Produced by David Widger

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.
                           SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER
                                  1668

September 1st. Up and all the morning at the office busy, and afterdinner to the office again busy till about four, and then I abroad (mywife being gone to Hales's about drawing her hand new in her picture) andI to see Betty Michell, which I did, but su mari was dentro, and nopleasure. So to the Fair, and there saw several sights; among others, themare that tells money,

[This is not the first learned horse of which we read. Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost," act i., SC. 2, mentions "the dancing horse,"' and the commentators have added many particulars of Banks's bay horse.]

and many things to admiration; and, among others, come to me, when she wasbid to go to him of the company that most loved a pretty wench in acorner. And this did cost me 12d. to the horse, which I had flung himbefore, and did give me occasion to baiser a mighty belle fille that wasin the house that was exceeding plain, but fort belle. At night goinghome I went to my bookseller's in Duck Lane, and find her weeping in theshop, so as ego could not have any discourse con her nor ask the reason,so departed and took coach home, and taking coach was set on by a wenchthat was naught, and would have gone along with me to her lodging in ShoeLane, but ego did donner her a shilling . . . and left her, and home,where after supper, W. Batelier with us, we to bed. This day Mrs. Martincome to see us, and dined with us.

2nd. Fast-day for the burning of London, strictly observed. I at home atthe office all day, forenoon and afternoon, about the Victualler'scontract and other things, and at night home to supper, having had but acold dinner, Mr. Gibson with me; and this evening comes Mr. Hill todiscourse with me about Yeabsly and Lanyon's business, wherein they aretroubled, and I fear they have played the knave too far for me to help orthink fit to appear for them. So he gone, and after supper, to bed, beingtroubled with a summons, though a kind one, from Mr. Jessop, to attend theCommissioners of Accounts tomorrow.

3rd. Up, and to the Office, where busy till it was time to go to theCommissioners of Accounts, which I did about noon, and there was receivedwith all possible respect, their business being only to explain themeaning of one of their late demands to us, which we had not answered inour answer to them, and, this being done, I away with great content, mymind being troubled before, and so to the Exchequer and several places,calling on several businesses, and particularly my bookseller's, amongothers, for "Hobbs's Leviathan,"

["Leviathan: or the matter, forme and power of a Commonwealth ecclesiasticall and civill," by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, first published in 1651. It was reprinted in 1680, with its old date. Hobbes's com

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