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Sunday 2 September 1660

(Sunday). To Westminster, my Lord being gone before my coming to chapel. I and Mr. Sheply told out my money, and made even for my Privy Seal fees and gratuity money, &c., to this day between my Lord and me. After that to chappell, where Dr. Fern, a good honest sermon upon “The Lord is my shield.” After sermon a dull anthem, and so to my Lord’s (he dining abroad) and dined with Mr. Sheply. So, to St. Margarett’s, and heard a good sermon upon the text “Teach us the old way,” or something like it, wherein he ran over all the new tenets in policy and religion, which have brought us into all our late divisions. From church to Mrs. Crisp’s (having sent Will Hewer home to tell my wife that I could not come home to-night because of my Lord’s going out early to-morrow morning), where I sat late, and did give them a great deal of wine, it being a farewell cup to Laud Crisp. I drank till the daughter began to be very loving to me and kind, and I fear is not so good as she should be. To my Lord’s, and to bed with Mr. Sheply.

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  • to this day between my Lord and I
    per L&M. Wheatley appears to be cleaning up SP’s grammar.

  • gratuity mony
    L&M footnote this as “The gratuity for his service on the voyage to Holland.” This was mentioned most recently on the 14th of August 1660. http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/08/14/index.php

  • farewell cup to Laud Crisp.
    Per L&M: “The Crisps’ son, now entering Sandwich’s service” Coincidently starting a great tradition in fast food.

  • “and I fear is not so good as she should be”
    Given Sam’s previous enthusiastic embracing and even pursuit of a little slap-and-tickle, his apprehension here is noteworthy. Since I understand he will be merrily free with many other ladies in days yet to come, it seems likely to be either that (a) she’s too young to be considered a woman, or (b) she’s actually willing to *sleep* with him, whereas the normal alehouse banter is understood by all to be limited to the odd feel or kiss.

  • Picking up on Paul Brewster’s comment about the fast food connection starting with Sandwich and Laud Crisp, I can’t help noticing that if we add Capt Thomas Bun (24 Aug) and Elizabeth Pye (8 Aug) we will get a grotesque buffet, rich in carbohydrates.

  • Here we go again.

  • If we follow the links at the bottom of the daughter’s biography, we find that Pepys drank with her and her friends in Harper’s on 20 August, and slept in her family’s house in March.

  • Mores.
    What was known (understood) about transmission of VDs at the time?

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