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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in 'The Builder' library means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. The Webmaster diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, esq^, f.r.s. — DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE op Samuel Pepys,esq„fr.s FROM HIS MS. CYPHER IN THE PEPYS1AN LIBRARY, WITH A LIFE AND NOTES BY RICHARD LORD BRAYBROOKE. DECIPHERED, WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES, BY REV. MYNORS BRIGHT, M.A., PRBSIDBNT AND SENIOR FELLOW OF MAGDALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGB. VOL. VI. April 9, 1666 January 31, 1667. NEW-YORK: DODD, MEAD & COMPANY. 1885. T THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 814478 A ASTOR, LENOX AND T1LDEN FOUNDATIONS R. 1936 L THE AREA Albans in IVood sire Alhallows in Bread >jg war e . Greaie okeM f Alhallows .v*- . Warfe Alhallows theLesse ^'Late Alhallows in Hony l*7££ t%ks Alhallows in Lumbe^ ^r/ete. A hallows in yell a. Hall d ne(du s/rge( Alphage byye chepside. by . Andrew Hubard ch Andrew tnye U Bishops?ate street. Ann at Alders gate.">f> ^Cranesranes - Ann in Rlack friers J Antholins in IVatlin chepside. nere Pauley ^ ' Austins y ^ e(e by ye h: Bartholmew r GuildhalL Bennet Finch. Bennet Grace churc e(rg ^ pishtreete . r>P^Y ; DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. April 9TH, 1666. Up betimes, and with my Joyner begun the making of the window in my boy's chamber bigger, purposing it shall be a roome to eat and for having musique in. To the office and then home with Creed and dined. Thence by coach to Mrs. Pierce's, and with her and Knipp and Mrs. Pierce's boy and girle abroad, thinking to have been merry at Chelsey but being come almost to the house by coach near the waterside, a house alone, I think the Swan, a gentle- man walking by called to us to tell us that the house was shut up of the sicknesse. So we with great affright turned back, being holden to the gentleman ; and went away (I for my part in great disorder) for Ken- sington, and there I spent about 30s. upon the jades with great pleasure, and we sang finely and staid about eight at night, the night coming on apace and so set them down and so away home. 10th. To the office and again all the afternoon, the first time of our resolution to sit both forenoons and afternoons. Much business at night and then home 2 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. to supper, and after having my head combed by the little girle to bed. nth. To White Hall, having first set my people to worke about setting me rails upon the leads of my wife's closett, a thing I have long designed. After having done with the Duke of York, I to Hales's, where there was nothing found to be done more to my picture, 1 but the musique, which now pleases me mightily, it being painted true. After dinner to Gresham College, where a great deal of do and for- mality in choosing of the Council and Officers. I had three votes to be of the Council, who am but a stranger, nor expected any. So my Lord Brouncker being confirmed President I home where I find to my great content my rails up upon my leads. To the office and did a little business and then home and did a great jobb at my Tangier accounts, which I find are mighty apt to run into confusion, my head also being too full of other businesses and pleasures. 1 2th. Taking a turne in the garden my Lady Pen comes to me and takes me into her house, where I find her daughter and a pretty lady 2 of her acquaint- 1 This picture was bought by Mr. Peter Cunningham at the sale of the Pepys-Cockerell collection in 1848, and it was purchased by the trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in 1866. Pepys is represented in a gown " which I hired to be drawn in; a morning gowne," and holding in his left hand a piece of music, his own composition, with the words, " Beauty retire." The trustees of the Gallery have permitted me to have a photograph taken of it. There is a similar picture belonging to Mr. Hawes, of Kensington, which Mr. Scharf, the Keeper of the National Portrait Gallery, thinks is either a replica or a good old copy. (M. B.) 2 Margaret Lowther, subsequently married to John Holmes, afterwards knighted. DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. 3 ance, one Mrs. Lowther, sister, I suppose, of her ser- vant Lowther's, with whom I, notwithstanding all my resolution to follow business close this afternoon, did stay talking and playing the foole almost all the after- noon, and there saw two or three foolish sorry pictures of her doing, but very ridiculous compared to what my wife do. She grows mighty homely and looks old. Thence ashamed at myself for this losse of time, yet not able to leave it, I to the office, where my Lord Brouncker came ; and he and I had a little fray, he being, I find, a very peevish man, if he be denied what he expects, and very simple in his arguments in this business (about signing a warrant for paying Sir Thos. Allen 1,000/. out of the groats); but we were pretty good friends before we parted. 13th. Called up by my wife's brother, for whom I have got a commission from the Duke of York for Muster-Master of one of the divisions, of which Har- man is Rere-Admirall, 1 of which I am glad as well as he. With Baity into the Parke, and to the Queene's Chappell, it being Good Friday, where people were all upon their knees very silent; but, it seems, no masse this day. So waited on the Duke and received some commands of his and so by coach to Mr. Hales's. Here he and I presently resolved of going to White Hall, to spend an houre in the galleries there among the pictures, and we did so to my great satis- faction, he shewing me the difference in the payntings, 1 See ante, 16th June, 1665. 4 DIARY OF SAMUEL PEP VS. and when I come more and more to distinguish and observe the workmanship, I do not find so many good things as I thought there was, but yet great difference between the works of some and others ; and, while my head and judgment was full of these, I would go back again to his house to see his pictures, and indeed, though, I think, at first sight some difference do open, yet very inconsiderable but that I may judge his to be very good pictures. Here we fell into discourse of my picture, and I am for his putting out the Land- skipp, 1 though he says it is very well done, yet I do judge it will be best without it, and so it shall be put out, and be made a plain sky like my wife's picture, which will be very noble. Thence called upon an old woman in Pannier Ally to agree for ruling of some paper for me and she will do it pretty cheap. Here I found her have a very comely black mayde to her servant, which I liked very well. Thence home, and thither comes Mr. Houblon and a brother, with whom I evened for the charter parties of their ships for Tangier, and paid them the third advance on their freight to full satisfaction, and so, they being gone, comes Creed and with him till past one in the morn- ing, evening his accounts till my head aked and I was fit for nothing, however, coming at last luckily to see through and settle all to my mind, it did please 1 Mr.