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.
                           SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER
                                 1663

Sept. 1st. Up pretty betimes, and after a little at my viall to myoffice, where we sat all the morning, and I got my bill among others formy carved work (which I expected to have paid for myself) signed at thetable, and hope to get the money back again, though if the rest had notgot it paid by the King, I never intended nor did desire to have him payfor my vanity. In the evening my brother John coming to me to complainthat my wife seems to be discontented at his being here, and shows himgreat disrespect; so I took and walked with him in the garden, anddiscoursed long with him about my affairs, and how imprudent it is for myfather and mother and him to take exceptions without great cause at mywife, considering how much it concerns them to keep her their friend andfor my peace; not that I would ever be led by her to forget or desert themin the main, but yet she deserves to be pleased and complied with alittle, considering the manner of life that I keep her to, and howconvenient it were for me to have Brampton for her to be sent to when Ihave a mind or occasion to go abroad to Portsmouth or elsewhere. Sodirected him how to behave himself to her, and gave him other counsel; andso to my office, where late.

2nd. Up betimes and to my office, and thence with Sir J. Minnes by coachto White Hall, where met us Sir W. Batten, and there staid by the CouncilChamber till the Lords called us in, being appointed four days ago toattend them with an account of the riott among the seamen the other day,when Sir J. Minnes did as like a coxcomb as ever I saw any man speak in mylife, and so we were dismissed, they making nothing almost of the matter.We staid long without, till by and by my Lord Mayor comes, who also wascommanded to be there, and he having, we not being within with him, anadmonition from the Lords to take better care of preserving the peace, wejoyned with him, and the Lords having commanded Sir J. Minnes to prosecutethe fellows for the riott, we rode along with my Lord Mayor in his coachto the Sessions House in the Old Bayley, where the Sessions are nowsitting. Here I heard two or three ordinary tryalls, among others one(which, they say, is very common now-a-days, and therefore in my nowtaking of mayds I resolve to look to have some body to answer for them) awoman that went and was indicted by four names for entering herself acookemayde to a gentleman that prosecuted her there, and after 3 days runaway with a silver tankard, a porringer of silver, and a couple of spoons,and being now found is found guilty, and likely will be hanged. By and byup to dinner with my Lord Mayor and the Aldermen, and a very great dinnerand most excellent venison, but it almost made me sick by not daring todrink wine. After dinner into a withdrawing room; and there we talked,among other things, of the Lord Mayor's sword. They tell me this sword,they believe, is at least a hundred or two hundred years old; and anothertha

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