Diary, September 1665 | Page 4

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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. SEPTEMBER 1665
September 1st. Up, and to visit my Lady Pen and her daughter at the
Ropeyarde where I did breakfast with them and sat chatting a good
while. Then to my lodging at Mr. Shelden's, where I met Captain
Cocke and eat a little bit of dinner, and with him to Greenwich by
water, having good discourse with him by the way. After being at
Greenwich a little while, I to London, to my house, there put many
more things in order for my totall remove, sending away my girle
Susan and other goods down to Woolwich, and I by water to the Duke
of Albemarle, and thence home late by water. At the Duke of
Albemarle's I overheard some examinations of the late plot that is
discoursed of and a great deale of do there is about it. Among other
discourses, I heard read, in the presence of the Duke, an examination
and discourse of Sir Philip Howard's, with one of the plotting party. In
many places these words being, "Then," said Sir P. Howard, "if you so
come over to the King, and be faithfull to him, you shall be maintained,
and be set up with a horse and armes," and I know not what. And then
said such a one, "Yes, I will be true to the King." "But, damn me," said
Sir Philip, "will you so and so?" And thus I believe twelve times Sir P.
Howard answered him a "damn me," which was a fine way of
rhetorique to persuade a Quaker or Anabaptist from his persuasion.
And this was read in the hearing of Sir P. Howard, before the Duke and
twenty more officers, and they make sport of it, only without any
reproach, or he being anything ashamed of it!
[This republican plot was described by the Lord Chancellor in a speech
delivered on October 9th, when parliament met at Oxford.]
But it ended, I remember, at last, "But such a one (the plotter) did at
last bid them remember that he had not told them what King he would
be faithfull to."

2nd. This morning I wrote letters to Mr. Hill and Andrews to come to
dine with me to-morrow, and then I to the office, where busy, and
thence to dine with Sir J. Minnes, where merry, but only that Sir J.
Minnes who hath lately lost two coach horses, dead in the stable, has a
third now a dying. After dinner I to Deptford, and there took occasion
to 'entrar a la casa de la gunaica de ma Minusier', and did what I had a
mind . . . To Greenwich, where wrote some letters, and home in pretty
good time.

3rd (Lord's day). Up; and put on my coloured silk suit very fine, and
my new periwigg, bought a good while since, but durst not wear,
because the plague was in Westminster when I bought it; and it is a
wonder what will be the fashion after the plague is done, as to
periwiggs, for nobody will dare to buy any haire, for fear of the
infection, that it had been cut off of the heads of people dead of the
plague. Before church time comes Mr. Hill (Mr. Andrews failing
because he was to receive the Sacrament), and to church, where a sorry
dull parson, and so home and most excellent company with Mr. Hill
and discourse of musique. I took my Lady Pen home, and her daughter
Pegg, and merry we were; and after dinner I made my wife show them
her pictures, which did mad Pegg Pen, who learns of the same man and
cannot do so well. After dinner left them and I by water to Greenwich,
where much ado to be suffered to come into the towne because of the
sicknesse, for fear I should come from London, till I told them who I
was. So up to the church, where at the door I find Captain Cocke in my
Lord Brunker's coach, and he come out and walked with me in the
church-yarde till the church was done, talking of the ill government of
our Kingdom, nobody setting to heart the business of the Kingdom, but
every body minding their particular profit or pleasures, the King
himself minding nothing but his ease, and so we let things go to wracke.
This arose upon considering what we shall do for money when the