Samuel Pepys

The diaries of Samuel Pepys in real time, 1660-69. Currently posting 1663. Run by @philgyford

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2026-10-30 15:28:49 UTC

By coach with my wife to the New Exchange, and there bought and paid for several things, and then back, calling at my periwigg-makers, and there showed my wife the periwigg made for me, and she likes it very well.

2026-10-18 10:03:35 UTC

My wife in her best gown and new poynt that I bought her the other day, to church with me, where she has not been these many weeks, and her mayde Jane with her.

2026-10-15 04:03:20 UTC

Up, I bless God being now in pretty good condition, but cannot come to make natural stools yet and going to enjoy my wife, I had a very great pain in the end of my yard when my yard was stiff, as if I strained some nerve or vein, which was great pain to me.

2026-10-12 19:07:49 UTC

My wife did give me a clyster which Mr. Hollyard directed, viz., a pint of strong ale, 4 oz. of sugar, and 2 oz. of butter.

2026-10-12 15:47:49 UTC

When I came home and went to try to shit, the little straining which I thought was no strain at all at the present did by and by bring me some pain for a good while.

2026-10-11 21:03:34 UTC

After supper to bed as I use to be, in pain, without breaking wind and shitting.

2026-10-11 17:20:34 UTC

I finding myself neither to fart nor go to stool after one stool in the morning, the effect of my electuary last night.

2026-10-11 13:57:34 UTC

My wife forebore to make herself clean today, but continued in a sluttish condition.

2026-10-06 03:07:24 UTC

My wife waked to ring the bell to call up our mayds to the washing, and I was and she angry that our bell did not wake them sooner, but I will get a bigger bell.

2026-10-05 21:30:24 UTC

Home to bed in great pain.

2026-09-27 11:32:22 UTC

So home to dinner, being a little troubled to see Pembleton out again, but I do not discern in my wife the least memory of him.

2026-09-05 14:57:24 UTC

Creed, my wife, and I to Cornhill, and after many tryalls bought my wife a chintz, that is, a painted Indian calico, for to line her new study, which is very pretty.

2026-08-24 12:07:05 UTC

I by water home, and found my closett at my office made very clean and neat to my mind mightily.

2026-08-03 06:06:01 UTC

To the Ropehouses and viewed them all and made an experiment which was the stronger, English or Riga hemp, the latter proved the stronger, but the other is very good, and much better we believe than any but Riga.

2026-07-24 08:03:53 UTC

At Mrs. Michell’s shop sent for beer and sugar, and made cheer with it among her and Mrs. Howlett, her neighbour, and their daughters, especially Mrs. Howlett’s daughter, Betty, which is a pretty girl, and one I have long called wife, being, I formerly thought, like my own wife.

2026-07-19 17:44:18 UTC

I fell to read over a silly play writ by a person of honour (which is, I find, as much as to say a coxcomb), called “Love a la Mode”.

2026-07-17 09:04:15 UTC

Up, and after doing some business at my office, Creed came to me, and I took him to my viall maker’s, and there I heard the famous Mr. Stefkins play admirably well, and yet I found it as it is always, I over expected.

2026-07-15 21:38:44 UTC

To supper, and then to a little viall and to bed, sporting in my fancy with the Queen.

2026-07-04 09:47:14 UTC

In the Duke’s chamber there being a Roman story in the hangings, and upon the standards written S.P.Q.R., Sir G. Carteret came to me to know the meaning; which ignorance is not to be borne in a Privy Counsellor, methinks, that a schoolboy should be whipt for not knowing.

2026-07-04 07:59:13 UTC

I learnt that the English foot are highly esteemed all over the world, but the horse not so much, which yet we count among ourselves the best; but they abroad have had no great knowledge of our horse, it seems.

2026-06-28 03:42:50 UTC

My last night’s physic worked and did give me a good stool, and then I rose and had three or four stools, and walked up and down my chamber.

2026-06-17 10:00:04 UTC

To White Hall, and in the garden spoke to my Lord Sandwich, who is in his gold-buttoned suit, as the mode is, and looks nobly.

2026-06-12 07:02:16 UTC

Up and my office, there conning my measuring Ruler, which I shall grow a master of in a very little time.

2026-06-11 21:15:13 UTC

The consideration that this is the longest day in the year is very unpleasant to me.

2026-06-06 20:47:07 UTC

My mind being troubled to think into what a temper of neglect I have myself flung my wife into by my letting her learn to dance, that it will require time to cure her of, and I fear her going into the country will but make her worse.

2026-05-31 18:22:25 UTC

The King of France was given out to be poisoned and dead; but it proves to be the measles: and he is well, or likely to be soon well again.

2026-05-25 07:13:28 UTC

I up and then hear that my wife and her maid Ashwell had between them spilled the pot of piss and turd upon the floor and stool and God knows what, and were mighty merry making of it clean. I took no great notice, but merrily.

2026-05-25 06:40:28 UTC

Sarah Kite my cozen, poor woman, came to see me and borrow 40s. of me, telling me she will pay it at Michaelmas again to me. I was glad it was no more, being indifferent whether she pays it me or no, but it will be a good excuse to lend her nor give her any more.

2026-05-13 21:06:21 UTC

Home to supper, to cards, and to bed.

2026-04-26 15:48:06 UTC

I all the afternoon upon my accounts, and find myself worth full 700l., for which I bless God, it being the most I was ever yet worth in money.

2026-04-20 20:13:33 UTC

To bed, being somewhat troubled at Ashwell’s desiring and insisting over eagerly upon her going to a ball to meet some of her old companions at a dancing school here in town next Friday, but I am resolved she shall not go.

2026-04-12 17:49:00 UTC

Coming home tonight, a drunken boy was carrying by our constable to our new pair of stocks to handsel them, being a new pair and very handsome.

2026-04-12 10:20:03 UTC

To church, where I found our pew altered by taking some of the hind pew to make ours bigger, because of the number of women, more by Sir J. Minnes company than we used to have.

2026-03-23 23:34:43 UTC

Home, where I found Will. Howe come home today with my wife, and staid with us all night, staying late up singing songs, and then he and I to bed together in Ashwell’s bed and she with my wife. This the first time that I ever lay in the room.

2026-02-04 09:07:12 UTC

To Paul’s School, it being Apposition-day there. I heard some of their speeches, and they were just as schoolboys’ used to be, of the seven liberal sciences; but I think not so good as ours were in our time.

2026-01-14 09:40:12 UTC

Lay very long in bed, till with shame forced to rise, being called up by Mr. Bland about business.

2025-12-24 10:48:43 UTC

Took money in my pocket to pay many reckonings today in the town, as my bookseller’s, and paid at another shop 4l. 10s. for “Stephens’s Thesaurus Graecae Linguae,” given to Paul’s School.

2025-11-25 14:13:25 UTC

To Greatorex’s, where I staid and talked with him, and got him to mend my pocket ruler for me.

2025-10-24 13:50:00 UTC

Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, tells me how ill things go at Court: that the King do show no countenance to any that belong to the Queen; nor to such English as she brought over with her, or hath here since, for fear they should tell her how he carries himself to Mrs. Palmer.

2025-10-13 06:19:41 UTC

To Hinchingbroke, and there with Mr. Sheply did look all over the house, and I do, I confess, like well of the alteracions, and do like the staircase, but there being nothing to make the outside more regular and modern, I am not satisfied with it.

2025-10-12 18:28:41 UTC

So to supper, but my mind is so full of our business that I am no company at all, and then their drink do not please me, till I did send to Goody Stanks for some of her’s which is very small and fresh, with a little taste of wormewood, which ever after did please me very well.

2025-08-27 16:34:35 UTC

Today my hogshead of sherry I have sold to Sir W. Batten, and am glad of my money instead of wine.

2025-06-08 17:08:39 UTC

Walked to my Lady’s, and there supped with her, and merry, among other things, with the parrott which my Lord hath brought from the sea, which speaks very well, and cries Pall so pleasantly, that made my Lord give it my Lady Paulina; but my Lady, her mother, do not like it.

2025-06-07 10:26:48 UTC

To the office, where all the morning, and I find Mr. Coventry is resolved to do much good, and to enquire into all the miscarriages of the office.

2025-05-31 08:20:49 UTC

Came Anthony Joyce, who duns me for money for the tallow which he served in lately by my desire, which vexes me, but I must get it him the next by my promise.

2025-05-09 20:14:12 UTC

By water home, and so walk upon the leads, and in the dark there played upon my flageolette, it being a fine still evening, and so to supper and to bed.

2025-05-07 16:37:50 UTC

Went to Mrs. Turner’s: and thence found her out at the Theatre, where I saw the last act of the “Knight of the Burning Pestle,” which pleased me not at all.

2025-04-14 08:20:57 UTC

Being weary last night I lay very long in bed, talking with my wife, and persuaded her to go to Brampton, and take Sarah with her, next week, to cure her ague by change of ayre, and we agreed all things therein.

2025-04-10 12:30:14 UTC

Yesterday came Col. Talbot with letters from Portugall, that the Queen is resolved to embarque for England this week.

2025-03-21 22:06:20 UTC

Home, and staid late writing at my office, and so home and to bed, troubled that now my boy is also fallen sick of an ague we fear.

2025-01-06 11:48:40 UTC

I sent my lute to the Paynter’s, and there I staid with him all the morning to see him paint the neck of my lute in my picture, which I was not pleased with after it was done.

2025-01-04 14:07:00 UTC

To my wife, who met me at my Lord’s lodgings, and she and I and old East to Wilkinson’s to dinner, where we had some rost beef and a mutton pie, and a mince-pie, but none of them pleased me.

2024-12-01 13:05:44 UTC

We this day cut a brave collar of brawn from Winchcombe which proves very good, and also opened the glass of girkins which Captain Cocke did give my wife the other day, which are rare things.

2024-11-29 00:53:06 UTC

When I came home I found our new maid Sarah come, who is a tall and a very well favoured wench, and one that I think will please us.

2024-11-28 23:54:06 UTC

Staid drinking and singing. Then Mr. Gawdon being almost drunk had the wit to be gone, and so I took leave too, and it being a fine moonshine night he and I footed it all the way home, but though he was drunk he went such a pace as I did admire how he was able to go.

2024-11-26 21:09:59 UTC

After the office done, Sir Wms both and I and Captain Cock and Mr. Bence (who being drunk, showed himself by his talk a bold foole, and so we were fain to put him off and get him away) we sat by ourselfs in the office, talking and drinking three or four bottles of wine.

2024-11-20 10:38:04 UTC

To Westminster Hall by water, where I saw the King going in his barge to the Parliament House; this being the first day of their meeting again. And the Bishops, I hear, do take their places in the Lords House this day.

2024-11-13 12:22:27 UTC

Sir Thomas tells me in good earnest that he do believe the Parliament (which comes to sit again the next week), will be troublesome to the Court and Clergy, which God forbid!

2024-09-10 20:42:55 UTC

To the Wardrobe to see my Lady, and after supper with the young ladies, bought a link and carried it myself till I met one that would light me home for the link. So he light me home with his own, and then I did give him mine.

2024-09-09 16:32:50 UTC

It was my fortune to sit by a most pretty and most ingenious lady, which pleased me much.

2024-09-08 17:10:49 UTC

So up to my chamber all alone, and troubled in mind to think how much of late I have addicted myself to expense and pleasure, that now I can hardly reclaim myself to look after my great business of settling Gravely business, until now almost too late.

2024-09-03 19:20:56 UTC

My wife and I to my mother, who I took a liberty to advise about her getting things ready to go this week into the country to my father, and she (being become now-a-days very simple) took it very ill, and we had a great deal of noise and wrangling about it.

2024-07-23 10:11:31 UTC

Put on my mourning. Made visits to Sir W. Pen and Batten. Then to Westminster, and at the Hall staid talking with Mrs. Michell a good while.

2024-07-16 12:54:58 UTC

Putting things in order, letting of the crop upon the ground.

2024-06-19 21:09:40 UTC

One thing I must observe here while I think of it, that I am now become the most negligent man in the world as to matters of news, insomuch that, now-a-days, I neither can tell any, nor ask any of others.

2024-06-08 20:15:05 UTC

Called upon Mr. Rawlinson, for his advice to answer a letter of my uncle Robert, wherein he do offer me a purchase to lay some money upon, that joynes upon some of his own lands. I am advised to give up wholly the disposal of my money to him, let him do what he will with it.

2024-06-05 15:19:44 UTC

Sir W. Pen and I went home with Sir R. Slingsby to bowls in his ally, and there had good sport, and afterwards went in and drank and talked.

2024-05-23 19:00:59 UTC

This day was kept a holy-day through the town; and it pleased me to see the little boys walk up and down in procession with their broom-staffs in their hands, as I had myself long ago gone.

2024-05-11 19:50:07 UTC

Mr. Hater brought my last quarter’s salary, of which I was very glad, because I have lost my first bill for it, and so this morning was forced to get another signed by three of my fellow officers for it.

2024-03-26 09:10:23 UTC

This is my great day that three years ago I was cut of the stone, and, blessed be God, I do yet find myself very free from pain again.

2023-12-23 11:30:15 UTC

To Church, where our pew all covered with rosemary and baize. A stranger made a dull sermon.

2023-11-07 18:30:24 UTC

Notwithstanding this was the first day of the King’s proclamation against hackney coaches coming into the streets to stand to be hired, yet I got one to carry me home.

2023-08-02 18:00:39 UTC

When I came home I found my wife not very well of her old pain in the lip of her chose, which she had when we were married first.

2023-07-19 08:11:00 UTC

I did lie late a-bed.

2023-07-18 14:40:23 UTC

I did meet with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, with a porter with him, with a barrel of Lemons, which my man Burr sends me from sea.