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entire meal of them. D.W.]

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. JUNE & JULY 1664
June 1st. Up, having lain long, going to bed very late after the ending
of my accounts. Being up Mr. Hollyard came to me, and to my great
sorrow, after his great assuring me that I could not possibly have the
stone again, he tells me that he do verily fear that I have it again, and
has brought me something to dissolve it, which do make me very much
troubled, and pray to God to ease me. He gone, I down by water to
Woolwich and Deptford to look after the dispatch of the ships, all the
way reading Mr. Spencer's Book of Prodigys, which is most
ingeniously writ, both for matter and style. Home at noon, and my little
girl got me my dinner, and I presently out by water and landed at
Somerset stairs, and thence through Covent Garden, where I met with
Mr. Southwell (Sir W. Pen's friend), who tells me the very sad newes of
my Lord Tiviott's and nineteen more commission officers being killed
at Tangier by the Moores, by an ambush of the enemy upon them,
while they were surveying their lines; which is very sad, and, he says,
afflicts the King much. Thence to W. Joyce's, where by appointment I
met my wife (but neither of them at home), and she and I to the King's
house, and saw "The Silent Woman;" but methought not so well done
or so good a play as I formerly thought it to be, or else I am nowadays
out of humour. Before the play was done, it fell such a storm of hayle,
that we in the middle of the pit were fain to rise;
[The stage was covered in by a tiled roof, but the pit was open to the
sky. "The pit lay open to the weather for sake of light, but was
subsequently covered in with a glazed cupola, which, however, only
imperfectly protected the audience, so that in stormy weather the house
was thrown into disorder, and the people in the pit were fain to rise"
(Cunningham's "Story of Nell Gwyn," ed. 1893, p. 33).]
and all the house in a disorder, and so my wife and I out and got into a
little alehouse, and staid there an hour after the play was done before
we could get a coach, which at last we did (and by chance took up

Joyce Norton and Mrs. Bowles. and set them at home), and so home
ourselves, and I, after a little to my office, so home to supper and to
bed.

2nd. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and then to the
'Change, where after some stay by coach with Sir J. Minnes and Mr.
Coventry to St. James's, and there dined with Mr. Coventry very finely,
and so over the Parke to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier about
providing provisions, money, and men for Tangier. At it all the
afternoon, but it is strange to see how poorly and brokenly things are
done of the greatest consequence, and how soon the memory of this
great man is gone, or, at least, out of mind by the thoughts of who goes
next, which is not yet knowne. My Lord of Oxford, Muskerry, and
several others are discoursed of. It seems my Lord Tiviott's design was
to go a mile and half out of the towne, to cut down a wood in which the
enemy did use to lie in ambush. He had sent several spyes; but all
brought word that the way was clear, and so might be for any body's
discovery of an enemy before you are upon them. There they were all
snapt, he and all his officers, and about 200 men, as they say; there
being left now in the garrison but four captains. This happened the 3d
of May last, being not before that day twelvemonth of his entering into
his government there: but at his going out in the morning he said to
some of his officers, "Gentlemen, let us look to ourselves, for it was
this day three years that so many brave Englishmen were knocked on
the head by the Moores, when Fines made his sally out." Here till
almost night, and then home with Sir J. Minnes by coach, and so to my
office a while, and home to