Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 226 pages of information about Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S..

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 226 pages of information about Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S..
conceited woman and proud.  And after dinner Mr. Moore and I to the Temple, and there he read my bill and likes it well enough, and so we came back again, he with me as far as the lower end of Cheapside, and there I gave him a pint of sack and parted, and I home, and went seriously to look over my papers touching T. Trice, and I think I have found some that will go near to do me more good in this difference of ours than all I have before.  So to bed with my mind cheery upon it, and lay long reading “Hobbs his Liberty and Necessity,” and a little but very shrewd piece, and so to sleep.

21st.  In the morning again at looking over my last night’s papers, and by and by comes Mr. Moore, who finds that my papers may do me much good.  He staid and dined with me, and we had a good surloyne of rost beefe, the first that ever I had of my own buying since I kept house; and after dinner he and I to the Temple, and there showed Mr. Smallwood my papers, who likes them well, and so I left them with him, and went with Mr. Moore to Gray’s Inn to his chamber, and there he shewed me his old Camden’s “Britannica”, which I intend to buy of him, and so took it away with me, and left it at St. Paul’s Churchyard to be bound, and so home and to the office all the afternoon; it being the first afternoon that we have sat, which we are now to do always, so long as the Parliament sits, who this day have voted the King L 120,000

     [A mistake.  According to the journals, L1,200,000.  And see Diary,
     February 29th, 1663-64.—­M.  B.]

to be raised to pay his debts.  And after the office with Sir W. Batten to the Dolphin, and drank and left him there, and I again to the Temple about my business, and so on foot home again and to bed.

22nd.  Within all the morning, and at noon with my wife, by appointment to dinner at the Dolphin, where Sir W. Batten, and his lady and daughter Matt, and Captain Cocke and his lady, a German lady, but a very great beauty, and we dined together, at the spending of some wagers won and lost between him and I; and there we had the best musique and very good songs, and were very merry and danced, but I was most of all taken with Madam Cocke and her little boy, which in mirth his father had given to me.  But after all our mirth comes a reckoning of L4, besides 40s. to the musicians, which did trouble us, but it must be paid, and so I took leave and left them there about eight at night.  And on foot went to the Temple, and then took my cozen Turner’s man Roger, and went by his advice to Serjeant Fountaine and told him our case, who gives me good comfort in it, and I gave him 30s. fee.  So home again and to bed.  This day a good pretty maid was sent my wife by Mary Bowyer, whom my wife has hired.

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