Diary, Jan 1659/60 | Page 7

Hall
I called at home, and so went to Mr. Crew's (my wife she was to go to
her father's), thinking to have dined, but I came too late, so Mr. Moore
and I and another gentleman went out and drank a cup of ale together in
the new market, and there I eat some bread and cheese for my dinner.
After that Mr. Moore and I went as far as Fleet-street together and
parted, he going into the City, I to find Mr. Calthrop, but failed again of
finding him, so returned to Mr. Crew's again, and from thence went
along with Mrs. Jemimah
[Mrs. Jemimah, or Mrs. Jem, was Jemima, eldest daughter of Sir

Edward Montagu. At this time she and her sister, Mrs. Ann, seem to
have been living alone with their maids in London, and Pepys's duty
was to look after them.]
home, and there she taught me how to play at cribbage. Then I went
home, and finding my wife gone to see Mrs. Hunt, I went to Will's,
[Pepys constantly visited "Will's" about this time; but this could not be
the famous coffee-house in Covent Garden, because he mentions
visiting there for the first time, February 3rd, 1663-64. It was most
probably the house of William Joyce, who kept a place of
entertainment at Westminster (see Jan. 29th).]
and there sat with Mr. Ashwell talking and singing till nine o'clock, and
so home, there, having not eaten anything but bread and cheese, my
wife cut me a slice of brawn which. I received from my
Lady;--[Jemima, wife of Sir Edward Montagu, daughter of John Crew
of Stene, afterwards Lord Crew.]--which proves as good as ever I had
any. So to bed, and my wife had a very bad night of it through wind
and cold.

3rd. I went out in the morning, it being a great frost, and walked to Mrs.
Turner's
[Jane, daughter of John Pepys of South Creake, Norfolk, married to
John Turner, Sergeant-at-law, Recorder of York; their only child,
Theophila, frequently mentioned as The. or Theoph., became the wife
of Sir Arthur Harris, Bart., of Stowford, Devon, and died 1686, s.p.]
to stop her from coming to see me to-day, because of Mrs. Jem's
corning, thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. Calthrop, and
walked in his chamber an hour, but could not see him, so went to
Westminster, where I found soldiers in my office to receive money, and
paid it them. At noon went home, where Mrs. Jem, her maid, Mr.
Sheply, Hawly, and Moore dined with me on a piece of beef and
cabbage, and a collar of brawn. We then fell to cards till dark, and then
I went home with Mrs. Jem, and meeting Mr. Hawly got him to bear
me company to Chancery Lane, where I spoke with Mr. Calthrop, he
told me that Sir James Calthrop was lately dead, but that he would
write to his Lady, that the money may be speedily paid. Thence back to
White Hall, where I understood that the Parliament had passed the act
for indemnity to the soldiers and officers that would come in, in so

many days, and that my Lord Lambert should have benefit of the said
act. They had also voted that all vacancies in the House, by the death of
any of the old members, shall be filled up; but those that are living shall
not be called in. Thence I went home, and there found Mr. Hunt and his
wife, and Mr. Hawly, who sat with me till ten at night at cards, and so
broke up and to bed.

4th. Early came Mr. Vanly--[Mr Vanley appears to have been Pepys's
landlord; he is mentioned again in the Diary on September 20th,
1660.]-- to me for his half-year's rent, which I had not in the house, but
took his man to the office and there paid him. Then I went down into
the Hall and to Will's, where Hawly brought a piece of his Cheshire
cheese, and we were merry with it. Then into the Hall again, where I
met with the Clerk and Quarter Master of my Lord's troop, and took
them to the Swan' and gave them their morning's draft,
[It was not usual at this time to sit down to breakfast, but instead a
morning draught was taken at a tavern.]
they being just come to town. Mr. Jenkins shewed me two bills of
exchange for money to receive upon my Lord's and my pay. It snowed
hard all this morning, and was very cold, and my nose was much
swelled with cold. Strange the difference of men's talk! Some say that
Lambert must of necessity yield up; others, that he is very strong, and
that the