hinchinbroke and news of Mr.
Shepley's going thither the next week. I dined at
home, and from thence went to Will's to Shaw, who
promised me to go along with me to Atkinson's about
some money, but I found him at cards with Spicer and
D. Vines, and could not get him along with me. I
was vexed at this, and went and walked in the Hall,
where I heard that the Parliament spent this day in
fasting and prayer ; and in the afternoon came letters
from the North, that brought certain news that my
Lord Lambert his forces were all forsaking him, and
that he was left with only fifty horse, and that he did
now declare for the Parliament himself; and that my
Lord Fairfax ' did also rest satisfied, and had laid
^ Thomas Lord Fairfax, Generalissimo of the Parliament forces. After
the Restoration he retired to his country seat, where he lived in private till
his death in 167T. In a volume (autograph) of Lord Fairfax's poems, pre
served in the British Museum, 11744, f. 42, the following lines occur upon the
30th of January, on which day the King was beheaded. It is believed that
they have never been printed.
" O let that day from time be bloted quitt,
And beleef oft in next age be waved,
In depest silence that act concealed might,
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down his arms, and that what he had done was only
to secure the country against my Lord Lambert his
raising of money, and free quarter. I went to Will's
again, where I found them still at cards, and Spicer
had won 14^. of Shaw and Vines. Then I spent a
little time with G. Vines and Maylard at Vines's at
our viols. So home, and from thence to Mr. Hunt's,
and sat with them and Mr. Hawley at cards till ten at
night, and was much made of by them.
5th. I went to my office, where the money was
again expec ted from the Excise office, but none
brought, but was promised to be sent this aftemoon.
I dined with Mr. Shepley,^ at my Lord's ^ lodgings,
upon his turkey-pie. Ahd so to my office again;
where the Excise money was brought, and some of it

But if the powre devine hath ordered this.
His will's the law, and our must aquiess."
These wretched verses have obviously no merit: but they are curious as show
ing that Fairfax, who had refused to act as one of Charles I.'s judges, con
tinued long afterwards to entertain a proper horror for that unfortunate
monarch's fate. It has recently been pointed out to me, that the lines were
not originally composed by Fairfax, being only a poor translation of the
spirited lines of Statius, Sylvarutn, Ub. v. cap. ii. !. 88; —
" Excidat ilia dies sevo, ne postera credant
Secula, nos cert^ taceamus ; et obruta multa
Nocte tegi propriae patiamur crimina gentis."
These verses were first applied by the President de Thou to the massacre of
St. Bartholomew, 1572; and in our day, by Mr. Pitt, in his memorable speech
in the House of Commons, January 1793, after the murder of Louis XVI.
I He seems to have been the steward at Hinchingbrooke.
2 Admiral Sir Edward Montagu, afterwards Earl of Sandwich, uniformly
styled "My Lord" throughout the Diary. His title, before his elevation to
the peerage, being of the same nature as that of Lord Lambert, already ex
plained.

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told to soldiers till it was dark. Then I went home,
after writing to my Lord the news that the Parliament
hath this night voted that the members that were dis
charged from sitting in the years 1648 and 49, were
duly discharged ; and that there should be writs issued
presendy for the calhng of others in their places, and
that Monk and Fairfax were commanded up to town,
and that the Prince's lodgings were to be provided
for Monk at ^Vhitehall. Then my wife and I, it being
a great frost, went to Mrs. Jem's,' in expectation to
eat a sack-posset, but Mr. Edward not coming it was
put off; and so I left my wife playing at cards with
her, and went myself with my lanthorne to Mr. Fage,
to consult concerning my nose, who told me it was
nothing but cold, and after that we did discourse con
cerning public business; and he told me it is true
the City had not time enough to do much, but they
are resolved to shake off the soldiers ; and that unless
there be a free Parhament chosen, he did beheve there
are half the Common Council will not levy any money
by order of this Parhament. From thence I went to
my father's, where I found Mrs. Ramsey and her
grandchild, a pretty girle, and staid a while and talked
with them and my mother, and then took my leave,
only heard of an invitation to go to dinner to-morrow
to my cozen Thomas Pepys. I went back to Mrs.
^ This lady, mentioned frequently in the Diary, was Jemima, eldest
daughter of Sir Edward Montagu. She had been ill; and during her father's
absence abroad, seeras to have been left under the superintendence of Pepys,
in a London lodging. Mr. Edward was her eldest brother. He is after
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Jem, and took my wife and Mrs. Shepley, and went
home. 6th. This morning Mr. Shepley and I did eat our
breakfast at Mrs. Harper's, (my brother John ¦ being
with me,) upon a cold turkey-pie and a goose. From
thence I went to my office, where we paid money to
the soldiers till one o'clock, and I took my wife to my
cozen, Thomas Pepys, and found them just sat down
to dinner, which was very good ; only the venison
pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.
After dinner I took my leave, leaving my wife with my
cozen Stradwick, and went to Westminster to Mr.
Vines, where George and I fiddled a good while, Dick
and his wife and her sister being there, but Mr. Hud
son not coming according to his promise, I went away,
and calling at my house on the wench, I took her and
the lanthorne with me to my cozen Stradwick, where,
after a good supper, there being there my father,
mother, brothers, and sister, my cozen Scott and his
wife, Mr. Drinkwater and his wife, and her brother,
Mr. Stradwick, we had a brave cake brought us, and
in the choosing Pall ^ was Queen, and Mr. Stradwick
was King. After that my wife and I bid adieu and
came home, it being still a great frost.

^ John Pepys, afterwards in holy orders, died unmarried in 1677, at which
time he held some office at the Trinity House. — Pepys's MS. Letters.
Samuel Pepys, in his book of " Signs Manual," describes him as '* my brother
and successor in my office, as Clerk of the Acts of the Navy, under King
Charies II."
^ Paulina, his sister, afterwards married to Mr. John Jackson. See March
2nd, 1667-6B. — (M.B.;

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7th. At my office as I was receiving money of the
probate of wills, in came Mrs. Turner, Theoph. Mad
ame Morrice, and Joyce, and after I had done I took
them home to my house, and Mr. Hawley came after,
and I got a dish of steaks and a rabbit for them, while
they were playing a game or two at cards. In the
middle of our dinner a messenger from Mr. Downing
came to fetch me to him, so leaving Mr. Hawley there,
I went and was forced to stay till night in expectation
of the French Embassador, who at last came, and I '
had a great deal of good discourse with one of his
gentlemen conceming the reason of the difference
between the zeal of the French and the Spaniard.
After he was gone I went home, and found my friends
still at cards, and after that I went along with them to
Dr. Whores (sending my wife to Mrs. Jem's to a sack-
posset) , where I heard some symphony and songs of
his own making, performed by Mr. May, Harding, and
Mahard. Afterwards I put my friends into a coach,
and went to Mrs. Jem's, where I wrote a letter to my
Lord by the post, and had my part of the posset
which was saved for me, and so we went home, and
put in at my Lord's lodgings, where we staid late, eat
ing of part of his turkey-pie, and reading of Quaries'
Emblems. So home and to bed.
Sth (Lord's day). In the morning I went to Mr.
Gunning's, where a good sermon, wherein he showed
the hfe of Christ, and told us good authority for us to
believe that Christ did follow his father's trade, and
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to my father's to dinner, where I found my wife, who
was forced to dine there., we not having one coal of
fire in the house, and it being very hard frosty weather.
In the afternoon my father, he going to a man's to
demand some money due to my Aunt BeU, my wife
and I went to Mr. Messums, where a strange doctor
made a very good sermon. From thence sending my
wife to my father's, I went to Mrs. Turner's, and staid
a little while, and then to my father's, where I found
Mr. Shepley, and after supper went home together.
Here I heard of the death of Mr. Palmer, and that
he was to be buried at Westminster to-morrow.
9th. For these two or three days I have been
much troubled with thoughts how to get money to
pay them that I have borrowed money of, by reason
of my money being 'in my uncle's hands. I rose
early this morning, and looked over and corrected my
brother John's speech, which he is to make the next
apposition," and after that I went towards my office,
and in my way met with W. Simons, Muddiman, and
Jack Price, and went with them to Harper's and staid
till two of the clock in the afternoon. I found Mud
diman a good scholar, an arch rogue ; and owns that
though he writes new books for the Parhament, yet
he did declare that he did it only to get money ; and
did talk very basely of many of them. Among other
things, W. Simons told me how his uncle ScobeU^
^ Peclamations at St. Paul's School, in which there were opponents and
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was on Saturday last called to the bar, for entering
in the journal of the House, for the year 1653, these
words : " This day his Excellence the Lord G. Crom
well dissolved this House ; " which words the Parha
ment voted a forgery, and demanded of him how they
came to be entered. He answered that they were his
own handwriting, and that he did it by virtue of his
office, and the practice of his predecessor ; ' and that
the intent of the practice was to let posterity know
how such and such a Parliament was dissolved, whether
by the command of the King, or by their own neglect,
as the last House of Lords was ; and that to this end,
he had said and writ that it was dissolved by his Excel
lence the Lord G. ; and that for the word dissolved,
he never at the time did hear of any other term ; and
desired pardon if he would not dare to make a word
himself when it was six years after, before they came
themselves to call it an interruption ; but they were so
little satisfied with this answer, that they did chuse a
committee to report to the House, whether this crime
of Mr. Scobell's did come within the act of indemnity
or no. Thence I went with Muddiman to the Coffee-
House, and gave \M. to be entered of the Club.
Thence into the Hall, where I heard for certain that
Monk was coming to London, and that Bradshaw's^
lodgings were preparing for him. Thence to Mrs.
Jem's, and found her in bed, and she was afraid that

* Henry Elsinge.
^ John Bradshaw, Serjeant at Law, President of the High Court of
Justice.

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it would prove the smaU-pox. Thence back to West
minster Hall, where I heard how Sir H. Vane • was
this day voted out of the House, and to sit no more
there ; and that he would retire himself to his house
at Raby,^ as also all the rest of the nine officers that
had their commissions formerly taken away from them,
were commanded to their farthest houses from London
during the pleasure of the Parliament. Here I met
with the Quarter Master of my Lord's troop, and his
clerk Mr. Jennings, and took them home, and gave
them a bottle of wine, and the remainder of my collar
of brawn, and so good night. After that came in Mr.
Hawley, who told me that I was missed this day at
my office, and^ that to-morrow I must pay all the
money that I have, at which I was put to a great loss
how I should get money to make up my cash, and so
went to bed in great trouble.
IOth. Went out early, and in my way met with
Greatorex, and at a alehouse he shewed me the first
sphere of wire that ever he made, and indeed it was
very pleasant; thence to Mr. Crew's, and borrowed
_;^io, and so to my office, and was able to pay my
money. Thence into the Hall, and meeting the Quar
ter Master, Jennings, and Captain Rider, we went to
a cook's to dinner. Thence Jennings and I into
I Son of a statesman of both his names, and one of the most turbulent
enthusiasts produced by the Rebellion, and an inflexible republican. His
execution, in 1662, for conspiring the death of Charles I. was much called in
question as a measure of great severity. He is the direct ancestor of the
present Duke of Cleveland. See Diary, June 14, 1662.
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London (it being through heat of the sun a great
thaw and dirty) to show our bihs of return, and com
ing back drank a pint of wine at the Star in Cheapside.
So to Westminster, overtaking Captaiu Okeshott in his
silk cloak, whose sword got hold of many people in
walking. Thence to the Coffee-house, where were a
great confluence of gentlemen ; viz. Mr. Harrington,'
Poultny,^ chairman, Gold,3 Dr. Petty,* &c., where ad
mirable discourse till 9 at night. Thence with Doling
to Mother Lam's, who told me how this day Scott,s
was made Intehigencer, and that the rest of the mem
bers that were objected against last night, their busi
ness was to be heard this day se'nnight. Thence I
went home and wrote a letter, and went to Harper's,
and staid there till Tom carried it to the Postboy at
Whitehall. So home to bed.
nth. Being at WiU's with Captain Barker, who has
paid me ;^300 this moming at my office, in comes

' James Harrington, the political writer, author of " Oceana," and founder
of a club called the Rota, in r6s9, which met at Miles's coffee-house in Old
Palace Yard, and lasted only a few months. In r66i he was sent to the Tower,
on suspicion of treasonable designs. His intellects appear to have failed after
wards, and he died 1677.
2 Sir William Poultny, subsequently M. P. for Westminster, and a Com
missioner of the Privy Seal under King William. Ob. 1691. He was grand
father to William Earl of Bath.
3 Gold, the merchant. See 20 January, i66g, and the note there, in which
he is identified.
* Sir William Petty, an eminent physician, and celebrated for his proficiency
in every branch of science Ob. 1687. He is the direct ancestor of the Mar
quis of Lansdowne.
5 Thomas Scott, M. P., made Secretary of State to the Commonwealth
Jan. 17th following.

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my father, and with him I walked, and leave him at
W. Joyce's, and went myself to Mr. Crew's, but came
too late to dine, and therefore after a game at shittle-
cock with Mr. Walgrave, to my father, and taking him
firom W. Joyce's, who was not abroad himself, we
inquired of a porter, and by his direction went to an
alehouse, where after a cup or two we parted. I went
towards London, and in my way went in to see Crowly,
who was now grown a very great loon and very tame.
Thence to Mr. Stephen's with a pair of silver snuffers,
and bought a pair of shears to cut silver, and so home
ward again. From home I went to see Mrs. Jem, who
was in bed, and now granted to have the small-pox.
Back again, and went to the Coffee-house, but tarried
not, and so home.
1 2 th. I drink my moming at Harper's with Mr.
Shepley and a seaman, and so to my office, where
Captain Holland came to see me. After that I went
home, and thence to the Half Moon, where I found
the Captain and Mr. Billingsby and Newman, a barber,
where we were very merry, and had the young man
that plays so well on the Welsh harp. Billingsby paid
for all. Thence home, and finding my letters this day
not gone by the carrier I new sealed them, but my
brother Tom coming we fell into discourse about my
intention to feast the Joyces. I sent for a bit of meat
for him from the cook's, and forgot to send my letters
this night. So I went to bed, and in discourse broke
to my wife what my thoughts were conceming my
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13th. Coming in the moming to my office, I met
with Mr. Fage and took him to the Swan." He told
me" how high Haselrigge,^ and Morley,^ the last night
began at my Lord Mayor's "• to exclaim against the City
of London, saying that they hadr forfeited their charter.
And how the Chamberlain of the City did take them
down, letting them know how much they were for
merly beholding to the City, &c. He also told me
that Monk's letter that came to them by the sword-
bearer was a cunning piece, and that which they did
not much tmst to ; but they were resolved to make
no more applications to the Parhament, nor to pay
any money, unless the secluded members be brought
in, or a free Parhament chosen. Thence to my office,
where nothing to do. So to WiU's with Mr. Pinkney,
who invited me to their feast at his Hall the next
Monday. Thence I went home and took my wife
and dined at Mr. Wade's, and after that we went and
visited Catan. From thence home again, and my
wife was very unwilling to let me go forth, but with
some discontent would go out if I did, and I going
forth towards Whitehall, I saw she followed me, and
so I staid and took her round through Whitehall, and
' The Swan in Fenchurch Street.
2 Sir Arthur Haselrigge, Bart., of Nosely, co. Leicester, colonel ofa regi
ment in the Parliament army, and much esteemed by Cromwell. In March
following was committed to the Tower, where he died, January, 1660-61. He
was brother-in-law to Lord Brooke, who was killed at Lichfield.
3 Colonel Morley, whom Evelyn blames so strongly for not doing what
Monk did. See also " Quarterly Review," vol. xix. p. 32.
4 Sir Thomas Allen, created a baronet at the Restoration. He was ruined
by his expenses as Lord Mayor.

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so carried her home angry. Thence I went to Mrs.
Jem, and found her up and merry, and that it did
not prove the smaU-pox, but only the swine-pox ; so I
played a game or two at cards with her. And so to
Mr. Vines, where he and I and Mr. Hudson played
half-a-dozen things, there being there Dick's wife and
her sister. After that I went home and found my
wife gone abroad to Mr. Hunt's, and came in a littie
after me. So to bed.
14th. Nothing to do at our office. Thence into
the HaU, and just as I was going to dinner from
Westminster with Mr. Moon (with whom I had been
in the lobby to hear news, and had spoke with Sh
Anthony Ashley Cooper about my Lord's lodgings) to
his house, I met with Captain Holland, who told me
that he hath brought his wife to my house, so I posted
home and got a dish of meat for them. They staid
with me all the aftemoon, and went hence in the
evening. Then I went with my wife, and left her
at market, and went myself to the Coffee-house, and
heard exceeding good argument against Mr. Harring
ton's assertion, that overbalance of propriety" {i.e.,
property) was the foundation of govemment. Home,
and vnrote to Hinchinbroke, and sent that and my
' See Trench's " Select Glossary," page 171 : " All ' propriety * is now
mental or moral ; where material things are concemed, ' property ' is the word
which we use. It needs hardly to say that ' propriety ' and * property ' were at
the first no raore than different spellings or slighdy diiferent forms of one and
the same word, which now, however, have been thus usefully desynonymized.
' He provides good bounds and sufficient fences betwixt his own and his
master's estate (Jacob, Gen. xxx. 36, set his flock three days* journey from
Laban's), that no quarrel may arise about t\i.fax propriety, nor suspicion that

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Other letter that missed of going on Thursday last.
So to bed.
ISth. Having been exceedingly disturbed in the
night with the barking of a dog of one of our neigh
bours that I could not sleep for an hour or two, I slept
late, and then in the morning took physic, and so staid
within aU day. At noon my brother John came to
me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek
speech to say the Apposition, though I believe he
himself was as well able to do it as myself. After
that we went to read. in the great Officiale about the
blessing of bells in the Church of Rome. After that
my wife and I in pleasant discourse tUl night that I
went to supper; and after that to make an end of this
week's notes in this book, and so to bed.
1 6th. In the morning I went up to Mr. Crew's,
who did talk to me conceming things of state ; and
expressed his mind how just it was that the secluded
members should come to sit again. Went from
thence, and in my way went into an alehouse and
drank my morning draft with Matthew Andrews and
two or more of his fiiends, coachmen. And of one
of them I did hire a coach to carry us to-morrow
to Twickenham. From thence to my office, where
nothing to do ; but Mr. Downing came and found
his remnant hath eaten up his master's whole cloth.' " — Fuller, The Holy
State, b. i. v.. 8. " Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring, ^t propriety
In Paradise of all things common else."
Milton, Paradise Lost, b. v. — (M. B.)

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me aU alone ; and did mention to me his going back
into HoUand, and did ask me whether I would go or
no, but gave me httle encouragement, but bid me
consider of it ; and asked me whether I did not think
that Mr. Hawley could perform the work of my office
alone or no. I confess I was at a great loss, all the
day after, to bethink myself how to carry this busi
ness. At noon, Harry EthaU came to me and went
along with Mr. Maylard by coach as far as Salsbury
Court, and there we set him down, and we went to
the Clerks, where we came a little too late, but in a
closet we had a very good dinner by Mr. Pinkny's
courtesy, and after dinner we had pretty good singing,
and one. Hazard, sung alone after the old fashion,
which was very much cried up, but I did not like it.
Thence we went to the Green Dragon, on Lambeth
HiU, both the Mr. Pinkny's, Smith, Harrison, Morrice,
that sang the bass, Shepley and I, and there we sang of
all sorts of things at first sight, and after that I played
on my flageolette and staid there till nine o'clock, very
merry and drawn on with one song after another tiU it
came to be so late. After that Shepley, Harrison and
myself, we went towards Westminster on foot, and at
the Golden Lion, near Charing Cross, we went in
and drank a pint of wine, and so parted, and thence
home, where I found my wife and mayde a-washing.
I staid up till the bell-man came by with his bell ' just
This reminds us of Milton —
" Or the bellman's drowsy charm.
To bless the door from nightly harm." // Penseroso.

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under my window as I was writing of this very hne,
and cried, "Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty,
windy morning." I then went to bed, and left my
wife and the mayde a-washing stiU.
1 7th. Early I went to Mr. Crew's, and having given
Mr. Edward money to give the servants, I took him
into the coach that waited for us and carried him to
my house, where the coach waited for me while I and
the child went to Westminster HaU, and I bought him
some pictures. In the Hall I met Mr. Woodfine, and
took him to WiU's and drank with him. Thence the
child and I to the coach, where my wife was ready,
and so we went towards Twickenham. In our way,
at Kensington we understood how that my Lord Ches
terfield " had kUled another gentleman about half an
hour before, and was fled. We went forwards and
^ Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, ob. 1713, set. suk 80. We
learn, from the memoir prefixed to his " Printed Correspondence," that he
fought three duels, disarming and wounding his first and second antagonists
aud killing the third. The name of the unfortunate gentleman who fell on
this occasion was Woolly. Lord Chesterfield, absconding, went to Breda,
where he obtained the royal pardon from Charles II. He acted a busy part
in the eventful times in which he lived, and was remarkable for his steady
adherence to the Stuarts. Lord Chesterfield's letter to Charles II. , and the
King's answer granting the royal pardon, occur in the Correspondence pub
lished by Gen. Sir John Murray, in 1829. *' Jan. 17th, 1659. The Earl of
Chesterfield and Dr. Woolly's son of Hammersmith, had a quarrel about a
mare of eighteen pounds price; the quarrel would not be reconciled, inso
much that a challenge passed between them. They fought a duel on the back
side of Mr. Colby's house at Kensington, where the Earl and he had several
passes. The Earl wounded him in two places, and wbuld fain have then
ended, but the stubbornness and pride of heart of Mr. Woolly would not give
over, and the next pass [he] was killed on the spot. The Earl fled to Chel
sea, and there took water and escaped. The jury found it chance-medley."
Rdgge's Diumal, Addit. MSS. British Museum.

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came about one of the clock to Mr. Fuller's, but he
was out of town, so we had a dinner there, and I gave
t^e child 40.f. to give to the two ushers. After that
we parted and went homewards, it being market day
at Brainford. I set my wife down and went with the
coach to Mr. Crew's, thinking to have spoke with Mr.
Moore and Mrs. Jem, he having told me the reason of
his melancholy was some unkindness from her after so
great expressions of love, and how he had spoke to
her friends and had their consent, and that he would
desire me to take an occasion of speaking with her,
but by no means not to heighten her discontent or
distaste whatever it be, but to make it up if I can.
But he being out of doors, I went away and went to
see Mrs. Jem, who was now very well again, and after
a game or two at cards, I left her. So I went to the
Coffee Club, and heard very good discourse ; it was
in answer to Mr. Harrington's answer, who said that
the state of the Roman govemment was not a settled
govemment, and so it was no wonder that the balance
of propriety " {i.e., property) was in one hand, and
the command in another, it being therefore alwa)^ in
a posture of war ; but it was carried by ballot, that it
was a steady govemment, though it is true by the
voices it had been carried before that it was an
unsteady govemment; so to-morrow it is to be
proved by the opponents that the balance lay in one
hand, and the govemment in another. Thence I
' See Note. January 14th. (M. B.)

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went to Westminster, and met Shaw and Washington,"
who told me how this day Sydenham ^ was voted out
of the House for sitting any more this Parliament, and
that Salloway ' was voted out hkewise and sent to the
Tower, during the pleasure of the House. At Harper's
Jack Price told me, among other things, how much
the Protector is altered, though he would seem to bear
out his trouble very weU, yet he is scarce able to talk
sense with a man ; and how he wiU say that " Who
should a man trust, if he may not trust to a brother
and an uncle ; " "i and " how much those men have to
answer before God Almighty, for their playing the
knave with him as they did." He told me also, that
there was 100,000/. offered, and would have been
taken for his restitution, had not the Parliament come
in as they did again ; and that he do believe that the
Protector wiU live to give a testimony of his valour

^ The Purser: see ist July, 1660.
2 Colonel Sydenham had been an active officer during the Civil Wars, on
the Parliament side. M. P. for Dorsetshire, and Governor of Melcombe, and
one of the Committee of Safety. See January 14th. Was the elder brolher
of the celebrated physician of that name.
3 in the journals of that date. Major Richard Salwey. Colonel Salwey
is mentioned as a prisoner in the Tower, 1663-64, in Bayley's history of that
fortress. 4 Charles Fleetwood, Lord Deputy of Ireland during the Usurpation,
became CromweU's son-in-law by his marriage with Ireton's widow, and a
member of the Council of State. He seemed disposed to have espoused
Charles the Second's interests, but had not resolution enough to execute his
design. At the Restoration, he was excepted out of the Act of Indemnity,
and spent the remainder of his life in obscurity, dying soon after the
Revolution. John Desborough was CromweU's brother-in-law, and one of
his Major-Generals. Both Fleetwood and Desborough played a double
game.

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and revenge yet before he dies, and that the Protector
wUl say so himself sometimes.
I Sth. To my office and from thence to WiU's, and
there Mr. Shepley brought me letters firom the car
rier and so I went home. After that to Wilkinson's,
where we had a dinner for Mr. Talbot, Adams, Pinkny
and his son, but his son did not come. Here we
were very merry and- while I was here, Mr. Fuller came
thither and staid a httle whUe. After that we aU went
to my Lord's, whither came afterwards Mr. Harrison,
and by chancing Mr. Butler coming by I caUed him
in and so we sat drinking a bottle of wine tiU night.
At which time Mistress Ann came with the key of my
Lord's study for some things, and so we all broke up
and after I had gone to my house and interpreted my
Lord's letter by his character " I came to her again
and went with her to her lodging and from thence
to Mr. Crew's, where I advised with him what to do
about my Lord's lodgings and what answer to give to
Sir Ant. Cooper and so I came home and to bed. AU
the world is at a loss to think what Monk wiU do : the
City saying that he wiU be for them, and the ParUa
ment saying he will be for them.
19th. This moming I was sent for to Mr. Down
ing, and at his bed side he told me, that he had a
kindness for me, and that he thought that he had
done me one ; and that was, that he had got me to
be one of the Clerks of the Council ; at which I was
' i. e. cipher. See January 25. (M. B.)

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a littie stumbled, and could not teU what to do, whether
to thank him or no ; but by and by I did ; but not very
heartily, for I feared that his doing of it was only to
ease himself of the salary " which he gives me. After
that Mr. Shepley staying below all this time for me we
went thence and met Mr. Pierce, so at the Harp and
BaU drank our moming draft and so to WhitehaU where
I met with Sir Ant. Cooper and did give him some
answer from my Lord and he did give us leave to
keep the lodgings still. And so we did determine
thereupon that Mr. Shepley might now go into the
country and would do so to-morrow. Back I went
by Mr. Downing's order and staid there till twelve
o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some
writings, but he came not, so I staid all alone read
ing the answer of the Dutch Ambassador ^ to our State,
in answer to the reasons of my Lord's coming home,
which he gave foL his coming, and did labour herein
to contradict my Lord's arguments for his coming
home. Mr. Moore and I went to the French Ordi
nary, where Mr. Downing this day feasted Sir Arth.
Haselrigge, and a great many more of the Parhament,
and did stay to put in mind of me. Here he gave
me a note to go and invite some other members to
dinner to-morrow. So I went to White Hall, and did
stay at Marsh's with Simons, Luellin, and aU the rest
of the Clerks of the Council, who I hear are aU
tumed out, only the two Leighs, and they do aU teU
' Of sol. See Jan. 25th, 1639-60. ^ Nieuport.

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me that my name was mentioned last night, but. that
nothing was done in it. Hence I went and did leave
some of my notes at the lodgings of the members
and so home. To bed.
20th. In the morning I went to Mr. Downing's bed
side and gave him an account what I had done as to
his guests, and I went thence to my Lord Widdring
ton " who I met in the street, going to seal the patents
for the Judges to-day, and so could not come to
dinner. I called upon Mr. Calthrop about the money
due to my Lord. Here I met with Mr. Woodfine and
drank with him at the Sun in Chancery Lane and so
to Westminster HaU, where at the lobby I spoke with
the rest of my guests and so to my office. At noon
went by water with Mr. MayR and Hales to the Swan
in Fish Streete at our Coal Feast, where we were very
merry at our Joie of Ling, and from thence after a
great and good dinner Mr. Falconberge would go
drink a cup of ale. Thence caUing on Mr. Stephens
and Wootton (with whom I drank) about business
of my Lord's I went to the Coffee Club where there
was nothing done but choosing of a Committee for
orders. Thence to Westminster Hall where Mrs.
Lane and the rest of the mayds had their white
scarfs, all having been at the burial of a young book
seUer in the HaU.^ Thence to Mr. Shepley's and took

' Sir Thomas Widdrington, Knight, Serjeant-at-Law, one of CromweU's
Comraissioners of the Treasury, appointed Speaker 1656, and first Commis
sioner for the Great Seal, January, 1659: he was M. P. for York.
2 Several old views of the HaU represent the book-staUs.

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him to my house and drank with him in order to his
going to-morrow. So parted and I sat up late making
up my accounts before he go. This day three citizens
of London" went to meet Monk from the Common
Council. 2 1 St. Up early in finishing my accounts and writing
to my Lord and from thence to my Lord's and took
leave of Mr. Shepley and possession of the keys and
the house. Thence to my office for some money to
pay Mr. Shepley and sent it him by the old man. I
then went to Mr. Downing who chid me because I did*
not give him notice of some of his guests failed him
but I told him that I sent our porter to teU him and
he was not within, but he told me that he was within
till past twelve o'clock. So the porter or he lied.
Thence to my office where nothing to do. Then with
Mr. Hawley he and I went to Mr. Crew's and dined
there. Thence into London to Mr. Vernon's and I
received my 25/. due by bill for my trooper's pay. At
I " Jan. 2oth. Then there went out of the City, by desire of the Lord
Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Alderman Fowke and Alderman Vincett,
alias Vincent, and Mr. Broomfield, to compliment General Monk, who lay
at Harborough Town, in Leicestershire."
" Jan. 2ist. Because the Speaker was sick, and Lord General Monk so
near London, and everybody thought that the City would suffer for their
aflfronts to the soldiery, and because they had sent the sword-bearer to the
General without the Parliament's consent, and the three Aldermen were gone
to give him the welcome to town, these four lines were in almost everybody's
mouth: — Monk under a hood, not well understood.
The City puU in their horns:
The Speaker is out, and sick of the gout.
And the Parliament sit upon thoms." Rugge's Diurnal.

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the Mitre," in Fleet-street, in our way caUing on Mr.
Fage, who told me how the City have some hopes of
Monk. Thence to the Mitre, where I drank a pint
of wine, the house being in fitting for Banister to come
hither from Paget's. Thence to Mrs. Jem and gave
her 5/. So home and left my money and to WhitehaU
where LueUin and I drank and talked together an hour
at Marsh's and so up to the clerks' room, where poor
Mr. Cook, a black man, that is Hke to be put out of his
clerk's place, came and railed at me for endeavouring
to put him out and get myself in, when I was aheady
in a good condition. But I satisfied him and after I
had wrote a letter there to my Lord, wherein I gave
him an account how this day LenthaU ^ took his chair
again, and [the House] resolved a declaration to be
brought in on Monday to satisfy the world what they
intend to do. So home and to bed.
22nd. I went in the morning to Mr. Messum's,
where I met with W. Thurbum and sat in his pew. A
very eloquent sermon about the duty of aU to give good
example in our lives and conversation, which I fear he
himself was most guUty of not doing. After sermon,
at the door by appointment my wife met me, and so
to my father's to dinner, where we had not been to my
shame in a fortnight before. After dinner my father
shewed me a letter from Mr. Widdrington, of Christ's
' A tavern familiar to all readers of Boswell. " Dined by ourselves at
our old rendezvous, the Mitre Tavern," &c. — Boswell's Life of Johnson,
May I, 1773. (M. B.)
2 William Lenthall, Speaker of the Long, or Rump Parliament, and made
Keeper of the Great Seal to the Commonwealth, ob. 1662.

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CoUege, in Cambridge, wherein he do express very
great kindness for my brother, and my father intends
that my brother shall go to him. To church in the
afternoon to Mr. Herring,' where a lazy poor sermon.
This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes, which
I have bought yesterday of Mr. Wotton.
23rd. In the moming caUed out to carry _;^20 to
Mr. Downing, which I did and came back, and findmg
Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, I took him to the Axe and
gave him his moming draft. Thence to my office and
there did nothing but make up my balance. Came
home and found my wife dressing of the girl's head,
by which she was made to look very pretty. I went
out and paid Wilkinson what I did owe him, and
brought a piece of beef home for dinner. Thence I
went out and paid Waters, the vintner, and went to
see Mrs. Jem, where I found my Lady Wright, but
Scott was so dmnk that he could not be seen. Here
I staid and made up Mrs. Ann's biUs, and played a
game or two at cards, and thence to Westminster HaU,
it being very dark. I paid Mrs. MicheU, my book
seUer, and back to WhitehaU, and in the garden, going
through to the Stone GaUery I feU into a ditch, it
being very dark. At the Clerk's chamber I met with
Simons and LueUin, and went with them to Mr.
Mount's chamber at the Cock Pit, where we had some
rare pot venison, and ale to abundance tiU almost
twelve at night, and after a song round we went home.
^ John Herring, a Presbyterian minister, who was afterwards ejected from
St. Bride's in Fleet Street. See August 17th, 1662.

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This day the Parliament sat late, and resolved of the
declaration to be printed for the people's satisfaction,
promising them a great many good things.
24th. In the moming to my office, where, after I
had drank my morning draft at Will's witl^ Ethell and
Mr. Stevens, I went and told part of the excise money
till twelve o'clock, and then called on my wife and
took her to Mrs. Pierce's,' she in the way being ex
ceedingly troubled with a pair of new pattens, and I
vexed to go so slow, it being late. We found Mrs.
Carrick very fine, and one Mr. Lucy, who called one
another husband and wife, and after dinner a great
deal of mad stir. There was pulHng off Mrs. bride's
and Mr. bridegroom's ribbons,^ and a great deal of
' James Pierce, surgeon to the Duke of York. He was husband of the
pretty Mrs. Pierce, and not Pierce the Purser. See 27th August, 1660.
2 The scramble for ribbons, here mentioned by Pepys in connection with
weddings (see also s6th Jan., 1660-61, and Sth Feb., 1662-63) doubtless
formed part of the ceremony of undressing the bridegroom, which, as the age
became more refined> fell into disuse. AU the old plays are silent on the
custom; the earliest notice of which occurs in the old ballad of the wedding
of Arthur O'Bradley, printed in the Appendix to "Robin Hood," 1795, where
we read : — " Then got they his points and his garters^
And cut them in pieces like martyrs;
And then they all did play
For the honotir of Arthur O'Bradley."
Sir Winston Churchill also observes ("Divi Britannici," p. 340) that James I.
was no more troubled at his querulous countrymen robbing him than a bride
groom at the losing of his points and garters. Lady Fanshawe, in her
" Memoirs," says, that at the nuptials of Charles H. and the Infanta, " the
Bishop of London declared them married in the name of the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Ghost; and then they caused the ribbons her Majesty wore to
be cut in little pieces; and as far as they would go, every one had some."
The practice still survives in the form of wedding favours.
A similar custom is still of every day's occurrence at Dieppe. Upon the

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 3 1
fooling among them that I and my wife did not like.
Mr. Lucy and several other gentiemen coming in after
dinner, swearing and singing as if they were mad, only
he singing very handsomely. There came in afterwards
Mr. [James] Southeme, clerk to Mr. Blackbume,' and
with him Lambert,^ heutenant of my Lord's ship, and
brought with them the declaration that came out to-day
from the Parhament, wherein they declare for law and
gospel, and for tythes ; but I do not find people apt
to believe them. After this taking leave I went to my
father's, and my wife staying there, he and I went to
speak with Mr. Crumlum 3 (in the meantime, whUe it
was five o'clock, he being in the school, we went to
my cozen Tom Pepys' shop, the tumer in Paul's
Churchyard, and drank with him a pot of ale) ; he
gave my father directions what to do about getting
my brother an exhibition, and spoke very weU of my
brother. Thence back with my father home, where
he and I spoke privately in the httle room to my sister
PaU about steahng of things as my wife's scissars and
my mayde 's book, at which my father was much trou-
morrow after their marriage, the bride and bridegroom perambulate the
streets, followed by a numerous cortege, the guests at the wedding festival,
two and two; each individual wearing two bits of narrow ribbon, about two
inches in length, of different colours, which are pinned cross-ways upon the
breast. These morsels of ribbons originally formed the garters of the bride
and bridegroom, which had been divided amidst boisterous mirth among the
assembled company, the moment the happy pair had been formally installed
in the bridal bed. — Ex. inf. Mr. WiUiam Hughes, Belvedere, Jersey.
' Robert Blackboume, then Secretary to the Admiralty, with a salary of
250/. 2 See 4th Oct., 1660: 6th June, i66r ; and 14th Sept., 1665.
3 Samuel Cromleholme, or Crumlum, Master of St. Paul's Schtml.

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bled. Hence home with my wife and so to Whitehall,
where I met with Mr. Hunt and LueUin, and drank
vidth them at Marsh's, and afterwards went up and
wrote to my Lord by the post. This day the Parlia
ment gave order that the late Committee of Safety
should come before them this day se'nnight, and aU
their papers, and their model of Govemment that they
had made, to be brought in with them.
25 th. CaUed up early to Mr. Downing ; he gave me
a Character," such a one as my Lord's, to make per
fect, and likewise gave me his order for ;£soo to carry
to Mr. Frost, which I did and so to my office, where
I did do something about the character tiU twelve
o'clock. Then home and found my wife and the
mayde at my Lord's getting things ready against to
morrow. I went by water to my Uncle White's to
dinner, where I met my father, where we alone had a
fine poU of Ling to dinner. After dinner I took leave,
and coming home heard that in Cheapside there had
been but a httie before a gibbet set up, and the picture
of Huson 2 hung upon it in the middle of the street.
* z'. e. cipher. See January x8th. (M. B.)
2 A curious notice of Hewson occurs in Rugge's " Diumal," 5th Decera
ber, 1659, which states '' that he was a cobbler by trade, but a very stout
man, and a very good commander; but in regard of his former employment,
they [the city apprentices] threw at him old shoes, and slippers, and turnip-
tops, and brickbats, stones, and tiles." ..." At this lime [January, 1659-60]
there came forth, almost every day, jeering books; one was called 'Colonel
Hewson's Confession; or, a Parley with Pluto,' about his going into London,
and taking down the gates of Temple-Bar." He had but one eye, which did
not escape the notice of his enemies. He became a colonel in the Parliament
army, and sat in judgment on the King. He escaped hanging by fiight, and
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I caUed at Paul's Churchyard, where I bought Buxtorf's
Hebrew Grammar ; and read a declaration of the gen
tlemen of Northampton which came out this afternoon.
To Mr. Crew's about a picture to be sent into the
country, of Mr. Thomas Crew, to my Lord. So to my
Lady Wright to speak with her, but she was abroad, so
Mr. Evans, her butler, had me in to his buttery, and
gave me sack and a lesson on his lute, which he played
very weU. Hence I went to my Lord's and got most
things ready against to-morrow, as fires and laying the
cloth, and my wife was making of her tarts and larding
of her puUets tiU eleven o'clock. This evening Mr.
Downing sent for me, and gave me order to go to
Mr. Jessop for his papers concerning his dispatch to
HoUand which were not ready, only his order for a
ship to transport him he gave me. To my Lord's
again and so home with my wife, tired with this day's
work. 26th. To my office for _;^20 to carry to Mr. Down
ing, which I did and back again. Then came Mr.
Frost to pay Mr. Downing his ;£^5oo, and I went to
him for the warrant and brought it Mr. Frost. Called
for some papers at Whitehall for Mr. Downing, one of
which was an Order of the Council for 1800/. per
annum, to be paid monthly ; and the other two. Orders
to the Commissioners of Customs, to let his goods
pass free. Home from my office to my Lord's lodg
ings where my wife had got ready a very fine dinner
— viz. a dish of marrow bones ; a leg of mutton ; a
loin of veal ; a dish of fowl, three pullets, and two

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dozen of larks aU m a dish ; a great tart, a neat's
tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns and
cheese. My company was my father, my uncle Fen
ner, his two sons, Mr. Pierce, and aU their wives, and
my brother Tom.' We were as merry as I could
frame myself to be in the company, W. Joyce talking
after the old rate and drinking hard, vexed his father
and mother and wife. And I did perceive that Mrs.
Pierce her coming so gaUant, that it put the two young
women quite out of courage. When it became dark
they aU went away but Mr. Pierce, and W. Joyce, and
their wives and Tom, and drank a bottle of wine
afterwards, so that WiU did heartily vex his father and
mother by staying. At which I and my wife were
much pleased. Then they aU went and I feU to writ
ing of two characters for Mr. Downing, and carried
them to him at nine o'clock at night, and he did not
like them but corrected them, so that to-morrow I am
to do them anew. To my Lord's lodging again and
sat by the great log, it being now a very good fire,
with my wife, and ate a bit and so home. The news
this day is a letter that speaks absolutely Monk's con
currence with this Parliament, and nothing else, which
yet I hardly believe. After dinner to-day my father
showed me a letter from my Uncle Robert in answer
to my last, conceming my money which I would have
out of my Coz. Beck's hand, wherein Beck desires it
four months longer, which I know not how to spare.
¦ Ob. 1663.

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 35
27th. Going to my office I met with Tom Newton,
my old comrade, and took him to the Crowne in the
Palace and gave him his moming draft. And as he
always did, did talk very high what he would do with
the Parhament, that he would have what place he
would, and that he might be one of the Clerks to the
CouncU if he would. Here I staid talking with him
tiU the offices were aU shut, and then I walked in the
HaU, and was told by my bookseUer, Mrs. Michell,
that Mr. G. Montagu had inquired there for me. So
I went to his house, and was forced by him to dine
with him, and had a plenteous brave dinner and the
greatest civUity that ever I had from any man. Thence
home and so to Mrs. Jem, and played with her at
cards, and coming home again my wife told me that
Mr. Hawley had been there to speak with me, and
seemed angry that I had not been at the office that
day, £ind she told me she was afraid that Mr. Downing
may have a mind to pick some hole in my coat. So
I made haste to him, but found no such thing from
him, but he sent me to Mr. Sherwin's about getting
Mr. Squib to come to him to-morrow, and I carried
him an answer. So home and fell a writing the char
acters for Mr. Downing, and about nine at night Mr.
Hawley came, and after he was gone I sat up tiU
almost twelve writing, and wrote two of them. In the
moming up early and wrote another, my wife lying in
bed and reading to me.
28th. I went to Mr. Downing and carried him
three characters, and then to my office and wrote an-

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other, while Mr. Frost staid telling money. And after
I had done it Mr. Hawley came into the office and I
left him and carried it to Mr. Downing, who then told
me that he was resolved to be gone for Holland this
moming. So I to my office again, and dispatch my
business there, and came with Mr. Hawley to Mr.
Downing's lodging, and took Mr. Squib from White
HaU in a coach thither with me, and there we waited
in his chamber a great while, till he came in ; and in
the mean time, sent aU his things to the barge that lay
at Charing-Cross Stairs. Then came he m, and took
a very civil leave of me, beyond my expectation, for I
was afraid that he would have told me something of
removing me from my office ; but he did not, but that
he would do me any service that lay in his power.
So I went down and sent a porter to my house for my
best fur cap, but he coming too late with it I did not
present it to him. Thence I went to Westminster
HaU, and bound up my cap at Mrs. MicheU's, who
was much taken with my cap, and endeavoured to
overtake the coach at the Exchange and to give it him
there, but I met with one that told me that he was
gone, and so I retumed and went to Heaven,' where
LueUin and I dined on a breast of mutton aU alone,
discoursing of the changes that we have seen and the
happiness of them that have estates of their own, and
so parted, and I went by appointment to my office
' A place of entertainment in Old Palace- Yard, on the site of which the
Committee-Rooms of the House of Commons now stand. It is called in
Hudibras, '* False Heaven, at the end of the Hall."

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 37
and paid young Mr. Walton 500/. ; it being very dark
he took 300/. by content. He gave me half a piece
and carried me in his coach to St. Clement's, from
whence I went to Mr. Crew's and made even with Mr.
Andrews, and took in aU my notes and gave him one
for aU. Then to my Lady Wright and gave her my
Lord's letter which he bade me give her privately.
So home and then to WiU's for a httie news, then
came home again and wrote to my Lord, and so to
WhitehaU and gave them to the post-boy. Back again
home and to bed.
29th. In the moming I went to Mr. Gunning's,
where he made an exceUent sermon upon the 2d of
the Galatians, about the difference that feU between
St. Paul and St. Peter (the feast day of St. Paul being
a day or two ago), whereby he did prove, that, con
trary to the doctrine of the Roman Church, St. Paul
did never own any dependance, or that he was inferior
to St. Peter, but that they were equal, only one a par
ticular charge of preaching to the Jews, and the other
to the Gentiles. Casting up my accounts, I do find
myself to be worth /^^o and more, which I did not
think, but am afraid that I have forgot something.
30th. This moming, before I was up, I feU a-sing-
ing of my song, " Great, good, and just," &c.' and put
myself thereby in mind that this was the fatal day,
' This is the beginning of Montrose's verses on the execution of Charles
the First, which Pepys had probably set to music : —
" Great, good, and just, could 1 but rate
My grief and thy too rigid fate,

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now ten years since, his Majesty died. ScuU' the
waterman came and brought me a note from the Hope
from Mr. Hawley with direction, about his money, he
tarrying there tiU his master be gone. To my office,
where I received money of the excise of Mr. Ruddier,
and after we had done went to WUl's and staid there
tiU 3 o'clock and then taking my _;^i2 ioj-. od. due to
me for my last quarter's salary, I went with them by
water to London to the house where Sign' Torriano
used to be and staid there a while ivith Mr. Ashwell,
Spicer and Ruddier. Then I went and paid _;£i2
1 7f . 6d. due from me to Capt" Dick Matthews accord
ing to his direction the last week in a letter. After
that I came back by water playing on my flageolette
and not finding my wife come home again firom her
father's I went and sat awhUe and played at cards with
Mrs. Jem, whose mayde had newly got an ague and
was Ul thereupon. Thence home where I sat writing
tiU bed-time and so to bed. There seems now to be
a general cease of talk, it being taken for granted
that Monk do resolve to stand to the Parhament, and
nothing else. Spent a littie time this night in knock
ing up naUs for my hat and cloakes in my chamber.

I'd weep the world to such a strain
That it should deluge once again.
But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies
More from Briareus' hands, than Argus* eyes,
I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds.
And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds."
' Query, whether from Scull the waterman is derived our word "sculls,"
well known to boating-men? (M. B.)

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 39
31st. In the morning I feU to my lute tiU 9 o'clock.
Then to my Lord's lodgings and set out a barrel of
soap to be carried to Mrs. Ann. Here I met with
Nick Bartlet, one that had been a servant of my Lord's
at sea and at Harper's gave him his moming draft.
So to my office where I paid ;^i,200 to Mr. Frost
and at noon went to WiU's to give one of the Excise
office a pot of ale that came to-day to tell over a bag
of his that wanted £"] in it, which he found over in
another bag. Then home and dined with my wife
when in came Mr. Hawley newly come from shipboard
from his master, and brought me a letter of direction
what to do in his lawsuit with Squib about his house
and office. After dinner to Westminster HaU, where
all we clerks had orders to wait upon the Committee,
at the Star Chamber that is to try Colonel Jones,' and
were to give an account what money we had paid him ;
but the Committee did not sit to-day. I bought the
answer to General Monk's letter, which is a very good
one, and I keep it by me. Thence to Mrs. Jem, where
I found her mayde in bed in a fit of the ague, and Mrs.
Jem among the people below at work and by and by
she came up hot and merry, as if they had given her
wine, at which I was troubled, but said nothing ; after
a game at cards, I went home. CaUed in at Harper's
and drank with Mr. Pulford, servant to Mr. Waterhouse,^'
^ Colonel John Jones, impeached, with General Ludlow and Miles Corbet,
for treasonable practices in Ireland.
2 Probably, Edward Waterhouse, an heraldic and miscellaneous writer,
styled by Lloyd " as the learned, industrious, and ingenious E. W. of Sion
College." His portrait was engraved by Loggan; he died in 1670.

40 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
who tells me, that whereas my Lord Fldetwood ' should
have answered to 'the Parliament to-day, he wrote a
letter and desired a little more time, he being a great
way out of town. And how that he is quite ashamed
of himself, and confesses how he had deserved this,
for his baseness to his brother. And that he is like to
pay part of the money, paid out of the Exchequer
during the Committee of Safety, out of his own purse
again, which I am glad on. Home and to bed, leaving
my wife reading in Polixandre. I could find nothing
in Mr. Downing's letter, which Hawley brought me,
concerning my office ; but I could discern that Hawley
had a mind that I would get to be Clerk of the Coun
cil, I suppose that he might have the greater salary ;
but I think it not safe yet to change this for a pubhc
employment. Febmary ist. In the moming went to my office
where afterwards the old man brought me my letters
from the carrier. At noon I went home and dined
with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else.
After that I went to the Hall and there met with Mr.
Swan and went with him to Mr. Downing's CounseUor,
who did put me in very httle hopes about the business
between Mr. Downing and Squib, and told me that
Squib would carry it against him, at which I was much
I Charles Fleetwood, Lord Deputy of Ireland during thc Usurpation,
became Cromwell's son-in-law by his marriage with Ireton's widow, and a
member of the Council of State, He seemed disposed to have espoused
Charles the Second's interests; but had not resolution enough to execute his
design. At the Restoration he was excepted out of the Act of Indemnity, and
spent the remainder of his life in obscurity, dying soon after the Revolution.

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 41
troubled, and with him went to Lincoln's Inn and there
spoke with his attorney, who told me the day that was
appointed for the trial. From thence to Mrs. Jem and
spoke with Madam Scott and her husband who did
promise to have the thing for her neck done this week.
Thence home and took Gammer East, and James the
porter, a soldier, to my Lord's lodgings, who told me
how they were drawn into the field to-day, and that
they were ordered to march away to-morrow to make
room for General Monk; but they did shout their
Colonel Fitch," and the rest of the officers out of the
field, and swore they would not go without their
money, and if they would not give it them, they would
go where they might have jt, and that was the City.
So the Colonel went to the Parhament, and com
manded what money could be got, to be got against
to-morrow for them, and all the rest of the soldiers
in town, who in all places made a mutiny this day,
and do agree together. Here I took some bedding
to send to Mrs. Ann for her to lie in now she hath her
fits of ague. Thence I went to Will's and staid hke a
fool there and played at cards tiU 9 o'clock and so
came home, where I found Mr. Hunt and his wife
who staid and sat vnth me till 10 and so good
night. 2d. To my office, where I found aU the officers of
the regiments in town, waiting to receive money that
their soldiers might go out of town, and what was in
' Thomas Fitch, colonel of a regiment of foot in 1658, M.P. for Inverness,
also Lieutenant of the Tower.

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the Exchequer they had. Harper, LueUin, and I went
to the Temple to Mr. Calthrop's chamber, and from
thence had his man by water to London Bridge to Mr.
Calthrop,' a grocer, and received ;£6o for my Lord.
In our way we talked with our waterman. White, who
told us how the watermen had lately been abused by
some that had a desire to get in to be watermen to the
State, and had lately presented an address of nine or
ten thousand hands to stand by this Parhament, when
it was only told them that it was to a petition against
hackney coaches ; and that to-day they had put out
another to undeceive the world and to clear themselves,
and that among- the rest Cropp, my waterman and one
of great practice, was one that did cheat them thus.
After I had received the money we went to the Bridge
Taveme and drank a quart of wine and so back by
water landing Mr. Calthrop's man at the Temple and
we went homewards, but over against Somerset House,
hearing the noise of guns, we landed and found the
Strand fuU of soldiers. So I took my money and went
to Mrs. Johnson, my Lord's sempstress, and giving her
my money to lay up, Doling and I went up stairs to
a window, and looked out and saw the foot face the
horse and beat them back, and stood bawling and
calling in the street for a free Parliament and money.
By and by a drum was heard to beat a march coming
towards them, and they got all ready again and faced
them, and they proved to be of the same mind with
them ; and so they made a great deal of joy to see
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went home on foot and laid up my money, and chan
ging my stockings and shoes, I having this day left off
my great skirt suit, and put on my white suit with silver
lace coat," and went over to Harper's, where I met
with W. Simons, Dohng, Luellin and three merchants,
one of which had occasion to use a porter, so they
sent for one, and James the soldier came, who told
us how they had been all day and night upon their
guard at St. James's, and that through the whole town
they did resolve to stand to what they had began, and
that to-morrow he did believe they would go into the
City, and be received there. After this we went to a
sport caUed, selling of a horse for a dish of eggs and
herrings, and sat talking there tiU almost twelve at
night. 3rd. Drank my morning drafts at Harper's, and
was told there that the soldiers were all quiet upon
promise of pay. Thence to St. James's Park, back
to Whitehall, where in the guard-chamber I saw about
thirty or forty 'prentices 3 of the City, who were taken
at twelve o'clock last night and brought prisoners

' Pepys's father was a tailor, whence perhaps the importance he attaches
throughout the Diary to dress ; it is evidently more than vanity.
2 '* Though breakfast was the common indulgence of prosperous folk in
Queen Elizabeth's time, it was not universally taken by all kinds of people.
The ' morning draught ' at the inn was, in fact, the ordinary breakfast of the
majority of Englishmen at that time. Unless they bear this fact in mind,
readers of old biographers are apt to attribute tavern-haunting propensities to
sober and discreet gentlemen " (Pepys?), " who, though they always opened
the day with drink and gossip at an ale-house, were no wastrels or ill-livers." —
Jeaffreson, a Book about the Table, vol. i. p. 219. (M. B.)
3 See Scott, " Fortunes of Nigel," at the end of chapter i. (M. B.)

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hither. Thence to my office, where I paid a httle
more money to some of the soldiers under Lieut-
Col. MiUer (who held out the Tower against the Par
liament after it was taken away from Fitch by the
Committee of Safety, and yet he continued in his
office). About noon Mrs. Tumer' came to speak with
me and Joyce, and I took them and shewed them
the manner of the Houses sitting, the door-keeper
very civilly opening the door for us. Thence with
my cozen Roger Pepys, it being term time, we took
him out of the Hall to Prior's, the Rhenish wine-
house, and there had a pint or two of wine and a
dish of anchovies, and bespoke three or four dozen
bottles of wine for him against his wedding. After
this done he went away, and left me order to caU
and pay for all that Mrs. Tumer would have. So we
called for nothing more there, but went and bespoke
a shoulder of mutton at Wilkinson's to be roasted
as well as it could be done, and sent a bottle of wine
home to my house. In the meantime she and I and
Joyce went walking aU over White Hall, whither Gen
eral Monk was newly come, and we saw all his forces
march by in very good plight and stout officers.
Thence to my house where we dined, but with a
great deal of patience, for the mutton came in raw,
and so we were fain to stay the stewing of it. In

' Jane, daughter of John Pepys, of South Creak, Norfolk, married to John
Turner, Serjeant-at-Law; their only child, Theophila, frequently mentioned
as The. or Theoph., became the wife of Sir Arthur Harris, Bart., of Stowford
Devon, and died s. p.

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 45
the meantime we sat studying a Posy ' for a ring
for her which she is to have at Roger Pepys his
wedding. After dinner I left them and went to hear
news, but only found that the Parhament House was
most of them with Monk at White Hall, and that in
his passing through the town he had many calls to
him for a free Parhament, but little other welcome.
I saw in the Palace Yard how unwilling some of the
old soldiers were yet to go out of town without their
money, and swore if they had it not in three days, as
they were promised, they would do them more mis
chief in the country than if they had staid here ; and
that is very likely, the country being all discontented.
The town and guards are already fuU of Monk's sol
diers. I returned, and it growing dark I and they
went to take a tum in the park, where Theoph. (who
was sent for to us to dinner) outran my wife and
another poor woman, that laid a pot of ale with me
that she would outrun her. After that I set them as
far as Charing Cross, and there left them and my wife,
and I went to see Mrs. Ann, who began very high
about a flock bed I sent her, but I took her down.
Here I played at cards till 9 o'clock. So home and
to bed.
4th. In the morning at my lute an hour, and so to
> Contracted from poesy. A motto on a ring, or on anything else.
" A paltry ring
That she did give me, whose posy was
For all the world like cutler's poetry
Upon a knife, * Love me and leave me not.' "
Shakespeare, Merchant qf Venice, act v. sc. i. (M. B.)

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my office, where I staid expecting to have Mr. Squib
come to me, but he did not. At noon walking in the
HaU I found Mr. Swan and got him and Captain Stone
together, and there advised about Mr. Downing's busi
ness. So to Will's, and sat there till three o'clock and
then to Mr. Swan's, where I found his wife in very
genteel mourning for her father, and took him out by
water to the Counsellor at the Temple, Mr. Stevens,
and from thence to Gray's Inn, thinking to speak with
Sotherton EUis, but found him not, so we met with an
acquaintance of his in the walks, and went and drank,
where I ate some bread and butter, having ate nothing
all day, while they were by chance discoursing of
Marriot, the great eater, so that I was, I remember,
ashamed to eat what I would have done. Here Swan
shewed us a ballad to the tune of Mardike which
was most incomparably wrote in a printed hand, which
I borrowed of him, but the song proved but silly, so
I did not write it out. Thence we went and I met
with Spicer, Washington, and D. Vines in Lincoln's
Inn Court, and they were bujdng of a hanging-jack to
roast birds on of a feUow that was there seUing of
some. Thence to Sir Harry Wright's, and after that
with a link-boy home and wrote letters into the coun
try by the post, and then played a little on my lute,
and so done, to supper and then to bed. All the
news to-day is, that the Parliament this morning voted
the House to be made up four hundred forthwith.
My wife kiUed her turkeys that Mr. Shepley gave her,
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DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 47
not get her mayde Jane by no means at any time to
kiU anything.
5th (Lord's day). In the morning to Mr. Gunning,
where a stranger, an old man, preached a good honest
sermon upon "What love is this that we should be
called the sons of God." After sermon I could not
find my wife, who promised to be at the gate against
my coming out, and waited there a great while ; then
I went to my father and found her there, and there I
dined. To their church in the aftemoon, and in
Mrs. Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood
and kept it. A stranger preached a poor sermon,
and so I read over the whole book of the story of
Tobit. After sermon home with Mrs. Turner, staid
witii her a httie while, then she went into the court
to a christening and we to my father's, where I wrote
some notes for my brother John to give to the Mer
cers to-morrow, it being the day of their apposition.
After supper home, and before going to bed I staid
writing of this day its passages, while a dmm came
by, beating of a strange manner of beat, now and
then a single stroke, which my wife and I wondered
at, what the meaning of it should be. This afternoon
at church I saw Dick Cumberland " newly come out
of the country from his living, but did not speak to
him.

' Educated at St. Paul's School, and afterwards . Fellow of Magdalene
College, Cambridge. In 1658 he got possession of the rectory of Brampton,
in Northamptonshire, to which he was not legally instituted till 1661. He
obtained the rectory of All Saints, Stamford, in 1668, and in i6gi was conse-

48 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
6th. To Westminster, where we found the soldiers
aU set in the Palace Yard, to make way for General
Monk ' to come to the House. I stood upon the steps
and saw Monk go by, he making observance to the
judges as he went along. At noon my father dined
with me upon my turkey that was brought from Den
mark, and after dinner he and I to the BuU Head
Taveme, where we drank half a pint of wine and so
parted. I to Mrs. Ann and Mrs. Jem being gone out
of the chamber she and I had a very high bout, I rat
tled her up, she being in her bed, but she becoming
more cool, we parted pretty good friends. Thence I
went to WiU's, where I staid at cards tiU lo o'clock,
losing half a crown, and so home to bed.
7th. In the morning I went early to give Mr. Hawley
notice of my being forced to go into London, but he
also having business, he and I walked as far as the
Temple, where I halted a httle and then went to Paul's
School, but it being, too soon I went and drank my
moming draft with my cozen Tom Pepys the tumer,
and saw his house and shop, thence to school, where
he that made the speech for the seventh form in praise

crated Bishop of Peterborough. He died at his palace gth October, 1719.
See Diary, i8th March, 1667, where Pepys writes ; " The truth is, if he would
accept of my sister's fortune, I should give ;£ioo more with him than to a man
able to settle her four times as much as, I fear, he is able to do."
^ " Feb. 6th. General Monk being in his lodgings at Whitehall, had
notice that the House had a desire to see him. He came into the Court of
Wards, and being there, the Sergeant-at-Arms went to meet him with the
mace, and his Lordship attended the Sergeant, who went before him with his
mace on his shoulder, being accompanied with Mr. Scott and Mr. Robinson."
— Rugge's Diumal.

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ofthe founder,' did show a book which Mr. Crumlum ^
had lately got, which is beheved to be of the Founder's
own writing. After the speeches, in which my brother
John came off as weU as any of the rest, I went straight
home and dined, then to the Hall, where in the Palace
I saw Monk's soldiers abuse BiUing and aU the Qua
kers, that were at a meeting-place there, and indeed
the soldiers did use them very roughly and were to
blame. So after drinking with Mr. Spicer, who had
received ;^6oo for me this morning, I met Mr. Squib,
but he would do nothing till to-morrow moming.
Thence back on foot home, where I found a letter
from my Lord in character,^ which I construed, and
went to Mr. Crew and advised with him about it, it
being concerning my Lord's coming up to Town.
Thence caUing upon Mrs. Ann I went home, and
wrote in character to my Lord in answer to his letter.
This day Mr. Crew told me that my Lord St. John ? is
for a free Parhament, and that he is very great with
Monk, who hath now the absolute command and
power to do any thing that he hath a mind to dol
Boys do now cry " Kiss my Parhament," instead ofl
" Kiss my rump," so great and general a contempt is
the Rump come to among all the good and bad.
Sth. A httle practice on my flageolet, and after-

' John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's, whose life has been written by Knight.
2 See Jan. 24th, ante.
' i.e. in cipher. (M. B.)
4 Oliver St. John, of Lamport, Northamptonshire, Solicitor-General in
1640, and afterwards Lord Chief-Justice of the Upper Bench.

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wards walking in my yard to see my stock of pigeons,
which begin now with the spring to breed very fast.
I was called on by Mr. Fossan,' my feUow pupil at
Cambridge, and I took him to the Swan in the Palace
yard, and drank together our morning draft. Thence
to my office, where I received money, and afterwards
Mr. Carter, my old friend at Cambridge, meeting me
as I was going out of my office I took him to the
Swan, and in the way I met with Captain Lidcott, and
so we three went together and drank there, the Captain
talking as high as ever he did, and more because of
the fall of his brother Thurlow.^ Hence I went to
Captain Stone, who told me how Squib had been
with him, and that he could do nothing with him, so
I returned to Carter and with him to Will's, where I
spent upon him and Monsieur L'Impertment, ahas Mr.
Butler, who I took thither with me, and thence to the
Rhenish wine house, and in our way met with Mr.
Hoole, where I paid for my cozen Roger Pepys his
wine, and after drinking we parted. At home my
wife's brother brought her a pretty black dog which I
liked very well, and went away again. Hence sending
a porter with the hamper of bottles to the Temple I
called in my way upon Mrs. Jem, who was much
frighted tiU I came to teU her that her mother was
' College Entry Book, Junij 27, 1651 : — " Thomas ffossan, filius Thomae
ffossan, civis Londinensis, annum agens decimil Septimii e schola de St. Mary
Axe apud Londinenses, admissus est Pensionarius, tutore Duo. Moreland."
(M. B.)
2 So spelt by Pepys, elsewhere Thurloe; he had been Secretary of State
to the two Protectors. (M. B.)

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well. So to the Temple and thence to my father's,
where he shewed me a base and angry letter from my
uncle about my brother John, at which my father was
very sad, but I comforted him and wrote an answer.
My brother John has an exhibition granted him from
the school. My father and I went down to his kitchen,
and there we eat and drank, and about 9 o'clock I
went away homewards, and in Fleete Street, received
a great jostle from a man that had a mind to take the
waU, which I could not help. I came home and to
bed. Went to bed with my head not well by my too
much drinking to-day, and I had a boil under my chin
which troubled me cruelly.
9th. Before I was out of my bed, I heard the
soldiers very busy in the moming, getting their horses
ready where they lay at Hilton's, but I knew not then
their meaning in so doing. In the HaU I understand
how Monk is this moming gone into London with his
army ; and Mr. Fage told me that he do believe that
Monk is gone to secure some of the Common-council
of the City, who were very high yesterday there, and
did vote that they would not pay any taxes tiU the
House was fiUed up. I went to my office, where I
wrote to my Lord after I had been at the Upper
Bench, where Sir Robert Pye " this moming came to
t Sir Robert Pye, the elder, was auditor of the Exchequer, and a staunch
Royalist. He garrisoned his house at Faringdon, which was besieged by his
son, of the same names, a decided repubHcan, son-in-law to Hampden, and
Colonel of Horse under Fairfax. The son here spoken of was subsequendy
committed to the Tower for presenting a petition to the House of Commons
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desire his discharge from the Tower ; but it could not
be granted. After that I went to Mrs. Jem, who I had
promised to go along with to her Aunt Wright's, but
she was gone, so I went thither, and after drinking a
glass of sack I went back to Westminster Hall, where
meeting Swan I went with him by water to the Temple
to our Counsel, and did give him a fee to make a
motion to-morrow in the Exchequer for Mr. Downing.
Thence to Westminster HaU, where I heard an action
very finely pleaded between my Lord Dorset ' and
some other noble persons, his lady and other ladies of
quality being there, and it was about ^^ol. per annum,
that was to be paid to a poor Spittal, which was given
by some of his predecessors ; " and given on his side.
Thence Swan and I to a drinking-house near Temple
Bar, where while he wrote I played on my flageolet tiU
a dish of poached eggs was got ready for us, which we
eat, and so by coach home. I caUed at Mr. Harper's,
who told me how Monk had this day clapt up many
of the Common-council, and that the Parhament had
voted that he should puU down their gates and port-
culhsses, their posts and their chains, which he do in-
of the want of a settled form of govemment. He had, however, the courage
to move for an Habeas Corpus, but Judge Newdigate decided that the courts
of law had not the power to discharge him. Upon Monk's coming to London,
the secluded members passed a vote to liberate Pye, and at the Restoration
he was appointed equerry to the King. He died in 1701.
I Richard, 5th Earl of Dorset, ob. 1677.
2 This was the Sackville College for the poor, at East Grinstead, founded
by Robert Sackville, second Earl of Dorset, who died in 1608. There is a
good account of Sackville College in the " Gentleman's Magazine " for De
cember, 1848.

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tend to do, and do he in the City aU night. I went
home and got some alium to my mouth, where I have
the beginnings of a cancer, and had also a plaster to a
boil underneath my chin.
IOth. In the moming I went to Mr. Swan, who
took me to the Court of Wards, where I saw the
three Lords Commissioners sitting upon some cause
where Mr. Scobell was concerned, and my Lord Foun
taine ' took him up very roughly about some things that
he said. After that we went to the Exchequer, where
the Barons were hearing of causes, and there I made
affidavit that Mr. Downing was gone into Holland by
order of the CouncU of State, and this affidavit I gave
to Mr. Stevens our lawyer. Thence to my office,
where I got money of Mr. Hawley to pay the lawyer,
and there found Mr. Lenard, one of the Clerks of the
Council, and took him to the Swan and gave him his
moming draft. Then home to dinner, and after that
to the Exchequer, where I heard aU the afternoon a
great many causes before the Barons ; in the end
came ours, and Squib proved clearly by his patent
that the house and office did now belong to him. Our
lawyer made some kind of opposition, but to no pur
pose, and so the cause was found against us, and the
foreman of the Jury brought in ;^io damages, which
the whole Court cried shame of, and so he cried 1 2d.
Thence I went home, vexed about this business, and
there found Mr. Moore, and with him went into Lon-
' Sir Thomas Widdrington and Sergeants Thomas Tyrrel and John Foun
tain had just been appointed Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal.

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don to Mr. Fage about the cancer in my mouth, which
begins to grow dangerous. He told me what Monk
had done in the City, how he had puUed down the
most part of the gates ' and chains that they could
break down, and that he • was now gone back to
White HaU. The City look mighty blank, and cannot
tell what in the world to do ; the Parhament having
this day ordered that the Common-council sit no
more, but that new ones be chosen according to what
quahfications they shall give them.
nth. This morning I lay long abed, and then to
my office, where I read aU the morning my Spanish
book of Rome. At noon I walked in the Hall, where
I heard the news of a letter from Monk, who was now
gone into the City again, and did resolve to stand for
the sudden filling up of the House, and it was very
strange how the countenance of men in the Hall was
all changed with joy in half an hour's time. So I
went up to the lobby, where I saw the Speaker read
ing of the letter ; and after it was read, Sir A. Hasel
rigge came out very angry, and BiUing standing at the
door, took him by the arm, and cried, "Thou man,
wdll thy beast carry thee no longer? thou must fall ! "
The House presently after rose, and appointed to
meet again at three o'clock. I went then down into
the Hall, where I met with Mr. Chetwind, who had
not dined no more than myself, and so we went toward
London, in our way calling at two or three shops, but
could have no dinner. At last, within Temple Bar,
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After that he went to his office, where I sat in his
study singing, while he was with his man. Thence we
took coach for the City to Guildhall, where the Hall
was fuU of people expecting Monk and Lord Mayor
to come thither, and aU very joyfuU. Met Monk com
ing out of the chamber where he had been with the
Mayor ' and Aldermen, but such a shout I never heard
in all my life, crying out, " God bless your Excel
lence." Here I met with Mr. Lock, and took him to
an ale-house, and left him there to fetch Chetwind ;
when we were come together. Lock ^ told us the sub
stance of the letter that went from Monk to the Par
liament ; wherein, after complaints that hei and his
officers were put upon such offices against the City as
they could not do with any content or honour, it
states, that there are many members now in the House
that were of the late tyrannical Committee of Safety.
That Lambert and Vane 3 are now in town, contrary to
the vote of Parhament. That there were many in the
House that do press for new oaths to be put upon
men ; whereas we have more cause to be sorry for the
mkny oaths that we have already taken and broken.
That the late petition of the fanatique people present
ed by Barebone,* for the imposing of an oath upon all

I Allen, afterwards Sir Thomas, married to Elizabeth Birch.
* Matthew Locke, the celebrated composer.
3 See Jan. 9, 1659-60.
4 Praise God Barebones, an active member of the Parliament called by
his name. About this period he had appeared at the head of a band of
fanatics, and alarmed Monk, who well knew his influence. He was a leather-
seller in Fleet Street.

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sorts of people, was received by the House with
thanks. That therefore he ' do desire that aU writs for
fiUing up of the House be issued by Friday next, and
that in the mean time, he would reture into the City
and only leave them guards for the security of the
House and CouncU. The occasion of this was the
order that he had last night to go into the City and
disarm them, and take away their charter; whereby
he and his officers say that the House had a mind to
put them upon things that should make them odious ;
and so it would be in their power to do what they
would with them. He told us that the Parliament
had sent Scott ^ and Robinson to Monk this aftemoon,
but he would not hear them. And that the Mayor
and Aldermen had offered their own houses for him
self and his officers ; and that his soldiers would lack
for nothing. And indeed I saw many people give the
soldiers drink and money, and all along in the streets
cried, "God bless them!" and extraordinary good
words. Hence we went to a merchant's house hard
by, where I saw Sir Nich. Crisp,3 and so we went to
' Monk.
2 Thomas Scott, recently made Secretary of State, had signed the "King's
death-warrant, for which he was executed at Charing Cross, i6th October,
1660. He and' Luke Robinson were both Members of Parliament, and of the
Council of State, and selected, as firm adherents to the Rump, to watch
Monk's proceedings; and never was a mission more signally unsuccessful.
Scott, before his execution, desired to have it written on his tombstone,
" Thomas Scott, who adjudged to death the late king."
3 An eminent merchant, and one of the farmers of the customs. He had
advanced large sums to assist Charles I., who created him a baronet. He
died February, 1667, aged 67, and was buried in the church of St. Mildred,
Bread Street. For an account of him, and his magnificent house at Hammer-

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the Star Tavem, (Monk being then at Benson's.) In
Cheapside there was a great many bonfires, and Bow
bells and all the beUs in all the churches as we went
home were a-ringing. Hence we went homewards, it
being about ten at night. But the common joy that
was every where to be seen ! The number of bonfires,
there being fourteen between St. Dunstan's and Tem
ple Bar, and at Strand Bridge ' I could at one view teU
thirty-one fires. In King-street seven or eight ; and
all along buming, and roasting, and drinking for
rumps. There being ramps tied upon sticks and
carried up and down. The butchers at the May Pole
in the Strand ^ rang a peal with their knives when they
were going to sacrifice their ramp. On Ludgate HiU
there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied
upon it, and another basting of it. Indeed it was
past imagination, both the greatness and the sudden
ness of it. At one end of the street you would think
there was a whole lane of fire, and so hot that we
were fain to keep on the further side. Thence home
and sent my letters to the post-house in London, and
my wife and I went out again to show her the fires,
and after walking as far as the Exchange we retumed
and to bed.
1 2 th. In the moming, it being Lord's day, to White
smith, on the site of which Brandenburgh House was built, see Lysons's
** Environs," and other local histories.
' Described in Maitland's History of London as a handsome bridge cross
ing the Strand, near the east end of Catherine Street, under which a small
stream glided from the fields into the Thames, near Somerset House.
2 Wherc stands the church of St. Maiy-le-Strand.

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Hall, where Dr. Hones " preached ; but I staid not to
hear, but walking in the court, I heard that Sir Arth.
Haselrigge was newly gone into the City to Monk,
and that Monk's wife ^ removed from White HaU last
night. After dinner I heard that Monk had been at
Paul's in the moming, and the people had shouted
much at his coming out of the church. In the after
noon he was at a church in Broad-street, whereabout
he do lodge. But not knowing how to see him we
went and walked half a hour in Moorfields, which were .
fuU of people, it being so fine a day. Here I took
leave of them, and so to Paul's, where I met with Mr.
Kirton's ' apprentice (the crooked feUow) and walked
up and down with him two hours, sometimes in the
streete looking for a taveme to drink in, but not find
ing any open, we durst not knock ; other times in the
churchyard, where one told me that he had seen the
letter printed. So to my father's, where Charles Glas-
cocke was overjoyed to see how things are now ; who
told me the boys had last night broke Barebone's
vidndows.

^ Nathaniel Holmes, D.D., of Exeter College, Oxford. He was the in
truding incumbent of St. Mary Stayning, London, and ejected by the Act of
Uniformity, and died in 1676. He was a very learned, but voluminous and
fanciful writer. A list of his works is given in Wood's " Athense " (ed. Bliss),
vol. iii. 1160. See also Kennett's " Register," p. 827.
^ Anne Clarges, daughter of a blacksmith, and bred a milliner; mistress
and afterwards wife of General Monk, over whom she exercised the greatest
influence. 3 Joseph Kirton was a bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, at the sign of
"The King's Arms." His death, in October, 1667, is recorded in Smith's
" Obituary," printed for the Camden Society.

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13th. To my office till noon, then home. After
dinner I took my wife to my father's, in my way I
went to Playford's, and for two books that I had and
6s. dd. to boot, I had my great book of songs which
he sells always for \\s. At my father's I staid a while,
whUe my mother sent her mayde Bess to Cheapside
for some herbs to make a water for my mouth. Then
I went to see Mr. Cumberland, and after a little stay
with him I retumed, and took my wife home, where
after supper to bed. This day Monk was invited to
White Hall to dinner by my Lords ; not seeming wiU
ing, he would not come. I went to Mr. Fage from my
father's, who had been this aftemoon with Monk, who
do promise to hve and die with the City, and for the
honour of the City ; and indeed the City is very open-
handed to the soldiers, that they are most of them
drunk aU day, and have money given them.
14th. My wife, hearing Mr. Moore's voice in my
dressing-chamber, got herself ready, and came down
and challenged him for her valentine, this being the
day. To Westminster HaU, there being many new
remonstrances and declarations from many counties
to Monk and the City, and one coming from the
North from Sir Thomas Fairfax." I heard that the
ParUament had now changed the oath so much talked
of to a promise ; and that among other qualifications

' Thomas Lord Fairfax, mentioned before. He had succeeded to the
Scotch Barony of Fairfax, of Cameron, on the death of his father, in 1647;
even after his accession to the title, he is frequently styled " Sir Thomas," in
the pamphlets and papers of the day.

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for the members that are to be chosen, one is, that no
man, nor the son of any man that hath been in arms
during the hfe of the father, shaU be capable of being
chosen to sit in Pariiament. To WiU's, where like a
fool I staid and lost dd. at cards. So home, and
wrote a letter to my Lord by the post. So after
supper to bed. This day, by an order of the House,
Sir H. Vane " was sent out of town to his house in
Lincolnshire. 15 th. Called up in the moming by Captain Hol
land and Captain Cuttance. With them to Harper's,
thence to my office, thence with Mr. HiU of Worcesr
tershire to WiU's, where I gave him a letter to Nan
Pepys, and some merry pamphlets against the Rui^p
to carry to her into the country. So to Mr. Crew's,
where the dining room being full, Mr. Walgrave and I,
dined below in the buttery by ourselves upon a good
dish of buttered salmon. So to Mrs. Jem and sat with
her, who dined at Mr. Crew's tOrday, and told me
that there were at her coming away at least forty gen
tlemen (I suppose members that were secluded, for
Mr. Walgrave told me that there were about thirty
met there the last night) came dropping in one after
another thither. No news to-day, but aU quiet to see
what the Parhament will do about the issuing of the
writs to-morrow for the fiUing up of the House, accord
ing to Monk's desire.
1 6th. In the moming at my lute. Then came
' Sir H. Vane had married Frances, daughter of Sir Christopher Wray,
of Ashby, Lincolnshire, Bart.

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Shaw! and Hawley, and I gave them their moming
draff at my house. So to my office, where I wrote by
the carrier to my Lord and sealed my letter at WiU's,
and gave it old East to carry it to the carrier's, and to
take up a box of china oranges and two httle barrels
of scallops at my house, which Captain Cuttance sent
to me for my Lord. Here I met with Osbome and
with Shaw and Spicer, and we went to the Sun Taveme
in expectation of a dinner, where we had sent us only
two trencherfuUs of meat, at which we were very merry,
and here we staid tiU seven at night, I winning a quart
of sack of Shaw that one trencherfuU that was sent us
was aU lamb and he that it was veal. I by having but
3d. in my pocket made shift to spend no more, whereas
if I had had more I had spent more as the rest did,
so that I see it is an advantage to a man to carry httle
in his pocket. Home, and after supper, and a httle at
my flute, I went to bed.
iT7th. In the moming came Mr. HiUs the instmment
maker, and I consulted with him about the altering
my lute and my viaU. After him I went into my study
and made' up my accounts, and found that I am about
40/. beforehand in the world, and that is all. After
dinner I went to Mr. Gunning's to his weekly fast, and
after sermon, meeting there with Monsieur L'lmperti-
nent, we went and walked in the park tiU it was dark,
I played on my pipe at the Echo, and then drank a
cup of ale at Jacob's. So to Westminster HaU, where
I heard that some of the members of the House was
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General Monk in the City. Hence to White Hall,
thinking to hear more news, where I met with Mr.
Hunt, who told me how Monk had sent for aU his
goods that he had here, into the City ; and yet again
he told me, that some of the members of the House
had this day laid in firing into their lodgings at White
HaU for a good while, so that we are at a great stand
to think what wiU become of things, whether Monk
wiU stand to the Parhament or no.
I Sth. A great while at my vial and voice, leaming
to sing " Fly boy, fly boy," without book. So to my
office, where httle to do. Home to dinner, and then
went to my Lord's lodgings to my turret there and
took away most of my books, and sent them home by
my mayde. Then I to Mr. Wotton's, and with him
to an ale-house and drank, whUe he told me a great
many stories of comedies that he had formerly seen
acted, and the names of the principal actors, and gave
me a very good account of it. This day two soldiers "
were hanged in the Strand for their late mutiny at
Somerset-house. 19th (Lord's day). Early in the moming I set
my books that I brought home yesterday up in order
in my study. Thence forth to Mr. Harper's to drink
a draft of Purle, whither by appointment Monsieur
L'Impertinent, who did intend too upon my desire to

' " They were brought to the place of execution, which was at Charing
Cross, and over against Somerset House in the Strand, where were two gib
bets erected. These men were the grand actors in the mutinies at Gravesend,
at Somerset House, and in St. James' Fields." — Rugge's Diurnal.

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go along with me to St. Bartholomew's, to hear one
Mr. Sparkes, but it raining very hard we went to Mr.
Gunning's and heard an excellent sermon, and speak
ing pf the character that the Scripture gives of Ann
the mother of the blessed Virgin, he did there speak
largely in commendation of widowhood, and not as
we do to marry two or three wives or husbands, one
after another. Here I met with Mr. Moore, and went
home with him to dinner, where he told me the dis
course that happened between the secluded members
and the members of the House, before Monk last
Friday. How the secluded said, that they did not
intend by coming in to express revenge upon these
men, but only to meet and dissolve themselves, and
only to issue writs for a free Parhament. He told me \
how Haselrigge ' was afraid to have the candle carried
before him, for fear that the people seeing him, would
do him hurt ; and that he is afraid to appear in the
City. That there is great likelihood that the secluded
members will come in, and so Mr. Crew and my Lord
are likely to be great men,>t which I was very glad.
After dinner there was many secluded members come
in to Mr. Crew, which, it being the Lord's day, did
make Mr. Moore beheve that there was something
extraordinary in the business. Hence home and
brought my wife to Mr. Mossum's ^ to hear him, and

* See January 13th, 1659-60, and note.
2 This was in all probability Robert Mossom, author of several sermons
preached in London, and printed about the time of the Restoration, who was
in 1666 made Bishop of Derry. In the title-page of his " Apology in behalf

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indeed he made a very good sermon, but only too
eloquent for a pulpit. After sermon to my father's,
and feU into discourse conceming our going to Cam
bridge the next week with my brother John. So home,
and it raining my wife got my mother's French mantie
and my brother John's hat, and so we went all along
home and to bed.
20th. In the moming at my lute. Then to my
office, where my partner and I made even our balance.
Took him home to dinner with me, where my brother
John came to dine. After dinner I took him into my
study at home and at my Lord's, and gave him some
books and other things against his going to Cambridge.
After he was gone I went forth to Westminster HaU,
where I met with Chetwind, Simons, and Gregory.'
And with them to Marsh's at Whitehall to drink, and
staid there a pretty whUe reading a pamphlet well writ
and directed to General Monk, in praise of the form
of monarchy which was settied here before the wars.
They told me how the Speaker LenthaU do refuse to
sign the writs for choice of new members in the place
of the excluded ; and by that means the writs could
not go out to-day. In the evening Simons and I to
the Coffee Clubb, where nothing to do only I heard
Mr. Harrington, and my Lord of Dorset and another
Lord, talking of getting another place as the Cockpit,
of the Sequestered Clergy," printed in 1660, he calls himself " l>reacber of
God's word at St. Peter's, Paul's Wharf, London." See also Somers's
" Tracts," vol. vii. p. 237, edit. 1748.
'Mr. Gregory was, in 1672, Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham,

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and they did believe it would come to something.
After a small debate upon the question whether leamed
or unlearned subjects are the best the Clubb broke
up very poorly, and I do not think they wiU meet any
more. Hence with Vines, &c. to WiUs, and after a
pot or two home, and so to bed.
2 1 St. In the morning going out I saw many soldiers
going towards Westminster, and I was told that they
were going to admit the secluded members again. So
I to Westminster HaU, and in Chancery Row I saw
about twenty of them who had been at White HaU
with General Monk,' who came thither this morning,
and made a speech to them, and- recommended to
them a Commonwealth, and against Charles Stuart.
They came to the House and went in one after another,
and at last the Speaker came. But it is very strange
that this could be carried so private, that the other
members of the House heard nothing of all this, tiU
they found them in the House, insomuch that the
soldiers that stood there to let in the secluded mem
bers, they took for such as they had ordered to stand
there to hinder their coming in. Mr. Prin ^ came with
an old basket-hilt sword on, and had a great many
great shouts upon his going into the HaU. They sat

' This remarkable speech is given at length by Rugge, who adds that
about fourscore of the secluded members attended the first meeting of the
House. It is highly probable that Monk had ascertained that they were
ready to support him, before he committed himself to the Parliament.
2 William Prynne, the lawyer, well known by his voluminous publications,
and the persecution which he endured. He was M. P. for Bath, 1660, and
died 1669.

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till noon, and at their coming out Mr. Crew saw me,
and bid me come to his house and dine with him,
which I did; and he very joyful told me that the
House had made General Monk, General of aU the
Forces in England, Scotiand, and Ireland ; and that
upon Monk's desire, for the service that Lawson had
lately done in puUing down the Committee of Safety,
he had the command of the Sea for the time being.
He advised me to send for my Lord forthwith, and
told me that there is no question that, if he will, he
may now be employed again ; and that the House do
intend to do nothing more than to issue writs, and to
settle a foundation for a free Pariiament. After dinner
I back to Westminster HaU with him in his coach.
Here I met with Mr. Lock and PurseU,' Masters of
Musique, and with them to the Coffee House, into a
room next the water, by ourselves, where we spent an
hour or two till Captain Taylor came and told us, that
the House had voted the gates of the City to be made
up again, and the members of the City^ that are in
prison to be set at liberty ; and that Sir G. Booth's '
case be brought into the House to-morrow. Here we
had variety of brave Italian and Spanish songs, and a
canon for eight voices, which Mr. Lock had lately
made on these words : " Domine salvum fac Regem,"

' Matthew Locke and Henry Purcell, both celebrated composers.
2 Richard Brown, William Wilde, John Robinson, and William Vincent.
3 Sir George Booth, Bart., of Dunham Massey, then a prisoner in the
Tower, from which he was released the next day. In i66i he was created
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an admirable thing. Here out of the window it was a
most pleasant sight to see the City from one end to
the other with a glory about it, so high was the hght of
the bonfires, and so thick round the City, and the bells
rang ever5rwhere. Hence home and wrote to my Lord,
afterwards came down and found Mr. Hunt (troubled
at this change) and Mr. Spong, who staid late with me
singing of a song or two, and so parted. This morn
ing I met in the HaU with Mr. Fuller, of Christ's,
and told him of my design to go to Cambridge, and
whither. He told me very freely the temper of Mr.
Widdrington,' how he did oppose all the fellows in the
College, and that there was a great distance between
him and the rest, at which I was very sorry, for that
he told me he feared it would be httle to my brother's
advantage to be his pupU.
22nd. In the moming intended to have gone to Mr.
Crew's to borrow some money, but it raining I forebore,
and went to my Lord's lodging and look that aU things
were well there. Then home and sang a song to my
viall, so to my office and to Will's, where Mr. Pierce
found me out, and told me that he would go with me
to Cambridge, where Colonel Ayre's regiment, to which
he was surgeon, heth. Walking in the HaU, I saw
Major General Brown,^ who had a long time been
' Dr. Ralph Widdrington having been ejected from his fellowship by the
Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge, October 28th, i66r, sued
out a mandamus to be restored to it ; and the matter being referred to com
missioners — "The Bishop of London, the Lord Chancellor, and some of the
judges" — he obtained restitution. — Kennett's Renter, p. 552.
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banished by the Rump, but now with his beard over
grown, he comes abroad and sat in the House. To
my father's to dinner, where nothing but a smaU dish
of powdered beef' and dish of carrots; they being
all busy to get things ready for my brother John to
go to-morrow. After dinner, my vnfe staying there, I
went to Mr. Crew's, and got 5/. of Mr. Andrews, and
so to Mrs. Jemimah, who now hath her instmment
about her neck, and indeed is infinitely altered, and
holds her head upright. I paid her mayde 40s. of the
money that I have received of Mr. Andrews. Hence
home to my study, where I only wrote thus much of
this day's passages to this * and so out again. To
White HaU, where I met with WiU. Simons and Mr.
Mabbot at Marsh's, who told me how the House had
this day voted that the gates of the City should be set
up at the cost of the State. And that Major-General
Brown's being proclaimed a traitor be made void, and
several other things of that nature. Home for my
lanthorn and so to my father's, where I directed John
what books to put for Cambridge. After that to
supper, where my Uncle Fenner and Aunt, The.
Tumer, and Joyce, at a brave leg of veal roasted, and

of Abingdon, and Member for London in the Long Parliament; not John
Evelyn's father-in-law of the same names. He had been imprisoned by the
Rump Faction.
' Poiudered beef. To powder is to salt; therefore powdered beef is
" salted beef."
" Falstaff. Em bowelled! if thou embowel me to-day, I'll give you leave
to powder me and eat me to-morrow." — Shakespeare, z Henry IV. Act
V. sc. 4. CM. B.)

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were very merry against John's going to Cambridge.
I observed this day how abominably Barebone's win
dows are broke again last night.
23rd. Thursday, my birthday, now twenty-seven
years. A pretty fair moming, and after writing awhile
in my study I went forth. To my office, where I told
Mr. Hawley of my thoughts to go out of town to
morrow. Hither Mr. FuUer comes to me and my
Uncle Thomas too, thence I took them to drink, and
so put off my uncle. So with Mr. Fuller home to my
house, where he dined with me, and he told my wife
a great many stories of his adversities, since these
troubles, in being forced to travel in the Catholic
countries, &c. He shewed me his biUs, but I had
not money to pay him. We parted, and I to White
hall, where I was to see my horse which Mr. Gar-
thwayt lends me to-morrow. So home, where Mr.
Pierce comes to me about appointing time and place
where and when to meet to-morrow. So to West
minster Hall, where, after the House rose, I met with
Mr. Crew, who told me that my Lord was chosen
by 73 voices, to be one of the Council of State.
Mr. Pierpoint' had the most, loi, and himself the
next, 100. He brought me in the coach home. I
back to the Hall, and at Mrs. MicheU's shop staid
talking a great whUe with her and my Chaplain, Mr.
Mumford, and drank a pot or two of ale on a wager
that Mr. Prin is not of the CouncU. Home and wrote
' William Pierrepont, M. P. of Thoresby, second son to Robert first Earl
of Kingston, ob. 1679, aged 71.

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to my Lord the news of the choice of the CouncU by
the post, and so to bed.
24th. I rose very early, and taking horse at Scot
land Yard, at Mr. Garthwayt's stable, I rode to Mr.
Pierce's, who rose, and in a quarter of an hour, leav
ing his wife in bed (with whom Mr. Lucy methought
was very free as she lay in bed), we both mounted,
and so set forth about seven of the clock, the day and
the way very foul. About Ware we overtook Mr.
Blayton, brother-in-law to Dick Vines, and at Puck-
eridge we baited, where we had a loin of mutton fried,
and were very merry, but the way exceeding bad from
Ware thither. Then up again and as far as Foulmer,
within six miles of Cambridge, my mare being almost
tired : here we lay at the Chequer, playing at cards
till supper, which was a breast of veal roasted. I lay
with Mr. Pierce, who we left here the next moming
upon his going to Hinchingbroke ' to speak with my

' Hinchingbrooke House, so often mentioned in the Diary, stood about
half a mile to the westward of the town of Huntingdon. It was erected late
in the reign of Elizabeth, by Sir Henry Cromwell, on the site of a Benedictine
nunnery, granted at the Dissolution, with all its appurtenances, to his father,
Richard Williams, who had assumed the name ' of Cromwell, and whose
grandson. Sir Oliver, was the uncle and godfather of the Protector. The
knight, who was renowned for his hospitality, had the honour of entertaining
King James at Hinchingbrooke, but, getting into pecuniary difficulties, was
obliged to sell his estates, which were conveyed, 28th July, 1627, to Sir Sid
ney Montagu, of Barnwell, father of the first Earl of Sandwich, in whose
descendant they are still vested. On the morning of the 22nd January, 1830,
during the minority of the seventh Earl, Hinchingbrooke was almost entirely
destroyed by fire, but the pictures and fumiture were mostly saved, and the
house has been rebuilt in the Elizabethan style, and the interior greatly im-
proved, under the direction of Edward Blore, Esq., R.A.

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Lord before his going to London, and we too came to
Cambridge. 25th. By eight o'clock in the moming to the Faul-
con/ in the Petty Cury,^ where we found my father
and brother very well. After dressing myself, about
ten o'clock, my father, brother, and I to Mr. Wid-
drington,3 at Christ's College, who received us very
civilly, and caused my brother to be admitted,-* while
my father, he, and I, sat talking. After that done, we
take leave. My father and brother went to visit some
friends, Pepys's, scholars in Cambridge, while I went
' The Fnulcon. The old Falcon Inn is on the south side of Petty Cury.
It is now divided into three houses, one of which is the present Falcon Inn,
the other two being houses with shops. The Falcon yard is but little changed.
From the size of the whole building it must have been the principal inn of the
town. The room said to have been used by Queen Elizabeth for receptions
retains its original form. (M. B.)
2 The Petty Cury. The derivation of the name of this street, so well
known to all Cambridge men, is a matter of much dispute among antiquaries.
(See Notes and Queries.) The most probable meaning of it is the Parva
Cokeria^ or little cury, where the cooks of the town lived, just as " The
Poultry," 'vhere the Poulters (now Poulterers) had their shops, " The
Forme of Cury" a Roll of Antient EngUsh Cookery, was compiled by the
principal cooks of that " best and royalest viander of all Christian Kings,"
Richard the Second, and edited with a copious Index and Glossary by Dr.
Samuel Pegge, 1780, (M. B.)
3 Mr. Widdrington was afterwards Dr. Widdrington, Lady Margaret's
Professor, and Public Orator. He seems to have taken an active part in Uni
versity affairs, and is frequently mentioned in books of the time. (M. B.)
4 Extract from admission-book of Christ's College, Cambridge:
** Febr. 250. 1660.
" Johannes a Johanne Pepys Londini natus literas edoctus a Duo Cnim-
bleholm Scholae Paulinae Moderatore annos natos 18 admissus est Sizator sub
Mro. Widdrington.
" Hie cum prius admissus est in Collegium Magdalense Maii 26*0, ut ex
Uteris testimonialibus constat ejusdem etiam anni apud nos habendus est."
(M. B.)

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to Magdalen CoUege, to Mr. HiU,' with whom I found
Mr. Zanchy, Burton ^ and Holhns, and was exceeding
civilly received by them. I took leave on promise to
sup with them, and to my Inn again, where I dined with
some others that were there at an ordinary. After
dinner my brother to the College, and my father and I
to my Cozen Angler's, to see them, where Mr. Fair-
brother to us. Here we sat awhUe talking. My father
he went to look after his things at the carrier's, and my
brother's chamber, while Mr. Fairbrother,3 my Cozen
Angier, and Mr. Zanchy,-* whom I met at Merton's shop
(where I bought Elenchus Motuum, having given my
former to Mr. Downing when he was here), to the
Three Tuns, where we drank pretty hard and many
healths to the King, &c., till it began- to be darkish :
then we broke up and I and Mr. Zanchy went to Mag
dalen College, where a very handsome supper at Mr.

' Joseph Hill, a native of Yorkshire, chosen in 1649 Eellow of Magdalene
College, and in 1659 University Proctor; he afterwards retired to London,
and, according to Calamy, was offered a bishopric by Charles II., which he
declined, disliking the terms of conformity ; and accepting a call to the Eng
lish Church at Rotterdam in 167S, died there in 1707, aged 83. — Noncon
formists' Memorial.
^ Hezekiah Burton. His admission to a Wray fellowship is curious:
" Mar. 8. 1650. ..,"*
" Hezekias Burton in Artibus Baccalaureus hujus CoUij, authoritate ordi-
nationis Parliamentariae, admissus est in sodalitium Mri Johannis David,
eadem authoritate vacant." The last word is not quite clear. (M.B.)
3 Mr. Fairbrother, afterwards Dr. Fairbrother, was Fellow of King's
College, Cambridge, and taken prisoner at the battle of Naseby. (M. B.)
4 Clement Zanchy, admitted at Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1648, and
Foundation Fellow, 1654. At the College meetings he spelt his name " Zan
chy," at first, but in 1656 he changed it to " Sankey," and it is sometimes
spelt " Sanchy." (M. B.)

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HiU's chambers, I suppose upon a club among them,
where I could find that there was nothing at all left of
the old preciseness in their discourse, specially on Sat
urday nights. And Mr. Zanchy told me that there was
no such thing now-a-days among them at any time.
After supper and some discourse then to my Inn,
where I found my father in his chamber, and after
some discourse, and he weU satisfied with this day's
work, we went to bed, my brother lying with me, his
things not being come by the carrier that he could not
he in the College.
26th (Sunday). My brother went to the CoUege
to Chapel. My father and I went out in the moming,
and walked out in the fields behind King's CoUege,
and in King's College Chapel Yard, where we met
with Mr. Fairbrother, who took us to Botolph's
Church, where we heard Mr. Nicholas, of Queen's
College, who I knew in my time to be Tripos ' with
great applause, upon this text, " For thy command
ments are broad." Thence my father and I to Mr.
Widdrington's chamber to dinner, where he used us
very courteously again, and had two Fellow Com
moners with him at table, and Mr. Pepper, a FeUow

' The Tripos or Bachelor of the Stool, who made the speech on Ash
Wednesday, when the senior Proctor called him up and exhorted him to be
witty but modest withall. Their speeches, especially after the Restoration,
tended to be boisterous, and even scurrilous. " 26 Martii 1669. Ds Hollis,
fellow of Clare Hall is to make a publick Recantation in the Bac. Schools
for his Tripos speeche." The Tripos verses still come out, and are circu
lated on Ash Wednesday. I am told that this year (1875) one of the copies
was more scurrilous than usual. (M. B.)

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of the College. After dinner, while we sat talking by
the fire, Mr. Pierce's man [came] to teU me that his
master was come to town, so my father and I took
leave, and found Mr. Pierce at our Inn, who told us
that he had lost his journey, for my Lord was gone
from Hinchingbroke to London on Thursday last, at
which I was a httle put to a stand. So after a cup of
drink I went to Magdalen CoUege to get the certifi
cate of the CoUege for my brother's entrance there,
that he might save his year. I met with Mr. Burton
in the Court, who took me to Mr. PecheU's cham
ber, where he was and Mr. Zanchy. By and by,
Mr. Pechell and Sanchey and I went out, Pechell to
Church, Sanchy and I to the Rose Taveme,' where
¦ we sat and drank till sermon done, and then Mr.
PecheU came to us, and we three sat drinking the
King's and his whole family's health tUl it began
to be dark. Then we parted ; Sanchy and I went to
my lodging, where we found my father and Mr. Pierce
at the door, and I took them both and Mr. Blayton
to the Rose Taveme, and there gave them a quart
or two of wine, not teUing them that we had been
there before. After this we broke up, and my father,
Mr. Zanchy, and I to my Cosen Angier to supper,
where I caused two bottles of wine to be carried from
the Rose Taveme ; that was dmnk up, and I had
not the wit to let them know at table that it was I
that paid for them, and so I lost my thanks for them.
' The " Rose Tavern " opened on the Market Hill at the end of Rose
Crescent. (M. B.)

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After supper Mr. Fairbrother, who sunped there with
us, took me into a room by himself, and shewed me
a pitiful copy of verses upon Mr. Prinn which he
esteemed very good, and desired that I would get
them given to Mr. Prinn, in hopes that he would
get him some place for it, which I said I would do,
but did laugh in my sleeve to think of his folly, though
indeed a man that has always expressed great civUity
to me. After that we sat down and talked ; I took
leave of all my friends, and so to my Inn, where after
I had wrote a note and enclosed the certificate to
Mr. Widdrington, I bade good night to my father, and
John went to bed, but I staid up a httle while, playing
the fool with the lass of the house at the door of the
chamber, and so to bed.
27th. Up by four o'clock, and after I was ready,
took my leave of my father, whom I left in bed, and
the same of my brother John, to whom I gave \os.
Mr. Blayton and I took horse and straight to Saffron
Walden, where at the White Hart, we set up our
horses, and took the master of the house to shew us
Audly End House,' who took us on foot through the
park, and so to the house, where the housekeeper
shewed us all the house, in which the stateliness of
the ceihngs, chimney-pieces, and form of the whole

' Then the residence of James Howard, third Earl of Suffolk. It was
built by Thomas, the first Earl, at the commencement of the seventeenth
century, and called after his matemal ancestor, Lord Chancellor Audley, to
whom the monastery of Walden, the site of which is occupied by the present
house, had been granted at the Dissolution.

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1 was exceedingly worth seeing. He took us into the
j cellar, where we drank most admirable drink, a health
j to the King. Here I played on my flageolette, there
'being an exceUent echo. He shewed us excellent
pictures ; two especially, those of the four Evangehsts
and Henry VIII. After that I gave the man 2S. for
his trouble, and went back again. In our going, my
landlord carried us through a very old hospital or
almshouse, where forty poor people was maintained \
a very old foundation ; and over the chimney-piece
was an inscription in brass : " Orate pro anim^
Thomae Bird," &c. ; ' and the poor box also was on
the same chimney-piece, with an iron door and locks
to it, into which I put dd. They brought me a draft
of their drink in a brown bowl, tipt with silver, which
I drank off, and at the bottom was a picture of the
Virgin and the child in her arms, done in silver. So
we went to our Inn, and after eating of something,
and kissed the daughter of the house, she being very
pretty, we took leave, and so that night, the road
pretty good, but the weather rainy to Eping, where
we sat and played a game at cards, and after supper,
and some merry talk with a plain bold mayde of the
house, we went to bed.
28th. Up in the moming and had some red her
rings to our breakfast, while my boot-heel was a-mend-
ing, by the same token the boy left the hole as big as
it was before. Then to horse, and for London through
^ Bryd in the original. The inscription and the bowl are still to be seen
in the almshouse.

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the forest, where we found the way good, but only in
one path, which we kept as if we had rode through a
kennel aU the way. We found the shops aU shut, and
the mihtia of the red regiment in arms af the old
Exchange, among whom I found and spoke to Nich.
Osbome, who told me that it was a thanksgiving-day
through the City for the retum of the Parhament. At
Paul's I light, Mr. Blayton holding my horse, where I
found Dr. Reynolds ' in the pulpit, and General Monk
there, who was to have a great entertainment at Gro
cers' HaU. So home, where my wife and aU weU.
Shifted myself,^ and so to Mr. Crew's, and then t6 Sir
Harry Wright's, where I found my Lord at dinner,
who caUed for me in, and was glad to see me. I
dined here with WiU. Howe, and after dmner went out
with him to buy a hat, which we did at the Plough in
Fleete Streete by my Lord's direction, but not as for
him. Here we met with Mr. Pierce a littie before,
and he took us to the Greyhound Taveme, and gave
us a pint of wine, and as the rest of the seamen do,
talked very high again of my Lord. After we had
done about the hat we went homewards, I to Mrs.
Jem, and sat with her a little. Then home, where I
found Mr. Shepley, and afterwards Mr. Spong comes,
with whom I went up and played with him a Duo or
two, and so good night. I was indeed a httle vexed

* Edward Reynolds, D.D., Dean of Christ Church, and afterwards Bishop
of Norwich. He died r676 : his works are well known.
^ A common expression, still used in Derbyshire for *' changed my dress."
(M. B.)

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with Mr. Shepley, but said nothing, about his breaking
open of my study at my house, merely to give him
the key of the stair door at my Lord's, which lock he
might better have broke than mine.
29th. To my office, and drank at WiUs with Mr.
Moore, who told me how my Lord is chosen General
at Sea by the Council, and that it is thought that
Monk wiU be joined with him therein. Home and
dined, after dinner my wife and I by water to London,
and thence to Herring's, the merchant in Coleman
Street, about ;£c^o which he promises I shall have, on
Saturday next. So to my mother's, and then to Mrs.
Turner's of whom I took leave, because she was to go
out of town to-morrow with Mr. Pepys into Norfolk.
Here my cosen Norton gave me a brave cup of
metheglin, the first I ever drank. So home and to
bed. This day my Lord came to the House, the first
time since he came to town ; but he had been at the
Council before.
March ist. In the moming went to my Lord's lodg
ings, and out of the box where my Lord's pamphlets
lay, I chose as many as I had a mind to have for my
own use and left the rest. Then to my office, where
little to do, but Mr. Shepley comes to me, so at dinner
time he and I went to Mr. Crew's, whither Mr.
Thomas was newly come to town, being sent with Sir
H. Yelverton,' my old school-fellow at Paul's School,
' Son of Sir Christopher Yelverton, the first Baronet, grandson of Sir
Henry Yelverton, Judge C.P., author of the " Reports." He married Susan,
Baroness Grey de Ruthyn, which title descended to his issue. His son was

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to bring the thanks of the county to General Monk
for the return of the ParUament. But old Mr. Crew
and my Lord not coming home to dinner, we tarried
late before we went to dinner, it being the day that
John, Mr. John Crew's coachman, was to be buried in
the afternoon, he being a day or two before kUled
with a blow of one of his horses that stmck his skuU
into his brain. From thence Mr. Shepley and I went
into London to Mr. Laxton's, my Lord's apothecary,
and so by water to Westminster, where at the Sun he
and I spent two or three hours in a pint or two of
wine, discoursing of matters in the country, among
other things telling me that my uncle did to him make
a very kind mention of me, and what he would do for
me. Thence I went home, and went to bed betimes.
This day the Parliament did vote that they would not
sit longer than the 15 th day of this month.
2d. I went early to my Lord at Mr. Crew's where
I spoke to him. Here were a great many come to
see him, as Secretary Thurlow ' who is now by the
Parliament chosen again Secretary of State. There
were also General Monk's tmmpeters to give my Lord
a sound of ' their trampets this morning. Thence I

afterwards advanced to the dignity of Viscount Longueville, and his grandson
to the Earldom of Sussex. The Yelverton collection of MSS. belongs to
Lord Calthorpe, whose ancestor married a daughter of the first Viscount
Longueville. ^ John Thurloe, who had been Secretary of State to the two Protectors,
but was never employed after the Restoration, though the King solicited his
services. Ob. 1668.
Spelt Thurlow by Pepys. (M. B.)

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went to my ofiice, and wrote a letter to Mr. Downing
about the business of his house. Then going home,
I met with Mr. Eghn, Chetwind, and Thomas, who
took me to the Leg in King's streete, where we had
two brave dishes of meat, one of fish, a carp and. some
other fishes, as weU done as ever I eat any. After
that to the Swan taveme, where we drank a quart or
two of wine, and so parted. After that to Westmuister
HaU, where I saw Sir G. Booth at liberty. This day I
hear the City mUitia is put into good posture, and it is
thought that Monk wiU not be able to do any great
matter against them now, if he have a mind. I xmder-
stand that my Lord Lambert did yesterday send a letter
to the Council, and that to-night he is to come and
appear to the Council in person. Sir Arthur Hasel
rigge do not yet appear in the House. Great is the
talk of a single person, and that it would now be
Charles, George, or Richard again.' For the last of
which, my Lord St. John ^ is said to speak high. Great
also is the dispute now in the House, in whose name
the writs shall mn for the next Parliament; and it
is said that Mr. Prin, in open House, said, " In King
Charles's." 3
3d. To Westminster HaU, where I found that my
' Charles II., or George Monk, or Richard Cromwell. (M. B.)
^ Oliver St. John; see Feb. 7, 1659-60, and note.
5 Compare a letter of Mr. Luttrell to Ormond, March gth, 1660, in Carte's
Letters, vol. ii. p. 312 : " Yesterday there was a debate about the form of tha
dissolution, when Mr. Prynne asserted the King's right in such bold language
that I think he may be styled the Cato of this age." — Notes and Queries,
vol. ^. p. .=. (M. B.)

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Lord was last night voted one of the Generals at Sea,
and Monk the other. I met my Lord in the Hall,
who bid me come to him at noon. Up to my office,
but did nothing. At noon home to dinner to a sheep*s
head. After dinner I to Warwick House/ in Holbome,
to my Lord, where he dined with my Lord of Man-
chester,2 Sir Dudley North,3 my Lord Fiennes,-* and
my Lord Barkly.s I staid in the great hall, talking
with some gentlemen there, till they all come out.
Then I, by coach with my Lord, to Mr. Crew's, in
onr way talking of publick things. He told me he
feared there was new design hatching, as if Monk had
a mind to get into the saddle. Here I left him, and
' Near Gray's Inn, where Warwick Court now stands.
2 The Parliamentary General, afterwards particularly instrumental in the
King's Restoration, became Chamberlain of the Household, K.G., a Privy
Councillor, and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He died in 1671,
having been five times married.
3 Sir Dudley North, K.B., became tJie 4th Lord North on the death of
his father in 1666. Ob. 1677.
¦* John, third son of William, ist Viscount Say and Sele, and one of
Oliver's Lords.
5 There were at this time two Lord Berkeleys, each possessing a town-
house called after his name, which misled Pennant and other biographers
following in his track. George, thirteenth Lord Berkeley of Berkeley, ad
vanced to an Earldom in 1679, the Peer here spoken of, lived at Berkeley
House, in the parish of St. John's, ClerkenweU, which had been in his family
for three generations, and he had a country-seat at Durdans, near Epsom,
mentioned by Evelyn and Pepys. His death took place in i6g8. The other
nobleman, originally known as Sir John Berkeley, and in the service of
Charles I., created in 1658 Baron Berkeley of Stratton, subsequently filled
many high ofiices in the State, and was in 1670 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
and in 1674 went Ambassador to France, and died in 1678. He built a
splendid mansion in Piccadilly, called also Berkeley House, upon the site of
which Devonshire House now stands. To prevent confusion, the words [of
Stratton] will be added wherever his name occurs in these pages.

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went by appointnient to Herring, the merchant, but
missed of my money, at which I was much troubled,
but could not help myself. Returning, met with Mr.
Gifford who took me and gave me half a pint of wine,
and told me, as I hear from many, that things are in
a very doubtful posture, some of the Parhament being
willing to keep the power in their hands. After I had
left him, I met with Tom Harper, who took me into
a place ui Drary Lane, where we drank a great deal
of strong water, more than ever l^ did in my hfe at
one time before. He talked huge high that my Lord
Protector would come in place again, which indeed
is much discoursed of again, though I do not see it
possible. Hence home and wrote to my father at
Brampton by the post. So to bed. This day I was
told that my Lord General Fleetwood told my Lord
that he feared the King of Sweden is dead of a fever
at Gottenburg.
4th (Lord's day) . Before I went to church I sang
Orpheus' Hymn to my viaU. After that to Mr. Gun
ning's, an exceUent sermon upon charity. Then to
my mother to dinner, where my wife and the mayde
were come. After that we three to Mr. Messum's
where we met Mons. L'Impertinent, who got us a seat
and told me a ridiculous story how that last week he
had caused a simple citizen to spend _;^8o in enter
tainments of him and some friends of his upon pre
tence of some service that he would do him in his
suit after a vndow. Then to my mother again, and
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I in defence of the religion I was bom in. Then
home. 5 th. Early in the moming Mr. HiU comes to string
my theorbo, which we were about till past ten o'clock,
with a great deal of pleasure. Then to Westminster,
where I met with Mr. Shepley and Mr. Pinkney ' at
WiU's, who took me by water to Billingsgate, at the
Salutation Taveme, whither by-and-by, Mr. Talbot and
Adams came, and bring a great deal of good meat, a
ham of bacon, &c. Here we staid and drank. Then
we parted, and so to Westminster by water, only see
ing Mr. Pinkney at his own house, where he' shewed
me how he had alway kept the Lion and Unicorne, in
the back of his chimney, bright, in expectation of the
King's coming again. At 'home I found Mr. Hunt,
who told me how the Parliament had voted that the
Covenant be printed and hung in churches again.
Great hopes of the King's coming again. To bed.
6th (Shrove Tuesday). I caUed Mr. Shepley and
we both went up to my Lord's lodgings at Mr. Crew's,
where he bid us to go home again, and get a fire
against an hour after. Which we did at White HaU,
whither he came, and after talking with him and me
about his going to sea, he caUed me by myself into
the garden, where he asked me how things were with
me ; he bid me look out now at this tum some good
place, and he would use all his own, and all the inter
est of his friends that he had in England, to do me
' Probably Leonard Pinkney, who was Clerk of the Kitchen at the ensu
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good. And asked me whether I could, without too
much inconvenience, go to sea as his secretary, and
bid me think of it. He also began to talk of things
of State, and told me that he should want one m that
capacity at sea, that he might trast in, and therefore
he would have me to go. He told me also, that he
did believe the King would come in, and did discourse
with me about it, and about the affection of the people
and City, at which I was fuU glad. To my office, where
Mr. Hawley brought one to me, a seaman, that had
promised ;^io to him if he get him a purser's place,
which I think to endeavour to do. Here comes my
uncle Tom, whom I took to WiU's and drank with,
poor man, he comes to inquire about the knights of
Windsor, of which he desires to get to be one. While
we were drinking, in comes Mr. Day, a carpenter in
Westminster, to tell me that it was Shrove Tuesday,
and that I must go with him to their yearly Clubb
upon this day, which I confess I had quite forgot. So
I went to the Bell, where were Mr. Eglin, Veezy,
Vincent a butcher, one more, and Mr. Tanner, with
whom I played upon a viall, and he a viaUin, after
dinner, and were very merry, with a special good din
ner, a leg of veal and bacon, two capons and sausages
and fritters, with abundance of wine. After that I went
to see Mrs. Jem, at whose chamber door I found a
couple of ladies, but she not being there, we hunted
her out, and found that she and another had hid
themselves behind a door. WeU, they all went down
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and bobtail, dancing, singing, and drinking, of which
I was ashamed, and after I had staid a dance or
two I went away. Going home, called at my Lord's
for Mr. Shepley, but found him at the Lion with a
pewterer, that he had bought pewter to-day of. With
them I drank, and so home and wrote by the post, by
my Lord's command, for I. Goods to come up pres
ently. For my Lord intends to go forthwith into the
Swiftsure tiU the Nazeby be ready. This day I hear
that the Lords do intend to sit, and great store of
them are now in town, and I see in the Hall to-day.
Overton ' at HuU do stand out, but can, it is thought,
do nothing ; and Lawson, it is said, is gone with some
ships thither, but aU that is nothing. My Lord told
me, that there was great endeavours to bring in the
Protector again ; but he told me, too, that he did
beheve it would not last long if he were brought in ;
no, nor the King neither (though he seems to think
that he will come in), unless he carry himself veryl
soberly and weU. Every body now drink the King's 1
health without any fear, whereas before it was very
private that a man dare do it. Monk this day is
feasted at Mercers' HaU, and is invited one after
another to all the twelve HaUs in London. Many
think that he is honest yet, and some or more think
him to be a fool that would raise himself, but think
that he will undo himself by endeavouring it. My
mind, I must needs remember, has been very much
> The Parliamentary General.

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eased and joyed at my Lord's great expressions of
kindness this day.
7th (Ash Wednesday). Washington told me upon
my question whether he knew of any place now void
that I might have, by power over friends, that this day
Mr. G. Montagu' was to be Custos Rotuloram for
Westminster, and that by friends I might get to be
named by him Clerk of the Peace, with which I was,
as I am at aU new things, very much joyed, so when I
came to Mr. Crew's, I spoke to my Lord aboutit, who
told me he believed Mr. Montagu had ahready promised
it, and that it was given him only that he might gratify
one person with the place I look for. Here, among
many that were here, I met with Mr. Lynes, the sur
geon, who promised me some seeds of the sensitive
plant. Thence going homeward, my Lord overtook
me in his coach, and called me in, and so I went with
him to St. James's, and G. Montagu being gone to
White Hall, we walked over the Park thither, all the
way he discoursing of the times, and of the change of
things since the last year, and wondering how he
could bear with so great disappointment as he did.
He did give me the best advice that he could what
was best for me, whether to stay or go with him, and
offered all the ways that could be, how he might do
me good, with the greatest liberty and love that could
be. I left him at WhitehaU, and myself went to
Westminster to my office, where nothing to do.
^ George Montagu, afterwards M. P. for Dover, second son of Edward,
second Earl of Manchester, and father of the first Earl of Halifax.

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Thence by appointment to the Angel in King Street,
where Chetwind, Mr. Thomas and Doling were at
oysters, and beginning Lent this day with a fish din
ner. After dinner Mr. Thomas and I by water to
London, where I went to Herring's and received the
_;^50 of my Lord's upon Frank's bill from Worcester.
Thence I went to the Pope's Head Alley and called
on Adam Chard, and bought a catcall there, it cost
me two groats. Thence went and gave him a cup of
ale. After that to the Sun behind the Exchange,
where meeting my uncle Wight by the way, took him
thither, and after drinking a health or two at the
Cock, we parted, I homewards, where I found my
father newly come from Brampton. He left my uncle
with his leg very dangerous, and do believe he cannot
continue in that condition long. He teUs me that my
imcle did acquaint him very largely what he did in
tend to do with his estate, to make me his heir and
give my brother Tom something, and that my father
and mother should have likewise something, to raise
portions for John and PaU. I pray God he may be as
good as his word. This news and my Lord's great
kindness makes me very cheerful within. I pray God
make me thankful. This day, according to order. Sir
Arthur ' appeared at the House ; what was done I
know not, but there was all the Rumpers almost come
to the House to-day. My Lord did seem to wonder
much why Lambert was so willuig to be put into the
^ Haselrigge.

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Tower, and thinks he has some design in it; but I
think that he is so poor that he cannot use his liberty
for debts, if he were at liberty ; and so it is as good
and better for him to be there, than any where else.
Sth. To Westminster HaU, where there was a gen
eral damp over men's minds and faces upon some of
the Officers of the Army being about making a remon
strance against Charles Stuart or any single person;
but at noon it was told, that the General had put a
stop to it, so all was well again. Here I met with
Jasper who was to look for me to bring me to my
Lord at the lobby ; whither sending a note to my Lord,
he comes out to me and gives me direction to look
after getting some money for him from the Admiralty,
seeing that things are so unsafe, that he would not lay
out a farthing for the State, till he had received some
money of theirs. Home about two o'clock, and took
my wife by land to Patemoster Row, to buy some
Paragon for a petticoat and so home again. I to the
Admiralty, where I got the order for the money, and
have taken care for the getting of it assigned upon Mr.
Hutchinson, Treasurer for the Navy, against to-morrow.
This afternoon, some of the Officers of the Army, and
some of the Parliament, had a conference at White
Hall to make aU right again, but I know not what is
done. This noon I met at the Dog taveme ' Captain
Philip Holland, with whom I advised how to make
' A house still existing in Holywell Street in the Strand bears this name,
but from mention elsewhere, the Dog Tavem here recorded must have been
in Westminster.

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some advantage of my Lord's going to sea, which' he
told me might be by having of five or six servants
entered on board, and I to give them what wages I
pleased, and so their pay to be mine; he was also
very urgent to have me take the Secretary's place, that
my Lord did proffer me. At the same time in comes
Mr. Wade and Mr. Sterry, secretary to the plenipoten
tiary in Denmark, who brought the news of the death
of the King of Sweden ' at Gottenburgh the 3rd of the
last month, and he told me what a great change he
found when he came here, the secluded members
being restored. He also spoke very freely of Mr.
Wade's profit, which he made while he was in Zeeland,
how he did believe that he cheated Mr. PoweU, and
that he made above ;^soo on the voyage, which Mr.
Wade did very angrily deny, though I beheve he was
guUty enough.
gth. To my Lord at his lodging, and came to West
minster with him in the coach, with Mr. Dudley with
him, and he in the Painted Chamber walked a good
while ; and I telling him that I was wiUing and ready
to go with him to sea, he agreed that I should, and
advised me what to write to Mr. Downing about it,
which I did at my office, that by my Lord's desire I
ofiered that my place might for a whUe be supplied
by Mr. Moore, and that I and my security should be
bound by the same bond for him. In the aftemoon
by coach, taking Mr. Butler with me to the Navy
' Charles Gustavus.

go

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Office, about the ;2^500 for my Lord, which I am prom
ised to have to-morrow moming. After this Mr. Butler
and I to Harper's, where we sat and drank for two
hours tiU ten at night. Home and to bed. AU night
troubled in my thoughts how to order my business
upon this great change with me that I could not sleep,
and being overheated with drink I made a promise
the next moming to drink no strong drink this week,
for I find that it puts me quite out of order. This day
it was resolved that the writs do go out in the name
of the Keepers of the Liberty, and I hear that it is
resolved privately that a treaty be offered with the
King. And that Monk did check his soldiers highly
for what they did yesterday.
IOth. In the moming went to my father's, whom I
took in his cutting house,' and there I told him my
resolution to go to sea with my Lord, and consulted
with him how to dispose of my wife, and we resolved
of letting her be at Mr. Bowyer's."" Thence to the
Treasurer of the Navy, where I received ;^5oo for my
Lord. Then by coach home, where I took occasion to
tell my wife of my going to sea, who was much troubled
at it, and was with some dispute at last willing to
continue at Mr. Bowyer's in my absence. Then to
WhitehaU and set many of my things in order against
my going. My wife was late making of caps for me,
and the wench making of a pair of stockings that she
was knitting of. So to bed.
' He was a tailor.
2 Mr. Bowyer had probably re-married Mrs. Pepys's mother.

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nth (Sunday). AU the day busy without my band,
putting up my books and things, in order to my going
to sea. At night my wife and I went to my father's to
supper, and after supper home, where the wench had
provided all things against to-morrow to wash, and so
to bed.
1 2th. This day the wench rose at two in the mom
ing to wash, and my wife and I lay talking a great
whUe. My wife and I to the Exchange, where we
bought a great many things, where I left her and went
into London. To the White Horse in King Streete,
where I got Mr. Buddie's horse to ride to Huntsmore '
to Mr. Bowyer's, where I found him and aU weU, and
willing to have my wife come and board with them
while I was at sea. Here I laj? and took a thing for
my cold, namely a spoonful of honey and a nutmeg
scraped into it, by Mr. Bowyer's direction, and so took
it into my mouth, which I found did do me much good.
13th. At my Lord's lodgings, who told me that I
was to be secretary, and Creed to be deputy treasurer
to the Fleet, at which I was troubled, but I could not
help it. This day the Parliament voted all that had
been done by the former Rump against the House
of Lords be void, and to-night that the writs go out
without any qualification. Things seem very doubtful
what will be the end of aU ; for the Parhament seems
to be strong for the King, while the soldiers do aU talk
against. I See Sth May following.

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14th. To my Lord, where infinity of apphcations to
him and to me. To my great trouble, my Lord gives
me aU the papers that was given to him, to put in order
and to give him an account of them. Here I got
half-a-piece of a person of Mr. Wright's recommending
to my Lord to be Preacher of the Speaker frigate. I
went hence to St. James's and Mr. Pierce the surgeon
with me, to speake with Mr. Clerke,' Monk's secretary,
about getting some soldiers removed out of Hunting
don to Oundle, which my Lord told me he did to do
a courtesy to the town, that he might have the greater
interest in them, in the choice of the next Parhament ;
not that he intends to be chosen himself, but that he
might have Mr. G. Montagu and my Lord MandeviU '
chose there in spite of the Bernards.' This done
(where I saw General Monk and methought he seemed
a duU heavy man), Piercb and I to Whitehall, where
with LueUin we dined at Marsh's. Coming home
teUing my wife what we had to dinner, she had a mind
to some cabbage, and I sent for some and she had it.
Went to the Admiralty, where a strange thing how I am
already courted by the people. This moming I hired

' Clement Clerke, of Lawnde Abbey, co. Leicester, created a Baronet in
1661. 2 Eldest son of the Earl of Manchester.
3 Robert Bernard, created a Baronet in 1662, served in Parliament for
Huntingdon, before and after the Restoration, and died in 1666. His son
and successor. Sir John Bernard, the second baronet, at the time of his death,
in 1669, was one of the Knights of the Shire for the county of Huntingdon.
The inscription upon his monument in Brampton Church is given in the
"Topographer and Genealogist," vol. i. p. 113. Sir Nicholas Pedley, who
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a boy and Burr to be my clerk. This night I went to
Mr. Creed's chamber where he gave me the former
book of the proceedings in the fleete and the Seale.
By coach, it raining hard, to Mrs. Jem, where I staid
a while, and so home, and late in the night put up my
things in a sea-chest that Mr. Shepley lent me, and so
to bed.
15 th. Early packing up my things to be sent by cart
with the rest of my Lord's. So to WiUs, where I took
leave of some of my friends. Here I met Tom Alcock,
one that went to school with me at Huntingdon, but
I had not seen him these sixteen years. So in the HaU
paid and made even with Mrs. MicheU ; afterwards met
with old Beale, and at the Axe paid him this quarter
to Ladyday next. So into London by water, and in
Fish Street my wife and I bought a bit of salmon for
8(/. and went to the Sun Taveme and eat it, where I
did promise to give her aU-that I have in the world
but my books, in case I should die at sea. From
thence homewards ; in the way my wife bought hnen
for three smocks and other things. So home. Then
to the Fox in King-streete to supper on a brave turkey
of Mr. Hawley's, with some fiiends of his. After
supper I went to Westminster HaU, and the Parliament
sat tiU ten at night, thinking and being expected to
dissolve themselves to-day, but they did not^ Great
talk to-night that the discontented officers did think
this night to make a stir, but prevented.
1 6th. No sooner out of bed but troubled with
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to the Rhenish Taveme House, where Mr. Pim, the
tailor, was, and gave us a moming draft and a neat's
tongue. Home and with my wife to London, we dined
at my father's. In my way home I went to the Chapel
in Chancery Lane to bespeak papers of all sorts and
other things belonging to writing agamst my voyage.
Then to Westminster HaU, where I heard how the
Parhament had this day dissolved themselves, and did
pass very cheerfully through the HaU, and the Speaker
without his mace. The whole HaU was joyfuU thereat,
as weU as themselves, and now they begin to talk loud
of the King. To-night I am told, that yesterday, about
five o'clock in the afternoon, one came with a ladder
to the Great Exchange,' and wiped with a brush the
inscription that was on King Charles, and that there
was a great bonfire made in the Exchange, and people
caUed out " God bless King Charles the Second ! " ^
From the HaU I went home to bed, very sad in mind
to part with my wife, but God's wiU be done.
17th. This moming bade adieu in bed to the
company of my wife. We rose and I gave my wife

' So called during the Commonwealth, in lieu of Royal.
2 " Then the writing in golden letters, that was engraven under the statue
of Charles I., in the Royal Exchange {Exit tyrannus, Regum ultimus,
anno libertatis Anglia, anno Domini 1648, Januarie xxx.) was washed
out by a painter, who in the day time raised a ladder, and with a pot and brush
washed the writing quite out, threw down his pot and brush, and said it should
never do him any more service, in regard that it had the honour to put out
rebels* handwriting. He then came down, took away his ladder, not a mis-
word said to him, and by whose order it was done was not then known. The
merchants were glad and joyful, many people were gathered together, and
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some money to serve her for a time, and what papers
of consequence I had. I went to my Lord's and had
much business with him, and papers, great store,
given me by my Lord to dispose of as the rest.
After that, with Mr. Moore home to my house and
took my wife by coach to the Chequer in Holbome,
where, after we had drank, &c., she took coach and
so fareweU. Thence with Mr. Hawley to dinner at
Mr. Crew's. After dinner to my own house, where all
things were put into the dining-room and locked up,
and my wife took the keys along with her. This day,
in the presence of Mr. Moore (who made it) and Mr.
Hawley, I did before I went out with my wife, seal
my will to her, whereby I did give her all that I have
in the world, but my books which I give to my broth
er John, excepting only French books, which my wife
is to have. In the evening at the Admiralty, I met
my Lord there and got a commission for WilUamson
to be captain of the Harp frigate. I went home with
Crispe to his mother's house by me in Axe Yard, and
sat there talking and hearing of old Mrs. Crispe play
ing of her old lessons upon the harpsicord. After
that to bed, and Laud, her son, lay with me in the
best chamber in her house, which indeed was finely
fumished. i8th. I rose early and went to the barber's (Jervas)
in Palace Yard and was trimmed by him, and after
wards drank with him a cup or two of ale, and did
begin to hire his man to go with me to sea. Then to
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and gave him his commission to be Captain of the
Harp, and he gave me a piece of gold and 20s. in sil
ver. Thence to Mr. Mossum's, where he made a very
gaUant sermon upon " Pray for the life of the King
and the King's son." (Ezra vi. 10.) Met with Mr.
Woodfine, who took me to an alehouse in Drary Lane,
and we sat and drank together, and eat toasted cakes
which were very good, and we had a great deal of
mirth with the mistress of the house about them.
From thence homewards, and called at Mr. Blagrave's,
where I took up my note that he had of mine for 40^.,
which he two years ago did give me as a pawn whUe
he had my lute. So to Mrs. Crispe, where she and
her daughter and son and I sat talking till ten o'clock
at night, I giving them the best advice that I could
conceming their son, how he should go to sea, and so
to bed.
19th. Early to my Lord, where infinity of business
to do, which makes my head full; and indeed, for
these two or three days, I have not been without a
great many cares. After that to the Admiralty, where
a good while with Mr. Blackburne, who told me that
it was much to be feared that the King would come
in, for aU good men and good things were now dis
couraged. Thence to Wilkinson's, where Mr. Shepley
and I dined ; and while we were at dinner, my Lord
Monk's hfeguard came by with the Serjeant at Armes
before them, with two Proclamations, that all Cavahers
do depart the town; but the other that aU officers
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last of which Mr. R. Creed,' I remember, said, that
he looked upon it as if they had said, that aU God's
people should depart the town. Thence with some
sea officers to the Swan, where we drank tiU one
comes to me to pay me some money, viz., £,2s,. So
home, and left my money there. All the discourse
now- a- day is, that the King will come again ; and for
all I see, it is the wishes of all ; and all do believe
that it wiU be so. My mind is stiU much troubled for
my poor wife, but I hope that this undertaking wiU be
worth my pains. This day my Lord dined at my Lord
Mayor's (Allen), and Jaspar was made drunk, which
my Lord was very angry at.
20th. This moming I rose early and went to my
house to put things in a httle order against my going,
which I conceive wUl be to-morrow. After that to my
Lord, where I found very great deal of business, he
giving me all letters and papers that come to him
about business, for me to give him account of when
we come on shipboard. So to the Bull Head, whither
W. Simmons and I gave him and others my foy^

' Major Richard Creed, who commanded a troop under Lambert when
that general surrendered to Ingoldsby : see 24 April following. He was ira
prisoned with the rest of the officers, but his name does not recur in the Diary,
nor is it known whether he was related to John Creed, so frequently mentioned
hereafter. ^ Foy. A feast given by one who is about to leave a place. In Kent, ac
cording to Grose, a treat to friends, either at going abroad or coming home.
See Diary, 2sth Noveraber, 1661 ; "To Westminster with Captain Lambert,
and there he did at the Dog give me and .some other friends of his, his
foy, he being to set sail to-day towards the Streights." There is an inn at
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against my going to sea ; and so we took leave one of
another, they promising to write to me to sea. Hither
comes Pim's boy, by my direction, with two mon-
teeres ' for me to take my choice of, and I chose the
saddest colour and left the other for Mr. Shepley.
Thence by coach to London, and took a short melan
choly leave of my father and mother, without having
them to drink, or say anything of business one to
another. Then to Westminster, where by reason of
rain and an easterly wind, the water was so high that
there was boats rowed in King Street and all our yard
was drowned, that one could not go to my house,^ so
as no man has seen the like almost, most houses full
of water.3 Then back by coach to my Lord's, and
staid waiting for my Lord's coming in till very late.
Then Shepley, I, and William Howe went with our
* Monteeres, montero (Spanish), a kind of huntsman's cap.
" His hat was like a helmet, or Spanish montero." — Bacon.
Sterne introduces the montero cap into his " Tristram Shandy." It occurs in
a curious description of two worthies in the Currant Intelligence, March
6-g, 1682: "Samuel Smith, Scrivener in Grace Church Street, London,
about 26 years old, crook backed, of short stature, red hair, hath a black
periwig, and sometimes a light one, pale complexion, pock-holed full face, a
mountier cap with a scarlet ribbon and one of the same colour on his cravat
and sword, a light coloured campaign coat faced with blue shag, in company
with his brother John Smith, who has a slit in his nose, a tall lusty man, red
hair, a sad grey campaign coat, a lead colour suit lined with red, they were
mounted, one on a flea-bitten grey, theother on a light bay horse." (M. B.)
2 In Axe Yard, King Street, Westminster.
3 '* In this month the wind was very high, and caused great tides, so that
great hurt was done to the inhabitants of Westminster, King Street being
quite drowned. The Maidenhead boat was cast away, and twelve persons
with her. Also, about Dover the waters brake in upon the mainland ; and in
Kent was very much damage done; so that report said, there was 20,000/.
worth of harm done." — Rugge's Diumal.

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swords to bring my Lord home firom Sir H. Wright's.
He resolved to go ' to-morrow if the wind ceased. I
home by coach to Mrs. Crispe, who had sat over a
good supper long looking for me. So we sat talking
and laughing till it was very late, and so Laud and I to
bed. .
2 1 St. To my Lord's, but the wind very high against
us, and the weather bad we could not go to-day ; here
I did very much business, and then to my Lord Wid
drington's from my Lord, with his desire that he might
have the disposal of the writs of the Cinque Ports.
My Lord was very civil to me, and caUed for wine,
and writ a long letter in answer. Thence to Crispe's,
where we were very merry ; the old woman sent for a
supper for me, and gave me a handkercher with straw
berry buttons on it, and so to bed.
22nd. Up very early and took leave of Mrs. Crispe
and her daughter (who was in bed). Then to my
Lord's lodging, but the weather continuing very bad
my Lord would not go to-day. After that I went
forth about my own business to buy a pair of riding
grey serge stockings and sword and belt and hose,
and after that took Wotton and Brigden to the Pope's
Head Taveme in Chancery Lane, where Gilb. HoUand
and Shelston were, and we dined and drank a great
deal of wine, and they paid aU. Strange how these
people do now promise me everything ; one a rapier,
the other a vessel of wine or a gun, and one ofiered
me his silver hatband to do him a courtesy. I pray
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up hereby. After that to Westminster, and received
my warrant of Mr. Blackburne, to be Secretary to the
two Generals of the Fleet. Then to take my leave of
the Clerks of the CouncU. This day Mr. Shepley
went away on board and I sent my boy with him.
This day also Mrs. Jemim : went to Marrowbone, so
I could not see her.
23rd. Up early, carried my Lord's wiU in a black
box to Mr. WUliam Montagu ' for him to keep for him.
Then to the barber's and put on my cravat. So to my
Lord again. Hither came Gilb. HoUand, and brought
me a stick rapier and Shelston a sugar-loaf. Young
Reeve also brought me a httle perspective glass which
I bought for my Lord, it cost me 8f. My Lord, Cap
tain Isham,^ Mr. Thomas, John Crew, W. Howe, and I
to the Tower, where the barges staid for us ; my Lord
and the Captain in one, and W. Howe and I, &c., in
the other, to the Long Reach, where the Swiftsure 3 lay
at anchor ; (in our way we saw the great breach which
the late high water had made, to the loss of many
jQiooQ to the people about Limehouse.) Soon as
my Lord on board, the guns went off bravely from
the ships. And a little whUe after comes the Vice-
Admiral Lawson, and seemed very respectful to my
Lord, and so did the rest of the Commanders of the
^ William, second son of the first Lord Montagu of Boughton, and first
cousin to Sir Edward Montagu. He was afterwards Lord Chief Baron.
Ob. 1707, set. 89.
2 Sir Sidney Montagu, the father of "my Lord," had married for his
second wife one of the Isham family, of Lamport.
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frigates that were thereabouts. I to the cabin allotted
for me, which was the best that any had that belonged
to my Lord. I got out some things out of my chest
for writing and to work presently, Mr. Burr and I both.
I supped at the deck table with Mr. Shepley. We
were late writing of orders for the getting of ships
ready, &c. ; and also making of others to all the sea
ports between Hastings and Yarmouth, to stop aU
dangerous persons that are going or coming between
Flanders and there. After that to bed in my cabin,
which was but short ; however I made shift with it and
slept very well, and the weather being good I was not
sick at all yet, I know not what I shall be.
24th. At work hard all the day writing letters to the
Council, &c. This day Mr. Creed ' came on board
and dined very boldly with my Lord. The boy Eliezer
flung down a can of beer upon my papers which made
me give him a box of the ear, it having all spoiled
my papers and cost me a great deal of work. So
to bed.
25th. About two o'clock in the moming, letters
came from London by our Coxon, so they waked me,
but I would not 'rise but bid him stay till moming,
which he did, and then I rose and carried them in to
my Lord, who read them a-bed. Among the rest,
there was the writ and mandate for him to dispose to
the Cinque Ports for choice of Parliament-men. There
was also one for me from Mr. Blackburne, who with
' John Creed, who, having been a puritan, had been averse to the King's
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his own hand superscribes it to S. P. Esq.,' of which
God knows I was not a little proud. After that I
wrote a letter to the Clerk of Dover Castle, to come
to my Lord about issuing of those writs. About ten
o'clock Mr. Ibbott,^' at the end of the long table, begun
to pray and preach and indeed made a very good
sermon, upon the duty of all Christians to be stedfast
in faith. After that Captain Cuttance and I had
oysters, my Lord being in his cabin not intending to
stir out to-day. After that up into the great cabin
above to dinner with the Captain, where was Captain
Isham and all the officers of the ship. I took place
of all but the Captain ; after dinner I wrote a great
many letters to my friends at London. After that,
sermon again, at which I slept, God forgive me !
26th. This day it is two years since it pleased God
that I was cut for the stone at Mrs. Tumer's ' in SaUs
bury Court. And did resolve whUe I live to keep it
a festival, as I did the last year at my house, and for
ever to have Mrs. Tumer and her company with me.
But now it pleases God that I am where I am and so
prevented to do it openly ; only within my soul I can
and do rejoice, and bless God, being at this time,
blessed be his holy name, in as good health as ever I
^ Pepys was not a little proud of being addressed as S. P., Esquire, In
fifty years afterwards (as we find from Steele's pleasant paper in the " Tatler,"
No. 19), we were htcomc populus armigeroru-m : every pretender admitted
into the fratemity. Who is now excluded 1 This entry, and Pepys's pride,
in z666, in having a spare bed, are among those minute details which render
the " Diary " so valuable as a history of manners.
2 Edmund Ibbott, S.T.B., in 1662 made rector of Deal. Ob. 1677.
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was in my life. This moming I rose early, and went
about making of an establishment of the whole Fleet,
and a hst of all the ships, with the number of men and
guns. About an hour after that, we had a meeting
of the principal commanders and seamen, to propor
tion out the number of these things. AU the afternoon
very many orders were made, till I was very weary.
At night Mr. Shepley and W. Howe came and brought
some bottles of wine and some things to eat in my
cabin, where we were very merry, remembering the day
of being cut for the stone. Captain Cuttance came
afterwards and sat drinking a bottle of wine till eleven,
a kindness he do not usuaUy do the greatest officer in
the ship. After that to bed.
2 7th. Early in the morning at making a fair new
establishment of the Fleet to send to the Council.
This moming, the wind came about, and we fell into
the Hope, and in our passing by the Vice-Admiral,
he and the rest of the frigates with him, did give us
abundance of guns and we them, so much that the
report of them broke all the windows in my cabin
and broke off the iron bar that was upon it to keep
anybody from creeping in at the Scuttle. This noon
I sat the first time with my Lord at table since my
coming to sea. All the afternoon exceeding busy in
writing of letters and orders. In the aftemoon, Sir
Harry Wright ' came on board us, about his business
' M. P. for Harwich. He married Anne, drughter of Lord Crewe, and
sister to Lady Sandwich, and resided at Dagenham, Essex ; he was created a
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of being chosen a Parhament-man. My Lord brought
him to see my cabin, when I was hard a-writing. At
night supped with my Lord too, with the Captain.
28th. This moming and the whole day busy. At
night there was a gentleman very well bred, his name
was Banes, going for Flushing, who spoke French and
Latin very weU, brought by direction from Captain
Clerke hither, as a prisoner, because, he called out of
the vessel that he went in, " Where is your King, we
have done our business, Vive le Roi." He confessed
himself a Cavalier ui his heart, and that he and his
whole family had fought for the King; but that he
was then drunk, having been all night taking his leave
at Gravesend the night before,, and so could not
remember what it was that he said ; but in his words
and carriage showed much of a gentleman. My Lord
had a great kindness for him, but did not think it safe
to release him, but commanded him to be used civilly,
so he was taken to the Master's Cabin and had supper
there. In the meantime I wrote a letter to the Council
abput him, and an order for the vessel to be sent for
back that he was taken out of. But a while after, he
sent a letter down to my Lord, which my Lord did
like very well, and did advise with me what was best
to be done. So I put in something to my Lord and
then to the Captain that the gentleman was to be
released and the letter stopped, which was done. So
I went up and sat and talked with him in Latin and
French, and drank a bottle . or two with him ; and
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bless him. Thence I to my cabin and to bed. This
day we had news of the election at Huntingdon for
Bemard and Pedly,' at which my Lord was much
troubled for his friends' missing of it.
29th. We lie stiU a httie below Gravesend. At
night Mr. Shepley returned from London, and told us
of several elections for the next Parliament. That
the King's effigies was new making to be set up in
the Exchange again. This evening was a great whis
pering that some of the Vice-Admiral's captains were
dissatisfied, and did intend to fight themselves, to
oppose the General. But it was soon hushed, and
the Vice-Admiral did wholly deny any such thing, and
protested to stand by the General.
30th. I was saluted in the morning with two let
ters, from some that I had done a favour to, which
brought me in each a piece of gold. This day, whUe
my Lord and we were at dinner, the Nazeby came in
sight towards us, and at last came to anchor close by
us. After dinner my Lord and many others went on
board her, where every thing was out of order, and a
new chimney made for my Lord in his bed-chamber,
which he was much pleased with. My Lord, in his
discourse, discovered a great deal of love to this ship.^
31st. This moming Captain Jowles of the Wexford
' John Bemard and Nicholas Pedley, re-elected in the next Parliament.
Nicholas Pedley had been a Commissioner of the Wine Office.
Sir Edward Montagu had set up Lord MandeviHe, the Earl of Manches
ter's eldest son, and Mr. G. Montagu. (M. B.)
2 Lord Sandwich's flag was on board the " Naseby " when he went to
the Sound.

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came on board, for whom I got commission from my
Lord to be commander of the ship. Upon the doing
thereof he was to make the 20^^. piece that he sent me
yesterday, up _;^5 ; wherefore he sent me a biU that
he did owe me £^i,. I sent my boy to Gravesend
with him, and he did give the boy ;^4 for me, and
the boy gave him the biU under his hand. This mom
ing, Mr. HiU that lives in Axe-yard was here. I did
give him a bottle of wine, and was exceedingly satis
fied of the power that I have to make my friends
welcome. Many orders to make all the aftemoon.
April ist (Lord's day). Mr. Ibbott' preached very
weU. After dinner my Lord did give me a private list
of all the ships that were to be set out this summer,
wherein I do discern that he hath made it his care to
put by as much of the Anabaptists as he can. By
reason of my Lord and my being busy to send away
the packet by Mr. Cooke of the Nazeby, it was four
o'clock before we could begin sermon again. This
day Captain Guy come on board from Dunkirk, who
tells me that the King will come in, and that the sol
diers at Dunkirk do drink the King's health in the
streets. I made a commission for Captain Wilgness,
of the Bear, to-night, which got me 30^-.
2d. Up very early, and to get aU my things and
my boy's packed up. Great concourse of commanders
here this moming to take leave of my Lord upon his
going into the Nazeby, so that the table was fiiU, so
' Minister of Deal, 1676. — Pepys's MS. Letters.

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there dined below many commanders, and Mr. Creed,
who was much troubled to hear that he could not go
along with my Lord. After dinner I went in one of
the boats with my boy before my Lord, and made
shift before night to get my cabin in pretty good order.
It is but littie, but very convenient, having one window
to the sea and another to the deck, and a good bed.
This moming comes Mr. Ed. Pickering,' like a cox
comb as he always was. He tells me that the King i
wiU come in, but that Monk did resolve to have the j
doing of it himself, or else to hinder it.
3d. There come many merchants to get convoy to
the Baltique, which a course was taken for. They
dined with my Lord, and one of them by name Al
derman Wood talked much to my Lord of the hopes
that we have now to be settled, (under the King he
meant) ; but my Lord took no notice of it. This
day came the Lieutenant of the Swiftsure (who was
I Younger brother of Sir Gilbert Pickering, Bart., bom 1618, and bred
to the law; and in i68r a resident in Lincoln's Inn. He married Dorothy,
one of the daughters of Sir John Weld, of Amolds, in Edmonton, Middlesex,
and died in i6g8, s, p. s. ; his widow survived till December, 1707. Roger
North (" Life of Lord Keeper Guildford," 1742, p. 58) has drawn a very un
favourable picture of Edward Pickering, calling him a subtle fellow, a money-
hunter, a great trifler, and avaricious, but withal a great pretender to puri
tanism, frequenting the Rolls' Chapel, and most busily writing the sermon
in his hat, that he might not be seen. We learn from the same authority
that Sir John Cutts, of Childerley, having left his aunt, Mrs. Edward Pick
ering, an estate worth 300/. per annum, for ninety-nine years, if she should
so long live, her husband, who was the executor, erased from the will the
words of reference to her life, with intention to possess himself of the prop
erty for the terra, absolutely, which fraud being suspected, the question was
tried in a court of law, and the jury without hesitation found Pickering the
author of the erasure, before the publication of the will.

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sent by my Lord to Hastings, one of the Cinque
Ports, to have got Mr. Edward Montagu to have been
one of their burgesses, but could not, for they were
aU promised before) . After he had done his message,
I took him and Mr. Pierce, the surgeon (who this day
came on board, and not before), to my cabin, where
we drank a bottie of wine. At night, busy a-writing,
and so to bed. My heart exceeding heavy for not
hearing of my dear wife, and indeed I do not re
member that ever my heart was so apprehensive of
her absence as at this very time.
4th. This moming came Colonel Thomson with
the wooden leg, and General Pen, and dined with my
Lord and Mr. Blackbume, who told me that it was
certain now that the King must of necessity come in,
and that one of the CouncU told him there is some
thing doing in order to a treaty already among them.
And it was strange to hear how Mr. Blackbume did
already begin to commend him for a sober man, and
how quiet he would be under his government, &c.
The Commissioners came to-day, only to consult about
a further reducement of the Fleet, and to pay them
as fast as they can. I did give Davis, their servant,
;^5 \os. to give to Mr. Moore from me, in part of the
£,1 that I borrowed from him, and he is to discount
the rest out of the 36J. that he do owe me. At night,
my Lord resolved to send the Captain of our ship to
Waymouth and promote his being chosen there, which
he did put himself into a readiness to do the next
morning.

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5 th. Infinity of business all the morning of orders
to make, that I was very much perplexed that Mr.
Burr had failed me of coming back last night, and we
ready to set saU, which we did about noon, and came
in the evening to Lee roads and anchored. This
afternoon Creed brought me £21°, which my Lord
ordered him to pay me upon account, and Captain
Clerke brought me a noted caudle. At night very
sleepy to bed.
6th. This morning came my brother-in-law Baity
to see me, and to desire to be here with me as Re
formatio,' which did much trouble me. But after
dinner (my Lord using him very civilly, at table) I
spoke to my Lord, and he presented me a letter to
Captain Stokes for him that he should be there. All
the day with him walking and talking, we under sail
as far as the Spitts. In the afternoon, W. Howe and
I to our viallins, the first time since we came on board.
In the evening, it being fine, I staid late walking with
Mr. Cuttance upon the quarter-deck, leaming of some
sea terms ; and so to supper and to bed.
7th. This day, about nine o'clock in the moming,
the wind grew high, and we being among the sands
lay at anchor; I began to be dizzy and squeamish.
Before dinner my Lord sent for me down to eat some

' Reformado, " a broken or disbanded officer." Boyer translates " O^-
cier reform^, a reformado" See Diary, Oct. ist, 1660: " Mr. Mansell,
a poor reformado of the Charles," See Ben Jonson's Epicene: "His
knights Reformadoes a wound up. as high and insolent as ever they were."
See also Every Man in his Humour, act iii. sc. •£. (M. B.)

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oysters, the best my Lord said that he ever ate in his
hfe, though I have eat as good at Bardsey. After
dmner, and aU the aftemoon I walked upon the deck
to keep myself from being sick, and at last about five
o'clock, went to bed and got a caudle made me, and
sleep upon it very weU.
Sth (Lord's day). Very calm again, and I pretty
well, but my head aked all day. About noon set sail ;
in our way I see many barks and masts, which are
now the greatest goods for ships. We had a brave
wind all the afternoon, and overtook two good mer
chantmen that overtook us yesterday, going to the
East Indies. The heutenant and I lay out of his
window with his glass, lookijig at the women that were
on board them, being pretty handsome. This evening
Major WUloughby, who had been here three or four
days on board with Mr. Pickering, went on board a
catch ' for Dunkirke.
9th. We having sailed all night, were come in sight
of the Nore and South Forelands in the moming, and
so sailed all day. In the aftemoon we had a very
firesh gale, which I brooked better than I thought I
should be able to do. This afternoon I first saw
France and Calais, with which I was much pleased,
though it was at a distance. About five o'clock we
came to the Goodwin, so to the Castles ^ about Deale,
where our Fleet lay, among whom we anchored. Great
was the shout of guns from the castles and ships, and
* Catch or ketck^ a swift kind of vessel. (M. B.)
' The castles were Walmer, Sandgate, Sandwich, Deal, and Dover.

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our answers, that I never heard yet so great raf thng
of guns. Nor could we see one another on board
for the smoke that was among us, nor one ship from
another. Soon as we came to anchor, the captains
came firom on board their ships all to us on board.
This aftemoon I wrote letters for my Lord to the
CouncU, &c., which Mr. Pickering was to carry, who
took leave to go away to-morrow, and Baity. I lent
Baity 1 5 J. which he was to pay to my wife. It was
one in the morning before we parted. This evening
Mr. Shepley came on board, having escaped a very
great danger upon a sand coming from Chatham.
IOth. This morning many or most of the command
ers in the Fleet came on board and dined here, so
that some of them and I dined together in the round
house, where we were very merry. Hither came the
Vice-Admiral to us, and sat and talked and seemed a
very good-natured man. At night as I was aU alone
in my cabin, in a melancholy fit playing on my viaUin,
my Lord and Sir R. Stayner came into the coach ' and
supped there, and caUed me out to supper with them.
This day my Lord Goring ^ retumed from France, and
landed at Dover.
nth. A Gentleman came this moming from my

' The Council Cha-mber, frequently mentioned. See 3rd May; " The
council sat in the ct7ai:^." (M. B.)
2 Charles, who succeeded his father as second Earl of Norwich. He had
been banished eleven years before by the Parliament for heading an army,
and keeping the town of Colchester for the use of the King. At his first
coming he went to the Council of State, and had leave to remain in London,
provided he did not disturb the peace of the nation. — Rugge's Diumal.

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Lord of Manchester to my Lord for a pass for Mr.
Boyle,' which was made him. The wind aU this day
was very high. This aftemoon came a great packet
of letters from London directed to me, among the
rest two from my wife, the first that I have since com
ing away from London. AU the news from London
is that things go on further towards a King. That the
Skinners' Company the other day at their entertaming
of General Monk ^ had took down the Parliament Arms
in their HaU, and set up the King's. In the evening
my Lord and I had a great deal of discourse about the
several Captains of the Fleet and his interest among
them, and had his mind clear to bring in the King.
He confessed to me that he was not sure of his own
Captain [Cuttance] to be true to him, and that he
did not like Captain Stokes. At night W. Howe and
I at our viallins in my cabin, where Mr. Ibbott and the
heutenant were late. I staid the heutenant late, shew
ing him my manner of keeping a journal. After that
to bed. It comes now into my mind to observe that I
am sensible that I have been a little too free to make
mirth with the minister of our ship, he being a very
sober and upright man.
1 2 th. This day, the weather being very bad, we had
no strangers on board.
' ^he celebrated Robert Boyle, youngest son of Richard, first Earl of
Cork. 2 His excellency had now dined at nine of the chief Halls ; at every HaU
there was after dinner a kind of stage-play, and many pretty conceits, and
dancing and singing, and many shapes and ghosts, and the like, and all to
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13th. This day very foul for rain and wind. In
the aftemoon set my own things in my cabin and
chests in better order than hitherto, and set my
papers in order. At night sent another packet to
London by the post, and after that was done I went
up to the heutenant's cabin and there we broached a
vessel of ale that we had sent for among us from
Deale to-day. There was the minister and doctor
with us. After that till one o'clock in the morning
writing letters to Mr. Downing about my business of
continuing my office to myself, only Mr. Moore to
execute it for me. I had also a very serious and
effectual letter from my Lord to him to that purpose.
After that done then to bed, and it being very rainy,
and the rain coming upon my bed, I went and lay
with John Goods in the great cabin below, the wind
being so high that we were fain to lower some of the
masts. I to bed, and what with the goodness of
the bed and the rocking of the ship I slept till almost
ten o'clock, and then —
14th. Rose and drank a good moming draft there
with Mr. Shepley, which occasioned my thinking upon
the happy hfe that I live now, had I nothing to care
for but myself. The sea was this moming very high,
and looking out of the window I saw our boat come
with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, in it in great danger,
who endeavouring to come on board us, had hke to
have been drowned had it not been for a rope. This
day I was informed that my Lord Lambert is got out
of the Tower, and that there is 100/. proffered to who-

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ever shaU bring him forth to the CouncU of State.'
My Lord is chosen at Waymouth this moming ; my
Lord had his freedom brought him by Captain Tiddi-
man of the port of Dover, by which he is capable of
being elected for them. This day I heard that the
Army had in general declared to stand by what the
next Parliament shall do.
15th (Lord's day). Up early and was trimmed by
the barber in the great cabin below. After that to put
my clothes on and then to sermon, and then to dinner,
where my Lord told us that the University of Cam
bridge had a mind to choose him for their burgess,
which he pleased himself with, to think that they do
look upon him as a thriving man, and said so openly
at table. At dinner-time Mr. Cooke came back from
London with a packet which caused my Lord to be
full of thoughts all day, and at night he bid me pri-

' The manner of the escape of John Lambert, out of the Tower, on the
nth inst., as related by Rugge; — That about eight of the clock at night he
escaped by a rope tied fast to his window, by which he slid down, and in each
hand he had a handkerchief; and six men were ready to receive him, who
had a barge to hasten hira away. She who raade the bed, being privy to his
escape, that night, to blind the warder when he came to lock the chamber-
door, went to bed, and possessed Colonel Lambert's place, and put on his
night-cap. So, when the said warder came to lock the door, according to
his usual manner, he found the curtains drawn, and conceiving it to be
Colonel John Lambert, he said, " Good night, my Lord." To which a seem
ing voice replied, and prevented all further jealousies. The next moming, on
coming to unlock the door, and espying her face, he cried out, " In the name
of God, Joan, what makes you here ? Where is my Lord Lambert ? " She
said, "He is gone; but I cannot tell whither." Whereupon he caused her
to rise and carried her before the officer in the Tower, and [she] was com
mitted to custody. Sorae said that a lady knit for him a garter of silk, by
which he was conveyed down, and that she received 100/. for her pains.

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vately to get two commissions ready, one for Capt.,
Robert Blake to be captain of the Worcester, in the;
room of Capt. Dekings, an anabaptist, and one that had
witnessed a great deal of discontent with the present
proceedings. The other for Capt. Coppin to come
out of that into the Newbury in the room of Blake, ;
whereby I perceive that General Monk do resolve to '
make a thorough change, to make way for the Eang. J
From London I hear that since Lambert got out of the
Tower, the Fanatiques had held up their heads high,
but I hope aU that will come to nothing.
1 6th. AU the morning giving out orders and tickets
to the Commanders of the Fleet to discharge all super
numeraries that they had above the number that the
Council had set in their last establishment. After
dinner busy all the afternoon writing, and so till night,
then to bed.
17 th. All the moming getting ready commissions
for the Vice-Admiral ' and the R. Admiral,^ wherein my
Lord was very careful to express the utmost of his own
power, commanding them to obey what orders they
should receive from the Parhament, &c., or both or
either of the Generals.' The Vice-Admiral dined with

' Sir John Lawson.
2 Sir Richard Stayner, knighted and made a Vice-Admiral by Cromwell,
1657, and after the Restoration sent to command at Tangier till the Governor
arrived. 3 Sir Edward Montagu afterwards recomraended the Duke of York as
High Admiral, to give regular and lawful commissions to the Commanders
of the Fleet, instead of those which they had received from Sir Edward him
self, or from the Rump Parliament. — Kennett's Register, p. 163.

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US, and m the aftemoon my Lord called me to give
him the commission for him, which I did, and he gave
it him himself. A very pleasant aftemoon, and I upon
the deck aU the day, it was so clear that my Lord's
glass shewed us Calais very plain, and the chffs were
as plain to be seen as Kent, and my Lord at first made
me believe that it was Kent. At night, after supper,
my Lord called for the Rear-Admiral's commission
which I brought him, and I sitting in my study heard
my Lord c^iscourse with him conceming D. King's and
Newberry's being put out of commission. And by
the way I did observe that my Lord did speak more
openly his mind to me afterwards at night than I can
find that he did to the Rear- Admiral, though his great
confidant. For I was with him an hour together, when
he told me clearly his thoughts that the King would
carry it, and that he did think himself very happy that
he was now at sea, as well for his own sake, as that he
thought he might do his country some service m keep
ing things quiet.
I Sth. Mr. Cooke returned from London, bringing
me this news, that the Sectaries do talk high what
they wiU do, but I beheve all to no purpose, that the
Cavaliers are something unwise to talk so high on the
other side as they do. That the Lords do meet every
day at my Lord of Manchester's, and resolve to sit the
first day of the Parliament. That it is evident now
that the General and the Council do resolve to make
way for the King's coming. And it is now clear that
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gentry and citizens throughout England, and clergy
must fall, in spite of their militia and army, which is
not at all possible I think. This moming very early
Mr. Edward Montagu came on board, making no stay
at aU. This day Sir R. Stayner, Mr. Shepley, and as
many of my Lord's people as could be spared went to
Dover to get things ready against to-morrow for the
election there.
19th. At dinner news brought us that my Lord was
chosen at Dover. This aftemoon came one Mansell
on board as a Reformatio,' to whom my Lord did
shew exceeding great respect, but upon what account
I do not yet know. This day it has rained much, so
that when I came to go to bed I found it wet through,
so I was fain to wrap myself dp in a dry sheet, and so
lay aU night.
20th. AU the morning I was busy to get my window
altered, and to have my table set as I would have it,
which after it was done I was infinitely pleased with
it, and also to see what a command I have to have
every one ready to come and go at my command.
This evening came Mr. Boyle on board, for whom I
writ an order for a ship to transport him to Flushing.
He supped with my Lord, my Lord using him as a
person of honour. Mr. Shepley told me that he heard
for certain at Dover that Mr. Edw. Montagu = did go
beyond sea when he was here first the other day, and
' See 5th AprU, 1660. (M. B.)
2 Eldest sop of Edward, second Lord Montagu, of Boughton, killed at
Bergen, 1663. /

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I am apt to believe that he went to speak with the
King. This day one told me how that at the elec
tion at Cambridge for knights of the shire, Wendby
and Thornton by declaring to stand for the Parlia
ment and a King and the settiement of the Church,
did carry it against aU expectation against Sir Dudley
North and Su: Thomas WiUis.'
2 1 St. This day dined Sir John Boys^ and some
other gentlemen formerly great Cavaliers, and among
the rest one Mr. Norwood,^ for whom my Lord give
a convoy to carry him to the Brill, but he is certainly
going to the King. For my Lord commanded me
that I should not enter his name ui my book. My
Lord do show them and that sort of people great
civUity. All their discourse and others are of the
King's coming, and we begin to speak of it very freely.
And heard how in many churches in London, and
upon many signs there, and upon merchants' ships in
the river, they had set up the King's arms. In the
aftemoon the Captain would by all means have me up
to his cabin, and there treated me huge nobly, giving
me a barrel of pickled oysters, and opened another
for me, and a bottle of wine, which was a great favour.
At night late singing with W. Howe, and under the
barber's hands in the coach."* This night there came
^ He had represented Cambridgeshire in the preceding Parliament.
2 Gentleman of the Privy-Chamber.
^ A Major Norwood had been Govemor of Dunkirk; and a person of the
same name occurs as one of the Esquires of the body at the Coronation of
Charles the Second.
4 See IOth April, i66o. (M. B.)

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one with a letter from Mr. Edw. Montagu to my
Lord, with command to dehver it to his own hands.
I do believe that he do carry some close business on
for the King.' This day I had a large letter from Mr.
Moore, giving me an account of the present dispute
at London that is hke to be at the beginning of the
Parliament, about the House of Lords, who do resolve
to sit with the Commons, as not thinking themselves
dissolved yet. Which, whether it be granted or no,
or whether they wiU sit or no, it wiU bring a great
many inconveniencies. His letter I keep, it being a
very well writ one.
2 2d. Several Londoners, strangers, fiiends of the
Captains, dined here, who, among other things told
us, how the King's Arms are every day set up in
houses and churches, particularly in AUhallows Church
in Thames-street, John Simpson's church, which being
privately done was a great eye-sore to his people when
they came to church and saw it. Also they told us
for certain, that the King's statue is making by the
Mercers' Company^ (who are bound to do it) to set
up in the Exchange. After sermon in the aftemoon
I fell to writing letters against to-morrow to send to
London. After supper to bed.
23rd. This aftemoon I had 40^. given me by Cap-
' Pepys' guess at E. Montagu's business is conflrmed by Clarendon's
account of his employment of him to negociate with Lord Sandwich on behalf
of the King. (" History of the Rebellion," book xvi.) — Notes and Que
ries, vol. X. p. 2. (M. B.)
2 As tmstees for Sir Thomas Gresham, the founder of the Royal Ex
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tain Cowes of the Paradox. In the evening for tiie
first time, extraordinary good sport among the sea
men, after my Lord had done playing at ninepins.
After that W. Howe and I went to play two trebles in
the great cabin below, which my Lord hearing, after
supper he called for our instmments, and played a set
of Lock's, two trebles, and a base, and that being
done, he feU to singing of a song made upon the
Rump, with which he played himself very weU, to
the tune of " The Blacksmith." After aU that done,
then to bed.
24th. This moming I had Mr. LueUin and Mr. Shep
ley to the remainder of my oysters. After that very
busy all the moming. While I was at dinner with my
Lord, the Coxon of the Vice-Admiral came for me to
the Vice-Admiral ' to dinner. So I told my Lord and
he gave me leave to go. I rose therefore fi-om table
and went, where there was very many commanders,
and very pleasant we were on board the London,
which hath a state-room much bigger than the Nazeby,
but not so rich. After that, with the Captain on board
our own ship, where we were saluted with the news
of Lambert's being taken, which news was brought to
London on Sunday last. He was taken in Northamp
tonshire by Colonel Ingoldsby,^ in the head of a party,
^ Su: John Lawson.
^ Colonel Richard Ingoldsby had been Governor of Oxford under his
kinsman Cromwell, and one of Charles the First's Judges; but was pardoned
for the service here mentioned, and made K. B. at the Coronation of Charles
II. He afterwards retired to his seat at Lethenborough, Bucks, and died
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by which means their whole design is broke, and things
now very open and safe. And every man begins to
be merry and fiiU of hopes. In the afternoon my
Lord gave a great large character' to write out, so
I spent aU the day about it, and after supper my
Lord and we had some more very good musique and
singing of " Tume Amaryllis," as it is printed in the
song book, with which my Lord was very much pleased.
After that to bed.
25 th. Dined to-day with Captain Clerke on board
the Speaker = (a very brave ship) where was the Vice-
Admiral, R. Admiral, and many other commanders.
After dinner home, not a little contented to see how I
am treated, and with what respect made a feUow to
the best commanders in the Fleet. All the aftemoon
finishing of the character, which I did and gave It my
Lord, it being very handsomely done and a very good
one in itself, but that not tmly Alphabetical. Supped
with Mr. Shepley, W. Howe, &c. in Mr. Pierce, the
Purser's cabin, where very merry, and so to bed.
26th. This day came Mr. Donne 3 back from Lon
don, who brought letters with him that signify the
meeting of the Parhament yesterday. And in the
afternoon by other letters I hear, that about twelve of
the Lords met and had chosen my Lord of Manches
ter Speaker of the House of Lords (the young Lords
that never sat yet, do forbear to sit for the present) ;
' i. e. cipher. (M. B.5
^ Of fifty-two guns; afterwards named the " Mary: " see May 23, 1660.
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and Sir Harbottie Grimstone,' Speaker for the House
of Commons. The House of Lords sent to have a
conference with the House of Commons, which, after
a httle debate, was granted. Dr. Reynolds preached
before the Commons before they sat. My Lord told
me how Sir H. Yelverton ^ (formerly my school-feUow)
was chosen in the first place for Northamptonshire
and Mr. Crew in the second. And told me how he
did beheve that the Cavaliers have now the upper
hand clear of the Presbyterians. Mr. Shepley, W.
Howe and I down with J. Goods into my Lord's store
room of wine and other drink, where it was very
pleasant to observe the massy timbers that the ship is
made of. We in the room were wholly under water
and yet a deck below that. After that to supper,
where Tom Guy supped with us, and we had very
good laughing, and after that some musique, where
Mr. Pickering beginning to play a bass part upon the
viall did it so like a fool that I was ashamed of him.
After that to bed.
2 7th. This moming Burr was absent again from on
board, which I was troubled at, and spoke to Mr.
Pierce, Purser, to speak to him of it, and it is my
mind. This moming Pim [the taUor] spent in my
cabin, putting a great many ribbons to a suit. After
dinner came on board Sir Thoirlas Hatton ' and Sir R.
' Ancestor of the Earls of Verulam. He was made Master of the Rolls
November following, and died 1683.
2 Of Easton Mauduit, Bart., grandson to the Attorney General of both
his names. Ob. 1679.
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Maleverer ' going for Flushing ; but aU the world know
that they go where the rest of the many gentlemen go
that every day flock to the King at Breda. They
supped here, and my Lord treated them as he do the
rest that go thither, with a great deal of civility.
While we were at supper a packet came, wherein
much news from several friends. The chief is that,
that I had from Mr. Moore, viz., that he fears the
Cavaliers in the House wiU be so high, that the others
wiU be forced to leave the House and faU in with
General Monk, and so offer things to the King so
high on the Presbyterian account that he may refiise,
and so they wiU endeavour some more mischief; but
when I told my Lord it, he shook his head and told
me, that the Presbyterians are deceived, for the Gen
eral is certainly for the King's interest, and so they
wiU not be able to prevaU that way with him. After
supper the two knights went on board the Grantham,
that is to convey them to Flushing. I am informed
that the Exchequer is now so low, that there is not
20/. there, to give the messenger that brought the
news of Lambert's being taken ; which story is very
strange that he should lose his reputation of being a
man of courage now at one blow, for that he was
not able to fight one stroke, but desired of Colonel
Ingoldsby several times for God's sake to let him
escape. Late reading my letters, my mind being
much troubled to think that, after aU our hopes, we
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should have any cause to fear any more disappoint
ments therein.
28th. This moming sending a packet by Mr. Donne
to London. In the aftemoon I played at ninepins
with Mr. Pickering, I and Mr. Pett against him and
Ned Osgood, and won a crown apiece of him. He
had not money enough to pay me. After supper my
Lord exceeding merry, and he and I and W. Howe to
sing, and so to bed.
29th (Sunday). This day I put on first my fine
cloth suit made of a cloak. After sermon in the
moming Mr. Cooke came from London with a packet,
bringing news how aU the young lords that were not
in arms against the Parhament do now sit. That a
letter is come from the King to the House, which is
locked up by the Council 'till next Tuesday that it
may be read in the open House when they meet
again, they having adjoumed till then to keep a fast
to-morrow. And so the contents is not yet known.
13,000/. of the 20,000/, given to General Monk is
paid out of the Exchequer, he giving 12/ among the
teUer's clerks of Exchequer. My Lord called me into
the great cabin below, where he told me that the Pres
byterians are quite mastered by the Cavaliers, and that
he fears Mr. Crew did go a little too far the other day
in keeping out the young lords from sitting. That he
do expect that the King should be brought over sud
denly, without staying to make any terms at all, saying
that the Presbyterians did intend to have brought him
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But he shook his shoulders when he told me how
Monk had betrayed him, for it was he that did put
them upon standing to put out the lords and other
members that came not within the qualifications,
which he [Montagu] did not hke, but however he
[Monk] had done his business, though it be with
some kind of baseness. After dinner I walked a great
while upon the deck with the chyrurgeon and purser,
and other officers of the ship, and they aU pray for
the King's coming, which I pray God send.
30th. AU the morning getting instmctions ready for
the Squadron of ships that are going to-day to the
Streights, among others Captain Teddiman, Curtis,
and Captain Robert Blake to be commander of the
whole Squadron. After dinner to ninepins, W. Howe
and I against Mr. Creed and the Captain. We lost
S,f. apiece to them. After that W. Howe, Mr. Shepley
and I got my Lord's leave to go to see Captain
Sparhng. So we took boat and first went on shore,
it being very pleasant in the fields ; but a very pitiful
town Deale is. We went to Fuller's (the famous
place for ale), but they have not but what was in
the vat. After that to Poole's, a taveme in the town,
where we drank, and so to boat again, and went to
the Assistance, where we were treated very civilly
by the Captain, and he did give us such musique upon
the harp by a fellow that he keeps on board that I
never expect to hear the hke again, yet he is a drunk
en simple fellow to look on as any I ever saw. After
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at supper, so I sat down and very pleasant my Lord
was with Mr. Creed and Shepley, who he puzzled
about finding out the meaning of the three notes
which my Lord had cut over the chrystal of his watch.
After supper some musique. Then Mr. Shepley, W.
Howe and I up to the Lieutenant's cabin, where we
drank, and W. Howe and I were very merry, and
among other frolics he puUs out the spigot of the httle
vessel of ale that was there in the cabin and drew
some into his mounteere,' and after he had drank,
I endeavouring to dash it in his face, he got my
velvet studying cap and drew some into mine too,
that we made Ourselves a great deal of mirth, but
spoUed my clothes with the ale that we dashed up
and down. After that to bed with drink enough in
my head.
May ist. This moming I was told how the people
of Deale have set up two or three Maypoles, and have
hung up their flags upon the top of them, and do
resolve to be very merry to-day. It being a very
pleasant day, I wished myself in Hide Parke .^ This
day I do count myself to have had fuU two years of
perfect cure for the stone, for which God of heaven be
blessed. This day Captain Parker came on board,
and without his expectation I had a commission for
him for the Nonsuch frigate, he being now in the

^ Mounteere. See 20th March, i6fi3. (M. B.)
2 See 30th April, 1661. " I am sorry that I was not at London to be at
Hide Parke to morrow among the great gallants and ladies, which will be very
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Cheriton, for which he gave me a French pistole.
Captain H. Cuttance has commission for the Cheriton.
After dinner to nine-pins, and won something. The
rest of the afternoon in my cabin writing and piping.
While we were at supper we heard a great noise upon
the Quarter Deck, so we all rose instantly, and found
it was to save the coxon of the Cheriton, who, drop
ping overboard, could not be saved, but was drowned.
To-day I hear they were very merry at Deale, setting
up the King's flag upon one of their maypoles, and
drinking his health upon their knees in the streets,
and firing the guns, which the soldiers of the Castle
threatened, but durst not oppose.
May 2nd. In the moming at a breakfast of Radyshes
at the Purser's cabin. After that to writing tiU dinner.
At which time comes Donne from London, with letters
that teU us the welcome news of the Parliament's votes
yesterday, which will be remembered for the happiest
May-day that hath been many a year to England. The
King's letter was read in the House, wherein he sub
mits himself and all things to them, as to an Act of
Oblivion to all, unless they shall please to except any,
as to the confirming of the sales of the King's and
Church lands, if they see good. The House upon
reading the letter, ordered 50,000/. to be forthwith
provided to send to His Majesty for his present sup
ply ; and a committee chosen to retum an answer of
thanks to His Majesty for his gracious letter ; and that
the letter be kept among the records ofthe Parliament ;
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Robinson ' himself stood up and made a recantation
for what he had done, and promises to be a loyal
subject to his Prince for the time to come. The City
of London have put out a Declaration, wherein they
do disclaim their owning any other govemment but
that of a King, Lords, and Commons. Thanks was
given by the House to Sir John GreenviUe,^ one of the
bedchamber to the King, who brought the letter, and
they continued bare all the time it was reading. Upon
notice made from the Lords to the Commons, of their
desire that the Commons would join with them in their
vote for King, Lords, and Commons ; the Commons
did concur and voted that aU books whatever that are
out against the Government of King, Lords, and Com
mons, should be brought into the House and bumed.
Great joy all yesterday at London, and at night more
bonfires than ever, and ringing of bells, and drinking
of the King's health upon their knees in the streets,
which methinks is a little too much. But every body
seems to be very joyfuU in the business, insomuch that
our sea commanders now begin to say so too, which
a week ago they would not do.' And our seamen, as
many as had money or credit for drink, did do noth-
^ Of Pickering Lyth, in Yorkshire, M. P, for Scarborough; discharged
from sitting in the House of Commons, July 21 , 1660. •
2 Created Earl of Bath, 1661, son of Sir Bevil Grenville, killed at the
battle of Newbury, and said to have been the only person entrusted by
Charles II. and Monk in bringing about the Restoration.
3 The picture of King Charles II. was often set up in houses, without
the least molestation, whereas, a while ago, it was almost a hanging matter
so to do: but now the Rump Parliaraent was so hated and jeered at, that
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mg else this evening. This day came Mr. North ¦
(Sir Dudley North's son) on board, to spend a httle
time here, which my Lord was a little troubled at,
but he seems to be a fine gentleman, and at night did
play his part exceeding well at first sight.
3d. This moming my Lord showed me the King's
declaration and his letter to the two Generals to be
communicated to the fieet. The contents of the letter
are his offer of grace to all that will come in within
forty days, only excepting them that the Parliament
shall hereafter except. That the sales of lands during
these troubles, and aU other things, shaU be left to the
Parliament, by which he will stand. The letter dated
at Breda, April -^^ 1660, in the 12th year of his reign.
Upon the receipt of it this morning by an express, Mr.
PhUlips, one of the messengers of the CouncU from
General Monk, my Lord summoned a council of war,
and in the mean time did dictate to me how he would
have the vote ordered which he would have pass this
council. Which done, the Commanders all came on
board, and the council sat in the coach ^ (the first
council of war that had been in my time), where I
read the letter and declaration ; and whUe they were
discoursing upon it, I seemed to draw up a vote, which
being off'ered, they passed. Not one man seemed to
say no to it, though I am confident many in their

kidneys ? " And it v.^as a very ordinary thing to see little children make a
fire in the streets, and burn rumps- — Rugge's Diurnal.
' Charles, eldest son of Dudley, afterwards fourth Lord North.
2 See IOth April, i66o. (M, B,)

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hearts were against it. After this was done, I went up
to the quarter-deck with my Lord and the Command
ers, and there read both the papers and the vote;
which done, and demanding their opinion, the seamen
; did aU of them cry out, " God bless King Charies ! "
with the greatest joy imaginable. That being done.
Sir R. Stayner,' who had invited us yesterday, took all
the Commanders and myself on board him to dinner,
which not being ready, I went with Captain Hayward
to the Plimouth and Essex,^ and did what I had to do
there and returned, where very merry at dinner. After
dinner, to the rest of the ships quite through the fleet.
Which was a very brave sight to visit all the ships, and
to be received with the respect and honour that I was
on board them all ; and much more to see the great
joy that I brought to all men ; not one through the
whole fleet showing the least dislike of the business.
In the evening as I was going on board the Vice-
Admiral, the General began to fire his guns, which he
did all that he had in the ship, and so did all the rest
of the Commanders, which was very gaUant, and to
hear the bullets go hissing over our heads as we were
in the boat. This done and finished by Proclamation,
I retumed to the Nazeby, where my Lord was much
pleased to hear how aU the fleet took it in a transport
of joy, showed me a private letter of the King's to

' Knighted and made a Vice-Admiral by Cromwell, 1637, and sent by
Charles II. to command at Tangier till the Governor arrived,
° John Hayward was captain of the Plymouth. Thomas Binns com
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him, and another from the Duke of York in such fa
miliar style as to their common friend, with all kindness
imaginable. And I found by the letters, and so my
Lord told me too, that there had been many letters
passed between them for a great whUe, and I perceive
unknown to Monk. And among the rest that had
carried these letters Sir John Boys ' is one, and that Mr.
Norwood, which had a ship to carry him over the other
day, when my Lord would not have me put down his
name in the book. The King speaks of his being
courted to come to the Hague, but do desire my Lord's
advice where to come to take ship. And the Duke
offers to leam the seaman's trade of him, in such
familiar words as if Jack Cole and I had writ them.
This was very strange to me, that my Lord should
carry all things so wisely and pmdently as he do, and
I was over joyful to see him in so good condition,
and he did not a little please himself to tell me how
he had provided for himself so great a hold on the
King. After this to supper, and then to writing of letters
till twelve at night, and so up again at three in the
moming. My Lord seemed to put great confidence
in me, and would take my advice in many things. I
perceive his being wiUing to do all the honour in the
world to Monk, and to let him have all the honour of
doing the business, though he wiU many times express
his thoughts of him to be but a thick-sculled fool. So
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that I do beheve there is some agreement more than
ordinary between the King and my Lord to let Monk
carry on the business, for it is he that must do the
business, or at least that can hinder it, if he be not
flattered and observed. This, my Lord wiU hint him
self sometimes. My Lord, I perceive by the King's
letter, had writ to him about his father. Crew,' and
the King did speak well of him ; but my Lord teUs
me, that he is afeard that he hath too much concemed
himself with the Presbtyerians against the House of
Lords, which wiU do him a great discourtesy.
4th. I wrote this moming many letters, and to aU
the copies of the vote of the council of war I put my
name, that if it should come in print my name may be
to it. I sent a copy of the vote to Dohng, inclosed
in this letter : ^-
"SiR, — He that can fancy a fleet (like ours) in her pride,
with pendants loose, guns roaring, caps flying, and the loud
" Vive le Roy's,'' echoed from one ship's company to another,
he, and he only, can apprehend the joy this inclosed vote was
received with, or the blessing he thought himself possessed of
that bore it, and is Your humble servant."
About nine o'clock I got all my letters done, and
sent them by the messenger that came yesterday.
This morning came Captain Isham on board with a
gentleman going to the King, by whom very cun
ningly, my Lord tells me, he intends to send an
account of this day's and yesterday's actions here,
t He had married Jemima, daughter of John Crewe, Esq., created after
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notwithstanding he had writ to the Parhament to
have leave of them to send the King the answer of
the fleete. Since my writing of the last paragraph,
my Lord called me to him to read his letter to the
King, to see whether I could find any shps in it or
no. And as much of the letter " as I can remember,
is thus : —
" May it please your Most Excellent Majesty,"
and so begins.
That he yesterday received from General Monk his Maj
esty's letter and direction ; and that General Monk had desired
him to write to the Parliament to have leave to send the vote
of the seamen before he did send it to him, which he had done
by writing to both Speakers; but for his private satisfaction
he had sent it thus privately (and so the copy of the proceed
ings yesterday was sent him), and that this come by a gentle
man that came this day on board, intending to wait upon his
Majesty, that he is my Lord's countryman, and one whose
friends have suffered much on his Majesty's behalf. That my
Lords Pembroke ^ and Salisbury ' are put out of the House of
Lords. That my Lord is very joyful that other countries do
pay him the civility and respect due to him ; and that he do
much rejoice to see that the King do resolve to receive none
of their assistance (or some such words), from them, he hav
ing strength enough in the love and loyalty of his own subjects
I Lord Sandwich's letter to the King, which Pepys gives from memory, is
printed in Lister's Clarendon, and a reference to the letter will show the accu
racy of Pepys' memory. — Notes and Queries, vol. x. p, 2, (M. B.)
2 Philip, flfth Earl of Pembroke, and second Earl of Montgomery, ob.
1669. Clarendon says, " This young Earl's affections were entire for his
Majesty." 3 Williams, second Earl of Salisbury. After Cromwell had put down the
House of Peers, he was chosen a Member of the House of Commons, and
sat with them. Ob. 1668.

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to support him. That his Majesty had chosen the best place,
Scheveling, for his embarking, and that there is nothing in the
world of which he is more ambitious, than to have the honour
of attending his Majesty, which he hoped would be speedy.
That he had commanded the vessel to attend at Helversluce
till this gentleman returns, that so if his Majesty do not think
it fit to command the fleete himself, yet that he may be there
to receive his commands and bring them to his Lordship. He
ends his letter, that he is confounded with the thoughts of the
high expressions of love to him in the King's letter, and con
cludes, " Your most loyall, dutifuU, faithfull and obedient subject
and servant, E. M."

The rest of the aftemoon at ninepins. In the
evening came a packet from London, among the rest
a letter from my wife, which tells me that she has not
been weU, which did exceedingly trouble me, but my
Lord sending Mr. Cooke at night, I wrote to her and
sent a piece of gold enclosed to her, and wrote also
to Mrs. Bowyer, and enclosed a half piece to her for
a token. After supper at the table in the coach, my
Lord talking conceming the uncertainty of the places
of the Exchequer to them that had them now ; he did
at last think of an office which do belong to him in
case the King do restore every man to his ]51aces that
ever had been patent, which is to be one of the clerks
of the signet, which will be a fine employment for
one of his sons.
In the afternoon came a minister on board, one Mr.
Sharpe, who is going to the King ; who tells me that
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mons to go to the King ; and that Dj. Clarges ¦ is
going to him from the Army, and that he wiU be here
to-morrow. My letters at night tell -me, that the
House did deliver their letter to Sir John Greenville,
in answer to the King's sending, and that they~-give
him 500/ for his pains, to buy him a jewel, and that
besides the 50,000/ ordered to be borrowed of the
City for the present use of the King, the twelve
companies of the City do give every one of them to
his Majesty, as a present, 1000/
5 th. All the moming very busy writing letters to
London, and a packet to Mr. Downing, to acquaint
him with what had been done lately in the fleet. And
this I did by my Lord's command, who, I thank him,
did of himself think of doing it, to do me a kindness,
for he writ a letter hittiself to him, thanking him for
his kindness to me. All the aftemoon at ninepins, at
night after supper good musique, my Lord, Mr. North, /
I and W. Howe. After that to bed. This evening/
came Dr. Clarges to Deale, going to the King ; where
the townes-people strewed the streets with herbes
against his coming, for joy of his going. Never was
there so general a content as there is now. I cannot
but remember that our parson did, in his prayer to
night, pray for the long life and happiness of our King
and dread Soveraigne, that may last as long as the sun
and moon endureth.
^ Thomas Clarges, physician to the Army, created a Baronet, 1674, ob.
1695, He had been previously knighted; his sister Anne married General
Monk.

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6th (Lord's day). This moming whUe we were at
sermon comes in Dr. Clarges and a dozen gentiemen
to see my Lord, who, after sermon, dined with him ;
I remember that last night upon discourse conceming
Clarges my Lord told me that he was a man of small
entendimiento. It feU very weU to-day, a stranger
preached here for Mr. Ibbot, one Mr. Stanley, who
prayed for King Charles, by the Grace of God, &c.,
which gave great contentment to the gentlemen that
were on board here, and they said they would talk of
it, when they come to Breda, as not having it done
yet in London so pubhckly. After they were gone
from on board, my Lord writ a letter to the King and
give it me to carry privately to Sir WiUiam Compton '
on board the Assistance, which I did, and after a
health to his Majesty on board there, I left them under
saU for Breda. Back again and found them at ser
mon. I went up to my cabin and looked over my
accounts, and find that, aU my debts paid and my
preparations to sea paid for, I have 40/. clear in
my purse. After supper to bed.
7 th. My Lord went this moming about the flag
ships in a boat, to see what alterations there must be,
as to the armes and flags. He did give me order

' Sir William Compton, third son of Spencer, Earl of Northampton, a
Privy Counsellor and Master of the Ordnance, ob. 1663, aged 39. When
only eighteen years of age he had charged with his gallant father at the battle
of Edgehill. His mother was first cousin to George Villiers, Duke of Buck
ingham, and to John Ashburnham ; and his great uncle. Sir Thomas Comp
ton, had been the third husband of the Duke's mother, Mary, Countess of
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also to write for sUk flags and scarlett waistcloathes.'
For a rich barge ; for a noise of tmmpets,^ and a set
of fidlers. Very great deal of company come to-day,
among others Mr. Bellasses,^ Sir Thomas Lenthropp,''
Sir Henry Chichley, Colonel PhUip Honiwood,5 and
Captain Titus,* the last of whom my Lord showed
all our cabins, and I suppose he is to take notice
what room there wiU be for the King's entertainment.
Here were also all the Jurates of the towne of Dover
come to give my Lord a visit, and after dinner aU
went away. I could not but observe that the Vice-
Admiral after dinner came into the great cabin below,
where the Jurates and I and the commanders for want
of room dined, and there told us we must drink a
health to the King, and himself called for a bottle of
wine, and begun his and the Duke of York's. In
the aftemoon I lost 5^. at nine-pins. After supper
musique, and to bed. Having also among us at the
Coach table wrote a letter to the French ambassador,
in French, about the release of a ship we had taken.
After I was in bed Mr. Shepley and W. Howe came

* Clothes hung about the cage-work of a ship's hull to protect the men in
action. 2 Noise of trumpets, a concert or company. " I hear him coming and a
whole noise of fidlers at his heels." — Drvden, Wild Gallant. (M. B.)
3 Henry, eldest son of Lord Bellasis, made K. B. at Charies the Second's
Coronation. * Sir Thomas Leventhorpe, Bart., married Mary, daughter of Sir Capell
Bedell, Bart.: ob. 1671.
5 Sec note to 13th January, 1661-62.
' Colonel Silas Titus, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles II, ,
author of " Killing no Murder."

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and sat in my cabin, where I gave them three bottles
of Margate ale, and sat laughing and very merry, tiU
almost one o'clock in the moming, and so good night.
Sth. AU the moming busy. After dinner come
several persons of honour, as my Lord St. John and
others, for convoy to Flushing, and great giving of
them salutes. My Lord and we at nine-pins : I lost
9.5. While we were at play Mr. Cooke brings me word
of my wife. He went to Huntsmore ' to see her, and
brought her and my father to London, where he left
her at my father's, very well, and speaks very weU of
her love to me. My letters to-day teU me how it was
intended that the King should be proclaimed to-day
in London, with a great deal of pomp. I had also
news who tiiey are that are chosen of the Lords and
Commons to attend the King. And also the whole
story of what we did the other day in the fleet, at
reading of the Bang's declaration, and my name at
the bottom of it.
9th. Up very early, writing a letter to the King, as
from the two Generals of the fleet, in answer to his
letter to them, wherein my Lord do give most humble
thanks for his gracious letter and declaration; and
promises all duty and obedience to him. This letter
was carried this morning to Sir Peter Kilhgrew,^ who
came hither this moming early to bring an order from
the Lords' House to my Lord, giving him power to
^ A hamlet belonging to Iver, in which parish Robert Bowyer founded a
free school, about 1750. — Lysons's History of Buckinghamshire, p. 587.
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write an answer to the King. This morning my Lord
St. John and other persons of honour were here to
see my Lord, and so away to Flushing. As we were
sitting down to dinner, in comes Noble with a letter
from the House of Lords to my Lord, to desire him
to provide ships to transport the Commissioners to the
King, which are expected here this week. He brought
us certain news that the King was proclaimed yester
day with great pomp, and brought down one of the
Proclamations, with great joy to us all ; for which God
be praised. This moming came Mr. Saunderson,' that
writ the story of the King, hither, who is going over
to the King.
IOth. This moming came on board Mr. Pinkney
and his son, going to the King with a petition finely
writ by Mr. Whore, for to be the King's embroiderer ;
for whom and Mr. Saunderson I got a ship. This
moming came my Lord Winchelsea and a great deal
of company, and dined here. In the afternoon while
my Lord and we were at musique in the great cabin
below, comes in a messenger to tell us that Mr. Ed
ward Montagu,^ my Lord's son, was come to Deale,
who afterwards came on board with Mr. Pickering
with him. The chUd was sick in the evening. At
night, while my Lord was at supper, in comes my
Lord Lauderdale ' and Sir John Greenville, who supped
¦ Afterwards Sir William Sanderson, gentleman of the chamber, author
of the "History of Mary Queen of Scots, James I., and Charies I," His
wife. Dame Bridget, was mother of the maids.
2 Lord Sandwich's eldest son, called by Pepys " The child." (M. B.)
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here, and so went away. After they were gone, my
Lord caUed me into his cabin, and told me how he
was commanded to set saU presently for the King,' and
was very glad thereof. I got him afterwards to sign
things in bed.
nth. Up very early in the moming, and so about
a great deal of business in order to our going hence
to-day. Burr going on shore last night made me
ivery angry. This moming we began to pull down
( all the State's arms in the fleet, having first sent to
Dover for painters and others to come to set up the
King's. I had this moming my first opportunity of
discoursing with Dr. Clerke, who I found to be a very
pretty man and very knowing. He is now going in
this ship to the King. There dined here my Lord
Craffbrd ^ and my Lord Cavendish,' and other Scotch
men whom I afterwards ordered to be received on
board the Plymouth, and to go along with us. After
dinner we set sail from the Downes, I leaving my boy
to go to Deale for my hnen. In the aftemoon over
took us three or four gentlemen ; two of the Berties,*
Guilford (in England), and K. G. He became sole Secretary of State for
Scotland in 1661, and was a Gentleman of his Majesty's Bedchamber, and
died in 1682, s. p.
' Ordered that General Montagu do observe the command of His Majesty
for the disposing of the fleet, in order to His Majesty's retuming home to
England to his kingly government: and that all proceedings in law be in
His Majesty's name. — Rugge's Diumal.
' John, fourteenth Earl of Crauford, restored in 1661 to the office of High
Treasurer of Scotland, which he had held eight years under Charles the
First. 3 Afterwards fourth Earl and first Duke of Devonshire.
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and one Mr. Dormerhoy/ a Scotch gentleman, whom
I afterwards found to be a very fine man, who, telling
my Lord that they heard the Commissioners were
come out of London to-day, my Lord dropt anchor
over against Dover Castle (which give us about thirty
guns in passing), and upon a high debate with the
Vice and Rear-Admiral whether it were safe to go
and not stay for the Commissioners, he did resolve to
send Sir R. Stayner to Dover, to enquire of my Lord
Winchelsea,2 whether or no they are come out of Lon
don, and then to resolve to-morrow morning of going
or not. Which was done. It blew very hard all this
night that I was afeard of my boy. About 1 1 at night
came the boats from Deale, with great store of pro-

Earl of Lindsay, killed at Edgehill. Their mother was Elizabeth, only child
of Edward, first Lord Montagu of Boughton: they were, therefore, nearly
connected with Sir E. Montagu, and with Pepys, in some degree.
^ This may be rather Thomas Dalmahoy, who had married the Duchess
Dowager of Hamilton: see {infra) Speaker Onslow's note to Burnet. The
husband of the loyal Duchess would be naturally one of the first to welcome
the King; and Onslow says he was in the interest of the Duke of York: —
*' Lord Middleton retired, after his disgrace, to the Friary, near Guildford, to
one Dalmahoy there, a genteel, generous man, who was of Scotland: had
been Gentleman of the Horse to William Duke of Hamilton (killed at the
battle of Worcester) ; married that Duke's widow; and by her had this
house, &c. This man, Dalmahoy, being"much in the interest of the Duke of
York, and a man to be relied upon, and long a candidate for the town of Guild
ford, at the election of the Parliament after the Long one, in 1678, and being
opposed, I think, by the famous Algernon Sidney, the Duke of York came
from Windsor to Dalmahoy's house, to countenance his election, and appeared
for him in the open court, when the election was taken." — Note to Burnet's
O. T., vol. i. p. 350.
2 Heneage, second Earl of Winchelsea, constituted by General Monk Gov
ernor of Dover Castle, July, 1660; made Lord Lieutenant of Kent, and after
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visions, by the same token John Goods told me that
above 20 of the fowls are smothered, but my boy was
put on board the Northwich.
1 2th. This moming I inquired for my boy, whether
he was come weU or no, and it was told me that he
was weU in bed. My Lord caUed me to his chamber,
he being in bed, and gave me many orders to make
for direction for the ships that are left in the Downes,
giving them the greatest charge in the world to bring
no passengers with them, when they come after us to
Scheveling Bay, excepting Mr. Edward Montagu, Mr.
Thomas Crew, and Sir H. Wright. Sir R. Stayner told
my Lord, that my Lord Winchelsea understands by
letters, that the Commissioners are only to come to
Dover to attend the coming over of the King. So my
Lord did give order for weighing anchor, which we
did, and sailed all day. In our way in the moming,
coming in the midway between Dover and Calais, we
could see both places very easily, and very pleasant it
was to me that the further we went the more we lost
sight of both lands. In the afternoon at cards with
Mr. North and the Doctor.' There by us, in the Lark
frigate. Sir R. Freeman and some others, going from
the King to England, come to see my Loi^d and so
onward on their voyage.
13th (Lord's day). Trimmed in the morning, after
that to the cook's room with Mr. Shepley, the first
time that I was there this voyage. Then to the
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quarter-deck, upon which the taylors and painters
were at work, cutting out some pieces of yellow cloth
into the fashion of a crown and C. R. and put it
upon a fine sheet, and that into the flag instead of
the State's arms, which after dinner was finished and
set up after it had been shewn to my Lord, who liked
it so weU as to bid me give the taOors 20j-. among
them for doing of it. This morn Sir J. Boys and
Capt. Isham met us in the Nonsuch, the first of whom,
after a word or two with my Lord, went forward, the
other staid. I heard by them how Mr. Downing had
never made any address to the King, and for that was
hated exceedingly by the Court, and that he was in a
Dutch ship which sailed by us, then going to England
with disgrace. Also how Mr. Moriand ' was knighted
by the King this week, and that the King did give the
reason of it openly, that it was for his giving him intel
ligence all the time he was clerk to Secretary Thurloe.
In the afternoon a council of war, only to acquaint
them that the Harp must be taken out of all their
fiags, it being very offensive to the King.^ Mr. Cooke
* Samuel Moriand, successively scholar and fellow of Magdalene College,
and Mr. Pepys's tutor there, became afterwards one of Thurloe's under.
secretaries, and was employed in several embassies by Cromwell, whose inter
ests be betrayed, by secretly communicating with Charles the Second. In
consideration of these services he was created a baronet of Sulhamstead Ban
ister, Berks, aftpr the Restoration. He was an ingenious mechanic, supposed
by some persons to have invented the steam engine, and lived to an advanced
age. He was buried at Hammersmith, 6th January, 1695-96, His MSS. are
at Cambridge, in the Public Library; and his brief but interesting Autobiog
raphy has been printed by Mr, Halliwell,
^ No doubt, because Charles II, objected to the arms used during the
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brought me a letter from my wife and a Latin letter
from my brother John, with both of which I was
exceedingly pleased. No sermon aU day, we being
under saU, only at night prayers, wherein Mr. Ibbott
prayed for all that were related to us in a spiritual
and fleshly way. Late at night we writ letters to the
King of the news of our coming, and Mr. Edward
Pickering ' carried them. Capt. Isham went on shore,
nobody showing of him any respect ; so the old man
very fairly took leave of my Lord, and my Lord very
coldly bid him " God be with you," which was very
strange, but that I hear that he keeps a great deal of
prating and talking on shore, on board, at the King's
Courts, what command he had with my Lord, &c.
14th. In the morning when I woke and rose, I saw
myself out of the scuttle close by the shore, which
afterwards I was told to be the Dutch shore; the
Hague was clearly to be seen by us. My Lord went
up in his nightgown into the cuddy, to see how to
dispose thereof for himself and us that belong to him,
to give order for our removal to-day. Some hasty
Dutchmen came on board to proffer their boats to
carry things from us on shore, &c. to get money by
us. Before noon some gentlemen came on board
from the shore to kiss my Lord's hands. And by and
by Mr. North and Dr. Clerke went to kiss the Queen
of Bohemia's hands, from my Lord, with twelve attend
ants from on board to wait on them, among which I
' Sir Gilbert Pickering's eldest son.

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sent my boy,' who, like myself, is with child to see any
strange thing. After noon they came back again after
having kissed the Queen of Bohemia's ^ hand, and
were sent again by my Lord to do the same to the
Prince of Orange.3 So I got the Captain to ask leave
for me to go, which my Lord did give, and I taking
my boy and Judge Advocate with me, went in com
pany with them. The weather bad; we were sadly
washed when we came near the shore, it being very
hard to land there. The shore is, as aU the country
between that and the Hague, aU sand. The rest of
the company got a coach by themselves ; Mr. Creed
and I went in the fore part of a coach wherein were
two very pretty ladies, very fashionable and with black
patches, who very merrily sang all the way and that
very weU, and were very free to kiss the two blades
that were with them. I took out my flageolette and
piped, but in piping I dropped my rapier-stick, but
when I came to the Hague, I sent my boy back again
for it and he found it, for which I did give him dd.,
but some horses had gone over it and broke the scab
bard. The Hague is a most neat place in all respects.
The houses so neat in aU places and things as is pos
sible. Here we walked up and down a great whUe,
the towne being now very fuU of Englishmen, for that
the Londoners were come on shore to-day. But going

' Young Edward Montagu, afterwards styled " the child."
2 Elizabeth, daughter of James the First: widow of Frederic Elector Pala
tine, and titular King of Bohemia.
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to see the Prince,' he was gone forth with his gov
emor, and so we walked up and down the towne and
court to see the place ; and by the help of a stranger,
an Enghshman, we saw a great many places, and were
made to understand many things, as the intention of
may-poles, which we saw there standing at every great
man's door, of different greatness according to the
quality of the person. About 10 at night the Prince
comes home, and we found an easy admission. His
attendance very inconsiderable as for a prince ; but
yet handsome, and his tutor a fine man, and himself a
very pretty boy. This done we went to a place we had
taken to sup in, where a sallet and two or three bones
of mutton were provided for a matter of ten of us
which was very strange. After supper the Judge and
I to another house, leaving them there, and he and I
lay in one press bed, there being two more in the
same room, but all very neat and handsome, my boy
sleeping upon a bench by me.
ISth. We lay tiU past three o'clock, then up and
down the towne, to see it by daylight, where we saw
the soldiers of the Prince's guard, all very fine, and
the burghers of the towne with their arms and muskets
as bright as silver. And meeting this moming a
schoolmaster that spoke good Enghsh and French, he
went along with us and shewed us the whole towne,
and indeed I cannot speak enough of the gallantry of
the towne. Every body of fashion speaks French or
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Latin, or both. The women many of them very pretty
and in good habits, fashionable and black spots. He
went with me to buy a couple of baskets, one of them
for Mrs. Pierce, the other for my wife. After he was
gone, we having first drank with him at our lodging,
the Judge and I to the Grande Salle where we were
shewed the place where the States General sit in
councU. The haU is a great place, where the flags
that they take from their enemies are all hung up ; and
things to be sold, as in Westminster, and not much
unlike it, but that not so big, but much neater. After
that to a bookseller's and bought for the love of the
binding three books : the French Psalms in four parts.
Bacon's Organon, and Famab. Rhetor. After that
the Judge, I and my boy by coach to Scheveling again,
where we went into a house of entertainment and
drank there, the wind being very high, and we saw two
boats overset and the gallants forced to be pulled on
shore by the heels, whUe their tmnks, portmanteaus,
hats, and feathers, were swimming in the sea. Among
others I saw the ministers that come along with the
Commissioners (Mr. Case ' among the rest) sadly
dipped. So they came in where we were, and I being
in haste left my Copenhagen knife, and so lost it.
Having staid here a great whUe a gentleman that was
going to kiss my Lord's hand, from the Queen of Bo
hemia, and I hired a Dutch boat for four rixdoUars to
carry us on board. We were fain to wait a great while
* See 1st November, 1660. A member of the Assembly of Divines,
(M, B,)

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before we could get off from the shore, the sea being
very rough. The Dutchman would fain have made all
pay that came into our boat besides us two- and our
company, there being many of our ship's company
got in who were on shore, but some of them had no
money, having spent aU on shore. Coming on board
we found all the Commissioners of the House of Lords
at dinner with my Lord, who after dinner went away
for shore. Mr. Moriand, now Sir Samuel, was here on
board, but I do not find that my Lord or any body
did give him any respect, he being looked upon by
him and all men as a knave. Among others he be
trayed Sir Rich. Willis that married Dr. F. Jones's
daughter, that he had paid him 1000/. at one time by
the Protector's and Secretary Thurloe's order, for in
teUigence that he sent concerning the King.' In the
afternoon my Lord called me on purpose to show me
his fine cloathes which are now come hither, and
indeed are very rich as gold and silver can make them,
only his sword he and I do not like. In the afternoon
my Lord and I walked together in the coach two hours,
talking together upon all sorts of discourse : as reli
gion, wherein he is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, saying,
that indeed the Protestants as to the Church of Rome
are wholly fanatiques : he likes uniformity and form of
prayer : about State-business, among other things he
told me that his conversion to the King's cause (for I
was saying that I wondered from what time the King
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could look upon him to become his friend), com
menced from his being in the Sound, when he found
what usage he was likely to have from a Common
wealth. My Lord, the Captain,^ and I supped in my
Lord's chamber, where I did perceive that he did
begin to show me much more respect than ever he
did yet. After supper, my Lord sent for me, intending
to have me play at cards with him, but I not knowing
cribbage, we fell into discourse of many things, tiU it
was so rough sea and the ship rolled so much that
I was not able to stand, and so he bid me go to
bed. 1 6th. Soon as I was up I went down to be trimmed
below in the great cabin, but then come in some with
visits, among the rest one from Admiral Opdam,'
who spoke Latin well, but not French nor English,
to whom my Lord made me to give his answer and to
entertain ; he brought my Lord a tierce of wine and
a barrel of butter, as a present from the Admiral.
Commissioner Pett ^ was come to take care to get all

I The Admiral celebrated in Lord Dorset's ballad, " To all you ladies now
at land." " Should foggy Opdam chance to know
Our sad and dismal story ;
The Dutch would scorn so weak a foe.
And quit their fort at Goree :
For what resistance can they find
From men who've left their hearts behind? "
2 Peter Pett, then one of the Commissioners of the Navy, and afterwards
knighted by the Duke of Ormond, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland His
ancestors had been erainent ship-builders at Deptford for several generations,
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things ready for the King on board. My Lord in his
best suit, this the first day, in expectation to wait upon
the King. But Mr. Edw. Pickering coming from the
King brought word that the King would not put my
Lord to the trouble of coming to him ; but that he
would come to the shore to look upon the fleet to
day, which we expected, and had our guns ready to
fire, and our scarlet waist-cloathes out and silk pend
ants, but he did not come. This evening came Mr.
John Pickering ^ on board, like an asse, with his feath-

time, there were three others of the same name and family in the civil service
of the navy. SALARIES. £ s. d.
Phineas Pett, Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham . . 120 o o
Phineas Pett, Jun., Assistant to the Master Shipwright /
at Chatham  .... 70 o o
Christopher Pett, Master Shipwright at Woolwich . 103 8 4
So Fuller might well observe that the mystery of shipwrights for some de
scents hath been preserved successively in famiUes, '*of which the Pettes of
Chatham are of singular regard." — Worthies of England. There is an
interesting autobiographical memoir of Phineas Pett, master shipwright to
James L, in the " Archaeologia," vol. xii.
" Beyond the Victualling Ofifice, on the same side of the High Street, at
Rochester, is an old mansion, now occupied by a Mr. Morson, an attorney,
which formerly belonged to the Petts, the celebrated ship-builders. The
chimney-piece in the principal room is of wood, curiously carved, the upper
part being divided into compartments by caryatides. The central compart
ment contains the family arms, viz.. Or, on a fesse ^«., between three pellets,
a lion passant gardant of the field. On the back of the grate is a cast of
Neptune, standing erect in his car, with Tritons blowing conches, &c., and
the date 1650." — Hist, of Rochester, p. 337, ed. 1817.
^ Eldest son of Sir Gilbert Pickering, whom he succeeded in his titles and
estates in i668. His father had been an active Commonwealth man, and was
one of the knights of the shire for the county of Northampton, in 1656; he
was also of Cromwell's council, chamberlain of the court, and high steward
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ers and new suit that he had made at the Hague.
My Lord very angry for his staying on shore, bid
ding me a little before to send to him, telling me
that he was afraid that for his father's sake he might
have some mischief done him, unless he used the
General's name. To supper, and after supper to
cards. I stood by and looked on tUl 1 1 at night and
so to bed. This afternoon Mr. Edwd. Pickering told
me in what a sad, poor condition for clothes and
money the King was,' and aU his attendants, when he
came to hint first from my Lord, their clothes not
being worth forty shiUings the best of them. And
how overjoyed the King was when Sir J. Greenville
brought him some money; so joyful, that he caUed
the Princess Royal ^ and Duke of York to look upon
it as it lay in the portmanteau before it was taken
out.3 My Lord told me, too, that the Duke of York
is made High Admiral of England.
17th. Dr. Clerke came to me to teU me that he
heard this morning, by some Dutch that are come on
to be excepted as to the penalties to be inflicted not reaching to life, by an
act provided for that purpose. — Commotis* Journals; see 19th June, 1660.
^ Andrew Marvell, speaking of the poor condition, for clothes and money,
in which the King was at this time, observes —
" At length, by wonderful impulse of fate.
The people call him back to help the State ;
And what is more, they send him money, too,
And clothe him all from head to foot anew."
2 Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I, , and widow of the Prince of Orange,
who died 1646-7. She was carried off by the small-pox, Deceraber, 1660,
leaving a son, afterwards King William III,
3 A picture, in which this scene is well treated, by Mr, W, Carpenter,
was lately exhibited at the Royal Academy,

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board already to see the ship, that there was a Portu
guese taken yesterday at the Hague, that had a design
to kill the King. But this I heard afterwards was only
the mistake upon one being observed to walk with his
sword naked, he having lost his scabbard. Before
dinner Mr. Edw. Pickering and I, W. Howe, Pim, and
my boy,' to Scheveling, where we took coach, and so
to the Hague, where walking, intending to find one
that might show us the King incognito, I met with
Captain Whittington > (that had formerly brought a
letter to my Lord from the Mayor of London) and
he did promise me to do it, but first we went and
dined at a French house, but paid ids. for our part
of the club. At dinner in came Dr. Cade, a merry
mad parson of the King's. And they two after dinner
got the chUd and me (the others not being able to
crowd in) to see the King, who kissed the child very
affectionately. Then we kissed his, and the Duke of
York's, and the Princess Royal's hands. The King
seems to be a very sober man ; and a very splendid
Court he hath in the number of persons of quality
that are about him ; Enghsh very rich in habit. From
the King to the Lord ChanceUor, who did he bed-rid
of the gout : he spoke very merrily to the chUd and
me. After that, going to see the Queene of Bohemia,
I met with Dr. Fuller, whom I sent to a tavern with
Mr. Edw. Pickering, while I and the rest went to see
the Queene, who used us very res|)ectfully ; her hand
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we aU kissed. She seems a very debonaire, but a plain
lady. In a coach we went to see a house of the Prin
cess Dowager's ' in a park about half-a-mUe or a mUe
from the Hague, where there is one, the most beauti
ful room for pictures in the whole world. She had
here one picture upon the top, with these words, dedi
cating it to the memory of her husband ; — " Incom-
parabili marito, inconsolabihs vidua." ^ Here I met
with Mr. Woodcock of Cambridge, Mr. Hardy and
another, and Mr. Woodcock beginning we had two or
three fine songs, he and I, and W. Howe to the Echo,
which was very pleasant, and the more because in a
heaven of pleasure and in a strange country, that I
never was taken up more with a sense of pleasure in
my life. After that we parted and back to the Hague
and took a tour or two about the Forehault, where the
ladies in the evening do as our ladies do in Hide Park.
But for my life I could not find one handsome, but
their coaches very rich and themselves so too. From
thence, taking leave of the Doctor, we took wagon to
Scheveling, where we had a fray with the Boatswain
of the Richmond, who would not freely carry us on
board, but at last he was wiUing to it, but then it was
so late we durst not go. So we returned between 10
and 1 1 at night in the dark with a wagon with one
horse to the Hague, where being come we went to bed
as well as we could be accommodated, and so to sleep.
1 Mary, daughter of Charles I.
^ And yet, like the Ephesian matron, she was said to be married clan
destinely.

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1 8th. Very early up, and, hearing that the Duke of
York, our Lord High Admiral, would go on board
to-day, Mr. Pickering and I took waggon for Scheve
ling, leaving the child in Mr. Pierce's hands, vnth direc
tions to keep him within doors all day till he heard
from me. But the wind being very high that no boats
could get off from shore, we retumed to the Hague
(having breakfasted with a gentleman of the Duke's,
and Commissioner Pett, sent on purpose to give notice
to my Lord of his coming), where I hear that the
chUd is gone to Delfe to see the town. So we aU
and Mr. Ibbott, the Minister, took a schuit ' and very
much pleased with the manner and conversation of
the passengers, where most speak French ; went after
them, but met them by the way. But however we went
forward making no stop. Where when we were come
we got a smith's boy of the town to go along with us,
but could speak nothing but Dutch, and he showed
us the church where Van Trump lies entombed with a
very fine monument. His epitaph concluded thus : —
" Tandem BeUo Anglico tantum non victor, certe in
victus, vivere et vincere desiit." There is a sea-fight
cut in marble, with the smoake, the best expressed
that ever I saw in my life. From thence to the great
church, that stands in a fine great market-place, over
against the Stadt-house, and there I saw a stately

* Schuit. In Ludwig's Gerraan-Eng, Dictionary " Treckschiite " is ex
plained, " a draw-skute, drag-skute, or drag-barge, such as are very common
in Holland," now called " Treckschuit " (drag-boat), the towing horse being
ridden by a lad. CM. B.)

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tombe of the old Prince of Orange, of marble and
brass; wherein among other rarities there are the
angels with their trumpets expressed as it were crying.
Here were very fine organs in both the churches. It
is a most sweet town, with bridges, and a river in every
street. Observing that in every house of entertain
ment there hangs in every room a poor-man's box,
and desiring to know the reason thereof, it was told
me that it is their custom to confirm aU bargains by
putting something into the poor people's box, and
that that binds as fast as anything. We also saw the
Guesthouse, where it was very pleasant to see what
neat preparation there is for the poor. We saw one
poor man a-dying there. After we had seen all, we
light by chance of an English house to drink in, where
we were very merry, and discoursing of the towne and
the thing that hangs up in the Stadthouse like a bushel,
which I was told is a sort of punishment for some sort
of offenders to carry through the streets over his head,
which is a great weight. Back by water, where a
pretty sober Dutch lass sat reading all the way, and I
could not fasten any discourse upon her. At our land
ing we met with Commissioner Pett going down to the
water-side with Major Harly,' who is going upon a dis
patch into England. They having a coach I left the
Parson and my boy and went along with Commissioner

* Afterwards Colonel Edward Harley, M.P. for Hereford, and Govemor
of Dunkirk: ancestor of the Earls of Oxford of that race, recently becorae
extinct in the male Une. He was afterwards made a Knight of the Bath at
the Coronation of Charles II.

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Pett, Mr. Ackworth and Mr. Dawes his friends, to the
Princess Dowager's house again. Thither also my
Lord Faurfax and some other English Lords did come
to see it, and my pleasure was mcreased by seeing of
it again. Besides we went into the garden, wherein
are gallant nuts better than ever I saw, and a fine
Echo under the house in a vault made on purpose
with pillars, where I played on my flageolette to great
advantage. Back to the Hague, where not finding
Mr. Edward, I was much troubled, but went with the
Parson to supper to Commissioner Pett, where we sat
late. And among other mirth Mr. Ackworth vyed
wives, each endeavouring to set his own wife out to the
best advantage, he having as they said an extraordinary
handsome wife. But Mr. Dawes could not be got to
say anything of his. After that to our lodging where
W. Howe and I exceeding troubled not to know what
is become of our young gentleman. So to bed.
19th. Up early, hearing nothing of the child, and
went to Scheveling, where I found no getting on
board, though the Duke of York sent every day to
see whether he could do it or no. Here I met with
Mr. Pinkney and his sons, and with them went back
to the Hague, in our way lighting and going to see
a woman that makes pretty rock-work in shells, &c.,
which could I have carried safe I would have bought
some of. At the Hague we went to buy some pic
tures, where I saw a sort of painting done upon
wooUen cloth, drawn as if there was a curtain over
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piece of painting I saw, on which there was a great
wager laid by young Pinkney and me whether it was a
principal or a copy. But not knowing how to decide,
it was broken off, and I got the old man to lay out as
much as my piece of gold come to, and so saved my
money, which had been 2i,s. lost, I fear. While we
were here buying of pictures, we saw Mr. Edward and
his company land. Who told me that they had been
at Leyden all night, at which I was very angry with
Mr. Pierce, and shall not be friends I beheve a good
while. To our lodging to dinner. After that out to
buy some hnen to wear against to-morrow, and so
to the barber's. After that by waggon to Lausdune
where the 365 chUdren were born. We saw the hiU
where they say the house stood and sunk wherein the
chUdren were born. The basins wherein the male and
female children were baptized do stand over a large
table that hangs upon a wall, with the whole story of
the thing in Dutch and Latin, beginning, " Margarita
Herman Comitissa," &c. The thing was done about
200 years ago.'
The towne is a little small village which answers
much to one of our small viUages, such a one as Ches
terton in all respects, and one could have thought it
in England but for the language of the people. We
went into a, little drinking house where there were a
great many Dutch boors eating of fish in a boorish
manner, but very merry in their way. But the houses
^ This story has been frequently printed.

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here as neat as in the great places. From thence to
the Hague again playing at crambo ' in the waggon,
Mr. Edward, Mr. Ibbott, W. Howe, Mr. Pinkney, and I.
When we were come thither the others went away
for Scheveling, whUe I and the chUd to walk up and
down the town, where I met my old chamber-fellow,
Mr. Ch. Anderson, and a friend of his, both Physi
cians, Mr. Wright, who took me to a Dutch house,
where there was an exceeding pretty lass, where I
staid tiU 12 at night. Going to my lodging we met
with the beUman, who strack upon a clapper, which I
took in my hand, and it is just like the clapper that
our boys frighten the birds away from the com with
in summer time in England. So to bed.
20th. Up early, and with Mr. Pickering and the
child by waggon to Scheveling, where it not being yet
fit to go off, I went to lie down in a chamber in the
house, where in another bed there was a pretty Dutch
woman, but though I had a.month's-mind ^ I had not
^ Crambo. Explained in Ludwig's Eng.-German Dictionary : " ©in
fsetmfptel, ba berjenige, ber fo ein mort tnieber^olet, eineir^e^ler bege^et,"
a game at rhyme, where he who repeats a word commits a fault. Another
explanation of the game of Crambe or Crambo, is " a play at short verses.
in which a word is given, and the parties contend who can find most rhymes
to it." " Where every jovial tinker, for his chink.
May cry ' Mine host to crambe ! Give us drink,
A nd do not slink, but skink, or else you stinks
Ben Jonson, The New Inn, Act i, sc, i. (M, B.)
2 Month- s-mind. An earnest desire or longing, explained as alluding to
" a woman's longing." See Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, act i,
sc. 2 : * " I see you have a OTi3«M'j wi«</ to them,'' (M, B,)

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the boldness to go to her. So there I slept an hour
or two. At last she rose, and then I rose and walked
up and down the chamber, and saw her dress herself
after the Dutch dress, and talked to her as much as I
could, and took occasion, from her ring which she
wore on her first finger, to kiss her hand, but had not
the face to offer anything more. So at last I left her
there and went to my company. About 8 o'clock I
went into the church at Scheveling, which was pretty
handsome, and in the chancel a very great upper part
of the mouth of a whale, which indeed was of a pro
digious bigness, bigger than one of our long boats that
belong to one of our ships. Commissioner Pett at
last came to our lodging, and caused the boats to go
off; so some in one boat and sorne in another we all
bid adieu to the shore. But through the badness of
weather we were in great danger, and a great whUe
before we could get to the ship. This hath not been
known four days together such weather this time of
year, a great whUe. Indeed our fleet was thought to
be in great danger, but we found aU weU. I having
spoke a word or two with my Lord, being not very
weU settled, partly through last night's drinking and
want of sleep, I lay down in my gown upon my bed
and slept till the 4 o'clock gun the next moming
waked me, which I took for 8 at night, and rising mis
took the sun rising for the sun setting on Sunday night.
2 1 St. So into my naked bed' and slept till 9
* Naked bed. " A person undressed and in bed was formerly said to be
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o'clock, and then John Goods waked me, and by the
captain's boy brought me four barrels of Mallows oys
ters, which Captain Patnell had sent me from Murlace.
The weather foul all this day also. After dinner,
about writing one thing or other all day, and setting
my papers in order, having been so long absent. At
night Mr. Pierce, Purser (the other Pierce and I hav
ing not spoken to one another sinc^ w^ell out about
Mr. Edward), and Mr. Cooke sat with me in my cabin
and supped with me, and then I went to bed. By
letters that came hither in my absence, I understand
that the Parliament had ordered all persons to be
secured, in order to a trial, that did sit as judges in
the late King's death, and all the officers too attend
ing the Court. Sir John LenthaU^ moving in the
current. It may be observed that, down to a certain period, those who were
in bed were literally naked, no night-linen being wom.
* Who sees his true love in her naked bed.
Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white.'
Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis.
I meet with the expression so late as in the very odd novel by T. Amory,
called 'John Buncle,' where a young lady declares, after an alarm, ' that she
would never go into naked bed on board ship again.* Octavo edition, vol. i.
p. 90." — Nares, Glossary. (M. B.)
> Sir John Lenthall, who survived till 1681, was the only son of Speaker
Lenthall, and Cromwell's Govemor of Windsor Castle. He had been knighted
by the Protector in 1657; but is styled "Mr. Lenthall" in the "Commons'
Journals of the House," 12th May, 1660, where the proceedings alluded to
by Pepys are fully detailed. Mrs. Hutchinson also gives an account of them
in her " Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson," p. 367, 410. edit. On the 22nd of
May following, LenthaU lost his seat for Abingdon, the double retura for that
borough having been decided in favour of Sir John Stonehouse; probably the
then recent offence which Lenthall had given to the House of .Commons had
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House, that all that had borne arms against the King
should be exempted from pardon, he was called to the
bar of the House, and after a severe reproof he was
degraded his knighthood. At Court I find that all
things grow high. The old clergy talk as being sure
of their lands again, and laugh at the Presbytery ; and
it is believed that the sales of the King's and Bishops'
lands wiU never be confirmed by Parliament, there
being nothing now in any-man's power to hinder them
and the King from doing what they have a mind, but
every body wUling to submit to any thing. We expect
every day to have the King and Duke on board as
soon as it is fair. My Lord do nothing now, but offers
all things to the pleasure of the Duke as Lord High
Admiral. So that I am at a loss what to do.
2 2nd. Up very early, and now beginning to be set
tled in my wits again, I went about setting down my
last four days' observations this morning. After that,
was trimmed by a barber that has not trimmed me
yet, my Spaniard being on shore. News brought that
the two Dukes are coming on board, which, by and
by, they did, in a Dutch boat, the Duke of York in
yellow trimmings, the Duke of Gloucester in grey and
red. My Lord went in a boat to meet them, the Cap
tain, myself, and others, standing at the entering port.
So soon as they were entered we shot the guns off
round the fleet. After that they went to view the ship
all over, and were most exceedingly pleased with it.
the case. Sir John Lenthall, of whom Pepys speaks, Aug, ro, 1663, was the
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They seem to be both very fine gentlemen. After
that done, upon the quarter-deck table, under the
awning, the Duke of York and my Lord, Mr. Coven
try," and I, spent an hour at aUotting to every ship
their service, in their return to England ; which having
done, they went to dinner, where the table was very
fuU : the two Dukes at the upper end, my Lord Op
dam next on one side, and my Lord on the other.
Two guns given to every man while he was drinking
the King's health, and so likewise to the Duke's
health. I took down Monsieur d'Esquier to the great
cabin below, and dined with him in state alone with
only one or two friends of his. All dinner the harper
belonging to Captain Sparling played to the Dukes.
After dinner, the Dukes and my Lord to see the Vice
and Rear;-Admirals, and I in a boat after them. After
that done, they made to the shore in the Dutch boat
that brought them, and I got into the boat with them ;
but the shore was so full of people to expect their
coming, as that it was as black (which otherwise is
' Sir Williara Coventry, to whora Mr, Pepys became so warmly attached
afterwards, was the youngest son of Thomas first Lord Coventry, and Lord
Keeper, He entered at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1642 ; and on his return
from his travels was made Secretary to the Duke of York, and elected M, P,
for Yarmouth, In 1662 he was appointed a Commissioner of the Admiralty ;
in 1665 knighted and sworn a Privy Counsellor : and in 1667 constituted a
Commissioner of the Treasury, but having been forbid the Court, on account
of his challenging the Duke of Buckingham, he retired into the country, nor
could he subsequently be prevailed upon to accept of any ofUcial employment,
Burnet calls Sir W. C, the best speaker in the House of Commons, and a
man of great notions and eminent virtues ; and Mr. Pepys never omits an
opportunity of paying a tribute to his public and private worth. Ob. 1686,
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white sand), as every one could stand by another.
When we came hear the shore, my Lord left them and
came into his own boat, and General Pen and I with
him ; my Lord being very well pleased with this day's
work. By the time we came on board again, news is
sent us that the King is on shore ; so my Lord fired
all his guns round twice, and all the fleet after him,
which in the end fell into disorder," which seemed
very handsome. The gun over against my cabin I
fired myself to the King, which was the first time that
he had been saluted by his own ships since this
change ; but holding my head too much over the gun,
I had almost spoiled my right eye. Nothing in the
world but going of guns almost all this day. In
the evening we began to remove cabins ; I to the car
penter's cabin, and Dr. Clerke with me, whO'Came on
board this aftemoon, having been twice ducked in the
sea to-day coming from shore, and Mr. North and
John Pickering the hke. Many of the King's servants
came on board to-night ; and so many Dutch of all
sorts came to see the ship till it was quite dark, that
we could not pass by one another, which was a great
trouble to us aU. This afternoon Mr. Downing (who
was knighted yesterday by the King) was here on
board, and had a ship for his passage into England,
with his lady and servants. By the same token he
caUed me to him when I was going to write the order,
to tell me that I must write him Sir G. Downing. My
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Lord lay in the roundhouse to-night. This evening I
was late writing a French letter by my Lord's order
to Monsieur Kragh, Embassador de Denmarke a la
Haye, which my Lord signed in bed. After that I to
bed, and the Doctor and I sleep well.
23rd. The Doctor and I waked very merry, only
my eye was very red and iU in the morning from yes
terday's hurt. In the morning came infinity of people
on board from the King to go along with him. My
Lord, Mr. Crew, and others, go on shore to meet the
King as he comes off from shore, where Sir R. Stayner
bringing His Majesty into the boat, I hear that His
Majesty did with a great deal of affection kiss my
Lord upon his first meeting. The King, with the two
Dukes and Que'en of Bohemia, Princesse Royalle, and
Prince of Orange, came on board, where I in their
coming in kissed the King's, Queen's, and Princesse's
hands, having done the other before. Infinite shoot
ing off of the guns, and that in a disorder on purpose,
which was better than if it had been otherwise. All
day nothing but Lords and persons of honour on
board, that we were exceeding full. Dined in a great
deal of state, the Royalle company by themselves in
the coach, which was a blessed sight to see. I dined
with Dr. Clerke, Dr. Quarterman, and Mr. Davey in
my cabin. This morning Mr. Lucy came on board,
to whom and his company of the King's Guard in
another ship my Lord did give three dozen of bottles
of wine. He made friends between Mr. Pierce and
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of some of the ships, viz. the Nazeby into Charles ; "
the Richard, James ; the Speaker, Mary ; the Dunbar
(which was not in company with us), the Henry;
Winsly, Happy Return ; Wakefield, Richmond ; Lam
bert, the . Henrietta ; Cheriton, the SpeedweU ; Brad
ford, the Successe.^ That done, the Queen, Princesse
Royalle, and Prince of Orange, took leave of the King,
and the Duke of York went on board the London, and
the Duke of Gloucester, the Swiftsure. Which done,
we weighed anchor, and with a fresh gale and most
happy weather we set sail for England. All the after
noon the King walked here and there, up and down
(quite contrary to what I thought him to have been),
very active and stirring. Upon the quarter-deck he
fell into discourse of his escape from Worcester, where
it made me ready to weep to hear the stories that he
told of his difficulties that he had passed through, as
his travelling four days and three nights on foot, every
step up to his knees in dirt, with nothing but a green
coat and a pair of country breeches on, and a pair of
country shoes that made him so sore all over his feet,
that he could scarce stir. Yet he was forced to run
away from a miUer and other company, that took them
for rogues. His sitting at table at one place, where
the master of the house, that had not seen him in
eight years, did know him, but kept it private ; when

" " The Naseby now no longer England's shame.
But better to be lost in Charles his name."
Dryden, Astrcea Redux.
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at the same table there was one that had been of his
own regiment at Worcester, could not know him, but
made him drink the King's health, and said that the
King was at least four fingers higher than he. At
another place he was by some servants of the house
made to drink, that they might know him not to be
a Roundhead, which they swore he was. In another
place at his inn, the master of the house, as the King
was standing with his hands upon the back of a chair
by the fire-side, kneeled down and kissed his hand,
privately, saying, that he would not ask him who he
was, but bid God bless him whither he was going.
Then the difficulty of getting a boat to get into France,
where he was fain to plot with the master thereof to
keep his design from the foreman and a boy (which
was all his ship's company), and so got to Fecamp in
France. At Rouen he looked so poorly, that the
people went into the rooms before he went away to
see whether he had not stole something or other. In
the evening I went up to my Lord to write letters for
England, which we sent aw^y with word of our coming,
by Mr. Edw. Pickering. The King supped alone in
the coach ; after that I got a dish, and we four supped
in my cabin, as at noon. About bed-time my Lord
Bartlett' (who I had offered my service to before)
sent for me to get him a bed, who with much ado I
did get to bed to my Lord Middlesex ^ in the great
t A mistake for Lord Berkeley, who had been deputed with Lord Middle
sex and four other Peers by the House of Lords, to present an address of
congratulation to the King.
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cabin below, but I was cruelly troubled before I could
dispose of him, and quit myself of him. So to my
cabin again, where the company still was, and were
talking more of the King's difficulties ; as how he was
fain to eat a piece of bread and cheese out of a poor
boy's pocket ; how, at a Catholique house, he was fain
to lie in the priest's hole a good while in the house for
his privacy. After that our company broke up. We
have all the Lords Commissioners on board us, and
many others. Under sail all night, and most glorious
weather. 24th. Up, and made myself as fine as I could, with
the linning stockings on and wide canons ' that I bought
the other day at Hague. Extraordinary press of noble
company, and great mirth all the day. There dined with
me in my cabin (that is, the carpenter's) Dr. Earle ^ and
Mr. Holhs, the King's Chaplins, Dr. Scarborough,^ Dr.
Quarterman,"* and Dr. Clerke, Physicians, Mr. Darcy,5
" Canons, canions or cannions. Thus defined in Kersey s Dictionary:
" Cannions, boot hose tops: an old-fashioned ornament forthe legs." That
IS to say, a particular addition to breeches. Coles says, " Cannions, Perizo-
mata," Cotgrave, " Canons de chausses," Minshe-.u says, " On les appelle
ainsi pourceque, &c,, because they are like cannons of artillery, or cans, or
pots," — Nares, G/<3Jjary, (M.B.)
2 John Earle, Dean of Westminster, successively Bishop of Worcester and
Salisbury. Ob. 1665.
3 Charles Scarborough, M.D,, principal Physician to Charles II, (by whom
he was knighted in 1669), James II., and William III., a learned and incom
parable anatomist.
* William Quarterman, M.D, of Pembroke College, Oxford,
s Marmaduke, fifth son of Conyers, Lord Darcy, one of the companions
of Charles's exile, whom the King was wont to call 'Duke Darcy ; and he
is so styled in Charles's narrative of his escape, as given to Pepys, page 4.
On the pavement in the south aisle of St, George's Chapel, Windsor, is the

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and Mr. Fox" (both very fine gentlemen), the King's
servants, where we had brave discourse. Walking
upon the decks, where persons of honour all the after
noon, among others, Thomas KUhgrew^ (a merry
droll, but a gentleman of great esteem with the King),
who told us many merry stories : one, how he wrote a
letter three or four days ago to the Princess Royal,
about a Queen Dowager of Judaea and Palestine, that
was at the Hague incognita, that made love to the
King, &c., which was Mr. Cary (a courtier's) wife that
had been a nun, who are all married to Jesus. At
supper the three Drs. of Physique again at my cabin ;
where I put Dr. Scarborough in mind of what I heard
him say about the use of the eyes, which he owned,
that children do, in every day's experience, look sev
eral ways with both their eyes, till custom teaches them
otherwise. And that we do now see but with one eye,
our eyes looking in parallel lynes. After this discourse
I was called to write a pass for my Lord MandeviUe s
to take up horses to Lpjidon, which I wrote in the

following inscription : — " Here lyeth the body of the Honourable Marraaduke
Darcy, Esq,, brother to the Earl of Holdemess, first gentleraan usher of the
privy-chamber to His Majesty, who died in this castle on Sunday, the 3d of
July, in the seventy-third year of his age, a,d, 1687," — Pote's History of
IVindsor, p, 365, *
" Afterwards Sir Stephen Fox, Knight, Paymaster to the Forces.
2 Thomas Killigrew, younger son to Sir Robert Killigrew, of Hanworth,
Middlesex, Page of Honour to Charles I,, and Groom of the Bedchamber to
Charles II,, whose fortunes he had followed. He was Resident at Venice,
i65r; a great favourite with the King on account ofhis uncommon vein of
humour, and author of several plays, Ob, 1682.
3 Eldest son of the Earl of Manchester.

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King's name," and carried it to him to sign, which was
the first and only one that ever he signed in the ship
Charles. To bed, coming in sight of land a little be
fore night.
25 th. By the moming we were come close to the
land, and £very body made ready to get on shore.
The King and the two Dukes did eat their breakfast
before they went, and there being set some ship's diet
before them, only to show them the manner of the
ship's diet, they eat of nothing else but pease and
pork, and boUed beef. I had Mr. Darcy in my cabin
and Dr. Clerke, who eat with me, told me how the
King had given 50/. to Mr. Shepley for my Lord's
servants, and 500/. among the officers and common
men of the ship. I spoke with the Duke of York
about business, who caUed me Pepys by name, and
upon my desire did promise me his future favour.
Great expectation of the King's making some Knights,
but there was none. About noon (though the brig
antine that Beale made was there ready to carry him)
yet he would go in my Lord's barge with the two
Dukes. Our Captain steered, and my Lord went
along bare with him. I went, and Mr. ManseU, and
one of the King's footmen, with a dog that the King
loved, (which dirted the boat, which made us laugh,
and me think that a King and all that belong to him
are but just as others are), in a boat by ourselves, and
so got on shore when the King did, who was received
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by General Monk with aU imaginable love and respect
at his entrance upon the land of Dover. Infinite the
crowd of people and the horsemen, citizens, and
noblemen of aU sorts. The Mayor of the tovme came
and gave him his white staffe, the badge of his place,
which the King did give him again. The Mayor also
presented him from the towne a very rich Bible, which
he took and said it was the thing that he loved above
aU things in the world. A canopy was provided for
him to stand under, which he did, and talked awhUe
with General Monk and others, and so into a stately
coach there set for him, and so away through the
towne towards Canterbury, without making any stay
at Dover. The shouting and joy expressed by all
is past imagination. Seeing that my Lord did not
stir out of his barge, I got into a boat, and so into
his barge, and spoke a word or two to my Lord, and
so retumed back to the ship, and going did see a
man almost drowned that fell out of his boat into
the sea, but with much ado was got out. My Lord
almost transported with joy that he had done all this
without any the least blur or obstraction in the world,
that could give an offence to any, and with the great
honour he thought it would be to him. Being over
took by the brigantine, my Lord and we went out of
our barge into it, and so went on board with Sir W.
Batten,' and the Vice and Rear-Admirals. At night
" Clarendon describes William Batten as an obscure fellow, and, although
luiknown to the service, a good seaman, who was in 1642 made Surveyor to
the Navy, in which employ he evinced great animosity against the King. The

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I supped with the Captn., who told me what the
King had given us. My Lord returned late, and at
his coming did give me order to cause the marke to
be gilded, and a Crowne and C. R. to be made at
the head of the coach table, where the King to-day
with his own hand did marke his height, which ac
cordingly I caused the painter to do, and is now done
as is to be seen.
26th. Mr. North and Dr. Clerke and aU the great
company being gone, I found myself very uncouth
all this day for want thereof. My Lord dined with
the Vice-Admiral to-day (who is as oflScious, poor
man ! as any spaniel can be ; but I believe aU to no
purpose, for I believe he will not hold his place), so
I dined commander at the coach table to-day, and all
the ofiicers of the ship with me, and Mr. White of
Dover. After a game or two at nine-pins, to work
all the afternoon, making above twenty orders. In

following year, while Vice-Admiral to the Earl of Warwick, he chased a Dutch
man-of-war into Burlington Bay, knowing that Queen Henrietta Maria was
on board : and then, leaming that she had landed and was lodged on the
quay, he fired above a hundred shot upon the house, some of which passing
through her majesty's chamber, she was obliged, though indisposed, to retire
for safety into the open fields. This act, brutal as it was, found favour with
the parliament. But Batten became afterwards discontented, and, when a
portion of the fleet revolted, he carried the " Constant Warwick," one of the
best ships in the Parliament navy, over into Holland, with several searaen of
note. For this act of treachery he was knighted and made a Rear-Admiral
by Prince Charles. We hear no more of Batten till the Restoration, when
he became a Commissioner of the Navy, and was soon after M.P. for Roch
ester. See an account of his second wife in not? to Nov. 24, 1660, and of his
illness and death, sth October, 1667. He had a son, Benjamin, and a
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the evenuig my Lord having been a-shore, the first
time that he hath been a-shore smce he came out of
the Hope (having resolved not to go tiU he had
brought his Majesty into England), retumed on board
with a great deal of pleasure. The Captain told me
that my Lord had appointed me 30/. out of the 1000
ducats which the King had given to the ship, at which
my heart was very much joyed. To bed.
27th (Lord's day). CaUed up by John Goods to
see the Garter and Heralds coate, which lay in the
coach, brought by Sir Edward Walker, King at Armes,
this moming, for my Lord. My Lord had summoned
aU the Commanders on board him, to see the cere
mony, which was thus : Sir Edward putting on his
coate, and having laid the George and Garter, and
the King's letter to my Lord, upon a crimson cushion
(in the coach, aU the Commanders standing by),
makes three congees to him, holding the cushion in
his arms. Then laying it down with the things upon
it upon a chair, he takes the letter, and delivers it to
my Lord, which my Lord breaks open and gives him
to read. It was directed to our trasty and weU
beloved Sir Edward Montagu, Knight, one of our
Generals at sea, and our Companion elect of our
Noble Order of the Garter. The contents of the let
ter is to show that the Kings of England have for
many years made use of this honour, as a special
mark of favour, to persons of good extraction and
virtue (and that many Emperors, Kings and Princes
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whereas my Lord is of a noble family, and hath now
done the King such service by sea, at this time, as
he hath done ; he do send him this George and
Garter to wear as Knight of the Order, with a dis
pensation for the other ceremonies of the habit of
the Order, and other things, till hereafter, when it can
be done. So the herald putting the ribbon about
his neck, and the Garter on his left leg, he saluted
him with joy as Knight of the Garter, and that was
all. After that was done he took his leave of my
Lord, and so to shore again to the King at Canter
bury, where he yesterday gave the like honour to
General Monk," who are the only two for many years
that have had the Garter given them, before they had
other honours of Earldome, or the like, excepting only
the Duke of Buckingham, who was only Sir George
Villiers when he was made Knight of the Garter.^
A while after Mr. Thos. Crew and Mr. J. Pickering,
who had staid long enough to make all the world see
him to be a fool, took ship for London. So there
now remain no strangers with my Lord but Mr.
Hetley, who had been with us a day before the King
went from us. My Lord and the ship's company
down to sermon. I staid above to write and look
over my new song book, which came last night to me
from London in lieu of that that my Lord had of me.

" His Majesty put the George on his Excellency, and the two Dukes put
on the Garter, The Princes thus honoured the Lord-General for the restora
tion of that lawful family, — Rugge's Diurnal.
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The officers being aU on board, there was not room
for me at table, so I dined in my cabin, where, among
other things, Mr. Drum brought me a lobster and a
bottle of oil, instead of a botde of vinegar, whereby
I spoUed my dinner. Many orders in the ordering
of ships this afternoon. Late to a sermon. After
that up to the Lieutenant's cabin, where Mr. Shepley,
I, and the Minister supped, and after that I went down
to W. Howe's cabin, and there, with a great deal of
pleasure, singing till it was late. After that to bed.
28th. Called up at' two in the morning for letters
for my Lord from the Duke of York. This morning
the Captain did call over all the men in the ship (not
the boys), and give every one of them a ducat of the
King's money that he gave the ship, and the officers
according to their quality. I received in'the Captain's
cabin, for my share, sixty ducats. The rest of the
moming busy writing- letters. So was my Lord that
he would not come to dinner. A great part of the
afternoon at nine-pins with my Lord and Mr. Hetley.
I lost about 4^. Supped with my Lord, and after that
to bed.
29th. The King's birthday. Busy all the moming
writing letters to London, among the rest one to Mr.
Chetwind to give me an account of the fees due to
the Herald for the Order of the Garter, which my
Lord desires to know. After dinner got all ready and
sent away Mr. Cooke to London with a letter and token
to my wife. After that abroad to shore with my Lord
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great deal of work to do this month, which was very
true). On shore we took horses, my Lord and Mr.
Edward, Mr. Hetly and I, and three or four servants,
and had a great deal of pleasure in riding. Among
other things my Lord showed me a house that cost a
great deal of money, and is built in so barren and
inconvenient a place that my Lord caUs it the fool's
house. At last we came upon a very high cliffe by
the sea-side, and rode under it, we having laid great
wagers, I and Dr. Mathews, that it was not so high as
Paul's ; my Lord and Mr. Hetly, that it was. But we
riding under it, my Lord made a pretty good measure
of it with two sticks, and found it to be not above
thirty-five yards high, and Paul's is reckoned to be
about ninety. From thence toward the barge again,
and in our way found the people at Deale going to
make a bonfire for joy of the day, it being the King's
birthday, and had some gims which they did fire at
my Lord's coming by. For which I did give twenty
shillings among them to drink. WhUe we were on the
top of the chffe, we saw and heard our guns in the fleet
go off for the same joy. And it being a pretty fair
day we could see above twenty miles into France.
Being retumed on board, my Lord called for Mr.
Shepley's book of Paul's by which we were confirmed
in our wager. After that to supper and then to
musique, and so to bed. This day, it is thought, the
King do enter the City of London."
t " Divers maidens, in behalf of themselves and others, presented a peti
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30th. About eight o'clock in the moming the lieu
tenant came to me to know whether I would eat a
dish of mackerel, newly catched, for my breakfast,
which the Captain and we did in the coach. AU this
morning making up my accounts, in which I counted
that I had made myself now worth about 80/., at which
my heart was glad, and blessed God. Many Dover
men come and dine with my Lord. My Lord at nine-
pnis in the aftemoon. Mr. Shepley told me how my
Lord had put me down for 70 guUders among the
money which was given to my Lord's servants, which
my heart did much rejoice at. Sir R. Stayner supped
with us, and among other things told us how some
of his men did grumble that no more of the Duke's
money come to their share and so would not receive
any ; whereupon he caUed up those that had taken it,
and gives them three shares apiece more, which was
very good, and made good sport among the seamen.
To bed.
31st. All the moming making orders. After dinner
a great while below in the great cabin trying with W.
Howe some of Mr. Law's songs, particularly that of
"What is a kiss," with which we had a great deal
of pleasure. After that to making of orders again.
Captain Sparling ¦ of the Assistance brought me a pair

them leave and liberty to meet his Majesty on the day of his passing through
the City; and if their petition be granted, that they will all be clad in white
waistcoats and crimson petticoats, and other ornaments of triumph and
rejoicing," — Rugge's Diurnal, May, 1660,
" Thomas Sparling.

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of silk Stockings of a light blue, which I was much
pleased with. This day the month ends, I in very
good health, and all the world in a merry mood because
of the King's coming. This day I began to teach Mr.
Edward," who I find to have a very good foundation
laid for his Latin by Mr. Fuller.
June ist. This moming Mr. Shepley disposed of
the money that the Duke of York did give my Lord's-
servants, 22 ducatoons came to my share. I did give
Mr. Shepley the fine pair of buckskin gloves that I
bought for myself about five years ago. After dinner
Captain Jeffery and W. Howe, and the Lieutenant and
I to ninepms, where I lost about two shiUings and so
fooled away all the afternoon. At night Mr. Cooke
comes from London with letters, leaving all things
there very gallant and joyfiil. And brought us word
that the Parliament had ordered the 29th of May, the
King's birthday, to be for ever kept as a day of thanks
giving for our redemption from tyranny, and the King's
return to his Govemment, he entering London that
day. My poor wife has not been weU, but thanks be
to God is well again. She would fain see me and
be at her house again, but we must be content. She
writes word how the Joyces grow very rich and proud,
but it is no matter, and that there was a talk that I
should be knighted by the Kuig, whiclr they (the
Joyces) laugh at ; but I think myself happier in my
wife and estate than they are in theirs. The Cap-
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tain come on board, when I was going to bed, quite
fuddled ; the Vice-Admiral, Rear-Admiral, and he had
been drinldng aU day.
2d. Being with my Lord in the moming about
business in his cabin, I took occasion to give him
thanks for his love to me in the share that he had
given me of his Majesty's money, and the Duke's.
He told me he hoped to do me a more lasting kind
ness, if all things stand as they are now between him
and the King, but, says he, "We must have a httie
patience and we will rise together ; in the mean time
I wiU do you all the good jobs I can." Which was
great content for me to hear from my Lord. All the
moming with the Captain, computing how much the
thirty ships that come ^Wth the King from Scheveling
their pay comes to for a month (because the King
promised to give them aU a month's pay), and it
comes to 6,538/., and the Charles particularly 777^
I wish we had the money. All the aftemoon with
two or three captains in the Captain's cabin, drinking
of white wine and sugar, and eating pickled oysters,
where Captain Sparhng told us the best story that ever
I heard, about a gentleman that persuaded a countiy
fool to let him gut his oysters or else they would stink.
At night writing letters to London and Weymouth,
for my Lord being now to sit in the House of Peers
he endeavours to get Mr. Edward Montague for Wey
mouth and Mr. George for Dover.
3d. Captain Holland is come to get an order for
the setting out of his ship, and to renew his commis-

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sion. He teUs me how every man goes to the Lord
Mayor to set down their names, as such as do accept
of his Majesty's pardon, and showed me a certificate
under the Lord Mayor's hand that he had done so.
At sermon in the morning; after dinner into my
cabin, to cast my accounts up, and find myself to be
worth near loo/. for which I bless Almighty God, it
being more than I hoped for so soon, being I believe
not clearly worth 25/. when I came to sea besides my
house and goods.
4th. Waked in the morning at four o'clock to give
some money to Mr. Hetley, who was to go to London
with the letters that I wrote yesterday night. After
he was gone I went and lay down in my gown upon
my bed again an hour or two. At last waked by a
messenger come for a Post Warrant for Mr. Hetley
and Mr. Creed, who stood to give so little for their
horses that the men would not let them have any
without a warrant, which I sent- them. All the mom
ing getting Captain HoUand's commission done, which
I did, and he at noon went away. I took my leave
of him upon the quarter-deck with a bottle of sack,
my Lord being just set down to dinner. In the even
ing I made an order for Captain Sparling of the
Assistance to go to Middleburgh, to fetch over some
of the King's goods. I took the opportunity to send
all my Dutch money, 70 ducatoons and 29 gold ducats
to be changed, if he can, for Enghsh money, which is
the first venture that ever I made, and so I have been
since a little afeard of it. This moming the King's

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Proclamation against drinking, swearing, and debauch
ery, was read to our ships' companies in the fleet, and
indeed it gives great satisfaction to aU.
Sth. A-bed late. In the moming my Lord went on
shore with the Vice-Admiral a-fishing, and at dinner
retumed. In the aftemoon I played at nine-pins with
my Lord, and when he went in again I got him to
sign my accounts for 115/., and so upon my private
balance I find myself confirmed in my estimation that
I am worth 100/. In the evening in my cabin a great
whUe getting the song without book, "Help, helpe
Divinity, &c." After supper my Lord called for the
heutenant's cittern," and with two candlesticks with
money in them for symballs,^ we made barber's mu-
sique,3 with which my Lord was weU pleased. So to bed.
6 th. In the moming I had letters come, that told
me among other things, that my Lord's place of
Clerke of the Signet was faUen to him, which he did
most lovingly tell me that I should execute, in case he
could not get a better employment for me at the end
of the year. Because he thought that the Duke of
York would command all, but he hoped that the Duke
would not remove me but to my advantage.

" Cittern, a musical instrument like a guitar. (M. B.)
2 Symballs, i. e. cymbals. (M. B.)
3 In the " Notices of Popular Histories," printed for the Percy Society,
there is a curious woodcut, representing the interior of a barber's shop, in
which, according to the old custom, the person waiting to be shaved is playing
on the " ghittem " till his turn arrives. Decker alsd" mentions a " barber's
cittern," for every serving-man to play upon. This is no doubt " The bar
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My letters tell me, that Mr. Calamy ' had preached
before the King in a surplice (this I heard afterwards
to be false) ; that my Lord, Gen. Monk, and three
more Lords, are made Commissioners for the Treas
ury ; that my Lord had some great place conferred on
him, and they say Master of the Wardrobe ; that the
two Dukes do haunt the Park much, and that they
were at a play. Madam Epicene,^ the other day ; that
Sir Ant. Cooper,3 Mr. Holhs,'' and Mr. Annesly,5 late
President of the Council of State, are made Privy
Councillors to the King. At night very busy sending
Mr. Donne away to London, and wrote to my father
for a coat to be made me against I come to London,
which I think will not be long. I to bed and about
one in the morning,
7th. W. Howe called me up to give him a letter to
carry to my Lord that came to me to-day, which I did
and so to sleep again. About three in the morning
the people began to wash the deck, and the water
came pouring into my mouth, which waked me, and
I was fain to rise and get on my gown, and sleep lean
ing on my table. After dinner come Mr. John Wright
and Mr. Moore, with the sight of whom my heart was
very glad. They brought an order for my Lord's
coming up to London, which my Lord resolved to
" Edward Calamy, the celebrated Nonconformist Divine, born i6r6,
appointed Chaplain to Charles the Second r66o, Ob, 1666,
2 Epicene, or the Silent Woman, a Comedy, by Ben Jonson,
3 Afterwards Chancellor, and created Earl of Shaftesbury,
4 Afterwards Lord Hollis,
s Afterwards Earl of Anglesey.

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do to-morrow. AU the aftemoon getting my things
in order to set forth to-morrow. At night walked up
and down with Mr. Moore, who did give me an
account of aU things at London. Among others,
how the Presbyterians would be angry if they durst,
but they wiU not be able to do any thing. Most
of the Commanders on board and supped with my
Lord. Sth. Out early, took horses at Deale. I troubled
much with the King's gittar, and Fairbrother, the
rogue that I intrusted with the canying of it on foot,
whom I thought I had lost. Came to Canterbury,
dined there. I saw the minster and the remains of
Becket's tomb. Col. Dixwell's horse taken by a sol
dier and delivered to my Lord, and by him to me to
carry to London. To Sittingbome and Rochester.
At Chatham and Rochester the ships and bridge.
Mr. Hetley's mistake about dinner. Come to Graves
end. A good handsome wench I kissed, the first
that I have seen a great whUe. Supped with my
Lord, drank late below with Penrose, the Captain.
To bed late, having first laid out aU my things against
to-morrow to put myself in a walking garb. Weary
and hot to bed to Mr. Moore.
9th. Up betimes, 255. the reckoning. Paid the
house and by boats to London, six boats. Mr.
Moore, W. Howe, and I, and then the child in the
room of W. Howe. Landed at the Temple. To
Mr. Crew's. To my father's and put myself into a
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HaU with my Lord and Mr. Edwd. Montagu. Found
the King in the Park. There walked. Gallantly
great. IOth (Lord's day). At my father's found my wife
and to walk with her in Lincoln's Inn walks.
nth. Betimes to my Lord. Extremely much peo
ple and business. So with him to Whitehall to the
Duke. Back with him by coach and left him in
Covent Garden. I back to WiU's and the HaU to
see my father. Then to the Leg in King Street with
Mr. Moore, and sent for Mons. L'Impertinent to
dinner with me. After that with my Lord to Dorset
House " to the Chancellor.
12th. Visited by the two Pierces, &c., and did give
them a ham of bacon, and so to my Lord and with
him to the Duke of Gloucester. The two Dukes
dined with the Speaker, and I saw there a fine enter
tainment and dined with the pages. To my Lord's
and staid till 1 2 at night about business.
13th. To my Lord's and thence to the Treasurer
of the Navy. So to Mr. Crew's, where I blotted a
new carpet that was hired, but got it out again with
fair water. By water with my Lord in a boat to West
minster, and to the Admiralty, now in a new place.
After business done then to the Rhenish wine-house
with Mr. Blackbume, Creed and Wivell.

" Dorset-House, in Salisbury Court, at this time occupied by the Chancel
lor, once the residence of the Bishops of Salisbury, one of whom (Jewel)
alienated it to the Sackville family. The house being afterwards pulled down,
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14th. Up to my Lord and from him to the Treas
urer of the Navy for 500/. To my Lady Pickering
with the plate she did give my Lord the other day.
Then to WiU's and met WiUiam Symons and Doling
and LueUin, and with them to the Bullhead.
15 th. My Lord told me how the King has given
him the place of the great wardrobe."
1 6th. To my Lord, and so to White HaU with him
about the Clerk of the Privy Scale's place, which he
is to have. Then to the Admiralty, where I wrote
some letters. Here CoU. Thompson told me, as a
great secret, that the Nazeby was on fire when the
King was there, but that is not known; when God
knows it is quite false. Got a piece of gold from
Major Holmes 2 for the horse of DixweU's I brought
to town. Dined at Mr. Crew's, and after dinner with
my Lord to Whitehall. Court attendance infinite
tedious. After that at night home to my father's and
to bed.
17th (Lord's day). To Mr. Mossum's; a good
sermon. This day the organs did begin to play at
White HaU before the King. Dined at my father's.
After dinner to Mr. Mossum's again, and so in the
garden, and heard ChippeU's father preach, that was
Page to the Protector, and just by the window that I
stood at sat Mrs. Butier,3 the great beauty. After
" With an official residence, often referred to by Pepys,
2 Afterwards Sir Robert Holmes, He is styled " Major," although in the
Navy, Thus, Lord Sandwich and Sir W, Penn were called " Generals; "
see also Jan. 6, 1661-62.
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sermon to my Lord. Mr. Edward and I into Gray's
Inn walks and saw many beauties.
I Sth. To my Lord's, where much business and
some hopes of getting some money thereby. With
him to the Parliament House, where he did intend
to have made his appearance to-day, but he met Mr.
Crew upon the stairs, and would not go in. He went
to Mrs. Brown's, and staid till word was brought him
what was done in the House. This day they made an
end of the twenty men to be excepted from pardon
to their estates. By barge to Stepny with my Lord,
where at Trinity House we had great entertainment.
With my Lord there went Sir W. Pen, Sir H. Wright,
Hetly, Pierce, Creed," Hill, I and other servants.
Back again to the Admiralty, and so to my Lord's
lodgings, where he told me that he did look after the
place of the Clerk of the Acts for me. This evening
my wife's brother. Baity, came to me to let me know
" John Creed of Oundle, Esq. From the way in which Pepys speaks of
his friend, he was probably of humble origin, and nothing is known of his
history previously to the Restoration, when he seems to have been a retainer
in the service of Sir Edward Montagu, In 1662 he was made Secretary to
the Commissioners for Tangier, and in 1668 he married Elizabeth Pickering,
the niece of his original patron, by whom he had eleven children. Major
Richard Creed, the eldest son, who was killed at the battle of Blenheim, lies
buried in Tichmarsh Church in Northamptonshire, where there is also a mon
ument erected to his father, describing him as " of Oundle," and as having
served King Charles the Second in divers honourable employments at home
and abroad, lived with honour, and died lamented, A.D. 1701, What these
employments were cannot now be ascertained. There exists still a cenotaph
to the memory of the major in Westminster Abbey, Mrs, Creed, wife of John
Creed of Oundle, Esq,, was the only daughter of Sir Gilbert Pickering, Bart.,
by Elizabeth, only daughter of Sir Edward Montagu, and sister of Edward
Montagu, first Earl of Sandwich. See Malone's " Life of Dryden," p. 339.

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his bad condition and to get a place for him, but I
perceive he stands upon a place for a gentleman, that
may not stain his family when, God help him, he
wants bread.
19th. Called on betimes by Murford, who showed
me five pieces to get a business done for him and I
am resolved to do it. Much business at my Lord's.
This morning my Lord went into the House of Com
mons, and there had the thanks of the House, in the
name of the Parliament and Commons of England,
for his late service to his King and Country. A mo
tion was made for a reward for him, but it was quashed
by Mr. Annesly, who, above most men, is engaged to
my Lord's and Mr. Crew's famihes. Towards my
Lord's, but was met with by a servant of my Lady
Pickering, who took me to her and she told me the
story of her husband's case and desired my assistance
with my Lord, and did give me, wrapped up in paper,
5/. in silver. After that to my Lord's, and with him
to Whitehall and my Lady Pickering. My Lord went
at night with the King to Baynard's Castle to supper,
and I home to my father's to bed. My wife and the
girle and dog came home to-day. When I came
home I found a quantity of chocolate left for me, I
know not from whom.
20th. Up by 4 in the morning to write letters to
sea and a commission for him that Murford solicited
for. Called on by Captain Sparling who did give me
my Dutch money again, and so much as he had
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eased of a great deal of trouble. Some other sea
captains. I did give them a good morning draft and
so to my Lord (who lay long in bed this day, because
he came home late ffom supper with the King), with
my Lord to the Parliament House, and, after that,
with him to General Monk's, where he dined at the
Cock-pit. I home and dined with my wife, now
making all things ready there again. Thence to the
Admiralty, and despatched away Mr. Cooke to sea;
whose business was a letter from my Lord about Mr.
G. Montagu to be chosen as a Parliament-man in my
Lord's room at Dover; and another to the Vice-
Admiral to give my Lord a constant account of all
things in the fieet, merely that he may thereby keep
up his power there ; another letter to Captn. Cuttance
to send the barge that brought the King on shore, to
Hinchingbroke by Lynne."
2 ist. To my Lord, much business. With him to
the Council Chamber, where he was sworne ; and the
charge of his being admitted Privy CounseUor is 26/.
To the Dog Taveme, where Captain Curie, late of the
Maria, gave me five pieces in gold and a silver can
for my wife for the Commission I did give him this
day for his ship, dated April 20, 1660. Thence to
the Parhament door and came to Mr. Crew's to dinner
with my Lord, and with my Lord to see the great
Wardrobe, where Mr. Townsend brought us to the
governor of some poor children in tawny clothes, who
" Whence it could go by water-carriage; see note to Jan. sr, i66o-6r.

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had been maintained there these eleven years, which
put my Lord to a stand how to dispose of them, that
he may have the house for his use. The chUdren did
suig finely, and my Lord did bid me give them five
pieces in gold at his going away. Thence back to
White HaU, where, the King being gone abroad, my
Lord and I walked a great while discoursing of the sim
plicity of the Protector, in his losing aU that his father
had left him. My Lord told me, that the last words
that he parted vidth the Protector with (when he went
to the Sound), were, that he should rejoice more to
see him in his grave at his return home, than that he
should give way to such things as were then in hatch
ing, and afterwards did raine him : and the Protector
said, that whatever G. Montagu, my Lord BroghUl,'
Jones, and the Secretary, would have him to do, he
would do it, be it what it would. Thence to my wife,
meeting Mr. Blagrave, who went home with me, and
did give me a lesson upon the fiageolette, and hand
seled 2 my sUver can with my wife and me. To my
father's, where Sir Thomas Honeywood and his family
were come of a sudden, and so we forced to lie aU
together in a little chamber, three stories high.
2 2d. To my Lord, where much business. With
him to White HaU, where the Duke of York not being
up, we walked a good while in the Shield Gallery.

" Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, created Earl of Orrery, 1660, Ob. 1679.
^ Handsel, Gerraan, ber ^ttnbSfauf; bet erfte jjebrau^ eineS bingeS.
An old German dictionary translates " I will hansel this cup," 3(^ njitt 5Uin
erften mo^le au§ btefem 6e^er trintfen. (M. B.)

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Mr. HUl (who for these two or three days hath con
stantly attended my Lord) told me of an offer of 500/.
for a Baronet's dignity, which I told my Lord of in
the balcone of this gaUery, and he said he would think
of it. I to my Lord's and gave order for horses to
be got to draw my Lord's great coach to Mr. Crew's.
My dear friend Mr. FuUer of Twickenham and I
dined alone at the Sun Tavem, where he told me how
he had the grant of being Dean of St. Patrick's, in
Ireland ; and I told him my condition, and both
rejoiced one for another. Thence to my Lord's, and
had the great coach to Brigham's, who went with me
to the Half Moone, and gave me a can of good julep,
and told me how my Lady Monk deals with him and
others for their places, asking him 500/., though he
was formerly the King's coach-maker, and sworn to it.
Thence called at my father's, and so to Mr. Crew's,
where Mr. Hetley had sent a letter for me, and two
pair of silk stockings, one for W. Howe, and the other
for me, and so by link home about 11 o'clock. So
to bed.
23d. To my Lord's lodgings, where Tom Guy came
to me, and there staid to see the King touch people
for the King's evU." But he did not come at aU, it

" This cereraony is of great antiquity in England ; perhaps it may be
traced to Edward the Confessor. Sir John Fortescue, in his defence of the
House of Lancaster against that of York, argued that the crown could not
descend to a female, because the Queen is not qualified by the form of anoint
ing her, used at the coronation, to cure the disease called the king's evil.
Burns asserts, "History of Parish Registers," p, 144, "that between 1660
and 1682, 92,107 persons were touched for the evil. Every one coming to the

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rayned so ; and the poor people were forced to stand
all the moming in the rain in the garden. Afterward
he touched them in the banquetting-house. With my
Lord, to my Lord Frezendorfe's '^ where he dined to
day. He told me that he had obtained a promise of

court for that purpose brought a certificate signed by the minister and church
wardens, that he had not at any time been touched by His Majesty. The
registers of Camberwell and other parishes contain the names of those to
whom certificates had been given. In the time of Charles II. the practice
was at its height (Evelyn's "Diary," March 28, 1684), On Nov. 5, 1688,
Evelyn also states, that he saw King James touch for the evil, Pitan the
Jesuit and Warner officiating. This was no doubt the last time he performed
the ceremony in England. In the first four years after his restoration he
" touched" nearly 24,000 people. The ceremony was continued during the
reigns of his successors ; and so late as Lent, 1712, we find Dr. Johnson
(Boswell's " Life," vol. i. p. 16) amongst the number of persons actually
touched by Queen Anne. The practice was supposed to have expired with
the Stuarts, but the point being disputed, reference was made to the library
of the Duke of Sussex, and four several Oxford editions of the Book of Com
mon Prayer were found, all printed after the accession of the House of Han
over, and all containing, as an integral part of the service, ** The Office for
the Healing." Subsequently to the execution of Charles I., Tiandkerchiefs
dipped in his blood were believed to possess the virtue of healing, of which an
instance is related in Churchill's " Divi Britannici," p. 9 ; and very recently
a pilgrimage was made from a distant part to Ashburnham in Sussex, in
the hope of cure from the ** touch" of the sheet in which the King's body was
wrapped, and which, with the King's watch, is in the possession of the Earl
of Ashburnham, the lineal descendent of John Ashburnham, his friend and
faithful servant. The stamp of gold with which the King crossed the sore of
the sick person was called an angel, and of the value of ten shillings. It had
a hole bored through it, through which a ribbon was dravm, and the angel
was hanged about the patient's neck till the cure was perfected. — Genest's
Hist, qf the Sta^, vol. i. p. 143, ubi plura. The stamp has the impression
of St. Michael the Archangel on one side, and a ship in full sail on the other.
" My Lord Anglesey had a daughter cured of the King's evil with three
others on Tuesday." — MS. letter of William Greenhitt to Lady Bacon,
dated December 31, 1629, preserved at Audley End.
J John Frederic de Friesendorff, Embassador from Sweden to Charies the
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the Clerke of the Acts place for me, at which I was
glad. Met with Mr. Chetwind, and dined with him at
Hargrave's, the Com-chandler, in • St. Martin's Lane,
where a good dinner, where he showed me some good
pictures, and an instrument he caUed an Angelique.
With him to London, changing all my Dutch money
at Backwell's for Enghsh, and then to Cardinal's Cap,
where he and the City Remembrancer who paid for
all. Back to Westminster, where my Lord was, and
discoursed with him awhile about his family affairs.
So home and to bed.
24th. Sunday. Drank my morning draft at Har
per's, and bought a pair of gloves there. So to Mr.
G. Montagu, and told him what I had received from
Dover, about his business likely to be chosen there.
In the afternoon to Mr. Messum's with Mr. Moore,
and we sat in Mr. Butler's pew.
25 th. With my Lord at White HaU all the moming.
I spoke with Mr. Coventry about my business, who
promised me all the assistance I could expect. Dined
with young Mr. Powell, lately come from the Sound,
being amused at our great changes here, and Mr.
Southerne, now Clerke to Mr. Coventry, at the Leg in
King-street. Thence to the Admiralty, where I met
Mr. Turner, of the Navy-office, who did look after the
place of Clerke of the Acts. He was very civil to
me, and I to him, and shall be so. There came a
letter from my Lady Monk to my Lord about it this
evening, but he refused to come to her, but meeting
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my Lord retumed answer, that he could not desist in
my business ; and that he beheved that General Monk
would take it iU if my Lord should name the officers
in his army; and therefore he desired to have the
naming of one officer in the fleete. With my Lord
by coach to Mr. Crew's, and very merry by the way,
discoursing of the late changes and his good fortune.
Thence home, and then with my wife to Dorset
House, to deliver a list of the names of the justices
of the peace for Huntingdonshire. By coach, taking
Mr. Fox part of the way with me, that was with us
with the King on board the Nazeby, who I found to
have married Mrs. Whittle, that lived at Mr. Geer's
so long. A very civil gentleman. At Dorset House I
met with Mr. Kipps, my old friend, with whom the
world is well changed, he being now sealebearer to
the Lord Chancellor, at which my wife and I are weU
pleased, he being a very good natured man. Home
and late writing letters. Then to my Lord's lodging,
this being the first liight of his coming to WhitehaU
to he since his coming from sea.
26th. My Lord dined at his lodgings aU alone to
day. I went to Secretary Nicholas to carry him my
Lord's resolutions about his title, which he had cho
sen, and that is Portsmouth. I met with Mr. Throg
morton, a merchant, who went with me to the old
Three Tuns, at Charing Cross, who did give me five
pieces of gold for to do him a small piece of ser
vice about a convoy to Bilbo, which I did. In the
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offer me 500/. if I would desist from the Clerk of the
Acts place. I pray God direct me in what I do here
in. Went to my house, where I found my father, and
carried him and my wife to Whitefriars, and myself
to Puddlewharfe, to the Wardrobe, to Mr. Townsend,
who went with me to Backwell," the goldsmith's, and
there we chose 100/. worth of plate for my Lord to
give Secretary Nicholas. Back and staid at my
father's, and so home to bed.
27th. With my Lord to the Duke, where he spoke
to Mr. Coventry to despatch my business of the Acts,^
in which place every body gives me joy, as if I were
in it, which God send. Dined with my Lord and aU
the officers of his regiment, who invited my Lord and
his friends, as many as he would bring, to dinner, at
the Swan, at Dowgate, a poor house and ill dressed,
but very good fish and plenty. Here Mr. Symons,
the Surgeon, told me how he was likely to lose his
estate that he had bought, at which I was not a little
* Edward Bakewell, an Alderman of London, and opulent banker, ruined
by the shutting up of the Exchequer in r672, when he retired to Holland,
where he died.
There is a most interesting account of Alderman Backwell and his losses
by money lent to Charles II. and never repaid, which by the kindness of Mr,
F. G. H. Price (of Childs' Bank) I am allowed to copy out of " Ye Mary-
gold." It is far too long for insertion here, but will appear in the Appendix,
(M. B.)
2 The letters patent, dated rsth July, 12 Charles II,, recite and revoke
letters patent of i6th February, 14 Charles I,, whereby the office of Clerk of
the Ships had been given to Dennis Flemming and Thomas Barlow, or the
survivor. D. F. was then dead, but T. B. living, and Sarauel Pepys was
appointed in his room, at a salary of 33/. ts, Sd. per annum, with 3'.?. ^d.
for each day employed in travelling, and 61. per annum for boat-hire and all
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pleased. To Westminster, and with Mr. Howe by
coach to the Speaker's, where my Lord supped with
the King, but I could not get in. So back again, and
after a song or two in my chamber in the dark, which
. do (now that the bed is out) sound very well, I went
home and to bed.
28th. My brother Tom came to me with patterns
to choose for a suit. I paid him all to this day, and
did give him 10/. upon account. To Mr. Coventry,
who told me that he would do me all right in my
business. To Sir G. Downing, the first visit I have
made him since he came. He is so stingy a fellow
I care not to see him ; I quite cleared myself of
his ofiice, and did give him hberty to take any
body in. After this to my Lord, who lay a-bed tiU
eleven o'clock, it being almost five before he went
to-bed, they supped so late last night with the -King.
This morning I saw poor Bishop Wren " going to
Chappel, it being a thanksgiving-day for the King's
retume. After my Lord was awake, I went up to
him to the Nursery, where he do lie, and, having
talked with him a little, I took leave and carried my
wife and Mrs. Pierce to Clothworkers'-Hall, to dinner,
where Mr. Pierce, the Purser, met us. We were invited
by Mr. Chaplin, the Victualler. Our entertainment very
good, a brave hall, good company, and very good
musique. Where among other things I was pleased
that I could find out a man by his voice, whom I had
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never seen before, to be one that sang behind the
curtaine formerly at Sir W. Davenant's ' opera. To
my Lord, and then home and to bed.
29th. Up and to White Hall, where I got my war
rant from the Duke to be Clerke of the Acts. Also I
got my Lord's warrant from the Secretary ^ for his
honour of Earle of Portsmouth, and Viscount Mon
tagu of Hinchingbroke. So to my Lord, to give him
an account of what I had done. Then to Sir Gefiery
Palmer,3 to give them to him to have biUs drawn
upon them, who told me that my Lord must have
some good Latinist to make the preamble to his Pat
ent, which must express his late service in the best
terms that he can, and he told me in what high flaunt
ing terms Sir J. GreenviUe had caused his to be done,
which he do not like; but that Sir Richard Fan
shawe ¦• had done General Monk's very weU. Back
to Westminster, and meeting Mr. Townsend in the
" Sir William Davenant, born at Oxford 1605. As his father kept an
inn there, and his mother was a great beauty, it was insinuated that to
Shakespeare, who generally stopped there on his road between London and
Stratford, he was indebted for his life and his poetical talents. In 1637 he
succeeded Ben Jonson as poet laureate. At the Restoration he obtained a
patent for acting plays in Lincoln's Inn Fields, He died 7th April, 1668, aged
63 (See Diary, 7th and gth April, 1668), and was buried in Westminster
Abbey, where these words record bis name : " O rare Sir William Davenant."
(M. B.)
* See July 10, 1660, and note,
3 Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Attorney-General, and Chief Justice of Chester,
1660; created a Baronet, i66r. Ob. 1670,
* Sir Richard Fanshawe, Knight and Baronet, Secretary to Charles the
Second in Scotland, and after the Restoration employed on several embassies.
He was a good linguist, and translated the Lusiad and Pastor Fido, Ob.
1666.

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Palace, he and I and another or two went and dined
at the Leg there. Then to.. White HaU, where I was
told by Mr. Hutchinson " at the Admiralty, that Mr.
Barlow, my predecessor, Clerke of the Acts, is yet
alive, and coming up to town to look after his place,
which made my heart sad a litde. At night told my
Lord thereof, and he bade me get possession of
my Patent; and he would do all that could be
done to keep him out. This night my Lord and I
looked over the list of the Captains, and marked
some that my Lord had a mind to have put out.
Home and to bed. Our wench very lame, abed these
two days.
30th. By times to Sir R. Fanshawe to draw up the
preamble to my Lord's Patent.^ So to my Lord, and
with him to White Hall, where I saw a great many fine
antique heads of marble, that my Lord Northumber
land ^ had given the King. Here meeting with Mr.
De Cretz,"* he looked over many of the pieces in the
gallery vnth me and told me [by] whose hands they
were with great pleasure. Dined at home and Mr.
Hawley with me upon six of my pigeons, which my
wife has resolved to kiU here. This day came WUl
[Wayneman], my boy, to me; the wench continuing
" In a list of the Admiralty officers just before the King came in, preserved
in the British Museum, there occur, Richard Hutchinson, Treasury of the
Navy, salary, 1500/. ; Thoraas Toumer, General Clerk, for himself and clerk,
100/. ; mentioned in the next page.
^ See the Appendix.
3 Algernon Percy, tenth Earl of Northumberland.
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lame, so that my wife could not be longer without
somebody to help her. In the aftemoon with Sir
Edward Walker, at his lodgings, by St. GUes Church
for my Lord's pedigree. To White HaU with Mr.
Moore, where I met with a letter from Mr. Tumer,
offering me 150/. to be joined with nie in my patent,
and to advise me how to improve the advantage of
my place, and to keep off Barlow.
July ist. This moming came home my fine Camlett
cloak, with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost
me much money, and I pray God to make me able to
pay for it. I went to the cook's and got a good joint
of meat, and my wife and I dined at home alone. In
the afternoon to the Abbey, where a good sermon by
a stranger, but no Common Prayer yet. After sermon
caUed in at Mrs. Crisp's, where I saw Mynheer Roder,
that is to marry Sam Hartlib's sister, a great fortune
for her to hght on, she being worth nothing in the
world. To my Lord's, where late at night comes Mr.
Moriand, whom I left prating with my Lord, and so
home. 2nd. Infinite of business that my heart and head
and all were full. Met with purser Washington," with
whom and a lady, a friend of his, I dined at the Bell
Taveme in King Street, but the rogue had no more
manners than to invite me and to let me pay my club.
AU the afternoon with my Lord, going up and down
the towne ; at seven at night he went home, and there
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the principal Officers of the Navy,^ among the rest
myself was reckoned one. We had order to meet to
morrow, to draw up such an order of the Council as
would put us into action before our patents were
passed. At which my heart was glad. At night
supped with my Lord, he and I together, in the great
dining-room alone by ourselves, the first time I ever
did it in London. Home to bed, my mayde pretty
well again.
3d. All the moming the Officers and Commis
sioners of the Navy we met at Sir G. Carteret's ^
chamber, and agreed upon orders for the Council
to supersede the old ones, and empower us to act.
Dined with Mr. Stephens, the Treasurer's man of the
Navy, and Mr. Tumer, to whom I offered 50/. out of
my own purse for one year, and the benefit of a
' A list of the Officers of the Admiralty, 31st May, 1660.
From a MS. in ihe PePysian Library.
His Royal Highness James, Duke of York, Lord High Admiral.
Sir George Carteret, Treasurer.
Sir Robert Slingsby, (soon after) Comptroller.
Sir William Batten, Surveyor.
Samuel Pepys, Esq. Clerk of the Acts,
John, Lord Berkeley, \
Sil William Penn, 5 Commissioners.
Peter Pett, Esq, ^
2 Sir George Carteret, Knight, had originally been bred to the sea service,
and became Comptroller of the Navy to Charles the First, and Cjovemor of
Jersey, where he obtained considerable reputation by his gallant defence of
that Island against the Parliament forces. At the Restoration he was made
Vice Chamberlain to the King, Treasurer of the Navy, and a Privy Councillor,
and in 1661 M.P. for Portsmouth. He continued in favour with his Sovereign
till 1679, when he died in his Both year. He married his cousin Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Philip Carteret, Knight of St. Ouen, and had issue three sons
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Clerke's allowance beside, which he thanked me for ;
but I find he hath some design yet in his head, which
I could not think of. In the aftemoon my heart was
quite pulled down, by being told that Mr. Barlow was
to enquire to-day for Mr. Coventry; but at night I
met with my Lord, who told me that I need not fear,
for he would get me the place against the world. And
when I came to W. Howe, he told me that Dr. Petty
had been with my Lord, and did teU him that Barlow
was a sickly man, and did not intend to execute the
place himself, which put me in great comfort again.
TUl 2 in the morning writing letters and things for my
Lord to send to sea. So home to my wife to bed.
4th. Up very early in the morning and landing my
wife at White Friars stairs, I went to the Bridge and
so to the Treasurer's of the Navy, with whom I spake
about the business of my office, who put me into very
good hopes of my business. At his house comes Com
missioner Pett, and he and I went to view the houses
in Seething Lane, belonging to the Navy, where I find
the worst very good, and had great fears in my mind
that they will shuffle me out of them, which troubles
me. From thence to the Excise Office in Broad
Street, where I received ;^soo for my Lord, and went
afterwards down with Mr. Luddyard and drank my
morning draft with him and other officers. Thence
to Mr. Backewell's, the goldsmith, where I took my
Lord's 100/. in plate for Mr. Secretary Nicholas, and
my own piece of plate, being a state dish and cup in
chased work for Mr. Coventry, cost me above 19/.

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Carried these and the money by coach to my Lord's
at White Hall, and from thence carried Nicholas's
plate to his house and left it there, intending to speak
with him anon. So to Westminster HaU, where meet
ing with Mons. L'Impertinent and W. Boyer, I took
them to the Sun Taveme, and gave them a lobster and
some wine, and sat talking like a fool till 4 o'clock.
So to my Lord's, and walking all the afternoon in
White Hall Court, in expectation of what shaU be
done in the CouncU as to our business. It was strange
-to see how all the people flocked together bare, to see
the King looking out of the CouncU window. At
night my Lord told me how my orders that I drew
last night about giving us power to act, are granted
by the CouncU. At which he and I were very glad.
Home and to bed, my boy lying in my house this
night the first time.
5 th. This morning my brother Tom brought me
my jackanapes coat with silver buttons. It rained
this moming, which makes us fear that the glory of
this great day wiU be lost ; the King and Parliament
being to be entertained by the City to-day with great
pomp." Mr. Hater ^ was with me to-day, and I agreed

" " July 5th. His Majesty, the two Dukes, the House of Lords, and the
House of Comraons, and the Privy Council, dined at the Guildhall. Every
Hall appeared with their colours and streamers to attend His Majesty; the
Masters in gold chains. Twelve pageants in the streets between Teraple Bar
and Guildhall. Forty brace of bucks were that day spent in the City of
London," — Rugge's Diumal.
2 Thoraas Hater. He reraained with Pepys for some time; and by his
assistance was made Petty Purveyor of Petty Missions.

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with him to be my clerke. Being at White Hall, I
saw the King, the Dukes, and all their attendants go
forth in the rain to the City, and it bedaggled many
a fine suit of clothes. I was forced to walk all the
moming in White Hall, not knowing how to get out
because of the rain. Met with Mr. Cooling," my
Lord Chamberlain's secretary, who took me to dinner
among the gendemen waiters, and after dinner into
the wine-cellar. He told me how he had a project
for all us Secretaries to join together, and get money
by bringing all business into our hands. Thence to
the Admiralty, where Mr. Blackbume and I (it be
ginning to hold up) went and walked an hour or two
in the Park, he giving of me light in many things in
my way in this office that I go about. And in the
evening I got my present of plate carried to Mr.
Coventry's. At my Lord's at night comes Dr. Petty
to me, to tell me that Barlow had come to towne,
and other things, which put me into a despair, and I
went to bed very sad.
6th. In the afternoon my Lord and I, and Mr.
Coventry and Sir G. Carteret, went and took posses
sion of the Navy Office, whereby my mind was a
httle cheered, but my hopes not great. From thence
Sir G. Carteret and I to the Treasurer's Office, where
he set some things in order. And so home, caUing

" Richard Cooling or Coling, A.M., of All-Souls College, Secretary to
the Earls of Manchester and Arlington, when they filled thc olHce of Lord
Chamberlain, and a Clerk of the Privy Council in ordinary. There is a
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upon Sir Geoffry Palmer, who did give me advice
about my patent, which put me to some doubt to
know what to do. Barlow being alive. Afterwards
caUed at Mr. Pim's, about getting me a coat of velvet,
and he took me to the Half Moone, and the house
so full that we staid above half an hour before we
could get anything. So to my Lord's, where in the
dark W. Howe and I did sing extemporys, and I find
by use that we are able to sing a base and a treble
pretty weU. So home, and to bed.
7th. To my Lord, one with me to buy a Clerk's
place, and I did demand 100/. To the CouncU
Chamber, where I took an order for the advance of
the salaries of the officers of the Navy, and I find
mine to be raised to 350/. pAr annum. Thence to
the Chaijge, and afterwards dined with my Uncle and
Aunt Wight, and thence to the Navy Office, where I
began to take an inventory of the papers, and goods,
and books of the office. To my Lord's, late writing
letters. So home to bed.
Sth (Lord's day) . To White HaU chapel, where I
got in with ease by gouig before the Lord Chancellor
with Mr. Kipps. Here I heard very good musique,
the first time that ever I remember to have heard the
organs and singing-men in surplices in my life. The
Bishop of Chichester • preached before the King, and
made a great flattering sermon, which I did not like
that Clergy should meddle with matters of state.
" Henry King, Dean of Rochester, advanced to the See of Chichester,
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Dined with Mr. Luellin and Sahsbury at a cook's
shop. Home, and staid all the afternoon with my
wife till after sermon. There till Mr. Fairebrother ^
came to call us out to my father's to supper. He
told me how he had perfectly procured me to be
made Master in Arts by proxy,^ which did somewhat
please me, though I remember my cousin Roger
Pepys 3 was the other day persuading me from it.
9th. To the Navy office,^ where in the aftemoon
we met and sat, and there I begun to sign bills in the
Office the first time.
IOth. This day I put on first my new silk suit, the
first that ever I wore in my life. Home, and called
my wife, and took her to Dr. Clodins's to a great
wedding of Nan Hartlib to Mynheer Roder,5 which

' He was Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Senior Proctor of the
University. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Naseby, whilst fighting
on the King's side, and sent to London. — Cole's MSS., vol. xv., p. 122.
2 The Grace which passed the University, on this occasion, is preserved
in Kennett's Chronicle, and commenced as follows : — Cum Sam. Pepys,
Coll. Magd. Inceptor in Artibus in Regi^ Classe existat e Secretis, exindeq.
apud mare adeo occupatissimus ut Comitiis proxime futuris interesse non
possit; placet vobis ut dictus S. P. admissionem suam necnon creationem
recipiat ad gradum Magistri in Artibus sub persona Timothei Wellfit, Incep-
toris, &c, &c. — June 26, 1660.
3 Roger Pepys, a Barrister, M. P. for Cambridge, 1661, and afterwards
Recorder of that town.
4 The Navy Office was erected on the site of Lumley House, formerly
bejonging to the Fratres Sanctse Crucis (or Crutched Friars), and all busi
ness connected with Naval concerns was transacted there, till its removal to
Somerset House. The ground is now occupied by the East India Company's
warehouses. s Afterwards knighted, Aug. 5, 1660, as Sir John Roder, See Diary,
Aug. 7, 1660. Le Neve calls him Roth, and says he was of Utrecht. Nan
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was kept at Goring House ' with very great state,
cost, and noble company. But, among all the beauties
there, my wife was thought the greatest. After dinner
I lefl the company, and carried my wife to Mrs.
Tumer's. I went to the Attomey-General's, and had
my bill which cost me seven pieces. I called my
wife, and set her home. And finding my Lord in
White Hall garden, I got him to go to the Secretary's,
which he did, and desired the dispatch of his and my
bills to be signed by the King. His bill is to be Earle
of Sandwich,^ Viscount Hinchingbroke, and Baron of
St. Neot's. Home, with my mind pretty quiet : not
retuming, as I said I would, to see the bride put to
bed. nth. With Sir W. Pen 3 by water to the Navy

^ The magnificence of Goring House is fully described by Evelyn, and its
destruction by fire. The title of its owner is preserved in Arlington Street,
" This was the town residence of George Lord Goring, Earl of Norwich, and
of his son, the second peer, who died s. p. in 1670. The house occupied the
site of the Mulberry Gardens, upon which Buckingham Palace now stands.
It was let to Lord Arlington by the second Earl of Norwich, and called after
the tenant." — Cunningham's Hand-Book of London^ p. 206, edit. 1850.
^ The motive for Sir Edward Montagu's so suddenly altering his intended
title is not explained ; probably, the change was adopted as a compUment to
the Town of Sandwich, off which the fieet was lying, before it sailed to bring
Charles from Scheveling. Montagu had also received marked attentions from
Sir John Boys and other principal men at Sandwich ; and it may be recol
lected as an additional reason, that one or both of the seats for that borough
have usually been placed at the disposal of the Admiralty. The title of
Portsmouth was given, in 1673, ^tft- her life, to the celebrated Louise de
Querouaille, and, becoming extinct with her, was, in 1743, conferred upon
John Wallop, Viscount Lymington, the ancestor of the present Earl of
Portsmouth. ^ Sir William Pen was bom at Bristol in 1621, of the ancient family of the
Pens, of Pen Lodge, Wilts. He was Captain at the age of 21 : Rear-Admiral

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office, where we met, and dispatched business. And
that being done, we went aU to dinner to the Dolphin,
upon Major Brown's invitation. After that to the
ofiice again, where I was vexed, and so was Commis
sioner Pett, to see a busy feUow come to look out the
best lodgings for my Lord Barkley, and the combin
ing between him and Sir W. Pen; and, indeed, was
troubled much at it. Home to White Hall, and took
out my bUl signed by the King, and carried it to Mr.
Watkins of the Privy Seale to be despatched there,
and going home to take a cap, I borrowed a pair of
sheets of Mr. Howe, and by coach to the Navy office,
and slept there.
12th. Up early and by coach to White Hall with
Commissioner Pett, where, after we had talked with
my Lord, I went to the Privy Seale and got my biU
perfected there, and at the Signet : and then to the
House of Lords, and met with Mr. Kipps, who
directed me to Mr. Beale to get my patent engrossed ;
but he not having time to get it done in Chan
cery-hand, I was forced to mn all up and down
Chanceiy-lane, and the Six Clerks' Office," but could

of Ireland at 23 ; Vice-Admiral of England, and General in the first Dutch
war at 32. He was subsequently M.P. for Weymouth, Govemor of Kinsale,
and Vice-Admiral of Munster. After the Dutch fight in 1665, where he dis
tinguished himself as second in command under the Duke of Vork, he took
leave of the sea, but continued to act as a Conunissioner for the Navy till
1669, when he retired on account of his bodily infirmities to Wanstead, and
died there September 16, 1670, aged 49,
' Six Clerks' Office. " In the early history of the Court of Chancery.
the Six Clerks and theur under-clerks appear to have acted as the attorneys of
the suitors. As business encreased, these under-clerks became a distinct body.

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find none that could write the hand, that were at
leisure. And so in a despair went to the Admiralty,
where we met the first time there, my Lord Montagu,
my Lord Barkley, Mr. Coventry, and aU the rest of the
principal Officers and Commissioners, except only the
ControUer, who is not yet chosen.
13th. Up early, the first day that I put on my black
camlett coat with sUver buttons. To Mr. Spong, whom
I found in his night-gown writing of my patent. It
being done, we carried it to Worcester House " to the
Chancellor, where Mr. Kipps (a strange providence
that he should now be in a condition to do me a kind
ness, which I never thought him capable of doing for
me), got me the Chancellor's recepi to my biU; and
so carried it to Mr. Beale for a dockett ; but he was
very angry, and unwiUing to do it, because he said it
was iU writ (because I had got it writ by another
hand, and not by him) ; but by my much impor
tunity I got Mr. Spong to go to his office and make
an end of my patent; and in the mean time Mr.
Beale to be preparing my dockett, which being done,
I did give him two pieces, after which it was strange

and were recognized by the court under the denomination of * sworn clerks,'
or * clerks in court.' The advance of commerce, with its consequent acces
sion of wealth, so multiplied the subjects requiring the judgment of a Court
of Equity, that the limits of a public office were found wholly inadequate to
supply a sufficient number of ofiicers to conduct the business of the suitors.
Hence originated the ' Solicitors ' of the Court of Chancery." — See Smith's
Chancery Practice, p, 62, 3rd edit, (M, B,)
" The Earls of Worcester had a large house between Durham Place and
the Savoy, which Lord Clarendon rented at ^e, per annum, while his own was
building. •

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how civU and tractable he was to me. From thence I
went to the Navy office, where we despatched much
business, and resolved of the houses for the Officers
and Commissioners, which I was glad of, and I got
leave to have a door made me into the leads. From
thence, much troubled in mind about my patent, I
went to Mr. Beale again, who had now finished my
patent and made it ready for the Seale, about an hour
after I went to meet him at the Chancellor's. So I
went away towards Westminster, and in my way met
with Mr. Spong, who still would be giving me council
of getting my patent out, for fear of another change,
and my Lord Montagu's faU. After that to Worces
ter House, where by Mr. Kipps's means, and my
pressing in General Montagu's name to the Chancel
lor, I did, beyond all expectation, get my seal passed ;
and while it was doing in one room, I was forced to
keep Sir G. Carteret (who by chance met me there,
ignorant of my business) in talk. To my wife, whom
I had left in a coach, and presented her with my
patent at which she was overjoyed ; so to the Navy
office, and showed her my house," and were both
mightily pleased. I to my Lord's, where I dispatched
an order for a ship to fetch Sir R. Honywood home,
for which I got two pieces of my Lady Honywood by
young Mr. PoweU. Late writing letters ; and great
doings of musique at the next house, which was
Whally's ; the King and Dukes there with Madame
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Palmer," a pretty woman that they have a fancy to
make her husband a cuckold. Here at the old door
that did go into his lodgings, my Lord, I, and W.
Howe, did stand listening a great while to the musique.
To bed with the greatest quiet of mind that I have
had a great while, having ate nothing but a bit of
bread and cheese at Lilly's to-day, and a bit of bread
and butter after I was a-bed.
14th. Up early and advised with my wife for the
putting of all our things in a readiness to be sent to
our new house. To my Lord's, where he was in bed
very late. So with Major ToUemache and others to
Harper's, and I sent for my barrel of pickled oysters
and there eat them ; whUe we were doing so, comes
in Mr. Pagan Fisher,^ the poet, and promises me what
he had long ago done, a book in praise of the King
of France, with my armes, and a dedication to me

" Barbara Villiers, daughter of William Viscount Grandison, wife of Roger
Palmer, Esq,, created Earl of Castlemaine, 1661. She became the Kmg^s
mistress soon after the Restoration, and was in 1670 made Duchess of Cleve
land. She died 1701, aged 6g. One of her sons by Charles 11. was created
Duke of Grafton.
^ Payne Fisher, who styled himself Faganus Piscator, was bom in 1616, in
Dorsetshire, and removed from Hart Hall, Oxford, of which he had been
a commoner, to Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1634; and there took a
degree of B. A., and first discovered a tum for poetry. He was afterwards
a Captain in the King's service at Marston Moor fight; but, leaving his
command, employed his pen against the cause which he had supported with
his sword, and became a favourite of CromweU's. After the King's return, he
obtained a scanty subsistence by flattering men in power, and was frequently
imprisoned for debt. He died 1693. He published several poems, chiefly
in Latin ; and, in 1682, printed a book of Heraldry, with the arms of such
of the gentry as he had waited upon with presentation copies. He was a
man of talents, but vain, unsteady, and conceited, and a great time-server.

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very handsome. After him comes Mr. Shepley come
from sea yesterday, whom I was glad to see that he
may ease me of the trouble of my Lord's business.
After that to Westminster Hall, where I jsaid all my
debts in order to my going away from hence. Here I
met with Mr. Eglin, who would needs take me to the
Leg in King Street and gave me a dish of meat to
dinner ; and so I sent for Mons. L'Impertinent, where
we sat long and were merry. After that parted, and
I took Mr. Butler [Mons. L'Impertinent] with me
into London by coach and shewed him my house at
the Navy Ofiice, and did give order for the laying in
coals. So into Fenchurch Street, and did give him a
glass of wine at Rawlinson's, and was trimmed in the
strtet. So home, where I found my wife had packed
up all her goods in the house fit for a removal. So to
bed. 15th. Lay long in bed to recover my rest. Drank
my morning draft at Wilkinson's, and after that to
Westminster Abbey, and in Henry the Seventh's Chap
pell heard part of a sermon, the first that ever I heard
there. To my Lord's and dined all alone at the table
with him. After dinner he and I alone fell to dis
course, and I find him plainly to be a sceptic in all
things of religion, and to make no great matter of
anything therein, but to be a perfect Stoic. In the
aftemoon to Henry the Seventh's ChappeU, where I
heard service and a sermon there, and after that meet-
ing W. Bowyer there he and I to the Parke, and walked
a good while till night. So to Harper's and drank

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together, and Captain Stokes came to us and so I feU
into discourse of buying paper at the best hand in my
office, and the Captain promised me to buy it for me
in France. My wife at home all the day, she having
no clothes out, aU being packed up yesterday. For'
this month I have wholly neglected anything of news,
and so have beyond belief been ignorant how things
go, but now by my patent my mind is in some quiet,
which God keep. My wife and I mightily pleased
with our new house that we hope to have. My patent
has cost me a great deal of money, about 40/., which
is the only thing at present which do trouble me
much. 1 6th. This morning it proved very rainy weather so
that I could not remove my goods to my house. I to
my office and did business there, and so home.
1 7th. This morning (as indeed all the . mornings
now-a-days) much business at my Lord's. There
came to my house before I went out Mr. Barlow," an
old consumptive man, and very fair conditioned. After
much talk, I did grant him what he asked, viz., 50/.
per annum, if my salary be not increased, and 100/.
per annum, in case it be to 350/., at which he was very
well pleased to be paid as I received my money, and
not otherwise, so I brought him to my Lord's bedside,
and he and I did agree together. That done and the
day proving fair I went home and got all my things
packed up and sent away, and my wife and I and Mrs.
* See ante, June 27th, and note.

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Hunt went by coach, overtaking the carts a-drinking in
the Strand. Being come to my house and set in the
goods, and at night sent my wife and Mrs. Hunt to
buy something for supper ; they bought a Quarter of
Lamb, and so we eat it, but it was not half roasted.
WiU, Mr. Blackburne's nephew, is so obedient, that I
am greatly glad of him.
I Sth. This morning we met at the office: I dined
at my house in Seething Lane, and after that, about
4 o'clock, going to Westminster HaU I met with Mr.
Carter and Mr. Cooke. I did also meet with Mr.
Pierce, the surgeon, with a porter with him, with a
barrel of Lemons, which my man Burr sends me from
sea. I took all these people home to my house and
did give them some drink. Thence to my Lord about
business, and being in talk in comes one with half
a buck from Hinchinbroke, and it smeUing a httle
strong my Lord did give it me (though it was as good
as any could be). I did carry it to my mother, where
I had not been a great while, and indeed had no great
mind to go, because my father did lay upon me con
tinually to do him a kindness at the Wardrobe, which
I could not do because of my own business being so
fresh with my Lord. But my father was not at home,
and so I did leave the venison with her to dispose of
as she pleased. 'After that home, where W. Hewer ¦

" William Hewer, of whose family nothing more is known except that his
father died of the plague, 14th Sept., 1665, He became afterwards a Com
missioner of the Navy, and Treasurer for Tangier, and was the constant
companion of Pepys, who died in his house at Clapham, previously the resi-

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now was, and did lie this night with us, the first night.
My mind very quiet, only a little trouble I have for
the great debts which I have still upon me to the
Secretary, Mr. Kipps, and Mr. Spong for my patent.
19th. I did lie late a-bed. I and my wife by
water, landed her at Whitefriars with her boy with an
iron of our new range which is already broke and my
wife wiU have changed, and many other things she
has to buy'with the help of my father to-day. This
day I received my commission to swear people the
oath of allegiance and supremacy delivered me by my
Lord. After talk with my Lord I went to Westminster
HaU, where I took Mr. Michell and his wife to the
Dog Taverne, where I did give them a dish of an
chovies and olives and paid for all, and did talk of
our old discourse when we did use to talk of the King,
in the time of the Rump, privately ; after that to the
Admiralty Ofifice, in White HaU, where I staid and
writ my last observations for these four days last past.
Great talk of the difference between the Episcopal
and Presbyterian Clergy, but I believe it will come to
nothing. So home and to bed.
20th. We sat at the ofifice this morning. Sir W.
Batten and Mr. Pett being upon a survey to Chatham.
I sent my wife to my father's and he is to give me ;^5

dence of Sir Dennis Gauden. Mr. Hewer was buried in the old church at
Clapham, where a large monument of marble, with his bust in alto-relievo,
erected to his memory, was, on the rebuilding of the church, placed outside,
and in November, 1852, nearly destroyed. See the Appendix for the
inscription,

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worth of pewter. After we rose at the office, I went
to my father's, where my Uncle Fenner and all his
crew and Captain Holland and his wife and my wife
were at dinner at a venison pasty of the venison that
I did give my mother the other day.
2 ist. This morning Mr. Barlow had appointed for
me to bring him what form I would have the agree
ment between him and me to pass, which I did to his
lodgings at the Golden Eagle in the new street be
tween Fetter Lane and Shoe Lane," and went to get
Mr. Spong to engross it in duplicates. To my Lord
and spoke to him about the business of the Privy
Seale for me to be sworn, though I got nothing by it,
but to do Mr. Moore a kindness. Went to the Six
Clerks' office to Mr. Spong for the writings, and dined
with him at a club at the next door, where we had
three voices to sing catches. So to WhitehaU about
business of my Lord's concerning his creation,^ and
so home and to bed.
22nd (Lord's day). My brother Tom came this
morning the first time to see me, and I paid him all
that I owe my father to this day. Afterwards I went
out and looked into several churches, and so to my
uncle Fenner to dinner. After dinner to White Hall,
where I find my Lord at home, and walked in the
garden with him, he showing me all the respect that
can be. I left him and went to walk in the inward
Park, but could not get in ; one man was basted by
" StiU known as New Street, in which is the Queen's Printing Office,
2 In the peerage.

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the keeper, for carrying some people over on his back
through the water. Afterwards to my Lord's, where I
staid and drank with Mr. Shepley, having first sent to
get a pair of oars. It was the first time that ever I
went by water on the Lord's day. Home, and at
night had a chapter read ; and I read prayers out of
the Common Prayer Book, the first time that ever I
read prayers in this house. So to bed.
23rd. This moming Mr. Barlow comes to me, and
he and I went forth to a scrivener in Fenchurch Street,
whom we found sick of the goute in bed, and signed
and sealed our agreement before him, and afterwards
Mr. Barlow by appointment came and dined with me,
and both of us very pleasant and pleased. After
dinner to my Lord, who took me to Secretary Nicho
las," and there before him and Secretary Morris,^ my
Lord and I upon our knees together took otfr oaths
of Allegiance and Supremacy; and the Oath of the
Privy Seale, of which I was much glad, though I am
not likely to get anything by it at present ; but I do
desire it, for fear of a turn-out of our ofifice.
24th. To White HaU, where I did acquaint Mr.
Watkhis with my being sworn into the Privy Seale, at
which he was much troubled, but did offer me a kins
man of his to be my clerk, which I did give him some

" Sir Edward Nicholas, many years principal Secretaryof State to Charles
the First and Second; dismissed from his office through the intrigues of Lady
Castlemaine in 1663, and ob. i66g, aged 77.
2 Sir William Morris, Secretary of State from 1660 to 1668, Ob, 1676,
He was kinsman to General Monk.

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hope of, though I never intend it. In the aftemoon
I spent much time in walking in White Hall Court
with Mr. Bickerstaffe," who was very glad of my Lord's
being sworn, because of his business with his brother
Baron," which is referred to my Lord ChanceUor, and
to be ended to-morrow. Baron had got a grant be
yond sea, to come in before the reversionary of the
Privy Seale.
25 th. In the morning at the office, and after that
down to Whitehall, where I met with Creed, and with
him and a Welsh schoolmaster, a good scholar but a
very pedagogue, to the ordinary at the Leg in King
Street. I got my certificate of my Lord's and my
being sworn. This morning my Lord took leave of
the House of Commons, and had the thanks of the
House for his great service to his country.^ In the
afternoon (but this is a mistake, for it was yesterday
in the afternoon) Monsieur L'Impertinent ' and I met
and I took him to the Sun and drank with him, and
in the evening going away we met his mother and
sisters and father coming from the Gate-house, where
they lodge, where I did the first time salute them all,
and very pretty Madame Frances * is indeed. After
that very late home and caUed in Tower Street, and
there at a barber's was trimmed the first time. Home
and to bed.

" They were both clerks of the Privy Seal.
2 In the Journals this is stated to have taken place July 24th.
3 Mr. Butler; see ante, T4th July.
4 Mr. Butler's sister: see 17th June, 1660, and 23rd June, 166

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26th. Early to White Hall, thinking to have a meet
ing of my Lord and the principal officers, but my
Lord could not, it being the day that he was to go
and be admitted in the House of Lords, his patent
being done, which he presented upon his knees to the
Speaker; and so it was read in the House, and he
took his place. I at the Privy Seale Ofifice with Mr.
Hooker, who brought me acquainted with Mr. Crofts
of the Signet, and I invited them to a dish of meat
at the Leg in King Street, and so we dined there and
I paid for all and had very good light given me as to
my employment there. In the evening I met with T.
Doling, who carried me to St. James's Fair," and there
meeting with W. Symons and his wife, and Luellin,
and D. Scobell's wife and cousin, we went to Wood's
at the Pell Mell (our old house for clubbing), and
tjiere we spent tiU 10 at night, at which time I sent to
my Lord's for my clerk Will to come to me, and so
by hnk home to bed.
27th. The last night Sir W. Batten and Sir AV. Pen
came to their houses at the ofifice. Met this morning
and did business till noon. Dined at home and firom
thence to my Lord's where Will, my clerk, and I were
all the aftemoon making up my accounts, and I find
myself worth about ^100 after all my expenses. We
* In the August of the following year, the Fair, called St. James's Fair,
was kept the full appointed time, being a fortnight ; during which time many
lewd and infamous persons were committed by the King's commands. —
Rugge's Diurnnl. It was afterwards known as May Fair, and not finally
abolished till the reign of George III. See art. " St. James's Fair," in " Hand
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got a coach, but the horses were tired and could not
carry us farther than St. Dunstan's. So we 'light and
took a link and so home weary to bed.
28th. A boy brought me a letter from Poet Fisher,
who teUs me that he is upon a panegyrique of the
King, and desired to borrow a piece of me ; and I
sent him half a piece. To Westminster, and there
met Mr. Henson, who had formerly had the brave
clock that went with bullets " (which is now taken away
from him by the King, it being his goods) . I went
with him to the Swan Taverne and sent for Mr. Butler,
who was now all fuU of his high discourse in praise of
Ireland, whither he and his whole family are going by
CoU. Dillon's persuasion, but so many lies I never
heard in praise of anything as he told of Ireland. So
home late at night and to bed.
29th (Lord's day). With my Lord to White HaU
Chappell, where I heard a cold sermon of the Bishop
of Salisbury's, Duppa's,^ and the ceremonies did not

' Some clocks are still made with a small ball, or bullet, on an inclined
plane, which turns every minute. The King's clocks probably dropped bullets.
Gainsborough the painter had a brother who was a dissenting minister at
Henley-on-Thames, and possessed a strong genius for mechanics. He in
vented a clock of a very peculiar construction, which, after his death, was
deposited in the British Museum. It told the hour by a litde bell, and was
kept in motion by a leaden bullet, which dropped from a spiral reservoir at
the top of the clock, into a little ivory bucket. This was so contrived as to
discharge it at the bottom, and by means of a counter-weight was carried up
to the top of the clock, where it received another bullet, which was discharged
as the former. This seems to have been an attempt at the perpetual motion.
— Gentletnan's Mag., 1785, p, 93r,
2 Brian Duppa, successively bishop of Chichester, Salisbury, and Win
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please me, they do so overdo them. My Lord went
to dinner at Kensington with my Lord Camden." So
I dined and in the aftemoon with Dick Vines and his
brother Payton, we walked to Lisson Greene and Mary-
bone and back again, and finding my Lord at home
I got him to look over my accounts, which he did
approve of and signed them, and so we are even to
this day.
30th. Sat at our ofifice to-day, and my father came
this day the first time to see us at my new ofifice. This
afternoon I got my 50/., due to me for my first quar
ter's salary as Secretary to my Lord, paid to Tho.
Hater for me, which he received and brought home
to me, of which I am full glad. To Westminster and
met with Mr. Moore, and took him and his friend, a
bookseUer of Paul's Churchyard, to the Rhenish Wine-
house, and drinking there the sword-bearer of London '
(Mr. Man) came to ask for us, with whom we sat late,
discoursing about the worth of my ofifice of Clerke of
the Acts, which he hath a mind to buy, and I asked
four years' purchase. Home on foot, and seeing him
at home at Butler's merry, he lent me a torch, which
Will carried, and so home.
31st. To White Hall, where my Lord and the prin
cipal officers met, and had a great discourse about
raising of money for the Navy, which is in very sad
condition, and money must be raised for it. Mr.
" Baptist, second Viscount Campden, Lord Lieutenant of Rutlandshire.
Ob. 1683. Campden House was .occupied in r846 as a Ladies' School. It
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Blackburne, Dr. Clerke, and I to the Quaker's and
dined there. I back to the Admiralty, and there was
doing things in order to the calculating of the debts
of the Navy and other business, aU the afternoon. At
night I went to the Privy Seale, where I found Mr.
Crofts and Mathews making up all their things to leave
the ofifice to-morrow, to those that come to wait the
next month. I took them to the Sun Taverne and
there made them drink, and discoursed conceming
the ofifice, and what I was to expect to-morrow about
Baron, who pretends to the next month.
August I St. Up very early, and by water to White
haU to my Lord's, and there talked with him about the
affairs of the Navy, and how I was now to wait to-day
at the Privy Seale. Hence to the Privy Seale Ofifice,
where I got (by Mr. Mathew's means) possession of
the books and table, but with some expectations
of Baron's bringing of a warrant from the King to
have this month. I took at noon Mr. Harper to the
Leg in King Street, and did give him his dinner, who
did StiU advise me much to act wholly myself at the
Privy Seale, but I told him that I could not, because
I had other business to take up my time. In the
aftemoon at the ofiSce again, where we had many
things to sign ; and I went to the Council Chamber,
and there got my Lord to sign the first bill, and the
rest aU myself; but received no money to-day. After
I had signed aU I went with Dick ScobeU and Luellin
to drink at a bottle beer house in the Strand, and after
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in Fish Street bought a Lobster, and after I had bought
it I met with Winter and Mr. Delabarr, and there with a
piece of sturgeon of theirs we went to the Sun Taveme
in the street and eat them. Late home and to bed.
2d. To Westminster by water with Sir W. Batten
and Sir W. Pen (our servants in. anothe^ boat) to the
Admiralty ; and from thence I went to my Lord's to
fetch him thither, where we stayed in the moming
about ordering of money for the victuallers, and advis
ing how to get a sum of money to carry on the busi
ness of the Navy. From thence W. Hewer and I to
the office of Privy Seale, where I stayed all the after
noon, and received about 40/. for yesterday and to-day,
at which my heart rejoiced for God's blessing to me,
to give me this advantage by chance, there being of
this 40/. about 10/. due to me for this day's work. So
great is the present profit of this office, above what it
was in the King's time ; there being the last month
about 300 biUs, whereas in the late King's time it was
much to have 40. With my money home by coach,
it being the first time that I could get home before
our gates were shut since I came to the Navy ofifice.
I went and cast up the expense that I laid out upon
my former house (because there are so many that are
desirous of it, and I am, in my mind, loth to let it
go out of my hands, for fear of a tum) . I find my
layings-out to come to about 20/. which with my fine
wiU come to about 22/. to him that shall hire my
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3rd. Up betimes this morning, and after the barber
- had done with me, then to the oflSce, where I and Sir
WiUiam Pen only did meet and despatch business
At noon my wife and I by coach to Dr. Clerke's to
dinner. I was very much taken with his lady, a comely
proper woman, though not handsome ; but a woman
of the best language I ever heard." After dinner at
the Privy Seale Ofifice all day, signing things and taking
money all day, so that I could not do as I had intended,
that is to retum to them and go to the Red BuU Play
house .^
4th. To White HaU, where I found my Lord gone
with the King by water to dine at the Tower with Sir
J. Robinson,3 Lieutenant. I found my Lady Jemimah,-*
at my Lord's, with whom I staid and dined, all alone ;
after dinner to the Privy Seale Ofifice, where I did
business. So to a Committee of Parliament (Sir Hen.
Finch,5 Chairman), to give them an answer to an order
of theirs, " that we could not give them any account of
tlie Accounts of the Navy in the years 36, 37, 38, 39,
40, as they desire." After that I went and bespoke
some linen of Betty Lane in the Hall, and after that

" Compare 2nd May, 1662: 13th Jan., 1662-63: and 6th July, 1664.
2 It stood in St, John's Street, on what is now Red Bull Yard, St, John
Street Road. See 23rd March, 1661.
3 Sir John Robinson, created a Baronet for his services to Charles II. ,
1660, and had an augmentation to his arms. He was Lord Mayor of London,
1663. He retained the Lieutenancy of the Tower till 1678. A portrait of
him is at Mr. Vemon Smith's, at Farming Woods, in Northamptonshire.
4 Lady Jemima Montagu,
s Solicitor-General, 1660; Lord Keeper, 1673: Chancellor, 1675; created
Earl of Nottingham, i68i, Ob. 1682.

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\
to the Trampet. At night, it being very rainy, and it
thundering and lightning exceedingly, I took coach
at the Trampet door, taking Monsieur L'Impertinent
along with me as far as the Savoy. I made haste
home. To bed, having not time to write letters, and
indeed having so many to write to aU places that I
have no heart to go about them.
5th (Lord's day). My wife being in much pain, I
went this morning to Dr. WiUiams, in Holbome, and
he did give me an ointment which I sent home by my
boy, and a plaister which I took with me to West
minster, where I dined with Mr. Shepley. After dinner
to St. Margaret's, where the first time I ever heard
Common Prayer in that Church. I sat with Mr. HiU
in his pew. Church done I went and Mr. Shepley to
see W. Howe at Mr. Pierce's, where I staid singing
of songs and psalms an hour or two, and were very
pleasant with Mrs. Pierce and him. After that to
Westminster stairs, where I saw a fray between IV^n-
heer Clinke, a Dutchman, that was at Hartlibb's wed
ding, and a waterman, which made good sport. After
that I got a Gravesend boat, that was come up to
fetch some. bread on this side the bridge, and got
them to carry me to the bridge, and so home. After
prayers to bed.
6th. This morning at the ofifice, and, that being
done, home to dinner all alone, my wife being iU in
pain a-bed, which I was troubled at, and not a little
impatient. This night Mr. Man offered me 1000/. for
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water ; but yet I dare not take it tiU I speak with my
Lord to have his consent.
7th. Mr. Moore and myself dined at my Lord's
with Mr. Shepley. While I was at dinner in come
Sam. HartUbb ' and his brother-in-law, now knighted
by the King,^ to request my promise of a ship for
them to HoUand, which I had promised to get for
them. After dinner to the Privy Seale all the after
noon. At night, meeting Sam. Hartlibb, he took me
by coach to Kensington, to my Lord of Holland's ; I
staid in the coach whUe he went in about his business.
Thence to my ofifice of Privy Seale, and, having signed
some things there, with Mr. Moore and Dean FuUer
to the Leg in King Street, and, sending for my wife,
we dined there very merry, and after dinner parted.
Sth. To Mr. Butier's to see his daughters, the first
time that ever we made a visit to them. We found
them very pretty, and Coll. Dillon 3 there, a very
meyry and witty companion, but methinks they hve
in a gaudy but very poor condition. At night from
the Privy Seale, Mr. Woodson and Mr. Jennings and
I to the Sun Taveme till it was late, and from thence
to my Lord's, where my wife was come from Mrs.
Blackbume's to me, and after I had done some busi
ness with my Lord, she and I went to Mrs. Hunt's,
who would needs have us lie at her house to-night.
" Samuel Hartlib, son of a Polish merchant, and author of several in
genious works on Agriculture, for which he had a pension from Cromwell. —
Vide Chalmers's Biog. Diet.
^ Sir John Roder, or Roth. See ante, July roth,
3 Frances Butler's suitor: see ante, 25th July, ^nipost, 31st Dec, 1662,

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9th. With Judge Advocate Fowler, Mr. Creed, and
Mr. Shepley to the Rhenish Wine-house," and Captain
Hayward of the Plymouth, who is now ordered to
carry my Lord Winchelsea, Embassador to Constanti
nople. We were very merry, and Judge Advocate did
give Captain Hayward his Oath of Allegiance and
Supremacy. IOth. With Mr. Moore and Creed to Hide-parke
by coach, and saw a fine foot-race three times round
the Park, between an Irishman and Crow, that was
once my Lord Claypoole's ^ footman. (By the way I
cannot forget that my Lord Claypoole did the other
day make enquiry of Mrs. Hunt, concerning my
House in Axe-yard, and did set her on work to get
it of me for him, which methinks is a very great
change.) Crow beat the other by above two miles.
Returned from Hide Park, I went to my Lord's, and
took Will by coach and went home, taking my lute
home with me. It had been all this while since I
came from sea at my Lord's for him to play on. For
this month or two it is not imaginable how busy my

" In Channel, now Cannon Row, Westminster, at the end of a passage
leading from King Street. It is mentioned again Nov. 24, 1660, There was
another Rhenish wine-house in Crooked Lane. See May 23, i66r.
2 John Lord Claypool^ married, in 1645, Elizabeth, second daughter of
Oliver Cromwell, to whom he became Master of the Horse, and a Lord of lhe
Bedchamber: he was also placed in his father-in-law's Upper House. During
Richard CromweU's time he retained all his places at Court; and at the Res
toration, never having made an enemy whilst his relations were in power, he
was not molested, and lived till 1688. His father had been proceeded against
in the Star Chamber, for resisting the payment of Ship Money, and was by
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head has been, so that I have neglected to write letters
to my uncle Robert in answer to many of his, and to
other friends, nor indeed have I done anything as
to my own family, and especially this month my wait
ing at the Privy Seale makes me much more unable
to think of anything, because of my constant attend
ance there after I have done at the Navy Ofifice.
But blessed be God for my good chance of the Privy
Seale, where I get every day I beheve about 3/. This
place my Lord did give me by chance, neither he nor
I thinking it to be of the worth that he and I find it
to be. Never since I was a man in the world was I
ever so great a stranger to publique affairs as now
I am, having not read a new book or anything like it,
or enquired after any news, or what the Parhament do,
or in any wise how things go. Many people look after
my house in Axe-yard to hire it, so that I am troubled
with them, and I have a great mind to get the money
to buy goods for my house at the Navy Ofifice, and
yet I am loth to put it off because Mr. Man bids
me 1000/. for my ofifice, which is so great a sum that
I am loth to settle myself at my new house, lest I
should take Mr. Man's offer in case I found my Lord
wiUing to it.
I ith. To my Lord this moming, who did give me
order to get some things ready against the aftemoon
for the Admiralty where we would meet. To the
Privy Seale, and from thence going to my own house
in Axe-yard, I went in to Mrs. Crisp's, where I met
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Lord to sign for a ship for his brother and sister, who
went away hence this day to Gravesend, and from
thence to HoUand. Thence to my Lord's to dinner
with Mr. Shepley, so to the Privy Seale, and at night
home, and then sent for the barber, and was trimmed
in the kitchen, the first time that ever I was so. I
was vexed this night that W. Hewer was out of doors
till ten at night, but was pretty well satisfied again
when my wife told me that he wept because I was
angry, though indeed he did give me a good reason
for his being out, but I thought it a good occasion to
let him know that I do expect his being at home.
So to bed.
1 2th (Lord's day). To my Lord, and with him to
White Hall ChappeU, where Mr. Calamy preached,
and made a good sermon upon these words "To
whom much is given, of him much is required." He
was very officious with his three reverences to the
King, as others do. After sermon a brave anthem of
Captain Cooke's," which he himself sung, and the
King was well pleased vidth it. My Lord dined at
my Lord Chamberhn's,^ and I at his house with Mr.
Shepley. After dinner I went to walk, and meeting
Mrs. Lane of Westminster HaU, I took her to my
Lord's, and did give her a bottle of wine in the gar-
^ Henry Cooke, who had served in the Royal army, and obtained a cap
tain's commission, was made, at the Restoration, Master of the Children of
the Chapel Royal; he was an excellent musician; and died in 1672. He was
one of the original performers in the " Siege of Rhodes." Captains Cooke
and Cocke require to be accurately distinguished.
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den, where Mr. Fairbrother, of Cambridge, did come
and found us, and drank with us. Home and to
bed. 13th. A sitting day at our ofifice. After dumer to
WhitehaU, to the Privy Seale, whidier my father came
to me and told me that he had propounded Mr. John
Pickering for Sir Thomas Honywood's daughter, Avhich
I think he do not deserve for his own merit. I know
not what he may do for his estate. Then I to my
Lord's, where he told me that he would suddenly go
into the country, and so did commend the business
of his sea commission to me in his absence. After
that home by coach, and took my 100/. that I had
formerly left at Mr. Rawlinson's, home with me, which
is the first that ever I was master of at once. To
prayers, and to bed.
14th. To the Privy Seale, and thence to my Lord's,
where Mr. Pim, the taylor, and I agreed upon making
me a velvet coat. From thence to the Privy Seale
again, where Sir Samuel Moriand" came in with a
Baronet's grant to pass, which the King had given
him to raake money of. Here he staid with me a
great while ; and he told me the whole manner of his
serving the King in the time of the Protector ; and
how Thurloe's bad usage made him to do it ; how he
discovered Sir R. WiUis, and how he had sunk his
fortune' for the King; and that now the King had
given him a pension of 500/. per annum out of the
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Post Ofifice for Ufe, and the benefit of two Baronets ;
aU which do make me begm to. think that he is not
so much a fool as I took him to be. Home, and
after dinner in comes young Captain Cuttance of the
SpeedweU, who is sent up for the gratuity given the
seamen that brought the King over. He brought me
a firkin of butter for my wife, which is very welcome.
My father, after dinner, takes leave, after I had given
him 40J. for the last half year for my brother John at
Cambridge. I did also make even with Mr. Fair-
brother for my degree of Master of Arts," which cost
me about 9/. i6,f. To White Hall, and my wife with
me by water. At night home with her by water, where
I made good sport with having the girle and the boy
to comb my head, before I went to bed, in the
kitchen. 15 th. To the ofifice, and after dinner by water to
White HaU, where I found the King gone this morn
ing by 5 of the clock to see a Dutch pleasure-boat ^
below bridge, where he dines, and my Lord with him.
The King do tire aU his people that are about him
with early rising since he came. To the ofifice all the
aftemoon, and thence to my Lord's, where he did
give me direction about his business in his absence, he
intending to go into the country to-morrow moming.
Here I lay all night.
1 6th. This morning my Lord carried me by coach
to Mr. Crew's, in the way talking how good he did
" See a7ite, July 8th, and note.
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hope my place would be to me, and in general speak
ing that it was, not the salary of anyplace that did
make a man rich, but the opportunity of getting
money while he is in the place. He took leave, and
so for Hinchinbroke. My Lady Jemimah and Mr.
Thomas Crew in the coach with him.
17th. To the ofifice, and that done home to dinner
where Mr. Unthanke, my wife's tailor, dined with us,
we have nothing but a dish of sheep's trotters. At
night I and Creed and the Judge-Advocate went to
Mr. Pim, the tailor's, who took us to the Half Moone,
and there did give us great store of wine and ancho
vies, and would pay for them aU. This night I saw
Mr. Creed show many the strangest emotions to shift
off his drink I ever saw in my Ufe. By coach home
and to bed.
I Sth. Towards Westminster by water, and landed
my wife at Whitefriar's, with 5/. to buy her a petticoat.
My father has persuaded her to buy a most fine cloth
of 26,f. a yard, and a rich lace, that the petticoat wiU
come to 5/., at which I was somewhat troubled, but
she doing it very innocently, I could not be angry. I
did give her more money, and sent her away. Captain
Ferrers took me and Creed to the Cockpitt play, the
first that I have had time to see since my coming
from sea, "The LoyaU Subject,"" where one Kinas-
ton,= a boy, acted the Duke's sister, but made the
¦ A tragi-comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher.
2 Edward Kynaston, engaged by Sir W. Davenant in 1660, to perform the
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loveUest lady that ever I saw in my life. After the
play done, we three went to druik, and by Captain
Ferrer's means, Kinaston and another that acted
Archas, the General, came and drank with us. Hence
home by coach, and after being trimmed, leaving my
wife to look after her httle bitch, which was just now
a-whelping, I to bed.
19th (Lord's day). This morning Sir W. Batten,
Pen, and myself, went to church to the church
wardens, to demand a pew, which at present could
not be given us, but we are resolved to have one buUt.
So we staid and heard Mr. Mills, a very good minister.
Home to dinner, where my wife had on her new
petticoat that she bought yesterday, which indeed is
a very fine cloth and a fine lace ; but that being of a
light colour, and the lace all silver, it makes no great
show. Mr. Creed and my brother Tom dined with
me. After they were' gone, I went up to put my
papers in order, and finding my wife's clothes Ue
carelessly laid up, I was angry with her, which I was
troubled for. After that my wife and I went and
walked in the garden, and so home to bed.
20th (Ofifice day). As Sir W. Pen and I were
walking in the garden, a messenger came to me from
the Duke of York to fetch me to the Lord Chancel
lor. So I went with Mrs. Tumer in her coach as far
as Worcester House, but my Lord ChanceUor being
gone to the House of Lords, I went thither, and
parts of tragedy, and continued on the stage till the end of King William's
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(there being a law case before them this day) got in,
and there staid aU the moming, seeing their manner
of sitting on woolpacks, &c., which I never did before.
After the House was up, I spoke to my Lord, and
had order from him to come to him at night. This
afternoon at the Privy Seale, where reckoning with
Mr. Moore, he had got 100/. for me together, which I
was glad of, guessing tliat the profits of this month
would come to 100/. With W. Hewer by coach to
Worcester House," where I light, sending him home
with the 100/. that I received to-day. Here I staid,
and saw my Lord Chancellor come into his Great
Hall, where wonderful how much company there was
to expect him at a Seale. Before he would begin any
business, he took my papers of the state of the debts
of the Fleet, and there viewed them before all the
people, and did give me his advice privately how to
order things, to get as much money as we can of the
Parliament. That being done, I went home, where I
found aU my things come home from sea, of which
I was glad, though many of the things are quite spoilt
with mould by reason of being so long a shipboard,
and my cabin being not even. I spent much time to
dispose of them to-night, and so to bed.
2 ist. This moming I went to White Hall with Sir
W. Pen by water, who in our passage told me how he
was bred up under Sir W. Batten. We went to Mr.
Coventry's chamber, and consulted of drawing my
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papers of debts of the Navy against the aftemoon for
the Committee. So to Westminster, where I met Mr.
Crew and dined with him, where there dined one
Mr. Hickeman," an Oxford man, who spoke very much
against the height of the now old clergy, for putting
out many of the reUgious fellows of CoUeges, and
inveighing against them for their being drunk, which,
if trae, I am sorry to hear. After that towards West
minster, where I caUed on Mr. Pim, and there found
my velvet coat (the first that ever I had), and a vel
vet mantle, which I took to the Privy Seale Ofifice,
and there locked them up, and then to the Queen's
Court, and there Colonel Birch read my papers, and
desired some addition. Then meeting Monsieur Es
char (Mr. Montagu's man), about the Savoy, he took
Mr. Creed and me to the Brazennose Taveme, and
there drank and so parted, and I home by coach,
and there, it being post-night, I wrote to my Lord to
give him notice that aU things are weU; that Gen
eral Monk is made Lieutenant of Ireland, which my
Lord Roberts ^ (made Deputy) do not like of, to be
Deputy to any man but the King himself.
22nd. Ofifice, which done. Sir W. Pen took me into
" Henry Hickman, a native of Worcestershire, took the degree of B.A. al
St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge, and migrating to Oxford, obtained a fellow
ship at Magdalen College, from the usurping powers, which he lost in 1660,
to make room fcjr the rightful owner. He then retired to Holland, and passed
most of his time abroad, dying at Leyden in 1692. He wrote several theo
logical tracts, and was considered a severe enemy to the ceremonies of the
Church of England.
2 John, second Lord Robartes, advanced to the dignity of Earl of Radnor,
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the garden, and there told me how Mr. Tumer do
intend to petition the Duke for an aUowance extra as
one of the Clerks of the Navy, which he desired me
to join with him in the furthering of, which I promised
to do so that it did not reflect upon me or to my
damage to have any other added, as if I was not able
to perform my place. In the House, after the Com
mittee was up, I met with Mr. G. Montagu, and joyed
him in his entrance (this being his 3d day) for Dover.
Here he made me sit all alone in the House, none but
he and I, half an hour, discoursing how things stand,
and in short he told me how there was hke to be
many factions at Court between Marquis Ormond,"
General Monk, and the Lord Roberts, about the busi
ness of Ireland ; as there is already between the two
Houses about the Act of Indemnity; and in the
House of Commons, between the Episcopalian and
Presbyterian men. Hence to my father's (walking
with Mr. Herring, the minister of St. Bride's), and
took them to the Sun Taverne. So home and to bed.
23rd. By water to Doctors' Commons to Dr. Walk-
er,2 to give him my Lord's papers to view over, con
ceming his being empowered to be Vice-Admiral
under the Duke of York. Thence by water to White
HaU, to the Parliament House, where I spoke with
Colonel Birch,3 and so to the Admiralty chamber,
¦- James, afterwards created Duke of Ormond, and K. G., and twice Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland.
2 One of the Judges of the Admiralty,
3 Colonel John Birch represented Leominster at that time, and afterwards
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where we and Mr. Coventry had a meeting about sev
eral businesses. Amongst others, it was moved that
Phineas Pett ' (kinsman to the commissioner) of
Chatham, should be suspended his employment tiU
he had answered some articles put in against him, as
that he should formerly say that the King was a
bastard and his mother a strumpet. Hence to West
minster Hall, where I met with my father, Bowyer,
and Mr. Spicer, and them I took to the Leg in Kjng
Street, and did give them a dish or two of meat, and
so away to the Privy Seale, where, the King being out
of town, we have had nothing to do these two days.
To Westminster Hall, where I met with W. Symons,
&c., and with them to the Dogg, where we eat a musk
melon,^ the first that I have eat this year.
25th. This night W. Hewer brought me home 3
from Mr. Pim's my velvet coat and cap, the first that
ever I had.
26th (Lord's day). With Sir W. Pen to the parish
church, where we are placed in the highest pew of all.
A stranger preached a dry and tedious long sermon.
Dined at home. To church again in the aftemoon
with my wife; in the garden and on the leads at
night, and so to supper and to bed.
27th. This moming comes one with a vessel of

" Phineas Pett, an eminent ship.builder employed by the Admiralty.
2 Melons were hardly known in England till Sir George Gardiner brought
one from Spain, when they became in general estimation. The ordinary price
was five or six shillings. — Quarterly Revieiu, vol. xix. p. 20.
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Northdown ale from Mr. Pierce, the purser, to me,
and after him another with a brave Turkey carpet and
a jar of olives from Captain Cuttance, and a pair of
fine turtle doves to my wife. These things came up
to-day in our smack, and my boy Ely came along
with them, and came after ofifice was done to see me.
I did give him half a crowne because I saw that he
was ready to cry to see that he could not be enter
tained by me here. In the aftemoon to the Privy
Seale, where good store of work now toward the end
of the month. Major Hart came to me, whom I did
receive with wine and anchovies, which made me so
dry that I was iU with them all night, and was fain to
have the girle rise and fetch me some drink.
28th. Sometime I spent this morning beginning to
teach my wife some scale in musique, and found her
apt beyond imagination. To the Privy Seale, where
great store of work to-day. Colonel Scroope " is this
day excepted out of the Act of Indemnity, which has
been now long in coming out, but it is expected to
morrow. I carried home So/, from the Privy Seale,
by coach, and at night spent a little more time with
my wife about her musique with great content. To
bed, a litde troubled that I fear my boy WiU is a thief
and has stole some money of mine, particularly a
letter that Mr. Jenkins did leave the last week with
me with half a crowne in it to send to his son.
29th (Ofifice day). Before I went to the ofifice my
" Colonel Adrian Scroope, one of the persons who sat in judgment upon
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wife and I examined my boy WUl about his stealing
of things, but he denied aU with the greatest subtlety
and confidence in the world. To the ofifice, and after
ofifice then to the Church, where we took another view
of the place where we had resolved to build a gallery,
and have set men about doing it. Home to dinner,
and there I found my wife had discovered my boy
WiU's theft and a great deal more than we imagined,
at which I was vexed and intend to put him away.
To my ofifice at the Privy Seale in the aftemoon, and
then sent for my boy's father and talked with him
about his son, and had his promise that if I wiU send
home his boy,' he will take him notwithstanding his
indenture. To bed, and caused the boy's clothes to
be brought up to my chamber. But after we were aU
a-bed, the wench (which lies in our chamber) called
us to listen of a sudden, which put my wife into such
a fright that she shook every joint of her, and a long
time that I could not get her out of it. The noise
was the boy, we did beheve, got in a desperate mood
out of his bed to do himself or William [Hewer]
some mischief. But the wench went down and got a
candle lighted, and finding the boy in bed, and lock
ing the doors fast, with a candle burning all night, we
slept weU, but with a great deal of fear.
30th. We found all well in the morning below stairs,
but the boy in a sad plight of seeming sorrow ; but he
is the most cunning rogue that ever I met with of his
age. To White Hall, where I met with the Act of
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the Act of Rate for Pole-money, and for judicial pro
ceedings. This the first day that ever I saw my wife
wear black patches since we were married. My Lord
came to town to-day.
31st. To my ofifice in Seething Lane, dined at
home, and after dinner to my Lord, who told me
that he is ordered to go suddenly to sea, and did
give me some orders to be drawing up against his
going. September ist. Dined at the Bullhead upon the
best venison pasty that ever I eat of in my life, and
with one dish more, it was the best dinner I ever was
at. Here rose in discourse at table a dispute between
Mr. Moore and Dr. Clerke, the former affirming that
it was essential to a tragedy to have the argument of it
true, which the Doctor denied, and left it to me to be
judge, and the cause to be determined next Tuesday
morning at the same place, upon the eating of the
remains of the pasty, and the loser to pay ioj-. AU
this aftemoon sending express to the fleet, to order
things against my Lord's coming : and • taking direc
tion of my Lord about some rich fumiture to take
along with him for the Princesse." And talking of
this, I hear by Mr. Townsend, that there is the great
est preparation against the Prince de Ligne's^ coming
" The Princess of Orange, See note, page 117,
^ Claude Lamoral, Prince de Ligne, had commanded the cavalry in the
Low countries, was afterwards Viceroy of Sicily, and Governor of Milan.
He died at Madrid in 1679, He had married, by dispensation, his cousin
Maria Clara of Nassau, widow of his brother Albert Henry, who had
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over from the King of Spain, that ever was in England
for their Embassador.
2nd (Sunday). To chappeU, where Dr. Fem, a
good honest sermon upon " The Lord is my shield."
After sermon a duU anthem, and so to my Lord's and
dined. So to St. Margarett's, and heard a good
sermon upon the text "Teach us the old way," or
something like it, wherein he ran over aU the new
tenets in policy and religion, which have brought us
into aU our late divisions.
3rd. Up and to Mr.  , the goldsmith, and there,
with much ado, got him to put a gold ring to the
jeweU, which the King of Sweden did give my Lord :
out of which my Lord had now taken the King's pic
ture, and intends to make a George of it. About
noon my Lord, having taken leave of the King in the
Shield GaUery ' (where I saw with what kindnesse the
King did hugg my Lord at his parting), I went over
with him and saw him in his coach at Lambeth, and
there took leave of him, he going to the Downes.
Mr. Cooke came back from my Lord for me to
get him some things, a toilet cap and comb case of
silk, to make use of in HoUand, for he goes to the
Hague. 4i:h. Looking over the joiners, who are flooring my
dining-room, and doing business with Sir Williams, both
at the ofifice, and so to the Bullhead, where we had
was Ambassador Extraordinary from Belgium at the coronation of Queen
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the remains of our pasty, where I did give ray verdict
against Mr. Moore upon last Saturday's wager, where
Dr. Fuller coming in do confinn me in my verdict.
So home by water, and there sat up late setting my
papers in order, and teaching my wife her musique
lesson, in which I take great pleasure. So to bed.
5th. To the ofifice. Home to dinner, where I did
so clear up my boy's " roguery to his father, that he
could not speak against my putting him away, and so
I did give him io.f. for the boy's clothes, and tore his
indentures. This day I saw our Dedimus to be sworn
in the peace by, which wiU be shortly. In the evening
my wife being a little impatient I went along with her
to buy her a necklace of pearle, which will cost 4/.
io,f., which I am willing to comply with her in for her
encouragement, and because I have lately got money,
having now above 200/. in cash beforehand in the
world. Home, and having in our way bought a rabbit
and two little lobsters, my wife and I did sup late,
and so to bed. Great newes now-a-day of the Duke
d'Anjou's^ desire to marry the Princesse Henrietta.
Hugh Peters is said to be taken. The Duke of
Gloucester is iU, and it is said it wiU prove the small
pox. 6th. Sir W. Batten told me how Commissioner Pett
did pay himself for the entertainment that he did give
the King at Chatham at his coming in, and 20^-. a day
" See 30th June, 1660, and 2gth Aug. 1660.
2 Only brother to Louis XIV. ; became Duke of Orleans on the death of
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all the time he was in Holland, which I wonder at,
and so I see there is a great deal of envy between the
two. I am unwiUing to mix my fortune with him that
is going down the wind. Sent all my books to my
Lord's, in order to send them to my house that I now
dweU in.
7th. This day my Lord set sail for Holland.
Sth. At night sent for by Sir W. Pen, with whom I
sat late drinking a glass of wine and discoursing, and
I find him to be a very sociable man, and an able
man, and very cunning.
9th (Sunday) . In the moming with Sir W. Pen to
church. Home to dinner, and Sir W. Pen with me
to such as I had, and it was very handsome, it being
the first tiine that he ever saw my wife or house since
he came hither. Afternoon to church with my wife,
and after that home, and there walked with Major
Hart, who came to see me, in the garden, who tells
me that we are all like to be speedily disbanded," and
then I lose the benefit of a muster.
IOth (Ofifice day). News of the Duke's intention
to go to-morrow to the fleet for a day or two to meet
his sister. Sent to hire two Catches for the present
use of the Duke. So we landed at the Bear at the
Bridge foot, where we saw Southwarke Fair, I having
not at all seen Bartholemew Fair, and so to the Tower
wharfe, where we did hire two catches.
nth. At Sir W. Batten's with Sir W. Pen we drank
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our moming draft, and from thence for an hour in the
office. Dined at Sir W. Batten's, and by this time I
see that we are like to have a very good correspond
ence, but chargeable. At night I caused the girle to
wash the wainscot of our parlour, which she did very
weU, which caused my wife and I good sport. The
Duke of York did go to-day by break of day to the
Downs. The Duke of Gloucester iU. The House
of Parhament was to adjourn to-day.
12th (Ofifice day). My brother Tom came to my
house with a letter from my brother John, wherein he
desires some books : Barthol. Anatom., Rosin. Rom.
Antiqs., and Gassend. Astronomy, the last of which I
did give him, and an angel against my father buying
of the others. At home all the afternoon looking
after my workmen, whose laziness do much trouble
me. 13th. In the afternoon my wife went to the burial
of a child of my cozen Scott's, and it is observable
that within this month ray Aunt Wight was brought to
bed of two girles, ray cozen Stradwick of a girle and
a boy, and aU died. Mr. Hawley did give me a httle
black rattoon," painted and gUt. Home by water.
This day the Duke of Gloucester died of the smaU
pox, by the great negligence of the doctors.
14th (Ofifice day). I got 42/. 15^. appointed me by
biU for my employment of Secretary to the 4th of this
month, it being the last money I shall receive upon
" Probably an Indian rattan cane.

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that score. My wife went this afternoon to see my
mother, who is very ill, at which my heart is very sad.
In the aftemoon LueUin, &c. came to my house, and
he being drunk, and I being to defend the ladies from
his kissing them, I kissed them myself very often with
a great deal of mirth.
15 th. To Westrainster, where I raet with Dr. Cas
tles, who chidd me for some errors in our Privy-Seale
business ; among the rest, for lettmg the fees of the
six judges pass unpaid, which I know not what to say
to, tiU I speak to Mr. Moore. I was much troubled,
for fear of being forced to pay the raoney rayself.
Called at my father's going home, and bespoke
mouming for myself, for the death of the Duke of
Gloucester. 1 6th (Sunday). To Dr. Hardy's church, and heard
a good sermon upon the occasion of the Duke's
death. His text was, " .4nd is there any evil in the
city and the Lord hath not done it? " Home to din
ner, having some sport with Wm. Hewer, who never
had been at Common Prayer before. My Lord of
Oxford ' is also dead of the smaU-pox ; in whom his
family dyes, after 600 years having that honour in
their family and name. To the Park, where I saw
how far they had proceeded in the PeUmeU, and in
making a river through the Park, which I had never
seen before since it was begun. Thence to White
" This must be a mistake for some other person, Robert, nineteenth Earl
of Oxford, having died in 1632, and Aubrey de Vere, his successor, the twen
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HaU garden, where I saw the King in purple " moum
ing for his brother. A gentleman in the Poultry had
a great and dirty faU over a waterpipe that lay along
the channel.
17th. I did give my wife 15/. this morning to go to
buy raourning things for her and me, which she did.
Went to see the Prince de Ligne, Spanish Embassa
dor, come in to his audience, which was done in very
great state. I received 41/. for my interest in my
house, and so I am freed of my poor little house.
Home by link with my money under my arm. So to
bed after I had looked over the things my wife had
bought to-day, with which being not very well pleased,
they costing too much, I went to bed in a discon
tent. I Sth. By coach to Westminster Hall. So on foot
home, by the way buying a hat band and other things
for my mourning to-morrow. This day I heard that
the Duke of York, upon the news of the death of his
brother yesterday, came hither by post last night.
19th (Ofifice day). I put on my mouming and went.
to the ofifice. At noon I went to the Miter taverne ^
in Wood-streete (a house of the greatest note in Lon
don), where I met W. Symons, and D. Scobell, and
their wives, Mr. Saraford, LueUin, Chetwind, one Mr.
" " The Queen-mother of France,'' says Ward, in his '* Diary," p. 177,
" died at Agrippina, 1642, and her son Louis, 1643. for whom King Charles
mourned in Oxford in purple, which is princes mouming." Query :
When was the custom discontinued ?
^ Kept by William Proctor, who died insolvent of the plague in 166s.
See Diary, 3rst July, 1665. (M. B.)

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Vivion, and Mr. White," formerly chaplin to the Lady
Protectresse » (and stiU so, and one they say that is
likely to get my Lady Francesse for his wife). Here
sorae of us feU to handycapp,^ a sport that I never
knew before, which was very good.
20th. At home, and at the ofifice, and in the gar
den walking with both Sir WiUiams aU the morning.
After dinner to Major Hart's lodgings in Cannon-
streete, who used me very kindly with wine and good
discourse, particularly upon the ill method which
Colonel Birch and the Committee use in defending of
the army and the navy ; promising the Parliament to
save them a great deal of raoney, when we judge that
it will cost the King raore than if they had nothing to
do with with it, by reason of their delayes and scmpu-
lous enquirys into the account of both.
2 ist (Ofifice day). There all the morning and after
noon till 4 o'clock. Thence to WhitehaU. Back by
water about 8 o'clock, and upon the water saw the
corpse of the Duke of Gloucester brought down Som
erset House stairs, to go by water to Westminster, to
" According to Noble, Jeremiah White married Lady Frances Cromwell's
waiting-woman, in Oliver's life-time, and they lived together fifty years.
Lady Frances had two husbands, Mr. Robert Rich, and Sir John Russell, the
last of whom she survived fifty-two years, dying 1721-2.
2 Oliver Cromwell's wife.
3 " A game at cards not unhke Loo, but with this difference, the winner
of one trick has to put in a double stake, the winner of two tricks a triple
stake, and so on. Thus, if six persons are playing, and the general stake is
If., suppose A gains the three tricks, he gains 6s., and has to ' hand i' the
cap,' or pool, 4J. for the next deal. Suppose A gains two tricks and B one,
then A gains 4^. and B zs., and A has to stake 3^. and B zs. for the next
deal." — HiNDLEV's Tavem A?tecdotes. (M. B.)

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be buried. To the Hoope Taverne and sent for Mr.
Chaplin, who with Nicholas Osborne and one Daniel
came to us and we drank off two or three quarts of
wine, which was very good ; the drawing of our wine
causing a great quarrel in the house between the two
drawers which should draw us the best, which caused
a great deal of noise and faUing out till the master
parted them, and came up to us and did give ' us a
large account of the liberty that he gives his servants,
aU alike, to draw what wine they wUl to please his cus
tomers ; and we did eat above 200 walnuts. Nicho
las Osbome did give me a barrel of samphire, and
showed me the keys of Mardyke Fort," which he that
was commander of the fort sent him as a token when
the fort was demolished, which I was mightily pleased
to see, and I will get them of him if I can.
22nd. This moming I caUed up my boy (ray maid's
brother, who was gone to bed, and I could not see
him last night), and I found hira a pretty, well-looked
boy, and one that I think will please rae. At the
New Exchange I bought a pair of short black stock
ings, to wear over a pair of silk ones for mourning ;
and here I met with The. Turner and Joyce, buying
of things to go into mourning too for the Duke, which
is now the raode of all the ladies in towne. This day
Mr. Edw. Pickering is corae frora my Lord, and says
that he left him well in HoUand, and that he wUl be
here within three or four days. To Westminster,
* A fort four miles east of Dunkirk, probably dismantled when that town
was sold to Louis XIV.

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where I bought a hanging jack. I had the boy up
to-night for his sister to teach him to put me to bed,
and I heard him read, which he did pretty weU.
23rd (Lord's day). My wife got up to put on her
mourning to-day and to go to Church this mommg.
I up and set down my joumaU for these 5 days past.
This morning came one from my father's with a black
cloth coat, made of my short cloak, to walk up and
down in. To church my wife and I, with Sir W. Bat
ten, where we heard of Mr. Mills a very good sermon
upon these words, " So ran that ye may obtain." To
the Abbey, where I expected to hear Mr. Baxter or
Mr. Rowe preach their fareweU sermon, and in Mr.
Symons's pew I sat and heard Mr. Rowe. Before
sermon I laughed at the reader, who in his prayer de
sires of God that He would imprint his word on the
thumbs of our right hands and on the right great toes
of our right feet. In the midst of the serraon some '
plaster fell from the top of the Abbey, that made rae
and all the rest in our pew afeard, and I wished my
self out. This afternoon, the King having news of the
Princesse being come to Margatte, he and the Duke
of York went down thither in barges to her.
24th (Ofifice day) . From thence to dinner by coach
with ray wife to my Cozen Scott's. I arose from table
and went to the Temple church, where I had appoint
ed Sir W. Batten to meet him ; and there at Sir Hene
age Finch SoUicitor General's chambers, before him
and Sir W. WUde, Recorder of London (whom we
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peace for Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Southampton ;
with which honour I did find myself mightUy pleased,
though I am wholly ignorant in the duty of a justice
of peace. From thence to my Lord's to enquire
whether they have had any thing from my Lord or no.
Knocking at the door, there passed by Mons. L'Im
pertinent [Mr. Butler] for whom I took a coach and
went with him to a dancing meeting in Broad Street,
at the house that was formerly the glass-house, Luke
ChanneU Master of the School, where I saw good
dancing, but it growing late, and the room very fuU of
people and so very hot, I went home.
25 th. To the ofifice, where Sir W. Batten, Colonel
Slingsby, and I sat awhUe, and Sir R. Ford coming to
us about some business, we talked together of the in
terest of this kingdom to have a peace with Spain and
a war with France and Holland ; where Sir R. Ford
talked like a raan of great reason and experience.
And afterwards I did send for a cup of tee " (a China
drink) of which I never had drank before, and went
away (the King and the Princesse ^ coming up the

" The Mercurius Politicus of September 30th, 1658, sets forth : " That
excellent and by all Physicians, approved, China drink, called by the Chi-
neans Tcha, by other nations Tay alias Tee, is sold at the Sultaness Head
Coflee-House^ in Sweetings Rents, by the Royal Exchange, London." Tea
is said to have been occasionally sold in England as early as 1635 at the
exorbitant price of from £6 to £10 the pound, and presents were made thereof
to princes and grandees till the year 1657. The infusion of it in water was
taxed by the gallon in common with chocolate and sherbet, Zd. a gallon each.
(M. B.)
2 " The Princess Royal came from Gravesend to Whitehall by water, at
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river this afternoon as we were at our pay) . By coach
to Westminster, to inquire for my Lord's coming
thither, and I found him gone to Mr. Crew's, where I
found him weU. My Lord told me how the ship that
brought the Princesse and him (The Tredagh) did
knock six times upon the Kentish Knock, which put
them in great fear fbr the ship ; but got off weU. He
told me also how the King had knighted Vice-Admiral
Lawson and Sir Richard Stayner.
26th (Ofifice day). That done to the church, to
consult about our gaUery. So home to dinner, and
with the workmen all the aftemoon, our house being
in a most sad pickle. In the evening to the office,
where I feU a-reading of Speed's geography for a
while. So home thinking to have found Will at home,
but he not being come home I was very angry, and
when he came did give him a very great check for it,
and so to be(}.
2Sth (Ofifice day). AU the afternoon among my
workmen tiU 10 or 11 at night, and did give them
drink and very merry with them, it being my luck to
meet with a sort of droUing workmen on all occa
sions. 29th. AU day at home to make an end of our dirty
work of the plasterers, and indeed my kitchen is now
so handsome that I did not repent of all the trouble
that I have been put to, to have it done. This day or
tradesmen, and tirewomen, and others, that took that oppertunity to advance
their fortunes, by coming in with so excellent a Princess as without question
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yesterday, I hear. Prince Rupert " is come to Court ;
but welcome to nobody.
' 30th (Lord's day). To our Parish church both
forenoon and aftemoon all alone. At night went to
bed without prayers, my house being every where foul
above stairs.
October ist. Early to my Lord to WhitehaU.
Dined at home, and after dinner with my father to
the Miter, where I drank a glass of wine with Mr.
Mansell, a poor Reformado ^ of the Charles', who
came to see rae. The Commissioners are very busy
disbanding of the army, which they say do cause great
robbing. My layings out upon my house in fumiture
are so great that I fear I shaU not be able to go
through them without breaking one of my bags of
100/., I having but 200/. yet in the world.
2nd. With Sir Wm. Pen by water to WhitehaU,
being visited before I went out by my brother Tom,
who told rae that for his lying out of doors a day and
a night my father had forbade him to come any more
into his house, at which I was troubled, and did
soundly chide him for doing so, and upon confessing
his fault I told hira I would speak to my father. At
WiU's I met with Mr. Spicer, and with him to the
Abbey to see them at vespers. There I found but a
thm congregation already. So I see that religion, be
it what it will, is but a humour, and so the esteem
" Son of Frederic, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, afterwards styled King
of Bohemia, by Elizabeth, only sister to Charles I. Ob. 1682.
2 See p. 109.

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of it passeth as other things do. From thence by
coach to my father's, and discoursed with him about
Tom, and did give my advice to take him home again,
which I think he wiU do in pradence rather than put
him upon leaming the way of being worse. So home,
where my wife tells me what she has bought to-day,
namely, a bed and furniture for her chamber, with
which very weU pleased I went to bed.
3d. To ray Lord's, who sent a great iron chest to
White HaU; and I saw it carried into the King's
closet, where I saw raost incomparable pictures.
Among the rest a book open upon a desk, which I
durst have sworn was a reaU book. Back again to my
Lord, and dined aU alone with him, who did treat me
with a great deal of respect ; and after dinner did dis
course an hour with me, and advise about sorae way
to get himself some money to make up for all his
great expenses, saying that he beUeved that he might
have any thing that he would ask of the King. This
day I heard the Duke speak of a great design that he
and my Lord of Pembroke have, and a great many
others, of sending a venture to some parts of Africa
to dig for gold ore there. They intend to adrait as
many as wiU venture their money, and so make them
selves a company. 250/. is the lowest share for every
man. But I do not find that my Lord do much like it.
4th. I and Lieut. Lambert ' to Westrainster Abbey,
where we saw Dr. Frewen^ translated to the Arch-
" See June 7th, 1661, and Sept. 14th, 1664.
2 Dr. Accepted Frewen, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.

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bishoprick of York. Here I saw the Bishops of Win
chester," Bangor,^ Rochester,3 Bath and WeUs,-* and
Salisbury,5 aU in their habits, in King Henry Seventh's
chappell. But, Lord ! at their going out, how people
did most of them look upon thera as strange crea
tures, and few with any kind of love or respect.
From thence to my Lord's to dinner, and after dinner
Lieut. Lambert and I did look upon my Lord's model,
and he told me many things in a ship that I desired
to understand.
5th (Ofifice day). Dined at home, and aU the after
noon at home to see my painters make an end of their
work, which they did to-day to my content.
6th. Col. SUngsby* and I at the office getting a
catch ready for the Prince de Ligne to carry his things
away to-day, who is now going home again. About
noon comes Mr. Creed, who brought me some books
from HoUand, weU bound and good books, which I
thought he did intend to give me, but I found that
I must pay him. He dined with me and thence to
WhitehaU, where I was to give my Lord an account
of the stacions and victualls of the fleet, in order to
the choosing of a fleet fit for him to take to sea, to
bring over the Queene.
7th (Lord's day). To White HaU on foot, caUing
" Brian Duppa, translated from Salisbury.
2 William Roberts.
^ John Wamer, ob. 1666, aged 86.
* William Pierce, translated from Peterborough, 1632.
5 Humphrey Henchman, afterwards Bishop of London.
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at my father's to change my long black cloake for a
short one (long cloakes being now quite out) ; but he
being gone to church, I could not get one. I heard
Dr. Spurstow" preach before the King a poor dry
serraon ; but a very good anthem of Captn. Cooke's
afterwards. To my Lord's and dined with him ; he
all dinner time talking French to me, and telling me
the story how the Duke of York hath got my Lord
ChanceUor's daughter with chUd, and that she do lay
it to him, and that for certain he did proraise her
marriage, and had signed it with his blood, but that
he by stealth had got the paper out of her cabinett.
And that the King would have him to marry her, but
that he will not.^ So that the thing is very bad for the
Duke, and them aU ; but my Lord do make hght of
it, as a thing that he believes is not a new thing for
the Duke to do abroad. I perceive my Lord is grown
a man very indifferent in all matters of religion, and
so makes nothing of these things. After dinner to
the Abbey, where I heard them read the church-
service, but very ridiculously. A poor cold sermon
of Dr. Larab's,^ one of the prebends, in his habitt,
came afterwards, and so aU ended, and by my troth a
pitiful sorry devotion that these men pay. So walked
home by land, and before supper I read part of the

" William Spurstow, D.D. Vicar of Hackney and Master of Katherine
Hall, Cambridge, both which pieces of preferment he lost for nonconformity,
1662, ^ See May 6, 1661.
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Marian persecution in Mr. Fuller. So to supper,
prayers, and to bed.
Sth. Ofifice day, and my wife being gone out to
buy some household stuff, I dined aU alone, and after
dinner calling at several places about business, at my
father's about gilded leather for my dining room.
Then home and Mr. Moore with me, who staid and
supped. We love one another's discourse so that we
cannot part when we do meet.
9th. This moming Sir W. Batten with CoU. Birch
to Deptford, to pay off two ships. Sir W. Pen and I
staid to do business, and afterwards together to White
Hall, where I went to my Lord, and saw in his cham
ber his picture, very well done ; and am with child
tUl I get it copied out, which I hope to do when
he is gone to sea. To Whitehall again, where at Mr.
Coventry's chamber I met with Sir W. Pen again, and
so with him to Redriffe by water, and from thence
walked over the fields to Deptford, the first pleasant
walk I have had a great while, and in our way had a
great deal of merry discourse, and I find hira to be
a merry fellow and pretty good natured, and sings
very loose songs. I found our gentlemen and Mr.
Prin at the pay. About noon we dined together, and
were very merry at table telling of Ules. After dinner
to the pay of another ship tiU 10 at night, and so
home in our barge, a clear raoonshine night, and it
was 1 2 o'clock before we got horae, where I found ray
wife in bed, and part of our chambers hung to-day by
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and so in a discontent to bed. I found Mr. Prin a
good, honest, plain man, but in his discourse not very
free or pleasant. Among aU the tales that passed
among us to-day, he told us of one Damford, that,
being a black man, did scald his beard with mince-
pie, and it came up again all white in that place,
and continued to his dying day. Sir W. Pen told
us a good jest about some gentleraen bhnding of the
drawer, and who he catched was to pay the reckon
ing, and so they got away, and the master of the house
coming up to see what his man did, his man got hold
of him, thinking it to be one of the gentlemen, and
told him that he was to pay the reckoning.
IOth. Ofifice day aU the moming. At night comes
Mr. Moore and tells me how Sir Hards. WaUer," (who
only pleads guilty), Scott, Coke,^ Peters,^ Harrison,
&c. were this day arraigned at the bar of the Sessions
House, there being upon the bench the Lord Mayor,
General Monk, my Lord of Sandwich, &c. ; such a
bench of noblemen as had not been ever seen in Eng
land ! They all seem to be dismayed, and wiU aU be
condemned without question. In Sir Orlando Bridg-
raan's charge,-* he did wholly rip up the unjustnesse of
the war agauist the King from the beginning, and so it

" Sir Hardress Waller, Knt., one of Charles ist's Judges. His sentence
was commuted to imprisonment for life.
2 Coke was Solicitor to the people of England.
3 Hugh Peters, the fanatical preacher.
4 Eldest son of John Bridgeman, Bishop of Chester, became, after the
Restoration, successively Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Chief Justice of the
Common Fleas, and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and was created a Baronet.

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much reflects upon all the Long Parhament, though
the King had pardoned them, yet they must hereby
confess that the King do look upon them as traytors.
To-morrow they are to plead what they have to say.
nth. In the moming to my Lord's, where I met
with Mr. Creed, and with him and Mr. Blackbume
to the Rhenish wine house, where we sat drinking
of healths a great while, a thing which Mr. Black
bume formerly would not upon any terms have done.
After we had done there Mr. Creed and I to the Leg
in King Street, where he and I and my Will had a
good udder to dinner, and from thence to walk in St.
James's Park, where we observed the several engines
at work to draw up water, with which sight I was very
much pleased. Above aU the rest, I liked that which
Mr. Greatorex " brought, which is one round thing
going within all with a pair of stairs round ; round
which being laid at an angle of 45", do carry up the
water with a great deal of ease. Here, in the Park,
we met with Mr. Salisbury, who took Mr. Creed and
me to the Cockpitt to see " The Moore of Venice,"
which was well done. Burt acted the Moore ; ^ by
the same token, a very pretty lady that sat by me,
called out, to see Desdemona smothered. From
thence with Mr. Creed to Hercules Pillars,^ where
we drank and so parted, and I went home.

" A mathematical instrument-maker.
^ Burt ranked in the Hst of gtxid actors after the Restoration, though he
resigned the part of Othello to Hart. Davis's Dramatic Misc.
3 In Fleet Street.

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12th. Ofifice day all the morning, and from thence
with Sir W. Batten and the rest of the officers to a
venison party of his at the Dolphin, where dined
withal Col. Washington, Sir Edward Brett, and Major
Norwood, very noble company. After dinner I went
home, where I found Mr. Cooke, who told me that
my Lady Sandwich is come to towne to-day, where
upon I went to Westminster to see her, and found her
at supper, so she made me sit down all alone with
her, and after supper staid and talked with her, she
showing me most extraordinary love and kindness,
and do give me good assurance of ray uncle's reso
lution to make me his heir. From thence home and
to bed.
13th. I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-
general Harrison ' hanged, drawn, and quartered ;
which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any
man could do in that condition. He was presently
cut down, and his head and heart shown to the peo
ple, at which there was great shouts of joy. It is
said, that he said that he was sure to come shortly at
the -right hand of Christ to judge them that now' had
judged him ; and that his wife do expect his coming
again. Thus it was my chance to see the King be
headed at White HaU, and to see the first blood shed
in revenge for the blood of the King at Charing Cross.
From thence to my Lord's, and took Captn. Cuttance
" Thomas Harrison, son of a butcher at Newcastle-under-Line, appointed
by Cromwell to convey Charles I. from Windsor to White Hall, in order to
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and Mr. Shepley to the Sun Taverne, and did give
them some oysters. After that I went by water home,
where I was angry with my wife for her things l)ang
about, and in my passion kicked the little fine basket,
which I bought her in HoUand, and broke it, which
troubled me after I had done it. Within aU the after
noon setting up shelves in my study.
14th (Lord's day). To White Hall chappell, where
one Dr. Crofts made an indifferent sermon, and after
it an anthem, iU sung, which made the King laugh.
Here I first did see the Princesse Royall since she
came into England. Here I also observed, how the
Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one anoth
er very wantonly through the hangings that parts the
King's closet and the closet where the ladies sit.
15 th. Ofifice aU the raorning. My wife and I by
water; I landed her at Whitefriars, she went to ray
father's to dinner, it being my father's wedding day.
This morning Mr. Carew ' was hanged and quartered
at Charing Cross ; but his quarters, by a great favour,
are not to be hanged up. I was forced to go to my
Lord's. So I dined there, and went to White HaU,
where I met with Sir W. Batten and Pen, who with
the Comptroller, Treasurer, and Mr. Coventry (at his
chamber) made up a list of such ships as are fit to be
kept out for the winter guard, and the rest to be paid
off by the Parliament when they can get money, which
I doubt wUl not be a great while. That done, I took
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coach, and called my wife at my father's, and so
home, where I feU to read "The Fraitless Precau
tion," a book formeriy recommended by Dr. Clerke
at sea to me, which I read in bed tiU I had made an
end of it, and do find it the best writ tale that ever I
read in my life.
1 6 th. This morning my brother Tom came to me,
with whora I made even for my last clothes to this
day, and having eaten a dish of anchovies with him
in the raorning, my wife and I did intend to go forth
to see a play at the Cockpit this afternoon, but Mr.
Moore coming to me, my wife staid at home, and so
with him to the Cockpit, where, understanding that
"Wit without money" was acted, I would not stay,
but went home. Being corae home, WiU. told me
that my Lord had a mind to speak with rae to-night ;
so I returned by water, and, coming there, it was only
to enquire how the ships were provided with victuals
that are to go with him to fetch over the Queenfe,
which I gave him a good account of. He seemed to
be in a melancholy humour, which, I was told by W.
Howe, was for that he had lately lost a great deal of
money at cards, which he fears he do too much addict
himself to now-a-days.
I Sth. This morning, it being expected that Colonel
Hacker " and AxteU ^ should die, I went to Newgate,
but found they were reprieved tiU to-morrow. So to
ray father's, and did give orders for a pair of black
" Col. Francis Hacker commanded the guards at the King's execution.
^ AxteU had guarded the High Court of Justice.

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baize linings to be raade me for my breeches. At my
coming home I did find that The. Turner hath sent
for a pair of doves that my wife had proraised her ;
and because she did not send thera in the best cage,
she sent thera back again with a scornful letter, with
which I was angry, but yet pretty weU pleased that she
was crossed
19th. This morning my dining-room was finished
with greene serge hanging and gilt leather, which is
very handsome. This moming Hacker and AxteU
were hanged and quartered, as the rest are. This
night I sat up late to make up my accounts ready
against to-morrow for my Lord.
20th. I dined with my Lord and Lady ; he was
very merry, and did talk very high how he would have
a French cooke, and a master of his horse, and his
lady and chUd to wear black patches; which me
thought was strange, but he is become a perfect cour
tier ; and, among other things, my Lady saying that
she could get a good raerchant for her daughter Jem.,
he answered, that he would rather see her with a ped
lar's pack at her back, so she married a gentleman,
than she should marry a citizen. This aftemoon,
going through London, and calling at Crowe's " the
upholsterer's, in Saint Bartholomew's, I saw the limbs
of some of our new traytors set upon Aldersgate,
which was a sad sight to see ; and a bloody week this
and the last have been, there being ten hanged,
drawn, and quartered.
" He is called " Alderman," /m^, Oct. 15, 1668.

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2ist (Lord's day). To the Parish church in the
morning, where^ a good sermon by Mr. MiUs. After
dinner to the Abbey, where I met George Vines, who
carried me up to the top of his turret, where there is
Cooke's head set up for a traytor, and Harrison's set
up on the other side of Westminster Hall. Here I
could see them plainly, as also a very fair prospect
about London. To-day at noon (God forgive me) I
Strang my lute, which I had not touched a great while
before. 22nd. Ofifice day; after that to dinner at home
upon some ribs of roast beef from the Cook's. After
dinner to my Lord's, where I found aU preparing for
ray Lord's going to sea to fetch the Queene to-raor
row. At night my Lord came home, with whom I
staid long, and talked of many things. Among others
I got leave to have his picture, that was done by Lilly,"
copied. Talking of religion, I found him to be a per
fect Sceptic, and he said that all things would not be
well while there was so much preaching, and that it
would be better if nothing but HomUies were to be
read in Churches. He told me there hath been a
meeting before the King and my Lord Chancellor,
of some Episcopalian and Presbyterian Divines ; but
what had passed he could not tell me.
23rd. We rose early in the morning to get things
ready for my Lord, and Mr. Shepley going to put
^ Peter Lely, afterwards knighted. He lived in the Piazza. This portrait
of Lord Sandwich was bought by Lord Braybrooke at Mr Pepys Cockerell's
sale, in 1848, and is now at Audley End.

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 26 1
up his pistols, which were charged with buUets, into
the holsters, one of them flew off, and it pleased God
that, the inouth of the gun being downwards, it did
us no hurt, but I think I never was in raore danger in
my hfe, which put me into a great fright. About
eight o'clock my Lord went; and going through the
garden my Lord met with Mr. William Montagu, who
told him of an estate of land lately come into the
King's hands, that he had a raind ray Lord should
beg. To which end my Lord vnrit a letter presently
to my Lord Chancellor to do it for him, which (after
leave taken of ray Lord at White Hall bridge) I did
carry to Warwick House to hira ; and had a fair
promise of hira, that he would do it this day for my
Lord. In my way thither I met the Lord Chancellor
and all the Judges riding on horseback and going to
Westminster Hall, it being the first day of the terme,
which was the first time I ever saw any such solem
nity. Thence I raet with Catan Stirpin in mourning,
who told me that her mistress was lately dead of the
smaU pox, and that she was now married to Monsieur
Petit. I found by a letter that she shewed of her
husband's to the King, that he is a right Frenchman,
and full of their own projects, he having a design to
reform the universities, and to institute schools for the
learning of all languages, to speak them naturaUy and
not by rale, which I know wiU come to nothing. To
my Lord's, from thence I took my Lord's picture, and
carried it to Mr. de Cretz to be copied. So to White
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him and played, and sang, and eat with him and his
mother. After supper we looked over many books,
and instruments of his, especially his wooden jack in
his chimney, which goes with the smoke, which indeed
is very pretty. I found him to be as ingenious and
good-natured a raan as ever I met with in my life,
and cannot adraire him enough, he being so plain and
iUiterate a man as he is.
24th (Ofifice day). I took occasion to be angry
with my wife before I rose about her putting up of
half a crowne of mine in a paper box, which she had
forgot where she had lain it. But we were friends
again as we are always. To the ofifice, so horae to
dinner, where I found Captain Murford, who did put
3/. into my hands for a friendship I had done him,
but I would not take it, but bade him keep it till he
has enough to buy ray wife a necklace. To White
Hall, in my way met with Mr. Moore. He teUs me,
among other things, that the Duke of York is now
sorry for his amour with my Lord ChanceUor's daugh
ter, who is now brought to bed of a boy. To Mr.
LiUy's' where, not finding Mr. Spong, I went to
Mr. Greatorex, where I met him, and so to an ale
house, where I bought of him a drawing pen; and
he did show me the manner of the lamp-glasses, which
carry the hght a great way, good to read in bed by,
and I intend to have one of them. So to Mr. LUly's
with Mr. Spong, where well received, there being a
" William Lilly, the astrologer and almanack-maker.

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clubb to-night among his friends. Among the rest
Esquire Ashmole," who I found was a very ingenious
gentleman. With hira we two sang afterward in Mr.
Lilly's study. That done, we all parted ; and I horae
by coach, taking Mr. Booker " with me, who did teU
me a great many fooleries, which may be done by
nativities, and blaming Mr. Lilly for writing to plea,se
his friends and to keep in with the times (as he did
formerly to his own dishonour) , and not according to
the rales of art, by which he could not well erre, as
he had done. I set him down at Lime-street end, and
so home, where I found a box of Carpenter's tools sent
by my cozen, Thomas Pepys, which I had bespoke of
him for to employ myself with sometimes. To bed.
25 th. AU day at home doing soraething in order to
the fitting of my house. In the evening to West
minster about business.
26th (Ofifice). My father and Dr. Thomas Pepys
dined at my house, the last of whom I did alraost fox
with Margate ale. My father is mightily pleased with
my ordering of my house. After that I to West
minster to White HaU, where I saw the Duke de
Soissons 3 go from his audience with a very great deal
" EHas Ashmole, the antiquarian.
2 Pepys surely wrote Rooker by mistake, for James Booker, of Manches
ter, the astrologer, then living, and mentioned in " Hudibras," in connection
with Lilly, canto iii, 1093,
3 Eugene Maurice of Savoy, youngest son of Thomas of Savoy, by Marie
de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons, whose title he inherited. He married
Olympia Mancini, one of the nieces of Cardinal Mazarin, more than sus
pected of poisoning practices (like the Brinvilliers) . His youngest son was
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of state : his own coach all red velvet covered with
gold lace, and drawn by six barbes, and attended by
twenty pages very rich in clothes. To Westminster
Hall, and bought, among other books, one of the Life
of our Queene, which I read at home to my wife ;
but it was so silUly writ, that we did nothing but laugh
at it: among other things it is dedicated to that
paragon of virtue and beauty, the Duchess of Albe
marle. Great talk as if the Duke of York do now
own the marriage between him and the Chancellor's
daughter. 27th.'' I went by chance by my new Lord Mayor's
house (Sir Richard Browne), by Goldsmith's HaU,
which is now fitting, and indeed is a very pretty
house. In coming back I called at Paul's Church
yard and bought Alsted's Encyclopaedia, which cost
me 38^.
2Sth (Lord's day). To Westminster Abbey, where
with much difificulty, going round by the cloysters, I
got in ; this day being a great day for the consecrating
of five Bishopps, which was done after sermon ; but I
could not get into Henry the Seventh's chappeU. So
I went to my Lord's, where I dined with my Lady,
and ray young Lord, and Mr. Sidney, who was sent
for from Twickenham to see ray Lord Mayor's show
to-morrow. After dinner to White HaU chappell ; my
Lady and my Lady Jemimah and I up to the King's
closet (who is now gone to meet the Queene) . So
meeting with one Mr. Hill, that did know my Lady,
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did stay aU service-time, which I did think a great
honour. 29th. I up early, it being my Lord Mayor's day '
(Sir Richd. Browne), and neglecting my ofifice I went
to the Wardrobe, where I met my Lady Sandwich
and aU the children; and after drinking of some
strange and incoraparable good clarett of Mr. Rum-
baU's ^ he and Mr. Townsend ^ did take us, and set
the young Lords at one Mr. NeviU's, a draper in
Paul's churchyard ; and my Lady and my Lady Pick
ering 3 and I to one Mr. Isaacson's, a linen-draper at
the Key in Cheapside ; where there was a company
of fine ladies, and we were very civilly treated, and
had a very good place to see the pageants, which were
many, and I believe good, for such kind of things,
but in themselves but poor and absurd. The show
being done, we got as. far as Paul's with much ado,
where I left ray Lady in the coach, and went on foot
with ray Lady Pickering to her lodging, which was a
poor one in Blackfryars, where she never invited me
to go in at all, which rae thought was very strange.
Home, where I was told how ray Lady Davis is now
come to our next lodgings, and has locked up the
leades door frora rae, which puts me into so great a
disquiet that I went to bed, and could not sleep till
moming at it.

" Now, by alteration of the style, November gth.
2 Officers of the Wardrobe.
3 Elizabeth Montagu, sister to the Earl of Sandwich, who had married Sir
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30th. Within aU the morning, ray mind being so
troubled that I could not mind nor do anything tiU
I spoke to the CoraptroUer to whom the lodgings
belong. In the afternoon, to ease my mind, I went
to the Cockpit all alone, and there saw a very fine
play caUed " The Tamer tamed ; " ' very weU acted.
That being done, to the Hercules Pillars to drink,
where we did read over the King's declaration in
matters of religion, which is come out to-day, which
is very weU penned, I think to the satisfaction of
raost people. I hear nothing yet of my Lord, whether
he be gone for the Queene from the Downes or no ;
but I believe he is, and that he is now upon coming
back again.
31st (Ofifice day). Much troubled aU this moming
in my raind about the business of ray walk on the
leades, but the coraptroUer and the rest of the prin
cipal officers are aU unwiUing to meddle in anything
that may anger my Lady Davis.^ Horae, and there I
had news that Sir W. Pen is resolved to ride to Sir W.
Batten's country house 3 to-morrow, and would have
rae go with him, so I sat up late, getting together my
things to ride in, and was fain to cut an old pair of
boots to make leathers for those I was to wear. This
month I conclude with my mind very heavy for the
loss of the leades, as also for the greatness of my late

" " The Woman's Prize, or Tamer Tamed," a comedy by John Fletcher.
2 Wife of Mr. Davis, belonging to the Navy Office. The appellation of
' my Lady " is used in the same sense as the French word Madame.
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expenses, insomuch that I do not think that I have
above 150/. clear money in the world, but I have,
I beheve, got a great deal of good household stuff. I
hear to-day that the Queene is landed at Dover, and
wiU be here on Friday next, November 2nd.
November ist. This moming Sir W. Pen and I
were mounted early, and had very merry discourse all
the way, he being very good corapany. We came to
Sir W. Batten's, where he lives like a prince, and we
were made very welcome. Among other things he
showed us ray Lady's closet, where was great store of
rarities ; as also a chair, which he calls King Harry's
chaire, where he that sits down is catched with two
irons, that corae round about hira, which makes good
sport. Here dined with us two or three raore country
gentlemen ; among the, rest Mr. Christraas, ray old
school-fellow, with whom I had much talk. He did
remember that I was a great Roundhead when I was
a boy, and I was much afraid that he would have
remembered the words that I said the day the King
was beheaded (tkat, were I to preach upon him, my
text should be — "The memory of the wicked shall
rot ") ; but I found afterwards that he did go away
from school before that tirae. He did make us good
sport in imitating Mr. Case," Ash, and Nye, the minis-

" Thomas Case, one of the Assembly of Divines, and some time rector of
St. Giles's-in-the-Fields. Ob. 1682, aged 84. Simeon Ash, one of the lead
ing Presbyterian ministers, Philip Nye, who had been minister of Kimbol
ton, and rector of Acton, Middlesex, retired after his nonconformity, and died
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ters, but a deadly drinker he is, and grown exceeding
fat. From his house to an ale-house near the church,
where we sat and drank and were merry, and so we
mounted for London again. Sir W. Batten with us.
So home by moonlight.
2nd. Ofifice. Then dined at home, and by chance
Mr. HoUiard called at dinner time and duied with me,
vrith whom I had great discourse conceming the cure
of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether any
effect at all. In the aftemoon I went forth and saw
some silver bosses put upon my new Bible, which cost
me ds. dd. the making, and ^s. d. the silver, which,
with 9^. dd., the book comes in aU to i/. 3^-. dd.
From thence with Mr. Cooke that made them, and
Mr. Stephens the silversmith to the taverne, and did
give them a pint of wine. So to White Hall, where I
saw the boats going very thick to Lambeth, and aU
the stairs to be full of people. I was told the Queen '
was a-coraing ; so I got a sculler for sixpence to carry
me thither and back again, but I could not get to see
the Queen ; so come back, and to ray Lord's, where
he was corae ; and I supt with him, he being very
merry, telling raerry stories of the country mayors,
how they entertained the King aU the way as he come
along; and how the country gentlewomen did hold

" " Nov. 2. The Queen-mother and the Princess Henrietta came into
London, the Queen having left this land nineteen years ago. Her coming
was very private, Lambeth-way, where the King, Queen, and the Duke of
York, and the rest, took water, crossed the Thames, and all safely arrived at
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up their heads to be kissed by the King, not taking
his hand to kiss as they should do. I took leave of
my Lord and Lady, and so took coach at White Hall
and carried Mr. Childe " as far as the Strand, and ray
self got as far as Ludgate by all the bonfires, but with
a great deal of trouble ; and there the coachman de
sired that I would release him, for he durst not go
further for the fires. So he would have had a shilling
or dd. for bringing of rae so far ; but I had but ^d.
about me and did give him it. In Paul's church-yard
I called at Kirton's,^ and there they had got a masse
book for me, which I bought and cost me twelve shU
lings ; and, when I came -home, sat up late and read
in it with great pleasure to my wife, to hear that she
was long ago acquainted with that. So to bed. I
observed this night very few bonfires in the City, not
above three in all London, for the Queene's coming ;
whereby I guess that (as I believed before) her com
ing do please but very few.
3d. Saturday. At home aU the moming. In the
afternoon to White Hall, where my Lord and Lady
were gone to kiss the Queene's hand.
4th (Lord's day) . In the mom to our own church,^
where Mr. MiUs "• did begin to nibble at the Comraon
Prayer, by saying " Glory be to the Father, &c." after
" Afterwards Sir Joshua Childe.
2 A bookseller. See Dec. 23, 1661.
3 St, Olave's, Hart Street.
* Daniel Milles, D.D,, thirty-two years rector of St. Olave's, Hart Street,
and buried there October, 1689, aged sixty-three. In 1667 Sir Robert Brooks
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he had read the two psalras ; but the people had been
so little used to it, that they could not teU what to
answer. This declaration of the King's do give the
Presbyterians some satisfaction, and a pretence to
read the Common Prayer, which they would not do
before because of their former preaching against it.
After dinner to Westminster, where I went to my
Lord's, and having spoke with him, I went to the
Abby, where the first time that ever I heard the
organs in a cathedral. Thence to my Lord's, where
I found Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, and with him and
Mr. Shepley to see the seven Flanders mares that my
Lord has bought lately, in our way calling at the Bell,
where we drank several bottles of Hull ale. Hence
to my father's, where I found my mother in greater
and greater pain of the stone. So horae and to bed.
My wife seeraed very pretty to-day, it being the first
time I had given her leave to weare a black patch."
Sth (Ofifice day). Being disappointed of money,
we failed of going to Deptford to pay off the Henri
etta to-day. At the ofifice at night, to make up an
account of what the debts of nineteen of the twenty-
five ships that should have been paid off, is increased
since the adjournment of the Parliament, they being
to sit agaui to-morrow. This 5 th of Noveraber is ob
served exceeding weU in the City ; and at night great
bonfires and fireworks.
6th. In the moming with Sir W. Batten and Pen
" In 1602 it was fashionable to wear patches on the temples. — Buckle's
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by water to Westrainster, and thence to the HaU,
where we found the Parhament met to-day, and
thence meeting vrith Mr. Chetwind, I took them to
the Sun, and did give them a barrel of oysters, and
had good discourse; among other things Mr. Chet
wind told rae how he did fear that this late busmess
of the Duke of York's would prove fatal to my Lord
ChanceUor. To our ofifice, where we met all, for the
sale of two ships by an inch of candle (the first time
that ever I saw any of this kind), where I observed
how they do invite one another, and at last how they
all do cry," and we have much to do to teU who did
cry last. The ships were the Indian, sold for 1300/.
and the Half-moone, sold for S30/. Home, and fell
a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were
hanged for the King's death, and found good satis
faction in reading thereof. At night to bed, and my
wife and I did faU out about the dog's being put down
into the ceUar, which I had a mind to have done be
cause of his fouhng the house, and I would have ray
wiU, and so we went to bed and lay aU night in a
quarrel. This night I was troubled aU night with a
dream that ray wife was dead, which made me that I
slept iU aU night.
7th (Ofifice day). Went by water to my Lord,
where I dined with him, and he in a very merry
humour (present Mr. Borfett and Childe) at dinner :
he, in discourse of the great opinion of the virtue —
" i. e., bid.

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gratitude (which he did account the greatest thing in
the world to him, and had, therefore, in his mind
been often troubled in the late times how to answer
his gratitude to the King, who raised his father), did
say it was that did bring hira to his obedience to the
King ; and did also bless himself with his good for
tune, in comparison to what it was when I was with
him in the Sound, when he durst not own his corre
spondence with the King; which is a thing that I
never did hear of to this day before ; and I do from
this raise an opinion of him, to be one of the most
secret raen in the world, which I was not so convinced
of before. After dinner he bid all go out of the
room, and did tell me how the King had promised
hira 4000/. per annura for ever, and had already given
hira a bill under his hand (which he showed rae) for
4000/. that Mr. Fox " is to pay him. My Lord did
advise with me how to get this received, and to put
out 3000/. into safe hands at use, and the other he
will raake use of for his present occasion. This he
" Afterwards Sir Stephen Fox. He was born in 1627, and is said to have
belonged to the children's choir in Salisbury Cathedral. He was the first
person to announce the death of Cromwell to Charles II, At the Restoration
he was made First Clerk of the Green Cloth. He was soon afterwards ap
pointed Paymaster to two newly raised regiments, and soon after that he was
constituted Paymaster General of all his Majesty's forces in England. In
1665 he was knighted. Evelyn says, *' Diary," 6th, 1680: "Sir Stephen's
lady (an excellent womanl is sister to Mr. Whitl^e, one of the King's chi
rurgeons. In a word, never was man more fortunate than Sir Stephfen; he is
a handsome person, virtuous, and very religious." He was one of the earliest
projectors of Chelsea Hospital, He died in 1716 at his villa at Chiswick,
Ninety years later his grandson, Charles James Fox, died in the same place,
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did advise with rae about with much secresy. After
aU this he caUed for the fiddles and books, and we
two and W. Howe, and Mr. ChUde, did sing and play
some psalraes of WiU. Lawes's," and sorae songs ; and
so I went away. So I went to see ray Lord's picture,
which is almost done, and do please me very weU.
Hence to Whitehall to find out Mr. Fox, who did use
me very civilly, but I did not see his lady, whora I
had so long known when she was a raayde, Mrs.
Whittle. From thence meeting ray father Bowyer, I
took hira to Mr. Harper's, and there drank with hira.
Among other things in discourse he told me how my
wife's brother had a horse at grass with hira, which I
was troubled to hear, it being his boldness upon my
score. Home by coach. Notwithstanding this was
the first day of the King's proclamation^ against hack
ney coaches ' coraing into the streets to stand to be
hired, yet I got one to carry rae horae.
Sth. This raorning Sir Wra. and the Treasurer and
I went by barge with Sir W. Doyley and Mr. Prin to
Deptford, to pay off the Henrietta, and had a good
dinner. In the afternoon Commissioner Pett and I
" Brother to Henry Lawes the celebrated composer, and himself a cham
ber musician to Charles I., in whose service he took up arms, and was killed
at the siege of Chester, 1645, The King regretted his loss severely, and
used to call him the father of music.
2 For the Proclamation see " Notes and Queries," First Series, vol. viii.
p. 122. (M. B.)
3 " In April, 1663, the poor widows of hackney-coachmen petitioned for
some relief, as the Parliament had reduced the number of coaches to 400:
there were before, in and about London, more than, 2,000." — Rugge's
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went on board the yacht," which indeed is one of the
finest things that ever I saw for neatness and room in
so small a vessel. Mr. Pett is to make one to outdo
this for the honour of his country, which I fear he
wiU scarce better. So went with some men that were
going that way a great pace, and in our way we met
with many merry searaen that had got their money
paid them to-day. We got to London before two
in the morning. So home, where I found my wife
up, she shewed me her head wh'ich was very weU
dressed. ,
9th. Lay long in bed this moming. To the office,
and from thence to dinner at the Hoope Taveme, our
dinner given us by Mr. Ady and another, Mr. Wine,
the King's fishmonger. Good sport with Mr. Talbot,
who eats no sort of fish, and there was nothing else
tiU we sent for a neat's tongue. From thence to
WhitehaU where I found my Lord, who had an organ
set up to-day in his dining-room, but it seeras an ugly
one in the form of BrideweU. Thence I went to
Sir Harry Wright's, where my Lord was busy at cards,
and so I staid below with Mrs. Carter and Evans, who
did give me a lesson upon the lute, tiU he came
down, and having talked with him at the door about
his late business of money, I went to my father's and
staid late talking with my father about my sister Pall's
coming to live vrith me if she would come and be as
a servant (which my wife did seem to be pretty wiU-
" See ante, Aug, 15th, Sitidpost, Jan. 13th, 1660-61.

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ing to do to-day), and he seems to take very well,
and intends to consider of it. Horae and to bed.
loth. Up early. Sir Wra. Batten and I to make
up an account of the wages of the officers and mari
ners at sea, ready to present to the Committee of
Parhament this afternoon. Afterwards carae the Treas
urer and ComptroUer, and sat all the moming tiU the
business was done. The CoraptroUer" and I to the
coffee-house, where he shewed me the state of his
case ; how the King did owe him about 6000/. But
I do not see great likelihood for them to be paid,
since they begin already in Parliament to dispute the
paying of the just sea-debts, which were already
promised to be paid, and will be the undoing of
thousands if they be not paid. So to Paul's Church
yard, and there bought Montelion,^ which this year
do not prove so good as the last was ; so after read
ing it I burnt it. After reading of that and the
comedy of the Rump,3 which is also very siUy, I went
to bed. This night going home, WiU and I bought a
goose. nth (Lord's day). To Church into our new gal
lery, the first time it was used. There being no
' Sir Robert SUngsby, whose father. Sir Guildford Slingsby, bad held the
same office,
^ " MonteUon, the Prophetical Almanac for the year 1660, 8vo,, with a
frontispiece, by John Phillips," The Montelions for 1661 and 1662 were
written by Thomas Flatman, It would appear that Pepys bought the
MonteUon for 1661, as there had not been one for 1659. — See Watt's
Bibliotheca. 3 " The Rump, or the Mirror of the late Times," a comedy, by John
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woman this day, we sat m the foremost pew, and
behind us our servants, and I hope it wiU not always
be so, it not being handsome for our servants to sit
so equal with us. This day also did Mr. MiUs begin
to read aU the Common Prayer, which I was glad of.
Went to ray father's where I found my wife, and there
supped, and after supper we walked home, my httle
boy carrying a link, and WiU leading my wife. So
home and to prayers and to bed. I went to Mr.
Fox's at WhitehaU, when I first saw his lady, formerly
Mrs. Elizabeth Whittie, whom I had formerly a great
opinion of, and did make an anagram or two upon her
name when I was a boy. She proves a very fine lady,
and mother to fine children. To-day I agreed with
Mr. Fox about my taking of the 4000/. of him that
the King had given my Lord.
1 2 th. Mr. ComptroUer and I sat a while at the
ofifice, and thence I went with him to his house in
Lime Street, a fine house, and where I never was be
fore. I met with Jack Spicer and agreed with him to
help rae to tell money this aftemoon. So back to the
Hall, where by appointment I met the ComptroUer,
and with hira and three or four Parliaraent-men I
dined at Heaven." Frora thence walked to my
father's, where I found my wife, who had been with

" Heaven and Hell were two mean ale-houses abutting on Westminster
Hall, There was another called /'»r^a^<7r^. See Ben Jonson :
" Nor break his fast
In Heaven and Hell,"
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my father to-day, buying of a table-cloth and a dozen
of napkins of diaper, the first that ever I bought in
my hfe. My father and I discoursed seriously about
my sister's coming to live with me, which I have
rauch mind for her good to have, and yet I am much
afeard of her iU-nature. He and I, and my wife,
my mother and Pall, went aU together into the htde
room, and there I told her plainly what ray mind was,
to have her come not as a sister in any respect, but as
a servant," which she promised me that she would,
and with many thanks did weep for joy.
13th. Early going to my Lord's I met with Mr.
Moore, and indeed I found him to be a most careful,
painful,^ and able raan in business, and took him by
water to the Wardrobe, and shewed him aU the house ;
and indeed there is a great deal of room in it, but
very ugly till my Lord hath bestowed great cost upon
it. So home to dinner, where I found my wife mak
ing of pies and tarts to try her oven with, but not
knowing the nature of it, did heat it too hot, and so a
httle overbake her things, but knows how to do better
another time.
14th (Ofifice day). But this day was the first that
we do begin to sit in the afternoon, and not in the
forenoon, and therefore I went into Cheapside to Mr.
Beauchamp's, the goldsmith, to look out a piece of
plate to give Mr. Fox from my Lord, for his favour
about the 4000/., and did choose a gilt tankard. So
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to Paul's Churchyard and bought " Cornelianum Do-
lium." So home to dinner, and then to the ofifice tiU
late at night, and so Sir W. Pen, the Comptroller, and
I to the Dolphin, where we found Sir W. Batten, and
there we did drink a great quantity of sack and did
teU raany merry stories.
15 th. To Westrainster, and it being very cold upon
the water I went all alone to the Sun and drank a
draft of muUed wine. My Lord did this day show
me the King's picture which was done in Flanders,
that the King did promise my Lord before he ever
saw him, and that we did expect to have had at sea
before the King carae to us ; but it came but to-day,
and indeed it is the most pleasant and the raost like
him that ever I saw picture in my life. As dinner was
coming on table, ray wife carae to my Lord's, and I
got her carried in to my Lady, who was just now hir
ing of a French mayde that was with her, and they
could not understand one another tiU my wife came
to interpret. Here I did leave my wife to dine with
my Lord, the first time he ever did take notice of her
as ray wife, and did seera to have a just esteem for
her. To Sir W. Batten's to dinner, he having a
couple of servants married to-day ; and so there was
a great number of merchants, and others of good
quality on purpose after dinner to make an offering,
Vvhich, when dinner was done, we did, and I did give
ten shillings and no more, though I beheve most of
the rest did give more, and did believe that I did so
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carried away the other 1000/. He was not within
himself, but I had it of his kinsman, and did give
him 4/. and other servants something ; but whereas I
did intend to have given Mr. Fox hiraself a piece of
plate of 50/. I was demanded 100/., for the fee of the
ofifice at dd. a pound, at which I was surprised, but,
however, I did leave it there tiU I speak with my
Lord. My wife I found much satisfied with my Lord's
discourse and respect to her, and so after prayers to
bed. 1 6th. Up early to my father's, where by appoint
ment Mr. Moore carae to me, and he and I to the
Temple, and thence to Westrainster Hall to speak
with Mr. Wm. Montagu upon the title of those lands
which I do take as security for 3000/. of my Lord's
money. That being done Mr. Moore and I parted,
and in the HaU I raet with Mr. Fontieroy, ray old ac
quaintance, whom I had not seen a long time, and he
and I to the Swan, and in discourse he seems to be
wise and say httle, though I know things are changed
against his mind. Thence home by water, where my
father, Mr. Snow, and Moore did dine with me. After
dinner Mr. Snow and I went up together to discourse
about the putting out of 80/. to a raan who lacks the
money and would give me 15/. per annum for 8 years
for it, which I did not think profit enough, and so he
seemed to be disappointed by my refusal of it, but I
would not now part with my money easily. He seems
to do it as a great favour to me to offer to come in
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tomry, which I do not yet understand, but do beheve
there may be something in it of great profit. After
we were parted I went to the office, and there we sat
aU the aftemoon, and at night we went to a barrel of
oysters at Sir W. Batten's.
17th. In the raorning to WhitehaU, where I in
quired at the Privy Seale Ofifice for a forra for a noble
man to make one his Chaplain. But I understanding
that there is not any, I did draw up one, and so to my
Lord's, and there I did give him it to sign for Mr.
Tumer to be his first Chaplain. I did also get my
Lord to sign my last sea accounts. I dined with my
Lord and my Lady Pickering, where her son John
dined with us, who do continue a fool as he ever was
since I knew him. His mother would fain marry him
to get a portion for his sister Betty, but he wiU not
hear of it. Hither came Major Hart this noon, who
tells me that the Regiment is now disbanded, and that
there is some money coming to me for it. Thence
with Mr. Moore to the DevU Taveme " and there we
drank. So home and wrote letters by the post. Then
to my lyre viall, and to bed.
18th (Lord's day). In the moming to our own
church, where Mr. Powel (a crooke legged man that
went forraerly with me to Paul's Schoole), preached a
good serraon. In the aftemoon to our own church
and my wife with me (the first time that she and my
Lady Batten came to sit in our new pew), and after
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sermon my Lady took us home and there we supped
with her and Sir W. Batten, and Pen and I were much
made of. The first time that ever my wife was there.
So home and to bed.
19th (Ofifice day). I went with the Treasurer" in
his coach to White Hall, and in our way, in discourse,
do find him a very good-natured man ; and, talking of
those men who now stand condemned for murdering
the King, he says that he beheves that, if the law
would give leave, the King is a man of so great com
passion that he would wholly acquit them. Going to
ray Lord's I met with Mr. Shepley, and so he and I
to the Sun, and I did give him a morning draft of
Muscadine. 2 After that, hearing that Sir W. Batten
was at the Leg in the Palace, I went thither, and there
dined with him and sorae of the Trinity House men
who had obtained something to-day at the House of
Lords concerning the Ballast Ofifice. After dinnpr I
went by water to London to the Globe in CornhUl,
and there did choose two pictures to hang up in my
house. To the ofifice and so home, and there came
Mr. Beauchamp to me with the gilt tankard, and I did
pay him for it 20/. So to my musique and sat up late
at it, and so to bed, leaving my wife to sit up tiU 2
o'clock that she may call the wench up to wash.
" Sir George Carteret.
2 Muscadine or muscadel, a rich sort of wine. Vinum muscatum quod
moschi odorem referat.
" Quaffed off" the muscadel, and threw the sops
AU in the sexton's face."
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20th. To ray Lord, and then to the organ, where
Mr. ChUde and one Mr. Mackworth were playing,
and so we played till dinner, where ray Lord in a very
good huraour and kind to rae. Then Mr. Shepley
and I to the new play-house " near Lincoln's-Inn-
Fields (which was forraerly Gibbon's tennis-court),
where the play of " Beggar's Bush " ^ was newly be
gun ; and so we went in and saw it, it was well acted :
and here I saw the first time one Moone,' who is said
to be the best actor in the world, lately corae over
with the King, and indeed it is the finest play-house,
I believe, that ever was in England. This morning I
found my Lord in bed late, he having been with the
King, Queen, and Princesse, at the Cockpit aU night,
where General Monk treated them ; and after supper
a play,* where the King did put a great affront upon
Singleton's 5 musique, he bidding them stop and bade
the French musique play, which, my Lord says, do
much outdo all ours. WhUe my Lord was rising, I
went to Mr. Fox's, and there did leave the gilt tank
ard for Mrs. Fox, and then to the counting-house to
" Killigrew's, or the King's House, opened for the first time, Sth Nov,
i66o, 2 The *' Beggar's Bush," a comedy by Beaumont and Fletcher,
3 Mohun, or Moone, the celebrated actor, who had bome a Major's com
mission in the King's Army. The period of his death is uncertain.
* Sir John Denham wrote the Prologue, of which there is a contemporary
copy in the Bridsh Museum.
s John Singleton, appointed, r66o, one of the musicians of the sackbuts in
place of WUliam Lanier. From the sackbut he advanced to the vioUn, and
lastly to the flute. He is mentioned by Dryden in " Mac Flecknoe," and by
ShadweU in " Bury Fair." He died 1686, and was buried (7th April) in the
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him, who hath invited me and my wife to dine with
him on Thursday next, and so to see the Queene and
Princesses. 2 1 St. This moming ray cozen Thoraas Pepys, the
tumer, sent me a cupp of lignum vitse for a token.
My wife and I went to Paternoster Rowe, and there
we bought sorae greene watered moyre for a morning
wastecoate. And after that we went to Mr. Cade's to
choose sorae pictures for our house. After that ray
wife went home, and I to Pope's Head," and bought
me an aggate hafted knife, which cost me 5^-. At
night to my viaUin (the first tirae that I have played
on it since I carae to this house) in my dining roome,
and afterwards to my lute there, and I took much
pleasure to have the neighbours come forth into the
yard to hear me. So to supper, and sent for the
barber, so up to bed, leaving my wife to wash herself,
and to do other things against to-morrow to go to
court. 2 2d. This moming came the carpenters to make
me a door at the other side of my house, going into
tlie entry. At noon ray wife and I walked to the Old
Exchange, and there she bought her a white whisk ^
and put it on, and I a pair of gloves, and so we took
coach for Whitehall to Mr. Fox's, where we found
Mrs. Fox 3 within, and an alderman of London paying
" Pope's Head Alley was at this time famous for its cutlers. See 20th
June, 1662.
^ Whisk. A sort of neck-dress, formerly worn by women. (M.B,)
3 EUzabeth, daughter of WilUam Whitde, Esq,, of Lancashire, wife of
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1000/. or 1400/. in gold upon the table for the King,
which was the most gold that ever I saw together in
my life. Mr. Fox came in presently and did receive
us with a great deal of respect ; and then did take my
wife and I to the Queene's presence-chamber, where
he got my wife placed behind the Queene's chaire, and
the two Princesses came to dinner. The Queene a
very littie plain old woman, and nothing raore in her
presence in any respect nor garbe than any ordinary
woraan. The Princesse of Orange I had often seen be
fore. The Princesse Henrietta is very pretty, but much
below my expectation ; and her dressing of herself with
her haire frized short up to her eares, did make her
seem so much the less to me. But my wife standing
near her with two or three black patches on, and well
dressed, did seem to me much handsomer than she.
Dinner being done, we went to Mr. Fox's again,
where many gentlemen dined with us, and raost
princely dinner aU provided for rae and my friends,
but I bringing none but myself and wife, he did
caU the company to help to eate up so much good
victuaUs. At the end of dinner, my Lord Sandwich's
health was drank in the gilt tankard that I did give
to Mrs. Fox the other day. Thence I took coach
for my wife and me homewards, and I light at the
Maypole in the Strand, and sent my wife horae. I to
the new playhouse and saw part of the " Traitor," a
very good Tragedy; Mr. Moon did act the Traitor
very weU. Thence to White HaU at about 9 at night,
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could not get out of Henry the Eighth's gallery into
the further part of the boarded gaUery, where my
Lord was walking with my Lord Orraond ; and we
had a key of Sir S. Morland's, but all would not do ;
tiU at last, by knocking, Mr. Harrison the door-keeper
did open us the door, and, after sorae talk with my
Lord about getting a catch ¦ to carry my Lord St.
Alban's ^ goods to France, I parted and went home
on foot.
24th. Creed and Shepley and I to the Rhenish
winehouse,3 and there I did give them two quarts of
Wormwood •> wine, and so we broke up. To my
Lord's, where I dined with my Lady, there being
Mr. Childe and Mrs. Borkett, who are never absent
at dinner there, under pretence of a wooing. Frora
thence I to Mr. de Cretz and did take away ray Lord's
picture, which is now finished for rae, and I paid 3/.
\os. for it and the frarae, and ara well pleased with it
and the price. So carried it home, and there had a
fire in my closet, and feU to entering these two good
songs of Mr. Lawes, " Helpe, helpe, O helpe," and
" 0 God of Heaven and HeU " in ray song book, to
which I have got Mr. Childe to set the base to the
Theorbo, and that done to bed.
25th (Lord's day). In the forenoon I alone to our
" See ante, 6th Sept,
2 Henry Jermyn, created Lord Jermyn 1614, advanced to the Earldom of
St, Alban's 1660, K,G, Ob, 1683, s, p. He was supposed to be married to
the Queen Dowager,
3 See ante, August 9th,
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church, and after dinner I went and ranged about to
many churches, among the rest to the Temple, where
I heard Dr. Wilkins " a littie (late Maister of Trinity
in Carabridge) . I had a letter brought me from my
Lord to get a ship ready to carry the Queene's
things over to France, she being to go within five
or six days.
26th (Office day). My father come and dined vrith
me, who seems to take much pleasure to have a son
that is neat in his house. After dinner to the ofifice
again, and there till night. I heard that my Lady
Batten ^ had given my wife a visit (the first that ever
she made her), which pleased rae exceedingly.
2 7th. To Whitehall where I found ray Lord gone
abroad to the Wardrobe, whither he do now go every
other morning, and do seem to resolve to understand
and look after the business himself. From thence to
Westminster Hall, and in King Street there being a
great stop of coaches, there was a falling out between

' John WUkins, D.D,, brother-in-law of the Protector, made Bishop bf
Chester, 1668. Ob. 1672.
2 Elizabeth Woodcock, evidently his second wife, as his daughter Martha
is often mentioned, married Feb. 3, 1658-g, to Sir W. Batten; and^secondly,
in 1671, to a foreigner called, in the register of Battersea parish. Lord Leyen-
burg. Lady Leighenberg was buried at Walthamstow, Sept. 16, i68t. —
Lysons's Environs. Sir James Barkman Leyenburg, the envoy from Sweden,
was resident in England till 1682, or later. See Jan. 21, 1666-67. His name
occurs in "The Intelligencer," 12th March, 1663-4, as delayed at Stockholm
by a fever, though his despatches were ready. A hostile message appears to
have passed between him and Pepys, in November, 1670, but the duel was
prevented. Perhaps they quarrelled about the money due from Sir W. Bat
ten to Pepys, for which the widow was liable. See Mr. Wren's letter,
November gth, 1670, in '* Correspondence."

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a drayman and ray Lord Chesterfield's coachraan, and
one of his footmen kUled. To my Lord's again,
where I found my wife, and she and I dined with him
and my Lady, and great company of my Lord's
friends, and my Lord did show us great respect.
Soon as dinner was done ray wife went to a christen
ing, and I to a play, " The ScornfuU Lady," " and that
being done, I went homewards, and met Mr. Moore,
who told rae how the House had this day voted the
King to have all the Excise for ever. This day I do
also hear that the Queene's going to France is stopt,
which do like me well, because then the King will be
in towne the next raonth, which is my month again at
the Privy Seale.
2Sth. To Whitehall to my Lord's, where Major
Hart did pay me 23/. 14^-. ()d., due to me upon my
pay in my Lord's troop at the time of our disband-
ing,2 which is a great blessing to have without taking
any law in the world for. But now I must put an end
to any hopes of getting any more, so that I bless God
for this. So home, where I found that Mr. Creed had
sent me the 11/. 5^-. that is due to me upon the re-
maynes of account for my sea business, which is also
so much clear money to me, and my bill of impresses
for 30/. is also cleared, so that I am wholly clear as to
the sea in all respects.
" A comedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher.
* As trained bands.
3 For " bUl of imprest." In Italian zw/r^j/ar^ means " to lend." In the
ancient accounts of persons officially employed by the crown, money advanced,
paid on account, was described as " de prestito," or "in prestitis." (M. B.)

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29th. In the afternoon Sir W. Batten and I met
and did seU the ship Church for 440/., and we [were]
asked 391/.
30th (Ofifice day). To the ofifice, where Sir G.
Carteret did give us an account how Mr. Holland ' do
intend to prevail with the Parliament to try his project
of discharging the seamen all at present by ticket,^ and
so proraise interest to aU raen that will lend money
upon them at eight per cent., for so long as they are
unpaid ; whereby he do think to take away the grow
ing debt, which do now he upon the kingdom for
lack of present money to discharge the searaen. But
this we are troubled at as sorae diminution to us. I
having two barrels of oysters at home, I caused one
of them and sorae wine to be brought to the inner
roora in the ofifice, and there the Principal Officers
did go and eat them. So we sat tiU noon, and then
to dinner, and to it again in the aftemoon till night.
At home I sent for Mr. Hater, and broke the other
barrel with him, and did afterwards sit down discours
ing of sea terms to learn of him.
December ist. This moming, observing some
things to be laid up not as they should be by the
girle, I took a broom and basted her tiU she cried ex
tremely, which made me vexed, but before I went out

" John Holland was secretary to Sir G. Carteret, then Treasurer of the
Navy, and was author of the ** Discourse on the Navy," mentioned in note,
March 19, 1669.
2 The systera of tickets afterwards gave great trouble, and caused much
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I left her appeased. I went to my Lord St. Alban's
lodgings, and found him in bed, talking to a priest
(he looked like one) that leaned along over the side of
the bed, and there I desired to know his mind about
making the catch stay longer, which I got ready for
him the other day. He seeras to be a fine civil gen
tleman. To my Lord's, and did give up my audit of
his accounts. I dined with my Lord and Lady, and
we had a venison pasty. Mr. Shepley and I went into
London, and calhng upon Mr. Pinkney, the goldsmith,
he took us to the taverne, and gave us a pint of wine,
and there feU into our company old Mr. Flower and
another gentleman, who tell us how a Scotch knight
was kiUed basely the other day at the Fleece " in
Covent Garden, where there had been a great many
formerly killed.
2d (Lord's day). To church, and Mr. MiUs made
a good sermon ; so home to dinner. My wife and I
all alone to a leg of mutton, the sawce of which being
made sweet, I was angry at it, and eat none, but only
dined upon the marrow bone that we had beside.
To church in the ' afternoon, and after sermon took
Tom Fuller's Church History and read over Henry
the Sth's life in it, and so to supper and to bed.

" " The Fleece Tavern, in York Street, Covent Garden," observes John
Aubrey, in his "Miscellanies," p. 3r, "was very unfortunate for homicides ;
there have been several killed ; three in my time. It is now (1692) a private
house." In Rugge's " Diurnal " is the following entry : — " Nov. 1660.
One Sir John Gooscall was unfortunately killed in the Fleece Tavern, Covent
Garden, by one Balendin, a Scotchman, who was taken, and committed to the
Gatehouse in this month."

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3rd. This morning I took a resolution to rise early
in the morning, and so I rose by candle, which I have
not done all this winter, and spent my moming in
fiddhng tiU time to go to the ofifice. After ofifice
home to dinner, where come in my cozen Snow by
chance, and I had a very good capon to dinner. So
to the ofifice till night, and so home, and then come
vMr. Davis, of Deptford (the first time that ever he
was at my house), and after him Mons. L'Imperti
nent," who is to go to Ireland to-morrow, and so
came to take his leave of me. They both found me
under the barber's hand ; but I had a bottie of good
sack in the house, and so made them very wellcome.
After they were gone I fell a reading Comehanum
Doliura till 11 o'clock at night with great pleasure,
and after that to bed.
4th. To the Duke of York, and he tooke us into
his closet, and we did open to him our project of
stopping the growing charge of the fieete by paying
them in hand one raoyety, and the other four months
hence. This he do like, and we retumed by his order
to Sir G. Carteret's, and there we did draw up this
design in order to be presented to the Parhament.
This day the Parliaraent voted that the bodies of
Oliver, Ireton, Bradshaw, &c., should be taken up out
of their graves in the Abbey, and drawn to the gal
lows, and there hanged and buried under it : which
(methinks) do trouble me that a man of so great
« Mr. Butler. (M. B.)

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 29 1
courage as he was, should have that dishonour, though
otherwise he might deserve it enougK^
5th. After dinner I went to the New Theatre and
there I saw " The Merry Wives of Windsor" ' acted,
the humours of the country gentieman and the French
doctor very weU done, but the rest but very poorly,
and Sir J. Falstaffe as bad as any.
6th. This moming some of the Commissioners of
Pariiament and Sir W. Batten paid off the Chesnut.
I carried my wife to White Friars and myself to
WhitehaU to the Privy Seale, where abundance of par
dons to seal, but I was much troubled for it because
that there are no fees now coming for them to me.
Thence Mr. Moore and I alone to the Leg in King
Street and dined together on a neat's tongue and
udder. Thence to my Lord, who told me of his
going out of towne to-morrow to settle the mihtia in
Huntingdonshire, and did desire me to lay up a box
of some rich jewels and things that there are in it,
which I proraised to do. After rauch free discourse
with my Lord, who teUs me his mind as to his enlar
ging his family, &c., and desiring me to look hira out
a Master of the Horse and other servants, we parted.
Home and found my girle knocking at the door (it
being 11 o'clock at night), her mistress having sent
her out for some trivial business, which did vex me
when I came in and so I took occasion to go up and
to bed in a pet. Before I went forth this moming,
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one came to me to give me notice that the Justices
of Middlesex do meet to-morrow at Hicks HaU, and
that as I am one am desired to be there, but I fear I
cannot be there though I rauch desire it.
7th. To ray Lord's, where I found ray Lord gone
this morning to Huntingdon. I staid and dined with
my Lady, and before dinner I exarained [her page]
Laud in his Latin and found him a very pretty boy
and gone a great way in Latin. After dinner I took
a box of some things of value that my Lord had left
for me to carry to the Exchequer. So to the Privy
Seale where I signed a deadly number of pardons,
which do trouble me to get nothing by. I feU a-read
ing Fuller's History of Abbys", and my wife in Great
Cyras 2 till twelve at night, and so to bed.
Sth. To dinner with my wife to Mr. Pierce the
Purser (the first time that ever I was at his house)
who does live very plentifully and finely. We had a
lovely chine of be,ef and other good things very com
plete and drank a great deal of wine and her daughter
played after dinner upon the virginals 3 and at night
by lanthorne home and I went to bed, having drank
so much wine that my head was troubled.
9th (Lord's day). Being called up early by Sir W.
" which formed part of his " Church History," book VI.
2 " Artamine, ou, Le Grand Cyrus, par Magdelaine de Scudery," the
second of her works,
3 Virginals. An instrument of the spinnet kind, but made quite rectan
gular, like a smaU pianoforte. Their name was probably derived from being
used by young girls. Sometimes called 2. pair of virginals, but improperly.
(M. B.)

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Batten I rose and went to his house and he told rae
the iU news that he had this moming from Woolwich,
that the Assurance (formerly Captain HoUand's ship,
and now Captain Stoakes's," designed for Guiny and
manned and victualled) , was by a gust of wind sunk
down to the bottom. Twenty raen drowned. Sir
Wilhams both went by barge thither to see how things
are, and I am sent to the Duke of York to teU hira.
I went to the Duke. And first calling upon Mr.
Coventry at his charaber, I went to the Duke's bed
side, who had sat up late last night, and lay long
this morning. This being done I went to chappell,
and sat in Mr. Blagrave's pew, and there did sing my
part along with another before the King, and with
much ease. Frora thence going to ray Lady I met
with a letter from my Lord, commanding me to go to
Mr. Denham,^ to get a man to go to him to-morrow
to Hinchinbroke, to contrive with hira about sorae
alteracions in his house, which I did and got Mr.
Kennard. Dined with my Lady and had infinite of
talk of aU kind of things, especially of beauty of men
and women, with which she seems to be much pleased
to talk of > From thence at night to Mr. Kennard and
took him to Denham, the Surveyor's. From thence
with Mr. Kennard to my Lady who is much pleased
with him, and after a glass of sack there, we parted,
having taken order for a horse or two for him and his
" John Stoakes, late captain of the Royal Henry.
2 John Denham, created at the Restoration K.B., and Surveyor-General
of the Works ; better known as the author of " Cooper's Hill." Ob. 1668.

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servant to be gone to-morrow. Thence home, where
I hear that the Comptroller ' had some business with
me and he showed me a design of his, by the King's
making an Order of Knights of the Sea, to give an
encouragement for persons of honour to undertake
the service of the sea, and he had done it with great
pains and very ingeniously. So home and to prayers
and to bed.
IOth. Up exceedingly early to go to the Comp
troller, but he not being up and it being a very
fine, bright, moonshine moming I weht and walked aU
alone twenty tumes in ComhUl, frora. Gracious Streete
corner to the Stockes = and back again. It is expect
ed that the Duke wiU marry the Lord Chancellor's
daughter s at last ; which is hkely to be the raine of
Mr. Davis and my Lord Barkley, who have carried
themselves so high against the ChanceUor ; Sir Chas.
Barkley swearing that he and others had intrigued
with her often, which all beUeve to be a Ue.t Col.
Slingsby and I in the evening to the Coffee House in
CornhUl and I found much pleasure in it, through the
diversity of company and discourse. Frora thence

' Sir R. Slingsby.
2 " Near the Conduit, on CorahiU, was a strong prison, made of timber,
caUed a cage, with a pair of stockes set upon it, and this was for night-walk
ers," — Maitland's Hist, of London, vol. ii., p. 903.
3 He had married her on the 3rd September previous.
^ Sir Charles Berkeley, in the " Grammont Memoirs " improperly called
Sir George Berkeley, afterwards Earl of Falmouth, was the confidant and
favourite of the king. He was killed at Southwold Bay, in the seafight, June
and, 1665. For a more detailed account of the charge against the Chancellor,
see the " Grammont Memoirs," page 163, Bohn's edition. (M. B.)

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home and up to bed, having first been into my study,
and to ease my mind did go to cast up how my cash
stands, and I do find as near as I can that I am worth
in money clear 240/., for which God be praised. This
aftemoon there was a couple of men with me with a
book in each of their hands, demanding money for
poll-money, and I overlooked the book and saw ray
self set down Sarauel Pepys, gent. ioj. for himself and
for his servants 2^., which I did presently pay without
any dispute, but I fear I have not escaped so, and
therefore I have long ago laid by 10/. for them, but I
think I am not bound to discover myself.
nth. My wife and I up very early this day, and
though the weather was very bad and the wind high,
yet my Lady Batten and her mayde and we two did
go by our barge to Woolwich (my Lady being very
fearfuU) where we found both Sir Williams and much
other company, expecting the weather to be better,
that they might go about weighing up the Assurance,
which lies there (poor ship, that I have been twice
merry in, in Captn. Holland's time,) under water,
only the upper deck may be seen and the masts.
Captain Stoakes is very melancholy, and being in search
for some clothes and money of his, which he says he
hath lost out of his cabin. • I did the first ofifice of a
Justice of Peace to examine a seaman thereupon, but
could find no reason to coramit him. This last tide
the Kingsale was also run aboard and lost her main
mast, by another ship, which makes us think it omin
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they go out. After dinner, my Lady being very fear
fuU of her ships she staid and kept my wife there, and
I and another gentleman, a friend of Sir W. Pen's,
went back in the barge, very merry by the way, as far
as WhitehaU in her. Mr. Moore has persuaded me to
put out 250/. for 50/. per annum for eight years, and I
tliink I shaU do it. Thence home and to bed.
1 2th. To the Exchequer and did give my mother
Bowyer a visit and her daughters, the first time that I
have seen them since I went last to sea. My father
did offer me six pieces of gold, in lieu of six pounds
that he borrowed of me the other day, but it went
against me to take it of him and therefore did not,
though I was afterwards a httle troubled that I did
not. Home and to bed, reading myself asleep, whUe
the wench sat mending my breeches by my bed
side. 13th. All the day long looking upon my workmen
who this day began to paint ray parlour. I stepped
to ray Lady's, where Sir John Lawson and Captain
Holraes were, and there we dined and had very good
red wine of my Lady's own making in England.
14th. With the ComptroUer at the ofifice both fore
noon and afternoon, and at night stepped a httie with
him to the Coffee House where we light upon very
good company and had very good discourse concem
ing insects and their having a generative faculty as
weU as other creatures. The Comptroller told me
among other persons that were heretofore the princi
pal ofificers of the Navy, there was one Sir Peter

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Buck," a Clerk of the Acts, of which to myself I was
not a httie proud.
15 th. AU day at home looking upon ray workraen,
only at noon Mr. Moore came and brought me sorae
things to sign for the Privy Seale and dined with rae.
We had three eeles that my wife and I bought this
moming of a man, that cried thera about, for our
dinner. 1 6th. In the afternoon I to White Hall, where I
was surprised with the news of a plot against the
King's person and my Lord Monk's ; and that since
last night there are about forty taken up on suspicion ;
and, amongst others, it was my lot to raeet with Siraon
Beale, the Trarapeter, who took rae and Tom Doling
into the Guard in Scotland Yard, and showed us
Major-General Overton.^ Here I heard him deny
that he is guilty of any such things ; but that whereas
it is said that he is found to have brought many armes
to towne, he says it is only to sell thera, as he will
prove by oath. To my Lady's and staid with her an
hour or two talking of the Duke of York and his lady,
the Chancellor's daughter, between whom, she tells
me, that all is agreed and he will marry her. But I
know not how true yet.
1 7th. To the office where both Sir WiUiams were

" Peter Buck, secretary to Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland, the
Lord High Admiral, and afterwards knighted. Our Diarist aspired to a simi
lar distinction. Buck is described in Pepys's Book of " Signs Manual," as
" Clerk of the Acts of the Navy in 1608."
2 One of Oliver CromweU's Major-Generals : a high Republican.

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come frora Woolwich, and teU us that, contrary to
their expectations, the Assurance is got up, without
much daraage to her body, only to the goods that she
hath within her, which argues her to be a strong, good
ship. This day my parlour is gUded, which do please
rae Well.
I Sth. AU day at home, without stirring at all, look
ing after my workraen.
I gth. This night Mr. Gauden' sent rae a great
chine of beef and half a dozen of tongues.
20th. AU day at home with my workmen, that I
may get aU done before Christmas. This day I hear
that the Princesse Royall has the smaU pox.
2 1 St. By water to Whitehall (leaving my wife at
Whitefriars going to ray father's to buy her a muff
and mantle), there I signed many things at the Privy
Seale and afterwards took Mr. Haley and W. Bowyer
to the Swan and drank with thera. They told me
that this is St. Thomas's, and that by an old custome,
this day the Exchequer men had forraerly, and do
intend this night to have a supper ; which if I could
I proraised to corae to, but did not. To my Lady's,
and dined with her : she told me how dangerously iU
the Princesse Royal is : and that this moming she
was said to be dead. But she hears that she hath
" Dennis Gauden, Victualler to the Navy, subsequently knighted, while
sheriff" of London; the large house at Clapham, in which Pepys died, was
buUt by him, and intended as a palace for the Bishops of Winchester; his
brother. Dr. John Gauden, at that time having expected to be translated
from Exeter to that See, but he was promoted to Worcester. Sir Dennis was
ultimately ruined, and his vUla purchased by WUliam Hewer.

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married herself to young Jermyn," which is worse than
the Duke of York's raarrying the ChanceUor's daugh
ter, which is now publicly owned.
22nd. Went to the Sun Taverne, on Fish Street
hill, to a dinner of Captn. Teddimans,^ where was my
Lord Inchiquins (who seeras to be avery fine person).
Sir W. Pen, Captn. Cuttance, and one Mr. Lawrence ^
(a fine gentleraan now going to Algiers), and other
good corapany, where we had a very fine dinner, good
musique, and a great deal of wine. We staid here
very late, at last Sir W. Pen and I horae together, he
so overcome with wine that he could hardly go ; I
was forced to lead him through the streets and he was
in a very merry and kind mood. I home, my head
troubled with wine, and I very merry went to bed,
my head akeing aU night.
23rd (Lord's day). In the moming to Church,
where our pew all covered with rosemary and baize.
A stranger raade a dull sermon. Home and found
my wife and mayde with much ado had made shift
to spit a great turkey sent me this week from Charles
Carter, my old coUeague, now rainister in Hunting
donshire, but not at all roasted, and so I was fain to
stay tiU two o'clock, and after that to church with ray
wife, and a good sermon there was, and so horae.

" Henry Jermyn, Master of the Horse to the Duke of York,
^ Afterwards Admiral Sir Thomas Teddiman.
3 Murrough O'Brien, sixth baron of Inchiquin, in Ireland, advanced to
the dignity of an Earl about this time.
4 Afterwards Sir John Lawrence.

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24th. In the morning to the ofifice and Commis
sioner Pett (who seldom comes there) told me that
he had lately presented a piece of plate (being a
couple of flaggons) to Mr. Coventry, but he did not
receive thbm, which also put me upon doing the same
too ; and so after dinner I went and chose a payre
of candlesticks to be made ready for me at Alder
man Backwell's. This day the Princesse RoyaU died
at Whitehall.
25th (Christmas day). In the moming to church,
where Mr. MUls made a very good sermon. After
that home to dinner, where my wife and I and my
brother Tora (who this moming came to see my
wife's new mantle put on, which do please me very
well), to a good shoulder of mutton and a chicken.
After dinner to church again, my wife and I, where
we had a duU sermon of a stranger, which made me
sleep, and so home, and I, before and after supper, to
my lute and FuUer's History.
26th. To my Lord's, where I found Sir Thomas
Bond " (whom I never saw before) with a message
from the Queene about vessells for the carrying over
of her goods. To White Hall by water, and dined
with my Lady Sandwich, who at table did tell rae how
rauch fault was laid upon Dr. Frazer and the rest of

" Sir Thomas Bond was a Roman Catholic; Comptroller of the Household
to the Queen Dowager; created a baronet in 1658 by Charles II., to whom,
whilst in exUe, he had advanced large sums. He died in 1685, and lies buried
at CamberweU, in which parish he had purchased an estate at Peckham, and
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the Doctors, for the death of the Princesse." My
Lord did dine this day with Sir Henry Wright, in
order to his going to sea with the Queene.
2 7th. In the morning to Alderman BackweU's again,
where I found the candlesticks done, ind went along
with him in his coach to my Lord's and left the can
dlesticks with Mr. Shepley. I staid in the garden
talking much with my Lord, who do show me much
of his love and do communicate his raind in most
things to me, which is my great content. This after
noon there came in a strange lord to Sir William
Batten's by a mistake and enters discourse with him,
so that we could not be rid of him tiU Sir Arn.
Breames ^ and Mr. Bens and Sir W. Pen feU a-drinking
to him till he was drunk, and so sent him away.
About the middle of the night I was very iU — I
think with eating and drinking too much — and so
I was forced to call the mayde, who pleased my wife
and I in her ranning up and down so innocently in
her smock.
2Sth (Ofifice day). There all the mprning. Staid
within all the aftemoon and evening, at my lute, with
great pleasure.
29th. Within aU the moming. Several people to

" She died 24th December, 1660.
^ Sir Arnold Breames, or Brahams, of Bridge Court, Kent, was son of
Charles Breames. of Dover, and was knighted at Canterbury, 27th May,
1660. He married, first, Joana, daughter of Walter Henflete (or Septvans) ;
secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Dudley Digges, Master of the Rolls;
and thirdly, Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Palmer, of Wingham,
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speak with me ; Mr. Shepley for loo/. ; Mr. Kennard
and Warren," the merchant, about deales for my Lord.
Captain Robert Blake lately come from the Straights
about some Florence wine for my Lord, and with him
I went to Sir W. Pen, who offering me a barrel of
oysters I took them both home to ray house (having
by chance a good piece of roast beef at the fire for
dinner), and there they dined with me. Thence to
Alderman BackweU's and took a brave state-plate and
cupp in lieu of the candlesticks that I had -the other
day and carried them by coach to my Lord's and left
them there. Home with my father, he teUing me
what bad wives both my cozen Joyces raake to their
husbands, which I much wondered at. After talking
of my sister's coming to me next week, I went home
and to bed.
30th (Lord's day) . Lay long in bed, and being up,
I went with Will to my Lord's, calling in at many
churches in my way. There I found Mr. Shepley in
his Venetian cap taking physique in his chamber.
Dined there, and after dinner Mr. Childe and I spent
some time at the lute, and so promising to prick me
some lessons to my theorbo he went away. I to the
Abby and walked there, seeing the great confusion of
people that come there to hear the organs.
31st. At the office aU the moming and after that I

" Charles IL, April 12, 1662, knighted a rich tradesman of Wapping,
named WUUam Warren. Le Neve says he was " a great buUder of ships for
King Charles II." And there is stiU in that parish a place called "Sir
WUliam Warren's Square," buUt on the site of the knight's residence.

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went out, and in Paul's Church-yard I bought the
play of " Henry the Fourth," and so went to the new
Theatre and saw it acted ; but my expectation being
too great, it did not please me, as otherwise I believe
it would ; and my having a book, I believe did spoU
it a httle. That being done I went to my Lord's,
where I found hira private at cards with ray Lord
Lauderdale and some persons of honour, my boy
taking a cat home with him from ray Lord's, which
Sarah had given hira for my wife, we being much
troubled with mice. At Whitehall inquiring for a
coach, there was a Frenchman with one eye that was
going my way, so he and I hired the coach between
us and he set me down in Fenchurch Street. Strange
how the fellow, without asking, did tell me all what
he was, and how he had ran away from his father and
come into England to serve the King, and now going
back again.
1660-61. At the end of the last and the beginning
of this year, I do live in one of the houses belonging
to the Navy Ofifice, as one of the principal officers,
and have done now about half-a-year; my family
being, myself, my wife, Jane, Will. Hewer, and Wayne-
man," my girle's brother. Myself in constant good
health, and in a most handsorae and thriving condi
tion. Blessed be Almighty God for it. As to things
of State. — The King settied, and loved of aU. The
Duke of York matched to my Lord Chancellor's
' It would appear from this notice of the boy Wayneman, that he was
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daughter, which do not please many. The Queen
upon her retume to France with the Princesse Henri
etta." The Princesse of Orange lately dead, and we
into new mouming for her. We have been lately
frighted with a great plot,^ and many taken up on it,
and the fright not quite over. The ParUament, which
had done all th^s great good to the King, beginning
to grow factious, the King did dissolve it December
29th last, and another likely to be chosen speedUy.
I take myself now to be worth 300/. clear in raoney,
and all ray goods and all raanner of debts paid, which
are none at all.
1669-61. January ist. Mr. Moore to my great
comfort teUs me that my fees will come to So/, clear
to myself, and about 25/. for him, which he hath got
out of the pardons, though there be no fee due to
me at all out of them. Then comes in my brother
Thomas, and after him my father. Dr. Thomas Pepys,
my uncle Fenner and his two sons (Anthony's only
child dying this morning, yet he was so civil to come,
and was pretty merry) to breakfast; and I had for
them a barrel of oysters, a dish of neat's tongues, and
a dish of anchovies, wine of all sorts, and Northdowne
" Youngest daughter of Charles L, married soon after to PhiUp, Duke of
Orleans, only brother of Louis XIV. She died suddenly in 1670, not without
suspicion of having been poisoned.
^ " A great rising in the city of the Fifth-monarchy men, which did very
much disturb the peace and liberty of the people, so that all the train-bands
arose, in arms, both in London and Westminster, as likewise all the king's
guards; and most of the noblemen mounted, and put all their servants on
coach horses, for the defence of his Majesty, and the peace of his kingdom."
— Rugge's Diurnal.

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ale. We were very merry tiU about eleven o'clock,
and then they went away. At noon I carried ray wife
by coach to ray cozen, Thomas Pepys, where we,
with ray father. Dr. Thoraas, cozen Stradwick, Scott,
and their wives, dined. Here I saw first his second
wife, which is a very respectfuU woman, but his din
ner a sorry, poor dinner for a man of his estate,
there being nothing but ordinary meat in it. To-day
the King dined at a lord's, two doors from us. Mr.
Moore and I went to Mr. Pierce's ; in our way seeing
the Duke of York bring his Lady this day to wait
upon the Queene, the first time that ever she did since
that great business ; and the Queene is said to receive
her now with much respect and love ; and there he
cast up the fees, and I told " the money, by the same
token one 100/. bag, after I had told it, feU aU about
the roora, and I fear I have lost sorae of it. Supped
with them, and Mr. Pierce, the purser, and his wife
and mine, where we had a calf's head carboned, but
it was raw, we could not eat it, and a good hen. But
she is such a slut that I do not love her victualls.
2d. My Lord did give me many commands in his
business. As about taking care to write to my uncle

" Told, that is, "counted." So tale, "counting or number." See
Shakespeare, " Tempest," act ii. sc. i, "Macbeth," act i. sc. 3; Exodus, v.
18, " Yet shaU ye deliver the tale (the appointed number) of bricks." MU
ton's " L'AUegro: " " And every shepherd tells his tale
Under the hawthorn in the dale."
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that Mr. BameweU's papers should be locked up, in
case he should die, he being now suspected to be
very iU. Also about consulting with Mr. W. Mon
tagu" for the settling of the 4000/. a-year that the
King had promised my Lord. As also about getting
of Mr. George Montagu to be chosen at Huntingdon
this next Parharaent, &c. That done he to White
HaU stairs with much company, and I with him;
where we took water for Lambeth, and there coach
for Portsmouth. The Queene's things were all in
White HaU Court ready to be sent away, and her
Majesty ready to be gone an hour after to Hampton
Court to-night, and so to be at Portsraouth on Satur
day next. I by water to my ofifice, and so home to
dinner, where I found PaU (my sister) was come;^
but I do not let her sit down at table with me, which
I do at first that she may not expect it hereafter from
me. After dinner to Mr. George Montagu about the
business of election, and he did give me a piece of
gold; so to my Lord's and got the chest of plate
brought to the Exchequer, and my brother Spicer
put it into his treasury. So to WiU's, with thera to a
pot of ale, and so parted. I took a turne in the Hall,
and bought the King and ChanceUor's speeches at the
dissolving the Parhament last Saturday. So to my
Lord's, and took my money home. There stood a
man at our door, when I carried it in, and saw me,
" WUUam, third son to Lord Montagu of Boughton; afterwards Attorney-
General to the Queen; and made Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 1676.
2 See ante, Nov. 12th.

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which made me a little afeard." This day I lent Sir
W. Batten and Captn. Rider my chine of beefe for to
serve to-morrow at Trinity House, the Duke of Albe
marle being to be there and aU the rest of the Breth
ren, it being a great day for the reading over of their
new Charter, which the King hath newly given them.
3d. To the Theatre, where was acted "Beggars'
Bush," it being very well done; and here the first
time that ever I saw women ^ come upon the stage.
From thence to my father's, where I found my mother
gone by Bird, the carrier, to Brampton, upon my
uncle's great desire, my aunt being now in de,spair of
life. 4th. Ofifice all the moming, my wife and Pall being
gone to my father's to dress dinner for Mr. Honi-
wood, my mother being gone out of town. Dined at
home, and Mr. Moore with me, with whom I had
been early this morning at 'White Hall, at the Jewell
Office,' to choose a piece of gUt plate for my Lord,
" Afeard. Always so spelt by Pepys in cipher for " afraid." Very com
mon in Shakespeare. " Be not afear'd; the isle is full of noises,"
Tempest, act iu, sc, 2, (M. B.)
2 The year 1629 is to be marked as the first date at which any attempt
was made in this country to introduce female performers on the public stage.
In France and Italy the practice had long prevailed, and the experiment was
tried here, though without success, by a company of French comedians at the
Blackfriars Theatre. — Buckle, Common-place Book, vol. ii. p. 149. (M. B.)
3 Several of the Jewel Office roUs are in the British Museum. They
recite all the sums of money given to the King, and the particulars of all the
plate distributed in his name, as well as gloves and sweetmeats. The Muse
um possesses these roUs for the 4th, 9th, 18th, 30th, and 31st Eliz, ; for the
13th Charles I.; and the Z3rd, 24th, 26th, and 27th of Charles II.

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in retume of his offering to the King (which it seems
is usual at this time of year, and an Earle gives twenty
pieces in gold in a purse to the King). I chose a
gilt tankard, weighing 31 ounces and a half, and he is
aUowed 30; so I paid 12^-. for the ounce and half
over what he is to have ; but strange it was for me to
see what a company of small fees I was called upon
by a great many to pay there, which, I perceive, is
the manner that courtiers do get their estates. After
dinner Mr. Moore and I to the theatre, where was
"The Scornful Lady," acted very well, it being the
first play that ever he saw.
5 th. Several people came to rae about business,
among others the great Tom Fuller," who came to
desire a kindness for a friend of his,= who hath a mind
to go to Jamaica with these two ships that are going,
which I promised to do. To Will's, and thence by
coach home, staying a little in Paul's Churchyard, to

" So well known for his " Church History," in which is the " History of
Abbys," mentioned in the Diary, 7th December, 1660, the " History of all
the FamUies in England," see Diary, 22nd January, 1660-61, and his
" Worthies of England," see Diary, 9th February, 1661-62. (M. B.)
2 Peter Beckford, who resided in Dr, FuUer's neighbourhood. Mr. Beck
ford, of Maidenhead, tailor, left two sons, one of whom, Thomas, a cloth-
worker, became Sheriff of London, and was knighted on the 29th December,
1677. He is the slop-seUer mentioned postea, Feb, ar, 1667-8. His brother,
Peter Beckford, probably the person alluded to in Jan. 1, 1668-9, had a son
of the same names, who rose to the rank of Colonel in the army, having
estates in Jamaica, and settling in that island. He became President of the
CouncU there, in the latter part of Charles the Second's reign: was made
Govemor and Commander-in-Chief by William III,, and died immensely rich,
Govemor Beckford had a son of the same names, who was father of the weU-
known Alderman Beckford, and grandfather of the late owner of FonthiU.

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bespeak Ogilby's Esop's Fables and TuUy's Ofificys
to be bound for me.
6th (Lord's day). My wife and I to church this
morning, and so home to dinner to a boiled leg of
mutton. To church again, where, before sermon, a
long Psalm was set that lasted an houre, while the sex
ton gathered his year's contribucion through the whole
church. After sermon home, and there I went to ray
chamber and wrote a letter to send to Mr. Coventry,
with a piece of plate along with it, which I do pre
serve among my other letters.
7th. This moming, news was brought to me to my
bed-side, that there had been a great stir in the City
this night by the Fanatiques, who had been up and
kiUed six or seven men, but all are fled. My Lord
Mayor and the whole City had been in armes, above
40,000. After dinner (leaving 1 2d. with the servants
to buy a cake with at night, this day being kept as
Twelfth day) Tom and I and my wife to the Theatre,
and there saw " The Silent Woman." The first tirae
that ever I did see it, and it is an excellent play.
Among other things here, Kinaston, the boy, had the
good tum to appear in three shapes : first, as a poor
woman in ordinary clothes, to please Morose ; then in
fine clothes, as a gallant, and in thera was clearly the
prettiest woraan in the whole house, and lastly, as a
man ; and then likewise did appear the handsomest
man in the house. From thence by link to my cozen
Stradwicke's, where my father and we and Dr. Pepys,
Scott, and his wife, and one Mr. Ward and his ; and

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after a good supper, we had an excellent cake, where
the mark for the Queene was cut, and so there was
two queens, my wife and Mrs. Ward ; and the King
being lost, they chose the Doctor to be Kmg, so we
made him send for sorae wine, and then horae. In
our way home we were in raany places strictly exam
ined, more than in the worst of times, there being
great fears of these Fanatiques rising again : for the
present I do not hear that any of them are taken.
Being come home we found that my people had been
very merry, but no harm.
Sth. Will and I to Westminster, where I dined with
my Lady. After dinner I took my Lord Hinchin
broke and Mr. Sidney to the Theatre, and shewed
them "The Widdow," " an indifferent good play, but
wronged by the women being to seek in their parts.
That being done, my Lord's coach waited for us, and
so back to my Lady's, where she made rae drink of
some Florence wine, and did give rae two bottles for
my wife. Thence to Tom Pepys and bought a dozen
of trenchers, and so home. Some talk to-day of a
head of Fanatiques that do appear about Bamett, but
I do not beUeve it. However, my Lord Mayor, Sir
Richd. Browne, hath carried himself very honourably,
and hath caused one of their meeting-houses in Lon
don to be puUed down.
9th. Waked in the moming about six o'clock, by
people ranning up and down in Mr. Davis's house,
" " The Widow," a comedy, by B, Jonson, Fletcher, and Middleton.

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talking that the Fanatiques were up in arraes in the
City. And so I rose and went forth; where in the
street I found every body in arraes at the doors. So
I retumed (though with no good courage at all, but
that I might not seem to be afeared)," and got my
sword and pistol, which, however, I had no powder to
charge ; and went to the door, where I found Sir R.
Ford,^ and with him I walked up and down as far as
the Exchange, and there I left him. In our way, the
streets full of train-bands, and great stories, what mis
chief these rogues have done ; and I think near a
dozen have been kiUed this moming on both sides.
Seeing the city in this condition, the shops shut, and
aU things in trouble, I went home and sat, it being
ofifice day, till noon. So horae, and dined at horae,
and after dinner to my uncle Wight's, and here I sat
with my aunt tiU it was late, my uncle going forth
about business, and my aunt being very fearful to be
alone. So home to ray lute tiU late, and then to bed,
there being strict guards aU night in the City, though
most of the eneraies, they say, are killed or taken.'
IOth. There coraes Mr. Hawley to me and brings
me my money for the quarter of a year's salary of my
place under Downing that I was at sea. So I did
give him half, whereof he did in his noblenesse give
the odd 5^^. to my Jane. Talking of his wooing afresh

" See note, and January, 1660-61. (M. B.)
2 Lord Mayor of London, 1671,
3 For a contemporary account of the trials and executions of these fanatics,
see Somer's " Tracts," vol, vu., p. 469, Sir W. Scott's edition.

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of Mrs. Lane, and of his going to serve the Bishop of
London. After dinner WUl. comes to tell me that he
had presented my piece of plate to Mr. Coventry,
who takes it very kindly, and sends me a very kind
letter, and the plate back again ; of which my heart
is very glad. So to Mrs. Hunt, where I found a
Frenchman, a lodger of her's, at dinner, and just as
I came in was kissing ray wife, which I did not like,
though there could not be any hurt in it. Mr. Davis
told us the particular exarainations of these Fanatiques
that are taken : and in short it is this, all these Fanat
iques that have done all this, viz., routed all the train
bands that they met with, put the King's hfe-guards
to the run, killed about twenty raen, broke through
the City gates twice ; and all this in the day time,
when all the City was in armes ; — are not in all above
31. Whereas we did believe them (because they were
seen up and down in every place alraost in the City,
and had been about Highgate ' two or three days, and
in several other places) to be at least 500. A thing
that never was heard of, that so few men should dare
and do so much mischief. Their word was, "The
King Jesus, and the heads upon the gates." Few of
them would receive any quarter, but such as were
taken by force and kept alive; expecting Jesus to

" In Ken, or Caen Wood, to which place Venner retreated with his fol
lowers, (See Neal's " History of the Puritans.") The extent of Ken Wood
must not be estimated by the small portion now surrounding Lord Mansfield's
mansion. Ken Wood formed only a part of a large forest belonging to the
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come here and reign in the world presently, and wiU
not beheve yet but their work wiU be carried on
though they die. The King this day came to towne.
nth (Ofifice day). This day comes news, by letters
from Portsraouth, that the Princesse Henrietta is faUen
sick of the meazles on board the London, after the
Queene " and she was under sail. And so was forced
to come back again into Portsmouth harbour ; and in
their way, by neghgence of the pilot, ran upon the
Horse sand. The Queene and she continue aboard,
and do not intend to come on shore tiU she sees what
wiU become of the young Princesse. This newes do
make people think something indeed, that three of
the Royal Faraily should fall sick of the sarae disease,
one after another. This moming likewise, we had
order to see guards set in aU the King's yards ; and
so Sir Wra. Batten goes to Chatham, Colonel Slingsby
and I to Deptford and Woolwich. Portsraouth being
a garrison, needs none. Dined at home, discontented
that my wife do not go neater now she has two mayds.
At night walked to Paul's Churchyard, and bespoke
some books against next week, and from thence to
the Coffee-house, where I met Captain Morrice, the
upholster, who would fain have lent me a horse to
night to have rid vrith hira upon the City-guards, with
the Lord Mayor, there being sorae new expectations
of these rogues ; but I refused by reason of my going
out of towne to-morrow. So home to bed.
" Heiuietta Maria.

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1 2th. With Colonel Slingsby and a friend of his,
Major Waters (a deafe and most amorous melancholy
gentleraan, who is under a despayr in love, as the
Colonel told rae, which makes him bad company,
though a raost good-natured man), by water to Red
riffe, and so on foot to Deptford (our servants by
water), where we feU to choosing four captains to
command the guards, and choosing the place where
to keep them, and other things in order thereunto.
Never tiU now did I see the great authority of my
place, all the captains of the fleete coming cap in
hand to us. Having staid very late there I went
home with Mr. Davis," storekeeper (whose wife is iU
and so I could not see her), and was there most
prince-like lodged, with so much respect and honour
that I was at a loss how to behave myself.
1 3th. In the moming we all went to church, and
sat in the pew belonging to us, where a cold sermon
of a young man that never had preached before. So
to the Globe to dinner, and then with Commissioner
Pett to his lodgings there (which he hath for the
present while he is building the King's yacht, which
wiU be a pretty thing, and much beyond the Dutch-
raan's),^ and from thence by coach to Greenwich
Church, where a good sermon, a fine church, and a
great company of handsome women. After sermon
to Deptford again ; where, at the Commissioner's and
the Globe, we staid long. And so I to Mr. Davis's
" See ante, 3rd December.
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to bed again. But no sooner in bed, but we had an
alarme, and so we rose : and the ComptroUer ' comes
into the Yard to us ; and seamen of aU the ships
present repair to us, and there we armed with every
one a handspike, with which they were as fierce as
could be. At last we hear that it was only five or six
men that did ride through the guard in the towne,
without stopping to the guard that was there ; and,
some say, shot at them. But all being quiet there,
we caused the seamen to go on board again.
14th. The armes being come this moming from
the Tower, we caused thera to be distributed. I
spent rauch tirae walking with Lieutenant Lambert,
walking up and down the yards, and he dined with
us. After dinner Mrs. Pett lent us her coach, and
carried us to Woolwich, where we did also dispose of
the armes there and settle the guards. So to Mr.
Pett's, the shipwright, and there supped, where he did
treat us very handsomely (and strange it is to see
what neat houses all the ofificers of the King's yards
have), his wife a proper woman, and has been hand
some, and yet has a pretty hand. Thence I with
Mr. Ackworth to his house, where he has a very
pretty house, and a very proper lovely woman to his
wife. I went to bed, which was also most neat and
fine. 15th. Up and down the yard all. the moming and
seeing the seamen exercise, which they do already
" Sir Robert Slingsby.

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very handsomely. Then to dinner at Mr. Ackworth's,"
where there also dined with us one Captain BetheU, a
friend of the ComptroUer's. A good dinner and very
handsome. After that and taking our leaves of the
ofificers of the yard, we walked to the waterside and
in our way walked into the rope-yard, where I do
look into the tar-houses and other places, and took
great notice of all the several works belonging to the
making of a cable. So after a cupp of bumt wine at
the taveme there we took barge and went to Black
waU and viewed the dock and the new Wett dock,
which is newly raade there, and a brave new mer
chantman which is to be launched shortly, and they
say to be called the Royal Oake. Hence we walked
to Dick-Shore = and thence to the Towre and so
home. I perceive none of our ofificers care much
for one another, but I do keep in with them aU as
much as I can. This day I hear the Princesse is re
covered again. The King hath been this aftemoon
at Deptford, to see the yacht' that Comralssioner
Pett ¦• is building, which will be very pretty ; as also
that that his brother s at Woolwich is in making.
" Mr. Ackworth seems to have held some office in Deptford Yard. He is
frequently mentioned.
2 Dick Shore, Limehouse. " This is now called Duke Shore, Fore
Street, In Gascoigne's Map of Stepney, 1703, it is called Dick Shoar.
Since that time Dick has become a Duke. Mr, Pepys would find boats there
now, if he visited the spot," — Notes and Queries, vol. viu. p, 263. (M.B.)
3 In 1604, a yacht had been buUt for Henry Prince of Wales, by Phineas
Pett, to whom the English navy was much indebted in the reigns of the early
Stuarts. He was the father of Peter and Christopher.
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1 6th. This moming I went early to the Comp
troUer's and so with him by coach to Whitehall, to
wait upon Mr. Coventry to give hira an account of
what we have done, which having done, I went away
to wait upon my Lady ; but coming to her lodgings
I find that she is gone this morning to Chatham by
coach, thinking to meet me there, which did trouble
me exceedingly, and I did not know what to do, being
loth to foUow her, and yet could not imagine what
she would do when she found rae not there. In this
trouble, I went to take a walk in Westminster HaU
and by chance met with Mr. Childe, who went forth
with my Lady to-day, but his horse being bad, he
come back again, which then did trouble me raore,
so that I did resolve to go to her ; and so by boate
home and put on my boots, and so over to South
warke to the post-house, and there took horse and
guide to Dartford and thence to Rochester (I having
good horses and good way, come thither about half-
an-hour after daylight, which was before 6 o'clock
and I set forth after two), where I found my Lady
and her daughter Jem., and Mrs. Browne," and five
servants, all at a great loss, not finding me here, but
at my coming she was overjoyed. The sport was how
she had intended to have kept herself unknown, and
how the Captaine ^ (whom she had sent for) of the
" Wife of Captain Arthur Browne, Sir William Batten's brother-in-law.
See Feb. 14, 1660-61, and for his death, AprU 27, 1663.
2 Afterwards Sir Roger Cuttance. He was captain of the "Naseby,"
re-christened the " Charles." Henry Cuttance was Captain of the " Cheri
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Charles had forsoothed" her, though he knew her
weU and she him. In fine we supped merry and
so to bed, there coraing several of the Charles'
men to see me before I got to bed. The page lay
with me.
17th. Up, and breakfast with my Lady. Then
come Captains Cuttance and Blake ^ to carry her in
the barge on board, and so we went through Ham
Creeke to the Soverayne (a goodly sight aU the way
to see the brave ships that lie here) first, which is a
most noble ship. I never saw her before. My Lady
Sandwich, ray Lady Jemimah, Mrs. Browne, Mrs.
Grace, and Mary and the page, my lady's servants
and myself, all went into the lanthome together.
From thence to the Charles, where my lady took
great pleasure to see all the rooms, and to hear me
teU her how things are when my Lord is there. After
we had seen all, then the ofificers of the ship had
prepared a handsome breakfast for her, and whUe she
was pledging my Lord's health they give her five guns.
That done, we went off, and then they give us thirteen
guns more. I confess it was a great pleasure to my
self to see the ship that I begun my good fortune in.
From thence on board the Newcastle, to show my
Lady the difference between a great and a small ship.
Araong these ships I did give away 7/. So back again
and went on shore at Chathara, where I had ordered
the coach to wait for us. Here I heard that Sir WU-
" Forsoothed, i.e. treated contemptuously. (M. B.)
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ham Batten and his lady (who I knew were here, and
did endeavour to avoyd) were now gone this raorning
to London. So we took coach, and I went into the
coach, and went through the towne, without raaking
stop at our inn, but left J. Goods to pay the reckon
ing. So I rode with my lady in the coach, and the
page on the horse that I should have rid on — he
desiring it. It begun to be darke before we could
come to Dartford, and to rain hard, and the horses to
fayle, which was our great care to prevent, for fear of
my Lord's displeasure, so here we sat up for to-night,
as also Captains Cuttance and Blake, who came along
with us. We set and talked till supper, and at supper
my Lady and I entered into a great dispute concem
ing what were best for a man to do with his estate —
whether to make his elder son heire, which my Lady
is for, and I against, but rather to make all equall.
This discourse took us much tirae, till it was tirae to
go to bed; but we being merry, we -bade my Lady
good-night, and intended to have gone to the Post-
house to drink, and hear a pretty girle play of the
citteme (and indeed we should have lain there, but
by a raistake, we did not), but it was late, and we
could not hear her, and the guard carae to examine
what we were ; so we retumed to our Inn and to bed,
the page and I in one bed, and the two captains in
another, all in one chamber, where we had very good
mirth with our most abominable lodging.
18th. The Captains went with rae to the post-house
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horse and guide for London ; and though some rain,
and a great wind in ray face, I got to London at
eleven o'clock. At home found aU well, but the
monkey loose, which did anger me, and so I did strike
her tUl she was almost dead, that they might raake her
fast again, which did stiU trouble me raore. In the
aftemoon we raet at the office and sat tUl night, and
then I to see my father who I found weU, and took
him to Standing's to drink a cup of ale. I took Mr.
HoUier" to the Greyhound, where he did advise me
above aU things, both as to the stone and the decay
of my memory (of which I now complain to him), to
avoid drinking often, which I ara resolved, if I can, to
leave off. Hence home, and took home with me from
the bookseller's Ogilby's ^sop, which he had bound
for me, and indeed I am very much pleased with
the book. Home and to bed.
19th. To the ComptroUer's, and with him by coach
to White Hall; in our way meeting Venner => and
Pritchard upon a sledge, who with two more Fifth
Monarchy men were hanged to-day, and the two first
" Ward, in his " Diary," p. 235, mentions that the porter at St. Thomas's
Hospital told him, in 1661, of Mr, Holyard's having cut thirty for the stone
in one year, who all lived. This surgeon, of whom we read so often in the
" Diary," was probably the person who operated successfully upon Pepys
when afflicted with a similar complaint, and hence their intimacy in after
life. 2 Thomas Venner, a cooper, and preacher to a conventicle in Coleman-
street. He was a violent enthusiast and leader in the Insurrection on the 7th
of January before mentioned. He was much wounded/ before he could be
taken, and fought with courage amounting to desperation. Venner and Hodg
kins were executed in Coleman Street; Pritchard and Oxman at the end of
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drawn and quartered. I went to the Leg in King
Street and had a rabbit for myself and my Will, and
after dinner I sent him horae and myself went to the
Theatre, where I saw " The Lost Lady," ¦ which do
not please me much. Here I was troubled to be seen
by four of our ofifice clerks, which sat in the half-
crowne box and I in the \s. dd. From thence by
linke, and bought two mouse traps of Thomas Pepys,
the Turner.
20th (Lord's day). To Church in the morning.
Dined at home. My wife and I to Church in the
afternoon. Supped at my Uncle Wight's and were
very merry and so home, and after prayers to write
down ray joumall for the last five days, and so to
bed. 2 1 St. This raorning Sir W. Batten, the Comptroller
and I to Westminster, to the Commissioner for paying
off the Array and Navy, where the Duke of Albemarle
was ; and we satt with our hatts on and did discourse
about paying off the ships and do find that they do
intend to undertake it without our help ; and we are
glad of it, for it is a work that wiU much displease the
poor searaen, and so we are glad to have no hand in
it. So home to supper and then to bed, having eat
no dinner to-day. It is strange what weather we have
had aU this winter ; no cold at aU ; but the ways are
dusty, and the flyes fly up and down, and the rose
bushes are full of leaves, such a time of the year as
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was never known in this world before here. This
day many more of the Fifth Monarchy men were
hanged. 22nd. To the ComptroUer's house, where I read
over his proposals to the Lord Adrairal for the regu
lating of the ofificers of the Navy, in which he hath
taken much pains, only he do seera to have too good
opinion of thera hiraself. From thence in his coach
to Mercer's Chappell, and so up to the great haU,
where we met with the King's Councell for trade,
upon some proposals of theirs for settling convoys for
the whole English trade, and that by having 33 ships
(four fourth-rates, nineteen fifths, ten sixths) settled
by the King for that purpose, which indeed was
argued very finely by raany persons of honour and
merchants that were there. It pleased rae much now
to come in this condition to this place, where I was
once a petitioner for my exhibition in Paul's School ;
and also where Sir G. Downing (my late master) was
chaireman, and so but equally concerned with me. I
met with Dr. Thos. Fuller. He tells rae of his last
and great book that is coming out : ^that is, his His
tory of aU the Farailies in England ; and could teU
rae more of my owne, than I knew myself. And also
to what perfection he hath now brought the art of
memory ; that he did lately to four eminently great
scholars dictate together in Latin, upon different
subjects of their proposing, faster than they were
able to write, till they were tired ; and that the best
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out and forget his last sentence (which he never
was), that then his last refuge is to begin with an
Utcunque." 23rd. To the ofiice all the morning. My wife and ¦
people at home busy to get things ready for to-mor
row's dinner. At noon, without dinner, went into the
City, and there meeting with Greatorex, we went and
drank a pot of ale. With him to Gresham Colledge
(where I never was before), and saw the raanner of
the house, and found great corapany of persons of
honour there ; thence to ray bookseUer's, and for
books, and to Stevens, the silversmith, to make clean
some plate against to-morrow, and' so horae, by the
way paying many httle debts for wine and pictures,
&c., which is my great pleasure. Horae and found aU
things in a hurry of business. Slater, our messenger,
being here as my cook till very late. I in my chara
ber aU the evening looking over ray Osbom's works
and new Emanuel Thesaurus' Patriarchae. So late to
bed, having ate nothing to-day but a piece of bread
and cheese at the ale-house with Greatorex, and sorae
bread and butter at home.
24th. At home all day. There dined with rae Sir
WUham Batten and his lady and daughter. Sir W. Pen,
Mr. Fox (his lady being ill could not come), and
Captain Cuttance ; the first dinner I have raade since
I carae hither. This cost me above 5/., and raerry
" Many years ago, but within my recollection, it was said that a former
Public Orator of Cambridge, when in a similar difficulty, used to begin his
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we were — only my chimney smokes. To bed, being
glad that the trouble is over.
25th. Mr. Hater with me to look upon the instmc
tions of my Lord Northumberland's, but we were in-
terrapted by Mr. Sahsbury's coming in, who carae to
see me and to show me my Lord's picture in littie, of
his doing. And truly it is strange to what a perfection
he is come in a year's time. This night comes two
cages, which I bought this evening for my canary
birds, which Captain Rooth ' this day sent me.
26th. Within all the morning. About noon comes
one that had formerly known rae and I hira, but I
know not his name, to borrow 5/. of me, but I had the
wit to deny him. There dined with me this day both
the Pierces ^ and their wives, and Captain Cuttance,
and Lieutenant Lambert, with whom we made our
selves very merry by taking away his ribbans ' and
garters, having made him to confess that he is lately
married. 27th (Lord's day). Before I rose, letters come to
me from Portsraouth, teUing me that the Princesse is
now well, and my Lord Sandwich set sail with the
Queene and her yesterday from thence for France.
To church, a poor dull sermon of a stranger. Home,
and at dinner was very angry at my people's eating
a fine pudding (made me by Slater, the cooke, last
Thursday) without ray wife's leave. To church again,
" Richard Rooth, Captain of the Dartmouth.
2 The surgeon and the purser of the same name,
3 See 24th January, 1659-60, and gth Felaruary, 1662-63, (^^- B*)

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a good sermon of Mr. Mills, and after sermon Sir W.
Pen and I an hour in the garden talking. Mr. and
Mrs. Turner supped with us, and after supper we feU
to oysters, and then Mr. Turner went and fetched
some strong waters, and so being very merry we part
ed. This day the parson read a proclamation at
"church, for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th
of January, a fast for the murther of the late King.
28th. Dined at home, and after dinner to Fleet
Streete, with my sword to Mr. Brigden (lately made
Captain of the Auxiharies) to be refreshed, and with
him to an ale-house, where I met Mr. Davenport, and
after some talk of CromweU, Ireton and Bradshaw's "
bodies being taken out of their graves to-day, I went
to Mr. Crew's and thence to the Theatre, where I saw
again "The Lost Lady," which do now please me
better than before ; and here I sitting behind in a
dark place, a lady spit backward upon me by a mis
take, not seeing me, but after seeing her to be a very
pretty lady, I was not troubled at it at aU. To my
father's, whither came to us Dr. Fairbrother, who I
took and my father to the Bear and gave a pint of
sack and a pint of claret. He do stiU continue his
expressions of respect and love to rae, and tells me
my brother John wUl make a good scholar. At Mr.
Holden's I bought a hat, cost me 35^.^
" " Nov. 28, The bodies of OUver CromweU, Henry Ireton, John Brad
shaw, and Thomas Pride, were dug up out of their graves to be hanged at
Tybum, and buried under the gallows. Cromwell's vault having been opened,
the people crowded very much to see him." — Rugge's Diurnal.
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29th. To Southwarke, and so over the fields to
Lambeth, and there drank, it being a most glorious
and warm day, even to amazement, for this time of
the year. To my Lord's, where we found my Lady
gone with sorae company to see Hampton Court, so
we went to Blackfryers " (the first time I ever was
there since plays begun), and there after great pa
tience and little expectation, from so poor beginning,
I saw three acts of " The Mayd in y<= Mill " == acted to
my great content. But it being late, I left the play,
and by water through bridge horae, and so to Mr.
Turner's house, where the Comptroller, Sir William
Batten, and Mr. Davis and their ladies ; and here we
had a most neat little but costly and genteel supper,
and after that a great deal of impertinent mirth by
Mr. Davis, and some catches, and so broke up, and
going away, Mr. Davis's eldest son took up my old
Lady Slingsby ' in his armes, and carried her to the
coach, and is said to be able to carry three of the big
gest men that were in the company, which I wonder
at. So home and to bed.

the fashions be rare and strange, so is the stuff whereof their hat be made
diverse also; for some are of silk, some of velvet, some of taffetee, some of
sarcenet, some of wool, and which is more curious, some of a certain kind
of fine hair, these they call bever hats, of xx, xxx or xl shillings price fetched
beyond the sea." — Buckle, Common-place Book, vol. u. p. 233. (M, B,)
" At Apothecaries HaU, where Davenant produced the first and second
parts of " The Siege of Rhodes." Downes, p, 20.
2 " The Maid of the MiU," a play by J, Fletcher and Rowley,
3 Margaret, daughter of Sir WUliam Water, an alderman of York, She
was mother of the Comptroller, widow of Sir Guildford Slingsby, and, per-
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30th (Fast day) . The first tirae that this day hath
been yet observed : and Mr. Mills made a most excel
lent serraon, upon " Lord forgive us our forraer ini
quities;" speaking exceUentiy of the justice of God
in punishing men for the sins of their ancestors. So
I went home, and there understand that my mother is
come home weU from Brampton, and had a letter
from ray brother John, a very ingenious one, and he
therein begs to have leave to come to town at the
Coronacion. Then to my Lady Batten's ; ' where ray
wife and she are lately come back again from being
abroad, and seeing of Cromwell, Ireton,- and Brad
shaw hanged and buried at Tyburne.'
31st. This morning with Mr. Coventry at WliitehaU
about getting a ship to carry my Lord's deales to
Lynne,'' and we have chosen the Gift. To ray Lord's,
where my Lady not well, so I eat a mouthfuU of din
ner there, and thence to the Theatre, and there sat in

" See Nov, z6, 1660, note,
2 Henry Ireton married Bridget, daughter to Oliver Cromwell, and was
afterwards one of Charles the First's Judges, and of the Committee who
superintended his execution. He died at the siege of Limerick, 1651.
3 " Jan, 30th was kept as a very solemn day of fasting and prayer. This
morning the carcases of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw (which the day be
fore had been brought from the Red Lion Inn, in Holborn) , were drawn upon
a sledge to Tybum, and then taken out of their coffins, and in their shrouds
hanged by the neck, untU the going down of the sun. They were then cut
down, their heads taken off, and their bodies buried in a grave made under the
gallows. The coffin in which was the body of Cromwell was a very rich
thing, very full of gUded hinges and nails." — Rugge's Diurnal.
* The timber purchased from Warren (see ante, Dec. 29, 1660), sent to
Lynn to be conveyed to Hinchingbrooke as the barge was, mentioned June
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the pitt among the company of fine ladys, &c. ; and
the house was, exceeding fuU, to see Argalus and Par-
thenia," the first time that it hath been acted : and
indeed it is good, though wronged by ray over great
expectations, as all things else are.
February ist. A full ofifice aU this morning, and
busy about answering the Commissioners of ParUa
ment to their letter, wherein they desire to borrow two
clerks of ours, which we wiU not grant them. After
dinner into London and bought some books and a
belt, and had my sword new furbished. At night
home. So after a little musique to bed, leaving my
people up getting things ready against to-morrow's
dinner. 2nd. Early to Mr. Moore. Thence home, where
all things in a hurry for dinner, a strange cooke being
come in the room of Slater, who could not come.
There dined here my uncle Wight and my aunt, my
father and mother, and my brother Tora, Dr. Fair-
brother and Mr. MiUs, the parson, and his wife, who
is a neighbour's daughter of ray uncle Robert's, and
knows my Aunt Wight and aU her and my friends
there; and so we had exceUent company to-day.
After dinner I was sent for to Sir G. Carteret's. Then
home ; where I found the parson and his wife gone.
And by and by the rest of the company, very weU
pleased, and I too ; it being the last dinner I intend
to make a great whUe, it having now cost me almost
" " Argalus and Parthenia," a pastoral, by Henry Glapthom, taken from
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15/. in three dinners within this fortnight. In the
evening comes Sir W. Pen, pretty merry, to sit with
me and talk, which we did for an hour or two, and so
good night, and I to bed.
3rd (Lord's day). This day I first begun to go
forth in my coate and sword, as the manner now
agfiong gentlemen is. To WhitehaU. In my way
heard Mr. Thomas FuUer preach at the Savoy upon
our forgiving of other men's trespasses, shewing among
other things that we are to go to law never to revenge,
but only to repayre, which I think a good distinction.
So to White Hall ; where I staid to hear the trampets
and kettle-drums, and then the other drams, which
are much cried up, though I think it duU, vulgar
musique. So to Mr. Fox's, unbidd ; where I had a
good dinner and special company. Among other
discourse, I observed one story, how my Lord of
Northwich," at a pubhc audience before the King of
France, made the Duke of Anjou cry, by making
ugly faces as he was stepping °to the King, but undis-
" This story relates to circumstances which had occurred many years
previously. George, Lord Goring, was sent by Charles I. as Ambassador
Extraordinary to France in 1644, to witness the oath of Louis XIV. to the
observance of the treaties concluded with England by his father, Louis XIIL,
and his grandfather, Henry IV, Louis XIV, took this oath at Ruel, on the
3rd of July, 1644, when he was not yet six years of age, and when his brother
Philippe, then called Duke of Anjou, was not four years old. Shortly after
his retum home. Lord Goring was created, in September, 1644, Earl of Nor
wich, the title by which he is here mentioned. Philippe, Duke of Anjou, who
was frightened by the English nobleman's ugly faces, took the title of Duke
of Orleans after the death of his uncle, Jean Baptiste Gaston, in 1660. He
married his cousin, Henrietta of England, and (by his second wife) is the
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covered. And how Sir PhUlip Warwick's ' lady did
wonder to have Mr. Darcy ^ send for several dozen
botties of Rhenish wine to her house, not knowing
that the wine was his. Thence to my Lord's ; where
I am told how Sir Thomas Crew's ' Pedro, with two
of his countryraen more, did last night kill one soldier
of four that quarreUed with them in the street, about
10 o'clock. The other two are taken ; but he is now
hid at my Lord's tUl night, that he do intend to make
his escape away.
4th. Early up to Court with Sir W. Pen, where, at
Mr. Coventry's chamber, we met with all our feUow
ofificers, and there a hot debate about the business
of paying off the Fleete, and how far we should join
with the Commissioners of Parhament therein. So
I to the taverne, where Sir WiUiara Pen and the
Comptroller and several others were, men and woraen ;
and we had a very great and merry dinner; and
after dinner the Comptroller begun some sports,
among others the naming of people round and after
wards demanding questions of them that they are
forced to answer their names to, which do make
very good sport. And here I took pleasure to take
*- Sir PhUip Warwick, Secretary to Charles I. when in the Isle of Wight,
and Clerk of the Signet, to which place hewas restored in 1660; knighted,
and elected M. P, for Westminster, He was also Secretary to the Treasury
under Lord Southampton till 1667, Ob. 1682-3. His second wife here men
tioned was Joan, daughter of Sir Henry Fanshawe, and widow of Sir WUliam
Botteler, Bart,
2 'Duke Darcy, See note ante, 24th May, 1660.
3 Eldest son of Mr., afterwards Lord Crewe, whom he succeeded in that
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the forfeits of the ladies who would not do their duty
by kissing of them ; among others a pretty lady, who
I found afterwards to be wife to Sir W. Batten's son."
We sat late, talking with my Lady and others and Dr.
Whistler,^ who I found good company and a very
ingenious man. So home and to bed.
5th. Washing-day. My wife and I by water to
Westminster. She to her mother's and I to West
minster HaU, where I found a fuU terme, and there
saw my Lord Treasurer ' (who was sworn to-day at the
Exchequer, with a great company of Lords and per
sons of honour to attend him) go up to the Treasury
Offices, and take possession thereof; and also saw
the heads of CromweU, Bradshaw, and Ireton, set up
upon the further end of the HaU. I went by coach
to the play-house at the Theatre, our coach in King
Street breaking, and so took another. Here we saw
Argalus and Parthenia, which I lately saw, but though
pleasant for the dancing and singing, I do not find
good for any wit or design therein.
6th. To the office, and there sat long, then to din
ner. Captain Murford with me. I had a dish of fish
and a good Hare, which was sent me the other day
by Goodenough the plasterer. So to the ofifice again.

" Benjamin Batten. See ante, 26th Nov, 1660, and note,
2 Daniel Whistler, Fellow of Merton College, took the degree of M. D.
at Leyden, 1645; and, after practising in London, went as Physician to the
Embassy, with Bulstrode Whitlock, into Sweden, On his return, he became
Fellow, and at length President, of the CoUege of Physicians. Ob. 1684. He
was nearly connected with Sir John Cutler,
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where comes Mr. Jessop, one whom I could not for
merly have looked upon, and now he comes cap in
hand to us from the Commissioners of the Navy,
though indeed he is a raan of a great estate and of
good report.
7th. To Westminster HaU. And after a walk to
my Lord's ; where, whUe I and ray Lady were in her
chamber in talk, in comes my Lord from sea, to our
great wonder. He had dined at Havre de Grace on
Monday last, and came to the Downes the next day,
and lay at Canterbury that night ; and so to Dartford,
and thence this morning to White HaU. Among
others, Mr. Creed and Captain Ferrers teU me the
stories of my Lord Duke of Buckingham's and my
Lord's falling out at Havre de Grace, at cards ; they
two and my Lord St. Alban's playing. The Duke did,
to my Lord's dishonour, often say that he did in his
conscience know the contrary to what he then said,
about the difference at cards ; and so did take up the
money that he should have lost to my Lord. Which
ray Lord resenting, said nothing then, but that he
doubted not but there were ways enough to get his
raoney of him. So they parted that night ; and my
Lord sent Sir R. Stayner the next moming to the
Duke, to know whether he did remeraber what he
said last night, and whether he would owne it with
his sword and a second ; which he said he would, and
so both sides agreed. But my Lord St. Alban's, and
the Queene and Arabassador Montagu, did waylay
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up, to my Lord's honour ; who hath got great reputa-
tation thereby.
Sth. Captain Cuttle, and Curtis, and Mootham,"
and I, went to the Fleece Taverne ^ to drink; and
there we spent till four o'clock, telling stories of
Algiers, and the raanner of the life of slaves there.
And traly Captn. Moothara and Mr. Dawes' (who
have been both slaves there) did raake me fully ac
quainted with their condition there : as, how they eat
nothing but bread and water. At their redemption
they pay so much for the water they drink at the
public fountaynes, during their being slaves. How
they are beat upon the soles of their feet and beUies
at the liberty of their padron. How they are aU, at
night, called into their master's Bagnard ; and there
they he. How the poorest men do use their slaves
best. How some rogues do live weU, if they do invent
to bring their masters in so rauch a week by their in
dustry or theft ; and then they are put to no other work
at aU. And theft there is counted no great crirae at all.
9th. To ray Lord's with Mr. Creed, who was corae
to me this morning to get a biU of imprest ^ signed,
and then to an ordinary to dinner, and then Creed
and I to Whitefriars to the Play-house, and saw " The
Mad Lover," the first tirae I ever saw it acted, which
I like pretty well.
" Peter Mootham, Captain of the " Foresight: " afterwards slain in action.
2 In Covent Garden.
^ John Dawes, created a baronet in 1663, father of Sir William Dawes,
Archbishop of York.
* See page 287. (M. B.)

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IOth (Lord's day). Took physique aU day, and,
God forgive me, did spend it in reading of some little
French romances. At night my wife and I did please
ourselves talldng of our going into France, which I
hope to effect this summer.
nth. At the ofifice all the moming. Then with
young Mr. Reeve home to his house, who did there
show me many pretty pleasures in perspectives," that
I have not seen before, and I did buy a little glass
of him cost me t^s. So home to my study, and set
some papers and money in order, and so to bed.
1 2 th. By water to Salsbury Court play-house, where
not liking to sit, we went out again, and by coach to
the Theatre, and there saw "The ScomfuU Lady,"^
now done by a woman,' which makes the play appear
much better than ever it did to me.
13th. To Sir W. Batten's, whither I sent for my
wife, and we chose Valentines'* against to-morrow.
" " ' Telescope ' and ' microscope ' are both as old as Milton, but for a long
while * perspective ' (glass being sometimes understood and sometimes ex
pressed) did the work of these. It is sometimes written ' prospective,' Our
present use of ' perspective ' does not, I suppose, date farther back than Dry
den," — Trench's Select Glossary. (M. B.)
2 A Comedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher.
3 Mrs. Marshall, See Downes's " Roscius Anglicanus," p, 6.
4 The observation of St. Valentine's day is very ancient in this country.
Shakespeare makes OpheUa sing —
" To-morrow is St. Valentine's day,
AU in the moming betime.
And 1 a maid at your window
To be your Valentine." Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5.
See Nares's " Glossary," and Ben Jonson, " A Tale of a Tub," act i. sc. i.
(M. B.)

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 335
My wife chose me, which did much please me ; ray
Lady Batten Sir W. Pen, &c. Here we sat late, and
so horae to bed, having gotten ray Lady Batten to give
me a spoonful of honey for my cold.
14th (Valentine's day). Up early and to Sir W.
Batten's, but would not go in tiU I asked whether
they that opened the doore was a raan or a woman,
and Mingo, who was there, answered a woman, which,
with his tone, made me laugh; so up I went and
took Mrs. Martha ' for my Valentine (which I do only
for complacency), and Sir W. Batten he go in the
same manner to my wife, and so we were very raerry.
About 10 o'clock we, with a great deal of corapany,
went down by our barge to Deptford, and there only
went to see how forward Mr. Pett's yacht is ; and so
aU into the barge again, and so to Woolwich, on board
the Rose-bush, Captain Brown's ^ ship, that is brother-
in-law to Sir W. Batten, where we had a very fine din
ner, dressed on shore, and great rairth and all things
successfuU ; the first time I ever carried my wife a-ship-
board, as also ray boy Wayneman, who hath all this
day been called young Pepys, as Sir W. Pen's boy
young Pen. So home by barge again. The talke of
the towne now is, who the King is like to have for
his Queene : and whether Lent shall be kept with the
strictnesse of the King's proclamation ; which it is
thought cannot be, because of the poor, who cannot

' Mrs. Martha Batten, Sir W. Batten's daughter. See February 18th.
(M. B.)
* Arthur Browne. See anie, i6th Jan. 1660-61.

336 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
buy fish. And also the great preparation for the King's
crowning is now much thought upon and talked of.
15 th. At the ofifice all the moming, and in the
aftemoon at making up my accounts for my Lord
to-morrow; and that being done I found myself to
be clear (as I think) 350/. in the world, besides my
goods in my house and all things paid for.
1 6th. To my Lord in the moming, who looked
over my accounts and agreed to them. I did also get
him to sign a bill (which do make my heart merry)
for 60/. to me, in consideration of my work extraor
dinary at sea this last voyage, which I hope to get
paid. I dined with my Lord and then to the Theatre,
where I saw "The Virgin Martyr,"" a good but too
sober a play for the corapany.
17th (Lord's day). A raost tedious, unreasonable,
and irapertinent sermon, by an Irish Doctor. His
text was " Scatter them, O Lord, that delight in warr."
Sir Wm. Batten and I very much angry with the
parson. I Sth. At the ofifice aU the moming, dined at home.
In the afternoon my wife and I and Mrs. Martha
Batten, my Valentine, to the Exchange, and there
upon a payre of embroydered and six payre of plain
white gloves I laid out 40s. upon her. Then we went
to a mercer's at the end of Lombard Streete and
there she bought a suit of Lutestring for herself, and
so home. It is much talked that the King is aheady
' " The virgin Martyr," by Massinger and T. Decker.

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 337
married to the niece of the Prince de Ligne," and that
he hath two sons aheady by her : which I am sorry to
hear ; but yet am gladder that it should be so, than
that the Duke of York and his faraily should come
to the crowne, he being a professed friend to the
Catholiques. 19th. Met with Sir G. Carteret : who afterwards,
with the Duke of York, my Lord Sandwich, and
others, went into a private room to consult : and we
were a little troubled that we were not caUed in with
the rest. But I do believe it was upon something
very private. We staid walking in the gallery ; where
we met with Mr. Slingsby,^ who showed me the stamps
of the King's new coyne ; which is strange to see,
how good they are in the stamp and bad in the money,
for lack of skUl to make thera. But he says Blon-
deau ' will shortly corae over, and then we shall have
it better, and the best in the world. He tells rae, he
is sure that the King is not yet married, as it is said ;
nor that it is known who he will have. To my Lord's
and found hira dined, and so I lost my dinner, but
I staid and played with him and Mr. ChUde, &c. some
things of four parts, and so it raining hard and bitter
cold (the first winter day we have yet had this win-

" Can this be meant for Mazarin, as the Prince de Ligne had no niece?
But Charles had recently made an offer to Hortense Mancini, to whom Car
dinal Mazarin was uncle.
2 Henry SUngsby, Master of the Mint of Kilpax, near Leeds.
3 See 27th November, 1662, (M, B.) Peter Blondeau had been em
ployed by the Commonwealth to coin their money, and after the Restoration
was made Engineer of the Mint.

338 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
ter), I took coach home and spent the eveniag in
reading of a Latin play, the " Naufragium Joculare." "
2 ist. To Westminster by coach with Sir W. Pen,
and in our way saw the city begin to build scaffolds
against the Coronacion.
22nd. After dinner carae The. Turner, and so I
home with her to her mother, good woman, whom I
had not seen through my great neglect this half year,
but she would not be angry with me. Here I staid
all the aftemoon talking of the King's being married,
which is now the towne talke, but I believe false.
Then my wife to Sir W. Batten's, and there sat a
while ; he having yesterday sent my wife half-a-dozen
pair of gloves, and a pair of silk stockings and garters,
for her Valentine's gift.
23rd. This my birthday, 28 years. I by water to
WhitehaU, having met Mr. Hartlibb by the way at
Alderman BackweU's. So he did give me a glass of
Rhenish wine at the Steeleyard, and so to WhitehaU
by water. He continues of the same bold imperti
nent humour that he was always of and will ever be.
He told me how my Lord ChanceUor had lately got
the Duke of York and Duchesse, and her woman,
my Lord Ossory,^ and a Doctor, to make oath before
most of the Judges of the kingdom, conceming aU
the circumstances of their marriage. And in fine, it
is confessed that they were not fully raarried till about
" A comedy, by Abraham Cowley.
^ Thomas Earl of Ossory, son of the Duke of Ormond. Ob. 1680, aged
46.

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 339
a month or two before she was brought to bed ; but
that theywere contracted long before, and time enough
for the chUd to be legitiraate." But I do not hear
that it was put to the Judges to determine whether it
was so or no. To my Lord and there spoke to him
about his opinion of the Light, the seamarke that
Captain Murford is about, and do offer me an eighth
part to concern myself with it, and ray Lord do give
me some encourageraent in it, and I shall go on.
After dinner to WhitehaU ChappeU with Mr. ChUde,
and there did hear Captain Cooke and his boy make
a trial of an Anthem against to-raorrow, which was
brave musique. Then to the Play-house, and there
saw "The ChangeUng,"^ the first time it hath been
acted these twenty years, and it takes exceedingly.
Besides, I see the gallants do ' begin to be tyred with
the vanity and pride of the theatre actors, who are
indeed grown very proud and rich. I also met with
the ComptroUer, who told me how it was easy for us
aU, the principaU officers, and proper for us, to labour
to get into the next ParUament ; and would have me
to ask the Duke's letter,' but I shall not endeavour it
because it will spend much money, though I ara sure
I could weU obtain it. This is now 2S years that I am
bom. And blessed be God, in a state of fuU content.

" See May 6, 1661.
^ " The Changeling," a Tragedy, by Thomas Middleton. The plot is
taken from a story in " God's Revenge against Murder." Sheppey played
Antonio. 3 Probably a letter of recommendation to some constituency.

340 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
and great hopes to be a happy man in aU respects,
both to myself and friends.
24th (Sunday). Mr. Mills made as excellent a ser
raon in the raorning against drunkenness as ever I
heard in my life. I dined at home; another good
one of his in the aftemoon. My Valentine had her
fine gloves on at church to-day that I did give her.
25 th. To W. Symon's where I found him abroad,
but she, like a good lady, within, and there we did eat
some nettle porrige, which was raade on purpose to
day for sorae of their coraing, and was very good.
26th (Shrove Tuesday). I to Mrs. Turner's, who
I found busy with The. and Joyce making of things
ready for fritters, so to Mr. Crew's and there delivered
Cotgrave's Dictionary " to my Lady Jemiraah. To
Mrs. Tumer's, where several friends, all strangers to
rae but Mr. Armiger, dined. Very merry and the
best fritters that ever I eat in ray life. After that
looked out at window; saw the flinging at cocks.
Then Mrs. The. and I, and Mr. Thatcher the VirginaU
Maister to Bishopsgate Streete, and there saw the new
Harpsicon made for Mrs. The. We offered 1 2/., they
deraanded 14/. The Maister not being at home, we
could make no bargain. So all by coach to my house,
where I found my Valentine with my wife. I sat and
talked with my Valentine and my wife a good while,
and then saw her home.
27th. At the ofifice all the morning, that done I
" Of the French tongue.

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 341
walked in the garden with httle Captain Murford,
where he and I had sorae discourse conceming the
Light-House again, and I think I shaU appear in the
business, he proraising me that if I can bring it about,
it wiU be worth 100/. per annum. I called for a dish
of fish, which we had for dinner, this being the first
day of Lent ; and I do intend to try whether I can
keep it or no. My father dined vrith rae and did
show me a letter from my brother John, wherein he
tells us that he is chosen SchoUar of the house," which
do please me much, because I do perceive now it
must chiefiy corae from his merit and not the power
of his Tutor, Dr. Widdrington, who is now quite out
of interest there and hath put over his pupils to Mr.
Pepper, a young Fellow of the College. This day
the Comraissioners of Parliaraent begin to pay off
the Fleet, beginning with the Hampshire, and do it at
Guildhall, for fear of going out of towne into the
power of the seamen, who are highly incensed against
them. 2 Sth. Early to wait on my Lord, and after a little
talk with hira I took boat at Whitehall for Redriffe,
but in my way overtook Captain Cuttance and Teddi
man in a boat and so ashore with them at Queenhithe,
and so to a taveme with them to a barrel of oysters,
and so away. Notwithstanding my resolution, yet for
want of other victualls, I did eat flesh this Lent, but
am resolved to eat as Uttle as I can. To Deptford,
• Christ's CoUege. (M, B,)

342 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
where I foimd both Sir WiUiams and Sir G. Carteret,
and dined, and after dinner we went to Captain Bodi-
law's, and there made sale of many old stores by the
candle, and good sport it was to see how from a smaU
matter bid at first they would come to double and
treble the price of things. Home and to bed. This
month ends with two great secrets under dispute but
yet known to very few : first. Who the King wiU mar
ry ; and What the meaning of this fleet is which we
are now sheathing to set out for the southward. Most
think against Algier against the Turke, or to the East
Indys against the Dutch who, we hear, are setting out
a great fleet thither.

LIST OF PRINCIPAL MISTAKES IN FORMER
EDITIONS.

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vote.
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