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before making
an 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. MAY & JUNE 1662
May 1st. Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Pen, and myself, with our clerks, set
out this morning from Portsmouth very early, and got by noon to
Petersfield; several officers of the Yard accompanying us so far. Here
we dined and were merry. At dinner comes my Lord Carlingford from
London, going to Portsmouth: tells us that the Duchess of York is
brought to bed of a girl,--[Mary, afterwards Queen of England.]-- at
which I find nobody pleased; and that Prince Rupert and the Duke of
Buckingham are sworn of the Privy Councell. He himself made a dish
with eggs of the butter of the Sparagus, which is very fine meat, which
I will practise hereafter. To horse again after dinner, and got to Gilford,
where after supper I to bed, having this day been offended by Sir W.
Pen's foolish talk, and I offending him with my answers. Among others
he in discourse complaining of want of confidence, did ask me to lend
him a grain or two, which I told him I thought he was better stored with
than myself, before Sir George. So that I see I must keep a greater
distance than I have done, and I hope I may do it because of the interest
which I am making with Sir George. To bed all alone, and my Will in
the truckle bed.
[According to the original Statutes of Corpus Christi Coll. Oxon, a
Scholar slept in a truckle bed below each Fellow. Called also "a trindle
bed." Compare Hall's description of an obsequious tutor:
"He lieth in a truckle bed While his young master lieth o'er his head."
Satires, ii. 6, 5.
The bed was drawn in the daytime under the high bed of the tutor. See
Wordsworth's "University Life in the Eighteenth Century."--M. B.]

2nd. Early to coach again and to Kingston, where we baited a little, and
presently to coach again and got early to London, and I found all well
at home, and Mr. Hunt and his wife had dined with my wife to-day, and
been very kind to my wife in my absence. After I had washed myself, it
having been the hottest day that has been this year, I took them all by
coach to Mrs. Hunt's, and I to Dr. Clerke's lady, and gave her her letter
and token. She is a very fine woman, and what with her person and the
number of fine ladies that were with her, I was much out of
countenance, and could hardly carry myself like a man among them;
but however, I staid till my courage was up again, and talked to them,
and viewed her house, which is most pleasant, and so drank and
good-night. And so to my Lord's lodgings, where by chance I spied my
Lady's coach, and found her and my Lady Wright there, and so I spoke
to them, and they being gone went to Mr. Hunt's for my wife, and so
home and to bed.

3rd. Sir W. Pen and I by coach to St. James's, and there to the Duke's
Chamber, who had been a-hunting this morning and is come back again.
Thence to Westminster, where I met Mr. Moore, and hear that Mr.
Watkins' is suddenly dead since my going. To dinner to my Lady
Sandwich, and Sir Thomas Crew's children coming thither, I took them
and all my Ladys to the Tower and showed them the lions
[The Tower Menagerie was not abolished until the reign of William
IV.]
and all that was to be shown, and so took them to my house, and there
made much of them, and so saw them back to my Lady's. Sir Thomas
Crew's children being as pretty and the best behaved that ever I saw of
their age. Thence, at the goldsmith's, took my picture in
little,--[Miniature by Savill]--which is now done, home with me, and
pleases me exceedingly and my wife. So to supper and to bed, it being
exceeding hot.

4th (Lord's day). Lay long talking with my wife, then Mr. Holliard
came to me and let me blood, about sixteen ounces, I being exceedingly
full of blood and very good. I begun to be sick; but lying upon my back
I was presently well again, and did give him 5s. for his pains, and so we
parted, and I, to my