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Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, Feb 1659/1660
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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.
FEBRUARY
1659-60
February 1st. In the morning went to my office where afterwards the old
man brought me my letters from the carrier. At noon I went home and
dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else. After that I went
to the Hall and there met with Mr. Swan and went with him to Mr.
Downing's Counsellor, who did put me in very little hopes about the
business between Mr. Downing and Squib, and told me that Squib would
carry it against him, at which I was much troubled, and with him went to
Lincoln's Inn and there spoke with his attorney, who told me the day that
was appointed for the trial. From thence I went to Sir Harry Wright's
and got him to give me his hand for the L60 which I am to-morrow to
receive from Mr. Calthrop and from thence to Mrs. Jem and spoke with
Madam Scott and her husband who did promise to have the thing for her
neck done this week. Thence home and took Gammer East, and James the
porter, a soldier, to my Lord's lodgings, who told me how they were drawn
into the field to-day, and that they were ordered to march away to-morrow
to make room for General Monk; but they did shut their Colonel Fitch,
and the rest of the officers out of the field, and swore they would not
go without their money, and if they would not give it them, they would go
where they might have it, and that was the City. So the Colonel went to
the Parliament, and commanded what money could be got, to be got against
to-morrow for them, and all the rest of the soldiers in town, who in all
places made a mutiny this day, and do agree together. Here I took some
bedding to send to Mrs. Ann for her to lie in now she hath her fits of
the ague. Thence I went to Will's and staid like a fool there and played
at cards till 9 o'clock and so came home, where I found Mr. Hunt and his
wife who staid and sat with me till 10 and so good night.
2d. Drank at Harper's with Doling, and so to my office, where I found
all the officers of the regiments in town, waiting to receive money that
their soldiers might go out of town, and what was in the Exchequer they
had. At noon after dining at home I called at Harper's for Doling, and
he and I met with Luellin and drank with him at the Exchequer at Charing
Cross, and thence he and I went to the Temple to Mr. Calthrop's chamber,
and from thence had his man by water to London Bridge to Mr. Calthrop, a
grocer, and received L60 for my Lord. In our way we talked with our
waterman, White, who told us how the watermen had lately been abused by
some that had a desire to get in to be watermen to the State, and had
lately presented an address of nine or ten thousand hands to stand by
this Parliament, when it was only told them that it was to a petition
against hackney coaches; and that to-day they had put out another to
undeceive the world and to clear themselves, and that among the rest
Cropp, my waterman and one of great practice, was one that did cheat them
thus. After I had received the money we went to the Bridge Tavern and
drank a quart of wine and so back by water, landing Mr. Calthrop's man at
the Temple and we went homewards, but over against Somerset House,
hearing the noise of guns, we landed and found the Strand full of
soldiers. So I took my money and went to Mrs. Johnson, my Lord's
sempstress, and giving her my money to lay up, Doling and I went up
stairs to a window, and looked out and see the foot face the horse and
beat them back, and stood bawling and calling in the street for a free
Parliament and money. By and by a drum was heard to beat a march coming
towards them, and they got all ready again and faced them, and they
proved to be of the same mind with them; and so they made a great deal
of joy to see one another. After all this, I took my money, and went
home on foot and laying up my money, and changing my stockings and shoes,
I this day having left off my great skirt suit, and put on my white suit
with silver lace coat, and went over to Harper's, where I met with
W. Simons, Doling, Luellin and three merchants, one of which had occasion
to use a porter, so they sent for one, and James the soldier came, who
told us how they had been all day and night upon their guard at St.
James's, and that through the whole town they did resolve to stand to
what they had began, and that to-morrow he did believe they would go into
the City, and be received there. After all this we went to a sport
called, selling of a horse for a dish of eggs and herrings, and sat
talking there till almost twelve o'clock and then parted, they were to go
as far as Aldgate. Home and to bed.
3rd. Drank my morning draft at Harper's, and was told there that the
soldiers were all quiet upon promise of pay. Thence to St. James's Park,
and walked there to my place for my flageolet and then played a little,
it being a most pleasant morning and sunshine. Back to Whitehall, where
in the guard-chamber I saw about thirty or forty 'prentices of the City,
who were taken at twelve o'clock last night and brought prisoners hither.
Thence to my office, where I paid a little more money to some of the
soldiers under Lieut.-Col. Miller (who held out the Tower against the
Parliament after it was taken away from Fitch by the Committee of Safety,
and yet he continued in his office). About noon Mrs. Turner came to
speak with me, and Joyce, and I took them and shewed them the manner of
the Houses sitting, the doorkeeper very civilly opening the door for us.
Thence with my cozen Roger Pepys,
[Roger Pepys, son of Talbot Pepys of Impington, a barrister of the
Middle Temple, M.P. for Cambridge, 1661-78, and Recorder of that
town, 1660-88. He married, for the third time, Parnell, daughter
and heiress of John Duke, of Workingham, co. Suffolk, and this was
the wedding for which the posy ring was required.]
it being term time, we took him out of the Hall to Priors, the Rhenish
wine-house, and there had a pint or two of wine and a dish of anchovies,
and bespoke three or four dozen bottles of wine for him against his
wedding. After this done he went away, and left me order to call and pay
for all that Mrs. Turner would have. So we called for nothing more
there, but went and bespoke a shoulder of mutton at Wilkinson's to be
roasted as well as it could be done, and sent a bottle of wine home to my
house. In the meantime she and I and Joyce went walking all over White
Hall, whither General Monk was newly come, and we saw all his forces
march by in very good plight and stout officers. Thence to my house
where we dined, but with a great deal of patience, for the mutton came in
raw, and so we were fain to stay the stewing of it. In the meantime we
sat studying a Posy
[It is supposed that the fashion of having mottoes inscribed on
rings was of Roman origin. In the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries the posy was inscribed on the outside of the ring, and in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was placed inside. A
small volume was published in 1674, entitled "Love's Garland: or
Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves, and such pretty tokens
that Lovers send their Loves."]
for a ring for her which she is to have at Roger Pepys his wedding.
After dinner I left them and went to hear news, but only found that the
Parliament House was most of them with Monk at White Hall, and that in
his passing through the town he had many calls to him for a free
Parliament, but little other welcome. I saw in the Palace Yard how
unwilling some of the old soldiers were yet to go out of town without
their money, and swore if they had it not in three days, as they were
promised, they would do them more mischief in the country than if they
had staid here; and that is very likely, the country being all
discontented. The town and guards are already full of Monk's soldiers.
I returned, and it growing dark I and they went to take a turn in the
park, where Theoph. (who was sent for to us to dinner) outran my wife and
another poor woman, that laid a pot of ale with me that she would outrun
her. After that I set them as far as Charing Cross, and there left them
and my wife, and I went to see Mrs. Ann, who began very high about a
flock bed I sent her, but I took her down. Here I played at cards till
9 o'clock. So home and to bed.
4th. In the morning at my lute an hour, and so to my office, where I
staid expecting to have Mr. Squib come to me, but he did not. At noon
walking in the Hall I found Mr. Swan and got him and Captain Stone
together, and there advised about Mr. Downing's business. So to Will's,
and sat there till three o'clock and then to Mr. Swan's, where I found
his wife in very genteel mourning for her father, and took him out by
water to the Counsellor at the Temple, Mr. Stephens, and from thence to
Gray's Inn, thinking to speak with Sotherton Ellis, but found him not, so
we met with an acquaintance of his in the walks, and went and drank,
where I ate some bread and butter, having ate nothing all day, while they
were by chance discoursing of Marriot, the great eater, so that I was, I
remember, ashamed to eat what I would have done. Here Swan shewed us a
ballad to the tune of Mardike which was most incomparably wrote in a
printed hand, which I borrowed of him, but the song proved but silly, and
so I did not write it out. Thence we went and leaving Swan at his
master's, my Lord Widdrington, I met with Spicer, Washington, and
D. Vines in Lincoln's Inn Court, and they were buying of a hanging jack
to roast birds on of a fellow that was there selling of some. I was fain
to slip from there and went to Mrs. Crew's to her and advised about a
maid to come and be with Mrs. Jem while her maid is sick, but she could
spare none. Thence to Sir Harry Wright's, but my lady not being within I
spoke to Mrs. Carter about it, who will get one against Monday. So with
a link boy
[Links were torches of tow or pitch to light the way. D.W.]
to Scott's, where Mrs. Ann was in a heat, but I spoke not to her,
but told Mrs. Jem what I had done, and after that went home and wrote
letters into the country by the post, and then played awhile on my
lute, and so done, to supper and then to bed. All the news to-day is,
that the Parliament this morning voted the House to be made up four
hundred forthwith. This day my wife killed her turkeys that Mr. Sheply
gave her, that came out of Zealand with my Lord, and could not get her
m'd Jane by no means at any time to kill anything.
5th,(Lord's day). In the morning before church time Mr. Hawly, who had
for this day or two looked something sadly, which methinks did speak
something in his breast concerning me, came to me telling me that he was
out L24 which he could not tell what was become of, and that he do
remember that he had such a sum in a bag the other day, and could not
tell what he did with it, at which I was very sorry but could not help
him. In the morning to Mr. Gunning, where a stranger, an old man,
preached a good honest sermon upon "What manner of love is this that we
should be called the sons of God." After sermon I could not find my
wife, who promised to be at the gate against my coming out, and waited
there a great while; then went to my house and finding her gone I
returned and called at the Chequers, thinking to dine at the ordinary
with Mr. Chetwind and Mr. Thomas, but they not being there I went to my
father and found her there, and there I dined. To their church in the
afternoon, and in Mrs. Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood and
kept it. A stranger preached a poor sermon, and so read over the whole
book of the story of Tobit. After sermon home with Mrs. Turner, staid
with her a little while, then she went into the court to a christening
and we to my father's, where I wrote some notes for my brother John to
give to the Mercers' to-morrow, it being the day of their apposition.
After supper home, and before going to bed I staid writing of this day
its passages, while a drum came by, beating of a strange manner of beat,
now and then a single stroke, which my wife and I wondered at, what the
meaning of it should be. This afternoon at church I saw Dick Cumberland
newly come out of the country from his living, but did not speak to him.
6th. Before I went to my office I went to Mr. Crew's and paid Mr.
Andrews the same L60 that he had received of Mr. Calthrop the last week.
So back to Westminster and walked with him thither, where we found the
soldiers all set in the Palace Yard, to make way for General Monk to come
to the House. At the Hall we parted, and meeting Swan, he and I to the
Swan and drank our morning draft. So back again to the Hall, where I
stood upon the steps and saw Monk go by, he making observance to the
judges as he went along. At noon my father dined with me upon my turkey
that was brought from Denmark, and after dinner he and I to the Bull Head
Tavern, where we drank half a pint of wine and so parted. I to Mrs. Ann,
and Mrs. Jem being gone out of the chamber she and I had a very high
bout, I rattled her up, she being in her bed, but she becoming more cool,
we parted pretty good friends. Thence I went to Will's, where I staid at
cards till 10 o'clock, losing half a crown, and so home to bed.
7th. In the morning I went early to give Mr. Hawly notice of my being
forced to go into London, but he having also business we left our office
business to Mr. Spicer and he and I walked as far as the Temple, where I
halted a little and then went to Paul's School, but it being too soon,
went and drank my morning draft with my cozen Tom Pepys the turner, and
saw his house and shop, thence to school, where he that made the speech
for the seventh form in praise of the founder, did show a book which Mr.
Crumlum had lately got, which is believed to be of the Founder's own
writing. After all the speeches, in which my brother John came off as
well as any of the rest, I went straight home and dined, then to the
Hall, where in the Palace I saw Monk's soldiers abuse Billing and all the
Quakers, that were at a meeting-place there, and indeed the soldiers did
use them very roughly and were to blame.
["Fox, or some other 'weighty' friend, on hearing of this,
complained to Monk, who issued the following order, dated March 9th:
'I do require all officers and soldiers to forbear to disturb
peaceable meetings of the Quakers, they doing nothing prejudicial to
the Parliament or the Commonwealth of England. George Monk.' This
order, we are told, had an excellent effect on the soldiers."--A. C.
Bickley's 'George Fox and the Early Quakers, London, 1884, p. 179.
The Quakers were at this time just coming into notice. The first
preaching of George Fox, the founder, was in 1648, and in 1655 the
preachers of the sect numbered seventy-three. Fox computed that
there were seldom less than a thousand quakers in prison. The
statute 13 and 14 Car. II. cap. i. (1662) was "An act for
preventing the mischiefs and dangers that may arise by certain
persons called quakers and others, refusing to take lawful oaths."
Billing is mentioned again on July 22nd, 1667, when he addressed
Pepys in Westminster Hall.]
So after drinking with Mr. Spicer, who had received L600 for me this
morning, I went to Capt. Stone and with him by coach to the Temple
Gardens (all the way talking of the disease of the stone), where we met
Mr. Squib, but would do nothing till to-morrow morning. Thence back on
foot home, where I found a letter from my Lord in character [private
cryptic code D.W.], which I construed, and after my wife had shewn me
some ribbon and shoes that she had taken out of a box of Mr. Montagu's
which formerly Mr. Kipps had left here when his master was at sea, I went
to Mr. Crew and advised with him about it, it being concerning my Lord's
coming up to Town, which he desires upon my advice the last week in my
letter. Thence calling upon Mrs. Ann I went home, and wrote in character
to my Lord in answer to his letter. This day Mr. Crew told me that my
Lord St. John is for a free Parliament, and that he is very great with
Monk, who hath now the absolute command and power to do any thing that he
hath a mind to do. Mr. Moore told me of a picture hung up at the
Exchange of a great pair of buttocks shooting of a turd into Lawson's
mouth, and over it was wrote "The thanks of the house." Boys do now cry
"Kiss my Parliament, instead of "Kiss my [rump]," so great and general a
contempt is the Rump come to among all the good and bad.
8th. A little practice on my flageolet, and afterwards walking in my
yard to see my stock of pigeons, which begin now with the spring to breed
very fast. I was called on by Mr. Fossan, my fellow pupil at Cambridge,
and I took him to the Swan in the Palace yard, and drank together our
morning draft. Thence to my office, where I received money, and
afterwards Mr. Carter, my old friend at Cambridge, meeting me as I was
going out of my office I took him to the Swan, and in the way I met with
Captain Lidcott, and so we three went together and drank there, the
Captain talking as high as ever he did, and more because of the fall of
his brother Thurlow.
[John Thurloe, born 1616; Secretary of State to Cromwell; M.P. for
Ely, 1656, and for the University of Cambridge in Richard Cromwell's
Parliament of December, 1658. He was never employed after the
Restoration, although the King solicited his services. He died
February 21st, 1668. Pepys spells the name Thurlow, which was a
common spelling at the time.]
Hence I went to Captain Stone, who told me how Squib had been with him,
and that he could do nothing with him, so I returned to Mr. Carter and
with him to Will's, where I spent upon him and Monsieur L'Impertinent,
alias Mr. Butler, who I took thither with me, and thence to a Rhenish
wine house, and in our way met with Mr. Hoole, where I paid for my cozen
Roger Pepys his wine, and after drinking we parted. So I home, in my way
delivering a letter which among the rest I had from my Lord to-day to Sir
N. Wheeler. At home my wife's brother brought her a pretty black dog
which I liked very well, and went away again. Hence sending a porter
with the hamper of bottles to the Temple I called in my way upon Mrs.
Jem, who was much frighted till I came to tell her that her mother was
well. So to the Temple, where I delivered the wine and received the
money of my cos. Roger that I laid out, and thence to my father's, where
he shewed me a base angry letter that he had newly received from my uncle
Robert about my brother John, at which my father was very sad, but I
comforted him and wrote an answer. My brother John has an exhibition
granted him from the school. My father and I went down to his kitchen,
and there we eat and drank, and about 9 o'clock I went away homewards,
and in Fleet Street, received a great jostle from a man that had a mind
to take the wall, which I could not help?
[This was a constant trouble to the pedestrian until the rule of
passing to the right of the person met was generally accepted. Gay
commences his "Trivia" with an allusion to this--
"When to assert the wall, and when resign--"
and the epigram on the haughty courtier and the scholar is well
known.]
I came home and to bed. Went to bed with my head not well by my too much
drinking to-day, and I had a boil under my chin which troubled me
cruelly.
9th. Soon as out of my bed I wrote letters into the country to go by
carrier to-day. Before I was out of my bed, I heard the soldiers very
busy in the morning, getting their horses ready where they lay at
Hilton's, but I knew not then their meaning in so doing: After I had
wrote my letters I went to Westminster up and down the Hall, and with Mr.
Swan walked a good [deal] talking about Mr. Downing's business. I went
with him to Mr. Phelps's house where he had some business to solicit,
where we met Mr. Rogers my neighbour, who did solicit against him and
talked very high, saying that he would not for a L1000 appear in a
business that Swan did, at which Swan was very angry, but I believe he
might be guilty enough. In the Hall I understand how Monk is this
morning gone into London with his army; and met with Mr. Fage, who told
me that he do believe that Monk is gone to secure some of the Common-
council of the City, who were very high yesterday there, and did vote
that they would not pay any taxes till the House was filled up. I went
to my office, where I wrote to my Lord after I had been at the Upper
Bench, where Sir Robert Pye
[Sir Robert Pye, the elder, was auditor of the Exchequer, and a
staunch Royalist. He garrisoned his house at Faringdon, which was
besieged by his son, of the same names, a decided Republican, son-
in-law to Hampden, and colonel of horse under Fairfax. The son,
here spoken of, was subsequently committed to the Tower for
presenting a petition to the House of Commons from the county of
Berks, which he represented in Parliament, complaining of the want
of a settled form of government. He had, however, the courage to
move for an habeas corpus, but judge Newdigate decided that the
courts of law had not the power to discharge him. Upon Monk's
coming to London, the secluded members passed a vote to liberate
Pye, and at the Restoration he was appointed equerry to the King.
He died in 1701.--B.]
this morning came to desire his discharge from the Tower; but it could
not be granted. After that I went to Mrs. Jem, who I had promised to go
along with to her Aunt Wright's, but she was gone, so I went thither, and
after drinking a glass of sack I went back to Westminster Hall, and
meeting with Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who would needs take me home, where
Mr. Lucy, Burrell, and others dined, and after dinner I went home and to
Westminster Hall, where meeting Swan I went with him by water to the
Temple to our Counsel, and did give him a fee to make a motion to-morrow
in the Exchequer for Mr. Downing. Thence to Westminster Hall, where I
heard an action very finely pleaded between my Lord Dorset and some other
noble persons, his lady and other ladies of quality being here, and it
was about; L330 per annum, that was to be paid to a poor Spittal, which
was given by some of his predecessors; and given on his side. Thence
Swan and I to a drinking-house near Temple Bar, where while he wrote I
played on my flageolet till a dish of poached eggs was got ready for us,
which we eat, and so by coach home. I called at Mr. Harper's, who told
me how Monk had this day clapt up many of the Common-council, and that
the Parliament had voted that he should pull down their gates and
portcullisses, their posts and their chains, which he do intend to do,
and do lie in the City all night. I went home and got some ahlum to my
mouth, where I have the beginnings of a cancer, and had also a plaster to
my boil underneath my chin.
10th. In the morning I went to Mr. Swan, who took me to the Court of
Wards, where I saw the three Lords Commissioners sitting upon some cause
where Mr. Scobell was concerned, and my Lord Fountaine took him up very
roughly about some things that he said. After that we went to the
Exchequer, where the Barons were hearing of causes, and there I made
affidavit that Mr. Downing was gone into Holland by order of the Council
of State, and this affidavit I gave to Mr. Stevens our lawyer. Thence to
my office, where I got money of Mr. Hawly to pay the lawyer, and there
found Mr. Lenard, one of the Clerks of the Council, and took him to the
Swan and gave him his morning draft. Then home to dinner, and after that
to the Exchequer, where I heard all the afternoon a great many causes
before the Barons; in the end came ours, and Squib proved clearly by his
patent that the house and office did now belong to him. Our lawyer made
some kind of opposition, but to no purpose, and so the cause was found
against us, and the foreman of the jury brought in L10 damages, which the
whole Court cried shame of, and so he cried 12d. Thence I went home,
vexed about this business, and there I found Mr. Moore, and with him went
into London to Mr. Fage about the cancer in my mouth, which begins to
grow dangerous, who gave me something for it, and also told me what Monk
had done in the City, how he had pulled down the most part of the gates
and chains that they could break down, and that he was now gone back to
White Hall. The City look mighty blank, and cannot tell what in the
world to do; the Parliament having this day ordered that the Common-
council sit no more; but that new ones be chosen according to what
qualifications they shall give them. Thence I went and drank with Mr.
Moore at the Sugar Loaf by Temple Bar, where Swan and I were last night,
and so we parted. At home I found Mr. Hunt, who sat talking with me
awhile, and so to bed.
11th. This morning I lay long abed, and then to my office, where I read
all the morning my Spanish book of Rome. At noon I walked in the Hall,
where I heard the news of a letter from Monk, who was now gone into the
City again, and did resolve to stand for the sudden filling up of the
House, and it was very strange how the countenance of men in the Hall was
all changed with joy in half an hour's time. So I went up to the lobby,
where I saw the Speaker reading of the letter; and after it was read, Sir
A. Haselrigge came out very angry, and Billing--[The quaker mentioned
before on the 7th of this month.]--standing at the door, took him by the
arm, and cried, "Thou man, will thy beast carry thee no longer? thou
must fall!" The House presently after rose, and appointed to meet again
at three o'clock. I went then down into the Hall, where I met with Mr.
Chetwind, who had not dined no more than myself, and so we went toward
London, in our way calling at two or three shops, but could have no
dinner. At last, within Temple Bar, we found a pullet ready roasted, and
there we dined. After that he went to his office in Chancery Lane,
calling at the Rolls, where I saw the lawyers pleading. Then to his
office, where I sat in his study singing, while he was with his man (Mr.
Powell's son) looking after his business. Thence we took coach for the
City to Guildhall, where the Hall was full of people expecting Monk and
Lord Mayor to come thither, and all very joyfull. Here we stayed a great
while, and at last meeting with a friend of his we went to the 3 Tun
tavern and drank half a pint of wine, and not liking the wine we went to
an alehouse, where we met with company of this third man's acquaintance,
and there we drank a little. Hence I went alone to Guildhall to see
whether Monk was come again or no, and met with him coming out of the
chamber where he had been with the Mayor and Aldermen, but such a shout
I never heard in all my life, crying out, "God bless your Excellence."
Here I met with Mr. Lock, and took him to an alehouse, and left him there
to fetch Chetwind; when we were come together, Lock told us the substance
of the letter that went from Monk to the Parliament; wherein, after
complaints that he and his officers were put upon such offices against
the City as they could not do with any content or honour, that there are
many members now in the House that were of the late tyrannical Committee
of Safety. That Lambert and Vane are now in town, contrary to the vote
of Parliament. That there were many in the House that do press for new
oaths to be put upon men; whereas we have more cause to be sorry for the
many oaths that we have already taken and broken. That the late petition
of the fanatique people presented by Barebone, for the imposing of an
oath upon all sorts of people, was received by the House with thanks.
That therefore he [Monk] do desire that all writs for filling up of the
House be issued by Friday next, and that in the mean time, he would
retire into the City and only leave them guards for the security of the
House and Council. The occasion of this was the order that he had last
night to go into the City and disarm them, and take away their charter;
whereby he and his officers say that the House had a mind to put them
upon things that should make them odious; and so it would be in their
power to do what they would with them. He told us that they [the
Parliament] had sent Scott and Robinson to him [Monk] this afternoon, but
he would not hear them. And that the Mayor and Aldermen had offered him
their own houses for himself and his officers; and that his soldiers
would lack for nothing. And indeed I saw many people give the soldiers
drink and money, and all along in the streets cried, "God bless them!"
and extraordinary good words. Hence we went to a merchant's house hard
by, where Lock wrote a note and left, where I saw Sir Nich. Crisp, and so
we went to the Star Tavern (Monk being then at Benson's), where we dined
and I wrote a letter to my Lord from thence. In Cheapside there was a
great many bonfires, and Bow bells and all the bells in all the churches
as we went home were a-ringing. Hence we went homewards, it being about
ten o'clock. But the common joy that was every where to be seen! The
number of bonfires, there being fourteen between St. Dunstan's and Temple
Bar, and at Strand Bridge' I could at one view tell thirty-one fires. In
King-street seven or eight; and all along burning, and roasting, and
drinking for rumps. There being rumps tied upon sticks and carried up
and down. The butchers at the May Pole in the Strand rang a peal with
their knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate
Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and
another basting of it. Indeed it was past imagination, both the
greatness and the suddenness of it. At one end of the street you would
think there was a whole lane of fire, and so hot that we were fain to
keep still on the further side merely for heat. We came to the Chequers
at Charing Cross, where Chetwind wrote a letter and I gave him an account
of what I had wrote for him to write. Thence home and sent my letters to
the posthouse in London, and my wife and I (after Mr. Hunt was gone, whom
I found waiting at my house) went out again to show her the fires, and
after walking as far as the Exchange we returned and to bed.
12th. In the morning, it being Lord's day, Mr. Pierce came to me to
enquire how things go. We drank our morning draft together and thence to
White Hall, where Dr. Hones preached; but I staid not to hear, but
walking in the court, I heard that Sir Arth. Haselrigge was newly gone
into the City to Monk, and that Monk's wife removed from White Hall last
night. Home again, where at noon came according to my invitation my cos.
Thos. Pepys and his partner and dined with me, but before dinner we went
and took a walk round the park, it being a most pleasant day as ever I
saw. After dinner we three went into London together, where I heard that
Monk had been at Paul's in the morning, and the people had shouted much
at his coming out of the church. In the afternoon he was at a church in
Broad-street, whereabout he do lodge. But not knowing how to see him we
went and walked half a hour in Moorfields, which were full of people, it
being so fine a day. Here I took leave of them, and so to Paul's, where
I met with Mr. Kirton's' apprentice (the crooked fellow) and walked up
and down with him two hours, sometimes in the street looking for a tavern
to drink in, but not finding any open, we durst not knock; other times in
the churchyard, where one told me that he had seen the letter printed.
Thence to Mr. Turner's, where I found my wife, Mr. Edw. Pepys, and Roger'
and Mr. Armiger being there, to whom I gave as good an account of things
as I could, and so to my father's, where Charles Glascocke was overjoyed
to see how things are now; who told me the boys had last night broke
Barebone's windows. Hence home, and being near home we missed our maid,
and were at a great loss and went back a great way to find her, but when
we could not see her we went homewards and found her there, got before us
which we wondered at greatly. So to bed, where my wife and I had some
high words upon my telling her that I would fling the dog which her
brother gave her out of window if he [dirtied] the house any more.
13th. To my office till noon, thence home to dinner, my mouth being very
bad of the cancer and my left leg beginning to be sore again. After
dinner to see Mrs. Jem, and in the way met with Catan on foot in the
street and talked with her a little, so home and took my wife to my
father's. In my way I went to Playford's, and for two books that I had
and 6s. 6d. to boot I had my great book of songs which he sells always
for r 4s. At my father's I staid a while, while my mother sent her maid
Bess to Cheapside for some herbs to make a water for my mouth. Then I
went to see Mr. Cumberland, and after a little stay with him I returned,
and took my wife home, where after supper to bed. This day Monk was
invited to White Hall to dinner by my Lords; not seeming willing, he
would not come. I went to Mr. Fage from my father's, who had been this
afternoon with Monk, who do promise to live and die with the City, and
for the honour of the City; and indeed the City is very open-handed to
the soldiers, that they are most of them drunk all day, and have money
given them. He did give me something for my mouth which I did use this
night.
14th. Called out in the morning by Mr. Moore, whose voice my wife
hearing in my dressing-chamber with me, got herself ready, and came down
and challenged him for her valentine, this being the day.
[The practice of choosing valentines was very general at this time,
but some of the best examples of the custom are found in this
Diary.]
To Westminster Hall, there being many new remonstrances and declarations
from many counties to Monk and the City, and one coming from the North
from Sir Thomas Fairfax. Hence I took him to the Swan and gave him his
morning draft. So to my office, where Mr. Hill of Worcestershire came to
see me and my partner in our office, with whom we went to Will's to
drink. At noon I went home and so to Mr. Crew's, but they had dined, and
so I went to see Mrs. Jem where I stayed a while, and home again where I
stayed an hour or two at my lute, and so forth to Westminster Hall, where
I heard that the Parliament hath now changed the oath so much talked of
to a promise; and that among other qualifications for the members that
are to be chosen, one is, that no man, nor the son of any man that hath
been in arms during the life of the father, shall be capable of being
chosen to sit in Parliament. To Will's, where like a fool I staid and
lost 6d. at cards. So home, and wrote a letter to my Lord by the post.
So after supper to bed. This day, by an order of the House, Sir H. Vane
was sent out of town to his house in Lincolnshire.
15th. Called up in the morning by Captain Holland and Captain Cuttance,
and with them to Harper's, thence to my office, thence with Mr. Hill of
Worcestershire to Will's, where I gave him a letter to Nan Pepys, and
some merry pamphlets against the Rump to carry to her into the country.
So to Mr. Crew's, where the dining room being full, Mr. Walgrave and I
dined below in the buttery by ourselves upon a good dish of buttered
salmon. Thence to Hering' the merchant about my Lord's Worcester money
and back to Paul's Churchyard, where I staid reading in Fuller's History
of the Church of England an hour or two, and so to my father's, where Mr.
Hill came to me and I gave him direction what to do at Worcester about
the money. Thence to my Lady Wright's and gave her a letter from my Lord
privily. So to Mrs. Jem and sat with her, who dined at Mr. Crew's
to-day, and told me that there was at her coming away at least forty
gentlemen (I suppose members that were secluded, for Mr. Walgrave told me
that there were about thirty met there the last night) came dropping in
one after another thither. Thence home and wrote into the country
against to-morrow by the carrier and so to bed. At my father's I heard
how my cousin Kate Joyce had a fall yesterday from her horse and had some
hurt thereby. No news to-day, but all quiet to see what the Parliament
will do about the issuing of the writs to-morrow for filling up of the
House, according to Monk's desire.
16th, In the morning at my lute. Then came Shaw and Hawly, and I gave
them their morning draft at my house. So to my office, where I wrote by
the carrier to my Lord and sealed my letter at Will's, and gave it old
East to carry it to the carrier's, and to take up a box of china oranges
and two little barrels of scallops at my house, which Captain Cuttance
sent to me for my Lord. Here I met with Osborne and with Shaw and
Spicer, and we went to the Sun Tavern in expectation of a dinner, where
we had sent us only two trenchers-full of meat, at which we were very
merry, while in came Mr. Wade and his friend Capt. Moyse (who told us of
his hopes to get an estate merely for his name's sake), and here we staid
till seven at night, I winning a quart of sack of Shaw that one
trencherfull that was sent us was all lamb and he that it was veal. I by
having but 3d. in my pocket made shift to spend no more, whereas if I had
had more I had spent more as the rest did, so that I see it is an
advantage to a man to carry little in his pocket. Home, and after
supper, and a little at my flute, I went to bed.
17th. In the morning Tom that was my Lord's footboy came to see me and
had 10s. of me of the money which I have to keep of his. So that now I
have but 35s. more of his. Then came Mr. Hills the instrument maker, and
I consulted with him about the altering my lute and my viall. After that
I went into my study and did up my accounts, and found that I am about;
L40 beforehand in the world, and that is all. So to my office and from
thence brought Mr. Hawly home with me to dinner, and after dinner wrote a
letter to Mr. Downing about his business and gave it Hawly, and so went
to Mr. Gunning's to his weekly fast, and after sermon, meeting there with
Monsieur L'Impertinent, we went and walked in the park till it was dark.
I played on my pipe at the Echo, and then drank a cup of ale at Jacob's.
So to Westminster Hall, and he with me, where I heard that some of the
members of the House were gone to meet with some of the secluded members
and General Monk in the City. Hence we went to White Hall, thinking to
hear more news, where I met with Mr. Hunt, who told me how Monk had sent
for all his goods that he had here into the City; and yet again he told
me, that some of the members of the House had this day laid in firing
into their lodgings at White Hall for a good while, so that we are at a
great stand to think what will become of things, whether Monk will stand
to the Parliament or no. Hence Mons. L'Impertinent and I to Harper's,
and there drank a cup or two to the King, and to his fair sister Frances
--[Frances Butler, the great beauty, who is sometimes styled. la belle
Boteler.]--good health, of whom we had much discourse of her not being
much the worse for the small pox, which she had this last summer. So
home and to bed. This day we are invited to my uncle Fenner's wedding
feast, but went not, this being the 27th year.
18th. A great while at my vial and voice, learning to sing "Fly boy, fly
boy," without book. So to my office, where little to do. In the Hall I
met with Mr. Eglin and one Looker, a famous gardener, servant to my Lord
Salsbury, and among other things the gardener told a strange passage in
good earnest . . . . Home to dinner, and then went to my Lord's
lodgings to my turret there and took away most of my books, and sent them
home by my maid. Thither came Capt. Holland to me who took me to the
Half Moon tavern and Mr. Southorne, Blackburne's clerk. Thence he took
me to the Mitre in Fleet Street, where we heard (in a room over the music
room) very plainly through the ceiling. Here we parted and I to Mr.
Wotton's, and with him to an alehouse and drank while he told me a great
many stories of comedies that he had formerly seen acted, and the names
of the principal actors, and gave me a very good account of it. Thence
to Whitehall, where I met with Luellin and in the clerk's chamber wrote a
letter to my Lord. So home and to bed. This day two soldiers were
hanged in the Strand for their late mutiny at Somerset-house.
19th (Lord's day). Early in the morning I set my books that I brought
home yesterday up in order in my study. Thence forth to Mr. Harper's to
drink a draft of purle,--[Purl is hot beer flavoured with wormwood or
other aromatic herbs. The name is also given to hot beer flavoured with
gin, sugar, and ginger.]--whither by appointment Monsieur L'Impertinent,
who did intend too upon my desire to go along with me to St.
Bartholomew's, to hear one Mr. Sparks, but it raining very hard we went
to Mr. Gunning's and heard an excellent sermon, and speaking of the
character that the Scripture gives of Ann the mother of the blessed
Virgin, he did there speak largely in commendation of widowhood, and not
as we do to marry two or three wives or husbands, one after another.
Here I met with Mr. Moore, and went home with him to dinner, where he
told me the discourse that happened between the secluded members and the
members of the House, before Monk last Friday. How the secluded said,
that they did not intend by coming in to express revenge upon these men,
but only to meet and dissolve themselves, and only to issue writs for a
free Parliament. He told me how Haselrigge was afraid to have the candle
carried before him, for fear that the people seeing him, would do him
hurt; and that he is afraid to appear in the City. That there is great
likelihood that the secluded members will come in, and so Mr. Crew and my
Lord are likely to be great men, at which I was very glad. After diner
there was many secluded members come in to Mr. Crew, which, it being the
Lord's day, did make Mr. Moore believe that there was something
extraordinary in the business. Hence home and brought my wife to Mr.
Mossum's to hear him, and indeed he made a very good sermon, but only too
eloquent for a pulpit. Here Mr. L'Impertinent helped me to a seat.
After sermon to my father's; and fell in discourse concerning our going
to Cambridge the next week with my brother John. To Mrs. Turner where
her brother, Mr. Edward Pepys, was there, and I sat a great while talking
of public business of the times with him. So to supper to my Father's,
all supper talking of John's going to Cambridge. So home, and it raining
my wife got my mother's French mantle and my brother John's hat, and so
we went all along home and to bed.
20th. In the morning at my lute. Then to my office, where my partner
and I made even our balance. Took him home to dinner with me, where my
brother John came to dine with me. After dinner I took him to my study
at home and at my Lord's, and gave him some books and other things
against his going to Cambridge. After he was gone I went forth to
Westminster Hall, where I met with Chetwind, Simons, and Gregory. And
with them to Marsh's at Whitehall to drink, and staid there a pretty
while reading a pamphlet well writ and directed to General Monk, in
praise of the form of monarchy which was settled here before the wars.
[This pamphlet is among the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts
(British Museum), and dated in MS. this same day, February 20th--
"A Plea for Limited Monarchy as it was established in this Nation
before the late War. In an Humble Address to his Excellency General
Monck. By a Zealot for the good old Laws of his Country, before any
Faction or Caprice, with additions." "An Eccho to the Plea for
Limited Monarchy, &c.," was published soon afterwards.]
They told me how the Speaker Lenthall do refuse to sign the writs for
choice of new members in the place of the excluded; and by that means the
writs could not go out to-day. In the evening Simons and I to the Coffee
Club, where nothing to do only I heard Mr. Harrington, and my Lord of
Dorset and another Lord, talking of getting another place as the Cockpit,
and they did believe it would come to something. After a small debate
upon the question whether learned or unlearned subjects are the best the
Club broke up very poorly, and I do not think they will meet any more.
Hence with Vines, &c. to Will's, and after a pot or two home, and so to
bed.
21st. In the morning going out I saw many soldiers going towards
Westminster, and was told that they were going to admit the secluded
members again. So I to Westminster Hall, and in Chancery Row I saw about
twenty of them who had been at White Hall with General Monk, who came
thither this morning, and made a speech to them, and recommended to them
a Commonwealth, and against Charles Stuart. They came to the House and
went in one after another, and at last the Speaker came. But it is very
strange that this could be carried so private, that the other members of
the House heard nothing of all this, till they found them in the House,
insomuch that the soldiers that stood there to let in the secluded
members, they took for such as they had ordered to stand there to hinder
their coming in. Mr. Prin came with an old basket-hilt sword on, and had
a great many great shouts upon his going into the Hall. They sat till
noon, and at their coming out Mr. Crew saw me, and bid me come to his
house, which I did, and he would have me dine with him, which I did; and
he very joyful told me that the House had made General Monk, General of
all the Forces in England, Scotland, and Ireland; and that upon Monk's
desire, for the service that Lawson had lately done in pulling down the
Committee of Safety, he had the command of the Sea for the time being.
He advised me to send for my Lord forthwith, and told me that there is no
question that, if he will, he may now be employed again; and that the
House do intend to do nothing more than to issue writs, and to settle a
foundation for a free Parliament. After dinner I back to Westminster
Hall with him in his coach. Here I met with Mr. Lock and Pursell,
Masters of Music,--[Henry Purcell, father of the celebrated composer, was
gentleman of the Chapel Royal.]--and with them to the Coffee House, into
a room next the water, by ourselves, where we spent an hour or two till
Captain Taylor came to us, who told us, that the House had voted the
gates of the City to be made up again, and the members of the City that
are in prison to be set at liberty; and that Sir G. Booth's' case be
brought into the House to-morrow. Here we had variety of brave Italian
and Spanish songs, and a canon for eight voices, which Mr. Lock had
lately made on these words: "Domine salvum fac Regem," an admirable
thing. Here also Capt. Taylor began a discourse of something that he had
lately writ about Gavelkind in answer to one that had wrote a piece upon
the same subject; and indeed discovered a great deal of study in
antiquity in his discourse. Here out of the window it was a most
pleasant sight to see the City from one end to the other with a glory
about it, so high was the light of the bonfires, and so thick round the
City, and the bells rang everywhere. Hence home and wrote to my Lord,
afterwards came down and found Mr. Hunt (troubled at this change) and Mr.
Spong, who staid late with me singing of a song or two, and so parted.
My wife not very well, went to bed before. This morning I met in the
Hall with Mr. Fuller, of Christ's, and told him of my design to go to
Cambridge, and whither. He told me very freely the temper of Mr.
Widdrington, how he did oppose all the fellows in the College, and that
there was a great distance between him and the rest, at which I was very
sorry, for that he told me he feared it would be little to my brother's
advantage to be his pupil.
22nd. In the morning intended to have gone to Mr. Crew's to borrow some
money, but it raining I forbore, and went to my Lord's lodging and look
that all things were well there. Then home and sang a song to my viall,
so to my office and to Will's, where Mr. Pierce found me out, and told me
that he would go with me to Cambridge, where Colonel Ayre's regiment, to
which he was surgeon, lieth. Walking in the Hall, I saw Major-General
Brown, who had along time been banished by the Rump, but now with his
beard overgrown, he comes abroad and sat in the House. To my father's to
dinner, where nothing but a small dish of powdered beef--[Boiled salt
beef. To powder was to sprinkle with salt, and the powdering tub a
vessel in which meat was salted.]--and dish of carrots; they being all
busy to get things ready for my brother John to go to-morrow. After
dinner, my wife staying there, I went to Mr. Crew's, and got; L5 of Mr.
Andrews, and so to Mrs. Jemimah, who now hath her instrument about her
neck, and indeed is infinitely, altered, and holds her head upright.
I paid her, maid 40s. of the money that I have received of Mr. Andrews.
Hence home to my study, where I only wrote thus much of this day's
passages to this * and so out again. To White Hall, where I met with
Will. Simons and Mr. Mabbot at Marsh's, who told me how the House had
this day voted that the gates of the City should be set up at the cost of
the State. And that Major-General Brown's being proclaimed a traitor be
made void, and several other things of that nature. Home for my lanthorn
and so to my father's, where I directed John what books to put for
Cambridge. After that to supper, where my Uncle Fenner and my Aunt, The.
Turner, and Joyce, at a brave leg of veal roasted, and were very merry
against John's going to Cambridge. I observed this day how abominably
Barebone's windows are broke again last night. At past 9 o'clock my wife
and I went home.
23rd. Thursday, my birthday, now twenty-seven years. A pretty fair
morning, I rose and after writing a while in my study I went forth. To
my office, where I told Mr. Hawly of my thoughts to go out of town
to-morrow. Hither Mr. Fuller comes to me and my Uncle Thomas too, thence
I took them to drink, and so put off my uncle. So with Mr. Fuller home
to my house, where he dined with me, and he told my wife and me a great
many stories of his adversities, since these troubles, in being forced to
travel in the Catholic countries, &c. He shewed me his bills, but I had
not money to pay him. We parted, and I to Whitehall, where I was to see
my horse which Mr. Garthwayt lends me to-morrow. So home, where Mr.
Pierce comes to me about appointing time and place where and when to meet
tomorrow. So to Westminster Hall, where, after the House rose, I met
with Mr. Crew, who told me that my Lord was chosen by 73 voices, to be
one of the Council of State. Mr. Pierpoint had the most, 101, and
himself the next, too. He brought me in the coach home. He and Mr.
Anslow being in it. I back to the Hall, and at Mrs. Michell's shop staid
talking a great while with her and my Chaplain, Mr. Mumford, and drank a
pot or two of ale on a wager that Mr. Prin is not of the Council. Home
and wrote to my Lord the news of the choice of the Council by the post,
and so to bed.
24th. I rose very early, and taking horse at Scotland Yard, at Mr.
Garthwayt's stable, I rode to Mr. Pierces, who rose, and in a quarter of
an hour, leaving his wife in bed (with whom Mr. Lucy methought was very
free as she lay in bed), we both mounted, and so set forth about seven of
the clock, the day and the way very foul. About Ware we overtook Mr.
Blayton, brother-in-law to Dick Vines, who went thenceforwards with us,
and at Puckeridge we baited, where we had a loin of mutton fried, and
were very merry, but the way exceeding bad from Ware thither. Then up
again and as far as Foulmer, within six miles of Cambridge, my mare being
almost tired: here we lay at the Chequer, playing at cards till supper,
which was a breast of veal roasted. I lay with Mr. Pierce, who we left
here the next morning upon his going to Hinchingbroke to speak with my
Lord before his going to London, and we two come to Cambridge by eight
o'clock in the morning.
25th. To the Falcon, in the Petty Cury,
[The old Falcon Inn is on the south side of Petty Cury. It is now
divided into three houses, one of which is the present Falcon Inn,
the other two being houses with shops. The Falcon yard is but
little changed. From the size of the whole building it must have
been the principal inn of the town. The room said to have been used
by Queen Elizabeth for receptions retains its original form.-M. B.
The Petty Cury. The derivation of the name of this street, so well
known to all Cambridge men, is a matter of much dispute among
antiquaries. (See "Notes and Queries.") The most probable meaning
of it is the Parva Cokeria, or little cury, where the cooks of the
town lived, just as "The Poultry," where the Poulters (now
Poulterers) had their shops. "The Forme of Cury," a Roll of Antient
English Cookery, was compiled by the principal cooks of that "best
and royalest viander of all Christian Kings," Richard the Second,
and edited with a copious Index and Glossary by Dr. Samuel Pegge,
1780.--M. B.]
where we found my father and brother very well. After dressing myself,
about ten o'clock, my father, brother, and I to Mr. Widdririgton, at
Christ's College, who received us very civilly, and caused my brother to
be admitted, while my father, he, and I, sat talking. After that done,
we take leave. My father and brother went to visit some friends,
Pepys's, scholars in Cambridge, while I went to Magdalene College,
to Mr. Hill, with whom I found Mr. Zanchy, Burton, and Hollins, and was
exceeding civilly received by them. I took leave on promise to sup with
them, and to my Inn again, where I dined with some others that were there
at an ordinary. After dinner my brother to the College, and my father
and I to my Cozen Angier's, to see them, where Mr. Fairbrother came to
us. Here we sat a while talking. My father he went to look after his
things at the carrier's, and my brother's chamber, while Mr. Fairbrother,
my Cozen Angier, and Mr. Zanchy, whom I met at Mr. Merton's shop (where I
bought 'Elenchus Motuum', having given my former to Mr. Downing when he
was here), to the Three Tuns, where we drank pretty hard and many healths
to the King, &c., till it began to be darkish: then we broke up and I and
Mr. Zanchy went to Magdalene College, where a very handsome supper at Mr.
Hill's chambers, I suppose upon a club among them, where in their
discourse I could find that there was nothing at all left of the old
preciseness in their discourse, specially on Saturday nights. And Mr.
Zanchy told me that there was no such thing now-a-days among them at any
time. After supper and some discourse then to my Inn, where I found my
father in his chamber, and after some discourse, and he well satisfied
with this day's work, we went to bed, my brother lying with me, his
things not being come by the carrier that he could not lie in the
College.
26th (Sunday). My brother went to the College to Chapel. My father and
I went out in the morning, and walked out in the fields behind King's
College, and in King's College Chapel Yard, where we met with Mr.
Fairbrother, who took us to Botolph's Church, where we heard Mr.
Nicholas, of Queen's College, who I knew in my time to be Tripos,
[The Tripos or Bachelor of the Stool, who made the speech on Ash
Wednesday, when the senior Proctor called him up and exhorted him to
be witty but modest withal. Their speeches, especially after the
Restoration, tended to be boisterous, and even scurrilous.
"26 Martii 1669. Da Hollis, fellow of Clare Hall is to make a
publick Recantation in the Bac. Schools for his Tripos speeche."
The Tripos verses still come out, and are circulated on Ash
Wednesday. The list of successful candidates for honours is printed
on the same paper, hence the term "Tripos" applied to it.]
with great applause, upon this text, "For thy commandments are broad."
Thence my father and I to Mr. Widdrington's chamber to dinner, where he
used us very courteously again, and had two Fellow Commoners at table
with him, and Mr. Pepper, a Fellow of the College. After dinner, while
we sat talking by the fire, Mr. Pierces man came to tell me that his
master was come to town, so my father and I took leave, and found Mr.
Pierce at our Inn, who told us that he had lost his journey, for my Lord
was gone from Hinchingbroke to London on Thursday last, at which I was a
little put to a stand. So after a cup of drink I went to Magdalene
College to get the certificate of the College for my brother's entrance
there, that he might save his year. I met with Mr. Burton in the Court,
who took me to Mr. Pechell's chamber, where he was and Mr. Zanchy. By
and by, Mr. Pechell and Sanchy and I went out, Pechell to Church, Sanchy
and I to the Rose Tavern, where we sat and drank till sermon done, and
then Mr. Pechell came to us, and we three sat drinking the King's and his
whole family's health till it began to be dark. Then we parted; Sanchy
and I went to my lodging, where we found my father and Mr. Pierce at the
door, and I took them both and Mr. Blayton to the Rose Tavern, and there
gave them a quart or two of wine, not telling them that we had been there
before. After this we broke up, and my father, Mr. Zanchy, and I to my
Cosen Angier to supper, where I caused two bottles of wine to be carried
from the Rose Tavern; that was drunk up, and I had not the wit to let
them know at table that it was I that paid for them, and so I lost my
thanks for them. After supper Mr. Fairbrother, who supped there with us,
took me into a room by himself, and shewed me a pitiful copy of verses
upon Mr. Prinn which he esteemed very good, and desired that I would get
them given to Mr. Prinn, in hopes that he would get him some place for
it, which I said I would do, but did laugh in my sleeve to think of his
folly, though indeed a man that has always expressed great civility to
me. After that we sat down and talked; I took leave of all my friends,
and so to my Inn, where after I had wrote a note and enclosed the
certificate to Mr. Widdrington, I bade good night to my father, and John
went to bed, but I staid up a little while, playing the fool with the
lass of the house at the door of the chamber, and so to bed.
27th. Up by four o'clock, and after I was ready, took my leave of my
father, whom I left in bed, and the same of my brother John, to whom I
gave 10s. Mr. Blayton and I took horse and straight to Saffron Walden,
where at the White Hart, we set up our horses, and took the master of the
house to shew us Audley End House, who took us on foot through the park,
and so to the house, where the housekeeper shewed us all the house, in
which the stateliness of the ceilings, chimney-pieces, and form of the
whole was exceedingly worth seeing. He took us into the cellar, where we
drank most admirable drink, a health to the King. Here I played on my
flageolette, there being an excellent echo. He shewed us excellent
pictures; two especially, those of the four Evangelists and Henry VIII.
After that I gave the man 2s. for his trouble, and went back again. In
our going, my landlord carried us through a very old hospital or
almshouse, where forty poor people was maintained; a very old foundation;
and over the chimney in the mantelpiece was an inscription in brass:
"Orate pre anima Thomae Bird," &c.; and the poor box also was on the same
chimney-piece, with an iron door and locks to it, into which I put 6d.
They brought me a draft of their drink in a brown bowl, tipt with silver,
which I drank off, and at the bottom was a picture of the Virgin and the
child in her arms, done in silver. So we went to our Inn, and after
eating of something, and kissed the daughter of the house, she being very
pretty, we took leave, and so that night, the road pretty good, but the
weather rainy to Ep[p]ing, where we sat and played a game at cards, and
after supper, and some merry talk with a plain bold maid of the house, we
went to bed.
28th. Up in the morning, and had some red herrings to our breakfast,
while my boot-heel was a-mending, by the same token the boy left the hole
as big as it was before. Then to horse, and for London through the
forest, where we found the way good, but only in one path, which we kept
as if we had rode through a canal all the way. We found the shops all
shut, and the militia of the red regiment in arms at the Old Exchange,
among whom I found and spoke to Nich. Osborne, who told me that it was a
thanksgiving-day through the City for the return of the Parliament. At
Paul's I light, Mr. Blayton holding my horse, where I found Dr. Reynolds'
in the pulpit, and General Monk there, who was to have a great
entertainment at Grocers' Hall. So home, where my wife and all well.
Shifted myself,--[Changed his dress.]-- and so to Mr. Crew's, and then to
Sir Harry Wright's, where I found my Lord at dinner, who called for me
in, and was glad to see me. There was at dinner also Mr. John Wright and
his lady, a very pretty lady, Alderman Allen's daughter. I dined here
with Will. Howe, and after dinner went out with him to buy a hat (calling
in my way and saw my mother), which we did at the Plough in Fleet Street
by my Lord's direction, but not as for him. Here we met with Mr. Pierce
a little before, and he took us to the Greyhound Tavern, and gave us a
pint of wine, and as the rest of the seamen do, talked very high again of
my Lord. After we had done about the hat we went homewards, he to Mr.
Crew's and I to Mrs. Jem, and sat with her a little. Then home, where I
found Mr. Sheply, almost drunk, come to see me, afterwards Mr. Spong
comes, with whom I went up and played with him a Duo or two, and so good
night. I was indeed a little vexed with Mr. Sheply, but said nothing,
about his breaking open of my study at my house, merely to give him the
key of the stair door at my Lord's, which lock he might better have broke
than mine.
29th. To my office, and drank at Will's with Mr. Moore, who told me how
my Lord is chosen General at Sea by the Council, and that it is thought
that Monk will be joined with him therein. Home and dined, after dinner
my wife and I by water to London, and thence to Herring's, the merchant
in Coleman Street, about L50 which he promises I shall have on Saturday
next. So to my mother's, and then to Mrs. Turner's, of whom I took
leave, and her company, because she was to go out of town to-morrow with
Mr. Pepys into Norfolk. Here my cosen Norton gave me a brave cup of
metheglin,
[A liquor made of honey and water, boiled and fermenting. By 12
Charles II. cap. 23, a grant of certain impositions upon beer, ale,
and other liquors, a duty of 1d. per gallon was laid upon "all
metheglin or mead."]
the first I ever drank. To my mother's and supped there.
She shewed me a letter to my father from my uncle inviting him to come to
Brampton while he is in the country. So home and to bed. This day my
Lord came to the House, the first time since he came to town; but he had
been at the Council before.
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Dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else
Do press for new oaths to be put upon men
Hanging jack to roast birds on
Kiss my Parliament, instead of "Kiss my [rump]"
Mottoes inscribed on rings was of Roman origin
My wife and I had some high words
Petition against hackney coaches
Playing the fool with the lass of the house
Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves
Some merry talk with a plain bold maid of the house
To the Swan and drank our morning draft
Wedding for which the posy ring was required
Went to bed with my head not well by my too much drinking to-day
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