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Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1666

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                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.

            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY

   TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE

                              (Unabridged)

                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES

                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY

                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.



                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                                 OCTOBER
                                  1666


October 1st, 1666.   Up, and all the morning at the office, getting the
list of all the ships and vessels employed since the war, for the
Committee of Parliament.  At noon with it to Sir W. Coventry's chamber,
and there dined with him and [Sir] W. Batten, and [Sir] W. Pen, and after
dinner examined it and find it will do us much right in the number of men
rising to near the expense we delivered to the Parliament.  [Sir] W.
Coventry and I (the others going before the Committee) to Lord Bruncker's
for his hand, and find him simply mighty busy in a council of the
Queen's.  He come out and took in the papers to sign, and sent them
mighty wisely out again.  Sir W. Coventry away to the Committee, and I to
the Mercer's, and there took a bill of what I owe of late, which comes to
about L17.  Thence to White Hall, and there did hear Betty Michell was at
this end of the towne, and so without breach of vowe did stay to
endeavour to meet with her and carry her home; but she did not come, so I
lost my whole afternoon.  But pretty!  how I took another pretty woman
for her, taking her a clap on the breech, thinking verily it had been
her.  Staid till [Sir] W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen come out, and so away
home by water with them, and to the office to do some business, and then
home, and my wife do tell me that W. Hewer tells her that Mercer hath no
mind to come.  So I was angry at it, and resolved with her to have
Falconbridge's girle, and I think it will be better for us, and will
please me better with singing.  With this resolution, to supper and to
bed.



2nd.  Up, and am sent for to Sir G. Carteret, and to him, and there he
tells me how our lists are referred to a Sub-committee to consider and
examine, and that I am ordered to be there this afternoon.  So I away
thence to my new bookbinder to see my books gilding in the backs, and
then to White Hall to the House, and spoke to Sir W. Coventry, where he
told me I must attend the Committee in the afternoon, and received some
hints of more work to do.  So I away to the 'Chequer, and thence to an
alehouse, and found Mr. Falconbridge, and agreed for his kinswoman to
come to me.  He says she can dress my wife, and will do anything we would
have her to do, and is of a good spirit and mighty cheerful.  He is much
pleased therewith, and so we shall be.  So agreed for her coming the next
week.  So away home, and eat a short dinner, and then with Sir W. Pen to
White Hall, and do give his boy my book of papers to hold while he went
into the Committee Chamber in the Inner Court of Wards, and I walked
without with Mr. Slingsby, of the Tower, who was there, and who did in
walking inform me mightily in several things; among others, that the
heightening or lowering of money is only a cheat, and do good to some
particular men, which, if I can but remember how, I am now by him fully
convinced of.  Anon Sir W. Pen went away, telling me that Sir W. Coventry
that was within had told him that the fleete is all come into the buoy of
the Nore, and that he must hasten down to them, and so went away, and I
into the Committee Chamber before the Committee sat, and there heard
Birch discourse highly and understandingly about the Navy business and a
proposal made heretofore to farm the Navy; but Sir W. Coventry did
abundantly answer him, and is a most excellent person.  By and by the
Committee met, and I walked out, and anon they rose and called me in, and
appointed me to attend a Committee of them to-morrow at the office to
examine our lists.  This put me into a mighty fear and trouble; they
doing it in a very ill humour, methought.  So I away and called on my
Lord Bruncker to desire him to be there to-morrow, and so home, having
taken up my wife at Unthanke's, full of trouble in mind to think what I
shall be obliged to answer, that am neither fully fit, nor in any measure
concerned to take the shame and trouble of this office upon me, but only
from the inability and folly of the Comptroller that occasions it.  When
come home I to Sir W. Pen's, to his boy, for my book, and there find he
hath it not, but delivered it to the doorekeeper of the Committee for me.
This, added to my former disquiet, made me stark mad, considering all the
nakedness of the office lay open in papers within those covers.  I could
not tell in the world what to do, but was mad on all sides, and that
which made me worse Captain Cocke was there, and he did so swear and
curse at the boy that told me.  So Cocke, Griffin, and the boy with me,
they to find the housekeeper of the Parliament, Hughes, while I to Sir W.
Coventry, but could hear nothing of it there.  But coming to our
rendezvous at the Swan Taverne, in Ding Streete, I find they have found
the housekeeper, and the book simply locked up in the Court.  So I staid
and drank, and rewarded the doore-keeper, and away home, my heart lighter
by all this, but to bed very sad notwithstanding, in fear of what will
happen to-morrow upon their coming.



3rd.  Waked betimes, mightily troubled in mind, and in the most true
trouble that I ever was in my life, saving in the business last year of
the East India prizes.  So up, and with Mr. Hater and W. Hewer and
Griffin to consider of our business, and books and papers necessary for
this examination; and by and by, by eight o'clock, comes Birch, the
first, with the lists and books of accounts delivered in.  He calls me to
work, and there he and I begun, when, by and by, comes Garraway,

     [William Garway, elected M.P. for Chichester, March 26th, 1661, and
     in 1674 he was appointed by the House to confer with Lord
     Shaftesbury respecting the charge against Pepys being popishly
     affected.  See note to the Life, vol. i., p, xxxii, and for his
     character, October 6th, 1666]

the first time I ever saw him, and Sir W. Thompson and Mr. Boscawen.
They to it, and I did make shift to answer them better than I expected.
Sir W. Batten, Lord Bruncker, [Sir] W. Pen, come in, but presently went
out; and [Sir] J. Minnes come in, and said two or three words from the
purpose, but to do hurt; and so away he went also, and left me all the
morning with them alone to stand or fall.  At noon Sir W. Batten comes to
them to invite them (though fast day) to dinner, which they did, and good
company they were, but especially Garraway.  Here I have news brought me
of my father's coming to town, and I presently to him, glad to see him,
poor man, he being come to town unexpectedly to see us and the city.
I could not stay with him, but after dinner to work again, only the
Committee and I, till dark night, and by that time they cast up all the
lists, and found out what the medium of men was borne all the war, of all
sorts, and ended with good peace, and much seeming satisfaction; but I
find them wise and reserved, and instructed to hit all our blots, as
among others, that we reckon the ships full manned from the beginning.
They gone, and my heart eased of a great deale of fear and pain, and
reckoning myself to come off with victory, because not overcome in
anything or much foiled, I away to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, but he not
within, then to White Hall, and there among the ladies, and saw my Lady
Castlemaine never looked so ill, nor Mrs. Stewart neither, as in this
plain, natural dress.  I was not pleased with either of them.  Away, not
finding [Sir] W. Coventry, and so home, and there find my father and my
brother come to towne--my father without my expectation; but glad I am to
see him.  And so to supper with him, and to work again at the office;
then home, to set up all my folio books, which are come home gilt on the
backs, very handsome to the eye, and then at midnight to bed.  This night
[Sir] W. Pen told me [Sir] W. Batten swears he will have nothing to do
with the Privateer if his son do not go Lieutenant, which angers me and
him; but we will be even with him, one way or other.



4th.  Up, and mighty betimes, to [Sir] W. Coventry, to give him an
account of yesterday's work, which do give him good content.  He did then
tell me his speech lately to the House in his owne vindication about the
report of his selling of places, he having a small occasion offered him
by chance, which he did desire, and took, and did it to his content, and,
he says, to the House's seeming to approve of it by their hum.  He
confessed how long he had done it, and how he desired to have something
else; and, since then, he had taken nothing, and challenged all the
world.  I was glad of this also.  Thence up to the Duke of York, by
appointment, with fellow officers, to complaine, but to no purpose, of
want of money, and so away.  I to Sir G. Carteret, to his lodging, and
here discoursed much of the want of money and our being designed for
destruction.  How the King hath lost his power, by submitting himself to
this way of examining his accounts, and is become but as a private man.
He says the King is troubled at it, but they talk an entry shall be made,
that it is not to be brought into example; that the King must, if they do
not agree presently, make them a courageous speech, which he says he may
do, the City of London being now burned, and himself master of an army,
better than any prince before him, and so I believe.  Thence home, about
noon, to dinner.  After dinner the book binder come, and I sent by him
some more books to gild.  I to the office all day, and spent most of it
with Sir W. Warren, whom I have had no discourse with a great while, and
when all is done I do find him a mighty wise man as any I know, and his
counsel as much to be followed.  Late with Mr. Hater upon comparing the
charge and husbandry of the last Dutch war with ours now, and do find
good roome to think we have done little worse than they, whereof good use
may and will be made.  So home to supper, and to bed.



5th.  Up, and with my father talking awhile, then to the office, and
there troubled with a message from Lord Peterborough about money; but I
did give as kind answer as I could, though I hate him.  Then to Sir G.
Carteret to discourse about paying of part of the great ships come in,
and so home again to compare the comparison of the two Dutch wars'
charges for [Sir] W. Coventry, and then by water (and saw old Mr. Michell
digging like a painfull father for his son) to him, and find him at
dinner.  After dinner to look over my papers, and comparing them with
some notes of his and brought me, the sight of some good Navy notes of
his which I shall get.  Then examined and liked well my notes, and away
together to White Hall, in the way discoursing the inconvenience of the
King's being thus subject to an account, but it will be remedied for the
time to come, he thinks, if we can get this over, and I find he will have
the Comptroller's business better done, swearing he will never be for a
wit to be employed on business again.  Thence I home, and back again to
White Hall, and meeting Sir H. Cholmly to White Hall; there walked till
night that the Committee come down, and there Sir W. Coventry tells me
that the Subcommittee have made their report to the Grand Committee, and
in pretty kind terms, and have agreed upon allowing us L4 per head, which
I am sure will do the business, but he had endeavoured to have got more,
but this do well, and he and I are both mighty glad it is come to this,
and the heat of the present business seems almost over.  But I have more
worke cut out for me, to prepare a list of the extraordinaries, not to be
included within the L4, against Monday.  So I away from him, and met with
the Vice-Chamberlain, and I told him when I had this evening in coming
hither met with Captain Cocke, and he told me of a wild motion made in
the House of Lords by the Duke of Buckingham for all men that had cheated
the King to be declared traitors and felons, and that my Lord Sandwich
was named.  This put me into a great pain, so the Vice-Chamberlain, who
had heard nothing of it, having been all day in the City, away with me to
White Hall; and there come to me and told me that, upon Lord Ashly's
asking their direction whether, being a peere, he should bring in his
accounts to the Commons, which they did give way to, the Duke of
Buckingham did move that, for the time to come, what I have written above
might be declared by some fuller law than heretofore.  Lord Ashly
answered, that it was not the fault of the present laws, but want of
proof; and so said the Lord Chancellor.  He answered, that a better law,
he thought, might be made so the House laughing, did refer it to him to
bring in a Bill to that purpose, and this was all.  So I away with joyful
heart home, calling on Cocke and telling him the same.  So I away home to
the office to clear my Journall for five days, and so home to supper and
to bed, my father who had staid out late and troubled me thereat being
come home well and gone to bed, which pleases me also.  This day, coming
home, Mr. Kirton's kinsman, my bookseller, come in my way; and so I am
told by him that Mr. Kirton is utterly undone, and made 2 or L3000 worse
than nothing, from being worth 7 or L8,000.  That the goods laid in the
Churchyarde fired through the windows those in St. Fayth's church; and
those coming to the warehouses' doors fired them, and burned all the
books and the pillars of the church, so as the roof falling down, broke
quite down, which it did not do in the other places of the church, which
is alike pillared (which I knew not before); but being not burned, they
stand still.  He do believe there is above; L50,000 of books burned; all
the great booksellers almost undone: not only these, but their warehouses
at their Hall, and under Christchurch, and elsewhere being all burned.  A
great want thereof there will be of books, specially Latin books and
foreign books; and, among others, the Polyglottes and new Bible, which he
believes will be presently worth L40 a-piece.



6th.  Up, and having seen my brother in his cassocke, which I am not the
most satisfied in, being doubtfull at this time what course to have him
profess too soon.  To the office and there busy about a list of the
extraordinaries of the charge of the fleete this war; and was led to go
to the office of the ordnance to be satisfied in something, and find
their accounts and books kept in mighty good order, but that they can
give no light, nor will the nature of their affairs permit it to tell
what the charge of the ordnance comes to a man a month.  So home again
and to dinner, there coming Creed to me; but what with business and my
hatred to the man, I did not spend any time with him, but after dinner
[my] wife and he and I took coach and to Westminster, but he 'light about
Paul's, and set her at her tailor's, and myself to St. James's, but there
missing [Sir] W. Coventry, returned and took up my wife, and calling at
the Exchange home, whither Sir H. Cholmly come to visit me, but my
business suffered me not to stay with him.  So he gone I by water to
Westminster Hall and thence to St. James's, and there found [Sir] W.
Coventry waiting for me, and I did give him a good account to his mind of
the business he expected about extraordinaries and then fell to other
talke, among others, our sad condition contracted by want of a
Comptroller;

     [As Sir John Minnes performed the duties inefficiently, it was
     considered necessary to take the office from him: See January 21st.]

and it was his words, that he believes, besides all the shame and trouble
he hath brought on the office, the King had better have given L100,000
than ever have had him there.  He did discourse about some of these
discontented Parliament-men, and says that Birch is a false rogue, but
that Garraway is a man that hath not been well used by the Court, though
very stout to death, and hath suffered all that is possible for the King
from the beginning.  But discontented as he is, yet he never knew a
Session of Parliament but he hath done some good deed for the King before
it rose.  I told him the passage Cocke told me of his having begged a
brace of bucks of the Lord Arlington for him, and when it come to him, he
sent it back again.  Sir W. Coventry told me, it is much to be pitied
that the King should lose the service of a man so able and faithfull; and
that he ought to be brought over, but that it is always observed, that by
bringing over one discontented man, you raise up three in his room; which
is a State lesson I never knew before.  But when others discover your
fear, and that discontent procures favour, they will be discontented too,
and impose on you.  Thence to White Hall and got a coach and home, and
there did business late, and so home and set up my little books of one of
my presses come home gilt, which pleases me mightily, and then to bed.
This morning my wife told me of a fine gentlewoman my Lady Pen tells her
of, for L20 per annum, that sings, dances, plays on four or five
instruments and many other fine things, which pleases me mightily: and
she sent to have her see her, which she did this afternoon; but sings
basely, and is a tawdry wench that would take L8, but [neither] my wife
nor I think her fit to come.



7th (Lord's day).  Up, and after visiting my father in his chamber, to
church, and then home to dinner.  Little Michell and his wife come to
dine with us, which they did, and then presently after dinner I with Sir
J. Minnes to White Hall, where met by Sir W. Batten and Lord Bruncker,
to attend the King and Duke of York at the Cabinet; but nobody had
determined what to speak of, but only in general to ask for money.  So I
was forced immediately to prepare in my mind a method of discoursing.
And anon we were called in to the Green Room, where the King, Duke of
York, Prince Rupert, Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, Duke of Albemarle,
[Sirs] G. Carteret, W. Coventry, Morrice.  Nobody beginning, I did, and
made a current, and I thought a good speech, laying open the ill state of
the Navy: by the greatness of the debt; greatness of work to do against
next yeare; the time and materials it would take; and our incapacity,
through a total want of money.  I had no sooner done, but Prince Rupert
rose up and told the King in a heat, that whatever the gentleman had
said, he had brought home his fleete in as good a condition as ever any
fleete was brought home; that twenty boats would be as many as the fleete
would want: and all the anchors and cables left in the storm might be
taken up again.  This arose from my saying, among other things we had to
do, that the fleete was come in--the greatest fleete that ever his
Majesty had yet together, and that in as bad condition as the enemy or
weather could put it; and to use Sir W. Pen's words, who is upon the
place taking a survey, he dreads the reports he is to receive from the
Surveyors of its defects.  I therefore did only answer, that I was sorry
for his Highness's offence, but that what I said was but the report we
received from those entrusted in the fleete to inform us.  He muttered
and repeated what he had said; and so, after a long silence on all hands,
nobody, not so much as the Duke of Albemarle, seconding the Prince, nor
taking notice of what he said, we withdrew.  I was not a little troubled
at this passage, and the more when speaking with Jacke Fenn about it, he
told me that the Prince will be asking now who this Pepys is, and find
him to be a creature of my Lord Sandwich's, and therefore this was done
only to disparage him.  Anon they broke, up, and Sir W. Coventry come
out; so I asked his advice.  He told me he had said something to salve
it, which was, that his Highnesse had, he believed, rightly informed the
King that the fleete is come in good condition to have staid out yet
longer, and have fought the enemy, but yet that Mr. Pepys his meaning
might be, that, though in so good condition, if they should come in and
lie all the winter, we shall be very loth to send them to sea for another
year's service with[out] great repairs.  He said it would be no hurt if I
went to him, and showed him the report himself brought up from the
fleete, where every ship, by the Commander's report, do need more or
less, and not to mention more of Sir W. Pen for doing him a mischief.
So I said I would, but do not think that all this will redound to my
hurt, because the truth of what I said will soon appear.  Thence, having
been informed that, after all this pains, the King hath found out how to
supply us with 5 or L6000, when L100,000 were at this time but absolutely
necessary, and we mentioned L50,000.  This is every day a greater and
greater omen of ruine.  God fit us for it!  Sir J. Minnes and I home
(it raining) by coach, calling only on Sir G. Cartefet at his lodging
(who is I find troubled at my Lord Treasurer and Sir Ph. Warwicke
bungling in his accounts), and come home to supper with my father, and
then all to bed.  I made my brother in his cassocke to say grace this
day, but I like his voice so ill that I begin to be sorry he hath taken
this order upon him.



8th.  Up and to my office, called up by Commissioner Middleton, newly
come to town, but staid not with me; so I to my office busy all the
morning.  Towards noon, by water to Westminster Hall, and there by
several hear that the Parliament do resolve to do something to retrench
Sir G. Carteret's great salary; but cannot hear of any thing bad they can
lay to his charge.  The House did this day order to be engrossed the Bill
against importing Irish cattle; a thing, it seems, carried on by the
Western Parliament-men, wholly against the sense of most of the rest of
the House; who think if you do this, you give the Irish again cause to
rebel.  Thus plenty on both sides makes us mad.  The Committee of the
Canary Company of both factions come to me for my Cozen Roger that is of
the Committee.  Thence with [Sir] W. Coventry when the House rose and
[Sir] W. Batten to St. James's, and there agreed of and signed our paper
of extraordinaries, and there left them, and I to Unthanke's, where Mr.
Falconbridge's girle is, and by and by comes my wife, who likes her well,
though I confess I cannot (though she be of my finding out and sings
pretty well), because she will be raised from so mean a condition to so
high all of a sudden; but she will be much to our profit, more than
Mercer, less expense.  Here we bespoke anew gowne for her, and to come to
us on Friday.  She being gone, my wife and I home by coach, and then I
presently by water with Mr. Pierce to Westminster Hall, he in the way
telling me how the Duke of York and Duke of Albemarle do not agree.  The
Duke of York is wholly given up to this bitch of Denham.  The Duke of
Albemarle and Prince Rupert do less agree.  So that we are all in pieces,
and nobody knows what will be done the next year.  The King hath
yesterday in Council declared his resolution of setting a fashion for
clothes, which he will never alter.

     [There are several references to this new fashion of dress
     introduced by the king, Pepys saw the Duke of York put on the vest
     on the 13th, and he says Charles II. himself put it on on the 15th.
     On November 4th Pepys dressed himself in the new vest and coat.  See
     notes, October 15th and November 22nd.]

It will be a vest, I know not well how; but it is to teach the nobility
thrift, and will do good.  By and by comes down from the Committee [Sir]
W. Coventry, and I find him troubled at several things happened this
afternoon, which vexes me also; our business looking worse and worse, and
our worke growing on our hands.  Time spending, and no money to set
anything in hand with; the end thereof must be speedy ruine.  The Dutch
insult and have taken off Bruant's head,

     [Captain Du Buat, a Frenchman in the Dutch service, plotted with two
     magistrates of Rotterdam to obtain a peace with England as the
     readiest means of pressing the elevation of the Prince of Orange to
     the office of Captain-General.  He was brought before the Supreme
     Court of Holland, condemned, and executed.  He had been one of the
     household of the Prince of Orange who were dismissed by De Witt.]

which they have not dared to do (though found guilty of the fault he did
die for, of something of the Prince of Orange's faction) till just now,
which speaks more confidence in our being worse than before.  Alderman
Maynell, I hear, is dead.  Thence returned in the darke by coach all
alone, full of thoughts of the consequences of this ill complexion of
affairs, and how to save myself and the little I have, which if I can do,
I have cause to bless God that I am so well, and shall be well contented
to retreat to Brampton, and spend the rest of my days there.  So to my
office, and did some business, and finished my Journall with resolutions,
if God bless me, to apply myself soberly to settle all matters for
myself, and expect the event of all with comfort.  So home to supper and
to bed.



9th.  Up and to the office, where we sat the first day since the fire, I
think.  At noon home, and my uncle Thomas was there, and dined with my
brother and I (my father and I were gone abroad), and then to the office
again in the afternoon, and there close all day long, and did much
business.  At night to Sir W. Batten, where Sir R. Ford did occasion some
discourse of sending a convoy to the Maderas; and this did put us upon
some new thoughts of sending our privateer thither on merchants'
accounts, which I have more mind to, the profit being certain and
occasion honest withall.  So home, and to supper with my father, and then
to set my remainder of my books gilt in order with much pleasure, and so
late to bed.



10th (Fast-day for the fire).  Up with Sir W. Batten by water to White
Hall, and anon had a meeting before the Duke of York, where pretty to see
how Sir W. Batten, that carried the surveys of all the fleete with him,
to shew their ill condition to the Duke of York, when he found the Prince
there, did not speak one word, though the meeting was of his asking--for
nothing else.  And when I asked him, he told me he knew the Prince too
well to anger him, so that he was afeard to do it.  Thence with him to
Westminster, to the parish church, where the Parliament-men, and
Stillingfleete in the pulpit.  So full, no standing there; so he and I to
eat herrings at the Dog Taverne.  And then to church again, and there was
Mr. Frampton in the pulpit, they cry up so much, a young man, and of a
mighty ready tongue.  I heard a little of his sermon, and liked it; but
the crowd so great, I could not stay.  So to the Swan, and 'baise la
fille', and drank, and then home by coach, and took father, wife,
brother, and W. Hewer to Islington, where I find mine host dead.  Here
eat and drank, and merry; and so home, and to the office a while, and
then to Sir W. Batten to talk a while, and with Captain Cocke into the
office to hear his newes, who is mighty conversant with Garraway and
those people, who tells me what they object as to the maladministration
of things as to money.  But that they mean well, and will do well; but
their reckonings are very good, and show great faults, as I will insert
here.  They say the king hath had towards this war expressly thus much

     Royal Ayde.................................... L2,450,000
     More..........................................  1,250,000
     Three months' tax given the King by a power of
          raising a month's tax of L70,000 every
          year for three years.....................  0,210,000
     Customes, out of which the King did promise
          to pay L240,000, which for two years
          comes to.................................. 0,480,000
     Prizes, which they moderately reckon at........ 0,300,000
     A debt declared by the Navy, by us............. 0,900,000
                                                    ----------
                                                     5,590,000

     The whole charge of the Navy, as we state it
          for two years and a month, hath been but.. 3,200,000

          So what is become of all this sum?........ 2,390,000


He and I did bemoan our public condition.  He tells me the Duke of
Albemarle is under a cloud, and they have a mind at Court to lay him
aside.  This I know not; but all things are not right with him, and I am
glad of it, but sorry for the time.  So home to supper, and to bed, it
being my wedding night,

     [See Life, vol. i., p. xxi., where the register of St. Margaret's
     parish, Westminster, is quoted to the effect that Pepys was married
     December 1st, 1655.  It seems incomprehensible that both husband and
     wife should have been wrong as to the date of their wedding day, but
     Mrs. Pepys was unquestionably wrong as to the number of years, for
     they had been married nearly eleven.]

but how many years I cannot tell; but my wife says ten.



11th.  Up, and discoursed with my father of my sending some money for
safety into the country, for I am in pain what to do with what I have.
I did give him money, poor man, and he overjoyed.  So left him, and to
the office, where nothing but sad evidences of ruine coming on us for
want of money.  So home to dinner, which was a very good dinner, my
father, brother, wife and I, and then to the office again, where I was
all the afternoon till very late, busy, and then home to supper and to
bed.

     Memorandum.  I had taken my Journall during the fire and the
     disorders following in loose papers until this very day, and could
     not get time to enter them in my book till January 18, in the
     morning, having made my eyes sore by frequent attempts this winter
     to do it.  But now it is done, for which I thank God, and pray never
     the like occasion may happen.



12th.  Up, and after taking leave of my poor father, who is setting out
this day for Brampton by the Cambridge coach, he having taken a journey
to see the city burned, and to bring my brother to towne, I out by water;
and so coach to St. James's, the weather being foul; and there, from Sir
W. Coventry, do hear how the House have cut us off L150,000 of our wear
and tear, for that which was saved by the King while the fleete lay in
harbour in winter.  However, he seems pleased, and so am I, that they
have abated no more, and do intend to allow of 28,000 men for the next
year; and this day have appointed to declare the sum they will give the
King,

     [The parliament voted this day a supply of L1,800,000 sterling.
     See below.]

and to propose the way of raising it; so that this is likely to be the
great day.  This done in his chamber, I with him to Westminster Hall, and
there took a few turns, the Hall mighty full of people, and the House
likely to be very full to-day about the money business.  Here I met with
several people, and do find that people have a mighty mind to have a
fling at the Vice-Chamberlain, if they could lay hold of anything, his
place being, indeed, too much for such, they think, or any single subject
of no greater parts and quality than he, to enjoy.  But I hope he may
weather all, though it will not be by any dexterity of his, I dare say,
if he do stand, but by his fate only, and people's being taken off by
other things.  Thence home by coach, mighty dirty weather, and then to
the Treasurer's office and got a ticket paid for my little Michell, and
so again by coach to Westminster, and come presently after the House
rose.  So to the Swan, and there sent for a piece of meat and dined alone
and played with Sarah, and so to the Hall a while, and thence to Mrs.
Martin's lodging and did what I would with her.  She is very big, and
resolves I must be godfather.  Thence away by water with Cropp to
Deptford.  It was almost night before I got thither.  So I did only give
directions concerning a press that I have making there to hold my turning
and joyner's tooles that were lately given me, which will be very
handsome, and so away back again, it being now dark, and so home, and
there find my wife come home, and hath brought her new girle I have
helped her to, of Mr. Falconbridge's.  She is wretched poor; and but
ordinary favoured; and we fain to lay out seven or eight pounds worth of
clothes upon her back, which, methinks, do go against my heart; and I do
not think I can ever esteem her as I could have done another that had
come fine and handsome; and which is more, her voice, for want of use, is
so furred, that it do not at present please me; but her manner of singing
is such, that I shall, I think, take great pleasure in it.  Well, she is
come, and I wish us good fortune in her.  Here I met with notice of a
meeting of the Commissioners for Tangier tomorrow, and so I must have my
accounts ready for them, which caused me to confine myself to my chamber
presently and set to the making up my accounts, which I find very clear,
but with much difficulty by reason of my not doing them sooner, things
being out of my mind.



13th.  It cost me till four o'clock in the morning, and, which was pretty
to think, I was above an hour, after I had made all right, in casting up
of about twenty sums, being dozed with much work, and had for forty times
together forgot to carry the 60 which I had in my mind, in one
denomination which exceeded 60; and this did confound me for above an
hour together.  At last all even and done, and so to bed.  Up at seven,
and so to the office, after looking over my last night's work.  We sat
all the morning.  At noon by coach with my Lord Bruncker and 'light at
the Temple, and so alone I to dinner at a cooke's, and thence to my Lord
Bellasses, whom I find kind; but he had drawn some new proposal to
deliver to the Lords Commissioners to-day, wherein one was, that the
garrison would not be well paid without some goldsmith's undertaking the
paying of the bills of exchange for Tallys.  He professing so much
kindness to me, and saying that he would not be concerned in the garrison
without me; and that if he continued in the employment, no man should
have to do with the money but myself.  I did ask his Lordship's meaning
of the proposition in his paper.  He told me he had not much considered
it, but that he meant no harm to me.  I told him I thought it would
render me useless; whereupon he did very frankly, after my seeming
denials for a good while, cause it to be writ over again, and that clause
left out, which did satisfy me abundantly.  It being done, he and I
together to White Hall, and there the Duke of York (who is gone over to
all his pleasures again, and leaves off care of business, what with his
woman, my Lady Denham, and his hunting three times a week) was just come
in from hunting.  So I stood and saw him dress himself, and try on his
vest, which is the King's new fashion, and will be in it for good and all
on Monday next, and the whole Court: it is a fashion, the King says; he
will never change.  He being ready, he and my Lord Chancellor, and Duke
of Albemarle, and Prince Rupert, Lord Bellasses, Sir H. Cholmly, Povy,
and myself, met at a Committee for Tangier.  My Lord Bellasses's
propositions were read and discoursed of, about reducing the garrison to
less charge; and indeed I am mad in love with my Lord Chancellor, for he
do comprehend and speak out well, and with the greatest easinesse and
authority that ever I saw man in my life.  I did never observe how much
easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than
in him; for though he spoke, indeed, excellent welt, yet his manner and
freedom of doing it, as if he played with it, and was informing only all
the rest of the company, was mighty pretty.  He did call again and again
upon Mr. Povy for his accounts.  I did think fit to make the solemn
tender of my accounts that I intended.  I said something that was liked,
touching the want of money, and the bad credit of our tallys.  My Lord
Chancellor moved, that without any trouble to any of the rest of the
Lords, I might alone attend the King, when he was with his private
Council; and open the state of the garrison's want of credit; and all
that could be done, should.  Most things moved were referred to
Committees, and so we broke up.  And at the end Sir W. Coventry come; so
I away with him, and he discoursed with me something of the Parliament's
business.  They have voted giving the [King] for next year L1,800,000;
which, were it not for his debts, were a great sum.  He says, he thinks
the House may say no more to us for the present, but that we must mend
our manners against the next tryall, and mend them we will.  But he
thinks it not a fit time to be found making of trouble among ourselves,
meaning about Sir J. Minnes, who most certainly must be removed, or made
a Commissioner, and somebody else Comptroller.  But he tells me that the
House has a great envy at Sir G. Carteret, and that had he ever thought
fit in all his discourse to have touched upon the point of our want of
money and badness of payment, it would have been laid hold on to Sir G.
Carteret's hurt; but he hath avoided it, though without much reason for
it, most studiously, and in short did end thus, that he has never shewn
so much of the pigeon in all his life as in his innocence to Sir G.
Carteret at this time; which I believe, and will desire Sir G. Carteret
to thank him for it.  So we broke up and I by coach home, calling for a
new pair of shoes, and so, little being to do at the office, did go home,
and after spending a little in righting some of my books, which stood out
of order, I to bed.



14th (Lord's day).  Lay long in bed, among other things, talking of my
wife's renewing her acquaintance with Mrs. Pierce, which, by my wife's
ill using her when she was here last, hath been interrupted.  Herein we
were a little angry together, but presently friends again; and so up, and
I to church, which was mighty full, and my beauties, Mrs. Lethulier and
fair Batelier, both there.  A very foul morning, and rained; and sent for
my cloake to go out of the church with.  So dined, and after dinner (a
good discourse thereat to my brother) he and I by water to White Hall,
and he to Westminster Abbey.  Here I met with Sir Stephen Fox, who told
me how much right I had done myself, and how well it is represented by
the Committee to the House, my readinesse to give them satisfaction in
everything when they were at the office.  I was glad of this.  He did
further discourse of Sir W. Coventry's, great abilities, and how
necessary it were that I were of the House to assist him.  I did not owne
it, but do myself think it were not unnecessary if either he should die,
or be removed to the Lords, or any thing to hinder his doing the like
service the next trial, which makes me think that it were not a thing
very unfit; but I will not move in it.  He and I parted, I to Mrs.
Martin's, thinking to have met Mrs. Burrows, but she was not there, so
away and took my brother out of the Abbey and home, and there to set some
accounts right, and to the office to even my Journall, and so home to
supper and to bed.



15th.  Called up, though a very rainy morning, by Sir H. Cholmley, and he
and I most of the morning together evening of accounts, which I was very
glad of.  Then he and I out to Sir Robt. Viner's, at the African house
(where I had not been since he come thither); but he was not there; but I
did some business with his people, and then to Colvill's, who, I find,
lives now in Lyme Streete, and with the same credit as ever, this fire
having not done them any wrong that I hear of at all.  Thence he and I
together to Westminster Hall, in our way talking of matters and passages
of state, the viciousness of the Court; the contempt the King brings
himself into thereby; his minding nothing, but doing all things just as
his people about him will have it; the Duke of York becoming a slave to
this whore Denham, and wholly minds her; that there really was amours
between the Duchesse and Sidney; a that there is reason to fear that, as
soon as the Parliament have raised this money, the King will see that he
hath got all that he can get, and then make up a peace.  He tells me,
what I wonder at, but that I find it confirmed by Mr. Pierce, whom I met
by-and-by in the Hall, that Sir W. Coventry is of the caball with the
Duke of York, and Bruncker, with this Denham; which is a shame, and I am
sorry for it, and that Sir W. Coventry do make her visits; but yet I hope
it is not so.  Pierce tells me, that as little agreement as there is
between the Prince--[Rupert]--and Duke of Albemarle, yet they are likely
to go to sea again; for the first will not be trusted alone, and nobody
will go with him but this Duke of Albemarle.  He tells me much how all
the commanders of the fleete and officers that are sober men do cry out
upon their bad discipline, and the ruine that must follow it if it
continue.  But that which I wonder most at, it seems their secretaries
have been the most exorbitant in their fees to all sorts of the people,
that it is not to be believed that they durst do it, so as it is believed
they have got L800 apiece by the very vacancies in the fleete.  He tells
me that Lady Castlemayne is concluded to be with child again; and that
all the people about the King do make no scruple of saying that the King
do lie with Mrs. Stewart, who, he says, is a most excellent-natured lady.
This day the King begins to put on his vest, and I did see several
persons of the House of Lords and Commons too, great courtiers, who are
in it; being a long cassocke close to the body, of black cloth, and
pinked with white silke under it, and a coat over it, and the legs
ruffled with black riband like a pigeon's leg; and, upon the whole, I
wish the King may keep it, for it is a very fine and handsome garment.

     [Evelyn describes the new fashion as "a comely dress after ye
     Persian mode" (see "Diary," October 18th, 1666).  He adds that he
     had described the "comelinesse and usefulnesse" of the Persian
     clothing in his pamphlet entitled "Tyrannus, or the Mode."  "I do
     not impute to this discourse.  the change which soone happen'd, but
     it was an identity I could not but take notice of."  Rugge, in his
     "Diurnal," thus describes the new Court costume "1666, Oct. 11.  In
     this month His Majestie and whole Court changed the fashion of their
     clothes-viz. a close coat of cloth, pinkt with a white taffety under
     the cutts.  This in length reached the calf of the leg, and upon
     that a sercoat cutt at the breast, which hung loose and shorter than
     the vest six inches.  The breeches the Spanish cut, and buskins some
     of cloth, some of leather, but of the same colour as the vest or
     garment; of never the like fashion since William the Conqueror."  It
     is represented in a portrait of Lord Arlington, by Sir P. Lely,
     formerly belonging to Lord de Clifford, and engraved in Lodge's
     "Portraits."  Louis XIV. ordered his servants to wear the dress.
     See November 22.]

Walking with Pierce in the Court of Wards out comes Sir W. Coventry, and
he and I talked of business.  Among others I proposed the making Sir J.
Minnes a Commissioner, and make somebody else Comptroller.  He tells me
it is the thing he hath been thinking of, and hath spoke to the Duke of
York of it.  He believes it will be done; but that which I fear is that
Pen will be Comptroller, which I shall grudge a little.  The Duke of
Buckingham called him aside and spoke a good while with him.  I did
presently fear it might be to discourse something of his design to
blemish my Lord of Sandwich, in pursuance of the wild motion he made the
other day in the House.  Sir W. Coventry, when he come to me again, told
me that he had wrought a miracle, which was, the convincing the Duke of
Buckingham that something--he did not name what--that he had intended to
do was not fit to be done, and that the Duke is gone away of that
opinion.  This makes me verily believe it was something like what I
feared.  By and by the House rose, and then we parted, and I with Sir G.
Carteret, and walked in the Exchequer Court, discoursing of businesses.
Among others, I observing to him how friendly Sir W. Coventry had carried
himself to him in these late inquiries, when, if he had borne him any
spleen, he could have had what occasion he pleased offered him, he did
confess he found the same thing, and would thanke him for it.  I did give
him some other advices, and so away with him to his lodgings at White
Hall to dinner, where my Lady Carteret is, and mighty kind, both of them,
to me.  Their son and my Lady Jemimah will be here very speedily.  She
tells me the ladies are to go into a new fashion shortly, and that is, to
wear short coats, above their ancles; which she and I do not like, but
conclude this long trayne to be mighty graceful.  But she cries out of
the vices of the Court, and how they are going to set up plays already;
and how, the next day after the late great fast, the Duchesse of York did
give the King and Queene a play.  Nay, she told me that they have
heretofore had plays at Court the very nights before the fast for the
death of the late King: She do much cry out upon these things, and that
which she believes will undo the whole nation; and I fear so too.  After
dinner away home, Mr. Brisband along with me as far as the Temple, and
there looked upon a new booke, set out by one Rycault, secretary to my
Lord Winchelsea, of the policy and customs of the Turks, which is, it
seems, much cried up.  But I could not stay, but home, where I find Balty
come back, and with him some muster-books, which I am glad of, and hope
he will do me credit in his employment.  By and by took coach again and
carried him home, and my wife to her tailor's, while I to White Hall to
have found out Povy, but miss him and so call in my wife and home again,
where at Sir W. Batten's I met Sir W. Pen, lately come from the fleete at
the Nore; and here were many good fellows, among others Sir R. Holmes,
who is exceeding kind to me, more than usual, which makes me afeard of
him, though I do much wish his friendship.  Thereupon, after a little
stay, I withdrew, and to the office and awhile, and then home to supper
and to my chamber to settle a few papers, and then to bed.  This day the
great debate was in Parliament, the manner of raising the L1,800,000 they
voted [the King] on Friday; and at last, after many proposals, one moved
that the Chimney-money might be taken from the King, and an equal revenue
of something else might be found for the King, and people be enjoyned to
buy off this tax of Chimney-money for ever at eight years' purchase,
which will raise present money, as they think, L1,600,000, and the State
be eased of an ill burthen and the King be supplied of something as food
or better for his use.  The House seems to like this, and put off the
debate to to-morrow.



16th.  Up, and to the office, where sat to do little business but hear
clamours for money.  At noon home to dinner, and to the office again,
after hearing my brother play a little upon the Lyra viall, which he do
so as to show that he hath a love to musique and a spirit for it, which I
am well pleased with.  All the afternoon at the office, and at night with
Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, [and Sir] J. Minnes, at [Sir] W. Pen's
lodgings, advising about business and orders fit presently to make about
discharging of ships come into the river, and which to pay first, and
many things in order thereto.  But it vexed me that, it being now past
seven o'clock, and the businesses of great weight, and I had done them by
eight o'clock, and sending them to be signed, they were all gone to bed,
and Sir W. Pen, though awake, would not, being in bed, have them brought
to him to sign; this made me quite angry.  Late at work at the office,
and then home to supper and to bed.  Not come to any resolution at the
Parliament to-day about the manner of raising this L1,800,000.



17th.  Up, and busy about public and private business all the morning at
the office.  At noon home to dinner, alone with my brother, with whom I
had now the first private talke I have had, and find he hath preached but
twice in his life.  I did give him some advice to study pronunciation;
but I do fear he will never make a good speaker, nor, I fear, any general
good scholar, for I do not see that he minds optickes or mathematiques of
any sort, nor anything else that I can find.  I know not what he may be
at divinity and ordinary school-learning.  However, he seems sober, and
that pleases me.  After dinner took him and my wife and Barker (for so is
our new woman called, and is yet but a sorry girle), and set them down at
Unthanke's, and so to White Hall, and there find some of my brethren with
the Duke of York, but so few I put off the meeting.  So staid and heard
the Duke discourse, which he did mighty scurrilously, of the French, and
with reason, that they should give Beaufort orders when he was to bring,
and did bring, his fleete hither, that his rendezvous for his fleete, and
for all sluggs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover; which did
prove the taking of La Roche[lle], who, among other sluggs behind, did,
by their instructions, make for that place, to rendezvous with the
fleete; and Beaufort, seeing them as he was returning, took them for the
English fleete, and wrote word to the King of France that he had passed
by the English fleete, and the English fleete durst not meddle with him.
The Court is all full of vests, only my Lord St. Albans not pinked but
plain black; and they say the King says the pinking upon white makes them
look too much like magpyes, and therefore hath bespoke one of plain
velvet.  Thence to St. James's by coach, and spoke, at four o'clock or
five, with Sir W. Coventry, newly come from the House, where they have
sat all this day and not come to an end of the debate how the money shall
be raised.  He tells me that what I proposed to him the other day was
what he had himself thought on and determined, and that he believes it
will speedily be done--the making Sir J. Minnes a Commissioner, and
bringing somebody else to be Comptroller, and that (which do not please
me, I confess, for my own particulars, so well as Sir J. Minnes) will, I
fear, be Sir W. Pen, for he is the only fit man for it.  Away from him
and took up my wife, and left her at Temple Bar to buy some lace for a
petticoat, and I took coach and away to Sir R. Viner's about a little
business, and then home, and by and by to my chamber, and there late upon
making up an account for the Board to pass to-morrow, if I can get them,
for the clearing all my imprest bills, which if I can do, will be to my
very good satisfaction.  Having done this, then to supper and to bed.



18th.  Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning.  The waters
so high in the roads, by the late rains, that our letters come not in
till to-day, and now I understand that my father is got well home, but
had a painful journey of it.  At noon with Lord Bruncker to St. Ellen's,
where the master of the late Pope's Head Taverne is now set up again, and
there dined at Sir W. Warren's cost, a very good dinner.  Here my Lord
Bruncker proffered to carry me and my wife into a play at Court to-night,
and to lend me his coach home, which tempted me much; but I shall not do
it.  Thence rose from table before dinner ended, and homewards met my
wife, and so away by coach towards Lovett's (in the way wondering at what
a good pretty wench our Barker makes, being now put into good clothes,
and fashionable, at my charge; but it becomes her, so that I do not now
think much of it, and is an example of the power of good clothes and
dress), where I stood godfather.  But it was pretty, that, being a
Protestant, a man stood by and was my Proxy to answer for me.  A priest
christened it, and the boy's name is Samuel.  The ceremonies many, and
some foolish.  The priest in a gentleman's dress, more than my owne; but
is a Capuchin, one of the Queene-mother's priests.  He did give my proxy
and the woman proxy (my Lady Bills, absent, had a proxy also) good advice
to bring up the child, and, at the end, that he ought never to marry the
child nor the godmother, nor the godmother the child or the godfather:
but, which is strange, they say that the mother of the child and the
godfather may marry.  By and by the Lady Bills come in, a well-bred but
crooked woman.  The poor people of the house had good wine, and a good
cake; and she a pretty woman in her lying-in dress.  It cost me near 40s.
the whole christening: to midwife 20s., nurse 10s., mayde 2s. 6d., and
the coach 5s.  I was very well satisfied with what I have done, and so
home and to the office, and thence to Sir W. Batten's, and there hear how
the business of buying off the Chimney-money is passed in the House; and
so the King to be satisfied some other way, and the King supplied with
the money raised by this purchasing off of the chimnies.  So home,
mightily pleased in mind that I have got my bills of imprest cleared by
bills signed this day, to my good satisfaction.  To supper, and to bed.



19th.  Up, and by coach to my Lord Ashly's, and thence (he being gone
out), to the Exchequer chamber, and there find him and my Lord Bellasses
about my Lord Bellasses' accounts, which was the business I went upon.
This was soon ended, and then I with Creed back home to my house, and
there he and I did even accounts for salary, and by that time dinner was
ready, and merry at dinner, and then abroad to Povy's, who continues as
much confounded in all his business as ever he was; and would have had me
paid money, as like a fool as himself, which I troubled him in refusing;
but I did persist in it.  After a little more discourse, I left them, and
to White Hall, where I met with Sir Robert Viner, who told me a little of
what, in going home, I had seen; also a little of the disorder and mutiny
among the seamen at the Treasurer's office, which did trouble me then and
all day since, considering how many more seamen will come to towne every
day, and no money for them.  A Parliament sitting, and the Exchange close
by, and an enemy to hear of, and laugh at it.

     [The King of Denmark was induced to conclude a treaty with the
     United Provinces, a secret article of which bound him to declare war
     against England.  The order in council for the printing and
     publishing a declaration of war against Denmark is dated "Whitehall,
     Sept.  19, 1666;" annexed is "A True Declaration of all
     transactions between his Majesty of Great Britain and the King of
     Denmark, with a declaration of war against the said king, and the
     motives that obliged his Majesty thereunto" ("Calendar of State
     Papers," 1666-67, p. 140).]

Viner too, and Backewell, were sent for this afternoon; and was before
the King and his Cabinet about money; they declaring they would advance
no more, it being discoursed of in the House of Parliament for the King
to issue out his privy-seals to them to command them to trust him, which
gives them reason to decline trusting.  But more money they are persuaded
to lend, but so little that (with horrour I speake it), coming after the
Council was up, with Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Coventry, Lord Bruncker, and
myself, I did lay the state of our condition before the Duke of York,
that the fleete could not go out without several things it wanted, and we
could not have without money, particularly rum and bread, which we have
promised the man Swan to helpe him to L200 of his debt, and a few other
small sums of L200 a piece to some others, and that I do foresee the Duke
of York would call us to an account why the fleete is not abroad, and we
cannot answer otherwise than our want of money; and that indeed we do not
do the King any service now, but do rather abuse and betray his service
by being there, and seeming to do something, while we do not.  Sir G.
Carteret asked me (just in these words, for in this and all the rest I
set down the very words for memory sake, if there should be occasion)
whether L50 or L60 would do us any good; and when I told him the very rum
man must have L200, he held up his eyes as if we had asked a million.
Sir W. Coventry told the Duke of York plainly he did rather desire to
have his commission called in than serve in so ill a place, where he
cannot do the King service, and I did concur in saying the same.  This
was all very plain, and the Duke of York did confess that he did not see
how we could do anything without a present supply of L20,000, and that he
would speak to the King next Council day, and I promised to wait on him
to put him in mind of it.  This I set down for my future justification,
if need be, and so we broke up, and all parted, Sir W. Coventry being not
very well, but I believe made much worse by this night's sad discourse.
So I home by coach, considering what the consequence of all this must be
in a little time.  Nothing but distraction and confusion; which makes me
wish with all my heart that I were well and quietly settled with what
little I have got at Brampton, where I might live peaceably, and study,
and pray for the good of the King and my country.  Home, and to Sir W.
Batten's, where I saw my Lady, who is now come down stairs after a great
sickness.  Sir W. Batten was at the pay to-day, and tells me how rude the
men were, but did go away quietly, being promised pay on Wednesday next.
God send us money for it!  So to the office, and then to supper and to
bed.  Among other things proposed in the House to-day, to give the King
in lieu of chimneys, there was the bringing up of sealed paper, such as
Sir J. Minnes shewed me to-night, at Sir W. Batten's, is used in Spayne,
and brings the King a great revenue; but it shows what shifts we are put
to too much.



20th.  Up, and all the morning at the office, where none met but myself.
So I walked a good while with Mr. Gawden in the garden, who is lately
come from the fleete at the buoy of the Nore, and he do tell me how all
the sober commanders, and even Sir Thomas Allen himself, do complain of
the ill government of the fleete.  How Holmes and Jennings have commanded
all the fleete this yeare, that nothing is done upon deliberation, but if
a sober man give his opinion otherwise than the Prince would have it the
Prince would cry,  "Damn him, do you follow your orders, and that is
enough for you."  He tells me he hears of nothing but of swearing and
drinking and whoring, and all manner of profaneness, quite through the
whole fleete.  He being gone, there comes to me Commissioner Middleton,
whom I took on purpose to walk in the garden with me, and to learn what
he observed when the fleete was at Portsmouth.  He says that the fleete
was in such a condition, as to discipline, as if the Devil had commanded
it; so much wickedness of all sorts.  Enquiring how it come to pass that
so many ships miscarried this year, he tells me that he enquired; and the
pilots do say, that they dare not do nor go but as the Captains will have
them; and if they offer to do otherwise, the Captains swear they will run
them through.  He says that he heard Captain Digby (my Lord of Bristoll's
son, a young fellow that never was but one year, if that, in the fleete)
say that he did hope he should not see a tarpaulin have the command of a
ship within this twelve months.  He observed while he was on board the
Admirall, when the fleete was at Portsmouth, that there was a faction
there.  Holmes commanded all on the Prince's side, and Sir Jeremy Smith
on the Duke's, and every body that come did apply themselves to one side
or other; and when the Duke of Albemarle was gone away to come hither,
then Sir Jeremy Smith did hang his head, and walked in the Generall's
ship but like a private commander.  He says he was on board The Prince,
when the newes come of the burning of London; and all the Prince said
was, that now Shipton's prophecy was out; and he heard a young commander
presently swear, that now a citizen's wife that would not take under half
a piece before, would be occupied for half-a-crowne: and made mighty
sport of it.  He says that Hubberd that commanded this year the Admiral's
ship is a proud conceited fellow (though I thought otherwise of him), and
fit to command a single ship but not a fleete, and he do wonder that
there hath not been more mischief this year than there hath.  He says the
fleete come to anchor between the Horse and the Island, so that when they
came to weigh many of the ships could not turn, but run foul of the
Horse, and there stuck, but that the weather was good.  He says that
nothing can do the King more disservice, nor please the standing officers
of the ship better than these silly commanders that now we have, for they
sign to anything that their officers desire of them, nor have judgment to
contradict them if they would.  He told me other good things, which made
me bless God that we have received no greater disasters this year than we
have, though they have been the greatest that ever was known in England
before, put all their losses of the King's ships by want of skill and
seamanship together from the beginning.  He being gone, comes Sir G.
Carteret, and he and I walked together awhile, discoursing upon the sad
condition of the times, what need we have, and how impossible it is to
get money.  He told me my Lord Chancellor the other day did ask him how
it come to pass that his friend Pepys do so much magnify all things to
worst, as I did on Sunday last, in the bad condition of the fleete.  Sir
G. Carteret tells me that he answered him, that I was but the mouth of
the rest, and spoke what they have dictated to me; which did, as he says,
presently take off his displeasure.  So that I am well at present with
him, but I must have a care not to be over busy in the office again, and
burn my fingers.  He tells me he wishes he had sold his place at some
good rate to somebody or other at the beginning of the warr, and that he
would do it now, but no body will deale with him for it.  He tells me the
Duke of Albemarle is very much discontented, and the Duke of York do not,
it seems, please him.  He tells me that our case as to money is not to be
made good at present, and therefore wishes a good and speedy peace before
it be too late, and from his discourse methinks I find that there is
something moving towards it.  Many people at the office, but having no
more of the office I did put it off till the next meeting.  Thence, with
Sir G. Carteret, home to dinner, with him, my Lady and Mr. Ashburnham,
the Cofferer.  Here they talk that the Queene hath a great mind to alter
her fashion, and to have the feet seen, which she loves mightily; and
they do believe that it [will] come into it in a little time.  Here I met
with the King's declaration about his proceedings with the King of
Denmarke, and particularly the business of Bergen; but it is so well
writ, that, if it be true, the King of Denmarke is one of the most
absolute wickednesse in the world for a person of his quality.  After
dinner home, and there met Mr. Povy by appointment, and there he and I
all the afternoon, till late at night, evening of all accounts between
us, which we did to both our satisfaction; but that which troubles me
most is, that I am to refund to the ignoble Lord Peterborough what he had
given us six months ago, because we did not supply him with money; but it
is no great matter.  He gone I to the office, and there did some
business; and so home, my mind in good ease by having done with Povy in
order to the adjusting of all my accounts in a few days.  So home to
supper and to bed.



21st (Lord's day).  Up, and with my wife to church, and her new woman
Barker with her the first time.  The girle will, I think, do very well.
Here a lazy sermon, and so home to dinner, and took in my Lady Pen and
Peg (Sir William being below with the fleete), and mighty merry we were,
and then after dinner presently (it being a mighty cool day) I by coach
to White Hall, and there attended the Cabinet, and was called in before
the King and them to give an account of our want of money for Tangier,
which troubles me that it should be my place so often and so soon after
one another to come to speak there of their wants--the thing of the world
that they love least to hear of, and that which is no welcome thing to be
the solicitor for--and to see how like an image the King sat and could
not speak one word when I had delivered myself was very strange; only my
Lord Chancellor did ask me, whether I thought it was in nature at this
time to help us to anything.  So I was referred to another meeting of the
Lords Commissioners for Tangier and my Lord Treasurer, and so went away,
and by coach home, where I spent the evening in reading Stillingfleet's
defence of the Archbishopp, the part about Purgatory, a point I had never
considered before, what was said for it or against it, and though I do
believe we are in the right, yet I do not see any great matter in this
book.  So to supper; and my people being gone, most of them, to bed, my
boy and Jane and I did get two of my iron chests out of the cellar into
my closett, and the money to my great satisfaction to see it there again,
and the rather because the damp cellar spoils all my chests.  This being
done, and I weary, to bed.  This afternoon walking with Sir H. Cholmly
long in the gallery, he told me, among many other things, how Harry
Killigrew is banished the Court lately, for saying that my Lady
Castlemayne was a little lecherous girle when she was young .  .  .  .
This she complained to the King of, and he sent to the Duke of York,
whose servant he is, to turn him away.  The Duke of York hath done it,
but takes it ill of my Lady that he was not complained to first.  She
attended him to excute it, but ill blood is made by it.  He told me how
Mr. Williamson stood in a little place to have come into the House of
Commons, and they would not choose him; they said, "No courtier."  And
which is worse, Bab May went down in great state to Winchelsea with the
Duke of York's letters, not doubting to be chosen; and there the people
chose a private gentleman in spite of him, and cried out they would have
no Court pimp to be their burgesse; which are things that bode very ill.
This afternoon I went to see and sat a good while with Mrs. Martin, and
there was her sister Doll, with whom, contrary to all expectation, I did
what I would, and might have done anything else.



22nd.  Up, and by coach to Westminster Hall, there thinking to have met
Betty Michell, who I heard yesterday staid all night at her father's, but
she was gone.  So I staid a little and then down to the bridge by water,
and there overtook her and her father.  So saluted her and walked over
London Bridge with them and there parted, the weather being very foul,
and so to the Tower by water, and so heme, where I find Mr. Caesar
playing the treble to my boy upon the Theorbo, the first time I heard
him, which pleases me mightily.  After dinner I carried him and my wife
towards Westminster, by coach, myself 'lighting at the Temple, and there,
being a little too soon, walked in the Temple Church, looking with
pleasure on the monuments and epitaphs, and then to my Lord Belasses,
where Creed and Povy by appointment met to discourse of some of their
Tangier accounts between my Lord and Vernatty, who will prove a very
knave.  That being done I away with Povy to White Hall, and thence I to
Unthanke's, and there take up my wife, and so home, it being very foule
and darke.  Being there come, I to the settling of some of my money
matters in my chests, and evening some accounts, which I was at late, to
my extraordinary content, and especially to see all things hit so even
and right and with an apparent profit and advantage since my last
accounting, but how much I cannot particularly yet come to adjudge.



23rd.  Up, and to the office all the morning.  At noon Sir W. Batten told
me Sir Richard Ford would accept of one-third of my profit of our private
man-of-war, and bear one-third of the charge, and be bound in the
Admiralty, so I shall be excused being bound, which I like mightily of,
and did draw up a writing, as well as I could, to that purpose and signed
and sealed it, and so he and Sir R. Ford are to go to enter into bond
this afternoon.  Home to dinner, and after dinner, it being late, I down
by water to Shadwell, to see Betty Michell, the first time I was ever at
their new dwelling since the fire, and there find her in the house all
alone.  I find her mighty modest.  But had her lips as much as I would,
and indeed she is mighty pretty, that I love her exceedingly.  I paid her
L10 1s. that I received upon a ticket for her husband, which is a great
kindness I have done them, and having kissed her as much as I would, I
away, poor wretch, and down to Deptford to see Sir J. Minnes ordering of
the pay of some ships there, which he do most miserably, and so home.
Bagwell's wife, seeing me come the fields way, did get over her pales to
come after and talk with me, which she did for a good way, and so parted,
and I home, and to the office, very busy, and so to supper and to bed.



24th.  Up, and down to the Old Swan, and there find little Michell come
to his new shop that he hath built there in the room of his house that
was burned.  I hope he will do good here.  I drank and bade him joy, for
I love him and his wife well, him for his care, and her for her person,
and so to White Hall, where we attended the Duke; and to all our
complaints for want of money, which now we are tired out with making, the
Duke only tells us that he is sorry for it, and hath spoke to the King of
it, and money we shall have as soon as it can be found; and though all
the issue of the war lies upon it, yet that is all the answer we can get,
and that is as bad or worse than nothing.  Thence to Westminster Hall,
where the term is begun, and I did take a turn or two, and so away by
coach to Sir R. Viner's, and there received some money, and then home and
to dinner.  After dinner to little business, and then abroad with my
wife, she to see her brother, who is sick, and she believes is from some
discontent his wife hath given him by her loose carriage, which he is
told, and he hath found has been very suspicious in his absence, which I
am sorry for.  I to the Hall and there walked long, among others talking
with Mr. Hayes, Prince Rupert's Secretary, a very ingenious man, and one,
I think, fit to contract some friendship with.  Here I staid late,
walking to and again, hearing how the Parliament proceeds, which is
mighty slowly in the settling of the money business, and great factions
growing every day among them.  I am told also how Holmes did last Sunday
deliver in his articles to the King and Cabinet against [Sir Jeremy]
Smith, and that Smith hath given in his answer, and lays his not
accompanying the fleete to his pilot, who would not undertake to carry
the ship further; which the pilot acknowledges.  The thing is not
accommodated, but only taken up, and both sides commanded to be quiet;
but no peace like to be.  The Duke of Albemarle is Smith's friend, and
hath publiquely swore that he would never go to sea again unless Holmes's
commission were taken from him.

     [In the instructions given to Sir Thomas Clifford (August 5th, 1666)
     to be communicated to Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle, we
     read: "to tell them that the complaint of Sir Jeremy Smith's
     misbehaviour in the late engagement being so universal, unless he
     have fully satisfied the generals he should be brought to trial by
     court-martial, and there purged or condemned."  The Duke of
     Albemarle answered the king (August 14th?): "Wishes to clear a
     gallant man falsely accused, Sir Jeremiah Smith, who had more men
     killed and hurt, and his ship received more shot than any in the
     fleet.  There is not a more spirited man serves in the fleet" On
     October 27th H. Muddiman wrote to Sir Edward Stradling: "Sir Jeremy
     Smith has got as much credit by his late examination as his enemies
     wished him disgrace, the King and Duke of York being fully satisfied
     of his valour in the engagement.  It appears that he had 147 men
     killed and wounded, while the most eminent of his accusers had but
     two or three."  With regard to Sir Jeremy's counter-charges, we
     read: "Nov. 3.  The King having maturely considered the charges
     brought against Sir Rob. Holmes by Sir Jeremy Smith, finds no cause
     to suspect Sir Robert of cowardice in the fight with the Dutch of
     June 25 and 26, but thinks that on the night of the 26th he yielded
     too easily to the opinion of his pilot, without consulting those of
     the other ships, muzzled his ship, and thus obliged the squadron to
     do the same, and so the enemy, which might have been driven into the
     body of the king's fleet, then returning from the pursuit, was
     allowed to escape" (" Calendar of State Papers," 1666-67, pp.  14,
     40, 222, 236).]


I find by Hayes that they did expect great glory in coming home in so
good condition as they did with the fleete, and therefore I the less
wonder that the Prince was distasted with my discourse the other day
about the bad state of the fleete.  But it pleases me to hear that he did
expect great thanks, and lays the fault of the want of it upon the fire,
which deadened everything, and the glory of his services.  About seven at
night home, and called my wife, and, it being moonshine, took her into
the garden, and there layed open our condition as to our estate, and the
danger of my having it [his money] all in the house at once, in case of
any disorder or troubles in the State, and therefore resolved to remove
part of it to Brampton, and part some whither else, and part in my owne
house, which is very necessary, and will tend to our safety, though I
shall not think it safe out of my owne sight.  So to the office, and then
to supper and to bed.



25th.  Up betimes and by water to White Hall, and there with Sir G.
Carteret to Sir W. Coventry, who is come to his winter lodgings at White
Hall, and there agreed upon a method of paying of tickets; and so I back
again home and to the office, where we sate all the morning, but to
little purpose but to receive clamours for money.  At noon home to
dinner, where the two Mrs. Daniels come to see us, and dined with us.
After dinner I out with my wife to Mrs. Pierces, where she hath not been
a great while, from some little unkindness of my wife's to her when she
was last here, but she received us with mighty respect and discretion,
and was making herself mighty fine to go to a great ball to-night at
Court, being the Queene's birthday; so the ladies for this one day do
wear laces, but to put them off again to-morrow.  Thence I to my Lord
Bruncker's, and with him to Mrs. Williams's where we met Knipp.  I was
glad to see the jade.  Made her sing; and she told us they begin at both
houses to act on Monday next.  But I fear, after all this sorrow, their
gains will be but little.  Mrs. Williams says, the Duke's house will now
be much the better of the two, because of their women; which I am glad to
hear.  Thence with Lord Bruncker to White Hall and there spoke with Sir
W. Coventry about some office business, and then I away to Mrs. Pierces,
and there saw her new closet, which is mighty rich and fine.  Her
daughter Betty grows mighty pretty.  Thence with my wife home and to do
business at the office.  Then to Sir W. Batten's, who tells me that the
House of Parliament makes mighty little haste in settling the money, and
that he knows not when it will be done; but they fall into faction, and
libells have been found in the House.  Among others, one yesterday,
wherein they reckon up divers great sums to be given away by the King,
among others, L10,000 to Sir W. Coventry, for weare and teare (the point
he stood upon to advance that sum by, for them to give the King); Sir G.
Carteret L50,000 for something else, I think supernumerarys; and so to
Matt. Wren L5000 for passing the Canary Company's patent; and so a great
many other sums to other persons.  So home to supper and to bed.



26th.  Up, and all the morning and most of the afternoon within doors,
beginning to set my accounts in order from before this fire, I being
behindhand with them ever since; and this day I got most of my tradesmen
to bring in their bills and paid them.  Dined at home, and busy again
after dinner, and then abroad by water to Westminster Hall, where I
walked till the evening, and then out, the first time I ever was abroad
with Doll Lane, to the Dog tavern, and there drank with her, a bad face,
but good bodied girle.  Did nothing but salute and play with her and
talk, and thence away by coach, home, and so to do a little more in my
accounts, and then to supper and to bed.  Nothing done in the House yet
as to the finishing of the bill for money, which is a mighty sad thing,
all lying at stake for it.



27th.  Up, and there comes to see me my Lord Belasses, which was a great
honour.  He tells me great newes, yet but what I suspected, that Vernatty
is fled, and so hath cheated him and twenty more, but most of all, I
doubt, Mr. Povy.  Thence to talk about publique business; he tells me how
the two Houses begin to be troublesome; the Lords to have quarrels one
with another.  My Lord Duke of Buckingham having said to the Lord
Chancellor (who is against the passing of the Bill for prohibiting the
bringing over of Irish cattle), that whoever was against the Bill, was
there led to it by an Irish interest, or an Irish understanding, which is
as much as to say he is a Poole; this bred heat from my Lord Chancellor,
and something he [Buckingham] said did offend my Lord of Ossory (my Lord
Duke' of Ormond's son), and they two had hard words, upon which the
latter sends a challenge to the former; of which the former complains to
the House, and so the business is to be heard on Monday next.  Then as to
the Commons; some ugly knives, like poignards, to stab people with, about
two or three hundred of them were brought in yesterday to the House,
found in one of the house's rubbish that was burned, and said to be the
house of a Catholique.  This and several letters out of the country,
saying how high the Catholiques are everywhere and bold in the owning
their religion, have made the Commons mad, and they presently voted that
the King be desired to put all Catholiques out of employment, and other
high things; while the business of money hangs in the hedge.  So that
upon the whole, God knows we are in a sad condition like to be, there
being the very beginnings of the late troubles.  He gone, I at the office
all the morning.  At noon home to dinner, where Mrs. Pierce and her boy
and Knipp, who sings as well, and is the best company in the world, dined
with us, and infinite merry.  The playhouses begin to play next week.
Towards evening I took them out to the New Exchange, and there my wife
bought things, and I did give each of them a pair of Jesimy

     [Jessemin (Jasminum), the flowers of which are of a delicate sweet
     smell, and often used to perfume gloves.  Edmund Howes, Stows
     continuator, informs us that sweet or perfumed gloves were first
     brought into England by the Earl of Oxford on his return from Italy,
     in the fifteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, during whose reign, and
     long afterwards, they were very fashionable.  They are frequently
     mentioned by Shakespeare.  Autolyctis, in the "Winter's Tale," has
     among his wares--" Gloves as sweet as damask roses."--B.]

plain gloves, and another of white.  Here Knipp and I walked up and down
to see handsome faces, and did see several.  Then carried each of them
home, and with great pleasure and content, home myself, where, having
writ several letters, I home, and there, upon some serious discourse
between my wife and I upon the business, I called to us my brother, and
there broke to him our design to send him into the country with some part
of our money, and so did seriously discourse the whole thing, and then
away to supper and to bed.  I pray God give a blessing to our resolution,
for I do much fear we shall meet with speedy distractions for want of
money.



28th (Lord's day).  Up, and to church with my wife, and then home, and
there is come little Michell and his wife, I sent for them, and also
tomes Captain Guy to dine with me, and he and I much talk together.  He
cries out of the discipline of the fleete, and confesses really that the
true English valour we talk of is almost spent and worn out; few of the
commanders doing what they should do, and he much fears we shall
therefore be beaten the next year.  He assures me we were beaten home the
last June fight, and that the whole fleete was ashamed to hear of our
bonefires.  He commends Smith, and cries out of Holmes for an idle,
proud, conceited, though stout fellow.  He tells me we are to owe the
losse of so many ships on the sands, not to any fault of the pilots, but
to the weather; but in this I have good authority to fear there was
something more.  He says the Dutch do fight in very good order, and we in
none at all.  He says that in the July fight, both the Prince and Holmes
had their belly-fulls, and were fain to go aside; though, if the wind had
continued, we had utterly beaten them.  He do confess the whole to be
governed by a company of fools, and fears our ruine.  After dinner he
gone, I with my brother to White Hall and he to Westminster Abbey.  I
presently to Mrs. Martin's, and there met widow Burroughes and Doll, and
did tumble them all the afternoon as I pleased, and having given them a
bottle of wine I parted and home by boat (my brother going by land), and
thence with my wife to sit and sup with my uncle and aunt Wight, and see
Woolly's wife, who is a pretty woman, and after supper, being very merry,
in abusing my aunt with Dr. Venner, we home, and I to do something in my
accounts, and so to bed.  The Revenge having her forecastle blown up with
powder to the killing of some men in the River, and the Dyamond's being
overset in the careening at Sheernesse, are further marks of the method
all the King's work is now done in.  The Foresight also and another come
to disasters in the same place this week in the cleaning; which is
strange.



29th.  Up, and to the office to do business, and thither comes to me Sir
Thomas Teddiman, and he and I walked a good while in the garden together,
discoursing of the disorder and discipline of the fleete, wherein he told
me how bad every thing is; but was very wary in speaking any thing to the
dishonour of the Prince or Duke of Albemarle, but do magnify my Lord
Sandwich much before them both, for ability to serve the King, and do
heartily wish for him here.  For he fears that we shall be undone the
next year, but that he will, however, see an end of it.  To prevent the
necessity of his dining with me I was forced to pretend occasion of going
to Westminster, so away I went, and Mr. Barber, the clerk, having a
request to make to me to get him into employment, did walk along with me,
and by water to Westminster with me, he professing great love to me, and
an able clerk he is.  When I come thither I find the new Lord Mayor
Bolton a-swearing at the Exchequer, with some of the Aldermen and Livery;
but, Lord!  to see how meanely they now look, who upon this day used to
be all little lords, is a sad sight and worthy consideration.  And every
body did reflect with pity upon the poor City, to which they are now
coming to choose and swear their Lord Mayor, compared with what it
heretofore was.  Thence by coach (having in the Hall bought me a velvet
riding cap, cost me 20s.) to my taylor's, and there bespoke a plain vest,
and so to my goldsmith to bid him look out for some gold for me; and he
tells me that ginnys, which I bought 2,000 of not long ago, and cost me
but 18 1/2d.  change, will now cost me 22d.; and but very few to be had
at any price.  However, some more I will have, for they are very
convenient, and of easy disposal.  So home to dinner and to discourse
with my brother upon his translation of my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae,"
which I gave him to do and he has done it, but meanely; I am not pleased
with it at all, having done it only literally, but without any life at
all.  About five o'clock I took my wife (who is mighty fine, and with a
new fair pair of locks, which vex me, though like a foole I helped her
the other night to buy them), and to Mrs. Pierces, and there staying a
little I away before to White Hall, and into the new playhouse there, the
first time I ever was there, and the first play I have seen since before
the great plague.  By and by Mr. Pierce comes, bringing my wife and his,
and Knipp.  By and by the King and Queene, Duke and Duchesse, and all the
great ladies of the Court; which, indeed, was a fine sight.  But the play
being "Love in a Tub," a silly play, and though done by the Duke's
people, yet having neither Betterton nor his wife, and the whole thing
done ill, and being ill also, I had no manner of pleasure in the play.
Besides, the House, though very fine, yet bad for the voice, for hearing.
The sight of the ladies, indeed, was exceeding noble; and above all, my
Lady Castlemayne.  The play done by ten o'clock.  I carried them all
home, and then home myself, and well satisfied with the sight, but not
the play, we with great content to bed.



30th.  Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning, and at noon home
to dinner, and then to the office again, where late, very busy, and
dispatching much business.  Mr. Hater staying most of the afternoon
abroad, he come to me, poor man, to make excuse, and it was that he had
been looking out for a little house for his family.  His wife being much
frightened in the country with the discourses of troubles and disorders
like to be, and therefore durst not be from him, and therefore he is
forced to bring her to towne that they may be together.  This is now the
general apprehension of all people; particulars I do not know, but my
owne fears are also great, and I do think it time to look out to save
something, if a storm should come.  At night home to supper, and singing
with my wife, who hath lately begun to learn, and I think will come to do
something, though her eare is not good, nor I, I confess, have patience
enough to teach her, or hear her sing now and then a note out of tune,
and am to blame that I cannot bear with that in her which is fit I should
do with her as a learner, and one that I desire much could sing, and so
should encourage her.  This I was troubled at, for I do find that I do
put her out of heart, and make her fearfull to sing before me.  So after
supper to bed.



31st.  Out with Sir W. Batten toward White Hall, being in pain in my cods
by being squeezed the other night in a little coach when I carried Pierce
and his wife and my people.  But I hope I shall be soon well again.  This
day is a great day at the House, so little to do with the Duke of York,
but soon parted.  Coming out of the Court I met Colonell Atkins, who
tells me the whole city rings to-day of Sir Jeremy Smith's killing of
Holmes in a duell, at which I was not much displeased, for I fear every
day more and more mischief from the man, if he lives; but the thing is
not true, for in my coach I did by and by meet Sir Jer. Smith going to
Court.  So I by coach to my goldsmith, there to see what gold I can get,
which is but little, and not under 22d.  So away home to dinner, and
after dinner to my closett, where I spent the whole afternoon till late
at evening of all my accounts publique and private, and to my great
satisfaction I do find that I do bring my accounts to a very near
balance, notwithstanding all the hurries and troubles I have been put to
by the late fire, that I have not been able to even my accounts since
July last before; and I bless God I do find that I am worth more than
ever I yet was, which is L6,200, for which the Holy Name of God be
praised!  and my other accounts of Tangier in a very plain and clear
condition, that I am not liable to any trouble from them; but in fear
great I am, and I perceive the whole city is, of some distractions and
disorders among us, which God of his goodness prevent!  Late to supper
with my wife and brother, and then to bed.  And thus ends the month with
an ill aspect, the business of the Navy standing wholly still.  No
credit, no goods sold us, nobody will trust.  All we have to do at the
office is to hear complaints for want of money.  The Duke of York himself
for now three weeks seems to rest satisfied that we can do nothing
without money, and that all must stand still till the King gets money,
which the Parliament have been a great while about; but are so
dissatisfied with the King's management, and his giving himself up to
pleasures, and not minding the calling to account any of his officers,
and they observe so much the expense of the war, and yet that after we
have made it the most we can, it do not amount to what they have given
the King for the warn that they are backward of giving any more.
However, L1,800,000 they have voted, but the way of gathering it has
taken up more time than is fit to be now lost: The seamen grow very rude,
and every thing out of order; commanders having no power over their
seamen, but the seamen do what they please.  Few stay on board, but all
coming running up hither to towne, and nobody can with justice blame
them, we owing them so much money; and their familys must starve if we do
not give them money, or they procure upon their tickets from some people
that will trust them.  A great folly is observed by all people in the
King's giving leave to so many merchantmen to go abroad this winter, and
some upon voyages where it is impossible they should be back again by the
spring, and the rest will be doubtfull, but yet we let them go; what the
reason of State is nobody can tell, but all condemn it.  The Prince and
Duke of Albemarle have got no great credit by this year's service.  Our
losses both of reputation and ships having been greater than is thought
have ever been suffered in all ages put together before; being beat home,
and fleeing home the first fight, and then losing so many ships then and
since upon the sands, and some falling into the enemy's hands, and not
one taken this yeare, but the Ruby, French prize, now at the end of the
yeare, by the Frenchmen's mistake in running upon us.  Great folly in
both Houses of Parliament, several persons falling together by the eares,
among others in the House of Lords, the Duke of Buckingham and my Lord
Ossory.  Such is our case, that every body fears an invasion the next
yeare; and for my part, I do methinks foresee great unhappiness coming
upon us, and do provide for it by laying by something against a rainy
day, dividing what I have, and laying it in several places, but with all
faithfulness to the King in all respects; my grief only being that the
King do not look after his business himself, and thereby will be undone
both himself and his nation, it being not yet, I believe, too late if he
would apply himself to it, to save all, and conquer the Dutch; but while
he and the Duke of York mind their pleasure, as they do and nothing else,
we must be beaten.  So late with my mind in good condition of quiet after
the settling all my accounts, and to bed.




ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:

Being there, and seeming to do something, while we do not
Bill against importing Irish cattle
Bringing over one discontented man, you raise up three
But how many years I cannot tell; but my wife says ten
But pretty!  how I took another pretty woman for her
Catholiques are everywhere and bold
Did tumble them all the afternoon as I pleased
Discoursing upon the sad condition of the times
Exceeding kind to me, more than usual, which makes me afeard
Fashion, the King says; he will never change
I did what I would, and might have done anything else
King be desired to put all Catholiques out of employment
King hath lost his power, by submitting himself to this way
So home to supper, and to bed, it being my wedding night
The very rum man must have L200
Time spending, and no money to set anything in hand




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