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THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY

TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN
THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY MAGDALENE COLLEGE
CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE
FELLOW AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
(Unabridged)
WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES
EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY
HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. JULY & AUGUST 1662
July 1st. To the office, and there we sat till past noon, and then Captain
Cuttance and I by water to Deptford, where the Royal James (in which
my Lord went out the last voyage, though [he] came back in the
Charles) was paying off by Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen. So to dinner,
where I had Mr. Sheply to dine with us, and from thence I sent to my
Lord to know whether she should be a first rate, as the men would have
her, or a second. He answered that we should forbear paying the
officers and such whose pay differed upon the rate of the ship, till he
could speak with his Royal Highness. To the Pay again after dinner,
and seeing of Cooper, the mate of the ship, whom I knew in the Charles,
I spoke to him about teaching the mathematiques, and do please myself
in my thoughts of learning of him, and bade him come to me in a day
or two. Towards evening I left them, and to Redriffe by land, Mr.
Cowly, the Clerk of the Cheque, with me, discoursing concerning the
abuses of the yard, in which he did give me much light. So by water
home, and after half an hour sitting talking with my wife, who was
afeard I did intend to go with my Lord to fetch the Queen mother over,
in which I did clear her doubts, I went to bed by daylight, in order to
my rising early to-morrow.

2nd. Up while the chimes went four, and to put down my journal, and
so to my office, to read over such instructions as concern the officers of
the Yard; for I am much upon seeing into the miscarriages there. By
and by, by appointment, comes Commissioner Pett; and then a
messenger from Mr. Coventry, who sits in his boat expecting us, and so
we down to him at the Tower, and there took water all, and to Deptford

(he in our passage taking notice how much difference there is between
the old Captains for obedience and order, and the King's new Captains,
which I am very glad to hear him confess); and there we went into the
Store-house, and viewed first the provisions there, and then his books,
but Mr. Davis himself was not there, he having a kinswoman in the
house dead, for which, when by and by I saw him, he do trouble
himself most ridiculously, as if there was never another woman in the
world; in which so much laziness, as also in the Clerkes of the Cheque
and Survey (which after one another we did examine), as that I do not
perceive that there is one-third of their duties performed; but I perceive,
to my great content, Mr. Coventry will have things reformed. So Mr.
Coventry to London, and Pett and I to the Pay, where Sir Williams both
were paying off the Royal James still, and so to dinner, and to the Pay
again, where I did relieve several of my Lord Sandwich's people, but
was sorry to see them so peremptory, and at every word would,
complain to my Lord, as if they shall have such a command over my
Lord. In the evening I went forth and took a walk with Mr. Davis, and
told him what had passed at his office to-day, and did give him my
advice, and so with the rest by barge home and to bed

3rd. Up by four o'clock and to my office till 8 o'clock, writing over two
copies of our contract with Sir W. Rider, &c., for 500 ton of hempe,
which, because it is a secret, I have the trouble of writing over as well
as drawing. Then home to dress myself, and so to the office, where
another fray between Sir R. Ford and myself about his yarn, wherein I
find the board to yield on my side, and was glad thereof, though
troubled that the office should fall upon me of disobliging Sir Richard.
At noon we all by invitation dined at the Dolphin with the Officers of
the Ordnance; where Sir W. Compton, Mr. O'Neale,'and other great
persons, were, and a very great dinner, but I drank as I still do but my
allowance of wine. After dinner, was brought to Sir W.