Diary, Nov/Dec 1663 | Page 8

charter-party or bill of lading. It is in fact an extended freight. A ship,
unjustly detained as a prize is entitled to 'demurrage.'"--Smyth's Sailor's
Word-Book, 1867.]
of his ship "William," kept long at Tangier, which I shall and may
justly do.

8th (Lord's day). Up, and it being late, to church without my wife, and
there I saw Pembleton come into the church and bring his wife with
him, a good comely plain woman, and by and by my wife came after
me all alone, which I was a little vexed at. I found that my coming in a
perriwigg did not prove so strange to the world as I was afear'd it would,
for I thought that all the church would presently have cast their eyes all
upon me, but I found no such thing. Here an ordinary lazy sermon of
Mr. Mill's, and then home to dinner, and there Tom came and dined
with us; and after dinner to talk about a new black cloth suit that I have
a making, and so at church time to church again, where the Scott

preached, and I slept most of the time. Thence home, and I spent most
of the evening upon Fuller's "Church History" and Barckly's "Argeny,"
and so after supper to prayers and to bed, a little fearing my pain
coming back again, myself continuing as costive as ever, and my
physic ended, but I had sent a porter to-day for more and it was brought
me before I went to bed, and so with pretty good content to bed.

9th. Up and found myself very well, and so by coach to White Hall and
there met all my fellow officers, and so to the Duke, where, when we
came into his closett, he told us that Mr. Pepys was so altered with his
new perriwigg that he did not know him. So to our discourse, and
among and above other things we were taken up in talking upon Sir J.
Lawson's coming home, he being come to Portsmouth; and Captain
Berkely is come to towne with a letter from the Duana of Algier to the
King, wherein they do demand again the searching of our ships and
taking out of strangers, and their goods; and that what English ships are
taken without the Duke's pass they will detain (though it be flat
contrary to the words of the peace) as prizes, till they do hear from our
King, which they advise him may be speedy. And this they did the very
next day after they had received with great joy the Grand Seignor's
confirmation of the Peace from Constantinople by Captain Berkely; so
that there is no command nor certainty to be had of these people. The
King is resolved to send his will by a fleete of ships; and it is thought
best and speediest to send these very ships that are now come home,
five sail of good ships, back again after cleaning, victualling, and
paying them. But it is a pleasant thing to think how their Basha, Shavan
Aga, did tear his hair to see the soldiers order things thus; for (just like
his late predecessor) when they see the evil of war with England, then
for certain they complain to the Grand Seignor of him, and cut his head
off: this he is sure of, and knows as certain. Thence to Westminster
Hall, where I met with Mr. Pierce, chyrurgeon; and among other things
he asked me seriously whether I knew anything of my Lord's being out
of favour with the King; and told me, that for certain the King do take
mighty notice of my Lord's living obscurely in a corner not like himself,
and becoming the honour that he is come to. I was sorry to hear, and
the truth is, from my Lord's discourse among his people (which I am

told) of the uncertainty of princes' favours, and his melancholy keeping
from Court, I am doubtful of some such thing; but I seemed wholly
strange to him in it, but will make my use of it. He told me also how
loose the Court is, nobody looking after business, but every man his
lust and gain; and how the King is now become besotted upon Mrs.
Stewart, that he gets into corners, and will be with her half an houre
together kissing her to the observation of all the world; and she now
stays by herself and expects it, as my Lady Castlemaine did use to do;
to whom the King, he says, is still kind, so as now and then he goes to
have a chat with her as he believes; but with no such fondness as he
used to do. But yet it is thought that this new