To my Lord Chancellor's, where the King was to meet my Lord

Treasurer and many great men, to settle the revenue of Tangier.

I staid talking awhile there, but the King not coming I walked to

my brother's. This day by Dr. Clarke I was told the occasion of

my Lord Chesterfield's going and taking his lady (my Lord

Ormond's daughter) from Court. It seems he not only hath been

long jealous of the Duke of York, but did find them two talking

together, though there were others in the room, and the lady by

all opinions a most good, virtuous woman. He the next day (of

which the Duke was warned by somebody that saw the passion my

Lord Chesterfield was in the night before,) went and told the

Duke how much he did apprehend himself wronged, in his picking

out his lady of the whole Court to be the subject of his

dishonor; which the Duke did answer with great calmnesse, not

seeming to understand the reason of complaint, and that was all

that passed: but my Lord did presently pack his lady into the

country in Derbyshire, near the Peake; which is become a proverb

at Court, to send a man's wife to the Peake when she vexes him.

23rd. Mr. Grant and I to a coffee-house, where Sir J. Cutler

was; [Citizen and Grocer, stigmatized by Pope for his avarice.]

and he did fully make out that the trade of England is as great

as ever it was, only in more hands; and that of all trades there

is a greater number than ever there was, by reason of men's

taking more 'prentices. His discourse was well worth hearing. I

bought "Audley's Way to be Rich," a serious pamphlett, and some

good things worth my minding.

25th. I understand the King of France is upon consulting his

divines upon the old question, what the power of the Pope is?

and do intend to make war against him, unless he do right him for

the wrong his Embassador received; and banish the Cardinall

Imperiall, by which I understand is not meant the Cardinall

belonging or chosen by the Emperor, but the name of his family is

Imperiali. To my Lord, and I staid talking with him an hour

alone in his chamber, about sundry publick and private matters.

Among others, he wonders what the project should be of the Duke's

going down to Portsmouth again now with his Lady, at this time of

the year: it being no way, we think, to increase his popularity,

which is not great; nor yet safe to do it, for that reason, if it

would have any such effect. Captn. Ferrers tells me of my Lady

Caslemaine's and Sir Charles Barkeley being the great favourites

at Court, and growing every day more and more so; and that upon a

late dispute between my Lord Chesterfield, that is the Queene's

Lord Chamberlain, and Mr. Edward Montagu her Master of the Horse,

who should have the precedence in taking the Queene's upperhand

abroad out of the house, which Mr. Montagu challenges, it was

given to my Lord Chesterfield. So that I perceive he goes down

the wind in honor as well as every thing else, every day.

26th. I met with Monsieur Raby, who is lately come from France.

I had a great deal of very good discourse with him, concerning

the difference between the French and the Pope, and the occasion,

which he told me very particularly, and to my great content; and

of most of the chief affairs of France, which I did enquire: and

that the King is a most excellent Prince, doing all business

himself; and that it is true he hath a mistresse, Mademoiselle La

Valiere, one of the Princess Henriette's women, that he courts

for his pleasure every other day, but not so as to make him

neglect his publick affairs. He tells me how the King do carry

himself nobly to the relations of the dead Cardinall, [Cardinal

Mazarine.] and will not suffer one pasquill to come forth

against him; and that he acts by what directions he received from

him before his death.

30th. My manuscript is brought home handsomely bound, to my full

content; and now I think I have a better collection in reference

to the Navy, and shall have by the time I have filled it, than

any of my predecessors.

FEBRUARY 1, 1662-63. This day Creed and I walking in White Hall,

did see the King coming privately from my Lady Castlemaine's;

which is a poor thing for a Prince to do; and so I expressed my

sense of it to Creed in terms which I should not have done, but

that I believe he is trusty in that point.

2nd. With Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten to the Duke; and after

discourse as usual with him in his closet, I went to my Lord's:

the King and the Duke being gone to chapel, it being a collar

day, Candlemas-day; where I staid with him until towards noon,

there being Jonas Moore [Jonas Moore, a most celebrated

mathematician, knighted by Charles II., and made Surveyor of the

Ordnance. Ob. 1679.] talking about some mathematical

businesses. With Mr. Coventry down to his chamber, where he did

tell me how he do make himself an interest by doing business

truly and justly, though he thwarts others greater than himself,

not striving to make himself friends by addresses; and by this he

thinks and observes he do live as contentedly, (now he finds

himself secured from fear of want,) and, take one time with

another, as void of fear or cares, or more, than they that (as

his own termes were) have quicker pleasures and sharper agonies

than he.

4th. To Paul's Schoole, it being opposition-day there. I heard

some of their speeches, and they were just as schoolboys' used to

be, of the seven liberal sciences; but I think not so good as

ours were in our time. Thence to Bow Church, to the Court; of

Arches, where a judge sits, and his proctors about him in their

habits, and their pleadings all in Latin. Here I was sworn to

give a true answer to my uncle's libells. And back again to

Paul's Schoole, and went up to see the head forms posed in Latin,

Greek, and Hebrew. Dr. Wilkins and Outram were examiners. [John

Wilkins, D.D., afterwards Bishop of Chester. William Outram,

D.D., Prebendary of Westminster. Ob. 1679; one of the ablest and

best of the Conformists, and eminent for his piety and charity,

and an excellent preacher.]

6th. To Lincoln's Inn Fields; and it being too soon to go to

dinner, I walked up and down, and looked upon the outside of the

new theatre building in Covent Garden, which will be very fine.

And so to a bookseller's in the Strand, and there bought Hudibras

again, it being certainly some ill humour to be so against that

which all the world cries up to be the example of wit; for which

I am resolved once more to read him, and see whether I can find

it or no.

7th, To White Hall to chapel, where there preached little Dr.

Duport, [James Duport, D.D., Dean of Peterborough 1664, and

Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1668. Ob. 1679.] of

Cambridge, upon Josiah's words,--"But I and my house, we will

serve the Lord." Thence with Mr. Creed to the King's Head

ordinary. After dinner Sir Thomas Willis [Sir Thomas Willis,

Bart., Ob. Nov. 1705, aged 90, and was buried at Ditton, in

Cambridgeshire, where he possessed some property. In 1679, he

had been put out of the Commission of the Peace for that County,

for concurring with the Fanatic party in opposing the Court.

COLE'S MSS.] and another stranger, and Creed and I fell a-

talking; they of the errours and corruption of the Navy, and

great expence thereof, not knowing who I was, which at last I did

undertake to confute, and disabuse them: and they took it very

well, and I hope it was to good purpose, they being Parliament-

men. Creed and I and Captn. Ferrers to the Parke, and there

walked finely, seeing people slide, we talking all the while; and

Captn. Ferrers telling me, among other Court passages, how about

a month ago, at a ball at Court, a child was dropped by one of

the ladies in dancing, but nobody knew who, it being taken up by

somebody in their handkercher. The next morning all the Ladies

of Honour appeared early at Court for their vindication, so that

nobody could tell whose this mischance should be. But it seems

Mrs. Wells [Maid of Honour to the Queen, and one of Charles II.'s

numerous mistresses. Vide "MEMOIRES DE GRAMMONT."] fell sick

that afternoon, and hath disappeared ever since, so that it is

concluded it was her. The little Duke of Monmouth, it seems, is

ordered to take place of all Dukes, and so do follow Prince

Rupert now, before the Duke of Buckingham, or any else.

13th. To my office, where late upon business; Mr. Bland sitting

with me, talking of my Lord Windsor's being come home from

Jamaica, unlooked for; which makes us think that these young

Lords are not fit to do any service abroad, though it is said

that he could not have his health there, but hath raced a fort of

the King of Spain upon Cuba, which is considerable, or said to be

so, for his honour.

16th. To Westminster Hall, and there find great expectation what

the Parliament will do, when they come two days hence to sit

again, in matters of religion. The great question is, whether

the Presbyters will be contented to let the Papists have the same

liberty of conscience with them, or no, or rather be denied it

themselves: and the Papists, I hear, are very busy in designing

how to make the Presbyters consent to take their liberty, and to

let them have the same with them, which some are apt to think

they will. It seems a priest was taken in his vests officiating

somewhere in Holborne the other day, and was committed by

Secretary Morris according to law; and they say the Bishop of

London did give him thanks for it.

17th. To my Lord Sandwich, whom I found at cards with Pickering;

but he made an end soon: and so all alone, he told me he had a

great secret to tell me, such as no flesh knew but himself, nor

ought; which was this:--that yesterday morning Eschar, Mr. Edward

Montagu's man, did come to him from his master with some of the

Clerkes of the Exchequer, for my Lord to sign to their books for

the Embassy money; which my Lord very civilly desired not to do

till he had spoke with his master himself. In the afternoon, my

Lord and my Lady Wright being at cards in his chamber, in comes

Mr. Montagu; and desiring to speak with my Lord at the window in

his chamber, he began to charge my Lord with the greatest

ingratitude in the world: that he that had received his earldom,

garter, 4000l. per annum, and whatever he has in the world, from

him, should now study him all the dishonour that he could: and

so fell to tell my Lord, that if he should speak all that he knew

of him, he could do so and so. In a word, he did rip up all

that, could be said they was unworthy, and in the basest terms

they could be spoken in. To which my Lord answered with great

temper, justifying himself, but endeavouring to lessen his heat,

which was a strange temper in him, knowing that he did owe all he

hath in the world to my Lord, and that he is now all that he is

by his means and favour. But my Lord did forbear to increase the

quarrel, knowing that it would be to no good purpose for the

world to see a difference in the family; but did allay them so as

that he fell to weeping. And after much talk (among other things

Mr. Montagu telling him that there was a fellow in the towne,

naming me, that had done ill offices, and that if he knew it to

be so, he would have him cudgelled) my Lord did promise him,

that, if upon account he saw that there was not many tradesmen

unpaid, he would sign the books; but if there was, he could not

bear with taking too great a debt upon him. So this day he sent

him an account, and a letter assuring him there was not above

200l. unpaid; and so my Lord did sign to the Exchequer books.

Upon the whole, I understand fully what a rogue he is, and how my

Lord do think and will think of him for the future; telling me

that thus he has served his father my Lord Manchester, and his

whole family, and now himself: and, which is worst, that he hath

abused, and in speeches every day do abuse my Lord Chancellor,

whose favour he hath lost; and hath no friend but Sir H. Bennet,

and that (I knowing the rise of his friendship) only from the

likeness of their pleasures, and acquaintance, and concealments,

they have in the same matters of lust and baseness; for which,

God forgive them! But he do flatter himself, from promises of

Sir H. Bennet, that he shall have a pension of 2000l. per annum,

and be made an Earl. My Lord told me he expected a challenge

from him, but told me there was no great fear of him, for there

was no man lies under such an imputation as he do in the business

of Mr. Cholmly, who, though a simple sorry fellow, do brave him

and struts before him with the Queene, to the sport and

observation of the whole Court. Mr. Pickering tells me the story

is very true of a child being dropped at the ball at Court; and

that the King had it in his closet a week after, and did dissect

it; and making great sport of it, said that in his opinion it

must have been a month and three houres old; and that, whatever

others think, he hath the greatest loss, (it being a boy, as he

says,) that hath lost a subject by the business. He tells me

too, that Sir H. Bennet is a Catholique, and how all the Court

almost is changed to the worse since his coming in, they being

affraid of him. And that the Queene-Mother's Court is now the

greatest of all; and that our own Queene hath little or no

company come to her, which I know also to be very true, and am

sorry to see it.

18th. Mr. Hater and I alone at the office, finishing our account

of the extra charge of the Navy, not properly belonging to the

Navy, since the King's coming in to Christmas last; and all extra

things being abated, I find that the true charge of the Navy to

that time hath been after the rate of 374,743l. a year. I made

an end by eleven o'clock at night. This day the Parliament met

again, after their long prorogation; but I know not any thing

what they have done, being within doors all day.

19th. This day I read the King's speech to the Parliament

yesterday; which is very short, and not very obliging; but only

telling them his desire to have a power of indulging tender

consciences, and that he will yield to have any mixture in the

uniformity of the Church's discipline; and says the same for the

Papists, but declares against their ever being admitted to have

any offices or places of trust in the kingdom; but, God knows,

too many have.

21st. To the office, where Sir J. Minnes (most of the rest being

at the Parliament-house,) all the morning answering petitions and

other business. Towards noon there comes a man as if upon

ordinary business, and shows me a writ from the Exchequer, called

a Commission of Rebellion, and tells me that I am his prisoner in

Field's business; which methought did strike me to the heart, to

think that we could not sit in the middle of the King's business.

I told him how and where we were employed, and bid him have a

care; and perceiving that we were busy, he said he would, and did

withdraw for an houre: in which time Sir J. Minnes took coach

and to Court, to see what he could do from thence; and our

solicitor against Field come by chance and told me that he would

go and satisfy the fees of the Court, and would end the business.

So he went away about that, and I staid in my closet, till by and

by the man and four more of his fellows come to know what I would

do; and I told them to stay till I heard from the King or my Lord

Chief Baron, to both whom I had now sent. With that they

consulted, and told me that if I would promise to stay in the

house, they would go and refresh themselves, and come again, and

know what answer I had: so they away, and I home to dinner.

Before I had dined, the bayleys come back again with the

constable, and at the office knock for me, but found me not

there: and I hearing in what manner they were come, did forbear

letting them know where I was; so they stood knocking and

enquiring for me. By and by at my parler-window comes Sir W.

Batten's Mungo, to tell me that his master and lady would have me

come to their house through Sir J. Minnes's lodgings, which I

could not do; but, however, by ladders, did get over the pale

between our yards and their house, where I found them (as they

have reason) to be much concerned for me, my lady, especially.

The fellows staid in the yard swearing with one or two

constables, and some time we locked them into the yard, and by

and by let them out again, and so kept them all the afternoon,

not letting them see me, or know where I was. One time I went up

to the top of Sir W. Batten's house, and out of one of their

windows spoke to my wife out of one of ours; which methought,

though I did it in mirth, yet I was sad to think what a sad thing

it would be for me to be really in that condition. By and by

comes Sir J. Minnes, who (like himself and all that he do) tells

us that he can do no good, but that my Lord Chancellor wonders

that; we did not cause the seamen to fall about their eares:

which we wished we could have done without our being seen in it;

and Captain Grove being there, he did give them some affront, and

would have got some seamen to have drubbed them, but he had not

time, nor did we think it fit to have done it, they having

executed their commission; but there was occasion given that he

did draw upon one of them who did complain that Grove had pricked

him in the breast, but no hurt done; but I see that Grove would

have done our business to them if we had bid him. By and by

comes Mr. Clerke, our sollicitor, who brings us a release from

our adverse atturney, we paying the fees of the commission, which

comes to five markes, and the charges of these fellows, which are

called the commissioners, but are the most rake-shamed rogues

that ever I saw in my life; so he showed them this release, and

they seemed satisfied, and went away with him to their atturney

to be paid by him. But before they went, Sir W. Batten and my

lady did begin to taunt them, but the rogues answered them as

high as themselves, and swore they would come again, and called

me rogue and rebel, and they would bring the sheriffe and untile

his house, before he should harbour a rebel in his house, and

that they would be here again shortly. Well, at last they went

away, and I by advice took occasion to go abroad, and walked

through the street to show myself among the neighbours, that they

might not think worse than the business is. I home to Sir W.

Batten's again, where Sir J. Lawson, Captain Allen, Spragge,

[Afterwards Sir Edward Spragg, a distinguished naval commander,

who perished in a boat, which was sunk during an action with Van

Tromp, in 1673, whilst he was preparing to hoist his flag on

board a third ship, having previously lost two in the

engagement.] and several others, and all our discourse about the

disgrace done to our office to be liable to this trouble, which

we must get removed. Hither comes Mr. Clerke by and by, and

tells me that he hath paid the fees of the Court for the

commission; but the men are not contented with under 5l. for

their charges, which he will not give them, and therefore advises

me not to stir abroad till Monday that he comes or sends to me

again, whereby I shall not be able to go to White Hall to the

Duke of York, as I ought. Here I staid vexing, and yet pleased

to see every body for me; and so home, where my people are

mightily surprised to see this business, but it troubles me not

very much, it being nothing touching my particular person or

estate. Sir W. Batten tells me that little is done yet in the

Parliament-house, but only this day it was moved and ordered that

all the members of the House do subscribe to the renouncing of

the Covenant, which it is thought will try some of them. There

is also a bill brought in for the wearing of nothing but cloth or

stuffs of our own manufacture, and is likely to be passed. Among

other talk this morning, my lady did speak concerning

Commissioner Pett's calling the present King bastard, and other

high words heretofore: and Sir W. Batten did tell us, that he

did give the Duke and Mr. Coventry an account of that and other

like matters in writing under oath, of which I was ashamed, and

for which I was sorry.

22nd (Lord's-day). Went not out all the morning; but after

dinner to Sir W. Batten's and Sir W. Pen's, where discoursing

much of yesterday's trouble and scandal; but that which troubled

me most was Sir J. Minnes coming from Court at night, and instead

of bringing great comfort from thence, (but I expected no better

from him,) he tells me that the Duke and Mr. Coventry make no

great matter of it.

23rd. Up by times; and not daring to go by land, did (Griffin

going along with me for fear,) slip to White Hall by water; where

to Mr. Coventry, and, as we used to do, to the Duke; the other of

my fellows being come. But we did nothing of our business, the

Duke being sent for to the King, that he could not stay to speak

with us. This morning come my Lord Windsor [Created Earl of

Plymouth, 6th December, 1682.] to kiss the Duke's hand, being

returned from Jamaica. He tells the Duke that from such a degree

of latitude going thither he began to be sick, and was never well

till his coming so far back again, and then presently begun to be

well. He told the Duke of their taking the fort of St. Jago,

upon Cuba, with his men; but upon the whole, I believe, that he

did matters like a young lord, and was weary of being upon

service out of his own country, where he might have pleasure.

For methought it was a shame to see him this very afternoon,

being the first day of his coming to town, to be at a playhouse.

To my Lord Sandwich: it was a great trouble to me (and I had

great apprehensions of it) that my Lord desired me to go to

Westminster Hall, to the Parliament-house door, about business;

and to Sir Wm. Wheeler, [M.P. for Queensborough.] which I told

him I would, but durst not go for fear of being taken by these

rogues; but was forced to go to White Hall and take boat, and so

land below the Tower at the Iron-gate, and so the back way over

Little Tower Hill; and with my cloak over my face, took one of

the watermen along with me, and staid behind our garden-wall,

while he went to see whether any body stood within the Merchants'

Gate. But there was nobody, and so I got safe into the garden,

and coming to open my office door, something behind it fell in

the opening, which made me start. So that God knows in what a

sad condition I should be if I were truly in debt: and therefore

ought to bless God that I have no such real reason, and to

endeavour to keep myself, by my good deportment and good

husbandry, out of any such condition. At home I find, by a note

that Mr. Clerke in my absence hath left here, that I am free; and

that he hath stopped all matters in Court; and I was very glad of

it. We took coach and to Court, and there saw "The Wilde

Gallant," [A Comedy by Dryden.] performed by the King's house,

but it was ill acted. The King did not seem pleased at all, the

whole play, nor any body else. My Lady Castlemaine was all worth

seeing to-night, and little Steward. [Frances, daughter of

Walter Stewart, son of Lord Blantyre, married Charles, fifth Duke

of Richmond, and died 1702.] Mrs. Wells do appear at Court

again, and looks well; so that, it may be, the late report of

laying the dropped child to her was not true. This day I was

told that my Lady Castlemaine hath all the King's Christmas

presents, made him by the peers, given to her, which is a most

abominable thing; and that at the great ball she was much richer

in jewells than the Queene and Duchesse put both together.

24th. Among other things, my Lord Sandwich tells me, that he

hears the Commons will not agree to the King's late declaration,

nor will yield that the Papists have any ground given them to

raise themselves up again in England, which I perceive by my Lord

was expected at Court.

25th. The Commons in Parliament, I hear, are very high to stand

to the Act of Uniformity, and will not indulge the Papists (which

is endeavoured by the Court Party,) nor the Presbyters.

26th. Sir W. Batten and I by water to the Parliament-house: he

went in, and I walked up and down the Hall. All the newes is the

great oddes yesterday in the votes between them that are for the

Indulgence to the Papists and Presbyters, and those that are

against it, which did carry it by 200 against 30. And pretty it

is to consider how the King would appear to be a stiff Protestant

and son of the Church; and yet willing to give a liberty to these

people, because of his promise at Breda. And yet all the world

do believe that the King would not have the liberty given them at

all.

27th. About 11 o'clock, Commissioner Pett and I walked to

Chyrurgeon's Hall, (we being all invited thither, and promised to

dine there;) where we were led into the Theatre: and by and by

comes the reader, Dr. Tearne, [Christopher Terne, of Leyden,

M.D., originally of Cambridge, and Fellow of the College of

Physicians. Ob. 1673.] with the Master and Company, In a very

handsome manner: and all being settled, he begun his lecture;

and his discourse being ended, we had a fine dinner and good

learned company, many Doctors of Phisique, and we used with

extraordinary great respect. Among other observables we drunk

the King's health out of a gilt cup given by King Henry VIII. to

this Company, with bells hanging at it, which every man is to

ring by shaking after he hath drunk up the whole cup. There is

also a very excellent piece of the King, done by Holbein, stands

up in the Hall, with the officers of the Company kneeling to him

to receive their Charter. Dr. Scarborough took some of his

friends, and I went with them, to see the body of a lusty fellow,

a seaman, that was hanged for a robbery. It seems one Dillon, of

a great family, was, after much endeavours to have saved him,

hanged with a silken halter this Sessions, (of his own

preparing,) not for honour only, but it being soft and sleek it

do slip close and kills, that is, strangles presently: whereas,

a stiff one do not come so close together, and so the party may

live the longer before killed. But all the Doctors at table

conclude, that there is no pain at all in hanging, for that it do

stop the circulation of the blood; and so stops all sense and

motion in an instant. To Sir W. Batten's to speak upon some

business, where I found Sir J. Minnes pretty well fuddled I

thought: he took me aside to tell me how being at my Lord

Chancellor's to-day, my Lord told him that there was a Great Seal

passing for Sir W. Pen, through the impossibility of the

Comptroller's duty to be performed by one man; to be as it were

joynt-comptroller with him, at which he is stark mad; and swears

he will give up his place. For my part, I do hope, when all is

done that my following my business will keep me secure against

all their envys. But to see how the old man do strut, and swear

that he understands all his duty as easily as crack a nut, and

easier, he told my Lord Chancellor, for his teeth are gone; and

that he understands it as well as any man in England; and that he

will never leave to record that he should be said to be unable to

do his duty alone; though, God knows, he cannot do it more than a

child.

28th. The House have this noon been with the King to give him

their reasons for refusing to grant any indulgence to Presbyters

or Papists; which he, with great content and seeming pleasure,

took, saying, that he doubted not but he and they should agree in

all things, though there may seem a difference in judgements, he

having writ and declared for an indulgence: and that he did

believe never prince was happier in a House of Commons, than he

was in them. At the Privy Seale I did see the docquet by which

Sir W. Pen is made the Comptroller's assistant, as Sir J. Minnes

told me last night.

MARCH 3, 1662-63. This afternoon Roger Pepys tells me, that for

certain the King is for all this very highly incensed at the

Parliament's late opposing the Indulgence; which I am sorry for,

and fear it will breed great discontent.

5th. To the Lobby, and spoke with my cousin Roger, who is going

to Cambridge to-morrow. In the Hall I do hear that the

Catholiques are in great hopes for all this, and do set hard upon

the King to get Indulgence. Matters, I hear, are all naught in

Ireland, and the people, that is the Papists, do cry out against

the Commissioners sent by the King; so that they say the English

interest will be lost there.

6th. This day it seems the House of Commons have been very high

against the Papists, being incensed by the stir which they make

for their having an Indulgence; which, without doubt, is a great

folly in them to be so hot upon at this time, when they see how

averse already the House have showed themselves from it. This

evening Mr. Povy tells me that my Lord Sandwich is this day so

ill that he is much afraid of him, which puts me to great pain,

not more for my own sake than for his poor family's.

7th. Creed told me how for some words of my Lady Gerard's,

against my Lady Castlemaine to the Queene, the King did the other

day apprehend her in going out to dance with her at a ball, when

she desired it as the ladies do, and is since forbid attending

the Queene by the King; which is much talked of, my Lord her

husband being a great favourite.

8th (Lord's day). To White Hall to-day; I heard Dr. King, Bishop

of Chichester, make a good and eloquent sermon upon these words,

"They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy." Whence (the chapel

in Lent being hung with black, and no anthem after sermon, as at

other times,) to my Lord Sandwich at Sir W. Wheeler's. I found

him out of order, thinking himself to be in a fit of ague. After

dinner up to my Lord, there being Mr. Rumball. My Lord, among

other discourse, did tell me of his great difficultys passed in

the business of the Sound, and of his receiving letters from the

King there, but his sending them by Whetstone was a great folly;

and the story how my Lord being at dinner with Sydney, [The

famous Algernon Sydney, one of the Ambassadors sent to Sweden and

Denmark by Richard Cromwell.] one of his fellow plenipotentiarys

and his mortal enemy, did see Whetstone, and put off his hat

three times to him, and the fellow would not be known, which my

Lord imputed to his coxcombly humour, (of which he was full) and

bid Sydney take notice of him too, when at the very time he had

letters [These letters are, in Thurloe's State Papers, vol. vii.

One was from the King the other from Chancellor Hyde.] in his

pocket from the King, as it proved afterwards. And Sydney

afterwards did find it out at Copenhagen, the Dutch Commissioners

telling him how my Lord Sandwich had desired one of their ships

to carry back Whetstone to Lubeck, he being come from Flanders

from the King. But I cannot but remember my Lord's equanimity in

all these affairs with admiration.

9th. About noon Sir J. Robinson, Lord Mayor, desiring way

through the garden from the Tower, called in at the office and

there invited me (and Sir W. Pen, who happened to be in the way)

to dinner, and we did go, and there had a great Lent dinner of

fish, little flesh. There dined with us to-day Mr. Slingsby of

the Mint, [Master of the Mint, frequently mentioned by Evelyn.]

who showed us all the new pieces both gold and silver (examples

of them all) that were made for the King, by Blondeau's way; and

compared them with those made for Oliver. The pictures of the

latter made by Symons, [Thomas Simon, an engraver of coins and

medals.] and of the King by one Rotyr, [There were three

brothers named Rotier, all Medallists; Philip intoduced the

likeness of Mrs. Stewart in the figure of Britannia.] a German;

I think, that dined with us also. He extolls those of Rotyr

above the others; and, indeed, I think they are the better,

because the sweeter of the two; but, upon my word, those of the

Protector are more like in my mind, than the King's, but both

very well worth seeing. The crownes of Cromwell are now sold,

it seems, for 25s. and 30s. a-piece.

16th. To the Duke where we met of course, and talked of our Navy

matters. Then to the Commission of Tangier, and there had my

Lord Peterborough's Commission read over; and Mr. Secretary

Bennet did make his querys upon it, in order to the drawing one

for my Lord Rutherford more regularly, that being a very

extravagant thing. Here long discoursing upon my Lord

Rutherford's despatch, and so broke up. Mr. Coventry and I

discoursed how the Treasurer doth intend to come to pay in

course, which is the thing of the world that will do the King the

greatest service in the Navy, and which joys my heart to hear of.

He tells me of the business of Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W. Pen;

which, he said, was chiefly to make Mr. Pett's being joyned with

Sir W. Batten to go down the better. And how he well sees that

neither one nor the other can do their duties without help.

17th. To St. Margaret's Hill in Southwark, where the Judge of

the Admiralty come, and the rest of the Doctors of the Civill

law, and some other Commissioners, whose Commission of Oyer and

Terminer was read, and then the charge, given by Dr. Exton, [Sir

Thomas Exton, Dean of the Arches and Judge of the Admiralty

Court.] which methought was somewhat dull, though he would seem

to intend it to be very rhetoricall, saying that Justice had two

wings, one of which spread itself over the land, and the other

over the water, which was this Admiralty Court. I perceive that

this Court is yet but in its infancy, (as to its rising again)

and their design and consultation was, I could overhear them, how

to proceed with the most solemnity, and spend time, there being

only two businesses to do, which of themselves could not spend

much time. Sir W. Batten and I to my Lord Mayor's, where we

found my Lord with Colonel Strangways [Giles Strangways, M.P. for

Dorsetshire.] and Sir Richard Floyd, [Probably Sir Richard

Lloyd., M.P. for Radnorshire.] Parliament-men, in the cellar

drinking, were we sat with them, and then up; and by and by come

in Sir Richard Ford. We had many discourses, but from all of

them I do find Sir R. Ford a very able man of his brains and

tongue, and a scholler. But my Lord Mayor a talking, bragging,

buffleheaded fellow, that would be thought to have led all the

City in the great business of bringing in the King, and that

nobody understood his plot, and the dark lanthorn he walked by;

but led them and plowed with them as oxen and asses (his own

words) to do what he had a mind: when in every discourse I

observe him to be as very a coxcombe as I could have thought had

been in the City. But he is resolved to do great matters in

pulling down the shops quite through the City, as he hath done in

many places, and will make a thorough passage quite through the

City, through Canning-street, which indeed will be very fine.

And then his precept, which he, in vain-glory, said he had drawn

up himself, and hath printed it, against coachmen and carmen

affronting of the gentry in the street; it is drawn so like a

fool, and some faults were openly found in it, that I believe he

will have so much wit as not to proceed upon it though it be

printed. Here we staid talking till eleven at night, Sir R. Ford

breaking to my Lord our business of our patent to be Justices of

the Peace in the City, which he stuck at mightily; but, however,

Sir R. Ford knows him to be a fool, and so in his discourse he

made him appear, and cajoled him into a consent to it: but so as

I believe when he comes to his right mind to-morrow he will be of

another opinion; and though Sir R. Ford moved it very weightily

and neatly, yet I had rather it had been spared now. But to see

how he rants, and pretends to sway all the City in the Court of

Aldermen, and says plainly that they cannot do, nor will he

suffer them to do, any thing but what he pleases; nor is there

any officer of the City but of his putting in; nor any man that

could have kept the City for the King thus well and long but him.

And if the country can be preserved, he will undertake that the

City shall not dare to stir again. When I am confident there is

no man almost in the City cares for him, nor hath he brains to

outwit any ordinary tradesman.

20th. Meeting with Mr. Kirton's kinsman in Paul's Church Yard,

he and I to a coffee-house; where I hear how there had like to

have been a surprizall of Dublin by some discontented

protestants, and other things of like nature; and it seems the

Commissioners have carried themselves so high for the Papists

that the others will not endure it. Hewlett and some others are

taken and clapped up; and they say the King hath sent over to

dissolve the Parliament there, who went very high against the

Commissioners. Pray God send all well!

21st. By appointment our full board met, and Sir Philip Warwick

and Sir Robert Long come from my Lord Treasurer to speak with us

about the state of the debts of the Navy; and how to settle it,

so as to begin upon the new foundation of 200,000l. per annum,

which the King is now resolved not to exceed.

22nd (Lord's day). Wrote out our bill for the Parliament about

our being made Justices of Peace in the City. So to church,

where a dull formall fellow that prayed for the right Hon. John

Lord Barkeley, Lord President of Connaught, &c. To my Lord

Sandwich, and with him talking a good while; I find the Court

would have this Indulgence go on, but the Parliament are against

it. Matters in Ireland are full of discontent.

29th. After dinner in comes Mr. Moore, and sat and talked with

us a good while; among other things, telling me that neither my

Lord nor he are under apprehensions of the late discourse in the

House of Commons, concerning resumption of Crowne lands.

APRIL 1st, 1663. I went to the Temple to my Cozen Roger Pepys,

to see and talk with him a little; who tells me that, with much

ado, the Parliament do agree to throw down Popery: but he says

it is with so much spite and passion, and an endeavour of

bringing all Non-conformists into the same condition, that he is

afraid matters will not yet go so well as he could wish.

2nd. Sir W. Pen told me, that this day the King hath sent to the

House his concurrence wholly with them against the Popish

priests, Jesuits, &c. which gives great content and I am glad of

it.

3rd. To the Tangier Committee, where we find ourselves at a

great stand; the establishment being but 7000l. per annum, and

the forces to be kept in the town at the least estimate that my

Lord Rutherford can be got to bring is 5300l. The charge of this

year's work of the Mole will be 13,000l.; besides 1000l. a-year

to my Lord Peterborough as a pension, and the fortifications and

contingencys, which puts us to a great stand. I find at Court

that there is some bad news from Ireland of an insurrection of

the Catholiques there, which puts them into an alarme. I hear

also in the City that for certain there is an embargo upon all

our ships in Spayne, upon this action of my Lord Windsor's at

Cuba, which signifies little or nothing, but only he hath a mind

to say that he hath done something before he comes back again.

4th. After dinner to Hide Parke; at the Parke was the King, and

in another coach my Lady Castlemaine, they greeting one another

at every turn.

8th. By water to White Hall, to chapel; where preached Dr.

Pierce, the famous man that preached the sermon so much cried up,

before the King against the Papists. His matter was the Devil

tempting our Saviour, being carried into the Wilderness by the

spirit. And he hath as much of natural eloquence as most men

that ever I heard in my life, mixed with so much learning. After

sermon I went up and saw the ceremony of the Bishop of

Peterborough's paying homage upon the knee to the King, while Sir

H. Bennet, Secretary, read the King's grant of the Bishopric of

Lincolne, to which he is translated. His name is Dr. Lany.

[Benjamin Lany, S. T. P., made Bishop of Peterborough 1660,

translated to Lincoln 1662-3, and to Ely 1667.] Here I also saw

the Duke of Monmouth, with his Order of the Garter, the first

time I ever saw it. I hear that the University of Cambridge did

treat him a little while since with all the honour possible, with

a comedy at Trinity College, and banquet; and made him Master of

Arts there. All which, they say, the King took very well. Dr.

Raynbow, Master of Magdalene, being now Vice-Chancellor. [Edward

Rainbow, chaplain to the King, and Dean of Peterborough, and in

1664 Bishop of Carlisle. Ob. 1684.]

12th. (Lord's day). Coming home to-night, a drunken boy was

carrying by our constable to our new pair of stocks to handsel

them.

14th. Sir G. Carteret tells me to-night that he perceives the

Parliament is likely to make a great bustle before they will give

the King any money; will call all things in question; and, above

all, the expences of the Navy; and do enquire into the King's

expences everywhere, and into the truth of the report of people

being forced to sell their bills at 15 per cent. losse in the

Navy; and, lastly, that they are in a very angry pettish mood at

present, and not likely to be better.

17th. It being Good Friday, our dinner was only sugar-sopps and

fish; the only time that we have had a Lenten dinner all this

Lent. To Paul's Church Yard, to cause the title of my English

"Mare Clausum" to be changed, and the new title dedicated to the

King, to be put to it, because I am ashamed to have the other

seen dedicated to the Commonwealth.

20th. With Sir G. Carteret and Sir John Minnes to my Lord

Treasurer's, thinking to have spoken about getting money for

paying the Yards; but we found him with some ladies at cards:

and so, it being a bad time to speak, we parted. This day the

little Duke of Monmouth was marryed at White Hall, in the King's

chamber; and to-night is a great supper and dancing at his

lodgings, near Charing-Cross. I observed his coate at the tail

of his coach: he gives the arms of England, Scotland, and

France, quartered upon some other fields, but what it is that

speaks his being a bastard I know not.

23th. I did hear that the Queene is much grieved of late at the

King's neglecting her, he having not supped once with her this

quarter of a year, and almost every night with my Lady

Castlemaine: who hath been with him this St. George's feast at

Windsor, and come home with him last night; and, which is more,

they say is removed as to her bed from her own home to a chamber

in White Hall, next to the King's owne; which I am sorry to hear,

though I love her much.

27th. By water to White Hall; but found the Duke of York gone to

St. James's for this summer; and thence with Mr. Coventry and Sir

W. Pen up to the Duke's closet. And a good while with him about

Navy business; and so I to White Hall, and there a long while

with my Lord Sandwich discoursing about his debt to the Navy,

wherein he hath given me some things to resolve him in.

The Queene (which I did not know,) it seems was at Windsor, at

the late St. George's feast there: and the Duke of Monmouth

dancing with her with his hat in his hand, the King came in and

kissed him, and made him put on his hat, which every body took

notice of.

28th. To Chelsey, where we found my Lord all alone with one

joynt of meat at dinner, and mightily extolling the manner of his

retirement, and the goodness of his diet: the mistress of the

house hath all things most excellently dressed; among others her

cakes admirable, and so good that my Lord's words were, they were

fit to present to my Lady Castlemaine. From ordinary discourse

my Lord fell to talk of other matters to me, of which chiefly the

second part of the fray, which he told me a little while since

of, between Mr. Edward Montagu and himself; that he hath forborn

coming to him almost two months, and do speak not only slightly

of my Lord every where, but hath complained to my Lord Chancellor

of him, and arrogated all that ever my Lord hath done to be only

by his direction and persuasion. Whether he hath done the like

to the King or no, my Lord knows not; but my Lord hath been with

the King since, and finds all things fair; and my Lord Chancellor

hath told him of it, but he so much contemns Mr. Montagu, as my

Lord knows himself very secure against any thing the fool can do;

and notwithstanding all this, so noble is his nature, that he

professes himself ready to show kindness and pity to Mr. Montagu

on any occasion. My Lord told me of his presenting Sir H. Bennet

with a, gold cup of 100l., which he refuses, with a compliment;

but my Lord would have been glad he had taken it, that be might

have had some obligations upon him which he thinks possible the

other may refuse to prevent it; not that he hath any reason to

doubt his kindness. But I perceive great differences there are

at Court: and Sir H. Bennet, and my Lord Bristol, and their

faction, are likely to carry all things before them, (which my

Lord's judgement is, will not be for the best,) and particularly

against the Chancellor, who, he tells me, is irrecoverably lost:

but, however, that he do so not actually joyne in any thing

against the Chancellor, whom he do own to be a most sure friend,

and to have been his greatest; and therefore will not; openly act

in either, but passively carry himself even. The Queene, my Lord

tells me, he thinks he hath incurred some displeasure with, for

his kindness to his neighbour my Lady Castlemaine. My Lord tells

me he hath no reason to fall for her sake, whose wit, management,

nor interest, is not likely to hold up any man, and therefore he

thinks it not his obligation to stand for her against his own

interest. The Duke and Mr. Coventry my Lord sees he is very well

with, and fears not but they will show themselves his very good

friends, specially at this time, he being able to serve them, and

they needing him, which he did not tell me wherein. Talking of

the business of Tangier, he tells me that my Lord Teviott is gone

away without the least respect paid to him, nor indeed to any

man, but without his commission; and (if it be true what he says)

having laid out seven or eight thousand pounds in commodities for

the place: and besides having not only disobliged all the

Commissioners for Tangier, but also Sir Charles Barkeley the

other day, who spoke in behalf of Colonel Fitz-Gerald, that

having been deputy-governor there already, he ought to have

expected and had the governorship upon the death or removal of

the former Governor and whereas it is said that he and his men

are Irish, which is indeed the main thing that hath moved the

King and Council to put in Teviott to prevent the Irish having

too great and the whole command there under Fitz-Gerald; he

further said that there was never an Englishman fit to command

Tangier; my Lord Teviott answered yes, there were many more fit

than himself or Fitz-Gerald either. So that Fitz-Gerald being so

great with the Duke of York, and being already made deputy-

governor, independent of my Lord Teviott, and he being also left

here behind him for a while, my Lord Sandwich do think, that,

putting all these things together, the few friends he hath left,

and the ill posture of his affairs, my Lord Teviott is not a man

of the conduct and management that either people take him to be,

or is fit for the command of the place. And here, speaking of

the Duke of York and Sir Charles Barkeley, my Lord tells me that

he do very much admire the good management, and discretion, and

nobleness of the Duke, that however he may be led by him or Mr.

Coventry singly in private, yet he did not observe that in public

matters but he did give as ready hearing, and as good acceptance

to any reasons offered by any other man against the opinions of

them, as he did to them, and would concur in the prosecution of

it. Then we come to discourse upon his own sea-accompts, and

come to a resolution how to proceed in them: wherein, though I

offered him a way of evading the greatest part of his debt

honestly, by making himself debtor to the Parliament before the

King's time, which he might justly do, yet he resolved to go

openly and nakedly in it, and put himself to the kindness of the

King and Duke, which humour, I must confess, and so did tell him

(with which he was not a little pleased) had thriven very well

with him, being known to be a man of candid and open dealing,

without any private tricks or hidden designs as other men

commonly have in what they do. From that we had discourse of Sir

G. Carteret, and of many others; and upon the whole I do find

that it is a troublesome thing for a man of any condition at

Court to carry himself even, and without contracting envy or

envyers; and that much discretion and dissimulation is necessary

to do it.

MAY 4, 1663. To St. James's; where Mr. Coventry, Sir W. Pen and

I staid for the Duke's coming in, but not coming, we walked to

White Hall; and meeting the King, we followed him into the Parke,

where Mr. Coventry and he talking of building a new yacht out of

his private purse, he having some contrivance of his own. The

talk being done, we fell off to White Hall, leaving the King in

the Park; and going back, met the Duke going towards St. James's

to meet us. So he turned back again, and to his closet at White

Hall; and there, my Lord Sandwich present, we did our weekly

errand, and so broke up; and I to the garden with my Lord

Sandwich, (after we had sat an hour at the Tangier Committee;)

and after talking largely of his own businesses, we began to talk

how matters are at Court: and though he did not flatly tell me

any such thing, yet I do suspect that all is not kind between the

King and the Duke, and that the King's fondness to the little

Duke do occasion it; and it may be that there is some fear of his

being made heire to the Crown. But this my Lord did not tell me,

but is my guess only; and that my Lord Chancellor is without

doubt falling past hopes.

5th. With Sir J. Minnes, he telling many old stories of the

Navy, and of the state of the Navy at the beginning of the late

troubles, and I am troubled at my heart to think, and shall

hereafter cease to wonder, at the bad success of the King's

cause, when such a knave as he (if it be true what he says) had

the whole management of the fleet, and the design of putting out

of my Lord Warwicke, [Henry Rich, Earl of Warwick and Holland;

beheaded for putting himself in arms to aid Charles I.] and

carrying the fleet to the King, wherein he failed most fatally to

the King's ruine.

6th. To the Exchange with Creed, where we met Sir J. Minnes, who

tells us, in great heat, that the Parliament will make mad work;

that they will render all men incapable of any military or civil

employment that have borne arms in the late troubles against the

King, excepting some persons; which, if it be so, as I hope it is

not, will give great cause of discontent, and I doubt will have

but bad effects.

Sir Thomas Crewe this day tells me that the Queene, hearing that

there was 40,000l. per annum brought into her account among the

other expences of the Crown before the Committee of Parliament,

she took order to let them know that she hath yet for the payment

of her whole family received but 4000l., which is a notable act

of spirit, and I believe is true.

7th. To my Lord Crewe's, and there dined with him. He tells me

of the order the House of Commons have made for the drawing an

Act for the rendering none capable of preferment or employment in

the State, but who have been loyall and constant to the King and

Church; which will be fatal to a great many, and makes me doubt

lest I myself, with all my innocence during the late times,

should be brought in, being employed in the Exchequer; but, I

hope, God will provide for me.

10th. Put on a black cloth suit, with white lynings under all,

as the fashion is to wear, to appear under the breeches. I

walked to St. James's, and was there at masse, and was forced in

the croud to kneel down: and masse being done, to the King's

Head ordinary, where many Parliament-men; and most of their talk

was about the news from Scotland, that the Bishop of Galloway was

besieged in his house by some women, and had like to have been

outraged, but I know not how he was secured; which is bad news,

and looks as it did in the beginning of the late troubles. From

thence they talked of rebellion; and I perceive they make it

their great maxime to be sure to master the City of London,

whatever comes of it or from it.

11th. With Sir W. Pen to St. James's, where we attended the Duke

of York: and, among other things, Sir G. Carteret and I had a

great dispute about the different value of the pieces of eight

rated by Mr. Creed at 4s. and 5d., and by Pitts at 4s. and 9d.,

which was the greatest husbandry to the King? he proposing that

the greatest sum was; which is as ridiculous a piece of ignorance

as could be imagined. However, it is to be argued at the Board,

and reported to the Duke next week; which I shall do with

advantage, I hope. I went homeward, after a little discourse

with Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who tells me that my Lady

Castlemaine hath now got lodgings near the King's chamber at

Court; and that the other day Dr. Clarke and he did dissect two

bodies, a man and a woman, before the King, with which the King

was highly pleased.

14th. Met Mr. Moore; and with him to an ale-house in Holborne;

where in discourse he told me that he fears the King will be

tempted to endeavour the setting the Crown upon the little Duke,

which may cause troubles; which God forbid, unless it be his due!

He told me my Lord do begin to settle to business again; and that

the King did send for him the other day to my Lady Castlemaine's,

to play at cards, where he lost 50l.; for which I am sorry,

though he says my Lord was pleased at it, and said he would be

glad at any time to lose 50l. for the King to send for him to

play, which I do not so well like.

15th. I walked in the Parke, discoursing with the keeper of the

Pell Mell, who was sweeping of it; who told me of what the earth

is mixed that do floor the Mall, and that over all there is

cockle-shells powdered, and spread to keep it fast; which,

however, in dry weather, turns to dust and deads the ball.

Thence to Mr. Coventry; and sitting by his bedside, he did tell

me that he did send for me to discourse upon my Lord Sandwich's

allowances for his several pays, and what his thoughts are

concerning his demands; which he could not take the freedom to do

face to face, it being not so proper as by me: and did give me a

most friendly and ingenuous account of all; telling me how

unsafe, at this juncture, while every man's, and his actions

particularly, are descanted upon, it is either for him to put the

Duke upon doing, or my Lord himself to desire anything

extraordinary, 'specially the King having been so bountifull

already; which the world takes notice of even to some repinings.

All which he did desire me to discourse to my Lord of; which I

have undertaken to do. At noon by coach to my Lord Crewe's,

hearing that my Lord Sandwich dined there; where I told him what

had passed between Mr. Coventry and myself; with which he was

contented, though I could perceive not very well pleased. And I

do believe that my Lord do find some other things go against his

mind in the House; for in the motion made the other day in the

House by my Lord Bruce, that none be capable of employment but

such as have been loyal and constant to the King and Church, that

the General and my Lord were mentioned to be excepted; and my

Lord Bruce did come since to my Lord, to clear himself that he

meant nothing to his prejudice, nor could it have any such effect

if he did mean it. After discourse with my Lord, to dinner with

him; there dining there my Lord Montagu of Boughton, [Edward,

second Lord Montagu of Boughton, in 1664 succeeded his father,

who had been created a Baron by James I., and died 1684, leaving

a son afterwards Duke of Montagu.] Mr. William Montagu his

brother, the Queene's Sollicitor, &c., and a fine dinner. Their

talk about a ridiculous falling-out two days ago at my Lord of

Oxford's house, at an entertainment of his, there being there my

Lord of Albemarle, Lynsey, two of the Porters, my Lord Bellasses,

and others, where there were high words and some blows, and

pulling off of perriwiggs; till my Lord Monk took away some of

their swords, and sent for some soldiers to guard the house till

the fray was ended. To such a degree of madness the nobility of

this age is come! After dinner, I went up to Sir Thomas Crewe,

who lies there not very well in his head, being troubled with

vapours and fits of dizzinesse: and there I sat talking with him

all the afternoon upon the unhappy posture of things at this

time; that the King do mind nothing but pleasures, and hates the

very sight or thoughts of business. If any of the sober

counsellors give him good advice, and move him in any way that is

to his good and honour, the other part, which are his counsellors

of pleasure, take him when he is with my Lady Castlemaine, and in

a humour of delight, and then persuade him that he ought not to

hear or listen to the advice of those old dotards or counsellors

that were heretofore his enemies when, God knows! it is they

that now-a-days do most study his honour. It seems the present

favourites now are my Lord Bristol, Duke of Buckingham, Sir H.

Bennet, my Lord Ashley, and Sir Charles Barkeley; who, among

them, have cast my Lord Chancellor upon his back, past ever

getting up again: there being now little for him to do, and he

waits at Court; attending to speak to the King as others do:

which I pray God may prove of good effects, for it is feared it

will be the same with my Lord Treasurer shortly. But strange to

hear how my Lord Ashley, by my Lord Bristol's means, (he being

brought over to the Catholique party against the Bishops, whom he

hates to the death, and publicly rails against them; not that he

is become a Catholique, but merely opposes the Bishops; and yet,

for aught I hear, the Bishop of London keeps as great with the

King as ever,) is got into favour, so much that, being a man of

great business and yet of pleasure, and drolling too, he, it is

thought, will be made Lord Treasurer upon the death or removal of

the good old man. [The Earl of Southampton.] My Lord Albemarle,

I hear, do bear through and bustle among them, and will not be

removed from the King's good opinion and favour, though none of

the Cabinet; but yet he is envied enough. It is made very

doubtful whether the King do not intend the making of the Duke of

Monmouth legitimate; but surely the Commons of England will never

do it, nor the Duke of York suffer it, whose Lady I am told is

very troublesome to him by her jealousy. No care is observed to

be taken of the main chance, either for maintaining of trade or

opposing of factions, which, God knows, are ready to break out,

if any of them (which God forbid!) should dare to begin; the

King and every man about him minding so much their pleasures or

profits. My Lord Hinchingbroke, I am told, hath had a mischance

to kill his boy by his birding-piece going off as he was a

fowling. The gun was charged with small shot, and hit the boy in

the face and about the temples, and he lived four days. In

Scotland, it seems, for all the newsbooks tell us every week that

they are all so quiet, and every thing in the Church settled, the

old woman had liked to have killed, the other day, the Bishop of

Galloway, and not half the Churches of the whole kingdom conform.

Strange were the effects of the late thunder and lightning about

a week since at Northampton, coming with great rain, which caused

extraordinary floods in a few houres, bearing away bridges,

drowning horses, men, and cattle. Two men passing over a bridge

on horseback, the arches before and behind them were borne away,

and that left which they were upon: but, however, one of the

horses fell over, and was drowned. Stacks of faggots carried as

high as a steeple, and other dreadful things; which Sir Thomas

Crewe showed me letters to him about from Mr. Freemantle and

others, that it is very true. The Portugalls have choused us, it

seems, in the Island of Bombay, in the East Indys; for after a

great charge of our fleets being sent thither with full

commission from the King of Portugall to receive it, the

Governour by some pretence or other will not deliver it to Sir

Abraham Shipman, sent from the King, nor to my Lord of

Marlborough; [James Ley, third Earl of Marlborough, killed in the

great sea-fight with the Dutch, 1665.] which the King takes

highly ill, and I fear our Queene will fare the worse for it.

The Dutch decay there exceedingly, it being believed that their

people will revolt from them there, and they forced to give up

their trade. Sir Thomas showed me his picture and Sir Anthony

Vandyke's in crayon in little, done exceedingly well.

18th. I walked to White Hall, and into the Parke, seeing the

Queene and Maids of Honour passing through the house going to the

Parke. But above all, Mrs. Stuart is a fine woman, and they say

now a common mistress to the King, as my Lady Castlemaine is;

which is a great pity.

19th. With Sir John Minnes to the Tower; and by Mr. Slingsby,

and Mr. Howard, Controller of the Mint we were shown the method

of making this new money. That being done, the Controller would

have us dine with him and his company, the King giving them a

dinner every day. And very merry and good discourse upon the

business we have been upon. They now coyne between 16 and 24,000

pounds in a week. At dinner they did discourse very finely to us

of the probability that there is a vast deal of money hid in the

land, from this:--that in King Charles's time there was near ten

millions of money coyned, besides what was then in being of King

James's and Queene Elizabeth's, of which there is a good deal at

this day in being. Next, that there was but 750,000l. coyned of

the Harp and Crosse money, and of this there was 500,000l.

brought in upon its being called in. And from very good

arguments they find that there cannot be less of it in Ireland

and Scotland than 100,000l.; so that there is but 150,000l.

missing; and of that, suppose that there should be not above

50,000l. still remaining, either melted down, hid, or lost, or

hoarded up in England, there will then be but 100,000l. left to

be thought to have been transported. Now, if 750,000l. in twelve

years' time lost but a 100,000l. in danger of being transported,

then 10,000,000l. in thirty-five years' time will have lost but

3,888,880l. and odd pounds; and as there is 650,000l. remaining

after twelve years time in England, so after thirty-five years'

time, which was within this two years, there ought in proportion

to have resting 6,111,120l. or thereabouts, besides King James

and Queene Elizabeth's money. Now, that most of this must be hid

is evident, as they reckon, because of the dearth of money

immediately upon the calling in of the State's money, which was

500,000l. that come in; and then there was not any money to be

had in this City, which they say to their own observation and

knowledge was so. And therefore, though I can say nothing in it

myself, I do not dispute it.

23rd. To White Hall; where, in the Matted Gallery, Mr. Coventry

was, who told us how the Parliament have required of Sir G.

Carteret and him an account what money shall be necessary to be

settled upon the Navy for the ordinary charge, which they intend

to report 200,000l. per annum. And how to allott this we met;

this afternoon, and took their papers for our perusal, and so

parted.

24th. Meeting Mr. Lewis Phillips of Brampton, he and afterwards

others tell me that news come last night to Court, that the King

of France is sick of the spotted fever, and that they are struck

in again; and this afternoon my Lord Mandeville is gone from the

King to make him a visit which will be great news, and of great

import through Europe. By and by, in comes my Lord Sandwich: he

told me this day a vote hath passed that the King's grants of

land to my Lord Monk and him should be made good; which pleases

him very much. He also tells me that things do not go right in

the House with Mr. Coventry; I suppose he means in the business

of selling places; but I am sorry for it.

27th. With Pett to my Lord Ashley, Chancellor of the Exchequer;

where we met the auditors about settling the business of the

accounts of persons to whom money is due before the King's time

in the Navy, and the clearing of their imprests for what little

of their debts they have received. I find my Lord, as he is

reported, a very ready, quiet, and diligent person. Roger Pepys

tells me that the King hath sent to the Parliament to hasten to

make an end by midsummer, because of his going into the country;

so they have set upon four bills to dispatch: the first of which

is, he says, too devilish a severe act against conventicles; so

beyond all moderation, that he is afraid it will ruin all:

telling me that it is matter of the greatest grief to him in the

world, that he should be put upon this trust of being a

Parliament-man, because he says nothing is done, that he can see,

out of any truth and sincerity, but mere envy and design. Then

into the Great Garden up to the Banqueting House; and there by my

Lord's glass we drew in the species very pretty. [This word is

here used as an optical term, and signifies the image painted on

the retina of the eye, and the rays of light reflected from the

several points of the surface of objects.] Afterwards to nine-

pins, Creed and I playing against my Lord and Cooke.

28th. By water to the Royal Theatre; but that was so full they

told us we could have no room. And so to the Duke's house; and

there saw "Hamlett" done, giving us fresh reason never to think

enough of Betterton. Who should we see come upon the stage but

Gosnell, my wife's maid? but neither spoke, danced, nor sung;

which I was sorry for.

29th. This day is kept strictly as a holy-day, being the King's

Coronation. Creed and I abroad, and called at several churches;

and it is a wonder to see, and by that to guess the ill temper of

the City, at this time, either to religion in general, or to the

King, that in some churches there was hardly ten people, and

those poor people. To the Duke's house, and there saw "The

Slighted Mayde," [A comedy, by Sir Robert Stapylton.] wherein

Gosnell acted AEromena, a great part, and did it very well. Then

with Creed to see the German Princesse, [Mary Carleton, of whom

see more June 7 following; and April 15, 1664.] at the Gate-

house, at Westminster.

31st. This month the greatest news is, the height and heat that

the Parliament is in, in enquiring into the revenue, which

displeases the Court, and their backwardness to give the King any

money. Their enquiring into the selling of places do trouble a

great many; among the chief, my Lord Chancellor (against whom

particularly it is carried), and Mr. Coventry; for which I am

sorry. The King of France was given out to be poisoned and dead;

but it proves to be the meazles: and he is well, or likely to be

soon well again. I find myself growing in the esteem and credit

that I have in the office, and I hope falling to my business

again will confirm me in it.

JUNE 1, 1663. The Duke having been a-hunting to-day, and so

lately come home and gone to bed, we could not see him, and we

walked away. And I with Sir J. Minnes to the Strand May-pole;

and there light out of his coach, and walked to the New Theatre,

which, since the King's players are gone to the Royal one, is

this day begun to be employed by the fencers to play prizes at.

And here I come and saw the first prize I ever saw in my life:

and it was between one Mathews, who did beat at all weapons, and

one Westwicke, who was soundly cut several times both in the head

and legs, that he was all over blood: and other deadly blows

they did give and take in very good earnest, till Westwicke was

in a sad pickle. They fought at eight weapons, three boutes at

each weapon. This being upon a private quarrel, they did it in

good earnest; and I felt one of the swords, and found it to be

very little, if at all blunter on the edge, than the common

swords are. Strange to see what a deal of money is flung to them

both upon the stage between every boute. This day I hear at

Court of the great plot which was lately discovered in Ireland,

made among the Presbyters and others, designing to cry up the

Covenant, and to secure Dublin Castle and other places; and they

have debauched a good part of the army there, promising them

ready money. Some of the Parliament there, they say, are guilty,

and some withdrawn upon it; several persons taken, and among

others a son of Scott's, that was executed here for the King's

murder. What reason the King hath, I know not; but it seems he

is doubtfull of Scotland: and this afternoon, when I was there,

the Council was called extraordinary; and they were opening the

letter this last post's coming and going between Scotland and us

and other places. The King of France is well again.

2nd. To St. James's, to Mr. Coventry; where I had an hour's

private talk with him concerning his own condition, at present

being under the censure of the House, being concerned with others

in the Bill for selling of offices. He tells me, that though he

thinks himself to suffer much in his fame hereby, yet he values

nothing more of evil to hang over him; for that it is against no

statute, as is pretended, nor more than what his predecessors

time out of mind have taken; and that so soon as he found himself

to be in an errour, he did desire to have his fees set, which was

done; and since that time he hath not taken a token more. He

undertakes to prove, that he did never take a token of any

captain to get him employed in his life beforehand, or demanded

any thing: and for the other accusation, that the Cavaliers are

not employed, he looked over the list of them now in the service,

and of the twenty-seven that are employed, thirteen have been

heretofore always under the King; two neutralls, and the other

twelve men of great courage, and such as had either the King's

particular command or great recommendation to put them in, and

none by himself. Besides that, he sees it is not the King's nor

Duke's opinion that the whole party of the late officers should

be rendered desperate. And lastly, he confesses that the more of

the Cavaliers are put in, the less of discipline hath followed in

the fleet; and that, whenever there comes occasion, it must be

the old ones that must do any good. He tells me, that he cannot

guess whom all this should come from; but he suspects Sir G.

Carteret, as I also do, at least that he is pleased with it. But

he tells me that he will bring Sir G. Carteret to be the first

adviser and instructor of him what is to make his place of

benefit to him; telling him that Smith did make his place worth

5000l. and he believed 7000l. to him the first year; besides

something else greater than all this, which he forbore to tell

me. It seems one Sir Thomas Tomkins [M.P. for Weobly, and one of

the proposed Knights of the Royal Oak, for Herefordshire.] of

the House, that makes many mad motions, did bring it into the

House, saying that a letter was left at his lodgings, subscribed

by one Benson, (which is a feigned name, for there is no such in

the Navy,) telling how many places in the Navy have been sold.

And by another letter, left in the same manner since, nobody

appearing, he writes him that there is one Hughes and another

Butler (both rogues, that have for their roguery been turned out

of their places,) that will swear that Mr. Coventry did sell

their places and other things. I offered him my service, and

will with all my heart serve him; but he tells me he do not think

it convenient to meddle, or to any purpose. To Westminster Hall,

where I hear more of the plot from Ireland; which it seems hath

been hatching, and known to the Lord Lieutenant a great while,

and kept close till within three days that it should have taken

effect.

4th. In the Hall a good while; where I heard that this day the

Archbishop of Canterbury, Juxon, [William Juxon, made Bishop of

London 1633, translated to Canterbury, 1660.] a man well spoken

of by all for a good man, is dead; and the Bishop of London

[Gilbert Sheldon, who did succeed him.] is to have his seat.

The match between Sir J. Cutts [Of Childerley near Cambridge.]

and my Lady Jemimah, [Lady Jemimah Montagu, daughter to the Earl

of Sandwich.] he says, is likely to go on; for which I am glad.

In the Hall to-day Dr. Pierce tells me that the Queene begins to

be briske, and play like other ladies, and is quite another woman

from what she was. It may be, it may make the King like her the

better, and forsake his two mistresses my Lady Castlemaine and

Stewart. [Spelt indiscriminately in the MS Stuart, Steward, and

Stewart.]

6th. To York House, where the Russia Embassador do lie; and

there I saw his people go up and down louseing themselves: they

are all in a great hurry, being to be gone the beginning of next

week. But that that pleased me best, was the remains of the

noble soul of the late Duke of Buckingham appearing in his house,

in every place, in the door-cases and the windows. Sir John

Hebden, the Russia Resident, did tell me how he is vexed to see

things at Court ordered as they are by nobody that attends to

business, but every man himself or his pleasures. He cries up my

Lord Ashley to be almost the only man that he sees to look after

business; and with the ease and mastery, that he wonders at him.

He cries out against the King's dealing so much with goldsmiths,

and suffering himself to have his purse kept and commanded by

them. He tells me also with what exact care and order the States

of Holland's stores are kept in their Yards, and every thing

managed there by their builders with such husbandry as is not

imaginable; which I will endeavour to understand further.

7th. Mrs. Turner, who is often at Court, do tell me to-day that

for certain the Queene hath much changed her humour, and is

become very pleasant and sociable as any; and they say is with

child, or believed to be so. After church to Sir W. Batten's;

where my Lady Batten enveighed mightily against the German

Princesse, and I as high in the defence of her wit and spirit,

and glad that she is cleared at the sessions.

12th. To the Royal Theatre; and there saw "The Committee," ["The

Committee," a comedy, by Sir Robert Howard.] a merry but

indifferent play, only Lacey's part, an Irish footman, is beyond

imagination. Here I saw my Lord Falconbridge, [Thos. Bellasses

Viscount Falconberg, frequently called Falconbridge, married

Mary, third daughter of Oliver Cromwell. She died 1712.] and

his Lady, my Lady Mary Cromwell, who looks as well as I have

known her, and well clad: but when the House began to fill she

put on her vizard, and so kept it on all the play; which of late

is become a great fashion among the ladies, which hides their

whole face. So to the Exchange, to buy things with my wife;

among others, a vizard for herself.

13th. To the Royal Theatre; and in our way saw my Lady

Castlemaine, who, I fear, is not so handsome as I have taken her

for, and now she begins to decay something. This is my wife's

opinion also. Yesterday, upon conference with the King in the

Banqueting House, the Parliament did agree with much ado, it

being carried but by forty-two voices, that they would supply him

with a sum of money; but what and how is not yet known, but

expected to be done with great disputes the next week, But if

done at all, it is well.

15th. To the Trinity House; where, among others, I found my

Lords Sandwich and Craven, and my cousin Roger Pepys, and Sir Wm.

Wheeler. Both at and after dinner we had great discourses of the

nature and power-of spirits, and whether they can animate dead

bodies; in all which, as of the general appearance of spirits, my

Lord Sandwich is very scepticall. He says the greatest warrants

that ever he had to believe any, is the present appearing of the

Devil in Wiltshire, much of late talked of, who beats a drum up

and down. There are books of it, and, they say, very true; but

my Lord observes, that though he do answer to any tune that you

will play to him upon another drum, yet one time he tried to play

and could not; which makes him suspect the whole; and I think it

is a good argument. [Joseph Glanville published a Relation of

the famed disturbance at the house of Mr. Mompesson, at Tedworth,

Wilts, occasioned by the beating of an invisible drum every night

for a year. This story, which was believed at the time,

furnished the plot for Addison's play of "The Drummer, or the

Haunted House," In the "Mercurius Publicus," April 16-23, 1663

there is a curious examination on this subject, by which it

appears that one William Drury, of Uscut, Wilts, was the

invisible drummer.]

16th. Dined with Sir W. Batten; who tells me that the House have

voted the supply, intended for the King, shall be by subsidy.

17th. This day I met with Pierce the surgeon; who tells me that

the King has made peace between Mr. Edward Montagu and his father

Lord Montagu, and that all is well again; at which, for the

family's sake, I am glad, but do not think it will hold long.

19th. To Lambeth, expecting to have seen the archbishop lie in

state; but it seems he is not laid out yet. At the Privy Seale

Office examined the books, and found the grant of increase of

salary to the principall officers in the year 1639, 300l. among

the Controller, Surveyor, and Clerk to the Shippes. Met Captain

Ferrers; who tells us that the King of France is well again, and

that he saw him train his Guards, all brave men, at Paris; and

that when he goes to his mistress, Madame La Valiere, a pretty

little woman, now with child by him, he goes publicly, and his

trumpets and kettle-drums with him; and yet he says that, for all

this, the Queene do not know of it, for that nobody dares to tell

her; but that I dare not believe.

22nd. To Westminster, where all along I find the shops evening

with the sides of the houses, even in the broadest streets; which

will make the City very much better than it was. It seems the

House do consent to send to the King to desire that he would be

graciously pleased to let them know who it was that did inform

him of what words Sir Richard Temple [Sir Richard Temple, of

Stowe. Bart, M.P. for Buckingham and K.B. Ob. 1694.] should

say, which were to this purpose: "That if the King would side

with him, or be guided by him and his party, that he should not

lack money:" but without knowing who told it, they do not think

fit to call him to any account for it. The Duke being gone

a-hunting, by and by come in and shifted himself; he having in

his hunting led his horse through a river up to his breast, and

came so home: and being ready, we had a long discourse with him.

23rd. To the office; and after an hour or two, by water to the

Temple, to my cousen Roger; who, I perceive, is a deadly high man

in the Parliament business, and against the Court, showing me how

they have computed that the King hath spent, at least hath

received, above four millions of money since he come in: and in

Sir J. Winter's case, in which I spoke to him, he is so high that

he says he deserves to be hanged. To the 'Change; and by and by

comes the King and the Queene by in great state, and the streets

full of people. I stood in Mr. --'s balcone. They dine all at

my Lord Mayor's; but what he do for victualls, or room for them,

I know not.

24th. To St.James's,and there an hour's private discourse with

Mr. Coventry; he speaking of Sir G. Carteret slightly, and

diminishing of his services for the King in Jersey; that he was

well rewarded, and had good lands and rents, and other profits

from the King, all the time he was there; and that it was always

his humour to have things done his way. He brought an example

how he would not let the Castle there be victualled for more than

a month, that so he might keep it at his beck, though the people

of the town did offer to supply it more often themselves.

Another thing he told me, how the Duke of York did give Sir G.

Carteret and the Island his profit as Admirall and other things,

toward the building of of a pier there. But it was never laid

out, nor like to be. So it falling out that a lady being brought

to bed, the Duke was to be desired to be one of the godfathers;

and it being objected that that would not be proper, there being

no peer of the land to be joyned with him, the lady replied,

"Why, let him choose; and if he will not be a godfather without a

peer, then let him even stay till he hath made a pier of his

own." He tells me, too, that he hath lately been observed to

tack about at Court, and to endeavour to strike in with the

persons that are against the Chancellor; but this he says of him,

that he do not say nor do anything to the prejudice of the

Chancellor. But he told me that the Chancellor was rising again,

and that of late Sir G. Carteret's business and employment hath

not been so full as it used to be while the Chancellor stood up.

From that we discoursed of the evil of putting out men of

experience in business as the Chancellor, and of the condition of

the King's party at present, who, as the Papists, though

otherwise fine persons, yet being by law kept for these fourscore

years out of employment, they are now wholly uncapable of

business; and so the Cavaliers for twenty years, who, says he,

for the most part have either given themselves over to look after

country and family business, and those the best of them, and the

rest to debauchery, &c.; and that was it that hath made him high

against the late Bill brought into the House for the making all

men incapable of employment that had served against the King.

People, says he, in the sea-service, it is impossible to do any

thing without them, there being not more than three men of the

whole King's side that are fit to command almost; and these were

Captn. Allen, Smith, and Beech; [Probably Richard Beach,

afterwards knighted, and in 1668 Commissioner at Portsmouth.]

and it may be Holmes, and Utber, and Batts might do something.

25th. Sir C. Carteret did tell us that upon Tuesday last, being

with my Lord Treasurer, he showed him a letter from Portugall

speaking of the advance of the Spaniards into their country, and

yet that the Portuguese were never more courageous than now: for

by an old prophecy sent thither some years though not many since

from the French King, it is foretold that the Spaniards should

come into their country, and in such a valley they should be all

killed, and then their country should be wholly delivered from

the Spaniards. This was on Tuesday last, and yesterday come the

very first news that in this valley they had thus routed and

killed the Spaniards.

26th. The House is upon the King's answer to their message about

Temple, which is, that my Lord of Bristoll did tell him that

Temple did say those words; so the House are resolved upon

sending some of their members to him to know the truth, and to

demand satisfaction if it be not true. Sir W. Batten, Sir J.

Minnes, my Lady Batten, and I by coach to Bednall Green, to Sir

W. Rider's to dinner. A fine merry walk with the ladies alone

after dinner in the garden: the greatest quantity of strawberrys

I ever saw, and good. This very house was built by the blind

beggar of Bednall Green, so much talked of and sang in ballads;

but they say it was only some of the outhouses of it. [Called

Kirby Castle, the property of Sir William Ryder, Knight, who died

herein 1669.--LYSONS' ENVIRONS.] At table, discoursing of

thunder and lightning, Sir W. Rider did tell a story of his own

knowledge, that a Genoese gally in Legorne Roads was struck by

thunder, so as the mast was broke a-pieces, and the shackle upon

one of the slaves was melted clear off his leg without hurting

his leg. Sir William went on board the vessel, and would have

contributed toward the release of the slave whom Heaven had thus

set free, but he could not compass it, and so he was brought to

his fetters again.

29th. Up and down the streets is cried mightily the great

victory got by the Portugalls against the Spaniards, where 10,000

slain, 3 or 4000 taken prisoners, with all the artillery,

baggage, money, &c., and Don John [He was a natural son of Philip

IV. King of Spain, who after his father's death in 1666 exerted

his whole influence to overthrow the Regency appointed during the

young King's minority.] of Austria forced to flee with a man or

two with him.

30th. Public matters are in an ill condition: Parliament

sitting and raising four subsidys for the King, which is but a

little, considering his wants; and yet that parted withal with

great hardness. They being offended to see so much money go, and

no debts of the public's paid, but all swallowed by a luxurious

Court; which the King it is believed and hoped will retrench in a

little time, when he comes to see the utmost of the revenue which

shall be settled on him; he expecting to have his 1,200,000l.

made good to him, which is not yet done by above 150,000l. as he

himself reports to the House. The charge the Navy intended to be

limited to 200,000l. per annum, the ordinary charge of it, and

that to be settled upon the Customes. The King gets greatly

taken up with Madam Castlemaine and Mrs. Stewart, which Heaven

put an end to!

JULY 1, 1663. Being in the Parliament lobby, I there saw my Lord

of Bristoll come to the Commons House to give his answer to their

question, about some words he should tell the King that were

spoke by Sir Richard Temple. A chair was set at the bar of the

House for him, which he used but little, but made an harangue of

half an hour bareheaded, the House covered. His speech being

done, he come out into a little room till the House had concluded

of an answer to his speech; which they staying long upon, I went

away. And by and by out comes Sis W. Batten; and he told me that

his Lordship had made a long and a comedian-like speech, and

delivered with such action as was not becoming his Lordship. He

confesses he did tell the King such a thing of Sir Richard

Temple, but that upon his honour the words were not spoke by Sir

Richard, he having taken a liberty of enlarging to the King upon

the discourse which had been between Sir Richard and himself

lately; and so took upon himself the whole blame, and desired

their pardon, it being not to do any wrong to their fellow-

member, but out of zeal to the King. He told them, among many

other things, that as to religion he was a Roman Catholick, but

such a one as thought no man to have right to the Crown of

England but the Prince that hath it; and such a one as, if the

King should desire counsel as to his own, he would not advise him

to another religion than the old true reformed religion of this

kingdom as it now stands; and concluded with a submission to what

the House shall do with, him, saying, that whatever they shall

do,--"thanks be to God, this head, this heart, and this sword;

(pointing to them all) will find me a being in any place in

Europe." The House hath hereupon voted clearly Sir Richard

Temple to be free from the imputation of saying those words; but

when Sir William Batten come out, had not concluded what to say

to my Lord, it being argued that to own any satisfaction as to my

Lord from his speech, would be to lay some fault upon the King

for the message he should upon no better accounts send to the

impeaching of one of their members. Walking out, I hear that the

House of Lords are offended that my Lord Digby [Digby, Earl of

Bristol.] should come to this House and make a speech there

without leave first asked of the House of Lords. I hear also of

another difficulty now upon him; that my Lord of Sunderland

[Henry, fourth Lord Spence, and second Earl of Sunderland,

Ambassador to Spain 1671. Ob. 1702.] (whom I do not know) was so

near to the marriage of his daughter, as that the wedding-clothes

were made, and portion and every thing agreed on and ready; and

the other day he goes away nobody yet knows whither, sending her

the next morning a release of his right or claim to her, and

advice to his friends not to enquire into the reason of this

doing, for he hath enough for it; and that he gives them liberty

to say and think what they will of him, so they do not demand the

reason of his leaving her, being resolved never to have her. To

Sir W. Batten, to the Trinity House; and after dinner we fell

a-talking, Mr. Batten telling us of a late triall of Sir Charles

Sedley [Sir Charles Sedley, Bart., celebrated for his wit and

profligacy, and author of several plays. He is said to have been

fined 500l. for this outrage. He was father to James II.'s

mistress, created Countess of Dorchester, and died 1701.] the

other day, before my Lord Chief Justice Foster [Sir Robert

Foster, Knt. Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Ob. 1663.] and

the whole bench, for his debauchery a little while since at

Oxford Kate's. [The details in the original are too gross to

print.] It seems my Lord and the rest of the Judges did all of

them round give him a most high reproofe; my Lord Chief Justice

saying, that it was for him, and such wicked wretches as he was,

that God's anger and judgments hung over us, calling him sirrah

many times. It seems they have bound him to his good behaviour

(there being no law against him for it) in 5000l. It being told

that my Lord Buckhurst was there, my Lord asked whether it was

that Buckhurst that was lately tried for robbery; [See an account

of this, February 22nd, 1661-2.] and when answered yes, he asked

whether he had so soon forgot his deliverance at that time, and

that it would have more become him to have been at his prayers

begging God's forgiveness, than now running into such courses

again. This day I hear at dinner that Don John of Austria, since

his flight out of Portugall, is dead of his wounds: so there is

a great man gone, and a great dispute like to be indeed for the

crown of Spayne, if the King should, have died before him. My

cousin Roger told us the whole passage of my Lord Digby to-day,

much as I have said here above; only that he did say that he

would draw his sword against the Pope himself, if he should offer

any thing against his Majesty, and the good of these nations; and

that he never was the man that did either look for a Cardinal's

cap for himself, or any body else, meaning Abbot Montagu:

[Walter, second son to the first Earl of Manchester, embracing

the Catholic religion while on his travels, was made abbot of

Ponthoise through the influence of Mary de' Medici: he

afterwards became Almoner to the Queen-Dowager of England: and

died 1670.] and the House upon the whole did vote Sir Richard

Temple innocent; and that my Lord Digby hath cleared the honour

of His Majesty, and Sir Richard Temple's, and given perfect

satisfaction of his own respects to the House.

2nd. Walking in the garden this evening with Sir G. Carteret and

Sir J. Minnes, Sir G. Carteret told us with great content how

like a stage-player my Lord Digby spoke yesterday, pointing to

his head as my Lord did, and saying, "First, for his head," says

Sir G. Carteret, "I know when a calfe's head would have done

better by half: for his heart and his sword, I have nothing to

say to them." He told us that for certain his head cost the late

King his, for it was he that broke off the treaty at Uxbridge.

He told us also how great a man he was raised from a private

gentleman in France by Monsieur Grandmont, and afterwards by the

Cardinal, who raised him to be a Lieutenant-generall, and then

higher; and entrusted by the Cardinal when he was banished out of

France with great matters, and recommended by him to the Queene

as a man to be trusted and ruled by: yet when he come to have

some power over the Queene, he begun to dissuade her from her

opinion of the Cardinal; which she said nothing to till the

Cardinal [Cardinal Mazarin.] was returned, and then she told him

of it; who told my Lord Digby, "Et bien, Monsieur, vous estes un

fort bon amy donc:" but presently put him out of all; and then,

from a certainty of coming in two or three years' time to be

Mareschall of France, (to which all strangers, even Protestants,

and those as often as French themselves, are capable of coming,

though it be one of the greatest places in France,) he was driven

to go out of France into Flanders; but there was not trusted, nor

received any kindness from the Prince of Conde, as one to whom

also he had been false, as he had been to the Cardinal and

Grandmont. In fine, he told us that he is a man of excellent

parts, but of no great faith nor judgment, and one very easy to

get up to great height of preferment, but never able to hold it.

3rd. Mr. Moore tells me great news that my Lady Castlemaine is

fallen from Court, and this morning retired. He gives me no

account of the reason, but that it is so: for which I am sorry;

and yet if the King do it to leave off not only her but all other

mistresses, I should be heartily glad of it, that he may fall to

look after business. I hear my Lord Digby is condemned at Court

for his speech, and that my Lord Chancellor grows great again.

With Mr. Creed over the water to Lambeth; but could not see the

Archbishop's hearse: so over the fields to Southwarke. I spent

half an hour in St. Mary Overy's Church, where are fine monuments

of great antiquity.

4th. Sir Allen Apsley [Sir Allen Apsley, a faithful adherent to

Charles I., after the Restoration was made Falconer to the King,

and Almoner to the Duke of York in whose regiment he bore a

commission. He was in 1661 M.P. for Thetford, and died 1683.]

showed the Duke the Lisbon Gazette in Spanish, where the late

victory is set down particularly, and to the great honour of the

English beyond measure. They have since taken back Evora, which

was lost to the Spaniards, the English making the assault, and

lost not more than three men. Here I learnt that the English

foot are highly esteemed all over the world, but the horse not so

much, which yet we count among ourselves the best: but they

abroad have had no great knowledge of our horse, it seems. To

the King's Head ordinary; and a pretty gentleman in our company,

who confirms my Lady Castlemaine's being gone from Court, but

knows not the reason; he told us of one wipe the Queene a little

while ago did give her, when she come in and found the Queene

under the dresser's hands, and had been so long: "I wonder your

Majesty," says she, "can have the patience to sit so long a-

dressing?"--"I have so much reason to use patience," says the

Queene, "that I can very well bear with it." He thinks it may be

the Queene hath commanded her to retire, though that is not

likely. Thence with Creed to hire a coach to carry us to Hide

Parke, to-day there being a general muster of the King's Guards,

horse and foot but they demand so high, that I, spying Mr. Cutler

the merchant, did take notice of him, and he going into his

coach, and telling me that he was going to the muster, I asked

and went along with him; where a goodly sight to see so many fine

horses and officers, and the King, Duke, and others come by a-

horseback, and the two Queenes in the Queene-Mother's coach, (my

Lady Castlemaine not being there). And after long being there, I

light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke, &c. did

stand to see the horse and foot march by and discharge their

guns, to show a French Marquisse (for whom this muster was

caused) the goodness of our firemen; which indeed was very good,

though not without a slip now and then: and one broadside close

to our coach we had going out of the Park, even to the nearnesse

as to be ready to burn our hairs. Yet methought all these gay

men are not the soldiers that must do the King's business, it

being such as these that lost the old King all he had, and were

beat by the most ordinary fellows that could be. Thence with

much ado out of the Park, and through St. James's down the

waterside over to Lambeth, to see the Archhishop's corps, (who is

to be carried away to Oxford on Monday,) but come too late. This

day in the Duke's chamber there being a Roman story in the

hangings, and upon the standard written these four letters--

S. P. Q. R., Sir G. Carteret came to me to know what the meaning

of those four letters were; which ignorance is not to be borne in

a Privy Counsellor, methinks, what a schoolboy should be whipt

for not knowing.

6th. At my office all the morning, writing of a list of the

King's ships in my Navy collections with great pleasure.

7th. In Mr. Pett's garden I eat some of the first cherries I

have eat this year, off the tree where the King himself had been

gathering some this morning. Deane tells me that Mr. Pett did

to-day, that my Lord Bristoll told the King that he will impeach

the Chancellor of High Treason: but I find that my Lord Bristoll

hath undone himself already in everybody's opinion, and now he

endeavours to raise dust to put out other men's eyes, as well as

his own; but I hope it will not take, in consideration merely

that it is hard for a Prince to spare an experienced old officer,

be he never so corrupt; though I hope this man is not so, as some

report him to be. He tells me that Don John is yet alive, and

not killed, as was said, in the great victory against the

Spaniards in Portugall of late.

9th. Sir W. Pen tells me, my Lady Castlemaine was at Court, for

all this talk this week; but it seems the King is stranger than

ordinary to her.

10th. I met Pierce the chirurgeon, who tells me that for certain

the King is grown colder to my Lady Castlemaine than ordinary,

and that he believes he begins to love the Queene, and do make

much of her, more than he used to do. Mr. Coventry tells me that

my Lord Bristoll hath this day impeached my Lord Chancellor in

the House of Lords of High Treason. The chief of the articles

are these: 1st. That he should be the occasion of the peace

made with Holland lately upon such disadvantageous terms, and

that he was bribed to it. 2nd. That Dunkirke was also sold by

his advice chiefly, so much to the damage of England. 3rd. That

he had 6000l. given him for the drawing-up or promoting of the

Irish declaration lately, concerning the division of the lands

there. 4th. He did carry on the design of the Portugall match,

so much to the prejudice of the Crown of England, notwithstanding

that he knew the Queene is not capable of bearing children. 5th.

That the Duke's marrying of his daughter was a practice of his,

thereby to raise his family; and that it was done by indiscreet

courses. 6th. As to the breaking-off of the match with Parma,

in which he was employed at the very time when the match with

Portugall was made up here, which he took as a great slur to him,

and so it was; and that, indeed, is the chief occasion of all

this fewde. 7th. That he hath endeavoured to bring in Popery,

and wrote to the Pope for a cap for a subject of the King of

England's (my Lord Aubigny [Brother to the Duke of Lennox, and

Almoner to the King.]); and some say that he lays it to the

Chancellor, that a good Protestant Secretary, (Sir Edward

Nicholas) was laid aside, and a Papist, Sir H. Bennet, put in his

room: which is very strange, when the last of these two is his

own creature, and such an enemy accounted to the Chancellor, that

they never did nor do agree; and all the world did judge the

Chancellor to be falling from the time that Sir H. Bennet was

brought in, Besides my Lord Bristoll being a Catholique himself,

all this is very strange. These are the main of the Articles.

Upon which my Lord Chancellor desired the noble Lord that brought

in these Articles, would sign to them with his hand; which my

Lord Bristoll did presently. Then the House did order that the

Judges should, against Monday next, bring in their opinion,

Whether these articles are treason, or no? and next, they would

know, Whether they were brought in regularly or no, without leave

of the Lords' House?