Diary, Jun/Jul 1660 | Page 4

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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 1660
June 1st. This morning Mr. Sheply disposed of the money that the
Duke of York did give my Lord's servants, 22 ducatoons 3 came to my
share, whereof he told me to give Jaspar something because my Lord
left him out.
[Foreign coins were in frequent use at this time. A Proclamation,
January 29th, 1660-61, declared certain foreign gold and silver coins to
be current at certain rates. The rate of the ducatoon was at 5s. 9d.]
I did give Mr. Sheply the fine pair of buckskin gloves that I bought
myself about five years ago. My Lord took physic to-day, and so come
not out all day. The Captain on shore all day. After dinner Captain
Jefferys and W. Howe, and the Lieutenant and I to ninepins, where I
lost about two shillings and so fooled away all the afternoon. At night
Mr. Cooke comes from London with letters, leaving all things there
very gallant and joyful. And brought us word that the Parliament had
ordered the 29th of May, the King's birthday, to be for ever kept as a
day of thanksgiving for our redemption from tyranny, and the King's
return to his Government, he entering London that day. My wife was in
London when he came thither, and had been there a week with Mr.
Bowyer and his wife. My poor wife has not been well a week before,
but thanks be to God is well again. She would fain see me and be at her
house again, but we must be content. She writes word how the Joyces
grow very rich and very proud, but it is no matter, and that there was a
talk that I should be knighted by the King, which they (the Joyces)
laugh at; but I think myself happier in my wife and estate than they are
in theirs. To bed. The Captain come on board, when I was going to bed,
quite fuddled; and himself the next morning told me so too, that the
Vice-Admiral, Rear- Admiral, and he had been drinking all day.

2d. Being with my Lord in the morning about business in his cabin, I
took occasion to give him thanks for his love to me in the share that he
had given me of his Majesty's money, and the Duke's. He told the he
hoped to do me a more lasting kindness, if all things stand as they are
now between him and the King, but, says he, "We must have a little
patience and we will rise together; in the mean time I will do you all
the good jobs I can." Which was great content for me to hear from my
Lord. All the morning with the Captain, computing how much the
thirty ships that come with the King from Scheveling their pay comes
to for a month (because the King promised to give them all a month's
pay), and it comes to L6,538, and the Charles particularly L777. I wish
we had the money. All the afternoon with two or three captains in the
Captain's cabin, drinking of white wine and sugar, and eating pickled
oysters, where Captain Sparling told us the best story that ever I heard,
about a gentleman that persuaded a country fool to let him gut his
oysters or else they would stink. At night writing letters to London and
Weymouth, for my Lord being now to sit in the House of Peers he
endeavours to get Mr. Edward Montagu for Weymouth and Mr. George
for Dover. Mr. Cooke late with me in my cabin while I wrote to my
wife, and drank a bottle of wine and so took leave of me on his journey
and I to bed.

3d. Waked in the morning by one who when I asked who it was, he told
me one from Bridewell, which proved Captain Holland. I rose presently
to him. He is come to get an order for the setting out of his ship, and to
renew his commission. He tells me how every man goes to the Lord
Mayor to set down their names, as such as do accept of his Majesty's
pardon, and showed me a certificate under the Lord Mayor's hand that
he had done so.
At sermon in the morning; after dinner into my cabin, to cast my
accounts up, and find myself to