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.
                                NOVEMBER
                                  1668

November 1st (Lord's day). Up, and with W. Hewer at my chamber all thismorning, going further in my great business for the Duke of York, and soat noon to dinner, and then W. Hewer to write fair what he had writ, andmy wife to read to me all the afternoon, till anon Mr. Gibson come, and heand I to perfect it to my full mind, and so to supper and to bed, my mindyet at disquiet that I cannot be informed how poor Deb. stands with hermistress, but I fear she will put her away, and the truth is, though it bemuch against my mind and to my trouble, yet I think that it will be fitthat she should be gone, for my wife's peace and mine, for she cannot butbe offended at the sight of her, my wife having conceived this jealousy ofme with reason, and therefore for that, and other reasons of expense, itwill be best for me to let her go, but I shall love and pity her. Thisnoon Mr. Povy sent his coach for my wife and I to see, which we likemightily, and will endeavour to have him get us just such another.

2nd. Up, and a cold morning, by water through bridge without a cloak, andthere to Mr. Wren at his chamber at White Hall, the first time of hiscoming thither this year, the Duchess coming thither tonight, and there heand I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn upabout the several answers of the officers of this Office to the Duke ofYork's reflections, and did debate a little what advice to give the Dukeof York when he comes to town upon it. Here come in Lord Anglesy, and Iperceive he makes nothing of this order for his suspension, resolving tocontend and to bring it to the Council on Wednesday when the King is cometo town to-morrow, and Mr. Wren do join with him mightily in it, and dolook upon the Duke of York as concerned more in it than he. So to visitCreed at his chamber, but his wife not come thither yet, nor do he tell mewhere she is, though she be in town, at Stepney, at Atkins's. So to Mr.Povy's to talk about a coach, but there I find my Lord Sandwich, andPeterborough, and Hinchingbroke, Charles Harbord, and Sidney Montagu; andthere I was stopped, and dined mighty nobly at a good table, with onelittle dish at a time upon it, but mighty merry. I was glad to see it:but sorry, methought, to see my Lord have so little reason to be merry,and yet glad, for his sake, to have him cheerful. After dinner up, andlooked up and down the house, and so to the cellar; and thence I sliptaway, without taking leave, and so to a few places about business, andamong others to my bookseller's in Duck Lane, and so home, where the housestill full of dirt by painters and others, and will not be clean a goodwhile. So to read and talk with my wife till by and by called to theoffice about Sir W. Warren's business, where we met a little, and thenhome to supper and to bed. This day I went, by Mr. Povy's direction, to acoachmaker near him, for a coach just like his, but it was sold this verymorning.

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