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
                                  1665

September 1st. Up, and to visit my Lady Pen and her daughter at theRopeyarde 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 alittle bit of dinner, and with him to Greenwich by water, having gooddiscourse with him by the way. After being at Greenwich a little while, Ito London, to my house, there put many more things in order for my totallremove, sending away my girle Susan and other goods down to Woolwich, andI by water to the Duke of Albemarle, and thence home late by water. Atthe Duke of Albemarle's I overheard some examinations of the late plotthat is discoursed of and a great deale of do there is about it. Amongother discourses, I heard read, in the presence of the Duke, anexamination and discourse of Sir Philip Howard's, with one of the plottingparty. In many places these words being, "Then," said Sir P. Howard, "ifyou so come over to the King, and be faithfull to him, you shall bemaintained, 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, damnme," said Sir Philip, "will you so and so?" And thus I believe twelvetimes Sir P. Howard answered him a "damn me," which was a fine way ofrhetorique to persuade a Quaker or Anabaptist from his persuasion. Andthis was read in the hearing of Sir P. Howard, before the Duke and twentymore officers, and they make sport of it, only without any reproach, or hebeing 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 atlast bid them remember that he had not told them what King he would befaithfull to."

2nd. This morning I wrote letters to Mr. Hill and Andrews to come to dinewith me to-morrow, and then I to the office, where busy, and thence todine with Sir J. Minnes, where merry, but only that Sir J. Minnes who hathlately 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 casade la gunaica de ma Minusier', and did what I had a mind . . . ToGreenwich, 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 mynew periwigg, bought a good while since, but durst not wear, because theplague was in Westminster when I bought it; and it is a wonder what willbe the fashion after the plague is done, as to periwiggs, for nobody willdare to buy any haire, for fear of the infection, that it had been cut offof 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 tochurch, where a sorry dull parson,

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