Produced by David Widger

THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.

CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY

TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE

(Unabridged)

WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES

EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY

HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.

                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                               JUNE & JULY
                                   1668

June 1st. Up and with Sir J. Minnes to Westminster, and in the Hall thereI met with Harris and Rolt, and carried them to the Rhenish wine-house,where I have not been in a morning—nor any tavern, I think, these sevenyears and more. Here I did get the words of a song of Harris that Iwanted. Here also Mr. Young and Whistler by chance met us, and drank withus. Thence home, and to prepare business against the afternoon, and didwalk an hour in the garden with Sir W. Warren, who do tell me of the greatdifficulty he is under in the business of his accounts with theCommissioners of Parliament, and I fear some inconveniences and troublesmay be occasioned thereby to me. So to dinner, and then with Sir J.Minnes to White Hall, and there attended the Lords of the Treasury andalso a committee of Council with the Duke of York about the charge of thisyear's fleete, and thence I to Westminster and to Mrs. Martin's, and didhazer what je would con her, and did once toker la thigh de su landlady,and thence all alone to Fox Hall, and walked and saw young Newport, andtwo more rogues of the town, seize on two ladies, who walked with them anhour with their masks on; perhaps civil ladies; and there I left them, andso home, and thence to Mr. Mills's, where I never was before, and herefind, whom I indeed saw go in, and that did make me go thither, Mrs.Hallworthy and Mrs. Andrews, and here supped, and, extraordinary merrytill one in the morning, Mr. Andrews coming to us: and mightily pleasedwith this night's company and mirth I home to bed. Mrs. Turner, too, waswith us.

2nd. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home todinner, and there dined with me, besides my own people, W. Batelier andMercer, and we very merry. After dinner, they gone, only Mercer and I tosing a while, and then parted, and I out and took a coach, and calledMercer at their back-door, and she brought with her Mrs. Knightly, alittle pretty sober girl, and I carried them to Old Ford, a town by Bow,where I never was before, and there walked in the fields very pleasant,and sang: and so back again, and stopped and drank at the Gun, at MileEnd, and so to the Old Exchange door, and did buy them a pound ofcherries, cost me 2s., and so set them down again; and I to my littlemercer's Finch, that lives now in the Minories, where I have left mycloak, and did here baiser su moher, a belle femme, and there took mycloak which I had left there, and so by water, it being now about nineo'clock, down to Deptford, where I have not been many a day, and there itbeing dark I did by agreement aller a la house de Bagwell, and there aftera little playing and baisando we did go up in the dark a su camera . . .and to my boat again, and against the tide home. Got there by twelveo'clock, taking into my boat, for company, a man that desired a passage—acertain western bargeman, with whom I had good sport, talking of the oldwoman of Woolwich, and telling him the wh

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