Diary, Feb/Mar 1668/69 | Page 6

herself up, in her closet, and I mightily grieved and vexed, and could
not get her to tell me what ayled her, or to let me into her closet, but at
last she did, where I found her crying on the ground, and I could not
please her; but I did at last find that she did plainly expound it to me. It
was, that she did believe me false to her with Jane, and did rip up three
or four silly circumstances of her not rising till I come out of my
chamber, and her letting me thereby see her dressing herself; and that I
must needs go into her chamber and was naught with her; which was so
silly, and so far from truth, that I could not be troubled at it, though I
could not wonder at her being troubled, if she had these thoughts, and
therefore she would lie from me, and caused sheets to be put on in the
blue room, and would have Jane to lie with her lest I should come to
her. At last, I did give her such satisfaction, that we were mighty good
friends, and went to bed betimes . . . . .

8th. Up, and dressed myself; and by coach, with W. Hewer and my
wife, to White Hall, where she set us two down; and in the way, our
little boy, at Martin, my bookseller's shop, going to 'light, did fall down;
and, had he not been a most nimble boy (I saw how he did it, and was
mightily pleased with him for it), he had been run over by the coach. I
to visit my Lord Sandwich; and there, while my Lord was dressing
himself, did see a young Spaniard, that he hath brought over with him,
dance, which he is admired for, as the best dancer in Spain, and indeed
he do with mighty mastery; but I do not like his dancing as the English,
though my Lord commends it mightily: but I will have him to my
house, and show it my wife. Here I met with Mr. Moore, who tells me

the state of my Lord's accounts of his embassy, which I find not so
good as I thought: for, though it be passed the King and his Cabal (the
Committee for Foreign Affairs as they are called), yet they have cut off
from L9000 full L8000, and have now sent it to the Lords of the
Treasury, who, though the Committee have allowed the rest, yet they
are not obliged to abide by it. So that I do fear this account may yet be
long ere it be passed--much more, ere that sum be paid: I am sorry for
the family, and not a little for what it owes me. So to my wife, took her
up at Unthank's, and in our way home did shew her the tall woman in
Holborne, which I have seen before; and I measured her, and she is,
without shoes, just six feet five inches high, and they say not above
twenty-one years old. Thence home, and there to dinner, and my wife
in a wonderful ill humour; and, after dinner, I staid with her alone,
being not able to endure this life, and fell to some angry words together;
but by and by were mighty good friends, she telling me plain it was still
about Jane, whom she cannot believe but I am base with, which I made
a matter of mirth at; but at last did call up Jane, and confirm her
mistress's directions for her being gone at Easter, which I find the
wench willing to be, but directly prayed that Tom might go with her,
which I promised, and was but what I designed; and she being thus
spoke with, and gone, my wife and I good friends, and mighty kind, I
having promised, and I will perform it, never to give her for the time to
come ground of new trouble; and so I to the Office, with a very light
heart, and there close at my business all the afternoon. This day I was
told by Mr. Wren, that Captain Cox, Master- Attendant at Deptford, is
to be one of us very soon, he and Tippets being to take their turns for
Chatham and Portsmouth, which choice I like well enough; and
Captain Annesley is to come in his room at Deptford. This morning
also, going to visit Roger Pepys, at the potticary's in King's Street, he
tells me that Roger is gone to his wife's, so that they have been married,
as he tells me, ever since the middle of last week: it was his design,
upon good reasons, to make no noise of it; but I am