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Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1668, by Samuel PepysThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1668Author: Samuel PepysRelease Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4191]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, AUGUST 1668 ***Produced by David WidgerTHE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTYTRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHTM.A. LATE FELLOW AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE(Unabridged)WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTESEDITED WITH ADDITIONS BYHENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. AUGUST 1668August 1st. All the morning at the office. After dinner my wife, and Deb., and I, to the King's house again, coming too lateyesterday to hear the prologue, and do like the play better now than before; and, indeed, there is a great deal of true witin it, more than in the common sort of plays, and so home to my business, and at night to bed, my eyes making me sad.2nd. (Lord's day). Up and at home all the morning, hanging, and removing of some pictures, in my study ...

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APruogjuesctt 1G6u6t8e,n bbye rSg'as mDuiaerl yP oefp ySsamuel Pepys,This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere atno cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under theterms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1668Author: Samuel PepysRelease Date: December 1, 2004 [EBook #4191]Language: English*E*B* OSTOAK RDTI AORF YT OHIFS SPARMOUJEELC TP EGPUYTSE, NABUEGRUGST1668 ***Produced by David Widger

THE DIARY OFSAMUEL PEPYS M.A.F.R.S.TCHLEE RAKD MOIFR TAHLET YACTS AND SECRETARY TOTRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHANDMANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARYMAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THEREV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOWAND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE(Unabridged)WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTESEDITED WITH ADDITIONS BYHENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. AUGUST 1668dAiungnuers t m1ys t.w iAflel ,t haen d mDoernbi.n, ga natd tIh, et oo tffhice e.K iAnfgt'esr

house again, coming too late yesterday to hear theprologue, and do like the play better now thanbefore; and, indeed, there is a great deal of truewit in it, more than in the common sort of plays,and so home to my business, and at night to bed,my eyes making me sad.2nd. (Lord's day). Up and at home all the morning,hanging, and removing of some pictures, in mystudy and house. At noon Pelling dined with me.After dinner, I and Tom, my boy, by water up toPutney, and there heard a sermon, and many finepeople in the church. Thence walked to BarneElmes, and there, and going and coming, did makethe boy read to me several things, being now-a-days unable to read myself anything, for above twolines together, but my eyes grow weary. Homeabout night, and so to supper and then to bed.3rd. Up, and by water to White Hall and St.James's, where I did much business, and aboutnoon meeting Dr. Gibbons, carried him to the Suntaverne, in King Street, and there made him, andsome friends of his, drink; among others, CaptainSilas Taylor, and here did get Gibbons to promiseme some things for my flageolets. So to the OldExchange, and then home to dinner, and so,Mercer dining with us, I took my wife and her andDeb. out to Unthanke's, while I to White Hall to theCommissioners of the Treasury, and so back tothem and took them out to Islington, where we metwith W. Joyce and his wife and boy, and there eatand drank, and a great deal of his idle talk, and sowe round by Hackney home, and so to sing a little

in the garden, and then to bed.4th. Up, and to my office a little, and then to WhiteHall about a Committee for Tangier at my LordArlington's, where, by Creed's being out of town, Ihave the trouble given me of drawing up answersto the complaints of the Turks of Algiers, and so Ihave all the papers put into my hand. Here tillnoon, and then back to the Office, where sat alittle, and then to dinner, and presently to theoffice, where come to me my Lord Bellassis,Lieutenant-Colonell Fitzgerald, newly come fromTangier, and Sir Arthur Basset, and there Ireceived their informations, and so, they beinggone, I with my clerks and another of LordBrouncker's, Seddon, sat up till two in the morning,drawing up my answers and writing them fair,which did trouble me mightily to sit up so long,because of my eyes.5th. So to bed about two o'clock, and then upabout seven and to White Hall, where read overmy report to Lord Arlington and Berkeley, and thenafterward at the Council Board with great goodliking, but, Lord! how it troubled my eyes, though Idid not think I could have done it, but did do it, andwas not very bad afterward. So home to dinner,and thence out to the Duke of York's playhouse,and there saw "The Guardian;" formerly the same,I find, that was called "Cutter of Coleman Street;" asilly play. And thence to Westminster Hall, where Imet Fitzgerald; and with him to a tavern, toconsider of the instructions for Sir Thomas Allen,against his going to Algiers; he and I being

designed to go down to Portsmouth by theCouncil's order, and by and by he and I went to theDuke of York, who orders me to go down to-morrow morning. So I away home, and therebespeak a coach; and so home and to bed, mywife being abroad with the Mercers walking in thefields, and upon the water.6th. Waked betimes, and my wife, at an hour'swarning, is resolved to go with me, which pleasesme, her readiness. But, before ready, comes aletter from Fitzgerald, that he is seized upon lastnight by an order of the General's by a file ofmusqueteers, and kept prisoner in his chamber.The Duke of York did tell me of it to-day: it is abouta quarrel between. him and Witham, and they feara challenge: so I to him, and sent my wife by thecoach round to Lambeth. I lost my labour going tohis lodgings, and he in bed: and, staying a greatwhile for him, I at last grew impatient, and wouldstay no longer; but to St. James's to Mr. Wren, tobid him "God be with you!" and so over the waterto Fox Hall; and there my wife and Deb. come andtook me up, and we away to Gilford, losing our wayfor three or four mile, about Cobham. At Gilford wedined; and, I shewed them the hospitall there ofBishop Abbot's, and his tomb in the church, which,and the rest of the tombs there, are kept mightyclean and neat, with curtains before them. So tocoach again, and got to Lippock,2 late overHindhead, having an old man, a guide, in the coachwith us; but got thither with great fear of being outof our way, it being ten at night. Here good, honestpeople; and after supper, to bed . . . .

7th. Up, and to coach, and with a guide toPetersfield, where I find Sir Thomas Allen and Mr.Tippets come; the first about the business, thelatter only in respect to me; as also Fitzgerald, whocome post all last night, and newly arrived here.We four sat down presently to our business, and inan hour despatched all our talk; and did inform SirThomas Allen well in it, who, I perceive, in seriousmatters, is a serious man: and tells me he wishesall we are told be true, in our defence; for he findsby all, that the Turks have, to this day, been verycivil to our merchant-men everywhere; and, if theywould have broke with us, they never had such anopportunity over our rich merchant-men, as lately,coming out of the Streights. Then to dinner, andpretty merry: and here was Mr. Martin, the purser,and dined with us, and wrote some things for us.And so took coach again back; Fitzgerald with us,whom I was pleased with all the day, with hisdiscourse of his observations abroad, as being agreat soldier and of long standing abroad: andknows all things and persons abroad very well—Imean, the great soldiers of France, and Spain, andGermany; and talks very well. Come at night toGilford, where the Red Lyon so full of people, anda wedding, that the master of the house did get usa lodging over the way, at a private house, hislandlord's, mighty neat and fine; and there suppedand talked with the landlord and his wife: and so tobed with great content, only Fitzgerald lay at theInne. So to bed.8wthho. mU pI , saenndt tI o wlaalskt endi gohutt,, aanndd Mmr.e t WUignhclt ec oWmiginhtg, to

see us, and I walked with them back to see myaunt at Katherine Hill, and there walked up anddown the hill and places, about: but a dull place,but good ayre, and the house dull. But here I sawmy aunt, after many days not seeing her—I think,a year or two; and she walked with me to see mywife. And here, at the Red Lyon, we all dinedtogether, and mighty merry, and then parted: andwe home to Fox Hall, where Fitzgerald and I 'light,and by water to White Hall, where the Duke of Yorkbeing abroad, I by coach and met my wife, whowent round, and after doing at the office a little,and finding all well at home, I to bed. I hear thatColbert, the French Ambassador, is come, andhath been at Court incognito. When he hath hisaudience, I know not.9th (Lord's day). Up, and walked to Holborne,where got John Powell's coach at the Black Swan,and he attended me at St. James's, where waitedon the Duke of York: and both by him and severalof the Privy-Council, beyond expectation, I find thatmy going to Sir Thomas Allen was looked upon asa thing necessary: and I have got some advantageby it, among them. Thence to White Hall, andthence to visit Lord Brouncker, and back to WhiteHall, where saw the Queen and ladies; and so, withMr. Slingsby, to Mrs. Williams's, thinking to dinewith Lord Brouncker there, but did not, havingpromised my wife to come home, though here Imet Knepp, to my great content. So home; and,after dinner, I took my wife and Deb. round byHackney, and up and down to take the ayre; andthen home, and made visits to Mrs. Turner, and

Mrs. Mercer, and Sir W. Pen, who is come fromEpsom not well, and Sir J. Minnes, who is not wellneither. And so home to supper, and to set mybooks a little right, and then to bed. This day BettyMichell come and dined with us, the first day afterher lying in, whom I was glad to see.10th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and thence toSir W. Coventry, but he is gone out of town thismorning, so thence to my Lord Arlington's house,the first time I there since he come thither, atGoring House, a very fine, noble place; and therehe received me in sight of several Lords with greatrespect. I did give him an account of my journey;and here, while I waited for him a little, my LordOrrery took notice of me, and begun discourse ofhangings, and of the improvement of shipping: Inot thinking that he knew me, but did then discoverit, with a mighty compliment of my abilities andingenuity, which I am mighty proud of; and he dospeak most excellently. Thence to WestminsterHall, and so by coach to the old Exchange, andthere did several businesses, and so home todinner, and then abroad to Duck Lane, where I sawmy belle femme of the book vendor, but had noopportunity para hazer con her. So away toCooper's, where I spent all the afternoon with mywife and girl, seeing him-make an end of herpicture, which he did Jo my great content, thoughnot so great as, I confess, I expected, being notsatisfied in the greatness of the resemblance, norin the blue garment: but it is most certainly a mostrare piece of work, as to the painting. He hath L30for his work—and the chrystal, and case, and gold

case comes to L8 3s. 4d.; and which I sent himthis night, that I might be out of debt. Thence mypeople home, and I to Westminster Hall about alittle business, and so by water home [to] supper,and my wife to read a ridiculous book I boughttoday of the History of the Taylors' Company,[The title of this book was, "The Honour ofthe Merchant Taylors." Wherein is set forththe noble acts, valliant deeds, and heroickperformances of Merchant Taylors in formerages; their honourable loves, and knightlyadventures, their combating of foreignenemies and glorious successes in honour ofthe English nation: together with theirpious….]and all the while Deb. did comb my head, and I didtoker her with my main para very great pleasure,and so to bed.11th. Up, and by water to Sir W. Coventry to visithim, whom I find yet troubled at theCommissioners of Accounts, about this business ofSir W. Warren, which is a ridiculous thing, and cancome to nothing but contempt, and thence toWestminster Hall, where the Parliament metenough to adjourne, which they did, to the 10th ofNovember next, and so by water home to theoffice, and so to dinner, and thence at the Office allthe afternoon till night, being mightily pleased witha little trial I have made of the use of a tube-spectacall of paper, tried with my right eye. Thisday I hear that, to the great joy of the

Nonconformists, the time is out of the Act againstthem, so that they may meet: and they havedeclared that they will have a morning lecture[During the troubled reign of Charles I., theHouse of Commons gave parishioners theright of appointing lecturers at the variouschurches without the consent of rector orvicar, and this naturally gave rise to manyquarrels. In the early period of the warbetween the king and the parliament, acourse of sermons or lectures was projectedin aid of the parliamentary cause. Theselectures, which were preached by eminentPresbyterian divines at seven o'clock on theSunday mornings, were commenced in thechurch of St. Mary Magdalen in Milk Street,but were soon afterwards removed to St.Giles's, Cripplegate. After the Restorationthe lectures were collected in four volumes,and published under the title of the"Cripplegate Morning Exercises," vol. i. in1661; vol. ii. in 1674; vol. iii. in 1682; and vol.iv. in 1690. In addition there were twovolumes which form a supplement to thework, viz., "The Morning Exercisesmethodized," preached at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, edited by the Rev. Thomas Case in1660, and the "Exercises against Popery,"preached in Southwark, and published in1675 (see Demon's "Records of St. Giles's,Crinnlegate," 1883, pp. 55-56).]up again, which is pretty strange; and they are

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