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Title: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1660

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

            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY

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

                              (Unabridged)

                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES

                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY

                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.



                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                                 MAY
                                 1660


May 1st.  This morning I was told how the people of Deal have set up two
or three Maypoles, and have hung up their flags upon the top of them, and
do resolve to be very merry to-day.  It being a very pleasant day, I
wished myself in Hide Park.  This day I do count myself to have had full
two years of perfect cure for the stone, for which God of heaven be
blessed.  This day Captain Parker came on board, and without his
expectation I had a commission for him for the Nonsuch frigate

     [The "Nonsuch" was a fourth-rate of thirty-two guns, built at
     Deptford in 1646 by Peter Pett, jun.  The captain was John Parker.]

(he being now in the Cheriton), for which he gave me a French pistole.
Captain H. Cuttance has commission for the Cheriton.  After dinner to
nine-pins, and won something.  The rest of the afternoon in my cabin
writing and piping.  While we were at supper we heard a great noise upon
the Quarter Deck, so we all rose instantly, and found it was to save the
coxon of the Cheriton, who, dropping overboard, could not be saved, but
was drowned.  To-day I put on my suit that was altered from the great
skirts to little ones.  To-day I hear they were very merry at Deal,
setting up the King's flag upon one of their maypoles, and drinking his
health upon their knees in the streets, and firing the guns, which the
soldiers of the Castle threatened; but durst not oppose.



2nd.  In the morning at a breakfast of radishes at the Purser's cabin.
After that to writing till dinner.  At which time comes Dunne from
London, with letters that tell us the welcome news of the Parliament's
votes yesterday, which will be remembered for the happiest May-day that
bath been many a year to England.  The King's letter was read in the
House, wherein he submits himself and all things to them, as to an Act of
Oblivion to all,

     ["His Majesty added thereunto an excellent Declaration for the
     safety and repose of those, who tortured in their consciences, for
     having partaken in the rebellion, might fear the punishment of it,
     and in that fear might oppose the tranquillity of the Estate, and
     the calling in of their lawful Prince.  It is printed and published
     as well as the letter, but that shall not hinder me to say, that
     there was never seen a more perfect assemblage of all the most
     excellent natural qualities, and of all the venues, as well Royal as
     Christian, wherewith a great Prince may be endowed, than was found
     in those two wonderful productions."--Sir William Lowers 'Relation .
     .  .  of the voiage and Residence Which .  .  .  Charles the II.
     Hath made in Holland,' Hague, 1660, folio, p. 3.]

unless they shall please to except any, as to the confirming of the sales
of the King's and Church lands, if they see good.  The House upon reading
the letter, ordered L50,000 to be forthwith provided to send to His
Majesty for his present supply; and a committee chosen to return an
answer of thanks to His Majesty for his gracious letter; and that the
letter be kept among the records of the Parliament; and in all this not
so much as one No.  So that Luke Robinson himself stood up and made a
recantation for what he had done, and promises to be a loyal subject to
his Prince for the time to come.  The City of London have put a
Declaration, wherein they do disclaim their owing any other government
but that of a King, Lords, and Commons.  Thanks was given by the House to
Sir John Greenville,

     [Created Earl of Bath, 1661; son of Sir Bevil Grenville, killed at
     the battle of Lansdowne; he was, when a boy, left for dead on the
     field at the second battle of Newbury, and said to have been the
     only person entrusted by Charles II. and Monk in bringing about the
     Restoration.]

one of the bedchamber to the King, who brought the letter, and they
continued bare all the time it was reading.  Upon notice made from the
Lords to the Commons, of their desire that the Commons would join with
them in their vote for King, Lords, and Commons; the Commons did concur
and voted that all books whatever that are out against the Government of
King, Lords, and Commons, should be brought into the House and burned.
Great joy all yesterday at London, and at night more bonfires than ever,
and ringing of bells, and drinking of the King's health upon their knees
in the streets, which methinks is a little too much.  But every body
seems to be very joyfull in the business, insomuch that our sea-
commanders now begin to say so too, which a week ago they would not do.

     ["The picture of King Charles II. was often set up in houses,
     without the least molestation, whereas a while ago, it was almost a
     hanging matter so to do; but now the Rump Parliament was so hated
     and jeered at, that the butchers' boys would say, 'Will you buy any
     Parliament rumps and kidneys?'  And it was a very ordinary thing to
     see little children make a fire in the streets, and burn rumps."
     --Rugge's Diurnal.--B.]

And our seamen, as many as had money or credit for drink, did do nothing
else this evening.  This day came Mr. North (Sir Dudley North's son) on
board, to spend a little time here, which my Lord was a little troubled
at, but he seems to be a fine gentleman, and at night did play his part
exceeding well at first sight.  After musique I went up to the Captain's
Cabin with him and Lieutenant Ferrers, who came hither to-day from London
to bring this news to my Lord, and after a bottle of wine we all to bed.



3d.  This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter
to the two Generals to be communicated to the fleet.

     ["King Charles II. his Declaration to all his loving Subjects of the
     Kingdome of England, dated from his Court at Breda in Holland 4/14
     of April, 1660, and read in Parliament with his Majesties Letter of
     the same date to his Excellence the Ld. Gen. Monck to be
     communicated to the Ld. President of the Council of State and
     to the Officers of the Army under his Command.  London, Printed by
     W. Godbid for John Playford in the Temple, 1660."  40, pp. 8.]

The contents of the letter are his offer of grace to all that will come
in within forty days, only excepting them that the Parliament shall
hereafter except.  That the sales of lands during these troubles, and all
other things, shall be left to the Parliament, by which he will stand.
The letter dated at Breda, April, 4 1660, in the 12th year of his reign.
Upon the receipt of it this morning by an express, Mr. Phillips, one of
the messengers of the Council from General Monk, my Lord summoned a
council of war, and in the mean time did dictate to me how he would have
the vote ordered which he would have pass this council.  Which done, the
Commanders all came on board, and the council sat in the coach (the first
council of war that had been in my time), where I read the letter and
declaration; and while they were discoursing upon it, I seemed to draw up
a vote, which being offered, they passed.  Not one man seemed to say no
to it, though I am confident many in their hearts were against it.  After
this was done, I went up to the quarter-deck with my Lord and the
Commanders, and there read both the papers and the vote; which done, and
demanding their opinion, the seamen did all of them cry out, "God bless
King Charles!"  with the greatest joy imaginable.  That being done, Sir
R. Stayner, who had invited us yesterday, took all the Commanders and
myself on board him to dinner, which not being ready, I went with Captain
Hayward to the Plimouth and Essex, and did what I had to do there and
returned, where very merry at dinner.  After dinner, to the rest of the
ships (staid at the Assistance to hear the harper a good while) quite
through the fleet.  Which was a very brave sight to visit all the ships,
and to be received with the respect and honour that I was on board them
all; and much more to see the great joy that I brought to all men; not
one through the whole fleet showing the least dislike of the business.
In the evening as I was going on board the Vice-Admiral, the General
began to fire his guns, which he did all that he had in the ship, and so
did all the rest of the Commanders, which was very gallant, and to hear
the bullets go hissing over our heads as we were in the boat.  This done
and finished my Proclamation, I returned to the Nazeby, where my Lord was
much pleased to hear how all the fleet took it in a transport of joy,
showed me a private letter of the King's to him, and another from the
Duke of York in such familiar style as to their common friend, with all
kindness imaginable.  And I found by the letters, and so my Lord told me
too, that there had been many letters passed between them for a great
while, and I perceive unknown to Monk.  And among the rest that had
carried these letters Sir John Boys is one, and that Mr. Norwood, which
had a ship to carry him over the other day, when my Lord would not have
me put down his name in the book.  The King speaks of his being courted
to come to the Hague, but do desire my Lord's advice whither to come to
take ship.  And the Duke offers to learn the seaman's trade of him, in
such familiar words as if Jack Cole and I had writ them.  This was very
strange to me, that my Lord should carry all things so wisely and
prudently as he do, and I was over joyful to see him in so good
condition, and he did not a little please himself to tell me how he had
provided for himself so great a hold on the King.

After this to supper, and then to writing of letters till twelve at
night, and so up again at three in the morning.  My Lord seemed to put
great confidence in me, and would take my advice in many things.  I
perceive his being willing to do all the honour in the world to Monk, and
to let him have all the honour of doing the business, though he will many
times express his thoughts of him to be but a thick-sculled fool.  So
that I do believe there is some agreement more than ordinary between the
King and my Lord to let Monk carry on the business, for it is he that
must do the business, or at least that can hinder it, if he be not
flattered and observed.  This, my Lord will hint himself sometimes.  My
Lord, I perceive by the King's letter, had writ to him about his father,
Crew,--[When only seventeen years old, Montagu had married Jemima,
daughter of John Crew, created afterwards Baron Crew of Stene.]--and the
King did speak well of him; but my Lord tells me, that he is afeard that
he hath too much concerned himself with the Presbyterians against the
House of Lords, which will do him a great discourtesy.



4th.  I wrote this morning many letters, and to all the copies of the
vote of the council of war I put my name, that if it should come in print
my name maybe at it.  I sent a copy of the vote to Doling, inclosed in
this letter:

     "SIR,

     "He that can fancy a fleet (like ours) in her pride, with pendants
     loose, guns roaring, caps flying, and the loud 'Vive le Roys,'
     echoed from one ship's company to another, he, and he only, can
     apprehend the joy this inclosed vote was received with, or the
     blessing he thought himself possessed of that bore it, and is

                                   "Your humble servant."


About nine o'clock I got all my letters done, and sent them by the
messenger that came yesterday.  This morning came Captain Isham on board
with a gentleman going to the King, by whom very cunningly, my Lord tells
me, he intends to send an account of this day's and yesterday's actions
here, notwithstanding he had writ to the Parliament to have leave of them
to send the King the answer of the fleet.  Since my writing of the last
paragraph, my Lord called me to him to read his letter to the King, to
see whether I could find any slips in it or no.  And as much of the
letter' as I can remember, is thus:

     "May it please your Most Excellent Majesty," and so begins.

     "That he yesterday received from General Monk his Majesty's letter
     and direction; and that General Monk had desired him to write to the
     Parliament to have leave to send the vote of the seamen before he
     did send it to him, which he had done by writing to both Speakers;
     but for his private satisfaction he had sent it thus privately (and
     so the copy of the proceedings yesterday was sent him), and that
     this come by a gentleman that came this day on board, intending to
     wait upon his Majesty, that he is my Lord's countryman, and one
     whose friends have suffered much on his Majesty's behalf.  That my
     Lords Pembroke and Salisbury are put out of the House of Lords.
     That my Lord is very joyful that other countries do pay him the
     civility and respect due to him; and that he do much rejoice to see
     that the King do resolve to receive none of their assistance (or
     some such words), from them, he having strength enough in the love
     and loyalty of his own subjects to support him.  That his Majesty
     had chosen the best place, Scheveling,--[Schevingen, the port of the
     Hague]--for his embarking, and that there is nothing in the world of
     which he is more ambitious, than to have the honour of attending his
     Majesty, which he hoped would be speedy.  That he had commanded the
     vessel to attend at Helversluce--[Hellevoetsluis, in South Holland]
     --till this gentleman returns, that so if his Majesty do not think
     it fit to command the fleet himself, yet that he may be there to
     receive his commands and bring them to his Lordship.  He ends his
     letter, that he is confounded with the thoughts of the high
     expressions of love to him in the King's letter, and concludes,

     "Your most loyall, dutifull, faithfull and obedient subject and
     servant, E. M."


The rest of the afternoon at ninepins.  In the evening came a packet from
London, among the rest a letter from my wife, which tells me that she has
not been well, which did exceedingly trouble me, but my Lord sending Mr.
Cook at night, I wrote to her and sent a piece of gold enclosed to her,
and wrote also to Mrs. Bowyer, and enclosed a half piece to her for a
token.  After supper at the table in the coach, my Lord talking
concerning the uncertainty of the places of the Exchequer to them that
had them now; he did at last think of an office which do belong to him in
case the King do restore every man to his places that ever had been
patent, which is to be one of the clerks of the signet, which will be a
fine employment for one of his sons.  After all this discourse we broke
up and to bed.

In the afternoon came a minister on board, one Mr. Sharpe, who is going
to the King; who tells me that Commissioners are chosen both of Lords and
Commons to go to the King; and that Dr. Clarges

     [Thomas Clarges, physician to the army, created a baronet, 1674,
     died 1695.  He had been previously knighted; his sister Anne married
     General Monk.  "The Parliament also permitted General Monk to send
     Mr. Clarges, his brother-in-law, accompanied with some officers of
     the army, to assure his Majesty of the fidelity and obedience of the
     army, which had made publick and solemn protestations thereof, after
     the Letter and Declaration was communicated unto them by the
     General."--Sir William Lowers Relation .  .  . of the Voiage and
     Residence which .  .  . Charles the II.  Hath made in Holland,
     Hague, 1660, folio.]

is going to him from the Army, and that he will be here to-morrow.  My
letters at night tell me, that the House did deliver their letter to Sir
John Greenville, in answer to the King's sending, and that they give him
L500 for his pains, to buy him a jewel, and that besides the L50,000
ordered to be borrowed of the City for the present use of the King, the
twelve companies of the City do give every one of them to his Majesty, as
a present, L1000.



5th.  All the morning very busy writing letters to London, and a packet
to Mr. Downing, to acquaint him with what had been done lately in the
fleet.  And this I did by my Lord's command, who, I thank him, did of
himself think of doing it, to do me a kindness, for he writ a letter
himself to him, thanking him for his kindness to me.  All the afternoon
at ninepins, at night after supper good musique, my Lord, Mr. North, I
and W. Howe.  After that to bed.  This evening came Dr. Clarges to Deal,
going to the King; where the towns-people strewed the streets with herbes
against his coming, for joy of his going.  Never was there so general a
content as there is now.  I cannot but remember that our parson did, in
his prayer to-night, pray for the long life and happiness of our King and
dread Soveraign, that may last as long as the sun and moon endureth.



6th (Lord's day).  This morning while we were at sermon comes in Dr.
Clarges and a dozen gentlemen to see my Lord, who, after sermon, dined
with him; I remember that last night upon discourse concerning Clarges my
Lord told me that he was a man of small entendimiento.--[Entendimiento,
Spanish: the understanding.]--This afternoon there was a gentleman with
me, an officer of Dunkirk going over, who came to me for an order and
told me he was lately with my uncle and Aunt Fenner and that Kate's fits
of the convulsions did hold her still.  It fell very well to-day, a
stranger preached here for Mr. Ibbot, one Mr. Stanley, who prayed for
King Charles, by the Grace of God, &c., which gave great contentment to
the gentlemen that were on board here, and they said they would talk of
it, when they come to Breda, as not having it done yet in London so
publickly.  After they were gone from on board, my Lord writ a letter to
the King and give it to me to carry privately to Sir William Compton' on
board the Assistance, which I did, and after a health to his Majesty on
board there, I left them under sail for Breda.  Back again and found them
at sermon.  I went up to my cabin and looked over my accounts, and find
that, all my debts paid and my preparations to sea paid for, I have L640
clear in my purse.  After supper to bed.



7th.  This morning Captain Cuttance sent me 12 bottles of Margate ale.
Three of them I drank presently with some friends in the Coach.  My Lord
went this morning about the flag-ships in a boat, to see what alterations
there must be, as to the arms and flags.  He did give me order also to
write for silk flags and scarlett waistcloathes.

     [Waist-cloths are the painted canvas coverings of the hammocks which
     are stowed in the waist-nettings.]

For a rich barge; for a noise of trumpets,

     [A set or company of musicians, an expression constantly used by old
     writers without any disparaging meaning.  It is sometimes applied to
     voices as well as to instruments.]

and a set of fidlers.  Very great deal of company come today, among
others Mr. Bellasses, Sir Thomas Lenthropp, Sir Henry Chichley, Colonel
Philip Honiwood, and Captain Titus, the last of whom my Lord showed all
our cabins, and I suppose he is to take notice what room there will be
for the King's entertainment.  Here were also all the Jurates of the town
of Dover come to give my Lord a visit, and after dinner all went away.
I could not but observe that the Vice-Admiral after dinner came into the
great cabin below, where the Jurates and I and the commanders for want of
room dined, and there told us we must drink a health to the King, and
himself called for a bottle of wine, and begun his and the Duke of
York's.  In the afternoon I lost 5s. at ninepins.  After supper musique,
and to bed.  Having also among us at the Coach table wrote a letter to
the French ambassador, in French, about the release of a ship we had
taken.  After I was in bed Mr. Sheply and W. Howe came and sat in my
cabin, where I gave them three bottles of Margate ale, and sat laughing
and very merry, till almost one o'clock in the morning, and so good
night.



8th.  All the morning busy.  After dinner come several persons of honour,
as my Lord St. John and others, for convoy to Flushing, and great giving
of them salutes.  My Lord and we at nine-pins: I lost 9s.  While we were
at play Mr. Cook brings me word of my wife.  He went to Huntsmore to see
her, and brought her and my father Bowyer to London, where he left her at
my father's, very well, and speaks very well of her love to me.  My
letters to-day tell me how it was intended that the King should be
proclaimed to-day in London, with a great deal of pomp.  I had also news
who they are that are chosen of the Lords and Commons to attend the King.
And also the whole story of what we did the other day in the fleet,
at reading of the King's declaration, and my name at the bottom of it.
After supper some musique and to bed.  I resolving to rise betimes to-
morrow to write letters to London.



9th.  Up very early, writing a letter to the King, as from the two
Generals of the fleet, in answer to his letter to them, wherein my Lord
do give most humble thanks for his gracious letter and declaration; and
promises all duty and obedience to him.  This letter was carried this
morning to Sir Peter Killigrew,

     [Sir Peter Killigrew, Knight, of Arwenack, Cornwall, was known as
     "Peter the Post," from the alacrity with which he despatched "like
     wild fire" all the messages and other commissions entrusted to him
     in the King's cause.  His son Peter, who succeeded his uncle as
     second baronet in 1665, was M.P. for Camelford in 1660.]

who came hither this morning early to bring an order from the Lords'
House to my Lord, giving him power to write an answer to the King.  This
morning my Lord St. John and other persons of honour were here to see my
Lord, and so away to Flushing.  After they were gone my Lord and I to
write letters to London, which we sent by Mr. Cook, who was very desirous
to go because of seeing my wife before she went out of town.  As we were
sitting down to dinner, in comes Noble with a letter from the House of
Lords to my Lord, to desire him to provide ships to transport the
Commissioners to the King, which are expected here this week.  He brought
us certain news that the King was proclaimed yesterday with great pomp,
and brought down one of the Proclamations, with great joy to us all; for
which God be praised.  After dinner to ninepins and lost 5s.  This
morning came Mr. Saunderson,

     [Afterwards Sir William Sanderson, gentleman of the chamber, author
     of the "History of Mary Queen of Scots, James I., and Charles I."
     His wife, Dame Bridget, was mother of the maids.]

that writ the story of the King, hither, who is going over to the King.
He calls me cozen and seems a very knowing man.  After supper to bed
betimes, leaving my Lord talking in the Coach with the Captain.



10th.  This morning came on board Mr. Pinkney and his son, going to the
King with a petition finely writ by Mr. Whore, for to be the King's
embroiderer; for whom and Mr. Saunderson I got a ship.  This morning come
my Lord Winchelsea and a great deal of company, and dined here.  In the
afternoon, while my Lord and we were at musique in the great cabin below,
comes in a messenger to tell us that Mr. Edward Montagu,

     [Sir Edward Montagu's eldest son, afterwards second Earl of
     Sandwich, called by Pepys "The child."]

my Lord's son, was come to Deal, who afterwards came on board with Mr.
Pickering with him.  The child was sick in the evening.  At night, while
my Lord was at supper, in comes my Lord Lauderdale and Sir John
Greenville, who supped here, and so went away.  After they were gone, my
Lord called me into his cabin, and told me how he was commanded to set
sail presently for the King,

     ["Ordered that General Montagu do observe the command of His Majesty
     for the disposing of the fleet, in order to His Majesty's returning
     home to England to his kingly government: and that all proceedings
     in law be in His Majesty's name."--Rugge's Diurnal.--B.]

and was very glad thereof, and so put me to writing of letters and other
work that night till it was very late, he going to bed.  I got him
afterwards to sign things in bed.  After I had done some more work I to
bed also.



11th.  Up very early in the morning, and so about a great deal of
business in order to our going hence to-day.  Burr going on shore last
night made me very angry.  So that I sent for Mr. Pitts to come tome from
the Vice-Admiral's, intending not to have employed Burr any more.  But
Burr by and by coming and desiring humbly that I would forgive him and
Pitts not coming I did set him to work.  This morning we began to pull
down all the State's arms in the fleet, having first sent to Dover for
painters and others to come to set up the King's.  The rest of the
morning writing of letters to London which I afterwards sent by Dunne.
I had this morning my first opportunity of discoursing with Dr. Clarke,

     [Timothy Clarke, M. D., one of the original Fellows of the Royal
     Society.  He was appointed one of the physicians in ordinary to
     Charles II.  on the death of Dr. Quartermaine in 1667.]

whom I found to be a very pretty man and very knowing.  He is now going
in this ship to the King.  There dined here my Lord Crafford and my Lord
Cavendish, and other Scotchmen whom I afterwards ordered to be received
on board the Plymouth, and to go along with us.  After dinner we set sail
from the Downs, I leaving my boy to go to Deal for my linen.  In the
afternoon overtook us three or four gentlemen; two of the Berties, and
one Mr. Dormerhoy, a Scotch gentleman, whom I afterwards found to be a
very fine man, who, telling my Lord that they heard the Commissioners
were come out of London to-day, my Lord dropt anchor over against Dover
Castle (which give us about thirty guns in passing), and upon a high
debate with the Vice and Rear Admiral whether it were safe to go and not
stay for the Commissioners, he did resolve to send Sir R. Stayner to
Dover, to enquire of my Lord Winchelsea, whether or no they are come out
of London, and then to resolve to-morrow morning of going or not; which
was done.  It blew very hard all this night that I was afeard of my boy.
About 11 at night came the boats from Deal, with great store of
provisions, by the same token John Goods told me that above 20 of the
fowls are smothered, but my boy was put on board the Northwich.  To bed.



12th.  This morning I inquired for my boy, whether he was come well or
no, and it was told me that he was well in bed.  My Lord called me to his
chamber, he being in bed, and gave me many orders to make for direction
for the ships that are left in the Downs, giving them the greatest charge
in the world to bring no passengers with them, when they come after us to
Scheveling Bay, excepting Mr. Edward Montagu, Mr. Thomas Crew, and Sir H.
Wright.  Sir R. Stayner hath been here early in the morning and told my
Lord, that my Lord Winchelsea understands by letters, that the
Commissioners are only to come to Dover to attend the coming over of the
King.  So my Lord did give order for weighing anchor, which we did, and
sailed all day.  In our way in the morning, coming in the midway between
Dover and Calais, we could see both places very easily, and very pleasant
it was to me that the further we went the more we lost sight of both
lands.  In the afternoon at cards with Mr. North and the Doctor.--
[Clarke]--There by us, in the Lark frigate, Sir R. Freeman and some
others, going from the King to England, come to see my Lord and so onward
on their voyage.  In the afternoon upon the quarterdeck the Doctor told
Mr. North and me an admirable story called "The Fruitless Precaution," an
exceeding pretty story and worthy my getting without book when I can get
the book.[??]  This evening came Mr. Sheply on board, whom we had left at
Deal and Dover getting of provision and borrowing of money.  In the
evening late, after discoursing with the Doctor, &c., to bed.



13th (Lord's day).  Trimmed in the morning, after that to the cook's room
with Mr. Sheply, the first time that I was there this voyage.  Then to
the quarter-deck, upon which the tailors and painters were at work,
cutting out some pieces of yellow cloth into the fashion of a crown and
C. R.  and put it upon a fine sheet, and that into the flag instead of
the State's arms, which after dinner was finished and set up after it had
been shewn to my Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his chamber, and
liked it so well as to bid me give the tailors 20s. among them for doing
of it.  This morn Sir J. Boys and Capt. Isham met us in the Nonsuch, the
first of whom, after a word or two with my Lord, went forward, the other
staid.  I heard by them how Mr. Downing had never made any address to the
King, and for that was hated exceedingly by the Court, and that he was in
a Dutch ship which sailed by us, then going to England with disgrace.
Also how Mr. Morland was knighted by the King this week, and that the
King did give the reason of it openly, that it was for his giving him
intelligence all the time he was clerk to Secretary Thurloe.  In the
afternoon a council of war, only to acquaint them that the Harp must be
taken out of all their flags,

     [In May, 1658, the old Union Jack (being the crosses of St. George
     and St. Andrew combined) was revived, with the Irish harp over the
     centre of the flag.  This harp was taken off at the Restoration.
     (See "The National Flags of the Commonwealth," by H. W. Henfrey,"
     Journ. Brit.  Arch.  Assoc.," vol.  xxxi, p. 54.) The sign of the
     "Commonwealth Arms" was an uncommon one, but a token of one exists--
     "Francis Wood at ye Commonwealth arms in Mary Maudlens" [St. Mary
     Magdalen, Old Fish Street].]

it being very offensive to the King.  Mr. Cook, who came after us in the
Yarmouth, bringing me a letter from my wife and a Latin letter from my
brother John, with both of which I was exceedingly pleased.  No sermon
all day, we being under sail, only at night prayers, wherein Mr. Ibbott
prayed for all that were related to us in a spiritual and fleshly way.
We came within sight of Middle's shore.  Late at night we writ letters to
the King of the news of our coming, and Mr. Edward Picketing carried
them.  Capt. Isham went on shore, nobody showing of him any respect; so
the old man very fairly took leave of my Lord, and my Lord very coldly
bid him "God be with you," which was very strange, but that I hear that
he keeps a great deal of prating and talking on shore, on board, at the
King's Courts, what command he had with my Lord, &c.  After letters were
gone then to bed.



14th.  In the morning when I woke and rose, I saw myself out of the
scuttle close by the shore, which afterwards I was told to be the Dutch
shore; the Hague was clearly to be seen by us.  My Lord went up in his
nightgown into the cuddy,

     ["A sort of cabin or cook-room, generally in the fore-part, but
     sometimes near the stern of lighters and barges of burden."--Smyth's
     Sailor's Word-Book.]

to see how to dispose thereof for himself and us that belong to him, to
give order for our removal to-day.  Some nasty Dutchmen came on board to
proffer their boats to carry things from us on shore, &c., to get money
by us.  Before noon some gentlemen came on board from the shore to kiss
my Lord's hands.  And by and by Mr. North and Dr. Clerke went to kiss the
Queen of Bohemia's' hands, from my Lord, with twelve attendants from on
board to wait on them, among which I sent my boy, who, like myself, is
with child to see any strange thing.  After noon they came back again
after having kissed the Queen of Bohemia's hand, and were sent again by
my Lord to do the same to the Prince of Orange.

     [Son of the Prince of Orange and Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I.
     --afterwards William III.  He was then in his tenth year, having
     been born in 1650.]

So I got the Captain to ask leave for me to go, which my Lord did give,
and I taking my boy and judge Advocate with me, went in company with
them.  The weather bad; we were sadly washed when we came near the shore,
it being very hard to land there.  The shore is, as all the country
between that and the Hague, all sand.  The rest of the company got a
coach by themselves; Mr. Creed and I went in the fore part of a coach
wherein were two very pretty ladies, very fashionable and with black
patches, who very merrily sang all the way and that very well, and were
very free to kiss the two blades that were with them.  I took out my
flageolette and piped, but in piping I dropped my rapier-stick, but when
I came to the Hague, I sent my boy back again for it and he found it, for
which I did give him 6d., but some horses had gone over it and broke the
scabbard.  The Hague is a most neat place in all respects.  The houses so
neat in all places and things as is possible.  Here we walked up and down
a great while, the town being now very full of Englishmen, for that the
Londoners were come on shore today.  But going to see the Prince,--
[Prince of Orange, afterwards William III.]--he was gone forth with his
governor, and so we walked up and down the town and court to see the
place; and by the help of a stranger, an Englishman, we saw a great many
places, and were made to understand many things, as the intention of may-
poles, which we saw there standing at every great man's door, of
different greatness according to the quality of the person.  About 10 at
night the Prince comes home, and we found an easy admission.  His
attendance very inconsiderable as for a prince; but yet handsome, and his
tutor a fine man, and himself a very pretty boy.  It was bright moonshine
to-night.  This done we went to a place we had taken to sup in, where a
sallet and two or three bones of mutton were provided for a matter of ten
of us which was very strange.  After supper the Judge and I to another
house, leaving them there, and he and I lay in one press bed, there being
two more in the same room, but all very neat and handsome, my boy
sleeping upon a bench by me.



15th.  We lay till past three o'clock, then up and down the town, to see
it by daylight, where we saw the soldiers of the Prince's guard, all very
fine, and the burghers of the town with their arms and muskets as bright
as silver.  And meeting this morning a schoolmaster that spoke good
English and French, he went along with us and shewed us the whole town,
and indeed I cannot speak enough of the gallantry of the town.  Every
body of fashion speaks French or Latin, or both.  The women many of them
very pretty and in good habits, fashionable and black spots.  He went
with me to buy a couple of baskets, one of them for Mrs. Pierce, the
other for my wife.  After he was gone, we having first drank with him at
our lodging, the judge and I to the Grande Salle where we were shewed the
place where the States General sit in council.  The hall is a great
place, where the flags that they take from their enemies are all hung up;
and things to be sold, as in Westminster Hall, and not much unlike it,
but that not so big, but much neater.  After that to a bookseller's and
bought for the love of the binding three books: the French Psalms in four
parts, Bacon's Organon, and Farnab. Rhetor.

     ["Index Rhetoricus" of Thomas Farnaby was a book which went through
     several editions.  The first was published at London by R. Allot in
     1633.]

After that the judge, I and my boy by coach to Scheveling again, where we
went into a house of entertainment and drank there, the wind being very
high, and we saw two boats overset and the gallants forced to be pulled
on shore by the heels, while their trunks, portmanteaus, hats, and
feathers, were swimming in the sea.  Among others I saw the ministers
that come along with the Commissioners (Mr. Case among the rest) sadly
dipped.

     [Thomas Case, born 1598, was a famous preacher and a zealous
     advocate for the Solemn League and Covenant, a member of the
     assembly of divines, and rector of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields.  He
     was one of the deputation to Charles II.  at Breda, and appointed a
     royal chaplain.  He was ejected by the Act of Uniformity, but
     remained in London after his ejection.  Died May 30th, 1682.]

So they came in where we were, and I being in haste left my Copenhagen
knife, and so lost it.  Having staid here a great while a gentleman that
was going to kiss my Lord's hand, from the Queen of Bohemia, and I hired
a Dutch boat for four rixdollars to carry us on board.  We were fain to
wait a great while before we could get off from the shore, the sea being
very rough.  The Dutchman would fain have made all pay that came into our
boat besides us two and our company, there being many of our ship's
company got in who were on shore, but some of them had no money, having
spent all on shore.  Coming on board we found all the Commissioners of
the House of Lords at dinner with my Lord, who after dinner went away for
shore.  Mr. Morland, now Sir Samuel, was here on board, but I do not find
that my Lord or any body did give him any respect, he being looked upon
by him and all men as a knave.  Among others he betrayed Sir Rich.
Willis

     [This is somewhat different to the usual account of Morland's
     connection with Sir Richard Willis.  In the beginning of 1659
     Cromwell, Thurloe, and Willis formed a plot to inveigle Charles II.
     into England and into the hands of his enemies.  The plot was
     discussed in Thurloe's office, and Morland, who pretended to be
     asleep, heard it and discovered it.  Willis sent for Morland, and
     received him in a cellar.  He said that one of them must have
     discovered the plot.  He laid his hand upon the Bible and swore that
     he had not been the discoverer, calling upon Morland to do the same.
     Morland, with presence of mind, said he was ready to do so if Willis
     would give him a reason why he should suspect him.  By this ready
     answer he is said to have escaped the ordeal (see Birch's "Life of
     Thurloe").]

that married Dr. F. Jones's daughter, that he had paid him L1000 at one
time by the Protector's and Secretary Thurloe's order, for intelligence
that he sent concerning the King.  In the afternoon my Lord called me on
purpose to show me his fine cloathes which are now come hither, and
indeed are very rich as gold and silver can make them, only his sword he
and I do not like.  In the afternoon my Lord and I walked together in the
coach two hours, talking together upon all sorts of discourse: as
religion, wherein he is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I,
saying, that indeed the Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly
fanatiques: he likes uniformity and form of prayer; about State-business,
among other things he told me that his conversion to the King's cause
(for so I was saying that I wondered from what time the King could look
upon him to become his friend), commenced from his being in the Sound,
when he found what usage he was likely to have from a Commonwealth.  My
Lord, the Captain, and I supped in my Lord's chamber, where I did
perceive that he did begin to show me much more respect than ever he did
yet.  After supper, my Lord sent for me, intending to have me play at
cards with him, but I not knowing cribbage, we fell into discourse of
many things, till it was so rough sea and the ship rolled so much that I
was not able to stand, and so he bid me go to bed.



16th.  Soon as I was up I went down to be trimmed below in the great
cabin, but then come in some with visits, among the rest one from Admiral
Opdam,

     [The admiral celebrated in Lord Dorset's ballad, "To all you ladies
     now at land."

                   "Should foggy Opdam chance to know
                    Our sad and dismal story;
                    The Dutch would scorn so weak a foe,
                    And quit their fort at Goree
                    For what resistance can they find
                    From men who've left their hearts behind?"--B.]

who spoke Latin well, but not French nor English, to whom my Lord made me
to give his answer and to entertain; he brought my Lord a tierce of wine
and a barrel of butter, as a present from the Admiral.  After that to
finish my trimming, and while I was doing of it in comes Mr. North very
sea-sick from shore, and to bed he goes.  After that to dinner, where
Commissioner Pett was come to take care to get all things ready for the
King on board.  My Lord in his best suit, this the first day, in
expectation to wait upon the King.  But Mr. Edw. Pickering coming from
the King brought word that the King would not put my Lord to the trouble
of coming to him; but that he would come to the shore to look upon the
fleet to-day, which we expected, and had our guns ready to fire, and our
scarlet waistcloathes out and silk pendants, but he did not come.  My
Lord and we at ninepins this afternoon upon the Quarterdeck, which was
very pretty sport.  This evening came Mr. John Pickering on board, like
an ass, with his feathers and new suit that he had made at the Hague.
My Lord very angry for his staying on shore, bidding me a little before
to send to him, telling me that he was afraid that for his father's sake
he might have some mischief done him, unless he used the General's name.
To supper, and after supper to cards.  I stood by and looked on till 11
at night and so to bed.  This afternoon Mr. Edwd. Pickering told me in
what a sad, poor condition for clothes and money the King was, and all
his attendants, when he came to him first from my Lord, their clothes not
being worth forty shillings the best of them.

     [Andrew Marvell alludes to the poor condition, for clothes and
     money, in which the King was at this time, in "A Historical Poem":--

               "At length, by wonderful impulse of fate,
               The people call him back to help the State;
               And what is more, they send him money, too,
               And clothe him all from head to foot anew."]

And how overjoyed the King was when Sir J. Greenville brought him some
money; so joyful, that he called the Princess Royal and Duke of York to
look upon it as it lay in the portmanteau before it was taken out.  My
Lord told me, too, that the Duke of York is made High Admiral of England.



17th.  Up early to write down my last two days' observations.  Dr. Clerke
came to me to tell me that he heard this morning, by some Dutch that are
come on board already to see the ship, that there was a Portuguese taken
yesterday at the Hague, that had a design to kill the King.  But this I
heard afterwards was only the mistake upon one being observed to walk
with his sword naked, he having lost his scabbard.  Before dinner Mr.
Edw. Pickering and I, W. Howe, Pim, and my boy,--[Edward Montagu,
afterwards Lord Hinchinbroke.]--to Scheveling, where we took coach, and
so to the Hague, where walking, intending to find one that might show us
the King incognito, I met with Captain Whittington (that had formerly
brought a letter to my Lord from the Mayor of London) and he did promise
me to do it, but first we went and dined at a French house, but paid 16s.
for our part of the club.  At dinner in came Dr. Cade, a merry mad parson
of the King's.  And they two after dinner got the child and me (the
others not being able to crowd in) to see the King, who kissed the child
very affectionately.  Then we kissed his, and the Duke of York's, and the
Princess Royal's hands.  The King seems to be a very sober man; and a
very splendid Court he hath in the number of persons of quality that are
about him, English very rich in habit.  From the King to the Lord
Chancellor,

     [On January 29th, 1658, Charles II.  entrusted the Great Seal to Sir
     Edward Hyde, with the title of Lord Chancellor, and in that
     character Sir Edward accompanied the King to England.]

who did lie bed-rid of the gout: he spoke very merrily to the child and
me.  After that, going to see the Queen of Bohemia, I met with Dr.
Fullers whom I sent to a tavern with Mr. Edw. Pickering, while I and the
rest went to see the Queen,--[Henrietta Maria.]-- who used us very
respectfully; her hand we all kissed.  She seems a very debonaire, but
plain lady.  After that to the Dr.'s, where we drank a while or so.  In a
coach of a friend's of Dr. Cade we went to see a house of the Princess
Dowager's in a park about half-a-mile or a mile from the Hague, where
there is one, the most beautiful room for pictures in the whole world.
She had here one picture upon the top, with these words, dedicating it to
the memory of her husband:--"Incomparabili marito, inconsolabilis vidua."

     [Mary, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of Charles I., and widow of
     William of Nassau, Prince of Orange.  She was not supposed to be
     inconsolable, and scandal followed her at the court of Charles II.,
     where she died of small-pox, December 24th, 1660.]

Here I met with Mr. Woodcock of Cambridge, Mr. Hardy and another, and Mr.
Woodcock beginning we had two or three fine songs, he and I, and W. Howe
to the Echo, which was very pleasant, and the more because in a heaven of
pleasure and in a strange country, that I never was taken up more with a
sense of pleasure in my life.  After that we parted and back to the Hague
and took a tour or two about the Forehault,--[The Voorhout is the
principal street of the Hague, and it is lined with handsome trees.]--
where the ladies in the evening do as our ladies do in Hide Park.  But
for my life I could not find one handsome, but their coaches very rich
and themselves so too.  From thence, taking leave of the Doctor, we took
wagon to Scheveling, where we had a fray with the Boatswain of the
Richmond, who would not freely carry us on board, but at last he was
willing to it, but then it was so late we durst not go.  So we returned
between 10 and 11 at night in the dark with a wagon with one horse to the
Hague, where being come we went to bed as well as we could be
accommodated, and so to sleep.



18th.  Very early up, and, hearing that the Duke of York, our Lord High
Admiral, would go on board to-day, Mr. Pickering and I took waggon for
Scheveling, leaving the child in Mr. Pierces hands, with directions to
keep him within doors all day till he heard from me.  But the wind being
very high that no boats could get off from shore, we returned to the
Hague (having breakfasted with a gentleman of the Duke's, and
Commissioner Pett, sent on purpose to give notice to my Lord of his
coming), where I hear that the child is gone to Delfe to see the town.
So we all and Mr. Ibbott, the Minister, took a schuit--[The trekschuit
(drag-boat) along the canal is still described as an agreeable conveyance
from Leyden to Delft.]--and very much pleased with the manner and
conversation of the passengers, where most speak French; went after them,
but met them by the way.  But however we went forward making no stop.
Where when we were come we got a smith's boy of the town to go along with
us, but could speak nothing but Dutch, and he showed us the church where
Van Trump lies entombed with a very fine monument.  His epitaph concluded
thus:--"Tandem Bello Anglico tantum non victor, certe invictus, vivere et
vincere desiit."  There is a sea-fight cut in marble, with the smoke, the
best expressed that ever I saw in my life.  From thence to the great
church, that stands in a fine great market-place, over against the Stadt-
house, and there I saw a stately tomb of the old Prince of Orange, of
marble and brass; wherein among other rarities there are the angels with
their trumpets expressed as it were crying.  Here were very fine organs
in both the churches.  It is a most sweet town, with bridges, and a river
in every street.  Observing that in every house of entertainment there
hangs in every room a poor-man's box, and desiring to know the reason
thereof, it was told me that it is their custom to confirm all bargains
by putting something into the poor people's box, and that binds as fast
as any thing.  We also saw the Guesthouse, where it was very pleasant to
see what neat preparation there is for the poor.  We saw one poor man a-
dying there.  After we had seen all, we light by chance of an English
house to drink in, where we were very merry, discoursing of the town and
the thing that hangs up in the Stadthouse like a bushel, which
I was told is a sort of punishment for some sort of offenders to carry
through the streets of the town over his head, which is a great weight.
Back by water, where a pretty sober Dutch lass sat reading all the way,
and I could not fasten any discourse upon her.  At our landing we met
with Commissioner Pett going down to the water-side with Major Harly,
who is going upon a dispatch into England.  They having a coach I left
the Parson and my boy and went along with Commissioner Pett, Mr. Ackworth
and Mr. Dawes his friends, to the Princess Dowager's house again.
Thither also my Lord Fairfax and some other English Lords did come to see
it, and my pleasure was increased by seeing of it again.  Besides we went
into the garden, wherein are gallant nuts better than ever I saw, and a
fine Echo under the house in a vault made on purpose with pillars, where
I played on my flageolette to great advantage.  Back to the Hague, where
not finding Mr. Edward, I was much troubled, but went with the Parson to
supper to Commissioner Pett, where we sat late.  And among other mirth
Mr. Ackworth vyed wives, each endeavouring to set his own wife out to the
best advantage, he having as they said an extraordinary handsome wife.
But Mr. Dawes could not be got to say anything of his.  After that to our
lodging where W. Howe and I exceeding troubled not to know what is become
of our young gentleman.  So to bed.



19th.  Up early, hearing nothing of the child, and went to Scheveling,
where I found no getting on board, though the Duke of York sent every day
to see whether he could do it or no.  Here I met with Mr. Pinkney and his
sons, and with them went back to the Hague, in our way lighting and going
to see a woman that makes pretty rock-work in shells, &c., which could I
have carried safe I would have bought some of.  At the Hague we went to
buy some pictures, where I saw a sort of painting done upon woollen
cloth, drawn as if there was a curtain over it, which was very pleasant,
but dear.  Another pretty piece of painting I saw, on which there was a
great wager laid by young Pinkney and me whether it was a principal or a
copy.  But not knowing how to decide, it was broken off, and I got the
old man to lay out as much as my piece of gold come to, and so saved my
money, which had been 24s. lost, I fear.  While we were here buying of
pictures, we saw Mr. Edward and his company land.  Who told me that they
had been at Leyden all night, at which I was very angry with Mr. Pierce,
and shall not be friends I believe a good while.  To our lodging to
dinner.  After that out to buy some linen to wear against to-morrow, and
so to the barber's.  After that by waggon to Lausdune, where the 365
children were born.  We saw the hill where they say the house stood and
sunk wherein the children were born.  The basins wherein the male and
female children were baptized do stand over a large table that hangs upon
a wall, with the whole story of the thing in Dutch and Latin, beginning,
"Margarita Herman Comitissa," &c.  The thing was done about 200 years
ago.

The town is a little small village which answers much to one of our small
villages, such a one as Chesterton in all respects, and one could have
thought it in England but for the language of the people.  We went into a
little drinking house where there were a great many Dutch boors eating of
fish in a boorish manner, but very merry in their way.  But the houses
here as neat as in the great places.  From thence to the Hague again
playing at crambo--[Crambo is described as "a play at short verses in
which a word is given, and the parties contend who can find most rhymes
to it."]--in the waggon, Mr. Edward, Mr. Ibbott, W. Howe, Mr. Pinkney,
and I.  When we were come thither W. Howe, and Mr. Ibbott, and Mr.
Pinckney went away for Scheveling, while I and the child to walk up and
down the town, where I met my old chamber-fellow, Mr. Ch. Anderson, and a
friend of his (both Physicians), Mr. Wright, who took me to a Dutch
house, where there was an exceeding pretty lass, and right for the sport,
but it being Saturday we could not have much of her company, but however
I staid with them (having left the child with my uncle Pickering, whom I
met in the street) till 12 at night.  By that time Charles was almost
drunk, and then broke up, he resolving to go thither again, after he had
seen me at my lodging, and lie with the girl, which he told me he had
done in the morning.  Going to my lodging we met with the bellman, who
struck upon a clapper, which I took in my hand, and it is just like the
clapper that our boys frighten the birds away from the corn with in
summer time in England.  To bed.



20th.  Up early, and with Mr. Pickering and the child by waggon to
Scheveling, where it not being yet fit to go off, I went to lie down in a
chamber in the house, where in another bed there was a pretty Dutch woman
in bed alone, but though I had a month's-mind

     [Month's-mind.  An earnest desire or longing, explained as alluding
     to "a woman's longing."  See Shakespeare, "Two Gentlemen of Verona,"
     act i.  sc. 2:

               "I see you have a month's mind to them."--M. B.]

I had not the boldness to go to her.  So there I slept an hour or two.
At last she rose, and then I rose and walked up and down the chamber, and
saw her dress herself after the Dutch dress, and talked to her as much as
I could, and took occasion, from her ring which she wore on her first
finger, to kiss her hand, but had not the face to offer anything more.
So at last I left her there and went to my company.  About 8 o'clock I
went into the church at Scheveling, which was pretty handsome, and in the
chancel a very great upper part of the mouth of a whale, which indeed was
of a prodigious bigness, bigger than one of our long boats that belong to
one of our ships.  Commissioner Pett at last came to our lodging, and
caused the boats to go off; so some in one boat and some in another we
all bid adieu to the shore.  But through badness of weather we were in
great danger, and a great while before we could get to the ship, so that
of all the company not one but myself that was not sick.  I keeping
myself in the open air, though I was soundly wet for it.  This hath not
been known four days together such weather at this time of year, a great
while.  Indeed our fleet was thought to be in great danger, but we found
all well, and Mr. Thos. Crew came on board.  I having spoke a word or two
with my Lord, being not very well settled, partly through last night's
drinking and want of sleep, I lay down in my gown upon my bed and slept
till the 4 o'clock gun the next morning waked me, which I took for 8 at
night, and rising .  .  .  mistook the sun rising for the sun setting on
Sunday night.



21st.  So into my naked bed

     [This is a somewhat late use of an expression which was once
     universal.  It was formerly the custom for both sexes to sleep in
     bed without any nightlinen.

              "Who sees his true love in her naked bed,
               Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white."

                              Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis.

     Nares ("Glossary") notes the expression so late as in the very odd
     novel by T. Amory, called "John Bunde," where a young lady declares,
     after an alarm, "that she would never go into naked bed on board
     ship again."  Octavo edition, vol. i.  p. 90.]

and slept till 9 o'clock, and then John Goods waked me, [by] and by the
captain's boy brought me four barrels of Mallows oysters, which Captain
Tatnell had sent me from Murlace.--[Apparently Mallows stands for St.
Malo and Murlace for Morlaise.]--The weather foul all this day also.
After dinner, about writing one thing or other all day, and setting my
papers in order, having been so long absent.  At night Mr. Pierce, Purser
(the other Pierce and I having not spoken to one another since we fell
out about Mr. Edward), and Mr. Cook sat with me in my cabin and supped
with me, and then I went to bed.  By letters that came hither in my
absence, I understand that the Parliament had ordered all persons to be
secured, in order to a trial, that did sit as judges in the late King's
death, and all the officers too attending the Court.  Sir John Lenthall
moving in the House, that all that had borne arms against the King should
be exempted from pardon, he was called to the bar of the House, and after
a severe reproof he was degraded his knighthood.  At Court I find that
all things grow high.  The old clergy talk as being sure of their lands
again, and laugh at the Presbytery; and it is believed that the sales of
the King's and Bishops' lands will never be confirmed by Parliament,
there being nothing now in any man's, power to hinder them and the King
from doing what they have a mind, but every body willing to submit to any
thing.  We expect every day to have the King and Duke on board as soon as
it is fair.  My Lord do nothing now, but offers all things to the
pleasure of the Duke as Lord High Admiral.  So that I am at a loss what
to do.



22nd.  Up very early, and now beginning to be settled in my wits again,
I went about setting down my last four days' observations this morning.
After that, was trimmed by a barber that has not trimmed me yet, my
Spaniard being on shore.  News brought that the two Dukes are coming on
board, which, by and by, they did, in a Dutch boats the Duke of York in
yellow trimmings, the Duke of Gloucester

     [Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the youngest child of Charles L, born
     July 6th, 16--, who, with his sister Elizabeth, was allowed a
     meeting with his father on the night before the King's execution.
     Burnet says: "He was active, and loved business; was apt to have
     particular friendships, and had an insinuating temper which was
     generally very acceptable.  The King loved him much better than the
     Duke of York."  He died of smallpox at Whitehall, September 13th,
     1660, and was buried in Henry VII's Chapel.]

in grey and red.  My Lord went in a boat to meet them, the Captain,
myself, and others, standing at the entering port.  So soon as they were
entered we shot the guns off round the fleet.  After that they went to
view the ship all over, and were most exceedingly pleased with it.  They
seem to be both very fine gentlemen.  After that done, upon the quarter-
deck table, under the awning, the Duke of York and my Lord, Mr. Coventry,

     [William Coventry, to whom Pepys became so warmly attached
     afterwards, was the fourth son of Thomas, first Lord Coventry, the
     Lord Keeper.  He was born in 1628, and entered at Queen's College,
     Oxford, in 1642; after the Restoration he became private secretary
     to the Duke of York, his commission as Secretary to the Lord High
     Admiral not being conferred until 1664; elected M.P. for Great
     Yarmouth in 1661.  In 1662 he was appointed an extra Commissioner of
     the Navy, an office he held until 1667; in 1665, knighted and sworn
     a Privy Councillor, and, in 1667, constituted a Commissioner of the
     Treasury; but, having been forbid the court on account of his
     challenging the Duke of Buckingham, he retired into the country, nor
     could he subsequently be prevailed upon to accept of any official
     employment.  Burnet calls Sir William Coventry the best speaker in
     the House of Commons, and "a man of the finest and best temper that
     belonged to the court," and Pepys never omits an opportunity of
     paying a tribute to his public and private worth.  He died, 1686, of
     gout in the stomach.]

and I, spent an hour at allotting to every ship their service, in their
return to England; which having done, they went to dinner, where the
table was very full: the two Dukes at the upper end, my Lord Opdam next
on one side, and my Lord on the other.  Two guns given to every man while
he was drinking the King's health, and so likewise to the Duke's health.
I took down Monsieur d'Esquier to the great cabin below, and dined with
him in state alone with only one or two friends of his.  All dinner the
harper belonging to Captain Sparling played to the Dukes.  After dinner,
the Dukes and my Lord to see the Vice and Rear-Admirals; and I in a boat
after them.  After that done, they made to the shore in the Dutch boat
that brought them, and I got into the boat with them; but the shore was
so full of people to expect their coming, as that it was as black (which
otherwise is white sand), as every one could stand by another.  When we
came near the shore, my Lord left them and came into his own boat, and
General Pen and I with him; my Lord being very well pleased with this
day's work.  By the time we came on board again, news is sent us that the
King is on shore; so my Lord fired all his guns round twice, and all the
fleet after him, which in the end fell into disorder, which seemed very
handsome.  The gun over against my cabin I fired myself to the King,
which was the first time that he had been saluted by his own ships since
this change; but holding my head too much over the gun, I had almost
spoiled my right eye.  Nothing in the world but going of guns almost all
this day.  In the evening we began to remove cabins; I to the carpenter's
cabin, and Dr. Clerke with me, who came on board this afternoon, having
been twice ducked in the sea to-day coming from shore, and Mr. North and
John Pickering the like.  Many of the King's servants came on board to-
night; and so many Dutch of all sorts came to see the ship till it was
quite dark, that we could not pass by one another, which was a great
trouble to us all.  This afternoon Mr. Downing (who was knighted
yesterday by the King') was here on board, and had a ship for his passage
into England, with his lady and servants.

     ["About midnight arrived there Mr. Downing, who did the affairs of
     England to the Lords the Estates, in quality of Resident under
     Oliver Cromwell, and afterward under the pretended Parliament, which
     having changed the form of the government, after having cast forth
     the last Protector, had continued him in his imploiment, under the
     quality of Extraordinary Envoy.  He began to have respect for the
     King's person, when he knew that all England declared for a free
     parliament, and departed from Holland without order, as soon as he
     understood that there was nothing that could longer oppose the re-
     establishment of monarchal government, with a design to crave
     letters of recommendation to General Monk.  This lord considered
     him, as well because of the birth of his wife, which is illustrious,
     as because Downing had expressed some respect for him in a time when
     that eminent person could not yet discover his intentions.  He had
     his letters when he arrived at midnight at the house of the Spanish
     Embassador, as we have said.  He presented them forthwith to the
     King, who arose from table a while after, read the letters, receiv'd
     the submissions of Downing, and granted him the pardon and grace
     which he asked for him to whom he could deny nothing.  Some daies
     after the King knighted him, and would it should be believed, that
     the strong aversions which this minister of the Protector had made
     appear against him on all occasions, and with all sorts of persons
     indifferently, even a few daies before the publick and general
     declaration of all England, proceeded not from any evil intention,
     but only from a deep dissimulation, wherewith he was constrained to
     cover his true sentiments, for fear to prejudice the affairs of his
     Majesty."--Sir William Lowers Relation .  .  . of the Voiage and
     Residence which .  .  .  Charles the II.  hath made in Holland,
     Hague, 1660, folio, pp. 72-73.]


By the same token he called me to him when I was going to write the
order, to tell me that I must write him Sir G. Downing.  My Lord lay in
the roundhouse to-night.  This evening I was late writing a French letter
myself by my Lord's order to Monsieur Kragh,  Embassador de Denmarke a la
Haye, which my Lord signed in bed.  After that I to bed, and the Doctor,
and sleep well.



23rd.  The Doctor and I waked very merry, only my eye was very red and
ill in the morning from yesterday's hurt.  In the morning came infinity
of people on board from the King to go along with him.  My Lord, Mr.
Crew, and others, go on shore to meet the King as he comes off from
shore, where Sir R. Stayner bringing His Majesty into the boat, I hear
that His Majesty did with a great deal of affection kiss my Lord upon his
first meeting.  The King, with the two Dukes and Queen of Bohemia,
Princess Royal, and Prince of Orange, came on board, where I in their
coming in kissed the King's, Queen's, and Princess's hands, having done
the other before.  Infinite shooting off of the guns, and that in a
disorder on purpose, which was better than if it had been otherwise.  All
day nothing but Lords and persons of honour on board, that we were
exceeding full.  Dined in a great deal of state, the Royall company by
themselves in the coach, which was a blessed sight to see.  I dined with
Dr. Clerke, Dr. Quarterman, and Mr. Darcy in my cabin.  This morning Mr.
Lucy came on board, to whom and his company of the King's Guard in
another ship my Lord did give three dozen of bottles of wine.  He made
friends between Mr. Pierce and me.  After dinner the King and Duke
altered the name of some of the ships, viz.  the Nazeby into Charles;
the Richard, James; the Speakers Mary; the Dunbar (which was not in
company with us), the Henry; Winsly, Happy Return; Wakefield, Richmond;
Lambert; the Henrietta; Cheriton, the Speedwell; Bradford, the Success.
That done, the Queen, Princess Royal, and Prince of Orange, took leave of
the King, and the Duke of York went on board the London, and the Duke of
Gloucester, the Swiftsure.  Which done, we weighed anchor, and with a
fresh gale and most happy weather we set sail for England.  All the
afternoon the King walked here and there, up and down (quite contrary to
what I thought him to have been), very active and stirring.  Upon the
quarterdeck he fell into discourse of his escape from Worcester,

     [For the King's own account of his escape dictated to Pepys, see
     "Boscobel" (Bohn's "Standard Library").]

where it made me ready to weep to hear the stories that he told of his
difficulties that he had passed through, as his travelling four days and
three nights on foot, every step up to his knees in dirt, with nothing
but a green coat and a pair of country breeches on, and a pair of country
shoes that made him so sore all over his feet, that he could scarce stir.
Yet he was forced to run away from a miller and other company, that took
them for rogues.  His sitting at table at one place, where the master of
the house, that had not seen him in eight years, did know him, but kept
it private; when at the same table there was one that had been of his own
regiment at Worcester, could not know him, but made him drink the King's
health, and said that the King was at least four fingers higher than he.
At another place he was by some servants of the house made to drink, that
they might know him not to be a Roundhead, which they swore he was.  In
another place at his inn, the master of the house,

     [This was at Brighton.  The inn was the "George," and the innkeeper
     was named Smith.  Charles related this circumstance again to Pepys
     in October, 1680.  He then said, "And here also I ran into another
     very great danger, as being confident I was known by the master of
     the inn; for, as I was standing after supper by the fireside,
     leaning my hand upon a chair, and all the rest of the company being
     gone into another room, the master of the inn came in and fell a-
     talking with me, and just as he was looking about, and saw there was
     nobody in the room, he upon a sudden kissed my hand that was upon
     the back of the chair, and said to me, 'God bless you wheresoever
     you go!  I do not doubt before I die, but to be a lord, and my wife
     a lady.' So I laughed, and went away into the next room."]

as the King was standing with his hands upon the back of a chair by the
fire-side, kneeled down and kissed his hand, privately, saying, that he
would not ask him who he was, but bid God bless him whither he was going.
Then the difficulty of getting a boat to get into France, where he was
fain to plot with the master thereof to keep his design from the four men
and a boy (which was all his ship's company), and so got to Fecamp in
France.

     [On Saturday, October 11th, 1651, Colonel Gunter made an agreement
     at Chichester with Nicholas Tettersell, through Francis Mansell (a
     French merchant), to have Tettersell's vessel ready at an hour's
     warning.  Charles II., in his narrative dictated to Pepys in 1680,
     said, "We went to a place, four miles off Shoreham, called
     Brighthelmstone, where we were to meet with the master of the ship,
     as thinking it more convenient to meet there than just at Shoreham,
     where the ship was.  So when we came to the inn at Brighthelmstone
     we met with one, the merchant Francis Mansell] who had hired the
     vessel, in company with her master [Tettersell], the merchant only
     knowing me, as having hired her only to carry over a person of
     quality that was escaped from the battle of Worcester without naming
     anybody."

     The boat was supposed to be bound for Poole, but Charles says in his
     narrative: "As we were sailing the master came to me, and desired me
     that I would persuade his men to use their best endeavours with him
     to get him to set us on shore in France, the better to cover him
     from any suspicion thereof, upon which I went to the men, which were
     four and a boy."

     After the Restoration Mansell was granted a pension of L200 a year,
     and Tettersell one of L100 a year.  (See "Captain Nicholas
     Tettersell and the Escape of Charles II.," by F. E. Sawyer, F.S.A.,
     "Sussex Archaeological Collections," vol. xxxii.  pp. 81-104).)

At Rouen he looked so poorly, that the people went into the rooms before
he went away to see whether he had not stole something or other.  In the
evening I went up to my Lord to write letters for England, which we sent
away with word of our coming, by Mr. Edw. Pickering.  The King supped
alone in the coach; after that I got a dish, and we four supped in my
cabin, as at noon.  About bed-time my Lord Bartlett

     [A mistake for Lord Berkeley of Berkeley, who had been deputed, with
     Lord Middlesex and four other Peers, by the House of Lords to
     present an address of congratulation to the King.--B.]

(who I had offered my service to before) sent for me to get him a bed,
who with much ado I did get to bed to my Lord Middlesex in the great
cabin below, but I was cruelly troubled before I could dispose of him,
and quit myself of him.  So to my cabin again, where the company still
was, and were talking more of the King's difficulties; as how he was fain
to eat a piece of bread and cheese out of a poor boy's pocket; how, at a
Catholique house, he was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good while in
the house for his privacy.  After that our company broke up, and the
Doctor and I to bed.  We have all the Lords Commissioners on board us,
and many others.  Under sail all night, and most glorious weather.



24th.  Up, and made myself as fine as I could, with the Tinning stockings
on and wide canons--["Cannions, boot hose tops; an old-fashioned
ornament for the legs."  That is to say, a particular addition to
breeches.]--that I bought the other day at Hague.  Extraordinary press
of noble company, and great mirth all the day.  There dined with me in my
cabin (that is, the carpenter's) Dr. Earle

     [John Earle, born about 1601; appointed in 1643 one of the
     Westminster Assembly of Divines, but his principles did not allow
     him to act.  He accompanied Charles II. when he was obliged to fly
     from England.  Dean of Westminster at the Restoration, Bishop of
     Worcester, November 30th, 1662, and translated to Salisbury,
     September 28th, 1663.  He was tender to the Nonconformists, and
     Baxter wrote of him, "O that they were all such!"  Author of
     "Microcosmography."  Died November 17th, 1665, and was buried in the
     chapel of Merton College, of which he had been a Fellow.  Charles
     II.  had the highest esteem for him.]

and Mr. Hollis,

     [Denzil Holles, second son of John, first Earl of Clare, born at
     Houghton, Notts, in 1597.  He was one of the five members charged
     with high treason by Charles I. in 1641.  He was a Presbyterian, and
     one of the Commissioners sent by Parliament to wait on Charles II.
     at the Hague.  Sir William Lower, in his "Relation," 1660, writes:
     "All agreed that never person spake with more affection nor
     expressed himself in better terms than Mr. Denzil Hollis, who was
     orator for the Deputies of the Lower House, to whom those of London
     were joined."  He was created Baron Holles on April 20th, 1661, on
     the occasion of the coronation of Charles II.]

the King's Chaplins, Dr. Scarborough,

     [Charles Scarburgh, M.D., an eminent physician who suffered for the
     royal cause during the Civil Wars.  He was born in London, and
     educated at St. Paul's School and Caius College, Cambridge.  He was
     ejected from his fellowship at Caius, and withdrew to Oxford.  He
     entered himself at Merton College, then presided over by Harvey,
     with whom he formed a lifelong friendship.  He was knighted by
     Charles II. in 1669, and attended the King in his last illness.  He
     was also physician to James II. and to William III., and died
     February 26th, 1693-4.]

Dr. Quarterman, and Dr. Clerke, Physicians, Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Fox

     [Stephen Fox, born 1627, and said to have been a choir-boy in
     Salisbury Cathedral.  He was the first person to announce the death
     of Cromwell to Charles II., and at the Restoration he was made Clerk
     of the Green Cloth, and afterwards Paymaster of the Forces.  He was
     knighted in 1665.  He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Whittle
     of Lancashire.  (See June 25th, 1660.) Fox died in 1716.  His sons
     Stephen and Henry were created respectively Earl of Ilchester and
     Lord Holland.]

(both very fine gentlemen), the King's servants, where we had brave
discourse.  Walking upon the decks, where persons of honour all the
afternoon, among others, Thomas Killigrew (a merry droll, but a gentleman
of great esteem with the King), who told us many merry stories: one, how
he wrote a letter three or four days ago to the Princess Royal, about a
Queen Dowager of Judaea and Palestine, that was at the Hague incognita,
that made love to the King, &c., which was Mr. Cary (a courtier's) wife
that had been a nun, who are all married to Jesus.  At supper the three
Drs. of Physic again at my cabin; where I put Dr. Scarborough in mind of
what I heard him say about the use of the eyes, which he owned, that
children do, in every day's experience, look several ways with both their
eyes, till custom teaches them otherwise.  And that we do now see but
with one eye, our eyes looking in parallel lines.  After this discourse I
was called to write a pass for my Lord Mandeville to take up horses to
London, which I wrote in the King's name,--[This right of purveyance was
abolished in Charles's reign.]--and carried it to him to sign, which was
the first and only one that ever he signed in the ship Charles.
To bed, coming in sight of land a little before night.



25th.  By the morning we were come close to the land, and every body made
ready to get on shore.  The King and the two Dukes did eat their
breakfast before they went, and there being set some ship's diet before
them, only to show them the manner of the ship's diet, they eat of
nothing else but pease and pork, and boiled beef.  I had Mr. Darcy in my
cabin and Dr. Clerke, who eat with me, told me how the King had given L50
to Mr. Sheply for my Lord's servants, and L500 among the officers and
common men of the ship.  I spoke with the Duke of York about business,
who called me Pepys by name, and upon my desire did promise me his future
favour.  Great expectation of the King's making some Knights, but there
was none.  About noon (though the brigantine that Beale made was there
ready to carry him) yet he would go in my Lord's barge with the two
Dukes.  Our Captain steered, and my Lord went along bare with him.  I
went, and Mr. Mansell, and one of the King's footmen, with a dog that the
King loved,

     [Charles II.'s love of dogs is well known, but it is not so well
     known that his dogs were continually being stolen from him.  In the
     "Mercurius Publicus," June 28-July 5, 1660, is the following
     advertisement, apparently drawn up by the King himself: "We must
     call upon you again for a Black Dog between a greyhound and a
     spaniel, no white about him, onely a streak on his brest, and his
     tayl a little bobbed.  It is His Majesties own Dog, and doubtless
     was stoln, for the dog was not born nor bred in England, and would
     never forsake His master.  Whoesoever findes him may acquaint any at
     Whitehal for the Dog was better known at Court, than those who stole
     him.  Will they never leave robbing his Majesty!  Must he not keep a
     Dog?  This dog's place (though better than some imagine) is the only
     place which nobody offers to beg."  (Quoted in "Notes and Queries,"
     7th S., vii. 26, where are printed two other advertisements of
     Charles's lost dogs.)]

(which [dirted] the boat, which made us laugh, and me think that a King
and all that belong to him are but just as others are), in a boat by
ourselves, and so got on shore when the King did, who was received by
General Monk with all imaginable love and respect at his entrance upon
the land of Dover.  Infinite the crowd of people and the horsemen,
citizens, and noblemen of all sorts.  The Mayor of the town came and gave
him his white staff, the badge of his place, which the King did give him
again.  The Mayor also presented him from the town a very rich Bible,
which he took and said it was the thing that he loved above all things in
the world.  A canopy was provided for him to stand under, which he did,
and talked awhile with General Monk and others, and so into a stately
coach there set for him, and so away through the town towards Canterbury,
without making any stay at Dover.  The shouting and joy expressed by all
is past imagination.  Seeing that my Lord did not stir out of his barge,
I got into a boat, and so into his barge, whither Mr. John Crew stepped,
and spoke a word or two to my Lord, and so returned, we back to the ship,
and going did see a man almost drowned that fell out of his boat into the
sea, but with much ado was got out.  My Lord almost transported with joy
that he had done all this without any the least blur or obstruction in
the world, that could give an offence to any, and with the great honour
he thought it would be to him.  Being overtook by the brigantine, my Lord
and we went out of our barge into it, and so went on board with Sir W.
Batten,

     [Clarendon describes William Batten as an obscure fellow, and,
     although unknown to the service, a good seaman, who was in 1642 made
     Surveyor to the Navy; in which employ he evinced great animosity
     against the King.  The following year, while Vice-Admiral to the
     Earl of Warwick, he chased a Dutch man-of-war into Burlington Bay,
     knowing that Queen Henrietta Maria was on board; and then, learning
     that she had landed and was lodged on the quay, he fired above a
     hundred shot upon the house, some of which passing through her
     majesty's chamber, she was obliged, though indisposed, to retire for
     safety into the open fields.  This act, brutal as it was, found
     favour with the Parliament.  But Batten became afterwards
     discontented; and, when a portion of the fleet revolted, he carried
     the "Constant Warwick," one of the best ships in the Parliament
     navy, over into Holland, with several seamen of note.  For this act
     of treachery he was knighted and made a Rear-Admiral by Prince
     Charles.  We hear no more of Batten till the Restoration, when he
     became a Commissioner of the Navy, and was soon after M.P. for
     Rochester.  See an account of his second wife, in note to November
     24th, 1660, and of his illness and death, October 5th, 1667.  He had
     a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Martha, by his first wife.--B.]


and the Vice and Rear-Admirals.  At night my Lord supped and Mr. Thomas
Crew with Captain Stoakes, I supped with the Captain, who told me what
the King had given us.  My Lord returned late, and at his coming did give
me order to cause the marke to be gilded, and a Crown and C.  R.  to be
made at the head of the coach table, where the King to-day with his own
hand did mark his height, which accordingly I caused the painter to do,
and is now done as is to be seen.



26th.  Thanks to God I got to bed in my own poor cabin, and slept well
till 9 o'clock this morning.  Mr. North and Dr. Clerke and all the great
company being gone, I found myself very uncouth all this day for want
thereof.  My Lord dined with the Vice-Admiral to-day (who is as
officious, poor man! as any spaniel can be; but I believe all to no
purpose, for I believe he will not hold his place), so I dined commander
at the coach table to-day, and all the officers of the ship with me, and
Mr. White of Dover.  After a game or two at nine-pins, to work all the
afternoon, making above twenty orders.  In the evening my Lord having
been a-shore, the first time that he hath been a-shore since he came out
of the Hope (having resolved not to go till he had brought his Majesty
into England), returned on board with a great deal of pleasure.  I supped
with the Captain in his cabin with young Captain Cuttance, and afterwards
a messenger from the King came with a letter, and to go into France, and
by that means we supped again with him at 12 o'clock at night.  This
night the Captain told me that my Lord had appointed me L30 out of the
1000 ducats which the King had given to the ship, at which my heart was
very much joyed.  To bed.


27th (Lord's day).  Called up by John Goods to see the Garter and Heralds
coat, which lay in the coach, brought by Sir Edward Walker,

     [Edward Walker was knighted February 2nd, 1644-5, and on the 24th of
     the same month was sworn in as Garter King at Arms.  He adhered to
     the cause of the king, and published "Iter Carolinum", being a
     succinct account of the necessitated marches, retreats, and
     sufferings of his Majesty King Charles I., from Jan. 10, 1641, to
     the time of his death in 1648, collected by a daily attendant upon
     his sacred Majesty during all that time: He joined Charles II. in
     exile, and received the reward of his loyalty at the Restoration.
     He died at Whitehall, February 19th, 1676-7, and was buried at
     Stratford-on-Avon, his daughter having married Sir John Clepton of
     that place.]

King at Arms, this morning, for my Lord.  My Lord hath summoned all the
Commanders on board him, to see the ceremony, which was thus: Sir Edward
putting on his coat, and having laid the George and Garter, and the
King's letter to my Lord, upon a crimson cushion (in the coach, all the
Commanders standing by), makes three congees to him, holding the cushion
in his arms.  Then laying it down with the things upon it upon a chair,
he takes the letter, and delivers it to my Lord, which my Lord breaks
open and gives him to read.  It was directed to our trusty and well
beloved Sir Edward Montagu, Knight, one of our Generals at sea, and our
Companion elect of our Noble Order of the Garter.  The contents of the
letter is to show that the Kings of England have for many years made use
of this honour, as a special mark of favour, to persons of good
extraction and virtue (and that many Emperors, Kings and Princes of other
countries have borne this honour), and that whereas my Lord is of a noble
family, and hath now done the King such service by sea, at this time, as
he hath done; he do send him this George and Garter to wear as Knight of
the Order, with a dispensation for the other ceremonies of the habit of
the Order, and other things, till hereafter, when it can be done.  So the
herald putting the ribbon about his neck, and the Garter about his left
leg, he salutes him with joy as Knight of the Garter, and that was all.
After that was done, and the Captain and I had breakfasted with Sir
Edward while my Lord was writing of a letter, he took his leave of my
Lord, and so to shore again to the King at Canterbury, where he yesterday
gave the like honour to General Monk,

     ["His Majesty put the George on his Excellency, and the two Dukes
     put on the Garter.  The Princes thus honoured the Lord-General for
     the restoration of that lawful family."--Rugge's Diurnal.]

who are the only two for many years that have had the Garter given them,
before they had other honours of Earldom, or the like, excepting only the
Duke of Buckingham, who was only Sir George Villiers when he was made
Knight of the Garter.  A while after Mr. Thos. Crew and Mr. J. Pickering
(who had staid long enough to make all the world see him to be a fool),
took ship for London.  So there now remain no strangers with my Lord
but Mr. Hetley,  who had been with us a day before the King went from us.
My Lord and the ship's company down to sermon.  I staid above to write
and look over my new song book, which came last night to me from London
in lieu of that that my Lord had of me.  The officers being all on board,
there was not room for me at table, so I dined in my cabin, where, among
other things, Mr. Drum brought me a lobster and a bottle of oil, instead
of a bottle of vinegar, whereby I spoiled my dinner.  Many orders in the
ordering of ships this afternoon.  Late to a sermon.  After that up to
the Lieutenant's cabin, where Mr. Sheply, I, and the Minister supped, and
after that I went down to W. Howe's cabin, and there, with a great deal
of pleasure, singing till it was late.  After that to bed.



28th.  Called up at two in the morning for letters for my Lord from the
Duke of York, but I went to bed again till 5.  Trimmed early this
morning.  This morning the Captain did call over all the men in the ship
(not the boys), and give every one of them a ducat of the King's money
that he gave the ship, and the officers according to their quality.  I
received in the Captain's cabin, for my share, sixty ducats.  The rest of
the morning busy writing letters.  So was my Lord that he would not come
to dinner.  After dinner to write again in order to sending to London,
but my Lord did not finish his, so we did not send to London to-day.  A
great part of the afternoon at nine-pins with my Lord and Mr. Hetley.  I
lost about 4s.  Supped with my Lord, and after that to bed.  At night I
had a strange dream of--myself, which I really did, and having kicked my
clothes off, I got cold; and found myself all much wet in the morning,
and had a great deal of pain .  .  .  which made me very melancholy.



29th.  The King's birthday.  Busy all the morning writing letters to
London, among the rest one to Mr. Chetwind to give me an account of the
fees due to the Herald for the Order of the Garter, which my Lord desires
to know.  After dinner got all ready and sent away Mr. Cook to London
with a letter and token to my wife.  After that abroad to shore with my
Lord (which he offered me of himself, 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 Mr. Edward, Mr. Hetly and I, and three or four servants, and had
a great deal of pleasure in riding.  Among other things my Lord showed me
a house that cost a great deal of money, and is built in so barren and
inconvenient a place that my Lord calls it the fool's house.  At last we
came upon a very high cliff by the sea-side, and rode under it, we having
laid great wagers, I and Dr. Mathews, that it was not so high as Paul's;
my Lord and Mr. Hetly, that it was.  But we riding under it, my Lord made
a pretty good measure of it with two sticks, and found it to be not above
thirty-five yards high, and Paul's is reckoned to be about ninety.  From
thence toward the barge again, and in our way found the people at Deal
going to make a bonfire for joy of the day, it being the King's birthday,
and had some guns which they did fire at my Lord's coming by.  For which
I did give twenty shillings among them to drink.  While we were on the
top of the cliffe, we saw and heard our guns in the fleet go off for the
same joy.  And it being a pretty fair day we could see above twenty miles
into France.  Being returned on board, my Lord called for Mr. Sheply's
book of Paul's, by which we were confirmed in our wager.  After that to
supper and then to musique, and so to bed.  The pain that I have got last
night by cold is not yet gone, but troubles me at the time of .  .  .  .
This day, it is thought, the King do enter the city of London.

     ["Divers maidens, in behalf of themselves and others, presented a
     petition to the Lord Mayor of London, wherein they pray his Lordship
     to grant them leave and liberty to meet His Majesty on the day of
     his passing through the city; and if their petition be granted, that
     they will all be clad in white waistcoats and crimson petticoats,
     and other ornaments of triumph and rejoicing."-Rugge's Diurnal, May,
     1660.--B.]



30th.  About eight o'clock in the morning the lieutenant came to me to
know whether I would eat a dish of mackerel, newly catched, for my
breakfast, which the Captain and we did in the coach.  All yesterday and
to-day I had a great deal of pain .  .  .  and in my back, which made me
afeard.  But it proved nothing but cold, which I took yesterday night.
All this morning making up my accounts, in which I counted that I had
made myself now worth about L80, at which my heart was glad, and blessed
God.  Many Dover men come and dine with my Lord.  My Lord at ninepins in
the afternoon.  In the afternoon Mr. Sheply told me how my Lord had put
me down for 70 guilders among the money which was given to my Lord's
servants, which my heart did much rejoice at.  My Lord supped alone in
his chamber.  Sir R. Stayner supped with us, and among other things told
us how some of his men did grumble that no more of the Duke's money come
to their share and so would not receive any; whereupon he called up those
that had taken it, and gives them three shares apiece more, which was
very good, and made good sport among the seamen.  To bed.



31st.  This day my Lord took physic, and came not out of his chamber.

     [It is interesting that on several occasions Wheatly records the use
     of 'physic' (cathartics) and notes that the effect of this
     medication required confinement to the bedroom--but as to his Pepy's
     renal colic, he places his censoring periods in place of the words:
     painful urination.   D.W.]

All the morning making orders.  After dinner a great while below in the
great cabin trying with W. Howe some of Mr. Laws' songs,' particularly
that of "What is a kiss," with which we had a great deal of pleasure.
After that to making of orders again.  Captain Sparling of the Assistance
brought me a pair of silk stockings of a light blue, which I was much
pleased with.  The Captain and I to supper, and after that a most
pleasant walk till to at night with him upon the deck, it being a fine
evening.  My pain was gone again that I had yesterday, blessed be God.
This day the month ends, I in very good health, and all the world in a
merry mood because of the King's coming.  This day I began to teach Mr.
Edward; who I find to have a very good foundation laid for his Latin by
Mr. Fuller.  I expect every minute to hear how my poor wife do.  I find
myself in all things well as to body and mind, but troubled for the
absence of my wife.




ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:

An exceeding pretty lass, and right for the sport
And in all this not so much as one
Bought for the love of the binding three books
Drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets
Fashionable and black spots
He and I lay in one press bed, there being two more
He is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I
He that must do the business, or at least that can hinder it
He was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good while
If it should come in print my name maybe at it
In comes Mr. North very sea-sick from shore
John Pickering on board, like an ass, with his feathers
Made to drink, that they might know him not to be a Roundhead
My Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his chamber
Presbyterians against the House of Lords
Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques




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