So good a nature that he cannot deny any thing
Sorry to hear that Sir W. Pen’s maid Betty was gone away
Strange things he has been found guilty of, not fit to name
Then to church to a tedious sermon
They were not occupiers, but occupied (women)
To Mr. Holliard’s in the morning, thinking to be let blood
Trumpets were brought under the scaffold that he not be heard
Up and took physique, but such as to go abroad with
Up early and took my physique; it wrought all the morning well
When the candle is going out, how they bawl and dispute
Whether she suspected anything or no I know not
Whether he would have me go to law or arbitracon with him
Will upon occasion serve for a fine withdrawing room
Will put Madam Castlemaine’s nose out of joynt
With my whip did whip him till I was not able to stir
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jan/Feb 1662/63 [sp24g10.txt]
After oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits,
a lamb
At last we pretty good friends
Before I sent my boy out with them, I beat him for
a lie
Dr. Calamy is this day sent to Newgate for preaching
Eat a mouthful of pye at home to stay my stomach
Familiarity with her other servants is it that spoils
them all
Feverish, and hath sent for Mr. Pierce to let him
blood
Found him a fool, as he ever was, or worse
Goes down the wind in honour as well as every thing
else
Had a good supper of an oxe’s cheek
Hanged with a silken halter
How highly the Presbyters do talk in the coffeehouses
still
I and she never were so heartily angry in our lives
as to-day
Ill humour to be so against that which all the world
cries up
Lady Castlemaine hath all the King’s Christmas
presents
Lay chiding, and then pleased with my wife in bed
Lay very long with my wife in bed talking with great
pleasure
Liability of a husband to pay for goods supplied his
wife
Many thousands in a little time go out of England
Money, which sweetens all things
Most flat dead sermon, both for matter and manner
of delivery
Much discourse, but little to be learned
Nor will yield that the Papists have any ground given
them
Nothing in the world done with true integrity
Once a week or so I know a gentleman must go . .
. .
Pain of the stone, and makes bloody water with great
pain
Rabbit not half roasted, which made me angry with
my wife
Scholler, but, it may be, thinks himself to be too
much so
See how time and example may alter a man
Servant of the King’s pleasures too, as well
as business
So home, and mighty friends with my wife again
So neat and kind one to another
Sorry for doing it now, because of obliging me to
do the like
Talk very highly of liberty of conscience
The house was full of citizens, and so the less pleasant
There is no passing but by coach in the streets, and
hardly that
These young Lords are not fit to do any service abroad
They were so false spelt that I was ashamed of them
Vexed at my wife’s neglect in leaving of her
scarf
Wine, new and old, with labells pasted upon each bottle
With much ado in an hour getting a coach home
Yet it was her fault not to see that I did take them