Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 356 pages of information about Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S..

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 356 pages of information about Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S..

21st.  Up, and it snowing this morning a little, which from the mildness of the winter and the weather beginning to be hot and the summer to come on apace, is a little strange to us.  I did not go abroad for fear of my tumour, for fear it shall rise again, but staid within, and by and by my, father came, poor man, to me, and my brother John.  After much talke and taking them up to my chamber, I did there after some discourse bring in any business of anger—­with John, and did before my father read all his roguish letters, which troubled my father mightily, especially to hear me say what I did, against my allowing any thing for the time to come to him out of my owne purse, and other words very severe, while he, like a simple rogue, made very silly and churlish answers to me, not like a man of any goodness or witt, at which I was as much disturbed as the other, and will be as good as my word in making him to his cost know that I will remember his carriage to me in this particular the longest day I live.  It troubled me to see my poor father so troubled, whose good nature did make him, poor wretch, to yield, I believe, to comply with my brother Tom and him in part of their designs, but without any ill intent to me, or doubt of me or my good intentions to him or them, though it do trouble me a little that he should in any manner do it.  They dined with me, and after dinner abroad with my wife to buy some things for her, and I to the office, where we sat till night, and then, after doing some business at my closet, I home and to supper and to bed.  This day the Houses of Parliament met; and the King met them, with the Queene with him.  And he made a speech to them: 

[March 16th, 1663-64.  This day both Houses met, and on the gist the king opened the session with a speech from the throne, in which occurs this Passage:  “I pray, Mr. Speaker, and you, gentlemen of the House of Commons, give that Triennial Bill once a reading in your house, and then, in God’s name, do what you think fit for me and yourselves and the whole kingdom.  I need not tell you how much I love parliaments.  Never king was so much beholden to parliaments as I have been, nor do I think the crown can ever be happy without frequent parliaments” (Cobbett’s “Parliamentary History,” vol. iv., cc. 290, 291).]

among other things, discoursing largely of the plots abroad against him and the peace of the kingdom; and, among other things, that the dissatisfied party had great hopes upon the effect of the Act for a Triennial Parliament granted by his father, which he desired them to peruse, and, I think, repeal.  So the Houses did retire to their own House, and did order the Act to be read to-morrow before them; and I suppose it will be repealed, though I believe much against the will of a good many that sit there.

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