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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. OCTOBER, NOVEMBER &
DECEMBER 1660
October 1st. Early to my Lord to Whitehall, and there he did give me
some work to do for him, and so with all haste to the office. Dined at
home, and my father by chance with me. After dinner he and I advised
about hangings for my rooms, which are now almost fit to be hung, the
painters beginning to do their work to-day. After dinner he and I to the
Miter, where with my uncle Wight (whom my father fetched thither),
while I drank a glass of wine privately with Mr. Mansell, a poor
Reformado of the Charles, who came to see me. Here we staid and
drank three or four pints of wine and so parted. I home to look after my
workmen, and at night to bed. The Commissioners are very busy
disbanding of the army, which they say do cause great robbing. My
layings out upon my house an furniture are so great that I fear I shall
not be able to go through them without breaking one of my bags of
L100, I having but L200 yet in the world.

2nd. With Sir Wm. Pen by water to Whitehall, being this morning
visited before I went out by my brother Tom, who told me that for his
lying out of doors a day and a night my father had forbade him to come
any more into his house, at which I was troubled, and did soundly chide
him for doing so, and upon confessing his fault I told him I would
speak to my father. At Whitehall I met with Captain Clerk, and took
him to the Leg in King Street, and did give him a dish or two of meat,
and his purser that was with him, for his old kindness to me on board.
After dinner I to Whitehall, where I met with Mrs. Hunt, and was
forced to wait upon Mr. Scawen at a committee to speak for her

husband, which I did. After that met with Luellin, Mr. Fage, and took
them both to the Dog, and did give them a glass of wine. After that at
Will's I met with Mr. Spicer, and with him to the Abbey to see them at
vespers. There I found but a thin congregation already. So I see that
religion, be it what it will, is but a humour,
[The four humours of the body described by the old physicians were
supposed to exert their influence upon the mind, and in course of time
the mind as well as the body was credited with its own particular
humours. The modern restricted use of the word humour did not
become general until the eighteenth century.]
and so the esteem of it passeth as other things do. From thence with
him to see Robin Shaw, who has been a long time ill, and I have not
seen him since I came from sea. He is much changed, but in hopes to be
well again. From thence by coach to my father's, and discoursed with
him about Tom, and did give my advice to take him home again, which
I think he will do in prudence rather than put him upon learning the
way of being worse. So home, and from home to Major Hart, who is
just going out of town to-morrow, and made much of me, and did give
me the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, that I may be capable of my
arrears. So home again, where my wife tells me what she has bought
to-day, namely, a bed and furniture for her chamber, with which very
well pleased I went to bed.

3d. With Sir W. Batten and Pen by water to White Hall, where a
meeting of the Dukes of York and Albemarle, my Lord Sandwich and
all the principal officers, about the Winter Guard, but we determined of
nothing. To my Lord's, who sent a great iron chest to White Hall; and I
saw it carried, into the King's closet, where I saw most incomparable
pictures. Among the rest a book open upon a desk, which I durst have
sworn was a reall book, and back again to my Lord, and dined all alone
with him, who do treat me with a great deal of respect; and after dinner
did discourse an hour with me, and advise