Produced by David Widger

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. APRIL 1668

April 1st. Up, and to dress myself, and call as I use Deb. to brush anddress me . . . , and I to my office, where busy till noon, and then outto bespeak some things against my wife's going into the country to-morrow,and so home to dinner, my wife and I alone, she being mighty busy gettingher things ready for her journey, I all the afternoon with her lookingafter things on the same account, and then in the afternoon out and allalone to the King's house, and there sat in an upper box, to hide myself,and saw "The Black Prince," a very good play; but only the fancy, most ofit, the same as in the rest of my Lord Orrery's plays; but the dance verystately; but it was pretty to see how coming after dinner and with nocompany with me to talk to, and at a play that I had seen, and went to nownot for curiosity but only idleness, I did fall asleep the former part ofthe play, but afterward did mind it and like it very well. Thence calledat my bookseller's, and took Mr. Boyle's Book of Formes, newly reprinted,and sent my brother my old one. So home, and there to my chamber tillanon comes Mr. Turner and his wife and daughter, and Pelting, to sup withus and talk of my wife's journey to-morrow, her daughter going with mywife; and after supper to talk with her husband about the Office, and hisplace, which, by Sir J. Minnes's age and inability, is very uncomfortableto him, as well as without profit, or certainty what he shall do, when SirJ. Minnes dies, which is a sad condition for a man that hath lived so longin the Office as Mr. Turner hath done. But he aymes, and I advise him toit, to look for Mr. Ackworth's place, in case he should be removed. Hiswife afterwards did take me into my closet, and give me a cellar

     [A box to hold bottles. "Run for the cellar of strong waters
     quickly"
                    —Ben Jonson, Magnetic Lady, act iii., sc. r.]

of waters of her own distilling for my father, to be carried down with mywife and her daughter to-morrow, which was very handsome. So broke up andto bed.

2nd. Up, after much pleasant talk with my wife, and upon some alterationsI will make in my house in her absence, and I do intend to lay out somemoney thereon. So she and I up, and she got her ready to be gone, and byand by comes Betty Turner and her mother, and W. Batelier, and they andDeb., to whom I did give 10s. this morning, to oblige her to please hermistress (and ego did baiser her mouche), and also Jane, and so in twocoaches set out about eight o'clock towards the carrier, there for to takecoach for my father's, that is to say, my wife and Betty Turner, Deb., andJane; but I meeting my Lord Anglesey going to the Office, was forced to'light in Cheapside, and there took my leave of them (not baisado Deb.,which je had a great mind to), left them to go to their coach, and I tothe office, where all the morning busy, and so at noo

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