supplied with organs.  Drake says, in his “Eboracum” (published in 1733), that at that date only one parish church in the city of York possessed an organ.  Bernard Schmidt, better known as “Father Smith,” came to England from Germany at the time of the Restoration, and he it was who built the organ at the Chapel Royal.  He was in high favour with Charles ii., who allowed, him apartments in Whitehall Palace.]

The Bishop of Chichester preached before the King, and made a great flattering sermon, which I did not like that Clergy should meddle with matters of state.  Dined with Mr. Luellin and Salisbury at a cook’s shop.  Home, and staid all the afternoon with my wife till after sermon.  There till Mr. Fairebrother came to call us out to my father’s to supper.  He told me how he had perfectly procured me to be made Master in Arts by proxy, which did somewhat please me, though I remember my cousin Roger Pepys was the other day persuading me from it.  While we were at supper came Win.  Howe to supper to us, and after supper went home to bed.

9th.  All the morning at Sir G. Palmer’s advising about getting my bill drawn.  From thence to the Navy office, where in the afternoon we met and sat, and there I begun to sign bills in the Office the first time.  From thence Captain Holland and Mr. Browne of Harwich took me to a tavern and did give me a collation.  From thence to the Temple to further my bills being done, and so home to my Lord, and thence to bed.

10th.  This day I put on first my new silk suit, the first that ever I wore in my life.  This morning came Nan Pepys’ husband Mr. Hall to see me being lately come to town.  I had never seen him before.  I took him to the Swan tavern with Mr. Eglin and there drank our morning draft.  Home, and called my wife, and took her to Dr. Clodius’s to a great wedding of Nan Hartlib to Mynheer Roder, which was kept at Goring House with very great state, cost, and noble company.  But, among all the beauties there, my wife was thought the greatest.  After dinner I left the company, and carried my wife to Mrs. Turner’s.  I went to the Attorney-General’s, and had my bill which cost me seven pieces.  I called my wife, and set her home.  And finding my Lord in White Hall garden, I got him to go to the Secretary’s, which he did, and desired the dispatch of his and my bills to be signed by the King.  His bill is to be Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbroke, and Baron of St. Neot’s.

[The motive for Sir Edward Montagu’s so suddenly altering his intended title is not explained; probably, the change was adopted as a compliment to the town of Sandwich, off which the Fleet was lying before it sailed to bring Charles from Scheveling.  Montagu had also received marked attentions from Sir John Boys and other principal men at Sandwich; and it may be recollected, as an additional reason, that one or both of the seats for that borough have usually been placed