… see her mother; and I in another, being afraid, at this busy … n in a coach, as if I were idle, towards The. Turner's; but m … rle writes that all is safe as to the great ships against any … to great joy.1 When I come to Sir W: Coventry's chamber, I find him abroad; but his clerk, Powell, … l me that ill newes is come to Court of the Dutch breaking the … up the back-stairs, I did hear some lacquies speaking of sad … he cried, and would not go into the house for fear of being see … W. Turner's, where I met Roger Pepys, newly come out of the country. He and I talked aside a little, he offering a ma … Crowland. More talk I had, and shall have more with him, but my mind is so sad and head full of this ill news that I cannot now set it down. A short visit h … ake; for the newes istrue, that the Dutch have broke the chaine a … and 9 more.
… see Turner hanged, I to the office, where we sat all the mor … flock in the City, I enquired, and found that Turner was not yet hanged. And so I went among them to Leadenhall Street, a … he lived. And there I got for a shilling to stand upon the wh … tenance to the end: I was sorry to see him. It was believed t … e in the street. So I home all in a sweat, and dined by mysel … to Sir W. Rider and I telling us that the King is concerned in it, we took occasion to fl … ers of Tangier, and I think it will be best for us to continu … nt none. After that I had good discourse with a pretty young … Burnett did tell me how poorly the sheriffs did endeavour to ge … a due to them, and not to give it to Mr. Tryan, the true owner, but ruled against them, to their and 2 more.
… after drinking, and I observing Mr. Povy's being mightily mor … to Syon, and there I took water, in our way he discoursing o … e of the Court, and how it minds nothing else, and I saying that that would leave the King shortly if he did not leave it, he told me "No," for the King … ver leave him. Here I took boat (leaving him there) and down to the Tower, where I hear the Duke of Albemarle is, and I to Lumbard Streete, but can get no mone … the Exchange, which is very empty, God knows! and but mean people there. The newes f … e sheep. But, Lord! how Colvill talks of the businesse of publi … e a madman, and yet I doubt all true; that nobody minds it, but that the Kin … out the prizes, but I think knowsnot my relation to him. Here I endeavoured to satisfy all I could, people about Bills of Exchange from Tangier, but it is only with good words, for money I have not, nor can get. God knows what will become of all the King's matt … ooked after. Thence I walked to the Tower; but, Lord! how empty the streets are and melancholy, s … tories overheard as I walk, every body talking of this dead, … and 18 more.
… ting up my new bed, I find my wife sitting sad in the dining … me understand that I was with Deb. yesterday, which, thinkin … ever to understand, I did a while deny, but at last did, for … is wicked business, I did confess all, and above stairs in our bed chamber there I did endure the sorrow of her threats an … make all the world know of it. So with most perfect confusion o … agony in the world I did pass this afternoon, fearing that i … an end; but at last I did call for W. Hewer, who I was forced to make privy now to all, an … [and] obtained what I could not, that she would be pacified upon condition that I would give it under my hand never to se … eak with Deb, while I live, as I did before with Pierce and Knepp, and which I did also, God knows, promise for Deb. too, but I have the confidence to deny it to the p … y resolved, if ever I can master this bout, never to give her occasion while I live of more trouble of this or any oth and 5 more.
… e new Exchange, and I to see Dr. Williams, and spoke with him … o my brother's, who I find very careful now-a-days, more than … makes me doubt lest I myself, with all my innocence during th … the Exchequer; but, I hope, God will provide for me. This day … ous Lieutenant, but I have not time to see it, nor could stay to see m … had no office, but I took my wife by water and so spent the … k order to let them know that she hath yet for the payment of he … but 4,000l., which is a notable act of spirit, and I believe istrue.
… him in the Navy as I am; which, though I believe it istrue, yet I am much pleased to have that character … success of it. But I perceive they do think that Iknow too much, and shall impose upon whomeve … hat Sir T. Clifford is inclined well enough to me, and Sir T. Osborne; by what I have lately done, I suppose. This news do a little trouble me, but yet, when I consider it, it is but what I ought not to be much troubled for, considering my … work, and this when I think of and talk with my wife do make … navy more with him, I away and to the Office, where all the m … g last sick, which, I think, is two or three months; and I think will be the last that he will be … hursday next, which I am glad of, I am sure; for he is a very villain. At noon home to dinner, … n, troubled at what I have this morning heard, at least my mi …
Up, and I to Captain Cocke's, where he and I did discourse of our business that we are to go abo … ood, we parted, and I to White Hall, where missing of the Com … rs of the Treasury, I to the Commissioners of Accounts, where I was forced to stay two hours before I was called in, and when come in did tak … hould ask me, which is a great power; I doubt more than the Act do, or as some … rize-goods, wherein I did answer them as well as I could, answer them in everything the ju … ing myself to that. I do perceive at last, that, that they di … ult to me was, that I did buy goods upon my Lord Sandwich's d … 's allowance, which is a thing I will own, and doubt not to justify myself in. That that vexed m … f the watermen that I employed at Greenwich, who I did think did discover the goods sent f … at information; but I think that they can do me no hurt, at t … and 29 more.
… Sir R. Slingsby and I went to Sir R. Ford's to see his house, … after dinner he and I alone in my chamber had a great deal of talk, and I find that unless my father can forbear … where else, and so Iknownot what to do with him. After this I went with him to my mother, and there told her how things do fall out short of our expectations, which I did (though it be true) to make her leave off her spending, which I find she is nowadays very free in, building upon what is left to us by my uncle to bear her out … bles me much. While I was here word is brought that my aunt Fenner is exceeding ill, and that my mother is sent for presently to come to her: also … h very ill himself, is this day gone to the country to his bro … hn Glassecocke, who is a-dying there. Home.
… amber, where he and I did draw up a letter to Sir G. Carteret … his accounts, which I drew up and it proved very well, but I am pleased to see with what secret cunn … own to me, which he is now forced by an accident to communicat … the Controller has not wherewith to betray him. About this all … , which holds to be true, that the Portuguese did let in the Spa … h now and yesterday I was afraid to have him seen by Sir G. C … ease his doubt that I am of a plot with Creed in the business … some years, though not many since, from the French King, it is foretold that the Spaniards should come … he Spaniards, which is very strange but true. So late at the office, and then home t … d to bed. This noon I received a letter from the country from and 6 more.
… to tell me that as I did desire of him the other day so he d … h another, and that I should find him in all things as kind a … se me mightily, and I am resolved by no means ever to lose him again if I can. He told me that he did still obser … t Street and thence I by another coach to my Lord Sandwich's, and there I did present him Mr. Barlow's "Terella," … by other discourse I have reason to think that he isnot at all, as I feared he would be, discontented agains … will work upon him. I left him in good humour, and I to White Hall, to the Duke of York and … e to Newcastle, and I do hope that in all my three places whi … hopes and supports I may not now fear any thing, but with care, whic … the Lord's blessing I will never more neglect, I don't doubt but to keep myself up with … and Sir G. Carteret I place my greatest hopes, and it pleased and 8 more.
… comes up Nell, and I did play with her ... [and touch her be … and thing, but did not kiss her. – L&M] So being ready I to White Hall by water, and there to th … e wait, and here it is every body's discourse that the Parliament is ordered to meet the 25th of July, being … hich every creature is glad of. But it is pretty to consider how, walking to the Old Swan from my house, I met Sir Thomas Harvy, whom, asking the … , he told me it was true, and they would certainly make a great rout among us. I answered, I did not care for my part, though I was ruined, so that the Commonwealth mi … . He answered, that is a good one, in faith; for you know yourself to be secure, in being necessa … r my part, says he, I must look to be removed; but then, says he, I doubt not but I shall have amends made me; for all the world knows upon what terms I come in; which is a saying that a wise man would not unnecessarily have said, I think, to any body, meaning his buying … . So we parted, and I to White Hall, as I said before, and there met with Sir Ste … ent's meeting. Here I staid for an order for my Tangier money … a time, but it was not accepted of, and so he thinks himself not obliged, and would do what was fit for … and 11 more.
… om Sir G. Carteret, I by water over to Southwarke, and so wal … Westminster, where I would have gone into the Swan; but the … and the girl could not let me in, and so to Wilkinson's in Kin … Court, where sermon not yet done I met with Brisband; and he tells me, fir … ay, it seems, after I was gone away, and was voted a miscarri … general that there is great looking after places, upon a pres … ke of the Acts, and I wish he had it, so I were well and quietly rid of it; for I am weary of this kind of trouble, having, I think, enough whereon to support myself … nd by, chapel done, I met with Sir W. Coventry, and he and I walked awhile together in the Matted Ga … ay: that the matter is found, in general, a miscarriage, but n … named; and so there is no great matter to our prejudice yet, t … and 13 more.
… Having done there, I to St. James's, to see the organ Mrs. T … ord Aubigney's; and I took my Lord Bruncker with me, he being … Norfolke; so he and I thither and did see the organ, but I do not like it, it being but a bauble, with a … l joining to it: so I shall not meddle with it. Here we sat and talked … red gentleman: here I observed the deske which he hath, [made] to remove, and is fastened to one of the armes of his chayre. I do also observe the counterfeit windows … bigger and lighter, I think; and I have some thoughts to have the like in … in Rome, but could not tell me how long musique had been in any perfection … that church, which I would be glad to know. He speaks much of the great buildings … ay, and my Lord and I walking into the Park back again, I did observe the new buildings: and my Lord, seeing I had a desire to see them, they being th … piece of the Cross is;1 two bits set in the manner of a cross … and 26 more.
… olt Galliott; which I did see, and though it was not so full in the reciting of my services … f Sir W. Pen's, yet I was well pleased with it, and do intend … ite Hall, and there I took water and went to Westminster Hall … hear that the House is this day again upon the business of giv … Chancellor. Thence I to Mrs. Martin's, where by appointment … Mrs. Howlett, which I was afraid was to have told me somethin … aughter, but it was not so, but only to complain to me of her son-in-law, how he abuses and makes a slave of her, and his mother is one that encourages him in it, so that … r, and desires that I would take a time to advise him and tel … to do, which office I am very glad of, for some ends of my ow … e drank and parted, I mightily satisfied with this business, … and 12 more.
… last night in bed. I to my office all the morning, casting u … he afternoon he and I alone at the office, finishing our acco … charge of the Navy, not properly belonging to the Navy, since t … hings being abated, I find that the true charge of the Navy to that time hath be … f 374,743l. a-year. I made an end by eleven o'clock at night, … ng prorogation; but Iknownot any thing what they have done, being wi …
… my Lord desires to know. After dinner got all ready and sent aw … imself, saying that I had a great deal of work to do this month, which was very true). On shore we took horses, my Lord and … ward, Mr. Hetly and I, and three or four servants, and had a … deal of money, and is built in so barren and inconvenient a p … laid great wagers, I and D. Mathews, that it was not so high as Paul's; my Lord and Mr. Hetl … and found it to be not above thirty-five yards high, and Paul's is reckoned to be about ninety. From thenc … oming by. For which I did give twenty shillings among them to … bed. The pain that I have got last night by cold isnot yet gone, but troubles me at the time o … L&M;]. This day, it is thought, the King do enter the city of …
… Sir W. Batten, who is going this day for pleasure down to the Downes. I eat a breakfast with them, and at my La … to Greenwich, where I went aboard with them on the Charlotte … ind very fresh, and I believe they will be all sicke enough, besides that she is mighty troublesome on the water. Methin … a pretty young boy. I left them under sayle, and I to Deptford, and, after a word or two w … o borrow money, but I should lend none; and looking, when I came to my office, upon my journall, th … ad vexed me so that I had sent the letter to my father into t … aint him of it, and how little he is beforehand that he is still forced to borrow. But it pleased me mightily to see how, contrary to my expectations, having so … hat after some days not thinking of it, I should look back and find what the Gyps … ad told me to be so true. After dinner at home to my office, and … best virtuoso, and Iknow his thinking me so, and speaking where …
… but Mr. Gauden did not come, and so he went away to meet again … e discourse, he and I and my wife by coach to Westminster (le … House heard that it is ordered, that, upon submission upon the … shall be released. I forthwith made him submit, and aske par … . But my Lady would not hear it; but swore she would post the L … hat the world might know what pitifull Lords the King hath; and … d pardon there. But I perceive the Lords are ashamed of her, and so I away calling with my wife at a place or … y uncle Wight's and I home, and presently to the 'Change, where I did some business, and thence to my unc … come to see us, so I went out, and running up (her friend however before me) I perceive by my dear Lady blushing that … pon the pott, which I also was ashamed of, and so fell to som … and 2 more.
… t, he came himself (I did notknow him to be the Queen's Secretary before, … it well. That done, I turned to the Forrest of Deane, in Spee … there he showed me how it lies; and the Lea-bayly, with the gr … rth my knowing; and I do perceive that I am very short in my business by not knowing many times the geographical par … many other accounts I perceive I shall be better able to give a true balance of my estate to myself within a day or two than I have been this twelve months. Then he and I to Alderman Backwell's and did the like there, and I gave one receipt for all the money I have received thence upon the receipt o … rd's crusados. Then I went to the Exchange, and hear that the … they think he will not brook our having Tangier, Dunkirk, and … thing like a bawble I have bought a good while, but I do it with some trouble of mind, though … ience tells me that I do it with an apprehension of service i … ompasses in it; but I confess myself the willinger to do it because I perceive by my accounts that I shall be better by 30l. than I expected to be. But by tomorrow night I intend to see to the bottom of all my a … and 2 more.
… he was gone out. So I to White Hall, and there waited on the … inchingbroke, which I did, and I am mightily out of countenance in my gr … ' report, though he is indeed a pretty gentleman, yet nothing what I took him for, methinks, either as to pe … scovered to me, but I must try him more before I go too far in censuring. Hence to the E … books to bring all I have lately bought to 10l.. Here I am told for certain, what I have heard once or twice already, of a … , and that this man is the true Messiah. One named a friend of his that … this manner, which is very strange; and certainly this year o … of it will be, God knows! Thence to the 'Change, and from my sta … e binding. So home. I find my wife gone out to Hales, her paynter's, and I after a little dinner do follow her, an … with great content I do see it will be a very brave picture. … and 3 more.
… ethinks, and thence I to Drumbleby's, and there did talk a gr … y a recorder, which I do intend to learn to play on, the soun … y by stealth, which I was sorry for, he being an idle rascal, … , and worth little, I doubt; and she a mighty pretty, well-di … tily; but the sport is, Sir Robert Holmes do seem to be mad to … advantage; whereas, I said, in this company, that I had married a sister lately, with littl … eat quarrel; but it istrueI am heartily sorry for the poor girl that is undone by it. So home to my chamber, to … without book, which I at last see is necessary for a man that would understand musique, as it is now taught to understand, though it be … roublesome way, and IknowI shall be able hereafter to show the wor … arned, though a man knows a better. Then to supper, and to bed. T and 1 more.
… th a periwigg which I had the other day cheapened at Westmins … is work used to be, I did now refuse it, having bought elsewh … sy, and then (which I think I have not done three times in my life) left the b … g Balty at my house I took him with me by water, and to the D … West Indies, which is a sad consideration that at the very be … and swear they will not go to be killed and have no pay. I find the Duke of Albemarle at dinner wi … bad meat, of which I made but an ill dinner. Pretty to hear how she talked against Captain Du Tell, the … the last year; and how, says she, the Duke of York hath made h … ut of his 55 ships, not above 25 fought. He did give an account … the Nore, he could not pass by them without fighting, nor avoi … and 24 more.
… o the office, where I did much business, and several come to … e, and among others I did prepare Mr. Warren, and by and by S … about what presents I have had from them, that they may not publish them, or if they do, that in truth I received none on the account of the Nav … t Tangier, and this istrue to the former, and in both that I never asked any thing of them. I must do the like with the rest. Mr. Moo … g that all the town is full of the discourse that the Officers … hn Minnes, who, God knows, is fitter to have been turned out himself … , and very merry as I could be with my mind so full of busine … d the other musique is nothing to it. Thence with my wife to t … we home, and there I settle to business, and with my people … t with me. This day I have the news that my sister was marrie and 1 more.
… om this Office, and I give them no notice of it. The thing, though Iknow to be false -- at least, that nothing w … ter the office rose I went and dined with my Lord Crew, and before dinner I did enter into that discourse, and labo … le, yet that he was not yet satisfied; but after dinner did pray me to go and see how it was, whether true or no. Did tell me if I was not their friend, they could trust to nobody, and that he did not forget my service and love to my Lord, … and therefore would not willingly doubt me now; but yet asked m … tily trouble me: so I away thence to White Hall, but could do … his pleased me, and I to Sir G. Carteret, who I find in the same doubt about it, and as … st it. This, though Iknow to be false, or that it must be a mistake in my clerk, I went back to Sir R. Browne and got a si … eir paper, and find how the mistake arose, by the ill copying o … Duke of York, which I took away with me and shewed Sir G. Car … supper and to bed. I find at Sir G. Carteret's that they do and 6 more.
… orning we sat. Here I first hear that the Queene hath miscarr … heir privileges. So I at noon by water to Westminster, and th … and the Houses are not ready for him. The Commons having sent … ween the two Houses is, that they do put a stop to any proceed … eir own, which they not presently doing, they were all inflamed … erfect a speaker he is. So the Commons went to their House, an … but what they did, I cannot tell; but every body expected th … d Sir John Robinson I left there, endeavouring to prevent the … Commons, whereof he is one, which is an odde case.1 Thence I to the Rose Taverne in Covent Garden, a … by come, and he and I into the King's house, and there "The M … and 5 more.
… he 18th, and he and I agreed that I would take notice of it that so he may … then, says he, here is a tally upon the Receiver of your count … curity thereof, and not to touch a penny of his own till the fu … ould have it. Which is a very great thing, and will make them … han ever they were, I am apt to think, in some time. Thence t … tminster, and there I walked with several, and do hear that there is to be a conference between the two Houses today; so I stayed: and it was only to tell the Com … orasmuch as they do not specify any particular crime which they … o parted: at which, I hear, the Commons are like to grow very … him committed. This is likely to breed ill blood. Thence I away home, calling at my mercer's and t … and there find, as I expected, Mr. Caesar and little Pelham and 16 more.
… lock, and Creed and I got ourselves ready, and took coach at … lk of the fate that is over all we do, that it seems as if we … the landing-place, I met my Lord Bruncker and my Lord Dougla … ton, the first time I remember to have seen him, well mounted … every body says he is; and a man, like my Lord Teviott, and i … e Scotch gentry, as I observe, of few words. After staying he … e, to dinner, which I took unkindly, but he was slightly invited. So I and Creed down by boat to Chatham-yard … uncker told me that I should meet with his dinner two dishes of meat, but did not, but however by the help of Mr. Wiles h … to shew Creed, and I must confess it must needs be thought a … uld be very secure. I was glad, as also it was new to me, to … and 42 more.
… for himself, which I am glad of, and do see, what I thought yesterday, that this resolution … to tell me that he is come from Chatham this morning, and tha … which troubles me. I directed him to bring them to his maste … s house. But before I could send him away to bring them thither, newes is brought me that they are seized on in t … o another place. So I to them and found our four waggons in t … he streetes gazing. I did give them good words, and made mode … he goods were laid. I had transires to show for all, and the … as right, and there I spent all the morning seeing this done. … sher was vexed that I would not let it be done by any body else for the merchant, and that I must needs be concerned therein, which I did not think fit to owne. So that being done, I left the goods to be watched by men on … Captain Cocke, whom I had with great care sent for by express … and 11 more.
… a little too early, I went and saw W. Joyce, and by and by co … usiness, and indeed I did what I could, and yet less I could not do. It has cost the poor man above 40l.; besides, he is likely to lose his debt. Thence to my L … him (Creed with us) I rode in his coach to St. James's, talki … dy Peters, he says, is a drunken jade, he himself having seen … bby of their House. I went up with him to the Duke, where methought the Duke did not shew him any so great fondness as he wa … thought my Lord was not pleased that I should see the Duke made no more of him, not that Iknow any thing of any unkindnesse, but I think verily he isnot as he was with him in his esteem. By an … he Parke, and there I left him going into White Hall, and Creed and I walked round the Parke, a pleasant walk … ng the birds, which is very pleasant; and so walked to the New … with great delight I shall make it now and then to go thithe … ere great newes and true, I saw by written letters, of strange fire … and 3 more.
… St. James's, where I find Mr. Coventry full of business, pac … uke's lodgings, who is gone thither to lodge lately. I appeared to the Duke, and thence Mr. Coventry and I an hour in the Long Gallery, talking ab … t the light-houses, how just before he had certified to the Duk … nd other things, as how the King hath resolved upon Captain Tay … ter for Portsmouth, I away to the 'Change, and there did very … d then he away, and I by water among the smiths on the other … hinks the King will not easily consent to his rejection, as he is a man of great abilities and dispatch, … ion for another. He is a fanatic, it istrue, but all hands will be needed for the work cut out; there is less danger of them in harbour than at …