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 LIBRARYMAGDALENE 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.
                              JUNE & JULY
                                 1660

June 1st. This morning Mr. Sheply disposed of the money that the Duke ofYork did give my Lord's servants, 22 ducatoons 3 came to my share, whereofhe told me to give Jaspar something because my Lord left him out.

[Foreign coins were in frequent use at this time. A Proclamation, January 29th, 1660-61, declared certain foreign gold and silver coins to be current at certain rates. The rate of the ducatoon was at 5s. 9d.]

I did give Mr. Sheply the fine pair of buckskin gloves that I boughtmyself about five years ago. My Lord took physic to-day, and so come notout all day. The Captain on shore all day. After dinner Captain Jefferysand W. Howe, and the Lieutenant and I to ninepins, where I lost about twoshillings and so fooled away all the afternoon. At night Mr. Cooke comesfrom London with letters, leaving all things there very gallant andjoyful. And brought us word that the Parliament had ordered the 29th ofMay, the King's birthday, to be for ever kept as a day of thanksgiving forour redemption from tyranny, and the King's return to his Government, heentering London that day. My wife was in London when he came thither, andhad been there a week with Mr. Bowyer and his wife. My poor wife has notbeen well a week before, but thanks be to God is well again. She wouldfain see me and be at her house again, but we must be content. She writesword how the Joyces grow very rich and very proud, but it is no matter,and that there was a talk that I should be knighted by the King, whichthey (the Joyces) laugh at; but I think myself happier in my wife andestate than they are in theirs. To bed. The Captain come on board, when Iwas going to bed, quite fuddled; and himself the next morning told me sotoo, that the Vice-Admiral, Rear-Admiral, and he had been drinking allday.

2d. Being with my Lord in the morning about business in his cabin, I tookoccasion to give him thanks for his love to me in the share that he hadgiven me of his Majesty's money, and the Duke's. He told the he hoped todo me a more lasting kindness, if all things stand as they are now betweenhim and the King, but, says he, "We must have a little patience and wewill rise together; in the mean time I will do you all the good jobs Ican." Which was great content for me to hear from my Lord. All themorning with the Captain, computing how much the thirty ships that comewith the King from Scheveling their pay comes to for a month (because theKing promised to give them all a month's pay), and it comes to L6,538, andthe Charles particularly L777. I wish we had the money. All theafternoon with two or three captains in the Captain's cabin, drinking ofwhite wine and sugar, and eating pickled oysters, where Captain Sparlingtold us the best story that ever I heard, about a gentleman that persuadeda country fool to let him gut his oysters or else they would st

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