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entire meal of them. D.W.]

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.
1665 N.S.

JANUARY 1664-1665
January 1st (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, having been busy late last
night, then up and to my office, where upon ordering my accounts and
papers with respect to my understanding my last year's gains and

expense, which I find very great, as I have already set down yesterday.
Now this day I am dividing my expense, to see what my clothes and
every particular hath stood me in: I mean all the branches of my
expense. At noon a good venison pasty and a turkey to ourselves
without any body so much as invited by us, a thing unusuall for so
small a family of my condition: but we did it and were very merry.
After dinner to my office again, where very late alone upon my
accounts, but have not brought them to order yet, and very intricate I
find it, notwithstanding my care all the year to keep things in as good
method as any man can do. Past 11 o'clock home to supper and to bed.

2nd. Up, and it being a most fine, hard frost I walked a good way
toward White Hall, and then being overtaken with Sir W. Pen's coach,
went into it, and with him thither, and there did our usual business with
the Duke. Thence, being forced to pay a great deale of money away in
boxes (that is, basins at White Hall), I to my barber's, Gervas, and there
had a little opportunity of speaking with my Jane alone, and did give
her something, and of herself she did tell me a place where I might
come to her on Sunday next, which I will not fail, but to see how
modestly and harmlessly she brought it out was very pretty. Thence to
the Swan, and there did sport a good while with Herbert's young
kinswoman without hurt, though they being abroad, the old people.
Then to the Hall, and there agreed with Mrs. Martin, and to her
lodgings which she has now taken to lie in, in Bow Streete, pitiful poor
things, yet she thinks them pretty, and so they are for her condition I
believe good enough. Here I did 'ce que je voudrais avec' her most
freely, and it having cost 2s. in wine and cake upon her, I away sick of
her impudence, and by coach to my Lord Brunker's, by appointment, in
the Piazza, in Covent-Guarding; where I occasioned much mirth with a
ballet I brought with me, made from the seamen at sea to their ladies in
town; saying Sir W. Pen, Sir G. Ascue, and Sir J. Lawson made them.
Here a most noble French dinner and banquet, the best I have seen this
many a day and good discourse. Thence to my bookseller's and at his
binder's saw Hooke's book of the Microscope,
["Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies

made by Magnifying Glasses. London, 1665," a very remarkable work
with elaborate plates, some of which have been used for lecture
illustrations almost to our own day. On November 23rd, 1664, the
President of the Royal Society was "desired to sign a licence for
printing of Mr. Hooke's microscopical book." At this time the book was
mostly printed, but it was delayed, much to Hooke's disgust, by the
examination of several Fellows of the Society. In spite of this
examination the council were anxious that the author should make it
clear that he alone was responsible for any theory put forward, and they
gave him notice to that effect. Hooke made this clear in his dedication
(see Birch's "History," vol. i., pp. 490-491)]
which is so pretty that I presently bespoke it, and away home to the
office, where we met to do something, and then though very late by
coach to Sir Ph. Warwicke's, but having company with him could not
speak with him. So back again home, where thinking to be merry was
vexed with my wife's having looked out a letter in Sir Philip Sidney
about jealousy for me to read, which she industriously and maliciously
caused me to do, and the truth is my conscience told me it was most
proper for me, and therefore was touched at it, but tooke no notice of it,
but read it out most frankly, but it stucke in my stomach, and moreover
I was vexed to have a dog brought