The Diary by Samuel Pepys

Author:Samuel Pepys
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: 1633-1703 -- Diaries, Diarists -- Great Britain -- Diaries, Cabinet officers -- Great Britain -- Diaries, Pepys, Samuel, 1660-1685 -- Sources, Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Sources, Great Britain -- History -- Charles II
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2019-08-21T18:40:45+00:00

29th (King’s birth­day and Res­taur­a­tion day). Waked with the ringing of the bells all over the towne; so up be­fore five o’clock, and to the of­fice, where we met, and I all the morn­ing with great trouble upon my spirit to think how I should come off in the af­ter­noon when Sir W. Coventry did go to the Vic­tual­ling of­fice to see the state of mat­ters there, and me­thinks by his do­ing of it without speak­ing to me, and only with Sir W. Pen, it must be of design to find my neg­li­gence. However, at noon I did, upon a small in­vit­a­tion of Sir W. Pen’s, go and dine with Sir W. Coventry at his of­fice, where great good cheer and many pleas­ant stor­ies of Sir W. Coventry; but I had no pleas­ure in them. However, I had last night and this morn­ing made my­self a little able to re­port how mat­ters were, and did read­ily go with them after din­ner to the Vic­tual­ling of­fice; and there, bey­ond be­lief, did ac­quit my­self very well to full con­tent; so that, bey­ond ex­pect­a­tion, I got over this second rub in this busi­ness; and if ever I fall on it again, I de­serve to be un­done. Be­ing broke up there, I with a merry heart home to my of­fice, and thither my wife comes to me, to tell me, that if I would see the hand­somest wo­man in Eng­land, I shall come home presently; and who should it be but the pretty lady of our par­ish, that did here­to­fore sit on the other side of our church, over against our gal­lery, that is since mar­ried; she with Mrs. Anne Jones, one of this par­ish, that dances finely, and Mrs. sis­ter did come to see her this af­ter­noon, and so I home and there find Creed also come to me. So there I spent most of the af­ter­noon with them, and in­deed she is a pretty black wo­man, her name Mrs. Horsely. But, Lord! to see how my nature could not re­frain from the tempta­tion; but I must in­vite them to Fox­hall, to Spring Gar­dens, though I had freshly re­ceived minutes of a great deale of ex­traordin­ary busi­ness. However I could not helpe it, but sent them be­fore with Creed, and I did some of my busi­ness; and so after them, and find them there, in an ar­bour, and had met with Mrs. Pierce, and some com­pany with her. So here I spent 20s. upon them, and were pretty merry. Among other things, had a fel­low that im­it­ated all man­ner of birds, and doggs, and hogs, with his voice, which was mighty pleas­ant. Staid here till night: then set Mrs. Pierce in at the New Ex­change; and ourselves took coach, and so set Mrs. Horsely home, and then home ourselves, but with great trouble in the streets by bone­fires, it be­ing the King’s birth­day and day of Res­taur­a­tion; but, Lord! to see the dif­fer­ence how many there were on the other side, and so

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