Diary, July 1665 | Page 4

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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 1665
July 1st, 1665. Called up betimes, though weary and sleepy, by
appointment by Mr. Povy and Colonell Norwood to discourse about
some payments of Tangier. They gone, I to the office and there sat all
the morning. At noon dined at home, and then to the Duke of
Albemarle's, by appointment, to give him an account of some disorder
in the Yarde at Portsmouth, by workmen's going away of their owne
accord, for lacke of money, to get work of hay-making, or any thing
else to earne themselves bread.
[There are several letters among the State Papers from Commissioner
Thomas Middleton relating to the want of workmen at Portsmouth
Dockyard. On June 29th Middleton wrote to Pepys, "The ropemakers
have discharged themselves for want of money, and gone into the
country to make hay." The blockmakers, the joiners, and the sawyers
all refused to work longer without money ("Calendar," 1664-65, p.
453).]
Thence to Westminster, where I hear the sicknesse encreases greatly,
and to the Harp and Ball with Mary talking, who tells me simply her
losing of her first love in the country in Wales, and coming up hither
unknown to her friends, and it seems Dr. Williams do pretend love to
her, and I have found him there several times. Thence by coach and late
at the office, and so to bed. Sad at the newes that seven or eight houses
in Bazing Hall street, are shut up of the plague.

2nd (Sunday). Up, and all the morning dressing my closet at the office
with my plates, very neatly, and a fine place now it is, and will be a
pleasure to sit in, though I thank God I needed none before. At noon
dined at home, and after dinner to my accounts and cast them up, and
find that though I have spent above L90 this month yet I have saved
L17, and am worth in all above L1450, for which the Lord be praised!

In the evening my Lady Pen and daughter come to see, and supped with
us, then a messenger about business of the office from Sir G. Carteret at
Chatham, and by word of mouth did send me word that the business
between my Lord and him is fully agreed on,
[The arrangements for the marriage of Lady Jemimah Montagu to
Philip Carteret were soon settled, for the wedding took place on July
31st]
and is mightily liked of by the King and the Duke of Yorke, and that he
sent me this word with great joy; they gone, we to bed. I hear this night
that Sir J. Lawson was buried late last night at St. Dunstan's by us,
without any company at all, and that the condition of his family is but
very poor, which I could be contented to be sorry for, though he never
was the man that ever obliged me by word or deed.

3rd. Up and by water with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes to White
Hall to the Duke of Albemarle, where, after a little business, we parted,
and I to the Harp and Ball, and there staid a while talking to Mary, and
so home to dinner. After dinner to the Duke of Albemarle's again, and
so to the Swan, and there 'demeurais un peu'de temps con la fille', and
so to the Harp and Ball, and alone 'demeurais un peu de temps baisant
la', and so away home and late at the office about letters, and so home,
resolving from this night forwards to close all my letters, if possible,
and end all my business at the office by daylight, and I shall go near to
do it and put all my affairs in the world in good order, the season
growing so sickly, that it is much to be feared how a man can escape
having a share with others in it, for which the good Lord God bless me,
or to be fitted to receive it. So after supper to bed, and mightily
troubled in my sleep all night with dreams of Jacke Cole, my old
schoolfellow, lately dead, who was born at the same time with me, and
we reckoned our fortunes pretty equal. God fit me for his condition!

4th. Up, and sat at the office all the morning. At noon to the 'Change
and thence to the Dolphin, where a