Lord Macaulay says of the collations with which the sugar-refiners of Bristol regaled their visitors:  “The repast was dressed in the furnace, And was accompanied by a rich brewage made of the best Spanish wine, and celebrated over the whole kingdom as Bristol milk” ("Hist. of England,” vol. i., p. 335)—­B.]

where comes in another poor woman, who, hearing that Deb. was here, did come running hither, and with her eyes so lull of tears, and heart so full of joy, that she could not speak when she come in, that it made me weep too:  I protest that I was not able to speak to her, which I would have done, to have diverted her tears.  His wife a good woman, and so sober and substantiall as I was never more pleased anywhere.  Servant-maid, 2s.  So thence took leave, and he with us through the city, where in walking I find the city pay him great respect, and he the like to the meanest, which pleased me mightily.  He shewed us the place where the merchants meet here, and a fine Cross yet standing, like Cheapside.  And so to the Horseshoe, where paid the reckoning, 2s. 6d.  We back, and by moonshine to the Bath again, about ten-o’clock:  bad way; and giving the coachman 1s., went all of us to bed.

14th (Sunday).  Up, and walked up and down the town, and saw a pretty good market-place, and many good streets, and very fair stone-houses.  And so to the great Church, and there saw Bishop Montagu’s tomb;

[James Montagu, Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1608, and of Winchester in 1616—­died 1618.  He was uncle to the Earl of Sandwich, whose mother was Pepys’s aunt.  Hence Pepys’s curiosity respecting the tomb.—­B.]

and, when placed, did there see many brave people come, and, among others, two men brought in, in litters, and set down in the chancel to hear:  but I did not know one face.  Here a good organ; but a vain, pragmatical fellow preached a ridiculous, affected sermon, that made me angry, and some gentlemen that sat next me, and sang well.  So home, walking round the walls of the City, which are good, and the battlements all whole.  The sexton of the church is.  So home to dinner, and after dinner comes Mr. Butts again to see me, and he and I to church, where the same idle fellow preached; and I slept most of the sermon.  Thence home, and took my wife out and the girls, and come to this church again, to see it, and look over the monuments, where, among others, Dr. Venner and Pelting, and a lady of Sir W. Walter’s; he lying with his face broken.  So to the fields a little and walked, and then home and had my head looked [at], and so to supper, and then comes my landlord to me, a sober understanding man, and did give me a good account of the antiquity of this town and Wells; and of two Heads, on two pillars, in Wells church.  But he a Catholick.  So he gone, I to bed.