Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 73: April/May 1669

Sam did not attend any Navy Board activities for approximately weeks. A selection from a belated letter which Sam sent to Captain Elliot dated 3 May , to thank him for supporting him in his unsuccessful election contest some 4 months later follows. Although Sam did have a future long-term relationship with Mary Skinner, he never remarried.

Sam commissioned a monument, a bust of Elizabeth to be made and placed in St. Upon his death in , and at his instruction, Sam was laid to rest beside his wife. Their wonderful photography skills are very much appreciated. This text was copied from Wikipedia on 9 December at 6: Elisabeth Pepys nee Marchant de Saint Michel; 23 October — 10 November was the wife of Samuel Pepys , whom she married in , shortly before her fifteenth birthday.

Elisabeth was born at or around Bideford in Devon on 23 October She died of typhoid on 10 November Elisabeth was second cousin once removed to the writer Anne Kingsmill Finch. Much of the information on Elisabeth comes from her husband's diary, which he kept between January and 31 May Their marriage and relationship are a key theme throughout the private diary.

Although the couple had a civil ceremony on 1 December , they celebrated their wedding anniversary on 10 October when a religious ceremony had been held and they formally started to live together. Richard Ollard attributes this lapse of time to Elisabeth's youth. It is well known that Samuel himself was unfaithful to Elisabeth, often with their own maids. The most well documented affair is one with the young maid, Deb Willet , whom Pepys became particularly fond of and is referred to in the second to last line of his diary. When they were away from each other, Samuel greatly missed Elisabeth and, although they separated for several months shortly after marrying, this has been considered to be a result of Samuel's strong feelings of jealousy.

They reunited shortly before the diary was begun and lived in Axe Yard. Samuel's changeable feelings for Elisabeth can be seen throughout his diary. A resentful sentence from 25 April suggests jealous feelings surrounding Elisabeth and her dancing teacher, or perhaps a simple familiarity with Elisabeth and her self-confidence: Pembleton, but I fear will hardly do any great good at it, because she is conceited that she do well already, though I think no such thing.

Samuel's affection towards Elisabeth can be seen prominently in letters during her severe typhoid fever and after her death, as he apologises to fellow politicians and naval captains for not attending board meetings for 4 weeks following her death and not keeping up to date with letters during her illness: Following her death, Samuel Pepys' continuing affection towards Elisabeth has been suggested through his succeeding relationship with Mary Skinner and his decision to not marry despite, as evidenced in Pepys' letters to John Evelyn, having acted as his wife in all but name.

Purportedly written by Elisabeth, the book is a feminist critique of women's lives in 17th century London. She was born in with the surname of St. It seems likely that a religious ceremony had taken place in the previous October. She was very beautiful, with a little round face of almost unearthly pallor set in curls She was careless and untidy, a child who could not even keep her own clothes tidy, let alone make a poor man's home.

And though he read to her continually, in the evenings and on long Sabbath afternoons, and tried to make her as learned and universally curious as himself, the plain fact remained that she was something of a fool. Her favourite books were long meandering French romances, whose tedious narratives she would even repeat in company in the most uncalled-for and irritating manner. Moreover she had a will of her own and, though she loved and admired her clever husband, liked to follow the bent of her own imperious little ways It did not last long These early differences were a very bitter memory to Pepys, who could scarcely bear his wife to remind him of them, and at his father's house were long preserved the tell-tale papers of that warfare.

The reader should bear in mind that these condescending words were written seventy years ago by an Englishman born in the nineteenth century! It does put another view of Samuelnot quite as unflattering as his view of her! Biographer Claire Tomalin's description of Pepys's marriage in an "interview" at the Penguin books website:. He was both very happy with Elizabeth and very unhappy -- proud of her beauty, her wit and artistic skill, tormented by jealousy, irritated by her careless housekeeping, frightened of her reaction should she discover his pursuit of other women.

Their sexual relations were never good: Children would have changed things between them, but there were none, a sadness to Pepys and probably to her, although he does not say so. He hit her occasionally, but she fought her corner very successfully. Also 8- prick-the -a -louse. A derisive name for a tailor. From a Toronto Globe and Mail review of Tomalin's biography the review is very positive but notes this as one of a few "small errors":.

On the contrary, most of their contemporaries, male as well as female, postponed marriage until well into their twenties, choosing instead to amass a nest egg before setting up households of their own. Moreover, at 14, it is very unlikely Elizabeth was sexually mature; if she was like most other girls of the time, it would be four more years before she started menstruating. These details are important because they cast Pepys's dalliances with other young girls in an altogether more sinister light; they may also help account for why Pepys met with frequent rejection in his own bedroom.

Pepys," Saturday, 26 October , page D From an attached note identifying the author:. She is the author of "Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason. I would suggest that Tomalin is being more realistic than Warner. Don't forget that Shakespere wrote of Romeo and Juliet 13 years old being sexually active in their early teens also suggesting that " Pepys has a well paying job for his age when the diary starts, and well able to support a household.

The Unequalled Self" p Grahamt makes a good point: Unusual doesn't equal "scandalous" or even "amiss" in the eyes of contemporaries. Tomalin points out that John Evelyn, a contemporary, married his wife when he was 26 and she was only 12 cohabiting when she was And yet, Jessica Warner makes a fair point that it was still an unusual age for Elizabeth to marry, and that is definitely worth noting Tomalin doesn't , which is why I posted the quote. I've read elsewhere that marriages back then normally took place when both parties were in their 20s because most people weren't as financially secure as Romeo and Juliet.

Financially, the match was imprudent -- Pepys was only a servant to Montagu at that point. The Exchequer job probably came sometime in Both sets of parents probably disapproved, and he installed his new wife into his room at Montagu's Whitehall lodgings without telling Montagu, Tomalin writes p The age of sexual maturity has been decreasing, at least since sometime in the 19th century, due to better health although girls in sports tend to mature a bit later. There's always been plenty of variation, of course. Tomalin seems to assume Elizabeth was already menstruating, since she mentions it but doesn't cite anything on it p That seems like a fair assumption -- Pepys commented in the diary 2 Aug.

How's this sound, O lettered LanguageHat? The clearer the prose, the weaker my point looks. He might well NOT have mentioned it, even in his diary. Very good points, but I wonder if we are not still projecting 21st century thinking onto 17th century mores. Pepys may have been "only a servant" when he married, but we know he was educated at St Pauls and Cambridge in an age when education, especially tertiary, was reserved for the rich and powerful.

This suggests that being Montagu's servant was just an "apprenticeship" for his later role. I think that the term "clerk" is also burdened with modern prejudice. Pepys at 26 was earning L50 p. He may have put off marriage until his career path was established, but the same constraints weren't necessary for a young woman of modest means marrying a man with prospects.

Was he really "penniless" as Warner suggests? Even now, the age of consent is 14 in modern countries like Canada, Austria and Italy. Living in countries like the UK and US where the norm is we may lose sight of the fact that Pepys was most likely not doing anything distateful, unusual or amiss in marrying a 14 year old. We also have to be careful with - probably true - statistics like sexual maturity having started earlier since some time in the 19th century.

That doesn't tell us what haapened between the 17th and 19th. The general health, plagues aside of the British working classes plummetted during the industrial revolution, when the economy changed from rural to urban, and only started to recover when the Victorians late 19th C realised that cleaning up urban squalor, providing sewers and hospitals, and educating the population in basic hygiene kept the work force working longer. It is likely that this urban poverty caused a postponement of the age of menstruation, just as anorexia does today.

I see no evidence so far in the diary that Samuel and Elizabeth were malnourished!. Sorry this is so long. Per Pepys the Perv: A History of Youth. Translated by Graeme Dunphy. Blackwell, ; and Wrigley, E. Anthony, and Roger S. The Population History of England, The first discusses the average age of menses, the second the average age of marriage in early modern England. Which leads me to ask, how common might prepubescent relations with early married wives have been at this time in history?

Should such be the case with Sam and Elizabeth, would Pepys be matching the norm, or conducting himself abnormally? She says marriage and puberty came "more or less" at the same time. Tomalin also says, by the way, that 17th century opinion generally was that marriage was meant to help one advance materially and in society pp , and Pepys flew in the face of that by marrying Elizabeth.

The following quote is not for the squeamish. Here's an excerpt from footnote 15, page 53 footnote appears on page ; I've capitalized the most relevant phrase:. Although it was not caused by venereal infection but by bacteria living on the skin, Elizabeth may have suspected her husband of infecting her. I am indebted to Patrick French for the medical information. I just bet that, in an age of such early marriages, there was some longstanding religious opinion on the morality of having sex with a wife who hadn't reached puberty. And a Puritan opinion, and an opinion in society at large.

In response to Mr Walla's question: Intimate details of this sort are understandably hard to come by; for hints on the average age at which working women became sexually active, see Rogers, Nicholas. Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-century Westminster. Rogers finds that most of the women in question were in their early twenties; obviously, they were all sexually mature, as suggested by a pregnancy-rate of percent. I believe Elizabeth was suffereing from endometriosis, a condition that affects the uterus and causes great pain for about a week before menstruation begins.

Symptoms include severe, agonising stomach pains, and sufferers are often left infertile. Having intercourse or experiencing orgasm brings on pain. Even today, medical science is unable to find a cure, they can only help to reduce the symptoms. Endometriosis helps to explain why Elizabeth and Samuel had infrequent sexual contact. But then again, horny Samuel never washed and elizabeth liked to take a bath.

Maybe the reason for their infrequent sexual contact was that Samuel was far too smelly and dirty to make love to. Just imageine the smell there would be when he took his undies off. It wouldn't surprise me if he you could smell his feet next door and his breath had all the freshness of an open sewer. My maternal grandmother married at age Apparently young brides were common in turn-of-the-century rural Missippi. Every reader of this Website will find this copious volume fascinating, indispensable, and well worth its modest cost. You can find out more than you wanted to know about the age of onset of menstruation at http: The study quoted from "a Canadian student", but with proper references quotes average ages:.

Medieval Europe Manchester s The study agrees with the idea that body weight is an important factor, with on average the well-fed upper classes reaching puberty first, the poor and sick later. The most interesting bit is that the idea of a recent marked fall in age is shown to be partly an artefact of earlier researchers' concentration on the disadvantaged.

In reference to Pepys' supposed disinterest in his wife, I must say that I agreed at first with those who posted that he shows a lack of tenderness towards her, however as he is preparing to go to sea, I am feeling a renewed interest in their relationship. Over the past few days they have spent a lot of time shopping together. He has gone out of his way to see that she will be comfortable with the Bowyers while he is gone. He sent for cabbages when she had a whim for them. Just today they ate out at the Sun Tavern where over a piece of 8d salmon, he vowed that she should inherit all his worldy goods except the books.

It was a touching scene. I have never read the diary before and I am greatly enjoying seeing the story unfold, and I must say that this moment will stick in my mind for some time! Elizabeth Pepys, religion "Her father Alexandre de St. Michel was born a French catholic, but converted to the Protestant faith as a young professional soldier fighting in Germany. Elizabeth and her brother Balthasar were both likely born in Devon. The family's fortunes and bad luck were such that in Madame de St.

Michel was alone in Paris with her two children. She was persuaded to hand them over to Catholic friends, who placed Elizabeth in an Ursuline convent and Balthasar as page to the papal nuncio, a recollection that provoked him to a flash of wit: The children were rescued by their indignant father, who carried the whole family off to London; this was shortly before Elizabeth met Pepys.

The timing of Balthasar's story is vague and the accuracy doubtful, since he wrote it down with the specific intention of proving that his sister was a staunch Protestant, whereas it is clear from Pepys's own account that the Catholic faith never lost its hold on her; when, for instance, he bought a mass book for himself in and sat up late reading it, it gave great pleasure to my wife to hear that that she long ago was so well acquainted with.?

Although she said at the time of Sam's brother Tom's death that she intended to die a Catholic, she died attended by the vicar of St. In this decision, Sam did what convention and prudence dictated. By then [Elizabeth] was no doubt past making any request or decision for herself. Newly come to this page I am horrified to find an annotation which says the age of consent for marriage in Canada is Each province sets the legal age for marriage and this usually means that when you reach the age of majority 18 or 19 depending on which province you live in you are free to marry willy nilly.

From about 16 until the legal age you may marry with parental consent. I do believe that in Pepys time many women would have married young. Making a "good match" to gain property and political power for their well-to-do fathers or to no longer burden their parents in not so well off families. Since the subject has been raised, the age of consent in Holland is currently 12, with parental consent. Not for marriage though. But on the different subject of Elizabeth's intellectual capacity, there seems to be some disagreement. The first quote calls her a fool, but a later post refers to Pepys' admiration of her wit and artistic skill.

Can anyone shed any light on this disparity? I think it's very reasonable to assume that Liz was indeed menstruating when she married, if only newly so. Firstly, she was fifteen and had no history of serious deprivation of nourishment. In his contention Pepys appears to have been in the right, and a valuable MS. It may have been given him by the king, or he may have taken it as a perquisite of his office.

The book has an index, which was evidently added by Pepys; in this are these entries, which show his appreciation of the contents of the MS.: The following description of the duty of the Clerk of the Acts shows the importance of the office, and the statement that if the clerk is not fitted to act as a commissioner he is a blockhead and unfit for his employment is particularly racy, and not quite the form of expression one would expect to find in an official document:. Neither of the two qualifications upon which particular stress is laid in the above Instructions was possessed by Pepys.

He knew nothing about the navy, and so little of accounts that apparently he learned the multiplication table for the first time in July, We see from the particulars given in the Diary how hard he worked to obtain the knowledge required in his office, and in consequence of his assiduity he soon became a model official.

When Pepys became Clerk of the Acts he took up his residence at the Navy Office, a large building situated between Crutched Friars and Seething Lane, with an entrance in each of those places. On July 4th, , he went with Commissioner Pett to view the houses, and was very pleased with them, but he feared that the more influential officers would jockey him out of his rights.

His fears were not well grounded, and on July 18th he records the fact that he dined in his own apartments, which were situated in the Seething Lane front. In February, , he was chosen a Younger Brother of the Trinity House, and in April, , when on an official visit to Portsmouth Dockyard, he was made a burgess of the town. In August of the same year he was appointed one of the commissioners for the affairs of Tangier. Soon afterwards Thomas Povy, the treasurer, got his accounts into a muddle, and showed himself incompetent for the place, so that Pepys replaced him as treasurer to the commission.

During the Dutch war the unreadiness of the ships, more particularly in respect to victualling, was the cause of great trouble. The Clerk of the Acts did his utmost to set things right, and he was appointed Surveyor-General of the Victualling Office. The kind way in which Mr. During the fearful period when the Plague was raging, Pepys stuck to his business, and the chief management of naval affairs devolved upon him, for the meetings at the Navy Office were but thinly attended. In a letter to Coventry he wrote: At this time his wife was living at Woolwich, and he himself with his clerks at Greenwich; one maid only remained in the house in London.

Pepys rendered special service at the time of the Fire of London. A Parliamentary Committee was appointed in October, , to inquire into the matter. At last a storm broke out in the House of Commons against the principal officers of the navy, and some members demanded that they should be put out of their places. In the end they were ordered to be heard in their own defence at the bar of the House. The whole labour of the defence fell upon Pepys, but having made out his case with great skill, he was rewarded by a most unexpected success.

On the 5th March, , he made the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours, with the effect that he so far removed the prejudice against the officers of the Navy Board, that no further proceedings were taken in parliament on the subject. He was highly praised for his speech, and he was naturally much elated at his brilliant success.

He consulted the celebrated Cocker, and began to wear green spectacles, but gradually this defect became more pronounced, and on the 31st of May, , he wrote the last words in his Diary:. He feared blindness and was forced to desist, to his lasting regret and our great loss. At this time he obtained leave of absence from the duties of his office, and he set out on a tour through France and Holland accompanied by his wife.

In his travels he was true to the occupation of his life, and made collections respecting the French and Dutch navies. The disease took a fatal turn, and on the 10th of November, , Elizabeth Pepys died at the early age of twenty-nine years, to the great grief of her husband. She died at their house in Crutched Friars, and was buried at St. An opening occurred in due course, at Aldborough, in Suffolk, owing to the death of Sir Robert Brooke in , but, in consequence of the death of his wife, Pepys was unable to take part in the election.

His cause was warmly espoused by the Duke of York and by Lord Henry Howard afterwards Earl of Norwich and sixth Duke of Norfolk , but the efforts of his supporters failed, and the contest ended in favour of John Bruce, who represented the popular party. His unsuccessful opponent, Mr. Offley, petitioned against the return, and the election was determined to be void by the Committee of Privileges. It will be seen from the extracts from the Journals of the House of Commons given in the note that Pepys denied ever having had an altar or crucifix in his house.

In the Diary there is a distinct statement of his possession of a crucifix, but it is not clear from the following extracts whether it was not merely a varnished engraving of the Crucifixion which he possessed:. Whether he had or had not a crucifix in his house was a matter for himself alone, and the interference of the House of Commons was a gross violation of the liberty of the subject. Christie found the following letter to Sir Thomas Meres among the papers at St. Lord Sandwich died heroically in the naval action in Southwold Bay, and on June 24th,, his remains were buried with some pomp in Westminster Abbey.

About this time Pepys was called from his old post of Clerk of the Acts to the higher office of Secretary of the Admiralty.

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His first appointment was a piece of favouritism, but it was due to his merits alone that he obtained the secretaryship. In the summer of , the Duke of York having resigned all his appointments on the passing of the Test Act, the King put the Admiralty into commission, and Pepys was appointed Secretary for the Affairs of the Navy. He was thus brought into more intimate connection with Charles II. The Duke of Buckingham said of the King: When Pepys ceased to be Clerk of the Acts he was able to obtain the appointment for his clerk, Thomas Hayter, and his brother, John Pepys, who held it jointly.

The latter does not appear to have done much credit to Samuel. On Tuesday, 10th September, , the Feast of the Hon. About this time it is evident that the secretary carried himself with some haughtiness as a ruler of the navy, and that this was resented by some. An amusing instance will be found in the Parliamentary Debates. Secretary Williamson, when Pepys spoke to this effect:. Pepys was chosen by the electors of Harwich as their member in the short Parliament that sat from March to July, , his colleague being Sir Anthony Deane, but both members were sent to the Tower in May on a baseless charge, and they were superseded in the next Parliament that met on the 17th October, The high-handed treatment which Pepys underwent at this time exhibits a marked instance of the disgraceful persecution connected with the so-called Popish plot.

Shaftesbury and the others not having succeeded in getting at Pepys through his clerk, soon afterwards attacked him more directly, using the infamous evidence of Colonel Scott. Much light has lately been thrown upon the underhand dealings of this miscreant by Mr. John Scott calling himself Colonel Scott ingratiated himself into acquaintance with Major Gotherson, and sold to the latter large tracts of land in Long Island, to which he had no right whatever.

The result of this was that the Duke of York commanded Pepys to collect evidence against Scott, and he accordingly brought together a great number of depositions and information as to his dishonest proceedings in New England, Long Island, Barbadoes, France, Holland, and England, and these papers are preserved among the Rawlinson Manuscripts in the Bodleian.

Scott had his revenge, and accused Pepys of betraying the Navy by sending secret particulars to the French Government, and of a design to dethrone the king and extirpate the Protestant religion. Pepys was put to great expense in collecting evidence against Scott and obtaining witnesses to clear himself of the charges brought against him. He employed his brother-in-law, Balthasar St. Michel, to collect evidence in France, as he himself explains in a letter to the Commissioners of the Navy: In the end Scott refused to acknowledge to the truth of his original deposition, and the prisoners were relieved from their bail on February 12th, William Harbord, of Cadbury, co.

Somerset, second son of Sir Charles Harbord, whom he succeeded in as Surveyor. In he fled from England to escape from the law, as he had been guilty of wilful murder by killing George Butler, a hackney coachman, and he reached Norway in safety, where he remained till In that year some of his influential friends obtained a pardon for him from William III.

It is creditable to Charles II. In the following year there was some chance that Pepys might retire from public affairs, and take upon himself the headship of one of the chief Cambridge colleges. Maryon, a Fellow of Clare Hall, recommended Pepys to apply to the King for the appointment, being assured that the royal mandate if obtained would secure his election.

He liked the idea, but replied that he believed Colonel Legge afterwards Lord Dartmouth wanted to get the office for an old tutor. John Coplestone was appointed to the post. On May 22nd, , the Rev. Milles, rector of St. It is not quite clear what was the occasion of the certificate, but probably the Diarist wished to have it ready in case of another attack upon him in respect to his tendency towards the Church of Rome.

Early in Pepys accompanied the Duke of York to Scotland, and narrowly escaped shipwreck by the way. Berry, his master, mates, Col. Legg, the Duke himself, and several others, concurring unanimously in not being yet clear of the sands. Pepys stayed in Edinburgh for a short time, and the Duke of York allowed him to be present at two councils. He then visited; with Colonel George Legge, some of the principal places in the neighbourhood, such as Stirling, Linlithgow, Hamilton, and Glasgow.

Pepys had now been out of office for some time, but he was soon to have employment again. Tangier, which was acquired at the marriage of the King to Katharine of Braganza, had long been an incumbrance, and it was resolved at last to destroy the place. He saw quite enough, however, to form a strong opinion of the uselessness of the place to England.

Lord Dartmouth carried out his instructions thoroughly, and on March 29th, , he and his party including Pepys arrived in the English Channel. In the Pepysian Library is the original patent, dated June 10th, A very special honour was conferred upon Pepys in this year, when he was elected President of the Royal Society in succession to Sir Cyril Wyche, and he held the office for two years. Pepys gave an account of what information he had received from the Master of the Jersey ship which had been in company with Major Holmes in the Guinea voyage concerning the pendulum watches March 15th, The records of the society show that he frequently made himself useful by obtaining such information as might be required in his department.

After he retired from the presidency, he continued to entertain some of the most distinguished members of the society on Saturday evenings at his house in York Buildings. Evelyn expressed the strongest regret when it was necessary to discontinue these meetings on account of the infirmities of the host. In Charles II. At the coronation of James II. In the year a new charter was granted to the Trinity Company, and Pepys was named in it the first master, this being the second time that he had held the office of master.

Evelyn specially refers to the event in his Diary, and mentions the distinguished persons present at the dinner on July 20th. It is evident that at this time Pepys was looked upon as a specially influential man, and when a parliament was summoned to meet on May 19th, , he was elected both for Harwich and for Sandwich.

This parliament was dissolved by proclamation July 2nd, , and on August 24th the king declared in council that another parliament should be summoned for November 27th, , but great changes took place before that date, and when the Convention Parliament was called together in January and February, , Pepys found no place in it. The right-hand man of the exiled monarch was not likely to find favour in the eyes of those who were now in possession.

We know that James II. Pepys had many firm friends upon whom he could rely, but he had also enemies who lost no opportunity of worrying him. On June 10th, , Evelyn has this entry in his Diary, which throws some light upon the events of the time: On the 25th of this same month Pepys was committed to the Gatehouse at Westminster on a charge of having sent information to the French Court of the state of the English navy. There was no evidence of any kind against him, and at the end of July he was allowed to return to his own house on account of ill-health. Nothing further was done in respect to the charge, but he was not free till some time after, and he was long kept in anxiety, for even in he still apprehended some fresh persecution.

Sir Peter Palavicini, Mr. Martin bailed him, and he sent them the following circular letter: He succeeded in preserving from impending ruin the mathematical foundation which had been originally designed by him, and through his anxious solicitations endowed and cherished by Charles II. One of the last public acts of his life was the presentation of the portrait of the eminent Dr. In he sent Sir Godfrey Kneller to Oxford to paint the portrait, and the University rewarded him with a Latin diploma containing in gorgeous language the expression of thanks for his munificence.

On the 26th May, , Samuel Pepys, after long continued suffering, breathed his last in the presence of the learned Dr. He speaks in very high terms of his friend: The body was brought from Clapham and buried in St. Hickes performed the last sad offices for his friend. Mourning was presented to forty persons, and a large number of rings to relations, godchildren, servants, and friends, also to representatives of the Royal Society, of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, of the Admiralty, and of the Navy Office. The books and other collections were left to Magdalene College, Cambridge, but Jackson was to have possession of them during his lifetime.

The following are the directions for the disposition of the library, taken from Harl. The library and the original book-cases were not transferred to Magdalene College until , and there they have been preserved in safety ever since. Rawlinson afterwards obtained them, and they were included in the bequest of his books to the Bodleian Library. Pepys was partial to having his portrait taken, and he sat to Savill, Hales, Lely, and Kneller. The portrait by Lely is in the Pepysian Library. Of the three portraits by Kneller, one is in the hall of Magdalene College, another at the Royal Society, and the third was lent to the First Special Exhibition of National Portraits, , by the late Mr.

Several of the portraits have been engraved, but the most interesting of these are those used by Pepys himself as book-plates. These were both engraved by Robert White, and taken from paintings by Kneller. The church of St. The Earl of Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty, consented to unveil the monument, but he was at the last moment prevented by public business from attending.

Various attempts appear to have been made to represent this phonetically. Lord Braybrooke, in quoting the entry of death from St. At present there are three pronunciations in use—Peps, which is the most usual; Peeps, which is the received one at Magdalene College, and Peppis, which I learn from Mr. Pepys is the one used by other branches of the family.

Elizabeth Pepys (wife, b. St Michel) (The Diary of Samuel Pepys)

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In spite of all the research which has brought to light so many incidents of interest in the life of Samuel Pepys, we cannot but feel how dry these facts are when placed by the side of the living details of the Diary. It is in its pages that the true man is displayed, and it has therefore not been thought necessary here to do more than set down in chronological order such facts as are known of the life outside the Diary.

Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold. The condition of the State was thus; viz. The officers of the Army all forced to yield. Only my Lord Lambert is not yet come into the Parliament, nor is it expected that he will without being forced to it. The new Common Council of the City do speak very high; and had sent to Monk their sword-bearer, to acquaint him with their desires for a free and full Parliament, which is at present the desires, and the hopes, and expectation of all.

Twenty-two of the old secluded members. My own private condition very handsome, and esteemed rich, but indeed very poor; besides my goods of my house, and my office, which at present is somewhat uncertain. Downing master of my office. This morning we living lately in the garret, I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other, clothes but them. Dined at home in the garret, where my wife dressed the remains of a turkey, and in the doing of it she burned her hand.

After that my wife and I went home with them, and so to our own home. In the morning before I went forth old East brought me a dozen of bottles of sack, and I gave him a shilling for his pains. Then I went to Mr. Sheply,—[Shepley was a servant of Admiral Sir Edward Montagu]—who was drawing of sack in the wine cellar to send to other places as a gift from my Lord, and told me that my Lord had given him order to give me the dozen of bottles. Thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. Calthropp about the L60 due to my Lord,.

Andrewes for my own use, and so went to my office, where there was nothing to do. The House was to-day upon finishing the act for the Council of State, which they did; and for the indemnity to the soldiers; and were to sit again thereupon in the afternoon. Great talk that many places have declared for a free Parliament; and it is believed that they will be forced to fill up the House with the old members. From the Hall I called at home, and so went to Mr.

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Moore and I and another gentleman went out and drank a cup of ale together in the new market, and there I eat some bread and cheese for my dinner. Calthrop, but failed again of finding him, so returned to Mr. Then I went home, and finding my wife gone to see Mrs. So to bed, and my wife had a very bad night of it through wind and cold. I went out in the morning, it being a great frost, and walked to Mrs. Calthrop, and walked in his chamber an hour, but could not see him, so went to Westminster, where I found soldiers in my office to receive money, and paid it them.

At noon went home, where Mrs. Jem, her maid, Mr.

Sheply, Hawly, and Moore dined with me on a piece of beef and cabbage, and a collar of brawn. We then fell to cards till dark, and then I went home with Mrs. Jem, and meeting Mr. Hawly got him to bear me company to Chancery Lane, where I spoke with Mr. Calthrop, he told me that Sir James Calthrop was lately dead, but that he would write to his Lady, that the money may be speedily paid. Thence back to White Hall, where I understood that the Parliament had passed the act for indemnity to the soldiers and officers that would come in, in so many days, and that my Lord Lambert should have benefit of the said act.

They had also voted that all vacancies in the House, by the death of any of the old members, shall be filled up; but those that are living shall not be called in. Thence I went home, and there found Mr. Hunt and his wife, and Mr. Hawly, who sat with me till ten at night at cards, and so broke up and to bed. It snowed hard all this morning, and was very cold, and my nose was much swelled with cold.

Some say that Lambert must of necessity yield up; others, that he is very strong, and that the Fifth-monarchy-men [will] stick to him, if he declares for a free Parliament. Chillington was sent yesterday to him with the vote of pardon and indemnity from the Parliament. From the Hall I came home, where I found letters from Hinchinbroke.

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Vines, and could not get him along with me. I was vext at this, and went and walked in the Hall, where I heard that the Parliament spent this day in fasting and prayer; and in the afternoon came letters from the North, that brought certain news that my Lord Lambent his forces were all forsaking him, and that he was left with only fifty horse, and that he did now declare for the Parliament himself; and that my Lord Fairfax did also rest satisfied, and had laid down his arms, and that what he had done was only to secure the country against my Lord Lambert his raising of money, and free quarter.

Then I spent a little time with G. So home, and from thence to Mr. Hawly at cards till ten at night, and was much made of by them. Home and so to bed, but much troubled with my nose, which was much swelled. I went to my office, where the money was again expected from the Excise office, but none brought, but was promised to be sent this afternoon.

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I dined with Mr. And so to my office again; where the Excise money was brought, and some of it told to soldiers till it was dark. Then my wife and I, it being a great frost, went to Mrs. Fage, to consult concerning my nose, who told me it was nothing but cold, and after that we did discourse concerning public business; and he told me it is true the City had not time enough to do much, but they are resolved to shake off the soldiers; and that unless there be a free Parliament chosen, he did believe there are half the Common Council will not levy any money by order of this Parliament.

Ramsey and her grandchild, a pretty girl, and staid a while and talked with them and my mother, and then took my leave, only heard of an invitation to go to dinner to-morrow to my cosen Thomas Pepys. Jem, and took my wife and Mrs. Sheply, and went home. Sheply and I did eat our breakfast at Mrs.

Vines, where George and I fiddled a good while, Dick and his wife who was lately brought to bed and her sister being there, but Mr. Hudson not coming according to his promise, I went away, and calling at my house on the wench, I took her and the lanthorn with me to my cosen Stradwick, where, after a good supper, there being there my father, mother, brothers, and sister, my cosen Scott and his wife, Mr.

Drawwater and his wife, and her brother, Mr. Stradwick, we had a brave cake brought us, and in the choosing, Pall was Queen and Mr. After that my wife and I bid adieu and came home, it being still a great frost. At my office as I was receiving money of the probate of wills, in came Mrs. Hawly came after, and I got a dish of steaks and a rabbit for them, while they were playing a game or two at cards.

In the middle of our dinner a messenger from Mr. Downing came to fetch me to him, so leaving Mr. Hawly there, I went and was forced to stay till night in expectation of the French Embassador, who at last came, and I had a great deal of good discourse with one of his gentlemen concerning the reason of the difference between the zeal of the French and the Spaniard. After he was gone I went home, and found my friends still at cards, and after that I went along with them to Dr.

Whores sending my wife to Mrs. May, Harding, and Mallard. Afterwards I put my friends into a coach, and went to Mrs. So home and to bed. In the morning I went to Mr. Sheply, and after supper went home together. Here I heard of the death of Mr. Palmer, and that he was to be buried at Westminster tomorrow. I found Muddiman a good scholar, an arch rogue; and owns that though he writes new books for the Parliament, yet he did declare that he did it only to get money; and did talk very basely of many of them.

Among other things, W. Simons told me how his uncle Scobel was on Saturday last called to the bar, for entering in the journal of the House, for the year , these words: He answered that they were his own handwriting, and that he did it by virtue of his office, and the practice of his predecessor; and that the intent of the practice was to—let posterity know how such and such a Parliament was dissolved, whether by the command of the King, or by their own neglect, as the last House of Lords was; and that to this end, he had said and writ that it was dissolved by his Excellence the Lord G[eneral]; and that for the word dissolved, he never at the time did hear of any other term; and desired pardon if he would not dare to make a word himself when it was six years after, before they came themselves to call it an interruption; but they were so little satisfied with this answer, that they did chuse a committee to report to the House, whether this crime of Mr.

Thence I went with Muddiman to the Coffee-House, and gave 18d. Vane—[Sir Harry Vane the younger, an inflexible republican. He was executed in , on a charge of conspiring the death of Charles I. Jenings, and took them home, and gave them a bottle of wine, and the remainder of my collar of brawn; and so good night. After that came in Mr. Hawly, who told me that I was mist this day at my office, and that to-morrow I must pay all the money that I have, at which I was put to a great loss how I should get money to make up my cash, and so went to bed in great trouble. Went out early, and in my way met with Greatorex,—[Ralph Greatorex, the well-known mathematical instrument maker of his day.

He is frequently mentioned by Pepys. Thence Jenings and I into London it being through heat of the sun a great thaw and dirty to show our bills of return, and coming back drank a pint of wine at the Star in Cheapside. So to Westminster, overtaking Captain Okeshott in his silk cloak, whose sword got hold of many people in walking. Thence to the Coffee-house, where were a great confluence of gentlemen; viz. Harrington, Poultny, chairman, Gold, Dr. Thence with Doling to Mother Lams, who told me how this day Scott.

So home to bed. Edward, I returned to my father, and taking him from W. I went towards London, and in my way went in to see Crowly, who was now grown a very great loon and very tame. From home I went to see Mrs. Jem, who was in bed, and now granted to have the small-pox. Back again, and went to the Coffee-house, but tarried not, and so home. Sheply and a seaman, and so to my office, where Captain Holland came to see me, and appointed a meeting in the afternoon. Billingsly and Newman, a barber, where we were very merry, and had the young man that plays so well on the Welsh harp.

Billingsly paid for all. Thence home, and finding my letters this day not gone by the carrier I new sealed them, but my brother Tom coming we fell into discourse about my intention to feast the Joyces. Coming in the morning to my office, I met with Mr. Fage and took him to the Swan? Thence to my office, where nothing to do. Pinkney, who invited me to their feast at his Hall the next Monday. Thence I went home and took my wife and dined at Mr. Wades, and after that we went and visited Catan.

From thence home again, and my wife was very unwilling to let me go forth, but with some discontent would go out if I did, and I going forth towards Whitehall, I saw she followed me, and so I staid and took her round through Whitehall, and so carried her home angry. Thence I went to Mrs. Jem, and found her up and merry, and that it did not prove the small-pox, but only the swine-pox; so I played a game or two at cards with her.

And so to Mr. Vines, where he and I and Mr. After that I went home and found my wife gone abroad to Mr. Nothing to do at our office. They staid with me all the afternoon, and went hence in the evening. Then I went with my wife, and left her at market, and went myself to the Coffee-house, and heard exceeding good argument against Mr. Home, and wrote to Hinchinbroke, and sent that and my other letter that missed of going on Thursday last. Having been exceedingly disturbed in the night with the barking of a dog of one of our neighbours that I could not sleep for an hour or two, I slept late, and then in the morning took physic, and so staid within all day.

At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech to say the Apposition, though I believe he himself was as well able to do it as myself. After that we went to read in the great Officiale about the blessing of bells in the Church of Rome. It being a cold day and a great snow my physic did not work so well as it should have done. In the morning I went up to Mr. Edward to Twickenham, and likewise did talk to me concerning things of state; and expressed his mind how just it was that the secluded members should come to sit again.

I went from thence, and in my way went into an alehouse and drank my morning draft with Matthew Andrews and two or three more of his friends, coachmen. And of one of them I did hire a coach to carry us to-morrow to Twickenham. From thence to my office, where nothing to do; but Mr. Downing he came and found me all alone; and did mention to me his going back into Holland, and did ask me whether I would go or no, but gave me little encouragement, but bid me consider of it; and asked me whether I did not think that Mr.

Hawly could perform the work of my office alone or no. I confess I was at a great loss, all the day after, to bethink myself how to carry this business. At noon, Harry Ethall came to me and went along with Mr. Maylard by coach as far as Salsbury Court, and there we set him down, and we went to the Clerks, where we came a little too late, but in a closet we had a very good dinner by Mr. After that Sheply, Harrison and myself, we went towards Westminster on foot, and at the Golden Lion, near Charing Cross, we went in and drank a pint of wine, and so parted, and thence home, where I found my wife and maid a-washing.

Early I went to Mr. Edward money to give the servants, I took him into the coach that waited for us and carried him to my house, where the coach waited for me while I and the child went to Westminster Hall, and bought him some pictures. In the Hall I met Mr. Thence the child and I to the coach, where my wife was ready, and so we went towards Twickenham.

In our way, at Kensington we understood how that my Lord Chesterfield had killed another gentleman about half an hour before, and was fled. We went forward and came about one of the clock to Mr. After that we parted and went homewards, it being market day at Brainford [Brentford]. I set my wife down and went with the coach to Mr. Jem, he having told me the reason of his melancholy was some unkindness from her after so great expressions of love, and how he had spoke to her friends and had their consent, and that he would desire me to take an occasion of speaking with her, but by no means not to heighten her discontent or distaste whatever it be, but to make it up if I can.

But he being out of doors, I went away and went to see Mrs. Jem, who was now very well again, and after a game or two at cards, I left her. So I went to the Coffee Club, and heard very good discourse; it was in answer to Mr. Thence I went home, it being late and my wife in bed. Sheply brought me letters from the carrier and so I went home. Talbot, Adams, Pinkny and his son, but his son did not come.

Here we were very merry, and while I was here Mr. Fuller came thither and staid a little, while. Harrison, and by chance seeing Mr. Butler is usually styled by Pepys Mons. At which time Mistress Ann—[Probably Mrs. Pepys made several for Montagu, Downing, and others. Cooper and so I came home and to bed. All the world is at a loss to think what Monk will do: This morning I was sent for to Mr.

Downing, and at his bed side he told me, that he had a kindness for me, and that he thought that he had done me one; and that was, that he had got me to be one of the Clerks of the Council; at which I was a little stumbled, and could not tell what to do, whether to thank him or no; but by and by I did; but not very heartily, for I feared that his doing of it was but only to ease himself of the salary which he gives me.

Sheply staying below all this time for me we went thence and met Mr. Cooper and did give him some answer from my Lord and he did give us leave to keep the lodgings still. And so we did determine thereupon that Mr. Sheply might now go into the country and would do so to-morrow. Back I went by Mr. Thence to my office and so with Mr. Sheply and Moore, to dine upon a turkey with Mrs. Jem, and after that Mr. Moore and I went to the French Ordinary, where Mr.

Downing this day feasted Sir Arth. Haselrigge, and a great many more of the Parliament, and did stay to put him in mind of me. Here he gave me a note to go and invite some other members to dinner tomorrow. Hence I went and did leave some of my notes at the lodgings of the members and so home. I called upon Mr. Calthrop about the money due to my Lord. Here I met with Mr. Woodfine and drank with him at the Sun in Chancery Lane and so to Westminster Hall, where at the lobby I spoke with the rest of my guests and so to my office.

At noon went by water with Mr. Falconberge would go drink a cup of ale at a place where I had like to have shot at a scholar that lay over the house of office. Thence calling on Mr. Thence to Westminster Hall where Mrs. Lane and the rest of the maids had their white scarfs, all having been at the burial of a young bookseller in the Hall. So parted and I sat up late making up my accounts before he go.

This day three citizens of London went to meet Monk from the Common Council! Sheply and possession of all the keys and the house. Thence to my office for some money to pay Mr. Sheply and sent it him by the old man. I then went to Mr. So the porter or he lied. Thence to my office where nothing to do. Hawly, he and I went to Mr. Thence into London, to Mr. At the Mitre, in Fleet street, in our way calling on Mr. Fage, who told me how the City have some hopes of Monk. Jem and gave her L5. But I satisfied him and after I had wrote a letter there to my Lord, wherein I gave him an account how this day Lenthall took his chair again, and [the House] resolved a declaration to be brought in on Monday next to satisfy the world what they intend to do.

I went in the morning to Mr. Thurburn and sat with him in his pew. A very eloquent sermon about the duty of all to give good example in our lives and conversation, which I fear he himself was most guilty of not doing. After dinner my father shewed me a letter from Mr. To church in the afternoon to Mr. Herring, where a lazy poor sermon. And so home with Mrs. This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes, which I have bought yesterday of Mr.

In the morning called out to carry L20 to Mr. Downing, which I did and came back, and finding Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, I took him to the Axe and gave him his morning draft. Thence to my office and there did nothing but make up my balance. I went out and paid Wilkinson what I did owe him, and brought a piece of beef home for dinner.

Thence I went out and paid Waters, the vintner, and went to see Mrs. Jem, where I found my Lady Wright, but Scott was so drunk that he could not be seen. Here I staid and made up Mrs. Michell, my bookseller, and back to Whitehall, and in the garden, going through to the Stone Gallery—[The Stone Gallery was a long passage between the Privy Garden and the river. Pierces, she in the way being exceedingly troubled with a pair of new pattens, and I vexed to go so slow, it being late.

There when we came we found Mrs. Carrick very fine, and one Mr. Lucy, who called one another husband and wife, and after dinner a great deal of mad stir. There was pulling off Mrs. Lucy and several other gentlemen coming in after dinner, swearing and singing as if they were mad, only he singing very handsomely. There came in afterwards Mr. Southerne, clerk to Mr. Hence home with my wife and so to Whitehall, where I met with Mr.

So home and talked with my wife about our dinner on Thursday. Called up early to Mr. After dinner I took leave, and coming home heard that in Cheapside there had been but a little before a gibbet set up, and the picture of Huson. Thomas Crew, to my Lord. So [to] my Lady Wright to speak with her, but she was abroad, so Mr. Evans, her butler, had me into his buttery, and gave me sack and a lesson on his lute, which he played very well. Downing sent for me, and gave me order to go to Mr.

Jessop for his papers concerning his dispatch to Holland which were not ready, only his order for a ship to transport him he gave me. To my office for L20 to carry to Mr. Downing, which I did and back again. Frost to pay Mr. Downing his L, and I went to him for the warrant and brought it Mr. Called for some papers at Whitehall for Mr. Downing, one of which was an Order of the Council for L per annum, to be paid monthly; and the other two, Orders to the Commissioners of Customs, to let his goods pass free.

My company was my father, my uncle Fenner, his two sons, Mr. Pierce, and all their wives, and my brother Tom. We were as merry as I could frame myself to be in the company, W. Joyce talking after the old rate and drinking hard, vexed his father and mother and wife. And I did perceive that Mrs. Pierce her coming so gallant, that it put the two young women quite out of courage.

When it became dark they all went away but Mr. Joyce, and their wives and Tom, and drank a bottle of wine afterwards, so that Will did heartily vex his father and mother by staying. At which I and my wife were much pleased. Then they all went and I fell to writing of two characters for Mr. After dinner to-day my father showed me a letter from my Uncle Robert, in answer to my last, concerning my money which I would have out of my Coz.

Going to my office I met with Tom Newton, my old comrade, and took him to the Crown in the Palace, and gave him his morning draft. And as he always did, did talk very high what he would do with the Parliament, that he would have what place he would, and that he might be one of the Clerks to the Council if he would. Here I staid talking with him till the offices were all shut, and then I looked in the Hall, and was told by my bookseller, Mrs.

Montagu had inquired there for me. So I went to his house, and was forced by him to dine with him, and had a plenteous brave dinner and the greatest civility that ever I had from any man. Thence home and so to Mrs. Jem, and played with her at cards, and coming home again my wife told me that Mr. Hawly had been there to speak with me, and seemed angry that I had not been at the office that day, and she told me she was afraid that Mr. Downing may have a mind to pick some hole in my coat. So I made haste to him, but found no such thing from him, but he sent me to Mr.

Squib to come to him tomorrow, and I carried him an answer. So home and fell a writing the characters for Mr. Downing, and about nine at night Mr. Hawly came, and after he was gone I sat up till almost twelve writing, and—wrote two of them. In the morning up early and wrote another, my wife lying in bed and reading to me.

I went to Mr. Downing and carried him three characters, and then to my office and wrote another, while Mr. Frost staid telling money. And after I had done it Mr. Hawly came into the office and I left him and carried it to Mr. Downing, who then told me that he was resolved to be gone for Holland this morning. So I to my office again, and dispatch my business there, and came with Mr. Squib from White Hall in a coach thither with me, and there we waited in his chamber a great while, till he came in; and in the mean time, sent all his things to the barge that lay at Charing-Cross Stairs.

Then came he in, and took a very civil leave of me, beyond my expectation, for I was afraid that he would have told me something of removing me from my office; but he did not, but that he would do me any service that lay in his power. So I went down and sent a porter to my house for my best fur cap, but he coming too late with it I did not present it to him. Thence I went to Westminster Hall, and bound up my cap at Mrs. Walton L; it being very dark he took L by content.

He gave me half a piece and carried me in his coach to St. Andrews, and took in all my notes and gave him one for all. Back again home and to bed. Peter the feast day of St. Paul being a day or two ago , whereby he did prove, that, contrary to the doctrine of the Roman Church, St. Paul did never own any dependance, or that he was inferior to St. Peter, but that they were equal, only one a particular charge of preaching to the Jews, and the other to the Gentiles.

Moore, and went home with him to dinner to Mr. Spurrier being in town did dine with us. From thence I went home and spent the afternoon in casting up my accounts, and do find myself to be worth L40 and more, which I did not think, but am afraid that I have forgot something. Joyce would the other day have Mr. Pierce and his wife to the tavern after they were gone from my house, and that he had so little manners as to make Tom pay his share notwithstanding that he went upon his account, and by my father I understand that my uncle Fenner and my aunt were much pleased with our entertaining them.

After supper home without going to see Mrs. Scull the waterman came and brought me a note from the Hope from Mr. Hawly with direction, about his money, he tarrying there till his master be gone. To my office, where I received money of the excise of Mr. Torriano used to be and staid there a while with Mr.

Ashwell, Spicer and Ruddier. Then I went and paid L12 17s. Dick Matthews according to his direction the last week in a letter. Jam, whose maid had newly got an ague and was ill thereupon. So homewards again, having great need to do my business, and so pretending to meet Mr. Shott the wood monger of Whitehall I went and eased myself at the Harp and Ball, and thence home where I sat writing till bed-time and so to bed.

There seems now to be a general cease of talk, it being taken for granted that Monk do resolve to stand to the Parliament, and nothing else. Spent a little time this night in knocking up nails for my hat and cloaks in my chamber. So to my office where I paid; L to Mr. Then home and dined with my wife when in came Mr. Hawly newly come from shipboard from his master, and brought me a letter of direction what to do in his lawsuit with Squib about his house and office. After dinner to Westminster Hall, where all we clerks had orders to wait upon the Committee, at the Star Chamber that is to try Colonel Jones,.

Godfrey Austin, a scrivener in King Street. Jem, where I found her maid in bed in a fit of the ague, and Mrs. Pulford, servant to Mr. Waterhouse, who tells me, that whereas my Lord Fleetwood should have answered to the Parliament to-day, he wrote a letter and desired a little more time, he being a great way out of town. And how that he is quite ashamed of himself, and confesses how he had deserved this, for his baseness to his brother.

And that he is like to pay part of the money, paid out of the Exchequer during the Committee of Safety, out of his own purse again, which I am glad of. Home and to bed, leaving my wife reading in Polixandre. I could find nothing in Mr. 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. 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.

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.

Hunt and his wife who staid and sat with me till 10 and so good night. 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. So I took my money and went to Mrs. 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.

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. Home and to bed. Thence to my office, where I paid a little more money to some of the soldiers under Lieut.

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. 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,.

After this done he went away, and left me order to call and pay for all that Mrs. 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. 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.

I returned, and it growing dark I and they went to take a turn in the park, where Theoph. After that I set them as far as Charing Cross, and there left them and my wife, and I went to see Mrs.

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Ann, who began very high about a flock bed I sent her, but I took her down. 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.

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. I was fain to slip from there and went to Mrs. Jem while her maid is sick, but she could spare none. Carter about it, who will get one against Monday. So with a link boy. 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.