DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. JUNE 1667
June 1st. Up; and there comes to me Mr. Commander, whom I employ
about hiring of some ground behind the office, for the building of me a
stable and coach-house: for I do find it necessary for me, both in
respect to honour and the profit of it also, my expense in
hackney-coaches being now so great, to keep a coach, and therefore
will do it. Having given him some instructions about it, I to the office,
where we sat all the morning; where we have news that our peace with
Spayne, as to trade, is wholly concluded, and we are to furnish him
with some men for Flanders against the French. How that will agree
with the French, I know not; but they say that he also hath liberty, to
get what men he pleases out of England. But for the Spaniard, I hear
that my Lord Castlehaven is raising a regiment of 4000 men, which he
is to command there; and several young gentlemen are going over in
commands with him: and they say the Duke of Monmouth is going
over only as a traveller, not to engage on either side, but only to see the
campagne, which will be becoming him much more than to live
whoreing and rogueing, as he now do. After dinner to the office, where,
after a little nap, I fell to business, and did very much with infinite joy
to myself, as it always is to me when I have dispatched much business,
and therefore it troubles me to see how hard it is for me to settle to it
sometimes when my mind is upon pleasure. So home late to supper and
to bed.
2nd (Lord's day). Up betimes, and down to my chamber without
trimming myself, or putting on clean linen, thinking only to keep to my
chamber and do business to-day, but when I come there I find that
without being shaved I am not fully awake, nor ready to settle to
business, and so was fain to go up again and dress myself, which I did,
and so down to my chamber, and fell roundly to business, and did to
my satisfaction by dinner go far in the drawing up a state of my
accounts of Tangier for the new Lords Commissioners. So to dinner,
and then to my business again all the afternoon close, when Creed
come to visit me, but I did put him off, and to my business, till anon I
did make an end, and wrote it fair with a letter to the Lords to
accompany my accounts, which I think will be so much satisfaction and
so soon done (their order for my doing it being dated but May 30) as
they will not find from any hand else. Being weary and almost blind
with writing and reading so much to-day, I took boat at the Old Swan,
and there up the river all alone as high as Putney almost, and then back
again, all the way reading, and finishing Mr. Boyle's book of Colours,
which is so chymical, that I can understand but little of it, but
understand enough to see that he is a most excellent man. So back and
home, and there to supper, and so to bed.
3rd. Up, and by coach to St. James's, and with Sir W. Coventry a great
while talking about several businesses, but especially about accounts,
and how backward our Treasurer is in giving them satisfaction, and the
truth is I do doubt he cannot do better, but it is strange to say that being
conscious of our doing little at this day, nor for some time past in our
office for want of money, I do hang my head to him, and cannot be so
free with him as I used to be, nor can be free with him, though of all
men, I think, I have the least cause to be so, having taken so much more
pains, while I could do anything, than the rest of my fellows. Parted
with him, and so going through the Park met Mr. Mills, our parson,
whom I went back with to bring him to [Sir] W. Coventry, to give him
the form of a qualification for the Duke of York to sign to, to enable
him to have two livings: which was a service I did, but much against
my will, for a lazy, fat priest. Thence to Westminster Hall, and there
walked a turn or two with Sir William Doyly, who did lay a wager with
me, the Treasurership would be in one hand, notwithstanding this
present Commission, before Christmas: on which we did lay a poll of
ling, a brace of carps, and a pottle
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