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tankard,
weighing 31 ounces and a half, and he is allowed 30; so I paid 12s. for
the ounce and half over what he is to have; but strange it was for me to
see what a company of small fees I was called upon by a great many to
pay there, which, I perceive, is the manner that courtiers do get their
estates. After dinner Mr. Moore and I to the Theatre, where was "The
Scornful Lady," acted very well, it being the first play that ever he saw.
Thence with him to drink a cup of ale at Hercules Pillars, and so parted.
I called to see my father, who told me by the way how Will and Mary
Joyce do live a strange life together, nothing but fighting, &c., so that
sometimes her father has a mind to have them divorced. Thence home.
5th. Home all the morning. Several people came to me about business,
among others the great Tom Fuller, who came to desire a kindness for a
friend of his, who hath a mind to go to Jamaica with these two ships
that are going, which I promised to do. So to Whitehall to my Lady,
whom I found at dinner and dined with her, and staid with her talking
all the afternoon, and thence walked to Westminster Hall. So to Will's,
and drank with Spicer, and thence by coach home, staying a little in
Paul's Churchyard, to bespeak Ogilby's AEsop's Fables and Tully's
Officys to be bound for me. So home and to bed.
6th (Lord's day). My wife and I to church this morning, and so home to
dinner to a boiled leg of mutton all alone. To church again, where,

before sermon, a long Psalm was set that lasted an hour, while the
sexton gathered his year's contribucion through the whole church. After
sermon home, and there I went to my chamber and wrote a letter to
send to Mr. Coventry, with a piece of plate along with it, which I do
preserve among my other letters. So to supper, and thence after prayers
to bed.
7th. This morning, news was brought to me to my bedside, that there
had been a great stir in the City this night by the Fanatiques, who had
been up and killed six or seven men, but all are fled.
["A great rising in the city of the Fifth-monarchy men, which did very
much disturb the peace and liberty of the people, so that all the
train-bands arose in arms, both in London and Westminster, as likewise
all the king's guards; and most of the noblemen mounted, and put all
their servants on coach horses, for the defence of his Majesty, and the
peace of his kingdom."--Rugge's Diurnal. The notorious Thomas
Venner, the Fifth-monarchy man, a cooper and preacher to a
conventicle in Swan Alley, Coleman Street, with a small following
(about fifty in number) took arms on the 6th January for the avowed
purpose of establishing the Millennium. He was a violent enthusiast,
and persuaded his followers that they were invulnerable. After exciting
much alarm in the City, and skirmishing with the Trained Bands, they
marched to Caen Wood. They were driven out by a party of guards, but
again entered the City, where they were overpowered by the Trained
Bands. The men were brought to trial and condemned; four, however,
were acquitted and two reprieved. The execution of some of these men
is mentioned by Pepys under date January 19th and 21st. "A Relation
of the Arraignment and Trial of those who made the late Rebellious
Insurrections in London, 1661," is reprinted in "Somers Tracts," vol. vii.
(1812), p. 469.]
My Lord Mayor and the whole City had been in arms, above 40,000.
To the office, and after that to dinner, where my brother Tom came and
dined with me, and after dinner (leaving 12d. with the servants to buy a
cake with at night, this day being kept as Twelfth day) Tom and I and
my wife to the Theatre, and there saw "The Silent Woman." The first
time that ever I did see it, and it is an excellent play. Among other
things here, Kinaston, the boy; had the good turn to appear in three
shapes: first, as a poor woman in ordinary clothes, to please Morose;

then in fine clothes, as a gallant, and in them was clearly the prettiest
woman in the whole house, and lastly, as a man; and then likewise did
appear the handsomest man in the house. From thence by link to my
cozen Stradwick's, where my father and we and Dr. Pepys, Scott, and
his wife, and one Mr. Ward and his; and after a good supper, we had an
excellent cake, where the mark for the Queen