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.
                                MAY & JUNE
                                  1666

May 1st. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon, my cozen ThomasPepys did come to me, to consult about the business of his being a justiceof the Peace, which he is much against; and among other reasons, tells me,as a confidant, that he is not free to exercise punishment according tothe Act against Quakers and other people, for religion. Nor do heunderstand Latin, and so is not capable of the place as formerly, now allwarrants do run in Latin. Nor is he in Kent, though he be of Deptfordparish, his house standing in Surry. However, I did bring him to inclinetowards it, if he be pressed to take it. I do think it may be some reputeto me to have my kinsman in Commission there, specially if he behavehimself to content in the country. He gone and my wife gone abroad, I outalso to and fro, to see and be seen, among others to find out in ThamesStreete where Betty Howlett is come to live, being married to Mrs.Michell's son; which I did about the Old Swan, but did not think fit to gothither or see them. Thence by water to Redriffe, reading a new Frenchbook my Lord Bruncker did give me to-day, "L'Histoire Amoureuse desGaules,"

[This book, which has frequently been reprinted, was written by Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, for the amusement of his mistress, Madame de Montglas, and consists of sketches of the chief ladies of the court, in which he libelled friends and foes alike. These circulated in manuscript, and were printed at Liege in 1665. Louis XIV. was so much annoyed with the book that he sent the author to the Bastille for over a year.]

being a pretty libel against the amours of the Court of France. I walkedup and down Deptford yarde, where I had not been since I come from livingat Greenwich, which is some months. There I met with Mr. Castle, and wasforced against my will to have his company back with me. So we walked anddrank at Halfway house and so to his house, where I drank a cupp of syder,and so home, where I find Mr. Norbury newly come to town to see us. Afterhe gone my wife tells me the ill newes that our Susan is sicke and gone tobed, with great pain in her head and back, which troubles us all. Howeverwe to bed expecting what to-morrow would produce. She hath we conceivewrought a little too much, having neither maid nor girle to help her.

2nd. Up and find the girle better, which we are glad of, and with Sir W.Batten to White Hall by coach. There attended the Duke as usual. Thencewith Captain Cocke, whom I met there, to London, to my office, to consultabout serving him in getting him some money, he being already tired of hisslavery to my Lord Bruncker, and the charge it costs him, and gets nomanner of courtesy from him for it. He gone I home to dinner, find thegirle yet better, so no fear of being forced to send her out of doors aswe intended. After dinner. I

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