Diary, Feb 1659/60 | Page 5

another. After all this, I took my money, and went home on foot and
laying up my money, and changing my stockings and shoes, I this day
having left off my great skirt suit, and put on my white suit with silver
lace coat, and went over to Harper's, where I met with W. Simons,
Doling, Luellin and three merchants, one of which had occasion to use
a porter, so they sent for one, and James the soldier came, who told us
how they had been all day and night upon their guard at St. James's,
and that through the whole town they did resolve to stand to what they
had began, and that to-morrow he did believe they would go into the

City, and be received there. After all this we went to a sport called,
selling of a horse for a dish of eggs and herrings, and sat talking there
till almost twelve o'clock and then parted, they were to go as far as
Aldgate. Home and to bed.

3rd. Drank my morning draft at Harper's, and was told there that the
soldiers were all quiet upon promise of pay. Thence to St. James's Park,
and walked there to my place for my flageolet and then played a little,
it being a most pleasant morning and sunshine. Back to Whitehall,
where in the guard-chamber I saw about thirty or forty 'prentices of the
City, who were taken at twelve o'clock last night and brought prisoners
hither. Thence to my office, where I paid a little more money to some
of the soldiers under Lieut.-Col. Miller (who held out the Tower
against the Parliament after it was taken away from Fitch by the
Committee of Safety, and yet he continued in his office). About noon
Mrs. Turner came to speak with me, and Joyce, and I took them and
shewed them the manner of the Houses sitting, the doorkeeper very
civilly opening the door for us. Thence with my cozen Roger Pepys,
[Roger Pepys, son of Talbot Pepys of Impington, a barrister of the
Middle Temple, M.P. for Cambridge, 1661-78, and Recorder of that
town, 1660-88. He married, for the third time, Parnell, daughter and
heiress of John Duke, of Workingham, co. Suffolk, and this was the
wedding for which the posy ring was required.]
it being term time, we took him out of the Hall to Priors, the Rhenish
wine-house, and there had a pint or two of wine and a dish of anchovies,
and bespoke three or four dozen bottles of wine for him against his
wedding. After this done he went away, and left me order to call and
pay for all that Mrs. Turner would have. So we called for nothing more
there, but went and bespoke a shoulder of mutton at Wilkinson's to be
roasted as well as it could be done, and sent a bottle of wine home to
my house. In the meantime she and I and Joyce went walking all over
White Hall, whither General Monk was newly come, and we saw all his
forces march by in very good plight and stout officers. Thence to my
house where we dined, but with a great deal of patience, for the mutton
came in raw, and so we were fain to stay the stewing of it. In the
meantime we sat studying a Posy
[It is supposed that the fashion of having mottoes inscribed on rings

was of Roman origin. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the posy
was inscribed on the outside of the ring, and in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries it was placed inside. A small volume was
published in 1674, entitled "Love's Garland: or Posies for Rings,
Handkerchers and Gloves, and such pretty tokens that Lovers send their
Loves."]
for a ring for her which she is to have at Roger Pepys his wedding.
After dinner I left them and went to hear news, but only found that the
Parliament House was most of them with Monk at White Hall, and that
in his passing through the town he had many calls to him for a free
Parliament, but little other welcome. I saw in the Palace Yard how
unwilling some of the old soldiers were yet to go out of town without
their money, and swore if they had it not in three days, as they were
promised, they would do them more mischief in the country than if
they had staid here; and that is very likely, the country being all
discontented. The town and guards are already full of Monk's soldiers. I
returned, and it growing dark I and they went to take a turn in the park,
where Theoph. (who was sent for to us to dinner) outran my wife and
another poor woman, that