Diary, Nov/Dec 1661 | Page 8

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of me, he being this day to set sail for the Straights. We drank his
farewell and a health to all our friends, and were very merry, and drank
wine enough. Hence to the Temple to Mr. Turner about drawing up my
bill in Chancery against T. Trice, and so to Salisbury Court, where Mrs.
Turner is come to town to-night, but very ill still of an ague, which I
was sorry to see. So to the Wardrobe and talked with my Lady, and so
home and to bed.

15th. At home all the morning, and at noon with my wife to the
Wardrobe to dinner, and there, did shew herself to my Lady in the
handkercher that she bought the lace for the other day, and indeed it is
very handsome. Here I left my wife and went to my Lord Privy Seal to
Whitehall, and there did give him a copy of the Fees of the office as I
have received them, and he was well pleased with it. So to the Opera,
where I met my wife and Captain Ferrers and Madamoiselle Le Blanc,
and there did see the second part of "The Siege of Rhodes" very well
done; and so by coach set her home, and the coach driving down the
hill through Thames Street, which I think never any coach did before
from that place to the bridge- foot, but going up Fish Street Hill his
horses were so tired, that they could not be got to go up the hill, though
all the street boys and men did beat and whip them. At last I was fain to
send my boy for a link, and so light out of the coach till we got to
another at the corner of Fenchurch Street, and so home, and to bed.

16th. At the office all the morning. Dined at home, and so about my
business in the afternoon to the Temple, where I found my Chancery
bill drawn against T. Trice, which I read and like it, and so home.
17th (Lord's day). To our own church, and at noon, by invitation, Sir W.
Pen dined with me, and I took Mrs. Hester, my Lady Batten's
kinswoman, to dinner from church with me, and we were very merry.
So to church again, and heard a simple fellow upon the praise of
Church musique, and exclaiming against men's wearing their hats on in
the church, but I slept part of the sermon, till latter prayer and blessing
and all was done without waking which I never did in my life. So home,
and by and by comes my uncle Wight and my aunt and Mr. Norbury
and his lady, and we drank hard and were very merry till supper time,
and then we parted, my wife and I being invited to Sir W. Pen's, where

we also were very merry, and so home to prayers and to bed.

18th. By coach with Sir W. Pen; my wife and I toward Westminster,
but seeing Mr. Moore in the street I light and he and I went to Mr.
Battersby's the minister, in my way I putting in at St. Paul's, where I
saw the quiristers in their surplices going to prayers, and a few idle
poor people and boys to hear them, which is the first time I have seen
them, and am sorry to see things done so out of order, and there I
received L50 more, which make up L100 that I now have borrowed of
him, and so I did burn the old bond for L50, and paying him the use of
it did make a new bond for the whole L100. Here I dined and had a
good dinner, and his wife a good pretty woman. There was a young
Parson at the table that had got himself drunk before dinner, which
troubled me to see. After dinner to Mr. Bowers at Westminster for my
wife, and brought her to the Theatre to see "Philaster," which I never
saw before, but I found it far short of my expectations. So by coach
home.

19th. At the office all the morning, and coming home found Mr. Hunt
with my wife in the chamber alone, which God forgive me did trouble
my head, but remembering that it was washing and that there was no
place else with a fire for him to be in, it being also cold weather, I was
at ease again. He dined with us, and after dinner took coach and carried
him with us as far as my cozen Scott's, where we set him down and
parted, and my wife and I staid there at the christening of my cozens
boy, where my cozen Samuel Pepys, of Ireland, and