Samuel Pepys
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The town, I hear, is full of discontents, and all know of the King’s new bastard by Mrs. Haslerigge, and as far as I can hear will never be contented with Episcopacy, they are so cruelly set for Presbytery.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The town, I hear, is full of discontents, and all know of the King’s new bastard by Mrs. Haslerigge, and as far as I can hear will never be contented with Episcopacy, they are so cruelly set for Presbytery.
Taking my wife up, carried her to Charing Cross, and there showed her the Italian motion, much after the nature of what I showed her a while since in Covent Garden. Their puppets here are somewhat better, but their motions not at all.
November 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Taking my wife up, carried her to Charing Cross, and there showed her the Italian motion, much after the nature of what I showed her a while since in Covent Garden. Their puppets here are somewhat better, but their motions not at all.
I found Jack Cole a little conceited, but he had good things in him, and a man may know the temper of the City by him, he being of a general conversation, and can tell how matters go; and upon that score I will encourage his acquaintance.
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I found Jack Cole a little conceited, but he had good things in him, and a man may know the temper of the City by him, he being of a general conversation, and can tell how matters go; and upon that score I will encourage his acquaintance.
To my Lord Crew’s, and dined with him and his brother; where very good discourse; among others, of France’s intention to make a patriarch of his own, independent from the Pope, by which he will be able to cope with the Spaniard in all councils, which hitherto he has never done.
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
To my Lord Crew’s, and dined with him and his brother; where very good discourse; among others, of France’s intention to make a patriarch of his own, independent from the Pope, by which he will be able to cope with the Spaniard in all councils, which hitherto he has never done.
My Lord General Monk did privately talk with the Duke about having the life-guards pass through the City today only for show and to fright people, for I perceive there are great fears abroad; for all which I am troubled and full of doubt that things will not go well.
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
My Lord General Monk did privately talk with the Duke about having the life-guards pass through the City today only for show and to fright people, for I perceive there are great fears abroad; for all which I am troubled and full of doubt that things will not go well.
With Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, with whom we did abundance of most excellent discourse of former passages of sea commanders and officers of the navy.
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
With Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, with whom we did abundance of most excellent discourse of former passages of sea commanders and officers of the navy.
Mr. Moore and I to St. Gregory’s, where I escaped a great fall down the staires of the gallery: so into a pew there and heard Dr. Ball make a very good sermon, though short of what I expected, as for the most part it do fall out.
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Mr. Moore and I to St. Gregory’s, where I escaped a great fall down the staires of the gallery: so into a pew there and heard Dr. Ball make a very good sermon, though short of what I expected, as for the most part it do fall out.
Walked to my brother’s, where my wife is, calling at many churches, and then to the Temple, hearing a bit there too, and observing that in the streets and churches the Sunday is kept in appearance as well as I have known it at any time.
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Walked to my brother’s, where my wife is, calling at many churches, and then to the Temple, hearing a bit there too, and observing that in the streets and churches the Sunday is kept in appearance as well as I have known it at any time.
All the morning sitting at the office, and after that dined alone at home, and so to the office again, being loth to go home, the house is so dirty, and my wife at my brother’s.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
All the morning sitting at the office, and after that dined alone at home, and so to the office again, being loth to go home, the house is so dirty, and my wife at my brother’s.
To my brother’s, where my wife, by my order, is tonight to stay a night or two while my house is made clean, and thence home.
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
To my brother’s, where my wife, by my order, is tonight to stay a night or two while my house is made clean, and thence home.
Being by appointment called upon by Mr. Lee, he and I to the Tower, to make our third attempt upon the cellar.
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Being by appointment called upon by Mr. Lee, he and I to the Tower, to make our third attempt upon the cellar.
In my dream much troubled by being with Will. Swan, a great fanatic, my old acquaintance, and, methought, taken and led up with him for a plotter, all our discourse being at present about the late plots.
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
In my dream much troubled by being with Will. Swan, a great fanatic, my old acquaintance, and, methought, taken and led up with him for a plotter, all our discourse being at present about the late plots.
At the office forenoon and afternoon till late at night, very busy answering my Lord Treasurer’s letter, and my mind troubled till we come to some end with Sir J. Minnes about our lodgings.
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
At the office forenoon and afternoon till late at night, very busy answering my Lord Treasurer’s letter, and my mind troubled till we come to some end with Sir J. Minnes about our lodgings.
Sir W. Pen did send for me to his bedside; and tell me how really Sir J. Minnes did resolve to have one of my rooms, and that he was very angry and hot, and said he would speak to the Duke.
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Sir W. Pen did send for me to his bedside; and tell me how really Sir J. Minnes did resolve to have one of my rooms, and that he was very angry and hot, and said he would speak to the Duke.
With my painters painting my dining room all day long till night, not stirring out at all.
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
With my painters painting my dining room all day long till night, not stirring out at all.
Sir W. Penn took occasion to talk with me about Sir J. Minnes’s intention to divide the entry and the yard, and so to keep him out of the yard, and forcing him to go through the garden to his house.
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Sir W. Penn took occasion to talk with me about Sir J. Minnes’s intention to divide the entry and the yard, and so to keep him out of the yard, and forcing him to go through the garden to his house.
We had news by letters that Sir Richard Stayner is dead at sea in the Mary, which is now come into Portsmouth from Lisbon; which we are sorry for, he being a very stout seaman. But there will be no great miss of him for all that.
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We had news by letters that Sir Richard Stayner is dead at sea in the Mary, which is now come into Portsmouth from Lisbon; which we are sorry for, he being a very stout seaman. But there will be no great miss of him for all that.
I to my business, and then home to my wife and to supper and bed, my pain being going away. So by God’s great blessing my mind is in good condition of quiet.
November 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I to my business, and then home to my wife and to supper and bed, my pain being going away. So by God’s great blessing my mind is in good condition of quiet.
Came to me Mr. Wade and Evett, who have been again with their prime intelligencer, a woman, I perceive: and though we have missed twice, yet they bring such an account of the probability of the truth of the thing, that we shall set upon it once more.
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Came to me Mr. Wade and Evett, who have been again with their prime intelligencer, a woman, I perceive: and though we have missed twice, yet they bring such an account of the probability of the truth of the thing, that we shall set upon it once more.
I home and among my workmen, who happened of all sorts to meet to their making an end of a great many jobbs, so that after tomorrow I shall have but a little plastering and all the painting almost to do, which was good content to me.
November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I home and among my workmen, who happened of all sorts to meet to their making an end of a great many jobbs, so that after tomorrow I shall have but a little plastering and all the painting almost to do, which was good content to me.
Pierce the chyrurgeon, who tells me that my Lady Castlemaine is with child; but though it be the King’s, yet her Lord being still in town, and sometimes seeing of her, though never to eat or lie together, it will be laid to him.
November 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Pierce the chyrurgeon, who tells me that my Lady Castlemaine is with child; but though it be the King’s, yet her Lord being still in town, and sometimes seeing of her, though never to eat or lie together, it will be laid to him.
My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading “Du Bartas’ Imposture” and other parts which my wife of late has taken up to read, and is very fine as anything I meet with.
November 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading “Du Bartas’ Imposture” and other parts which my wife of late has taken up to read, and is very fine as anything I meet with.
Home and to bed, with some pain, in making water having taken cold this morning in sitting too long bare-legged to pare my corns.
November 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Home and to bed, with some pain, in making water having taken cold this morning in sitting too long bare-legged to pare my corns.
Up into my new rooms which are, almost finished, and there walked with great content talking with my wife till church time, and then to church, and there being a lazy preacher I slept out the sermon, and so home.
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Up into my new rooms which are, almost finished, and there walked with great content talking with my wife till church time, and then to church, and there being a lazy preacher I slept out the sermon, and so home.
Lay long with pleasure talking with my wife, in whom I never had greater content, blessed be God! than now, she continuing with the same care and thrift and innocence, so long as I keep her from occasions of being otherwise, as ever she was in her life.
November 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Lay long with pleasure talking with my wife, in whom I never had greater content, blessed be God! than now, she continuing with the same care and thrift and innocence, so long as I keep her from occasions of being otherwise, as ever she was in her life.